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By Howard Stephenson
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Utah is the only state to receive an "A" on the newly released report card from Digital Learning Now! (DLN).
The report card measures each of the nation's 50 states against the 10 Elements of High Quality Digital Learning as it relates to K-12 education. State policy plays a central role in either accelerating or constraining the scaling of next generation models of learning.
With an overall score of 92%, Utah beat out Florida, Minnesota, Georgia, Virginia and Kansas, who were the next highest scoring and the only states to secure a "B". All other 44 states received a "C" grade or lower.
Since education improvement is critical to achieving an educated workforce and since Utah spends more on education than any other part of the state budget, this achievement should be important to all taxpayers. It represents real efficiency and effectiveness in the use of education tax dollars.
This recognition places Utah at the forefront as an example to other states of how to advance student-centric reforms through technology, innovation and smart policy. As states are moving to modernize their policies to create new opportunities for students, explore new models of learning, and provide needed infrastructure, Utah is leading the way.
The report shows states are advancing student-centric reforms, reducing barriers to blended learning, and encouraging the use of technology to offer a more personalized college-and-career-ready education. In 2012, more than 700 bills involving digital learning were considered by state legislatures and more than 152 were signed into law, with nearly every state enacting a bill that advanced a digital learning policy.
The low 22% success rate for these measures is due in large part to the general opposition to such legislation by entities representing the education community. In Utah, for example, some of the most significant digital learning legislation have been opposed by organizations representing "Big Education": the UEA teachers union, State PTA, School Superintendents Association and School Boards Association. Even the State School Board has opposed many of the digital learning initiatives proposed or passed by the legislature.
This opposition to legislation providing digital technology is surprising because when deployed at the classroom level, it empowers teachers, assisting them to personalize student skill building and content knowledge, giving teachers more time for one on one student interventions with struggling students. Contrary to teacher union dogma, digital technology is not meant to replace the teacher, just as electronic spreadsheets have not replaced accountants and CAD systems have not replaced engineers.
One example of legislation which distinguishes Utah as a leader in digital learning and which was opposed vehemently by Big Education is Utah's Statewide Online Education Program. The legislation frees all Utah high school students to take online courses from a multiplicity of competing providers with the dollars following the student to the provider of the online course. As DLN reports, "Louisiana, Georgia and Utah are leading the way in adopting 'course choice' programs that offer students the option to take publicly-funded, online courses from providers approved by the state."
According to DLN, "State policy plays a central role in either accelerating or constraining the scaling of next-generation models of learning." Utah legislators have embraced this important role.
During the recent 2013 Utah Legislative Session, 18 education technology related bills and appropriations were considered with 12 successfully passing (a 67% success rate). The measures will deploy a multitude of digital initiatives including learning technology, computer adaptive testing and infrastructure, competency-based education, online course choice options, literacy and math solutions, blended learning options, college entrance test prep tools, and more.
When digital tools are deployed effectively to provide individualized learning in the classroom and at home, student performance shows marked improvement. For example, in 2008 the Utah Legislature appropriated funds for every English language learner to receive 45 minutes a day of computer delivered personalized English language training. As a result, the 35,000 children who would typically have taken four or five years to become English fluent are now able to perform on par academically with their native English speaking peers in a fraction of the time.
Last year the Utah Legislature passed HB 513 (in spite of strong opposition from Big Education), to provide reading software to assist teaching professionals in giving 30,000 kindergarten and 1st grade students a half hour of digital reading instruction each day. According to Ernest Broderick, principal of Stansbury Elementary in West Valley City, student reading progress has doubled since using the software, "I felt that to know the efficiency of reading software intervention and not to provide it, would be educational malpractice."
Mr. Broderick's commentary on the effectiveness of the software in assisting his dedicated staff to teach more effectively is similar to those in every school receiving software. Nevertheless, Big Education opposed legislation to expand the number of licenses to reach up to 90,000 K-3 students in the coming school year. They also effectively killed a bill to provide math software for elementary students statewide, calling such legislation "vendor bills." These same entities which now oppose legislative appropriations for digital learning supported legislative appropriations for textbook "vendors" in the past.
Commenting on the DLN report which cited Utah's achievement, Jeb Bush, former Florida governor and chairman of the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), said, "We need leaders in every state who are willing to make the necessary changes so that student-centered education is a reality. I am confident we can meet the challenges ahead, but only if we harness the opportunities afforded to us through technology and innovation."
Published in the Utah Taxpayers Association April 2013 Newsletter.


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Ahead of Arsenal's home match against Hull City Arsène Wenger spoke to the media at Arsenal's Training Centre, which was covered in snow.
During the press conference Wenger discussed:
- the Champions League draw
- the snowy weather
- the latest news on Cesc Fabregas' injury
- an update on some of Arsenal's other injured players
- Owen Coyle's request to take Jack Wilshere on loan at Burnley
- Wolves' weakened team at Old Trafford
- the fixture list
- the reaction to his recent comments
- his relationship with Phil Brown
- Hull City's strengths
- his belief that it will be a quiet January transfer window
- finding value in the transfer window
- his choice for the World Player of the Year
TV Online subscribers can watch the press conference in full now.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source

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For the last two years of the 20th century, Birth performed in various clubs in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and New York, not only headlining but also opening for such influences as "outside" New York saxmen Chris Speed and Tim Berne, better known as the man behind Bloodcount. With its move to New York, the band is now seeking greater recognition in an attempt to spread its ultramodern jazz gospel far and wide. Smith began playing in the early '90s as a promising youth. By the time he reached the eighth grade, Smith began to look for a teacher. He began studying with Mike Lee, another notable Cleveland-bred saxophonist who's beginning to make quite a mark in New York. In addition, he also played with Kevin Burner, Wessell Anderson, J.D. Allen, and pretty much anyone else coming through town, with the unfortunate exception of Joe Lovano, Cleveland's most famous saxophone son. Furthermore, Smith also spent some time honing his craft with the head of Cleveland State University's department of jazz studies, Howie Smith (no relation to Joshua), an extraordinarily creative player who has worked with everyone from Elvis Presley to guitarist Bob Fraser. The future leader of Birth also played in the youth section of the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and had a stint at the Manhattan School of Music.
"Lovano has been a huge guy as far as my listening goes," Smith said. "For a while, all I did was try to imitate his phrasing, but then I realized that most of the stuff I was checking out -- what I was digging about his phrasing -- was stuff he had picked up from Dewey Redman. I hadn't listened to Dewey Redman. I'm working my way backwards a little bit."
Birth's music stems from four key influences: drum'n'bass, as exemplified by the work of Squarepusher, a frenetic, often brilliant "band" from England that is actually the twenty-something Tom Jenkinson, a bass player and drum machine programmer; Seamus Blake, a saxophone player who works in the Mingus Big Band and the Bloomdaddies; Chris Speed, a Knitting Factory regular who works in "outside" and ethnic formats; and Tim Berne's Bloodcount.
"I like the way Tim Berne writes," Smith said. "I like the way he writes contrapuntal melodies between the saxophone and bass, and I dig the way Bloodcount communicates, explores and initiates ideas. They kind of turn on a dime. They have a very textural thing happening. Then they go right into a groove out of nowhere."
A few years ago, Smith was playing and writing before eventually hitting a wall. He would play a jazz gig and feel as if he were performing background music. So he decided to up the intensity of his playing with a focus on rhythm. "A lot of young people tend to ignore jazz," Smith said. "It doesn't hit them. I think that's because of the rhythm. We wanted to do something that explored current advanced rhythmic concepts that tie in more with what people are listening to. I remember feeling, 'Man, I really want a band that's going to kick people in the butt.' I'm sick of people feeling creative music is background music, even though they could get a lot out of it. I wanted to do something that would hit them a little harder but also bring in all those creative elements."
Birth can be considered as a power-jazz trio. It kicks jazz in the butt and no doubt will kick it even harder as the group further matures. ~ Carlo Wolff
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May 16, 2012 - By Christina George, Staff WriterShoshoni may be one of Wyoming's smaller towns, but it can still draw a crowd.
On Saturday it attracted people from neighboring communities for its fourth annual Shoshoni Day celebration.
"It's a good day to get everyone in the community together," said Shoshoni Mayor Scott Peters.
He spoke at the Shoshoni Public Library, where his 4-year-old son, Maxwell, was among 20 children participating in the morning Kids Treasure Hunt event.
Festivities began at 7 a.m. with tethered hot air balloons at the airport and a biscuits and gravy breakfast at the senior center.
"I liked the hot air balloons," Peters said. "It was nice to have them here this morning."
Events were scattered throughout the community, including Gymkhana at the rodeo arena, horseshoe competitions at Centennial Park and a Trap Shoot on Muskrat Road.
Near the horseshoe pits, Janice Hunter, of Wyoming Operation Life Savers, had an enclosed mobile trailer available for event-goers to learn how to be safe around trains.
This is the first year the trailer has been at Shoshoni Day.
"We want to make contact with the general public of Shoshoni so that they have an understanding about train safety," Hunter said.
The Big Horn Divide and Wyoming Railroad run a train track through Shoshoni.
A few feet away in Centennial Park, Mabel Kleven, 7, and Alexis Robinson, 13, both of Riverton, enjoyed candy suckers.
"There's a lot going on," Kleven said.
Robinson agreed.
"This gives us something to do other than sit at home," the teen said.
At the treasure hunt, Mike Dimick, of Riverton, helped his 3-year-old son Joshua look for hidden items.
"Does a broken straw count?" John Dickinson, 6, of Shoshoni, asked a judge.
The boy smiled when he was told yes.
On the other side of Shoshoni, the Battle of the Bars Softball tournament got under way at 10 a.m. at Travis Park.
Spectators backed up their trucks to the field so they could have front-row seats from their tailgates, and coolers were packed with picnic trimmings and adult beverages. Steve Medler was also on hand with his hot dog stand.
Some players opted to take the drinking to the diamond and tried to field balls with a cold one in hand.
There was also something for those looking for a bargain Saturday. Residents were encouraged to have garage sales, and many did.
"It's a time when many of them do it," Peters said.
Cardboard boxes with brightly-colored signs were put on several street corners throughout town. People stopped at the sales between events.
After a Rocky Mountain Car Show, locomotive tours and a Wyoming Bikers Association Poker Run, the day concluded with a free barbeque hosted by the Missouri Valley Volunteer Fire Department and a dance with Shoshoni's own Lost Springs Band.
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No reason not to have a few 91/30's on hand either. Cheap, reliable, and lots of 7.62x54 ammo still out there. I have been thinking about cutting the barrel down on one of mine to 18 or 20" and removing the excess wood to make it lighter, freakin thing is heavy.
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By David Russell
Talisman Energy (NYSE:TLM) will address investors today and tomorrow, and at least one bull is champing at the bit to get long.
optionMONSTER's Heat Seeker tracking system detected the purchase of more than 6,200 April 22.50 calls for $0.55 to $0.61 against open interest of only 293 contracts. The trades pushed overall options volume in the oil and natural-gas company to 10 times greater than average.
TLM fell 1.75 percent to $19.63 in morning trading after hitting a 52-week high of $20.22 shortly after the open. The company is scheduled to provide 2010 guidance at 1 p.m. ET today and present at two conferences before the bell tomorrow.
The stock spent the September-December time frame consolidating between about $16.50 and $19.40. It made incrementally higher lows during that period, and appears to have broken through the resistance last week.
The shares must rally another 16% by April expiration for the options purchased today to turn a profit.
Calls account for a bullish 98% of today's options activity.
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text: NORFOLK, Va., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) has made substantial progress on its Trees and Trains reforestation program, planting 2.4 million trees on 4,000 acres in four states in the ecologically important Mississippi Delta. The Trees and Trains project is a five-year reforestation and carbon sequestration project to plant six million trees on 10,000 acres in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) with GreenTrees®, the leading reforestation program on private lands in the U.S. The $5.6 million project, in its third year, is the largest carbon reforestation project in the nation. Over time, the trees will generate 1.12 million tons of carbon-offset credits, significantly offsetting the railroad's CO2 emissions. Considered North America's "Amazon," the MAV is the nation's largest watershed and a vital habitat for numerous wildlife species. Forest once covered 25 million acres of the valley, but most of the land was converted to agricultural production, and today only four million acres of forest remain. Trees and Trains calls for creating a permanent forest. Under the program, landowners receive carbon payments for planting trees instead of crops on marginal or frequently flooded land. GreenTrees Managing Partner Chandler Van Voorhis explains, "Landowners retain the use of their acreage and can earn additional income through recreational usage, conservation tax benefits, and timber sales. These agreements encourage long-term storage of carbon dioxide in the trees, roots, and soil on the land." In 2008, after 50 years of farming, landowner Bobby Petrus of Monroe, La., converted his 1,162 acres of farmland from cotton, corn, and beans to hardwood trees to lock in a steady income without the seasonal risks of traditional farming. "The trees have provided us with a more reliable source of income than the crops we had planted in the past," Petrus says. "Our family is very satisfied with the success. The growth and survival rate on the inter-planted cottonwoods and hardwoods has been astounding."


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Not Worth Their Weight In GOLD
We are now a 1/3 of the way through the 2014 Olympics, and the U.S. is holding their own in the medal count...but, how much is that GOLD MEDAL actually worth?
The "podium value" for the most prestigious amatuer award comes in at $566, not bad, but it's down 20% from the Gold Medals handed out in London in the summer of 2012 which were valued at $708.
Does Russian President Vladimir Putin have his thumb on the scale and skimping on the prize? No, the decline in value is due to the drop in gold and silver since it's record high in 2012. Actually the gold medal handed out in Sochi will go on record as one of largest in the history of the games at 531 grams, 100mm diameter and 10mm thickness. If in fact it was 100% gold it would be worth $21,478 (the last solid gold medals were handed out at the Stockholm Games in 1912, and their value today is $1,207.86)
So what makes up the Sochi Gold Medal? They are made up of primaraly silver - 525 grams with a 960 hallmark (the IOC only requires 925 hallmark), and 6 grams of 999 hallmark of gold.
For the Olympians that come in second, the 2014 Sochi Silver medal that they will be sporting contains, 525 grams of silver (960 hallmark) and their value stands at $323.
As for the bronze medalists, well, third place finishers might be able to purchase a Happy Meal with the podium value at $3.25. The bronze medal is made up of copper mixed with the elements to make bronze...zinc and tin, and sports a 460 hallmark.
Any medal would be awesome, it means you're one of the top three atheletes in the WORLD, and who can put a price on sentimentalism? A prime example of this is the gold medal that was awarded to the U.S. Hockey Team at the 1980 Winter Games at Lake Placid it pulled in a bid just over $310,000 at auction.


text: Thanks Danno.I may not catch one this year, but I am gaining experience and will be ready for next year. Of the 4 hives I have, the swarm I caught on 5/27 is doing better than an overwintered hive, and two nucs. Maybe one swarm is not the best to base this on, but it is building faster than any package or nuc I have bought. No chalkbrood, great brood pattern and the first to forage in the day and the last to quit at night. And the price was right.Now if I can keep from messing up a good thing. :-DJay


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Help with fixing a broken shift solenoid
Hi been on here lots today, I have a 94 seville sts with a broken shift solenois in the tranny. I am in need of a repair ASAP, (leaving town) and need some help walking me throgh this. I have done lots of repairs on my car myself andam hoping this one I can do too.
After I get to the trans pan, is it really complicated after that or not? I anyone can help me out here I would really appriceate it. I located the part and am going to get it. I wish I oculd wait to Tues. when the shops are open but I can't. I have a funeral to go to and I need to leave here no later than tomorrow night. Monday is my birthday so it really sicked already that I had a funeral that day, lol can it get any worse. Just am having a day from hell, but am tryint to stay positive. I fixed and replaced my egr valce thanks to you guys and my coil pack, plus a few other things, so I getting some car knowlege thats for sure. I spent a lot of money on this car to buy it, and ofcourse over the years before finding this site I spent thousands$$$$ on repairs, still specd some here and there but am taking care of lots myself. Thanks everyone.
Re: Help with fixing a broken shift solenoid
Its great that your working on your own car. While your replacing the B solenoid you might as well replace the other (A) solenoid . Cadillac has a problem with both solenoids failing . And yes continuing to drive your car with only second gear will harm your trans. No sense in making the problem worse then it is for yourself . Good luck
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People ask me a lot why I write so much about the Redskins name issue if I don't have an opinion on it, and I try to explain that when an issue concerning Washington's most famous sports team has seeped into the national media — from Howard Stern to Rush Limbaugh to Sunday talk shows to late-night comics — I wouldn't be doing my job if I chose to ignore it.
The latest example of this came Thursday night, on Comedy Central's Colbert Report. Stephen Colbert, in the character of perpetually aggrieved standard-bearer for American values, did a few minutes on the Redskins name and the Dolphins hazing situation. His "thoughts" about the Redskins, not surprisingly, were similar to much of what appears in our comments section on a daily basis.
* "My favorite NFL team has always been the Washington Redskins. But my team is facing some unnecessary roughness from the PC Police."
* "If the 'R' word was the 'N' word, I wouldn't be able to say it on the air. Watch this, Redskin Redskin Redskin. See? Totally fine."
* "Redskins team owner Dan Snyder has defended keeping the name by citing a recent AP poll that found that 79 percent of Americans are in favor of keeping the name. Twenty-one percent want the Redskins to change it, but I'll bet those are the same people that want to change the name of potato skins for offending the Irish."
* "Our past is who we are. We Redskins fans have roamed this land since 19 and 33. Now, strangers threaten our sacred ground where we feast on the food of our ancestors, the $14 hot dog, and don our ceremonial dresses, wigs and rubber pig noses that symbolize our proud tradition."
It wasn't particularly funny, perhaps, but it was another high-profile airing of this issue.


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prayers please
if yall would please pray that the door that he is opening for me that I see it.I know he must be opening one for me because one is being slamed shut.Im trying not to get mad about what happening so I can see were hes trying to lead me,but it has gone far enough.I know the econemy is bad right now,but I have been takin advantage of to long and cant take it any more.they keep taking and taking while he shows up in a new corvette,goes to mexico for a week long diving trip,just got back from way up north for a week of leaf looking,spent over $30k to redo a 1985 chevy truck that he dont even drive,went to africa hunting.spent over $100k just on taxidermy plus what ever trip cost.and on and on.It has gotten to the point were Im looseing money to work now.having to take money out of savings intil its gone,now having to get money out of whats left of my 401k. Ive been with this company for 24yrs and hate to go,but the owner has gotten old and turned it over to son in law and youngest daughter and the only people they care about is themselves.When he was running things it was much better and he cared about us,and didnt stab us in the back.Have been lied to to many times. Im just done.sorry for the rantting guys just need some help to keep my hart and eyes open to see were he is taking me
prayer sent. good luck
Good luck man, sounds like it's no fun. Keep praying about it and God will show you a way. It may not be the way you want, but he'll guide you through the tough times you're having.
I'll certainly say prayers for you and for all who are strugling in the economy.
If times get tougher, try to focus on the blessings in your life. That's helped me many times.
Tough.. Prayers sent man.. Hang in there..
Praying for you all the way. Sometimes GOD takes longer than we want (most of the time) and what I do is just hang in there but it is not one of my better traits.
Keep praying and hoping, He will come through.
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IR35 (intermediaries legislation): find out if it applies
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You may need to follow IR35 (intermediaries legislation) if you work for a client through an intermediary.
Who's affected by IR35
IR35 is also known as 'intermediaries legislation'. It's a set of rules that affect your tax and National Insurance contributions if you're contracted to work for a client through an intermediary. You may need to follow IR35 if you work for a client through an intermediary.
The intermediary can be:
- your own limited company
- a service or personal service company
- a partnership
You can check if the intermediaries legislation applies to an engagement online.
If IR35 applies then the intermediary has to operate PAYE and National Insurance contributions on any salary or wages it pays to you during the tax year.
The rules are designed to make sure that the right rate of tax and National Insurance is paid for you.
IR35 may also apply if you're working through an intermediary and you:
- or your intermediary, or client are abroad
- work in the construction industry
- are an office-holder
- work with your partner or spouse
- are working, through an intermediary, for a charitable organisation
There's more detailed information about the IR35 conditions of liability in the Employment Status manual.
Find out what you need to do if IR35 applies to you.
Penalties for not following IR35 rules
The intermediary is always responsible for complying with IR35 legislation when it applies. If you're a director of your limited company or a member of your partnership, you must make sure all relevant legislation is followed, and take responsibility for deciding if it applies for each of your engagements or not.
If IR35 legislation applied to previous contracts that you worked on but wasn't complied with, you should tell HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) immediately. If you make a voluntary disclosure it may reduce any penalties you have to pay. Contact the IR35 Helpline for advice on making a disclosure.
There can be significant consequences if you, your intermediary, or client ignore IR35 legislation. Interest and penalties can be charged on any extra tax and National Insurance contributions that are owed. Penalties can be more severe if it can be proved that IR35 rules or legislation have been deliberately ignored.
Working out the worker and client relationship
When you're deciding if IR35 applies to a contract it's important to establish what the underlying relationship (your employment status) is between you (the worker) and the client for each contract or engagement.
There's usually a contract between your intermediary and the client, either directly or through another party such as:
- a staffing agency
- a recruitment agency
- an employment business
You have to use the facts of each contract or engagement to decide if IR35 applies, and not any label, description, or job title.
Work out your employment status for each contract by considering what that relationship would be if there wasn't an intermediary involved.
Do this for each individual contract, and make sure you consider them again if they change.
Remember that there can be more than one agency in the chain to supply your services to a client.
If you use your own intermediary to provide a service
If you're engaged by a client through your own intermediary, it's the client's responsibility to consider your employment status and make sure they meet their own tax and National Insurance liabilities.
There's usually a contract between your intermediary and the client, either directly or through another party such as a staffing agency, a recruitment agency or an employment business. There can be more than one agency in the chain to supply your services to a client.
If all of the following apply then you need to follow IR35 legislation:
- you work for a client as a self-employed contractor, sole trader, freelancer, or consultant
- you could be considered an employee if the intermediary didn't exist
- you pay yourself through your own limited company or partnership (sometimes called an 'intermediary' or 'personal service company') or you have a material interest in that company
There are some circumstances where the client may be responsible for operating your PAYE, such as if:
- the contract or working arrangement shows that you're engaged directly by the client as an office-holder or employee, then the client will be responsible for operating PAYE for you
- a client contracts directly with you - the client will always be responsible for operating PAYE for you, even if payment for your services is made to your intermediary
There may be penalties if the client doesn't operate PAYE where needed.
If you work in the construction industry
Both the IR35 legislation and the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) can apply if you're a subcontractor working in the construction industry through a limited company or partnership.
For example, this can happen if you'd be considered as an employee of the client if there wasn't a limited company or partnership acting as an intermediary.
To stop tax and National Insurance contributions being paid twice on the same earnings within the CIS and IR35 schemes special rules have to be applied.
IR35 if you, the intermediary, or client is abroad
The limited company or partnership is incorporated or resident abroad
Under IR35, when a worker living in the UK does work for a client in the UK, the intermediary is treated as having a place of business in the UK even if it's incorporated or resident outside the UK.
If an offshore intermediary fails to deduct and account for tax and National Insurance due under IR35 legislation, liability to pay this can be transferred to the:
- worker
- onshore agency
- end client
Action to recover an employer's National Insurance contributions not paid by an offshore intermediary could also include action against any of its assets located in the UK.
HMRC has powers to obtain details of payments to offshore intermediaries from the records of clients and agencies.
If the client is non-UK resident
Deciding if IR35 applies depends on:
- the tax residence status of the worker and client
- where the duties of the contract are carried out
Foreign nationals
If you're a foreign national who provides your services through an intermediary you may be affected by the IR35 legislation.
Further HMRC services to help you find out if IR35 legislation applies
IR35 Helpline
If you need help understanding and applying IR35, contact the IR35 Helpline. It's confidential and any information you give won't be shared with HMRC compliance teams. You don't need to reveal your identity to use the helpline.
The Contract Review Service
If you want to be certain about your position you can use HMRC's Contract Review Service. They'll review a written contract for you, and if they decide that IR35 doesn't apply to your contract, they'll give you a confirmation letter with a unique reference number that will be valid for 3 years. If, later on, HMRC open an IR35 review, you can give them this number and they'll suspend the review while they consider all the information. HMRC will close the IR35 review if:
- the contract reviewed is typical of your engagement terms and conditions
- the information provided is accurate
- evidence shows that circumstances haven't changed
Contact the IR35 Helpline to get in touch with the Contract Review Service.
What the Contract Review Service can do
The Contract Review Service can only give advice on existing contracts. HMRC won't usually give opinions to companies or partnerships on contracts for a particular tax year unless they have all the information they need before the 5 April of that tax year.
They will review the:
- facts, including looking at the relationship between the worker and client
- contract or contracts which establish the relationship
They may also want to talk to you and to others, including the client.
Information the Contract Review Service will need
If you don't or can't provide all the information, it may not be possible for HMRC to form an opinion.
HMRC will need to see copies of any contracts involved in the relationship. You should send copies of these contracts to the IR35 Customer Service Unit together with any other relevant information, such as:
- written statements from the worker and the client about their views of the working terms and conditions, with particular emphasis on what happens in practice
- details of how the engagement was obtained and the recruitment procedure, together with a copy of any adverts for the work in question
- a description of the nature of the services to be performed, together with any job or work specifications for the contract
- copies of any tenders made by the intermediary
- details of any additional contractual terms not included within the written contracts, whether oral, written, or implied
- details of how and who allocates the work and the role the worker plays in the client's organisation any other documentation relating to the working terms and conditions
- other relevant information from the worker or intermediary - for example this might include:
- the number of engagements held during the year
- the number of different engagers
- expenditure on equipment necessary for the performance of the contract
You should also provide the:
- worker's National Insurance number
- company's HMRC reference number
- company's postcode
If you can't get a copy of a written contract, for example a contract between an agency and the client, it's essential that there's some evidence from the client about the terms and conditions of work. HMRC can help you if you have a problem obtaining contracts.
In some cases HMRC may not have enough information to give an opinion and in others their opinion may have to be heavily qualified. But you can rely on it so long as you've supplied all the relevant information and there's evidence that the terms of the engagement don't change part way through.
For advice on using the Contract Review Service contact the IR35 Helpline.
If you disagree with HMRC's opinion
If you don't agree with an opinion of the IR35 Contract Review Service and it can't be resolved quickly, it will be passed to the local HMRC IR35 inspector. This will only be done with your full permission. They'll reconsider the opinion given and, where necessary, seek additional evidence from the worker and/or the client.
If there's enough evidence to support an opinion and you disagree with that opinion, you have a right of appeal and can ask for an appealable decision.
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Door Jamb cut too much. Good way to fix it?
I pulled up all the carpet in my sons room and am installing Armstrong vinyl planks from Lowes. I have a 3/4 ply sub floor that was very level so I just used the leveler patch kit stuff in the joints and sanded it to avoid telegraphing through and that is going well. Problem is the the base boards and door jambs are up much higher than my new flooring because of the thick carpet and padding. I plan to get that shoe molding or that rounded molding to solve the base board gap I have seen people suggest. My base boards are solid oak and the thought or removing them to change the height scares me to death that I would mess them up not to mention the lack of pain under them making me need to repaint the room. Problem is now that the door jambs for the closet and room entry were under cut for the carpet and now that's also about resulting in a decent gap between it and my floor. Put in the rounded molding and I worry it will look funny over by the doors because I can't put it there due to it not being straight. Any creative ways to mask this gap? Thanks
Shoe molding and new casing on the doors---that's the usual method--
Or replace the base molding with a taller profile--
I wish I had a secret method for you---But I don't know one---Mike---
How many doors are involved? You could just lower the doors but that would be a huge PITA and then you would have to paint the walls at the tops of the door casings. Certainly do-able but not very practical. Door jambs don't usually get cut off to tuck carpet.:)
Its my 5 year old sons room so I basically want to eliminate a place for legos and dirt and stuff to get stuck. Do you think a caulk in the same shade would be good to fill in the gap? Its about 1/2 - to 3/4 of an inch gap to the floor I would say. Not sure why they cut them and ran tucked the carpet under the doors that way. Solid oak door frames in the whole house too so I really prefer not to mess with those too much I have seen what it would cost to replace them if I screw it up :X Went with the vinyl plank because were talking 5 year old boy and it was an inexpensive option that he should have a tough time ruining for the time being lol. Thanks
Shoe molding is 1/2 x3/4 and will cover that gap nicely---also very inexpensive---can be cut with hand tools--Maybe you don't like the look---but a gap that big filled with caulk will have a look that you will like even less.
Your only other choise is to find casing to match and stain and seal to match and just cut some short pieces and tap them in place with some glue top and bottom.
I think there are multiple interpretations of what you are stating your issue is in the responses thus far. Let's be clear about what your stated problem is: There is a gap between the bottom of the door jamb (ie the left and right inside faces of the door frame) and the floor. Correct? If not, then you're not talking about the jamb, you're talking about a different part of the doorway.
If that is your problem, I would cut a piece of 1x4" to fit, or whatever the correct dimensional lumber is, slip it in, glue, fill, sand and paint. Or just fill entirely with decent wood putty although in that spot it solid wood would be more durable.
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Beat me over the head if I'm stating the obvious, but for one room, I'd invest in a few sheets of AC plywood for underlayment.
Maybe I'm missing something, but for about 100 bucks, the floor can be brought up to the proper height and you will walk away with a professional looking installation.
The floor outside the room should be at the desired height already. Bring the plank floor up to match.
Then again these things often come down to a judgement call of effort relative to cost and result. You may be right that additional subflooring will give the best result, finish wise, relative to cost and effort. It's either raise the floor or lower/repair the trim.
Been laying carpet almost 40 years and have seen some dumb things, but can;t imagine why anyone would cut the door jambs for carpet. :huh::eek:
Rusty I will take you a picture in the morning lol. I'm now wonding if all the doorways are going to be like this as I replace flooring :(
only reason for cutting the jambs is for hardwood or for laminate. Basically speaking for a solid type flooring. As Rusty stated there is no other reason to cut the jambs. And no real easy solution to it either.
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I lost a couple of good fish, which made the difference in the end. At this level you don't miss opportunities, especially not with a tough bite and relatively low weights. If you do, you end up with a so-so performance instead of a good one. I didn't land the ones I should have and paid the price for it — a so-so finish. There's not much else to be said about it.
This week will be exciting, though. I'm filming commercials for Bass Pro Shops. I'll be working with NASCAR drivers. As a matter of fact, as soon as I get done with this blog I'm going to take Ryan Newman bass fishing. That'll be fun. I'm a big — very serious — NASCAR fan, you know.
And I think he's a big fishing fan. Both sports are similar in that they involve competition at the highest levels where one mistake means defeat in most cases. Of course, in his sport that same mistake can also mean death. In mine it's more like I'll come back and catch them another day. That's a big difference.
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I have a small (640 sq. ft) 1 story cottage in Massachusetts that was built in 1941. It is supported on a masonry perimeter wall with a forest of ad-hoc "piers" scattered at various points under the floor. Details can be found in this post:
I want to get a licensed structural engineer in to plan getting proper supports under the structure, repair the perimeter wall as needed, and get the floor structure in order. I want this done right and I am willing to have the drawings and calcs done, get a permit, etc.. but I do have a few questions/concerns/reservations:
1) By getting the building dept. involved, I am opening up my house to state and town building inspectors. My hope was that the repair could be done in stages where costs could be met in increments. Do I risk having a hysterical inspector coming in, condemning my house and jamming a $50k repair or teardown/rebuild up my backside? I kinda like having both a roof over my head and a few dollars in the bank, if you dig.
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Money is the key issue. I don't have tens of thousands of dollars sitting around and I'd really rather not pull in more financing for this house if I can help it. The house isn't going anywhere and it practically isn't in danger of collapse (it apparently has been like this for at least 40 years).
I want to do the right thing here, but I also want some control over the burn rate of cash for this project. This is a big project, and I'd like to make sure that the correct process doesn't lead to more complications and hysterics. I have a neighbor who is a licensed general contractor who has done a lot of good work for me and is capable of doing any of the masonry and carpentry work required.
A very reasonable set of questions, but to my knowledge answers will vary greatly from one place to another just depending on how your permitting people do their job. You have a GC friend? Ask him/her.
You can also try calling anonymously, see what sort of info you can get w/o having to show your face. In my county, the inspectors and staff are great. You just go down and ask them what your options are, and, no, as long as they see you're making progress they don't even charge for an extension on the permits.
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I bought this for my 1 year old golden retriever who can destroy anything. She LOVES this toy. She chews and chews but no marks yet. She loves to run around the house with it and show it off. Great buy!
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Leticia Bajuyo: Event Horizon
Presented by Women and Their Work at Women and Their Work
June 30 - August 30, 2012
In the dustbin of technology, what happens to player piano rolls, cassette tapes, CDs, and so on when the companion machine is broken, missing or forgotten? Using thousands of CD's as her medium, Leticia Bajuyo transforms the gallery into an enveloping environment, a vortex of reflective Cds. She creates a giant cornicopia of digital debris, reflecting our discarded musical whims.
Although the CD is still a functional medium for holding information, CDs are becoming increasingly passé. But when combined into a quilt of digital memory in the shape of a victrola horn, the texture and scale of the visual result offers an alternative experience of desire; an experience that thrives on the traces left by what once had been "the next best thing", creating new memories that fall outside technological economies of desire and acknowledging the overlooked complexity of, for example, buying next month's new cellphone.
The evolution of technology and its machines produces an insatiable appetite for the next shinier, faster, easier mode of experience. Thus, the desire to acquire and to satisfy this appetite becomes a machine of desire that desires a machine. Each new generation in the history of automated devices for recording sound, communicating thoughts, or reproducing experience, was once the "next best thing" that everyone wanted, but societal desires have moved on to newer, shinier machines.
Artist Bio
Leticia Bajuyo creates, lives, and teaches in Southern Indiana where she is an Associate Professor of Art at Hanover College. After earning a BFA in 1998 from the University of Notre Dame and an MFA in 2001 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she joined tge Hanover College Art and Art History Department.
Growing up and living in the Midwest, specifically in areas that often feel in-between places of interest, Bajuyo's aesthetic was influenced by the landscape and the pace of rural communities. Additionally, growing up in a biracial, bicultural, and bilingual household helped generate her interest in blending dissimilar materials. Bajuyo thrives on learning or inventing new ways to make. Her approach to technique has a do-it-yourself, problem-solving attitude that is guided by concept and yields combinations such as 6,000 donated CD's and salvaged doors or player piano rolls and typewriters.
Recent solo exhibitions include pre-fab(ulous) environments at Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania, divertissement at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Washington, and forces of nature: hurricanes and slinkys at Vanderbilt University's Space 204 in Nashville, Tennessee. Recent two and three-person exhibitions include Wow and Flutter at Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New Values at The Cressman Center in Louisville, Kentucky and 3x3 at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Leticia Bajuyo is a VAN Partner of the Visual Artists Network (VAN). This project is made possible in part through support from the Visual Artists Network Exhibition residency, which is a program of the National Performance Network. Major contributors are the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation. For more information: www.npnweb.org
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By Freya Berry and Euan Rocha
LONDON/TORONTO, April 20 (Reuters) - Barrick Gold Corp is being advised on options for its Zaldivar copper mine in Chile by the boutique firm of mining rainmaker Michael Klein, in a deal potentially worth around $2 billion, three sources familiar with the matter said on Monday.
Toronto-based Barrick has already contacted a limited group of buyers including some diversified Chinese miners and copper companies, the sources said, declining to be identified since the matter is private.
Options could include a full sale of the Zaldivar mine, but the sources said Barrick is more likely to retain a stake. The mine produced roughly 222 million pounds of copper in 2014 and has reserves of a further 5.56 billion pounds. The sources cautioned that no deal was certain at this time.
Barrick declined to comment on the matter. Michael Klein could not be reached for comment.
Barrick said in February that it was focused on gold mining and had no plans to boost its copper operations. The firm is selling mines in Papua New Guinea and Australia to help reduce net debt by at least $3 billion by the year-end.
Barrick had about $13 billion in debt at the end of 2014, much of it related to its 2011 purchase of Africa-focused copper miner Equinox for about C$7.3 billion, ($6 billion).
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I have a weakness. I like to think big. And when we heard so many juicy rumors about the Apple tablet device, now named the iPad, I knew that with Steve Jobs at the helm, I could afford to think big. So big did I think, that I suggested the iPad should take media consumption to the next level and create an entirely new category of device.
At first, Jobs appeared ready to confirm my suspicions. He said seductive things like, "Everybody uses a laptop and or a smartphone. The question has arisen lately. Is there room for a third category in the middle?" I was sitting on the edge of my seat, ready to hear Jobs demonstrate that new category of device. But he didn't.
Instead, what Apple debuted today was a very nice upgrade to the iPod Touch.
Don't get me wrong. I love the iPod Touch and I was this close to getting one for myself. Now that the iPad has arrived, I can finally get one, the new, big one. But it's not a new category of device. It doesn't really revolutionize the 5-6 hours of media we consume the way it could have. It doesn't even send Amazon's Kindle running to the hills for cover. In fact, the competitor likely to take the biggest hit from the arrival of the iPad is Apple, in the form of fewer iPod Touches sold and fewer MacBook Airs sold.
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A new French government sponsored study has recommended taxing online advertising revenues to help compensate the French creative industries for copyright infringement. The study proposes taxing the large online players Google, Facebook, Microsoft, AOL and Yahoo, but not ISPs, which are more traditionally seen as the key conduit for online media piracy. The sharp eyed among you will have noticed that these are all American companies and that the French ISPs are, well, French.
Parochialism aside, there is a major flaw in the logic here: if these large companies are deemed responsible in part for illegal content consumption, then so are the ISPs (arguably more so). And indeed the French Hadopi (Three Strikes) bill which this study is intended to complement, expressly apportions responsibility to the ISPs, making them partners in anti-piracy enforcement. So if they are deemed responsible under French law, shouldn't they also be subject to a levy, if one is implemented?
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|Not sure if I can be helpful, but I put it a new Tanks Inc. fuel tank in my Model A. It has the anti-spill vent in the top, right near where the fuel line comes out. (I got the tank and the valve from Yogi's-maybe they can help). From a practical standpoint, I don't see how you can vent a system if the valve is below the luqid line. That doesn't seem to make sense to me.
|I don't know about other LT1 equipped cars, but my '94 Impala SS (with a LT1) doesn't have a tank vent at all... it's a unvented system with a return line, charcoal canister, non-vent gas cap, etc.
fuel anti spill valve for gas tank
I am rodding a 36 Chevy and built my own fuel tank. I'm running a 94 LT1 engine. I used the sending unit out of a Grand Am Pontiac and put it on my homebuilt tank. The sending unit includes the fuel line, fuel return line and a vent line.
I've been told to put a roll-over anti-spill valve on the vent line. Another person said it's not necessary as that sending unit has the roll over anti spill valve built into the sending unit. I've also been advised to put the vent below the tank level so that if the car does roll over the vent line will be above the tank and won't spill fuel.
Does anyone know if the GM sending units for fuel injected vehicles (about 1990 or 91) had a built-in anti spill in the vent line? Is it a good idea to put the vent line below the fuel tank level? Seems like you could get a siphon effect and leak fuel in the upright position if that was the case.
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Contrast enhancement of EPID images via difference imaging : a feasibility study
Kairn, Tanya, Khoei, Shadi, Markwell, Tim, Fielding, Andrew L., & Trapp, Jamie (2010) Contrast enhancement of EPID images via difference imaging : a feasibility study. Physics in Medicine and Biology, 55(22), N533-N545.
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In this study, the feasibility of difference imaging for improving the contrast of electronic portal imaging device (EPID) images is investigated. The difference imaging technique consists of the acquisition of two EPID images (with and without the placement of an additional layer of attenuating medium on the surface of the EPID)and the subtraction of one of these images from the other. The resulting difference image shows improved contrast, compared to a standard EPID image, since it is generated by lower-energy photons. Results of this study show that, ¯rstly, this method can produce images exhibiting greater contrast than is seen in standard megavoltage EPID images and that, secondly, the optimal thickness of attenuating material for producing a maximum contrast enhancement may vary with phantom thickness and composition. Further studies of the possibilities and limitations of the di®erence imaging technique, and the physics behind it, are therefore recommended.
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Slaney still yearns to run
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EUGENE, Oregon (Reuters) - Even after all the pain, the surgery and the heartbreak, Mary Slaney still wants to run.
"If I could get healthy, I would get out there and see how much an almost 51-year-old body could do," America's greatest female middle-distance runner told Reuters in a recent interview. "But I can't get healthy enough orthopedically."
A multitude of operations, more than 30 by her count, has left her unable to run competitively.
"I guess it was '99 I had surgeries on my legs and my feet that was supposed to help me stay healthy, help me enough to train...I was looking at starting to train for marathons," she said. "Well, this surgery, it just destroyed what there was left."
More recent operations have not solved the problems for the former 1,500 and 3,000 meters world champion who, as Mary Decker, became known for the on-track collision with Britain's Zola Budd that destroyed her hopes of winning the 1984 Olympic 3,000 title.
So Slaney jogs every other day and hikes in the woods with her three Weimaraner dogs on the 55-acre property she and her husband of 24 years, former British discus thrower Richard Slaney, own outside Eugene.
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