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Wendy McElroy
Vanishing Data on Tax Migration
by Wendy McElroy
Oh so quietly, the Obama Administration has removed
embarrassing data
from the public eye. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) no longer provides information on tax migration within the U.S. There was no announcement from either the IRS or the Census Bureau, which co-operates in compiling data. The reports have simply ceased.
In 1991, the IRS began to
offer statistics
on the number of people who relocated from and to every county in America during the preceding fiscal year. When combined with the aggregate incomes of those who relocated, the information gave analysts a sense of how taxation was impacting demographics. In September of 2012, the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research published a report entitled "
The Great California Exodus: A Closer Look
". The report used "data from the Census, the Internal Revenue Service...and other sources" to "map in detail where in California the migrants come from, and where they go when they leave the state." The report also attributed the migration to a series of "cost drivers" with taxes topping the list.
The other cost drivers: "regulations, the high price of housing and commercial real estate, costly electricity, union power, and high labor costs." All of them have a strong tax component. Consider "union power." In California, the Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) provides retirement benefits for over 1.6 million current employees, retirees, and their families. One way or the other, these benefits are at tax expense. For example, employee's salaries and their union dues come from taxation. Every dollar so confiscated is a dollar yanked out of private pockets and production. Such factors make California extraordinarily hostile to business, the wealthy and anyone who strives to join their ranks. No wonder the home of choice for California tax migrants was Texas whose Constitution prohibits a state tax on personal income.
The Manhattan Institute called the IRS data the "most useful tool" it had for analysis. That tool is no longer available. The government reacts to embarrassing facts as heartless people used to react to idiot relatives in the olden days; they locked the embarrassment into an attic and never spoke of it again. Thus the state-by-state
interactive tax migration table
maintained by the Tax Foundation ends with the year 2010. The same fate awaits the nationwide county-by-county map
offered by Forbes
. Thus, the American public will be a little less informed. The American government will be a little less transparent as statistics are fed into an Orwellian memory hole.
Why the information blackout? There are several reasons, none of which are mutually exclusive.
The first reason is the same one that prompted Stalin to shoot his census takers. The truth can be politically embarrassing. In the late 1930s, Stalin commanded that an accurate census be taken to give him the information he required to prepare for a possible war with Germany. He got what he asked for but not what he wanted. The census reflected the politically engineered and deliberate murder of millions of Kulaks (farm-owning peasants) in the Ukraine from purges, planned starvation and disease. The data showed the deadly devastation of communist policy upon an entire class of Russians who simply disappeared. Stalin did not want that level of accuracy; he certainly did not wish it to be public knowledge. And, so, the census takers were abruptly executed and inflated population figures were released.
In America, it is still considered poor taste to line civil servants up against a wall and shoot them. When politically awkward data is exposed, the data rather than the collectors are destroyed. After all, what is not known does not exist. Nothing to see here, folks, move along and no one needs to be hurt.
The Crony Capitalism site states, "When taxes are high enough for people and businesses to pull up their stakes and move halfway across a continent something is wrong." Something is terribly wrong at the very heart of America. Crony Capitalism continues, "the data [on tax migration] is no longer public due likely to the embarrassing nature of the information. Polls in high tax states want the tax bases of their respective states to think that they have no option but to pay even higher rates."
That is a second reason to hide the data. Information is power; it allows individuals to know their options and to act on them. Ignorance is power as well because it allows those who impose it on others to manufacture the truth because no evidence to the contrary is allowed to exist.
A third reason for the Orwellian memory hole is to discourage what could become a dangerous trend – at least dangerous to the government. So far tax migration is occurring on an individual-by-individual basis. Many who migrate do so quietly and without contacting anyone beyond the circle of people necessary to relocate, such as lawyers or real estate agents. If people believe they are alone in their opinions and behavior, they are less likely to speak out or organize into an effective force. They may well continue to act as individuals but their inconspicuous actions will not inspire others. They will not ring a bell in the night -- either to alarm or to encourage.
Silence and ignorance are friends to the state. And whatever the state wants you not to hear, not to know is important to your well-being. The government does not want you to know how popular an option
has become.
Everyone needs to weigh options for themselves, and many people will "stand their ground" because that ground is shared with family and friends who cannot or will not move. I cannot disagree. There is no one-size-fits-all answer, but being informed is never the wrong choice. I can disagree with ignorance.
My opinion? I cannot say it with more pith or elegance than Crony Capitalism: "Get – Out – Now."
Wendy McElroy is a renowned individualist anarchist and individualist feminist. She was a co-founder along with Carl Watner and George H. Smith of
The Voluntaryist
in 1982, and is the author/editor of twelve books, the latest of which is
"The Art of Being Free"
. Follow her work at
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Blair is un-Blairite on free movement of EU workers
I agree with Ed Miliband and disagree with Tony Blair about Europe in my column for The Independent on Sunday today.
Here is a graph that shows the relative success of Miliband and Yvette Cooper's approach to the question of immigration. YouGov regularly asks: "Which political party [do] you think would handle [asylum and immigration] best?" The chart plots the six-monthly averages for Conservatives and Labour.
You could argue that there is no necessary contradiction between the Miliband-Cooper restrictive approach to immigration and Blair's urging that Labour should "confront" UKIP.
But I think Blair went too far on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme last week when he said:
The answer to the white, working class unemployed youth in alienated communities in Britain is not to tell them their problems would be solved if there were fewer Polish people working in the UK … It actually holds them back by giving them a grievance and not a chance.
I do not think anyone should assume that most people are mistaken to think that they have been adversely affected by free movement of EU workers.
I know all about the lump-of-labour fallacy, and that immigration is a symptom of success and a cause of further economic success. I know that there is no evidence that jobs have been lost and limited evidence that unskilled wages depressed in areas of high immigration. But none of that is quite the same as saying that people on low incomes are better off than if EU migration had been damped as much as possible.
If most voters say that there has been too much immigration in too short a time it is only democratic to assume that they know what they are talking about.
Once upon a time, Blair understood this.
This by Peter Kellner on the politics of immigration is thoughtful, but I think his conclusion leans too much to the neo-Blairite view that we should ignore what the majority think if we disagree with it:
Tagged in: ed miliband, eu, euroscepticism, free movement of workers, tony blair, ukip, Yvette Cooper
All three main parties should stop worrying about what voters think about immigration. Instead, they should work out what is right for Britain: for its economy and its society. They should do this honestly and openly, admitting that the task is complex, and that the problems are real and will take time to solve. They should stop chasing voters who hold fierce and simple views on the issue, on either side. Their votes are either locked up or lost. What the voters who have yet to make up their minds are looking for are parties and leaders with the right character. On this, as on so many other things, authenticity and moral courage tends to be more attractive than cowardice and self-cynical populism.
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The 1Up Arcade and Bar, which opened last month in LoDo, is an impressive menagerie of vintage video games packed into a wide basement room near Coors Field.
The onslaught of flashing graphics, synthesized soundtracks and sharp, overlapping sound effects creates a pleasant bewilderment — not unlike stumbling through a casino where all the slots have been replaced with classic arcade titles.
It's nostalgic fun for folks who grew up pumping quarters into Pac-Man, Space Invaders and Donkey Kong, and a kitschy, retro kick for the generation who wasn't even born when these machines began disappearing. It's also a museum of sorts, full of rare artifacts that have been lovingly restored and presented for display. But people don't go there to consider big-picture ideas about video games.
Leave that to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
"What we're doing is looking at close to 40 years of video game history and seeing the cornerstones of each of these generations," said Chris Melissinos, curator of the Smithsonian's upcoming "The Art of Video Games" exhibition.
The project is unprecedented in its scale and prestige — particularly for an entertainment medium that has long fought for respectability. On Feb. 14, the museum asked the public to vote on which games should be included, and the initial online voting was so heavy that it crashed the site's servers. The deadline was extended to April 17, with nearly 4 million people casting ballots for the 80 games to be featured in the multimedia display.
The winning games will be announced Thursday, and the exhibition won't open until early 2012. But its curator is already anticipating a heated debate.
"Will there be tons of omissions? Of course. You can't distill hundreds of thousands of games down to 80," Melissinos said. "But there will be something there for everyone."
Push for original games
Having the support of an important institution is a coup for Melissinos, a lifelong gamer and a former Sun Microsystems executive now working as vice president of marketing at network security firm Verisign.
"What (one of the curators) suggested was for us to focus on artists who draw inspiration from video games," said Melissinos, 41. "And I said to a room of 125 arts curators, 'People, that's a very bad idea. Why does that have any more artistic merit or inspiration than the original work?' And they were silent."
Favoring game-inspired art over the games themselves was akin to replacing the Mona Lisa with a lesser interpretation, he argued. The public would never truly appreciate the games themselves as art.
But including the physical artifacts would help draw the important line between the contemporary and the historic. And Melissinos was happy to find that the museum was supportive of his ideas.
"For the very first time in the history of the industry, kids who grew up with these games are raising their own kids," he said. "We have an opportunity to capture this properly because unlike painting or sculpture, the people who originated this medium are still with us."
Melissinos brings a certain passion and energy to the project, but some in the gaming community believe they're making progress by getting anything related to video games into a museum.
"There's really been an explosion over the last five years of video- game-related art at museums and traveling exhibits," said Brian Crecente, editor in chief of the Gawker Media video game website Kotaku.
"Jon Gibson wrote a coffee-table book about it in 2006 ('i am 8-bit') that put it all into one entity, and he kick-started it by curating some art shows at places in L.A. People could come and see this mishmash of concept art, art from video games creators and art inspired by games — like a pop art version of Mario (from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros.) where Mario is an old man or a robot."
Billions spent on games
So why has it taken us three decades to recognize the cultural impact of video games?
Certainly, the business side has made its mark. Sophisticated current-gen games on the PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 frequently outperform movies and music in revenue, raking in tens of billions of dollars worldwide.
And this big-business wave isn't new.
In the early '80s golden age, people spent billions of dollars in quarters each year at the video arcade. According to an ABC News report from 1982, the nearly 100,000 Pac-Man machines across the country gobbled up $200 million for its manufacturer, Bally Corporations Midway. (Of course, back then the development cost for a game was at most in the hundreds of thousands of dollars — not millions.)
Fierce competition among companies drove innovation in arcade games, like Asteroids and Galaga, and home consoles, such as the Atari 2600 and the mid-'80s titan, the Nintendo Entertainment System. It also led to a series of industry collapses as cheap, poorly designed games flooded the market.
So was there some inherent charm in the simplicity of games anyone could play? And are we finally embracing that again, even as complex games like "Call of Duty" and the "Grand Theft Auto" series continue to dominate newer consoles?
It certainly seems that way at The 1Up Arcade and Bar. It's only been open for a month and is already reporting respectable, often heavy crowds every night of the week.
"I definitely will make no claim to the concept, it's just my take on it," said owner Jourdan Adler, 34. "The guys from Barcade in Brooklyn are the pioneers, for sure. They started in 2004, and now they're opening locations in Philly and Jersey City."
He noted other examples, such as a Dallas version that adapted the Barcade name and added food to the menu of games and craft beers. Adler also helped a group in Austin, Texas, open the Kung Fu Saloon (now also in Houston) and noted the similar bar-arcade Ground Kontrol in Portland, Ore., as a sterling model for others.
"I've been collecting since 2000, and it's very near and dear to me," said Adler, who stocked The 1Up with 30 classic arcade games while storing another 20 at home. "When I Googled 'arcade bar Denver,' I was shocked there was no local equivalent."
Arcade bar's simple appeal
The simple appeal of Adler's pub is key: Just grab a beer and a joystick, and get to work. No complex instructions, and nearly everything costs a quarter.
The 1Up ably delivers the old- school thrills that hipsters and video game purists crave, from space adventures (Galaga, Defender) to classics (Tron, Donkey Kong, Mortal Kombat) to oddball rarities (Tapper, a Budweiser-sponsored game in which players furiously pour suds for thirsty patrons). To round it out, The 1Up also sports pinball machines, Skee-Ball and a life-sized version of Jenga played with giant blocks of wood.
It's all good fun, but in a larger sense it's a shrine — albeit an interactive one — to an underappreciated, largely extinct form of entertainment.
"These hobbies have actually been around for a while, but there's been a revival of it recently, partly due to the attention from 'The King of Kong,' " said Jon Jamshid, a Parker-based collector who boasts 90 vintage arcade games in his home.
Jamshid is referring to the 2007 documentary, subtitled "A Fistful of Quarters," that exposed a broader audience to the competitive arcade gaming circuit. Hard-core gamers compete to break world records — in this case, on the original "Donkey Kong."
As one of the country's foremost collectors and restorers of classic arcade games, Jamshid supplied the games for a Guinness World Records competition in "The King of Kong." Now he's being filmed for another documentary, "The Space Invaders," which profiles vintage arcade collectors. And he plans to bring that film crew to Adler's 1Up Arcade and Bar in Denver.
There's likely no better place in town to toss a few back and luxuriate in the warm nostalgia of a long- gone craze.
"Some publications might decide they want to have a party at an art museum, but Kotaku has held some of its parties in the Barcade (in Brooklyn)," said editor in chief Crecente. "That place is our art museum, and those old games are our artifacts, our museum pieces and our art."
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Looking at the big pixels
Chris Melissinos, curator of the Smithsonian's upcoming video- game exhibition, weighs in on five influential titles and what made them important.
Pong (1972)
"Elegant, succinct and easily adopted by anybody since everyone already knew how to play table tennis. It was the first time the public at large was able to interact with the television set, and that itself changed the way we looked at the medium."
Pac-Man (1980)
"It was originally designed around what Japanese schoolgirls like to do, which was shop and eat. 'Paku paku' is the Japanese sound for eating, so it was made to resonate with them, because at the time most of it was space explosions and overly testosterone types of things. It was also the first game to introduce cut scenes."
Donkey Kong (1981)
"Unlike anything we'd seen before, and one of the first games with a full story arc. In the opening cut scene, Donkey Kong grabs Pauline, climbs up the ladder and throws the girders out of alignment. It sets the stage for your environment to exist and set forth some mechanics we use to this day."
Super Mario Bros. (1985)
"Out of the crash of the early-'80 video-game industry, we get this complete revelation from Nintendo. It took the adventure game and made it literal in being able to explore these caverns and hidden items. There was nothing like it, and so many of the mechanics are still present today in every platformer game."
Super Mario 64 (1996)
"As a first-person, 3-D shooter, Doom (1993) was very important, but with Super Mario 64, there was an astonishing freedom and solidity to the environment that really hadn't been seen before. Shigeru Miyamoto's inspired design drew things from his childhood and also the world around him in his daily life."


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This article was brought to my attention during the week. It shared about one young girls horrible struggle with endometriosis – an issue us chicks are no strangers to. Not long after I saw a call to action to sign a petition to have visanne – a drug to help 'manage' (aka symptoms) Endometriosis, begging for it to be made available here in Australia asap. My heart broke. I personally suffered from endometriosis for many years. I was that girl lying on the bathroom floor. I was that girl who would vomit and pass out in a hot sweat due to the pain. I was that girl who lived on heavy painkillers for the first 2, sometimes 3 days of my menstrual cycle. I was that girl who felt like my uterus was being ripped out each and every month. True to my word, I hated my period with a passion. I hated it because I knew no young girl should ever have to experience such pain. Ever. And so with the same amount of angst, I understand both that young girl and her mothers heartache in that article. Watching our loved ones suffer is nothing short of torture. For me, watching others suffer when they can actually do something proactive and extremely effective… heartbreaking. Waiting for treatments to be available – really? What are we actually waiting for if we want to be the best version of ourselves?


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Confederate dirty laundry: spies and slaves
Nowhere is this more clear than in the case of a man named Dabney and his wife. The two had crossed over into Union lines in 1863, and Dabney took up work as a cook and body servant at General Joseph Hooker's Falmouth encampment along the Rappahonnock River. Dabney's intimate knowledge of the terrain across the river made him an intelligence asset, and soon he was leading troops into battle as a scout—in one … [ Read all ]
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The OSS and the Dalai Lama
In the summer of 1942, the Allies' war against Japan was in dire straits. China was constantly battling the occupying Japanese forces in its homeland, supplied by India via the Burma Road. Then Japan severed that supply artery. Planes were flown over the Himalayan mountains, but their payloads were too little, and too many pilots crashed in the desolate landscape to continue the flights.
The Allies were desperate to find a land route that would reconnect China and India. The task fell to two OSS men—Ilia Tolstoy, the grandson of Leo Tolstoy, and explorer Capt. Brooke Dolan. To complete the land route would require traversing Tibet, and to traverse the hidden country required the permission of a seven-year-old boy, the Dalai Lama.
When the two men arrived in Lhasa, the remote capital of Tibet, these spies were received as ambassadors. A military brass band played, and they were treated as guests of honor in a city that only a few decades earlier had forbidden Westerners to enter.
They came carrying a message from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On December 20, at 9:20 in the morning, they were granted an audience with His Holiness. As a further sign of his respect for these two emissaries, the … [ Read all ]
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Green Bay Packer, Detroit Lion, or US President?
"]These days, the average NFL player receives about $1.2 million a year, not a bad paycheck for throwing around the old pigskin. After all, that's three times what the President makes (though he does get free limo rides), and plenty more than your average blogger does (sigh).
But in 1935, playing football wasn't the glitzy well-funded enterprise it is today. That's the year the Green Bay Packers went looking for a center, and found future President Gerald Ford. They offered President Ford $110 bucks a game. Over the course of a season—14 games—that means Ford would've squirreled away $1,540, about $24,000 bucks in 2011 dollars, if he had accepted the draft deal.
Ford declined this offer, and another offer from the Detroit Lions to play professional football, and instead made his way over into Yale to study law, then to the Navy to serve his country, then to the House of Representatives, and finally to the White House where, thankfully, the salary was a bit better.
You can learn more at the Gerald Ford Presidential Library's Facebook page.
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The must-have Christmas gift of 1776
In 1864, Savannah, Georgia, was offered to Abraham Lincoln as a Christmas present. But in 1776, George Washington delivered one of the greatest gifts in American history: the United States.
Winter was a bad season for Washington. His Continental Army had been driven out of New York, and then it was driven out of New Jersey, leaving just a few thousand men shivering on the far side of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, while the British made camp in New Jersey.
The Continental Army was desperate for a victory. Many men had left the military after finishing their enlistments. Others were low on morale after the series of bitter defeats. Santa, it appeared, was siding with the British forces.
On December 25, George Washington ordered the few thousand men at his disposal to cross the Delaware River. Ice flowed down its waters–further downstream a unit that was supposed to join him couldn't cross because of the ice flow–but Washington forced his men across, and was one of the first to land on the shores of British-occupied New Jersey.
Through the cold night air and sleet and snow, his men marched another nine miles, and then in a few quick maneuvers, launched a surprise attack against the Hessian forces encamped at Trenton. He took a thousand soldiers prisoner. He killed … [ Read all ]
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The CIA's catalog of covert conundrums
In 1992, George Washington University's "National Security Archive" submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), soliciting information from the Central Intelligence Agency. Their request was inspired by a 1973 memorandum issued from then-CIA Director James R. Schlesinger, who requested that all CIA employees, past or present, "report to me immediately on any activities now going on, or that have gone on in the past, which might be construed to be outside the legislative charter of this Agency."
The reason for Schlesinger's request? The 1972 break-in at the Watergate by veteran CIA officers who had alleged cooperation from within the Agency.
What resulted from the request was something else altogether: over 700 pages of illegal CIA activities ranging from the 1950s to the 1970s. Former CIA Director William Colby called the report the "skeletons" in the CIA's closet.
In 2007, the CIA delivered the report, dubbed the "Family Jewels" to the National Security Archive. It detailed assassination plots, illegal surveillance of journalists, drug testing, warrantless wiretapping, break-ins, and a litany of other illegal operations (sadly there was nothing on the CIA's "Tunnel of Love").
The full report is available on the CIA's CREST database at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland and on the CIA's FOIA Electronic Reading Room. Below are just a few of … [ Read all ]
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I believe this problem has only appeared since connect 8.
I am simply login users to connect from my application using php, and then trying to open a meeting room with the breeze session id in the url, but somehow it's not working, when I redirect to the room it asks for the username and password again.
What bugs me is that I get a the breeze id correctly after my HTTP login request, so I'd say it's working properly, but when I try to use this id to open the open, it does not accept it, like if that id was already destroyed.
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$req = new HTTP_Request("http://mysite/api/xml?action=login&login=blah&password=blah);
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World Heritage Commission ruling due tomorrow after Senate committee says don't delist WHA in Tasmania
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- May 16, 2014
THE World Heritage Committee is expected to issue a draft decision tomorrow on whether it will excise 74,000ha from Tasmania's World Heritage Area.
The draft decision, to be issued at 3am Tasmanian time in Paris, comes after a Senate committee report found attempts to shrink the WHA are "without merit".
The Labor and Greens-dominated Environment and Communications Committee, chaired by Labor senator Lin Thorp, has recommended that the Government abandon its bid to remove the newly added land from the WHA.
The Government has asked the World Heritage Committee to reverse part of a boundary approved last year because it included degraded areas.
It also says there have been objections from adjoining landholders and communities and the land is needed for the forest industry
But in a report released yesterday, the Senate committee says it was not persuaded by the Governments's arguments.
"The committee considers the argument that 'degraded' areas, such as previously logged forest and plantations, should be removed from the extended Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area because they detract from the integrity of the property is without merit," the report said.
"Further, the committee considers that the Government, by not providing adequate detail to the World Heritage Committee as to how much of the 74,000ha actually fits this description, undermines its own arguments for the delisting.
"The evidence received by the committee reveals that only a small proportion of the 74,000ha proposed to be removed could actually be described as 'degraded'.
The Wilderness Society hailed the report.
"The Abbott Government must drop its irresponsible request to axe the new Tasmanian World Heritage forests before it makes Australia an international laughing stock," society Tasmanian campaign manager Vica Bayley said.
"This is the first time a government has asked the World Heritage Committee to delist a property whose heritage values are well and truly still intact.''
Phill Pullinger, forests co-ordinator for Environment Tasmania, said there was no scientific basis and the Government was pursuing ideological politics rather than a policy that served the public interest.
A spokesman for federal Environment Minster Greg Hunt said the Government's application was being decided by the World Heritage Committee and he was awaiting its decision.
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Paul Reece of Hobart Posted at 1:41 PM May 17, 2014
A fair chunk of this area has already been logged and is regrowth. A lot of it is un timbered. Some people make it sound like the current elected by the majority government would like to simply destroy the forest. Noting is further from the truth. The fact of the matter is under the last government Tasmania went backwards economically and resources which should never have been locked up were. No one wants to rip it up, tear it down and trash it. That mentality is long gone. Sustainable industry is something we can acheive in a balancd way. old growth forests are not the target.Another article in today's paper talks of a petition that was lodged a few years ago by the greens to save a handful of trees because they were dangerous. that petiotion was successfull. Those trees are coming down now. But that won't bring back the husband and father that one of them killed. Please get the facts and think about what you are trying to so call save and what the costs might be before acting.
Rod Wood of West Hobart Posted at 6:40 PM May 16, 2014
"The Labor and Greens-dominated Environment and Communications Committee, chaired by Labor senator Lin Thorp," Yes...well that fact prettywell says it all. Just another group of negative unproductive lefties who want to sacrifice jobs for an area of regrowth & plantation forest that realistically should never have been classed as world heritage.
Jason Glover of Richmond Posted at 10:32 AM May 16, 2014
Who needs jobs? Who needs to provide for their family? Who wants to help build a strong Australia? Not the greenies by all acounts. Their plan for the future is to shut down jobs and just sit back and watch the trees grow and let some other hard working bugger provide us with a living.


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The earliest efforts have focused on cancer; foundational work in the field two decades ago showed that DNA methylation can be misregulated during tumor formation, silencing tumor suppressor genes as well as other genes. Treating precancerous cells with a compound called azacytidine reverses DNA methylation, reactivating the genes and differentiating the cells back into muscle cells. The drug, later approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for bone marrow diseases, is now one of four approved epigenetic drugs, all aimed at cancer.
Long-term, the hope is that the epigenome can be manipulated to treat a wide variety of other diseases, too, from autism to depression to immune disorders. Big pharmaceutical firms, including GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis, are also exploring epigenetics, bolstered by the success of these four drugs. "The fact that these drugs have been demonstrated to be effective suggests strongly that we're just beginning to scratch the surface" of what epigenetic medicines can do, says Peter Jones, director of the University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center.
To develop epigenetic drugs, Constellation scientists are in part targeting different human histone methylases–enzymes that attach methyl groups onto the proteins that DNA is wrapped around. Because there are so many different types of these enzymes, the expectation is that they can be used to target specific health problems, while minimizing side effects for patients, says Robert J. Gould, president and chief executive officer of Epizyme, another Cambridge-based epigenetic startup.
Constellation will also target the class of enzymes that reverse the process, as well as those involved in another type of chemical modification called acetylation.
Constellation president and CEO Mark A. Goldsmith says he sees the biggest potential in combination therapies, pairing epigenetic treatments with drugs that target other synergistic pathways. "This is a very powerful way to take advantage" of epigenetics, he says.
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We've never known news of a brand new Cooper tyre cause such a stir and they're not even physically in our warehouse yet! They soon will be though and we now have customers awaiting their arrival. What is it that's so striking about the studdable Discoverer S/T MAXX?
Well, it's appearance for a start. The alternating hybrid 4-5 rib tread pattern gives a bold aggressive look, whilst providing enhanced on-road and off-road performances.
Then there's the unique, world-renowned 3-ply Armor Tek3 carcass with stronger than ever sidewalls and tread. The construction of this extremely durable tyre means it also has an enhanced cut and chip resistant compound as part of it's construction. In spite of it's tough 'take on all challenges' image this baby has been designed to provide remarkable on-road traction, stability and noise level.
Last but not least, the strategically placed ribs within the lateral grooves provide the Discoverer S/T MAXX with the ability to discharge stones and resist stone drilling - this feature, as every enthusiast will know, is on the list of 'must-haves' these days.
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Sizes that are going to be available:
Sinton Tyres online ordering website www.tyrespec.co.uk or call us on 01908 665591/311515 for further information.
One of the undoubted stars of the Cooper 4x4 stable that Sinton Tyres stocks is the Zeon LTZ (50% on-road/50% off-road) tyre. It is now firmly established as a state of the art, all-terrain pattern tyre which incorporates even treadwear features and reduced tread-related noise. We know from personal experience that these are no empty claims. It gives a superb, really quiet ride on the road and although not a winter tyre as such, performs very well in the snow as we found out for ourselves in December! The LTZ is a stunning all-round performer and enthusiasts who are used to more testing terrains are equally impressed. It's versatility and technical superiority are undeniable. When these tyres are put through their paces this tyre's response to rock climbing, soft mud and sand surfaces is fantastic.
If it's a chunkier mud pattern that you have in mind, then look no further than the Cooper STT with it's unique Armor-tek3 carcass construction which does the job when it comes to protection against impact breaks and bruising. This tyre is an outstanding 20% on-road, 80% off-road beauty with it's deep buttress lugs aiding soft surface traction whilst at the same time providing additional 'bite' in rock climbing conditions. Another important feature is the tapered stone ejectors which help prevent stones and other debris from lodging in the tread and therefore help to maintain a consistent performance.
Both of the above tyres have the all-important rim flange protector which helps minimise any damage in hazardous off-road driving conditions but also on a day-to-day basis helps to protect against kerb damage.
The Cooper Discoverer ATR had been a long-standing favourite with road users and 4x4 enthusiasts all over the world and continues to be one of our best sellers. This 60% on-road, 40% off-road stalwart of the tyre world deserves it's impressive reputation with the computer-aided mould design which provides a well-judged balance between even wear and handling characteristics. This tyre offers the reassurance of long, dependable traction in all weather conditions whilst it's zig-zagging tread has gripping edges which offer increased effectiveness.
For further expert information on any of the above or any of the full range of Cooper Tire products, which incidentally are now all 'HA Oil Free' to fully comply with European legislation, contact Sinton Tyres , the only Cooper Tire online retailer to offer the complete product range available to the European market in the UK. Call 01908 665591 or visit our website at www.sintontyres.co.uk.
4Site 4x4 Tyre Centres launched the highly successful General Grabber AT2 4x4 tyre back in 2004.
The AT2 is fast becoming recognised, as a real technological breakthrough for 4x4 owners requiring uncompromised road performance yet maintaining superb off-road ability.
The Grabber AT2 has already redefined the way that many predominantly on-road 4x4 users think about their vehicles. This is because the AT2 has all the features and benefits of a tyre that is capable of taking 4x4 vehicles across rough terrain, yet it also actually adds value to many drivers on-road motoring, which is where most 4x4 owners spend the majority of their time behind the wheel.
The design of the AT2 was extensively tested and researched before being finalised. It has been made to perform admirably and quietly on the road (reflecting its unique 130mph speed rating), ensure that drivers have the confidence to tackle even the most extreme terrain, and finally, enhance the styling and visual appeal of today's modern 4x4 vehicles.
Due to the nature of such a tyre, 4x4 owners running AT2's benefit massively from improved tread-life over pure road biased tyres as well as unbeatable resistance against damage and punctures. This makes the AT2 a financially sound purchase for anyone wanting to maximise their personal 'pence per mile' ratio.
In size 255/55 HR18, the AT2 will fit the BMW X5, P38 Range Rover, Discovery II, Range Rover Sport, Porsche Cayenne and VW Touareg as a direct replacement to the original equipment tyre. At last, owners of these 4x4's can exploit the full off-road potential of their vehicle.
The AT2 is the only new all-terrain tyre available in this important UK size. The range is being continually developed to bring out new fitments for modern 4x4 vehicles that run on large wheel rims, so watch this space!
You can call the technical helpline on 0870 9009 444 in order to discuss your 4x4 wheel and tyre requirements and to obtain details of your nearest 4Site 4x4 Tyre Centre.
Take a group of skilled & committed 4x4 crews. Mix in their top 4x4's with winches, mud terrain tyres, diff locks and bridging ladders. Fold that heady mixture into Parkwood's Off Road mixing bowl of razored rocks, gnarled trees, glutinous mud and vertigo inspiring slopes. Club Off Road chef than proceeds to stir and simmer the whole mixture under a sunny, regulo 6, sky to make a spicy challenge.
Two modified Mercedes G wagens and a Jeep muscle motor mixed it with the various Land Rover offerings. The Barry Stallard designed rock run is unique in this country. Offering a small taster of the Moab rock crawling experience it is nevertheless an experience not to be under estimated. Rock is as unforgiving as a crossed woman. Our tasks were all carefully designed to maximise pressure. E.g the rock run had penalties for any rearward motion though a stop was penalty free. Sounds easy? Only rock crawler motors with their ultra low gearing can pull that one off. A manual transmission, not quite enough momentum and a rock step spits you back whence you came. Too much momentum and metal contacts rock. Rock always wins. The rock run looked an easy loop with a semi steep finish. Only one motor, Steve Loyds G Wagen, cleared it. Doug Dransfields somewhat speedy attempt cost 2 half shafts and Darren McGuinnes popped a tyre off the rim. Low pressures are vital on rocks, bead popping is a possible side effect. Alan Wormalds Jeep had barely managed 2 car lengths before his axle tie rod sheared. Result? No steering lock. Tony Baskills normally smooth team work got a little out of kilter under the pressure of the millstone grit, co driver Dave Needham getting a little vocal as the G Wagen refused to go where it was directed. However some Land Rovers can hack it on the rocks, Karl Frost dropped just 5 points with his 90 starting a winning streak for the day.
After the rocks came the woods. Strict penalties for touching trees ensured a steady approach and an absence of any power advantages. Similar penalties on the use of winches made clear thinking and a good knowledge of snatch blocks and anchors a must to get good scores. Precision 4x4 driving was called for at all times ensuring co drivers had their work cut out. Drivers invariably get the credit for a clear run, co drivers tend to get the flak for a botched run, that's life in the challenge fraternity. Multi choice sections needed a clear head beforehand to ensure the right line is chosen. Once off the start line it's almost impossible to alter the pre chosen route an the team nee absolute conviction as to their 4x4's ability to clear the chosen gates. Not everyone got it right but everyone got a thorough work out. The tasks aren't against the clock in terms of speed but do have an overall time limit so there is little room for error.
In the midst of the August monsoons typical of this years weather we had a balmy summers day, sunlight dappling muddy motors underneath the tree cover. Around us were the massed ranks of BF Goodrich tyred 4x4's doing there own thing whilst we worked away on our own sections on the periphery. The levelling effect of identical tyres as well as the trees penalty ensured that the winners of this event were the teams who could get the best out of their 4x4's rather than a bash and crash approach. Land Rover once again took the top spot but the German G was nipping so closely on its heels that it would take a bucket of water to part them. All in all one of lifes better ways to spend a Sunday. The sweet for the days menu? A surprise free set of tyres for the winner, now that's what I call a pudding.
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1st 495 pts. Karl & Dale Frost Land Rover 90
2nd 450 pts. Steve Lloyd/Lee Bond Mercedes G wagen
3rd 435 pts Doug Dransfield/Frazer Ellison Land Rover 90
4th 410 pts Martin Richardson/Giles Evans Land Rover 100"
5th 350 pts Tony baskill/Dave Needham Mercedes G wagen
6th 345 pts James Iball/Kingsley Iball Land Rover 90
7th 340 pts Alan Wormald/Richard Ibberson Jeep Wrangler
8th 270 pts Ivan Barrett/Steven Earnshaw Land Rover 90
9th 210 pts Darren McGuinness/Rob Gosemeiser Land Rover 90
Land Rover Owner, Peter Ledger, recently contacted 4-Site 4x4 tyre centres to report that the 265/75 R16 BF Goodrich All Terrain tyres fitted to his vehicle had achieved an unbelievable 120,000 miles!!! As the UK distributors for BF Goodrich the 4-Site 4x4 tyre network has long been aware that this fantastic product offers durability and longevity that is matched by none, but at 120,000 miles even they were staggered. Alan Baldwin, director of Southam Tyres (who run the 4-Site 4x4 dealer network) commented, "This has to be some kind of record, perhaps the highest mileage ever recorded on a set of road-legal, domestic tyres in the UK" Unfortunately for BF Goodrich, it's impossible to have this kind of achievement recorded in the Guinness book of records because their stringent rules and regulations mean an adjudicator would need to oversee every mile the vehicle travels. However 4-Site 4x4 tyre centres say, it is not uncommon for customers to call us, and report 100,000 miles on a set of BF Goodrich 4x4 tyres.
Mr Ledger commented; "the tyres have been on the vehicle since it was manufactured in 1996, there is no doubt I will be replacing the existing tyres with BF Goodrich All Terrains". Alan Baldwin adds "The Land Rover 90 and its 265/75 R16 BF Goodrich All Terrain tyres have proved to be a fantastic combination, and unbelievably, even after 8 years of use the tyres still meet the minimum legal tread depth requirements. The BF Goodrich brand presents a classic "you get what you pay for" scenario. Superb performance and unbeatable treadwear from a top quality premium product".
The BF Goodrich All Terrain is available in a range of sizes to suit most 4x4 vehicles, to purchase your set call our team of 4x4 tyre experts on 0870 9009 444 who will put you in touch with your local 4-Site 4x4 tyre centre and answer any of your technical questions.
For further details on this product and for any other press information on Southam Tyres' products and services, please call Stuart Amos on 01926 816818, or email. You can also visit our website
For twenty years the BF Goodrich Trac Edge was Britains best loved off-road tyre, especially amongst the Land Rover fraternity. The Trac-Edge was the working mans 4x4 tyre. It was designed to cope with wet grass, mud and clay. It had to take batterings from pot-holes and sidewall impacts from disregarded rubble on building sites. It also had to perform well on the road and traverse the UK's motorways, wearing as slow as possible to maximise value for commercial users. For the farmer, it had to pull fully laden Ifor Williams trailers off wet fields. The Trac-Edge achieved all of the above and as soon as word got around, it seemed everybody wanted them fitted to their 4x4.
When the inevitable replacement tyre came it had a lot to live up to. How on earth could such a winning design be improved upon? Well it has been improved upon - and significantly so. Don't just take our word for it though. We have recently received this user-testimonial from one of our trade customers who wanted to put the all new Commercial Traction T/A through its paces and see how it performed under typical on and off-road conditions...
Steve Thomas, Manager of Swansea 4x4 and resident tyre expert for Bearmach Plc.
"I thought I would give you some feedback on the new
BF Goodrich commercial Traction T/A.
Available exclusively in the UK at 4-site 4x4 tyre centres
1. An aggressive high-traction tread design with full width shoulder lugs and sidewall traction bars.
2. Dual compound tread with increased sipes for optimum wet-tarmac traction and long tread life.
3. Superb snow and ice performance with pre-drilled stud-holes.
4. Q (100mph) speed rating for assured all-round confidence on or off road. 8 or 10 ply tread for extreme durability and strength even in the most arduous off-road terrain.
5. Traction T/A is the perfect choice for users with requirements that fall between All-Terrain and Mud-Terrain applications.
This tyre is priced very competitively against alternative products & offers you fantastic value for money from the best 4x4 tyre brand in the world.
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