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This game is so interesting, arcade mode was fun and just plain out hilarious. And the adventure mode was so entertaining, the drama, action, and even the romance was the best thing about the 3 stories. Ever since I quarantine started, I wanted something to entertain me, this game does not disappoint. I hope developers make new stories for both arcade and adventure mode, as I am currently finished with all stories, both arcade and adventure. The fact it took me 4 and a half days to finish is shocking because in these types of games, I usually get intrigued at the first day and forget about it the next. This game is very much different, you are just invented to each story, you just can't wait 20 minutes to continue (meaning I would have finished everything in 2 days when just focusing on this game), and most importantly, it feels like your in the story, your the main character. In other games you know it's just a game, and you know your controlling the character, but in this game you like the character, and you are just intrigued to everything. I hope some day the developers can give us more stories (again, in both arcade and adventure mode).
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This is definitely one of the most unique apps I've ever downloaded. Halfway through the first mission, I was literally laughing out loud. What sets this app apart from the rest is the creative writing and dialogue. I also love that you can fire off a few of the hilarious options and still complete the mission.
I tore through all the missions in one day. Like many others have said, it was also fun to go back and replay them making different decisions. Even played some a third time seeing how fast I could fail it :)
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Tax Planning for 2014
February 4, 2015 Ann Johanns
Contributed by Charles Brown, Farm Management Specialist, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, crbrown@iastate.edu, 641-673-5841
2014 has ended, but that doesn't mean that some things can't be done to increase or decrease taxable farm income. Again, late in the year Congress passed legislation that affected 2014 taxable income. Section 179 Expense Election and bonus depreciation were extended for 2014, but 2014 only. In 2015, the Section 179 Expense Election is back to $25,000 with phase-out starting at $200,000 of qualifying assets and bonus depreciation is gone.
For 2014, the Section 179 Expense Election is $500,000 with the phase-out starting at $2,000,000 of qualifying new or used asset purchases. Section 179 can generally be used on 15-year property or less, which would include farm drainage tile, single purpose ag buildings (confinement buildings), grain bins, machinery, breeding livestock and many farm pickups. You can choose any amount from $0 to $500,000 to be used as a fast write-off in the year of purchase of a single asset or multiple assets, but the aggregate total can't exceed $500,000. Section 179 can be used on the cash difference paid for the asset. Section 179 must be reduced dollar for dollar for every $1 spent on qualifying assets exceeding $2,000,000. Section 179 reduces both Federal and Iowa taxable income and can reduce business and wage income to $0, but not below $0.
Bonus depreciation can only be used on new, not previously used, asset purchases. Fifty percent of the cash purchase price plus the basis left on any trade-ins can be used in the first year of purchase to reduce Federal taxable income. Iowa does not allow bonus depreciation, so you may reduce your Federal income tax to $0, but could still get hit with a sizeable Iowa income tax. Unlike Section 179, bonus depreciation can create a net operating loss. Also there is no phase-out for the bonus depreciation.
You can use both Section 179 and bonus depreciation on the same asset, but must first use Section 179 and then use bonus on the remainder. For example; confinement building costing $1,000,000, the first year depreciation could be Section 179 of $500,000, bonus depreciation of $250,000 (50 percent of $1,000,000 – $500,000) plus $18,750 (7.5 percent x remaining $250,000) of MACRS depreciation. On the Federal income tax return the total depreciation would be $768,750.
What if you had purchased assets in 2014, but not knowing if and when Section 179 and bonus depreciation would be extended you had deferred some of your grain income to 2015 to keep your taxable income down for 2014? If you are a cash basis taxpayer and have deferred payment contracts, you can pull some or all of those contracts back into 2014 and declare the income for 2014 instead of 2015. It has to be a full contract, you can't pull back part of the income on a contract.
At this time, we don't know if Section 179 and/or bonus depreciation will be extended again for 2015, so if you have the capital purchases in 2014 to use the Section 179 and/or bonus, you may want to raise your income in 2014 to take advantage of the accelerated methods of depreciation.
Another option that can be applied after the end of the year is whether or not to expense fertilizer and lime costs or amortize them over a period of years. Expensing them at the time of purchase would decrease taxable income and amortizing them over a period of years would increase taxable income for 2014.
As always, visit with you tax preparer to see what your options are, even though 2014 has ended there are certain tax planning strategies that can still be applied.
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Tax Benefits of Employing Your Children
June 5, 2014 Ann Johanns
If you operate a business such as farming, employing your teenage children for the summer can not only provide them some spending money and provide them some responsibilities, but can also provide some income tax benefits to the parents.
Making your children employees and paying them wages changes the typical non-deductible "allowance" to a business deduction on the Schedule F. This reduces the federal, state and self-employment taxes the parent has to pay. As long as the child is under age 18 the parent is not required to withhold social security tax. The child's wages also will not be subject to federal unemployment taxes until the child reaches age 21. As long as the child's total income for 2014 doesn't exceed $6200 and their unearned income (investment income) doesn't exceed $350 they will owe no income tax on their income. If their investment income does exceed $350 and their total income exceeds $1000 then they will have to pay income tax on their investment income. Unearned income (investment income) consists of such things as interest, dividends and capital gains.
Let's look at an example of how this might work. Consider the parent who agrees to give his son or daughter a $5000 "allowance" for the summer based on the fact that they also agree to do some work around the farm. This could be running errands, doing chores, painting the barn, doing field work, etc. As an "allowance" the parent is out $5000 and has no tax deduction. Change this to an employer/employee relationship and the $5000 becomes a tax deductible wage expense. The tax savings will vary, but for someone who is in the 15% federal tax bracket the tax savings, including federal, self-employment tax, and state tax would be about $1700. So the net effect is that your child's labor really only cost you about $3300. Again the child would pay no income tax if this is the only income they have.
To adhere to the tax laws, the child should receive a W2 at the end to the year as any other employee would. The child should also be paid a wage that is complimentary to the work being done. Paying the 5 year old for doing field work may not pass the scrutiny of the IRS. Sole proprietors and husband-wife partnerships can pay their children, but corporations have no children, even though they may be children of the stockholders.
As an added benefit of the child now having earned income a contribution could be made to a Roth IRA. The maximum IRA contribution for 2014 is $5500, but can't exceed the earned income. The parent could make this contribution for the child, but the contribution would also count towards the $14,000 annual gift exclusion or $28,000 if both parents agree.
Contributions to a Roth IRA are not deductible, but all withdrawals after age 59 ½ are not taxable. Contributions of principal can be withdrawn at any time and up to $10,000 of earnings can be pulled out when purchasing your first home. If the child was 15 years old when the $5000 was invested, at 6% interest it would grow to about $80,000 by age 63 or $180,000 by age 75.
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Funeral and Burial Plans: Iowa Law Provides Who Gets to Decide
January 21, 2014 Ann Johanns
Contributed by: Melissa O'Rourke, ISU Extension Farm & Agribusiness Management Specialist, morourke@iastate.edu 712-737-4230
Estate of Mary Florence Whalen: Can a surviving spouse over-ride the written wishes of his deceased wife for funeral and burial plans?
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach provides educational programming related to estate planning – and the subject of substitute decision-making and end-of-life planning frequently arises. For this reason, a recent decision of the Iowa Supreme Court is worth review.
In 2008, the Iowa Legislature passed into law the Iowa Final Disposition Act which can be found in Chapter 144C of the Iowa Code. The legislature's enactment of this law followed some earlier court cases where survivors were fighting about where and how their deceased relative would be buried. The Iowa Final Disposition Act is a comprehensive set of rules that outlines who can make these decisions. This is the law that the Iowa Supreme Court applied in the recent case of the Estate of Mary Florence ("Flo") Whalen.
Flo and her husband Michael Whalen were native Iowans, but they moved to Billings, Montana in 1953 where they raised ten children. In 1996, Michael moved back to Anamosa, Iowa and Flo remained in Billings until 2004 when she moved to New Mexico to live near an adult daughter. Flo and Michael never legally separated or divorced. In December 2011, Flo traveled to Iowa for a visit, and became so ill that she could not travel. Flo moved in with Michael and stayed there until her death on June 9, 2012.
Flo had devoted significant thought and planning related to the end of her life and where she wished to be buried. While living in New Mexico, Flo executed a 2009 will that included a specific provision directing her burial in a cemetery in Billings where she had purchased a lot. Two months before her death, Flo wrote a detailed letter that was sent to all ten of her children, her sister, and to her husband Michael, again specifically outlining Flo's desires for a funeral and burial in Montana.
In her will, Flo named her sister Mary Ann as her executor (personal representative). Prior to Flo's death, and at Flo's direction, Mary Ann consulted with a local funeral director in Anamosa regarding Flo's wishes to be buried in Montana. The funeral director told Mary Ann that Flo's surviving spouse Michael would have the final authority regarding the final disposition of Flo's remains, and that there was nothing that Flo could do about it. The funeral director later told Flo the same (wrong) information.
When Flo died, the fight over what to do with Flo's remains followed. Mary Ann wanted to have Flo's remains sent to Montana in accordance with Flo's wishes. Flo's surviving husband Michael wanted Flo buried in Anamosa, Iowa. The funeral home agreed to keep Flo's remains stored at the funeral home pending a court order. The decision of the Iowa Supreme Court was issued on February 22, 2013.
The district probate court in Iowa County ruled against Michael and ordered that Flo's remains should be transported to Montana. However, Michael appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court and was ultimately successful. The Iowa Supreme Court agreed that the Iowa Final Disposition Act gives the surviving spouse authority to make final disposition decisions – unless the surviving spouse has followed the correct procedures to give that authority to someone else.
IOWA FINAL DISPOSTION ACT:
The Iowa Supreme Court carefully applied the specific provisions of the Iowa Final Disposition Act – Chapter 144C of the Iowa Code. What does this Act provide?
Contrary to what the local funeral director told Flo, there was something more that Flo could have done to assure that her wishes were carried out. The Final Disposition Act specifically provides that any competent person can execute a declaration that designates or appoints a person as "my designee" to have "sole responsibility for making decisions concerning the final disposition of my remains" as well as funeral plans, if any. A specific form is included in the Act at Section 144C.6(1). The Act then goes on to say that this form must be "contained in or attached to a durable power of attorney for health care under chapter 144B" and describes the specific procedure that must be followed for the declaration to be effective.
If a person does not execute a durable power of attorney for health care which either contains or has attached to it the final disposition directive as outlined above, the Act then provides a list of which survivors are granted authority under the law to make those final disposition decisions and plans. Without going through the entire list, suffice it to say that the first person on the list is a surviving spouse; followed by surviving child(ren), parent(s), grandchild(ren), and then other more distant relatives.
In Flo Whalen's case, she died as a resident of Iowa in 2012. Therefore, Iowa law determined the outcome of the case. Because Flo did not execute a directive pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 144C, her surviving spouse had the authority to decide where and how she would be buried. It did not matter what Flo said in her will, or how many letters she wrote to her children or others – if she did not follow the law as found in the Iowa Code, her wishes would not be carried out.
What can be learned from the case of Flo Whalen?
First, seek legal advice from a lawyer. The funeral director is not a lawyer and did not know the law. Prior to her death, Flo and her family members could have consulted with an Iowa attorney regarding their concerns. Instead, they talked to a funeral director who wrongly informed Flo and her family that there was nothing Flo could do to give the authority to make final disposition decisions to anyone other than her surviving spouse. Person with questions about the law should make an appointment to see an attorney and ask for complete legal information regarding such concerns.
Second, any person over the age of 18 should have powers of attorney in place. Powers of attorney are substitute-decision-making tools – these documents appoint another person to make decisions about personal business or health care in the event of incompetency. Without these tools in place, expensive court procedures are necessary to appoint guardians or conservators. Any Iowa attorney can assist in executing powers of attorney – it is a simple and inexpensive process.
Finally, if you do not have a complete estate plan in place – no matter the size of your estate or assets – seek out legal advice and complete that process. To find an attorney, consider the guidelines found in this publication: Estate Planning Attorneys: Finding One Who Can Work For You on the Ag Decision Maker website at this link: www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/wholefarm/html/c4-61.html
Consider attending an estate planning workshop offered by your local ISU Extension office – call to find out when one may be offered in your area, or go to Ag Decision Maker for more information:
www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/info/meetings.html
As always, each reader should contact their own attorney to obtain legal advice based on their own situation.
Note: Iowa State University Extension & Outreach does not provide legal advice. Any information provided is intended to be educational and is not intended to substitute for legal advice from a competent professional retained by an individual or organization for that purpose.
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Should you allow farm visits?
February 25, 2013 Ann Johanns
Contributed by Melissa O'Rourke, B.S., M.A., J.D. Farm & Agribusiness Management Specialist, Iowa State University Extension & Outreach, morourke@iastate.edu
Sallee vs. Stewart: Does chaperoning a school tour, which includes a trip to the barn hay loft for kindergarten children to play on hay bales, constitute a "recreational use" as that term is used in Iowa's recreational use statute found at Iowa Code chapter 461C?
The Iowa Supreme Court recently announced a ruling that raises issues about the wisdom of having visitors – including group tours or open house events – on the farm. It is worth taking time to review the facts of the case and the basis for the Court's decision as farmers and landowners consider how to react to the recent announcement.
Each year, the kindergarten class of Sacred Heart Elementary School in Oelwein, Iowa made a field trip to the dairy farm of Matt and Diana Stewart (Stewart Land Holsteins) in rural Fayette County. The group of visitors included the children, teacher and several parents serving as chaperones. At least one member of the Stewart family stayed with the group in a tour guide role at all times.
On May 18, 2010, the kindergarten class arrived at the Stewart farm for their scheduled visit. Accompanying the group as a chaperone was Kimberly Sallee whose daughter was in the kindergarten class. In the Court's opinion, Kim Sallee is described as "a very large woman." For the dairy farm visit, the Stewarts arranged three stations for the students providing the following experiences: (1) riding a horse in a round pen; (2) feeding a calf a bottle of milk; and (3) going to the hayloft where the children could climb and play on hay bales. A Stewart family member was present at each station. At the hayloft station, Matt Stewart asked Kim Sallee and another parent to go into the loft ahead of the students to assist them at the top of the ladder. Matt Stewart assured Sallee that the ladder would support her weight. Sallee, the other parent, Matt and the children proceeded to the hayloft and the children played on the hay bales. The children were warned to not climb too high on the bales of hay. The Stewart's hayloft is equipped with "hay drops" – rectangular holes through which bales of hay can be thrown to animals below. Stewarts ordinarily stack bales of hay across the hay drop holes when not in use to insulate the lower part of the barn. Prior to the kindergarten tour, Matt inspected the hayloft and stood on bales of hay covering the holes to make sure they would support his weight. He did not warn Sallee or others of the presence of the hay drops, nor did he warn them to not stand on these bales. While in the hay loft, Sallee stood on top of a bale covering one of the hay drops. The bale gave way, Sallee fell through the hay drop and broke her wrist and ankle/leg.
Kim Sallee incurred medical bills and lost time from work. As is typical, the court's opinion does not state whether the Stewart's had liability insurance. However, it is worth noting that the on the website of the Stewart's law firm, the list of representative clients is exclusively insurance companies. Assuming that the Stewart's did have premises liability insurance, this lawsuit likely included what are known as subrogation issues – that is, Sallee's medical insurer would seek reimbursement from Stewart's liability insurer for medical bill payments. Additionally, Sallee would seek compensation for her pain and suffering, lost time from work, and her possible temporary or permanent disability due to the injuries she suffered by falling through the hay drop on the Stewart's farm.
Sallee filed a lawsuit in August 2010. The Stewart's argued that they should not be liable for Sallee's injuries based on Iowa Code chapter 461C – the recreational use statute. By April 2011 the Stewart's filed a motion for summary judgment – a motion that essentially asked the judge to dismiss the case against them based on a shield from liability arising from the Iowa recreational use statute. While the district court initially ruled in favor of the Stewart's, appeals followed and the case eventually wound its way to the Iowa Supreme Court.
On February 15, 2013, the Court issued a 75-page opinion (including a special concurrence and a dissent) with in-depth discussion on a wide range of legal issues related to recreational statutes throughout the U.S. The lengthy opinion reads much like a scholarly law review article.
Iowa's recreational use statute as found at Iowa Code chapter 461C provides in pertinent part that "an owner of land owes no duty of care to keep the premises safe for entry or use by others for recreational purposes . . . or to give any warning of a dangerous condition, use, structure, or activity on such premises to persons entering for [recreational] purposes." The statute goes on to provide that "a holder of land" who invites a person onto that land, without charging them, and allows the property to be used for "recreational purposes" does not "extend any assurance that the premises are safe for any purpose" or "assume responsibility for or incur liability for any injury to person or property caused by an act or omission of such persons."
Of particular note, the Iowa statute provides a definition of "Recreational purpose" to include the following specific list of activities: "Hunting, trapping, horseback riding, fishing, swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, hiking, pleasure driving, motorcycling, nature study, water skiing, snowmobiling, other summer and winter sports, and viewing or enjoying historical, archaeological, scenic, or scientific sites while going to and from or actually engaged therein." See generally Iowa Code chapter 461C.
The Court discusses the history and development of recreational use statutes as well as a detailed review of court decisions from around the U.S. Thereafter, the opinion includes the legislative history and analysis of Iowa's recreational use statute that was first enacted in 1967 and has thereafter been amended several times. The Court notes that at least half of the states with recreational use statutes containing a definition of "recreational use" include the phrase "includes but is not limited to." Iowa's definition does not include this or any other kind of "catchall provision" but rather includes a specifically enumerated list of activities. While there are few cases interpreting Iowa's recreational use statute, the opinion reviews those most relevant to the Sallee lawsuit.
Finally, the Iowa Supreme Court reached the facts of the Sallee case and considered this central question: Did Kimberly Sallee's activities on the Stewart farm constitute a recreational use within the meaning of the Iowa recreational use statute? The Court went through a detailed analysis, including the basic rules of statutory construction (legal interpretation). The Court concluded that "the activities which occurred in the hayloft do not constitute recreational uses under the Iowa statute." The Court's opinion holds that immunity is only available under the Iowa recreational use statute if guests are on the property for the purpose of engaging in one of the activities specifically listed in Iowa Code chapter 461C. It is also worth noting that the Court focused on what Kim Sallee and the children were doing at the time of the injury. So, even though the kindergarten students engaged in horseback riding and calf feeding (which can be classified as "nature study") – because the students were playing in the hay loft and Sallee was a chaperone of that play activity at the time of injury, there was no immunity for the Stewart's under these facts. Thus, consider this scenario: A farmer or landowner allows a visitor to hunt on the farm property and at some point that individual stops hunting and engages in an activity not included in the statutory list of "recreational use" activities (such as collecting firewood). The visitor is injured while engaged in that wood collection activity. Under the Court's analysis, immunity under Iowa's recreational use statute is unavailable to the farmer/landowner – and liability is incurred for the visitor's injuries and damages.
Implications for Iowa Farmers and Landowners
After this ruling, Iowa farmers and landowners should give careful thought before inviting or allowing visitors to their farms – including large or small groups for the purpose of a field trip or tour, or individuals who seek (for example) to hunt, trap, fish or hike. Farms are full of hazards, and all farm operators must be particularly vigilant regarding farm safety – for family members and relatives, employees, and occasional visitors. However, in light of the Sallee decision, farmers and landowners should consider the following:
Adult Visitors: While adults can be required to sign a release before visiting, this may be of limited use, if any. Should the farmer or landowner wish to consider this option, it should only be upon the specific advice of an attorney consulted for this purpose, and using a release drafted by that attorney (NOT a form found on a website). But remember – in Iowa, parents cannot sign a release waiving the claims of their minor children so there is absolutely no protection in this regard.
Premises Liability Insurance: In consultation with your own legal professional, obtain formal, written assurance from your premises liability insurer that any damages incurred by any person in the course of visiting your farm or farmland are clearly and specifically covered by your policy – and that your coverage limits are adequate. Without such written assurance, farmers and landowners should refrain from such activities. Again, farmers and landowners should seek individual legal advice in this regard.
Legislation: Consider contacting your state legislators and ask that the Iowa statute be amended to specifically include agricultural or farm-based activities – tours, 4H groups, school and other youth groups – to include their teachers, parents, chaperones. While we should always take care to minimize dangerous conditions on our property, accidents do happen. Specifically, the Iowa legislature will need to study what language is needed to abrogate the legal effect of the Sallee case.
Each reader should contact their own attorney and insurer to obtain legal and liability advice based on their own situation.
Note: Iowa State University Extension and Outreach does not provide legal advice. Any information provided is intended to be educational and is not intended to substitute for legal advice from a competent professional retained by an individual or organization for that purpose.
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Federal Estate, Gift Taxation and the "Fiscal Cliff": Where Did We Land in 2013?
January 7, 2013 Ann Johanns
Waiting until the very last moment, Congress passed and the President signed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 on January 3, 2013. The good news is that a number of key provisions related to federal estate and gift taxes have been made permanent – that is, without an expiration or "sunset" date contained in the current legislation. This brings an increased level of certainty for professional planners and those who have estates that could be impacted by federal estate or gift taxes.
Many farmland owners and farm families have been concerned during the past two years, wondering what would happen to the estate tax exemption under federal law. Essentially, under the federal estate tax law as most recently revised in 2010, individuals can transfer to others a basic exclusionary amount of up to $5 million free of federal taxation during lifetime or at death. This figure is adjusted for inflation, so in 2012 it was $5.12 million. If Congress had failed to act, that tax-free amount would have been automatically reduced to $1 million; and the tax rate for estates over $1 million would have increased to 55%.
Not surprisingly, Congress did not allow this to happen. The new tax law makes the $5 million exemption amount permanent and this exemption will continue to be indexed for inflation. While the exact figures have not been released, the exemption is expected to be $5.25 million for 2013 and up to $7.5 million by 2020.
The only significant change made by Congress is to the tax rate for gift and estate taxes. The formerly top rate of 35% has been increased to a maximum of 40% for estates over the basic exclusionary amount. While this is an increase, it is definitely better than the 55% which would have taken effect if Congress had failed to act – and some observers comment that the 5% increase is a reasonable trade-off for the certainty afforded by the new law.
Two other aspects of the federal estate and gift tax system were also made permanent by the act just passed.
First, provisions allowing portability of the $5 million exemption between spouses remain in effect on a permanent basis. How does this work? In the first instance, the marital deduction remains in place, meaning that spouses can inherit from one another in an unlimited amount (as long as the inheriting spouse is a U.S. citizen). After the first spouse dies, the surviving or second-to-die spouse can add any unused exclusion of the first-to-die spouse to the surviving spouse's exclusion. In 2013, this will allow spouses to transfer a total of about $10.5 million free of federal estate or gift tax.
It is important that after the death of the first spouse that the unused exclusion amount is transferred to the surviving spouse as part of the estate proceedings – by timely and properly filing of a federal estate tax return, even if no tax is owed. The surviving spouse can use that unused exclusion amount plus their own exclusion to make lifetime gifts or pass assets through the estate of the second-to-die spouse. The surviving spouse should strongly consider filing the estate tax return even if the level of wealth does not appear to reach current exclusion levels since it is difficult to predict increases in estate values during the interim years. As always, families and individuals should seek advice from their personal tax and legal professionals.
Second, the estate and gift tax system will remain "unified." As noted previously, the $5 million exemption or "unified credit" (with inflation indexing) is applicable to both lifetime gifts and assets passed through an estate after death. Estate planners should document gifts, maintain a cumulative total and report gifts to the IRS so that there is a record of lifetime gifts at the time of death. The total of taxable lifetime gifts is then deducted from the exclusion amount to determine the unused exclusion remaining available at death. Remember, lifetime gifts within the annual exclusion amount ($14,000 in 2013) do not count against the lifetime basic exclusion (the $5 million inflation-adjusted amount). As an example, a couple can give unlimited $28,000 gifts in 2013 to as many different individuals as desired – and these gifts would not count against the lifetime exclusion.
Remember that this article is intended to be an educational, brief summary regarding aspects of the new tax law. All farm families and individuals should obtain advice for their own personal situations from legal and tax professional retained by them for that purpose. As always, please feel free to contact me with your questions and comments.
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HAUGHTON – Service to honor the life of Arthur Ray Reynolds, 66, will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, August 23, 2013, at Hill Crest Memorial Funeral Home, officiated by Rev. Carlton Gilmer. Interment will follow in Forest Park West Cemetery. The family will receive guests on Thursday evening, August 22, 2013, between the hours of 6-8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Arthur was born in Promise Land, AR on February 26, 1947, to parents, Howard and Thelma (Lee) Reynolds and passed away early Tuesday morning, August 20, 2013. He protected the city of Shreveport as a Shreveport Fire Fighter and retired as Captain after 28 years of faithful service. Arthur was also a U.S. Army Veteran who loved to hunt, loved to sing, and loved his Sunday school class at First Baptist Church of Bossier.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Brenda Reynolds; sister, Mary Elizabeth Wilder; brother, Herbert R. Reynolds; and his parents. Left to cherish his memory are his children, Richard Reynolds and wife Kayla, and Shannon Cammack and husband David; step-daughter, Kim Hasty and husband Troy; sister, Joye Reynolds Snelson; brother, George W. Reynolds and wife Marjean; and nine grandchildren.
You may offer condolences and sign the on-line guest book by visiting www.hillcrestmemorialfh.com.
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Contact: Jason Lederer, Summit County Open Space & Trails, 970-668-4213
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In 2016, the Fremont Pass Recpath project was recognized by then Governor Hickenlooper's "Colorado the Beautiful: Colorado's 16 Initiative", which identified 16 priority trails, trail segments, and trail gaps in Colorado.
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Total project costs hover around $5.5 million, much of which is funded through state and federal grants, as well as a donation from the local cycling nonprofit organization, Summit Biking. During 2016, Summit County was awarded a Federal Lands Access Program Grant from the Federal Highway Administration, which in addition to providing nearly 75% of the total project funding, carries significant project management, design, and permitting support. Project construction is being led on behalf of Summit County by the Federal Highway Administration Central Federal Lands Highway Division, which is based out of Lakewood, Colorado.
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In the coming weeks, the project will be entering a winter shutdown period before restarting next spring. Remaining construction is scheduled to be completed during 2021, with the Recpath opening to the public sometime next summer.
"We appreciate the community's patience with the ongoing construction," said Lorch. "After being waylaid by avalanches in 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, it has been a bit of an uphill battle for all involved to reach this point in the project. However, we look forward to welcoming Recpath users onto this new segment next year when the work is complete and coast is clear."
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For more information, contact Jason Lederer of the Summit County Open Space and Trails Department at 970-668-4213 or jason.lederer@summitcountyco.gov.
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package org.jkiss.dbeaver.ui.editors.sql.handlers;

import org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionEvent;
import org.eclipse.core.commands.ExecutionException;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelection;
import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchWindow;
import org.eclipse.ui.handlers.HandlerUtil;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.Log;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.model.runtime.DBRRunnableWithResult;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.model.struct.DBSObject;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.model.struct.rdb.DBSProcedure;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.runtime.DBWorkbench;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.ui.editors.sql.generator.SQLGeneratorContributor;
import org.jkiss.dbeaver.ui.navigator.NavigatorUtils;
import org.jkiss.utils.CommonUtils;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class SQLEditorHandlerRunProcedureConsole extends SQLEditorHandlerOpenObjectConsole {

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    {
    }

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    public Object execute(ExecutionEvent event) throws ExecutionException
    {
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        ISelection currentSelection = HandlerUtil.getCurrentSelection(event);
        List<DBSObject> selectedObjects = NavigatorUtils.getSelectedObjects(currentSelection);
        List<DBSProcedure> entities = new ArrayList<>();
        for (DBSObject object : selectedObjects) {
            if (object instanceof DBSProcedure) {
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                procName = proc.getName();
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                if (navContext == null) {
                    navContext = new SQLNavigatorContext(object);
                }
            }
        }
        if (navContext == null || navContext.getDataSourceContainer() == null) {
            log.debug("No active datasource");
            return null;
        }

        DBRRunnableWithResult<String> generator = SQLGeneratorContributor.CALL_GENERATOR(entities);

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        if (entities.size() == 1 && !CommonUtils.isEmpty(procName)) {
            title = procName + " call";
        }

        try {
            openConsole(workbenchWindow, generator, navContext, title, false, currentSelection);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            DBWorkbench.getPlatformUI().showError("Open console", "Can open SQL editor", e);
        }
        return null;
    }
}

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Q: results of a sub table in the top level query Not sure how to title this so please feel free to retitle.
I have two tables with a one to many relationship.
Table1
|ID|NAME|...|

Table2
|ID|Table1_ID|StartDate|EndDate|

I am trying to write a query that given a date will return the following
|TABLE1.ID|TABLE1.NAME|are any rows of table 2 in date|

I have a one to many between table 1 and table 2. I want to pass in a date to the query. If any of the many relationships in table 2 have a start date < passed in date and an end date > passed in date or end date is null then I want column 3 of result to be true. Otherwide I want it to be false.
Consider the example
|ID|NAME|...|
| 1|APPLE| ...|
| 2|PEAR| ...|

Table2
|ID|Table1_ID|StartDate|EndDate|
|1|1|01-01-2014|null|
|2|1|01-01-2014|01-02-2014|
|3|2|01-01-2014|01-02-2014|

*

*if I pass in 01-01-2014 then I expect two rows with IDs 1 and 2 and both to be true (all rows match)

*if I pass in 01-03-2014 then I expect two rows with ID 1 true (match on first row) and ID 2 to be false (because third row is outside of this date)

I am trying to do this in SQL to eventually convert to JPA. If there are any JPA functions that can do this then that would be good to know. Else I'll do a native query
Any pointers would be great!
Thanks

A: This should give you what you want:
select x.*, 'PASS' as checker
  from table1 x
 where exists
 (select 'x'
          from table2 y
         where y.table1_id = x.table1_id
           and y.startdate <= '01-01-2014'
           and (y.enddate >= '01-01-2014' or y.enddate is null))
union all
select x.*, 'FAIL' as checker
  from table1 x
 where not exists
 (select 'x'
          from table2 y
         where y.table1_id = x.table1_id
           and y.startdate <= '01-01-2014'
           and (y.enddate >= '01-01-2014' or y.enddate is null))

A: I don't know if I understand your question.
So, please, be patient... ;)
Try something like this:
select t1.id, t1.name,
       case when t2.Table1_ID is null
            then 'false'
            else 'true' end as boolean_value
from Table1 t1,
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Q: Is there a way to split the Cmd-Tab app list onto multiple rows? Is there an app/program for OS X that will "split" the list of open apps that appears when you hit ⌘-tab into multiple rows?
This is the default behaviour for Windows 7 and it's really quite useful when you have lots of windows open, navigating with the arrow keys.

A: How about something like Witch? It may not be 100% what you're after, but I find it nicer than the built-in application switching.


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Simply enter your cell phone number to begin the process, choose the main course, pick your favorite side. Any special needs? We got you. Pay at pick-up with your choice of points or meals. Rate your favorite options, and tear apart the ones you hate. Not sure if it went through? Want to know your order number? Don't worry, we'll text you. Not sure if your favorite place is open? Just navigate to FoodyCall and look at the top. when it's closed you'll see *No FoodyCall* at the top.

## Screenshots

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## Running

To run the application locally:

1. Populate the menu database by navigating to `FoodyCall/lib/populate` and running `populate.py`. (depends on the CSV file)
2. Return to the main directory and run `python runserver.py` to run the application. It will be available at localhost:5000.


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June/July/Aug 2012
The Lyndon Symphonies
In the fourth volume of his landmark series, Robert A. Caro follows LBJ into the White House
Michael Kazin
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson BY Robert A. Caro. Knopf. Hardcover, 736 pages. $35.
Near the end of this thick volume, the fourth in his celebrated saga of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Robert A. Caro describes the War on Poverty as the most sincere and boldest initiative of a normally cynical and utterly practical politician. It did not matter that LBJ's advisers warned him the plan to uplift the nation's forty to fifty million poor would gain him no additional votes in the next election. "That's my kind of program," the new president insisted just a day after he took office in late November 1963. "I'll find money for it one way or another."
As was typical of the man, a personal motivation led him to take a political stand. Caro recounts how, at the age of nine, Johnson had to pick cotton in the summer heat of central Texas and wore patched clothing after his father's ranch went bankrupt. LBJ "hated poverty and illiteracy," a childhood friend remembered. "He hated it when a person who wanted to work could not get a job." So passionate was Johnson about the issue that he doubled, to a billion dollars, the annual amount his budget writers had earmarked for the "unconditional" War on Poverty and made the program the centerpiece of his first State of the Union address, which he delivered in January 1964. It was, gushes Caro, "a program with goals so new and ambitious that it was necessary to go back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal to find, perhaps not an equal, but at least a comparison."
This lengthy section demonstrates what makes Caro's uncompleted series of LBJ biographies both sublime and somewhat exasperating. No contemporary historian of American politics, academic or journalistic, piles up the pertinent details of a famous life—quotations, anecdotes, observations on how an individual spoke, moved, even laughed—as Caro can. And no other writer is so deft at using those details to evoke the personal drama of a public event. Slowly and vividly, Caro leads you to understand how deep was Johnson's concern for the poor—and how this master in the ways of Congress seized an opportunity to do something big about it. But the biographer neglects to mention that the assault on poverty turned out to be more of a flanking skirmish than a war, much less "a vast, revolutionary transformation." A billion dollars was less than one-fifth what, under FDR, the Works Progress Administration had allocated in 1935 to create jobs for millions of Americans. Taking three decades of inflation into account, it was really more like one-tenth of that amount.
And LBJ's strategy for attacking poverty was as indirect as it was inexpensive. Most of the funding went to local "action" agencies whose mission was to give the poor responsibility for deciding which mix of small federal grant programs would best help their communities. The "war" was never intended to transfer income or create jobs. Nevertheless, it drew the ire of Democratic mayors, whose power was challenged by the new agencies, and of conservatives, who ridiculed Johnson's initiative as just another form of welfare. When Richard Nixon became president, most of the poverty program was abolished. The most telling points of comparison with the New Deal are that FDR's policies to aid the disadvantaged were quite popular, and that Social Security, the most ambitious one, has endured.
Context is an essential tool for explaining why history seldom lives up to the desires of individual actors, be they presidents or peons. The state of an economy, the balance of political forces, the vagaries of popular culture—all set limits and create opportunities. But the only contexts that Caro really pays attention to in this volume, which covers the years from 1958 to 1964, are the relationships LBJ had with other powerful men—cooperative, begrudging, humbling, hostile, and/or satisfying relationships, in every variation.
Fortunately, Caro has a formidable group of characters to place in motion around (and often against) his protagonist during a period stuffed with riveting events—from the 1960 campaign to the Cuban Missile Crisis to an assassination seen all over the world to the triumphant transition that followed. The key supporting actor, of course, was John F. Kennedy, whom LBJ had dismissed as a lazy scion of privilege until JFK beat him out, rather easily, for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination. Kennedy then asked Johnson to be on the ticket, knowing Texas would be critical to gaining an electoral majority. As horrible as it was, JFK's murder three years later also delivered Johnson from the impotence of the vice presidency.
When LBJ moved into the White House, there were two fellow senators from Dixie whom he had to cajole and seduce to do his bidding. Harry Byrd, the genteel boss of conservative Virginia, ran the Senate committee through which a tax cut vital to economic recovery had to pass before it could reach the floor of the upper chamber. Senator Richard Russell from Georgia, once an LBJ mentor, had to be tricked into serving on the Warren Commission, charged with investigating Kennedy's assassination, because the panel was headed by the chief justice who had authored the opinion in Brown v. Board of Education. That ruling, of course, launched the legal demolition of Jim Crow that Russell had long feared. Then there was Bobby Baker, Johnson's protégé and jack-of-all-fixes, whose years of influence peddling and secret profit making drew the attention of congressional investigators and the national press, and thereby threatened to blow up LBJ's career, just as the vice president was joining the motorcade on that fateful November day in Dallas. And finally there was Bobby Kennedy, a ruthless yet compassionate figure whose every interaction with Johnson was stained by their deep and mutual hatred. In Caro's view, the bitter Bobby-LBJ rivalry had "far-reaching influence . . . not merely on their party but on the course of American history."
That abiding enmity adds pepper to one of Caro's characteristically impressive set pieces. Bobby's older brother offered the vice-presidential nomination to LBJ on the morning of July 14, 1960, at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The decision surprised nearly all of JFK's advisers, of whom Bobby was the closest. Caro, one of the more meticulous researchers on the planet, describes in minute, cinematic strokes "the drama that was to consume the rest of the day." Aides to both principals darted in and out of hotel suites two floors apart, while Johnson loyalists and Kennedy liberals denounced the deal before both camps acquiesced to its electoral wisdom. Only Bobby refused to accept the decision until the moment when campaign officials announced it to the press. At one point, he tried to convince Johnson to become chairman of the Democratic National Committee instead, a consolation prize so trivial, under the circumstances, that it might have been pulled from a Cracker Jack box. "My God," wailed Bobby, when the deed was done, "this wouldn't have happened except that we were all too tired last night."
Yet the import of this story is less than the sum of its dramatic moments. After all, JFK had made the offer, and LBJ wanted to accept it, in part because he believed the country was not ready to elect a southerner at the top of the ticket. No politician from Dixie had won the White House since Zachary Taylor in 1848. Thus, all the anxious conversations in the suites and the hallways that afternoon and evening had little or no bearing on a decision that had already been made that morning by "two very tough, very smart men."
Caro employs the same careful, colorful method of historical reconstruction at other key junctures. His narrative of Johnson's actions on the day of JFK's murder brilliantly captures Johnson's transformation from a depressed, whiny underling with nothing much to do into the self-confident, resourceful leader of the most powerful nation in history. Although, according to the Constitution, LBJ had become president the instant Kennedy died, he understood that to take the oath with Jackie by his side would provide graphic evidence of an orderly transfer of power. Let Caro describe what it felt like inside Air Force One just a few hours after the bloodshed in Dealey Plaza:
The scene was still eerie: the gloom, the heat, the whispering, the low, insistent whine of the jet engine, the mass of dim faces crowded so close together. But one element had vanished: the confusion. Watching Lyndon Johnson arrange the crowd, give orders, deal with O'Donnell and O'Brien [JFK's aides], Liz Carpenter [Lady Bird's secretary], dazed by the rush of events, realized that there was at least one person in the room who wasn't dazed, who was, however hectic the situation might be, in complete command of it. . . ."You had the feeling that things were well in hand."
Alas, the biographer's historical insights seldom match his talents as a storyteller. What do we learn about LBJ from the events in Dallas? It's hardly a surprise that, once he'd achieved the goal he had hungered for since childhood, he was free, at least for a while, from his insecurities and fears of failure. Caro goes on to chronicle how quickly, as president, Johnson was able to persuade most of Kennedy's men, the Congress, and the country at large that he was determined to advance JFK's domestic agenda. Less than four months after the assassination, LBJ's approval rating soared to more than 70 percent. But Caro never weighs how much of this rise was due to a context that would have made even a mediocre politician look good: a healthy economy, dominance abroad (Vietnam was not yet a major issue), faith in liberal governance, and the public's good feelings for the man who succeeded a martyred hero.
In his introduction, Caro sets forth the lofty goals of the work to which he has devoted, so far, more than thirty years and several thousand pages: "to explore, through the life of its protagonist, the acquisition and use of various forms of [political] power during [a] half century of American history, and to ascertain also the fundamental realities of that power; to learn what lay, beneath power's trappings, at power's core." Unfortunately, what he finds at the core reveals more about the personalities of the mighty than about how they understood and used their power.
That does not diminish Caro's greatness as a biographer. Lyndon Johnson was a figure of immense gifts and horrendous flaws, and I doubt any writer will ever capture the arc of his triumphant and ultimately tragic life so well again. As LBJ typically did in his famous "treatment," which cornered a man with humor, scorn, argument, and flattery until he gave in, Caro wears down and finally destroys whatever reluctance a more analytical mind may have to his pointillist invocations of drama and personality. At one point, midway through the delicious narrative of a state dinner/barbecue LBJ hosted in a small Texas town for the visiting chancellor of West Germany, Caro writes:
There was a Mexican mariachi band, square dances by the Billyettes, a precision dance team (not all that precise) from Fredericksburg High School and then German carols sung by cowgirls—the St. Mary's High School choir in full cowgirl regalia: Stetsons, blue skirts, white blouses and red neckerchiefs—under the direction of a nun in head-to-toe black habit. They closed with "Deep in the Heart of Texas"—and that was in German too.
All that lies ahead in volume 5 is the brutal debacle in Indochina, the fall of the Great Society, and LBJ's humiliating exit from the White House. I can't wait to read it.
Michael Kazin's latest book is American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation (Knopf, 2011). He teaches history at Georgetown University and is coeditor of Dissent.


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The Latest: Seahawks will be starting safety Earl Thomas
The Latest on the NFL's first Sunday of the regular season (all times eastern):
Seattle Seahawks safety Earl Thomas will start against the Denver Broncos just four days after ending his holdout after it failed to produce a new contract or a trade.
Thomas made it through his first week of practice with no issues after holding out of training camp while seeking an extension or a trade. His deal expires after the 2018 season.
He'll start in place of Tedric Thompson at free safety.
The Seahawks activated Thomas to their 53-man roster Saturday when they placed cornerback Dontae Johnson on injured reserve. He hurt his groin during practice last week.
Johnson was expected to start at right cornerback. The Seahawks didn't announce who would start in his place, rookie Tre Flowers or veteran Neiko Thorpe.
— AP Pro Football Writer Arnie Stapleton reporting from Denver
New England Patriots running back Jeremy Hill has been ruled out against Houston after suffering a knee injury early in the second half.
Hill's injury occurred on a second-down play with 12:09 remaining in the third quarter that ended in a Patriots' turnover, with tight end Rob Gronkowski fumbling the ball near midfield after reeling in a 25-yard catch from Tom Brady.
He was helped off the field and evaluated in the medical tent before returning to the locker room. He had four carries for 25 yards and was credited with a partial punt block late in the first half.
The 25-year-old joined the Patriots in free agency this past offseason after spending his first four NFL seasons with Cincinnati.
New England led 21-6 at the time of Hill's injury.
Never one to shy away from a fashion statement, Panthers QB Cam Newton wore brown cleats with a silver "sheriff's star," taking on a very old Western theme during pre-game warmups against the Cowboys.
Newton can't wear the cleats during the game, but is allowed to wear what he wants to pre-game warmups.
— Steve Reed reporting from Charlotte, North Carolina
The Tennessee Titans and Miami Dolphins are expected to resume their game after a 77-minute delay because of lightning in the area.
The teams went to their locker rooms while play was suspended with Miami leading 7-3. First, the game was expected to be resumed at 3:10 p.m., and that now has been pushed back to 3:32 p.m. local time.
The game will resume with 1:11 left in the first half and the Titans on offense. Halftime is to be shortened to 6½ minutes.
— Steven Wine reporting from Miami Gardens, Florida
Joe Flacco has just thrown his third touchdown pass, and he's made sure to hit each of the free agent receivers the Ravens signed during the offseason.
Willie Snead caught a 13-yarder in the third quarter to make it 33-0 over Buffalo. Flacco previously connected with newcomers John Brown and Michael Crabtree.
— Dave Ginsburg reporting from Baltimore
For the first time in franchise history, the Carolina Panthers have their team logo painted at midfield of Bank of America Stadium.
New owner David Tepper made the decision to use the Panthers black and blue logo after purchasing the team in July from Jerry Richardson, the team's founder and first owner.
The Panthers always had the NFL "shield" at midfield —per Richardson's orders— since they began play as an expansion franchise in 1995.
The Panthers host the Cowboys in their season opener.
— Steve Reed reporting in Charlotte, North Carolina
Andrew Luck's first half was just about as good as it can get after throwing an interception on his first official pass.
The Colts quarterback finished the half 20 of 25 with 170 yards, one touchdown and one interception. Plus, he marched the Colts 43 yards in 1 minute, 42 seconds to set up Adam Vinatieri for his third goal of the half, a 51-yarder, to give Indy a 16-10 lead.
Luck is back after missing more than 20 months with an injured shoulder.
Vinatieri needs four more field goals to break Morten Andersen's league record of 565.
— Michael Marot reporting from Indianapolis
Weather has delayed another NFL game, this time in Miami between the Tennessee Titans and Dolphins.
The game was suspended with 1:11 left in the second quarter because of lightning in the area. The teams went to the locker room — with the sun shining. Rain fell earlier, and there was also thunder in the area. Miami led 7-3.
Weather delayed kickoff 45 minutes for the season opener Thursday night between the defending Super Bowl champion Eagles and Atlanta in Philadelphia.
Jaguars running back Leonard Fournette has a hamstring injury.
Fournette already has nine carries for 41 yards, and he led Jacksonville last season as a rookie with 1,040 yards rushing and nine touchdowns.
He caught a pass on the play before the Jaguars' last series and was being stretched out on the sideline when the Giants had the ball.
— Tom Canavan reporting from East Rutherford, New Jersey
Panthers three-time tight end Greg Olsen (back) appears to be ready for Carolina's game with the Dallas Cowboys.
Olsen was added to the team's injury report on Saturday after practicing full all week. Asked Sunday if he expects Olsen to play, Panthers general manager Marty Hurney replied "as far as I know."
Houston Texans right tackle Seantrel Henderson has left the game against New England with a left ankle injury.
Patriots defensive lineman Keionta Davis landed on Henderson's ankle while trying to rush quarterback Deshaun Watson. Henderson was tended to on the field for a few minutes and then walked off under his own power.
After the training staff looked at him on the sideline, Henderson was helped onto a cart, hopping on his right leg, and driven into the tunnel beneath the stands.
It was a few plays after Houston defensive lineman Christian Covington needed medical attention. He is questionable to return with a thigh injury, according to the Texans.
— Jimmy Golen reporting from Foxborough, Massachusetts.
Kirk Cousins has thrown his 100th career touchdown pass and his first for the Minnesota Vikings.
The new quarterback found Stefon Diggs in single coverage by San Francisco cornerback Ahkello Witherspoon on a fade route on third-and-3 from 22 yards out in the second quarter at U.S. Bank Stadium. The ball was perfectly placed along the edge of the end zone to give the Vikings a 10-0 lead over the 49ers.
Cousins spent the first six seasons of his career with Washington. He signed a three-year, $84 million, fully guaranteed contract with Minnesota in March.
— Dave Campbell reporting from Minneapolis
Andrew Luck is getting off to a bit of a rocky start in his return for the Indianapolis Colts.
After receiving a loud ovation during introductions, Luck made it onto the field for his first regular-season series in more than 20 months at the Bengals 7.
It didn't last long.
Following a first-down run, rookie guard Quenton Nelson was called for a hold. On second-and-14 from the Bengals 14, Luck was picked off by linebacker Preston Brown on his first official pass since returning from shoulder surgery.
It got worse. Cincinnati Bengals safety Shawn Williams has been ejected after making a helmet to helmet hit on Luck. The Colts quarterback ran for 7 yards before being hit in the head by Williams while being tackled.
Luck did not leave the game.
— Michael Marot reporting from Indianapolis.
The Ravens and Bills kicked off a new season on a wet field.
It's been raining in the Baltimore area all weekend, at times heavily. Throw in a stiff wind and temperatures dipping below 60 degrees, and it's as if this game was taking place in the middle of the season.
The Ravens are seeking to improve their record in openers under coach John Harbaugh to 8-3. Baltimore has won 18 of its last 20 home games in September.
This is the third career start for Buffalo quarterback Nathan Peterman, who enters with a career QB rating of 38.4.
— Dave Ginsburg reporting from Baltimore.
Miami Dolphins wide receivers Kenny Stills and Albert Wilson are the only NFL players seen kneeling during the national anthem of early games in protest of police brutality and social injustice.
Dolphins defensive end Robert Quinn raised his right fist, and San Francisco wide receiver Marquise Goodwin raised his right arm with fist clenched during the anthem in New Orleans.
Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey and linebacker Telvin Smith Jr. stood during the national anthem after staying in the locker room for "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the preseason before playing the New York Giants.
Titans wide receiver Rishard Matthews also was on the sideline after staying in the tunnel or locker room during the anthem much of last season.
President Donald Trump has tweeted his disapproval of the NFL on Sunday morning before the first full slate of games.
The president has criticized players for their demonstrations protesting social injustice during the national anthem, and the league for not requiring players to be on the sideline at attention when "The Star-Spangled Banner" is played.
He made reference to lower ratings on NBC in Thursday night's season opener in which Super Bowl champion Philadelphia beat Atlanta 18-12.
"Wow, NFL first game ratings are way down over an already really bad last year comparison," Trump tweeted. "Viewership declined 13%, the lowest in over a decade. If the players stood proudly for our Flag and Anthem, and it is all shown on broadcast, maybe ratings could come back? Otherwise worse!"
The NFL unilaterally passed a policy requiring players to stand at attention for the anthem or to stay in the locker room or in the tunnel under the stands. When that policy met with heavy criticism, it was put on hold while the league and players' association discussed other options. Those discussions are continuing.
More AP NFL: https://apnews.com/tag/NFL and https://twitter.com/AP_NFL


The main gist: lower the news to carry up sweets and snack (and even toys) and launch them on the tray above. Just from the foyer of our resort to our resort room door was over 1 / 4 of a mile walk one way. Drinks value about $sixteen and this is one in every of Manhattan's rooftop bars that has a pool. There's nothing quite like sitting with a glass of wine in one of the inns there, watching the sun set over the caldera. Cattle drives are at 11:30 am and 4:00 pm. It is best to arrive a minimum of quarter-hour prior to drive, as it's normally standing room only. Always allow room in your schedule to make a detour if something catches your fancy.
I think predominant drawback of Seattle is finding a great place to stay, as the inns are an excessive amount of expensive. The indoor section of Trimpers comprises vintage kiddie rides like the kiddie Ferris Wheel and tiny carousel built within the 1920s. You can take a ferry to Macau from Hong Kong (Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong-China Ferry Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui or Hong Kong SkyPier at Hong Kong airport) or from other neighboring ports in China comparable to Shekou and Zhuhai.
The dormitories, the indoor coaching pool and several other buildings have been left to nature. It is bigger than the club room on the Exhausting Rock, but smaller than the one at Portofino. Each hotel provides roughly the same sort of club room facilities: a membership room lounge accessible only by club room guests, a continental breakfast, a snack time round lunch, hors d'oeuvr/dinner with free wine and beer, and dessert. There is a heated swimming pool and a cushty, homey lodge, where you possibly can eat your whole meals if you'd like and hang out in the outdated-style pub.
I'm sorry to say I lost most of my footage of it because I dropped my telephone within the swimming pool throughout the second day there and never all my images were backed up. Fortuitously I did post some on Google Maps before then that I can nonetheless share, haha. So you can't request to have a room on a certain floor, all of it depends on the theme you chose. When most people go out throughout the day, they normally lock up any valuables in a safe which might be going to be left in the room and so they take any other valuables together with them for the day.
You will not find inns or other luxury objects right here; it's literally an untouched paradise. Relying on the room's location there are 4 kinds of rooms – room with a sea view, room with an ocean view, room overlooking the fort and room overlooking Elli beach. In some cases when hotels had been too crowded, I've needed to leave the lights on to maintain them at bay. Generally we get put in a room that has folks partying next door to us, making it practically not possible to sleep. The living space could be very massive, around 100sqm in dimension during which I've my sitting area with sofas and TELEVISION, a dining area (sound system and lights arrange as a disco area for parties), and a big space for my pool table!