IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement:
Channels are the basic building blocks of IFTTT. Each Channel has its own Triggers and Actions. Some example Channels are:
IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement:
Channels are the basic building blocks of IFTTT. Each Channel has its own Triggers and Actions. Some example Channels are:
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This free webinar explains federal tax rules of interest to churches and religious organizations. Watch this webinar to learn:
• When it comes to taxes, what is a "church?"
• What is a "religious organization?"
• How do you apply for tax exempt status?
• How to stay exempt: Do's and don'ts
• Special rules for compensation of ministers
• Recordkeeping and filing
• Rules limiting an IRS audit of a church
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The Internal Revenue Service today announced important interim changes to strengthen its procedures for issuing Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) from now through the end of the year. Designed specifically for tax-administration purposes, ITINs are only issued to people who are not eligible to obtain a Social Security Number.
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Here from The Next Web's Android editor is a list of ten indispensable Android apps geared towards helping you spend less time dawdling and more time doing. In no particular order or preference...
As an exciting accompaniment to the live webcast, NYSBA Secretary David P. Miranda will be tweeting live from the House meeting. If you wish to follow NYSBA's live tweets go www.twitter.com/nysba and follow NYSBA. You will need to register for a Twitter account if you do not already have one. To be part of the conversation use the hashtag #JuneHOD (hashtags serve to keep all tweets about a specific topic together as one thread). Remember to mention @NYSBA as you retweet and discuss this event!
Included in the webcast will be the installation of Seymour W. James, Jr. as President and the presentation of the Root/Stimson Award.
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There are a lot of details in Verizon's new Share Everything data, voice and text sharing plans, some of which are mentioned in footnotes on Verizon's Web site (pdf format).
Here, Computerworld attempts to explain it for you.
What's new? In simple terms, Verizon will launch on June 28 Share Everything Plans that share unlimited voice and texting across all the devices on a customer's account. Data will also be shared for up to 10 of those devices, including smartphones and tablets.
Verizon will charge a monthly line access charge per device, ranging from $10 for a tablet to $40 for a smartphone. Basic cell phones will be $30 a month, while Wi-Fi access devices, netbooks and notebooks will be $20 a month.
On top of that, data service will be charged at a rate starting at $50 for 1 GB per month, which can be shared across 10 devices. The rates go up as follows: 2GB for $60; 4 GB for $70; 6 GB for $80; 8 GB for $90 and 10 GB for $100. There is an overage charge of $15 for each 1 GB of data service.
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An Update On Taking Steps To Protect Our Members
Vicente Silveira, June 9, 2012
http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/09/an-update-on-taking-steps-to-protect-our-members/
Taking Steps To Protect Our Members
Vicente Silveira, June 7, 2012
http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/07/taking-steps-to-protect-our-members/
Sincerely,
Connie Schin
Marketing Manager
NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
One Elk Street, Albany, NY 12207
518.487.5687 Phone
518.487.5758 Fax
cschin@nysba.org
...Formal Opinion No. 743, issued by the New York County Lawyers' Association Committee on Professional Ethics, which addressed the issue of how lawyers can ethically use social media for juror research during trials. The committee concluded that pursuant to RPA 3.5 it is ethically permissible for attorneys to conduct research and follow jurors' social media interactions only if the jurors are unaware of the monitoring.
More recently, the New York City Bar Association's Committee on Professional Ethics addressed a similar issue in Formal Opinion 2012. The specific issue addressed was: "What ethical restrictions, if any, apply to an attorney's use of social media websites to research potential or sitting jurors?"
The committee reached the same conclusion as the New York County Ethics Committee and concluded that lawyers can use social media to research jurors, so long as the jurors remain unaware that the research is occurring.
The committee explained that it was important to ensure that a juror did not learn of of the attorney's actions, whether in the form of a notification from the social media site or otherwise. If the attorney knew a juror would be aware of the monitoring, then it would be unethical to conduct the research on that particular site. Furthermore, even if the attorney was unaware that a notification would be sent, if the juror subsequently learned of the monitoring, then it could still qualify as a prohibited communication in violation of RPE 3.5.
The Defense of Marriage Act's denial of equal benefits to same-sex couples violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment, Southern District Judge Barbara Jones (See Profile) ruled yesterday.
Becoming the fourth Article 3 judge to find Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) violates the U.S. Constitution, Judge Jones granted summary judgment to Edith Windsor, who sued the government for failing to recognize her marriage to her partner Thea Spyer, after Spyer's death in 2009. Windsor and Spyer were married in Canada in 2007.
Spyer left all of her property to Windsor, including the apartment they shared. Spyer's estate normally would have passed to her spouse without any estate tax. But DOMA prevents recognition of same-sex marriages and Windsor was assessed more than $363,000 in federal estate taxes.Henney Kilowatt (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In 1959, the Henney Motor Company factory in Canastota was contracted to work on an electric car project with the National Union Electric Corporation, the Eureka Williams Corporation, the Exide Battery Corporation and a number of utility companies.
The car, which was called the Henney Kilowatt, would be produced by a combination of the companies and be used by utility companies to show the viability of the electric car. The company chose to use a Renault Dauphine chassis, which was supplied without a drive train. The Canastota facility then assembled the vehicle; batteries were supplied by the Eureka Williams Company.
http://www.appsense.com/labs/data-locker
Personal cloud services are growing rapidly and they can be quite useful. However, they open up various security concerns and people can be a bit wary of using them. The DataLocker suite of products is free, and it can encrypt and store secure files in any local file system or cloud storage system, including Dropbox. First-time visitors can check out a tutorial on this website to decide whether they wish to download the application. This version is compatible with all operating systems.
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• Individuals with foreign accounts
• Foreign financial institutions registration, reporting and withholding requirements
• Non-Financial Foreign Entities
• Tax and compliance professionals interested in the implementation and requirements of FATCA
Meanwhile, Android users were left waiting in the wings, with no compatible version of the app available for their devices. Tomorrow that changes, as Fastcase will release an Android version of its legal research app. Like its iPhone counterpart, the Android version will be free to download and free to use.
Here again are the bendable, back-of-the-head earbuds. Here again are the big, finger-friendly volume and play/pause buttons at the nape of your neck. The Arriva Leo, as it's called, however, doesn't need an iPod Shuffle. Instead, it has Bluetooth. So it plays the music from an iPhone, iPod Touch, Android phone, BlackBerry, iPad, laptop or anything else with Bluetooth.
The idea now is that you can keep the phone in your pocket while you run or work out. It transmits your music to the earbuds on this comfortable, nearly weightless headband while you work, jog or run.
Specs: