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Cele Green Mo

meet new peeps, save dough, help the earth.

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http://www.zimride.com/

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Tips for You Caped Crusaders when Uncle Sam come a knockin'

NINE TAX DEDUCTIONS OF THE SUPERHERO SET.

BY MATTHEW DAVID BROZIK

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1.   Ward care expenses A taxpayer with a child who qualifies as a dependent can deduct from adjusted gross income monies paid to a child care provider. If you are a lone crusader, then this deduction is not available to you—but if you have a sidekick, then consider making him or her your legal ward. (This is not quite as easily done as said, however. A ward, legally speaking, must be (1) a minor (2) without parents. Therefore, if you are looking to take this deduction in a future year, when you select your next sidekick choose someone very young and completely orphaned to maximize the benefit.) The expenses deductible will be those for professional services rendered—before- and after-school care and day camps, for instance. (Not deductible are the costs associated with sleep-away camps or ransom monies paid to a nemesis to secure a hostage sidekick’s release, no matter how well your dependent is treated in your archenemy’s lair.)   2.   Medical expenses Unless you are indestructible/immune to all harm… or else the kind of absurdly wealthy superhero who has a live-in physician (or personal gentleman with field medical training) on staff—or you, yourself, are styled Doctor [Something]—you probably spend no small amount of time in hospitals, or at least at ambulatory clinics, getting stitches and tetanus shots and generally being put back together and readied to return to the streets. Save your receipts. Your medical—and dental—expenses are deductible, though only in the amount by which your total expenses for the year exceeds 7.5 percent of your AGI. Still, that’s nothing to sneeze at, even if you are the kind of superhero who doesn’t ever sneeze because you are invulnerable to germs.   3.   Hero-mobile excise taxes If you itemize your deductions, you may deduct the complete amount of motor vehicle excise taxes that you pay on your primary mode of heroic transportation—be it your Ka-POWmobile, your VengeanCycle, or your Superla-boat.   4.   Mortgage interest Different kinds of interest are treated differently. Personal interest, such as that paid on car loans or credit cards, is not deductible. But mortgage interest on loans up to $1.1 million typically is deductible—whether that mortgage is on your Ka-POWmobile home, your VengeanCondo, or your Superla-bode.   5.   IRA contributions An individual retirement arrangement is possibly the single most important element of your financial plan. Income from the interest, dividends, and capital gains will compound each year without being reduced by taxes. In addition, depending on your plan, you also avoid taxes on either the money you contribute initially or the money you withdraw after hanging up your costume. To put this into familiar terms: Imagine that you discovered, say, five thousand power crystals on an alien battleworld, and on your way back home the infamous Avuncular Samurai tried to get his notoriously greedy clutches on some of them before you could secrete them in an impenetrable vault at your HQ. An IRA is the cloaking device that will hide those power crystals from Avuncular Samurai’s sight.   6.   Energy-efficient renovations to your base of operations You will not be able to take this deduction if you work out of a natural, cavernous, subterranean chamber… or if you commute to Earth from Mars, for example… but if your headquarters is instead an urban loft, a seemingly abandoned rural warehouse, or even an Arctic Stronghold of (Voluntary) Estrangement, then you can receive a $1,500 credit for qualifying improvements—added insulation, energy-efficient (but, presumably, still tinted and bulletproof) exterior windows, and HVAC upgrades.   7.   Alimony Alimony is tax-deductible in the year when it is actually paid. That means that if you were too busy last year battling giant robot ants or miniature robot dinosaurs to make your alimony payments on time, but you caught up on back alimony this year, you can deduct it all now. (The alimony recipient’s Social Security number must be listed on your return in order for you to qualify for the adjustment, which means your nemesis could discover the identity of your ex-spouse. But that could be a good thing.)   8.   Deductions for the self-employed As a vigilante working for yourself, you are able to deduct one half of your self-employment taxes and your health insurance premiums from your adjusted gross income. Also, the costs of uniforms (e.g., Tuna-suit), communications devices (Tuna-phone), and computer equipment (Tun-a-tron) are deductible as legitimate business expenses for the self-employed.   9.   Charitable contributions This last one can be tricky. On one hand, everything you do as a superhero (thwarting the nefarious designs of megalomaniacal misanthropes, repelling extraterrestrial invasions, and rescuing cats from really tall trees) can—and probably should—be considered charitable. On the other hand, that is your job. So you will probably get a tax deduction only for actual monetary gifts made to qualified charities and certain private foundations. What you might want to do, therefore—though you did not read it here—is create your own private foundation (in the name of your civilian alter ego, of course) so that the money never actually leaves your hands, even when your gauntlets come off. (Because that’s where the money will do the most good, after all.)

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Desert Ain't No Thang

http://www.torontosun.com/2012/04/11/turkmenistan-leader-set-on-ice-hockey-glory

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fuzz

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Who? Me. Zumbie.

A mixtape by Zigby Pop and Zeshando Lopez put together in August 2011.

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TOC Info

Number of Tracks: 23

Disc Duration: 75:53:19

UPC/EAN Code: none

Track Start Name Length Pause

1 00:02:00 Cores 03:25:16 00:02:00

2 03:27:16 Plastic People 06:01:58 00:00:00

3 09:28:74 Some of These Days 03:54:05 00:00:00

4 13:23:04 Suits Are Picking Up The Bill 03:02:10 00:00:00

5 16:31:66 Bring It On Home To Me 02:36:01 00:06:52

6 19:07:66 East Harlem 03:48:67 00:00:00

7 23:00:09 85 West End Blues 00:28:73 00:03:26

8 23:29:07 Tashweesh (Interference) 03:13:63 00:00:00

9 26:42:70 Les Trois Valses Du Precieux Degoute_ II. Son Binocle 00:52:07 00:00:00

10 27:35:02 Lullaby 04:03:65 00:00:00

11 31:38:67 The Dive 04:04:53 00:00:00

12 35:43:52 Runaway 02:17:28 00:00:08

13 38:02:09 The Hanging 04:43:63 00:01:04

14 42:46:72 Anti-Matter Ft. Mf Doom and Mr 03:23:37 00:01:00

15 46:10:35 1976 02:21:58 00:00:00

16 48:32:17 Frankie Vallie & The Four Seasons - BEGGING 04:52:22 00:00:00

17 53:24:40 Trois Études De Concert, No. 3, Un Sospiro 00:24:63 00:00:00

18 53:49:28 Who Me:Start of Something 03:55:36 00:00:00

19 57:44:64 Do the Astral Plane 04:17:34 00:00:00

20 62:02:23 Finally Moving 04:35:73 00:00:00

21 66:51:01 This Charming Man 02:43:20 00:12:55

22 69:34:41 This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) 04:43:13 00:00:20

23 74:17:55 Who Me_All We Ask 01:35:39 00:00:00

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Favorite Fab Four Tunes Right Meow

The Beatles

1. Wild Honey Pie

2. Martha My Dear

3. Mother Nature's Son

4. For No One

5. I Will

6. I Saw Her Standing There

7. Your Mother Should Know

8. Rocky Racoon

By Zigby

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EL GUINCHO | Bombay by MGdM | Marc Gómez del Moral

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July 2011 - Summa Co. Coma

July 2011 Playlist

1. White Town - Your Woman

2. Belle & Sebastian - Your Cover's Blown

3. The Walkmen - Revenge Wears No Wristwatch

4. The Rolling Stones - Mother Little Helper

5. Sun Ra - Tiny Pyramids

6. Mando Diao - Laurens Cathedral

Zigby

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June 2011 - Jambalaya Juice

June 2011 Playlist (2)

1. foster the people - pumped up kids

2. youth lagoon - cannon 

3. greg hale jones - boll weevil 

4. simon and garfunkel - feuilles-o

Xiao-Chieh

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June 2011 - June Junk in Ya Funk

June 2011 Playlist

1. King Geedorah - Anti-Matter Ft. MF Doom and Mr Fantastik

2. Brian Jones Town Massacre - Tempo 116.7 (clean acid/dirty beats)

3. LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yourself Clean

4. Abdullah Ibrahim - Gwidza

5. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Must Must

6. RJD2 - 1976

7. Os Mutantes - Le Premier Bonhuer Du Jour

8. Nujabes - Feather

Zigby

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MAY 2011 - Mustard Mayhem

May 2011 Playlist

1. Tennis - Marathon

2. Apparat - Arcadia

3. Amadou et Mariam - Artistiya

4. Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

5. The Lounge Lizards - The Hanging

6. Squirrel Nut Zippers - Put A Lid On It

7. Binary Star - Honest Expression

8. Del Shannon - Runaway

Zigby

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Wicked.

http://www.beck.com/recordclub

"Record Club is an informal meeting of various musicians to record an album in a day. The album chosen to be reinterpreted is used as a framework. Nothing is rehearsed or arranged ahead of time. A track is put up here once a week. The songs are rough renditions, often first takes that document what happened over the course of a day as opposed to a polished rendering. There is no intention to 'add to' the original work to attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play and document what happens." Taken from record club website.

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Werner Herzog Reads Where's Waldo.

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Inside Out.

http://www.insideoutproject.net/

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Motion.

http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Jacques-Henri-Lartigue.html

"I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so."  Jacques-Henri Lartigue

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Relationships (pt1)

This Is Just to Say

William Carlos Williams

I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox

and which you were probably saving for breakfast

Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

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Relationships (pt2)

This Is Just to Say

Erica-Lynn Gambino

(for William Carlos Williams) I have just asked you to get out of my apartment even though you never thought I would Forgive me you were driving me insane