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Please see further pictures below. Vintage and believed to be quite rare small gilt embossed red leather bound copy of Gold Dust "A Collection of Golden Counsels for the Sanctification of Daily Life" (orig Paillettes d'Or – trans by E.L.E.B). It is a sort of book of contemplation. Not sure what edition this is but the book has a preface dated Feb 1880 by CM Yonge. There is no date of printing in this book but there is an inscription dated 1921. The book measures approximately 2.25" by 3.375" and has 74 pages. It is in good vintage condition save that one page (sides ix and x) has come loose.I am no expert – I just collect things. I do try and do research on the bits and pieces I get though so try and give as much information as I have been able to get myself. Most of my lots are vintage or antique or otherwise "used" and reasonable wear and tear must be taken into account. Therefore my lots are sold "as seen/found". If I know that an article is damaged or not working in some way, I will state this in the main description. Buy It Now/Best Offer items (if applicable): I am happy to consider all reasonable offers. If you don't ask, you won't know! My shop's logo is "if you like what you see, but you don't like the price etc............." so feel free to use the Best Offer button For Terms and Condtions (e.g. payment, shipping etc), please see the Business Seller Information section at the foot of this listing. Feedback (including Detailed Seller Rating DSR) I always try to give fair and positive feedback and expect buyers or sellers to do the same. When you purchase an item from me, please consider in addition to the standard Feedback section, what you might give me in the DSR section. Please bear in mind that, although a 4 star rating may seem like a great score, e.g. for Shipping (i.e. quickly), eBay, however, considers this a sub-par mark. They require sellers to maintain a 4.8 average rating or above, or be penalized with higher fees & lower search rankings etc. Postage and packing is also a thorny issue. I try to ensure that my packages are well packed to aid safe delivery and this costs money (not to mention the time taken to package odd shaped packages!). I therefore tack on an additional amount above the cost of postage. Very often this does not meet the cost of materials used in packaging. In addition, if I feel I have overcharged you or if a saving has been made at the time of actual postage (e.g. if the postage rate is lower than I estimated), I will very often refund part of the postage costs. This is not so much a moral policy as a "do as you would be done by" policy - something that I have tried to adhere to all my life. If you were pleased with this transaction, please respond with all 5 stars! If you are not pleased, then please let me know via e-mail, and I'll try to improve my future service.


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You might perhaps aware that as soon as a person suffers from stroke s/he usually administer with aspirin so as to prevent blood clotting. Despite this sometime a patient may again gets another stroke. The point is providing aspirin after a stroke could not come out to be safe. That being said, another study taken by Dr. S. Claiborne Johnston, a professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco has suggested that adding/mixing the drug Plavix (clopidogrel) along with aspirin can reduce the risk of a second stroke by about a third over aspirin alone. The report has been published online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.
This substantiate that both these stroke drugs target clotting agents in the blood, known as platelets which prevents them from grouping together and forming clots. This combo of drugs usually administered after a heart attack. Till date there was no formal knowledge/data which could confidently declare that this would work in stroke or mini-stroke medically known as transient ischemic attack (TIA).
Lead researcher Dr S. Claiborne Johnston, said the trials of the study were carried out in China, but he is clueless whether the results would be the same in United States also. Trials however are under way in United States; the researcher said they will declare the results within a few years time. But research says giving two drugs which block platelets works a lot better than aspirin does alone in people who suffer from minor stork or TIA.
Reasons for Stroke
A majority of strokes take place due to blood clotting that block blood vessels in the brain. This type of stroke is known as ischemic strokes. Meanwhile, TIA also occurs due to clot which dissipates in a short time. Both of these instances leave patients at risk for getting another bout of stroke which could be severe.
During the above study more than 5000 patients participated who had undergone a stroke or TIA were randomly provided either aspirin alone or provided aspirin plus Plavix for three months. Researchers noted that within a time period of three months 10% to 20% people who have a TIA or minor stroke suffered another second stroke.
Researchers said 8.2% of patients who were taking two drugs combo had another stroke compared with 11.7 percent of those who took aspirin alone.
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Grand Experiments: West Marches (part 2), Sharing Info
Players sharing information was a critical part of the West Marches design. Because there was a large pool of players, the average person was in about a third of the games — or to look it the other way, each player missed two-thirds of the games. Add in that each player was in a random combination of sessions (not even playing with a consistent subset of players) and pretty quickly each player is seeing a unique fraction of the game. No one is having the same game experience, which sounds philosophically interesting but is bad news if you want everyone to feel like they are in the same game. Sharing info was essential to keeping everyone on the same page and in the same game.
There were two main ways information got shared: game summaries and the shared map.
Players were strongly encouraged to chat about their adventures between games. Email (specifically a list devoted to the game) made between-game communication very easy, something that would have been next to impossible years earlier. This discussion theoretically mirrored chatter between characters who had made it safely back to the town. Did you stumble into the barrow mounds in Wil Wood and barely escape with your life? Warn other adventurers so they can steer clear. Did you slay wolves on the moors until the snow was red with blood? Brag about it so everyone else knows how tough you are.
What started off as humble anecdotes evolved into elaborate game summaries, detailed stories written by the players recounting each adventure (or misadventure). Instead of just sharing information and documenting discoveries ("we found ancient standing stones north of the Golden Hills"), game summaries turned into tributes to really great (and some really tragic) game sessions, and eventually became a creative outlet in their own right. Players enjoyed writing them and players enjoyed reading them, which kept players thinking about the game even when they weren't playing.
The other major way information was shared was the table map. When the game first started the PCs heard a rumor that years ago when other adventurers had tried their luck exploring the West Marches, they had sat in the taproom of the Axe & Thistle to compare notes. While trying to describe an area of the wilds, a few thirsty patrons had scratched out a simple map on the top of the table (an X here, a line here). Over time others started adding bits, cleaning it up, and before long it had grown from some scratches to a detailed map carved into most of the surface of the table showing forests, creeks, caves, ominous warnings, etc. Where was that table now? Gone, but no one was sure where — maybe carried off as a souvenir, smashed in a brawl and used for kindling, or perhaps just thrown out after it was too scratched to rest a drink flatly.
On hearing this story the PCs immediately decided to revive the tradition (just as I hoped they would) and started to carve their own crude map on a large table in the taproom of the Axe & Thistle. As the campaign went on all the PCs would gather around it, quaff an ale, and plan adventures. In the real world it was a single sheet of graph paper with the town and the neighboring areas drawn in pretty well, and then about four or five more pieces of graph paper taped on haphazardly whenever someone wandered off the edge or explored just a little bit farther. Because the map was in a public place and any PC could get to it, I brought it to every game session for the PCs to add to or edit and kept a reasonably up-to-date scanned copy on the web for reference between games. In the end maybe half a dozen different players had put their hand to it.
Was the table map accurate? Not really, but having a common reference point, a shared sense of what they thought the region looked like kept everyone feeling like they were playing in the same world.
An intentional side effect of both game summaries and the shared map was that they whetted people's appetite to play. When people heard about other players finding the Abbots' study in a hidden room of the ruined monastery, or saw on the map that someone else had explored beyond Centaur Grove, it made them want to get out there and play too. Soon they were scheduling their own game sessions. Like other aspects of West Marches it was a careful allowance of competitiveness and even jealously to encourage more gaming.
It was also important to me as a GM that players share knowledge because otherwise I knew that no one would put the pieces together. Remember how I said there was no plot? There wasn't. But there was history and interconnected details. Tidbits found in one place could shed light elsewhere. Instead of just being interesting detail, these clues lead to concrete discoveries if you paid attention. If you deciphered the runes in the depths of the dwarven mines, you could learn that the exiles established another hidden fortress in the valleys to the north. Now go look for it. Or maybe you'll learn how to get past the Black Door or figure out what a "treasure beyond bearing" actually is. Put together the small clues hidden all across the map and you can uncover the big scores, the secret bonus levels.
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I'm looking at doing Prince 2 in the near future and was wondering what the best approach is - do both in one week, spread it out - what is the best pre-course work etc etc.
Anyone got any wise words of advice?
there's alot to prince .... you'll need more time
there are courses in the TNT mag, that are like you pay us £££ and we guarantee a pass... they look good
The Prince 2 foundation is piss easy....
It can easily be done in a week and there isn't much pre-course work to do...
To be honest you can probably download the study books off the net using torrents...but that's illegal!!!
I'm not sure if you can even sit for the exam without going to a course - If you can, then get the coursebook (legally ) and don't even bother going to a course.
As for the Practitioner well from what I hear it's a lot harder and requires a lot more work so if I was you i'd look at doing a course for that.
I have heard of some people doing both in one week - sounds a bit intense to me. Not fussed about paying for course study books as my company will fund it.
Just need some advice as to which ones are the best to get.
I did both in one week on a residential course in Chester. There is a lot of work but it was manageable (including the evenings in the bar to socialise). The foundation is p*ss easy - just tick boxes. Do them both and get it over with IMO.
I did the week long Foundation and Practioner course this summer with QA-IQ. It was a moderately interesting course with a great lecturer - interesting to see the mechanisms of project management from an academic perspective. I wish I had got all the pre-course reading done before I started though!
Foundation is fairly easy as long as you swot a bit as it's just parrot-fashion repetition of the "Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2" manual, more-or-less. Practitioner is a bit more applied so you'll have to work a little harder at 'getting it'. Either way they're not ultra-hard, they just require a bit of studious elbow grease.
Try reading up on Six Sigma as well.
I did the Foundation and regretted not doing the Practitioner (my old company wouldn't pay the difference). Format is that you all study as a group, sit the foundation multi choice exam at the end of Wednesday and have to pass that to do practitioner... the foundation is pretty straight forward if you've done the pre read, sat and understood the course and have a bit of PM experience you'll be fine. If you fail, they can make provision for a re-sit and the invigilator stays around for you to have another bash there and then.
When I did my course, there were 12 people attending. At the end of Weds the 2 of us who had not booked the practitioner left and the rest stayed on. The course leader said it's a real shame that you are off since the training is the same for all and on the Thursday it was just about working through some case studies, doing some exam prep and doing the 'big' exam Friday morning...
So annoyingly I had been as trained up as far as I needed to be in order to sit the practitioner exam but didn't... In hindsight I should have booked a couple of days leave and paid the few hundred quid extra myself.
Moral of this is that if you are sitting through the training to get you through the foundation at the end of Day 3, it would be daft to not do day 4 and then the exam on day 5 too.
Best of luck with it and don't forget to read up in advance and each night - a residential course is best for this.
I did Prince 2 distance learning with a company called ILX which was great, you just run through a CDrom and do all the exercises before having a 2 day course and the exam.
I also did Managing successful programmes with QAIQ which was really good, so they might be a good bet for Prince.
Foundation is a breeze, you dont even have to study just have a brain. It does help to mark the books out, and learn the process maps by heart to speed things up during the exam..
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I did the week long Foundation and Practioner course this summer with QA-IQ. It was a moderately interesting course with a great lecturer - interesting to see the mechanisms of project management from an academic perspective. I wish I had got all the pre-course reading done before I started though!Foundation is fairly easy as long as you swot a bit as it's just parrot-fashion repetition of the "Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2" manual, more-or-less. Practitioner is a bit more applied so you'll have to work a little harder at 'getting it'. Either way they're not ultra-hard, they just require a bit of studious elbow grease.Try reading up on Six Sigma as well.
I too did mine this year with QA-IQ.
I agree with Zod.
I didn't think it was too much to do in one week, you end up getting in the frame of mind for it and in fact it gets easier as the week goes on. Mainly as the practioneer is open book!!! It's also not written anymore, multi guess!
I didn't do any pre work, but I did stay away from home that week. Every evening there is a lot to cover. If I had gone home I would have ended up not doing much, due to kids/wife etc... But thats all I think you need to worry about.
Oh, and make sure that the book is all tabbed up before you start. Makes things easier and saves time on the first day!
Tabs are a great idea - I did that and it helped loads just in the course.
I eventually found a self-study website ( £18) that, I used to study and prepare for both Foundation and Practitioner exams. http://www.selfstudy.org.uk
The foundation was simple, it was ridiculous. The practitioner was very challenging, but I passed both.
I did both courses in a week. We sat the foundation course on the Wednesday afternoon and the practitioner exam on the Friday. I think it was better doing it that way as the foundation stuff was still fresh in my mind when I sat the second exam.
It was definitely intense, I can't say I enjoyed it but I think it was well worth the effort.
A lot of it depends on why you are looking to get Prince2 certified and how quickly do you want the certification?
I wanted to get certified as soon as so I enrolled on Firebrand Training's prince2 course. The course was for 5 days - 2 days to get the foundation exam sorted out and sat for the practitioner exam on the last day.
It was quite intense, but the mini-project helped me lots to grab the theoretical knowledge and apply it to real world examples.
In terms of prep material I used to the following book:
Managing Successful Projects with PRINCE2® (2009 Edition)
Hi I'm considering using firebrand or QA to do my Prince2 course and am trying to work out which training provider will give me better value for money?!?!?!?
Anyone got any comments on these or other training providers?
Many thanks in advance
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• The index is obtained by analyzing the latitude, longitude and height data registered by a GPS device. The distances done in the different sections of ups and downs (1%, 2%,3%,4%,etc..), the total ascended and descended meters, average ratios of climb and descend, the mileage of height and the ramps' distribution are taken into account.
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Multiple threads posted today by me in various forums all relate around this concern.
Ok i bought a new B17 for my Trek 520 probably a month or more ago. Sure it was hard for a while and yes i was sore also for a while but i thought it was breaking in pretty well. I could see the dents appearing where my sit bones would be.
Late last week i went for my first trip to test out my gear. Day 1 i did 130km which included a very long and steep climb which really took it out of me. Anyhoo i camped one nite, then did another 80km the next day to my next location. Was a pretty hard ride where i found i was very sore for the first hour almost and then the pain sort of went away.
Anyhoo camped another nite then i had just a 70km ride home. Well the pain was shocking again for about another hour before it settled down. I got home on the Saturday morning and haven't been back on the bike since.
Even now almost a week later i can still feel my sit bones, they are getting better though.
On checking out my saddle closer they two dents are quite pronounced, probably more on one side than the other. My concern is that they are really far back on the saddle, and i suspect they overlap the rear metal support frame. If you run your finger along one dent you can actually feel the metal frame under it.
Which i'm wondering if this is the cause of my discomfort?
The Trek is quite a big size so it's a roomy frame, i have the saddle back as far as the rails will allow and yet my sit marks are still really towards the back end of the saddle.
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Here is a revised Roland TR-808 Drum Machine for the Nord Modular G1. It includes almost all the sounds with found in the TR-808 created with controllability and low CPU in mind, totalling only three patches.
There is however, instead of the normal ClsdHihat, OpenHihat and CYmbal, a singal patch dealing with these metal sounds. All three of the sounds use the same square waves and so with little adjutsments pretty much all three of these sounds can be made. The metal sounds are by far the hardest to recreate in the Nord Modular, with this being perhaps the closest and most useable so far…depending on your taste ofcourse.
If you use it, modify it, record something with it, I would love to hear about it.
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Based on the Roland TB-303 Baseline. A very hard one to emulate and this fails. Its probably more suituable for bass than squelch, but very useable and has some interesting patching. Worth a look.
Based on the Roland TR-606 Drumatix, the kid sister to the TB-303 and probably my favourite machine. This includes, combos of bd-lt-ht, bd-sd-lt-ht, cy-oh-ch and cy sounds. Same variations in patching on the toms, a beter emulation being without the snare, and cheap one comes with a snare. Hats are a tough one, but they sound ok.
Based on the Roland TR-808. These patches are a joy to use, yeah, very pleased with these, check them out.
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Despite economy, local spas doing well
Many local residents are still willing to spend money to relax. Although local spa businesses have been affected by tough economic times, customers are still looking to them for comfort. "I think as far as the numbers go, it's definitely slower than last year was," said Janelle Harris, director of Asante Spa on Post Court in El Dorado Hills. "Given the economy, we've noticed a lot more massage (customers) coming in though. I think in this industry, and definitely in this area, women are still talking care of themselves." Harris said she has noticed that some customers are trying to cut costs without giving up their spa experiences. "With the facials and stuff, people are buying products to take home to do their facials at home," she said. "They still come in for facials, just not as often as they were." While the economy has not had a huge effect on the spa, Harris said Asante employees still go through a guessing game of how much business each month will bring. "Every month's different right now," she said. "It's kind of a, 'Let's see what this month has to give us.' There's definitely a change (in business), it's just not a drastic change." Business has been good for the Healing Station on Plaza Drive in Folsom, said owner Connie Chan, who runs the location with her husband Marc. The Healing Station has been open for a year and the couple has seen a 50 percent increase in business. "I'm very pleased with the progress we've made after a year in business," Connie said. Connie said customers seem to think it's more important than ever to visit a spa. "They need to get away from that stressful environment; stress brings on disease," she said. "You have to face it, women still care about how they look." Many people are using spa services as stay-cations, a term describing being on vacation while staying close to home. "For the price of a hotel room for a couple nights and gas (to go) somewhere, they can come for two and a half - three hours and get several services, and it's less," Connie said. "I think people are picking and choosing where they want to spend their money. They are stressed out so they're looking for ways to relax and get rid of some of that stress." Connie said two of the Healing Station's most popular services currently are the 60-minute Swedish massage and eyebrow waxing. "Swedish massage to relax and the eyebrow waxing because we still want to look good," Connie said. Bobbie Keill, a resident of Gold River who has been going to the Healing Station for about as long as its been open, said she is happy to spend the money on a spa experience because it helps get her through stressful times and gets her mind ready for work. "The Swedish massage is my favorite," Keill said. "I think it's really critical to take care of your physical body when you are feeling a lot of stress. I really use it as a time to kind of unwind. I use it as a forced meditative state. I find when I continue to do this it really allows me to get refocused and re-energized to go look for the business I need to do." Melissa Brown, director of Alchemy Day Spa and Boutique on Sutter Street in Folsom, said she believes there are a couple reasons why customers are still getting spa treatments. "I think people are kind of more comfortable with what's going on (in the economy) – they're not so scared anymore," Brown said. "I think even when money's tight people still want to be healthy and take care of themselves." Although economic challenges have affected her business, Brown said the spa is still doing well. "Obviously we've lost some clients because they've lost their jobs, but new people are always coming in, so it seems like (business is) about the same," she said. "Generally March is a slower month for us, and it's been really busy. We don't really know what to expect – we're just trying to be open and available to people." Brown said family members and friends must be trying to help each other relax because massage gift card sales have gone up. Chuck Lewis, a Folsom resident who visits the Healing Station every two weeks for massages to help alleviate his chronic back pain, said treatments that help relax tense muscles are extremely necessary. "From a common stand point … when you're having all these issues that are making your muscles tense … if there's no release with that, it just compounds," Lewis said. "It's just a roller coaster one way down. (Massage) takes a lot of stress away and it makes you able to deal with tomorrow's events." Lewis said the money he pays for his massage therapy is meaningless compared to how well it helps ease his pain. "For the $100 to enable you to have a better perspective on life in general … that is the sole purpose why people should go take care of these things," he said. Bridget Jones can be reached at email@example.com.


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WHEN: Saturday April 26th, 2014 from 9:00am to 2:00pm
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Dartmouth Spoils Home Opener for Women's Hockey
Princeton, N.J. (10/26/12) - The Dartmouth women's hockey team spoiled Princeton's home opener, taking a 3-1 game in ECAC hockey action on Friday, Oct. 26 at Hobey Baker Rink. Junior Lindsay Holdcroft was a force in goal for the Big Green allowing just one and stopping 22.
Shots were in Dartmouth's favor in the first period 11-3, setting the tone for the remainder of the game. Of Dartmouth's 11 shots, seven of them came on power play, as Princeton picked up five penalties in the first frame.
Karlee Odland put the Big Green on the board at 5:31 with her first goal of the season.
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After coordinating myriad state and federal agencies, matching private donors with public needs, steering Colorado past the breakers of September's devastating floods, Jerre Stead is stepping down.
His volunteer service to the state as chief recovery officer — flood czar, it was commonly called — was never meant to be permanent, Gov. John Hickenlooper's office said Monday.
Now Stead will turn his attention back to his other full-time job as chairman of IHS Inc., the global business information company based in Englewood.
Stead was traveling Monday and couldn't be reached for comment. The governor's office released a statement from him.
"It has been an honor to work with such a dedicated team to make so much progress in helping the state and our impacted communities recover from the damaging floods," Stead said in the statement. "While much has been accomplished, there is still much more to do. I am confident that the people and processes now in place will continue the progress and the state will be even better prepared to manage similar events in the future."
Stead was chosen as The Denver Post's Business Person of the Year last week.
Stead will be replaced by Molly Urbina, a Denver native who has been the city's deputy manager of community planning and development since 2005. Urbina will take over for Stead on Feb. 18.
With IHS executive Kerri Nelson as his deputy, Stead created the flood recovery office and developed processes that can be replicated in future disasters, the governor's office stated.
"Jerre Stead is a remarkable gift to Colorado," Hickenlooper said in a statement. "He stepped in to lead a recovery effort of truly monumental scale. His work and leadership have been exemplary."


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Greene King takes tax battle to Court of Appeal
Greene King has confirmed it will take its long-running fight with HMRC over a £21m tax planning scheme, known as Project Sussex, to the Court of Appeal.
In its latest annual report, the brewery and pub group revealed plans to resume the legal battle, though the accounts show it has now made a financial provision to cover a potential defeat.
The first tier tax tribunal first rejected the tax avoidance case back in 2012 and earlier this April the upper tribunal came to the same conclusion.
The group said the case was complex and the later UT decision was unclear on certain elements of the case.
Following the UT tribunal ruling, Treasury minister David Gauke welcomed the decision against the brewer: "The vast majority of taxpayers play by the rules and the government will continue to take action to tackle the minority who seek to avoid their responsibilities. Anyone who gets involved in tax avoidance schemes is playing with fire."
However the group, famous beer brands like for Old Speckled Hen and Abbot Ale, has now asked for clarification from the Court of Appeal.
Greene King confirmed: "We have been advised that the upper tribunal decision was unclear on certain elements of the case and, therefore, it will now be considered by the court of appeal."
The tax scheme, which was sold to the group by EY, involved a £300m internal loan between Greene King plc and another member of the same group, Greene King Acquisitions.
In the UT the Revenue argued that the scheme involved artificial transactions.
Greene King has since defended its tax record, saying: "Greene King has been paying its taxes for 215 years and we are a major contributor to the Treasury with a third of our turnover, or £400m, paid to HMRC in various forms of tax, in the last year alone. This is seven times what we pay to our shareholders in dividends.
"Over and above this, we occasionally take specific tax advice from experts, such as EY in this case, about other areas of potential tax paid by Greene King. In this complex case, we have been advised that the Upper Tribunal decision was unclear on certain elements of the case and therefore, it will now be considered by the Court of Appeal."
this is an interesting case
and from a PR point of view very neatly condensed , a third ot turnover and seven times what they pay the shareholders , and now they dont want us to drink everyday ! I wonder how much HMG gets from all drinks companies a year, if we all drink as sugggested and the tax revenue goes down.................
What taxes do they refer to? 2 thanks
Greene King has since defended its tax record, saying: "Greene King has been paying its taxes for 215 years and we are a major contributor to the Treasury with a third of our turnover, or £400m, paid to HMRC in various forms of tax, in the last year alone. This is seven times what we pay to our shareholders in dividend
Large companies like to confuse the issue by bulking up 'tax paid' with 20% VAT,which is paid by their customers, and PAYE/NI, which is mostly paid by employees. If that is the case here, then they cannot be paying much Corporation tax at all.
I don't understand these schemes. How can a £300m internal loan generate £21m of tax savings without causing a tax liability on the lender?
Presumably the tax they say
Presumably the tax they say they pay includes excise duty - which would be right. Also it would be reasonable for them to include employer's NI in their figure. Whether overall this comes to 1/3 of turnover is a different matter.
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Greene King has since defended its tax record, saying: "Greene King has been paying its taxes for 215 years and we are a major contributor to the Treasury with a third of our turnover, or £400m, paid to HMRC in various forms of tax, in the last year alone. This is seven times what we pay to our shareholders in dividend
Large companies like to confuse the issue by bulking up 'tax paid' with 20% VAT,which is paid by their customers, and PAYE/NI, which is mostly paid by employees. If that is the case here, then they cannot be paying much Corporation tax at all.
I don't understand these schemes. How can a £300m internal loan generate £21m of tax savings without causing a tax liability on the lender?
The loan was in the form of preference shares. They attempted to strip the interest element of the preference shares from the capital repayment, and claim that the credit was to share premium (on a straight reading of the Companies Act) rather than accruing to profit or loss, while the interest debit was deductible. They lost on FRS 5 grounds (accounts not UK GAAP compliant). You should take a look at the tribunal reading, it's interesting. EY selling a tax product that relied on particular accounting treatment to an audit client was dodgy at best. The FRC were taking a look at one point (independence). I'm not sure where they ended up at.
Unclear elements
It would seem that "the Upper Tribunal decision was unclear on certain elements of the case", based on the fact that exact phrase appears three times in this report. Exactly what elements are they saying are unclear?
ShirleyM beat me to it on querying the "various forms of tax" claiim. I said much the same when the decision was reported back in April
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yet again we allow spurious hypocritical psuedo-morality to intervene.
Stick to the facts.
David Gauke's comment and implied criticism that the "Vast majority of taxpayers' play by the rules" is unwarranted, and immoral in itself.
Greene King is what we would call a "Respectable" company. EY are a reputable firm of accountants. They read the rule book, and in this instance the court ruled against their interpretation. So, they pay. End of story.
This is not immoral, or wrong behaviour. It is why we have tax tribunals to judge cases where the rules are as clear as a foggy night on Dartmoor. The unvarnished truth is, I guesstimate, that many of us peasants at the jobbing end of the profession would really appreciate if we were able to afford EY's help with some of our problems. Green Eyes of the little yellow god are not pretty or called for.
This has nothing to with "Law". Law is Thou shalt not murder, or Thou shalt not steal.
Even those two simple statements may give rise to incredibly detailed court cases.
UK tax rules' abysmal standard of clarity, for example, is what causes a standard text book on Residence and Domicile to come in at four volumes and £248 cost.
If the rules were written to the degree of clarity that most of us would wish, and that most of us believe is possible, then most of us would be out of pocket.
Except and unless you wish the profession to really become an adjunct of HMRC;
Avoidance is the acceptable interpretation of rules as they are writ. Acceptable in this instance means by tax tribunal or courts. It is not a moral issue.
The moral issue is that MPs wilfully continue to approve tax rules they do not understand, and that are written in GCSE "U" grade English.
the taxpayer shall pay, and be entitled to pay, the minimum tax payable under said rules.
That is it, if you allow in the slightest, HMRC or Government spokespersons to move from that strict interpretation, you are cheating your clients and do yourselves a disservice.
Further by pandering to this moral/immoral argument you are allowing MPs and HMRC to Evade, not Avoid but Evade, their responsibility for ensuring clarity and equity in tax rules.
If one of our brethren recommends advice to a client which he sincerely believes is accurate advice, then he is doing his job.
If, God forbid, he deliberately for gain gives advice he knows to be incorrect; Then it is nothing to do with being an "Accountant" it is to do with being a dishonest person.
If Mr Gauke or his fellow-travellers believe that the taxpayer or the accountant were "Dishonest" then they have a remedy in law, and the financial muscle to take that remedy. If not let them shut-up. Slander or Libel by innuendo is also an evil.
Do some of my po-faced colleagues really enjoy their profession being treated, by those in authority who should know better, as something found under a cow-pat.
One more hypocrite in power 1 thanks
David Gauke's comments stand as a testimony of what we all face today.
MP's from ALL parties, lie, cheat and line their own pockets, and the endless army of civil servants (they pay) pander to their every whim.
Never a day passes when they don't come out with some comment which makes the man in the street's blood boil over and it's hardly a surprise the vast majority of us have little or indeed no respect for these people.
If they cleaned up their own act, and as David Gordon says made it all far clearer we'd be in a far better position and likely EY wouldn't have even considered some "smart" scheme of avoiding tax.
If you're going to hang a sign outside your house saying, 'alarm off, door open' don't be surprised to be burgled! HMG and HMRC have had such signs hanging over them for decades.
Make it simple, make it clear and make it affordable. Can't be that difficult and then tyhe vast majority of us would all be happy!
Grey areas and 'unclear elements'
Having myself won a case against HMRC (VAT), when my case went to the upper level Tribunal I had prior access to a University Law library case index that costs a small fortune to subscribe to and really only Universities can afford. No chance for the poor layperson or small business.
The Tribunal Judge had never heard of the EU case I uncovered (It involved France incorrectly applying VAT rules against the principles of the EU VAT Directive and it cost France many millions of Euros) and he referred back to their 'policy' dept. where they could only say,"It is a grey area". No it's not grey - it's in black and white and was very clear to me. HMRC appear to pursue cases that are beyond their ability, knowledge or intellect and waste our money in the process. And HMRC & HMG ignore basic concepts of EU Directives to raise more tax.
If the Greene King case contained 'unclear elements' perhaps they shouldn't have started the process? I feel sure EY knew precisely what was permissible avoidance. Why has avoidance become a dirty word?
I am slightly biased as I have just returned from staying at a Greene King hotel near Lewes, the Roebuck which served great food, had wonderful service and was cheap for Sussex!
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Stick to the facts.
By talking about paying "various amounts of tax" without indicating that most of that tax is not actually tax on profits (and in the case of Ees NIC and tax, is actually a deduction from taxable profits) is them stretching the facts. If they wish to use a skewed justification, then it is not moralising to point out the skew in that justification.
And what is unreasonable about asking what points are "unclear". They lost, but in claiming the judgement is unclear, they are presumably saying that they think they should have won. I'd like to know if they genuinely have a case, or if they are hoping to get an argument as baseless as their "various forms of tax" past the appeal court. If the arguments are spurious, then they any appeal on them would needlessly tie up resources that would be better spent elsewhere. Is it moralising to suggest that is a bad thing? If the arguments are in some way sound, then they should be able to appeal. Without knowing what is considered unclear, we cannot tell what it is.
What tax do companies pay
I admire and respect both Shirley and Stephuhan and welcome their many contributions to this forum. However on this rare occasion I disagree with both of them about their comments on how much tax a company pays.
Looking at it one way a company pays no tax at all - it has various costs (and this may include payment(s) to HMRC) but all that means is that it pays it staff and its owners less or it charges it customers more. So it is possible to argue that the only "entities" that bear the cost of tax are individuals.
Looking at it another way, when a company makes a job offer to a person along with a salary, that person knows (or can work out) that they will receive £x and they don't care very much if that means that the company has had to pay £y. Likewise when a company fixes its prices, it will charge as much as it can for its product. The consumer does not care that the company is only getting 83% (or thereabouts) of what the consumer is paying. So again, the company is bearing the cost of the tax.
I don't think it unreasonable for Greene King to draw attention to all the money that it pays to HMRC. After all if Greene King did not exist, there would be no VAT or excise duty on its sales, no PAYE/ NIC re its employees and no corporation tax.
Greene King versus Stemcor 2 thanks
I'm sure if these two companies were compared Greene King would be saluted for the contribution they make to the UK economy and rightly so, and not just because they help us drown many a sorrow!
Stemcor paid less than £163,000 tax on profits of £65 million!!, and we're all familiar with Amazon, Google and Starbucks not to mention Cadbury's.
I'll admit I don't know what proportion of tax Greene King actually do pay on their profits but we all know it matters not one jot what they pay in VAT, paye, nic, or excise duty, it's what Corporate tax they have to pay on their "profits", that's the real issue.
I'm sure it's just p.r. exercise in an attempt to justify what is, let's face it, a scheme designed for just one purpose, to reduce their corporate tax bill.
Any reasonable person would look at this and throw it out as has the FTT and UT.
With great respect to EY, if it were this easy to avoid corporate tax it would be an everyday occurrence with every single "Group" in the UK. It doesn't stand up to scrutiny and I'm surprised Greene King paid for the advice, let alone continue to try and challenge it.
Come off it fellas, an internal loan where one party gets the relief for the debit and the other party doesn't have to account for the credit, you're having a laugh. But I don't blame you for trying, only look for something with more chance of ultimate success next time.
Whoever in EY came up with this idea must be laughing all the way to the bank that they could convince an FD of a stock listed company it's worth a try! I assume they've provided for it in their accounts?
Smoke & mirrors ...
... is bound to cause distrust, and it seems there is no shortage of it. If you 'fudge' one set of figures (ie. claiming 1/3 of turnover = tax paid but including the tax paid by others) then it is natural to assume they are fudging other things too.
A truck driver taught me.
Once upon a time, a long distance lorry driver taught this callow junior audit clerk an important lesson.
he said if I charge £100 and the Govrnm't takes £30, then my money is £70 and my (compulsory) partner's take is £30. it don't matter what my partner does with that money, or what you call it. For every pound I can put in my pocket I have to give my partner 8s 7d (Or in modern parlance, 43p)
I thought about it, and and thought about it. I have never been able to fault this simple philosophy. In the real world the man was, is, and always will be correct correct.
I reward my staff for their work with £70 in their pockets. I pay a head tax to HM Government of £30. That money never belonged to my staff.*** It is a contractual payment attached to the privilege of being a subject of the Crown, to help fund those things which we have democratically agreed are best dealt with by a central management. I will pay whatever the terms of my contract require. I am under no obligation to pay a penny more, nor may I pay a penny less. A similar argument applies to Corporation tax, and,
VAT: The customer pays £120 for the goods, that is it. I will then pay my partner whatever part of that £120 is contractually payable as partner's share.
***If my business defaults, it is my business that is pursued for the debt.
Compulsory Partners
A very good anecdote by David Gordon.
There is of course a solution: Divorce the compulsory partner and emigrate!!
I did. Unfortunately the compulsory partner discovered my location, and has since embarked on talking to other compulsory partners!
I guess to get away from these Compulsory Partners there is of course death ...... oh wait, I just remembered, new IHT laws allow them to dig you and your records up !
And we all were afraid of the Spanish Inquisition!
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Looks like Green King has took some naff advice and will have to face the consequences, though i have a feeling 10 - 15 years ago they would have got away with it.


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absolutely not. It sounds like your parents still see you as a child that needs to be taken care of, or still needing their unsolicited help with something you clearly don't want help with. As an adult(especially married with children), your relationship with your parents should have transformed into a "peer" type relationship by now and that is not the case. I think you may be too enmeshed with them, and since you have not enforced any healthy boundaries with them, you probably need to start. A good start would be: -telling them they need to call ahead of time to ASK to visit -telling them "no" to any other enmeshed behaviors they do that may interfere or cause discord with your nuclear family unit(you, DH and your kids). And doing this when it happens. And you can politely address boundary stomps with "Your help is appreciated, but I've/We've got this covered," or "That won't be necessary. I/We can handle that on our own. But thanks for the offer."posted 04/09/2013 by ablankenship83
Not really, and if it's bothering you guys, you need to say something. Harboring it is only going to damage the relationship. You are both grown ups. Your baby isn't a nwborn anymore - there is no need for them to do it (but hey, if they want to come over to my house and do it, they're more than welcome too, HAHA). I would encourage you to talk to them about it and how it makes you guys feel. Let them know you do appreciate the gesture but that it needs to stop. Especially the unannounced part...posted 04/08/2013 by kericksen
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Columbia University professor and Truman Project Fellow Prabhjot Singh is interviewed by Lisa de Bode of Aljazeera America, following his recent assault.
At the press conference, you said we needed to figure out who gave the kids who assaulted you "a green light to hate." How did America's social fabric change after Sept. 11, 2001?
As a teacher, I believe that no one person teaches us our belief system. The roots of hate are complex. What I do believe is that a community must come together to create an environment that fosters a nurturing and safe environment for all who live, work, and contribute to its everyday life.
Misperception happened before 9/11 and unfortunately it may happen in the decades to come. Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh man, was the first to lose his life as a result of a hate crime after 9/11. It pains me to know that 9/11 may have triggered distrust and fear, but the large-scale outpouring of support I received after this past Saturday evening has given me even more evidence to believe in the supporting and caring people that form America's neighborhoods, including Harlem and New York City.
But I don't see this same level of warmth and sincerity in high-level national discourse, which permeates the news. Instead, there is a steady stream of disagreement and distrust amongst our leadership, which sets a false tone for what America really is like at the local level.
American "exceptionalism" has been in the news lately, with opponents describing it as a feeling of nationalist superiority. Does it play a role in the frequency of hate crimes against minorities?
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At the moment, I worry that America is losing its moral authority hard won after WWII as a nation of service in the service of others. The example our leaders set not only spread across the globe, but permeate our communities.
Your family is from Kenya and grew up near the shopping mall that was attacked on the same day you were. What is the global fallout of such an attack? Does it have consequences at home?
I'm not a global terrorism expert, so I can't speak to a global fallout. I think violence anywhere in the world has some effect on all of us; some acts cause a direct consequence, others don't. My experience is that because I'm part of a group that's viewed as "the other," extremism abroad often results in an uptick in bias at home.
This is a repeated pattern that existed even prior to 9/11. During the 1979 hostage crisis, Sikhs were called Iranian. During the first Iraq war, we were called Iraqi. After 9/11, we've been called al-Qaeda, Taliban and Afghan, with all the accompanying slurs.
In dealing with the consequences of the Nairobi or any other attack, my main interest would be to identify the elements that perpetuate cycles of violence and actively disrupt them. People differ on what "active disruption" means. I believe that everyday people can do their part by refusing to live in fear and rejecting that it is okay to create fear in others.
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