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A.K.A. what excuse does Jordan Margolis have now?
I "worked" for Jordan Margolis for about ten years, when he was a practicing attorney in Chicago. I say "worked", because while Jordan paid me sometimes, there has never been a time when he didn't owe me money, from 2001 until the present. At this time, he owes me over sixty thousand dollars. There was ALWAYS an excuse, and in this respect, his Excuse Man alter-ego is very realistic.
Jordan's debt to me started with my first job for him. His company was in a bind, and I fixed them up and got them back in business. They sent me a check, but it was for half of what they owed me. When I questioned him on this, he responded that things were slow, and that he would pay me when he could. Of course business is difficult for everyone, it's no exception with me, and yet this seeming "nice guy" truly struck me as having difficulties, so I let it slide, even though HE was the "big attorney" who "went to bat for the little guy", and I was the LITTLE GUY, the small entrepreneur trying to make a go of it with his own business.
I continued to work for him, with the promise that I would get paid. Eventually I did, but by the time the check arrived, I had already done additional work for him that wasn't covered by the check. Once again he owed me money, and I'd have to wait for it.
Many times over the years, as I continued to provide service to him, I would ask him for payment, and sometimes I would get a small check. These checks became more and more sporadic, always with the excuse "things are really difficult now". And yet, somehow, Jordan managed to create this entire universe of, frankly, questionable humor: Excuse Man, Eggscuseman, Planet Jordo, Excuseland. He had "professional" costumes made, videos filmed, books published, marketing professionals hired....and yet, the money that he owed me for my hard work went unpaid.
One time I remember, several years ago, I became particularly pointed in my request for some sort of payment. He agreed, and said the check was sent. I waited for days, and the check never arrived. I followed up, and "yes, the check had been sent". Still nothing. Finally, I turned off this website, which at the time was one of his primary sites for dissemination of his "humor", and suddenly the next day, a check arrived that was dated on the day I turned the site off. The original check that he claimed to have sent? It still hasn't arrived.
Things continued on like this for some time. Always excuses. "He owed his employees money". "His cases weren't settling". "Money wasn't forthcoming". All the while, I was patient and accommodating.
One day, I saw him walking down the sidewalk. He came to a crosswalk and waited for the signal, pretending not to notice me. I said "hello Jordan!". Still no response. Finally I started to walk up to him and said "JORDAN!", and he bolted like a scared rabbit.
Why does he owe me money? Why did he stop paying what he owed? This is a good question, one for which we may never know the answer. As I mentioned, he has built up an entire network of "humor" sites, complete with his costumed alter-ego, and pictures of him "flying through the air", ostensibly to "protect the little guy". Meanwhile, there was at least one "little guy" who he was stepping on, taking advantage of, for his own benefit, with no regard for what this "little guy" was going through himself.
I started my business about 15 years ago, and I used a large portion of my retirement savings to do so. I had been laid off of work, and decided to make a go of my dream to own my own business. I did my best to reach new clients, and slowly but surely, business grew. As any business owner knows, just a few percent of revenue can make the difference between success and failure, and it seemed that the time I invested working for Jordan, and the money that he still owes me but neglects to pay, would make all the difference for me. And yet, as Jordan prances around in videos, photos, and web appearances using money that he has acquired from unknown sources, offering his, um, "humor", I STILL wait for my money.
A couple years ago, my girlfriend, an immigrant to this country with no family here, experienced serious health problems. She lost her house and her job as a result, and ended up in the hospital, completely paralyzed from the neck down. I struggled to assist her, to retain her possessions, doing my part to help her hang on to life and what little she had left. I fell behind on my mortgage, my taxes, and my personal bills at the time. As her condition worsened, and as she neared death, I continued to fall further and further behind. Money that I had earned from Jordan, money that I had worked for, that Jordan had REQUESTED I work for, went unpaid, while I fell further behind and while my girlfriend laid in a hospital bed nearing death. I received none of my money from Jordan at this time, but his "humor" continued to flow.
My girlfriend eventually made a full recovery, after spending months in the hospital and rehabilitation facilities, where she slowly regained most of her motor functions, and learned to walk and perform daily tasks again. I am still behind on my mortgage, taxes, and bills, but I am slowly catching up, no thanks to Jordan.
So what IS the problem for Jordan? Some friends who know him and I have pondered this question. Was it gambling? Liquor? Drugs? Prostitutes? No, it didn't seem to be any of these things. And yet, money for Jordan went out faster than it came in, and it went somewhere...but no one knows where. One friend postulated that Jordan had lost his mind, lost his ability to rationally deal with people and life, and turned to "humor" as some sort of a cover. Perhaps this is the answer. But the money is still missing, and no one but Jordan knows where it is.
How much money? Lots. I had mentioned that Jordan was a practicing attorney in Chicago. He HAD been. He had built a notable legal career and a well-known and respected law firm. He has recently been disbarred though, for theft of a million dollars of his client's money, money that had been recovered for them because they had been injured, money to pay their medical bills, their mortgages, money to live and eat. Jordan took it, and it's gone now. This doesn't include the money he still owes to his former employees and people like me, people who dealt fairly and honestly with him, only to be financially abused by a man who was supposedly worthy of their trust.
Have a look at what Jordan Lee Margolis has done. It's pretty shocking that someone who once had a prosperous career in the legal profession would sink to this level. Jordan had obligations. Obligations to himself, to his family, to his employees, to his business associates such as me, and most importantly, to his CLIENTS. People who have suffered, and who went to him for help. People who have been physically hurt, wronged, treated unfairly. It appears that Jordan used them and their unfortunate circumstances as a front to sue the people who had wronged them, collected the money on their behalf, and then stole that money, or in some way made it "vanish". What DOES one do with a million dollars that they have stolen from people they were supposed to be helping? No one knows the answer to this but Jordan Margolis, and he undoubtedly has an excuse about it.
- Here you can see the order from the Illinois Supreme Court, disbarring Jordan from practicing law, and requiring him to pay restitution for "dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation". Scroll down to the fourth entry.
- And this is a document outlining the complaints of "dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation" against him.
- Here you can see what Jordan is up to today, publishing crude and tasteless jokes and comments, even on the day he was disbarred. Class act. NOT for Children!
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BirdLife has been stepping up its efforts to build the capacity of Société Audubon Haiti, the latest chapter of which sees their field biologist Enold Louis-Jean travelling to Jersey to participate in a 12-week course designed to equip conservationists with the skills needed to manage species recovery.
A local group working to conserve the Natewa Tunuloa Important Bird Area in Fiji has won the prestigious Equator Prize for 2012. "The Sisi Initiative stood out among more than 800 entries as a remarkable demonstration of local development solutions for people, nature, and resilient communities", said Eileen de Ravin – manager of the Equator Initiative...
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RIP Craig Walsh (Craig) 1985-2012
RIP Hughesy
Proudly supporting the #2 cricketer of all time.
Watson's XI
01. Trevor Bailey
02. Rev. David Sheppard
04. Lindsay Hassett *
07. Gary Gilmour
08. Harold Larwood
09. Wasim Bari +
10. Charlie Griffith
11. Ashley Mallett
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1. Sachin Tendulkar 2. Adam Gilchrist 3. Brian Lara 4. Viv Richards 5. AB De Villiers 6. Michael Bevan 7.Kapil Dev 8. Richard Hadlee 9. Wasim Akram 10. Muttiah Muralitharan 11. Joel Garner
Tar Monk.
Just been going thru Gilmour's figures. His best series was against the West Indies in 1975/76:
Wickets = 20
Average = 20.30
It's a real shame that a foot injury then dodgy knees ended his career prematurely.
1. David Warner
2. Neil Johnson
4. Andy Flower (+)
5. Aubrey Faulkner
6. Graeme Hick
7. Lala Amarnath (*)
10. Garth McKenzie
11. Bishen Bedi
Wow my side sucks.
Take a look at the other teams morgieb - it's a relative thing.
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yeah, don't even look at my team. It sucks so bad it isn't even funny.
And smalishah's avatar is the most classy one by far Jan certainly echoes the sentiments of CW
Yeah we don't crap in the first world; most of us would actually have no idea what that was emanating from Ajmal's backside. Why isn't it roses and rainbows like what happens here? PEWS's retort to Ganeshran on Daemon's picture depicting Ajmal's excreta
was planning to send bids this morn for the last round, loosing track of time, and work was busy as hell yesterday.
Aus. XI
Simpson^ | Hayden | Bradman | Chappell^ | Ponting | Border* | Gilchrist+ | Davidson3 | Warne4^ | Lillee1 | McGrath2
Greenidge | Hunte | Richards^ | Headley* | Lara^ | Sobers5^ | Walcott+ | Marshall1 | Ambrose2 | Holding3 | Garner4
Richards^ | Smith*^ | Amla | Pollock | Kallis5^ | Nourse | Cameron+ | Procter3 | Steyn1 | Tayfield4 | Donald2
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Hobbs | Hutton*^ | Hammond^ | Compton | Barrington | Botham5^ | Knott | Trueman1 | Laker4 | Larwood2 | Barnes3
Nissar was to be my target
would have got him too
I didn't even send my bid..
It's getting to that time again......
Please wait Michael. I'm working on it, will send in some time..
"I want to raise my hand and say one thing. Those who complain about my love for the game or commitment to the game are clueless. These are the only 2 areas where I give myself 100 out of 100."
- Sachin Tendulkar, as told in an interview published in Bengali newspaper Anandabazar Patrika after his 100th International century (translated by weldone)
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Patsy Hendren
Darren Lehmann
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Chris Martin
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The Cooma Go Kan Ryu karate club, is through to the National Titles after an outstanding performance at the State Titles held recently.
Thirteen students from the club competed in the State Titles held in Sydney on September 16 with all qualifying for the Nationals in Melbourne on November 16.
The students blitzed the competition sweeping up 15 medals in total.
In an impressive effort, two of the students, Dorothy Sillett and Tim Anderson were also state champions.
Sillett was state champion in Kata and Sparring senior veteran 45-54 years 6-4th Kyu Female while Tim Anderson was state champion in Kata and Kumite 14-15 years 3rd Kyu and above male, with a bronze in team Kata.
The students who competed ranged in age from just five-years-old up to 50 and all excelled in the competition.
Eight-year-old Gracie Anderson put in an outstanding effort to qualify. Her division had some 30 competitors compared to most other divisions which had about eight.
Naomi Sillett won two silver medals in team Kata and team Kumite, while Kyle Sillett took out silver in the 16-17 Yrs 3rd Kyu and above male Kata and Kumite.
In the 14-15 Yrs 6-4th Kyu male sparring, Austin Riley took out silver and in the 10-11 years 8-7th Kyu female Jasmyn Sizmur claimed silver in sparring and bronze in Kata with Claudia Kerr claiming silver in the Kata.
In the veteran 35 years plus 8-7th Kyu female Naomi Saxby received a silver in Kata and bronze in sparring.
Matilda Saxb-Rendal, Andrea Anderson, Courtney Stimpson and Megan Anderson all qualified.
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Unova is now in it's greatest peril ever as the Therian Formes of Tornadus, Thundurus and Landorus reveal themselves through the Reveal Glass. But as Giovanni attempts to take control of the three Therian Pokémon, they take over him and drive him to the brink of insanity and ordering them to use the power of "Wind", "Thunder", and "Land" all over the Unova Region. Can Ash and co. save everyone in Unova and stop Team Rocket once and for all?
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Imagine if Leonardo da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa over and over and over again. For different patrons. Using different models. Same lighting, same quaint landscape in the background, same tight-lipped smile. That's sort of what life has been like for the Brooklyn-born photographer Bert Stern ever since he memorialized Marilyn Monroe wearing little more than some eye makeup and a bedsheet.
That was 1962. Over a career spanning many decades, and that involved such periods as serving as an army photographer in the Korean War and running off to Spain in the '70s, 77-year-old Stern has seen and shot a lot of other things. "I mean, I have thousands of other subjects and pictures," he says from his uptown Manhattan apartment overlooking the East River. "I'm not going to say they're better, but they are interesting in their own way." Take, for example, his now-fabled 1985 ad for Smirnoff vodka where he somehow managed to turn one of the Egyptian pyramids upside down in a martini glass. Or the promotional image of Sue Lyon for Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (heart-shaped sunglasses—Stern's idea). Or the intimate (and prescient) Life magazine candids of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Rome, off duty from the set of Cleopatra. (This is not to mention Jazz on a Summer's Day, his film about the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and the first festival documentary ever made—Stern was not yet 30). But it's Marilyn who keeps rearing her platinum-blonde head. When we sat down with him, he had just returned from Paris where he had had a show of his Marilyn photos. He had also just shot an ad campaign for L'Oréal—inspired by, well, you know.
ALIX BROWNE You shot the Marilyn pictures very early in your career. Do you think they've eclipsed everything you've done since?
BERT STERN Well, they're the most popular.
AB Did L'Oréal ask you to recreate the Marilyn pictures?
BS It was a cosmetics shoot. They found a girl and made her look like Marilyn, and they put pearls in her hands and they had all this eye makeup.
AB How does it make you feel to revisit these pictures?
BS Well, it's a job, and it was a good job and I got to stay at the
Ritz, which I'd never stayed in. I just wanted to go through those revolving doors where Princess Diana had walked through. I didn't feel anything about recreating anything because all I shot was what they put in front of me. There's nothing to recreate.
AB But don't those pictures ever come back to haunt you?
BS Every day. There are endless requests for Marilyn. Marilyn is the most popular subject that I shot, even though it was just one sitting.
AB It's also the way that you shot her—the intimacy of the pictures.
BS Basically I was under contract to Vogue at the time; I had only worked for them a year or two. And the contract opened up in such a way that I was allowed to do anything I wanted for a certain number of pages per year—just ten pages. So I tried to think what had not yet been done. What interested me was women. Besides the woman I was married to [the ballerina Allegra Kent], it was Marilyn Monroe. I didn't want to do fashion, I just wanted to do pictures of her. I asked that they get me accessories—because I didn't expect her to just do it nude, that was really her idea in a sense. After we got all of these transparent scarves and jewelry at the Bel Air hotel she looked up through one of the scarves and she said, "Do you want to do nudes?" I said, "That's a good idea." And she said, "Well, I have a scar," because she had had a gall bladder operation six weeks before. I said, "It doesn't bother me." This was before computers—now we could remove it, but then you had to retouch it. So she asked George Masters, the hairdresser, "George, what do you think about my doing some nudes?" He said, "Oh, divine."
AB Leave it to the hairdresser.
BS The picture I was after was something comparable to Edward Steichen's portrait of Greta Garbo. I was really only after one picture, but it ended up going on and on and on 'til we had thousands.
AB Was there a precedent for celebrity portraiture at that time?
BS No, never. They had never had a celebrity on the cover of Vogue up to that point. They didn't even with my pictures, which I thought was pretty dumb. They should have run a cover of it, but they didn't.
AB It seems fashion was more of a priority back then.
BS Fashion was the priority. They had to make her hair look more presentable, which is why Kenneth was asked to come. Marilyn got fed up while we were shooting this Dior dress. She said, "I'm tired of doing fashion," and she picked up some flimsy bed jacket that was on one of the chairs and said, "How 'bout this?" And she went off into the bathroom and put it on, came out, and lifted up the top veil and said, "How's this for 36?" I didn't know if she meant her age or her bust size.
AB But you had shot Elizabeth Taylor already at that point?
BS Two weeks before. But that was a different story. It was very square. It was Cleopatra.
AB So she was all done up?
BS In character and without nudity. She did her own eye makeup, which took two hours. Maybe four hours. And then they flew in Alexandre de Paris to do her hair. And they were more formal portraits.
AB What about the more candid Liz Taylor and Richard Burton photos swimming in the sea?
BS 20th Century had hired me to cover the movie, because in those days if they had a good photographer Life magazine would run it. I flew to Rome, which was a lot of fun, and hung out with them. They had a small boat, which they would have lunch on. They'd leave the set so her makeup was always on, and we'd go on the boat, have lunch, and they'd romp around. I would shoot black-and-white pictures of them on my little Nikon. Candids, we called them. I showed them to Life who thought they were having a wild affair. I said, "No, but they are going to get married." They laughed at me. I said, "You'll see."
AB Having shot those pictures it was probably not so exciting to shoot Madonna or Kate Moss…
BS No, Marilyn was the most exciting. And she was the best model—though Kate Moss is a wonderful model and Madonna is very beautiful. But when I did Madonna, I really only did one or two pictures. She was scary to me. Tough. Marilyn was much more playful.
AB There are certainly pictures of Kate that try to emulate your Marilyn photos.
BS Well, that's been going on for a long time. There are a lot of takeoffs on the "last sitting."
AB Does it amuse you to see them?
BS At first. Steven Meisel did a takeoff on the last sitting with Madonna, which I resented at the time, but then I got over it. I decided it didn't really matter. And as Steven has said, everybody copies. Except I didn't copy. When I took the last sitting they were my own ideas. But there have been many copies and there still are. In fact, maybe I'm even copying myself—maybe not.
AB Marilyn edited out quite a few of them.
BS Crossed out. Which became some of the best pictures. But she crossed things out because there was crooked eyeliner, or something personal she didn't like.
AB Can you even imagine that happening today—someone of that caliber just showing up and saying, "Okay, let's do some nudes?"
BS You mean like Britney Spears?
AB Well, if you can compare Britney to Marilyn Monroe, yes.
BS It's totally different today. It's an industry. That didn't exist when I shot Marilyn. People magazine didn't exist until the '70s. The paparazzi were in Italy. Like when we were doing Liz Taylor, we noticed there were people trying to take pictures. But we were too far away. And I wanted to get a picture of Liz Taylor and Richard Burton kissing. So I said, "Can we go outside behind the studio when the sun is setting"—I always shot at sunset—"and shoot against a wall?" And they said, "Well what about the paparazzi?" And I said, "What's that?" Life was the magazine. To get the cover of that was the big thing. So it was a different game.
AB If somebody asked you to shoot Britney Spears like Marilyn, would you?
BS Sure, I would shoot her. I think she's very cute. I think I would probably get some nudity with her. It might be fun.
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A two-day motor rally that counts towards the national championship flags off in Dar es Salaam on Saturday.
The event is organized by the Dar es Salaam Motor Sports Club as confirmed by the club's official Salim Hadji.
Hadjis said over 15 drivers have enrolled to compete in the rally expected to be a thriller for the opening season.
Hadji said Sea Cliff is the starting point of the rally that will see drivers proceed to Masaki in Kisarawe where the competitive sections are lined up.
So far only two upcountry drivers have shown interest to compete in the event with the rest coming from Dar es Salaam.
Pandya rally team will field two cars under courtesy of their Flightlink sponsor who helped the team excel during the previous season.
Kirit Pandya and his navigator Awadh Bafadhil will be in their Subaru Legacy car as wonder boy Dharam Pandya I expected to be guided by his uncle Sanjeev in their Subaru Imprezza.
Kirit who won the Automobile Association of Tanzania's best driving performance award for the previous season, said has prepared well to prove last year's show was not a fluke.
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The taxable income of an expatriated entity for any taxable year which includes any portion of the applicable period shall in no event be less than the inversion gain of the entity for the taxable year.
(2) Expatriated entity
For purposes of this subsection—
(A) In general
The term "expatriated entity" means—
(i) the domestic corporation or partnership referred to in subparagraph (B)(i) with respect to which a foreign corporation is a surrogate foreign corporation, and
(B) Surrogate foreign corporation
A foreign corporation shall be treated as a surrogate foreign corporation if, pursuant to a plan (or a series of related transactions)—
(i) the entity completes after March 4, 2003, the direct or indirect acquisition of substantially all of the properties held directly or indirectly by a domestic corporation or substantially all of the properties constituting a trade or business of a domestic partnership,
(ii) after the acquisition at least 60 percent of the stock (by vote or value) of the entity is held—
(I) in the case of an acquisition with respect to a domestic corporation, by former shareholders of the domestic corporation by reason of holding stock in the domestic corporation, or
(iii) after the acquisition the expanded affiliated group which includes the entity does not have substantial business activities in the foreign country in which, or under the law of which, the entity is created or organized, when compared to the total business activities of such expanded affiliated group.
An entity otherwise described in clause (i) with respect to any domestic corporation or partnership trade or business shall be treated as not so described if, on or before March 4, 2003, such entity acquired directly or indirectly more than half of the properties held directly or indirectly by such corporation or more than half of the properties constituting such partnership trade or business, as the case may be.
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There shall not be taken into account in determining ownership under subsection (a)(2)(B)(ii)—
(A) stock held by members of the expanded affiliated group which includes the foreign corporation, or
(3) Plan deemed in certain cases
If a foreign corporation acquires directly or indirectly substantially all of the properties of a domestic corporation or partnership during the 4-year period beginning on the date which is 2 years before the ownership requirements of subsection (a)(2)(B)(ii) are met, such actions shall be treated as pursuant to a plan.
(4) Certain transfers disregarded
The transfer of properties or liabilities (including by contribution or distribution) shall be disregarded if such transfers are part of a plan a principal purpose of which is to avoid the purposes of this section.
(5) Special rule for related partnerships
For purposes of applying subsection (a)(2)(B)(ii) to the acquisition of a trade or business of a domestic partnership, except as provided in regulations, all partnerships which are under common control (within the meaning of section 482) shall be treated as 1 partnership.
(6) Regulations
The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as may be appropriate to determine whether a corporation is a surrogate foreign corporation, including regulations—
(A) to treat warrants, options, contracts to acquire stock, convertible debt interests, and other similar interests as stock, and
(d) Other definitions
For purposes of this section—
(1) Applicable period
The term "applicable period" means the period—
(A) beginning on the first date properties are acquired as part of the acquisition described in subsection (a)(2)(B)(i), and
(2) Inversion gain
The term "inversion gain" means the income or gain recognized by reason of the transfer during the applicable period of stock or other properties by an expatriated entity, and any income received or accrued during the applicable period by reason of a license of any property by an expatriated entity—
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The term "foreign related person" means, with respect to any expatriated entity, a foreign person which—
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Credits (other than the credit allowed by section 901) shall be allowed against the tax imposed by this chapter on an expatriated entity for any taxable year described in subsection (a) only to the extent such tax exceeds the product of—
For purposes of determining the credit allowed by section 901, inversion gain shall be treated as from sources within the United States.
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In the case of an expatriated entity which is a partnership—
(B) the inversion gain of any partner for any taxable year shall be equal to the sum of—
(i) the partner's distributive share of inversion gain of the partnership for such taxable year, plus
(3) Coordination with section 172 and minimum tax
(4) Statute of limitations
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The statutory period for the assessment of any deficiency attributable to the inversion gain of any taxpayer for any pre-inversion year shall not expire before the expiration of 3 years from the date the Secretary is notified by the taxpayer (in such manner as the Secretary may prescribe) of the acquisition described in subsection (a)(2)(B)(i) to which such gain relates and such deficiency may be assessed before the expiration of such 3-year period notwithstanding the provisions of any other law or rule of law which would otherwise prevent such assessment.
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For purposes of subparagraph (A), the term "pre-inversion year" means any taxable year if—
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The Secretary shall provide such regulations as are necessary to carry out this section, including regulations providing for such adjustments to the application of this section as are necessary to prevent the avoidance of the purposes of this section, including the avoidance of such purposes through—
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Source(Added Pub. L. 108–357, title VIII, § 801(a),Oct. 22, 2004, 118 Stat. 1562; amended Pub. L. 109–135, title IV, § 403(u),Dec. 21, 2005, 119 Stat. 2628.)
2005—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 109–135reenacted heading without change and amended text generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: "Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any entity which is treated as a domestic corporation under subsection (b)."
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Amendment by Pub. L. 109–135effective as if included in the provision of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, Pub. L. 108–357, to which such amendment relates, see section 403(nn) ofPub. L. 109–135, set out as a note under section 26 of this title.
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Garth Wood Withdraws From Geale vs Albert Card
Middleweight Garth Wood has been forced to pull out of his August 31 bout with Johannes Mwetupunga on the Daniel Geale vs Eromosele Albert undercard in Tasmania. The pair was supposed to be fighting for the IBF Asia-Pacific Title as well as for the Australian title but after Garth suffered a cut during the week in sparring he was forced to pull out.
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Shafikov vs Zamora EBU Title Clash on May 31 in Ufa?
By Per Ake Persson
It´s rumored, but not confirmed, that EBU jr. welterweight champion Denis Shafikov´s defense against mandatory challenger Brunet Zamora will go ahead on May 31st in Ufa, Bashkiria in southeastern Russia.
Shafikov´s promoter P 3 Boxing won the purse bids last week in Rome and will stage the event with a local partner.
Shafikov, 28-0-1, vs Zamora, 21-0-2, is an exellent matchup and effectively also an eliminator for a world title. The two drew in 2010 and Zamora comes off a draw in a fight for the interim WBA title.
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2015 is turning into a watershed year for PHP. Many projects either have or will release new major versions, including Zend Framework, Symfony, Laravel, Guzzle, Drupal, Slim, and many others. And of course there's PHP 7 itself, coming this fall.
I'll talk more on those later, but for the moment I want to focus on one other major new development this year: PSR-7.
One of the nice new features of PHP 5.5 is automatic class name constants. That is, in PHP 5.5 you can do this:
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As most who have met me know, building collaborative communities is a minor passion of mine. 2 years ago, I called on the Drupal community to Get off the Island and connect with other communities.
That call was part of a larger movement within the PHP community to interact more, connect more, and collaborate more than ever before. The PHP Renaissance has been driven in no small part by that greater collaboration between many different PHP communities.
To close out 2014, I spoke with Jeff "JAM" McGuire of Acquia Podcast fame about Drupal and community building, and what it means to be the "Drupal Community" when so much of Drupal isn't Drupal.
And as a final capstone, I made a challenge to the entire PHP community: Don't just talk to each other, build with each other. Get out of your comfort zone and learn something new, from someone else.
Happy New Year, PHP. Let's Build Something Good together.
As 2014 draws to a close, I look back at the year and realize... holy crap I traveled a lot! I hadn't actually done a fully tally yet, but here's the full rundown:
In all, I flew 64,082 miles (103,130 kilometers for the metric fans in the audience), presented 29 times, with 13 distinct presentations at 20 conferences and user groups across 3 continents, and spent 82 days on the road (not counting non-conference travel). You know what that means?
It means I created about 10 metric tonnes of carbon pollution.
My DrupalCon Amsterdam Core Conversation on Managing Complexity has generated quite a bit of follow-up discussion. That's good; it's a conversation we as a community really need to be having.
There are a few points, though, that I feel bear clarification and further explanation as I fear the point of the talk has gotten lost in the details.
Before continuing, if you haven't yet I urge you to watch the session video as well as the background resources linked from the session page. This is not a new conversation; it's the latest chapter in a very long-running discussion that is larger than the Drupal project, and it behooves us all to be aware of the history and context around it.
Let's be honest, I spend a lot of time at conferences. Over the past 2 years or so I've averaged more than one speaking engagement at a conference per month, including a half-dozen keynotes. I've also helped organize several conferences, mostly DrupalCamps and DrupalCons. I'd estimate conferences make up more than a third of my professional activity. (Incidentally, if someone can tell me how the hell that happened I'd love to hear it; I'm still confused by it.)
As a result I've gotten to see a wide variety of conference setups, plans, crazy ideas, and crazy wonderful ideas. There are many wonderful things that conference organizers do, or do differently, and of course plenty of things that they screw up.
I want to take this opportunity to share some of that experience with the organizers of various conferences together, rather than in one-off feedback forms that only one conference will see. To be clear, while I definitely think there are areas that many conferences could improve I don't want anyone to take this letter as a slam on conference organizers. These are people who put in way more time than you think, often without being paid to do so, out of a love for the community, for learning and sharing, and for you. Whatever else you may think about a conference or this list, the next time you're at a conference take a moment to find one of the organizers and give them a huge hug and/or firm handshake (as is their preference) and say thank you for all the work that they do.
Over the last few years, one of my foci has been bringing together the PHP community and taking the time to celebrate the PHP Renaissance. That effort has taken me all around the world, from Paris to Toronto to New York to Costa Rica to New Zealand. And this summer it's taking me to the Midwestern US as part of the Crafting Code Tour.
Ever heard of functional programming? Not procedural programming, but actual functional programming. Probably, as some fancy academic thing that no one really uses, right?
Did you know you can do it in PHP, too? It's true. In fact, I'll be speaking about it four times in the next couple of weeks!
Recently, Anthony Ferrara has been posting a periodic "Beyond" series about software design philosophy. Some in particular have hinted at concepts I've been pondering as well. With his blessing, therefore, consider this a continuation of that series.
PHP 5.4 is not exactly new, but it's finally starting to see actual usage by a decent number of people. Its most notable new feature is Traits, which in PHP are implemented as, essentially, compile-time copy-paste. Conceptually, though, they're a way to mix functionality into a class without using inheritance, and without requiring a separate distinct object for composition. (At least in PHP; the term "trait" appears in other languages for similar but subtly different tools.) That's not to say that they're a surrogate for composition; they most certainly are not. They serve a different purpose, that is, providing code for a class to reuse without using inheritance.
Recently, I was reading an article discussing the implementation of inheritance, such as it is, in Go, Rust, and other new-wave concurrent languages. (Thanks to twistor for helping me track down the link.) It made an interesting point that crystallized for me why it is I am so excited about traits. Specifically, it noted that there are not one but two kinds of code reuse: interface reuse and code reuse.
Recently I had an email conversation with someone about PHP, and how to market a new product to PHP developers, specifically through getting major PHP projects to adopt it. The details of that conversation are not really relevant, but in the course of the discussion a familiar topic came up that I feel warrants a blog post of its own.
There is a schism in the PHP community. A big one. One so big that I don't think many realize it's there, because the gulf across it is just so wide. See, there's not one "thing" called a "PHP Developer"; there are two, and they are so unalike that I have never seen them really see eye to eye.


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Police say a woman in a handicapped cart stole another woman's credit card who was helping her at a local Walmart.
Kinston police today released surveillance video of the woman walking out of the Walmart on Highway 70 after they say she used the stolen credit card to buy a laptop computer.
It happened around 11:00 a.m. on January 2nd.
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As the old song goes, breaking up is hard to do. Yes, your heart is broken. But the good news is that putting it back together doesn't have a thing to do with your ex — it's all about you.
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So, this year, in teaching sixth-grade, I often find myself baffled by the students. If I yell, they think it's their fault. If I apologize, they don't know what to do. They seem to love their teachers, regardless of how good or bad they are. And that's sixth grade right there.
But they also interrupt more often. They wiggle. They can't just "be chill" during an experiment. They still think, even after a hundred days, that technology is something cool. And that's sixth grade right there.
I'm seeing how they struggle with abstract concepts. Critical thinking feels new to them. I start a lesson on linear equations with the nature of equality, with what criteria makes a linear relationship and I realize, almost instantly, that I have to move it to an example and a series of examples and explain more than what I thought I would have to explain. It's the age when fractions are still hard and long division feels daunting. And that's sixth grade right there.
So, it has me thinking about the Common Core Standards and how few of the conversations seem to be about maturity and human development. It is absurd to ask a child to memorize the planets when she is still trying to figure out what happens to the moon when it changes each night. It is absurd to teach the notion of variables to a child who still sees the world in constants.
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Colorado Rockies first basemen Todd Helton has apologized for his 'poor judgment' after his arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol.
Police in Thornton confirm that Helton, 39, was arrested early Wednesday for DUI.
Helton was booked into the Thornton jail and released to "a responsible party" according to Thornton police spokesman Matt Barnes.
Helton released this statement in response to his arrest:
"Last evening I exercised poor judgment and was charged with drinking and driving after driving to a gas station near my house. I am very sorry and embarrassed by my actions. I hold myself to a high standard and take my responsibility as a public figure very seriously. My entire career I have worked to set a positive example for my family and in our community and I fell far short of this standard.
I sincerely ask my family, the Colorado Rockies Organization, Major League Baseball and the community to accept my apology. I make no excuses and accept full responsibility for my actions. I humbly ask your forgiveness."
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We were extremely disappointed to learn that Todd was arrested this morning. This type of behavior is taken very seriously by our organization. We know that he clearly understands the seriousness of his poor decision, the harm that could have been inflicted on others and the embarrassment his mistake has caused to himself, his family, the Colorado Rockies organization and to Major League Baseball.
Todd is taking full accountability for his actions with his family, his fans and the organization. The man we have grown to know has strong values that are grounded in his family and hard work. Todd clearly understands the severity of the situation.
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DES MOINES, iowa — Re-publicans in Congress who took the politically risky step of voting to raise taxes now find themselves trying to fend off potential primary challenges next year from angry conservatives.
These lawmakers wasted little time in attempting to deliver an explanation that would be acceptable to the Tea Party and the GOP's right flank.
They've started defending last week's "fiscal cliff" vote as one that preserves tax cuts for most Americans, while promising to fight for spending cuts in debates over raising the nation's borrowing limit.
"In the end, he ensured that over 99 percent of Kentuckians will not pay higher income taxes," Mitch McConnell's campaign wrote in an e-mail to Kentucky voters the day after the Senate Republican leader supported the measure.
It was the first time in two decades that a significant number of Republicans voted for a tax increase: 33 senators and 85 representatives, who broke with the House GOP majority to support a bill that averted the "fiscal cliff" but raised taxes on upper incomes.
"The ones that voted for it, I think they will rue the day," said Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby after opposing the bill.
The vote was a dilemma for Republicans, who have pledged for decades to not raise taxes but faced being blamed with raising taxes on all Americans had Congress and the White House not reached a deal.
Lawmakers who could be vulnerable to a challenge include Michigan Rep. Dan Benishek and South Dakota Rep. Kristi Noem, who bucked her Tea Party base and backed the bill, calling it "damage control."
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It isn't often that a zombie movie rules the box office, but that's just what Warm Bodies did earlier this month, easily winning its opening weekend, joining the ranks of zombie movies like 2004's Dawn of the Dead, 2009's Zombieland and the four Resident Evil sequels, which all achieved the same distinction. With The Walking Dead returning to TV with record ratings and World War Z arriving this summer to show what Brad Pitt can do against the zombie apocalypse, it's clear that zombies are as relevant as ever in the pop culture zeitgeist, and are determined to only evolve further.
It might be easy to dismiss zombies as mindless, killing machines (and they are that, too), but over their long history, zombies have also figured out how to move, how to talk, and, in the case of Warm Bodies, how to love again. For a full history of the evolution of zombies in movies, we only ask that you have 8 hours to spare.


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SAN DIEGO (AP) " Some 90 percent of seafood consumed by Americans is imported " a fact that the Obama administration vowed to start turning around by expanding fish and shellfish farms into federal waters.
NEW YORK (AP) " Giant balloons took to the clear, sunny sky over midtown Manhattan on Thursday for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, with spectators lining up along the parade route and a heavy police presence keeping a watchful eye.
HELSINKI (AP) " Consumer electronics company Bang & Olufsen says it's in talks over a potential takeover bid, sending its shares surging more than 30 percent.
MONACO (AP) " Russia vowed Thursday to work "very actively" with track and field's governing body to eradicate the doping culture that led to its blanket ban from international competition, possibly including next year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
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