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Democracy is an experiment sustained through debate; rights are a privilege earned through participation. Michael Hartoonian introduces The Idea of America.

Code names, dead drops, invisible ink, and secret ciphers were all part of the American Revolution. Historian Taylor Stoermer introduces Benjamin Tallmadge, George Washington’s chief intelligence officer.

Painters and Paintings of the Early American South is a new exhibit focusing on the interrelatedness of Southern artists and subjects. See it at the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg.

Would Benedict Arnold be remembered as a hero if he had picked the winning side? Interpreter Scott Green shares the rise and demise of a brilliant strategist.

When people from various regions of Africa were forcefully transported to the colonies, they brought nothing with them but the clothes on their backs and the beliefs of their hearts. This latter possession varied widely by region and tradition, but was to each a fundamental part of daily life. Historian Harvey Bakari describes the African […]

The 2014 Early Music Festival promises to be a lively one. With instruments, scores, and performances of an 18th-century vintage, you’ll be surrounded by the sounds of another century. Enjoy this musical preview featuring Jane Hanson and Michael Monaco from the opera “Thomas and Sally.”

African American history is weighted with tragedy, but bringing the fullness of life to the stories of enslaved individuals is the mission of the African American History Program under the direction of Stephen Seals.

Stephen Seals joins to discuss some of the powerful African American programming available during Black History Month and beyond in 2016. Hear some of his favorites and why it’s so important to tell the stories of half of the population of Williamsburg in the 18th century.

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Goal is getting Pfizer-owned land in New Jersey back into use

Goal is getting Pfizer-owned land in New Jersey back into use

Combining vibrational circular dichroism and infrared spectroscopy yields real-time probe of asymmetric catalytic reactions

Iron from hemoglobin initiates radical reaction

CCH's Highlights of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is a convenient vehicle for alerting clients to the new tax provisions provided under this economic stimulus bill. For individuals, this legislation includes a Making Work Pay Credit based on earned income, with a $250 economic stimulus payment to Social Security recipients and disabled veterans; an AMT patch for 2009; extension of the first-time homebuyer credit to September 1, 2009, with the repayment obligation eliminated for 2009 purchases; a $3,000 floor on the refundable Child Tax Credit; a $2,500 American Opportunity Tax Credit that is 40 percent refundable; suspension of income tax on up to $2,400 of unemployment benefits for 2009; expansion of eligible expenses for 529 plans to include computers and related technology; an above-the-line deduction for taxes related to the purchase of a new automobile; an increase in the credit for nonbusiness energy property from $500 to $1,500 and a modification of standards;  removal of the dollar limits on the credit for residential energy efficient property for fuel cell property; an increase in the credit for alternative fuel vehicle refueling property; and a general re-write of the plug-in electric drive motor vehicle credit, including elimination of dollar caps, a new credit for two or three wheel and low-speed plug-in vehicles, and allowing a credit for conversion kits.

On the business side, provisions include extending bonus depreciation and increased 179 expensing through 2009; up to five-year carryback of net operating losses; expansion of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit to cover unemployed veterans and disconnected youth; deferral of cancellation of indebtedness income; an increased exclusion amount for commuter transit benefits and transit passes; an increase in the capital gain exclusion percentage for qualified small business stock; and reduction to seven years for the S Corporation built-in gain holding period. The legislation also includes a number of new or enhanced bond provisions aimed at economic recovery and alternative energy.

CCH's Highlights booklet is ideal for informing clients, prospects and staff about the key new tax changes and prompting them to turn to their tax and financial advisers for help.  It's authoritative, yet practical and easy-to-understand.  Affordable quantity discounts and the option of printing firm name and logo on the cover make the CCH Highlights booklet a great tool for firms to grow their businesses.

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CCH's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- Law, Explanation and Analysis provides thorough and complete text of added, amended, or repealed Code sections with controlling committee reports and CCH's explanation and analysis of tax provisions contained in the legislation. CCH editorial staff, along with leading practitioners, provide clear and practical guidance of the impact of the law's changes, including how various taxpayer groups and situations are affected.

The law is arranged in Code section sequence with italicized type used for all new language that amends previous Code sections. CCH also provides several special tables and lists to facilitate quick and thorough understanding of the new law and how it affects taxpayers. Features include an effective dates table organized by Code section, a listing by Code section of the Act sections affecting it, and a listing by Act section of the Code sections affected.

CCH's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 -- Law, Explanation and Analysis is THE resource that tax professionals, businesses, government staff and students alike need to get all the details of and help on new tax legislation changes. CCH provides the critical, late-breaking explanation and analysis to help readers make sense of complex legislative change so they can plan, respond and advise with confidence.

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In Kess on Tax Legislation 2009: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 CPE Course, noted tax experts Sidney Kess, J.D., CPA, and Barbara Weltman, J.D., take a straightforward and practical look at 2009 tax legislation and related developments. This text-based Course offers tax professionals helpful guidance on the new law, including planning opportunities, pitfalls to beware of, and ways practitioners can capitalize on the law with their clients. Helpful Practice Development Tips, Planning Pointers and Observations designed to assist users in understanding and applying the new law are peppered throughout. The Course comes complete with learning objectives, study problems and a final exam for use in earning valuable continuing education credits. The course will be divided into six chapters:

1. Changes for Individuals
2. Housing
3. Education and Health
4. Retirement Savings
5. Changes for Business
6. Miscellaneous
7. Changes

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In Kess on Tax Legislation 2009: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 CPE Course, noted tax experts Sidney Kess, J.D., CPA, and Barbara Weltman, J.D., take a straightforward and practical look at 2009 tax legislation. This text-based Course offers tax professionals helpful guidance on the new law, including planning opportunities, pitfalls to beware of, and ways practitioners can capitalize on the law with their clients. Helpful Practice Development Tips, Planning Pointers and Observations designed to assist users in understanding and applying the new law are peppered throughout. The Course comes complete with learning objectives, study problems and a final exam for use in earning valuable continuing education credits. The course will be divided into six chapters:

1. Changes for Individuals
2. Housing
3. Education and Health
4. Retirement Savings
5. Changes for Business
6. Miscellaneous Changes

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Provides tax professionals with a single integrated reference source covering all aspects of this important legislation. Along with the impacted Internal Revenue Code provisions, CCH editors, together with leading tax practitioners and commentators, have created a complete practical analysis.

The law is arranged in Code section sequence. CCH also provides several special tables and lists to facilitate quick and thorough understanding of the law and how it would affect taxpayers. Features include an effective dates table organized by Code section, a listing by Code section of the Act sections affecting it, and a listing by Act section of the Code sections affected.

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Our cultural values are making us sad: money, mortality, and fear of missing out.

In a video chat last night, a friend admitted, “I’ve been crying a lot, and I’m not sure why.” COVID-19 has given us many reasons to weep. We’re out of our routines, the stock market has plunged, and we imagine millions dying. This virus and economic crisis punch us squarely where our spiritual armor is weakest: mortality, money, and our fear of missing out.

In 2 Corinthians 7, Paul distinguishes between two kinds of sorrow—a sorrow that “leads to death,” and a “godly sorrow.” The latter “brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret” (v. 10). Godly sorrow, he writes, produces “earnestness,” eagerness to repent, and a “longing” and “readiness to see justice done” (v. 11). The question the church faces now is which kind of sorrow COVID-19 will bring.

We are in the midst of the most widespread societal upheaval that many people alive today have ever experienced. Already our institutions, habits, relationships, and culture are shifting before our eyes. Frank M. Snowden, author of Epidemics and Society, shared with the New Yorker, “Epidemics are a category of disease that seem to hold up the mirror to human beings as to who we really are.” The question we are facing is not whether we will experience sorrow and change; the question is how. As biblical prophets walked with people through catastrophes, their advice was never to just endure until it ends. Instead they focused on proactively changing relationships with each other and with God.

As a cultural anthropologist who grew up in a middle-class white United States home and then lived for much of my adult life in Nicaragua, China, and South Africa, ...

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