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Organ consent questions still
2:33pm Monday 20th August 2012 in Letters
FURTHER to the letter from Shaun McGuire (August 13), concerning presumed consent of organ donations, like the song says 'there are more questions than answers'.
How do you opt out? This must be the best-kept secret in Wales. Will presumed consent apply to ethnic minorities in practice? Doubtful, and if not is this not a form of inverted discrimination? It's always been my understanding that if it does not belong to you, don't take it.
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Lytle and Brown fought in 2007, with Lytle also winning a second-round submission. The official time of that fight was 2:49 of the second round; this time it was 2:02 of the second round.
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Born to an immigrant family that resided in the South of Market area, my love for the Niners grew from my family. My uncle, a former police officer for S.F.P.D., used to watch the Niners at Kezar during the late '60's. When the team moved to Candlestick, he would take my older cousins to watch John Brodie finish his career. In the lean years, my Uncle continued his support.
Early in 1977, my other older cousins (Raiders fans) and I had accompanied my Aunt and my mother to a Thrift store. We were told to pick out anything under $5.00. My cousins had taken the liberty to find NFL kids helmets and swapped the prices out on them so that they would be under $5.00. There were four helmets: two Raiders, a Packer helmet and a stripped down Niners helmet. The other helmets had ear pieces and chin straps. The Niners helmet did not. Worse yet, the Niners helmet was $2.99. When my mother asked me what I wanted and seeing my cousins had their helmets, I hesitated. Without blinking an eye, my mother stripped out the Packer helmet and placed the pieces in the Niner helmet. I was set and for $2.00 less than those filthy Raiders helmets. That was my first taste of being a fully committed Niner fan. My mom is still a die hard Niner fan to this day.
The following year was 1978 and my cousins were football players at Galileo High School. They were destined to win the Turkey Day Game that year. As good as they were, all my cousins kept talking about was how the "The Juice" was coming home. For you youngsters, "The Juice" was Bay Area native, Galileo, City College, then later USC legend Orenthal James Simpson. Prior to all of the trouble he had gotten into in the Nineties, O.J. Simpson was the first running back to reach 2,000 yards and he did it in a 14 game season.
Why were my cousins talking about "The Juice"? Because then General Manager, Joe Thomas traded five draft picks in March of 1978 to bring O.J. home. I will be honest. I didn't know a thing about him, but the excitement my cousins had was infectious. I had bought in.
Then the season began...and O.J. was done. I have to admit there were some flashes, but overall O.J. was a broken man. OJ's last game in 1978 season was against Washington. In 1979 his second season, OJ's first game back was against Rams. He rushed for 73 yards in a three point loss. OJ's last game was a loss against Falcons. He got two carries for 12 yards.
I was not deterred though. In 1980, my fandom was sealed. Not only was it a magical season going worst to first and winning the Super Bowl. The best was beating those damn Cowboys. My Uncle watched those hard seasons as the Cowboys ousted John Brodie and the Niners in three consecutive years. I grew up hating the Cowboys and still do.
When the team returned from Detroit and met its adoring fans at the Civic Center, I had never felt the electricity in the air like that before. There were some tough times for San Francisco during that time: Mayor Moscone and Harvey Milk were assasinated, there was the Iran Hostages situation, the Gas limits where if your vehicle had license plates with odd numbers, you could get gas on odd days and even numbers for even days. The Niners and their magical season seemed to lift us to a new level. Even past the awful Disco music that was played all of the time on the radio.
As time progressed and the players changed, my love for the Niners continued and endured. There were times that were tough. Losing to the hated Cowboys two NFC Championship games in a row was a dark time. But man did it feel good for us fans and for Steve Young when he ran around Candlestick after defeating those Cowboys to make it to the Super Bowl.
Even during the Donahue/Erickson, then McCloughan/Nolan/Singletary days, I wore my Niner colors with pride. Boy did I get made fun of, but I was good with it. I knew the Niners would rise again and here they are.
What helped me during those hard times was that I fell in love with not only the legends, but I also loved the role players like Carlton Williamson, Dwight Hicks and Eric Wright. Those three with Lott made a really good Defensive backfield and didn't have to hold on every play to be effective like that team up in the Pacific Northwest. The only Niner Secondary that was better was the one with Eric Davis, Merton Hanks, Tim McDonald and Deion Sanders.
With that said, there were two players that I absolutely loved: Fred Dean and "Hacksaw" Jack Reynolds. Dean came over in a trade from the Chargers were Walsh fleeced them. Hacksaw was a Ram reject and boy did they miss him. Hacksaw was the heart of the Defense where Dean was the unstoppable pass rushing force. Make no question about it, when Lott was a Niner, he was the heart of the defense. But that would be later. He was a rookie in 1980-81.
In later years, the Niners had players that filled those roles that Dean and Hacksaw began: Haley, Andre Carter, now Aldon and Cowboy, and hopefully Tank and Lemons. Mike Walter, Matt Millen, Gary Plummer, Derek Smith and now Bow and Bam Bam fill that no nonsense linebacker role. Lott made his mark felt as well as later Tim McDonald, Lance Schulters, and now Donte Hitner patrol the middle of the field. Maybe Deonne Buchannan can join this elite group - yeah I'm talking to you Baalke. Make it happen.
On the offensive side of the ball, I fell in love with Bill Walsh's idea for what a TE should be. When he talked "All World" Russ Francis out of retirement, I saw an element of the West Coast offense evolve where today's teams take it for granted. Francis was able to take advantage of the middle of the field and used crossing routes effectively. After him, John Frank took up the mantle, then Brent Jones, for a brief time Eric Johnson did, until Vernon arrived and changed it again.
When you look up fullback in the dictionary, it states: See San Francisco 49ers. I never watched John Henry Johnson play, but from what I hear, he was awesome. I did see Tom Rathman play and he is the epitome of what a fullback should be. Moose Johnston tried to be Tom Rathman. "Bar None" Floyd, Tommy Vardell, and Nolan Morris were ok, but they weren't close. This new kid Bruce Miller has a chance.
The Niners current offensive line is good, but it is nowhere as good as the line in the 80s. Coach Bob McKittrick was a master of the cut back block. In a time where big lineman were coveted, Coach McKittrick took agile lineman like Jesse Sapolu, Guy McIntyre, Steve Wallace, Harris Barton, Derrick Deese, Chris Dalman, etc and made them into a machine. His loss was never replaced.
Another loss that was never replaced was when Bill Walsh retired. George Siefert inherited a very talented team, but with Carmen Policy, Vinny Cerrato, and Bobo the Clown picking for the Niners, the drafts came and went without replenishing the talent. Walsh was a master at identifying talent, maximizing that talent, and judging the character of good men. I love Bill Walsh. I think he would be proud of Harbaugh and his team.
For us long time Niner fans, there are some similarities from the players of yesteryear to today's version of the Niners. A good football player transcends all time and can play in any era. I bet you Jerry Rice would be unstoppable in today's "defenseless receiver" era. Shoot, he was unstoppable back then too.
I guess all of my rambling comes down to this: To be a true fan, it doesn't matter when it started, it should just never end. Especially in the rough times. Losing three years in a row to "lesser teams" is this version of the Niners trial. When they finally win, it will be just as great as when Dan Bunz stopped the Bengals on the one yard line or when John Taylor caught that game winning TD in '89 or when Steve Young removed the "monkey off of his back" or anytime the Niners beat the Cowboys. Stay Faithful and Go Niners!!
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Tuning a tattoo machine for lining means mounting the proper needle and setting the speed. Tattoo machines are precise pieces of equipment that create body artwork. Different types of tattoo elements require different techniques and setting up of the machine in a specific way, called tuning. Lining is the outline of the tattoo. Typically, this is applied deeper and heavier than some of the shaded areas of the tattoo.
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- Hold your tattoo machine so the coils are at eye level. Press down on the armature bar and see if the front coil top touches the armature bar as it comes down before the rear coil makes a connection with the bar. If it does not, or if they hit at the same time, you need to adjust and shim your coils. Shims can be purchased from a tattoo supply or hardware, and will raise the coil so that the front bar touches the armature just before the rear coil. The standing gap between the front coil and the armature bar when not moving should be about the thickness of a dime, or 1 mm.
- Remove the retaining bar on the contact screw on the top back of the tattoo machine. Adjust the speed of the machine by turning to to the left to make it slower, which is preferable for lining, or to the right for faster if it is adjusted too slow. If your machine has a volt reading around 6 volts is preferred for lining speed. Replace the retaining bar on the screw.
- Adjust the spring tension to make a shorter or longer stroke. This controls the needle stroke, and a medium, short, stronger stroke is what you are looking for in heavier work like lining.
- Lay out the tube, the blister pack needle, and rubber bands. Tattoo needles for lining should be pointed needles, not flat.
- Put on the latex gloves before handling the sterile machine pieces. Open the sleeve the tube is in and place it on the work area. The work area should be covered by a clean, disposable cloth.
- Open the blister pack with the sterile needle in. Make a slight bend in the needle so that there will be tension when it's mounted in the machine. Not a corner bend, just a slight curve.
- Slide the needle into the tube, so that the curve is facing back towards the machine. Mount the hook end of the needle over the pin on the machine and set it in place.
- Wrap the rubber band around the needle arm and around the back of the machine to increase the tension on the needle. Turn the machine on and adjust the speed according to the type of lining you will be doing. Heavier lining should have a bit more speed and depth than fine lining.
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Wrapped coils, made from insulated copper wire and iron, are the electromagnetic backbone of any tattoo gun. The coils come in three different sizes, 8, 10 and 12, which refers to the number of layers of wire wrapped around core of the coil. More layers means a more powerful gun, since the coil conducts electricity. For example, an 8-wrap coil powers a tattoo machine that uses smaller needles, while a 12-wrap coil powers a tattoo gun with larger needles. You can wrap your own coils at home or by using a coil-winding machine, and the coils are purchasable online.
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- Hold the plastic bobbin by the widest end with one hand.
- Wrap the insulated copper wire two or three times around the wide end with your other hand, leaving about 4 inches of wire sticking out.
- Wrap the wire around the bobbin, being careful to keep the coils tight and close together. You should not be able to see any part of the bobbin's body after you wrap the wire.
- Pull the wire back to the other side of the bobbin, and begin winding it again. Each layer of wire should start at the same end. You must wind the wire at least eight times to create the minimum strength wrap coil. If you have a coil-winding machine, you can substitute mechanical coil winding for the first four steps.
- Leave another 4 inches of wire sticking out of the bobbin, and wrap the coils with one layer of electrical tape. This will prevent the coils from electrocuting you and hold the wrapping in place. There should now be two 4-inch wires coming out of the starting end of the coil.
- Cut a 1-inch shrink-wrap sleeve to fit around the coil. Heat the shrink-wrap so it is tightly around the coil.
- Repeat steps 1 through 6 to create a second wrap coil.
- With the two wrap coils next to each other, twist the two starting wires together. These are the wires you left sticking out when you began wrapping the coils.
- Push the remaining two wires to the back of the coils. With the coils laying on a table, the front wires will be on top and the back wires should be on the bottom.
- Use a wire cutter to cut the wires to the correct length. You must measure this length depending on the tattoo gun you use.
- Use a soldering gun to burn the insulation away from the ends of the two back wires. You should remove about ¾ inch of insulation.
- Place rubber insulation around the two back wires, leaving ½ inch of wire poking out.
- Bend the wires towards you, and align them with the solder lugs. This step may require a wrench or holding device so you can safely solder the wires to the lugs and capacitor.
- Place the capacitor so that each end can be firmly soldered to the wires and soldering lugs.
- Solder the wires, lugs and capacitor using a soldering gun. At the same time, solder the front twisted wires together so they will not come apart.
- Use a ¼-inch shrink-wrap sleeve to shrink wrap the base of the soldering lugs. This will ensure that the machine does not short out.
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There are several ways to set a machine and I'm going to go over how I was taught (which is relatively old-school). First we will discuss the liner, then the shader.
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- If your power supply isn't connected, do all that and clip to your liner first via the rear posts. I run my liner at 8.5 (approx) volts on short throw (the contact screw is barely leaning back towards my hand and the overall stroke depth is very short) with a slight cut back. If you've ever been tattooed enough to remember the sound of the machine this will come easy: loosen the lock screw on the front contact binding and set the dime between your contact screw and your spring. bring the screw down til it barely touches your nickel and tighten the lock screw. Run the machine at your typical lining speed and it should sound close to what you're looking for. if not, loosen the lock screw while the machine isn't running and barely adjust the screw (with a tight grip! the screw moves alot when it's not locked down while the machine is running!) up or down to your preference.
- unplug your liner and hook up to your shader via the posts. I run my shader at roughly 7 volts with a decent mid range throw, semi-long cutback. doing the same as step one, loosen the lock screw and rather than using the dime, use the nickel this time to gap your contact to your spring. If this isn't the gap your prefer, adjust and lock down the screw to lock the contact screw in place.
- break down the power supply, clean your machines with a disinfectant spray (such as Citrace) and stow them away until needed or begin work!
How Tattoos Work?
- Not too long ago, most Americans associated tattoos with sailors, bikers and sideshow artists. But tattoos have become more popular in recent years, and the people who get them are as diverse as the styles and designs they choose. And some people who would never think of tattooing pictures or symbols onto their bodies use permanent make-up - a type of tattoo - to emphasize their eyes and lips
Tattoo Basics
- Artists create tattoos by injecting ink into a person's skin. To do this, they use an electrically powered tattoo machine that resembles (and sounds like) a dental drill. The machine moves a solid needle up and down to puncture the skin between 50 and 3,000 times per minute. The needle penetrates the skin by about a millimeter and deposits a drop of insoluble ink into the skin with each puncture
- The tattoo machine has remained relatively unchanged since its invention by Samuel O'Reilly in the late 1800s. O'Reilly based his design on the autographic printer, an engraving machine invented by Thomas Edison. Edison created the printer to engrave hard surfaces. O'Reilly modified Edison's machine by changing the tube system and modifying its rotary-driven electromagnetic oscillating unit to enable the machine to drive the needle
Modern tattoo machines have several basic components:
- A sterilized needle
- A tube system, which draws the ink through the machine
- An electric motor
- A foot pedal, like those used on sewing machines, which controls the vertical movement of the needle
- When you look at a person's tattoo, you're seeing the ink through the epidermis, or the outer layer of skin. The ink is actually in the dermis, which is the second layer of the skin. The cells of the dermis are far more stable than the cells of the epidermis, so the tattoo's ink will stay in place, with minor fading and dispersion, for a person's entire life
Precautions specific to tattooing include:
- Checking gloves for pinhole tears during tattooing, since petroleum-based ointment erodes latex
- Pouring ink in advance, using clean tissue to open ink bottles during tattooing and preventing nozzles from touching contaminated surfaces
- Patting tubes dry after rinsing during color changes - never blowing excess water from them
- Spraying liquid soap into a tissue, not directly onto bleeding area, since blood can become airborne when the spray hits it
- Giving pens used for drawing on the skin, which should be medical grade and sterile, to the client Tattoo artists must also take special safety measures regarding their hands. Gloves help prevent disease transmission from bodily fluids, but bacteria thrive in the warm, damp environment they create. This means that artists must: Wash hands thoroughly and often. Inspect hands for cuts or sores and cover them with bandages. Remove hangnails and keep nails short to prevent punctures to gloves. Refrain from tattooing when experiencing lesions, dermatitis or allergic reactions
The tattoo itself involves several steps:
- Outlining, or black work: Using a single-tipped needle and a thin ink, the artist creates a permanent line over the stencil. Most start at the bottom of the right side and work up (lefties generally start on the left side) so they don't smear the stencil when cleaning excess ink from the permanent line
- Shading: After cleaning the area with soap and water, the artist uses a thicker ink and a variety of needles to create an even, solid line. Improper technique during this step can cause shadowed lines, excessive pain and delayed healing
- Color: The artist cleans the tattoo and then overlaps each line of color to ensure solid, even hues with no holidays - uneven areas where color has lifted out during healing or where the artist missed a section of skin
- Final cleaning and bandaging: After using a disposable towel to remove any blood and plasma, the artist covers the tattoo with a sterile bandage. Some bleeding always occurs during tattooing, but most stops within a few minutes
- Be sure to let your artist or piercer know about your condition so that they can tailor the actual experience and aftercare tips for you
- The aftercare period is crucial to lifelong enjoyment of your tattoo or piercing
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Get to know cemetery's living landmarks
8:00am Sunday 15th June 2014 in Romsey
The trees at Botley Road cemetery are an important part of the Romsey skyline and next week the public have a chance to find out more about them.
The Friends of the Cemetery are conducting an hour-long walk next Thursday (June 19) at 6.30pm. Walkers will meet by the upper gate and look at the many trees in the cemetery, including several types of yew, and cypress, cedars of Lebanon and the monkey puzzle (right) near the lodge house.
Trees in the old part of the cemetery were planted about 150 years ago and those in the newer section more than 100 years ago. Most are evergreens, which was the Victorian way of showing continuing life in the midst of death.
Recently the Friends have been labelling the trees – a job that is not yet finished. The labels have English and Latin names, the Test Valley catalogue number and a QR code so that people with Smartphones can find out more about that species of tree.
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"deficit reduction works best when most of the burden falls on spending cuts"
But if you make spending cuts when the nations bridges and infrastructure are underdeveloped and falling down, its kids are under performing in education and ignorance rules, and the country has only just got a kind of universal health support that other developed countries have had for over half a century, what are you going to cut? If you cut social insurance and safety nets then fewer people are likely to take the risk of setting up their own businesses and innovating through their own SMEs to drive growth. The only obvious thing to cut would be the military at 20% of spending. But it is not big enough for cuts to reduce the deficit sustainably. People will have to pay more tax if they want to live in a developed country. Otherwise their country can join the ranks of the Latin American problem states.
This is one of those articles that seems to stem from an absurd notion that the reason the tax system isn't more clear is that so far no one has this idea and that legislators will pick up this magazine and suddenly know what to do.
This article seems to think that tax rates for the rich remain low because they think .3% is an insufficient amount of federal revenue, but that they would be first to reach across the aisle in the spirit of fairness if only a more effective tax regime were proposed.
Here's a radical idea, why don't we assume that rich people by and large, (live everyone else) will oppose any scheme to get them to pay more. Even more importantly, that their objection stems not from a principled outlook on the relative merits of funding common government, but because they like having money (as do we all).
"History shows that deficit reduction works best when most of the burden falls on spending cuts. That means that middle-class entitlements will have to be reduced, no matter what Mr Obama tells his supporters."
The Democrats have already proposed a ten-to-one ratio of cuts to tax increases. You can't say that "neither side is talking sense". The Democrats are being level-headed and reasonable while the Republicans are not, there is no equivalence between the two.
The Economist can't avoid its knee-jerk neoliberal outbursts. Even if we come to agree that closing loopholes could be a better way to tax the rich than increasing income tax rates, the magazine can't avoid spouting preposterous slogans like "History shows that deficit reduction works best when most of the burden falls on spending cuts."
The plutocrats would love nothing more than to see that the deficit is axed in those programs that don't affect them at all, and not in those other ruinous sinkholes that, on the contrary, keep feeding their offshore accounts, like the Military complex and its associated wars, or the Oil industry (and its associated wars).
It's time for the 99% to wise up and say loud and clear that what needs to be cut is the neoliberal crap.
Capital gains needs to rise from the paltry 15% it is currently fixed at. If a guy like Romney is effectively paying much less than the average American citizen (who cannot afford those higher rates) then, in the interests of fairness and national well-being, the capital gains rate must rise.
Only about 10% of all capital gains are derived from "job creating" activities, such as VC and private equity funding. The rest comes from assets trading hands. Enough with coddling the rich.
The country is in great need, and it is high time that those who have benefited most from this country's lassez faire policies give back to help save it.
Letting the burden fall to the middle class, especially in light of the other economic hardships the middle class has been going through these past few decades, is nothing short of immoral and short-sighted.
There are your Ayn Randians, who would have us not tax wealthy 'job creators' at all, and your Paul Krugmans, who in his blog declared that tax rates should be set to the rate which extracted the maximum revenue for the state. Both stances are immoral and untenable. In between, there are your Warren Buffets who think rich people should simply pay the top rate on all of their income. I think most Americans support Buffett's view, and I'm pretty sure Romney would support it, if a reduction and flattening in corporate taxes also accompanied it.
Tax deductions for mortgage interest and charities are huge distortions which we would be much better off without (Canada has the same home ownership rate with no mortgage deduction). The politics on this one are tricky, but if sufficient stress is made on how much more they benefit the upper middle class (the 10%) at the expense of the 90%, perhaps a gradual reduction of the maximum deduction per year would be politically feasible. Non-profits and charities is an easily exploited loophole which badly needs to be closed, no matter how many priests may complain. Harvard needs to be taxed like any other rich corporation.
Fundamentally, inequality cannot be solved by taxation. The man making $2 million a year will not be dragged back to the middle class by raising his taxes from 15 to 35%, and the man making $20 thousand will not join the middle class by reducing his taxes, as he pays very little now. To temper inequality the unjustified earnings of the finance industry must be reduced by prevent financiers from profiting from systemically destablizing one-sided bets. The man making $20,000 can improve his lot by acquiring marketable skills. Inequality within the rich world is unlikely to lessen until inequality between the rich and poor worlds lessens further, which will take a generation or more.
Not all wealth is created equal. It has become an issue today because over the past three decades laws have been gradually changed to favour the entrenchment of privilege. Few people resent wealth when they see strong equality of opportunity (indeed this is what de Tocqueville observed), and it is equality of opportunity that America (and, indeed, most of the developed world) has been steadily losing.
On a side note, outside of very simple, static, and artificially constructed systems (e.g. sports) there's really no such thing as a 'superstar' – a person who consistently outperforms everyone else. Someone who is great under one set of circumstances is unlikely to be great at others. This is another reason why there is now a backlash against the super-wealthy – people realise that people claiming to be superstars only really need to be superstars (or lucky) for a brief period of time, and then be able to generate value through vastly disproportionate capital control. Privilege today is much harder to acquire than it is to keep. This is a perfect hallmark of a system dominated by a small number of rentier positions (for which everyone vigorously competes).
The rich (should) pay and they have not paid in a very long time. They have justified their (exemption) from paying taxes by describing a (trickle down theory) that benefits the working class, and the community at large. What I see is the Pi** on you theory where we have all (bought in) and paid the price for their (bullying) that if we don't go along that they will (abandon) America and head to richer troughs to feed from. Really? Where are those troughs? We've allowed them to have (write off's) and exemptions for everything under the sun to the point the common man no longer understands our tax system. We need a straight/simple/flat tax system where the wealthy pay their share along with the middle class, who have born the brunt of our costs, and over head. It's time they stepped up and paid their part, or they get out, and go to countries who will tax them even more than we dreamt. It's time they acted as if they were part of (this) country, members, not just parasites sucking the life out of us, and then lecturing us on the theories of working hard and the benefits of those labors. They've benefited greatly: its time to pay their fair share.
Sure, close or phase out tx loopholes BUT restrain government spending growth - it's growing remorselessly on autopilot and poll after poll shows that most Americans think the government is giving poor value for the money. Let's have a plan to measure and improve the productivity and effectiveness of the public sector. I'll feel a lot better about ceding an increased share of my paycheck when I can be confident it's not being wasted.
Left-wing magazine? -at least you put a smile on my face. :D
Job growth is actually the worst in this last decade with a 35% top marginal tax rate compared to other decades with 50%, 75%, and even 90%.
Businesses don't hire when they have money to throw away (they keep it--it's called profit). Businesses hire when the return of a new hire will be greater than the calculated cost of that hire. Without a strong middle class, there will be no demand that will necessitate business hiring no matter how low the rich/corporate tax rate is. This is why income inequality and a disappearing middle class is so dangerous.
All taxpayers, regardless of income class, try their best to avoid paying taxes. I worked for H&R Block for a few seasons and believe me none of our clients were rich, but all wanted to reduce their tax burden. That is why they came to us.
Buffet pays himself 100,000 as a salary. Why? It is to minimize how much of his income gets taxed at the marginal rates instead like Romney at investment rates which are 10-15 percent. If Buffet wanted his tax burden to be more, we all know he could ratchet up that salary, fire a few of his tax consultants and just plain pay more taxes. No matter what anybody says, people behind closed doors are working hard to minimize their tax burden.
In order to have money to invest one must actually earn an income and then put aside some portion of that income that ALREADY WAS TAXED. The only difference between savers is how much each person has to put aside. Then going forward how that money is invested depends on the stomach for risk. Private equity targets individuals with a significant amount of "money aside" that are not adverse to risk and willing to invest in new ideas/technologies or bailing out ailing companies. Most people, even those with a good amount of savings would steer clear of this sort of investing even if the returns might be huge. But we need those greedy investors to fund economic growth even if for only their own gain. The government does have a role, but the government cannot rescue all failing companies, nor fund every start-up. That is up to the private sector that is risking their OWN money and not taxpayer money.
For years, I worked for a big pharmaceutical company that as a perk for ALL EMPLOYEES, allowed them to buy company stock at a reduced price. Without exaggerating this perk was loved and adored by all that chose to invest and reap those rewards. So all the office help, janitors, etc could and did participate. We all then paid capital gains which we hated. So when those rates came down there was significant cheering by the average folks which I was one of them. Those profits put kids through school, allowed families to take vacation, bought houses, cars, etc. This notion that ONLY the rich benefit from the reduced capital gains is an outright lie.
Additionally, seniors have over the years, tried to load up on stocks that paid dividends so they have extra income after they retired. Nobody wants to be a burden to their children and SS isn't enough to sustain most retirees. Also many investors choose to invest in tax free municipal bonds which will lower their tax burden as well.
Presently about 50 percent of workers do not have a federal tax burden after credits, deductions, and exemptions. Back in 1980 that percentage was 20 percent and tax rates for all were much higher. Of course over the years local, state, personal property taxes, real estate taxes, sales tax, and payroll taxes have all gone up and so the bottom line coupled with stagnating wages, a falling dollar is not as good as it was in 1980. I would argue also that our buying habits are far different than they once were meaning we are collecting tons of junk and filling up closets and thus have little in the bank. Most people do not know nor care to create wealth. The youth believes that is not possible unless they earn a big salary from Day 1 and if they can't do that they have no hope. That is where all the class warfare is emanating from. They feel entitled to have what others have worked a lifetime to get.
Most people here in the US want a reduced size government. They do until a program they benefit from gets cut. Then they squawk. I understand, but the math doesn't add up and so many will need to clear away the cobwebs. Law makers have promised for decades benefits they cannot afford to maintain to buy votes. Now with boomers ready to retire, the pressure is on many of those entitlements.
Most are in favor of reforming the tax code. Even my cheap husband says he would be willing to pay a bit more not to have to file a bunch of stupid forms every spring. Just take out the tax and leave us alone.
The problem is how that money collected is spent, which often is on highly inflated services that the private sector charges the government knowing they will pay any price. So government is dumb and doesn't have the skills to ferret out the best price with the best quality. They don't have to find the best price since they can always just raise taxes.
You consistently miss the main point of the tax issue. Specifically, corporate income tax revenue as a percentage of the federal government's revenue is less that 9 %. This is a historic low, without regard to the economic climate. The reason that this is occurring is the plethora of tax benefits which allow corporations to avoid paying the appropriate share of taxes.Eliminate corporate welfare and then a lower corporate tax rate can and should be possible.Pay attention!
Whilst a perfect world is somewhat far away I cannot help but think that these are comments myopic at best and written by someone who has not seen, been or lived in a disadvantaged environment. Ideologically (and realistically), capitalism is here to stay which means there will be winners and losers. If this individual wants the losers to suffer indefinitely and collectively then that's fine, but this inevitably affects wider society in terms of crime, equality, opportunity and ultimately culture. The perception of the US is varied across the world but if there is no appetite for those who live in it to create a fairer (I say this loosely) society, then I doubt this perception will improve. Long term this will prove permanently damaging to the US economy and at a macro level - the global environment. Whilst I do not agree totally with the article, the wealthy who have benefitted from loose regulation are hardly cascading their wealth in a 'Federal' manner and has been proven to be unsustainable - to the expense of everyone else - mostly those who cannot afford it. Now that's hypocrisy.
The rich should and must pay more. Why? They particular own the country. They use more resources and they have huge need to protect their wealth. Poor people have not much wealth worldly procession to protect. So if the rich don't want to live in a collapsing state, a fail state like that of Somali, they better pay a bit more to keep what they have worthy. Otherwise, their estate will worth much less when the neighbor, the city, the state, and finally the country goes down.
The problem is relatively simple.
Each and every person is operated by a desire for self fulfilment, self profit.
The only difference in between us is how great this desire is, how far are we are willing to go to find this fulfilment, and profit, and humanity is structured accordingly in a pyramid structure, which today we call 1% vs 99%.
The system is built in such a way that the people who get on top of the pyramid can then establish laws, regulations, others systems which reinforces their status and they can continue accumulating their profit way beyond their necessities, slowly depriving the rest even from their necessities as after all we all live in a closed, finite system.
This is most visible in the US but operates anywhere else just as well, possibly in other countries the 1% seemingly drops some more peanuts for the 99% in so called "social welfare" disguise.
The solution is also relatively simple, especially today when we learn that we live in a global, totally interdependent network, in which system the present behaviour is self destructing and as a result the 1% becomes like cancer killing the whole system including themselves.
In such an integral system only by primarily sustaining, maintaining the whole system in an optimal, well functioning manner can any individual hope for prosperity and sustainable future.
Thus we need 2 things: total transparency, an easy system where the contribution and reward of each and everybody can be easily monitored for anybody to see.
Each and every individual is judged solely by his/her contribution to the whole system, the reward is equal to the contribution.
Based on the initial remark on basic human nature it is clear that this would not lead to a North Korean type society since those with the largest desire would still be the ones contributing and benefiting the most, except now instead of primarily working for themselves they would work for society. They would still enjoy most of the rewards according to their positive work, but would not tuck away the surplus they do not need for their normal comfortable life just to show more zeros on the bank accounts, but that surplus would remain with the total network.
Of course this requires a total attitude and lifestyle change and we need to wonder about the motivation.
Motivation would come in two forms: one is the negative one, because if we do not change the crisis will get deeper and deeper washing away everything and everybody like a tsunami including the 1% either financially or by public uprising, even wars if we allow the same reflex reactions to come up we used all through our history in difficult economic situations.
The positive motivation could come from the wise understanding of our global system which is already mapped out in all its details by objective, scientific political, economical and social studies all over the world.
Spending could be cut dramatically if the US government would just bring all the troops home, stop trying to be the policemen of the world, quit attempting to "spread democracy" (which is just a euphemism for growing the Empire), and end these insane, ill-conceived Bush/Obama wars.
There is no empirical evidence to show strong
co-relation between low tax rate and job creation.
George Bush had a major tax cut(skewed to rich)
and the job creation was poor. If the distortion
of housing boom and growth in banking ( fueld
by speculation) is removed, the job creation was dismal.
Tax loopholes should be eliminated. Things like
farm subsidies including for ethanol are disgraceful.
The effective tax rate of 15% that super rich are paying is unfair. It should be at least the same
as the job earnings of ordinary people. It is a shame that financial speculation is taxed lower than research work in the lab or engineering on mfg. process or product quality.
Entitlement such as social security and Medicare
were paid by 7.75% of employee contribution and another 7.75% matched by the employer. It is unfair to target it for reduction after collecting 15.5% over 40 years.
Are you intentionally thick? The increase in tax burden for the top, say, 1%, was much lower than the increase in income that accrued to them in the last few decades.
And what do you think VAT and sales taxes are for? The poorest 50% don't pay taxes? Really? They pay it whenever they buy things, unadjusted for their low income.
It is humourous to watch people condemning Greece for their inability to get their citizens to pay their taxes owed while Americans, who are rapidly following the Greek pathway, are rationalizing the tax breaks and loopholes given to people who are rich enough to afford to use them. It is like watching a group of sailors arguing about who's responsibility it is to patch a hole while the ship slowly sinks.
The US needs to fix their problems and they need to do it sooner rather than later. Tax cuts do not reduce unemployment. That is a fake bogeyman. Increasing tax rates on the rich will not suddenly mean a reduction in employees in their companies. If you boost your tax rates too high and you force them all to relocate to another country, that is a bad thing, but as long as they stay there, they won't lay people off due to a tax increase.
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A dashboard with pretty plots and numbers about your organization… It shouldn't be that difficult, right?
Reality: Things don't always go according to the plan
pic.twitter.com/tD5W5Eqcbd via @ToddWhitaker & @LarysaDiDio— Michael Carton (@michaeltcarton) March 2, 2014
Luckily, ElasticSearch+Logstash+Kibana did came up with a nice stack to solve this problem. Here's my result and how I solved some integration hiccups. The resulting beta dashboard, as it is now, looks like this:
Many many many other blog posts have addressed this issue, but I would like to share a couple of tweaks I came up with while working on it.


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Daily Diary - Picture Gallery: British Arrows Awards
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Comedian Adam Buxton who hosted the Awards did a great job cheering on the room with his own take on the world of advertising. Attendees included Sir John Hegarty who looked on as Jeremy Craigen collected the Chairman Award 2012 and John Lewis won the commerical of the year for 'The Long Wait' Campaign. BBH won agency of the year.
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Anyone who ventures into the hallways of San Bernardino County's Historic 1923 Superior Courthouse knows that it can be an experience. Besides the pressure of everything from a red light camera ticket, to complex family issues to major criminal trials, it is a building bursting at its seams.
It is the job of the San Bernardino County Sheriff Department to maintain order while lending assistance to the thousands that enter through the security check points every day. Serving with the uniformed deputies is a small crew of Citizens on Patrol (COP's).
Most county citizens are aware of the COP's that assist with patrol on the streets of much of our county but many are unaware that a COP unit tends to the day-to-day face-to-face duty of maintaining the Court's busy corridors by assisting the deputies in their duties.
This group of about 15 mostly senior citizens are sworn volunteers, who uniform up and wear a shiny Sheriff badge but do not carry a gun or make arrests. Their job is answering a myriad of questions and directing people to the proper places in a complex maze of offices, courts and mediation rooms.
County wide, Sheriff Department volunteers have logged well over 10,000,000 hours.
Anyone interested in joining the volunteer COP unit in the downtown Superior Courthouse can apply by calling 909-387-0287.
After an initial interview with Sheriff personnel, each candidate will have a background check completed and attend a 40-hour COP academy designed to instruct volunteers into the workings of the Sheriff Department and the Courthouse.
COP's Recognized
Once each year, the COP's from the Courthouse join their deputy brothers and sisters in a holiday party. That occasion is also the time the Sheriff Department announces their "COP of the Year" as well as the "Employee of the Year."
This unit of volunteers, which logs over 5,000 hours of service each year, presented Mike Jones (Yucaipa) with their 2012 "COP of the Year" award. Jones maintains the unit's police radios, has been a COP for nearly four years and logged over 1,500 hours of volunteer service.
This year's festivities also saw Deputy Troy Terbest awarded a plaque for his outstanding service beyond his regular assignment. For years, he has almost single-handedly organized BBQs for the entire staff of both the downtown Criminal and Civil Courthouses. These have been fundraisers for the Sheriff Department which help activate other projects.
The 2013 officers for the COP unit were also saluted during the evening. They are Commander David Stallberg (Redlands), Vice Commander Debbie Kelly (San Bernardino), Secretary Becky Fults (Colton), Treasurer Pamella Garcia (Loma Linda) and Training Officer Don Leiffer (Highland).
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With its tree-lined streets and beautifully restored Craftsman-style homes, South Pasadena continues to be a favorite location to film movies and take photographs for magazine advertising.
Location managers like the city's "anywhere in the U.S.A. look.
Often you'll hear: "What was shot on that corner or over on that street?
With the help of Joan Aguado, the city of South Pasadena film liaison, the South Pasadena Review will provide information on "shoots" in the city to keep you informed.
Here's what was shot recently in South Pasadena:
9/25 Still Photo "Disney Channel" 1100 block of Fairview
9/27 TV Commercial "DirecTV" 1400 block of Garfield
9/30 TV Commercial "Virgin Mobile" Glendon Way & 1100 block El Centro
9/30-10/1 TV Show "Ancient Aliens" 800 block of Mission
10/1 Feature Film "Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible" 1000 block of Buena Vista, Stars Jennifer Garner & Steve Carrell
10/4 Commercial "Home Depot" 2000 block of Edgewood Drive
10/4 Commercial "CVS" 1102 Oxley
10/7 TV Show "Parenthood" 1900 block of La France. 1500 block of Mission, 1400 block of Oneonta Knoll
10/8 Still Photo "AT&T" 400 block of Arroyo
10/8 TV Show "Kirby Buckets" Library Park
10/9-10 Commercial "Pandora" Jewelry 400 block of Oaklawn
10/10 Reality Show "Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory" 1000 block of Mission
10/11 &12 TV Pilot "Tyrant" 1400 block of Laurel
10/15 Commercial "Halos" Tangerines 1000 block of Buena Vista
10/18 Commercial "Tide" 1700 block of Laurel
10/22 Commercial "Nickelodeon" 400 block of Oaklawn
10/29 Commercial "Liberty Mutual" 1800 block of Camden Avenue
10/30 TV Show "Twisted" 1000 block of El Centro, 400 block of Oaklawn, 1500 block of Mission
11/1 Commercial "Smuckers" 800 block of Adelaine
For more information, call (626) 403-6847.
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