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A personal finance must-read
Stand Up to the IRS
- Product Details
- defending your deductions
- filing a late return
- working out a long-term payment plan
- stopping collection efforts
- avoiding property seizures
- determining if bankruptcy offers a solution
- learning what to say when you face an auditor, and
- appealing an auditor's decision.
- About the Author
- Table of Contents
- IRS Inefficiency
- Communicating With the IRS
- Rules of the Game -- Tax Laws
- Interpreting the Tax Code
- Self-Assessment of Income Taxes
- Winning the IRS Game
- How Long Must You Worry About Not Filing a Tax Return?
- Consequences of Not Filing
- It's Better to File Before the IRS Contacts You
- What Will Happen When You File Late
- Requesting an Extension to File
- Filing a Return When You Can't Pay What You Owe
- Filing a Tax Return When You Live Out of the United States
- Reducing the Chance of an Audit When Filing
- Amending Tax Returns
- A Word About "Aggressive" Tax Filing
- How Long Do I Have to Worry About an Audit?
- What to Expect at an Audit
- Do I Have to Learn Tax Law to Win My Audit?
- Audit Selection—Why Me, O Lord?
- When the IRS Increases Your Tax Bill Without an Audit
- Types of IRS Audits
- How an Auditor Approaches an Examination
- Preparing for an Audit
- Who Should Attend the Audit?
- How to Act at an Audit
- Finishing Audits
- Serious Audit Problems
- Pros and Cons of Appealing an Audit
- How to Appeal an Audit
- How the Independent Office of Appeals Works
- Preparing for an Appeals Hearing
- Meeting the Appeals Officer
- Presenting a Case to an Appeals Officer
- Negotiating a Settlement
- Should You Hire a Tax Professional for Your Appeal?
- If You Don't Settle on Appeal
- Tax Court Facts
- Small Tax Cases—People's Court
- Regular Tax Court Cases—Over $50,000
- Other Federal Courts—Paying First Is Required
- Bankruptcy Court
- When You Can't Pay With Your Tax Return
- Getting Time to Pay After the Tax Bill Comes
- IRS Tax Billing Process
- IRS Automated Collection System
- Revenue Officers—Frontline Line Collectors of the IRS
- Offers in Compromise (OICs)
- Using the Bankruptcy Code to Stop the IRS
- Protecting Your Assets From the IRS
- Suspending Collection of Your Tax Bill
- Collection of Tax Debts by Private Debt Collectors
- Federal Tax Liens
- Getting a Tax Lien Withdrawn
- Tax Levies = Seizure of Assets
- Dealing With the IRS Levy Process
- Assets the IRS Can't or Won't Seize
- Avoiding a Levy
- Getting a Tax Levy Released
- IRS Sales of Levied Assets
- Who Qualifies for Help From a Taxpayer Advocate?
- Contacting the Taxpayer Advocate Service
- Emergency Help: Taxpayer Assistance Orders
- It's a Family Affair
- Owning Property Jointly
- Death and Taxes
- How People Commit Tax Fraud
- If You Are Caught Cheating
- IRS Criminal Investigations
- If You Are Prosecuted
- Self-Employed -- You're a Prime Audit Target
- Employees or Independent Contractors?
- Payroll Taxes -- IRS Dynamite
- The Dreaded Trust Fund Recovery Penalty
- Cash Transactions Over $10,000
- Penalties Added to Tax Bills
- Interest on Tax Bills
- Understanding Penalty and Interest Notices
- Reducing or Eliminating Penalties and Interest
- Designating Late Tax Payments
- Finding and Using a Tax Professional
- Tax Pros for Serious Audits
- Hiring a Tax Return Preparer
- Researching Tax Questions
- The IRS and State Taxing Authorities
- Does Your State Have a Taxpayer Bill of Rights?
- State Time Limits to Assess and Collect Income Taxes
- State Tax Collection Departments
- State Tax Bills
- When All Else Fails, Try Your Political Connections
- Taxpayers' Bill of Rights I
- Taxpayers' Bill of Rights II
- Taxpayer Bill of Rights III
- Sample Chapter
- Examination personnel perform audits, or examinations in IRS-speak. The people who audit tax returns are either tax auditors working inside the local IRS office or revenue agents if they come to your home or business, which is called the "field." The term auditors in this book refers to both.
- Collection personnel collect tax dollars from people who haven't voluntarily and timely paid. Local IRS collectors are called revenue officers. If your case goes to collection, you or your representative will meet with a collector face to face. The IRS campuses and Automated Collection System are also part of the collection apparatus, but they do not employ revenue officers.
- Criminal Investigation is the police force of the IRS, and its employees are called special agents. If you ever meet an IRS criminal investigator, it means that you or someone you know is under investigation for a tax crime.
- Taxpayer Advocate Service has the IRS troubleshooters to call on when you can't get tax problems solved through normal IRS channels. These officers are found at IRS campuses and local IRS offices. Taxpayer advocates hold powers to cut through red tape and get things done quickly.
- On April 15, Arnold and Aimee Tyson file their income tax return by mail with their IRS campus.
- The information on their return is transmitted to the National Computer Center for analysis and given a potential audit score. If the score is high enough (it is), the return is screened at the IRS campus. If the return is then deemed to have a high enough audit potential (it does), it is sent to their local office.
- At the local office, the Tysons' return is scrutinized again and selected for examination (audit). An IRS agent calls the Tysons or sends them an examination notice.
- The Tysons make an appointment with a tax auditor at the local IRS office. (Or alternatively, a revenue agent comes to the Tysons' business to conduct the audit.)
- The auditor looks at the Tysons' records and suspects fraud. He refers their file to Criminal Investigation for handling by an IRS special agent. The audit is temporarily suspended. A criminal investigation is very rare.
- The special agent concludes that the Tysons made many errors, but they were not serious enough to be criminal acts. He sends the file back to
the auditor.
- The auditor concludes the audit and sends the Tysons an examination report. The report states that they owe the IRS additional taxes, interest, and penalties. The Tysons disagree with the report.
- The Tysons file an appeal, or protest, of their audit.
- The appeal is heard at the nearest IRS Appeals Office. The appeals officer upholds the auditor, and the Tysons file a petition in Tax Court. Tax Court is independent of the IRS. The Tysons win a partial victory in Tax Court.
- After their Tax Court hearing, the Tysons still owe the IRS. Taxes, interest, and penalties are formally entered, or assessed, in the Tysons' IRS computer records.
- The Tysons receive their first series of computerized collection notices from their IRS campus. They don't pay or make only a partial payment.
- The IRS campus eventually gives up. Next, collection notices and telephone calls come from an IRS call center.
- The Tysons still don't pay. The IRS call center sends the file to a revenue officer at the local office.
- They try to work out a payment plan, but the collector is unreasonable and threatens to take their wages and property. The Tysons seek help from the Taxpayer Advocate Service.
- With the help of a taxpayer advocate, they arrange a monthly installment plan. Assuming the Tysons make the payments on time, the case will be closed.
- Tax Account Transcript: This provides an overview of your account, including such basic data such as return type, marital status, adjusted gross income, taxable income, and all payment types. It also shows changes made after you filed your original return, including penalties, assessments, IRS inquiries, and other account activity. This transcript is available for the current tax year and up to ten prior years using Get Transcript Online or Form 4506-T.
- Tax Return Transcript: A Tax Return Transcript is not a copy of your return, but it shows key parts, including income reports from sources such as banks and employers. It also shows that you filed (or didn't file) a tax return for a specific year. It doesn't show changes after you filed your return. This transcript is only available for the current tax year and returns processed during the prior three years.
- Record of Account Transcript: This combines the tax return and tax account transcripts into one complete transcript. It is available for the current tax year and returns processed during the prior three years using Get Transcript Online or Form 4506-T.
- Wage and Income Transcript: This shows data from IRS information returns such as Forms W-2 and 1099 reporting how much you were paid by employers, banks, and the like. Current tax year information may not be complete until July. This data is helpful if you are missing W-2 or 1099 forms and need to prepare a tax return. The information also lets you match your records against what others have reported to the IRS to let you check for discrepancies. Also, if you are ever audited, the auditor will have this data to compare against your tax return. This transcript is available for up to ten prior years using Get Transcript Online or Form 4506-T.
- reporting all your income
- stating the correct amount of taxes due, and
- paying the taxes due.
- The IRS is an inefficient megabureaucracy and not the all-knowing Big Brother it would like us to believe it is.
- Successfully dealing with the IRS comes from knowing basic IRS procedures and following those procedures.
- It is possible to beat the IRS at its own game by perseverance and going up the IRS ladder to solve problems.
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The Internal Revenue Service can wreak havoc on your life. But now you can confront America's most intimidating government agency with confidence. Packed with practical information and advice, Stand Up to the IRS reveals the tactics of the IRS and how to deal with them..
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The 14th edition is completely updated with the latest rules, regulations and tax numbers. Plus, Stand Up to the IRS also shows you how to go to Tax Court, if it's ever needed.
"One of the best books on personal finance." -Money Magazine
"A hands-on guide to battling the IRS and coaxing favorable decisions from agency personnel." - U.S. News & World Report
1. Inside the IRS: What You Need to Know About IRS Operations
2. Filing Tax Returns
3. Winning Your Audit
4. Appealing Your Audit Within the IRS
5. Going to Tax Court: No Lawyer Necessary
6. When You Owe the IRS: Keeping the Tax Collector at Bay
7. IRS Enforced Collection: Liens and Levies
8. The Taxpayer Advocate: A Friend at the IRS
9. Family, Friends, Heirs, and the IRS
10. Fraud and Tax Crimes: Do You Really Have to Worry?
11. Small Businesses/Self-Employed: When IRS Trouble Comes
12. Penalties and Interest
13. Help Beyond the Book: Tax Professionals and Tax Information
14. When You Owe State Income Taxes
15. The Taxpayers' Bill of Rights
16. The 25 Most Frequently Asked Questions
Glossary of Tax Terms
Chapter 1:
Inside the IRS: What You Need to Know About IRS Operations
Let's take a look at the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS. The IRS's stated mission is to "Provide America's taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and enforce the law with integrity and fairness to all."
A chart of the main IRS divisions appears below. Here is a description of the divisions and offices you are most likely to encounter.
National. The IRS is a branch of the U.S. Treasury Department, with headquarters in Washington, DC, and is ruled by a commissioner appointed by the president. The IRS brain is contained in the National Computer Center. The national IRS office sets tone and policy, while procedures—especially audits and collections— are left to the regional and local offices.
The IRS is divided into four operating divisions, but only two concern most of us: the Wage and Investment Division and the Small Business/
Self-Employed Division.
IRS campuses. IRS campuses (formerly called service centers) annually process over 257 million tax filings, including over 154 million individual income tax returns. IRS campuses collect over $3.6 trillion in tax payments each year. Regional campuses are located in Austin (scheduled to close in 2024), Fresno (scheduled to close in 2021), Kansas City, and Ogden. They mail out tax notices, collection notices, or bills; tax return problem notices; and tax forms. Contacts with the IRS campuses are usually by postal mail or fax, or occasionally by telephone.
Automated Collection System, or ACS. This program communicates with taxpayers who owe the IRS. It is a highly computerized collection system staffed by personnel working by phone and mail. You may talk to an ACS person, but you will never meet one.
Local offices. Local IRS offices sit in major cities with suboffices in smaller cities. You can bet one is near you.
Each local office is divided into several departments, four of which you may encounter: examination, collection, criminal investigation, and Taxpayer Advocate Service.
Let's look at these departments in more detail:
The total number of IRS permanent and seasonal employees at all levels is approximately 78,000. Auditors make up 25%, collectors 15%, and criminal investigators 3%. The other 57% make policy, run the computers, answer taxpayer inquiries, and God only knows what else. The IRS has been downsized by 22% since 2011. Increased reliance on electronic data processing enables the IRS to continue to function.
If you're confused about the structure of the IRS, don't worry—you're not alone.
The Taxpayer Roadmap
For an outstanding overview of the U.S. tax system and its complexities, check out the online Taxpayer Roadmap created by the Taxpayer Advocate. It shows step-by-step how taxes work from filing through appeal. This map makes the New York City Subway Map look like a child's doodle. The Taxpayer Roadmap is available at https://taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/roadmap.
The following example shows how the various divisions work.
Tax Return Processing
From January to May, regional campuses operate around the clock, processing income tax returns, extension requests, and tax payments. Many temporary workers are hired, trained on the job, and paid little more than the minimum wage. IRS officials admit that many processing mistakes are caused by these seasonal employees.
The IRS strongly encourages all taxpayers to file electronically since it makes processing much easier for the agency. 89% of all tax returns are filed electronically. For the 11% of returns filed on paper, machines must open tax return envelopes and remove tax returns and checks. Human transcribers scan the paper returns for completeness and enter the key tax return data into a computer; the computer then checks for arithmetic accuracy. A second transcriber double-checks the first transcriber's workup by inputting the same information into the computer again.
Tax return data is sent to the National Computer Center, where each return is computer scored for its "audit potential." About 10% of all individual (nonbusiness) income tax returns are selected by the National Computer Center for further review. These files are sent back to the regional campuses. There, IRS classifiers (human beings) weed out most of the 10% scored for audit, based on their opinions of the most problematic tax returns. So, roughly ½% to 1% of all individual tax returns filed are selected for further taxpayer contact. (For more information on how returns are selected for audit, see Chapter 3.)
IRS Inefficiency
If you have never dealt with a bureaucracy, the IRS will give you a lesson in how one operates. The IRS machinery moves slowly and often breaks down. Internally, the IRS is very specialized, which can create problems right at the outset. Often, your first challenge is to locate the right department and person to talk to. Because most IRS employees don't know or care how the IRS operates outside of their own small area, IRS personnel often don't know where to direct you.
Here are the major challenges you will encounter in dealing with the IRS.
Bureaucracy. Civil servants in the IRS bureaucracy are not usually self-starters. For many, the IRS provides an escape from the long hours and competitive pressures of the private business world. Others are gaining work experience or biding their time until a better job comes along. All this results in a paint-by-the-numbers approach which can drive any taxpayer nuts. In contrast, you are highly motivated in your IRS dealings—it's your pocketbook at stake. What's important is that you hang in there. Success with the IRS is possible, especially if you are armed with the information and strategies suggested in this book.
Computers. The IRS loves its computers and would replace all its people with machines if possible. Sometimes your file gets lost in the computer—usually through human error. Often this is good—for example, if you want to delay dealing with the IRS. In many cases, however, it is better to get your file out of the computer and into human hands. Every individual taxpayer's IRS file is electronically stored by tax year or period and is computer accessed by Social Security number (SSN), not by name. Returns filed by a business with employees are accessed by the business's employer identification number (EIN).
The ultimate computerization goal of the IRS is totally paperless tax returns—a goal it is near to reaching as 90% of all tax returns are now filed electronically. The IRS reasons that if all your income, deductions, exemptions, and credits were electronically reported, a paper tax return would be unnecessary. Information returns, such as W-2 and 1099 forms filed by employers, banks, and the like, on paper and electronically, already make it possible for the IRS to prepare tax returns for nonfilers. And electronic tax filing allows tax refunds to be processed quickly without a paper filing.
Complexity. Americans have the dubious honor of having the most complex income tax laws in the world. The IRS was created to see that we follow the rules. But nobody, including the IRS, understands all of them. It's no wonder—given that the tax code is full of contradictions and hopelessly unclear provisions. Blame Congress. It is far easier to pass a tax law than to administer it or to teach a taxpayer or tax professional how to apply it. Each major tax revision produces unworkable tax provisions that are revised or repealed in the next term of Congress.
Filing tax returns is not voluntary. Contrary to what the tax resister, protestor, and Constitutionalist folks may say, income tax filing is not, and has never been, voluntary. Don't get us wrong. we would love to not file or pay income taxes—but in over decades of doing tax work, we haven't discovered how to do this legally. The only person who can legally skip filing is the one without much, if any, income to report. Many of the tax scamsters are in prison or are destined for that fate. Common sense tells you that government services aren't free.
Communicating With the IRS
If you need to communicate with the IRS, try the telephone first. A specific IRS number should be on the notice that's causing you concern. If not, call 800-829-1040, the IRS's toll-free number.
If calling doesn't work, get out your pad and paper. However, be warned: Letters, which the IRS refers to as white mail, are not the best way to communicate with the IRS. The IRS gets millions every year from earnest, well-meaning taxpayers with legitimate IRS concerns (in addition to letters from cranks). IRS employees are trained to respond to IRS forms, not letters.
Before contacting the IRS, find out if there is an IRS form for your problem. The IRS has a form for just about everything. For example, you can request a payment plan on Form 9465, Installment Agreement Request. The clerk who opens the mail will route the form to the proper department right away, but may leave a letter with the same request to languish in a pile. To find out if the IRS has a form for your concern, check the IRS website at www.irs.gov. Alternatively, you can call the IRS at 800-829-1040, or ask a tax adviser.
Getting Your Tax Data From the IRS
Can't find an old tax return or don't know the balance on an unpaid tax bill or whether the IRS has assessed a penalty? Here are three ways to get your tax data from the IRS:
IRS Tax Transcripts. You can obtain an IRS tax transcript online for whatever year you need by using the IRS Get Transcript Online tool
(www.irs.gov/individuals/get-transcript). You must register with the IRS to use this online service. Alternatively, you may postal mail IRS Form 4506-T, Request for Transcript of Tax Return or call the IRS at 800-908-9946. IRS transcripts are free and you can get them anytime. There are four types of IRS tax transcripts:
IRS transcripts contain three-digit transaction codes the IRS uses to identify all the actions posted to your account. To decipher these codes, refer to the Transaction Codes Pocket Guide (Document 11734) available on the IRS website (www.irs.gov).
Tax returns. If you want a complete photocopy of an old tax return instead of a transcript, use IRS Form 4506, Request for Copy of Tax Return, and make a payment of $50 for each year you need a copy. The form is available on the IRS website and has the mailing address where it should be filed based on your geographic area.
Access Tax Account Online: You can register with the IRS (www.irs.gov/payments/view-your-tax-account) and access your account balance and other payment and billing records online. To get the total amount of your tax debt, type "payoff" and select the "View Your Account" page.
How Your Tax Information Can Become Public
The federal Privacy Act prohibits the IRS from disclosure of an individual's tax records. However, there are four notable ways your tax information can become public:
Tax lien. The IRS may file a Notice of Federal Tax Lien in the public records if you owe back taxes. You see this occasionally in the news, especially when it happens to celebrities like Willie Nelson and Nicolas Cage.
Tax crimes. If you are formally charged with a tax crime, the government will break the news. Personal tax information will come to light at a public trial. Actor Wesley Snipes's tax history became an open book in his trial—and conviction.
Taxpayers and others. There's nothing to stop you or us from telling others about our private tax life. And, other third parties can bring some tax secrets to light. Take former Congressman Charles Rangel. A public interest group reviewing certain required financial disclosures by members of Congress found and made public some questionable tax items. The publicity around the disclosure ended up in Rangel's giving up his chairmanship of certain committees and he was reprimanded.
State tax and law enforcement agencies. The IRS shares taxpayer data with 49 states (Nevada is the exception). Also, under certain circumstances, your tax information is available to law enforcement agencies.
Access to Tax Data Under the FOIA
All federal governmental agencies are subject to the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA. This law guarantees access to all data the IRS has in its files about you and about internal IRS operations. You are not entitled to information about other taxpayers, which is protected from disclosure by the Privacy Act. And sensitive information, such as how the IRS conducts criminal investigations and whether you are under investigation, is exempted from the FOIA.
The FOIA gives you access to the contents of your IRS files, such as notes of IRS agents, workpapers, computations, and opinions. This information is particularly useful if you are contesting an IRS decision, including an audit or a bill.
Getting information under the FOIA involves making a simple written request. (A sample letter is in Chapter 4.) If you are lucky, the IRS will respond to your request within 30 days. Unfortunately, however, the IRS gives a very low priority to complying with FOIA requests; after all, this is not a function that brings in money. Typically, the first response you receive is a letter stating that the IRS needs more time to get the materials.
Delayed responses are not the only problem; the IRS edits out materials it doesn't think you are legally entitled to—which may be exactly what you are looking for. Frequently, a person who doesn't understand the FOIA, such as an auditor or a collector, is given the file to decide what you will get. Often, you have no way of knowing what was left out. The form letter accompanying what is sent to you routinely states that materials were withheld under certain statutes. Occasionally, you'll get all the materials with blackouts on the pages. We have seen some documents 90% blacked out! This is usually the case if you have been the subject of an IRS criminal investigation.
You can appeal, but the FOIA Appeals Office is several years behind in deciding appeals. Thus, many taxpayers are forced to proceed without having the IRS provide all documents as required under the FOIA.
A sure way to counter the IRS's disregard of the FOIA is to file a lawsuit against the IRS in federal court. Going to court is prohibitively expensive for most people. But nine times out of ten, the IRS complies with your original FOIA request within days or weeks of your filing the lawsuit, without your having to get near a courtroom.
Detailed guidance on the FOIA can be found on the IRS website—search "Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Guidelines."
Rules of the Game—Tax Laws
Congress writes the tax laws, which become part of the Internal Revenue Code, IRC, or tax code for short. The tax code is amended every year. The present tax code is over 4,000 pages long. It's hard to keep up, even for a tax adviser. Thankfully, most of the tax code isn't applicable to the average citizen taxpayer.
The Income Tax: Past and Future
Our income tax has its roots in the Civil War when Honest Abe asked Congress for money to finance the war effort. Enacted in 1862, the first tax law lasted until 1872. The Supreme Court struck the second income tax law down, which led to the passage of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which led to the basic law we have today.
In 1913, the tax rate was just 1% on all corporations and individuals. But few people paid income taxes, because the standard exemption was $3,000 for single people ($4,000 for married couples), and almost no one earned this much. In fact, only one out of every 271 Americans paid any income tax the first year. By 1919, another war had broken out, and the maximum rate soared to 77%.
Today, the highest federal income tax rate is 37%. With Social Security, Medicare, and various state income taxes added on, the total tax can be as high as 50% for individuals. That may seem high, but it's among the lowest in the developed world.
The one-size-fits-all flat tax is a constant political issue. The flat tax is simple, pure, and has a lot of appeal. Is it likely to become law? Even small changes to the tax code have widespread repercussions—to the banking, real estate, housing, manufacturing, and charitable industries—affecting just about everyone. Once special interest groups gear up to protect their niches in the tax code, it can become difficult to make major changes to existing laws. However, if there are any significant changes due to laws enacted after the publication of this book, we will post updates online. Be sure to check there for the most up-to-date information.
Part of the problem is that many tax laws are passed for purposes other than raising money. For example, tax laws can have a social goal, such as attempting to alleviate the housing problem by giving tax breaks to those who invest in low-income housing. Or there might be an economic goal to stimulate manufacturing by allowing rapid tax write-offs to buyers of new business equipment. And there are purely political reasons for tax laws. Many special interest groups, such as oil companies, horse breeders, broadcasters, insurance companies, and even major league baseball clubs, have gotten tax laws passed designed to give them special treatment. These special provisions of the tax code outnumber the laws of general application.
Interpreting the Tax Code
Congress has given the IRS the power to interpret the tax code. This is done primarily through a series of IRS regulations and other pronouncements. The regulations are expanded versions of some tax code provisions, with illustrations of how the law is applied in different situations. The regulations are about four times the length of the tax code itself. The IRS also publishes revenue rulings, revenue procedures and letter rulings, which provide guidance to taxpayers.
There are thousands of situations where it is not clear exactly how the tax law should be applied. In these gray areas, disputes often arise between the IRS and the taxpayer. This is where the tax professionals earn their keep—by fitting the tax code most advantageously to a client's case. Or put another way, if the tax case is analogized to the fence around Farmer Brown's cabbage patch, the perimeter has gotten so long and twisted that a self-respecting rabbit may have a decent chance of finding enough room to wiggle through or under it.
The IRS is not the final word on interpreting the tax code. The federal court system, composed of the U.S. Tax Court, federal district courts, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, all have the power to decide, on a case-by-case basis, how Congress intended the tax laws to be applied. Any taxpayer or the IRS, unhappy with a court's tax decision interpreting the tax code, can appeal to a circuit court of appeal and, in rare cases, to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Self-Assessment of Income Taxes
The U.S. income tax system is based on a self-assessment theory. You are responsible for reporting your income and telling the government how much tax you owe. You assess your own income tax every time you file a tax return. This doesn't mean that the system is voluntary or that you have a legal choice whether or not to assess taxes against yourself. Despite what some tax protestor organizations contend, you must file a tax return if you earn above a specified annual minimum income amount.
The IRS's job is to determine whether or not you obeyed the self-assessment principle and the tax code by:
If the IRS suspects that you have violated your self-assessment obligation, you may be audited and billed for an additional assessment. If you do not file a tax return, the IRS is empowered to calculate and assess the tax for you.
Winning the IRS Game
If you file and pay your taxes on time and never get an IRS notice, then you are already winning the IRS game and probably don't need this book—at least not yet.
The rest of us who encounter the IRS up close and personal still have a chance to win, or at least to not lose disastrously. This means keeping your income and assets away from the IRS and staying out of jail. And this is one game where, despite your coach having told you "It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game," you darn well want to win.
Great, but you won't win the IRS game unless you know the rules. This book tells you the most important rules—written and unwritten—and helps you develop a game plan.
Let's call the IRS team the Goliaths and your team the Goodguys. On paper, the Goliaths look unbeatable, but on the playing field it comes down to the strengths and weaknesses of the individual players. Here's an analysis of the teams and players.
Goliaths have experience. You are a rookie, so even the weakest IRS team member is ahead of you. But he or she probably can't make it a runaway—the IRS is characterized by low morale and a high rate of employee turnover. Score seven for the Goliaths in the first quarter, 7-0.
Goodguys have motivation and the advantage here every time. Coaches say that motivation is the key to winning. The Goliath player gets the same pay, win or lose, while the Goodguys are playing to keep their money. Score seven for the Goodguys in the second quarter. It's tied at the half, 7-7.
The game will be decided in the second half. You have to be prepared to go the distance. Know what you are doing and show strength and perseverance to the IRS. Keep your cool and don't beat yourself. Remember the words of Pogo, the comic strip philosopher: "We have met the enemy and he is us."
A Costly Victory—the Wrong Way to Play. One way to lose is to play the IRS without bothering to learn the rules of the game, preparing, or devising a game plan. You'll lose if you ignore IRS contacts or respond incorrectly, miss deadlines, or lie to IRS employees. Charlie is a prime example.
Example: Charlie had been having IRS problems for eight years when he called a tax professional, Sheila. He had lost an IRS audit, an appeal, and then in Tax Court. When the tax bills came, he threw them away. Charlie believed he was right, and he was sticking to his principles.
An IRS collector repeatedly warned Charlie that his business assets were going to be sold at auction to pay the tax bill. Sheila asked when the sale was to take place. "Tomorrow," Charlie replied. She agreed to try to help Charlie but made no promises—the game was just about over and he was behind by several touchdowns.
Sheila called the IRS and got a postponement of the auction for 30 days to give Charlie a chance to get a home equity loan to pay the taxes. He tried, but the bank didn't approve the loan. The IRS refused another postponement and sold the business assets for $92,000.
The sad part is that if Charlie had sought tax advice at the beginning of the game, he would have been able to settle with the IRS for $38,000. By stubbornly refusing to meet the problem, he lost his business. Charlie needed to know the rules and needed a plan before playing the IRS game.
The Internal Revenue Service Annual Report provides a wealth of information about IRS organization and performance. View or download it at the IRS website at www.irs.gov.
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Our only real reservation was the lack of a weighted keyboard to really get the most from the piano sounds. Thankfully, Nord have been listening to customer feedback and have answered with the E3HP.
What's new?
The most obvious change from the standard E3 is the addition of a 73-note weighted keyboard. This is great for those wanting a more realistic piano and electric piano playing experience, and should attract serious piano players to the E3 who perhaps wouldn't have been interested in it before.
Couple this with the fact that the E3HP weighs in at only 4kg more than the standard E3, and this makes for a very portable weighted board - in fact it's the lightest 73-note-weighted board on the market at 11kg (24.25lbs)
Feel-wise, the action is great for playing pianos and fast enough for playing organ and clavs - although those specialising in organ will likely prefer the standard E3, with it's semi-weighted waterfall action.
There's no sloppiness or sluggishness, and the weight is nicely balanced, with a quick and precise key bounce-back.
Effect tricks
Nord have also added a delay effect to the E3HP, with tap tempo and ping-pong mode, which is a bonus. It sounds very analogue-like and is great for dub, reggae and psychedelic styles. On top of this, there are now four program buttons that access the four sound banks, making it quicker to navigate than the E3.
These buttons also double as four live slots in 'live' mode, continually saving all front panel settings (just like the Stage 2), so when you hit on a great sound in the heat of the moment you can easily recall it.
Other changes include four levels of additional velocity dynamics to get the most from the piano/EP sounds. On top of that, the long release and string resonance features found on the Stage 2 and the Nord Piano add a much more natural decay to the piano sounds.
These features really improve the authenticity of the overall playing experience. Also unique to the HP is the support for just about every make of control pedal for hands free performance control.
All these additions and tweaks have only improved on what was an already excellent keyboard and really open up the E3's appeal. Piano players will really dig this board's weighted feel, and it still sounds great.
It's supremely portable and the fact that you can make your own samples or choose from the ever-growing Nord library will mean that you can always stay up to speed with the most current sounds, making it a great long-term investment. Right now the E3HP is hard to beat, and it's way more versatile than its closest competitor, Korg's SV-1.
The weighted keyboard extends the E3's appeal and its power makes it a leader in the market.

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CAMBRIDGE — "I think I am a late bloomer," says Errol Morris. "I think I'm getting less in my own way."
The 65-year-old filmmaker is sitting in his East Cambridge offices, a cleanly designed floor-length warren of cubicles, editing bays, bookshelves, and objets d'art. His personal office is shaded against the afternoon sun, a cool oasis of eccentricity. A stuffed baby penguin stands on a side table and a horse's head protrudes from the wall. On his desk, in a glass case, is a monkey's head — a Hanukkah present from his wife. The office, like the mind of the man who presides over it, is a cabinet of curiosities.
That mind is more restless than it has ever been. Morris is a Boston institution and a national treasure for the nine documentaries he has made during the past 30 years. 1988's "The Thin Blue Line" freed an innocent man from prison. 2003's "The Fog of War," in which Robert McNamara broods over his part in the Vietnam War, won an Oscar. And 2008's "Standard Operating Procedure" probed the nature of photography and the sins of Abu Ghraib. "Gates of Heaven" (1978) remains the greatest film about pet cemeteries ever made.
Yet at the moment Morris is busier than he has ever been — active not just in film but on all fronts. He has published two books in the last three years; the most recent, "A Wilderness of Error," opens up the 1970 Jeffrey MacDonald murder case for reappraisal. He is putting the finishing touches on "The Unknown Known," a documentary on former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to meet the fall film festival season, after which it should go into theatrical release. "Inevitably, there will be comparisons to 'The Fog of War,' " the director says, "but it's a very different kind of story. It's a story about someone absolutely convinced of their own rectitude."
His essays on history, imagery, evidence, and the knowability of facts spill onto the New York Times website and Slate.com. He's an active, if not obsessive, tweeter (@errolmorris). Morris has also signed up to direct not one, but two fictional feature films; the one about cryonics, "Freezing People is Easy," is set to star Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson, while "Holland, Michigan" is a "Hitchcock-like movie" set at a tulip festival. And his second career making commercials — he has shot more than 1,000 spots for everything from Target to Cisco — would be enough of a first career for many people.
For all that, the most important thing Morris may do this year is put his name on another man's movie. "The Act of Killing," a unique documentary in which the squad leaders of Indonesia's mid-1960s mass killings confront their crimes by reenacting them for the camera, is the work of the young Harvard-educated filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer. Credited as "executive producers," though — and very much responsible for the film getting funded and seen — are Morris and his own onetime mentor, Werner Herzog.
"I think it's a great movie," Morris says of "The Act of Killing," which opens in the Boston area on Friday. "Because of its strangeness, its ambitions, because in many ways it extends what I think a documentary film could be. I've never thought of doing anything like this. Of getting the perpetrators of a crime to reenact it? I mean, what a crazy idea. Can you imagine a movie with Whitey Bulger and Steve 'The Rifleman' Flemmi reenacting their crimes?" Not surprisingly, Oppenheimer's film has stirred controversy, with some accusing him of collaborating with war criminals and others — like Morris — rushing to his defense.
Decades ago, when Morris was an unknown director struggling to make "Gates of Heaven," Herzog promised to cook and eat his shoe if that film was ever completed. He made good on the bet, an event duly captured in Les Blank's deadpan 1980 documentary "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe." Oppenheimer is aware of the history and grateful to be the latest in this daisy-chain of established filmmakers lending a hand (and a foot) to the new guys.
"There's a really beautiful kind of closing of the circle for me," Oppenheimer says in a phone interview, "because Werner was supportive of Errol's work back when he ate his shoe to help promote 'Gates of Heaven.' So when I realized they both were enamored of 'The Act of Killing' and were working to support it in the way they are, it really felt like this meaningful embrace from two true inspirations."
Morris's backing speaks to his many aspects, certainly his career-long fascination with evidence and the narratives (not all of them true) we decant from it. But Morris's mentorship of Oppenheimer — not to mention the influential late film editor Karen Schmeer and the many local film students who pass through jobs in his Fourth Floor Productions offices — is an indication of the stature he now commands in the worlds of independent movies, documentary filmmaking, the Boston production scene, and a larger national arena of ideas. Like Michael Moore and Ken Burns, Errol Morris is a brand name of the documentary renaissance, but his brand connotes a very particular and quixotic investigative sensibility — one that has widened the genre and arguably made an audience for a film like Oppenheimer's possible.
"To me, 'investigative' means something specific," says Morris. "It means you don't know where you're going when you start out. 'Thin Blue Line' is a good example. 'The Act of Killing' is a good example. Where you're drawn into a story and it changes as you go along, sometimes radically."
He could be talking about the scene in 2010's "Tabloid" where we see Joyce McKinney's nude photos and her carefully manufactured self-image as a put-upon Southern belle begins to crumble. Or about the climactic scene in Oppenheimer's film in which a complacent aging assassin named Anwar Congo looks at his own reenactment footage and starts dry-heaving uncontrollably.
Alfred Guzzetti, a filmmaker, professor, and former head of Harvard's Visual and Environmental Studies program, says his students see Morris "as a major figure, because he was very influential in documentaries coming back into theaters." Guzzetti befriended the director when Morris relocated from New York to Boston 25 years ago, and the two men still meet weekly to play chamber music together, Guzzetti on piano, Morris on cello.
"He's patented a certain style," Guzzetti says, "and that style is widely imitated: the combination of these very ironic interludes and comparisons, the way in which he edits sync-sound talking heads, the driving minimalist music — I don't know whether he agrees with this, but I've always told him that I think that the films are kind of oratorios."
Morris lives near Inman Square in Cambridge, with his wife, Julia Sheehan, an art historian and co-producer of his films whose onetime job at the Boston Children's Museum was responsible for the couple relocating to New England from New York City in 1988. (Their son, Hamilton Morris, 26, is the science editor of Vice magazine in Manhattan.)
While "Tabloid" was edited in California, the director prefers to work closer to home, using production facilities in Allston and editing "The Unknown Known" at his Cambridge offices. Says Morris, simply, "I think I would have gone down in L.A. Part of my survival is because I am here, in the sense that I'm removed from all that."
He isn't a constant figure on the Boston production or academic scenes, nor is he photographed at local premieres. Teacher-documentarians like Ross McElwee and Robb Moss at Harvard, Mary Jane Doherty at BU, Gerald Peary at Suffolk, and Jane Gillooly at the MFA are more visible presences. Morris, by contrast, is the maestro on the hill — an Oz-like figure whose influence ripples out to the horizons and who increasingly, if somewhat shyly, is venturing out from behind his curtain.
His newfound career as an author is one such area. "Writing is never for me an attempt to make money," he insists. "It's usually an attempt to lose money, and I'm usually successful. I just think things should be about thinking things through."
Morris's very active TV commercial business also helps him stay in Boston while keeping him apart from local colleagues. Though his peak of productivity might have been the Miller High Life "High Life Man" campaign of 1998 through 2005 — more than 100 TV spots done in a whimsical faux-macho style, they can be viewed at Morris's website (errolmorris.com/commercials.html) — he still logs 30 to 40 commercial shoot days a year.
Lyda Kuth, a filmmaker and executive director of the documentary support organization the LEF Foundation, says "Errol really figured how to make his work by having a very vibrant commercial business to support himself. I don't think I know anyone else in the Boston community who's been able to do that."
Nor anyone whose work has so broadened the acceptance of documentaries as a robust commercial form. "It's quite amazing," Morris says. "People are making documentaries that go into theaters routinely. Twenty, 30 years ago, that was just unheard of."
He acknowledges that "I'm part of that," but he's more excited to talk about "The Act of Killing" and the moral conundrum it forces upon its subjects and its audience.
"Here's another thing about why what Josh has done is good. The role of a good documentary is not to convince you about what happened, but to force you to think about what happened. And if it does that, then it really has done its job."
Ty Burr can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @tyburr.


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The Late Movies: Best Timelapses of 2012
On December 31, 2012, timelapse.org chose its top timelapse videos of the year. Below, I bring you their picks -- plus a few of my own.
The Lion City
Creator Keith Loutit explains:
For 'The Lion City', the idea behind the extension of the tilt shift technique is for focus and distance to be something the viewer can experience. It also doubles to communicate the constant heat and humidity that hits you whenever you leave the comfort of air conditioning in Singapore.
If you've never heard of it, learn more about tilt-shift photography from Wikipedia.
Passing Through
Shot in Iceland by Kristian Ulrich Larsen and Olafur Haraldsson, who explain:
The text used for the narration of "Passing Through" is part of a speech Serbian scientist and inventor Nicola Tesla delivered in 1893 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Though today less known than figures like Edison and Einstein, Tesla was more or less the father of much of our modern technology, since he among other things developed the foundations of the European electrical system based on alternating currents and the principles of wireless radio communication. At the time he was deeply influenced by the Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, believing that the world should be conceived as a whole where everything is interconnected influencing each other. And that energy is a force that runs through everything be it inorganic matter, organisms or human consciousness. According to this line of thought every single action has universal consequences, not unlike what the father of modern chaos theory Edward Lorenz in the 1960's termed 'the butterfly effect'.
Weathering Spring
Portland, Oregon in timelapse -- gorgeous. Filmmaker Lance Page explains:
"Weathering Spring - Portland Time-Lapse" is an artistic documentation of the Portland spring using time-lapse photography. It is a culmination of nearly 3 months of work, over 64,000 photos making up 83 different time-lapse clips (about 45 of which made it into the final cut), 800 GB of hard drive space and one very exciting spring season in Portland. The video provides an epic visual roller coaster ride through the city's stormiest days on into the night displaying glimmering city lights and intense traffic and back into the daylight with those beautiful sunny spring days that lead us into the long awaited pacific northwest summer.
A highlight reel by photographer Paolo A. Santos.
Fall (Central Park)
Although shooting on this film began in 2011, it was released in 2012 so I think it counts. Filmmaker Jamie Scott describes the effort behind this one:
One of the most striking things about New York City is the fall colors and there's no better place to view this then Central Park. I chose 15 locations in the park and revisited them 2 days a week for six months, recording all camera positions and lens information to create consistency in the images. All shots were taken just after sunrise.
The Stars as Viewed from the International Space Station
By Alex Rivest, using images provided by NASA Johnson Space Center.


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In the slim but affecting family drama I Used To Be Darker, the end of a marriage is depicted through the eyes not of the splitting spouses, but of a distant relative who suddenly appears at the doorstop of their broken home. Fleeing her job and boyfriend in Ocean City, Maryland, a Northern Irish runaway (unknown American actress Deragh Campbell, adopting a lilting brogue) drops in unexpectedly on her aunt (Kim Taylor) and uncle (Ned Oldham, brother of Will), both musicians. What she doesn't know, but quickly discovers, is that the two are in the middle of a messy separation—a development that has sent shock waves of resentment through their Baltimore home, some of them absorbed by their daughter (Hannah Gross), back from her first year of college. There's not much more to the movie's bare-bones plot, save for a secret badly kept by Campbell. Yet what this tender indie lacks in incident, it makes up for with a wealth of sentiment. While divorce dramas tend to run on the bitter bons mot exchanged between their warring lovers, here's one in which the pregnant silences speak as loudly as the toxic words.
I Used To Be Darker is the third feature from Baltimore native Matthew Porterfield, and it feels at once more conventional and more personal than his improvised Hamilton and Putty Hill. Though working for the first time with an actual screenplay (co-authored by Amy Belk), Porterfield retains the loose, ramshackle spirit of those earlier efforts—a sense that his characters are simply being observed in their natural environment instead of inserted into a structured narrative. (That environment, as always, is Baltimore, though the filmmaker has shifted his focus to the city's vibrant music scene.) Darker feels not just culturally but also dramatically specific: Porterfield, whose parents divorced when he was about the same age as Gross, understands the way that hurt feelings volley among members of a fractured family. Campbell, the outsider, ends up operating like a kind of emotional go-between. In a cruel tantrum, Gross misdirects the anger she feels toward her mother, lashing out instead at her visiting cousin, while Taylor lavishes maternal affection—mostly genuine, but also transferred—on Campbell.
Drenched in the evening glow of its urban and suburban backdrops, Darker comes alive in the dark, when its characters are drowning their sorrows in song, the sauce, or conversation. In place of plot developments, there are activities: paging through an old photo album, trying on an old prom dress, taking things too far in an abandoned train car on a night that never seems to end. The atmosphere, thick and enveloping, is one of great regret. When not wounding each other during slightly overwritten spats, Taylor and Oldham sink into a melancholy so deep it can't quite be articulated in words. That, apparently, is what music is for: Porterfield grants his two real-life songwriters solo acoustic laments, performed in single, unbroken takes for the benefit of no one but themselves and the empty rooms they flood with feeling. As in the great karaoke scene in Putty Hill, the catharsis is tremendous, maybe cleansing. For Porterfield, it carries the promise of even better things to come.


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Skype 6.2 arrives for Windows, Mac
Microsoft's Skype division releases new updates for Windows and Mac users, including support for "eGifting" of Skype credits.
Microsoft's Skype team today rolled out two new updates, both labeled as version 6.2, for Windows and Mac.
The Windows version includes a redesigned top toolbar that brings together main actions, like calling phones, creating groups, and adding contacts. It also includes "eGifting," or the ability to send Skype credits to users on their birthday which the recipients can use anytime.
Another feature in the Skype 6.2 for Windows release includes the option to send an instant message using ctrl+enter. This version drops support for PCs using Intel Pentium 3 or similar CPUs which don't support SSE2 instructions.
The Skype for Mac 6.2 update includes the same eGifting capability. It also adds support for one-way SMS without the addition and verification of the user's mobile number.
The Mac update includes several bug fixes, including problems with signing out of Facebook, and issues around the display of Messenger contacts in a Skype contact group.
This story originally appeared at ZDNet under the headline "Skype rolls out 6.2 updates for Windows, Mac."


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Obama Returns To Familiar Turf To Sell New Stimulus
President Obama says his jobs plan would create tens of thousands of construction jobs by funding public works projects like roads, bridges and school improvements.
The president made that case again Tuesday afternoon, while standing outside Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver.
The Mile High City is familiar turf for Obama: It's where he accepted his party's nomination for the White House three years ago; and it's where he signed the original economic stimulus bill.
I have every confidence that if we are willing to continue doing the critical work that must be done, by each of us, by all of us, then we will leave this struggling economy behind us and come out on the other side, more prosperous as a people.
At the time, he said it marked the beginning of the end of the nation's economic troubles.
"There will be hazards and reverses," he said in 2009. "But I have every confidence that if we are willing to continue doing the critical work that must be done, by each of us, by all of us, then we will leave this struggling economy behind us and come out on the other side, more prosperous as a people."
Two and a half years later, many Coloradans are still struggling. The unemployment rate here is 8.5 percent, and in just one month this summer, the state lost some 1,800 jobs. Christine Meyer sees the effects of the long-running downturn at the Cost Cutters beauty salon she manages, just a block away from Lincoln High School.
"They cut their own hair when they can't afford to come get a haircut. And our business has gotten a little bit less every year," she says. "It's significantly slower."
Meyer says it would be great if the president could do something to create a lot of new jobs in the area. But she's skeptical of the plan he's promoting, which relies heavily on a payroll tax cut for workers and employers.
"A tax cut's great and all — don't get me wrong. But are you really going to see it? Six cents here and there ... it's not really going to add up to a whole lot," she says. "It adds up to more when you're paying it than it does when you're not paying it."
The 'Solar Coaster'
Hopes were higher in 2009, when Obama signed the stimulus bill after touring a new solar array on the roof of Denver's science museum. Blake Jones, whose Namaste Solar company installed the panels, introduced the president. He said the stimulus bill would give a big lift to clean energy companies like his.
"We now have plans to increase our workforce by 20 percent this year, and 40 percent through 2010," Jones said at the time.
This week, at Jones' office on the outskirts of Boulder, a Prius with the Namaste logo sits in the parking lot. Jones says his workforce has indeed grown by 40 percent over the past couple of years, largely thanks to the solar incentives in the stimulus bill.
"In the solar sector, it absolutely did what it was supposed to do," he says. "We're hiring, as an industry, lots of construction workers, particularly electricians and roofers."
But in a story that's repeated in many industries, the economic benefits of the stimulus have been partly offset by other headwinds. This year, the local utility reduced its own solar subsidy, and Jones' business in Colorado dropped sharply. He was forced to lay off some workers before resuming his expansion in other states.
"We call it the 'solar coaster,' " he says. "It's still dependent on subsidies. It's still dependent on public policy. And unfortunately, that changes a lot."
And government policies that benefit solar energy may be a tougher sell, in the wake of the high-profile bankruptcy of Solyndra, a California solar company that received a $500 million loan guarantee from the federal government. The cheap Chinese competition that was Solyndra's undoing isn't really a factor in the installation business Jones is in. But fairly or not, he says, the episode is a black eye for the whole solar industry.
"Whenever something like that happens and in hindsight a bad call is made, yeah, that's very unfortunate," he says. "But there have been a lot of good calls that have been made."
Like many business people, Jones says what he really wants is some consistent and predictable policymaking he can plan around. In today's Washington, though, predictability is the last thing the government has to offer.
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Sunday, December 16, 2012
Rockets @ Raptors Game #23 Pre-Game Thread
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Mon 12/17 Rockets @ Knicks 4:30pm PT
Wed 12/19 Rockets vs 76ers 5:00pm PT
Sat 12/22 Rockets vs Grizzlies 5:00pm PT
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- AnonymousDecember 16, 2012 at 7:55 AM
ugh.. I might not be able to see this, but I'll be posted here for updates. hope I can get video highlights..ReplyDelete
Lin and the Rockets have won all the games that they could've won.ReplyDelete
As much as McHale and Sampson are being criticized for limiting Lin's role, I'm still pleased at Lin's season and am happy that he's making quality winning plays.
This Toronto game against Kyle Lowry should be good. Last time, Jeremy Lin thoroughly outplayed Lowry who most people outside this forum thinks is a vastly superior player to Lin.
Lin will have 6 pts 7 assists today .ReplyDeleteReplies
in 20 mins, and will be benched in the 4th quarter. SMHDelete
Sounds about right. I'll go two further further 6pt 6ast 5 reb, excellent defense on Tor's PG so 4 steals. Team win. Jlin being diplomatic post game.Delete
That's the script so far, no reason to change.
What we probably don't see: Jlin working on jumpers and other things with Finch (coaches with international experience more colorblind) @ night before sleep. Building up those skills so that when the opportunity comes, he will MAKE those low percentage plays if he so chooses.
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My prediction of Lin's minute :ReplyDelete
1st quarter : start the quarter and benched around half of the quarter
2nd quarter : start the quarter and benched after around 2/3 to 3/4 of the quarter
3rd quarter : start the quarter but benched early or before half the quarter
4th quarter : "I thought putting Jeremy back in again but Douglas is playing so well"
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pretty spot on. dropping 38 points on the spurs means nothing. fuck mcfail and sampshit. keith dumb clones.Delete
on another note, anyone see isiah thomas (currently benched in favor of aaron brooks. wtf?) tweeting against smart lately? ha.
i think so. Douglas is going to outplay the shitty raptors anywayDelete
I see the value of some posters here that says Lin should take the more selfish play over the more team play because this coaching staff really see no value in him. Don't care how many post game conferences that would say otherwise, the actions of this staff--benching Lin repeatedly in the 4th qtr--makes clear this unwritten rule of the NBA: you're not a starter if you're not closing. This has some resemblances to the GS Warrior situation, not a full blown Keith Smart 2.0, but very strong correlations. The more I watch the HOU coaching staff, the more Kabuki theater I get to see.ReplyDelete
A superstar in the NBA is having that killer mentality.
Doc Rivers' comment is a nice gauge of Jeremy's reputation right now: great team guy, solid to good NBA basketball player, and no threat to be demoted to the D-league. A "coaches player" and someone who plays the right way is not a superstar. It's not a pejorative by any means but in Western culture, they celebrate the superstars, not the behind the scenes guy.
I think it's between Jeremy and God right now: will he make the biggest impact, spiritually and personally, as a 11 year player who will be the solid rotational 6-9 player while making occasional superstar glimpses. This is LOWER RISK
as many of us fans want, the HIGHER RISK: develop that killer mentality--choose the lower percentage play **AND** make it, therefore breaking even more stereotypes so as to be recognized as an ALL-STAR/franchise player type of guy.
For example, a nice pass to a HOU big men is a higher percentage play, logically, over a jump shot by Jeremy himself. In fact, it'll be what the coaches teach...but when the HOU big men blows the layup/dunk/shot...we all sigh. Some might applaud the right choice, some get angry that Jeremy should have taken the shot himself.
However, taking and MAKING higher risk options is an entirely different story than just taking the higher risk option as some posters here have advocated.
How many times have we seen in NBA history where Jordan takes his shot with a triple team in his face? The fact we celebrate the shot going in (the result as opposed to the process) is opposite of what probably fundamental basketball coaches teach--if you draw three defenders, you should pass the ball for higher percentage shots by teammates. It makes sense logically but superstars are superstars because they make successful low percentage plays.
If Jeremy doesn't MAKE the lower percentage choice plays (aka more selfish plays), it will turn off his teammates, turn off other coaches, gain labels that will be very hard to shake, and a whole host of unintended consequences. Jeremy does have a guaranteed 25 million contract, yes, but he doesn't have that first rd lottery pick status. In the NBA, capital gained from contract is LESS than a lottery pick status. If Jeremy's result from playing more aggressive aka higher risk ("selfish" as some like to term it) is not successful, his small reservoir of capital will certainly dwindle. John Wall has more capital to fail. Same with Kylie Irving. Jeremy Lin does not. Is that fair? No, but that's where the chips have fallen. Continuing that metaphor--It's the same thing with poker players when they have smaller amount of chips to play with. Go all in or wait to accumulate chip by chip?
Whatever Jeremy and his inner circle decides, I'll respect it and continue to support his very lonely trailblazer status. History in the making is very, very rare to witness first hand.Replies
You don't see too many Asian-American dude in the NBA that actually have a good chance to be more than average. When you have everything lined up for you..why wouldn't you want to go all out? Jeremy need to question himself..do I want to go down in history as an All-Star/franchise Asian-American dude or just an avarage Asian-American dude that play in the NBA? Either ways we are still happy for him living his dream because the kid work hard to get where he is at right now. We will never know because maybe the people who is signing his check is making him playing like that.Delete
Pierrot, thanks for your post. I agree with most of what you say but would like to clarify the difference I see with your comment regarding the superstar MJ and Lin. Lin is nowhere the offensive player that MJ was, so I don't want Lin trying to make certain type of shots that only MJ would be able to make. I am talking about pretty wide open shots that are available to Lin but which he still does not take but instead chooses to pass to Asik or Harden or whoever. That's what I am complaining about. Lin should take those shots precisely so he could improve his offensive game. If he did that without hesitation and also tried to get more open by moving without the ball, I bet you, Lin would end up taking at least 3 to 4 more shots than he has been taking.Delete
One more thing. I absolutely see the possibility that Lin could be the kind of PG who is slightly worse than Rondo in assisting ability but slightly better than Rondo in the scoring ability, which means Lin would be equivalent to Rubio in the passing department but better than Rubio in the scoring department. No knock on Rubio, but no way Rubio could score more than 30 points against good teams even if you let him play 48 minutes and let him handle the ball 100%.Delete
Put Rondo on the Rockets and he'd look like a total SCRUB without those Hall of Famers to catch those 3 foot bailout passes for 20 foot contested jumpers.Delete
Rondo on the Rockets would make Jeremy Lin look like Magic Johnson.
Lin would sure fit better with Celtics, no question.Delete
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Hopefully the Asian-Canadian community will come out in full force to support Jeremy. Kyle Lowry will be like ... what? Why are all these Raptors fans cheering for them instead of their own team?ReplyDelete
Jeremy Lin is battling more than just coaches unsure of his ability.ReplyDelete
He's also battling teammates that are trying to marginalize him, opponents that are headhunting him, and referees that are trying to officiate him out of the league.
Against the backdrop of that total hostility, I marvel at Lin's prowess. I've been in Lin's shoes as the hated lone Asian guy all my life, so I know what it's like for everybody including his teammates to be going against him. I also admire how mature his game has been, as all the negativity has really forged him into an incredible player.
Lin's already has his breakout GAMES (not just one, but several). Now it's just a matter of him learning how to not play nice and just BULLY people. Lin's got it in him to be a bully who pushes around not just opponents, but teammates and coaches. Lin HAS to be that way to be the sole Asian guy holding his ground.
Jeremy Lin is the only player in NBA history who gets flamed more for doing well than for doing poorly!
YOU guys do know the reason for Mchale benching Lin right? Hes not making the shots that he should be making. He rather have Douglas who can play much BETTER defence than lin. Douglas also can make certain shots and is much more aggressive. he doesnt hesitate to shoot. One thing i like about Lin v, Dogulas is that he can make better plays for his team.ReplyDelete
Unless Lin starts getting those open shots more often and playing decent defence i dont see why Mchale would not continue to play Lin.Replies
That's why Lin should take more shots rather than passing. Lin can already pass, so the only way Lin can improve his shooting is taking more shots during live games as long as he's reasonably open. Let Rockets' coaches start Dougie over him if they wish.Delete
Rob, you should go post at the Tony Douglas site. I'm sure your input be greatly appreciated.Delete
2 turnovers already within 3 mins. Lin sucksReplyDelete
Douglas comes in and everyone starts getting their shots in. Having a feeling that their teammates want Lin out lolReplyDelete
Where are the fans here? I guess you guys gave up on Lin too huh? Man, Lin needs to go back to D league and redeem himself.ReplyDelete


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I first met Nick Moraitakis under the worst possible circumstances. The sudden, tragic death of my husband left me alone with a young child. Needless to say, I was in shock and emotionally paralyzed, with nothing more than unanswered questions. At a loss and nowhere to turn, a family friend recommended I contact Nick. Little did I know the impact he would have on my life. From the moment we met, I knew he was someone I could trust. At a time when I was vulnerable and scared, trust was something that was hard to come by. He immediately went to work on my case, which was a great feeling because it gave me hope. He has walked me through the entire process, answered even the most trivial of questions, and perhaps most importantly, listened to me. He has always made himself available when I have needed him and I honestly feel that my case is important and a top priority. Words cannot begin to express how invaluable Nick has been through the most difficult time in my life. Nick has gone above and beyond the call of duty for me, and for that, I am forever grateful. I have been completely devastated by my husband's death, but now that our financial future is more secure, I can focus on what is most important: raising my daughter the way my husband and I always wanted.
Catherine G., Atlanta, GA
We were very blessed to have Glenn representing us at a very difficult time in our lives. Due to medical negligence, our son was left brain damaged and severely incapacitated. Glenn was always available to us when we needed him and he took our concerns and needs seriously. We were treated as friends not just as clients and if Glenn didn't have an answer for us when we asked, he would tell us "I don't have an answer for you right now, but I will find out and get back to you" and he always did. Thanks to Glenn and his assistant Konnie, we were represented with legal counsel that exceeded our expectations.
Allen and Catherine D., Atlanta, GA
The best decision you can make. If you are reading this testimonial and wondering about Nick Moraitakis:Is he a good attorney? Can he help me? Does he understand what I am going through? Will he give me the attention and time I seek? Does he know his way through the Law, in the Courts and with the Judges? Will he understand how important this case is to me? Is he honest? Does he have great integrity? … Does his staff reflect his values and professionalism? My answer YES and YES!!!! Nick Moraitakis represented me in a challenging case and at a difficult time in my life. Having him as my attorney was the best thing that could happen to me- He had my best interest in mind, he worked with me as if I was his only client and was with me all the way through!
Simona E., Atlanta, GA
I nearly died on an operating room table and had many complications. I was referred by another law firm to Glenn Kushel. I do not regret my decision to have them represent me in this matter. They were great! They came to me, as I was unable to travel. They listened and really cared about you as a person. They always returned my calls the same day. Their legal assistant Konnie Tate is the best. Glenn and his staff got me all the compensation I was entitled to. They worked hard to make sure I could get back on my feet and take care of my children. Thank you Glenn, Konnie & staff for all your hard work.
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A free service called UberConference is trying to change how we participate in conference calls, a cross-browser worm is being spread via Facebook, and the latest Mountain Lion update brings a new feature to the table: iOS-style automatic app downloads.
- UberConference: If you have ever been in a conference call, you likely know how much of a pain it can be to keep track of who is in the conference, and even who is talking. A new service called UberConference is trying to change all of that by allowing users of the conference calling service to see exactly who is in a conference, and who is talking at any moment in time. UberConference also allows you to select any conference participant from within the conference and view information about them via LinkedIn, Google+, and Twitter. Additionally, the service also gives users the opportunity to have one-on-one discussions with conference participants, and can even record conference for later listening. Currently, UberConference is free, but a few premium versions are scheduled to be released in the future. [UberConference]
- Cross-Browser Worm Spreads via Facebook, Security Experts Warn: According to Kasperksy Lab, a cross-browser extension development framework known as Crossrider has been used to malware that has the ability to infect users via an extension inside Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. Supposedly, the malware can infect browsers that are also running on Linux and Mac, and since it does not have any executable files, antivirus programs are not designed to look for it. So why was this piece of malware created in the first place? All signs point to "click fraud," in that the malware apparently spoofs rogue advertisement modules via YouTube, Google, Facebook, and more. Once a user clicks on the ad, the creators of the malware earn money via affiliate programs. [Computer World]
- Latest Mountain Lion Update Brings iOS-like Automatic Downloads For Apps: The latest update to OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview 3 features iOS-like automatic app downloads inside of the Mac App Store. In the same way as apps are downloaded on an iOS device as soon as they are purchased, so too are apps downloaded to multiple Macs that are logged into the same App Store account. [9 to 5 Mac]
- MacBook Pro Price Drop Signals Imminent Launch: Have you been anticipating the next generation of the MacBook Pro? The proof that next-gen MacBook Pro laptops are just around the corner is likely here, as Best Buy has cut the price of every MacBook Pro by $100. [Gizmodo]
- The Story of Send: Google has created an informative and interactive feature entitled "The Story of Send." The feature follows an email as it it sent from a Gmail user's inbox, travels to a Google data center where it is secured, and ends up in another user's inbox. The feature also demo [Google]
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Freedom from food fears
A Christian Science perspective.
Will it be fast food or slow food tonight? Do we go all-organic or buy the less expensive ordinary varieties? Or of even greater concern these days, is the food we're preparing pure or contaminated?
Granted, because food is a primary human need, there's a measure of wisdom in the counsel, "Watch what you eat." Could there be an even higher wisdom, though, in watching what you think about what you eat? It's entirely possible that far more people suffer from fears associated with their food than from the food itself. If these fears can be alleviated through spiritual awakening and the wisdom that comes with spiritual progress, then what are the first steps toward freedom?
Step one might be termed simply "know the truth," as in the well-known counsel Christ Jesus gave: "Ye shall know the truth" – in this case, the truth about the nature of life itself and what sustains life – "and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32). In the few words that precede that statement, however, Jesus offered an important precondition to knowing what is true. He said, according to the New English Bible's translation, that "if you dwell within the revelation I have brought," then you truly are Christ's follower, and you'll know the truth – the spiritual fact – of any challenge that confronts you. Fear can't resist the dawning of spiritual discernment, any more than darkness can resist the sun's appearance at daybreak.
This Christ-revelation, as Mary Baker Eddy discovered over a century ago, centers on the nature of God as the one loving and universal Parent; that God is the source of good and not evil, of health and not illness, of life and not death. Moreover, Jesus revealed in his own life the indestructible solidity of life in Spirit, and the insubstantial nature of all that is mortal and material, illness and death included. His life – and his dominion over all that makes people afraid – is not a one-off exception, but the rule for anyone who grasps something of the revelation and allows it to inform their thoughts and decisions.
A second step toward freedom from food-related anxieties involves putting into practice some basic precepts from Jesus' teachings – words that become more than mere "wisdom sayings" when they're understood as expressive of a divine Science, or the laws embedded in having one God and treating others as we would like to be treated.
Consider, for instance, Jesus' counsel to "take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat" (Luke 12:22). Instead of promoting an "ignorance is bliss" policy, his words literally mean, "Don't be anxious or troubled with cares about what you eat." Don't allow food or compulsive concern about it to define you. By extension, don't believe that life's inspiration, strength, or lasting satisfaction can be found in any form of matter. And ultimately, don't believe that what God gives to sustain life can also destroy life.
Along with God's supply of humanity's "daily bread" naturally comes the insight to make good choices and the self-control to avoid bingeing or thinking obsessively in general or specific ways about food.
The Bible also addresses anxieties about food cleanliness. Religious rather than strictly hygienic concerns prompted Jesus' critics to complain about the eating habits of his followers. The critics were concerned about surface impurity, however, and Jesus about spiritual and moral contamination. "You are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and dish," he said very pointedly, "but inside you are filthy – full of greed and self-indulgence!" (Matt. 23:25, New Living Translation).
Prayer for food safety can and should extend to the whole human family and everyone along the farm-to-family table chain, including those who grow the spinach and produce the peanut butter. The spiritual fact is that conscience and care for others' welfare are innate to every God-created being; whatever is dimly motivated eventually must be corrected.
The world faces challenges concerning food on a scale beyond the anxieties that trouble many individuals and families – such as the hundreds of millions in both developing and industrialized countries who don't have enough to eat. Again, wherever lack of resources appears, it's thinking that first needs to change. End the famine of ideas, of inspiration, of affections, and we'll find new means to feed a hungry world in all ways.
Looking ahead to spiritual advancement around the globe, Mary Baker Eddy wrote, "Christ, Truth, gives mortals temporary food and clothing until the material, transformed with the ideal, disappears, and man is clothed and fed spiritually" ("Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," p. 442). With a tender love that envelops all creation, God is showing, through the already revealed law of the Christ, the way to freedom from all earth's fears. There couldn't be a more basic human need.
Reprinted editorial from the Christian Science Sentinel.