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by Sarah Miloudi on Dec 03, 2012 at 00:01
Later this week George Osborne will deliver his Autumn Statement, setting the agenda on tax, public spending and the huge task of slashing the deficit. We ask eight wealth heads what they would do if put in charge of the UK's purse strings for a day.
If I was chancellor....
In less than a week the chancellor will deliver his Autumn Statement, setting the agenda on tax, government spending and the huge task of cutting the deficit. While George Osborne is busy finessing one of his most anticipated speeches of the year, we asked Wealth Manager readers what they would do if put in charge of the UK's coffers for a day.
It is little surprise that tax cuts ranked highly, along with more efficient regulation of big banks and innovative ways of kick starting growth.
Jeremy Batstone-Carr, chief economist, Charles Stanley
As chancellor I would be extremely relieved the £35 billion transfer from the Bank of England's Asset Purchase facility over this and the next fiscal year allowed me sufficient latitude to avoid a near-term breach of my second fiscal rule (public sector net debt as a percentage of GDP to be falling, at a fixed date, in 2015-16) which had looked under pressure as growth projections for both this fiscal year and ensuing years have slipped.
This small piece of good news is hardly likely to get me off the hook though. The UK economy has been severely impacted by the global financial and economic crisis and I continue to wrestle with the legacy left me by the previous administration.
Estimates for both real and nominal GDP are some 15% below pre-crisis trend levels and despite welcome good news in terms of Q3 GDP this seems unlikely to be more than a flash in the pan.
Although under some pressure from Nick Clegg to drop plans for significant additional austerity measures at a time when the economy is struggling, thanks to the above I may now be able to avoid the loss of face associated with letting a key target slip and suffer a potentially adverse reaction in the financial markets.
Of course as chancellor I'd be alive to the vocal concerns of my colleagues that a strident commitment to cut debt risks further crushing the demand so necessary to get growth back on track.
Confirmation from the ONS that total governmental pension obligations as at end-December 2010 were some £5 trillion, or 342% of GDP, only serves to redouble my desire to pursue supply-side measures aimed at improving the country's record on productivity.
Charles MacKinnon, co-founder of Thurleigh Investment Managers
First I would change the income tax to a flat rate of 25% subject to a tax free allowance of £20,000. There would be no deductions, no allowances, no exemptions, no national insurance.
Second, I would change capital gains tax to a flat rate of 10%, subject to an allowance of £20,000 per annum.
Third, I would abolish all tax exemptions on all products: ISAs, SIPPs, VCT, EIS, insurance bonds, all would become completely tax transparent.
Fourth, I would remove the exemption from capital gains tax on houses, and I would also abolish inheritance tax.
With regard to investment products, I would institute a grading system for all "packaged" product such as Oeics, Sicavs, unit trusts and ETFs or investment trusts; every product that was available would have one of three grades:
- Very Risky: if you buy this you have no right of redress against anyone if you suffer a total loss of your capital;
- Risky: if you buy this you need to carefully consider the real possibility of significant loss of capital, and you should seek qualified advice before purchase;
- Regular: if you buy this you will be exposed to normal market risks of loss of capital and income.
With respect to providers of investment advice, I would propose that anyone who receives a fee for investment advice has to obtain a licence from the government, and this licence has to be displayed on their letter head, and this licence clearly states the level of insurance that the individual or firm has against errors or omissions, and the maximum amount that an individual could expect to receive in the event of the bankruptcy of the adviser or in the event of the receipt of bad advice.
These changes would enable individuals to arrange their affairs to reflect their needs, and not to be distorted to reflect tax rates.
This would have a huge benefit, as a tax return would be two lines; how much income and how much capital gain, and so vast numbers of tax collectors could be dispensed with, along with vast numbers of tax lawyers and accountants, a net benefit to society? People would buy a house they wanted to live in, and give it to their children if they wanted to, not when they thought they only had seven years to live.
They would buy investments knowing that if they went wrong, it was their fault not someone else's.
Robert Farago, head of asset allocation, Schroders Private Banking
If I were chancellor for the day, I would pop into my time machine and go back a generation to rewrite the rules on the management of government finances. I would cut spending when times are good to provide the room for an increase in spending during downturns without pushing the country's debt to the unsustainable level we are at today. And I would make sure Gordon Brown was not allowed anywhere near the Bank of England's gold.
If this particular fantasy stops at me becoming the chancellor, then life is more difficult and I am not entirely convinced this is a job I want. My best hope is to force banks, pension funds and insurers to buy the long-term government debt that I will need to continue issuing in enormous quantities and help stoke the inflation that is my only way out of this mess. I can do my bit by putting up the price of public sector services like train fares and university fees. For my own portfolio, I will be buying inflation-protected bonds, gold and the odd hedge fund that can profit from the inevitable volatility that these policies will produce.
Richard Mannion, national tax director, Smith & Williamson
I would announce a major review of the role of taxes in the UK in the 21st century asking 'back to basics' questions like:
- Do we need to have inheritance tax, bearing in mind it produces so little in tax?
- Would it be fairer to reduce taxes on income and gains and increase VAT and other taxes on spending, provided that necessities like food were protected?
- How best to sort out the interaction between benefits and tax, so as to prevent a re-run of the child benefits fiasco and the 70% effective charge on each extra pound earned by those on the lowest incomes.
- How best to deal with non-doms and foreign companies in a globally competitive market place.
- Very importantly, I would resist making minor tweaks which add to the volume and complexity of the tax legislation
- I'd also point out the importance of proper consultation before new rules are introduced so that knee-jerk reaction should be unnecessary. Appropriate consultation would minimise many of the 'unforeseen consequences' caused by recent rule changes (consider the proposed exchanging of employment rights for shares. This sounded an interesting idea at first sight but has since been shown to be fraught with tax and other legal issues that don't appear to have been considered).
I would acknowledge that employees' national insurance contribution (NIC) is in truth an additional tax on earnings (giving marginal rates of 32%, 42% and 52%), class 4 NIC is an additional tax on profits and employers' NIC is a payroll tax. I would recommend that the review should consider whether those taxes should be scrapped and replaced by a higher basic rate of income tax (which applied to all sources of income) and higher taxes on spending.
In the meantime I would significantly increase the levels for investing in shares and securities via an ISA to encourage more people to build a nest egg and increase the flow of funds to business.
Mouhammed Choukeir, chief investment officer, Kleinwort Benson
I would first focus on genuine reform of the UK's banks, which are the lifeblood of the UK (and global) economy. Reform will also ensure long-term competiveness of the broader UK economy. Banks must lend responsibly, have adequate capital buffers and distribute capital around the economy efficiently.
These things were not taking place prior to the financial crisis, and arguably, are still not taking place. One root cause of the issue is cultural. Bankers – investment, commercial and retail – are still incentivised to take large risks by receiving large bonuses for upside performance but not equivalent penalties for poor performance; this is what breeds a culture of intolerable leverage and risk. The culture of many banks has not changed since the mortgage crisis.
Second, leverage remains extremely high for many households and businesses. I would expand the "funding for lending" scheme.
UK households and firms cannot healthily deleverage if they are not increasing real income. Real incomes increase through productivity, innovation and an increased volume of transactions (increased velocity) which are the consequences of businesses borrowing and putting capital to use. This might sound contradictory to the earlier claim that banks should not lend excessively, but it is not, they should lend prudently.
Evidence suggests the pendulum has swung too far to the opposite side in the UK. There are many good loans to be made that are not being made.
Ultimately, there are a limited number of ways to deleverage: grow, inflate, save more or restructure. By far, the best option is to grow (with a limited and balanced amount of the other three). The government has to help the economy grow. It must use its power to borrow (at historically low interest rates) and spend intelligently in the economy, such as on infrastructure spending and consumption generating wealth transfers. This will boost spending in the economy and thereby boost employment and real income creating a virtuous cycle.
To focus on austerity at this point in the economic and business cycle will only prolong the recession. Real incomes and employment must take precedence over fiscal responsibility until the economy has regained traction.
Paul Knox, head of wealth advisory EMEA, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
The important thing for the chancellor this year is to ensure that any new proposals are well thought through and have undergone the right degree of consultation and consideration prior to announcement. I am sure he will be seeking to avoid a repeat of last year's PBR where the outcry over the granny tax, pasty tax and restriction on relief for gifts to charities needed to be subsequently withdrawn.
In terms of changes, I would like to see:-
- A reduction in the CGT rate. The increase in the CGT rate from 18% to 28% broadly coincided with the introduction of the 50% income tax rate. As the income tax rate comes down to 45%, a corresponding reduction in the CGT rate to say 25% would seem a logical consideration.
- The government has already announced proposals to apply a new capital gains tax charge on high value residential real estate owned by companies as well as the imposition of an annual tax on these properties. There are numerous complexities with these provisions and either a deferral of the introduction of these rules or rebasing/ transitional provisions to take uncrystallised gains out of the scope of charge would be welcome.
- For many years, the philanthropy community have been calling for a new "lifetime legacy" tax relief for charitable donations which would allow donors to make lifetime donations to charities in but to retain an income stream from the gifts made. Such a relief has been a major success in the US and a major factor why philanthropy is so much more prevalent and advanced than in this country. The introduction of such a relief in the UK would bring in a new era of philanthropic giving in the UK.
Dominic O'Connell, head of tax trust and estate planning, Coutts
In recent years it appears tax legislation has been growing at an exponential rate. Unfortunately annual changes are inevitable but the first question I would ask myself is whether proposed changes will simplify matters, and if not what can be done to mitigate any complexities that may arise?
For example, the proposed Child Benefit claw back has prompted reports that an estimated 500,000 people could be brought into the self assessment system and may also result in tax professionals having to ask personal questions that could be deemed intrusive but may be necessary to clarify individuals' potential entitlement.
Perhaps these more practical issues need to be considered and recognised earlier on in the process.
I would, in fact, continue with the current government's commitment of consulting on draft legislation. This approach has been generally welcomed by the tax and wealth planning professions and so I would ensure that I paid attention to the feedback and constructive criticism and, where practicable, incorporate amendments into the final legislation.
Many small and owner managed businesses are benefitting from recent tax changes, such as, the increase to the lifetime limit of capital gains that could qualify for entrepreneurs' relief, increases in the amount of tax relief available under the enterprise investment scheme and the introduction of the seed enterprise investment scheme.
These reliefs are encouraging, particularly in difficult economic times, and so I would continue with this trajectory of using tax breaks to promote embryonic businesses whilst being mindful of any other measures that may thwart their growth such as the proposed income tax relief cap.
In the 2011 Budget the chancellor announced that, once the Government's package of non-UK domiciled reforms had been introduced, there would be no other substantive changes to the taxation of non-UK domiciles for the remainder of the parliament.
There are other areas that could benefit from such certainty including pensions where there has been repeated speculation of impending changes to the availability of tax relief.
I would therefore seek to give certainty in key areas so that individuals can arrange their affairs to better plan for their future a thing that has to be for the greater good.
However, there are two sides to such a deal and I would look to tax professionals and wealth planners not to promote aggressive, or overly esoteric, tax planning ideas and to broadly adhere to the spirit and intent of the legislation.
Graham Coxell, Rowan Dartington
Given that in these times of austerity the feel good factor has gone, we need to re-ignite our emotional wellbeing as a country in a way the Olympics did.
Clearly this will facilitate the government having 'skin in the game' for the businesses they support, which will I'm sure pay dividends (literally) in the future, but more importantly it devolves power to a local and experienced level.
Moving on to a more 'normalised economists view,' I would:
- I'd also create real incentives for the housing market to get it moving and improve consumer confidence, as in the US. Extension of the Funding for Lending scheme would be a natural policy to support this, equivalent to the mortgage-backed quantitative easing of the US..
- I'd also remove 45%-50% tax band to encourage higher earners to base themselves back in the UK
Brewin Dolphin, headed up by Jamie Matheson
Welcoming the government response to the Kay review, Brewin Dolphin thinks the government should go beyond these warm words and do more to promote the principle of long term equity investment and to encourage savers in the Autumn Statement.
We believe the current situation where equity investment is heavily penalised by stamp duty, while for example CFDs – synthetic short-term instruments with little social benefit are tax free - flies in the face of this support for Kay.
The impact of stamp duty which is a constant drag on UK equity markets and falls heavily on long term savers and pension funds, should be spread more thinly across the panoply of investment instruments - we would strongly support reform in this regard and would be pleased to see a move on this in the Autumn Statement.
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The shooting reportedly took place on Middle Street just after 3:30 a.m.
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William Steel closed his eyes and began to dream.
Though his father had died years before, they were once again walking side by side. The winding streets through this ancient city were narrow and strange, yet father and son seemed to know exactly where they were.
William Steel wasn't finished with the Cleetwood. He returned to the lake in 1888 and, determined to get photographs and sketches from the water's surface, built a raft and floated to where the Cleetwood had been sunk.
"All day long I worked alone," Steel said, "but I got the boat."
Before he left, he once again sank the Cleetwood, this time along the western shore of Wizard Island, but her location was to remain a secret.
Steel had kept her rudder, and in 1929 he promised to give it to the park once a park museum was built. When the Sinnott Memorial Museum opened in 1931, the rudder and the sounding device that had been rediscovered in the lava field on Wizard Island that same year became permanent exhibits.
To see where the Cleetwood was launched, look to the steep edge of the caldera that drops to the water between the Sinnott Memorial and the Crater Lake Lodge.
His father stopped.
"Will," he said, "Do you wish to see something beautiful?"
Waving his arms above his head, he commanded his son to look up.
The sky was filled with golden arrows piercing through the air.
"What is this? What is happening?" asked Steel.
"This is Cleetwood," his father said, and instantly Steel woke up.
He had never heard this word before, but he knew it would always be a beautiful memory, and someday he would find a use for it.
In the spring of 1886, Captain Clarence Dutton was ordered by the United States Geological Survey to lead an expedition to Crater Lake. Dutton knew of Steel's interest in the lake and asked him to arrange for boats and sounding gear to measure its depth.
On July 1, Steel boarded a train and left Portland with three boats, bound for Ashland.
"Of our largest boat, christened the 'Cleetwood,' " Steel said, "we all felt justly proud. It was certainly a beautiful model, four-oared, 26 feet long and competent to ride almost any sea."
Because the road from Medford was believed blocked by fallen trees, the original plan had been for the team of men to take the longer route to the lake through Klamath Falls, north to Fort Klamath, and then northwest to the lake, but after careful deliberation, Dutton decided to take the Rogue River route instead.
To protect the Cleetwood from possible damage, she would swing freely from chains attached to a sturdy framework mounted in a wagon.
On July 7, they left Ashland and 41/2; hours later made camp in Medford. The next morning they headed north, meeting the Rogue River in the foothills.
"The entire distance from Ashland — 96 miles," Steel said, "was accomplished by slow, easy marches."
A week later, the expedition arrived on the rim of the lake and prepared to lower the boats.
"They were carried to the lowest place to be found in the cliffs," Steel said, "probably about 850 feet, vertical measurement, where the canyon descends at about an angle of 35 or 40 degrees."
The boats were lowered one at a time with four men guiding them down as they dodged rock slides and a few small boulders.
The Cleetwood was placed in a large crate, keel up, attached to a sled, and slowly lowered down. It took 15 men eight hours to get her to the water.
For three weeks they rowed around the lake examining the caldera and making 168 depth readings. They were amazed when their instruments told them its deepest point was 1,996 feet, making it the deepest lake in the United States. (Current figures show the actual depth at 1,949 feet).
With the expedition finished, they had one last problem — what to do with the Cleetwood and the other boats.
"It is impossible to lift them to the top of the cliffs," Steel said.
They decided to sink them with rocks "where no vandal could, and no responsible person would, raise them."
Steel's dream would lie there "month after month, season after season" until, perhaps, Congress would make the lake a national park.
"Then the resurrection trumpet will sound and the Cleetwood will awake," Steel said. "So must it be!"
The dream of a national park came true, but the Cleetwood lives only in dreams and memories.
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CHAPEL HILL — For more than a month, amid mistakes that cost his team touchdowns and victories, North Carolina coach Larry Fedora insisted the Tar Heels would play better that they could, and would, turn their season around.
At last, it seems North Carolina is doing just that. The Tar Heels, who left N.C. States Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday with a 27-19 victory against the Wolfpack, have their first winning streak of the season. With winnable games ahead, and its most difficult games in the past, North Carolina has hope of becoming bowl eligible.
Some of the Tar Heels turnaround can be credited to the obvious. The second half of their schedule is significantly easier, at least on paper, than the first half, which included road games at South Carolina, Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech, as well as a home game against Miami.
Yet an easier schedule during November is but one reason for North Carolinas optimism. The Tar Heels are simply playing better, regardless of the competition, and are committing fewer of the mistakes that led to defeats in September and October.
Fedora noted after the victorySaturday that his team still has a long way to go.
We created a lot of adversity for ourselves throughout the game, he said, mostly referring to the eight penalties the Tar Heels committed. I thought our defense did an outstanding job making them kick field goals throughout the day, and kept us in this game all the way through.
That, more than anything, has perhaps been the most noticeable change. Two weeks ago, North Carolinas defense was among the worst in the nation and it was the worst in the ACC. The Tar Heels earlier this season had a knack for making even average offenses look good.
In North Carolinas past two games, though, defense has been a strength instead of a liability. For the first time this season, the Tar Heels have surrendered fewer than 400 yards of offense in consecutive games.
Neither Boston College, which lost to UNC two weeks ago, nor N.C. State are known for their potent offenses. Both the Eagles and the Wolfpack are among the worst offensive teams in the nation in various statistical categories.
Still, the Tar Heels have been bad enough defensively at times to make even the most ineffective offenses appear competent. But not in the past two weeks. Fedora cited the elimination of big plays N.C. State didnt generate any as North Carolinas most significant defensive improvement.
Kareem Martin, North Carolinas senior defensive end, said he and his teammates are communicating better on the field. Off of it, he said, they are benefitting from a more scaled-down version of the playbook.
This is great, he said after the Tar Heels held the Wolfpack without a touchdown after their first possession. To be able to hold a team to so many field goals, you know, when they had good field position at times, and bending, not breaking its just a tremendous accomplishment going forward. Martin added the confidence of the defense was at an all-time high.
Offensively, North Carolina has benefited from its two-quarterback system in which Marquise Williams, a third-year sophomore quarterback, has emerged to become a difference-maker. Williams has led the Tar Heels in rushing in each of the past two games, and his mobility adds a dimension to the offense that was missing when Bryn Renner, the senior, had the offense to himself.
Renner is still the starter, and plays the majority of snaps. The rotation featuring Williams, though, seemingly has kept defenses off balance.
We ran a little bit more quarterback runs there, obviously when hes in the game, Fedora said of Williams, who led North Carolina on its first touchdown drive on Saturday. And he did a nice job at that. He threw the ball well. And once we started moving the chains a little bit, then you can get your tempo going.
In recent weeks, Fedora and his staff have also made Eric Ebron, the junior tight end, more of a priority. Twenty-one of Ebrons 44 catches this season have come in North Carolinas past three games. He caught a season-high nine passes on Saturday for 70 yards a solid performance given he entered Carter-Finley Stadium wearing a bulls eye.
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My freshman year, we came here, we were shut out, Ebron said. And that feeling, that taste that was in your mouth for two years (and) just sat there. And we came back, and we were relentless. We were relentless, and we kept coming at them, and kept coming at them.
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I have always liked Johnny and Evan...as skaters and as people...and I always wished the best for both of them. It's too bad that the 'rivalry" ended up being somewhat nasty. We were lucky to have those two men earning 3 spots for us for yrs.
@orbitz: Re your comment: "It's possible ... his competitors' attitudes toward Evan changed and not vice versa..." Sure, and it's also possible that Evan was once jealous of his competitors prior to his success, and possibly he channeled some of those emotions into doing whatever it took to improve and to reach the top of the podium. My opinion re your comment is that it's vice versa, as well as a mixture of circumstances and emotions all around -- i.e., Evan's demeanor changed to one of intensity, and he began to focus exclusively and aggressively on winning -- obviously nothing wrong with that, as it did work for him. Perhaps his competitors noticed the change, and may have felt that Evan was holding his nose in the air as being above everyone else, and obviously jealousy could also be a factor in his competitors' perceptions. Johnny has already admitted that he is jealous of Evan's Olympic and World championship success. I don't get the impression though that Johnny is jealous of Evan as a person.
For me, I did not like Evan/ his team's insistence on making comments circa 2007-2008 related to "macho," and "masculinity," not being synonymous with "sequins" on costumes. And, Evan's famous comment prior to 2007 Nationals that if he were to become U.S. National champion, he would be sure to represent in a respectful manner. This during the same period that Johnny, as the reigning U.S. National Champion, was fielding queries about the Blackbook photos, and Mark Lund's over-the-top rant.
@kwanette, thanks for your thoughts and reminisces. Evan's note is a great memento to have. I think Evan's change in attitude (i.e., more aggressiveness and intensity) coincided with Frank Carroll's exclusive coaching takeover, as Evan in 2005, was also receiving coaching from Ken Congemi (who was formerly affiliated with Frank Carroll). In any case, I am of the opinion that the rivalry between Evan and Johnny may have remained respectful if not for all the media mayhem and malarkey (e.g., that cringeworthy fake jokey intrusive interview with Andrea Joyce instigating as she sat between Evan and Johnny, i.e. trying to get them to say something nasty about each other), as well as the "macho" stance that was decided on by Evan's team, not to mention the obvious favoritism by the U.S. fed for one over the other.
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Not to mention that I'm having a hard time picturing Frank Carroll sitting down with Evan and going, "OK, you're going to be Clint Eastwood on ice so you can kick Johnny Weir to the curb."
"Once you've skated together long enough, and you're really good friends, you can close your eyes, put your hand out and she's right there." Joe Dolkiewicz, 2011 US Novice Pairs Bronze Medalist
I agree that becoming intense and aggressive as a competitor is not a bad thing, kwanette, particularly if it works for someone. Everybody is not the same. Lots of stuff goes on behind the scenes that we as fans are not aware of, but I'm basing my observations on having followed these guys from the beginning of their senior careers (and I recall Junior Nats when Johnny was first in the sp, but lost it in the lp, and Evan came back from 5th in sp to win it all). I don't fault Evan for being aggressive and determined to win. What sets him apart is his enthusiasm and his willingness to listen to his coach, work hard, and do whatever he's told in order to improve, and ultimately to win. To a great degree, Evan is likely favored by U.S. fed, not only for his talent but because of his "straight-arrow" qualities and his willingness to conform. I think he did change his persona, but maybe that's what he needed to do to maintain his focus. I think he learned a great deal from Frank that has benefited him personally and as a skater. But just as I have always said about Johnny, nobody's perfect. Did you have the opportunity to meet Evan at anytime after 2005?kwanette;3109541]Thanks, aftershocks.I don't know that if it was Evan's team or US Figure Skating that came up with the "macho" stance. I don't think that becoming more aggressive or intense is necessarily a bad thing. Evan himself has spoken about his 4th place finish in Torino and how he watched the medal ceremony and set the goal of making the podium in 2010.He worked, he listened and each yr he added point getters to his programs.He worked his butt off, with quite a few ups and downs between 06-10..and put it all together on the night that it counted.
I'm not sure whether it was U.S. figure skating that dreamed up the "macho" stance, or gave some advice, but there's no way Evan made those comments without Frank Carroll condoning -- and, there is nothing wrong with that either. I just disagree with the stance they decided to take. [Also, the way the media kept putting the camera on Tanith--yes I know she's camera-worthy--during 2007 Nats and emphasizing that she was Evan's girlfriend, was laughable. And yes, I know they broke up quite awhile ago].
IMHO, Frank Carroll grew up in figure skating during a time when perhaps for male skaters it was traditionally important to emphasize "masculinity" in one's skating. So, as a strategy, I think Frank sincerely believes it was entirely appropriate for Evan to comment on the importance of projecting masculinity in costumes and performance on the ice.
Johnny got where he is today on his hard work and his extraordinary talent. Yes, he has received support, as a federation is made up of individual people, and not everyone dislikes or is against Johnny. But he had to comeback the hard way from the disaster in 2003, and he was told to his face as a 19-year-old that he would "never be able to work himself back," and that he was "not going to get any favors." I do see something wrong with someone from a federation saying that to any young skater. In Johnny's case, he used it as further motivation. If he hadn't, his career would have been over before it began (at Nats 2004).
If not for his natural and extraordinary gifts as a skater, Johnny would not have won 3 national titles (a 4th title did not happen in 2008, because Evan was preferred -- sure some will always say it's b/c Johnny didn't add a double jump to a combination --). IMHO, Johnny clearly skated better. Evan skated a sloppy long program, which if Johnny had done, he would likely have dropped to 4th place and been off the 2008 World team, or at the least dropped to 3rd. Evan was dealing with an injury and he had to pull out of Worlds that year, and Johnny ironically ended up being the only U.S. skater to medal. Johnny has also been his own worst enemy on occasion. Nobody's perfect.
Evan as Clint Eastwood on ice -- not a bad analogy.* The difference is: Clint's a lot older and packs a whole lot more authenticity and true-to-himself character to what he uniquely does as an actor, director, filmmaker. LOL, I remember Evan at a press conference referencing Tiger Woods as a competitive role model -- yes, that was back in the day, before Tiger's self-made troubles. Nobody's perfect.
* (Maybe gives Evan some inspiration for a future program -- I'd love to see Ryan B skating to Clint Eastwood theme music).
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As for Frank saying let's be Clint Eastwood and kick Johnny to the curb, I can totally see him saying something along those lines. That sentiment is an old standby for coaches. I think development of killer instinct was what gave Evan his edge. He did seem to change his personality at least in competition. I remember after the Olys Evan was on the Ellen D show and he talked about always sitting in "his seat" at events and that if another skater was in "his seat" he would glare at them and they'd usually move. I thought it was funny. I have a feeling he wasn't referring to Johnny in that though. Fat chance that he'd move.
Well, the USFS probably did ultimately favor Evan over Johnny, beginning, I think, with the 2006-07 season. They cultivated different images. Evan - perhaps with Frank's guidance - cultivated the responsible hardworking image, and Johnny was the funloving, zany Russophile with a penchant for Louis Vuitton bags and a stated distaste for being a team player. Evan always colored inside the lines, and Johnny.. not so much. Evan was the ant and Johnny the grasshopper. And USFS has always favored the ant over the grasshopper, and for good reason, the ants have brought in an awful lot of hardware over the years. (Don't get me wrong; no doubt Johnny worked hard too, but that wasn't the image that he cultivated.)
"Marge, if you're going to get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'm just going to have to stop doing stupid things!" - Homer Simpson in the Mr. Plow episode
Keep in mind that both Johnny and Evan, and many skaters toured together with COI before its collapse. I never heard of anybody having any problems with Johnny, nor were there any reports of him creating drama during any COI tour. I also doubt that any skaters would have had any serious problems with Johnny joining SOI, except that he was never asked, and Evan was asked. Then, because Johnnys fans were wondering why he hadnt been asked, someone leaked that the reason was because Johnny wasnt family-friendly. Whether this was actually stated to Johnnys camp by a sponsor, or by someone associated with SOI, well probably never discover at this point due to the escalation of the furor because of many fans desire to see Johnny on tour in the U.S. -- and SOI had suddenly become the only major skating tour in the U.S. When two separate skating tours existed, I dont recall anyone wondering why Johnny hadnt been asked to join SOI.
Of course, SOI is a very different tour than COI was, in terms of how skaters are chosen, and in how the programs and the tour itself, is put together. I think too much has been erroneously made of Johnny not being able to fit in with skaters he has known, competed with, and some he has been friends with for years. The entire situation was blown out of proportion. The notion that Johnny is not a team player or not family-friendly being the reasoning behind the apparent exclusion by SOI, is to me, ridiculous. Well never know the real reasoning, and perhaps there was no real reasoning. He was simply never asked for whatever reason, and then a reason needed to be fabricated and then leaked because some fans were in an uproar.
I agree that it's ridiculous to dwell on the idea that Johnny was not asked to join SOI because he's not "family friendly." I'm all for gay rights, and I'm all for freedom of expression (and I'm a fan of Johnny), but there was never any proof that either of these was the issue. It's quite possible that whoever chose the SOI skaters simply didn't like Johnny's skating. There are videos going around of Johnny's recent fan meeting in Russia. In them, he describes putting together his own skating special, and he says he's going to choose only his favorite skaters. That's his right. However, I do think SOI should have thought carefully about inviting Johnny. He could have brought in a new contingent of fans who normally would not go to a skating show.
Let me also add that if there IS concern about Johnny and tour drama, why is that? As far as I've heard, he's professional and quiet when he's doing shows.
I think Johnny's fans really did him a huge disservice with all that hoopla. I think it lessened Johnny's chances to join any US tours.
In my spare time, I like to interview figure skating legends.
In his Russian interview Johnny said that Evan has a rider in his contract that he won't perform in any show that Johnny is in. Was that a joke?! I had a really hard time hearing all that was said in those interviews on my computer. If it wasn't a joke he's totally toast for US tours.
There is no way on earth that Johnny knows what's in Evan's contracts with anyone. All private commercial contracts are confidential and there is simply no way Johnny can know anything about the contract. But since it might be controversial and get him another 15 seconds on air by being look-at-me-i'm-so-outre then so be it.
Your mutual avoidance theory, particularly at this point, Justathoughtabl, certainly seems apt. I've heard some behind-the-scenes stuff from reliable sources that is pretty revealing. Apparently around 2009, Johnny wished to turn the other cheek and smooth things over between them and that's why he told the media at 2009 Worlds that he and Evan "had buried the hatchet," and that as he wasn't competing himself, he was rooting for Evan to win Worlds. Whatever mutual avoidance that exists between them, was probably triggered or exacerbated by the media's intrusive insistence upon linking them into some kind of over-the-top rivalry (e.g., my earlier reference to that Andrea Joyce cringeworthy interview instigation).
And, with the sniping between Evan and Johnny that occurred re the SOI furor, and the fact Evan has risen in stature as the Olympic champion -- it seems to me that Evan is even more eager to distance himself, and that they are both weary of being asked about each other. Unfortunately, they will always be linked and so the contretemps between them is sad. I think underneath his own seeming dismissiveness of Evan, that Johnny was hurt by Evan's comments re the SOI furor: "[SOI] only hires the best of the best ..."
In that skating magazine article circa 2005 that kwanette and I referred to earlier, Johnny prophetically said, "No matter what happens as Evan and I compete through the years, I'll never forget his kindness..." re Evan's words of encouragement to Johnny after the 2003 Nats lp. Guess a lot of things, including Evan's more recent harsher words have made Johnny forget, since Johnny has responded with harsh words of his own.
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CARY — In the words of Cary wrestling coach Taylor Cummings, they are our Four Horsemen of the lower and middle lineup.
The borrowed nickname wont stand the test of time -- Grantland Rices Four Horsemen of Notre Dame was coined 89 years ago at the 1924 at a Notre Dame-Army football game -- but by whatever moniker the Four Horsemen led Cary to the team title in the Mark Adams Holiday Classic that the Imps host in their gym.
All four wrestlers claimed gold medals as Cary made up a 4.5-point deficit to Wilmington Laney entering the finals to win with 209 points to Laneys 201.5. Sanderson was third in the 19-team event with 186 points.
The bigger the stage, the better they perform, Cummings said. We needed those wins, and we can always count on them.
They are senior 126-pounder Parker Ragsdale, sophomore 132-pounder Kollin Wade, junior 138-pounder Will Clark and junior 160-pounder Mark Mulligan.
The title marked the first time Cary won the Adams tournament under Cummings, the fourth-year coach and former N.C. State wrestler who replaced the legendary Jerry Winterton in the 2010-11 season.
There is a lot more responsibility when you host a tournament, and we count on all of our JV and varsity wrestlers to put it on, Cummings said of the many operational tasks. That makes it twice as nice when you win.
As Ragsdale put it, We dont want to have to set up everything and tear down everything without winning titles. Otherwise its like we did all that work for nothing.
In all, Cary had five wrestlers in the finals. Ragsdales 126-pound bout was the first of three in successive weight classes, meaning Cummings didnt have to get up from his coachs chair on the corner of the mat through three straight wins.
Ragsdale won with a pin in 4:35, Wade claimed a 10-2 decision at 132 and Clark rolled up an 18-6 victory at 138.
For Clark, it was his second straight Adams title, but he mentioned the importance of delivering a team title to Cummings. Now that Cummings is in his fourth year, there are no more wrestlers he inherited. Winterton still helps with the program, but Clark said Cummings has made his mark.
Im happy to be helping him continue the dynasty, Clark said. Maybe one day his name will be there next to Jerrys.
Cummings said he as proud of the way his team bounced back from Wednesdays dual-meet loss to Holly Springs, the first for the Imps in conference this year and the first ever to Holly Springs.
This is great for our teams morale after Wednesday, Cummings said.
Mulligans 6-1 decision provided Cary with the enough points at 209 to clinch the title, although more matches had to sort out before Cary could exhale. Mulligan said his goal is to make this a comeback season after a disappointing sophomore campaign. He failed to place in last years Adams tournament.
Ive stepped up my training this year, he said. Ive lifted more weights and Ive worked harder in the room.
Cary 182-pounder Alex Zuniga also racked up team points en route to the finals, where he suffered a 4-2 loss in overtime to Sandersons Matthew Norby.
One other Southwest Athletic Conference wrestler in the finals was Panther Creeks Matthew Powell. He finished as the runner-up at 220 pounds with a 6-3 loss to Sandersons Antwuan Elliott.


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Republicans Mark MLK Speech Anniversary
GOP lags Democrats in an effort to commemorate the historic speech.
Republican leaders are commemorating the 1963 March on Washington in their own way, but the limited nature of their effort and GOP positions on several key issues show how far the Republicans still have to go to compete with Democrats in courting African-Americans.
The Republican National Committee held a luncheon Monday to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic march. The Republican event featured RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and African-American Republicans including T.W. Shannon, the speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and former Rep. Allen West of Florida, who lost his bid for re-election last year.
Also among the 200 attendees were representatives of the NAACP and the National Urban League. Congressional Republicans had marked the 1963 march's anniversary last month, prior to the start of their August recess, with an event in the Capitol featuring House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.
Priebus praised King's legacy and said the outreach will continue. "If you're going to make the sale, you have to show up," he said.
[PHOTOS: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr.]
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., a legal-affairs specialist, pledged to do everything he can to restore or update sections of the Voting Rights Act which were overturned by the Supreme Court several weeks ago in what civil rights activists called a serious setback.
The 1963 march also will be celebrated at what promises to be a large rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the actual 50th anniversary of the civil-rights march Wednesday, following a separate commemoration in Washington last weekend that was dominated by Democrats. The Wednesday event will also feature Democrats in prominent roles, led by President Obama, the first African-American president, who will speak on the Lincoln Memorial steps where Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" address 50 years ago.
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Former Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter also are scheduled to address the crowd. Former President George W. Bush, a Republican, was invited but declined to attend because he is recovering from a heart procedure, CNN reported.
It's clear that the GOP's problems in appealing to blacks won't be solved simply by commemorating "I Have a Dream." Many African-American leaders consider the GOP wrong on a number of issues, such as its opposition to Obama's health-care law and other programs which are popular among blacks. Another sore point among some African-Americans is GOP support for imposing stricter voting standards in several states.
Obama's Justice Department is challenging a voter-identification law in Texas, enacted by a Republican-dominated legislature and approved by Republican Gov. Rick Perry. Attorney General Eric Holder argues that the law would hinder the ability of many blacks in Texas to vote. Such legislation is considered improper voter suppression by many civil-rights activists, and it is being implemented or considered in several other states. This is driving an even bigger wedge between the GOP and the black community.
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said last weekend that Republican efforts to pass voter-identification laws would "backfire" by mobilizing African Americans and other minority voters to oppose GOP candidates. Powell, who is black, was a prominent figure in three Republican administrations, those of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.
A recent Pew Research Center poll finds that Americans are deeply split on racial issues. Forty-nine percent say that "a lot more" needs to be done to achieve Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of racial equality; about 30 percent say "some more" needs to be done, and 16 percent say little or nothing needs to be done.
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The Miller family, Randy, Patricia and son Justin, show off their beautifully restored green '53 Chevy pickup truck. Randy originally intended to hot rod the truck, but is thankful now that he resisted the urge and kept everything basically stock.
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Artist Franke James has Harper quaking in fear
Artist Franke James has Harper quaking in fear
If Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is this frightened, then we can only assume that the visual artist from Toronto, Franke James, is THAT scary!
As reported most recently in the Toronto Star, the Canadian government - so often now referred to as the "Harper government" - stands accused of trying to block a presentation of James's art in capitals across Europe. And in a way, who can blame them? The official Canadian position these days is that toxic stuff is good for you (or good for us - and who really cares about you?). Whether it's "ethical oil" dredged out of the tar sands in one of the most environmentally damaging variations of any oil exploitation, or asbestos, peddled to any impoverished nation still so desperate as to use it, Canada is officially in the poison-for-profit business. When some lippy woman stands up and suggests that this is a bad thing, it makes the government look - well, like shills for dirty industries - and it compromises the chances that those dirty industries have of enjoying even greater profit. No wonder Stephen Harper's henchpeople refer to James as "that woman!"
The funny part about all this is that Franke James is anything but a conventional rabble rouser. It's hard to call someone "girlish" these days without courting an anti-feminist image, but Franke James, personally and in her bright, brilliant, quirky and sometimes childlike art, is brimming with the kind of naive optimism that prompts certain 14-year-old females to dot their 'i's with little hearts. She's the kind of person who could ask, with complete sincerity and no hint whatever of sarcasm, why everyone can't just be nice to one another.
She has asked - pointedly and repeatedly - why the "Harper government" can't be nice, or at the very least passingly responsible, to the Canadian and global environment. And while Harper's minions would like to pass this off as a "silly" question, it's a silly question that they can't answer. More, it's a question they plainly fear.
So Canadian embassies across Europe are declining what would be garden-variety support otherwise due to any artist that had attracted enough attention to win a tour across the continent. More insidiously, it appears that they may have been bluntly interfering, making intimidating/compromising approaches to the Nektarina Non-Profit that had tried to mount the James tour and discouraging private-sector funders from underwriting the show.
The scoop on Stephen Harper, even among those who find his politcs abhorent, is that he is an incredibly smart guy. He works hard. He remembers everything he reads. And he has a political instinct that has enabled him to consolidate the top spot in Canadian government - for what may turn out to be four very long years. So, again, if Stephen Harper is afraid of Franke James, she must be doing something powerful - something that the smartest politician thinks he can't manage if it moves into the public and international realm.
So, the only thing to do is to click on Franke James's website and entertain yourself with one or several of her fabulous visual essays. Go back and read the story about what happened when she asked another, now famously silly question: Why can't I dig up my driveway and plant flowers? Then send links of those essays to everyone in your address book.
And if you know someone with a budget, let's try to round up support for a Franke James tour in Canada and the U.S., as well. About this issue, Stephen Harper can't be wrong. And on every other issue, Franke James looks suspiciously right.
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Setting aside the debate about whether Canada is still a nice country, I personally view it through this parallel…
Is dirty tar sand oil okay because, really, Canada is such a nice country most of the time?
Is your daughter's sexual assault okay because, really, that neighbour kid is such a nice boy most of the time?
Easy to complain about bad old Harper and bad old Canada. But it all amounts to a bunch of empty words. When you fill up your gas tank, you vote for the tar sands.
Very few people are willing to unplug from the grid and trade in their suv for a bicycle.
Whining about how it's somebody else's fault while you fully participate in the system you condemn is what's really going on here.
Perhaps the artist might consider turning her back on the evil money grubbing world and move into the forest.
How would anyone know?
Do you have an electric car?
Why aren't they affordable?
"Mountain Man" (or "Mountain Woman")isn't the only alternative, if it didn't appeal to you.
Most of the real alternatives involve reconnecting with our communities: growing our own food, and walking to the neighbours.
Does that scare you?
@Rick James, Perhaps you might inform yourself before you speak, by reading some of Franke James' work, where she describes in detail, the steps she has taken to "unplug", not drive, etc. If you and all of us behaved more like her, our world might have a chance.
Thanks for writing this, James! I think it's a vital issue in the creeping restrictions that have become our Canada. Both Art & the Environment are under attack by the HarperGov. But even more important, so are our civil liberties.
So please ask everyone to sign the petition here, to stand up for Freedom of Expression AND for Franke's Art show: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/free-speech-for-Canadian-artists/


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The instructor's husband and child go for a ride.
Ladies practice changing their location in the canoe.
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Canoeing class participants practice changing places within the canoe.
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