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April 26, 2022
Whether you are a consultant, independent contractor, or career freelancer, there could be some tax-saving opportunities out there waiting for you to take advantage of. Continue below to learn the top 4 ways freelancers and self-employed business owners might save thousands of dollars on taxes each year!
Although self-employment certainly changes the tax game, requiring a whole new set of rules and conditions entirely different from individual tax planning and preparation, there are several tax benefits available if you know where to look. A licensed and certified public accountant specializing in business taxes can help you identify and divulge in these tax incentives, ensuring that your money is optimally allocated during tax time.
You have the option of hiring your wife or husband as a paid employee, which would give you a tax break on medical insurance. Sure, self-employed folks get to write off 100% of any health insurance premiums they pay, whether for themselves or another, but with this additional tax advantage works as a permitted adjustment to your income on the 1040 form. The result is a reduction of income tax. Keep in mind, this does not reduce what you owe for self-employment tax.
On the other hand, if you provide health insurance coverage for your employees, then your spouse can add you to their policy. Your health insurance costs would be deducted on your Schedule C, which in turn would reduce your self-employment income, and ultimately, your SE tax.
Just like hiring a spouse, hiring your kids as paid employees can pose certain tax benefits. Whether you give them the task of answering phones, entering data, or simply cleaning the office, you can deduct their wages on your Schedule C, thus reducing your tax liability. Children under the age of 18 do not pay Social Security tax, while dependents between 18 and 21 do not pay federal unemployment tax.
If you regularly conduct your business out of your residence, whether meeting clients or using a space that is exclusively-designated for business-related duties, you can claim deductions for it. For the business portion of your house, you may qualify to claim rent, utilities, insurance, mortgage interest, real estate taxes, painting, repairs, and even depreciation.
If you do not have a home office and instead, meet clients outside of your house or work at the Starbucks, you may want to reconsider. By designating a portion of your home for your business, you can add to the number of business expenses you write off each year.
If you want to save on taxes as a freelancer or self-employed individual, consider opening a specialized retirement plan. The top recommended retirement plan is the Simplified Employee Pension plan (SEP), which can hold up to a quarter of your self-employment net income. Your self-employment net earnings are calculated by subtracting the deduction for one-half of your self-employment tax from your net Schedule C.
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The recent popularity of M. Night Shyamalan “Old” offers a fascinating yet unsurprising truth—we fear aging. This fear could be why so few of us consider saving for retirement until it’s too late. When seniors reach retirement age, many discover they haven’t saved enough to live comfortably in their golden years.
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124, Mount Hope Avenue in Rochester, New York was home to about 20 Adventist workers who served in various capacities at the Review and Herald office located there. They were young, vibrant and passionately dedicated to the cause of Sabbatarian Adventism.
Their commitment to mission, however, took a toll on their physical well being and many of them succumbed to illness. Mortality rates in the 19th century were high largely due to poor nutrition, insufficient information with regards to health and sanitation among the general population and the lack of effective medications such as antibiotics. Tuberculosis was one of the main killers, followed by pneumonia, cholera and typhoid.
The young people who lived and worked at 124, Mount Hope Avenue were not immune to these diseases. If anything they were probably more susceptible to them given the fact that they were prone to overwork and lived on a meagre nutrition-poor diet.
Both James and Ellen White struggled with Tuberculosis and James White was struck with Cholera. They beat both diseases but others were not as lucky.
Perhaps one of the most heartbreaking cases of illness and death was that of Angeline Andrews. She died at the age of 48, just two years before her husband left the United States as a missionary for Europe. Angeline’s death deeply affected her husband John and he relocated from Rochester to South Lancaster, Massachusetts for a while to cope with the loss and continue his work. When he was called to Europe he took his young children Mary and Charles with him.
The Andrews family didn’t have much money and when they got to Europe their living conditions weren’t the most sanitary either. They lived almost entirely on cabbage soup and potatoes so that they could save as much money as they could to put back into mission work. The result was that Mary Andrews contracted tuberculosis. John Andrews took her with him to Battle Creek where Dr John Kellogg examined her. He informed her father that there was nothing that could be done for her. Mary Andrews died of tuberculosis shortly after. Her father had refused to leave her bedside while she was ill though Dr Kellogg had warned him that his proximity to her would put him in danger of contracting the disease himself.
J.N Andrews contracted Tuberculosis from Mary and died shortly after at the age of 54. He was buried in Basel Switzerland while Mary and Angeline Andrews were buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester.
Nathaniel and Anna White came to Mount Hope Avenue shortly after the Review office moved there. Nathaniel had contracted Tuberculosis and Anna cared for him during his illness. He died in 1853 and Anna, who contracted the disease from him died shortly thereafter. Annie Smith, who was a close friend of Anna’s contracted the disease from her and died in July of 1854.
Many of the Adventist graves in Mount Hope Cemetery are those of young people, gone too soon. Young people who took their faith seriously and were committed to the mission of taking the three angels messages to all the world in a single generation. Start-ups are never easy. It takes a lot more sacrifice, commitment and effort to build a startup than it does to keep an institutionalised organisation running. May we look at our own lives and evaluate where we need to make a deeper commitment in order to ensure the work of God moves forward to completion.

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Python MSVC++ binaries considered evil
tim.one at home.com
Thu Jan 24 17:16:17 EST 2002
> I was hoping the core Python developers would post a reaction as to if
> they have any plans or ideas to free Python from MSVC++.
PythonLabs has no Windows plans beyond keeping the status quo in working
order, and no bandwidth to think about MSVC alternatives. So support for
alternatives will have to originate from, be resolved within, and
implemented by the community. Windows volunteers have been extraordinarily
rare over Python's lifetime, so I don't offer much hope except in special
cases (for example, Jason Tishler and the Cygwin folks have been doing a
great job for that platform; we rarely get Borland patches).
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7.1.4_perrypherie (EP 2022)
Crossover Nu Alternative Metal Rap Rock
Sunday, the day of the lord. In May 22, Sunday 22nd marks the release of the Metal Version of “Isolate” and the first so-called söng collection of the reincarnation of Vorarlberg’s very own Nu Metal veterans.
Since the debut of Sektor 7 in 2006, some time has passed and finally in 2019, the band was reborn. Another three years later, five new tracks found their way on the EP „7.1.4_perrypherie“ plus a demo recording. And in the spirit of Scar The Martyr, the music combines heavy instruments, screams tearing buildings apart and a lot of Rap.
The resulting sound orients itself at the big names of the genre. A straight bass drives the first single „Watch Me“, reminding of Korn, while the Rap, shouting and clean singing brings up Limp Bizkit. In the bridge, the guitar adds a little Death Metal touch. Frustrations of (job-) life are displayed in the music video like Rebell Bagatell did, partly shot at Bunt Bar and close to the music shop Zusammenklang.
It even gets wilder in „C4A“, that feels like a mash up between The King Must Die Thrash plus Metallica, Soulfly and CroworD. This time, a performance at the rehearsal room is combined with the lyrics in the video. All of the concept and aggressiv sound continue in „Trading With Monsters“, living from the strong production, crafted together with Hannes Jaeckl and Toni Meloni.
Also „My Name“ scores with its Rap elements and mighty guitars, before the atmosphere turns darker in „Trijol“. Thereby, the melodic line gives hints to likes of Amon Amarth, Trivium and Nekrogoblikon. The concluding demo record of the EP “Welcome” slows down the pace, with the beat of the drums in the foreground.
The rough lyrics and the little Post Hardcore impact give the final references to Stone Sour, Vaataja and With Broken Wings. Sektor 7 want to „achieve world domination“ like „Pinky and the Brain“ with their söngs. And with this EP, they started right away that very weekend live at the Between alongside Mozurak.

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111 Small Businesses and Other Entities to Receive DOE-funded Support to Accelerate Market Adoption of Clean Energy Technologies from 33 Organizations, Including Six National Labs
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Technology Transitions (OTT), in collaboration with the Offices of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM), and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), today announced 111 entities to receive support in advancing their clean energy technologies, valued at $9.8M. The in-kind commercialization support will be provided by 33 supporting organizations in the form of DOE-funded vouchers.
The Voucher Program is funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law as part of the Technology Commercialization Fund (TCF) and leverages DOE’s recent partnership intermediary agreement with ENERGYWERX.
“It takes a breadth of tools and expertise to bring an innovative technology from research and development to deployment,” said DOE Chief Commercialization Officer and Director of the Office of Technology Transitions Dr. Vanessa Z. Chan. “The Voucher Program will pair 111 clean energy solutions with the support they need from expert voucher providers to help usher new technologies to market.”
The program helps small businesses and other non-traditional partners access testing facilities or obtain third-party subject matter expertise needed to advance their technologies, business, or energy projects to the next level. The available support works to increase the adoption readiness of the participating organizations and ultimately brings impactful, clean energy technologies to fruition nationwide.
Selected organizations will receive vouchers worth up to $250,000 each across five types of support, including analytical assistance (technoeconomic analyses, market readiness assessments, etc.), performance validation (testing, certification, etc.), and siting/permitting support for jurisdictions.
Click here to find details on the selected `voucher provider and recipient matches. Follow along at https://www.energywerx.org/ as additional submission windows may open in the future (pending availability of funds).
About the Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions
The Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions (OTT) is one of the largest supporters of technology commercialization in the federal government. Founded in 2015, OTT bolsters the technology industry's market skills and enables clean energy technologies to progress through research, development, demonstration, and to deployment into the private sector to meet our nation’s climate goals. Visit us at energy.gov/technologytransitions to learn more, and subscribe to receive our latest opportunities and accomplishments via email. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.


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Mercedes-AMG Teases "Something Fast" in New Video
A cryptic new teaser video from Mercedes-AMG promises that "something fast is coming." AMG saying it's making something fast is like Emeril Lagasse telling you he's making something garlicky. It's kind of a given. Still, we wonder what the engineers in Affalterbach have cooking.
Shot at what appears to be Germany's Hockenheimring circuit, the video doesn't show any part of the actual car. Instead, we get a POV shot of the track at speed, with the car's engine providing the soundtrack. That engine sounds a lot like the twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 of the Mercedes-AMG GT. It's possible that this car is a higher-performance variant of the GT, either a Black Series or the rumored road-going version of the AMG GT3 race car. That track-only coupe, which debuted in Geneva this year, uses the previous SLS AMG's naturally aspirated 6.2-liter V-8. The Black Series model is said to use the standard GT's twin-turbo 4.0-liter tuned to between 550-580 hp. If that's the case, that would be a significant boost over the current range-topping GT S' 503 hp. Earlier this year we spied an AMG GT prototype testing at the Nürbugring wearing goodies like a large front splitter, fixed rear wing, and larger brakes. That could be the car teased in this video.
Then again, this could be something completely different. The video doesn't give any hints as to when we can expect the full reveal, so we'll just have to wait for more clues. Until then, check out the video and tell us what you think AMG has in store.
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Democratic Commissioner and District 3 incumbent John Wiley Price was unhurt by a FBI investigation that has yet to result in any arrests. He beat Republican challenger Charles “Lingy” Lingerfelt in a landslide. Democrat Theresa Daniel will join him on the court, which will now have four Democrats and one Republican. Daniel replaces outgoing Republican District 1 Commissioner Maurine Dickey. Daniel beat Republican nominee Larry Miller.
Democratic Sheriff Lupe Valdez won a third term after handily beating Republican challenger Kirk Launius. Democratic county tax assessor-collector John R. Ames easily fended off Republican challenger Andrew Marcontell.
Democrat Phyllis Lister Brown beat Republican Mike Lee for the 162nd State District Court civil judgeship being vacated by state District Judge Lorraine Raggio. Dallas city officials ousted Brown from her municipal judgeship after she refused to step down to run for higher office. She is suing over the city’s policy governing such situations. Democratic state District Judge Don Adams won a third term in Criminal District Court No. 2. He beat Republican nominee Lisa DeWitt. Democrat Dominique Collins, an assistant Dallas County district attorney, easily won out over Republican Tom Nowak for the Criminal District Court No. 4 judgeship being vacated by District Judge John Creuzot.


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When I was growing up in Brooklyn, NY the B71 trolley bus line maneuvered a turn onto Sackett from Smith Street. Often the two trolley poles and ropes which connected the bus to its’ power source above would disengage on the turn and the bus driver would have to get out and put the poles back on the track. It seemed like a genuine pain in the butt, yet it was part of the driver’s day. He didn’t make it mean he did anything wrong or curse the wires, he just got out of the bus and fixed put it back on track and got on his way. (In those days all the drivers were men!)
About Blog Aphrodite has a special interest in languages. In her free time she likes to teach English, translate or interpret. She also likes to blog or contributes to magazines and newspapers. Her major topics are women's mental health, daily news, entertainments, poems, arts, lifestyle, etc. Aphrodite is a Dreamer, a Believer, a Story Teller, a Truth Reporter and Peace Activist
If you are considering about losing a lot of weight, this is the page to visit, because this woman not only runs a very successful blog and is a successful woman herself, but through her post she will teach you how to not only lose weight, but love your body whatever the size. Her name is Emily Ho, and she describes herself as a writer, social media strategist, fashion blogger, and most importantly, body positive fitness blogger. She learns how to live a focused and healthy life, and by leading this blog she is documenting her experiences while doing so. This is a way for you to try and not focus on losing some weight, but gaining on life, as she would put it. A blog worth taking a peek at!
This high-fat, adequate-protein, low-carb fad diet sends the body into a state of ketosis, in which the body uses stored fat for energy. Research published in Clinical Cardiology suggests the ketogenic, or “keto,” diet can be an effective weight loss method, but to be successful, you must follow the plan consistently with no cheat days — otherwise, you’re just eating a high-fat diet that may be high in unhealthy fats for no reason. (1) (A pro tip? If you're planning on doing the diet, consider perusing this complete keto food list and reading up on the healthiest fats for keto diet followers.)
Has it ever happened to you to take a look at yourself in the mirror and not like what you see? Do you find yourself often sitting in front of the TV or in your kitchen, chewing on some food you know is not good for you? How does that make you feel? And finally, do you ever dream about having the perfect figure, and the perfect lifestyle, inside and out?
Oh, I am a young 76, 5’6” tall and this morning, weighed in at 135.6. my goal is 130. I know it will be a challenge as I am not that overweight. I am enrolled in FFL 7-week course and am really doing my best to follow the program. I have haven’t been to the gym for 3 months due to foot problems. Hopefully, an MRI on Friday will reveal the problem and I can resume my gym time. Sorry for this epistly, but wanted to explain all to you in hopes that you can share some home exercises for my stomach area.
Just because you’ve now achieved your target weight, it doesn’t mean you sit on the sofa all day watching TV. If you suddenly stop exercising after dieting, then you need to reduce your calories even further as the amount you are burning off with have slumped. Exercising for an hour a day is good for your overall health, energy levels, and sleep quality, as well as weight control. Don’t forget, exercise can include gardening, housework and other chores – it doesn’t have to take place in the gym.
Her name is Jennifer and she is an amazing blogger, a mother of a girl, and a keeper of two dogs. She works in a medical device office and in the spare time she loves cooking and of course, being with her family. But what she absolutely loves the most, and is proud of it, that with the help of exercise and a great meal plan, she lost a bunch of pounds. The blogging is her way of helping her keep the pounds off, all the while giving her readers something interesting to try – new recipes, all the time! Naming her blog peanut butter and peppers seemed like the right thing for her to do, because she loves both of these things, and can literally put them on anything! So, if you are interested in her struggle with weight loss, or how she got into calorie counting, how she’s trying to get out of it, her every day fun recipes and little victories, it is all here – and it will provide you with the motivation you need!
About: If there’s anyone who feels the pain of bouncing up and down with weight loss, it’s Emily. In 2011, she started working to shed the pounds, and got down to 151 by 2012. Then she went back up again...to 181. 2013 rolls around, and enter: her blog. Emily set out to lose the weight for good. She’s already down to 148, and although she only blogs about two times a month, her quirky style definitely makes them worth reading.
About Blog Brittney Castro, Certified Financial Advisor™, entrepreneur and personal finance expert, believes achieving financial peace of mind is easier than you think. I help people define their ideal lives, and then support that with the structure of financial planning. I teach people how to love their money, understand their money and then use their money to live a life they actually love.
Call it what you will: An eating plan, a lifestyle, a diet, a philosophy, but few things garner such heated debate as how to lose weight. The truth is, whether you’re on a low-carb keto program, devoted to the Paleo lifestyle, all in to the Whole 30 or remain committed to low-fat eating, these plans have more in common than you think. What’s more, follow any one of them religiously, and you’ll likely notice results.
Full Plate Living is a nonprofit dedicated to a simple mission: Encourage, educate, support, and inspire anyone who wants to live a healthier lifestyle. They don’t advocate for starving yourself, spending your life at the gym, or giving up the foods you love. They’re also not about fad diets or weight loss supplements. Instead, they offer practical, straightforward steps to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Visit the blog.

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The Russian section of the Worldwide Area Station is now able to obtain the Nauka module, following the profitable elimination of the Pirs docking station and Progress spacecraft.
At 6:55 a.m. on Monday, July 26, an uncrewed Progress MS-16 transport cargo car, together with the Pirs docking station, undocked from the ISS, in accordance with a NASA statement. Each ought to have been largely destroyed throughout a managed re-entry by way of Earth’s environment, and Russian area company Roscosmos tweeted that the “non-combustible structural parts” of the craft fell into the Pacific Ocean.
The Progress 77 mission arrived on the ISS in February, delivering provides and cargo to the Expedition 65 crew. The Pirs module has been in service for 20 years, having been launched to the station on September 14, 2001. Pirs, which suggests “pier” in Russian, is being decommissioned to make room for the incoming Nauka module, often known as the Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM), which was launched to orbit final Wednesday.
The unique plan was to undock Pirs on Friday, July 23, however this was moved to Monday after a stream of issues with the Nauka mission, launched on July 21 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Along with not finishing its first orbit-raising burn (a difficulty resolved with backup thrusters), Nauka has an obvious antenna drawback, and there’s one thing funky occurring with its docking goal, which may current difficulties on docking day, scheduled for Thursday, July 29.
This previous Saturday, as soon as it turned clear that Nauka would attain the ISS, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov started preparations for the undocking, closing the switch hatches between Pirs and the Russian section of the area station, whereas additionally checking them for stress integrity, according to Roscosmos.
The Pirs docking station measures 16 ft lengthy (4.9 meters) and 8.Four ft extensive (2.6 meters) and weighs 8,461 kilos (3,838 kg), according to NASA. For the previous 20 years, the module has served as a science lab, docking port, and airlock for spacewalks.
Following the undocking, the module and spacecraft had been moved to a protected distance. Controllers used Progress’s thrusters to sluggish the objects down, in a process that occurred at 10:01 a.m. EDT. What was left after reentry into Earth environment fell into “a non-navigable space of the Pacific Ocean,” in accordance with Roscosmos.
With Pirs and Progress gone, the port on the Earth-facing facet of the Russian section is able to obtain Nauka, which suggests “science” in Russian. The brand new section will present extra room for science experiments, cargo, and tools. Nauka can also be delivering Europe’s new robotic arm, which can service the Russian section of the area station.

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