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The British music press routinely overhypes young bands. But it never has topped what it did with the group Arctic Monkeys.
The Sheffield-based quartet, which specializes in jagged, punk-influenced rock songs, released its debut album, "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not," in January 2006. That month, the album was voted the fifth best British album, ever, by writers at the influential magazine NME (New Musical Express). That meant it placed higher than anything by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Kinks or the Clash.
The band's reception in the United States was a bit cooler, but still enthusiastic, and its strong 2007 sophomore album, "Favourite Worst Nightmare," helped keep the momentum going. The band is billed fourth on the Saturday lineup of this weekend's All Points West Music and Arts Festival at Jersey City's Liberty State Park. It will play on the main stage at 5:15 p.m., before sets by Tool, My Bloody Valentine and Gogol Bordello.
The band, which also performs at New York's Highline Ballroom on Monday, will release its third album, "Humbug," on Aug. 25. The album is a bit moodier and less hook-driven than its predecessors; the title has nothing to do with Scrooge, but refers to a British candy that is hard on the outside, with toffee on the inside.
"You have to suck for a long time to get to the glorious center," says bassist Nick O'Malley, who forms the band with singer-guitarist Alex Turner, guitarist Jamie Cook and drummer Matt Helders. "So I suppose that was our feeling with this album not being quite as poppy and being a bit darker and more grown-up. You have to suck on this one a bit longer."
The band didn't make a conscious decision to change its sound. The music represents "the way we all felt," says O'Malley, "and the music we were listening to just led that way."
Co-producer Josh Homme, best known as a member of Queens of the Stone Age, played a role in this last part of the equation.
"When we started recording with Josh, he introduced us to stuff we never really listened to before, like Roky Erickson and Creedence Clearwater Revival," says O'Malley. "And we've been listening to a lot of Nick Cave, T. Rex and David Bowie."
O'Malley was not an original member of the band. In May 2006, he replaced bassist Andy Nicholson, who was suffering from fatigue due to intense touring. It was a temporary arrangement at first but later became permanent.
O'Malley got to know the Monkeys in Sheffield and watched them become overnight sensations.
"They were, like, my friends that lived around the corner, right down the street," he says. "We'd all go and watch them play in Sheffield. Then all of a sudden, everywhere they were playing it was jam-packed, and people were singing along, knowing all the lyrics.
"It's quite a strange thing when it's your friends, and then all of a sudden you see them being plastered all over the media, and their singles being on the charts, and going for No. 1. It was very surreal. For me, it was just Al, Matt and Jamie, who lived down the street."
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Where and when: Saturday at 5:15 p.m. at the All Points West Music and Arts Festival, Liberty State Park, Jersey City. Monday at 9 p.m. (with Modey Lemon opening) at the Highline Ballroom, 431 W. 16th St., New York. For a complete list of All Points West bands visit APWFestival.com.
How much: $89 per day, $239 for a three-day pass, for All Points West; call (800) 745-3000 or visit Ticketmaster.com. The Highline Ballroom show is sold out; call (212) 414-5994 or visit HighlineBallroom.com.
Originally from Queens, N.Y., but now based in Englewood Cliffs, Q-Tip has one of the most recognizable voices in hip-hop and helped move the genre forward in the '90s as a member of the jazz-rap fusion group, A Tribe Called Quest. He now performs mostly on his own, though he does participate in occasional Tribe reunion projects. His third solo album, "Kamaal/The Abstract," is due out Sept. 15; an experimental album, it was recorded in 2001, but shelved after Q-Tip's record company decided it had little commercial potential.
Performing: Friday at 8:15 p.m., second stage
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Wildly energetic and theatrical, Gogol Bordello is the flagship band of the gypsy-punk movement, mixing violins and accordions with traditional rock instrumentation. Eugene Hutz, a Ukraine native who now lives in New York, fronts the band, and once wrote an artist's statement that read, in part: "With acts of music, theatre, chaos and sorcery Gogol Bordello confronts the jaded and irony-diseased." He is also known as an actor, having starred in the movies "Everything Is Illuminated" and "Filth and Wisdom."
Performing: Saturday at 6:30 p.m., main stage
Capable of anything from gentle, uplifting ballads to loud, chaotic jams, the Akron/Family is an utterly uncategorizable band. Still, critics have invented a term, freak folk, to describe this group and other young, artful experimentalists such as Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom. Formed in Brooklyn, N.Y., seven years ago, Akron/Family is currently a trio featuring singers and multi-instrumentalists Dana Janssen, Seth Olinsky, and Miles Seaton, though other musicians often support them in the studio and onstage.
Performing: Sunday at 4:30 p.m., second stage


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Objectives: To examine jejunal biopsies from patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), chronic diarrhea, and weight loss, and to correlate the presence of small intestinal injury with pathogens, histopathologic changes, and absorption.
Design: Prospective analysis of jejunal biopsies from 43 patients with AIDS, 10 patients with AIDS-related complex, and 6 heterosexual control volunteers. The biopsies were examined for pathogens; electron microscopy was used in 22 patients. The results of quantitative histologic measurements were correlated with histopathologic features and D-xylose absorption.
Setting: A university-affiliated teaching hospital with many AIDS patients of varying demographic characteristics.
Measurements and Main Results: Jejunal biopsies in 62% of the patients with AIDS had partial villus atrophy with or without crypt hyperplasia unlike those of controls, a result implying small intestinal injury. Small intestinal injury was associated with lymphoplasmacytic infiltration and cytopathic change of the villus epithelium. Light and electron microscopic examination detected cryptosporidia or microsporidia in 19 of 27 patients with small intestinal injury. The presence of these parasites was associated with significantly diminished D-xylose absorption when compared with absorption in controls or in patients with AIDS, diarrhea, weight loss, and no parasites.
Conclusion: A significant proportion of patients with AIDS with severe small intestinal injury have enterocyte infections. Like cryptosporidiosis, intestinal microsporidiosis may be an important cause of enteropathy in patients with AIDS.
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The Savings Directive provides for cross-border interest before a tax rate of 35%, and the Commission will not see this sentence from Switzerland below. If the tax rate in the Berlin-Bern Convention is raised, the Commission will be satisfied, as has been shown last week. This will probably be necessary in the Austrian case, Waiglein emphasizes, however, that the higher rate applies only the interest income, but not the - gains from share disposals concerned".
The Savings Directive provides for cross-border interest before a tax rate of 35%, and the Commission will not see this sentence from Switzerland below. If the tax rate in the Berlin-Bern Convention is raised, the Commission will be satisfied, as has been shown last week. This will probably be necessary in the Austrian case, Waiglein emphasizes, however, that the higher rate applies only the interest income, but not the - gains from share disposals concerned".
What a maroon! He doesn't get it that the EU Commission will never accept Rubik touching interest because Rubik is fulfills the taxpayers obligations, whilst EU savings tax withheld does not. It's not about matching the withholding rates. What was agreed last week, is that Germany will omit interest from Rubik, not raise the tax on interest. Sheesh! Now let's see if Switzerland also agrees to drop interest from Rubik which would invalidate the entire purpose of Rubik, i.e. the guarantee of secrecy.
EU Savings tax amendments would catch this sham: Interest earned by the trust would be within scope of the EU savings tax by deeming you, who initially contributed the assets (i.e. settlor) as the beneficial owner. That is why the Swiss are fighting tooth and nail about omitting interest from the EU savings tax amendments.
Why doesn't Austria pass the same law for EUSD withheld tax from Luxembourg?
Yet Commenting on Semeta's warning shot, Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf insisted that the remarks would not result in major changes to the recently negotiated bilateral withholding tax treaties, arguing that the proposed tax provisions were completely EU-compatible and able to be implemented.
Time and time again Switzerland insists the EUSD has been embedded in Rubik. But this is a flat out lie. They keep focusing on the definition of interest as per the EU savings tax. The withholding tax on Rubik is full & final settlement of tax payers obligations. The Rubik withheld tax fulfills the tax payers liability back home. The EU savings tax is still subject to the future vagaries of the EU Commission, including automatic exchange of information. So what point is there for Switzerland to agree to omit interest from Rubik?? None! That is why Switzerland will act dumb and keep repeating the false mantra that Rubik already includes the EU savings tax.
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In fact all Swiss politicians have said the agreement won't be renegotiated except for some minor technical changes."
Considering, it is Austria that has consistently vetoed the EUSD amendments since 2008, that is the definition of hypocrisy. Additionally, if Rubik is implemented, then Austria wouldn't have to give up its banking secrecy as they would say if Switzerland doesn't exchange info, then we won't.
The Danish Presidency of the EU confirmed, on 7 March, during a meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper), that the discussion on savings taxation has been withdrawn from the 13 March Ecofin Council. Copenhagen had hoped to reach a compromise on granting the European Commission a negotiating mandate with several countries, including Switzerland, but Germany has put a 'reservation' on this approach.
In particular, the Danish Presidency considers that Switzerland should offer all EU member states the concessions it has made in terms of information exchange between tax administrations firstly with the US and with Germany and the UK under the Rubik agreements.
Copenhagen considers that it is "necessary to act on the level of the Union". Perhaps the German government fears that this strategy will delay the entry into force of its bilateral agreement with Switzerland, whose ratification by the Bundesrat is already jeopardised by the Social Democrat opposition.
In any case, Berlin is asking for the Commission to first and foremost authorise it to put in place the Rubik system, which lays out the establishment of a liberating withholding tax in Switzerland on many incomes, and to green-light the concessions Germany made to Berne in return.
In a letter, addressed on 6 March to the finance ministers of the Union, Taxation Commissioner Semeta unambiguously expressed doubts on the subject. Semeta also warned member states against signing agreements with Switzerland as these agreements would not only interfere with the current regulation on savings tax but also with the plan of extending the field of application of said regulation to new products (life insurances, investment funds, etc), and to certain intermediary entities (foundations, trusts, etc).
In a 5 March letter, which he also addressed to the finance ministers, the Director of the influential Tax Justice Network (based in London), John Christensen, supported the Commission's position and challenged Germany's position, which he termed "unacceptable," because it "greatly harms European interests". The letter stresses that "by authorising agreements, which are in contradiction with the European legislation, we [...] would be giving countries, such as Luxembourg and Austria, a pretext to continue to block any progress in the field of savings tax within the EU".
The two countries are requesting to be put on equal footing with Switzerland, in other words they are asking to also be allowed banking secrecy – 'if Switzerland can, we can', they say.
This brain-teaser is all the more difficult to solve given that Switzerland has announced that it will not discuss savings tax until the Rubik issue has been definitely settled. The Swiss Foreign Affairs Minister, Burkhalter, and the Swiss Minister for the Economy, Schneider-Ammann, were quite clear about this in the letter they sent, on 2 February, to the Union's head of diplomacy, Catherine Ashton.
... and then when he tried to reschedule the meeting, she said as she was promoted to President of Switzerland, protocol dictated that she could only meet the EU Commissioner if she met the President of the EU at the same time, because Semeta was a mere Minister.
And now 4 months later, she's
shocked that EU Commissioner Semeta is against Rubik and didn't tell her.
"The letter is not addressed to us, and I do not know what Semeta's intention was," Widmer-Schlumpf told Swiss national radio on Tuesday. She added that previously, the Commission had clearly stated that the individual nations had the authority to settle bilateral tax matters independently.
"Just weeks ago, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said explicitly that she wanted to finalise the accord soon," Widmer-Schlumpf said on Tuesday.
This problem interferes with the EU Savings Tax debate. DE maintains a "reserve" on the strategy of the DK presidency. If DE doesn't change its mind by 8th March, no Savings Tax item on the 13/03 ECOFIN agenda.
"The concessions that Germany and the UK have made with Switzerland and have namely committed to "facilitating" the access of Swiss operators onto their national market of financial services. It is out of the question for the EU to compromise in the fields that are already covered or could be covered in the future by the "Community harmonisation," the letter emphasises: "The principle of the exclusive competency of the EU vis-à-vis the exterior must be respected. This could also concern the banking services and investment services."
"The Council and the Commission are invited to rapidly develop concrete ways to improve the fight against tax fraud and tax evasion, including in relation to third countries and to report in June 2012".
The Danish EU Presidency is contemplating submitting this matter, currently held up by Luxembourg and Austria, to the finance ministers, on 13 March. It finds that Switzerland should treat the Union "at least as well if not better" than the United States. Bern has made a number of concessions to Washington on the provision of banking information.
On Rubik-style bilateral agreements with Switzerland:
Bilateral agreements between Greece and other states for the collection of taxes are therefore an important initiative, although in the longer term a European directive would certainly be appropriate."
Aides to the EP president said that only EU member states are concerned, and not Switzerland, with which Athens is considering concluding a Rubik-type deal, the scope of which the Commission would nevertheless like to keep to a minimum.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, on 2 March, that "Greece should have the right" to conclude an agreement with Switzerland without first having to await the EU's green light.
One wonders how Switzerland can deny similar agreements with the EU.
This story is now reported in several newspapers, such as Raiffeisen bank breaks ranks over tax dispute.
Earlier this week, the Swiss government came up with a different plan to police its own banks to make sure that they only took assets from tax compliant sources.
"Suddenly everyone is talking about a clean money strategy and everyone means something different," Vincenz told the Tages-Anzeiger. "We really have to show that Switzerland is serious about its clean money strategy.
These deals were pertaining to the taxation of savings held by British and German investors in Swiss bank accounts. Undermining Switzerland's hopes of negotiating further bilateral tax agreements with individual European Union member states, the Commission recently asserted that the treaties are not compatible in their current form with European law. At issue are the longstanding disputes regarding undeclared assets held in Switzerland by EU nationals. The commission argues that the tax deals undermine the objective of the Savings Tax Directive, a mechanism which allows member states to tax certain investments held by residents in other member states and certain third countries, including Switzerland.
The EU is proposing an automatic exchange of tax information to resolve such issues. Commissioner Algirdas Semeta recently insisted that any bilateral agreement that violates the EU Savings Tax Directive or EU agreements with third states is simply "not acceptable." Banking secrecy must not be allowed to protect tax evaders, he stressed.
Where's the difference? According to Swiss law, someone engaged in tax fraud is actively trying to hide money from the tax authorities, for example by falsifying documents. Tax fraud is not illegal.
Tax evasion on the other hand involves forgetting to declare one's assets. Tax evasion is illegal in Switzerland and can result in steep fines, but banking secrecy means banks don't have to hand over client data to the tax authorities in suspected cases of tax evasion.
Replying to a question as to whether he expects some of these proposals to be completed before the end of 2012, and if so which, Semeta said that "we all know that tax matters are subject to unanimity in the Council so it is very difficult to predict when the agreement can be reached".
He further said that "I think that we are very close to final agreement on the savings taxation.
Call for talks on sharing savings tax information but Austria and Luxembourg concerned about secrecy.
The Danish government is bidding to end a three-year impasse on European Union negotiations with other countries about transparency on taxation of savings. Officials from Denmark, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council of Ministers, have called a series of high-level talks on the issue.
Member state officials dealing in taxation matters met on 2 February, but failed to make sufficient progress to force the issue onto the agenda of a gathering of national finance ministers on Tuesday (21 February). Danish officials hope further preparatory talks will permit it to be considered when the finance ministers hold their next meeting, in Brussels on 13 March.
At stake is the opening of discussions with five non-EU countries on the sharing of savings tax information with the EU. The EU wants to reach a deal with Switzerland and then deals with Liechtenstein, Andorra, San Marino and Monaco.
However, two EU countries, Luxembourg and Austria, have long opposed the opening of negotiations on anti-fraud agreements, because they fear that any agreement would impinge on their own culture of banking secrecy.
Since the end of 2011, pressure has increased on the EU to make some kind of breakthrough on the matter, as the UK and Germany have signed bilateral agreements with Switzerland. These do not require an exchange of personal information and therefore preserve banking secrecy – but the European Commission has said it will challenge the agreements, because they overlap with EU competencies.
Intensifying the urgency of an EU-wide approach, Austria has now announced that it will begin its own talks with Switzerland on a bilateral agreement. The leaders of the member states, who will hold a summit on 1-2 March, are expected to call for negotiating directives to be rapidly adopted.
Taxation of savings income has been deadlocked since June 2009, when national finance ministers called for "rapid continuation of work in order to find constructive solutions".
The last three countries to hold the presidency of the Council of Ministers tried to make progress but in vain.
The anti-fraud agreements would bring standards in the five non-EU member states into line with the requirements of the inter-governmental Financial Action Task-Force. But they would not be as high as those that would be brought in within the EU and would subject Austria and Luxembourg to a mandatory higher level of automatic exchange of information than the non-EU countries.
Austria and Luxembourg fear that moves to curtail their own banking secrecy would result in a flight of capital to the five non-EU member states if they were not on an equal footing.
Note that majority of bank accounts in Switzerland are held by fiduciary structures where no immediate beneficiary is identifiable, e.g. discretionary trusts, foundations or establishments. So who then is responsible for signing the self-declaration of these fiduciary structures that the assets are declared back home? The EU Savings tax amendments realises this and therefore deems the settlor or founder as the beneficial owner. So would the Swiss self-declaration procedure be done by these deemed parties as well?
Highly unlikely as Rubik does not deem the settlor or founder as the beneficial owner. In fact this is a loophole of Rubik, and would be a loophole of the self-declaration policy. In any event, what is the credibility of self-declaration and who is this policy meant to appease?
Austria's Finance Minister Maria Fekter has recently announced that talks on a planned bilateral tax agreement with Switzerland are due to begin in April. An official letter has been sent to Bern, Fekter explained, noting that a meeting with her Swiss counterpart Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf is expected to take place in April.
The European Commission confirmed plans at the end of last year to challenge similar landmark bilateral tax deals concluded between Switzerland and the UK and Switzerland and Germany pertaining to the taxation of savings held by British and German investors in Swiss bank accounts.
Undermining Switzerland's hopes of negotiating further bilateral tax agreements with individual European Union member states, as a means to resolve the ongoing, longstanding disputes regarding undeclared assets held in Switzerland by EU nationals, the Commission recently asserted that the treaties are not compatible in their current form with European law.
The Commission argues that the tax deals undermine the objective of the Savings Tax Directive, a mechanism which allows member states to tax certain investments held by residents in other member states and certain third countries, including Switzerland. Opposed to the anonymity provision, the Commission is continuing to strive for an automatic exchange of tax information.
EU Tax Commissioner Algirdas Semeta recently insisted that any bilateral agreement that violates the EU Savings Tax Directive or EU agreements with third states is simply "not acceptable". Banking secrecy must not be allowed to protect tax evaders, he stressed.
The bilateral treaty maintains traditional Swiss banking secrecy, by regularizing accounts without, however, disclosing individual identities.
A diplomatic source notes that Luxembourg and Austria are not yet ready to waive their veto on opening new discussions with Switzerland on enlarging the scope of this country's 2004 agreement with the EU. Luxembourg and Vienna first seek assurances that they will be placed on the same footing as the Swiss Confederation and that they will therefore not be forced to abolish banking secrecy if Bern does not have to do the same. Switzerland, however, rules out that possibility.
There is also another legal and philosophical issue, raised indirectly by Switzerland with signature of its Rubik agreements with the United Kingdom and Germany. Can member states conclude bilateral agreements in policy areas where the EU has inherited certain competences (taxation of interest income on savings, in this case) and under what conditions?
"In theory, they are free to go further" – which is the case with the Rubik agreements, since these also concern dividends and capital gains. "But in practice, this is very complex." The Commission's legal service has put out a very critical opinion on the Rubik agreements. In short, "this is a huge subject that will have to studied carefully".
The head of a leading Swiss business lobby group said on Sunday he was open to a requirement that banks ask clients to declare their money is taxed, but said that asking for proof is a step too far. "I am open to the idea of a self-declaration for foreign customers," Gerold Buehrer, president of the economiesuisse lobby group told the SonntagsZeitung paper.
Buehrer said he opposed isolated action by Switzerland and any move should be coordinated by an international body, such as the Organisation for OECD, Just out of reasons of practicability this is not doable. Buehrer said. "Such a constraint would be tantantamount to a severe disadvantage for the Swiss financial centre," Buehrer said.
"Demanding that a client must prove that he has paid taxes is an impossible undertaking," Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan told the SonntagsBlick newspaper in an interview.
Zuercher Kantonalbank Chief Executive Martin Scholl told Der Sonntag newspaper that such a requirement would be a "Mission Impossible."
Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf wants banks to go a step further than requiring a tax declaration from foreign customers, according to the Sonntags Zeitung. She wants them to examine suspected cases of evasion to ensure they are respecting the law. Sonntags Zeitung paper described the proposal as "explosive" as banks have so far fought against compulsory checks.
However, it is likely the Swiss finance industry will reject such a draconian step.
This article indicates the SPD is unaware that the Rubik is being blocked by the EU Commission. For instance "... Switzerland has an interest in an agreement. It is the Swiss banks' access to the European market.". The EU commission specifically forbids Germany permitting Swiss banks to gain access to German markets.
The German SPD reiterates opposition to "Rubik" The states run by opposition refuse to approve "Rubik" in the Bundesrat
Finance ministers of the Länder led by the opposition met late Wednesday, to define a common strategy on the folder "Rubik". The regions concerned have decided to bury - the Bundesrat - the tax agreement with Switzerland. Unless substantial amendments to negotiate with Bern. "We have defined a list of eight points he will renegotiate with Switzerland. Must make agreement more tightly to limit inequalities between honest taxpayers and those who practice tax evasion, "said Heiko Geue, Secretary General, Ministry of Finance of Saxony-Anhalt, in the former GDR.
The states run by opposition also want to tax more the 130 at 160 billion euros (169 francs 208 billion) of capital parked in Switzerland for many years. The current rates - from 19 to 34% depending on the agreement - are unacceptable. "The price of anonymity, it is a rate of 50 to 70% tax!" Walter Borjans requires that an estimated 5 billion the amount to be paid by Swiss banks, instead of two billion under the agreement.
A third difficulty concerns the estate tax. "But in this respect, Wolfgang Schaeuble told us that Switzerland was ready to move ensures Heiko Geue. We want to ensure that the money deposited in Switzerland will be much struck by the estate tax. "
The ball in the Swiss court
The list of grievances of the SPD will be sent to Wolfgang Schäuble by two or three weeks, on condition that he return to the path of negotiations with Bern, Berlin has so far excluded. For the SPD, the ball is now in the court of Switzerland. "Switzerland does she want to protect the money of dictators, the billionaire Greek and German fraudsters? This is the question to be asked by the country, said Norbert Walter Borjans ... Switzerland has an interest in an agreement. It is the Swiss banks' access to the European market - and the country's image. "
On the sidelines of World Economic Forum in Davos in late January, the President of the Confederation Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf had defended the text, explaining that there was not much scope for renegotiation. Only the average number of information searches can still possibly be reviewed, she said.
Pushed by force of circumstance," added the French MEP, "Greece finds itself obliged to contemplate a bilateral agreement with Switzerland, like the United Kingdom and Germany". This would not be a cure-all, though. "Accepting a partial levy on fraudulent investments rather than prosecuting fraudsters is institutional recognition of tax fraud and a bad deal financially speaking."
Catherine Trautmann went on to say that "the Union should follow the lead of the United States, which has forced Switzerland to transmit the bank data of presumed fraudsters".
The Danish EU Presidency shares this view. In its recent note on the revision of EU rules on savings taxation, it points out that Berne has made a number of concessions to the US, including on grouped requests for information on presumed fraudsters. Copenhagen therefore considers that it is "important that all EU member states coordinate their positions so as to ensure that Switzerland treats its European partners at least as well if not better than the United States".
The EU's 27 finance ministers may debate this matter on 21 February. Meanwhile, Catherine Trautmann turned to the Commission. What does it plan to do now that its services have concluded that Switzerland's Rubik agreements with Germany and the United Kingdom "are illegal"? What does it propose for the future, "now that its draft directive on savings taxation has been shelved by the Council, and in particular Germany"?
The situation is not quite that clear-cut, however. On the one hand, the United Kingdom and Switzerland have apparently come to an understanding on making "technical" changes to their agreement. These are thought to satisfy the Commission, whose legal service has given a very critical opinion of the Rubik agreements. On the other, the die is not yet cast in Germany. The Länder,most of which are headed by the Social-Democrat opposition, were set to adopt a position on Rubik on the evening of 15 February. So far, they have voiced opposition to the agreement between Bern and Berlin. Lastly, Germany and the United Kingdom are still ambiguous about their real intentions.
It has accordingly held "very constructive discussions" with Germany and the United Kingdom to make their Rubik agreements compatible with European rules on savings taxation. "We agreed on the need to remove from their scope" all products covered by existing European rules on savings taxation and those that may be covered in the future. "This should enable us to put this problem behind us and concentrate on the intra-EU negotiations" on the taxation of earnings on savings.
At the same time, the head of the Commission's task force on Greece, Horst Reichenbach, warned Athens that it must not exceed certain limits if it should decide to conclude an agreement with Switzerland. "A tax amnesty is conceivable for the past, for the future, however, the scope of the agreement will have to be limited to dividends, capital gains and wealth tax." There is also no question of granting Switzerland, in exchange, too many advantages on access to financial services markets (one of Bern's demands): the Union's "external competence" in this area must be respected.
Switzerland and the EU intend to take forward discussions on a number of 'dossiers', including in the area of energy, agriculture, health and carbon emissions trading. However, tax is likely to be the most sensitive subject of discussion, with the EU taking a dim view of the tax agreements concluded with Germany and the UK last year enabling British and German citizens to maintain secret accounts in return for paying tax on account income.
Accordingly, the Swiss administration underscored in its statement that Switzerland's willingness to discuss the tax dossiers "requires a correspondingly constructive approach by the EU on the planned implementation of the bilateral agreements with Germany and the United Kingdom on the withholding tax system". It states: "The Federal Council will continue the talks with the EU on this basis.
The Swiss administration's statement continued: "Any solution of the institutional issue would have to be compatible with the workings of the institutions of both parties and would have to respect the sovereignty of both sides. Automatic adoption of EU law by Switzerland is not acceptable."
The treaty maintains traditional Swiss banking secrecy, by regularizing accounts without, however, disclosing individual identities.
Determined to gain support for the treaty from the SPD-led states in the Bundesrat, where the coalition Christian Democratic Union and Free Democratic Party no longer have a majority, German Finance Minister Schäuble had reportedly intended to amend the provisions, to allow more instances of mutual assistance. The current text limits the number of requests for information to 999 over a period of two years.
Semeta, a former Lithuanian finance minister, has helped stall the bilateral tax agreements struck by the U.K. and Germany by ordering the two countries to redraft segments that clash with existing EU rules.
Ignoring the substantial headwinds, Alfredo Gysi, head of the Association of Foreign Banks in Switzerland said "I'm personally still optimistic. It's still in the highest interests of all parties involved to find a solution".
Copenhagen has convened a high-level meeting of member state experts to review the savings taxation issue. In its view, Swiss "concessions" to the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany on combating tax evasion justify rapid renegotiation of Berne's savings taxation agreement with the EU, to enable all 27 to benefit from Swiss generosity. Bern has agreed, for instance, to relax rules on information exchange on request between tax administrations by authorising grouped requests for information under certain conditions.
Luxembourg and Vienna continue to stand their ground: they want the same treatment as the Swiss Confederation. Consequently, they wish to see EU legislation adapted before any decisions are taken on extending its scope (to products like life insurance and certain intermediary entities like foundations) and concluding a new agreement with Switzerland.
The two states nevertheless are said to have shown signs of being more open, which will encourage the Danish Presidency to hold bilateral discussions with them before referring the matter to the 27 finance ministers on either 21 February or more likely 13 March.
Luxembourg and Austria have acknowledged that the "international developments" provoked by Switzerland have to be taken into account, meaning that they too could make concessions on providing bank information on request provided they are not obliged to do away with their banking secrecy.
The question is how the EU can reconcile rapid progress with Switzerland on savings taxation with the condition that Bern itself set for the opening of talks, on 1 February, namely the European Commission's green light for Rubik. The EU executive disputes the legality of a number of elements – rate of taxation to be withheld in Switzerland, whether payment constitutes full discharge of liability, etc – of the agreement between Switzerland and Germany.
It is worth noting that Denmark, like many other EU Member States, seems to be misled by Rubik supposed efficiency, viz. "the memo suggests the scope of application for the accords is very large, covering all income made by investors in Switzerland."
Rubik has several major loopholes, namely:-
The answer it seems is that LDF is designed to poach customers from Switzerland who are fleeing the more expensive Rubik deals. Liechtenstein's banks never ever had many UK resident clients. Yet the LDF has already attracted a few thousand UK customers, most of which fled Switzerland. This is no problem, yet Liechtenstein is using the LDF as a public relations exercise to say it is shedding its tax haven image. This is far from the truth. The LDF accords are merely a way of attracting other tax haven clients.
The LDF is a "groundbreaking" amnesty for offshore tax evaders has been extended by a year as part of a deal that underlines Liechtenstein's efforts to shed its reputation as one of the most secretive havens in the world.
Liechtenstein has agreed to exchange information with the UK under a double tax treaty that will come into force in January 2013. The deal helps Britain ensure that offshore income is taxed while extending a number of UK tax advantages to Liechtenstein's residents, companies, trusts, foundations and investment funds.
More than 2,000 Britons with undeclared offshore assets have already made use of the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, which charges relatively modest penalties for investors wanting to come clean. It will now be available for an extra year, until April 2016.
Revenue & Customs said the decision to extend the facility, which it expects to yield GBP 3bn, reflected its better-than-expected uptake. Dave Hartnett, permanent secretary for tax at HMRC, said: "As the number of disclosures already exceeds the total we originally expected for the whole period of the LDF, we have agreed with the Liechtenstein government that it makes sense to extend the facility by one year to 5 April 2016."
Tax advisers said the extension of the agreement would compensate for the hiatus that occurred after the UK announced it was negotiating a deal with Switzerland in October 2010. Investors held back in the hope of securing more generous terms from the Swiss deal, which promised to preserve their anonymity in return for paying withholding taxes and a one-off levy.
But when details of the controversial Swiss deal emerged last August, advisers said it would be significantly more costly than using the LDF. Simon Airey of DLA Piper, a law firm, said the cost of interest and penalties under the LDF averaged 10-15 per cent of the investor's capital.
Fiona Fernie, a partner at accountancy firm BDO, said: "We have seen a steady stream of interest from clients in the LDF since its launch, but given that there are still many people who are only just finding out about this, it makes complete sense to extend it by a year, especially given the uncertainty around the Swiss-UK deal.
It is highly unlikely the EU Commission has agreed to Rubik. The argument that the EU savings tax is embedded in Rubik is completely misleading. The core principles that EUSD does not fulfill the tax payers obligations, that automatic exchange of information on interest is still the aim and that interest is not regularised, ensures that the EU Commission would never give up its objections to Rubik including the interest module.
Note that there has been no statement from the EU Commission corroborating Schauble's claims that the issue has been settled.
A likely explanation of Schauble's statements in claiming that Rubik is not in conflict with the EU savings tax to get rid of the German SPD party objections to Rubik.
Bare in mind, in 2010 that Liechtenstein withheld less than CHF 10 million EU savings tax on assets of CHF 170 billion, implying that 95% of assets are in foundations, trusts and establishments, which Rubik doesn't touch. Rubik specifically exempts structures where the beneficiary cannot be identified, "An individual resident is not considered to be a relevant person with regard to assets of associations of persons, asset structures, trusts or foundations, if it is not possible to ascertain the beneficial ownership of such assets, e.g. due to the discretionary nature of the arrangement."
In virtually every case of a structure used in Liechtenstein, the beneficiary cannot be identified (i.e. establishment has no shareholders, foundations rarely have named beneficiaries). Therefore a Rubik agreement will have hardly any impact on accounts in Liechtenstein.
Therefore Rubik for Liechtenstein seems to be a PR exercise without teeth in trying to shed its tax haven image.
Furthermore, Liechtenstein is aware that if it manages to ratify a Rubik agreement with Germany, this would disrupt the EU Savings tax amendments. If Liechtenstein wanted to really shed its tax haven image, it would rather throw its weight behind the EU savings tax amendments with automatic exchange of info.
Even though LU and AT agreed to end transitional period when they signed the directive in 2003, LU and AT are now demanding an equal playing field with Switzerland. The reason for this sudden change in heart, is that LU & AT never envisaged that the five European partners would ever agree to exchange info on demand. Therefore they played a poker game by agreeing to end transitional period when the 5 countries agreed to exchange on demand, but have now lost their hand. So they are moving the goal post of an agreement they already signed. Therefore LU / AT will try stop the 5 countries from providing information on demand by :-
On the basis of ECOFIN discussions and the Presidency paper, it was suggested:
to address the extended scope of the Savings Tax Directive as a priority before dealing with the anti-fraud and tax cooperation agreements;
to keep the issue of the transitional period separate from the discussions on the amendments to the Savings Tax Directive;
to address the issue of the level playing field in the context of the amended Savings Tax Directive by inviting the Commission to start the negotiations with third countries on the application of the measures similar to those provided by the amended Savings Tax Directive;
to consider the latest compromise text on the amendments to the Savings Tax Directive as agreed so that the discussions on it could be closed in order to provide the Commission with a basis for negotiations.


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- Jan 5th James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf
- Jan 20th China cedes Hong Kong to the British during the 1st Opium War
- Jan 26th Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain
- Jan 30th A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
- Mar 3rd 3rd Grand National: Mr A. Powell aboard Charity wins
- Mar 4th Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance" premieres in London
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Mar 4th Longest US presidential inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
- Mar 5th 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11
- Mar 9th US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad are free
- Mar 22nd Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
- Mar 27th 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC
- Mar 31st 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B
Event of Interest
Apr 4th Vice President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States after the death of President William Henry Harrison
- Apr 6th Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple, Nauvoo, Illinois
- Apr 10th New York Tribune begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
- Apr 14th Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" published
- Apr 20th 1st detective story (Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published
- Apr 26th "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk
- Apr 27th Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D.T. Suzuki, found the awakening
- May 1st First emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri, for California
- May 3rd New Zealand proclaimed a colony independent of New South Wales
- May 11th Lt. Charles Wilkes lands at Fort Nisqually in Puget Sound.
- Jun 14th 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
- Jun 24th Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
- Jun 28th The Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris premieres the ballet Giselle
- Jul 3rd John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
- Jul 5th Thomas Cook opens first travel agency
- Jul 17th British humorous and satirycal magazine "Punch" first published; it finally closed in 2002
- Aug 9th Erie boat in Buffalo NY catches fire; 242 die
- Aug 21st John Hampton patents venetian blind
- Sep 9th Great Lakes steamer "Erie" sinks off Silver Creek NY, kills 300
Event of Interest
Sep 24th British adventurer James Brooke obtains lands around the Sarawak river from the Sultan of Brunei
- Sep 30th Samuel Slocum patented the stapler
- Oct 16th Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is chartered
- Nov 2nd Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
- Nov 4th First wagon train arrives in California
- Nov 13th James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.
- Nov 16th Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
- Nov 25th 35 survivors of the mutiny on the slave ship Amistad return to Africa
- Nov 26th 1st date in James Clavell's novel Tai-Pan
- Dec 6th Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D premieres
- Dec 29th King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon
- Dec 31st Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons
Famous Birthdays
- Jan 14th Berthe M P Morisot, French painter/aquarellist
- Jan 15th Lord Frederick Stanley, presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup
- Jan 18th Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, France, composer (Le Roi Malgré Lui)
- Jan 25th John Arbuthnot Fisher, Ceylon, 1st Baron Fisher/admiral of the fleet
- Jan 27th Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
- Jan 28th Henry Morton Stanley, Denbigh Wales, journalist and African explorer (found Livingstone in Africa) (d. 1904)
- Jan 28th Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer
- Jan 30th Alfred Townsend George, Civil War journalist, (d. 1914)
- Jan 30th Félix Faure, 6th President of the French Third Republic (d. 1899)
- Feb 1st William H H Davenport, stage medium, born in Buffalo, New York
- Feb 2nd François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (d. 1912)
- Feb 4th Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (d. 1926)
- Feb 10th Walter Parratt, composer
- Feb 12th Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Dutch mayor (Amsterdam) and Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1891-1894
- Feb 15th Manoel Ferraz de Campos Salles, Brazilian politician (d. 1913)
- Feb 18th Samuel Prowse Warren, composer
- Feb 19th Felipe Pedrell, composer
- Feb 26th Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general (Egypt)
- Feb 27th [Eleanor] Agnes Lee, daughter of US general Robert E. Lee
- Feb 28th Adrien Albert Marie de Mun, French politician (d. 1914)
- Mar 1st Blanche Kelso Bruce, Virginia, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881)
- Mar 1st Romualdo Marenco, composer
- Mar 3rd John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Depths of the Ocean)
- Mar 4th Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl)
- Mar 7th Olegario Victor Andrade, Argentina, poet (El nido de condores)
- Mar 7th William Rockhill Nelson, founder of The Kansas City Star and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)
Person of Interest
Mar 8th Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Apr 6th Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920)
- Apr 7th Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanicus
- Apr 7th Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter
- Apr 13th Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (d. 1905)
- Apr 15th Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder (d. 1919)
- Apr 25th Pauline Lucca, soprano
- Apr 26th Wilhelm Scherer, German literature historian
- May 10th James Gordon Bennett Jr., American publisher (d. 1918)
- May 11th Ernst von Possart, German actor/stage manager/reciter
- May 15th Giovanni Bolzoni, composer
- May 20th Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate
- May 21st Joseph Parry, composer
- May 22nd Catulle Mendès, French poet (d. 1909)
- May 24th Charles Napier Henry, painter
- May 24th Tito Mattei, pianist/composer
- May 28th Giovanni Sgambati, composer
- May 29th Sylvester Magee, last living American slave and oldest person who ever lived, (d. 1971)
- Jun 3rd Eduardo Caudella, composer
- Jun 6th Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish novelist (d. 1910)
- Jul 4th Edward Gailliard, Flemish linguist/archaeologicalist
- Jul 4th Marie von Wied, Princess of Orange Nassau
- Jul 5th William C. Whitney, American financier (d. 1904)
- Jul 9th Carl Christian Lumbye, composer
- Jul 11th Daniel de Lange, Dutch composer
- Jul 11th William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1910)
- Jul 13th Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918)
- Jul 23rd Edmund John Armstrong, Irish poet, born in Dublin (d. 1865)
- Jul 24th Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta, painter
- Jul 31st George Melville, polar explorer, naval engineer
- Aug 13th Unaarrimin, cricketer (played cricket as Johnny Mullagh)
- Aug 17th Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet
- Aug 25th Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909)
- Sep 3rd Tom Emmett, England cricketer (d. 1904)
- Sep 8th Antonín Dvořák, Nelahozeves Czech, composer (New World Symphony). Dies 1904
Person of Interest
Sep 8th Charles J. Guiteau, American assassin of US President James A. Garfield, born in Freeport, Illinois (d. 1882)
- Sep 13th Johannes de Koo, Dutch journalist/stage writer
- Sep 26th Pavel Ivanovich Blaramberg, composer
- Sep 28th Georges Clemenceau, France, PM (1906-09, 17-20, defended Dreyfuss)
- Oct 1st Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer
- Oct 4th Stephen Albert Emery, composer
- Oct 4th Prudente José de Morais Barros, President of Brazil (d. 1912)
- Oct 4th Maria Sophie of Bavaria, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1925)
- Oct 7th Nicolaas Petrovic Njegos, king of Montenegro (1910-18)
- Oct 11th Freidrich Hegar, composer
- Oct 16th Itō Hirobumi, Japanese samurai, Japanese Prime Minister and Resident-General of Korea (d. 1909)
- Nov 3rd Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming, Mandø, Danish Botanist (plant ecology, environment-organism interactions)
- Nov 4th Carl Tausig, Polish pianist and composer, born in Warsaw (d. 1871)
- Nov 5th Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer
- Nov 6th Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
- Nov 6th Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)
- Nov 9th [Albert] Edward VII, king of England (1901-10)
Person of Interest
Nov 12th John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Malden Essex, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904), (d. 1919)
- Nov 20th Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)
- Nov 25th Ernst Schröder, German mathematician (d. 1902)
- Nov 28th E M Grace, cricketer (brother of W G)
- Dec 5th Marcus Daly, American mining tycoon (d. 1900)
- Dec 6th Frédéric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870)
- Dec 20th Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932)
Famous Weddings
- Feb 17th Dutch ex-king Willem I marries Henriette d'Oultremont de Wégimont
Famous Deaths
- Jan 3rd Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82
- Feb 11th J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies at 55
- Feb 13th Thomas Ainsworth, English/Dutch industrialist, dies at 45
- Feb 14th Antun Sorkocevic, composer, dies at 65
- Feb 15th Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53
- Feb 17th Ferdinando Carulli, composer, dies at 70
- Mar 1st Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
- Mar 16th Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
Person of Interest
Apr 4th William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States, becomes 1st president to die in office at 68 of pneumonia
- Apr 28th Peter Chanel, French saint (b. 1803)
- Apr 29th A Bertrand, writer, dies
- Apr 30th Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (b. 1758)
- May 3rd Cornelis T Elout, Dutch minister of Finance/Navy/Colonies, dies at 74
- May 6th John Thomson, composer, dies at 35
- May 20th Joseph Blanco White, theological writert, dies
- May 23rd Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76
- Jun 1st David Wilkie, Scottish artist (b. 1785)
- Jun 1st Nicolas Appert, French inventor of airtight food preservation (food canning, bouillon tablet), dies at 91
- Jul 27th Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, poet/novelist, dies
- Aug 10th Hippolyte Monpou, composer, dies at 37
- Aug 13th Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies
- Aug 24th Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer, dies at 36
- Aug 24th Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
- Aug 27th Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer, dies at 65
- Sep 9th Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist, dies at 63
- Sep 15th Alessandro Rolla, composer, dies at 84
Person of Interest
Oct 6th George Childress, American lawyer and statesman (author of Texas Declaration of Independence), commits suicide at 37
- Oct 9th Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60
- Oct 28th Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist (b. 1792)
- Nov 1st Antoine PFGdV Celles, Belgium/Dutch/French MP, dies
- Nov 14th Thomas Bruce, Count of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat, dies
- Nov 18th Georg Chistoph Grosheim, composer, dies at 77
- Nov 30th Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch government official, dies at 73
- Dec 7th Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer, dies at 83
- Dec 18th Felice Blangini, composer, dies at 60


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The act of shitting and sneezing at the same time.
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Oceanic lithosphere slides down the sides of the oceanic ridge, pushing the plates apart.
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The theory that the rigid lithosphere of Earth is divided into different sections that "float" along on top of the weaker mantle region.
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A rising plume of mantle material is located below the crust, which melts the rock near the surface, allowing magma to move though.
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The continents were once connected as a single supercontinent, and slowly moved apart.
Continental volcanic arc
Produced in part by the volcanic activity that is caused by the subduction of oceanic lithosphere under a continental plate.
Old oceanic crust, which is relatively cool, sinks into the asthenosphere (mantle) and "pulls" the trailing lithosphere (crust) along
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Destructive plate margin where oceanic crust is being pushed down into the mantle by a second plate.
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Note: This is a Guest Post by a very good friend of mine Alapan Ghosal last night he sent me this post.I am just posting this on the behalf of him.Here it goes:
Sachin's 100th 100.Last year for an Indian cricket fan has been frustrating by part & dismal for the rest of it.
We have been pounded & grounded into submission by a couple of teams we have had thoughts of beating,if not easily then by some perspiration but the ugly truth has been clubbed repeatedly & painfully over our heads over the whole of last year.
Now we stand duly chastised & humbled,by the virtue of our teams performance While in midst of this travesty lies the mysteries of Sachin's 100th 100.
Why couldn't he get it over a period of 365 days??
Why couldn't he pound the Aussies & the poms??
why did he get out repeatedly making silly mistakes or Why did the balls get better of him…..
Probably if he would have had the 100th against either Aussies or the poms we would have had consoled ourselves that our hero defied the opposition & his teammate's mediocrity & rose above it.But as things stand we have been stripped of even this consolation.
Our hero has been repeatedly struggled to put bat on ball & found ways to get out the last of which involved trying to flick Malinga of his pads from closer to middle than leg.He started both the tours with decent form & got a few middling scores with amazing regularity & just when the stage seemed to be set for him,got out.
I don't know why he got out & I don't particularly care much.
But I would like the Sachin of old to make a comeback where nothing seemed impossible.Where he could make me smile exclaim & sigh over a coverdrive where he could right all the wrongs of the day.I would like him to treat every bowler as Henry Olonga(remember Sharjah 97 I think you can)
I would like him to pummel every opponent.I would like him to be my childhood hero again….
I would like him to be best batsman on current form ever & always….
I would like him to be grim determined & victorious….
When even hardened pros like Mcgrath & Warne had to clap when he made them look foolish….
I would like him to be the guy for whom bunking classes & a punishment didn't matter much for a student….
I would like him to chase all the dreams that have remained unfulfilled among billions of us….
Yes I admit, I would like the boy from Sharadashram Vidyamandir to appear as good for each & everyone of us and today he finally managed to scale the statistical impossibility a century of centuries….
Where he scored practically flawless 114 runs from 147 deliveries,but it didnt give me much satisfaction,where he slowed down after 80,where he struggled to get gaps,where he was made to perspire by a pedestrian attack,where inspite of being best batsman on show,He cost us 20 runs.
Before he makes a final bow & before a curtain drops over innocence.I would like my hero to comeback once again just for a last glimpse the men who made everyday worth it.Three of the golden age have already gone taking a part of my childhood with them.Men of tremendous dignity honour & commitment who made cricket worth watching.Men whom you & I miss everyday but I wud like to see him at his very best just once before he goes.I would like him to punish a full length delivery by drilling it straight past the bowler.I would like him to be God of all batsmen who ever came & of all those who are yet to come.Just before he goes off into the sunset, just once,I wud like him to be my childhood hero yet again.
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My College friend Soumyadeep who is a massive football freak used to ask me Why I am not writing anything about Cricket here in Denken that time I told him that I will write but it would require a special moment.Well my close friends and family members know how Cricket freak I am.This my first Cricket post on my blog.Wrote a lot about me/Social networking sites/Tech topics but this is time just could not resist myself to write post about Cricket and about our Little Master SACHIN RAMESH TENDULKAR.Really it took a knock like that caliber from Sachin to get the Cricket side of me on my blog.
If you are regular Tweep then you should know that there is a #Tag for Sachin which is #SachinIsGod and its so true because If Cricket is religion in India then surely #SachinIsGod.
My Tweets:
#MyNameIs Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and I am the greatest ODI player ever.
All Day I Dream About Sports(Adidas) is the perfect makers name for Sachin's bat.
Let me tell you why this knock is so special:
1.First ever double hundred in ODI.
2.Highest individual Score in ODI beating previous best of Charles Conventry's(Vs Bangladesh) and Saeed Anwar's(Vs India) 194.
3.He ran through out his innings with out any runner.(Saeed Anwar used runner).
4.It was a perfect innings because no drop catches or no getting out in no balls etc.
5.Innings came against a top quality fielding and blowing side(ICC no 1 Rank bowler is in South Africa's squad).
Well previously we used to remember Sachin who gave as Titan cup by bowling in the last over,the guy who used to come in Shane Warne's nightmare,for his destructive innings at Sharjah,the most run getter in world cups but this knock is something special and which will remain in memory forever.It was a true fact that sometimes Sachin failed to come good in final but in recent times he played some match wining innings in finals,most recently his two crucial knocks in final helped us to win VB series,which is to me India's most important ODI tournament win in last decade.You have to admire Sachin's everything,Mostly his dedication towards game and his stamina to cop up with pressure.As Ravi Shastri said correctly Sachin is the most Greedy boy in cricket field.You just have to admire how Sachin came back after his Tenis elbow and back injuries(these two injuries almost ended his cricket carrier).At that time of Tenis elbow Sachin once said that there is power is his elbow so its just that his dedication towards this great game that inspired him to come back with a bang.
Ending this with a hope that Sachin would get his 100th International century very soon and also that the stage:-"2011 world cup final in his home ground" is all set for him to pick up the trophy for all of us Indian
Sorry to disappoint you first, after reading this you will not have a place where you can go and celebrate events. I will blog about a virtual place where you can always stay, enjoy and celebrate any event like we did in children's day.I am talking about Twitter. On 14th of this month we Tweeps celebrated the Children's Day by changing our DP i.e our profile's Display picture to our sweet cute little kid picture. My timeline of Twitter was filled with all cerelac baby tweeps . It was a great feeling. It was like going back to your childhood with the help of 'TwitterTimeMachine'.
The Day Sachin scored 175 against I was traveling in train that time the only thing I was having to know about the Score and match updates was my Twitter timeline. I know it's not better than watching the match live on TV but trust me it was better than any TV commentators commentary or going through any other live cricket score site. Because of all those tweets #Sachin or #SachinIsGod became the no-3 trending topic in Twitter.To me It was a great tribute from all Sachin's fan. To my knowledge there is no other celebrity or Indian person even came close to reach trending topics. Another instance which is coming to my mind is our Independence Day that day my timeline was flooded with all India tweets and India was in the top 10 trending topics.
Twitter is one gem of a place to celebrate and share along with your followers. When I am in this place I never feel lonely or lack of friends. Thanks to Twitter I came to know so many beautiful people through Twitter….Twitter you beauty.


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Penn State plans to meet Thursday with New England Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O'Brien about its coaching vacancy, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter, who cited a source familiar with the process.
Penn State has identified O'Brien as the coach it wants to succeed Joe Paterno, the ESPN report said. O'Brien is in the final year of his contract with the Patriots.
Big payday for Petersen
Boise State's Chris Petersen officially joined college football's $2 million coaching club on Wednesday.
The state board of education voted unanimously to give Petersen a $375,000 raise for 2012, the first step toward replacing his old contract with a new five-year deal designed to keep him in Boise through January 2017.


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Advantages of C over java
I was asked this question in an interview recently
List 5 advantages of C over Java!
The only things I could think of were C has pointers and C is faster! what could be the other advantages??
Ted :mad:
Re: Advantages of C over java
Advantages are in the mind of the beholder. C is a lower-level language, with more direct control over the machine as actually built. It compiles to directly executable machine instructions, rather than requiring a virtual machine to exist, at run time, on the target. This reduced abstraction is an advantage in some instances and a detriment in others.
Re: Advantages of C over java
I will add some more to the list
1. No global variables in java (Dont Quote me on this but its advantage many a times like the LFC theApp variable)
2. No preprocessor in java.
If it would have been C++ there are many more to add like
1. No support for mulitple inheritence
2. No support for templates
3. Cannot overload operators
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"GREATER KANSAS CITY'S COMPUTER USER MAGAZINE" [October 1998]
How many people use the Internet? That depends. Are you talking about worldwide users or just in the United States? And do you count anyone with Internet access as a user? Or are your rating requirements more stringentand if so, how stringent? To be considered a user do you have to access the Internet once, twice, 20 times a month? Or daily?
These are just some of the Internet statistics about which interested users are curious.
Not surprisingly, statistics on the Internet abound. Many can be found on the Internet. Consider some of the following examples.
Headcount (http://www.headcount.com) Headcount provides Internet marketers with a number of invaluable statistics. It bills itself as a company that summarizes market research reports giving you quick, easy access to the size of Internet markets worldwide. With a couple of clicks, you can review the latest Internet statistics by country, language or region. The site also provides users with a variety of current awareness news items regarding Internet markets and use. And if you cant find what you want from any of the sites existing information, you may want to submit a question to the Expert of the Month or review any of the questions past experts have answered.
By the way, if youre curious about how some of those analysts concoct future statistics about the Web, check out The Irresponsible Internet Statistics Generator (http://www.anamorph.com/docs/stats/stats.html ). Based on growth statistics quoted in 1995, users can enter a date (e.g., May 1, 1998) and have this site give you the number of Web sites potentially available. In this case the numbers were 113,246,208,000 sites on the World Wide Web, or 18.87 Web sites per person.
Although many statistical sites provide basic information about the numbers and ages of Internet users, they dont explore in detail the demographics of those users. One institutional site leverages the power of the Web as an easy-to-use survey tool to acquire a sense of the nature of Web users.
The World Wide Web Study (http://www.gvu.gatech.edu/ user_surveys) is produced twice a year by Georgia Techs Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center. To date, this study has been conducted eight times, with the most recent statistics (October 1997) showing a significant increase in the number of female Internet users, as well as a variety of other statistics.
Another excellent source for current Internet statistics is Nua Internet Surveys (http://www.nua.net/surveys). This site is updated daily, full-text searchable and contains a large variety of Internet trends and surveys.
Curious about just how simple the Internet makes surveying? Survey.net (http://www.wisdom.com/sv/sv-inet1.htm) will give you a good idea. After completing the survey, you can review the latest results, including your own. For example, out of 10,752 surveyed users, 10 percent have tried to date someone they met online, 71.1 percent were male and 57.9 percent considered themselves professionals.
If statistics regarding Internet marketing, business or esoterica dont interest you, how about nuts and bolts? For example, if youre curious about Internet performancehow fast, how often, routing problems and the likeconsider the Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis site (http://nic.merit.edu/ipma). This site will provide you with performance trends, routing instability, traffic statistics and similar kinds of Internet technical information.
The Internet Valley (http://www.internetvalley.com/intval.html) provides users with a number of interesting historical and statistical Internet facts. This site was the only location giving 30 years of Internet statistics. For example, in 1969, the Internet boasted four hosts. As of January 1998, the number was 29,670,000.
So if youre interested in Internet statistics, you have plenty of Web resources. If you cant find what you want on these sites, query any of the search engines with the phrase Internet statistics and youll have many more possible sites from which to choose.
By the way, as of May 1998, there were 44 million adult Internet users in the United States. Forty-nine percent were between the ages of 35 and 54. And 43 percent were between the ages 18 and 34. Thank you, Headcount.com.
(Contributing Editor Cary Griffith is president of the Electronic Books Co., a St. Paul, Minn., new media business.)


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Carrie Fisher may have reinvented herself as a much sought-after Hollywood scriptwriter and best-selling novelist, but she?ll always be Princess Leia to me ? and probably to you, too.
It?s this unbreakable, 26-year association with Star Wars, forged when George Lucas catapulted the then 19-year-old actress to fame, that?s turned Fisher?s life into a classic Hollywood story.
Her inability to deal with the pressure of being a cultural icon sent her spiralling down into drink and drugs dependency. Her marriage to Paul Simon failed, and she now lives alone with her daughter Billie.
A recovering Fisher turned her back on acting and took up writing ? her experiences as the child of Hollywood parents, as a star in her own right and as a disaster zone provided her with excellent material.
At the moment, projects include developing a TV series for Universal, two new film comedies for Walt Disney and Working Title and this fourth novel.
It?s a kind of sequel to Fisher?s 1987 semi-autobiographical debut Postcards From The Edge, which Fisher herself adapted for the acclaimed film starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep.
It sees the return of motormouth Suzanne Vale ? actress turned cable chat show host, and a woman in possession of a drugs stash that would make Robert Downey Jr proud.
Suzanne has lived her whole life in the glare of Hollywood?s spotlights. Now middle-aged, she?s four years out of a marriage with the handsome Leland, who left her when he turned out to be gay. Oh, and because without her medication, Suzanne turned out to be crazy.
She has two major worries: how to make her daughter love her more than she loves Leland, despite not owning a $5,000 TV remote control ? de rigueur in Beverly Hills; and how to get laid after four years? of celibacy.
Fisher isn?t alone in the Hollywood-scriptwriter-turned-novelist camp. Gigi Levangie, who wrote Stepmom, published Maneater last year. And Elisabeth Robinson, who wrote the Sarah Michelle Gellar comedy Simply Irresistible, has just written her first novel.
But stylistically Fisher?s the long-lost twin of pneumatic Australian Kathy Lette. Like Lette, she?s relentlessly chatty, a little manic, and chases the next gag hard.
Fisher?s latest novel draws heavily on her own life and consequently holds no surprises. When the fine thread tethering Suzanne to sanity snaps, she plunges headfirst into drink, drugs and full-blown mental illness. The thought of her six-year-old daughter is the one thing keeping her alive. Will she or won?t she come through smiling? Given that a strong triumph-over-tragedy theme runs through all Fisher?s novels, you tell me.
Though Fisher does an authentic crazy, her characters just aren?t that interesting or sympathetic when they?re off their faces. Few people are. So as Suzanne?s once witty one-liners turn into manic monologues, her charm vanishes ? and takes the plot with it.
In the end, it amounts to little more than Suzanne doing some naughty things before seeing the light and going into rehab. Very self-confessional, very American, and not so much a novel as a self-help manual.
It?s not the most awful book I?ve read. But it?s a long way from being the best.


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The ability to smell is commonly altered by head trauma (HT). However, the nature, prevalence, prognosis, and etiology of such alterations are poorly understood.
To quantitatively determine the degree of olfactory function in patients with HT-related chemosensory complaints and to examine the influences of age, sex, HT severity, time since HT, and other variables on such function. Also, to use quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to establish whether and to what degree damage to the olfactory bulbs and tracts, frontal lobes, and temporal lobes occurs.
Patients and Methods:
Two hundred sixty-eight patients with HT from the University of Pennsylvania Smell and Taste Center, Philadelphia, were administered a quantitative odor identification test, a depression inventory, and a medical history questionnaire; 66 were retested after individual test-retest periods ranging from 1 month to 13 years. The volume of olfactory-related brain structures was determined in 15 patients and 15 controls using MRI.
One hundred seventy-nine patients (66.8%) had anosmia, 55 (20.5%) had microsmia, and 34 (12.7%) had normosmia. Frontal impacts produced less dysfunction than back or side impacts. Of the 66 retested patients, 24 (36%) improved slightly, 30 (45%) had no change, and 12 (18%) worsened; only 3 patients, none of whom initially had anosmia, regained normal olfactory function. Trauma severity was related to olfactory test scores in patients with microsmia. Parosmia prevalence decreased from 41.1% to 15.4% over an 8-year posttrauma period. Olfactory bulb and tract volumes of male, but not female, patients with HT were greatly reduced relative to volumes of controls.
Patients complaining of HT-related olfactory dysfunction typically have anosmia and rarely regain normal olfactory ability, parosmia prevalence decreases over time in such patients, and damage to olfaction-related brain structures can be observed in most such patients using an appropriate MRI protocol.
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text: Properly speaking, this drum is called Sarugaku taiko, and is widely used in Noh, Nagauta and Kagura. This drum entered Japan with Gigaku from the Korean kingdom of Kudara long ago in the Asuka period. Then it was used in Dengaku and Sarugaku and then underwent various changes with the beginning of Noh and became an essential part of the Noh ensemble. In the Edo period, together with the other instruments of the Noh flute and percussion ensemble, it became an important part of Nagauta and other popular music forms. It is only used in some Noh plays, but when it is used, it only is played in the climactic final half of the play to create an exciting effect.