CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) -- The Retail Association of Nevada is hailing U.S. Senate passage of a bill that would allow states to collect tax on Internet sales.

The Senate on Monday approved the Marketplace Fairness Act on a vote of 69-27.

The vote came the same day the Nevada Assembly approved a resolution urging Congress to support the measure.

Under existing law, only retailers with a physical presence in the state are required to collect sales tax on online purchases. In Nevada, consumers of non-taxes goods are supposed to pay the sales tax directly to the state, though that is rarely done.

As a result, many online sales are tax-free, giving Internet retailers an advantage over brick-and-mortar stores.

The association says a federal law will make all businesses operate under the same rules.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Three health insurance companies plan to sell health insurance through the federal insurance marketplace in Montana.

Montana Insurance Commissioner Monica Lindeen says Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, PacificSource Health Plans and the Montana Health CO-OP filed paperwork with her office by the May 15 deadline.

In August, insurers will make a final commitment to sell insurance on the marketplace, which was created under the Affordable Care Act.

The marketplace website is scheduled to open in October, allowing Montanans to search for products with coverage beginning in January 2014.

The market is designed to create competition, transparency and easy access to health insurance for consumers.

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - The breakout box-office success of the Matthew McConaughey movie "Mud" has surprised everyone - except independent film company Roadside Attraction, which has been nothing if not systematic in its marketing and release.

The Mississippi River-set coming-of-age drama has made nearly $17 million since opening back on April 26 and is easily the highest-grossing movie in the seven-year history of the company. All the more impressively, it's never played in more than 960 theaters.

"It's been an amazing ride," said Howard Cohen, co-president of with Eric D'Arbeloff at Roadside, which with Lionsgate Entertainment acquired and is distributing "Mud."

That ride isn't over yet. "Mud" broke into the top 10 in its second week and remains there , five weeks later. And Roadside's box-office grosses for 2013 are already up to $19.8 million -- better than 2012's total of $19.4 million.

What's more, with four movies still to come this summer, starting Friday with Joss Whedon's modern-day Shakespeare adaptation "Much Ado About Nothing," and three more due in the fall, Roadside looks like a lock to top its best year ever. That was 2011 when "Conspirator," "Margin Call," "Biutiful" and Oscar Best Picture nominee "Winter's Bone" helped them take in roughly $28 million.

"Mud" was written and directed by Jeff Nichols ("Take Shelter"), and co-stars Reese Witherspoon, Sam Shepherd and Nichols regular Michael Shannon. It was financed by Everest Entertainment and produced by Everest and FilmNation Entertainment for about $12 million, and competed for the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year, which is where Roadside picked it up.

It follows two teenage boys (Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland) who encounter a fugitive (McConaughey) and form a pact to help him evade a bounty hunter and reunite with his true love (Witherspoon).

"Mud" quickly caught the eye of Roadside and Lionsgate executives at Cannes.

"We've focused primarily on intelligent, upscale movies with significant casts that have commercial elements, not pure art films, and Mud' certainly fit that profile," said Howard Cohen, co-president with Eric D'Arbeloff at Roadside.

Once the deal closed in July, the next questions were the timing of the U.S. release and how to market the film.

"At the time, there was a lot of Matthew out there," Cohen said. A revived McConaughey was on screen throughout 2012 in "Bernie," "Killer Joe" and Magic Mike." So the decision was made to go with a spring 2013 release, which allowed Roadside and Lionsgate to take the film to the Sundance and South by Southwest film festivals.

"It was very well received and reviewed at both,' Cohen said, "and that gave us a lot of buzz ahead of the opening." "Mud" rolled out on 363 screens in late April -- more than a month after Focus Features debuted "Place Beyond the Pines," an arthouse-thriller which targeted a similar audience but failed to gain much traction, despite having Ryan Gosling in the title role.

When it came to the marketing, Cohen said that they pursued a more commercial, rather than arthouse, strategy. "The trailer pushes the genre elements - the thriller aspect, the gunplay - while at the same time emphasizing the reviews, and mentioning Cannes. It presents the film not as a standard thriller and not as pure arthouse either, and that was because we wanted to go to a wider demographic," Cohen said. "That's how we went with the TV spots, too."

"Mud" has played to a primarily - 60 percent - female audience, despite its gritty story line, and very well in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

But set on the Mississippi River, it also has played very strongly in the South - particularly so in Austin, where McConaughey and Nichols live, and throughout Texas. In terms of box office, the No. 2-grossing theater for the film (behind the Arclight Hollywood) is in Little Rock, Ark., where it was shot.

"It's a Heartland story," Cohen said, "and Matthew McConaughey is very popular in those regions, but mainly the film speaks for itself."

Roadside doesn't develop or produce movies; it buys the rights, does the marketing and puts them in theaters. It's a lean operation, with just 18 full-time employees, well below the numbers employed by other specialty labels.

It's a formula that is working better than it ever has before, in part because it's found a groove with partner Lionsgate, which bought a 43 percent stake in 2007. The two companies have developed a reputation for being aggressive on the festival circuit, where Cohen and d'Arbeloff, along with Lionsgate's Jason Constantine, are familiar faces.

Last year, they left the Toronto International Film Festival with the rights to Stuart Blumberg's "Thanks for Sharing," Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's "Imogene," Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing" and Sarah Polley's family documentary, "Stories We Tell."

The company doesn't list its releases on Box Office Mojo or Exhibitor Relations' slate of upcoming film, so you have to be paying particularly close attention - or check in on their clever and occasionally sardonic Twitter account - to know what's coming.

First up is "Much Ado About Nothing" in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. No one is expecting superhero-sized grosses from this one, but anything "The Avengers" director is involved in is bound to draw attention, and a nationwide rollout is planned for June 21.

"Redemption," a thriller starring Jason Statham, is set for June 28. Steven Knight ("Dirty Pretty Things") wrote and directed the tale of a man on the run from a military court martial, who descends into London's underworld, assumes another's identity and becomes an avenging angel.

On July 19, the company will roll out the Kristin Wiig comedy "Girl Most Likely" on roughly 300 screens. Annette Bening, Matt Dillon and Darren Criss co-star in the film, which follows a failed New York playwright transitioning from Next Big Thing to Last Year's News. That one's probably the one with the most commercial appeal.

"In a World ...," in which Lake Bell makes her writing and directing debut, will close out Roadside's summer on August 9. In the comedy, Bell plays a voice coach who ventures into the competitive all-male race to land the voiceover gig for the trailer of a massive blockbuster trilogy. Rob Corddry and Nick Offerman co-star.

It's a diverse slate, which will get even broader in the fall.

First there is the Gwyneth Paltrow-Mark Ruffalo sex-addiction comedy "Thanks for Sharing," on September 20. That's followed by the Lionsgate production "Grace Unplugged," starring Disney TV star AJ Michalka as a young Christian singer whose faith is put to the test when she gets her big break.

That one will debut on about 500 screens - about as big as Roadside ever goes with openings - on October 4. And two weeks later, Roadside will debut its recent Cannes pickup, the Robert Redford shipwreck saga "All Is Lost," which looks sure to draw awards attention.

All that adds up to a year that will be the company's best and could actually change the way Roadside does business.

"We may have to add a couple of people," Cohen said.

The U.S. space agency and Danish toy company, which recently ended a partnership to fly the iconic plastic construction , are now jointly presenting the "NASA's Missions: Imagine and Build" competition. The contest, which is open to teenage and older LEGO fans, began on Wednesday (June 5) and runs through July 31.

"Have you ever dreamed of exploring space, or building your own aircraft of the future? We'll like to invite you to do more than dream," wrote LEGO editorial team member Sara Moore on the website ReBrick, the company's social media platform for . "We'll like you to take part in a very special competition with NASA and The LEGO Group ... for a chance to win a collection of goodies from both groups." []

Theis divided into two categories: the aviation-themed "Inventing our Future of Flight" and spaceflight-centric "Imagine our Future Beyond Earth."

In "Future of Flight," participants 13 years of age and older are challenged to design and build their idea for a future aircraft based on the real concepts and technologies that NASA's aeronautics division is developing to increase fuel efficiency and reduce harmful emissions and noise.

In addition to building a model of an aircraft, entrants must also write a technical paper that explains how their design takes advantage of NASA's ideas and potentially improves on them.

In "Future Beyond Earth," LEGO and space fans at least 16 years old design and build a futuristic vehicle from the toy bricks that might travel through the air or outer space. The design can be based in reality or on purely a flight of fancy, but must have a relationship to a mission NASA is planning to launch now through the 2030s.

According to NASA, entries can "be an airplane, rotorcraft, rocket, spacecraft, satellite, rover or something else."

For both categories, entries can be photos of actual LEGO models or virtual creations using the free software LEGO Digital Designer. All model designs submitted become the property of LEGO.

A panel of LEGO and NASA representatives, including an astronaut, will judge the entries. Five winners in total will be chosen: one young builder and one overall first place winner from the "Future of Flight" category and one grand prize winner and two runner-ups among "Future Beyond Earth" entries.

The winners of "Inventing our Future of Flight" will receive a LEGO trophy and a collection of NASA memorabilia, as well as have the chance to present their ideas to both toy and aeronautics specialists.

The grand prize winner of the "Imagine our Future Beyond Earth" category will be awarded a limitedsigned by a LEGO designer, as well as be recognized by NASA on its website and receive a collection of NASA memorabilia, including the autograph of the contest's astronaut judge. The runner-ups will receive a LEGO set and a collection of NASA memorabilia.

The winners will be announced on Sept. 1.

The "NASA's Missions: Imagine and Build" competition is the latest joint project in an ongoing partnership between LEGO and NASA. In addition to flying sets to the space station including a to appear in educational outreach videos, LEGO minifigures have landed on Mars and are now on their way to Jupiter on NASA's Juno probe. LEGO also released a set of four toy sets in 2011 that included information about NASA's activities.

For more about the "NASA's Missions: Imagine and Build" competition, see .

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors should regularly screen babies and young children for delays in motor skill development - including trouble sitting, standing and speaking - at well-child visits, pediatricians said today.

In a clinical report, an American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) panel said diagnosing and treating those problems early on may ultimately improve kids' outlook and help families gain additional support.

"Identifying children with delays and motor abnormalities, theoretically or hopefully would set them on a better trajectory," said Meghann Lloyd, who studies motor development at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada.

Lloyd, who was not involved in the new report, called it "a really big step forward for the field."

Dr. Garey Noritz and colleagues on the AAP's neuromotor screening expert panel lay out the skills that a child should have developed by office visits at ages 9, 18, 30 and 48 months.

For example, a 9-month-old baby should be able to roll to both sides, sit well without support and grasp objects. At 18 months, that child should be able to walk, sit and stand on its own.

Pediatricians should also ask parents open-ended questions about their child's development and watch the child play for signs of delays or loss of motor skills at well-child visits, the panel said.

On a general exam, it recommended that doctors measure head size and look at children's muscle tone, reflexes and eye movements.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed expert panel, said in 2006 there wasn't enough evidence to recommend for or against screening instruments designed to detect speech and language delays in young kids. The task force does not have screening recommendations for motor delays in general.

"The AAP recognized that we as a profession weren't necessarily doing a good job screening for motor problems," Noritz, from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, told Reuters Health.

Cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy are two of the most common motor-related diseases and could both be picked up and treated earlier than they typically are now, according to Noritz.

He said families often refer to the "diagnostic odyssey" involved in getting a definitive diagnosis for a sick child.

"We're hoping that people can get to a specialist more quickly and thus get diagnosed more quickly, but that primary care clinicians at the same time as they're looking for a diagnosis, will refer (kids) to therapy," he said.

PROMOTING MOVEMENT

There is normal variation in how kids develop, Lloyd said - so if a child is a couple of months late to walk, for example, parents shouldn't be overly concerned.

But longer delays, or combinations of multiple motor problems, are a good reason for a visit to the pediatrician, she told Reuters Health.

"Other types of movements that don't seem right, like a tremor or a rigidity or some sort of repetitive motor movement would be another red flag for me," Lloyd added.

Typical motor delays that aren't a result of more serious underlying conditions are treated with physical or occupational therapy.

Parents can bring their children to an early movement program such as Kindergym to promote development of motor skills, Lloyd said, regardless of other treatments and whether or not they are delayed.

Having poor motor skills in general "sets you on a trajectory for low levels of physical activity, which of course is related to obesity," she said.

"The prevention of these delays or the promotion of motor ability can actually impact your health for your lifespan."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/cxXOG Pediatrics, online May 27, 2013.

Survivors described workers, mostly women, struggling through smoke and flames to reach doors that turned out to be locked or blocked.

One worker, 39-year-old Guo Yan, said the emergency exit at her workstation could not be opened and she was knocked to the ground in the crush of workers searching for a way to escape the fire Monday.

"I could only crawl desperately forward," Guo was quoted as saying by the official Xinhua News Agency. "I worked alongside an old lady and a young girl, but I don't know if they survived or not."

The accident highlights the high human costs of China's lax industrial safety standards, which continue to endanger workers despite recent improvements in the country's work safety record. It also comes amid growing international concern over factory safety across Asia following the collapse in April of a garment factory building in Bangladesh where more than 1,100 people died.

Besides the dead, dozens were injured in the blaze in Jilin province's Mishazi township, which appeared to have been sparked by three early morning explosions, Xinhua said. The provincial fire department attributed the blasts to an ammonia leak. The chemical is kept pressurized as part of the cooling system in meat processing plants.

It was one of China's worst recent industrial disasters, with the death toll the highest since a September 2008 mining cave-in that claimed 281 lives.

State broadcaster CCTV quoted workers as saying the fire broke out during a shift change when about 350 workers were at the plant, owned by Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Co.

Some employees raised the alarm shortly after the shift began at 6 a.m., and then the lights went out, causing panic as workers scrambled to find an exit, 44-year-old Wang Fengya told Xinhua.

"When I finally ran out and looked back at the plant, I saw high flames," she said.

The fire broke out in a factory building where chickens were being dismembered, and spread rapidly, with industrial boilers exploding, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported on its microblog. Only a side door to the building was open with the rest of the exits locked, the newspaper said.

It quoted an unidentified worker as saying the fire engulfed the building in three minutes, leaving too little time for many to flee.

The disaster killed 119 people and injured a further 70, Xinhua said Tuesday. Most of the injured were being treated for inhalation of toxic gases, such as ammonia, while others had burns. It wasn't immediately clear if the workers were local residents or migrants from other areas.

A provincial government media official, who refused to give his name, said he expected the death toll to rise as more bodies were recovered from the charred building.

The fire was extinguished by some 500 firefighters and bodies were being recovered from the charred buildings. CCTV footage showed dark smoke billowing from the prefabricated cement structures topped with corrugated iron roofs.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top leaders ordered that no effort be spared to rescue and treat survivors, as well as to investigate the cause of the disaster.

It was the third major industrial blaze to be reported in China in the past four days. The two earlier fires were an oil tank explosion in Liaoning province that caused another oil tank to catch fire, killing two, and a blaze in a large granary in Heilongjiang province that wiped out 1,000 tons of grain.

Many of China's factories were built in recent decades to drive the country's rapid economic growth, and accidents and chemical spills are common, often blamed on lax enforcement of safety rules and poor worker training.

The government has tightened checks on factories and mines to improve compliance with safety requirements, and deaths from workplace accidents fell nearly 5 percent last year from the previous year, according to Yang Dongliang, head of the State Administration of Work Safety.

Even in China's notoriously deadly coal mines, the death toll fell by more than 30 percent last year because of stricter management.

Jason Yan, technical director in Beijing of the U.S. Grains Council, said safety considerations usually take a back seat in China to features designed to maximize production and energy efficiency.

"I'm sure they consider some aspects of safety design. However, I think safety ... is not the first priority in their design plan," Yan said.

The poultry plant is one of several in the area where chickens are slaughtered and then quickly cut up into pieces and shipped to market. The process takes place in near-freezing conditions and plants are usually built with large amounts of flammable foam insulation to keep temperatures constant.

Established in 2009, Jilin Baoyuanfeng produces 67,000 tons of processed chicken per year and employs about 1,200 people. It serves markets in 20 cities nationwide and has won numerous awards for its contribution to the local economy, according to online postings. The plant is located outside the city of Dehui, about 500 miles (800 kilometers) northeast of China's capital, Beijing.

The area is an agribusiness center, especially for poultry. Nearby is one of the biggest producers of broiler chickens in China, Jilin Deda Co., which is partly owned by Thailand-based conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Group.

Monday's fire hit a company that is much smaller than Jilin Deda. Though it's unlikely to have an impact on China's chicken supply, the accident came as chicken producers were seeing sales recover after an outbreak of a deadly new strain of bird flu, H7N9, briefly scared the public in April and early May.

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Associated Press writer Gillian Wong contributed to this report.

For more than 40 years, Michigan required all motorcycle riders to wear helmets. State legislators changed the law last year so that only riders younger than 21 must wear helmets. The average insurance payment on a motorcycle injury claim was $5,410 in the two years before the law was changed, and $7,257 after it was changed an increase of 34 percent, the study by the Highway Loss Data Institute found.

After adjusting for the age and type of motorcycle, rider age, gender, marital status, weather and other factors, the actual increase was about 22 percent relative to a group of four comparative states, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin, the study found.

"The cost per injury claim is significantly higher after the law changed than before, which is consistent with other research that shows riding without a helmet leads to more head injuries," said David Zuby, chief research officer for the data institute and an affiliated organization, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The data institute publishes insurance loss statistics on most car, SUV, pickup truck and motorcycle models on U.S. roads.

While other studies have shown an increase motorcycle deaths after states eliminate or weaken mandatory helmet requirements, the industry study is the first to look specifically at the effect of repealing helmet requirements on the severity of injuries as measured by medical insurance claims, Zuby said.

Some states have sought to mitigate the repeal or loosening of mandatory helmet laws by setting minimum medical insurance requirements, but "that doesn't even come close to covering the lifelong care of somebody who is severely brain-injured and who cannot work and who is going to be on Medicaid and a ward of the state," said Jackie Gillan, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, which backs mandatory helmet requirements for all riders.

Jeff Hennie, vice president of the Motorcycle Riders Foundation, dismissed the study, saying the insurance industry views helmets as "the silver bullet that's going to change the landscape of motorcycle safety." He said insurers are upset because "life has gotten more expensive for them and they have to pay out more."

"The fact is our highways are bloody," Hennie said. "This (the Michigan helmet law change) doesn't make helmets illegal. ... No one is forcing anyone to ride without a helmet."

Vince Consiglio, president of American Bikers Aimed Toward Education of Michigan, blamed the increase in the severity of injuries on bikers who don't take safety courses required to obtain a special motorcycle license. He said bikers without motorcycle licenses have made up an increasingly larger share of fatalities and injuries in recent years.

But Gillan said the study "clearly shows there is no such thing as a free ride, and the public is paying the cost for this."

There's no way to know how many of the Michigan claims involved motorcyclists not wearing helmets, the study said. But another recent study by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute found a significant increase in motorcyclists involved in crashes who weren't wearing helmets after the law changed. From April 13, 2012, the first full day after the change took effect, through the end of the year, 74 percent of motorcyclists involved in crashes were wearing helmets, compared with 98 percent in the same period for the previous four years, the study found.

Nationally, motorcycle deaths have risen in 14 of the past 15 years, with more than 5,000 deaths last year, according to an analysis by the Governors Highway Safety Association of preliminary 2012 data. That's the highest proportion motorcycles have ever represented of overall traffic deaths, more than 14 percent, the association said.

Currently, 19 states and the District of Columbia require all motorcyclists to wear a helmet, 28 states require only some motorcyclists usually younger or novice riders to wear a helmet, and three states have no helmet use law. States have been gradually repealing or weakening mandatory helmet laws for nearly two decades.

In 1967, to increase motorcycle helmet use, the federal government required that states enact helmet laws in order to qualify for certain federal safety programs and highway construction aid. The federal incentive worked. By the early 1970s, almost all states had motorcycle helmet laws that covered all riders. In 1976, Congress stopped the Transportation Department from assessing financial penalties on states without helmet laws, and state lawmakers began repealing the statutes.

In 1991, Congress created new incentives for states to enact helmet and seat belt laws, but reversed itself four years later.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which sent observers to states last year to count how many motorcyclists wore helmets, found that 97 percent of motorcyclists in states with universal helmet laws were wearing helmets compared with 58 percent of motorcyclists in states without such coverage.

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Saturday, May 25

Honved 3 Egri FC0

Gyor ETO 1 MTK Hungaria 0

Kaposvar 1 Paks 0

Friday, May 24

Papa 0 Siofok 1

Ujpest 0 Szombathelyi Haladas 1

StandingsPWDLFAPts

C1Gyor ETO 29 18 7454 31 61

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2 Fehervar 28 15 6746 21 51

3 Honved 29 15 6849 35 51

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4 MTK Hungaria 29 14 6940 29 48

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5 Debrecen 28 14 410 44 30 46

6 Ferencvaros28 12 9746 32 45

7 Szombathelyi Haladas 29 11 10 835 26 43

8 Kecskemeti TE28 11 8940 37 41

9 Ujpest 29 10 811 39 42 38

10Diosgyor 28 910 929 36 37

11Kaposvar 29 10 613 33 36 36

12Paks 29 811 10 40 37 35

13Pecs 28 8713 29 42 31

14Papa 29 7616 25 45 27

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15Siofok 29 7418 31 60 25

R16 Egri FC29 3620 23 64 15

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C - Champion

R - Relegated

1: Champions League preliminary round

2-3: Europa League

4: Europa League depending on domestic cup

15-16: Relegation

Next Fixtures (GMT):

Sunday, May 26

Debrecen v Ferencvaros (1430)

Kecskemeti TEv Fehervar(1630)

Monday, May 27

Pecs v Diosgyor(1630)

Once youve reached the last month of the tax year, your options are limited to minimize your income taxes. But there are a few things that could still be done, so dont give up hope.

For example, you could double up your real estate taxes by prepaying next years tax during December. Doing this with, for example, a $3,000 per year real estate tax bill could result in a reduction of tax for the year of $750 if youre in the 25% bracket. Keep in mind though, that youll have forked out this money long before it is actually due in most cases, and for the next year you wont have this deduction available if you used it in this year.

The same could be done with your charitable contributions - theres no reason that you cant make additional contributions to your favorite charities at the end of this year instead of waiting until next year.

You could also send your final estimated state income tax payment due in January of next year during December and claim that payment on this years itemized deductions as well.

Prepaying your January mortgage payment will credit that mortgage interest to this year as well, further increasing your itemized deductions.

Other itemized deductions could be stacked in one year, such as medical expenses (subject to the 7.5% floor) and miscellaneous deductions (subject to the 2% floor).

Its important to keep in mind that the moves that you make this year might reduce your tax now - but you might have an adverse impact on next years income tax by doing so. It will pay to run the calculations based on what you know about this years tax and next years tax to make sure that it is in your best interest to do this.

Heres how it might play out: if you prepaid your next years real estate tax during this year, it might reduce your deductions below the Standard Deduction - which could be a good thing. In doing this, you would get to use the Standard Deduction to increase your tax deductions on next years return when you specifically reduced your deductions for that year by prepaying the deductible real estate tax in during this year. In this fashion you might be making the most of the standard deduction and your itemized deductions year after year - one year using the stacked deductions, the next using the standard deduction.

These prepayment options could have a negative affect if you are subject to the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). Prepaying your state tax, mortgage interest and some medical expenses might trigger or cause an increase in AMT. One tactic that you might consider is selling a taxable investment that has an inherent loss; this is especially useful if youve sold another investment at some point in the tax year that has resulted in a taxable gain. Losses can be used to offset those capital gains dollar for dollar, and an additional $3,000 in capital losses can be used to reduce your ordinary income as well.

You can also make up for underpayment of estimated tax by taking a withdrawal from an IRA (especially if youre over age 59) and having tax withheld from the withdrawal. This can also be accomplished by having more tax withheld from your paycheck if youre still working, by filing a new W4. Another significant move you can make includes the Qualified Charitable Distribution from your IRA, 401(k) or 403(b) - allowing you to bypass recognizing that income, including your RMD. This can only be done if youre at least age 70 and subject to Required Minimum Distributions. The charity receives a contribution, and you get to lower your year-end balance in your account, therefore reducing your RMD for next year. For more details on this, you should check out the .

You can also delay your first RMD (if you reached age 70 this year) until as late as April 1 of next year, although that will mean you have to take two RMDs next year. But in some circumstances that may be the better option.

You can also make a deductible contribution to your IRA, if you qualify - but you dont have to do that before the end of the year, you have until April 15 to do that.

This isnt an exhaustive list of year-end tax moves, just several of the more prominent ones. Hopefully youll find what you need here to help with your year-end tax plans.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police detained around 30 pro- and anti-gay activists in central Moscow on Saturday, imposing the city's ban on gay rights demonstrations.

The arrests, underlining Russia's tough response to public demonstrations by gay groups, coincided with the first ever gay rally in neighboring Ukraine, which was allowed by the authorities and protected by the police.

Russia's parliament has given preliminary approval to a ban on "homosexual propaganda" targeting minors, which critics say would effectively ban gay rights demonstrations.

The legislation has prompted condemnation from abroad, but President Vladimir Putin has rejected that criticism, saying Russia did not discriminate against gay people.

Putin's traditional support base is among conservative voters, including Russian Orthodox followers, some of whom turned up to show their disapproval of Saturday's rally.

A few dozen gay rights activists gathered in front of the Duma parliament building, as well as on a nearby square.

"It's an outrage that they didn't allow a gay parade ... but I'm glad there weren't fights as in Georgia," said Alexander Asman, who described himself as a gay sympathizer and an observer, a few minutes before being hauled away by police.

There were minor scuffles as police swooped to detain protesters from both sides, but the mostly peaceful event avoided the large-scale violent clashes of gay rallies in Georgia and the Russian city of St Petersburg earlier this month.

Protester Galina Kovtun, who was shaven-headed and wearing a pink T-shirt, described the actions of the authorities as "disgusting and unjust ... There is such a thing as freedom of speech, after all: Article 31 (of the constitution)," she added.

There were also small groups of anti-gay protesters, most wearing traditional Russian dress and religious symbols and chanting hymns and passages from the Bible.

"We are Orthodox believers, defending our Russian land, our traditions and our faith," said Marina Lovtsova, an elderly woman in a traditional head-scarf who was attending the counter-demonstration at the Duma.

"God doesn't allow Sodom and Gomorrah. We will make a stand until the last Russian person."

Despite Russia's constitutional guarantees of freedom of speech and assembly, Moscow authorities have repeatedly rejected annual requests by gay activists to hold a parade in the city.

(Reporting By Jason Bush; editing by Mike Collett-White)