The Border Guide: A Canadian's Guide to Living, Working, and Investing in the United States

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Excellent reading for Canadians spending time in the U.S.

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The Border Guide

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The Border Guide: A Canadian's Guide to Living, Working, and Investing in the United States
Robert Keats
Manufacturer: Self-Counsel Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1551807653

Book Description

Cross-border financial planning!

* For snowbirds and permanent residents
* Save money with sound cross-border financial planning
* Get the best from both countries
* Learn tips on investing in real estate

You won't want to leave home without it!

In this informative guide, noted financial planner and columnist Robert Keats teaches you everything you need to know about cross-border financial planning. You'll learn how to:

* Avoid getting caught by fluctuations in Canadian currency

* Qualify for old-age and social security benefits on both sides of the border

* Get the best from both the Canadian and U.S. medical systems--without the disadvantages of either

* Buy a retirement home and deduct the mortgage interest from your Canadian tax return

* Receive your Canadian pensions in the U.S. -- almost tax-free!

* Make U.S.-based investments that are exempt from U.S. income tax and filing requirements

* Use the new U.S.-Canada Tax Treaty to receive the equivalent of an unlimited capital gains exemption

* Alleviate your tax burden when you return to Canada after an extended stay in the U.S.

. . . and much, much more!

This updated edition includes extensive new information on the Canada/US Tax Treaty, the impact of the higher Canadian dollar, new border issues since 9/11, and many small regulatory changes that are needed to keep the book current.

Don't make a run for the border without The Border Guide in hand!

Customer Reviews:

Best resource on the subject.......2007-03-23

Well written, well researched, great resource for anyone who has assets in both Canada and the US, or wants to move from one country to another with financial savvy, to minimize taxes and maximize assets.

Excellent reading for Canadians spending time in the U.S........2007-03-14

So many people have their own ideas on how long they can remain in the U.S. and how the U.S. government can look at your world wide income. This book puts it all in perspective. A good read.

excellent book.......2007-03-11

If anyone is working in the USA either temporarily or as a permanent resident, this book will allow you to become informed on some of the general tax, real property, and immigration rules that may apply to your situation This is a must-have, at the very least for a starting point on US employment and living. I highly recommend it for those non-residents in the US, or for permanent residency holders.

The Border Guide.......2007-02-13

Ordered the latest edition (Edition #8) and they sent out Edition #7. I had to buy the book retail,

A "Must Read" .......2007-01-10

I wish I would have known about this book before I moved to the USA! It answered a whole bunch of questions I had, relative to taxes and estate planning. If you are planning or contemplating a move to the USA, read this book BEFORE you move. You can save yourself a lot of money in taxes and a lot of frustration.

The Border Guide: A Canadian's Guide to Investing, Working and Living in the United States

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Ok, I guess
An Extremely Valuable Reference Book!!

The Border Guide: A Canadian's Guide to Investing, Working and Living in the United States
Robert Keats
Manufacturer: Stoddart
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0773762019

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Ok, I guess.......2002-06-29

This book was not what I expected. As a Canadian who has been living in the United States for almost 10 years, I was looking for advice on questions I have been thinking about recently. However, this book did not cover any subjects in enough depth for me, and simply told me things I already knew. Perhaps for basic cross-border information, the book would be helpful, but for someone in my situation it certainly was not. I have returned it.

An Extremely Valuable Reference Book!!.......2002-04-13

A long over-due book with absolutely invaluable info for Canadians looking to go state-side!! It answered all my questions and then some. It almost seemed as if Robert Keats knew what questions potential readers would ask! A detail-oriented, well thought out and very thorough piece of work. ANY dual citizen of the US/Canada or Canadian looking to invest or move to the US MUST get a copy of this book!! Don't do anything until you read this book first!

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Devotion to an Adopted Homeland.......2004-03-23

I heard about Kate Cumming at a Celtic festival in Virginia where Irish singer and songwriter Jed Marum (SOUL OF A WANDERER) told her story, talked about her diary and sang two beautiful songs that her life inspired him to write. I knew I had to read the book, and I was NOT disappointed!

Kate's devotion to her adopted homeland and her deep faith are inspiring. Her thoughts and feelings about the war and her battle front experience evolve over the 3 years of the diary - and they are eloquently expressed in its pages. This book is a treasure!

Great Reference!.......2003-09-15

This book is the masterfully written journal of Kate Cumming. Miss Cumming was a confederate
nurse during the Civil War. Like Clara Barton in the north, Kate cares for hundreds of the suffering soldiers. Miss Cumming works at Corinth, Mississippi toward the start of the book. Here at Corinth men are brought in every day from the bloody battlefield of Shiloh. She works in Chattanooga for a few months. Also she did her duty as a nurse in Mobile, Alabama(her hometown) Kate relates in her flowing writing the many thoughts that ran through her mind during those long, hard, years. She tells of how much faith in God these men had. This really touched me. Kate said, while speaking of the men's faith, that she had not met one man in her hospital that did not know the Lord. This is quite a statement! To think of all that these men went through at Shiloh, Stone's River, and so many others! I would highly recommend this book because it reveals the true history from a woman who lived at the time and was a witness to these events in our country's history.

A fine journal by a true Southern lady.......2002-05-07

Kate's journal is amazingly well-written, and, as I said in my title, it is obvious from reading it that she is a true Southern lady.

When I consider how I write any old thing, any old way, in my own journals, I am impressed by the way Kate kept all the wartime news- both on the battlefield and in her private life- so nicely organized. Don't let the word "organized" fool you, though, into thinking it is boring. This journal is anything but dull. Kate's writing style is intelligent, personal, detailed, and extremely interesting; the amazing part is that most of it is written whenever she can snatch a moment to herself from her nursing duties.

From reading Kate's journal one quickly sees her devotion to the South and its "cause" for freedom. She was not a nurse before the war, but when the war began she volunteered to become one. As a nurse, she showed great compassion for the soldiers, doing everything in her power to alleviate their suffering and to make their stay in the hospital as pleasant as possible, under the terrible circumstances in which she worked. Sometimes her burden would seem too heavy, and she would almost make up her mind to quit, but her determination to be patriotic and her compassion for her patients would change her mind.

Kate Cumming was a true lady, and this fact also made her journal enjoyable. She is well-mannered; for instance, when she does dislike someone she exercises reserve in writing about them, even though she is writing in her private journal. She does greatly dislike "Yankees", but instead of simply raving bitterly about them, she relates the incidents that cause her to dislike them. Overall, Kate is quiet and observant, and likes to write about the better things that occur in her life (something as simple as meeting a friend on the train, or having something extra nice for dinner) rather than dwell negatively on the hardships that she was experiencing.

I highly recommend this wartime journal for anyone interested in a truly personal account of a nurse during the Civil War. The fact that Kate was a Southerner makes it even more interesting, because on the whole she went through more than her Northern counterparts did. She was a patriotic lady, and her attitude throughout the war makes her journal a pleasure to read.

A Southern Lady's Perspective on the US Civil War.......2002-03-08

Kate's is a remarkable story, and this journal in her own words unfolds over the difficult days of the US Civil War. Kate Cumming is a fine, educated, intelligent and articulate woman. She is a woman of deep faith and lasting patience. Her journal passes on to us the daily routine, the sufferings of war and the deepest reflections of this noteworthy woman. The text is riveting, moving, thought provoking. The book is history from a very personal perspective - one well worth reading.

Kate : The Journal of a Confederate Nurse.......2000-10-01

Excellant Book covers areas of the war not gone over by others, I do Confederate Cemetery Research and she has in her Journal name of men who did and some unit information, that has help to lead to I.D.ing 5 Soldiers not listed in to N.Ga. cemeteries before

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The Journal of a Confederate Nurse
Kate Cumming
Manufacturer: Beehive Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000M2VRI0

The Journal of a Confederate Nurse 1862-1865

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The Journal of a Confederate Nurse 1862-1865
Kate; Edited By Richard Harwell Cumming
Manufacturer: Beehive Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000X668F2

The journal of Kate Cumming: A Confederate nurse, 1862-1865

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The journal of Kate Cumming: A Confederate nurse, 1862-1865
Kate Cumming
Manufacturer: Beehive Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Each of the fifty profiles is an intimate pairing: Lauren Bacall on her relationship with Humphrey Bogart; Katharine Hepburn on her stormy life with Spencer Tracy. Lovers also includes contributions from George Burns, Dylan Thomas, and Jimmy Carter. Every written piece is accompanied by a lush full-bleed portrait of the couple. Lovers is a book about the fire of true love, the undeniable longing that makes two people the desire of each others life.

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the grandmother speaks, herself a photographer.......2006-07-09

I think that for every moment that people love one another, we are ahead. I find this book beautiful, for it captures couples who were in that moment, deeply attached to each other. The book is called Lovers, not Marriage. And the moments caught in this book are priceless. There are a thousand ways to photograph a single individual, and these photos are in rich black and white with dark darks and light lights and strong midtones.

I was taken by not just the faces, but the textures: the look of happiness in two men's eyes who are dressed in their rough tweed winter coats; the sophisticated poets standing ironically in a disheveled farmyard, just the curve of her breasts alone so alive; a close-up of a woman of legendary beauty with perfect skin and her lover's face close by with its deeply ravaged and pitted skin; and one of the most haunting photographs ever of a man and woman in an all white room with nothing in it but a white bed, and her long black rough and wavy hair flowing over the side of the bed to the floor, and her lover lying atop her like a child at fullest peace...this picture is grainy and atmospheric and perfect also.

I tend to look at photographs not just for the subjects, not just for the postures and gestures, not even just for the technical skill of the printing, but also for what emanates/ed in that moment the camera eye snapped closed and opened again. In this sense, even the more posed photos with fine grain, are poignant. This is why I did not name the famous people these photos are of and about. The photos stand for themselves and are not images of faces and bodies, but a stop motion in time in a great story. Those who know at depth the fore and after stories of the subjects are even more enriched in viewing these moments of time when the loved also loved in return.

It is true that there are many forms of love, tired and grim love, tenacity with disappointment love, dedicated love without care, forever love and cherishment, tender and awake love, and also there is a kind of true love that is fleeting, but nonetheless real, just like the camera's eye snapping closed and then open again... imprinting a deep image on each lover for all life...regardless of longevity, regardless of all else. I think that for every moment that people love one another, we are ahead.

Great coffee table book.......2005-11-01

This is the type of book that people will actually pick up and delve into. Photo books don't have the same punch, and longer articles are too much to invite the casual brouser to read. Each profiled couple is one page worth of commentary and the facing page a black and white photo, so that your guests can read one or two entries easily. Yeah, the Anne Heche/Ellen Degeneras entry is a bust, but most of the rest are classic couples. As a coffee table book it is 5 stars -- among the best -- but I'll take a star off since as a regular book you would probably want more photos and details.

Great Romances? More like, Great Disappointments.......2003-08-13

For me, I was disappointed in my copy of "Lovers." Mostly, because I consider 'true lovers' to actually stay together. Many of the couples featured in this book became separated or divorced. Sorry, not my idea of true love, or romance either.

Plus, I'd prefer more photos than just the single one per couple. The lowercase font used as a title for each bio was really annoying, and the format (one large photo and an essay), tedious. Also, there were few contemporary 'lovers.'

Since its publication this book has become obsolete. (As the ill-fated Anne Heche and Ellen deGenerres romance will suggest).

Overall, I've seen books which handle this subject much better. I'd give this one a pass, or pick it up at the library before purchasing.

Lovers.......2000-01-28

I thought that this book was very captivating was full of emotion

Great Romances of Our Time through the Eyes of Legendary Writers

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Great Romances of Our Time through the Eyes of Legendary Writers

Manufacturer: Little, Brown & Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1402878001

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From the Publisher Each of these 50 profiles is an intimate pairing: Lauren Bacall on her relationship with Humphrey Bogart; A. Alvarez on the beautiful, sad days of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath; Katharine Hepburn on her stormy life with Spencer Tracy. Lovers also includes contributions from George Burns, Dylan Thomas, Jimmy Carter, and John Gregory Dunne. Every written piece is accompanied by a lush full-page portrait of the couple, by such noted photographers as Cecil Beaton, Neil Leifer, Alan Tannenbaum, Bert Stern, and Annie Leibovitz. Lovers is a book about the fire of true love - the undeniable longing that makes two people the desire of each other's lives. Sometimes it comes in fiery flashes like Burton and Taylor; Rivera and Frida Kahlo; sometimes in the deep, lasting bond of Newman and Woodward; and sometimes in a long, sad trajectory like Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Yet these loves last forever. To put it simply, as Frank Sinatra said of Ava Gardener: "She was my life."

Lovers: Great Romances of Our Time through the Eyes of Legendary Writers

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Lovers: Great Romances of Our Time through the Eyes of Legendary Writers

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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 076286348X

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Over the last 20 years, the number of professional managers displaced from US corporate jobs has increased dramatically. This has coincided with the rapid expansion of employment in the US nonprofit sector; a sector that has a high proportion of managerial and professional workers among its employees.
Workforce Transitions from the Profit to the Nonprofit Sector examines the career sequences of dislocated white-collar corporate managers who want to move to the nonprofit sector. It highlights the managers' motivations, the structural barriers which prevented them from making the transition, and the methods of penetrating the barriers. It uncovers the reasons why some corporate managers are able to make the transition and why others do not. Finally, it presents the methods of adaptation that were utilized in their new environments.
This volume will be of interest to human resource managers in the profit and nonprofit sectors, sociologists, occupational researchers, and organizational psychologists.

WORKFORCE TRANSITIONS FROM THE PROFIT TO THE NONPROFIT SECTOR

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WORKFORCE TRANSITIONS FROM THE PROFIT TO THE NONPROFIT SECTOR
Tobie S. Stein
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OS9RCU

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This book features Gordon Schlicke's humorous outlook on the lending industry, covering everything from customers and job titles to regulations and technology, accompanied by a collection of his best cartoons. Schlicke has had the opportunity to observe the lending industry business first-hand as an originator, trainer, and speaker. Through his regular columns in Mortgage Originator and various speaking engagements, the author has developed a following of fans who enjoy hearing about the lighter side of the business. His stories and cartoons help us poke fun at ourselves--usually in a gentle manner.

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This is the story of Toussaint Charbonneau, a French Canadian fur trader, and his Shoshone wife, Sacagawea, who both joined the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804 as interpreters and guides. Sacagawea has become a near-legendary figure for her role on the expedition, but Toussaint's contribution largely has been overlooked--Lewis himself called him "a man of no peculiar merit." Now W. Dale Nelson offers a frank and honest portrayal of Toussaint, showing that his contributions as interpreter and guide were just as valuable as Sacagawea's help. Nelson also explores the life of Toussaint and Sacagawea's son, Jean Baptiste, who was born on the expedition, and follows his later western exploits as mountain man, scout, mayor, and judge in this family biography.

"Quite useful to scholars and lay people alike as an enthusiastic public seeks the best biographies available on the men and women of the Lewis and Clark expedition."--William Swagerty, editor, Scholars and the Indian Experience

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Offers the truth behind the myth.......2003-10-14

Interpreters With Lewis And Clark: The Story Of Sacagawea And Toussaint Charbonneau by journalist and historian W. Dale Nelson is an informed and informative documented study of the lives of two prominent figures in Western history, Sacagawea and her husband, and their role in the near-legendary Lewis and Clark expedition of 1803. An insightful, honestly presented, superbly written study that offers the truth behind the myths, Interpreters With Lewis And Clark is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to academic and community library American Biography collections.

Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian

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Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau.(Book Review) : An article from: The Historian
Vincent Vinikas
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000B9DU7A
Release Date: 2005-09-03

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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on March 22, 2005. The length of the article is 513 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau.(Book Review)
Author: Vincent Vinikas
Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 67 Issue: 1 Page: 127(2)

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