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LEBANON, Maine — Police arrested a couple in Somersworth, N.H., Wednesday afternoon in connection with a shooting last week at a 2nd Street home that is now believed to have occurred during a burglary.
Ronald Bauer, 48, with no confirmed address provided, and Susan Gutierrez, 48, of 19 Mechanic St., Dover, N.H., will each be charged with elevated aggravated assault and hindering apprehension for their alleged involvement in a shooting last Tuesday, Jan. 8, where homeowner Richard Potorski, 41, returned to his residence at 11 2nd Street and was surprised by an intruder who shot him in the shoulder.
Potorski remains hospitalized at this time, according to a Maine State Police Department press release, which states the couple intended to burglarize the home to "feed their drug habit."
Somersworth police say Bauer will also be charged with a probation violation.
Both Bauer and Gutierrez were arrested as they were leaving the apartment of a friend in Somersworth Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 p.m., according to Maine State Police. The Somersworth Police Department says they were arrested at 71B Indigo Hill Road and the two are currently being held at the Strafford County House of Corrections on charges of being fugitives from justice. Each will face an arraignment at Dover Circuit Court today before they are transported back to Maine to face their assault and hindering apprehension charges.
According to Maine State Police Spokesman Steve McCausland, the couple was taken by surprise when they were arrested. They were taken into custody without incident.
McCausland said authorities believe Gutierrez dropped Bauer off at the 11 2nd Street resident last Tuesday to allow him to carry out a burglary of the home. Gutierrez then left in her personal vehicle. Police have alleged Bauer was the only one in the home at the time when Potorski was shot, after he returned home around noon for a lunch break that day. Police found Potorski's Ford Explorer abandoned behind a Big Lots retail store in Rochester, N.H., later that afternoon and officials have said they believe the shooter used the victim's vehicle as a getaway car.
The Maine State Police have also said they are actively investigating the timeline of events to clarify exactly what happened inside the home between Potorski and Bauer and have stated the crime was not reported until approximately 1:45 p.m. later that day, when Potorski's wife returned home and found her husband with a gunshot wound in his shoulder and chest area.
Potorski was transported by LifeFlight helicopter in serious condition to Maine Medical Center.
McCausland said Wednesday's arrests were made possible by a coordinated effort between multiple police agencies identified as the Somersworth Police Department, the U.S. Marshal's Fugitive Task Force, members of the New Hampshire Probation and Parole, the New Hampshire Attorney General's Drug Task Force and the Rochester Police Department, along with law enforcement agencies in Massachusetts, according the Maine department press release.
McCausland added specific details are not being released at this time but noted there may be a number of other charges to come forward against the couple, though the initial charges of elevated aggravated assault will "start the court proceedings" in Maine.


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Sometimes I wonder if I'm truly an American. I mean, I have never eaten a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread, I have never eaten at Taco Bell, and despite its nearly iconic status in American cuisine, I cannot abide green bean casserole. You know the one -- green beans with cream of mushroom soup, topped with crispy fried onions.
Growing up, I never knew what a casserole was; my mom (and grandmother) never made them. After hearing about green bean casserole from friends at school, I felt like I was missing out -- I told my mom, "It has fried onions on top! It's like green beans with Funyuns!" The next day she bought the ingredients for green bean casserole; I couldn't have been happier.
Unfortunately, she made the green bean casserole in front of my grandmother, Nan. I still remember her look of shock when my mom opened the can of fried onions. "Onions in a can? Who ever heard of such a thing? And who puts soup on string beans?" she said, "Bah, that's American food." I reminded her, "Nan, we are American." "Yeah," she replied, "but we cook Italian."
Despite Nan's protests, I got my green bean casserole. I was giddy with anticipation. Unfortunately, with the first bite, my giddiness ended. Green bean casserole was nothing more than mushy green beans topped with salty soup and greasy onions.
I declared, "I don't like it." Though she didn't say a word, I could see the smile of satisfaction on Nan's face.
If Nan could still make green beans, this would be her style: Prosciutto, Pine Nuts, and Meyer Lemon. I made this side dish last Thanksgiving, and it was such a hit that there were no left-overs. It's no wonder. The combination of salty prosciutto, earthy pine nuts, and tangy Meyer lemons enlivens the string beans.
Although you could add the prosciutto raw to the string beans, cooking it for 30-60 seconds renders it irresistibly crisp and savory, like bacon, but much better. It's an easy way to dress up otherwise humble string beans and will surely please your guests. I'd keep the string beans al dente; they'll remain brilliantly colorful and will have that satisfying snap when you bite into them.
I'm not even gonna get into what Nan thought about sweet potatoes and marshmallows.
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1 pound string beans, trimmed
1 tablespoon pine nuts
1 teaspoon olive oil
2 ounces prosciutto, cut into thin strips*
the zest of ½ Meyer lemon (about 2 teaspoons)**
the juice of ½ Meyer lemon (1 ½-2 teaspoons)
coarse sea salt, to taste
7-8 cranks freshly ground black pepper
extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling
In a deep pot, boil the string beans for 2 minutes. Drain and plunge into a bowl of ice water to stop cooking and maintain their color. After about 2 minutes, drain and pat dry.
Place pine nuts in a small, dry skillet over medium heat. Shake pan in a back-and-forth motion until pine nuts are golden and aromatic, about 1-2 minutes. Set aside.
In a large skillet, warm 1 teaspoon olive oil. Add prosciutto strips; cook for 30-60 seconds, or until just crisp. Add the string beans to the skillet and stir well. Add the lemon zest, lemon juice, and salt and pepper; stir and heat through, 1-2 minutes. Sprinkle with toasted pine nuts and additional lemon zest, and drizzle with a little extra virgin olive oil. Serve immediately.
*You can substitute pancetta or bacon for the prosciutto, if you prefer.
**Meyer lemons, which are available at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's, are sweeter and less acidic than regular lemons, but either works well.
You might also like these other Thanksgiving side dishes:
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A thunderous, rhythmic roar of jingling bells and beating drums rumbled through University of New Mexico Arena on Friday as hundreds of Native American and indigenous dancers gathered for the start of powwow season.
The three-day Gathering of Nations, North America's largest powwow, drew more than 1,500 competitive dancers and tens of thousands of spectators from across the U.S. and parts of Canada and Mexico.
The festivities kicked off with dancers from Saskatchewan and a drum group from Quebec in acknowledgement of the "Idle No More" movement that is sweeping across Indian Country.
"It just brings the people together, just to reassure that we all need to stick together for the purpose and for the cause, that we can't forget who we are," said Larry Yazzie, one of the powwow's masters of ceremonies.
Idle No More has garnered a worldwide following through social media while reopening constitutional issues involving the relationship between the federal government and Native communities in the U.S. and Canada. The movement began after indigenous groups protested a Canadian proposal that they said would threaten their self-governance and control of traditional land bases.
Rallies have been held in many U.S. communities over the past year, giving way to more awareness and a new generation of activism among Native Americans.
At the 30th annual Gathering of Nations, there was a renewed sense of pride among some dancers.
Aside from showing off their dance skills, some participants said the powwow was also a chance to reinvigorate interest in culture, particularly for younger generations.
The dancers donned traditional costumes made of colorful beads, feathers, fringed leather and bells. It took close to an hour Friday as they poured into the bottom of the arena, better known as The Pit, for the grand entry.
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Yazzie said the dances are just part of the traditions that need to be carried on. He also pointed to oral stories and medicines.
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They saw new seats, brighter lights, new concessions and lots of new players. And a thriller to the finish.
Two goals in the final 1 minute, 10 seconds of regulation left a quite favorable impression on a near-sellout turnout of 6,202. Brad Winchester and Phillip Danault struck for Rockford to bring about overtime.
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What makes Java 8 so compelling is its embrace of the functional programming metaphor. This embrace has two primary expressions: the use of closures (or as Java calls them, "lambdas") and the adoption of composition as a central approach to development. Lambdas, while not quite full first-class functions, enable passing code as a parameter to a function, within limited contexts. By limited, I mean only the mechanics of it, not the opportunities to do so. As Brian Goetz of Oracle explains, once the syntax of lambdas had been finalized and its implementation completed, the Java team found numerous opportunities to use lambdas to streamline the standard libraries. They discovered that not only was the code clearer, but the performance better. Implicit is that latent defects were removed, too, as code size was reduced.
The new streams feature in Java 8 enables composability. This language trait, recently explained by Walter Bright, enables software to be implemented using a model that operates like this: data source → algorithm → data sink. This model is highly desirable on today's platforms where such computational streams can be run in parallel and thereby make full use of multicore processors. It is also an excellent fit in processing Big Data.
Purists will argue that these two changes, even when taken together, don't make Java a functional language. They're correct, but that was hardly the goal. The idea, which looks like it's been achieved elegantly, is to give OO developers functional capabilities in ways that are immediately usable and useful, without imposing a significant learning curve or rewiring of the way they've previously written code.
Other new features include the ability to add defined default methods to interfaces and to define static methods in interfaces both of which will save a lot of code and make interfaces considerably more useful.
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Latino immigrants in the U.S. say the quality and affordability of health care is better in the U.S. than in the countries they came from, according to the latest survey by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. But many report having health care problems.
About a third of immigrant respondents (31 percent) said they'd had a serious problem with being able to pay for health insurance in the past 12 months. And more than 1 in 4 had a serious problem affording doctor and hospital bills and prescription medicines.
But the health issue that Latinos said is most concerning for them and their families — whether they were born in the U.S. or immigrated here — is diabetes. Last year, in another poll, Latinos said cancer was the biggest problem facing the country.
Hispanic populations have a high prevalence of Type 2 diabetes. About 10 percent of Latino adults have been diagnosed with it or have "prediabetes," a stage of the disease that often goes undetected.
One important factor: Latinos may be genetically predisposed to the disease — a risk that can be aggravated by environment and diet.
The Diabetes 'Plague'
Take the example of East Los Angeles, an area heavily populated by Mexican-Americans.
Like many of her friends and family members, Rebecca Martinez-Rocha says she struggles with her weight. At one point, she weighed more than 320 pounds.
"I don't think I realized it at the time, whether it was denial or I stopped getting on a scale," she says, "but I was morbidly obese."
And, as it turns out, Martinez-Rocha was prediabetic, a diagnosis she received at a local health clinic.
"I wasn't aware of the fact that I was ill; I figured that I was relatively young, in my 20s and early 30s," she says. "It was kind of one of those 'aha' moments in life, where you look at it and put it all together and you think, 'How did I get here?' "
The doctor who diagnosed Martinez-Rocha's condition is Anne Peters, a diabetes specialist and professor at University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine. She's also the director of a diabetes program at Roybal Comprehensive Health Center.
Peters says Type 2 diabetes is the "plague" of the Latino community she treats: "Individuals here are getting diabetes at rates we've not seen before."
About 12 percent of the Latino population she sees has diabetes. Peters projects that number will climb to nearly 30 percent over the next few decades if nothing changes in the environment or diet of local residents.
Peters told Martinez-Rocha she was on her way to getting insulin-dependent Type 2 diabetes. Martinez-Rocha says she got very scared and made major changes. She lost 160 pounds.
But many patients don't do that, in large part because prediabetes is often "silent." Unless people go to a doctor and get their blood sugar measured, they'll never know they have it.
And that's a shame, Peters says, because prediabetes can be turned around. "If somebody has prediabetes, they need to lose weight — not a lot of weight, maybe only 10 to 15 pounds," she says.
They "don't have to become skinny" to benefit, she adds. Studies show that moderate weight loss can reduce diabetes risk by half.
Losing weight is hard for many people. But Martinez-Rocha says it's even harder when you live in a neighborhood that offers lots of high-fat, high-salt and high-sugar food.
"If you drive around my neighborhood, every corner you'll see a taco stand, a fast-food restaurant, a sweet-bread store, places selling tamales or fried food," Martinez-Rocha says.
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In NPR's poll with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health, 1 in 5 Mexican-Americans rated the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables in their neighborhoods as fair or poor.
Alex Ortega, a public health researcher and professor of public health at UCLA, calls neighborhoods like this, where healthy food is hard to come by, "food swamps."
Walk into the typical corner market, he says, and the first things you'll see are signs for liquor and lottery tickets, cigarettes, soda and chips. "They might sell some fruits and vegetables, but they're typically in the back of the store and in very poor quality," Ortega says.
Our survey found that Latino immigrants generally do not perceive their diets as less healthy in the U.S.: 38 percent see their diet as healthier in the United States, and about the same number (39 percent) say it's about as healthy. One in 5 (21 percent) see their diet as less healthy.
Previous studies have shown that obesity rates among immigrants increase as their duration of residence in the U.S. increases. They suggest this might be attributable in part to changes in lifestyle, including an unhealthy diet.
Will Converting Stores Lower Obesity?
Ortega is committed to turning the Latino diet around. As director of the UCLA-USC Center for Population Health and Health Disparities, Ortega is heading a project to convert corner stores in low-income neighborhoods.
About a month ago, Ortega, along with community activists, local high school students and store owner Maria Avila, transformed the Euclid Market in the Boyle Heights section of East Los Angeles. They added windows and a new paint job, and rearranged and organized shelving. But most importantly, Ortega says, they added healthful foods.
The newly converted store opened to the public in December. Today, when you walk in the door, the first things you see aren't cigarettes and junk food — they're fresh fruits and vegetables.
This is the fourth corner store in the area to be converted. Ortega is still collecting data, but anecdotally, he says, store owners tell him they have more customers, they're selling more fruits and vegetables, and they're making more money.
But the big question is whether the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables will make a difference in the health of the neighborhood and the epidemic of diabetes.
Better Options, Better Diet
For college freshman DeeDee Barba, it has made a difference. She has taken part in the store conversion project for two years. Not only has she learned about marketing and sales, but she's also learned about nutrition. As a result, she says, her family now eats more healthfully. Part of that includes no dressing on salads.
"We now eat our salads with olive oil and lemon, and it's actually good," she says. "We eat a lot of fish and chicken; we rarely eat red meat. We eat rice, but we have whole-wheat rice. We don't drink soda anymore — we drink mostly water."
High school senior Steven Cardona, 17, has worked with the store conversion project for the past year. Learning about nutrition, he says, has changed his family's diet dramatically.
"Before, we would eat lots of fast food, but now we eat mostly steamed vegetables, rice, chicken and lean meats," he says. Family members have lost a lot of weight, and everybody reports feeling "better," he says.
Ortega says that's exactly what's hoped for: that the availability of healthy food in low-income neighborhoods like this will make a difference in what residents buy, cook and eat. And that it will mean changing diets and reducing the high rates of obesity and diabetes in the Latino community in East L.A.
Now, along with those questions Gene mentioned, about finances and the American Dream, our joint poll on Latino Americans also asked about health. We're told that Latinos can be genetically predisposed to diabetes. Environment and diet can increase that risk. NPR's Patty Neighmond went to Boyle Heights in east Los Angeles, a neighborhood dominated by Mexican-Americans.
PATTI NEIGHMOND, BYLINE: Rebecca Martinez-Rocha says she's 100 percent East L.A.
REBECCA MARTINEZ-ROCHA: I was born there, raised there, and still live there.
NEIGHMOND: And like many of her friends and family members, Martinez-Rocha struggles with her weight. At one point she was extremely obese.
MARTINEZ-ROCHA: I was well over 320 pounds. I don't think I realized it at the time, whether it was denial or I just stopped getting on the scale. I was morbidly obese.
NEIGHMOND: And, as it turns out, she was prediabetic, a diagnosis she received at the local health clinic.
MARTINEZ-ROCHA: I wasn't aware of the fact that I was ill. I figured since I was relatively young - I was in my late 20s, early 30s - and it was kind of one of those a-ha moments in life where you look at it and you put it all together and you think how did I get here?
NEIGHMOND: Her doctor, Anne Peters, is a diabetes specialist who also heads a diabetes research program at the University of Southern California.
DR. ANNE PETERS: Type two diabetes is the plague of this Latino community. Individuals here are getting diabetes at rates we've not seen before.
NEIGHMOND: Rates of about one in 10 people.
PETERS: I have seen more suffering from diabetes; from blindness, from kidney failure, from heart disease, from amputations. Untreated, diabetes is awful.
NEIGHMOND: Peters says if nothing changes, the rate of diabetes could rise over the coming decades to one-in-four. Peters told Martinez-Rocha she was on her way to becoming an insulin-dependent diabetic. Martinez-Rocha got really scared and made major changes. She lost 160 pounds. But many patients don't do that, in large part because pre-diabetes is silent. And if they don't go to a doctor and get their blood sugar measured they'll never know, which is a shame, says Peters, because pre-diabetes can be turned around.
PETERS: If somebody has pre-diabetes, they need to lose weight and they don't need to lose a lot of weight. It may only be 10 to 15, 20 pounds. It doesn't mean they have to become skinny.
NEIGHMOND: But weight is key, says Peters. Studies show that just moderate weight loss can reduce diabetes risk by half. Now, losing weight is hard for everyone. But Martinez-Rocha says it's even harder when you live in a neighborhood that offers lots of high-fat, high-sugar food.
MARTINEZ-ROCHA: Drive around my neighborhood, every corner you'll see a taco stand, a fast-food restaurant, a panaria(ph) which is, you know, sweet-bread store. You'll see a place that sells tamales. You'll see a place that sells some sort of other desert or fried food.
NEIGHMOND: In our poll with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health, we found that one-in-five Mexican-Americans say they have poor to fair access to fresh fruits and vegetables.
Alex Ortega is a professor of public health at UCLA. He calls neighborhoods like this food swaps, where corner markets typically don't offer healthy food.
ALEX ORTEGA: They'll sell lottery tickets, liquor, cigarettes. They might sell some fruits and vegetables, but they're typically in the back of the store and they tend to be of very poor quality.
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NEIGHMOND: About a month ago at the Euclid Market in East L.A., storeowner Maria Avila worked with Ortega and local high school students to transform store. They added windows, a new paint job and, most importantly, healthy food. Now, when you walk in, the first things you see are fresh fruits and vegetables.
ORTEGA: Fresh tomatoes, you see some squash, you see avocados, you see apples, you know, a wide variety of fruits and vegetables that were not here couple of months ago.
NEIGHMOND: This is the fourth corner store in the area to be converted. It's part of a special project at UCLA. Ortega says storeowners tell him they have more customers. They're selling more fruits and vegetables and they're making more money - all around good news. But the big question, of course, is: Will it make a difference in the health of the neighborhood and the epidemic of diabetes.
Nineteen-year-old college freshman DeeDee Barba has been part of the store conversion project for two years. She's also learned about nutrition.
DEEDEE BARBA: We've always liked salads though. Like, that's actually been a big thing in our family - we do like salads a lot. But, you know, we would always eat them with dressing. And that's like, you know, when we started finding out, like, it's not so good with dressing and stuff. So we usually are salads with like, olive oil and lemon now. That's actually really good.
NEIGHMOND: For 17-year-old high school senior Steven Cardona, the family diet has changed dramatically.
STEVEN CARDONA: Before we would, you know, go to like Jack in the Box or something. You know, eats dinner with whatever. But the other day, we had some steamed vegetables, rice and a piece of chicken on the side. And, you know, little things like that, you know.
NEIGHMOND: Researcher Alex Ortega says the hope is the availability of healthy food in low-income neighborhoods like this will make a difference in rates of obesity and diabetes in the Latino community.
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"It's been yet another hard day's night," European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn told reporters in Brussels early today. "There were no optimal solutions available, only hard choices."
It was the second time in nine days that Cyprus struck a deal with its euro partners and the International Monetary Fund, capping a tumultuous week that underscored the contradictions of the crisis management that has dominated European policy making for more than three years. Cyprus, the euro area's third- smallest economy, is the fifth country to tap international aid since the crisis broke out in Greece in 2009.
The first Cypriot accord, reached March 16, fell apart three days later when the parliament in Nicosia rejected a key plank, a tax on all bank accounts that sparked the indignation of smaller depositors. Efforts to win an alternative bailout from Russia, which lent Cyprus 2.5-billion euros in 2011 when the nation was shut out of international markets, failed.
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"Nobody knows where we are heading," said Epifanos Epifaniou, 50, who used to drive a delivery truck in Nicosia and has been unemployed for six months. "People are playing games with Cyprus. We are alone. Nobody is supporting us."
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told reporters today the agreement was "capable of stabilizing the situation in Cyprus." Hans Michelbach, a German lawmaker and ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, said he was "cautiously relieved." Last week, Michelbach said Cyprus would pay a "high price" for rejecting the initial deal.
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"Cyprus's sovereign debt problems will remain an issue of concern — for European policy makers and for the markets," Cluse wrote in a note to clients today.
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The union representing Cypriot banking workers said today the Mediterranean island is faced with a "painful compromise," according to a statement posted on its website. It urged employees to be ready to return to work when banks reopen.
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"This solution we reached tonight doesn't have the downsides that the solution of last week did," said Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem, chairman of the euro ministers' panel. He said the deal was beyond the range of "political possibilities" a week ago.
The Cypriot parliament won't have to vote again because it has already passed laws on bank restructuring, officials said. On the creditors' side, legislatures in Germany, Finland and the Netherlands may hold votes to approve loans to Cyprus from the European Stability Mechanism, the 500-billion euro rescue fund.
Klaus Regling, managing director of the rescue fund, said approval by creditor governments in mid-April will pave the way for the first payouts to Cyprus in early May.
Lagarde said she will recommend that the IMF provide loans, without giving a figure. "There might have been a bit of friction here and there," she said.
The next step lies with the ECB, which needs to keep funds flowing to solvent Cypriot banks to enable them to open. While Draghi and Executive Board member Joerg Asmussen left Brussels without commenting to reporters, a statement by the ministers said the bank will channel liquidity to the Bank of Cyprus "in line with applicable rules."
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In a replay of tensions over aid for Greece at the outset of the crisis, European governments had wrangled over aid for Cyprus for nine months, exposing holes in the revamped economic management system that was built in three years of emergency policymaking, often at all-night summits.
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Your high-net worth-clients can breathe easier in 2013 because of the now-permanent $5 million exemption for estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer (GST) taxes. Despite this, many of these clients need guidance on how to transfer wealth to the next generation within their values.
Because of the uncertainties involved in allowing their children to manage large sums, parents may be conflicted with how to structure such large lifetime gifts. As a result, it is more important than ever for advisors to be aware of current asset transfer vehicles, such as quiet trusts or spousal lifetime access trusts, which can allow clients to transfer assets during life without relinquishing total control to adult children.
Lifetime Giving Versus Transfers at Death
Now that the $5 million lifetime exemption ($5.25 million in 2013) permanently applies to estate, gift and GST taxes, there are many reasons why wealthy clients might prefer to make large lifetime gifts rather than simply passing the wealth to the next generation upon death. Importantly, a client can make gifts of appreciating assets valued at $5.25 million ($10.5 million per couple) and freeze the value transferred at the date of the gift—any future appreciation is not taxed. If the same $5.25 million asset is transferred at death, all of the appreciation could be subject to estate tax.
While a client might realize this, he may hesitate to pass large sums to children who may not yet have the financial acumen to manage the gift. Further, it is common for parents to worry that giving children control over wealth at too young an age can remove all incentive for those children to strive to achieve financial success and independence.
Though there is not much novelty in the idea of making large lifetime gifts to children in trust, clients should know that there are ways to reconcile the desire to pass wealth to their children with the fear that those children will rely on inherited wealth rather than learning to stand for themselves.
The 'Quiet' Trust
In most cases, once a trust is established for the benefit of a client's children, the trustee's disclosure obligations require that the beneficiaries be informed as to the trust's value at regular intervals. A quiet trust removes this obligation so that the trust creator can determine when the beneficiaries become aware of the trust, and when and how information is disclosed. For example, the creator can set up a trust where the child-beneficiary does not learn of its existence until he reaches a certain age.
These trusts are not available in all states, but if a client wishes to use this option, he can set up the trust in a state that does allow them. The law can vary significantly by state; for example, New York has no specific statute dealing with quiet trusts, but general New York trust law may require that information be furnished to trust beneficiaries if the beneficiary specifically requests the information. New Hampshire and Alaska expressly permit quiet trusts.
Although a quiet trust can be beneficial, the downside is that the beneficiary has no input concerning the trustee's investment decisions. Because of this, the trust creator may wish to require that the trustee make disclosures to, and obtain feedback from, an advisor who will consider the beneficiary's position and make appropriate recommendations.
Spousal Access to Trusts
Another technique for passing lifetime gifts without surrendering complete control to children is a spousal lifetime access trust (SLAT), which permits a spouse to access the trust even if the first spouse dies leaving the trust to beneficiary-children. This can allow the parents to create the trust now, but to determine how and when their children gain access to funds later, when they may have more information about a child's financial abilities.
Funding these types of trusts with life insurance can defer a child's ability to access the cash until the death of one or both parents, with the associated tax benefits enjoyed by life insurance—meaning the proceeds will be income tax-free, but also will avoid the 3.8% investment income tax imposed under the new health care act.
Though there is no one-size-fits-all approach for determining how a family should pass wealth to the next generation, the permanent $5 million exemption for estate, gift and GST taxes allows families flexibility in planning for their specific goals. Ensuring that your clients are informed about their options for passing wealth, therefore, is more important than ever today.
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Backpacks come in all sizes, colors, fabrics, and shapes and help kids of all ages express their own personal sense of style. And when used properly, they're incredibly handy.
Many packs feature multiple compartments that help students stay organized while they tote their books and papers from home to school and back again. Compared with shoulder bags, messenger bags, or purses, backpacks are better because the strongest muscles in the body — the back and the abdominal muscles — support the weight of the packs.
When worn correctly, the weight in a backpack is evenly distributed across the body, and shoulder and neck injuries are less common than if someone carried a briefcase or purse.
As practical as backpacks are, though, they can strain muscles and joints and may cause back pain if they're too heavy or are used incorrectly. Here's how to help kids find the right backpack.
Although many factors can lead to back pain — increased participation in sports or exercise, poor posture while sitting, and long periods of inactivity — some kids have backaches because they're lugging around their entire locker's worth of books, school supplies, and assorted personal items all day long. But most doctors and physical therapists recommend that kids carry no more than 10% to 15% of their body weight in their packs.
To know how heavy backpacks can affect a kid's body, it helps to understand how the back works. The spine is made of 33 bones called vertebrae, and between the vertebrae are discs that act as natural shock absorbers.
When a heavy weight, such as a backpack filled with books, is incorrectly placed on the shoulders, the weight's force can pull a child backward. To compensate, a child may bend forward at the hips or arch the back, which can cause the spine to compress unnaturally. The heavy weight might cause some kids to develop shoulder, neck, and back pain.
Kids who wear their backpacks over just one shoulder — as many do, because they think it looks better or just feels easier — may end up leaning to one side to offset the extra weight. They might develop lower and upper back pain and strain their shoulders and neck.
Improper backpack use can also lead to poor posture. Girls and younger kids may be especially at risk for backpack-related injuries because they're smaller and may carry loads that are heavier in proportion to their body weight.
Also, backpacks with tight, narrow straps that dig into the shoulders can interfere with circulation and nerves. These types of straps can contribute to tingling, numbness, and weakness in the arms and hands.
And bulky or heavy backpacks don't just cause back injuries. Other safety issues to consider:
Despite their potential problems, backpacks are an excellent tool for kids when used properly. But before you buy that trendy new backpack your kid or teen has been begging you for, consider the backpack's construction.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that parents look for the following when choosing the right backpack:
Although packs on wheels (which look like small, overhead luggage bags) may be good options for students who have to lug around really heavy loads, they're extremely difficult to pull up stairs and to roll through snow. Check with the school before buying a rolling pack; many schools don't allow them because they can pose a tripping hazard in the hallways.
To help kids prevent injury when using a backpack:
A lot of the responsibility for packing lightly — and safely — rests with kids:
Involving other parents and your child's school in solving students' backpack burdens might help to lessen kids' loads. Some ways the school can get involved include:
You may need to adjust kids' backpacks and/or reduce how much they carry if they:
If your child has back pain or numbness or weakness in the arms or legs, talk to your doctor or physical therapist.
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Date reviewed: August 2013
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Like most developers, I got into programming because I like creating stuff. Not just any stuff, but stuff other people find useful. I like the constant problem solving, the use of abstractions that exist for long periods nowhere but in my imagination, and I like seeing the transformation into a living presence. There is a joy in the steady work of creation and in its first successful test run. It is both a sense of building and consuming until at last, at long last, I can test the new feature, verify that it works, and feel the euphoric rush of frenetic little wicker gates opening and closing inside me in a triumphant, momentarily ecstatic pulsing.
All developers know this rush. And, of course, they know the steady pleasure of patient, disciplined, and deliberate work that leads to the moment. These days, however, both the consummating surge of joy and the satisfaction of the preliminary work have become very infrequent experiences.
Both vectors today point in the wrong direction: The daily work is now overwhelmed with non-coding activity; and consequently, the culminating points of joy are ever rarer and much farther apart. So much that goes between them now feels like drudgery. On private projects, I keep hearing myself spit out between expletives, "I just want to code."
For a long time, I've attributed this frustration to the complexity of today's software. The simple programs of a few hundred lines of C++ long ago disappeared from my experience. What was the experience of riding a bicycle has become the equivalent of traveling by jumbo jet; replete with the delays, inspections, limitations on personal choices, and sudden, unexplained cancellations all at a significantly higher cost. Where is the joy in that?
But in fact, the cause is not the inherent complexity of software projects themselves although it's certainly a contributing factor but the massive overhead of handling the tools required in software development. A simple project for example your own open-source mobile app that, say, compares your distance traveled with its equivalent distance as the crow flies. Simple in concept, likely simple to develop, but with enough coding challenges to make it interesting. To begin with, you're going to need to choose an SCM. Git is certainly the best choice if you want any community interest. The trouble with Git is that it's a whole subworld on to itself. You can use a tutorial to get you from a minimal point A to point B. But if a potential contributor wants to fork your code, you'd better understand pull requests, branching and merging, and a whole series of other operations that might or might not have counterparts in the SCMs you've used. And even if they are conceptually similar, Git almost certainly does those same actions differently.
Presuming you know the IDE/editor you're planning to use, you now need to address the build cycle. Every mobile platform has its own preferred build tool. Unless you're writing something astoundingly simple (so, not this app), you'll need to do more than just figure out a simple build script. You'll need to understand the philosophy behind the build tool: how it works, what it expects, and how to define your specific project. If you're using "convention over configuration" tools, you might discover that you've set up your project wrong and now need to go back and change the whole directory structure.
We're nowhere near done. You're going to need to deploy that app. And then you're going to have to test it on some devices. Supposing you clear those hurdles neither one trivial you'll need a bug tracking mechanism. Again, if you want any involvement from others, you'll need to use a commonly favored defect tracker, rather than notes to yourself or a spreadsheet. Finally, if you want to make the app available to others, you then must begin the process of getting approved by the various vendor stores. Having fun, yet? We haven't even begun to code.
Project overhead, even for simple projects, is so heavy that it's a wonder anyone can find the time to code, much less derive joy from it. Software development has become a mostly operational activity, rather than a creative one. The fundamental problem here is not the complexity of apps, but the complexity of tools. Tools have gone rather haywire during the last decade chasing shibboleths of scalability, comprehensiveness, performance. Everything except simplicity. Most tools have their own APIs and many have their own DSLs. You either must learn a new sub-language or you have to program them. In every direction, complexity is an insistent reality poised to take you away from the core development activity: coding.
The example of a mobile app is about the simplest one available. Had I chosen a Web app, we could add the overhead of dealing with the required multiplicity of languages, the elements of the deployment stack, and that great time sink, the NoSQL database. Let's not even touch on the additional complexity of the cloud. I am certainly not the only programmer to feel the exhaustion and frustration of this situation. Next week, I'll discuss how some developers and sites are getting around the problem. Meanwhile, if you've started addressing it yourself, please share your approach.
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