7 Christmas Gift Bargains With Last Minute Tax Breaks

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• 7 Christmas Gift Bargains With Last Minute Tax Breaks
• Malaysia takes in shipwrecked Myanmar migrants refused by Singapore
• Venezuela's Chavez 'stable' after infection
• Several killed in Mexico attempted jailbreak
• VIDEO: 'There is no life without your parents'
• Another polio worker shot in Pakistan, six killed in attacks
• Another polio worker shot in Pakistan, six killed in attacks
• Huge crowds vote in SKorean presidential election
• Iterative Agility For Startup: Launch Fast, Learn Faster, Repeat
• Instagram Competitor Starmatic Uploaded Nearly Double The Photos Today As They Did In the Prior 3 Months
• Climate change and economics
• AP Interview: Syria rebels fear chemical weapons
• Panetta orders probe of military day care centers
• The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails
• Shipping looks to clean up its act
• Urban farming looking up
• Clinton accepts Benghazi findings
• Insight: Once a symbol of new Afghanistan, can policewomen survive?
• VIDEO: Crocodile's flying leap at swimmer
• Insight: Once a symbol of new Afghanistan, can policewomen survive?

7 Christmas Gift Bargains With Last Minute Tax Breaks Posted: 18 Dec 2012 02:59 PM PST Don't have an estate plan? You should. Want a band aid to grab some of the expiring $5M allowance? If it's any comfort, you're not alone. The $5M tax-free gift and estate tax deal has been around since December 2010, but two long years passed with amazingly few acting on [...]

Malaysia takes in shipwrecked Myanmar migrants refused by Singapore Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:39 PM PST KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian authorities have allowed 40 migrants from Myanmar into the country two weeks after their vessel sank in the Bay of Bengal, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday.

Venezuela's Chavez 'stable' after infection Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:30 PM PST Against the backdrop of the president's illness, many Venezuelans are talking about a looming transition of power.

Several killed in Mexico attempted jailbreak Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:51 PM PST Eleven prisoners and six guards killed during attempted prison break in norther city of Gomez Palacio.

VIDEO: 'There is no life without your parents' Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:32 PM PST Nearly a decade of war and sectarian violence has left Iraq with many orphans and little infrastructure to care for them.

Another polio worker shot in Pakistan, six killed in attacks Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:06 PM PST PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Another polio worker was shot and badly injured in Pakistan on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks that left 6 female health workers dead in 24 hours. The shooting in the northern city of Peshawar so soon after the other killings calls into question whether the U.N.-backed campaign to eradicate polio in Pakistan can continue. It's unclear who is behind the killings. The Taliban have repeatedly issued threats against the polio eradication campaign and health workers said they received calls telling them to stop working with the "infidels". ...

Another polio worker shot in Pakistan, six killed in attacks Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:06 PM PST PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Another polio worker was shot and badly injured in Pakistan on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks that left 6 female health workers dead in 24 hours.

Huge crowds vote in SKorean presidential election Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:53 PM PST Huge crowds turned out Wednesday to vote in a tight presidential race pitting the son of North Korean refugees against the conservative daughter of a late dictator who both favor greater engagement with rival North Korea.

Iterative Agility For Startup: Launch Fast, Learn Faster, Repeat Posted: 18 Dec 2012 04:43 PM PST A startup is a live experiment. The startup founders are constantly testing a set of value proposition hypotheses in the marketplace. Feedback cues gathered help founders to make decisions - do nothing, scale, pivot, or abandon. Strategy creation is a continuous process, an open-ended process of strategic discovery, wrote a [...]

Instagram Competitor Starmatic Uploaded Nearly Double The Photos Today As They Did In the Prior 3 Months Posted: 18 Dec 2012 04:32 PM PST Instagram claims their change of Terms of Service meant nothing. Users seemed to disagree today. Instagram competitor Starmatic received nearly double the uploads today that they've had in the past 3 months.

Climate change and economics Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:13 PM PST This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

AP Interview: Syria rebels fear chemical weapons Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:35 PM PST Syrian rebels are closely monitoring the regime's chemical weapons sites, but don't have the means to seize and secure them, their newly elected military commander told The Associated Press.

Panetta orders probe of military day care centers Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:14 PM PST Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Tuesday ordered a worldwide review of hiring practices at all U.S. military day care centers after the Army revealed that it discovered problems with security background checks of workers at a Washington-area center.

The #1 Reason Leadership Development Fails Posted: 18 Dec 2012 04:20 PM PST Over the years, I've observed just about every type of leadership development program on the planet. And the sad thing is, most of them don't even come close to accomplishing what they were designed to do – build better leaders. In today's column I'll share the #1 reason leadership development [...]

Shipping looks to clean up its act Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:14 PM PST At nearly the length of four football pitches, the container ship Eugen Maersk takes some stopping when traveling at full speed -- around 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) before it can come to a complete halt.

Urban farming looking up Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:14 PM PST Less than 20 miles from Singapore's skyscrapers is a completely different set of high-rise towers.

Clinton accepts Benghazi findings Posted: 18 Dec 2012 09:18 PM PST US Secretary of State agrees that security arrangements were "grossly inadequate" during the September attack in Libya.

Insight: Once a symbol of new Afghanistan, can policewomen survive? Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:32 PM PST KABUL (Reuters) - Shortly after Friba joined the Afghan National Police, she gave herself the nickname "dragon" and vowed to bring law and order to her tormented homeland. Five years later, she is tired of rebuffing the sexual advances of male colleagues, worries the budget for the female force will shrink and fears the government will abandon them. Women in the police force were held up as a showcase for Afghan-Western efforts to promote rights in the new Afghanistan, born from the optimism that swept the country after the ouster of the Taliban in 2001. ...

VIDEO: Crocodile's flying leap at swimmer Posted: 18 Dec 2012 08:42 PM PST A man was caught on camera swimming in a national park in Australia when a crocodile lunged at him into the water from a rock. He appeared unharmed by the surprise encounter.

Insight: Once a symbol of new Afghanistan, can policewomen survive? Posted: 18 Dec 2012 10:10 PM PST KABUL (Reuters) - Shortly after Friba joined the Afghan National Police, she gave herself the nickname "dragon" and vowed to bring law and order to her tormented homeland.

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