News Corp close to settling hacking cases
LONDON (Reuters) – News International, the British arm of News Corp that includes the now-defunct News of the World, is close to settling many of the high-profile phone-hacking cases brought against it, lawyers for the victims told Reuters on Wednesday. A spokeswoman for News International declined to comment ahead of a pre-trial hearing which is due to take place on Thursday morning in front of …

Actually all three laws can be lumped into one physics characteristic… the change in momentum, dP, which is called impulse. Here's how.

Impulse is dP = m dV = F dt; where m is your head as you sit in the car seat, dV = V1 – V0 is the change in speed of your body as your car gets rear ended with a force F for an impact interval dt seconds. V0 is your head and body moving along at, say, 44 fps (30 mph), as you drive through a residential area. V1 is the new, faster speed V1 > V0 because your car gets pushed from behind with that force F.

Now here's the deal. Your head is up in the air while your body is snug against the seat pan and back when you get rear ended. So your head, when the crash occurs, wants to continue on at V0 (Newton's First) while your body is pushed faster to V1 (Newton's Second). What happens? Your head slams backward (actually it's your car slamming forward, but it's all realtive).

If there is nothing behind your head (i.e., no headrest), there is nothing to stop it from slamming backward except your neck muscles and bones. Whiplash as your bones are cracked and your muscles are strained while stopping your head from flying off your shoulders.

But with that headrest, your backward flying head is cushioned upon impact and brought to a stop so that the backward force is offset by the reaction force of the headrest. And there you have balanced equal but opposite forces on your head while you try to get the car under control and brought to a stop (Newton's Third).

And there you are… all three laws, using impulse as the central theme and the physics.

those conservative morons who are claiming libs don't care about babies or humans, you couldn't be anymore ignorant. of course i care about infants and humans. i also know that a fetus is not an infant and a woman should be able to choose when or if she brings another life into the world. consent to sex IS NOT consent to motherhood and sex is not a crime.

Had you converted your personal residence to a rental unit you could have used that loss to offset the gain on the other rental. If the loss was enough to wipe out the gain on the sale of the rental, some of the additional loss could have been claimed against your other income with the balance of the loss carried forward to future tax years.

An even better approach (if feasible for you) might have been to move in to the rental for 2 years and rent out your former principal residence and then sell them both. You'd have a recapture of the depreciation claimed on the former rental but that probably would not have been enough to put you over the exclusion amount on the sale of a principal residence and you might have been able to take at least a partial loss on the sale of your former principal residence. Even if you couldn't take the entire loss in the year of the sale you usually can carry forward the loss to future tax years.

Unfortunately it's now too late for either of those tax-saving options.