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GUWAHATI: A national-level monitoring team of Unicef has appreciated the efforts of National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), Nalbari, for completing training for the Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) supervisors from March 26 to April 8.
The trained team of supervisors has began training Asha workers from Wednesday last. This training would continue for the next 22 days and all four blocks accross Nalbari would be covered. It may be mentioned that one Asha supervisor is appointed against 10 ASHA workers and as such 68 Asha supervisors are working in Nalbari to monitor the activities of 750 workers..
R Samaddar, a health services official, said ""During this 22-day exhaustive training programme, spread across 4 rounds, topics like home-based newborn care, maternal and women's reproduction health, emergency maternal care and community healthcare will be covered. This training will give an great impetus to the existing system and Asha workers will go through a skill upgradation process with which they will be able to work with a better understanding of complicated health situations and danger signs."
The team of UNICEF comprising Pabitra Mohan, maternal and child health consultant, Unicef Delhi, Sachin Gupte, health officer of Unicef Assam, assisted by P Chakrabarty, district immunization officer, Nalbari, visited all four block primary health center (BPHC) areas along with Tihu FRU for a first-hand picture of health services scenario in the district. They were highly satisfied with the overall service delivery in health institutions and the quality of training provided to Asha workers in Chamata BPHC.
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How do we make sure the skills we are teaching actually replace the problem behavior, that is, they meet the same (or if this is impossible a similar) function? The key to doing this is to follow three rules: the potato or dead man's rule, the fair pair rule, and the matching rule.2
The Potato or Dead Man's Rule
The basic guideline for this rule goes back to teaching students what you want them to do rather than telling them what you don't want them to do. That is, the replacement behavior should be stated in terms of action. If a potato or a dead man can do it, there is no action involved and the rule is not being followed. For example, "Don't run" would not follow the rule because a potato or dead man can certainly not run. "Walk in the hallway" may be a better way to state the desired behavior.
The Fair Pair Rule
Replacement behavior must be desired by or acceptable to the teacher and serve the same (or similar) function as the problem behavior, or the students will just come up with a new (and most likely still inappropriate) way to meet that function. For example, if a student has a tantrum to escape an unpreferred task and is given an undesirable consequence for the tantrum, he or she may start to ask to go to the bathroom or nurse's office frequently to escape the task. Teaching that same student to take a short, appropriate break would serve the same function and be acceptable to the teacher although possibly not desired. Table 5.1 gives several examples of teaching different replacement behaviors for the same problem behavior based on function.
The Matching Rule
Students will engage in behavior that leads to the highest level of reinforcement and is the most efficient. If the inappropriate behavior continues to be reinforced at a higher level than the replacement behavior, it will not result in a decrease in the problem behavior or an increase in the replacement behavior. For example, teachers often tell students to raise their hand and wait to be called on before giving an answer or making a comment. We cannot tell you how many times we have seen an enthusiastic student raising a hand patiently and not getting recognized by the teacher. These students finally call out and immediately get the response, "I told you to raise your hand." Was raising a hand or calling out a more efficient and effective way to getting the teacher's attention? Of course, teachers can't always call on a student right away. However, when they begin to teach this skill, they should at least acknowledge the student is raising his or her hand ("Thank you for raising your hand. I'll be with you in a second") as quickly as possible in a positive way, providing some immediate feedback and reinforcement.
Other Target Behaviors
There may be other prosocial target behaviors that may not serve the same or similar function as the problem behavior (and therefore are not replacement behaviors) yet are important to teach. For example, if a student hits to express feelings of anger, we need to teach him how to express these feelings by using words (replacement behavior) and to keep his hands to himself (other target behavior). Another example is students who don't follow the teacher's instruction because following that instruction (such as "Get out your journal") would result in an unpreferred task (having to write) that they want to escape or avoid. In this case, they need to be taught how to take breaks to temporarily escape tasks (replacement behavior) and follow the teacher's instructions (other target behavior).


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★ Mountain Biking on the Shores of Lago Superiore
If you enjoy taking a nice, long ride on your bike, then I'm sure you'll enjoy Mantova, Italy especially the scenic route along the lake! -
Summer is Over? No Worries, We Still Have Our Photos to Remember It!
After a beautiful summer spent diving in freezing torrents, boiling seas, long nights, and long exposures, autumn has enshrouded everything with its colors. Let's remember, with a little nostalgia, our holidays with friends having a look at the just-developed photos! -
IMMAGINA. FOTO+LIBRI (Forlì, Italy)
In the heart of the city center, you will find a little corner dedicated entirely to photography. You will come across photo shoots, developing and photo printing services (the future is analogue!), many books about photography and all the Lomography family of cameras. There are also workshop and events, and even Instax cameras and films, travel guides, and photo albums...so many ideas to get lost and wander around in! We interviewed a staff of the store and got some interesting answers! -
Vaso Di Pandora (Lucca, Italy)
Vaso di Pandorra is a concept store in which you can find furniture and forgotten artifacts. Owners worked on re-styling it, maintaining the original taste. The vintage clothing will always have an important role, because mixing the old with the new style is the way to create uniqueness in this unimaginative world. -
Santa Maria del Flore, The "Duomo" of Firenze
It's perhaps the most know building of Firenze all around the world and every tourist wants to stay in front of it... and it's a real architectural masterpiece: the "Duomo"! -
Enjoy Your Meal at Ambasciatori Bookshop Bologna
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A Cruise with Diana and Her Splitzer
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Boboli's Garden, Firenze
In Firenze you got a lot of beautiful things to see and Boboli's garden is one of these amazing location to visit in this city. -
Bridge Buriano
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Ponte Vecchio & Arno River in Firenze
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Piazza della Signoria, Firenze: An Open-Air Museum
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La Bersagliera Pizzeria
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Santa Maria dei Fiori: Great Views, Great Shots
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Lomographic Italy: Complaining About Their City, But Still the Only One Where I Choose to Live In
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Museum Piaggio
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Spiagge Bianche
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San Gimignamo
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The Peoria plan for saving local dailies
With the fate of the Post-Intelligencer seemingly sealed at least as a newspaper, and the Seattle Times teetering on the financial edge, the Seattle City Council will wade into the crisis Wednesday at 2 pm. Nick Licata's "Culture, Civil Rights, Health and Personnel" Committee plans to spend two hours with a panel of news professionals, exploring possible ways to save Seattle's disappearing newspapers. (Disclosure here: Crosscut's publisher, David Brewster, will be one of the panel members.)
Exactly what Licata's committee can, or will, do to fix things isn't clear. But the committee will hear one intriguing possibility now under consideration in Peoria, Ill. That Illinois city is wrestling with its own newspaper problems, with the Peoria Journal Star and its owner, Gatehouse Media, on the financial ropes. Peoria Newspaper Guild official Jennifer Towery will describe for Licata's committee how a community coalition is pushing legislation to turn her city's struggling privately owned paper into a "low profit" L3C community-owned operation.
That's a tax term for a new hybrid business model that meets the IRS's definition of a charity, but operates like a for-profit corporation. Vermont became the first state to authorize L3Cs last year, and Michigan and North Carolina are moving toward their own versions of the model. Vermont's Secretary of State's office offers this description: "The basic purpose of the L3C is to signal to foundations and donor-directed funds that entities formed under this provision intend to conduct their activities in a way that would qualify as program-related investments."
In other words, donating to an L3C would enable private foundations to meet the IRS's charitable-giving requirements. The Seattle area is awash with this sort of private foundation. An L3C could raise cash from such groups to repair a historic building that can't generate enough profit from rent to pay for the renovations. Or, says newspaper industry consultant Lee Egerstrom, a newspaper "with stakeholders that include the community that depends on reliable media as well as the paper's unions" could use its L3C status to tap non-profit donors. When Egerstrom pitched the L3C idea at a Newspaper Guild conference earlier this month in Maryland, union representatives from the Seattle Times Co.'s struggling Blethen Maine papers showed up to listen.
Here in Seattle, Licata seems enthusiastic about the L3C solution. Peoria, he noted in a press release, has put together support for L3C legislation that includes four state legislators, local businesses, and a handful of bank presidents. "Their goal," Licata says, "is to get their paper back on track."
But L3Cs are not the only non-profit solution being pitched for newspapers these days. Earlier this month, the Seattle Times offered an op-ed article by University of Pennsylvania law professor C. Edwin Baker, touting federal subsidies for newspaper reporters and editors. "A not-so-radical idea for preserving journalism's society-building role," the Times not-so-subtly headlined the piece. Others have suggested turning The Times itself into a non-profit, or making it an arm of a non-profit, along the lines of St. Petersburg Times, a profit-making paper that was willed to Florida's non-profit Poynter Institute three decades ago by the paper's owner, Nelson Poynter.
Somewhat overlooked in this latest crescendo of non-profit noise is a Columbia Journalism Review article which last March dismissed the Poynter/St. Pete Times model as impractical for other family-owned papers. Handing off the family newspaper to a non-profit is likely to create family friction and can be complicated, especially if some of the paper's stock is held by outsiders, the article warns. Like, for instance, the Seattle Times, whose minority stake is held by California's McClatchy Co., a publicly held corporation whose stockholders would almost certainly oppose such a giveaway.
Summing up CJR's argument against the non-profit option was none other than Seattle's Frank Blethen, whose family owns the majority of the Seattle Times Co. Blethen waved off Poynter's experiment with operating the St. Pete Times, calling it "a pleasant campfire tale." He noted that families like his aren't likely to give away ownership of papers that can generate comfortable "eight, ten, twelve percent returns." The key reason you won't see a St. Pete Times situation again, said Blethen, "is that you have to give up most of the value in the organization, and it's very rare for a family to do that."
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Posted Tue, Jan 27, 9:08 a.m.
Excellent idea!
My first thought upon reading the anguishing P-I news was to fire off a missive suggesting they dump the for-profit status and convert to a non-profit, 501(c)3. I was unaware of the L3C option. Instead, I sat silent, thinking the idea so radical, so "out there" as to be pure fantasy. Now I'm not so sure. It would be interesting to convert the P-I to an L3C and let the Times remain as is. The P-I, afterall, at its essence, has always been the People's paper, an integral part of our Seattle community and culture. It has a unique history and distinct flavor. The papers are not interchangeable.
Save the P-I!
Posted Tue, Jan 27, 9:33 a.m.
So if I understand this correctly, the tax code should be amended to enable a private company nearly a century old to remain fiscally sound, in face of a decade long slump in profitability due to consumers whose tastes have shifted.
Funny but that circumstance also applies to the american automobile industry which is seeking and receiving a bailout.
Is journalism so crucial to the health our democratic society that we can't trust it to succeed or fail on its own merits? Are the intellectual elite too pessimistic to believe that cable news, talk radio and blogs can't be allowed to mature to fill the void of print media.
Besides the Times and PI both have been hand maidens for Vulcan, Microsoft et al. for years. Why should they now be counted on to make donations to continue that treatment.
Posted Tue, Jan 27, 9:49 a.m.
This has the rotten scent of Pravda about it.
I lived in Peoria and witnessed this newspapers abuse first hand.
Here is some additional information and opinions on the Peoria Journal Star situation.
Posted Tue, Jan 27, 10:52 a.m.
The Press, which in the 18th century was the only form of mass media, is the only private business protected by the U.S. Constitution from intrusion by the government. Founders did not write the First Amendment to protect profits, of which there were few, but to protect commentary, particularly political thought. Early governments aided newspapers with free use of the mail, which was the way early papers circulated, but separation has been generally observed, and rigorously defended by publishers. The idea of a direct governmental subsidy would stand the First Amendment on its head. Some type of nonprofit, however, might be a compromise that would pass constitutional muster and also preserve independent commentary. Newsprint is not likely to become the first media genre to disappear; like others before, it will adapt and adopt. But the present form is endangered, and it is unlikely that Western Washington can afford or will support two Seattle dailies—that handwriting has been on the wall for years. We are probably headed into a mixed-media world made up of a very few strong metro dailies, a healthy collection of small-town papers published less than seven days a week and totally focused on local news, and combinations of Web and broadcast that could very well include nonprofit models (broadcast already has successful models in public radio and television). The P-I has many excellent journalists, capable of transitioning to such a model. The issue is primarily one of finances—who will pay for their work, and can a nonprofit model meet that challenge. The Founders would have liked the idea of a rich mix of independent ideas that such a model could produce, but they didn't worry about paying the bill.
Posted Tue, Jan 27, 2:03 p.m.
A non-profit or L3C model may keep a newspaper from collapsing, but it's unlikely to stem the tide that has been receding at an ever increasing rate from the traditional advertising-based newspaper business model. A non-profit solution is a rearranging-the-deck-chairs solution, when a re-engineering the news ship solution is required, so that ship can safely navigate amidst the Google and Craig's List icebergs. Good competitive journalism is no longer rewarded in the Google-based ad-ocracy. Nor will it be rewarded in a non-profit newspaper beholden to donating wallets. Such a newspaper business will continue to look like what's left after a receding tidal wave until individual acts of quality journalism are rewarded through micro-payments for article hits, reads and purchases through associated advertising. This means that Google and Craig's List must be attacked aggressively, with a model that doesn't allow theft and dissemination of original content, and that dethrones the pretender advertising king and replaces it with content; i.e., content must become king again.
Google's motto is "Do no evil." Ironically, in the newspaper world Google is the epitome of evil. So, morally speaking, the tongue-in-cheek answer is obviously to ask Google to stop searching news, and to instead donate its profits to a P.I. or Crosscut L3C. The old world and new world would then be in perfect harmony. The lead article for this non-profit utopian newspaper?
Extra! Extra! Hell has frozen over! Search-engine optimization abandoned! Newspaper profits restored by rich folks giving to needy news providers. Altruistic newspaper inspires major gifts. Old school objective journalism wins out over sex, violence, greed and hate mongering.
Posted Tue, Jan 27, 5:52 p.m.
The economy is in the crapper, our transportation system is broken, schools aren't teaching, and so the City Council wastes time on trying to prop up failed newspapers? Come on. Where are our priorities. If the print papers die off, there is no reason to believe that local politics will go un-reported. Note Black publications hanging around in the suburbs, and Web possibilities. It is not newspapers or nothing these days. The Seattle market is rich enough that others will soon appear to cash in on the advertisers the monopolist Blethen alienated. And any subsidy made to keep the papers goings means enriching the Blethens with taxpayer money. This grasping family doesn't deserve any charitable consideration because, after all, what one example of charity has Blethen demonstrated during his miserable career.
Posted Fri, Jan 30, 1:22 p.m.
As an editor who experienced the "acquisition " (as they called it) of an independent NW news service by a non-profit, I'm wary.
The said non-profit "reviewed" my editing choices for the important daily NW news. The PR director sent the feedback - why did I pick A and not B - B fits better with our mission. ... Don't use the word X in an headline. It doesn't fit our framing and messaging. Instead use Y. When I editorialized, I was "encouraged" to add specific phrases from the core mission statement of the said non-profit to my copy. Eventually, my belief in objectivity didn't "fit" and we parted ways.
As a journalist who values a free press, and objective reporting and editing, I obviously find this troubling. (My example, however, was admittedly an extreme one.) The non-profit model is a slippery slope. Diversifying funding of news - be it advertising or individual donations - is one way to protect the hard-hitting, good journalism we need as a democracy, of course.
Previously, I worked for an independent political magazine, which had a very different model, even though it struggled financially. It was funded by subscriptions. Obviously, this is becoming outdated. I still think it's worth exploring if folks will pay for long-form, investigative journalism. The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri is currently exploring this idea. I know I'd pay for it. After all, I still subscribe to Harper's and other high-quality publications. I think others are doing so too.
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New York City, New York is the starting city in Midnight Club: Street Racing. The playable map features most of the Manhattan Island, and includes real-life landmarks situated in the city such as The Empire State Building, Times Square, Central Park, Statue of Liberty, Twin Towers and the Flatiron Building. Emilio Sanchez, Larry Muller, Keiko Hatano, and Kareem Windross are the street racers in the game who reside here.
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- The original World Trade Center can be seen. It shows the original twin towers because the game was released prior to the 9/11 attacks.
- The Manhattan Island also appears in several Grand Theft Auto games (as Algonquin in GTA IV and GTA:CW and Staunton Island in GTA III, GTA Advance and GTA:LCS).
- The Manhattan Island in Midnight Club: Street Racing has only 2 bridges and the player can not drive on them due to the fact that its inaccessible.
- It is the first & only game that Rockstar had created to include the World Trade Center. If 9/11 did not happen, it is possible that several games that is set in New York City such as GTA III, GTA:LCS & GTA IV would have the World Trade Center. Also the World Trade Center can be seen in the introduction in GTA 2.


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Long story short, the only way I could get a bigger kitchen is to expand into my existing breakfast room with a vaulted ceiling. That room is currently lit by the ugly fixture you see here with 6 120v 60w candelabra bulbs (3480 lumens total). The fixture emits light in all directions. The lighting is adequate.
Planned lighting for this same area includes: 1) uplighting over the cabinet (I think it is the same led lighting as our undercab lights so 375 lumens). 2) undercab lighting 375x2 = 750 lumens 3) sconce on wall just out of frame to the right in the photo. Most we are looking at use a 60w halogen for about 830 lumens. 4) 2 20w 12v halogens in range hood over cooktop (320 lumens each). 5) 3 pendants over peninsula. I really like some monorail pendants that use 12v 35w xelogen bulbs (525 lumens each). My husband thinks we need to use a larger midi pendant that takes 100w incandescent bulbs to make sure we have enough light. Asthetically speaking, I don't like the fixtures we would have to use or the pendants nearly as much, but I don't want this part of the kitchen to be dark. During the day, we get some sunlight from western exposure bay window. If I just add up the lumens, it seems to be ample light, but some of the light is shooting straight down to the black countertop. I am hoping the uplight and wall sconce will bounce some light off of that vaulted ceiling to help the overall space appear brighter. What do you think? |
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Add a custom icon for your site
You may have noticed that some sites, including this one, put custom icons into the URL boxes of browsers. It used to be that you could only add 'favicons' in Explorer but now most browsers support them and it's worth the little extra trouble that it takes to do it.
You will need a program that can save .ico file format. This is the standard icon format for Windows so any Windows icon editor will do, and there are many freeware and shareware ones available. Several Mac icon editors can also save in .ico format.
You will also find a Photoshop plugin for Mac or PC called 'icoformat' at http://www.telegraphics.com.au for only $10 that allows you to save a Photoshop (or compatible) image in .ico format.
The icon should be a 16 x 16 pixel image in this instance, that's all the room there is in a URL box. If you make it a different size, it will be resized, usually with pretty disastrous results.
You can't get a lot of detail into 16 x 16 pixels, so something as complex as the WPDFD logo is out of the question. It has to be really simple and being able to distil images down to this tiny size can be an art in itself.
If you try to reduce a larger image down to 16 x 16, you are unlikely to get usable results but it will give you a starting point that you can go in and tweak.
It is best to draw the icon in the icon editor (or a graphic editor) because that gives you the pixel control you need. It is especially useful to be able to edit an enlarged version of the image and simultaneously view the small, actual size one.
These are the colors of the old Windows 16 color palette. I've dithered two of them with a checkerboard pattern to make the intermediate blue/green in the 'P' above.
Now, .ico files can be 16 or 256 colors but you will probably find that your favicon ends up in your browser using the old Windows 16 colour palette. It is best to design it with these colours from the outset for the most predictable results.
Here are the colors.
Having saved the icon file as 'favicon.ico', you then need to upload it to your site and put it into the same directory as your home page (not into an images directory).
You also need to add a link to it on each page on which you want it to appear. The link goes in the ... section.
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As this time of year generally tends to be, July was a heck of a month for concerts with Tech N9NE, The Avett Brothers, Soundgarden, Umphrey's McGee, Katy Perry and plenty more gracing the stages. We've got so many photos, it might be hard to sift through them all, but if you're looking for a quick fix, we've got a collection of some of our favorites below. Aaron Thackeray Soundgarden at Red Rocks
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The T2i appeared on the market shortly after the T1i, but appears to be an addition to the Rebel line that fleshes out the resolution range rather than a replacement. No matter its intention, the T2i is a capable performer and pleasant shooting companion. Shutter lag is what you expect from a DSLR, and AF speed is good as well.
The kit lens is a decent performer and the option always exists to match the T2i with some of Canon's premium "L" series lenses to maximize image potential. Both ISO sensitivity and HD video quality are good. There are more than enough available settings to satisfy manual shooters, and a basic serving of auto and scene modes to help folks either transition into a DSLR or just go about their photo adventures with the camera handling the lion's share of the duties.
Battery life is the lowest of this class and the camera output files are at 72 dpi (and a whopping 6 feet by 4 feet at that resolution). Many people carry extra batteries but having to work on every shot to send it by email (at a manageable size) or print can get old. Fortunately, these are the main gripes with the T2i, and overall, are fairly minor nits to pick.
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Budget to crack down on multinationals using tax loopholes
PUBLISHED: 11 May 2013 00:34:42 | UPDATED: 13 May 2013 05:56:47PUBLISHED: 11 May 2013 PRINT EDITION: 11 May 2013These practices effectively strip profits out of Australia and erode the revenue base.
Phillip Coorey Chief political correspondent
Multinational companies that funnel international investments through Australia to wipe out their domestic tax liabilities will be one of the targets in Tuesday's federal budget, which is believed to contain multiple measures cracking down on international corporate tax avoidance.
The budget will combat the practice known as "debt dumping" in which companies load up their Australian operations with debt, enabling them to claim large tax deductions, in some cases worth billions of dollars.
The loophole is one of many that will be closed on Tuesday. Other measures will include forcing foreign investors to pay capital gains tax on Australian property sales, a tightening of thin capitalisation tax breaks to make it harder for companies to shift profits to countries with lower taxes, and targeting profit shifting by multinationals such as Google.
Debt dumping is a complicated exploitation of loopholes in existing tax law, described by one multinational's Melbourne-based tax adviser as "the new magic''.
As an example, a parent company in Europe buys a target company in North America. The parent company then lends money to its Australian company which then "buys'' the target company from the parent company.
The Australian company receives tax-free dividends from the target company and then claims massive tax deductions on its interest payments.
Ultimately, the Australian company all but eliminates its tax bill on its profitable Australian operations.
Assistant Treasurer deplores multinationals' tax loopholes
The practice was referred to in a court case last year in which the Australian Tax Office pursued US multinational parent company Noza Holdings. The company's tax adviser has described in an email the use of redeemable preference shares as "the new magic''.
The Federal Court ruled that Noza, which operated about 600 businesses in 40 countries mainly concerning the manufacture and sale of consumer and industrial products, was entitled to a $171 million tax deduction for 2003.
Treasurer Wayne Swan and Assistant Treasurer David Bradbury have become increasingly vocal about tax avoidance loopholes being used by multinationals. In March, Mr Bradbury gave a speech entitled "Stateless Income, a Threat to National Sovereignty", in which he cited the Noza case and emails between the Melbourne tax adviser and executives in Chicago.
"The point of recounting this case is not to single out this particular taxpayer or their advisers, but rather to illustrate the flexibility that a multinational group has in arranging their capital structure, and the ability this provides to exploit tax arbitrage opportunities,'' Mr Bradbury told the Tax Institute.
"Of course, from a tax adviser's perspective, many of you will say that there is nothing wrong with that, they are just doing their job of minimising their client's tax according to the law. To be clear, I am making a fundamentally different point. If this is the kind of behaviour the international tax system encourages then it needs to be changed.''
Mr Swan raised the matter at the G20.
Another $22 million for indigenous education
The government will argue in the budget that objective analysis of debt dumping "suggests that there are no commercial reasons to funnel these investments through Australia other than to claim massive deductions and aggressively minimise tax".
"These practices effectively strip profits out of Australia and erode the revenue base.''
The measures will complement moves taken to strengthen tax rules and protect at least $10 billion in revenue.
In an unrelated measure, the government will boost by $22 million funding to the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation. The foundation is headed by Andrew Penfold, a former finance lawyer and investment banker.
Recently, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's policy adviser, Mark Roberts, was demoted after he threatened Mr Penfold, saying an Abbott government would "cut the throat" of funding to Mr Penfold's organisation.
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Aug 31st 2010 6:27PM Remember when Wrath first launched, and Bears couldn't tank? Then a few changes, and we were competently tanking all the content in the game with only two buttons!
I hope that the devs don't realize that they broke resto, and come up with a band-aid solution thats stuck on us through all of wrath.
Fingers crossed that this is all just trying new stuff out Allison, and that straits aren't as dire as they seem. Thanks for the heads up, I always like reading your articles.
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Aug 31st 2010 11:26AM I really hope that reforging will help in turning some of that spellpower plate that makes such lovely shards, into something I can use.
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Dec 14th 2009 7:16PM I think there is a ret pally joke in there somewhere Rossi.
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Dec 14th 2009 6:54PM "We cockroaches" would be correct. Please, this isn't a hunter column, lets try to keep it civilized.
Well done Mr. Hobbs. It sounded even better when I put on a haughty British accent and imagined all the gobsmacked mages out there, sitting and wondering what the license plate of the Warlock driven kodo that just ran them over was. For all the mages out there, I believe it read "Sheep this".
Can't wait to see Belts reply. The soft velvety cloth gauntlet has been thrown down.
The OverAchiever: Guide to Winter Veil, continued {WoW}
Dec 14th 2009 11:18AM Don't forget that you can collect snow-balls from the hills in Alterac. They come from piles of snow, near where you have to go to get the greench.
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Saves money on reagents, you won't have half a dozen lower ranked reagents filling your bags, and you will never not be able to battle res someone. Especially when leveling when bag space is at a premium, you will love this glyph.
Great screenshot Allison. When do we get to hear you on the Wow Insider Show? Would be nice to get some feral representation for a change.
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Aug 25th 2009 6:49PM Would really love Alison Robert to come on the show at some point. My favourite writer, by far.
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Aug 22nd 2009 5:33PM Turns out the worgen were also slaves to the Forsaken, but they were mining Vegemite.
The Greymane wall was only built to prevent the smell from reaching the rest of Lordaeron. But it failed, and now you know how the Worgen were partly responsible for the fall of Lordaeron. And the Australians. But mostly the Worgen.
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Doing a budget trip, very few sit-down meals for us. What are your favorite counter-service places in Epcot?
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Doing a budget trip, very few sit-down meals for us. What are your favorite counter-service places in Epcot?
I love the Sunshine Seasons Food Court in the Land Pavilion. There were tons of options for everyone in my group. Last time I went I was able to time in right and get a Soarin' fastpass and have lunch there right before. I think I spent about 12 dollars for a meal and a drink.
Oh and on another note I have heard you get huge portions from the Moroccan counter service. My friend went 3 times in her last trip she enjoyed it so much!
Tangerine Cafe, love the lamb wraps.
My favorites are Sunshine Seasons in the Land pavilion, Yakitori House in Japan, Lotus Blossom Cafe in China and the fish and chips stand in the UK.
I'm not usually a Chinese food fan, but I loooove the orange chicken from the Lotus Blossom Cafe in China. And the portions are gigantic..I almost always split it with someone.
Does the funnel cake kiosk in America count? Because if it does... I love funnel cake.
I love the Sunshine Seasons at the land. I also like eating at the Electric Umbrella, I think mostly because on my first trip it rained pretty much the whole time when we were at epcot so we spent a lot of time in there and it brings back memories of being a little six year old. I like pretty much of all the counter service places at Epcot except Morocco and the Lotus Blossom and the America place.
Great question. Counter service at La Hacienda de San Angel, Yorkshire County Fish Shop, Tangerine Cafe and Yakatori House. My wife and I have done our own version of the Food and Wine festival during off season times and explore all the counter service spots.
We always go to the Electric Umberella for lunch, though the American Pavillion still has the best hot dog hands down. If you want to do something a little different, China has a walk up window that you can order take out from.
Yorkshire Fish and Chips. I don't hear a lot of people mention it, but my wife and I love it.
Also, we usually don't care for Japanese take-out food, so we were pretty surprised by how much we liked Yakitori House.
I agree with everyone else that Sunshine at The Land is pretty good with a lot of choices, but I confess it's been years we went there, so not sure of it's current state.
sunshine seasons and the Cantina in Mexico
Future World - Sunshine Seasons (The Land)
World Showcase - Yorkshire County Fish Shop (UK Pavilion)
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Tangerine Cafe is delish and incredibly filling! Always my fav.
Sommerfest no doubt about it! Love, love, love their brats and pretzels. Their crumb cake is delicious also. It's always our first place to eat when going to Epcot.


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06 July 2010
From October 31st 2010, Aer Lingus Regional, operated by Aer Arann, will provide additional flights to Cork from Birmingham that will effectively double the number of services on the route. The increased frequency means that the Birmingham service will operate twice a day six days a week with a single return flight on Saturdays.
The new schedule will offer business customers the frequency required to spend a full business day in Cork and it will offer additional choice for leisure passengers.
Commenting on the announcement, Aer Arann Corporate Affairs Director Andrew Kelly said "We are delighted to launch these flights as part of the franchise agreement in the same week that we launched new franchise services from Birmingham to Shannon."
"The addition of these new services will offer passengers travelling to and from each of these destinations greater choice, flexibility and convenience" he added.
Also commenting on the announcement, Aer Lingus Director of Communications Declan Kearney said "Aer Lingus Regional services have enjoyed strong support from customers in the short time since their launch. Aer Lingus welcomes the introduction of these additional services from Cork and wishes Aer Arann continued success."
Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham Airport said, "This is great news for people wanting to reach southern Ireland from the Midlands and comes just days after the franchise launched a new Shannon service from Birmingham. This high frequency service will suit both business and leisure travellers and we're looking forward to both routes going from strength to strength."
Flights to Birmingham with Aer Lingus start from £29.99 one way including taxes. For further flight information and to make a booking visit www.aerlingus.com
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