(ARA) - Your resolutions are made and you even have a game plan to make sure 2012 is the year you stick to them. But before you can really get going on achieving your personal goals in the new year, you'll need to wrap up some unfinished business from 2011 - your taxes.

Dear Lifehacker, I’d like to release some music I’ve made, but, for various reasons, I don’t want to go through a record company. What are my options? What are the best ways true music lovers can support my music directly rather than through a record company? Sincerely, Aspiring Musician Photo remixed from an original by Anirudh Koul. Dear Aspiring, Up until a couple of years ag ...

ANNA HARVEY (Editor’s note: Anna Harvey, recently hired by the Carteret County News-Times, grew up in Lewistown, Pa., roughly 40 miles from State College. Her older sister graduated from Penn State in 2009, and her father is an employee of the university. Anna graduated from Penn State on Dec. 17 with a degree in print journalism and Spanish. During her time as a student, she studied abroad in ...