A recent informal poll of Enrolled Agents (Federally-Licensed Tax Practitioners) revealed many common misconceptions among taxpayers. At the top of the list were: "I had a really big loss in the stock market this year, so I won't owe any income taxes." Deduction of capital losses against ordinary income is limited to $3,000. Also incorrect: "I traded some stocks and have a loss/didn't make any money, so there's no need to report those sales." "They paid me in cash and I don't have to report that, right?" If it's income, you must report it. "I'm too young/too old ...

Dr. Renee Lewis, President and founder of Dr. Renee Lewis Communications, an online multimedia publishing company that promotes healthy communication, today announced the launch of ClaimTheImpossible.com--a weekly online videocast that shows you how to respond to everyday drama and daily conflict created by toxic talk, and promote healthy communication. Dr. Lewis is launching ClaimTheImpossible.com as a companion website to her new book, Dr. Renee Lewis's Claim the Impossible Survival Guide: What to Say & What to Do When Toxic Talk Makes Your Life Absolutely Impossible. ...

Designer Fitness, owned by Darla O'Brien, recently completed an extensive rebranding project. The outcomes include an updated website (www.designerfitness.com), new graphic images, the "Darla says..." blog, and an e-newsletter. The rebranding project introduces the launch of the ME System, a unique approach to engaging mind and body to achieve extraordinary balance and fitness that was created by O'Brien based on over 25 years' experience in personal fitness training. It provides an individual and dynamic plan for each client, based on his or her unique physical condition ...

Old faithful has paid out once again. A Slotland.com player won the $145,864 progressive jackpot at the long-popular slots and video poker site playing the Lucky Ducts online slot machine. "I couldn't decide which game to play. They've got so many now," said the jackpot winner known as CHACHANG on the site. "I was switching from old favourites like Lucky Stars and Golden 8 and trying out some of the newer games too. I was switching around a bit until I ended up playing Lucky Ducts. It just seemed hot. It wasn't my favourite game - not until now anyway - but it was a ...

The online marketing agency has come top each time in the evaluation process used by Topseos.sg to specifically identify SEO Companies in Singapore that excel in their performance and output. The in-depth assessment by the independent authority on search vendors looks at how each firm works and is able to achieve its objectives. Ken Mcewan, director of MediaCo Marketing in Singapore, said: "We are proud to provide the level of service that gains this recognition from Topseos.sg. "It is a great honor to come top out of all SEO companies in Singapore during each ...

A person arrested for DUI in Pennsylvania often faces an uncertain future because a Pennsylvania DUI is a serious charge that can have a long-term negative impact on your reputation, current employment and future career aspirations. Even a first-time DUI conviction in Pennsylvania can result in serious penalties that increase in severity based on the degree of impairment (i.e. breath alcohol concentration level) including jail time, substantial fines, loss of driving privileges, DUI school, probation and other penalties. However, some first-time DUI offenders in Pennsylvania ...

Hollywoodsportsbook.com, (www.hollywoodsportsbook.com) a leading online entertainment gaming site since 1997, today announced that it has chosen Two and Half Men TV show star and self proclaimed "Warlock" Charlie Sheen as its latest "Gambler of the Week." Robert Evans, Hollywood's Director of Operations says, "Wow! Now we know the truth about this guy. He is admittedly not human and therefore his actions according to Mr. Sheen, 'cannot be processed by a normal brain' and therefore must be normal rules of conduct in his otherworldly realm. I get it. "Now we chose ...

Bruegger's Enterprises, Inc. (BEI) announced today continued sales growth during the fourth quarter ending December 28, 2010. The 437-unit restaurant operator recognized sales of $63.2 million, a 3.6 percent increase over the fourth quarter of 2009. Total system sales for the year were $254.5 million, a 2.8% increase over 2009. Bruegger's namesake brand added 16 franchise, corporate and co-branded bakeries during the past year. Same store sales were up by 4.3 percent on company units and 3.1 percent system-wide for the 4th quarter. Bruegger's expects continued growth ...

The EZ-Wall System, created by the thin brick installation experts from American Brick Company (Ambrico) has become even easier to master, thanks to the company's recently developed training materials created exclusively for its customers. Outlining the specific steps and materials required for installation, the E-Z Wall System installation manual makes it easy to complete a thin brick installation on time and within budget. Headquartered in Warren,MI the Ambrico showroom and manufacturing plant has been a popular favorite for contractors and builders throughout the ...

It took years for the market to recover but recover it did. Scarred but intact the banking community tightened its internal regulations and the French Government established legislation to protect the purchaser from over indebtedness holding the banks responsible. The result is that while the rest of the world chose the easy money route into sub prime lending, the French banks maintained their control over the French lending market. The result is a relatively stable property based economy, with little devaluation at the lower and middle market price levels for properties ...

PHILADELPHIA — An interdisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has, for the first time, identified the neurological and cellular signaling mechanisms that contribute to satiety — the sensation of feeling full — and the subsequent body-weight loss produced by drugs used to treat type 2 diabetes. More comprehensive knowledge of these mechanisms could form the basis for anti-obesity medications. The group was led by Matthew Hayes of the School of Medicine's Psychiatry Department, Harvey Grill of the Psychology Department in the School of Arts ...

With the steep decline in populations of many animal species, scientists have warned that Earth is on the brink of a mass extinction like those that have occurred just five times during the past 540 million years. Each of these "Big Five" saw three-quarters or more of all animal species go extinct. In results of a study published in this week's issue of journal Nature, researchers report on an assessment of where mammals and other species stand today in terms of possible extinction compared with the past 540 million years. They find cause for hope--and alarm. "If ...

ATLANTA -- An enzyme viewed as an executioner, because it can push cells to commit suicide, may actually short circuit a second form of cell death, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have discovered. The finding could shift drug discovery efforts, by leading scientists to rethink how proposed anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory drugs that target the enzyme, called caspase 8, are supposed to work. The results are described in this week's Nature. Caspase 8 has been described as "the killer you can't live without." This enzyme plays a key role in apoptosis, ...

Sea-ice algae – the important first rung of the food web each spring in places like the Arctic Ocean – can engineer ice to its advantage, according to the first published findings about this ability. The same gel-like mucus secreted by sea-ice algae as a kind of antifreeze against temperatures well below minus 10 C is also allowing algae to sculpt microscopic channels and pores in ice that are hospitable to itself and other microorganisms. Altering ice to their benefit should help sea-ice algae adapt to a warming world, which is good news for hungry fish and shellfish ...

Fraser Yachts is pleased to announce the following charters available for Mediterranean yacht charter and Caribbean yacht charter for 2011/12. M/Y Pamela V yacht is a luxurious 45.9m Hakvoort built yacht, available for yacht charter in the Bahamas and the British Virgin Islands. During the high season, it will be available for $235,000 per week and in the low season will go down to $220,000. Currently located in the Caribbean, this luxury yacht is due to be completed later this year. With the ability to sleep 8 guests in 4 staterooms, and 10 crew members, you can expect ...

Researchers have synthesized the vast literature on cancer to produce a next-generation view of the features that are shared amongst all cancer cells. These hallmarks of the disease provide a comprehensive and cohesive foundation for the field that will influence biomedical researchers in their quest for new cancer treatments. The review article by Douglas Hanahan of École Polytechnique Fédérale in Switzerland and Robert Weinberg of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research appears in the March 4th issue of Cell, a Cell Press publication. The new article updates ...

Low physical activity increases kidney transplant patients' likelihood of dying early, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society Nephrology (CJASN). The results suggest that patients need to exercise to fend off an early death. Inactive people in general face increased risks of developing cardiovascular disease and of dying prematurely. Individuals with chronic kidney disease—particularly those on dialysis—tend to get little exercise, but most increase their activity levels modestly after receiving a kidney transplant. ...

Evidence for a diversified sea-based economy among North American inhabitants dating from 12,200 to 11,400 years ago is emerging from three sites on California's Channel Islands. Reporting in the March 4 issue of Science, a 15-member team led by University of Oregon and Smithsonian Institution scholars describes the discovery of scores of stemmed projectile points and crescents dating to that time period. The artifacts are associated with the remains of shellfish, seals, geese, cormorants and fish. Funded primarily by grants from the National Science Foundation, the ...

Old Westbury, New York (Mar. 3, 2011) – Fossil records verify a long-standing theory that horses evolved through natural selection, according to groundbreaking research by two anatomy professors at New York College of Osteopathic Medicine (NYCOM) of New York Institute of Technology. Working with colleagues from Massachusetts and Spain, Matthew Mihlbachler, Ph.D., and Nikos Solounias, Ph.D. arrived at the conclusion after examining the teeth of 6,500 fossil horses representing 222 different populations of more than 70 extinct horse species. The records, spanning the past ...

Optics researchers from the Universities of Glasgow and Bristol have developed an iPad application for accurate, easy and intuitive use of optical tweezers. Optical tweezers, used to manipulate tiny particles through the use of highly focused laser beams, are the tool at the heart of much molecular biology – helping us to experiment with and better understand the microscopic processes of organisms. Research published today, Friday 4 March 2011, in IOP Publishing's Journal of Optics, shows how a team of researchers has overcome the limitations of computer mouse and ...

Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered that PARIS — the protein — facilitates the most common form of Parkinson's disease (PD), which affects about 1 million older Americans. The findings of their study, published March 4 in Cell, could lead to important new targets for treatment. Previous research has shown that a protein dubbed parkin protects brain cells by "tagging" certain toxic elements for natural destruction. Mutations in the parkin gene cause rare forms of PD that run in families, but its role remained unclear in sporadic late-onset PD, the prevalence of which ...

Star-shaped cells in our brains called astrocytes were once considered little more than structures to fill the gaps between all-important neurons. But more recent evidence has emerged to reveal that those astrocytes play more than a supporting role; they are involved in information processing and signal transmission and they help to regulate the shapes of our neurons and their connections to one another. Now, researchers reporting in the March 4th Cell, a Cell Press publication, have found that astrocytes are also essential for making long-term memories. When they don't ...

Scientists have performed a micro-probe analysis of the core and outer layers of a pea-sized piece of a meteorite some 4.57 billion years old to reconstruct the history of its formation, providing the first evidence that dust particles like this one experienced wildly varying environments during the planet-forming years of our solar system. The researchers interpret these findings as evidence that dust grains traveled over large distances as the swirling protoplanetary nebula condensed into planets. The single dust grain they studied appears to have formed in the hot ...

If you tend to have trouble picking up the latest dance moves or learning to play a new piano piece, there might be an explanation. A new study published online on March 3rd in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, shows that people who are fast to learn a simple sequence of finger motions are also those whose brains show large changes in a particular chemical messenger following electrical stimulation. That chemical messenger, known as GABA, is important for the plasticity of the motor cortex, a brain region involved in planning, control, and execution of voluntary ...

A new study finds that a brain rhythm considered the hallmark of wakefulness not only persists inconspicuously during sleep but also signifies an individual's vulnerability to disturbance by the outside world. In their report in the March 3 PLoS One, the team from the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Division of Sleep Medicine uses computerized EEG signal processing to detect subtle fluctuations in the alpha rhythm during sleep and shows that greater alpha intensity is associated with increased sleep fragility. The findings could lead to more precise approaches to ...