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By David Furones South Florida Sun-Sentinel
DOLPHINS (8-7) at PATRIOTS (7-8) - Kickoff: 1 p.m., Sunday, Gillette Stadium
Noteworthy: The Dolphins, looking to snap a four-game losing streak, can clinch a playoff berth Sunday if they win and the New York Jets lose at the Seattle Seahawks. If both the Dolphins and Jets win in Week 17, they create a winner-take-all Week 18 regular-season finale for the final AFC wild-card spot. If Miami loses in New England, the Dolphins need to beat the Jets next week and have the Patriots lose at the Buffalo Bills in their finale. ...
Miami will have to go into Foxborough with backup quarterback Teddy Bridgewater leading the way after Tagovailoa suffered another concussion in last Sunday’s loss to the Green Bay Packers. Bridgewater, a Miami native with 64 career NFL starts to his credit, will be relied upon to take his hometown team into the playoffs. ...
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2022-12-31T16:15:47Z
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Game time: Fast facts, odds, injury report and key info for Dolphins at Patriots | Patriots | unionleader.com
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Three 'powerful steps' will keep new resolutions going after Jan. 1, psychologist says
By Frank Andrews Stars and Stripes
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — New Year's resolutions: They're easy to make but easier to break.
For the determined, a Navy psychologist in Okinawa has three "powerful steps" he said will sustain the healthy life changes those resolutions inspire. Start by recognizing that progress is often stalled by conflicting beliefs, wrote Navy Cmdr. Mathew B. Rariden, a psychologist at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa, in a Nov. 8 email to Stars and Stripes.
"Do you want to lose weight, but also like sweets? OK, well, are you lying about wanting to lose weight because you like sweets, or are you lying about liking sweets because you want to lose weight?" Rariden asked. "The answer is you are not lying."
Neutralize the belief that competes with your desire for change, he said.
"The human mind can tolerate significant adversity as long as it believes in what it's doing," he wrote. "To fervently believe in what one is doing they must find meaning in what they're doing — meaning that can override competition between conflicting beliefs. Firmly grasping this concept is a necessary pre-requisite to sustaining any positive change over time."
The first of Rariden's three steps to keeping a resolution, he said, is to establish a strong, internal motivational structure.
Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Mathew Neese, 32, from Wilmington, N.C., an X-ray technician at Naval Hospital Okinawa, said his goal is to maintain a healthy lifestyle. He is motivated by the example he sets for his 7-year-old daughter, who lives stateside with her mother.
"As soon as I look at her, as soon as I see her smile and see how well she's doing in school, she is my motivation and I think me being motivated kind of rubs off on her," he said during a workout session at the gym. "Every year since her birth, she has been my main motivation for everything."
GROW for goals
Step No. 2, wrote Rariden, is to set and achieve goals using the GROW model.
"The Navy has formally adopted the Goal, Reality, Options, and Will (GROW) model for its coaching efforts, but the GROW model can also be used to facilitate change," he said.
Know your precise goal, that is, what you want to accomplish and understand the feasibility of reaching that goal, or its reality, he said. Understand your options to achieving that goal and choose the path you will follow to reach it, he said.
Lance Cpl. Keilm Rodriguez, 21, of Philadelphia, of the 3rd Transportation Battalion, made her first New Year's resolutions in October. She resolved to read the Bible more often and to get closer to her family, she told Stars and Stripes on Dec. 20, while exercising at Gunner's Gym at Camp Foster.
"I found some Bible studies, so it makes it easier for me to read," she said. "Just the family part has been difficult because I have always kept my distance. It's hard for me to reach out. Even back at home I'm just not much of a talker. I never reach out first. I know my family misses me, and I miss them, so I am trying to reach out more."
'Accountability partners'
The third step, according to Rariden, is to never underestimate the power of positive peer pressure or accountability. For example, ask that friend who visits the gym regularly to drag you along, too. That friend becomes an "accountability partner," Rariden said.
"There are many ways to establish accountability," he wrote.
Ultimately, he said, we each must motivate ourselves, and take charge of our own accountability as soon as possible, he said.
Airman 1st Class Kira Johnson, 18, from Charlotte, N.C., is an apprentice crew chief with the 353rd Air Force Special Operations Command at Kadena Air Base. Her 2023 resolution is to move up to journeyman crew chief, she told Stars and Stripes on Dec. 22 at the base Exchange.
Johnson said she enlisted because the Air Force is a part of her family heritage. Her great-grandfather was a member of the Army Air Corps.
"I wasn't going to fail; because originally, I didn't want to join the Air Force and then, the more I looked at it, the more it became appealing to me, and I made the resolution that I was going to do it for myself, not because my parents wanted me to," she said. "And I was going to kind of prove myself a little bit because I have two younger brothers, and I wanted to make my parents proud."
Exercise, discipline and the support of friends help her keep her resolutions, she said.
"I am here for me," Johnson said, "but also because my two younger siblings are probably going to join so I am here as a trailblazer for them."
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2022-12-31T18:10:57Z
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Three 'powerful steps' will keep new resolutions going after Jan. 1, psychologist says | Back Page | unionleader.com
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NY announces framework to achieve six gigawatts of energy storage by 2030
The Saratogian, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
According to a press release from Hochul's office, the roadmap, submitted by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the New York State Department of Public Service to the Public Service Commission for consideration, proposes a comprehensive set of recommendations to expand New York's energy storage programs to cost-effectively unlock the rapid growth of renewable energy across the state and bolster grid reliability and customer resilience.
The announcement supports the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act goals to generate 70 percent of the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2030 and 100 percent zero-emission electricity by 2040.
"Storing clean, renewable energy and delivering it where and when it is needed is one of the most critical challenges we must overcome to reduce statewide emissions, especially from traditional fossil fuel peaker plants," Hochul said in the press release. "This roadmap will serve as a model for other states to follow by maximizing the use of renewable energy while enabling a reliable and resilient transformation of the power grid."
NYSERDA and DPS assessed potential market reforms and cost-effective procurement mechanisms to achieve six gigawatts and identified research and development needs to accelerate technology innovation, particularly for long-duration storage. The agencies also considered approaches to energy storage development in a way that advances the elimination of the state's most polluting fossil fuel power plants, as proposed by Hochul in her 2022 State of the State address.
"Accelerating the adoption of energy storage across the state will allow more wind and solar energy to be integrated into our electric grid, while improving air quality for many communities historically impacted by fossil fuel-generated pollution," Doreen M. Harris, President and CEO, NYSERDA said. "Building on New York's progress under Governor Hochul's leadership, this roadmap will provide a pathway for the industry to partner with us to bring forward the next wave of projects that will help New Yorkers realize the benefits of this important technology."
"Governor Hochul is a key supporter of energy storage development in New York State," Department of Public Service CEO Rory M. Christian said in the release. "The framework that is being proposed provides New York with the resources it needs to speed our transition to a clean-energy economy and meet our critically important climate goals."
2 — 1,500 megawatts of new retail storage, enough to power approximately 500,000 homes for up to four hours, and 200 megawatts of new residential storage, enough to power 120,000 homes for up to two hours, to be supported through an expansion of NYSERDA's existing region-specific block incentive programs;
6 — Payment of prevailing wage as a programmatic requirement for energy storage projects with a capacity of one megawatt and above, demonstrating the state's continued commitment to driving family-sustaining jobs in clean energy.
Expanding the State's energy storage goal is expected to have an average electricity bill impact for New York customers of less than half a percent, or approximately $0.46 per month. The Roadmap is available for public comment on the Department of Public Service's website, with a subsequent decision-making expected in 2023.
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NY announces framework to achieve six gigawatts of energy storage by 2030 | Energy | unionleader.com
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Few crypto gains appear on tax returns. That's changing - but not this year.
The amount of revenue not collected is hard to calculate, given the purposely anonymous nature of cryptocurrency and the IRS's own opacity - it has not revealed publicly the number of people paying capital gains on crypto investments in more than five years. But the Congressional Budget Office estimates that a new reporting requirement for the exchanges will result in $28 billion in taxes collected over the decade after it takes effect in 2024. A legal requirement that failed in Congress this month would have generated $16 billion more by banning a legal loophole called "wash sales" for crypto traders. Unlike traditional investors, they can book a paper loss when prices drop and immediately re-buy the asset.
"People can play games with [cryptocurrency] and not have to pay any taxes. It's incredibly unfair to the vast majority of law-abiding taxpayers when the IRS is crippled," said Edward Zelinsky, a tax law professor at Cardozo School of Law who has written critically about cryptocurrency. "I think that's the problem with bitcoin - the tax evasion has become normatively accepted."
"There's a lack of awareness," Lerner said. "Compliance rates are, I think, still a fraction of investors."
In 2020, the IRS started explicitly asking about cryptocurrency on individual tax returns, with a yes or no question on every taxpayer's return about whether the taxpayer acquired or sold any virtual currency that year. Saying yes did not mean the taxpayer necessarily owed any taxes on that digital transaction. Only 2.3 million taxpayers said yes.
When it comes to stocks and other traditional investments, investors know they have to pay capital gains taxes and follow through because every traditional brokerage each year must send its customers - and the IRS - a tax form, called a 1099-B, showing customers' gains and losses. Authorities would know if a taxpayer failed to report those earnings.
Crypto traders are just as legally bound to pay taxes on their gains, but cryptocurrency exchanges have not been required to send those forms and won't be required until the provision in the infrastructure bill takes effect in 2024. Without the forms, the IRS has had no way of knowing what those gains are short of going to court.
"That certainly will be a huge amount of reporting - and presumably increase in revenue," said Joseph Riley, a New York tax lawyer who has focused on cryptocurrency, because taxpayers will "know that a copy has gone to the IRS."
"Since they have to comply anyway, they may as well use their crypto trading to do tax loss harvesting," he said.
Until they do, reporting won't begin.
"Defining rules takes time, effort and investment, and that's not something the IRS has had an abundance of in the past 10 years," said Lawrence Slatkin,the vice president for tax at Coinbase. "We're seeing a delayed reaction."
"That's not being done at scale yet, but we expect that to change in the next few years as the government is cracking down on this problem," Lerner said. Just because your name is not publicly attached to your cryptocurrency trades doesn't mean that the IRS can't come after you.
"Any time you're transacting on any centralized place that can exchange, [the IRS has] the authority to be able to get that data," he said. "In terms of the misconception that it's easy to get away with these things in crypto, it's actually pretty far from the truth."
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2022-12-31T20:03:30Z
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Few crypto gains appear on tax returns. That's changing - but not this year. | Business | unionleader.com
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