![]() ![]() The Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) was created in the 1960s to prevent high-income taxpayers from avoiding the individual income tax. ![]() The personal exemption for 2023 remains at $0 (eliminating the personal exemption was part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA). The standard deduction will increase by $900 for single filers and by $1,800 for joint filers (Table 2). Take Survey Standard Deduction and Personal Exemption Please take our quick, anonymous survey, conducted in partnership with the University of North Carolina Tax Center. Help Us Learn More About How Americans Understand Their Taxes 2023 Federal Income Tax Brackets and Rates for Single Filers, Married Couples Filing Jointly, and Heads of Households Tax Rateįor Married Individuals Filing Joint Returns The top marginal income tax rate of 37 percent will hit taxpayers with taxable income above $539,900 for single filers and above $693,750 for married couples filing jointly. There are seven federal income tax rates in 2023: 10 percent, 12 percent, 22 percent, 24 percent, 32 percent, 35 percent, and 37 percent. In 2023, the income limits for all tax brackets and all filers will be adjusted for inflation and will be as follows (Table 1). Note that the Tax Foundation is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit and cannot answer specific questions about your tax situation or assist in the tax filing process. The new inflation adjustments are for tax year 2023, for which taxpayers will file tax returns in early 2024. The IRS used to use the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as a measure of inflation prior to 2018. However, with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), the IRS now uses the Chained Consumer Price Index (C-CPI) to adjust income thresholds, deduction amounts, and credit values accordingly. On a yearly basis the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) adjusts more than 60 tax provisions for inflation to prevent what is called “ bracket creep.” Bracket creep occurs when people are pushed into higher income tax brackets or have reduced value from credits and deductions due to inflation, instead of any increase in real income. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Finds new and creative, albeit gruesome ways to end his opponents) | At least High (has even more experience than before) ![]() Intelligence: At least High (was a spartan general whom led his armies to victory multiple times over many years. FTL with Hermes' Boots (Hermes is faster than the light of Helios, Kratos managed to steal his boots off of him) | At least MHS, possibly far higher (should not be slower than before) Speed: At least MHS (during several combat sequences, manages to block lightning, this is also done atop Olympus in a cutscene before he gets knocked off), likely far higher (Hercules is capable of shielding his eyes from the light of Helios in game). Baldur knocked out the World Serpent in a couple of blows, Jormungandr and Thor splintered Yggdrasil, an entity that transcends time and space, the Universe itself being no more than something it holds in its boughs)ĭurability: At least Multi-Continent, likely Planet (traded blows with Hercules, Zeus and Hades among others) | At least Low Universe, likely Universe+, possibly higher (took several hits from Baldur, Magni and Modi) Later defeated and killed Zeus himself, amongst a multitude of other beings in the Greek pantheon) | At least Low Universe, likely Universe+, possibly higher (stomped Baldur almost every time he fought him, with Baldur's only saving grace being his immortality and healing factor. Physical strength: At least Class M to Class L lifting (pushed Atlas' fingers apart), At least Multi-Continent level, likely Planet level striking | At least Class M to Class L lifting (moved and flipped, Tyr's temple), At least Low Universe, likely Universe+, possibly higher strikingĪttack potency/Destructive capacity: At least Multi-Continent, likely Planet (after unlocking Pandora's box, grew strong enough to challenge and overpower Ares. ![]() Status Effect Inducement, Fate Manipulation, Corruption, Ice Manipulation (survived Helheim, a land where no flame can exist and Odin himself would die), Existence Erasure (using Tyr's orb he can step off the branches of the Yggdrasil) ![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever you call it, it’s the same thing. You might also hear anti-chew sprays referred to as a no-bite spray or dog deterrent or even bitter apple spray. Use this spray to discourage your dog from chewing or licking things he shouldn’t, such as drywall, furniture or electrical wires. 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Users must designate e-mail addresses and enter a passphrase for use. GPG Suite for Mac's wizard walks the user through the initial steps to set up encryption. Its ability to work with the Mac Mail application, seamlessly, is an advantage over other programs. Your GPG program doesn’t need to do key retrieval or anything like that as importing them is simple with copy/paste so no point in letting it access the Internet at all.With its effortless operation and thorough setup, GPG Suite for Mac represents a solid solution for encrypting e-mail. Yes, your private key should have a very strong password protecting it from attacks like this, but it also shouldn’t be “that easy” to steal. The last thing you need is a backdoored program maliciously uploading your private key somewhere without your knowledge. If you are an individual within this category, I would say it is prudent that the generation of this key is done on a system that has networking disabled with your GPG program of choice firewalled to block all connections to and from keyservers. However, I wanted to make sure the transition to a new key couldn’t in any way, shape, or form be misinterpreted as malicious or my security being compromised. I’m not saying this is something everyone would need to do. Check out my method for switching over to a new key with my new email while still maximizing the trust vector for those who communicated frequently with me or simply had my old PGP key saved. This however meant that the email I added to my primary PGP key was not the email I was giving out to the public. Recently, I purchased ProtonMail Plus, which meant linking up my domain name with ProtonMail so it was routed through their servers. This is especially useful in security related messages from a company/website like signing notifications and updates to verify that the website owner is the one posting said messages and not a hacker or Government body. If even so much as a space was removed, the message would not verify correctly and the recipients or audience of the message would know it has been altered. Users could then take the message and use your public key to validate the authenticity of the message. You could also sign a message that would protect it from being altered. Once your public key has been distributed, people can use it to encrypt messages to you that can only be decrypted by your private key. However your private key, which is protected by a long passphrase, is kept private and should never be distributed publicly. Once generated, one distributes their public key and sends it to key-servers on the Internet that store it for retrieval by others. Typically PGP keys are used for both communicating securely in an encrypted form, and signing messages that can be validated for authenticity. The public and private keys that are generated are the only 2 puzzle pieces that will fit with each other. These keys could be compared to 2 pieces of a puzzle that are each the size of a football field, containing hundred of thousands of little notches along each side. RSA is the basics of generating a private key and a public key unique to a user. ![]() On my website, I have listed my key as G/PGP because it is a PGP Key using the GPG software. ![]() So when people talk about GPG keys, they are technically still PGP keys but ones that are derived from a GPG program like GPG Keychain for OSX. And OpenPGP is the standard that both pieces of software are compliant with. ![]() GPG is short for Gnu Privacy Guard, which is an adapted version of this released in 1999. PGP is short for Pretty Good Privacy and was developed by Phil Zimmerman in 1991. First, let’s tackle the difference between PGP and GPG. One of the other things you will have likely noticed me touching on is companies who are willing to share their PGP Key for customers so they can use email + PGP for communication to support. ![]() ![]() ![]() Use it in connection with chain letters, junk mail, surveys, contests, pyramid schemes, or use any distribution lists including any person who has not given specific permission to be included in such a process (commercial or otherwise).Smilebox may monitor or review your conduct on any of the Services offered by Smilebox. ALL CAPITALIZED TERMS USED BUT NOT DEFINED IN THIS AGREEMENT (INCLUDING THE PREMIUM VERSION TERMS) SHALL HAVE THE MEANING ASCRIBED TO SUCH TERM IN THE EULA: 1. 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His books have appeared on more than fifteen different state award lists and he is the founder of a writers group known as the Renegades of Middle Grade. James Ponti is the New York Times bestselling author of three middle grade book series: City Spies, about an unlikely squad of five kids from around the world who form an elite MI6 Spy Team the Edgar Award–winning Framed! series, about a pair of tweens who solve mysteries in Washington, DC and the Dead City trilogy, about a secret society that polices the undead living beneath Manhattan. on Sunday, February 12 to guarantee signed copies. Please note in your order any personalization requests and we will do our best to accommodate. If you are unable to attend but would still like a signed copy, you may order a copy from this page and we will ship after the event. Signing Guidelines:įollowing the event, James Ponti will be available to sign copies of his City Spies books. He likes Star Trek, listening to loud music, watching hockey, and spending as much time on his porch as possible.They keep a log of every book they read, and write a monthly newsletter called Stanza Break about poetry in translation and books outside of a publicity cycle. This event will take place indoors and seating will be available on a first come, first served basis (with priority for those with accessibility needs). Timothy is a poet and writer as well as a reader. This event is free and open to the public. In this fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling series from Edgar Award winner James Ponti, the young group of spies go codebreaking in Cairo in another international adventure perfect for fans of Spy School and Mrs. We are SO PUMPED to welcome James Ponti to the store to celebrate the fourth book in his incredibly fun CITY SPIES series, CITY SPIES: CITY OF THE DEAD! Ponti will be joined in conversation by Minnesota author Jacqueline West! ![]() ![]() ![]() " With experts predicting 12 to 17 total named storms during the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from Jun. Inside Verizon's Secret Florida Hurricane Preparation Facility As Earth completes its own orbit, it intersects that trail, inadvertently giving us a splendid show." The comet hasn’t gotten very close to Earth since the early 90s (and won’t again until 2126), but the pieces of dust, rock, and ice that shed from Swift-Tuttle create an orbital dusty trail. The Perseids meteor shower occurs every year when Earth passes through debris left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle. The peak coincides with a waning Moon, giving skygazers a dazzling opportunity to spot fireballs as they blaze across the sky. The Perseids meteor shower has been active for a few weeks, but astronomers expect it to peak on August 13. " If you want to gaze up at hundreds of meteors flying overhead, August is your chance. How to Watch the Perseid Meteor Shower This Month The PNNL formula correctly identified 99 percent of such attacks."īut there's more going on in the world than that. In PNNL's testing, 10 standard algorithms correctly identified on average 52 percent of DOS attacks the best one correctly identified 62 percent of attacks. But the sources of those clicks, whether people, zombies or bots, originate in many different places-high entropy. At the target address, many more clicks than usual are going to one place, a state of low entropy. But during a denial-of-service attack, two measures of entropy go in opposite directions. Usually on the internet, there's consistent disorder everywhere. Instead, the team focused on the evolution of entropy, a measure of disorder in a system. " To improve detection accuracy, the PNNL team sidestepped the concept of thresholds completely. Researchers strengthen defenses against denial-of-service attack Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which said the attack was directed against an unnamed critical infrastructure organization in June 2023." The exploitation of CVE-2023-3519 to deploy web shells was previously disclosed by the U.S. ![]() The flaw, patched by Citrix last month, carries a CVSS score of 9.8. The non-profit said the attacks take advantage of CVE-2023-3519, a critical code injection vulnerability that could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. " Hundreds of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway servers have been breached by malicious actors to deploy web shells, according to the Shadowserver Foundation. Hundreds of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway Servers Hacked in Major Cyber Attack The speed of cloud use by consumers and abuse by attackers suggests that wherever possible defenders should employ automation and artificial intelligence to protect their cloud assets. Furthermore, “During the next 12 months, more than 35,000 applications will go end-of-support.”Įach of these risks need to be prioritized by defense teams. “More than 60 million applications discovered during our investigation are end-of-support (EOS) and end-of-life (EOL),” notes the report. These products are no longer supported by the supplier – there will be no patches to implement, and future vulnerabilities will automatically become zero day threats unless you can otherwise remediate. " Related to the remediation risk is the concept of technical debt – the continued use of end-of-support (EOS) or end-of-life (EOL) products. 3, 2004: MESSENGER spacecraft launches to Mercury (Read more HERE.) You need to hear this. Flashback: August 3, 1977: Radio Shack Introduces the TRS-80 (Read more HERE.)īonus Flashback: Aug. ![]() ![]() ![]() The first two iPads used a 1024 by 768 pixel display, while the third generation model quadrupled the number of pixels to 2048 by 1536. The iPad's standout feature is its screen, and that's especially true with the third and fourth gen models. The iPad Smart Cover is purchased separately from the tablet itself. The cover helps protect the screen while conserving battery life. And once the cover is on the iPad 2, the device switches to sleep mode. The cover can be opened and folded into a triangular shape to prop up the iPad 2 and serve as a stand. The iPad Smart Cover uses magnets to latch on to the iPad and cover it snugly. With the launch of the iPad 2, Apple introduced a new type of cover for the device. The base model comes with 16 gigabytes of flash storage, but for $100 or $200 more you can upgrade to 32GB or 64GB, respectively. Of course, every iPad includes a WiFi chip, and Apple sells models with 3G and LTE cellular support. Other key components of the fourth generation iPad include 1GB of RAM, a 720p FaceTime front-facing cam, 5 megapixel rear camera, a 42.5 watt-hour battery, Bluetooth 4.0, standard sensor package (gyroscope, accelerometer and ambient light sensor) and a digital compass. For instance, the iPad can be viewed clearly from a viewing angle of 178 degrees. The viewing angles and colors of IPS displays are superior to standard or twisted nematic TFT screens typically found in notebooks and flat-panel monitors. The iPad uses an IPS, or in-plane switching, LCD planel. The closer-to-square design keeps the iPad from being awkwardly tall or wide in either portrait or landscape orientation, though the trade-off is that widescreen videos can't make as much use of the screen space. Unlike most Android tablets, Apple has chosen a 4:3 aspect ratio for the iPad instead of the widescreen 16:9. The fouth generation iPad measures 9.5 inches (24.1 centimeters) tall by 7.3 inches (18.5 centimeters) wide and 0.4 inches (1 centimeter) deep. The iPad's only other buttons sit on the right side of the device: a rocker controls volume, while another button can serve as mute or rotation lock for the screen. A power button sits at the top edge of that curved surface. ![]() The iPad's build looks more like an iPhone 3GS than the newer iPhone 4 or iPhone 5, thanks to a smooth, curved metal body. The front also houses a webcam for Apple's FaceTime video chatting, while the back has a higher resolution camera for taking better photos. Apple offers two different iPad colors: one with a black face bezel and one with a white face bezel. The front is dominated by a 9.7-inch (24.6-centimeter) touch screen, with a single button (the same Home button found on the iPhone) placed below it. Like the iPhone, the iPad is primarily a touch device. To understand why the iPad is such a successful and popular device, we've got to look at its features, including an intuitive user interface and a store containing thousands of downloadable apps. Hardware is only part of the equation, however. And since the release of its original model, Apple has modified and improved the iPad with faster internals and a higher resolution screen to keep it ahead of the competition. At $500 or more apiece, it's safe to say the iPad has been a tremendous success. Or, rather, Apple created the tablet business: With the launch of the iPad, Apple created a market for touch-based devices designed for watching videos and browsing the web and reading digital books and e-mail.īetween the debut of the iPad in early 2010 and the release of the fourth iPad revision in late 2012, Apple sold more than 100 million tablets. And just as the company had changed the smartphone business with the release of the iPhone, Apple changed the tablet business. Some critics complained that the iPad was just a big iPod Touch. Its sleek finish and unique engineering scream Apple design. It's much larger than those two related devices, yet smaller than a notebook computer. In fact, people had been talking about an Apple tablet for years - people even guessed the name of the device correctly in advance.Īt first glance, the iPad looks like an iPhone or iPod touch on steroids. That didn't stop journalists, bloggers, reporters and analysts from talking about the device. As is common with Apple products, the iPad's development was kept behind a curtain of secrecy. That was the day the company announced the release of its much-anticipated iPad. ![]() ![]() For the rising curve, the one of the left, the bottom left corner represents the beginning of the fade, which is to say “time = 0, completion = 0%.” The top right corner represents the end of the fade, or “time = (duration of the Fade cue), completion = 100%.” For the falling curve, the top left corner represents the beginning and the bottom right corner represents the end. The vertical axis represents percentage of the total change made by the Fade cue. The horizontal axis of the curve represents time and the labels across the top will change based on the duration of the Fade cue. The curve on the left is for levels which increased by the fade, and the curve on the right is for levels which are decreased by the fade. The fade curve, drawn in yellow on the right side of the tab, determines the rate of change of the parameters being faded. The following tabs are visible when an Audio cue, Mic cue, or audio output patch are the target of the Fade cue: The Curve Tab The Triggers tab is always visible and behaves the same way that it always does. When Patch is selected from this menu, a second pop-up menu appears which allows you to select the patch that you want to fade. The Basics tab is always visible and has a small but important difference from how the Basics tab usually appears.īecause Fade cues can target both cues and patches, a pop-up menu appears next to the Target field to switch between cue targeting and patch targeting. The tabs shown in the inspector when a Fade cue is selected vary based on the Fade cue’s target. The word “fade” can often be taken to mean one thing or another, but in QLab “fade” simply means “change a value over time.”įade cues require a cue target, have a duration, and must adjust at least one level or parameter of their cue target in order to be considered functional. When a Fade cue is selected, the inspector will only show the tabs relevant to the type of cue that the Fade cue is targeting. Fade cues can also adjustįade cue can also adjust video parameters of Video cues, Camera cues, and Text cues. Explore the capabilities of the Devamp cue to work with loops, repeats, and precisely timed cue triggering.The Fading Audio tutorial is a hands-on exploration of the topics discussed in this section.Ī Fade cue can be used to adjust the volume levels of a targeted Audio, Mic, Video, Camera cue, or an audio output patch. Learn about Go-to, Arm, Disarm, Wait, Load, Target, and Reset cues. ![]() Learn the basics of Network cues and how to use them to control QLab. Learn how to use cues as palettes to help build light looks throughout a show. Learn about the light patch, the Light Dashboard, and recording Light cues. Get your system set up and ready for action. Touring or just fixing problems with video outputs. Fading in groups of Video cues requires a little math trick. Learn about fading opacity, position, scale, and rotation. How do you prep cues for a 4-, 8-, or 64-channel sound system before you get to the theater? How to Work With Offline Audio Interfaces.A quick discussion of a commonly used technique. Using the rate control to change an Audio cue’s playback speed and pitch. Learn about up-, down-, and cross-fading audio levels, as well as fading groups of Audio cues, and fading audio effects and rate. Since more and more shows involve computer networks, a strong understanding of the basic terms and concepts of networking can be a real asset for a QLab user. Basic Computer Networking for Theater.Two methods for using QLab to perform a speaker check. Everything you ever wanted to know about using QLab with Zoom. An exploration of the tools needed to live-stream the output of QLab to the internet. From studio to booth, or from main to backup, moving workspaces is often necessary. ![]() A primer on basic use of Apple Mac computers, since QLab runs only on Macs. A tour of how cue carts look and work, and how you can use them. A demo workspace for exploring auto-continues, auto-follows, and Group cues. The GO button in QLab 4 has some new tricks up its sleeve. ![]() |
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