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Part 1 Section A: Questions 1 – 20 The following statements are either true or false. Select the most appropriate answer and darken the oval under A for true and B for false. 1. An automatic 4-month extension of time to file an individual return can be obtained by either filing Form 4868, Application for Automatic Extension of Time to File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, or by making the required tax payment by credit card. 2. Mary’s spouse, John, died in an auto accident in 1999. She has not remarried and she supported their 5-year-old son all year. She qualifies to file as a "qualifying widow with dependent child" for the year 2000. 3. Jennifer expects to owe $1,500 in tax for 2000. Her tax liability for 1999 was $0. Jennifer is not required to pay estimated tax for 2000. 4. Taxable disability payments are reported as wages until the recipient reaches minimum retirement age. After minimum retirement age is reached, the payments are reported as pension income. 5. A gift valued at $60 received from a savings institution for opening a savings account is taxable interest income. 6. Farming businesses on Schedule F, 1040 are subject to the at-risk rules. 7. Repainting and fixing leaks in rental property are not currently deductible as repairs if they are part of an extensive remodeling of the property. 8. Income received by an individual from rental (not including self rentals) of an office building, where no significant services are provided to the tenant, should be reported on Schedule C, Profit or Loss From Business. 9. Dr. Jay purchased an apartment building as an investment in 2000. The apartments are fully furnished. He can elect to deduct, as a Section 179 deduction, up to $20,000 of the portion of the cost allocable to the furnishings. 10. Martha invested in a mutual fund. This year the mutual fund declared a dividend which Martha elected to leave in the fund. This dividend is not reportable this year because Martha didn’t receive the money yet. 11. If a discount is received for early payment of a mortgage loan, the amount of the discount is canceled debt that should be reported as income. 12. Like-kind exchanges need not be reported on either party’s tax return since they are nontaxable. 13. In 2000, Jerry was required to use his car for his employer. His employer’s mileage reimbursement was $0.15/mile. If Jerry’s actual expenses are more than the reimbursement, he can deduct the excess amount on Schedule C, Profit or Loss From Business. 14. As a result of an accident, Thomas is required by his doctor to use a wheelchair. He arranges to have a ramp built at his front door and widens all the doorways to accommodate his wheelchair. The value of his house is not increased. The total cost of these improvements is deductible as a medical expense. 15. Alice paid her mother’s hospital bill. Her mother is not her dependent. Alice can deduct the hospital bill as a medical expense on her return because she paid it on behalf of a family member. 16. White bib overalls worn by a professional painter are work clothes or uniforms deductible as miscellaneous itemized deductions. 17. John and Joan Smith both work full time. Their dependent children, ages 4 and 6, attend day care where the expense for 2000 was $5,200. Box 10 of John’s W-2 shows his dependent care benefit received was $5,000. Form 2441, Child and Dependent Care Expenses, is not required because their day care expense exceeded the dependent care benefits received. 18. Individuals who pay AMT, Alternative Minimum Tax, may take a credit against regular income tax in future years for only the portion of the AMT that is attributable to deferral items, such as depreciation. 19. John and Marie will file a joint return for 2000. They own real estate in France. For convenience in paying the occasional bill associated with this property, they maintain a savings account at a Paris bank. In January 2001, they received a statement from the bank reporting the French equivalent of $750 interest credited to their account and the French equivalent of $127 in income tax paid to the French government. This statement’s format is prescribed by the French government and is identical to the one provided to French customers of the bank. They may take a foreign tax credit of $127 directly on Form 1040 without filing Form 1116. Note that this is their only income from sources not in the continental U.S. 20. Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones own competing greenhouses. Mr. Smith has decided to focus exclusively on flower plants and Mr. Jones exclusively on vegetable plants. They agree to swap Mr. Smith’s inventory of vegetable plants for Mr. Jones’s inventory of flower plants. Since the Fair Market Value of the vegetable plants equals the Fair Market Value of the flower plants, this transaction is a like-kind exchange. Turn to the next page for Part 1, Section B. Part 1 Section B: Questions 21 – 45 The following questions are multiple choice. Select the most appropriate answer and darken the oval under the corresponding letter on the answer sheet. 21. In which of the following situations is no return required to be filed? A. Single, filing status single, under age 65, gross income $10,000 B. Married, joint filing status, both spouses under age 65, gross income $13,000 C. Single, filing status single, age 70, gross income $8,000 D. Married, separate filing status, age 65, gross income $5,000 22. Which of the following statements regarding extensions of time to file is correct? A. An automatic 2-month extension can be obtained by filing Form 4868, Application for Automatic Extension of Time To File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return. B. An additional automatic 4-month extension can be obtained by filing Form 2688, Application for Additional Extension of Time To File U.S. Individual Income Tax Return. C. A penalty for late payment may still be charged even if an extension is granted. D. An extension request for a 2000 individual income tax return must be filed by August 15, 2001. 23. John and Joanne are the sole support of the following individuals, all U.S. citizens, none of whom lives with them: None of these individuals file a joint return or have any gross income. • Jennie, John’s mother • Julie, Joanne’s stepmother • Jonathan, father of John’s first wife How many exemptions for dependents may John and Joanne claim on their joint return for 2000? A. 3 B. 2 C. 1 D. 0 24. John is the sole support of his mother. To claim her as a dependent on his Form 1040A for 2000, she must be a resident of which of the following countries for some part of calendar year 2000? A. United States B. Mexico C. Canada D. Any of the above 25. Marge Godfrey sold her investment property March 30, 2000 at a gain of $50,000. Marge expects to owe $10,000 in additional income taxes on this sale. She had a tax liability of $900 for 1999 and will have no withholding for 2000. Marge's first estimated tax payment is due on what date? A. April 30, 2000 B. April 15, 2000 C. January 31, 2001 D. June 15, 2000 26. Matthew Kennedy received a dividend from Mayflow Corporation. Matthew has elected, using Mayflow’s dividend reinvestment plan, to purchase additional stock at FMV with the dividend received. The dividend was $1,500 and the FMV of the stock purchased was $1,475. A $25 service charge was applied to this transaction. What must Matthew report as dividend income on his tax return for 2000? A. $0 B. $1,500 C. $1,525 D. $1,475 27. During 2000, Jack sold 500 shares of stock. On December 31, 2000 he received a capital gain distribution of $750 from his mutual fund. He owned his mutual fund shares since June 30, 1999. How should Jack report the capital gain distribution on his 2000 tax return? A. $750 short-term capital gain B. $750 long-term capital gain C. $0 D. $750 ordinary dividend 28. Emily bought 50 shares of stock in 1998 for $500. In 1999, she received a return of capital of $100. She received an additional return of capital of $50 in 2000. What must Emily report as long-term capital gain on her tax return for 2000? A. $150 B. $50 C. $100 D. $0 29. Which of the following is not rental income in the year received? A. Security deposit, equal to one month’s rent, to be refunded at the end of the lease if the building passes inspection B. Payment to cancel the remaining lease C. Repairs paid by the tenant in lieu of rent D. January 2001 rent received December 2000 30. When Joe’s financial institution offered a substantial discount of $5,000 for early payment of his home mortgage, he borrowed from a family member to take advantage of this offer. How should Joe treat this discount transaction? A. No actions or reporting required B. Report $5,000 on line 21, Other Income, on Form 1040 C. Reduce his home mortgage interest deduction by $5,000 D. Report $5,000 original issue discount as interest income 31. In 2000, Billy’s father deeded him 400 acres of land. The fair market value (FMV) on the date of the transfer was $350,000. His father had paid $40,000 for the land. No gift tax was paid on the transfer. When Billy’s father died six months later, the fair market value of the land was $400,000. What is Billy’s basis in the 400 acres? A. $400,000 B. $350,000 C. $40,000 D. $260,000 32. To determine net capital gains/losses for the year: A. Net all capital gains, both long-term and short-term, together B. Net short-term gains/losses and long-term gains/losses separately, then combine C. Net short-term gains/losses and long-term gains/losses and report only any net gains D. Net all gain transactions together and all loss transactions together, then combine 33. In which situation would local transportation expenses NOT be deductible? A. From the regular or main job to the second job B. From the regular or main job to a temporary work location C. From the second job to a temporary work location D. From home (residence) to the second job on your day off from your main job 34. For 8 months of each year George lives in Ocala, Florida training horses for several owners and earning approximately $20,000. He rents an apartment for the 8 months. He stays in motels or rented rooms at various racetracks in other states for the other 4 months of the year during horse racing season and earns approximately $10,000. What part of George’s travel expenses can be deducted? A. All meals and lodging for the entire year B. Only his meals and lodging for the 4 months he is away from his tax home, Ocala C. None of his meals or lodging because he has no tax home D. One-third of his total meals and lodging because he is away from his tax home one-third of the year 35. Each month Betsy’s employer gives her $600 for her business expenses. Sometimes Betsy spends more than the $600. Once a year, she negotiates the amount of expense money with her employer but she is not required to submit any proof of how she spends the $600 per month. How should Betsy report her expenses on her return? A. No reporting required B. Deduct all of her expenses on Schedule C, Profit or Loss From Business C. Deduct all of her expenses on Form 2106, Employee Business Expenses D. Deduct her expenses in excess of $600 per month on Form 2106 36. Which of the following is a medical deduction? A. Legal abortion B. Maternity clothing C. Health club dues advised by your doctor D. None of the above 37. Which of the following types of taxes can be deducted on Schedule A? A. Transfer taxes on the sale of a residence B. A tax on a motor vehicle based on engine horsepower C. A tax on a motor vehicle based on vehicle weight D. None of the above 38. Which of the following would disqualify points from being fully deductible in the year paid? A. The points were computed as a percentage of the amount of the mortgage B. The loan proceeds were used to purchase a second home C. The payment of points is common in your area D. The points are clearly stated on the settlement statement 39. In September of 2001, two months after Jim and Betty finished constructing a barn, it was completely destroyed by a hurricane. Their adjusted basis in the barn was its cost, $40,000. It was not covered by insurance. The entire community has been declared a federal disaster area. Jim and Betty may elect to do which of the following? A. Deduct $40,000 in either 2001 or 2002 B. Deduct $40,000 in either 2000 or 2001 C. Deduct $40,000 in 2000, or 2001, or 2002 D. No deduction in any year because the loss is personal 40. Which of the following is NOT a test to determine if a child is a qualifying child for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)? A. Relationship B. Age C. Residency D. Support 41. Which of the following is a disqualification for the Child and Dependent Care Credit? A. Head of household filing status B. Making child care payments to relatives C. Paying for care for your spouse who is not physically or mentally able to care for himself/herself while you work D. Child care only while you perform unpaid volunteer work 42. In which situation would Janice NOT be required to file Schedule H, Household Employment Taxes, for the year 2000? A. Paid $1,200 wages to Cynthia for babysitting in Janice’s home B. Withheld $100 Federal income tax from payments to her yard worker C. Paid $2,000 to her mother for housekeeping D. Paid household help, other than her mother, $1,000 for the period July, August, and September 43. Which of the following conditions would NOT prevent an individual from qualifying for Earned Income Credit for the year 2000? A. Married filing separately filing status B. Being a qualifying child of another person C. Age 25 D. Investment income of more than $2,400 44. In 2000, Jonathan Smith paid his educational expenses at a community college where he completed his freshman year and began his sophomore year. His father, John Smith, provides more than half of the support for Jonathan and claims an exemption for him on his tax return. Which of the following is correct? A. Jonathan is eligible to take the Hope education credit on his 2000 tax return B. John is eligible to take the Hope education credit on his 2000 tax return C. Jonathan and John may split the Hope education credit between their 2000 tax returns D. Neither may take the Hope education credit 45. Which of the following is NOT a tax preference item or an adjustment to taxable income for alternative minimum tax purposes? A. Addition of personal exemptions B. Addition of the standard deduction (if claimed) C. Addition of all itemized deductions (if claimed) D. Subtraction of any refund of state and local taxes included in gross income Turn to the next page for Part 1, Section C. Part 1 Section C: Questions 46 – 80 The following questions may require some compu- tation. Select the most appropriate answer and darken completely the oval under the correspon- ding letter on the answer sheet. 46. Debby broke her leg this past year and was unable to work for three months. During this time she received $2,500 in sick pay from her employer. She also received $1,000 from her personally purchased accident policy. How much of these benefits is taxable income to Debby? A. $-0- B. $2,500 C. $1,000 D. $3,500 47. Rev. Elvin Snider is the ordained minister at Crossroads United Methodist Church. His salary on his Form W-2 is $20,000. He also receives a $12,000 housing allowance. His housing costs for the year are $14,000. What is Rev. Snider’s self-employment income? A. $34,000 B. $32,000 C. $20,000 D. None of the above 48. Peter owned a cottage on the lake that he bought in 1999. In 2000, he rented the cottage for 10 days to a stranger and used the cottage for 20 days for his own personal use. The cottage was not used the rest of the year. Peter had rental income of $1,000 and he paid $600 for repairs. How should he report these activities on his 2000 return? A. $1,000 income, $600 expense B. $333 income, $200 expense C. $0 income, $0 expense D. $667 income, $400 expense 49. Alex started his own welding business in 2000. He paid $8,000 for a truck, contributed $15,000 cash and paid $20,000 for tools for the business. His bank loaned $50,000 to buy a building for the business. The building secures the loan. What is Alex’s at-risk amount for this activity? A. $53,000 B. $43,000 C. $93,000 D. $103,000 50. Clyde is a degree candidate at a local college. During the fall semester he received a $3,000 scholarship from a local foundation. Clyde spent the entire $3,000 and another $1,500 from a student loan during this semester. He paid the following expenses: tuition $2000, books $500, and room and board $2,000. How much of the $3,000 scholarship should Clyde report as income? A. $500 B. $-0- C. $3,000 D. $1,000 51. Gordon, age 70, is retired and works part-time as a security guard earning $8,000. He received $5,000 interest from a saving account and $2,500 interest from tax-exempt municipal bonds. His Social Security benefits were $12,000 and his taxable pension was $6,000. To determine if any of his Social Security is taxable, Gordon should compare how much of his income to the $25,000 base amount? A. $27,500 B. $21,500 C. $19,000 D. $25,000 52. How much income should Devin, who uses the cash method of accounting, report on his 2000 return from the following transactions? • $300 was garnisheed from his wages to pay his debts • $500 (gross) paycheck received December 28, 2000 but not cashed until January 2, 2001 • $900 (gross) wages paid directly to his mother at his request A. $1,200 B. $1,700 C. $1,400 D. $800 53. Beth and Donnie purchased a house to use as rental property. They paid the following amounts: $100,000 cash, assumption of an existing $25,000 mortgage, title search $500, recording fees of $100, points for their new loan of $1,000, and the seller’s part of the property taxes of $1500. The seller did not reimburse them for the property taxes. What is their cost basis in the house? A. $100,000 B. $125,000 C. $127,100 D. $128,100 54. Rick, an electrician, needed a new service van. He was a frequent customer of Eldon’s Grill. Eldon wanted to remodel his kitchen. Eldon offered to sell his catering van, Fair Market Value $10,000, to Rick for $8,000 and pay $1,000 cash in return for Rick’s rewiring his kitchen. If Rick agrees to do the work under these terms, what will be his basis in the van received? A. $10,000 B. $11,000 C. $8,000 D. $9,000 55. Ted and William agreed to trade apartment buildings with Ted agreeing to pay William $10,000 cash. Ted’s basis in his apartment building is $40,000. William’s basis in his apartment building is $50,000. What is Ted’s basis in his new apartment building? A. $50,000 B. $40,000 C. $10,000 D. None of the above 56. Jane purchased 300 shares of stock five years ago for $20 a share. The directors voted a 3 for 1 stock split. After the split, Jane had 900 shares. What is Jane’s basis per share after the split? A. $60.00 B. $20.00 C. $6.67 D. $5.00 57. When Chris bought his motorcycle, he paid $500 cash and took over payments when the principal balance was $5,000. He added accessories that cost $1,000. Ten years later, a collector paid Chris $8,000 for the motorcycle. Chris applied the entire $8,000 to the $10,000 purchase price of a new cycle. What are the tax consequences to Chris of these transactions? A. $0 taxable gains because the cycle was a personal asset B. $2,500 taxable gain C. $1,500 taxable gain D. $1,500 gain is not taxable; basis in new cycle is reduced to $8,500 58. Rudy purchased 100 shares of publicly traded stock January 2, 2000 for $1,000. He sold all his shares December 31, 2000 for $1,500. On January 4, 2001, the settlement date, the stocks were actually delivered and payment received in Rudy’s account. How and when should Rudy report this sale? A. $500 long term capital gain on 2000 return B. $500 short term capital gain on 2000 return C. $500 long term capital gain on 2001 return D. $500 short term capital gain on 2001 return 59. Sharon sold two collections during 2000. These were her only sales. Determine the amount and character of her gains/losses on these sales. • Coin collection she began as a child with a basis of $1,000, sold for $5,000 • Collection of original short stories she wrote in 1997, sold for $20,000 A. $20,000 long-term capital gain B. $24,000 long-term capital gain C. $4,000 long-term capital gain and $20,000 ordinary income D. $24,000 ordinary income 60. During 2000, Nicholas made the following dispositions of property: • Sold publicly traded stock, which cost $2,000 and had been held for 2 years, for $3,000 • Sold land, which cost $20,000 and had been held for 9 months, to his brother for $16,000 How should Nicholas report these dispositions on his 2000 return? A. $1,000 long-term capital gain B. $3,000 long-term capital loss C. $3,000 short-term capital loss D. $3,000 ordinary loss 61. When Amelia bought her first home in 1997, she paid $100,000 plus $1,000 closing costs. In 1998, she added a deck that cost $5,000. Then, in July of 2000, a real estate dealer accepted her house as a trade-in and allowed her $125,000 toward a new house priced at $200,000. How should Amelia report this transaction on her 2000 return? A. $19,000 long-term capital gain B. No reporting because the trade is not a sale C. $0 taxable gain and reduce her basis in her new house by $19,000 D. No reporting required 62. Vanessa inherited 100 shares of stock from her grandmother when her grandmother died on December 10, 1999; the fair market value of the stock was $50 per share. Her grandmother paid $40 per share when she purchased the stock July 1, 1999. If Vanessa sells all 100 shares for $60 per share on June 30, 2000, how should she report the sale on her return for 2000? A. $1,000 short-term capital gain B. $2,000 short-term capital gain C. $1,000 long-term capital gain D. $2,000 long-term capital gain 63. Zack had the following capital transactions during 2000: • 2/1/2000 - bought 10 shares of ABC stock at $100 per share • 6/1/2000 – sold 100 shares of PDQ stock for $50 per share; was purchased 2/1/1999 at $100 per share • 9/9/2000 – sold the 10 shares of ABC stock for $150 per share How much can Zack deduct as a capital loss on his return for 2000? (His taxable income is $30,000.) A. $4,500 net long-term capital loss; $0 carryover B. $3,000 net long-term capital loss; $1,500 long-term capital loss carryover to 2001 C. $0 net gain or loss; $4,500 long-term capital loss carryover to 2001 D. $3,000 net short-term capital loss; $1,500 short-term capital loss carryover to 2001 64. The original owner of Felix Plumbing Company stock paid $10,000 for his 100 shares. Stock in Felix Plumbing is qualifying small business stock under Section 1244. The stockholder also made a $2,000 contribution to capital of Felix Plumbing for a total investment of $12,000. He then sold the 100 shares for $9,000. What is the amount and character of loss that he can deduct on his return for the year of sale? A. $3,000 ordinary loss B. $3,000 capital loss C. $1,000 capital loss D. $2,500 ordinary loss and $500 capital loss 65. Thomas is sole proprietor of a small company. He recently negotiated a substantial sale. Following the signing of the contract, Thomas took the clients to dinner at a cost of $150. What is Thomas’s deductible entertainment expense on his Schedule C for 2000? A. $112.50 B. $0 C. $150 D. $75 66. Consider the following expenditures and determine the total amount that would be deducted as adjustments to income in arriving at adjusted gross income (assuming no income limitations) on Form 1040, Individual Income Tax Return: • $1,000 interest paid on student loan • $2,000 paid to a SIMPLE retirement plan • $100 jury duty pay given to the employer • $500 expenses from the nonbusiness rental of personal property A. $3,600 B. $2,600 C. $3,100 D. $1,100 67. Of the following medical expenses paid by Bill during 2000, how much can he deduct (before limitations)? • $1,000 for his wife Mary’s hospitalization in 1999; they were married in 2000 • $1,000 for Mary’s daughter’s braces; she is Bill and Mary’s dependent in 2000 • $2,000 for Bill’s son’s 1999 medical treatment; he was Bill’s dependent in 1999 but does not qualify for 2000 A. $4,000 B. $2,000 C. $1,000 D. $0 68. Carla borrowed $100,000 to buy land for investment. Her income sources for the year include: $3,000 interest, $1,000 dividends, and $4,000 royalties. How much of the $5,000 interest expense paid on the land loan can she deduct this year? A. $8,000 B. $4,000 C. $3,000 D. $5,000 69. In 2000, John donated $100 to the United Way, $200 to Veterans of Foreign Wars, and $300 to his neighbor whose home was destroyed by a tornado. How much is John’s deduction for charitable contributions for 2000? A. $300 B. $400 C. $500 D. $600 70. In 2000, Janice volunteered at her local art museum where she conducted art- education seminars. She was required to wear a blazer that the museum provided, but she paid the dry cleaning costs of $200 for the year. The blazer was not suitable for everyday use. Her travel to and from the museum was 1000 miles for the year. She estimates the value of the time she contributed during the year at $2000 ($20/hr x 100 hours). Her Schedule A deduction for charitable contributions is which of the following? A. $2,340 B. $2,140 C. $140 D. $340 71. Joe has the following records of charitable contributions he made in 2000. How much can he deduct on Schedule A, Itemized Deductions? • $300 check to local church but no written acknowledgement • $600 by payroll deduction of $50 per month to United Way • $400 fair market value of furniture to a qualifying shelter with receipt and acknowledgement from the shelter dated November 1, 2001 A. $1,300 B. $900 C. $600 D. $1,000 72. Jack’s antique car caught fire and was totally destroyed. The car was appraised for $22,500. Jack only had it insured for $15,000 since this was more than enough to cover his adjusted basis of $9,000. He decided not to replace the car. What should Jack report on his tax return? A. Deduct a loss of $7,500 B. Deduct a loss of $6,000 C. Report income of $6,000 D. None of the above 73. Rose, a single parent, has two children ages 10 and 13. She earned $25,000 in 2000 and her investments earned $2,000 interest income. Taxable income on her 2000 return was $18,000. After applying her withholding, Rose’s tax due was $1,000. Using the following earned income credit information, determine Rose’s balance due/overpayment for 2000: • Credit figured using $27,000 modified Annual Gross Income = $900 • Credit figured using $25,000 earned income = $1,300 • Credit figured using $18,000 taxable income = $2,800 A. $100 balance due B. $1,800 overpayment (refund) C. $300 overpayment (refund) D. $0, carryover $300 credit to next year 74. Robin, an employee, had the following unreimbursed employee expenses in 2000: • $100 professional license renewal • $ 75 subscription to professional journal • $500 business liability insurance Her adjusted gross income was $40,000. What net amount can Robin deduct? A. $675 B. $0 C. $575 D. $175 75. Heather spent $2,500 for lottery tickets during the year. She saved all her tickets. She won $2,000 in November on a $1 ticket. Heather’s adjusted gross income is $50,000. How much of her lottery ticket costs can she deduct as an itemized deduction? A. $1 B. $0 C. $2,500 D. $2,000 76. Marc and Mandy’s dependent children, ages 3 and 4, attend day care where the total expense for 2000 was $5,200, $2,600 per child. Marc earned $20,000 and Mandy earned $15,000. How much childcare credit can they claim for 2000? Adjusted Gross Income Percentage for credit $15,000 27 $20,000 24 $35,000 20 A. $1,296 B. $1,040 C. $1,404 D. $960 77. Dennis and Martha sell their lake house (which they have owned for 10 years and spend each summer in) for $250,000. Their original cost was $175,000 and they had improvements of $25,000. They have never used the house as a business or rental property. They agreed to take $50,000 down and finance the balance. Monthly payments are to begin next year. How much capital gain must they report in the year of sale? A. $10,000 B. $50,000 C. $15,000 D. $ -0- 78. You sold a residential lot two years ago and reported the $20,000 capital gain on the installment method. In the third year of payments the buyer defaulted and you had to repossess the lot. In the first year you reported $5,000 ($10,000 x 50%) and $3,000 ($6,000 x 50%) in the second year. No payments were received in the third year and you spent $2,500 in legal fees to repossess the property. What is the taxable gain you must report on the repossession? A. $-0- B. $9,500 C. $8,000 D. $4,000 79. The owner of unimproved land with a basis of $40,000 sold the property for $100,000 in 1995. The seller accepted a note for the entire $100,000 sales price. In 2000, when the buyer still owed $10,000, the note was sold for $9,000 cash. How should the disposition of the note be reported on the seller’s 2000 return? A. $5,000 capital gain B. $5,000 ordinary income C. $2,000 capital gain D. $1,000 capital loss 80. When Fred loaned $2,000 to his brother in 1999, his brother signed a note and made monthly payments until he was injured in an accident in March of 2000. Fred is still owed $500 and his brother, who is no longer able to work, has declared bankruptcy. Fred had also guaranteed his brother’s bank loan as a favor to his brother and was required to pay off the $800 loan balance. Fred, a cash method taxpayer, is also owed $500 rent by a former tenant. How much bad debt deduction can Fred take on his 2000 return? A. $1,800 B. $500 C. $1,000 D. $1,300 End of Part 1.
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Every year, already since 2002, the John Adams Institute organizes a lecture program called The Quincy Club at schools all throughout the Netherlands to help young audiences better understand American culture.
This year, the John Adams presented a unique, online live Quincy Club webinar about California’s Silicon Valley, an English program aimed at students in the age of 14-18 years. The webinar is applicable to several courses, including History, Civics, Geography and English.
California has long been home to important industries: movies and music, wine and agriculture, goldmining and petroleum. But today, the state’s dominant role is in technology. In Silicon Valley, today’s major players – Facebook, Apple, Google, Netflix, Tesla, Ebay, Intel – are setting the standards for the future of technology. With its rich venture capital community, this area around San Francisco is the ultimate business incubator.
Dutch entrepreneurs and companies such as ASML, Adyen, Booking.com, NXP Semiconductors have benefitted greatly from the digital economy led by Silicon Valley.
This webinar, based on a lecture he presented last fall, will be presented by Gabe Marino. An American finance lawyer by training, Gabe has spent the better part of his career in Amsterdam in banking and private equity. A history buff, with two Dutch-American teenage kids of his own, Gabe feels called to help Dutch students better understand the United States.

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Netflix Lands the Deal for Eddie Murphy’s ‘Beverly Hills Cop 4’
Eddie Murphy has been making the daytime and late-night rounds on the talk show circuit, and of course the conversation topics revolve around his stand-up plans, his current film projects, and his career in general. If you haven’t caught any of the interviews he’s done with Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, or Al Roker, it’s time to catch up.
Fans are excited about his return to the forefront, and news of the Beverly Hills Cop sequel has been adding fuel to the fire. No longer a rumor, the movie is happening thanks to a solid deal.
‘Beverly Hills Cop 4’ heading to Netflix
Who’s ready to see Axel Foley again? Deadline reports that Paramount structured a deal with Netflix to license Beverly Hills Cop and greenlight the latest sequel. After a few false starts and stalls, the movie is finally going to be made with Paramount’s blessing.
Murphy and Jerry Bruckheimer are collaborating on the project, with Bruckheimer telling Collider he is glad that it’s finally happening. He said that he’s been trying to get a studio to do another Beverly Hills Cop movie for years but couldn’t get anyone on board. What changed their minds? Murphy’s reemergence on the scene with Dolemite has people excited and interested in what he’s doing next.
Dolemite Is My Name played in theaters for a short while before arriving on Netflix on Oct. 24 as part of their new strategy with theatrical releases. The film is earning rave reviews. It’s also giving Murphy renewed attention.
When will Murphy work on the ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ sequel?
Right now, Murphy is wrapping up production on Coming 2 America and he’s making plans for his stand-up comedy tour. But he’s happy that everything is rolling the way it is and told Roker that all these projects just started coming together around the same time.
Murphy stated that Beverly Hills Cop has been on the burner for eight or nine years and they’re finally going to start working on it after Coming 2 America. The sequel to that fairytale comedy classic is due to arrive in theaters during Christmas next year, pushed back from its original summer release date in August 2020.
But Beverly Hills Cop 4 has been in development for so long it’s highly probable they have the basic story and plotline hashed out for Axel Foley and whoever he’s teaming up with this time.
Netflix is extending its reach with feature films
As Deadline points out, this agreement will strengthen the relationship between Murphy and Netflix, and it will help solidify the streamer’s strategy of creating cinematic films with big names attached. Bruckheimer and Murphy will partner with Netflix to nail down a team for the script, direction, and casting of Beverly Hills Cop 4 but there’s no word if any old cast members are down.
The new movie will join a lineup of other features such as The Irishman, Marriage Story, The King, and The Laundromat. Netflix might end up being the new destination for highly anticipated films.

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Giant Chocolate Chip Cookie Heart is a gluten free, dairy free chocolate chip blondie baked in a 9-inch heart shaped pan.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9-inch heart shaped pan, then line with parchment paper and grease again. (I used non-stick cooking spray.) Set aside.
Place dry ingredients (including sugars) in a medium bowl and whisk together. Add margarine, eggs and vanilla. Stir until combined. Stir in chocolate chips.
Press dough into prepared pan. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown and not jiggly in the middle. Let cool completely.
Place the shortening and margarine in a large bowl and beat with an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Add the powdered sugar, almond milk and vanilla. Beat until creamy (start off on low until the sugar is combined, then turn up to medium).
Divide frosting into two bowls. Add light pink to one bowl and dark pink to the other. Use a piping bag fitted with a Wilton 4B open star pastry for the dark pink and another piping bag with a coupler to use two different pastry tips - a Wilton round #5 and a Wilton #16 star tip. Pipe a shell border with the dark pink. Then pipe light pink, tiny stars on top. Use the #5 round tip to write Valentine.
Lise's Gluten Free Flour Mix
2 cups (260g) brown rice flour
1/3 cup (42g) tapioca flour
1/2 cup 60g) arrowroot flour
1 teaspoon (3g) xanthan gum
Place all ingredients in a large bowl. Whisk until combined. Store in an airtight container. Measure out flour as needed. Makes approximately 2 3/4 cups gluten free flour.

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Last week the BYU coaching staff brought out two junior college defensive backs for an official…
Murray Talks Commitment
New Mexico State also offered the two star defensive back.
I caught up with Murray last week for a quick interview.
I asked Murray how long Marshall had been interested and what made him choose Marshall. He said, "Marshall came into the picture about a month and a half ago. They have been recruiting me hard. Me an mom did our research and it ended up being a perfect fit. I am excited, I am going to major in business. I like the direction the program is going and feel like we could do something special. It reminds me a lot of my juco team when I first came out here."
Murray was asked if he knew any current Marshall players. He said he did not really know any personally, but was familiar with a lot of the Florida players. "I played 7 on 7 back in high school with Cato (quarterback Rakeem Cato) and I watched him play in the state championship game . Me and Taj Letman have became friends real quick "
Murray's lead recruiter at Marshall was Todd Hartley. He also said that after Letman realized he was interested in Marshall, he started recruiting him as well.
Murray will make his official visit the week of January 25th. He will enroll in May and says he expects to play Free Safety.
Stay tuned to Herdhaven.com for further updates.
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Letter: Wisp traffic misery needs better control
THE WISP and its constant roadworks means for the past four months we residents and drivers who use the road, have had to put up with bi-weekly, Temporary Traffic Restriction Orders, with three-way light controls which are causing mayhem for all concerned.
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Over the past four weeks, the same hole has been opened and shut three times outside Cloverfoot Cottages.
No warning is given to anybody about these restrictions and they cause massive congestion problems every time the appear.
The whole of the Niddrie Crossroads, Wisp, Millerhill and Danderhall areas are a mass of these temporary traffic lights and there appears to be no-one in charge of trying to help the poor commuters who have to negotiate their way around these obstacles.
Surely the council should be insisting that house builders and roadwork gangs, should ensure that road disruption be kept to a minimum, thereby saving these councils, thousands of pounds in unnecessary TTROs.
Ronald Arthur, Wisp Green, Edinburgh


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Powered by an Intel Core i5 7th Gen processor and 8 GB of RAM, this model runs your games effortlessly and makes multitasking smooth and fast. Thanks to its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 GPU, with 4 GB of dedicated graphics memory, this laptop provides a truly fluid and gorgeous gaming experience. This laptop with the Windows 10 Home operating system also features a 39.6-cm (15.6) display that comes with a Full HD LED-backlit anti-glare display.
One of the perks of living in the 21st century is the constant stream of technology that is available for us to use. The majority of people know how to use laptops and computers, but most of us are not computer wizards. The majority of people use simple computer skills for work and leisure purposes, whom I would define as an average computer user. As a college student who uses the internet for leisure and study purposes as well as basic Microsoft Office functions, I would classify myself as an average computer user. Thus, I am writing this review for the average computer user.
With a gamer laptop, you'll usually get a powerful processor, plus a beefy graphics card to provide visually stunning gaming experiences. You'll need to make sure these components stay cool, so consider using a laptop cooling pad for the optimum experience. With so much power, your best laptop for gaming might be larger and heavier than a traditional laptop used for word processing and Internet surfing. The intense processing power can drain your battery faster than if you're just surfing the Internet. You'll need to balance power with portability to find the best gaming laptop for your needs. For a comfortable gaming experience, pick up a pair of gaming glasses to help minimize symptoms like dry eyes, headaches, blurry vision, tired eyes, insomnia and long-term effects of blue light exposure.
Being Asus’s latest series in lowest “top of the class” gaming machine, Asus FX502VM is based on the Asus GL502VM chassis/body, with slight changes. It is equipped with the I5-6300HQ (cooler than I7), GTX 1060 (3GB), 2x8GB DDR4 RAM, 1TB 7200RPM HDD and 1080p TN panel. There is slight difference between the GTX 1060 3GB and the GTX1060 6GB, the first one having less VRAM. However, the desktop version of GTX1060 3 GB has less core count, and it drops from 1280 CUDA cores (GTX1060 6GB) to 1152 CUDA cores (GTX 1060 3 GB) (128 cores per SM).
Bear in mind that this is a flagship mouse from Logitech, so if you are concerned about paying a high price, you are also getting some of the finest features, regardless of you needing them or not. With that said, if you are wondering about us encountering any downsides, there aren’t any deal breakers here. Sure, the mouse carries a hefty price tag, and the overall aesthetics of the ambidextrous design might put off some design conscious people, but under the hood, the Chaos Spectrum happens to be one of the MOST powerful, and over the top brilliant gaming mice we have used. So with that out of the way, pros and cons, shall we?
Like the Dell G7, the Legion Y530 has a 15-inch 1920×1080 IPS display with a 60 Hz refresh rate. But the Y530’s small bezels set it apart from other cheap gaming laptops, making games feel more immersive and allowing the whole laptop to be smaller. The Y530’s display looked better than those of other laptops in its price range like the Dell G3 and Acer Nitro 5, which had green and blue color tints. The Y530’s screen was also among the brightest we tested at 266 nits, beaten only by the exceptionally bright screens of the more expensive Asus TUF Gaming FX504GM and Acer Predator Helios 300.
Its R5 graphics boasts a GPU clock speed of 800MHz (Boosted) and will allow you to play some of the best classic titles and even some of the Twitch chart toppers such as CS: GO and League of Legends. You will even be able to play GTA V and Battlefield 4 if you don’t mind playing those games on lower settings. If you are more of a browser-based gamer, then you will love the responsive touchscreen that will allow you to play your favorite games without the need of the laptop’s trackpad.
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Let's take a look under the hood: The new ASUS Metal is an amazing choice for gaming. It runs all PC games we threw at it flawlessly at medium settings. The laptop is powered by Intel's 6th-generation Core i7-6500U. Of course, you can tune the CPU from 2.5GHz up to 3.1GHz with Intel's TurboBoost for even more performance. The laptop's GPU is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M. There's a good reason why most budget gaming laptops include this card: It offers a great price-to-performance balance and very long lifespan. The laptop's specs are topped off with 8GB of RAM and a generous 512GB SSD storage. It's a solid combination that runs games well.
If an SSD is out of your budget, we highly recommend purchasing, at least, a 1TB hard drive with a 7,200-rpm speed. However, instead of an either/or situation, we recommend choosing a configuration that has both an SSD and a hard drive. That way you can load your games and important files on the speedy SSD and have plenty of room left for everything else.
To maximize your gaming PC setup, you may wish to carry the capability and style of your chosen mouse to your other gaming accessories. Gaming speakers will fill the room with sound, or you can look at wired or wireless gaming headsets for private yet intense audio. And if you've opted for RGB lighting, you can typically find gaming keyboards and gaming headsets with matching effects.
I tested/used a bunch of mice for this roundup, and this one was far and away my favorite, and the one I'd buy. It feels sturdier than even some more expensive gaming mice, and the added weight gives it a feeling of heightened precision. As an added bonus, the Mamba Tournament Edition also includes a very nice transport/storage case, and its strobing RGB LED lights are of subtler stuff than some of the more aggressive-looking mice in this roundup. For the money, this is the best mouse for the most gamers.
Gaming systems have higher-end components than run-of-the-mill consumer laptops, so their prices will be consequently higher, but the range across the category is huge: from under a grand to $5,000 and up. The best budget gaming laptops start at $800 and can go up to about $1,250. For that, you get a system that can play games at 1,366-by-768 resolution on high graphics quality settings, or at a full HD (1080p) resolution with the details turned down some. Storage may be a hard drive, or a modest-capacity solid-state drive (SSD).
Gaming Laptops have evolved in a big way over the years with the increasing power of the device and the decreasing size. Flipkart has lined up some of the best gaming laptops including MSI GV series laptop, Dell Inspiron Gaming Laptops, Acer Predator Helios, Alienware Gaming laptops and more for you to buy under exciting offers and discounts. One must consider factors like the GPU, with the NVIDIA GeForce being one of the best, the RAM, the CPU and the drive while looking to buy gaming laptops online. Be you a casual gamer or a hardcore gamer, Flipkart has exactly the specifications you are looking to have in a gaming laptop and you can zero in on what to buy very easily on this platform.
The Lenovo Z50-75 is undoubtedly the best-specced gaming laptop under $500, but if you prefer to have a gaming laptop with the more prominent 17-inch display, then you can buy Lenovo Ideapad 320. It has the 17.3 inch HD LED display with the resolution of 1600 x 900 and even it packs in enough power to run most of the games at decent settings. It is powered by Intel Core i5-7200U, and it has 8GB of RAM for multitasking. The integrated Intel 620 graphics of the kaby lake CPU are powerful enough to run games like CS GO at around 60fps. So, Ideapad 320 is also a good value for money option if you want to buy a 17-inch gaming laptop in your budget of 500 dollars. | Check price and read reviews of it on Amazon
Though, as with most budget laptops, you will get a slower 5400rpm hard drive. However, seeing as more and more of us are moving over to digital copies of our games it makes sense to remove the DVD drive and replace it with a HDD caddy and a good SDD. This will allow you to reap all the major benefits that an SSD offers for gaming and day-to-day use.
Stefan Vazharov and Brandon Carte of Best Products featured the Logitech G613 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Mechanical Gaming Keyboard and the Logitech G903 LIGHTSPEED Wireless Gaming Mouse in their guide to “60+ Gifts for Gamers to Level Up Their Experience.” They shared that “the G613 wireless mechanical keyboard by Logitech is an excellent way to make your favorite people better gamers, as well as more effective typists." They additionally noted that the Logitech G903 is a “solid contender for being the best of its kind, it features pro-grade performance in wireless and wired mode, ambidextrous design with customizable buttons and lighting (via a software suite), and excellent 20+ hours of battery life.”
In our tests, the Legion Y530 kept its WASD keys on the cooler side at 101 °F (38 °C) after half an hour of Overwatch. The Asus TUF Gaming FX504GE-ES72 kept its WASD keys coolest at 94°F (34 °C), but the Y530’s keys didn’t feel uncomfortable for long gaming sessions, just a bit warm. The area where my palm rested near the trackpad reached 105 °F (41 °C); that’s a bit warmer than we’d like, but it wasn’t uncomfortable.
The Acer Predator Helios 300 has Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 graphics and a 144 Hz high-refresh-rate display, but its WASD keys reached 110.2 °F, the hottest of any budget gaming laptop we tested this year, even with Acer’s Cooler Boost software enabled. Its fans sounded high pitched and a bit grating, it had a poor 3.5-hour showing in our battery life tests, and it comes with too much bloatware.
Resolution: The minimum resolution for any gaming laptop is 1920 x 1080 — anything less and you're asking for muddy graphics. Laptops with QHD (2560 x 1440) or 4K (3840 x 2160) panels are becoming increasingly popular, praised for their striking details and color. There are some gamers that swear by 1366 x 768 because of the increased frame rates, but I implore you to love yourself more and aim a bit higher.
These days, manufacturers have expanded their product offering to include more lightweight and affordable computers that have been optimized to run on battery power for longer periods of time. Nvidia and Intel have been very successful when it comes to reducing the cost of their hardware components whereas AMD has not really been able to gain much of a foothold in the gaming laptop market (or in the desktop gaming computer market for that matter). Nowadays, it is entirely possible to purchase a very decent gaming laptop (equipped with a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti graphics chip and a Core i7 processor) capable of running games in Full HD for around 800 dollars.
When it comes to customization software, I'm a huge fan of Razer's Synapse 2.0 app. It lets you create profiles for all your compatible Razer hardware (mice, headsets and keyboards) in addition to turning your keyboard into one hell of a light show. And if that isn't enough you can access your creations via the cloud on any laptop. For creating a kick-ass show on your keyboard, I'm fond of both Alienware's FX software and the SteelSeries Engine, which also keeps track on your keystrokes. That comes in handy if you're trying to keep track of your kill rate or some other important input stat.
This mouse can be called the direct competitor of Asus Spatha but has been around for quite some time. It is again, a wireless/wired combination, and unlike Spatha, it does offer an ambidextrous design making it a top pick for many users. One should keep in mind that the Ouroboros is strictly made for the enthusiasts, and it doesn’t offer features such as the RGB lighting, though considering how it’s a pretty old mouse, Razer may release an updated version with the Chroma lighting in near future.
High-end systems, meanwhile, should guarantee you smooth gameplay at 1080p with graphics details maxed out, and might let you play at 4K resolution (if the screen supports it). A high-end model should also be able to power a VR headset and support additional external monitors. These machines tend to come with speedy storage components such as 512GB PCI Express solid-state drives, and they are priced above $2,500. Some support 3K to 4K screens, a hard drive to supplement the SSD, and ultra-efficient cooling fans as optional extras. A few elite boutique models will support dual graphics chips. (Such rare-bird machines will be massive and expensive, with minimal battery life.)
Ready to incite a sharp twinge of envy with the best gaming laptops of South Africa? Well, the ardent gamers in South Africa might not miss out in doing so while they flaunt their sleek laptops having slender frames built by cutting-edge innovation. Endowed with powerful i7 processors that allow maximum overclocking, GPU performance of enormous capacity, immense memory up to 32GB, widescreen display with anti-glare feature to ensure extreme clarity, vivid colors with peak audio, good battery life, high storage with possibly 1TB solid state drive; you are in for some amazing surprises. No wonder it might come with a hefty price tag, but the best laptop deals can lower the price to a minimum. Latest deals can allow a gamer to get the laptop at a much lower value than the market price while offering a huge prospect to increase savings.
The Predator Helios 500 (PH517-51) employs a 17.3” Full HD or 4K display which is either G-Sync or Freesync compatible at 144 Hz. It also incorporates the following chips: Intel Core / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD Ryzen / AMD Vega (not yet available, but the first tests have already been conducted). Its Intel processor is either a Core i7-8750H (6 cores at 2.2 GHz) or i7-8950HK (6 cores at 2.9 GHz). The test recently performed by the Laptopmag website is conclusive: it praises the excellent quality of this computer’s speakers and the ability of this computer to maintain a reasonably low temperature when gaming.
In the process of writing this buyer’s guide, we began by searching for manufacturers that offer one or more gaming laptop product lines. Next, we selected the computers that have the best price-performance ratio (based on tests conducted by a number of online websites such as Tom’s Hardware and LaptopMag). Finally, we organized these computers by brand: Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, and MSI.
If you want AAA performance and have a little money to spend, consider the (now previous-gen) $1,800 Razer Blade, which brings the literal heat — as in, consider a cooling pad. With an Intel Core i7-7700HQ and 16GB of RAM, and at just over 4 pounds, it's less than half the weight of the Alienware 17 R5. The downside: Razer's unsubtle snake logo screams, "I'm not doing work!"
For many years, the term “gaming laptop” referred to a highly powerful, exceedingly expensive, very large, and extravagant looking computer that usually had very limited battery autonomy. It was more or less equivalent to a high-end desktop computer that had the advantage of being portable (and which was generally used to showcase its manufacturer’s most advanced hardware).
Most gaming laptops—including budget machines—have comfortable, deep-travel keyboards that cushion your fingers during long gaming sessions. This Dell model’s blue-backlit keyboard felt crisp, snappy, and responsive but a bit shallow to us, so it was not as comfortable after a few hours of gaming or typing as some of the other laptops we tested. This isn’t a dealbreaker, but we do prefer the feel of the keyboards on the Lenovo Y530 and Asus TUF Gaming FX504GM.
With the ability to game on the go, gaming laptops provide the most harmonious combination of hardware designed to work together to achieve optimal gaming performance. With so much choice, finding the best gaming laptop for you can be a daunting task. However, the best place to start is to decide on your budget and check the recommended specs required by the games you want to play.

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Nature finds a way, the old saying goes. We see it in how animals fly, crawl, slink, dig and otherwise make their way through the world. Scientists have long recognized the ways in which evolution has perfected movement in the natural world, and mimicked it in their robot designs. Here’s the latest, and it’s simple and incredibly complicated all at the same time. VOA’s Kevin Enochs reports.


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Here’s a seven minute short film from our release “Bicycle Movies: The Short Film Collection.” It’s called “Summer Behind Bars: The story of the Ironclad Racing Team.
There are many racing teams across America but none with the charisma and energy of the free-spirited Ironclad Racing Team from Portland, Oregon. They are fast, they are furious and they know how to have fun. Wonderful filmmaker Will Walle created this tribute to the team that is half emotional bonding story that plays the heartstrings and half wild satire of cycling shenanigans. The Ironclad Team is full of die-hard cyclists and intriguing personalities.
If you are a member of a racing team we are pretty sure you’ll recognize yourself, or someone on your team in this piece. But when all the humor and adult fun simmers down, this team has heart and a tremendous love for one another; in short, their theme song should be “We Are Family,” by Sister Sledge. Go Ironclad Go!


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When it comes to cryptocurrencies and ICOs, everyone is talking about one thing: regulation.
Today, Stox — an open source, Bancor-based prediction market platform — announced its acquisition of Commologic, a B2B company that creates innovative products for the iGaming market. Why is that important? Because acquiring Commologic means Stox just became the first regulated ICO prediction platform.
Through the acquisition, Stox acquires three gambling licenses from Commologic: a software license in the U.K., an operating license in the U.K., and a Class 4 (B2B) license in Malta.
Stox is an Ethereum-based platform that allows users to predict the outcome of a variety of events. We discussed Stox when it became the first member of Bancor’s currency-liquidity network. Stox recently raised $33 million (capped) in 34 hours in its ICO.
So why is it important to have these gambling licenses, and why was an acquisition the best way to acquire them?
“Stox is predicting that they will be needed in the near future,” Stox founder Ophir Gertner told Venturebeat.
But it isn’t just about betting that they’ll be needed, it is about ensuring Stox has them before they become scarce.
“If there are too many licenses out there, then it’s possible that they won’t allow any more,” Gertner said. “Thus, we’re making sure to get them as soon as possible. Most importantly, acquiring the company saves time instead of going through the process of licensing. Now the company can concentrate on developing a product instead of dealing with lawyers and regulators.”
Acquiring licenses isn’t the only reason for the acquisition.
“The acquisition makes Stox the first regulated company in the space,” Gertner said. “This especially highlights the difference between Stox and its two main competitors, Augur and Gnosis, who don’t have these licenses.”
In the world of prediction platforms, Augur is currently trading at $210 million, with Gnosis trading at $120 million. This is interesting in comparison to Stox, which, at a valuation of around $25 million, appears to be the victim of a valuation anomaly. Whether today’s acquisition and the associated licenses change that remains to be seen.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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16th February 2019
Doors open at 6.45pm for 7:30pm start
Paul Carrack, one of the most revered voices in music and a figurehead of soulful pop for decades, will return to the delight his legions of admirers with the new album ‘These Days’. The most accomplished collection of songs in his distinguished career, it features 11 brand new compositions, six of them Carrack solos and five co-writes with his old Squeeze bandmate Chris Difford.
Tier 1 £39.50
Tier 2 £34.50
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“When I’m out on the road here in the city, people automatically think I’m Indian.
“We are trying to pepper the language of our tribe, the Nyungar, within the fusion dance performance.
He is also a well-known screen actor, contemporary dancer, didgeridoo artiste and is a torch-bearer of Aboriginal music, dance, theatre and storytelling traditions.
“One of the first commonalities that we came across here in Kerala was sand art and hence we named it sand.
They talk to me in Tamil/Malayalam and they’re quite taken aback when I respond in English,” says the actor, with a guffaw.
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- Pope Francis, huge crowd joyously celebrate Easter
- Transcript reveals confusion over ferry evacuation in South Korea
- Militants kill 14 Algerian soldiers in ambush
- Unbeliebable: White House turns Bieber petition response into immigration screed
- Obama signs law denying Iran ambassador’s visa, but says law is ‘advisory’
- Mich. judge to laughing convicted killer: ‘I hope you die in prison’
- Man charged in Kansas City-area highway shootings
- Keystone XL pipeline still on hold after State Dept. decision
- Fla. man charged with killing 16-month-old son to play Xbox undisturbed
- Drones from the deep: Pentagon develops ocean-floor attack robots
High demand as World Cup ticket sales begin
But it will be some time before they know whether they’ll be among those lucky enough to get seats to football’s signature event. Applicants won’t hear back until October, after FIFA holds a random selection draw on all the requests.
More than 163,000 people requested the tickets online in the first seven hours.
At the end of the first day of sales, the website of football’s governing body FIFA showed that there were more ticket applications than the number of seats available in all four price categories for 12 of the 64 matches, including the opener in Sao Paulo and the final at Rio de Janeiro’s Maracana Stadium.
Demand was also high in all price categories for the semifinals, and 44 matches had too many requests at least for the cheaper category tickets which are only available for Brazilians.
“The respective ticket product is already heavily oversubscribed and therefore, at that point in time, the success of the application appears very unlikely,” FIFA said of the high demand categories. “There are vastly more ticket applicants seeking tickets than there are tickets presently available for the general public.”
Prices for the final will go from $440-$990, although Brazilian fans will pay $165 in the cheaper category. Brazilians over the age of 60, local students and members of some social programs will be allowed to pay about $82 for a ticket. Prices for the opener in Sao Paulo go from $220-$495, with Brazilians paying $80 and discounted tickets costing $40.
About 500,000 tickets in total were set aside for the category available solely to Brazilian citizens.
Applications quickly started pouring in after tickets went up for grabs at 1000 GMT Tuesday. Some fans had to be placed in a virtual queue “due to an exceedingly high demand for access to the ticketing page,” FIFA said on its website.
FIFA’s press office said that in the first hour of sales there were 14,104 requests for a total of 81,821 tickets. Each applicant can request for up to four tickets for a maximum of seven matches.
The organization expects a total of nearly 3.3 million tickets to be available for the tournament in Brazil, but only about 1 million are offered in the first stage of sales.
FIFA said before sales opened that it expected a demand for tickets similar to that seen for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, when there were about seven applicants for every ticket of the monthlong tournament attended by more than 3.3 million fans. Almost 2 million tickets were sold to the general public for the World Cup in South Africa in 2010, although the number of applications during the first ticketing phase was significantly lower.
Sales of leftover tickets will begin Nov. 5 on a first-come, first-served basis. Another phase will begin Dec. 8 after the World Cup draw determines where and when each nation will play. The tournament begins June 12, with Brazil playing in the opener.
Nearly 800,000 fans attended the Confederations Cup in Brazil earlier this year, with ticket sales easily surpassing those for the warm-up tournament in South Africa in 2009 and in Germany in 2005.
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- Scalia to students on high taxes: At a certain point, 'perhaps you should revolt'
- Former Ranger breaks silence on Pat Tillman death: I may have killed him
- Special Forces' suicide rates hit record levels casualties of 'hard combat'
- Feds approve powdered alcohol; 'Palcohol' available later this year
- EDITORIAL: Mark Warner running scared?
- CHARLES: Holder's undermining of the law deserving of contempt
- Army goes to war with National Guard, seizes Apache attack helicopters
- Justice at last: 'Evil woman' outed for grabbing girl's game ball
- 'Deport Bieber' petition draws no comment from White House
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In addition to the incredibly long hanging around times designed for marriage licences in Vietnam, the lifestyle of the country also requires which a man speak the language fluently to communicate with the Japanese girl. It is not necessarily uncommon for a man to enjoy similar challenges in getting a job in Vietnam. A high level00 foreigner, it may need time to get used to the fact that the Vietnamese lady isn’t likely to sugar cover uncomfortable facts. You should expect to take some time to get accustomed to her sincerity, but if most likely a man so, who speaks the chinese language, it should not pose a problem.
First of all, make certain to dress reasonably. Vietnamese ladies love guys who clothing well and value their culture. It’s also a smart idea to iron your garments when meeting a Vietnamese woman. In general, women assess a man by simply his presence. Yet , it’s properly acceptable to show a little more devotion to a Vietnamese woman. She will be thankful for this, hence be careful not to present too much emotion.
While the Vietnamese culture induces men so far Vietnamese ladies, the cultural status of ladies is so low that many Japanese women will be attracted to and also the. As a result, there are no laws protecting marrying a vietnamese girl ladies in Vietnam vietnam dating site and it is common for a man to exploit absence of safeguard. The ratio of males to women of all ages in Vietnam is two to 5, the dangerous combination for a romance. While you should not marry a Vietnamese young lady beneath age of 30, you must still take into account her appearance along with your age when coming up with the decision.
The second thing is, Vietnamese girls prefer to remain out of the sun whenever possible, and this prevents them via getting a tan. Suntanning in the sun it isn’t just unhealthy although also too soon ages you. A Japanese woman will take care of herself out of head to foot when in the evening. Moreover, you can be sure that her food will almost always be delicious and nutritious. You can also take advantage of the range of substances in Vietnamese cuisine.
Third, Vietnamese women are dedicated to their partners. They worth the family unit above any devices and prioritize the happiness of their husbands. Also, they are very considerate and listen to their husbands’ opinions. And they never defraud. You can trust that the Vietnamese sweetheart will not be a cheater on you — both of you will probably be happy. If you’re not willing to follow this cultural tradition, you may be better off not marrying a Thai woman.
Lastly, don’t be shy! Vietnamese females are very soft, but could be very shy to begin with. You can expect those to be incredibly sultry in the sack – if you don’t take them also seriously. And if you’re seriously interested in marrying a Vietnamese woman, then you’ll need to learn her language, plus the cultural traditions. A man having a strong interest for this culture is bound to win over his woman.


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Optimism is the single most frequently cited attribute of healthy and happy people. But who is truly optimistic?
Research psychologist Martin Seligman
found that, to be effective, optimism must be embodied. Putting up a false front of optimism isn’t enough. In fact, trying to be optimistic can create emotional distress, which can then negatively impact health.
By contrast, people who naturally tend toward optimism are more likely to have far less distress, better health, and greater success in all endeavors as compared to people who are filled with doubt or who have pessimistic expectations.
The big question is, for those of us who naturally tend toward pessimism, how can we develop optimism and environmental mastery?
The first step involves developing the awareness that we are practicing pessimism, and this is quite difficult. The most evidence-based method of developing this awareness is mindfulness practice, which can be learned at meditation centers or an MBSR class.
The second step is to be clear on our intentions and to consciously engage in a number of practices, one of which is gratitude.
Cave paintings dating back forty thousand years reveal that prehistoric humans knew that by imagining the results they wanted to achieve (in their case—successful hunting) that they could improve the outcome.
There are many practices that will be described over time in this blog that serve to increase natural optimism. For example, consciously and intentionally thinking of 3 things each day for which we feel authentic gratitude tends to increase natural optimism.


LoPY PIN outs
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looking for a documentation describing pin functions of P0...P23, where is I2C, SPI, .etc. assigned to.
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thanks, let's see how it will be supported by the machine module.
The LoPy has pins numbered in order under the P naming, or in WiPy 1.0 order under the G naming (which is used on the expansion board). Either of these are understood by the
machine.Pinclass. Internally (in the ESP32 chipset) there are 40 GPIOs, 24 of which are external pins on the LoPy; the exact mapping will likely be documented soon (and can be extracted by observing registers when accessing pins). For one example, P9=G16=ESP32 GPIO 12 in LoPy. Some pads are used internally such as for flash memory, LoRa, and the onboard RGB LED, and others have defaults such as UART 0 (which matches the expansion board, documented at https://github.com/wipy/wipy/blob/master/docs/User_manual_exp_board.pdf ).
As for peripherals, most signals can be mapped to any IO through the ESP32's GPIO matrix. This means I2C and SPI can in fact be assigned anywhere (unless run at extreme speeds). Sections 4.9 to 4.11 of the ESP32 Technical Reference Manual details what can be connected where in the ESP32; beyond that the questions are which pads reach which pins on the LoPy, and what the MicroPython implementation handles.
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We are aware that at the present time the documentation related to the pinouts is still incomplete. We apologize for it, but we're running around the clock to release an amended version of it along with a new firmware version that includes improvements and bugfixes. We expect it to be released this Friday, so please stay tuned.


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The Australian government’s proposal for an independent international enquiry on the COVID 19 crisis is a much-needed constructive initiative.
Social cohesion will be critical in this new world of the COVID 19 crisis. Asia’s case proves that social cohesion is Janus-faced, working in two opposite directions.
COVID 19 is especially dangerous for people with pre-existing conditions. It also strikes countries with pre-existing bad governments with particular severity.
The relentless horse trading among Malay politicians has not only undone the result of the 2018 election, but seemingly put an end to a genuinely multi-ethnic coalition.
Beyond the constant strife with the U.S., China’s assertion of global powers runs into increasing resistance even by normally acquiescent Asian nations.
Media reports about India’s new citizenship rules and its impact on Muslim minorities swings between the tendentious, the comical and the absurd.
Modi’s initiative is undermining the very idea of India as a secular and multicultural liberal society.
The once reformist President Joko Widodo, now in his second term, gets swallowed up by the bureaucracy and overall Indonesian politics.


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LG Optimus Black to debut in Europe
LG has just announced that the new Optimus Black will make its international debut in Europe later this month.
LG says that, “Following successful unveilings at the Consumer Electronics Show and the Mobile World Congress, the LG Optimus Black has attracted pre-orders from 56 network carriers in 50 different countries. The phone will be available globally across six continents beginning in Europe before heading to North America and Asia.”
As stated in a report that we at Akihabara News published back in April, the new smartphone will include LG’s new NOVA display technology, “the LG Optimus Black provides optimal brightness and clarity that allows for enhanced readability.” The NOVA screen is also supposed to reduce battery consumption by 50% during general indoor use.
LG will be releasing the Optimus Black this month with a white- and- pink version to be introduced next month.
• 4-inch NOVA Display (700 nits brightness)
• Dimensions:122 x 64 x 9.2mm
• Weight: 109g
• 1GHz processor (Texas Instruments OMAP3)
• Wi-Fi Direct
• 5MP Rear Camera / 2MP Front Facing Camera
• Gesture UI powered by Gyro-sensor
• 2GB Internal Memory and Micro SD up to 32GB
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Jika sobat ingin mencari artikel tentang Coral Island: Where to Find Oak Seeds disini tempatnya . Baca artikel tentang Coral Island: Where to Find Oak Seeds .
Coral Island is a realistic farming simulation game. The activities you will do will be similar to other farming games. Apart from planting seeds, taking care of animals and exploring the map, you will also be doing some quests and side quests.
When doing missions, you will be asked to do some things including finding some items or crafting some tools. However, there are still some things you have to finish before that, and it’s collecting raw materials.
One of the raw items available in abundance in your area since the beginning of the game is acorn seeds. Unlike other games, the materials that you can get at the beginning of the game will remain essential throughout the game.
With that being said, we’ve put together this brief guide to help you find acorns on Coral Island.
Unlike maple seeds and pine cones, there is no need to cut down trees to obtain their seeds. Instead, you will just have to search for it on the ground.
You can walk around and look for an acorn seed sticking out its head on the ground. The secret to finding one is to keep running and pay more attention to the ground. Don’t worry because acorns are very common, so they will be just a piece of cake to look out for.
When you already find one, go get your ax and hit the acorn seed with it. In this way, the oak seeds will come out of the ground. Carry it and it will be in your backpack.
You can use this by selecting it and choosing the tiles on the floor where you want to plant it. Eventually, it will grow into an oak tree.

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- Comparative genomic analysis of Vibrio parahaemolyticus: serotype conversion and virulenceYuansha Chen
The J Craig Venter Institute, Rockville, MD, USA
BMC Genomics 12:294. 2011..The sixth pandemic strain sequenced in this study was serotype O4:K68...
- Genetic analysis of the capsule polysaccharide (K antigen) and exopolysaccharide genes in pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6Yuansha Chen
Department of Pathology, University of Florida, 1600 SW Archer Road, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
BMC Microbiol 10:274. 2010..However, previous reports on "capsule" genes are controversial. Therefore, we set out to clarify and characterize these regions in pandemic V. parahaemolyticus O3:K6 by gene deletion using a chitin based transformation strategy...
- Web-accessible database of hsp65 sequences from Mycobacterium reference strainsJianli Dai
Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
J Clin Microbiol 49:2296-303. 2011..mycobacteria.info) from 149 out of 150 Mycobacterium species/subspecies. This database can serve as a reference for identifying Mycobacterium species...
- Recent clonal origin of cholera in HaitiAfsar Ali
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 17:699-701. 2011..Mark's Hospital, Arbonite, Haiti, <3 weeks after onset of the current cholera epidemic. Variable-number tandem-repeat typing of 187 isolates showed minimal diversity, consistent with a point source for the epidemic...
- Multiple-genome comparison reveals new loci for Mycobacterium species identificationJianli Dai
Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, 2055 Mowry Rd, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
J Clin Microbiol 49:144-53. 2011..A multilocus sequence analysis system including the rpoBC, dnaK, and hsp65 loci is a robust tool for accurate identification of Mycobacterium species...

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USA: Minneapolis police officer 'must be held accountable for use of deadly force'
Responding to a video on social media showing a Minneapolis police officer using his knee to pin down a man named George Floyd by his neck until he was unable to breathe, Kristina Roth, Amnesty International USA’s Criminal Justice Senior Programme Officer, said:
“No person should ever wake up wondering if that day will be the day that a police officer ends their life, yet people of colour, particularly black people, across the country live with that painful and traumatic reality.
“The actions of this Minneapolis police officer have terrorised people who have already lost so much.
“We are incensed that nearly six years after Eric Garner uttered ‘I can’t breathe’ as he was killed by the New York Police Department, police officers still don’t seem to have learned to listen to a person’s call for help.
“This man’s life mattered. And so did the lives of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor and too many more.
“Police are supposed to protect life, and that principle has been ignored by police officers who have denied black people their humanity. The police must be held accountable for this use of deadly force."
The video circulated on social media yesterday.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has called for a prompt, thorough, and transparent investigation, and for the family of the victim be kept up to date as the investigation ensues.
Amnesty is urging the US Congress to pass the PEACE Act to limit the use of deadly force, which should only ever be used as a last resort.

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"Minor Injuries Unit"
About: Wycombe Hospital Wycombe Hospital High Wycombe HP11 2TT
Posted via NHS Choices
I was referred here by my GP after my 4 year old got something stuck up her nose. After waiting for 3 hours with no assessment we saw a nurse who told us they could not deal with this. I had doubled check on arrival that I was in the right place and told I was, obviously this was incorrect. We were told to either go home wait until someone called us for an ENT appointment or go to John Radcliffe. We went home. The next morning I went to A&E at Stoke Mandeville were my daughter was assessed within 20 mins and shortly after the object was removed, all in the separate pediatric area with toys, games and lovely nurses. The service at Wycombe Hospital was a shambles. I will be taking this up with my GP and telling all my friends to avoid this MIIU, especially with children.

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NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL:
PHILADELPHIA - To honor the men and women that served our country, La Salle is offering free admission to all veterans (with proper identification) for the Explorers contest vs. Delaware on Saturday. The game is set to begin at 3 p.m. and will include veteran recognition during a media timeout with a color guard presentation. Homecoming festivities will occur at halftime.
The Explorers are coming off a 61-58 exhibition win over Carleton on Friday night.
A complete preview with links and game notes will be posted to GoExplorers.com later this week.
For ticket information, call 215-951-1999 or email [email protected].


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With global tech giants making huge strides in this sector, AI startups are arguably the most sought-after in today’s global economy. The trend is catching on in India as well. Driven by evolving technology and a flourishing domestic market, Indian entrepreneurs are increasingly attracted toward new opportunities in AI and machine learning in real-time and advanced analytics. Taking note of this opportunity, Architect Corner, an emerging technology startup in Tactile Internet and Next Generation AI Platform was incepted in 2016.
The founding story of Architect Corner takes back to a time when Bhagvan Kommadi and Lakshmana Ponnekanti, two software architects wanted to start a product company. With years of experience in Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Machine Learning, the duo was quick enough to comprehend the pain points in the systems using AI and Big Data and identify the lack of learning in the systems. Although there was availability of historical data but patterns were not used for prediction. With the inception of Architect Corner, the idea was to come up with product for prevention by prediction.
High on spirit and enthusiasm, they started functioning from the first day of January in 2016 from Hyderabad. Breaking the barriers of creating a co-founder, engineering team and an advisory board, the company acquired their first client on June where they implemented their AI Deep Learning platform. Since then, there was no looking back.At present, Architect
Architect Corner, at the moment, is working with CIO of Kansas and CIO of Chicago on smart city initiatives
The AI Scope in India
Being a part of Digital India initiative and the Smart City Governance Working Group, an initiative driven by Telecommunication Engineering Center, Architect Corner uses AI Deep Learning Algorithms in the area of Smart Cities. Giving insight on the scope, Bhagvan speaks, “Smart cities platform is likely to accelerate the e-government implementation and integrate with private partners systems effectively. Smart grid will help the consumers to forecast the utility payments, usage. Enterprises participating in Smart city initiative will achieve revenue generation, concept to order realization, new products release and improvement in time to market. AI Deep Learning Platform provides predictive analytics capabilities (Big data) for enterprises (public and private) participating in smart cities initiative to prevent unfore seen events by prediction. Architect Corner will accelerate the smart cities solution deployment and adoption in cities."
As businesses begin to rely more on data driven AI applications, the new applications lead to new business issues, security, and privacy concerns. Each government department also needs to have a transparent system for total audit-ability so one can see who did what, and when. Deep Learning platform users should identify erroneous or incomplete data to avoid misleading decisions. The new AI applications introduce a number of business, security and privacy issues which will have to be addressed. “It will be important to ensure that these intelligent applications are developed in a way that they will provide the desired benefit and that the user can trust the advice and services provided. It will be important to be able to detect and isolate infected or malicious AI programs immediately, and develop the effective policy and laws for governing their development and use, so that personal information is safeguarded and not misused,” he says.
Next Generation AI Platform
Delivering capabilities to provide physical experiences remotely on wearables, haptic interfaces, tactile interfaces, biometrics,
As the next generation AI Platform, Big data framework enabling payments, authentication, disaster support, remote health/delivery/sensing and control, the company counts Prevention by prediction in the area of smart cities as their silver lining.
The company, at the moment, is working with CIO of Kansas and CIO of Chicago on Smart city initiatives. Throwing light on, Bhagvan says, “We are working with Public Policy Analyst of USPS on financial and economic initiatives. Architect Corner is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University and University of Toronto on Smart Education initiative. We are working with Volpe National Transportation Systems Center related to Cyber Security initiatives."
In addition, the company is involved with OECD to promote policies with government to improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. TEAM Architect Corner is working with Brazil Ministry towards Brazil's post Election economic initiatives, working with South African Ministry in Urban Planning of South African cities and towns. “We are working with Kenyan Government for Joint economic initiatives and raising funds through World Bank. We are in the process of finalizing a pilot with European Smart village initiative in Italy and raising Funds through Angel & Venture Capital for incubating startups in the area of Smart city and Smart Village initiative in Europe and India. We are also taking active part in the creation of Smart City Accelerator Fund of 10 million USD through Ask Mentor and Social Venture/ Venture capital investors,” he adds.
Embracing the Journey
Architect Corner believes in an open work culture that encourages the employees. The team consists of 10 engineers and has hired Co Founders to encourage the team members to participate in engineering, sales, marketing and recruitment. With a strong track record of bottom-line responsibility for merchandise launch, pricing, marketing and promotional programs, the company has a long history of consistently growing productivity and reducing cost of operations and research for enterprises. Narrating about the future plans, Bhagvan concludes, “We have partners in London, San Francisco, Dubai and Iran. We are planning to expand into China, South Korea Indonesia and Hong Kong through partners."


Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Confederate Motorcycles revealed the first teaser images of the special edition P120 Black Flag. It will be limited to only 50 units. Prices will be announced at a later date.
The P120 Black Flag is powered by a 120-cubic-inch V-twin engine with 160 Hp and 135 lbs-ft of torque. The motorcycle will feature CM design double wishbone machined from 6061 aircraft-grade aluminum linked to aerodynamic, dual, lightweight, tubular wing blades, the same fuel-carrying frame as the standard Fighter and a the standard double-wishbone front ford assembly.


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- Energizer Holdings to acquire feminine hygiene business from J&J Family of Consumer Cos.
- Three new Takeda diabetes drugs become available
- Study: Type 2 diabetes market competition heats up amid disease rate increase
- Diabetics constantly on the look-out for new ways to manage disease
- Patients on Type 2 diabetes drugs may experience dangerously low blood sugar despite lack of disease control, study finds
BEDFORD, Mass. — Insulet and LifeScan have entered a partnership through which the latter's OneTouch blood-glucose monitoring technology will be integrated into the former's OmniPod Personal Diabetes Manager.
The nonexclusive worldwide agreement, which has an initial term that will run through 2017, will involve LifeScan providing its glucose monitoring technology to Insulet, who will be responsible for the development, design and approval of the integrated device. Insulet, however, maintains an exclusivity option to be declared, at its discretion, upon commercialization of the integrated PDM. This option would make LifeScan the exclusive blood-glucose monitoring technology integrated into the OmniPod PDM and provide additional compensation to Insulet.
"The easy to use, tubeless OmniPod is the most innovative technology available in the insulin pump market, so we are thrilled to integrate with LifeScan's market leading OneTouch blood-glucose monitoring technologies," Insulet president and CEO Duane DeSisto said. "Our team has commenced development efforts on a new PDM which we expect to be commercialized in 2013. The new integrated PDM will work with the next generation OmniPod, which is currently awaiting 510(k) clearance."


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VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. — President Barack Obama said Sunday night that the situation in Libya had reached a “tipping point” and that control of the capital was “slipping from the grasp of a tyrant.” He called on Moammar Khadafy to accept reality and relinquish power.
“The surest way for the bloodshed to end is simple: Moammar Khadafy and his regime need to recognize that their rule has come to an end,” Obama said in a statement issued during his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass. “Khadafy needs to acknowledge the reality that he no longer controls Libya. He needs to relinquish power once and for all.”
Obama issued the statement after a conference call with his national security team.


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Alexis and I under the St. Johns Bridge, in Portland, Oregon. My friend Craig married his wife Chelsea here. It was beautiful. And a bit hot out. Not sure if I was sweating from the Sun or from the taxi ride over, which rivaled any attraction at any theme park I’ve ever been to.
Over the years I’ve been to a handful of weddings, but Craig’s was really the first one that involved someone I’ve known since we were practically kids. Knowing how the story started, and to see it all come together, is really something. Most people don’t get the privilege.

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Company Description (as filed with the SEC)
DARA BioSciences, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of oncology treatment and oncology supportive care pharmaceutical products. Through our acquisition of Oncogenerix, Inc., which occurred on January 17, 2012, we acquired our first commercial, FDA-approved proprietary product license Soltamox® (tamoxifen citrate) oral solution. Soltamox has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) for the treatment of breast cancer. On September 12, 2012, we entered into a license agreement with Helsinn Healthcare SA (“Helsinn”) to distribute, promote, market and sell Gelclair® a unique oral gel whose key ingredients are polyvinlypyrrolidone (PVP) and sodium hyaluronate (hyaluronic acid) for the treatment of certain approved indications. Gelclair is an FDA-cleared product indicated for the treatment of oral mucositis. ... More ...

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