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WARREN BUFFETT, the American investment guru known as the Sage of Omaha, yesterday defended Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan against accusations that he had failed to halt America's economic slowdown.
"I think Greenspan's done a terrific job. We couldn't have had a better Fed chairman," he said in London. His comments came as both the FTSE 100 index and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied for the third day in a row. London's blue chip shares gained 151.5 - up more than 400 points since Friday. This was despite a speech by Mr Greenspan in which he disappointed investors by failing to mention either the state of the US economy or his interest rate policy.
Like Mr Greenspan, Mr Buffett would not be drawn on whether there would be a global recession. All America's wealthiest man after Bill Gates would say is: "I have no idea. The only prediction I would make is that I will be chairman and CEO of [his insurance and investment company] Berkshire Hathaway in a year's time." He admitted that several of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries were experiencing a sales slowdown.
"We are not doing a lot of [share] buying - we are buying more planes than stocks," Mr Buffett added. "Companies are all different. They are like children - none are the same, apart from twins." Asked what his advice to stock-pickers was, he said: "Do what you understand - don't buy a stock just because someone told you it would go up."
Mr Buffett is as famous for his homespun investment tips as for having shunned the dot com boom in favour of more traditional stocks. This strategy paid off last year when Berkshire Hathaway's profits rose 113pc to $3.3 billion. In Washington DC, Mr Greenspan addressed the National Association for Business Economics, where he kept closely to his chosen subject - improving statistical information. He argued that current economic indicators were failing to take the impact of technological change into account.
Mr Greenspan has drawn criticism that he acted too late in cutting American interest rates three times in the last three months by a total of 150 basis points. Before this year, he had not cut interest rates since 1998 - something his critics say helped the boom and subsequent collapse in technology and telecom shares.
While Mr Greenspan refused to give global stock markets a lead, American Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill gave sentiment a fillip. He said the American economy was fundamentally sound and characterised by low inflation and unemployment. "The recent slowdown occurs against the backdrop of this fundamental soundness. Although equity markets have been unsettled recently, broad equity measures still have tripled in value over the past decade.
"The strength of the US economy is not reflected in any one asset price or number but in the flexibility and adaptability of our entire economy to new challenges", Mr O'Neill said. The Dow Jones was about 120 points higher in early trading as stronger-than-expected American consumer confidence figures for March eased recession worries. Mr Buffett was in London to promote his company Executive Jet, which offers clients fractional ownership of corporate jets.


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Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel Black
Unless We Forget 9/11/2001 - Poem by Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel Black
I saw Heaven in the clouds
A place of freedom and light
In a land of diverse crowds
Living and respecting each person's rights
I saw a vision of this world
As a globe in the universe
Where we practised by the word:
Tolerance as a personal choice
If each of us could reach
That special inner peace
Then Liberty will teach
And hatred will now cease
Since I can make the choice
Between Heaven or Hell on Earth
Then my one singular voice
Shouts PEACE for what it is worth
I saw a vision in the heavens
As each day goes sadly by
Let us not forget nine-eleven
Or our Freedom for which they died.
Comments about Unless We Forget 9/11/2001 by Lorraine Margueritte Gasrel Black
Costa Anakiev (3/30/2009 4:43:00 AM)
Well, I'm not going to tell you what I think about America, but I must say that you wrote a great work: sincere and well rhymed. (Report) Reply
Kathryn Tyler King (9/10/2008 5:35:00 PM)
Yes we seek peace at all cost. It is too bad that so many don't like Americans because of our love of freedom and love of man and our untiring attempts to help mankind.. I too look to the clouds for one day my Lord will come..
Blessings. (Report) Reply
Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar (9/6/2008 8:03:00 AM)
Visionery is imaginary for poets, that you handled well (Report) Reply
Paolo Giuseppe Mazzarello (9/5/2008 4:29:00 PM)
All the world has a gratitude debt with America, also those countries that believe the opposite. This poem expresses kindness to everybody. I want to return trust. (Report) Reply
Hannah Martin (9/4/2008 4:14:00 PM)
This poem is really cool! It's so great that someone still remembers 9/11! (Report) Reply
Shaun William Hayes (9/2/2008 1:16:00 PM)
almost visionary style, good meter, nice poem with a relevant subject, Well done. (Report) Reply
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China's State Administration of Taxation is believed to have joined a historic international collaboration led by the Australian Tax Office to investigate eight of the world's largest technology giants, including Apple and Google.
The project involves tax administrators from six countries pooling intelligence that for the first time allows comparison of what the tech companies report in different jurisdictions. It is the brainchild of the new ATO commissioner, Chris Jordan.
Mr Jordan said on Monday the tech companies may have skipped more than $1 billion of Australian tax alone by reporting profits in tax havens, though this was only a "rough proxy".
Speaking at a briefing in Sydney for the G20 international tax symposium in Tokyo on Friday, Mr Jordan refused to name the technology companies under investigation – but it appears certain that they include Apple and Google.
Last month it was reported that three of the eight tech companies were under active audit, though it's not known which.
In March The Australian Financial Review reported that Apple had moved an estimated $8.9 billion in Australian earnings via Singapore to Ireland in the past decade, where it pays less than 1¢ in $1000 tax.
That calculation suggested Apple was channelling $2 billion a year of profits from its Australian operation through Singapore and Ireland, after its products are manufactured by Foxconn in China.
Mr Jordan said the cross-border investigation had found "sometimes there are differences" between what was known of the tech companies in different countries.
"It's one thing to assert a particular complex structure. What we're doing is checking on the ground: is that actually working as asserted?"
While Mr Jordan also declined to name the countries working with Australia, China's top tax man, SAT chief Wang Jun, referred to the joint investigation in a speech to the Forum of Tax Administration in Paris in January.
"The issues of cross-border trade and e-commerce taxation in the context of the digital economy could not be addressed by one or several countries, and require concerted efforts among countries, so as to tackle challenges from new business formats on tax administration," Mr Wang said.
Australian and Chinese tax officers have worked closely together, with a delegation of Chinese auditors coming to Australia for training mid-year.
The ability for China and Australia and other countries to compare notes, for example on the costs of manufacturing electronic equipment in China, could apply not just to companies like Apple but also potentially to mining, banking and general manufacturing.
"As the saying goes, fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose, and helping others proves mutually beneficial," Mr Wang said in Paris.
Mr Jordan said he proposed the collaboration after an FTA summit in Moscow in May last year.
"It seemed so obvious. I see this as the way of the future, so we can have much more global picture of what's happening in these industries, like the participants in this industry do themselves."
"It's hard to work out precise figures on that because some of these companies claim we don't have a taxing right, so they don't report sales," he said, in an apparent reference to companies such as Google.
"They'll only report operations of the company actually here in Australia. Not a lot of sales are done directly with Australian customers, but with some foreign affiliate."
"We've done some proxy calculations," Mr Jordan said. "So if you look at the international accounts for some of these [companies], what are the sales, what are the gross margins, what are the net margins?
"Australia's something like 1.8 to 2 per cent of world GDP, so if you can take some proxy figures of worldwide sales and you apply the margins as per the accounts, and then compare that to what is actually disclosed here – these are rough proxies.
"It's more than hundreds of millions of tax. It does get into the billion-type-plus figure of what's reported in tax returns versus what's reported as our size of world GDP."
He later qualified: "That was a very rough proxy. We don't know the size of the problem is the short answer here."
Deputy commissioner Mark Konza, who heads the international collaboration, spoke of instances when "middle management" had changed structures originally set up by tax advisers.
"And we've observed, over time markets mature, technology changes and people change their business arrangements, but they don't go back to the professionals to say, 'Is this still in keeping with the law?'"
Last year Apple told a parliamentary committee on infrastructure and communications that it calculated transfer pricing under an advanced pricing agreement with the ATO up to 2011 and was in the process of renewing the APA.
Last November Mr Jordan said in an interview, "In the digital e-commerce space, we're just pausing on some of the progress of the APAs.
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Last month the ATO said it had declined or deferred five APA applications.
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An Apple spokesman declined to comment. Google said in a statement last week: "We paid $7.1 million in corporate taxes and $15 million in payroll and other taxes in Australia.
"We believe international forums like the OECD are the right place to decide tax rules for multinational businesses because everyone would benefit from a simpler and more transparent system."
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HONOLULU — Hawai'i Pacific University (HPU) and Ulupono Initiative announced today a partnership for the establishment of a state-of-the-art facility which aims to tackle Hawai'i's vital issue of local food security.
As part of its mission to increase local food production, Ulupono Initiative is investing $1 million to help finance Hawai'i Pacific University's prototype feed mill to be constructed on Hawai'i Island. The long-planned project is spearheaded by Oceanic Institute, HPU (OI-HPU) – which became a directed research unit of the university in January of this year.
Hawai'i's isolation as an island state makes food security a priority for its residents. Currently, 85-90 percent of the state's food is imported, which makes it particularly vulnerable to natural disasters and global events that disrupt shipping and the food supply. Nearly all of Hawai'iʻs animal feed is imported because the cost of local inputs is too high. For local animal producers, feed is the single largest operational cost.
"Hawai'i's aquaculture and livestock industry play a critical role in the food security and resilience of our state, but they are threatened by the volatility of feed, fuel and fertilizer," said Kyle Datta, general partner of Ulupono Initiative.
Through this innovative feed mill project, researchers from Oceanic Institute-HPU will create feed for animals — including cattle, poultry, and moi — and will incorporate byproducts from local industries such as sugarcane, fisheries, papaya and algae, which otherwise go to waste. Once formulated to meet each animal's specific nutritional needs, the feed will be tested on a scale relevant to Hawai'i farmers.
"Currently at our OI-HPU Makapu'u campus, we have the only pilot-scale research feed mill for tropical and subtropical aquaculture in the US and Pacific-Island region. This partnership with Ulupono Initiative provides an unparalleled opportunity for us to evaluate locally available waste products and transform them into feed ingredients on a commercial scale to support local food production," said Shaun Moss, OI-HPU executive director.
Ulupono Initiative's investment funds the installation of the necessary equipment to automate the plant, making it more productive, efficient and economically viable, which, if successful, would catalyze development of commercial feed mills in Hawai'i. The long-run competitiveness of Hawai'i-based beef, dairy, poultry, fish, and hogs are dependent on local feed availability.
"Feed represents 70 to 80 percent of the costs of raising an animal, and feed prices have nearly doubled since 2009, forcing many Hawai'i producers to cease operations," said Datta. "By investing in this feed mill, which is capable of supporting pre-commercial feed trials, Ulupono seeks to help lower feed costs with a locally produced alternative to imported feed that will improve the financial viability for Hawai'i's aquaculture and livestock producers."The feed mill is also supported by the USDA, the Hawai'i State Departments of Agriculture and Land and Natural Resource, and private donors.


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Leighton Meester? Kristen Stewart? Who Is Garrett Hedlund Hanging Out With?
As we told you before, Kristen and Garrett are just friends. In fact, we've learned exclusively he has been spending lots of time with another brunette starlet — Leighton Meester!
The Country Strong stars have been romantically linked before, but things might be heating up between the two. After both overlapping in London earlier this month (coincidence or conspiracy?), Leighton and Garrett were spotted this weekend hanging out together at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles.
A witness tells Celebuzz the duo grabbed breakfast by the pool, were "cutely affectionate" and looked "enamored" with one another. We don't want to give all the tidbits away, because it sounds like it was a nice, private moment for the Gossip Girl and her rumored beau, but one thing is for sure — Kristen definitely isn't the woman in Garrett's life. Besides, whoever said that she and Robert Pattinson were no longer a secret couple?
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A Manitoba-based research group says there were two UFO sightings on Prince Edward Island last year.
UFOlogy released its annual Canadian survey earlier this month, indicating Canadians reported nearly 2,000 sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in 2012, a new record.
The survey marks the 24th year the group has tracked UFO sightings in Canada.
According to the group, Ontario residents reported seeing the most UFOs, with more than 40 per cent of all sightings in the country occurring in the province..
Many of the sightings are posted to YouTube.
Chris Rutkowski, a research co-ordinator with UFOlogy, said there were a couple of reported sightings on P.E.I. last year.
"One case that made our list of most interesting cases last year was one in Cornwall,'' Rutkowski told The Guardian by email on Friday.
The case he refers to took place in January 2012 but he wouldn't identify who reported the sighting.
"It was reported to MUFON, the American-based UFO group and sent to them online.''
Rutkowski said a Cornwall couple was out on their deck on Jan. 9, 2012, between 9:30 and 10 p.m. the sky was cloudless and the moon bright.
He said they noticed a bright light due west. The husband focused on the light with his binoculars and could see a craft he assumed was a helicopter.
"I saw a red light on one side and a green light on the other, a bright white light to give the definition of a triangle and a dimmer white LEDish strobe light from within the centre,'' the husband said in an email to MUFON. "Other than the strobe light the others seemed absurdly bright, yet not blinding.''
Rutkowski said what happened next was odd. The craft rotated 360 degrees without deviation up and down or side to side, and headed in the couple's direction, stopping directly above them. The craft appeared to be 450 to 500 feet in the air, he said.
What made it even more odd was that there was no sound coming from the UFO overhead.
"As it approached, I saw a triangular black craft, kind of like a stealth bomber, wings from the nose but straight across the tail from wing tip to wing tip. Its lights were ridiculously bright but did not seem to emit light. It's hard to describe. It was directly above us . . . we could see its belly.''
Rutkowski says the UFO suddenly transformed into a ball of white light and began flying east.
"It seemed to consciously skirt the town and just do the circumference and come back. We watched this cycle three times and it went north and we never saw it again. Total time within 1,000 feet (of the ground) was about five minutes; beyond 1,000 feet, about an hour.''
Rutkowski said the couple asked around Cornwall "without sounding crazy'' but no one they talked to saw the UFO.
The UFOlogy researcher said they track UFO sightings because it's a fairly common phenomenon, with roughly 10 per cent of Canadians believing they've seen them.
Rutkowski said he doesn't quite know what to think of the sighting in Cornwall last year.
"To my knowledge, it was never fully investigated.''


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Jane Goodall's 30 years of study showed that chimpanzees are every bit as compassionate, altruistic, brutal and war-mongering as humans. But that won't guarantee their survival, reports Esther Addley.
In the course of a five-decade career, she has become the confidante of presidents and pop stars, has shaken the hands, she reckons, of several million people, raised vast funds for conservation projects, inspired, in effect, the birth of a new branch of science, and redefined our understanding of what makes humans distinct from animals.
There is, however, one incident, which, for Jane Goodall, stands out as the most significant of her life.
"It was one day that I was tracking through the jungle, following David Greybeard, who was always my favourite, at a distance. At one point, I thought I'd lost him, and then, suddenly, I entered a clearing, and he was sitting there, looking at me, as if he had been waiting for me. And who knows, perhaps he was?"
She is still delighted by the memory: "I wasn't quite sure what to do, but, after a little while, I approached him, very gingerly, and I noticed there was a pine nut on the ground - they love those. So I picked it up, and very slowly, very gently, held it out to him. He pushed my hand away, but he didn't run away.
"So I tried again, and he took the pine nut from me, and threw it on the ground. But then he did the most remarkable thing. He reached out his hand" - she slowly extends her own - "and covered mine with it, and just held it for a moment."
Her touch on my wrist is cool, and feather light.
"It's what chimpanzees do to reassure each other. And it was just remarkable, this wild animal communicating with me just as he would with a member of his own species. I don't know if there was some ancient brotherhood between us that he was tapping into. But I found it absolutely incredible."
At that moment, she says, she knew that the evolutionary gap between humans and chimpanzees was not, after all, so very wide.
Goodall was 26 when she first started work with chimpanzees. A former secretary from Bournemouth, she had had a lifelong obsession with animals, but had no academic training, in science or anything else.
She had arrived in Africa three years earlier, in 1957, having saved up waitressing tips to pay for the long boat journey south, and, through a mix of chance and persistence, got a job as secretary to the anthropologist Louis Leakey.
Leakey was already well known as a result of the extraordinary hominid fossils he was uncovering at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. Within a few months, Goodall had convinced him that she was the person to undertake a study of a group of chimpanzees that he had identified living in an area of virgin forest called Gombe on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
Leakey had a hunch that a study of the social lives of the chimps would help him understand better the early hominids he was discovering at Olduvai, and their modern human descendants. But neither he nor, certainly, Goodall had the smallest inkling of the shattering effect her observations would have on the cosy assumptions of behavioural science.
"Oh no," she laughs. "I didn't know the first thing about studying chimps so I had no idea what I would find. They had never been studied in the wild before ... I wasn't interested in being a scientist. I wanted to learn about chimpanzees and write books about them, that was all."
In fact, her most celebrated finding, the one that would prompt Stephen Jay Gould to call her work "one of the Western world's great scientific achievements", came quite by accident, and within months of her arrival at Gombe.
One rainy morning, Goodall witnessed, through her binoculars, the same chimp she called David Greybeard pushing a long, leafy stem into a hole in a termite mound, withdrawing it, and sucking from it the soldier termites that had clung to it. He was, Goodall realised, fishing for his food.
The ability to make tools, until then accepted as the chasm that separated humans from the animal kingdom, was not, after all, exclusive to homo sapiens. In a breathless telegram, Leakey enthused: "We must now redefine man, redefine tools, or accept chimpanzees as humans."
Goodall has just turned 69. It is 43 years since she established her research station, making the chimps of Gombe the best known and longest studied community of wild animals in the world.
But the pace of Goodall's life has, if anything, accelerated. Having spent almost 30 years in solitary, silent observation, crouched behind bushes in the African jungle, Goodall now travels for 300 days a year, campaigning tirelessly on conservation issues. Since 1986, she has not spent more than three weeks in one place.
We first meet in London, when Goodall's assistant Mary Lewis, one of the ferociously competent middle-aged women who steer her through her relentless itinerary, mentions that Goodall might have a free hour or two while passing through the capital. In fact, we manage a conversation of 15 minutes, squeezed between a book launch and a rare afternoon spent with her sister and niece.
Some weeks later, Lewis gets in touch to say Goodall will have some time in mid-March while visiting Denver, Colorado, if I can make it there.
"She's like a rock star in America," Lewis had warned, but the reaction that this shy, grey-haired Englishwoman excites still comes as a shock. We are smuggled into buildings via back doors and underground service lifts, while excited fans push forwards for an autograph or a picture.
At a book-signing in Boulder, a number of the several hundred people queueing for an autograph are in tears by the time they reach Goodall's table.
"I had four people tell me today that they had done science to PhD level because of me," an exhausted Goodall notes with quiet triumph.
Be in no doubt, Goodall is very famous indeed. She is almost certainly the only prominent scientist who needs occasionally to wear dark glasses and a wig to disguise herself from enthusiastic fans.
For this remarkable level of celebrity, Goodall largely has the National Geographic Society to thank. Encouraged by her observation of toolmaking, the organisation was persuaded to provide funding for a further year's research.
Some time later it sent out a young photographer, Hugo van Lawick. Goodall's work with the chimps was in its infancy and she was still "habituating" the chimps to her presence when he arrived. His photographs of wild chimpanzees looking under her shirt for hidden bananas, and early films of baby apes reaching out to touch her nose, were flashed around the world. The beautiful, white woman, with the strangely spiritual connection with nature, very quickly became a star.
In 1964, Van Lawick and Goodall married, three years later, had a son, Hugo.
But if the public reacted enthusiastically to her work, the reaction from the scientific community, which her observations so challenged, could scarcely have been more different. In 1962, encouraged by Leakey, she left Gombe to write up her findings for a PhD at Cambridge University.
"He knew that I would never be taken seriously without some form of academic training," she says, "and we didn't have time to do a BA."
But the greeting she met there, she says, was "hostility, pure hostility".
"A rather supercilious, superior attitude. Just shrugging me off: 'The Geographic cover girl, that's all you are'."
Not knowing any better at the time, Goodall had begun by feeding the chimps, to win their trust. She had also, while making no effort to tame them, given them names, mainly to help her identify them.
Accepted wisdom demanded that she should have numbered them, like other scientific subjects. Most damningly, her attribution of personalities and emotions - grief, despair, empathy - to the individual animals was seen as naive and shockingly anthropomorphic.
When her PhD thesis was returned to her after a first reading, the genders of the chimps had been crossed out, in every case replacing "he" or "she" with "it". Furious, Goodall wrote her pronouns back in. The thesis stayed as she wanted it.
Her studies would go on to show that chimpanzees demonstrate a range of behaviours previously thought unique to humans: reasoned thought, abstraction, generalisation, symbolic representation, and concept of self.
But not all her findings were benign. Goodall admits she was "devastated" to observe that the chimpanzees, widely romanticised as prelapsarian noble savages, were every bit as capable of brutality as their hominid cousins.
It was known that the apes occasionally ate meat, but Goodall was the first to observe male chimps in highly organised, savage hunts of smaller mammals for food. She watched two female chimps embark on a murderous, and cannibalistic, campaign against other females' young.
At one point, the Gombe chimps became embroiled in what Goodall calls "the four-year war", in which one group of chimps set about systematically annihilating a smaller group that had become isolated from it.
Such levels of sophisticated and brutal behaviour had never been observed in non-human primates, and they sparked controversy.
"It wasn't until I went to a Unesco conference on aggression that I realised the politics of science," she says.
"My observations suggested that in chimps, certainly, violence was innate, so I assumed it was probably innate in us. But I was criticised for even publishing those findings.
"Some scientists said to me, 'If you publish this information, people will take for granted that we have inherited aggression from our ancient primate ancestors, and war is inevitable.'
"It was my first experience of how vicious that can be."
So is human warfare a biologically predetermined inevitability?
"Clearly I do believe we have inherited aggressive tendencies - you can't look around the world and say that we don't have some kind of innate response to certain actions, which is an aggressive response.
"But, at the same time, chimpanzees show love, compassion and altruism; we have inherited those things too. And, with our huge brains, we have far more ability to control our genetic inheritance than any other creature.
"War is not inevitable. Human aggression can be controlled."
She was appalled by the recent conflict in Iraq and vocal about it.
If the National Geographic films made Goodall a star; they also sparked a small stampede of scientists and amateurs wanting, effectively, to be her.
Two women in particular, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas, contacted Leakey begging for similar jobs. He assigned them to projects observing, respectively, gorillas in Rwanda and orang-utans in Borneo. (The three came to be known, in science circles, as Leakey's "trimates".)
Primate studies is now well established around the world. Inspired, in part, by the three women, primatology is one of the few branches of science in which women predominate (62 per cent of members of the world directory of primatologists are female; 90 per cent of sanctuaries around the world are run by women). It may also be, suggests Goodall, that women are simply better at this kind of science.
"Women traditionally have had to notice little signals between males, to keep the peace. And most importantly, they have to understand the wants of a non-verbal being."
In 1986, Goodall ceased to be a field scientist. She was attending a conference, marking the publication of her major behavioural study The Chimpanzees of Gombe, at which primatologists working across the globe got to their feet, one by one, and described the critical threats - from habitat destruction to the bush-meat trade - to their respective communities.
"I realised, right there, that I had to leave being an observer, and I had to go and do something. I had absolutely no choice. It was really weird, because I went to that conference fully planning to write volume two of that study, and I came away knowing I never would."
Goodall is very big on positivity, and unrelenting on the theme of "hope", but the truth, as she knows, is that the future for the chimps at Gombe is perilous. While the 77.6 square kilometre park is protected, deforestation immediately outside its boundaries has been devastating.
Gombe's chimpanzee community now numbers only 150 or so individuals, leaving the long-term genetic sustainability of the group in doubt. Across Africa, the chimp population has fallen in a century from 2million to 150,000.
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decision makers, but take matters into our own hands, realise that ... if
everyone who cares acts in a way that is ethical, thinks about buying ethical
things ..." she pauses with a self-conscious smile, "then the world would be
changed very fast."
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It's just days since the the iPhone 5 was announced, and Apple is already taking pre-orders for its thinnest smartphone yet. That is, you could if pre-orders hadn't reportedly sold out within an hour.
It's not quite clear whether the stock shortage is because of record demand, Apple is giving itself more time so it won't disappoint over-excited punters or something has gone slightly wrong in the supply department, but we know Apple has allegedly pushed shipping back another week, bringing the total time before your iGoodness arrives to a fortnight.
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The Rays skipper called the proposed beer ban in the clubhouse "asinine" and then flashed his knowledge of history and the politics of 1919.
"I'm not into knee-jerk reactions," the Rays manager told WEEI.com. "...If you want to be proactive about some thoughts, go ahead, be proactive and I'm all for that. But to say a grown-up can't have a beer after a game? Give me a break. That is, I'm going to use the word, 'asinine,' because it is. Let's bring the Volstead Act back, OK. Let's go right back to prohibition and start legislating everything all over again. All that stuff pretty much annoys me, as you can tell."
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International Softball Federation President Don Porter tracks his sport's Olympic journey to the day. Monday, as he and others present softball's case to be readmitted for the 2016 Olympics to the International Olympic Committee's executive board in Lausanne, Switzerland, the count is at 29 years, six months, 19 days.
Few of those days, which began when Porter started pushing for softball's initial inclusion, have been as important as this one. Softball was part of the past four Summer Games, but the IOC voted in 2005 to drop it from the 2012 Olympics.
"We've got a lot of young female athletes out there that want to have their Olympic dreams, and I want to stop looking at all those e-mails from an awful lot of them and say, 'Hey, your Olympic dreams are back,' " Porter says.
IOC executive board members also will hear today from representatives of the six other sports vying to be on the 2016 Olympic program: baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, rugby sevens and squash. The 15-member board plans to pick two sports at a meeting in August to recommend for a vote by the full IOC membership in October.
The cities in the running to host the 2016 Summer Olympics — Chicago, Madrid, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo — are in Lausanne this week as well to present the technical aspects of their bids to the IOC membership at large.
It is the first time, and the only time before final presentations the day of the Oct. 2 vote, that the cities will be able to speak to the IOC members all at once.
"We think because Chicago is lesser known generally to IOC members than each of the other three cities, that it helps us to be able to make Chicago come alive to these members," says Pat Ryan, chairman and CEO of Chicago 2016.
Chicago bid officials plan to emphasize the proximity of their planned venues to one another and to downtown parks and cultural centers. Since Chicago is the only bidding city without a blanket guarantee that the federal government will cover any cost overruns, bid officials will try to assure IOC members that finances will not be an issue.
"We're very proud of where we are," Ryan says of the $1.2 billion safety net that is "a blend of city and state and insurance guarantees, which we really believe is something more favorable to the taxpayer."
This week's presentations, whether by sports or candidate cities, are aimed at currying favor with the IOC.
Softball officials primarily will try to convince the IOC executive board that they have made softball a much more global game than it was when it was voted out. They have also instituted rules designed to make games shorter and, presumably, more Olympics-friendly.
"There's a whole number of things that we're trying to do to say, hey, softball has made a lot of changes and will make more. And we want that opportunity to be part of the Olympic family again," Porter says.
Baseball was dropped from the Olympic program at the same time as softball, with IOC members citing doping issues in Major League Baseball and the lack of big-league players on Olympic rosters.
Don Fehr, executive director of the MLB Players Association, and MLB President Bob DuPuy will be in Lausanne to help smooth those concerns.
Baseball is proposing a five-day Olympic tournament, as opposed to the 13-day competition in past Games, that might accommodate having major league players compete.
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Location, easy parking, quiet, lovely garden and nice staff. Rooms were average, not much character.
Very atmospheric hotel in superb location, specially for visiting fabulous cathedral and museum at Autun. Also good secure parking for travellers with loaded cars.
yes excellent hotel though breakfast was poor breakfast poor coffee very bad (for france)
classy, elegant, sevice good!
location in old historic building. Quiet location, niece views. small rooms with hardly any closet space. Old mattress. I would not recommend the restaurant.
Nice view and comfortable room Very limited range of choice on restaurant menu, although the food was good, drinks were overpriced and they could not supply a Cafe creme.
the town of Autun the interior was unattractive
Manager was helpful when radiator in our room wasn't working. Breakfast was good. Evening receptionist didn't want to understand that ,even though her computer said heating was on, we are intelligent enough to know whether or not there is heat!
The position in the ancient and picturesque town. The total peace and quiet of the rooms. The restaurant was excellent. The bathroom did not have a shower that you could use standing up!
The setting of the hotel in the beautiful old town of Autun near the magnificent cathederal. would love to stay at this hotel again. only the hand held shower ! The junior suite we had was lovely as was the views.
Family room for a good price Parking is 7 euros extra per night; Large variation in size and quality of suites for basically same price. If booked through hotels.com you get the smallest and oldest suite it seems
Location. The room was reasonably clean, but in the toilet there was someone's poo. This is not acceptable. Also sewage smell from the bath room was not pleasent at all. Not too bad place for budget travelers if you are prepared to put up with some discomfort or if you stay at hotel only to sleep.
Position, room When we arrived the receptionist was on the telephone having what appeared to be a private conversation. We were kept waiting for around five minutes before he was able to acknowledge us.
Quaint atmosphere, most unusual toilet! Good restaurant in hotel next door.
Clean, comfortable standard hotel. It offers us what we needed: rest after long way, clean bathroom, silence in the night.
simplicity of entry arrangements
The hotel offered reasonable facilities in a location on the edge of town. A little bit noisy with noise from the street.
It is directly across from the train station, the perfect location. There is no elevator, the only drawback. Otherwise, it was a very pleasant hotel, not deluxe, but a large, comfortable room. The owners are very helpful and friendly. I would go back. There is no elevator. Luckily, I was on the second floor, and not higher. The receptionist carried my suitcase up stairs, however.
The fact that it was an old railway hotel and pretty central to the town centre. The bathroom was nice. The long walk to our room. The lack of pillows. The lack of tea making facilities
we were on our way to germany and it was a convinient place to stay.
everything about our stay was excellent - from a warm welcome with queries quickly answered to attentive and helpful staff at meal times and excellent food.Breakfast was somewhat spartan but still worth the 5 Euros we paid.
The staff were friendly, the location was right across from the train station and walking distance to the main area of the town. As well, parking was free and locked up at night. The room's were small, but clean quiet.
Big parking place close to the hotel. Hotel in a quiet environment but close to city center. None
kitchen was closed after 22.00 hours
Only used it as an overnight stop
pleasant situation unwelcoming staff, smell of damp masked by room freshener in room, tinned vegetables at meal, poor service in restaurant by dour member of staff. We stayed in a number of hotels from different groups during our holiday and only found Ibis disappointing. Would certainly not use Ibis again. This hotel was run down and shabby. Seemed uncared for.
We were surprised that a fairly simple meal like croque- monsieur was not available when we needed something on our arrival. It was advertised on your menu. I would not have bothered to write but since you ask .......
Hotel was easy to find, room was clean and comfortable
The linen was clean and comfortable enough. Most of the staff was patient about having to open the door for me every time I returned to the room. It was tricky to pull the door in and somehow turn the key to the left... I had a hard time with it. I wanted a glass of red wine with dinner, the first night. They had only one bottle which had been opened already and stored cold. The temperature was shocking and it was pretty difficult to swallow. The next night I brought my own bottle and they were nice about lending me a corkscrew and a glass and bread to go with the cheese I ate in the room.
clean and comfortable with easy access from routes into town yet the town also very accessible no
Was a basic hotel. Rooms were cleaned every night. That was no fridge.
In every aspect this hotel is reasonably priced.
Good hotel, position and price The rooms face to a heavy traffic road.
Staff had reserved car park just outside the entrance. Very helpful receptionist. Excellent location. The hotel has no car park of its own, but is very helpful in making sure that a space for your car is available in the public car park.
Management was excellent and nothing was too much trouble for their guests.We highly recommend this hotel to your clients.
Attentive personnel and a gigantic wonderful park right on the grounds No elevator.... But this wasn't a huge problem because I didn't have much luggage.
shampoo. There is no shampoo provided by the hotel. I use to expect one in this kind of hotel
Staff spoke English willingly.
The maitre d' is wonderful. The food was very good. And although the outside temperature was below freezing, the whole hotel was properly heated. Our night receptionist, although charming, needed a hairbrush and a smarter jacket.
Good Breakfast and great to be so close to a lovely park however . . . Beware some rooms are very smoky and we weren't able to change to another.
Very quiet, comfortable bed
I liked very much the style of the hotel, the restaurant is very good. A very good value for money Poor english knowledge, Bathroom to be refurbished (tile on the floor broken, no airdryer
Nice circumstance, reasonable price.
many restaurants in the near of the hotel bathroom and toilette are not realy new
The room was spacious and attractively furnished.
Restaurant was excellent and the wine list comprehensive
Felt very welcome, helpful and not over fussy staff, beautiful new pool with pool side bar , delicious meals for a fair price , not at all impersonal - in short, we'd like to visit again! No
- Good location, as you go out on the left there is a lovely restaurant and if you like wine and you have a car you can travell to small villages in the wine region. - The room was a bit cold and the tv must be from the 80s.
The room and parking Lack of information about the hotel and services
Rooms very clean, staff english speaking and helpful
Excellent staff and service. Initially thought room may be noisy next to road but actually v quiet road through village. Restaurant v good and reasonably priced. No major bad points to report.
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Shakespeare Electronic Conference, Vol. 7, No. 0622. Friday, 23 August 1996.
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Subject: Edward III
I heard last night on the BBC World Service radio about evidence(s) that may
finally attribute the authorship of _(The Reign of King) Edward III_ to
Shakespeare. Someone called Prof Eric Sands (???) was involved with the
findings. This is all very new to me and I was half asleep when I heard it. Can
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The pope made the remarks as he welcomed Reinhard Schweppe as Germany's ambassador to the Holy See Nov. 7. The pope's talk focused on the church's role in defending human dignity.
"A relationship that does not take into account the fact that a man and a woman have the same dignity represents a serious lack of humanity," the pope said.
With the "materialistic and hedonistic tendencies" that seem to be gaining space in the West, there is a growing form of discrimination against women, the pope said.
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DJ~Clyme - Fly On
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
A song this long is hard to pull off and i must say well fluppin done. *starts downloading*
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars
its great but
the only thing i did not like in the song was when you had that voice in the middle and the end of the song it seemed out of place to me and sounded rather goofy
well, i like goofiness. :o
also, it doesn't sound as great as it should cuz i added to many FX to it. one of these day i will get around to fixing it though.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Great song
Sweet song. Definitely has a bittersweet yet uplifting feeling. Great intro also. Good job, love it!
thank you :)
Rated 5 / 5 stars
I like it :) - A lot :)
Quite a nice beat to it, although it could sound a little sad.. Not necessarily a bad thing, though, can be good to :) I how it's kinda like a fast beat, but still a chill and calm song and how the soft piano makes it delicious to listen to :) Keep it up, man! 5/5 + 10/10
I intended this to be somewhat of a sad song(bittersweet I guess I should say). I was trying to make a song that might relate to how a person who has lost someone close, would feel a lot of sadness, but also comfort in knowing that they will see them again in heaven.
thanks for taking the time to leave a review :)
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
This is true dance.
People who have never looked or heard a dance song before, DjClyme is the way to start. His songs? Amazing. His style? Couldn't get better. And that catchy choice of instruments? If you made a song three hours long, I would listen to the whole thing. DjClyme, you are a true artist. You added a lot of variety to this piece, but I feel you could have evened it out a little better. (Funny, something like THAT coming from me- I don't exactly practice what I preach.) However, most can't tell, and this is really great! 9/10 and 5/5!
thanks for a great review! :)


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HARLEM - Coach Cameron Davis believed his team would have a good season entering this year. So far, he's proven to be right. On Wednesday night, the boys team pulled off a first. The Bulldogs defeated Jefferson County in a shootout to close out the regular season with a perfect 17-0 record.
Thomas Huff tried to make a comeback in the second set Friday afternoon, but by then it was too late.
After Johns Creek had clinched a 4-0 victory over Lakeside in the second round of the Class AAAAAA Tournament, Huff and his opponent, Ben Ash, ended their match early. Huff lost the first set 6-2 before finishing 4-4 in the second.
"I did a pretty good in the second set of not getting broken," Huff said. "It was just really tough trying to break him."
Round 1 of the GHSA Baseball Playoffs gets underway this week. The good news is four of our five public schools are in the playoffs. The bad news? A couple of them face two of the top pitchers in the state in their opening game.
Here is a breakdown of the opponents our Columbia County Schools will square off with in the opening round.
Class AA
Bacon Co. (18-10, 10-4) @ Harlem (21-9, 12-2), 4 p.m., Friday, DH
It's been a while, but I still remember my first date with my wife.
It was Dec. 27, 1999. That happened to be the wedding anniversary of my deceased grandparents. Risa and I went to the movie theater and saw The Talented Mr. Ripley starring Matt Damon. We both hated the film. That movie is in my cinematic cellar, along with The Mosquito Coast, which featured one of my favorite actors (Harrison Ford).
Later, we ate at Fazoli's and talked and talked. Rule of thumb: On your first date, you don't want to go too fancy. Then you have nowhere to go from there.
Golf team fundraiserAugusta Eagles golf team tournament is April 28, Bartram Trail. Cost: $80 per player, $320 for foursome. This fundraiser's for the team's trip to the national championship event. For more info., call (706) 830-4650 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Golf fundraiser to be held
Inaugural Textron Specialized Vehicles Swing for Cancer tournament is May 1 at Jones Creek Golf Club. Cost: $50 per golfer, includes lunch, golf and cart fees. To register, call Blake Ross, (706) 868-0083.
Harlem golf tournament
Katie Essick's high school career, for a brief moment, seemed to be over.
When the Harlem soccer standout heard a pop and could no longer run in a contest against Glenn Hills in March, Essick feared the worst. After all, this was her second injury in two seasons.
After three weeks, she returned to the lineup and helped lead the Lady Bulldogs to their first region championship in six years. The school's all-time leading scorer posted six goals in a pivotal region win last week at Glenn Hills.
After suffering an injury last month in Harlem's lone loss of the season, Katie Essick counted down the weeks to face Glenn Hills again.
Essick got what she came for on a rainy Tuesday evening.
The Lady Bulldogs senior forward scored six goals as Harlem pulled away in the second half for a 9-3 victory over the Lady Spartans.
"I could not wait to play this game," Essick said. "I'm so grateful for the win."
When they compete in track, Augusta Prep teammates Jamie Holodak and Molly Joseph look to finish one-two.
How they finish, they each said, doesn't matter.
"It's a friendly competition," Joseph said. "If I get first, I'm thrilled. If it's Jamie, I'm OK. Either way, I'm proud of her and I'm sure she feels the same way about me. It's a win-win."
Early in the season, Jerry Hunter suspended his players from Laney's field for a week.
"Playing here had to mean something to them," Hunter said. "They came back and understood, this is a privilege. It's not a right, it's a privilege."
On Tuesday night, those same players celebrated a momentous win with a dogpile on that same field.
Omari Hunter threw a complete-game two-hitter and T.J. Smith delivered a go-ahead two-run double in the sixth as Laney toppled Harlem 3-1. The next day, the Wildcats won the Region 4-AA championship with a 15-0 win over Butler.
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Bury took to the floor with determination, matching the MABL Championship leaders for intensity on defence, with Chris Stainton and Conor Wilkinson hitting the target for Bury.
The defence of both teams was outstanding, physical but fair, leading to some fouls early on as players attempted to adjust. At the end of the first quarter, Bury trailed 20-15.
Graham Greene brought a spark to the game when he came off the bench, hitting two threes with Mike Nichols contributing on jumpshots and Bart Szareko getting inside. Bury clamped down defensively with Jay Knowles pressuring the guards and Phil Stainton causing havoc as Bury tied the game at 29 at half time.
The start of the second half didn't go to plan as frustration kicked in. Bury collected two technical fouls to give Preston the free throws to extend their lead to 10 as Bury began to falter.
Ergoli Togo and Stainton hit the target for Bury but the damage had been done as Preston outscored Bury 30-10, taking a 20 point lead into the final quarter.
Although Bury hit five quick points to cut the lead to 15 in a minute, Preston stepped on the gas and cruised to a 76-52 point win.


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A trial lawyer fighting for freedom one client at a time
Laws banning assault weapons, prohibiting clips capable of carrying dozens of rounds of ammunition, and requiring background checks of all gun purchasers will be about as effective in stopping gun violence as selling chastity belts in red-light districts. Most murders are crimes of passion and impulsive opportunity. Now that the United States is awash in guns – with approximately 80 firearms for every 100 people – lethal violence is everywhere.
Ask young men growing up in the nation's inner cities. They're dropping like flies in places like Chicago. We've our share of the craziness here in Connecticut, as well.
I've handled too many cases involving young men arguing about a woman, a liquor bottle, or nothing at all. The cases go something like this: A night out on the town, with a stop at a night club. Or maybe just some street-corner chatter. Someone says something stupid – the sort of thing we'd give someone a shove for years ago. A threat is made. An angry young man leaves, and then returns with a handgun. Bam, Bam, bam, and a few choice words, and there's a dead body on the ground. All present run for cover. In the days and weeks that follow, the police cajole a few eyewitnesses into testifying. Plea offers in this case are typically 30 to 35 years in prison. Lose at trial, and your client is lucky to be sentenced to 45 years behind bars.
These cases are heart-rending punches to the gut, costing, as they do, two lives, that of the murdered victim, and, that of the shooter.
Too often both the victim and the shooter in these cases are young black men. They were dying by the dozen each week across the United States long before Newtown. It wasn't national news when the victims were inner-city kids of color, and these victims aren't getting slaughtered by gun-toting Rambos carrying assault weapons. Handguns are the death-dealer's weapon of choice among urban youth.
"What's your problem with Operation Longetivity?" a voice said as I stood on line in Dunkin Donuts in New Haven the other morning. I didn't recognize the man who asked the question. He told me he was a probation officer. He was a brute block of a man, about 50, black, and with a world-weariness that told me I could trust him. He was asking me about the new federal initiative to jump on young men with guns.
"The feds don't have any business enforcing gun laws in the cities," I said. "It's like the war on drugs – it's going to devastate communities of color." He knows I am right. He is a plantation master for those released from prison, but living on the state's leash.
"Did you know that the latest thing is kids renting guns for drugs?" he said.
"How's that work?"
"You can rent a gun for a day or two in exchange for drugs."
Far too many guns are finding their way onto city streets by suburban kids who steal a gun for the parents and then trade it for guns.
We both shook our heads. It is, indeed, a crazy world. Amid all the talk of gun legislation in the wake of Newtown, no one is talking about what it will take turn the killing fields on our city streets into places of peace.
We need handgun legislation with teeth. I say lawmakers should create a statutory fine scheme. Whenever a handgun in used in a murder, the manufacturer of the gun should be fined $200,000. Every dealer who put the weapon in the stream of commerce should be fine $10,000 in such cases. Every registered owner should be fined $5,000. I've a hunch that once these fines started adding up, fewer guns would find their way onto the streets and into the hands of young who use them to settle trifling grudges.
We're playing at gun reform just now, and ignoring the inner cities. I suspect that's because a lot of folks just don't care if one black man kills another. In too many circles, I suspect such crimes are twofers, getting two African-Americans off the street, one by death, the other by prison. Deny it if you like, but only after soul-searching, ye white suburbanites.
We get the law enforcement we deserve. I say hit the gun lobby in the pocketbook, and hard. You want to own a gun. Fine. Pay for the consequences of their misuse.
Reprinted courtesy of the Connecticut Law Tribune.
Have you bought your AR-15 yet? Do you have enough ammunition? Are you ready to shoot your way to freedom and security? And what about a stockpile of food, and reserves of water? How long can you hold out on your own when the end comes, or when the tyrants in Washington come goose-stepping to your front door?Press accounts of the long lines at gun dealers' shops nationwide reflect gun and ammunition prices are soaring. A friend even saw her doctor standing on line to buy a gun on a news clip. It's like a collective psychosis. Just what are we preparing for?When I was in grade school in Chicago we were required to participate in safety drills. An alarm would go off, and we'd all be required to huddle under our desks. You see, the Russians might launch a nuclear weapon. The blast would be ferocious, we were told: it would destroy everything. We needed to look away from the windows to avoid being blinded by the flash or having our eyes filled with shards of glass.I learned fear and paranoia with my ABCs.
In hindsight, the safety drills seem almost silly. Come the holocaust, what were the odds that we'd survive if our city were blown to smithereens? Indeed, who'd want to survive a nuclear winter, in a world in which civilization was destroyed and only zombies stalked the earth?I imagined living through the blasts, and being one of the few folks left alive. I'd find a car, learn to drive it, and head to Washington, D.C., where a stash of secret papers would undoubtedly explain just how and why the human race had decided to destroy itself. I guess I assumed that someone was in control, that there was an inchoate sense to the world, and to events, and that I could learn what it was. I'm older now, and realize just how silly the fantasy of order really was.What fantasies of survival elementary do kids tell themselves today as we arm ourselves in preparation for, well, what exactly?Listening to gun advocates, we need to arm ourselves as an act of patriotic necessity. Evil tyrants lurk, or so we are told. Joshua Barton, a former Marine, found his fifteen minutes of fame writing an angry letter to House Majority Leader Diane Feinstein. "I will not register my weapons," he tells her. He won't tell the government how many weapons he owns. "I am a patriot," not a servant, subject or a peasant, he says.And what of Alex Jones? He started a petition to deport television personality Piers Morgan because Morgan, a British national, is calling for gun control. "We [started the petition] to point out that this is globalism and the mega banks that control the planet and brag that they've taken over in Bloomberg, AP, Reuters, you name it, brag that they are going to get our guns as well," Jones barked on national television. Uh, Alex. Did you forget the Trilateral Commission and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?A good friend of mine, a criminal defense lawyer, told me the other day that his guns would have to be pried from his cold, dead fingers. Another gun advocate recently threatened to shoot to kill anyone who touched his guns. Continued...
All this looks more like collective madness: Just how many times must I be able to imagine killing my neighbor before I can put my head down on the pillow for a good night's sleep?Barton's letter is a twisted farce, not a patriot's prayer. Students of classics will recognize him as a stereotype drawn from Plato's Republic: he's got plenty of spirit, but little sense, a perfect guardian in arms, but lacking the sense to govern. He looks like a corporate stooge.Gun manufacturers are having a field day. Shares in publicly traded gun companies have doubled and tripled in value in recent weeks. Gun store owners are selling their stock as quickly as it arrives. There is profit to be made in arming us to the teeth and telling us that guns are good for us, as American as Jefferson, Hamilton and even George Washington themselves.All this patriotic double talk about guns obscures a larger truth: The sometime patriots who arm themselves against a tyrant are often the same people who complain bitterly about big government. Yet, I cannot recall the last time a gun was used in an act of political violence or resistance. In other words, when you call the armed patriot's bluff, you learn quickly enough that all this talk about guns and liberty is simply white noise.When Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Arizona in 2011, my first reaction was: "It's about time." I wasn't rooting for her death or for mayhem, but it struck me that the rage and frustration of the millions of forgotten Americans locked out of their homes, health care and the American dream might have erupted to the point of forcing violent change. History is made of such stuff, after all. Real patriots sometimes bleed. But it turned out that Giffords' shooter was mentally ill.An observation of Ted Rall's strikes me as apt. European social legislation is generally more progressive because European history is far longer and more violent than ours: The bloodlines of the ruling elite in Europe have from time to time bled in response to social revolution. We simply don't revolt in the United States.Of course, there was the American Revolution, but a revolution of slave owners and propertied colonists against a distant overload is hardly a social revolution.Today's gun patriots are corporate dupes. They are arming themselves out of fear of one another. They say they're worried about tyranny, but not a one of them is serious about social change. Big government and big corporations pull the strings of the death economy. Somehow, they've managed to sell us destruction draped in a flag.I'm not buying. I just don't see Thomas Jefferson hawking AK-47s, and, if he were to do so, I'd say so much the worse for him.
Reprinted courtesy of the Journal Register Company.
Norm Pattis is a Connecticut based trial lawyer focused on high stakes criminal cases and civil right violations. He is a veteran of more than 100 jury trials, many resulting in acquittals for people charged with serious crimes, multi-million dollar civil rights and discrimination verdicts, and scores of cases favorably settled.
Nothing in this blog should be considered legal advice about your case. You need a lawyer who understands the context of your life and situation. What are offered here are merely suggested lines of inquiry you may explore with your lawyer.


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Tax-preparer fraud can ruin finances
For Oscar Sotelo, tax season was a gold mine for two years running. He found a man who prepared taxes in California's Central Valley, promised big refunds — and delivered.
Then the Internal Revenue Service letters started coming. Sotelo was never supposed to get that money; now, the IRS wanted it back.
The IRS says Sotelo was the victim in 2009 and 2010 of tax-preparer fraud, a widespread scam that can leave innocent taxpayers with a mountain of debt and put them in the crosshairs of the IRS. In this type of fraud, a tax preparer creates big refunds by lying on the tax return, giving both the preparer and taxpayer a nice payday. But when the IRS comes knocking, it's the taxpayer who's on the hook.
"There's this huge refund that goes out the door that the taxpayer is clearly not entitled to, but they don't know that," said Caroline Chen, assistant clinical professor of law and director of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at Santa Clara University. "They find out later, after the money, of course, is spent."
The cumbersome tax code, insufficient regulations and under-resourced enforcement agencies have helped create a breeding ground for tax preparer fraud, experts said. Each year, illegally practicing tax preparers strike, leaving their frequent victims, low-income and immigrant taxpayers, in financial ruin.
"There's a lot of people who prepare tax returns who are not qualified," said Special Agent Arlette Lee of the IRS Criminal Investigations for Northern California. "Tax-return preparers may be doing this, and the taxpayer has no idea."
The fraud happens in a few different ways. In some cases, the preparer lies on the tax return, fabricating deductions such as charitable contributions, property taxes and business expenses. The taxpayer often doesn't know the preparer is lying on the return or is tricked. The fictitious deductions inflate the amount of the refund, and the preparer demands a generous percentage — a billing system the IRS says is illegal.
"These preparers get paid and then they disappear," said David Freeman, a third-year law student at Santa Clara University who helps at the tax clinic. "And then the clients show up a couple years later to us."
Tax refunds are paid automatically and immediately, and the IRS has up to three years after the refund to audit, Chen said.
Sotelo, a truck driver and father of four from Livingston, Calif., already had several notices from the IRS by the time he went to the SCU tax clinic last year. His preparer, Sarad Chand, who operated S. Chand Tax & Accounting Service in Ripon, Calif., had told him to ignore the letters, Sotelo said.
"I felt bad in the beginning. I had to pay so much money," Sotelo said in Spanish. "I didn't understand why."
Chand was charged in December with 10 counts of falsifying tax returns as part of a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme. He pleaded not guilty and was released on a $100,000 bond. His clients have to pay thousands of dollars back to the IRS.
"They are ultimately responsible for the information listed on the tax return — no matter if it is right, wrong or even fraudulent," said Gigi Campo, spokeswoman for the California Tax Education Council, a nonprofit created by the state legislature to oversee tax preparer education and compliance. "The damage those tax preparers committed on the tax return is still the consumer's problem to deal with."
That damage can be devastating, because scheming preparers target the most vulnerable — poor and non-English speaking communities.
"They are attractive to people who don't like bureaucracy," Freeman said. "To them, H&R Block probably looks like a DMV."


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