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Originally posted 08/15/2014 08:45AM
Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger may now be sharing the screen, but back in the '80s there used to be no camaraderie between these movie muscle men.
Stallone stopped by The Tonight Show on Thursday to share just how far the actors' old rivalry went.
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Originally posted 05/02/2014 11:45AM
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Originally posted 02/06/2014 12:00PM
In his 22 years hosting The Tonight Show, Jay Leno crafted a winning formula: a bit of silliness, crossed with snark, and delivered with an utter lack of pretension.
As Leno prepares to hang up his Tonight Show spurs Thursday night, let's look back on some of the highlights of his decades-long tenure, from his news-making interviews to his 4,600 jokes about Bill Clinton:
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The season of giving is in full swing and celebrities are getting in on the feel-good action.
Ever dream of picking up the phone and hearing Bryan Cranston on the other end? The University of California and Noise Marketing created Promise for Education to make outlandish wishes like this a reality. Promise for Education is a charity website dedicated to raising scholarship money by crowdsourcing people's vows to do something daring – like skydive or start a business – after reaching their set fundraising goal.
Over a thousand do-gooders have posted to the site, including some big celebrities with equally impressive promises. See what these famous folks offered up to help Promise for Education raise over $1.3 million in scholarship money this year. You won't find any Grinches here.
Originally posted 10/18/2013 03:15PM
Imagine Eddard Stark as the put-upon manager of a failing medieval-themed amusement park.
That's the premise behind the latest video from the gang at Bad Lip Reading (who've offered up such gems in the past as the fish-slapping Edward in a dubbed-over version of Twilight). They've taken their questionable lip-reading skills to Westeros, for a video that takes top honors as the best clip of the week. Plus: Conan O'Brien shames shagadelic news anchors and more of the most important random things online!
Originally posted 10/18/2013 02:30PM
They were hanging out at Comic-Con over the summer, they're working on The Expendables 3 and, just this week, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger were pictured having a back-slapping good time at lunch in New York City as they prepared to promote their latest flick, Escape Plan.
But the two action stars weren't always so chummy.
In 1982, Sylvester Stallone's Rocky III was in movie theaters – and so was his rival action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger's Conan the Barbarian. By 1984, a muscle-bound Schwarzenegger was the Terminator, while an equally brawny Stallone was basking in the box-office success of his Rambo franchise – and neither star wanted to concede the crown of world's manliest man.
Originally posted 09/10/2013 05:35PM
Talk about an odd couple!
During Monday's episode of The Talk, Sharon Osbourne revealed when she was 25 she briefly dated Tonight Show host Jay Leno. "The fling was more fling for me," she said, "and not fling enough for him."
While the pairing is definitely one we'd never predict, especially considering both stars are now in long-term marriages, it's not the first celebrity romantic revelation to rock our world. Check out who else has had us scratching our heads:
Originally posted 02/28/2013 10:25AM
Arnold Schwarzenegger has been spotted with a new lady friend in recent days – someone who shares his dedication to staying in shape.
The former world-champion bodybuilder has been on several dates with Heather Milligan, a 38-year-old Southern California physical therapist who works with a number of NFL athletes, New York's Daily News reports.
The Hollywood legend and former California governor, 65, dined with Milligan last Friday at Babalu in Santa Monica, and they were spotted driving around Brentwood the next day.
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New .london domains touted tomorrow amid usual tech hypegasm
Aren't 3-letter TLDs reserved for gTLDs?
That would explain why not .LDN...
Canadian spookhaus says airport Wi-Fi slurp didn't invade privacy
What's confusing?
They were collecting data about individuals which we don't need to worry about because it isn't data about individuals. Simples.
MEPs: Specialised services? Oui. 2-speed internet? Nein
Where the hell does the Ja / Nein in the headline come from? The MEP in charge is Catalan and from the biggest political party in the Parliament. The MEP following the dossier for the second biggest party in the parliament is Greek.
Typical British prejudice Ja - related in any way to what is currently going on... nein.
Impressive failure to understand what is going on...
Three committees voted on Opinions last week - completely unreported - while the first draft from the Civil Liberties Committee, which hasn't yet been voted on, is the sole focus of your article.
C minus. Could do better.
Malware+pr0n surge follows police op to kill illicit streaming sites
"confirmed by analysts"
"Once illegal activity was confirmed by analysts"
Remember the old days when illegal activity was confirmed by impartial judges?
Unsung DEAD WHALE EXPLODER hero, who gave the early internet a purpose, passes away
One can only hope....
... that he was given a funeral that echoed his life.
EU tsars rubbish Brit PM over attempt to delay beefed-up privacy rules
Maths problems maybe?
"The EC's vice president only tabled the proposed regulations in January 2012, yet she is hoping to the whole thing wrapped up in 2014."
Google fires fresh salvo in war on FILTH: Chrome Supervised Users
so you can block google analytics?
Steelie Neelie calls for TOTAL BAN on EU mobe roaming charges
Seriously, though...
...""The European Commission says no to roaming premiums, yes to net neutrality, yes to investment, yes to new jobs. Fixing the telecoms sector is no longer about this one sector but about supporting the sustainable development of all sectors," Kroes said.
Do you really want to take everything Kroes says as fact? Where's the analysis? Where are the alternative views? Where's the criticism of her half-baked NN proposals, for example?
European Commission plans net neutrality push
Re: Here on the small island ....
They're getting the end of net neutrality in return, they're not that upset.
Thanks for the EC press release, but....
any chance you could give us an article that is based on research?
London Mayor shows off GIANT BLUE COCK in busy square
Bad pun alert
Hahn/Cock's half hour of fame?
Bolivian president's jet grounded so officials can look for Snowden
Activist or journalist?
Your "bootnote" would suggest the former.
Student falsely IDed by Reddit as Boston bomber found dead
"Tripathi's case showed the dangers of crowdsourcing investigations of this type, "
No shit, sherlock!
Your consent 'almost always' needed when firms use your data to profile you
Re: Oh FFS
Yes it is... just not in absolutely all cases.
GoDaddy gone, daddy: Websites go titsup in server assault
godaddy... the ryanair of the Internet
If you're using them, you've only got yourself to blame.
ITU to treaty haters: Enjoy your pricey roaming, boatloads of spam... suckers
protecting us from spam
If bureaucrats like in the ITU were in charge of protecting us from spam, we'd never eat anything else!
US drops 'net regulation bombshell, threatens WCIT exit
'nuf said
Google's ethics, cosy UK.gov chats under Westminster scrutiny
And the head of the copyright unit of the European Commission....
.... used to work as a lobbyist for the music industry!
I look forward to an equivalent article on this... anomaly.
'Rare for tech not to be involved in child abuse cases'
Lots of careers are built...
... on hysterical child protection nonsense... it is a very solid business model.
China's IP boss says West distorts piracy problem
Of course,...
... as we in the West are always right, it goes without saying that it is "their" attitude that needs to change.
UN internet talkshop to meet, blue helmets still not poised to invade USA
Not true
"most fixed ISPs use the Internet Watch Foundation to block the worse of the worst, "
No, they "block" (solving unproven problems for unclear motives) *anything* that the IWF says may be illegal under UK law. Not "worst of the worst"... just anything the non-judicial IWF fears may be illegal.
SMARTPHONES make TEENS have SEX with STRANGERS
"Teens with internet-enabled phones will have more sex with fewer condoms,"
Good lord, I've only ever used one at a time... even before I had a smart phone.
Brazilians strip Google News bare: News barons decide to pull out
Gee, I'd hate it if....
I put something on the Interwebz and somebody found it!
PS - F**k off and stop reading this!
And the latest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is ... the EU?
What about Afghanistan
For the Germans, I mean...
Wikipedia boss Jimmy Wales marries Kate Garvey
Nothing can make a wedding nicer than...
... when a war criminal turns up.
And I didn't say who I am referring to, so you have no right to censor my comment.
Pirate Party takes Mayor's chair in Swiss city
"The German organisation was also embarrassed last week when it emerged that party executive Julia Schramm's publisher Random House is using DCMA takedown notices against those who pirate her book."
That was a publicity stunt... *obviously*
EU greases up orphan works copyright loophole for Big Culture
Have you tried reading the actual text?
It is so restrictive as to be almost unusable, exactly how you'd like it, unfortunately.
Foxconn to investigate iPhone 5 factory woes
Most rights groups agree...
Any source for that claim?
Why DOES Google lobby so much?
ACTA can't get its act together
Re: "eleven signatories"
You're missing the fact that there are no ratifications.
ISP CAN cut off pirates with 'three strike' rule, says Irish beak
the court ruled that IP addresses are personal data...
...which renders the use, outside any legally recognised structure, illegal. Simples.
Ministers consult public on 'opt in for smut' plans
Re: What is wrong with opting in to censorship if you want it?
This is wrong, for starters - http://gigaom.com/europe/orange-censors-all-blogs/
Kelly, you can do better than this!
"Google, which undoubtedly makes plenty of cash from porn sites, has previously warned against such a heavy-handed approach to filtering content over ISP networks in the UK."
How about Google, who has vast experience of Internet restrictions in China?
Pirate Bay founders appeal to EC to save them from Swedish justice
AAAAGH - EC and ECHR are not the same thing
Can someone please write a memo and share it with everyone in El Reg, this is getting tedious.
Google warns against ISPs hard on web filth
Enough to make a tabloid blush
"Google may not be willing to comment on how much money it makes from pornography online, but the search giant's UK public policy head Sarah Hunter has unsurprisingly urged caution when it comes to ISPs filtering content over their networks."
Watchdog tells Greenpeace to stop 'encouraging anti-social behaviour'
Re: As soon as I saw "hippies" in the headline...
That's a very good point! The problem is that it's not always obvious from the headline - the fact that it was comparatively obvious this time doesn't mean that it is always obvious.
As soon as I saw "hippies" in the headline...
... I knew that it was one of El Reg's two "shock jocks'.
Could the Reg possibly mark the shock jock articles with a [sh1t] tag, so that we can avoid wasting our time by opening them?
China blames web for gun smuggling crims
They're learning from us...
Old days: Censorship / police control. N.EUspeak: Security.
'Half baked' Brussels data law fails to thrill
You do remember your recent article...
... where another set of officials said that the Regulation goes too far, right?
Euro wonks lay SMACKDOWN on draft data protection rules
The clue is in the title of the working group
Working group on*information exchange* and data protection. Coming from the policing side of the Council, these guys are traditionally... unfriendly to privacy concerns - information exchange and data protection are not easy bedfellows.. Their reaction is therefore not altogether surprising.
French National Front woos internet pirates
I wonder if I could do a pact with the devil that each time I see a sensible article by this author, I will age by 50 years. I'd live forever.
Pirate Bay AND its users violate labels' copyright - judge
T-Mobile 'fesses up to secure email ban gaffe
French court fines Google $65k over search suggestion
on one hand, Google should be happy...
... nobody else can enter the market if it is regulated in this way.
E-gambling tax will spark web bet shop exodus - report
followed by "we have to block the 'foreign'-based websites proposal...
...even though this doesn't work in France, doesn't work in Italy, doesn't bloody work.
ISP outcry halts cybercops' automatic .UK takedown plan
What do we feel about US police shutting down .com addresses?
I mean... if it is okay for UK police to shut down .uk sites, could we complain if they shut down .com or .net domains?
Activists tell gov to shove its net censorship plans
erm... no
"It looks like Hague might be taking the arguments on board, kicking off the cyber-security conference with a speech railing against net censorship."
You don't understand... when THEY restrict access to content, it's bad censorship"... when WE restrict access to content, it's "good government". Small but crucial difference.
BT gets 14 days to block Newzbin2
ITU heralds ultra-high def TV progress
ITU makes progress?
When did the ITU last make progress on anything?
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|07 Dec 2009
Monitor not detected
I'm running into this and issue and I can't peg down a cause. I recently updated my Vista HTPC to Windows 7. When booting up I can get into the OS, but the screen goes black shortly after.
I have tried two monitors: the Panasonic plasma just goes black and when I try Samsung Syncmaster LCD it looks like it's searching for digital, then analog sources.
I have an Nvidia 8400 GS card and I've tried both the 191.07 and 195.62 drivers. I've also let Windows install the drivers after uninstalling the Display Adapter in Device Manager in Safe Mode.
When I start in Safe Mode I cannot recreate the issue. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling the drivers in Safe Mode.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give.
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|07 Dec 2009
you may need to disable the onboard video card in bios.also could be refresh rate.
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|07 Dec 2009
Install the monitor driver and see how it goes.
|My System Specs
|08 Dec 2009
Thanks for the info. I just tried installing the Samsung LCD drivers. I couldn't install them in Safe Mode. I installed Digital version of the drivers since I'm using DVI. It still "crashed". I also tried the Analog driver.
I also do not have on-board video, so I cannot disable that.
When the issue occurs the only thing I can do is do a hard power down. Turning the monitor off and on or reconnecting the DVI doesn't make a difference.
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|08 Dec 2009
Use the device manager to install in safe mode.
|My System Specs
|08 Dec 2009
I entered safe mode and uninstalled the driver for the Nvidia card. I tried to install the driver in Device Manager, but kept getting a message that it couldn't find the file.
So I rebooted into regular mode and installed the driver. It seemed to work for 5 minutes, but the issue occurred again.
Another thing that I noticed is that it may not just be the monitor/video signal. I am using ICS to share the network connection from this PC to my XBox 360. In the brief times it works I can get into XBox Live. When the issue occurs I can no longer connect to the network from the XBox.
I also noticed that when I connect this same LCD monitor to my WinXP box it give me refresh rate options up to 75 Hz. When I connect to the Windows 7 HTPC I only have the options of 59 and 60 Hz.
Any other thoughts?
|My System Specs
|10 Dec 2009
Any other thoughts on this? It's a HP Pavilion s3321p Slimline PC. I checked for any Windows 7 drivers, but they only have Vista listed. I tried the Vista BIOS update, but it would not install.
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|11 Dec 2009
i've been searching google about this and it seems that the threads i am coming across in differing forums are for hp computers (laptops and desktops) that are running the nvidia 8400 .can't be coincedence i shall keep looking to see if there is a fix.should have added that the notebooks are using external montors.
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text: Greetings your grace, Mack and Betty Cooper are the parents of Dave, Kenny and Al cooper. Dave is the current primary owner/operator of Coopers Lake Campground and has been for many years. Mack Cooper hadn't been involved in the day to day stuff in several years, but could be seen every summer with Betty passing through the campground on their golf cart. Several times they had stopped and watched our spring pole lathe and other things we were doing in camp. In the early years, he was very instrumental in how Pennsic evolved, given it was basically his family business that was playing host. It is sad, though not entirely unexpected to hear of his passing. He did indeed have a nice long run. I know that my laurel and grand laurel knew him much better than I did, having camped in his yard in the past if I recall correctly. My grand laurel, Mistress Morganna, has been involved in Pennsic Gate activities more years than I care to think about and worked closely with all of the various Coopers over the years. I know many/most of the Coopers were made granted court baronies in the past, but don't recall if it was all of them or a subset. I could certainly consult the household memory storage and get a more detailed answer if anyone is interested. In service, Haraldr Bassi ... whose first war was PW12 and has only missed one Pennsic since PW21 (my second year in Ansteorra when we were so far under on our house we couldn't manage the expenses and it really really hurt to miss it). On 4/1/11 2:51 PM, Jean Paul de Sens wrote: > While I suspect that Mr. Cooper was involved with Pennsic, could someone > provide those of us who've never met the person with some details about him > and his contributions? > > TIA, > Jean Paul > > Qui mieux fait, mieux vault. > > > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Darlene Burns<annescvb at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thank you. >> >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Stephanie Drake<steldr at cox.net> wrote: >> >>> 205 Currie Road >>> Slippery Rock, PA 16057 >>> >>> This is what is on their website. >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darlene Burns"<annescvb at gmail.com> >>> To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc."<ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> >>> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 12:53 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Mack Cooper of Cooper's Lake Passed >>> >>> >>> >>> Lady Magdelena, What is the address for the Cooper's Lake Campground? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Annes >>>> "Munerius Ultra Sanitas" >>>> >>>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Magdalena "Dena" Cortez >>>> <pancua at gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>> For those of you who knew him, Mack Cooper passed away this morning at >>>>> 4am. >>>>> The family requests that in lieu of flowers donations be sent to their >>>>> church: Zion Baptist Church (in specific designated for the church >>>>> cemetery) >>>>> 154 Curry Rd. Slippery Rock, PA 16057. >>>>> >>>>> Cards can be send to the family c/o of the Cooper's Lake Campground. >>>>> In humble service to The Barony of Bryn Gwlad, >>>>> >>>>> Lady Magdelena "Dena" Cortez >>>>> MKA Katy Hendrick >>>>> Cell: 512-585-4172 >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Ansteorra mailing list >>>>> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org >>>>> In order to make changes and manage your account please go to: >>>>> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Ansteorra mailing list >>>> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org >>>> In order to make changes and manage your account please go to: >>>> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ansteorra mailing list >>> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org >>> In order to make changes and manage your account please go to: >>> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Annes >> "Munerius Ultra Sanitas" >> _______________________________________________ >> Ansteorra mailing list >> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org >> In order to make changes and manage your account please go to: >> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org >> > _______________________________________________ > Ansteorra mailing list > Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org > In order to make changes and manage your account please go to: > http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org


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Singapore and the U.S.: a tale of two economies
I'm back in Singapore for the first time in nearly two years, and what a difference two years can make. Back in 2009, Singapore was reeling from the after-effects of the global recession, which hit its trade-dependent economy particularly hard.
The island nation has regrouped quickly, however, and its economy reportedly grew by an astonishing 17.9 percent in the first half of 2010. The harbor is chock-full of ships again, construction is proceeding apace, and the government expects robust growth to continue.
I don't want to go all "Asian values" on you, and comparing Singapore's economy with that of the United States is risky at best. But I've been reading a few books and articles on the endemic corruption (or if you prefer, criminality), embedded within the United States political/economic system (and watching documentaries about it too). And it made me wonder how much this feature might have to do with the varying trajectories of the two countries.
Case in point: today's Herald Tribune reports that Goldman Sachs has concluded that there's nothing really wrong with how it does business. To quote the print version (not the online edition) Goldman decided "its operations need only a fine-tuning, not a complete overhaul." Hmmmm. I don't know about you, but when a major investment bank has to get bailed out by the American taxpayer, and just paid a $550 million fine to settle civil fraud charges (not the first time Goldman has had to do something like this, by the way), one might reasonably conclude that there were more fundamental problems involved. Not from the point of view of Goldman's present profits, perhaps, but from the point of view of what is good for the society as a whole. And the problem seems to be that maximizing political influence is as much a part of Goldman's business model as the pursuit of economic gain itself.
Mind you, I'm not an economist, and I'm sure there are legions of people out there who would be quick to leap to Goldman's defense. And I'm not really picking on Goldman, because the financial meltdown of 2007-2008 suggested that the rot was far more widespread. Instead what troubles a layperson like me -- and maybe ought to worry you, too -- is that we've just lived through the most significant global recession since the 1930s but don't seem to have learned much in the process. That recession was triggered by malfeasance in mortgage and financial markets, and yet not much seems to have been done to create new arrangements that would prevent something similar from happening again. And the main reason isn't conceptual or economic but political: financial interests give a ton of money to politicians, and -- surprise, surprise -- those same politicians tend not to take actions that these donors oppose, like significantly tighter financial regulations.
Singapore is far from a perfect society, and as I said at the outset, direct comparisons between its situation and that of the United States are somewhat dubious. But I can't help but wonder if maybe we could learn a few things about political economy from them. Like not letting private money play an enormous role in politics, and paying civil servants enough so that more of our best brains choose public service over Wall Street.
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I have been interested in libraries for as long as I can remember. My parents both worked for a state university and our house was always filled with books during my childhood (and my parents' house still is).
A modern picture of the old, glass-front bookcases in my parents' basement, following a remodel when I was about ten years old.
One of my earlier memories is waiting for the bookmobile to arrive in a grocery store parking lot near our house. I can still remember climbing aboard the bus and selecting children's books from the lower shelves. It was so exciting to be able to check out any book I wanted and take it home, with my own library card!
This bookmobile interior looks somewhat like the one that I visited. (massmemories.net)
As I grew older, my parents took me to the library itself, and I owned several shelves of books. And through too many years of college, no matter where I lived, a bookcase was always something that was absolutely necessary.
When I studied abroad in Beijing, China, there was an enterprising woman who spread out a blanket on the sidewalk near Peking University on which she sold used English-language paperback books for less than a dollar apiece. This woman became my lifeline, and I might have been her best customer during the months I lived there. When I left, I donated my sizeable collection to the dormitory in which I lived.
When my husband and I bought our first house in 1998, the first improvement we made was to build some bookshelves in the upstairs room along one wall, so I could finally have the permanent library/office that I had long been dreaming about.
Between the two of us, we didn't have enough books to fill a quarter of the shelf space we built, but within two years the shelves would be full.
(You can see on the far right of the photo that the shelves are indeed full after just two years. Undoubtedly we would have had to build more shelves on the other side, had we stayed longer in that house.)
It was at this point that I began collecting photos of beautiful home libraries. It began with spotting an article about a very impressive library in the July 1999 issue of This Old House Magazine -- I wasn't aware that people could have libraries like that in their homes. I eventually created a notebook of such photos, later leading to this site as I planned my own (more modest but still sizable) library. I believe that everyone who loves beautiful home libraries has one library, pictured in their mind from a visit or photograph, that made them realize how grand these rooms can be. This was mine:
The library photo that made me realize how great home libraries can be. More about this room here.
After two years, we moved to a nearby town and bought the small house we would live in while we both grew our businesses and had our children. We made one of the bedrooms into a library with red walls, wood bookcases and desk, and "the red bed," a single bed against the wall covered with a fuzzy red blanket and numerous pillows to make a daybed for lounging and reading. It was a comfortable, personal space that was my favorite room in the house.
My red library in our small house (when I was expecting my son). Blurry, but the only photo I could find.
My husband (his shirtless details have been blanked out to protect the innocent) on "the red bed" in our library.
We lived in that house for seven years, but we saved and worked for a time when we would be successful enough to finally buy a larger house in the country (my farm-boy husband longed to be back on the land, even if only a few acres was all we could afford). We didn't know if we would be able to find the right sort of house and might have to build, and I spent my free time using architectural software to design houses with large libraries in them (which was pretty fun).
In 2007, we found a nice older, 1920s house on a bit of land and moved in. I was glad to have the charm and quality of an older house, but I was a bit disappointed that I would not be able to build the library of my dreams: a whole room of floor-to-ceiling built-in bookshelves, maybe even two stories. But I made my peace with the decision and bought bookcases.
Within a few years, free-standing bookcases began taking over the living areas of the house, covering every wall. I began to try to think of ways to find more storage space. Could I somehow use the spaces above the bookcases to store more books? The bookcases were only six feet tall in rooms with nine foot ceilings – what a waste of three feet of space that could be holding books! What to do?
My study in our farm house. Bookcases taking over...
And over....
And over.
Finally, one evening I was talking with my husband while I was looking through an issue of Architectural Digest (a very dangerous magazine to read: it gives you ideas!). I had been reading the magazine for years, buying back issues at thrift stores and tearing out photos of the impressive libraries to add to my dream library binder.
I sighed and said to him, "It's really too bad that we'll never have a beautiful library like these." His response was "Why not? Why can't we build an addition onto our house?"
I stared at him and tried to think of all the reasons: it would ruin our old house, it would cost too much, it was simply crazy! But then I began designing a library on computer and looked at my binder and online for photos to get ideas. And I started talking with builders, getting estimates. Many of them were completely unaffordable, but one guy from a small town near here was much more reasonable (it turns out he lost a zero calculating one part of the estimate, but he felt so bad about it that he let me save some money by contracting myself the heating and electrical subcontractors, so it was still much less than any of the other contractors).
Anyway, we finally decided to just go ahead.
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In May 2011, Sam Maruca was appointed as the first IRS director of Transfer Pricing Operations for the Large Business and International (LB&I) Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). In that position, he is responsible for the development and coordination of LB&I's overall transfer pricing strategy and resourcing. Sam has jurisdiction over the Advance Pricing and Mutual Agreement program and provides direction on significant transfer pricing disputes arising in Examination. Sam has been in private practice in the Federal income tax field in Washington, D.C. since 1982. For the past 20 years, he has specialized in large-case dispute resolution, focusing primarily in the international tax and transfer pricing areas. During his career, Sam has successfully resolved many complex and contentious cases, at the audit level, in Appeals, in competent authority, in the APA program, and in the courts. These matters have arisen in a broad range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, information technology, communications, media and entertainment, homebuilding, specialty materials, and retail. Sam has written and spoken extensively on transfer pricing topics.
Michael Lennard is Chief of International Tax Cooperation in the Financing for Development Office of the United Nations. This work has a particular focus on ensuring the fairness and workability of international tax norms, including achieving greater developing country input into those norms, and encouraging cooperation to improve tax systems and administrations, as a spur to sustained development. Previously Mr Lennard was a tax treaty adviser in the OECD Tax Treaty Secretariat in Paris for three years and prior to that he worked on tax treaty and other international tax matters at the Australian Tax Office. He had earlier worked in the Australian government's Office of International Law. He has led Australian negotiating teams on trade, investment, and tax treaty matters and has prepared argument for matters before the Australian High Court, the US Supreme Court and the WTO. His published work on treaty interpretation has been cited before WTO panels and before the WTO Appellate Body. Mr Lennard has degrees from the University of Tasmania, the Australian National University and Cambridge.
Mayra Lucas has been a transfer pricing advisor at the OECD since June 2008. Her work focuses mainly in the core programme of work on transfer pricing, being actively involved in the project on transfer pricing of intangibles and transfer pricing documentation; and the work with non-OECD economies, with a special focus on Latin American countries. Previously, she worked as a senior tax consultant for Deloitte, as a consultant for DG Taxation at the European Commission and as a tax and corporate lawyer at Cuatrecasas, Gonçalves Pereira. She holds an LLM in Taxation from New York University School of Law.
David Ernick is a Principal in the Transfer Pricing Practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers' (PwC) Washington National Tax Services office. Prior to joining PwC, David was Associate International Tax Counsel at the U.S. Treasury Department. While at Treasury from 2004-2013, his responsibilities included negotiating tax treaties and trade agreements, drafting regulatory guidance, and advising on legislative matters. He also represented the United States as a delegate to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Working Party No. 6 on Transfer Pricing, and served as the Chair of its Special Session on Business Restructurings.
Sergio Luis Pérez, Servicio de Administración Tributaria, Mexico, has been at Mexican SAT's Central Administration for Transfer Pricing Examinations for the last seven years. Besides being the head of a transfer pricing audit team, he also directs the APA/BAPA program and conducts Competent Authority negotiations on BAPA's and MAP's with other tax administrations. As a Mexican delegate of the OECD's Working Party 6, Mr. Perez was involved in the Business Restructuring Project and also in the Comparability and Profit Methods Project that concluded with the most recent modifications to the OECD's Transfer Pricing Guidelines. An active participant of the OECD's education program, Sergio has been invited to lecture to other tax administrations in Central, South America and Asia.
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David is the Global Leader of PwC's Tax Controversy and Dispute Resolution Network. David works with multinational companies on international tax matters focused on corporate tax planning, structuring worldwide businesses, transfer pricing, mergers and acquisitions, and the management and resolution of domestic and global tax controversies. During David's years as an international tax partner at one of the world's largest law firms, David served as Chair of the Washington, D.C. Tax Practice, Chair of the Tax Controversies and Litigation Practice, and Chair of the Transfer Pricing Practice. David is a member of the American Bar Association, the District of Columbia Bar, and has been admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, as well as numerous U.S. Federal Courts of Appeal, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Humberto M. Reboredo is Director and Global Head of Transfer Pricing for Credit Suisse. He manages a team of 10 professionals around the world advising and implementing transfer pricing policies for the bank. Prior to his current role, Mr. Reboredo was a Tax Counsel for Credit Suisse advising on a broad variety of corporate and partnership taxation issues, including the taxation of financial products. Mr. Reboredo is currently a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee of Banking Institutions on Taxation. Before joining Credit Suisse, Mr. Reboredo was a Vice President and Tax Counsel at Morgan Stanley and an Associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.
Niraja Srinivasan leads the Global Transfer Pricing organization at Dell. Prior to Dell, she spent 8 years at GE in a number of business and corporate transfer pricing and valuation/M&A roles. Niraja is a PWC alumni and has over 15 years of experience as a transfer pricing economist.
Sean Caren is the Director of Transfer Pricing at American Express, a leading financial services company. He is responsible for the company's transfer pricing related activities including transfer pricing planning and controversy, asset valuations, risk management, as well as global and local country documentation efforts. Prior to joining American Express, he spent several years with BDO Seidman LLP's national transfer pricing practice, where he worked on a range of transfer pricing and economic consulting engagements. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New Jersey and a Certified Valuation Analyst.
Selena Schneider is the Global Director of Transfer Pricing at CIT, a leading provider of financing to small and middle market companies. At CIT, Selena has global responsibility for transfer pricing planning, compliance, documentation and controversy. Selena was formerly with IBM, where she had the same level of responsibilities. Prior to her time at IBM, Selena was an Industry Economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury where she was responsible for developing transfer pricing issues for Fortune 50 firms in the Northeast and Central Regions. She started her career in Transfer Pricing at Andersen.
Joel Phillips is the Transfer Pricing Director for America's at Unilever. He leads a team of in house Transfer Pricing professional and is responsible for all Transfer Pricing matters for the America's region as well as Global Transfer Pricing projects. Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of fast-moving consumer goods with sales in 190 countries and employing over 173,000 employees. Previously Joel held roles such as the Transfer Pricing Director for Asia, Africa and Central Eastern Europe as well as the Head of Tax for a range of MNE's and Australian based companies. More recently Joel has participated as a representative of BIAC at the OECD Consultation Meeting for Transfer Pricing regarding BEPS and Intangibles.
Horacio Peña is a Tax Principal and Senior Economist based in the New York City office of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He is the firm's U.S. and the Americas' transfer pricing practice network leader. Mr. Peña has twenty three years of experience (16 of those as a partner) conducting intercompany pricing studies and devising solutions to complex international tax, investment, and pricing problems faced by large and emerging multinational corporations. Mr. Peña has been retained as the world-wide transfer pricing economic advisor by many Fortune 100 companies and many of the largest pharmaceutical, technology and consumer product companies. He is currently assisting many companies in the formulation and implementation of supply-chain optimization, global profit alignment and tax minimization strategies.
Ms. Li Ying is a Tax Director – Transfer Pricing of Siemens North East Asia Region based in Beijing. She practiced transfer pricing with Siemens from 2005. She led a dedicated TP team to build comprehensive in-house TP expertise from scratch. Currently, the team is the centre of competence of Siemens North East Asia Cluster, taking full responsibilities for TP compliance, risk management, value chain planning, transfer pricing due diligence and audit defence. By moving the expertise in-house, significant cost saving was achieved. More importantly, this in-house practice gives Siemens the edge of more direct risk control and increases opportunities for proactive transfer pricing planning. Previously, she worked with a big 4 firm for 5 years focusing on corporate tax consulting.
Lucia Fedina is a Director at Deutsche Bank responsible for the Americas' Transfer Pricing, Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Lucia worked as a Transfer Pricing Economist at two Big Four firms, where she assisted multiple clients in satisfying Transfer Pricing requirements of various OECD countries. As part of this work, Lucia worked with Tax Authorities in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, China and Russia. Lucia holds a PhD in Economics from the Ohio State University.
Dale Hill is a partner in Gowlings' Ottawa office and is the national leader of the Gowlings Transfer Pricing and Competent Authority team. Dale works in conjunction with the Firm's National Tax Practice Group to help organizations optimize their global tax position and reduce exposure to unfavourable audit assessments through proper tax planning and implementation strategies. Dale's specialty is audit defense and dispute resolution, where he has been instrumental in preventing various tax authorities, in North America, Europe and Asia, from raising costly transfer pricing adjustments and penalties on some of the world's largest multinational companies.
Ognian Stoichkov currently serves as global transfer pricing director for PepsiCo, Inc. He has responsibility for the global transfer pricing policy and global strategic projects for the company. Prior to joining PepsiCo, Ognian spent 14 years with Big 4 transfer pricing practices in Detroit, Short Hills, NJ and New York. He has a B.A. in Economics from Reed College, a M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. Candidacy in Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Clark Armitage joined Caplin & Drysdale as a Member in 2013. Mr. Armitage advises multinational corporations on transfer pricing matters, from planning to cross-border dispute resolution. He has a strong background interacting with tax authorities on advance pricing agreements and competent authority matters for corporations in a variety of industries. Mr. Armitage served as Deputy Director in the IRS Advance Pricing Agreement Program and, on a detail, as the Tax Treaty Manager responsible for Canadian Competent Authority cases.
John Drewno began his tax career working as an economist with the national office of the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, DC where he managed portions of the Corporate 1120 Program and provided technical support to IRS field offices.Since 1997, he has worked in several countries and held numerous senior management and partnership positions with Big 4 and international tax consulting firms specialising in the international tax and transfer pricing fields. Working with Fortune 100 multinational corporations,John's international tax and transfer pricing specialty work focuses on international tax compliance, planning,and controversy issues for multinational corporations. John has also advocated before the OECD on multiple International tax Issues including administrative aspects of transfer pricing, safe harbours, timing issues and intangibles. He was an invited consultant to the OECD Working Party No 6 on Transfer Pricing and Business Restructuring in 2009. John is regularly cited in leading global tax and legal publications.
David is a principal in PwC's Global Transfer Pricing practice and leads the firm's End to End TP Execution group which focuses on the practical implementation of policies within financial and IT systems, and the associated communication and accounting/tax process improvement issues.
David is a commercial international tax professional with over 19 years' experience (12 as partner/principal). He has extensive large company planning and corporate compliance experience, with credentials in the areas of tax-efficient financing, M&A planning, and intellectual property/business structuring. Since 2010 David has focused specifically on transfer pricing execution, and is a recognized thought leader in this emerging practice area. He is a Chartered Accountant, Chartered Tax Adviser, and Enrolled Agent.
Ignacio Box has held various reponsibilities within the Hewlett-Packard Group since 2005, both in Europe and the US. He presently leads HP's multiyear Transfer Pricing Enhancement initiaitive.Before his relocation to the US Ignacio was a Tax Director of Hewlett-Packard for Spain and Portugal and the EMEA Transfer Pricing Coordinator for the group. He joined Hewlett-Packard as a Tax Director in 2005 having previously worked as a Tax Manager for Maxam Group, the Spanish multinational leader in the civil explosives industry. Prior to his in-house roles Ignacio worked as a Tax Advisor at PricewaterhouseCoopers (Landwell) and law firm Garrigues & Andersen.
Katherine Amos is the Vice President of Transfer Pricing Strategy at Eaton, an Irish-based multinational focused on power management products and services with sales to customers in over 175 countries. Previously, she was the global head of transfer pricing for Tyco International, a Swiss-based multinational operating in a variety of markets. Katherine also spent 17 years in transfer pricing consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Ernst & Young LLP working with companies in a variety of industries with transfer pricing planning, documentation, and controversy needs.
Graeme Wood joined the Procter & Gamble Company in 1988 as UK tax manager after previously having worked at Deloitte Haskins & Sells. In 2006, Graeme became Director, Global Taxes – Transfer Pricing within the Geneva office, relocating to Cincinnati in 2008. Graeme has also been involved with providing guidance to the OECD on business restructuring issues, presenting to an OECD Roundtable in 2005 and becoming a member of the Business Advisory Group for a recent Business Restructuring project.
Kelley Lear is Senior Manager of Global Implementation Services for ONESOURCE Operational Transfer Pricing, at Thomson Reuters. She came to Thomson Reuters from her last role as Managing Director at Red Moon Solutions where she was responsible for heading up sales and marketing efforts, product management and consulting services for an entrepreneurial tax solutions provider. Kelley's career experience is rich in project management, product management, and a full range of tax and technical consulting services with Fortune 500 and Global 1000 clients.
Ted Sutter is the global head of transfer pricing for Danaher Corporation. Danaher Corporation is a science and technology leader designing, manufacturing, and marketing innovative products and services to professional, medical, industrial, and commercial customers. Prior to taking his current position at Danaher, he was Director of Transfer Pricing at Merck & Co and at Alcatel-Lucent. Ted has over 20 years of experience in transfer pricing and global trade management. He started his career at U.S. Customs and is a Licensed Customs Broker. He holds an MBA from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and an MST from Seton Hall University.
Mr. Pedevilla is a Transfer Pricing Principal in the Miami office of PwC. Due to his extensive experience in global and regional documentation and planning projects, he has been named as the Global leader of PwC's service offering Global Coordinated Documentation ("GCD"). In addition, he is the Transfer Pricing Latin America Coordinator in the US, leading the Transfer Pricing Latin America Business Center. Mr. Pedevilla has extensive experience in the coordination and management of global and regional planning, restructuring and documentation projects. He has been heavily involved in the management of transfer pricing audits in Argentina, Costa Rica, Mexico and the U.S. In addition, he assisted in developing PwC's Transfer Pricing practices in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Richard Gilmer, CGA is theTax Compliance Coordinator at NOVA Chemicals Corporation based in Calgary, Alberta. Richard has over thirty-two years of experience working with transfer pricing in the chemicals industry. He has dealt with transfer pricing audits and appeals, services and product APAs, and competent authority filings for MAP requests as well as an ACAP result spanning ten taxation years.
Sherif Assef joined Duff & Phelps in 2012 and is a Managing Director in the New York office. He has been named as one of the world's leading transfer pricing professionals by Legal Media Group and has extensive experience advising clients on a variety of transfer pricing matters in a number of industries over an 18-year career. Prior to joining Duff & Phelps, Sherif helped build Ceteris US LLC into a world-class transfer pricing firm as one of its founding members. Previous to Ceteris, Sherif was with Ernst & Young LLP, working with clients in the financial services, publishing, commodities, software, retail goods, real estate, telecommunications, energy, engineering, and construction industries. At both Ernst & Young and Ceteris, he has supervised and overseen transfer pricing planning, documentation, and audit support engagements covering a variety of intercompany issues
Michelle has significant experience advising clients on transfer pricing and valuation matters, including transfer pricing documentation preparation, ASC 740 (FIN 48) recognition and measurement analyses, advanced pricing agreements, cost-sharing analyses, buy-in valuations, supply chain restructuring and tangible and intangible transfer pricing policy development. Michelle has assisted numerous clients on revamping their documentation and compliance processes to become more efficient and effective given today's global audit practices. In addition, Michelle has significant experience managing local teams across the globe to harmonize companies' transfer pricing policies and coordinate global documentation in numerous countries.
Mimi Song is currently Vice President and Head of the Transfer Pricing Unit at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Ltd.'s New York Branch ("BTMU"). She manages over $150 million of service charges using activities-based costing, and analyzes the arm's-length pricing for over 200 different types of services. Prior to joining BTMU, she worked as a transfer pricing consultant for Duff and Phelps Corporation, designated as the "Best Transfer Pricing Team" in the United States by World Finance magazine, and managed the transfer pricing professional services team at Thomson-Reuters, a global leader in research and information. She has over ten years of specialized experience analyzing numerous intercompany transactions, including tangible and intangible property transfers, financing arrangements, and various support services to satisfy U.S., OECD and global transfer pricing requirements, for Fortune 500 companies worldwide.
As President & CEO of ktMINE, David Jarczyk plays a pivotal role in managing the overall business and innovations of the firm. As a leading provider of IP data and analytics, ktMINE focuses on organizing intellectual property information to provide transparency to the market. Serving a range of IP clients, ktMINE provides comprehensive information to transfer pricing, damages/litigation, licensing, valuation, and technology transfer professionals across the globe.
Prior to ktMINE, David served in roles of increasing responsibility at Deloitte & Touche and Arthur Andersen, and was a founding partner of Ceteris – an Inc 500|5000 Fastest Growing Company. Mr Jarczyk has presented for numerous organisations and published articles on various aspects of IP analysis. He was named to the 2011, 2012 and 2013 IAM Strategy 300 (formerly 250) – The World's Leading IP Strategists. David holds an MBA and BS in Economics and Finance from DePaul University in Chicago Illinois.
Will is the Director of Transfer Pricing for Brown-Forman where he focuses on planning, policy, and risk management. Previously Will worked for Deloitte and PwC in Chicago with experience consulting on intangibles planning, value chain rationalization, and dispute resolution in the consumer products, technology, and pharmaceutical sectors. Will is admitted to the Illinois Bar and has earned degrees from Northwestern (LL.M. in Tax), Notre Dame (J.D.) and the University of Louisville (Economics). Will is a frequent speaker at continuing education conferences and trade meetings and active with United Way and child welfare organizations.
Fabio Gaspar is a Tax Lawyer who specializes in tax planning and consulting on Brazilian taxes, procedures and international taxation, with background on tax litigation and corporate law. His current role includes being the Transfer Pricing focal point for Brazilian upstream assets. Prior to joining Shell Fabio worked for reputed Law Firms in Brazil.
Jeffrey is the Managing Director at ktMINE and is responsible for business development, managing strategic partnerships, enhancing customer relationships and bringing new products to the IP market.
Jeffrey has previous transfer pricing consulting experience and has performed various services for multinational companies including tangible, intangible, and services analyses. In addition, he has experience in litigation support, including section 936 exit strategies and intellectual property valuation. Jeffrey has worked with clients in a variety of industries including pharmaceutical, software, industrial goods, automotive, logistics, retail, and financial services.
Jeffrey is Co-Chair of the Licensing Executive Society Chicago Chapter and is a Certified Patent Valuation Analyst. He holds an MBA from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Eastern Illinois University.
Linda H. Fernandez is Consultant for Transfer Pricing in Eli Lilly and Company, a leading global research-based pharmaceutical company with over 38,000 employees in over 120 countries. She is responsible for transfer pricing compliance; overseeing all global transfer pricing documentation, including agreements to support inter-company transactions. She serves as a primary contact and consultant for Advanced Pricing Agreements (APAs), and has a key role in transfer pricing audit defense for global affiliates. She has broad international expertise gained through involvement in APA negotiations and trade group consultations and presentations (TABD and FTAA). As a member of the McDermott Will & Emery Transfer Pricing Discussion Group, she is a contributing author to Group comments to the OECD and the IRS, and presented Group comments at the OECD transfer pricing business consultations on business restructuring and intangibles. She holds a Bachelors from Denison University, a Masters degree in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a J.D. from Indiana University-Indianapolis (including studies in civil law), and is a member of the Indiana Bar.
Rob Jenkins is a finance executive with over 20 years of experience in leading high-technology and professional services companies. Rob consults with CFOs on technology, analytics and performance management. He has served as Vice President Corporate Finance and led Finance transformation. As a SAP client, his team integrated SAP's Analytics including Profitability and Cost Management, Business Planning and Consolidation and Business Intelligence for closed loop performance management. Rob's leadership experience also includes Corporate Development, Strategic Planning and Consulting. He has designed and implemented customer profitability, business planning, process improvement and performance measurement systems in multiple organizations. Rob began his career as an Auditor with KPMG.
Bradley W. Shumaker currently serves as Tax Counsel and global transfer pricing director for Zimmer, Inc., a medical device manufacturer based in Warsaw, Indiana. He has been involved with working both U.S. and foreign cost sharing and transfer pricing issues from a corporate perspective since 1997. His previous experience includes serving as the global transfer pricing director for eBay, and as the U.S. transfer pricing focal point for Royal Dutch Shell.
Luiz Felipe Centeno Ferraz performs tax-advantaged structuring and advises clients generally in connection with investments, public and private M&A, and cross-border transactions. His practice also includes transfer pricing matters. Mr. Ferraz is a frequent speaker at international tax seminars and he has published numerous articles on Brazilian taxation in Brazil and abroad. He serves as a legal counsel to the Federation of Industries of São Paulo (FIESP) and is Vice-Chair of the International Tax Committee of the American Bar Association's International Law section. He has been named by Chambers Latin America, PLC Which Lawyer,and Who's Who Legal as a leading tax practitioner in Brazil. Mr. Ferraz holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation from the Fredric G. Levin College of Law of the University of Florida, which he attended on a Fulbright Scholarship.
Jay Urquidi is a Manager of Global Transfer Pricing at Marsh & McLennan Companies, a Fortune 500 professional services firm, where he oversees tax transfer pricing for major subsidiaries worldwide. An adjunct Lecturer at NYU's School of Continuing & Professional Studies, Jay teaches Introductory and Intermediate Transfer Pricing. With over 10 years in his field, Jay has published extensively, including a chapter in the Transfer Pricing Manual and articles in the New School Economic Review and the Transfer Pricing International Journal. Jay holds a B.A. in economics from New York University, and a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mike Heimert is a Managing Director with Duff & Phelps and the global Transfer Pricing practice Leader. He has been named as one of the world's leading transfer pricing professionals by International Tax Review for the last eight years, and has over 20 years of experience providing transfer pricing and valuation services for multinational companies across a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, automotive, oil & gas, software, heavy manufacturing, and retail. Mike has been retained as an expert witness on transfer pricing, including the largest transfer pricing case ever, and has provided litigation support to attorneys and their clients in diverse matters involving economic analyses. Mike was previously the CEO and founder of Ceteris, the largest independent transfer pricing firm in North America. Prior to Ceteris, Mike was a partner and the National Director of Transfer Pricing and Economics for Ernst & Young.
Matthew Koch is the Head of Global Transfer Pricing for Lexmark International, Inc. and is responsible for the company's worldwide transfer pricing policy, as he oversees the development of the company's worldwide strategy and compliance for transfer pricing. He is also heavily involved with Lexmark's international tax planning for a variety of issues, including mergers and acquisitions, application of income tax treaties, and intangibles. Matthew obtained his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Virginia and his law degree from the University of Kentucky where he focused his studies on taxation. After law school, he went to work in public accounting where he obtained his CPA License and was a member of the Business Tax Advisory group at Ernst & Young immediately before he joined Lexmark.
Karine Halimi-Guez, Head of EMEA Tax at FedEx International, is in charge of all corporate tax matters for the EMEA region (which includes India), ranging from compliance overview to M&A and tax structuring, including VAT & tax audits. FedEx ownes a truly worldwide network of aircrafts and trucks, serving more than 220 countries. Transfer pricing is thus a critical aspect of the business. Karine has been with FedEx since 1999, and was previously responsible for French tax matters of Akzo Nobel, Pharmaceutical division in France.
Patrick Dervin is the Senior Director of Global Transfer Pricing at Aon plc, a leading global provider of risk management, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human resources solutions and outsourcing services. Pat joined Aon in 2011 and is responsible for compliance, planning, and dispute resolution for intercompany pricing issues globally. Prior to joining Aon, Pat served as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Chicago Regional Economist, assessing risks to the region's insured banking and thrift institutions. In addition, Pat worked as an Industry Economist with the Internal Revenue Service's LMSB group, and as a transfer pricing consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers
A graduate from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1997, Scott has worked for Celanese Corporation, a Fortune 500 MNE chemical company, since 2005. Scott leads the global transfer pricing practice at Celanese (USD $5billion annually in intercompany tangible product transactions) for intercompany transactions relating to tangible products, shared services, IP, royalties, intercompany loans, guarantees and cash pooling. Scott's team has automated transfer price setting and monitoring through SAP adaptation and also oversees all global transfer pricing audits.
Chris leads Monsanto's global transfer pricing team. Chris has been involved in transfer pricing for the last 20 years at various US multinationals. At Monsanto Chris leads a team that is responsible for transfer pricing planning, restructuring, compliance and audit. His experience includes transfer pricing work with tangible and intangible property, financing costs, services and supply chain. Chris holds an accounting degree and an MBA and is a certified public accountant.
Melvin has over 20 years of experience in transfer pricing, tax, and valuation. He began his career as a valuation consultant. As a transfer pricing consultant, he has resided in Mexico City, Chicago, New York, and Amsterdam where he lived and practiced transfer pricing for 6 years. He has also worked extensively in Asia particularly in China. Upon returning to the US, Melvin became the international tax and transfer pricing director of the second largest global advertising holding company. Currently, Melvin is the global tax and transfer pricing director of a global apparel wholesaler and retailer. In his spare time Melvin is an avid photographer and competitive rower
Ernie is the Director of Global Transfer Pricing for the Celgene Corporation. In this position he has worldwide responsibility for transfer pricing policy, planning, compliance, documentation and defense. Ernie has nearly 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, 15 of which have been spent in the area of transfer pricing. Prior to joining Celgene, he worked at Bristol-Myers Squibb, where in addition to his transfer pricing responsibilities, he was heavily involved in alliance development and management for several major products, including Abilify, Plavix, and Avalide/Avapro. Ernie received his undergraduate degree from Kean University and his MBA from Rider University. He resides in Hopewell, NJ with his wife and two daughters.
Mr. Kaufman, a transfer pricing economist, specializes in global tax consulting services. He manages various tax management initiatives, including cost allocation models, documentation of client transfer prices, and compliance with government regulations. He provides transfer pricing solutions to multinational organizations supporting their business objectives across multiple industries. He coordinates transfer pricing for Ryan's holistic global tax strategies to help optimize client global effective tax rates. His industry experience includes manufacturing, software, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, energy, apparel, mining, technology and heavy industry.
Todd Miller is a member of Hogan Lovells' tax practice group. His practice encompasses a broad range of matters with particular emphasis on tax controversies, transfer pricing, international tax planning and corporate acquisitions, dispositions and reorganizations. Todd's transfer pricing practice includes counseling domestic and international clients with respect to the transfer of intangible property, cost sharing agreements and the pricing of goods and services. It also includes the successful resolution of a significant number of transfer pricing matters with IRS Appeals and the resolution of other matters through competent authority procedures.
*** This is the provisional speaker list only. Many other industry names to be confirmed soon for 2014! ***


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This year LET member Beth Allen will represent the USA alongside Amelia Lewis at the World Ladies Championship in China. This will be Allen's third appearance in the tournament at Mission Hills Resort Haikou, where she finished seventh and 12th in the individual event in 2012 and 2013 respectively. She is carrying some strong form into the tournament, having tied for third at the ISPS HANDA New Zealand Open hosted by Christchurch in the opening LET event of 2014.
You have played at Mission Hills Haikou before. How excited are you to be going back?
I am very excited to come back to Mission Hills! It's a wonderful Resort and both of the courses we have played have been a great test of golf. I've had some success there so I'm really looking forward to it!
How excited are you to be returning to China?
China is always an interesting place to visit for us. It is so different from Europe so we always gain new experiences. Everyone is always so friendly and welcoming there too so yes I am looking forward to returning to China.What are your impressions of Mission Hills Resort Haikou?
My first impression of Mission Hills Resort Haikou is how big it was! It's a massive resort that has so much to offer, especially to a golfer. The hot springs are amazing, the spa is fantastic, there are plenty of great restaurants to choose from and of course there is no shortage of golf. Twelve courses with a very large practice facility is pretty impressive.
What is special about this venue?
The venue is really special because it is very different from most places that we travel to. It is luxurious and always a great week for us. We get to play championship courses and enjoy the hot springs, spas and nice hotel rooms.
How does this compare with the other venues on tour?
Mission Hills Haikou is different to some of the other venues that we play because it is very accessible. It makes it an easy week to be able to get out of bed and walk to the driving range. Then after the round go upstairs to the comfort of your hotel room and then walk to dinner at one of the resorts fine restaurants. The courses that we have played are both quite different from each other too. One was more quirky than the other so there's a variety of golf which keeps us guessing.
What do you think of the Chinese food?
My favorite food in the whole world is Dim Sum! I love steamed dumplings of all kinds! Some of the other stuff like chicken feet, turtle, duck tongue I can live without but I'm always trying something new when I visit China!
What do you think of the unique 3-in-1 pro, team and amateur format?
The pro am format with three amateurs and one pro is always good because it's fun to be a part of a team for everyone. Everyone gets a chance to participate and that's what it's all about.
What are your personal goals for the tournament?
Well, I would love to win. That has been a goal of mine for many years now. I have done fairly well in the previous two WLCs so I'm hoping to improve my result this year!
Do you feel your game is good enough to win?
Yes I do feel my game is good enough. I came close to winning a few weeks ago in New Zealand and have had a decent start to the year so I think I can win.
What are your general goals for this year?
My goals for the year are to improve my position on the Order of Merit from last year, to play in as many majors as I can, to improve my fitness and to win!
How have you been preparing for the WLC at Mission Hills and how are you approaching the new season?
For the first time in my career I took five weeks off from golf during the off season to recharge my battery. I have taken time off for surgery before but never willingly given myself a break. After Dubai I didn't touch a club until January 7th and then practiced and worked on my fitness hard for two weeks before heading to Australia. I feel that combined with my diet change that I made in October has given me more energy for the season. I've played five events in five weeks so I am certainly prepared to tee it up at Mission Hills.
Do you have any new hobbies or have you done anything particularly interesting or noteworthy over the off-season or last few weeks?
I don't have any new hobbies. I've been practicing yoga pretty seriously for about a year now so I've just been maintaining that and of course singing some karaoke here and there!
Is there anything new in your set-up this year, i.e. new clubs, coach, fitness regime, charity work, sponsor etc?
I started Herbalife, a new diet and nutrition program in October of last year and it has been a major lifestyle change for me. I'm hoping it will continue to help improve my golf and general well being. I have the same clubs as last year but have changed balls to the new Taylormade Tour Preferred ball that I'm really happy with so far. I have no new sponsors but I'm certainly always looking!


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