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The first meeting on disc of two of the finest and most innovative electroacoustic instrumentalists in Germany, performing on reeds, trumpets, radio, speakers, and preparations.
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Recorded live on May 14th, 2010 at Blurred Edges Festival in Hamburg by Michael Maierhof and Boris Vogeler.
Lucio Capece-soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, preparations
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Three pieces from 2010, the first meeting on disc of two of thefinest and most innovative instrumentalists in Germany.
Another Timbre's Interview with Birgit Ulher, February 2011
Listening to Choices there seems such a similarity between your andLucio's approaches to your respective instruments, that it's almostsurprising that this is your first disc as a duo. When did you firstplay with Lucio?
- In September 2008 I shared a concert with him at Alberto Ukebana inBerlin, where we both played with other musicians. As we liked eachother's playing we decided to try playing together, and did this thenext time I came to Berlin. I felt an affinity with his approachstraightaway and it worked musically from the beginning.
You both use preparations to great effect, and at times Choices soundsas close to percussion as it does to wind or brass music. Have you madea conscious decision to distance yourself from the 'natural' sound of atrumpet? Or do you sometimes play 'pure' notes in an improvisingcontext?
- I always had an affinity with percussion and used to play it forseveral years, though mostly just for myself. I rarely play 'pure' notesin an improvising context because I think everything in this area hasbeen done already. I'm more interested in the subtle tonality and finegradations between sounds than in the obvious one, which is generallycalled tonality. The sounds have an internal structure, and thepreparations are used as resonating systems. For me this is the resultof many years working on the sound of the trumpet and not a question ofhow far I can get away from its 'natural' sound. But it's also been aconscious decision to work in the field which interests me most. I'ddescribe this field as material research and the placement of sounds ina time structure.
You trained as a visual artist, and are largely self-taught as amusician. Does your background in the visual arts affect the way youapproach your instrument?
- Absolutely. As a visual artist I have been into material research aswell. In the visual arts it is much more common to work in very specificareas, while in music it is still common to play different styles ofmusic. Maybe it has to do with the different tasks of composers andinterpreters, which never existed in the visual arts. Morton Feldman hasa great point on this in his essay 'The Anxiety of Art'.
Lucio has frequently been linked with the term 'reductionist', and onChoices your playing is very similar to his. But I know it's a termthat you're not altogether happy with. What are your reservations aboutthe concept?
- My playing on Choices isn't that far from my playing on my solo CD'Radio Silence No More' and the CD 'Tehricks' with Gregory Büttner.I have always been interested in reductionism, but I don't like to becategorised by any 'ism'. What I didn't like so much about the earlyBerlin reductionism was the strict concept and rules that came with it.On the other hand it might have been important at that time to make aradical break for creating something new. But I've always beensuspicious of categories and somehow I don't care whether something is'reductionist' or not as long as I'm convinced by the music.
Do you feel that in general there's been a gentle stepping away from theextremes of 'reductionism' within improvised music in Germany over thepast five years?
- Yes, it's quite a while since the term reductionism was establishedand the work of the musicians who were mainly involved has developed inmany different directions. Also the improvised music scene in Berlin haschanged a lot. Many musicians have moved there from all over the worldand brought their own approaches, so there are lots of differentapproaches at the moment. In Berlin there's currently a tendency todissociate from the term 'improvised music' and work more on conceptualor composed pieces.
Berlin has historically been the centre for improvised music in Germany,and you went there to record two of the tracks on Choices in Lucio'sstudio. But the long piece on the disc was recorded at a festival inHamburg, where you've been based for nearly 30 years. Do you thinkbeing outside Berlin has advantages as well as difficulties for animprovising musician in Germany? - Yes, it does. Now I'm quite contentliving in Hamburg, but for many years I thought about moving to Berlin,and would have for sure if Hamburg wasn't so close. I've always playedwith Berlin musicians like Chris Heenan (who is part of my groupNordzucker) and Ute Wassermann, to name just those I work withregularly. What I like about the Berlin scene is that improvised musicis taken and discussed really seriously, which isn't always the case inHamburg. And there are certainly many more interesting musicians inBerlin. But there are so many musicians there that there's more of aseparation from other musicians, which doesn't happen so much inHamburg, because the scene here is very small. Sometimes there's a hypeabout certain ideas or concepts in Berlin, which is quite uncriticallytaken over. I'd be afraid of getting stuck in Berlin; you can play a lotof gigs there, and great musicians come to town all the time, but Iguess that while this would keep you very busy, maybe you'd forget aboutworking outside the city. If you live in Hamburg you really have to workon getting around, otherwise you'll be stuck there with very smallinput. But the advantage of living in Hamburg is being able toconcentrate on your own work without the distraction of hundreds ofconcerts happening every month. And since the improvised music scene isvery small you get in contact much more with other scenes likeelectronic or new music. There's been a lot going on here in the lastfew years, since we founded an association for sound art, improvised,electronic and composed music. We found new ways of organising concertslike the 'blurred edges festival', where one track of Choices wasrecorded.
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Being told you have cancer has a devastating effect on many people, but add to that the news that you have to go to St James Hospital in Leeds every weekday for six weeks was truly devastating. Fortunately, I was given a leaflet about York Against Cancer who run a minibus for just this purpose.
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Q: I sold my time share for a gross gain of $3,000. However, because of the huge commission I paid to the timeshare company for selling it, my net was a loss of $6,000. Do I have to pay capital gains on $3,000 or do I consider it a loss and not report anything?
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Two of Australian football's big thinkers locked horns yesterday over the merits of rugby league-style State of Origin matches, and the big boss won.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou, responding to a question from the floor at a GWS Giants corporate lunch in Sydney, all but quashed the prospect of reintroducing a state-versus-state series, saying the strength of the indigenous code was its club rivalries. He suggested there was little use trying to imitate the NRL's showpiece event.
However, a familiar voice popped up from the other direction - that of Greater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy, who suggested the perfect way to open the redeveloped Adelaide Oval to Australian football next year would be a match between South Australia and Victoria.
No cigar. Demetriou said the first game at the ground, which is undergoing a $535 million upgrade to a 50,000-seat cricket and football stadium, would ''absolutely be'' the Showdown Adelaide derby, between Port and the Crows.
That didn't impress Sheedy, who, with more than a hint of seriousness, described that scenario as ''pretty boring''.
Demetriou said to stage an interstate match would ''upset the West Australians and the New South Welshmen'', and, no doubt, Queenslanders, with whom NSW has been engaged in a long-running and highly successful state series in rugby league, separate to its vibrant club competition.
Demetriou had said earlier that he didn't think the AFL would go back to interstate football clashes, the last of which was held in 1999.
''At the national level you've got the Australian cricket team, the Socceroos, the Wallabies - strong national teams,'' he said.
''And I think at state level you can't get a better contest than a State of Origin, at the NRL level. That is an incredible event. It's the envy of all because of the way the two states engage in the contest, the physicality, the ratings - everything about it is fantastic.
''Our [game] unashamedly has got great club versus club football. That's our strength. When West Coast Eagles are playing Fremantle, Carlton plays Collingwood … rivalry. Our strength is our club football. It's not state football or international. Sometimes it's OK to acknowledge that there are strengths and weaknesses.''
Not that Demetriou is conservative with his dreams. Shortly after, the AFL supremo was considering the prospect of a Swans-Giants grand final.
''I saw some stats the other day that our two largest grand finals on television - second was last year, Sydney-Hawthorn, 4.08 million people watched that game. It was only beaten by Sydney playing West Coast Eagles,'' he said.
''If Sydney ever played GWS Giants in the grand final, it might just give that record a nudge.''


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Re: How to calculate covariant derivative by Mathematica?
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I wrote a small package called brfART.m for calculations with tensors and
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Society has dictated for quite some time that hair on the body usually is usually a trait possessed by men. In an effort to rid the world of gender stereotypes in the name of tolerance, many Liberal women have taken to putting the razors down.
A new ad has recently stirred up quite the controversial storm after suggesting that women "don't risk dudeness." In the comical ads for Veet (a hair removal product), it depicts women who don't shave as men in quite the unique way in an effort to urge women buy their product.
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Seen as a hairy man in woman's clothing the option to not appear this way is rather simple – don't be hairy. Of course as feminist women all across the continent have taken to beating their chests, the ads have attracted a bit of unwanted attention.
Supposed to have been sarcastic in nature, many Liberals have taken to reading into the message of the advertisement and have taken it to heart. Expressing how the ad suggests that women must shave in order to be a woman, it's safe to say, as always, our friends to the left have taken it one step to far once again.
One of the ads depicts a man lying in bed while another person's leg wraps around him as he sleeps. Awoken, he reaches his hand back to caress the leg of his lover but shocking realized the hairiness of the previously bare leg.
He quickly whips around the see that it isn't in fact the woman that he fell asleep with, but a hairy man wearing the same clothes. As a timid voice squeaks out of the man's mouth, viewers hear him say that he just shaved yesterday.
Suggesting that women, "don't risk dudeness," the message of the ad becomes quite clear. As society, in general, has operated for quite some time, women shave their legs and armpits primarily, with some shaving even more.
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Despite the larger majority of women participating in this common practice, feminists everywhere are literally outraged. Putting aside the gender stereotype that they seem so adamant on pointing out, many just couldn't leave it at that.
Throwing in the overused argument of "homophobia," some suggest that the ad depicts just that as two men are seen in a bed together as the commercial is making a joke of it. Allowing the ridiculousness to ooze just a bit closer to complete insanity, some even suggest there's something wrong with poking fun as the man is dressed in women's clothes.
Labeling the ad as, "transphobic," (is that even a word), you can start to tell just how far feminists and Liberals are destined to go to let us know they don't appreciate the commercial. Now you see, this is just what "tolerance," gets in a society of such diverseness.
There is no way, under any circumstance, that you are going to attain a society in which everyone is accepting of everyone no matter what they do. In fact, if allowed to progress far enough, a society such as this wouldn't be able to be defined as anything less than anarchy.
After all, we have to accept everyone for who they are, right? The rapists, pedophiles and psychopathic murderers can't help who they are and who are we to judge. The logic makes no sense, and the insensible argument on feminist Liberal women is tiring.
Let's just lay the facts out there; women will have an easier time shaving their legs than finding a man willing to accept a Sasquatch under her jeans. Granted as relationships progress this mindset is likely to evolve, but when starting out, it's a bit off putting.
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You gals stick to those ideals, and have fun with your cats in 30 years (hey, their hairy too)!
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Steelers OLB James Harrison concussed Browns QB Colt McCoy with an illegal helmet-to-helmet hit two weeks ago. Now back from the suspension he earned as a result of the play, Harrison is taking not-too-subtle digs at Cleveland and the NFL.
Despite the Browns' clumsy (to put it lightly) handling of McCoy's Week 14 concussion, the league announced this week that the organization will not be punished after it investigated the team's medical procedures from the Dec. 8 game. The Browns training staff was scrutinized, most notably by McCoy's irate father, after letting the second-year quarterback return to the game two plays after Harrison flattened him.
The Browns contended that McCoy's symptoms didn't manifest themselves until the game was over. He did not travel to Arizona last weekend and seems unlikely to play Saturday against the Ravens.
Harrison's reaction now that he's back with the Steelers after his one-game absence?
"If he was hurt so bad I don't know why they let him back in the next two plays later," he said Wednesday. "Something should be done to them I would think. I got a game, what should they get?"
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I am writing on behalf of Roderick O'Connor, a friend and previous manager of mine. We worked together in the '90s at a property management company. Back then he was a really calm, honest and fair person to work for. When I heard that he'd been made chief of police in Basalt I thought what a win-win situation. I have remained friends with Roderick throughout the years.
I just can't believe or understand what's happened. It's almost like you all want him to disappear with no questions asked or public explanation given as to why he has been suspended. It's really quite "big brother" like or something that would happen back in the Wild West days — string him up and hang him without a trial. Is it fair to ask what has he done and what is the proof of his guilt?
I think that chief O'Connor is exactly the kind of "peace" officer that Basalt needs. He's a very caring man and you as a community are lucky to have him.
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- When Patriots quarterback Tom Brady arrived at the podium for his weekly Wednesday news conference, and asked which reporter wanted to start the proceedings, there was a noticeable silence.
That's when veteran Patriots reporter Tom E. Curran of Comcast SportsNet, who has a knack for lightening the mood at times, piped up with an outside-the-hashmarks question.
"How come you don't have a cool nickname like Matty Ice?" he asked, in reference to Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan.
Brady played along with the hard-hitting question.
"I don't know. I don't have any nicknames?" he responded.
"Nothing really," Curran replied.
"That should be the thing. That's a good story for this week," Brady said with a playful touch. "TB12 is pretty good. Not bad."
When Curran disagreed, Brady relented.
"Not as good as Matty Ice," the quarterback said, drawing laughter. "Matty Ice is pretty sweet."
The "TB12 vs. Matty Ice" storyline is a natural one this week as the Patriots prepare to visit the Falcons on Sunday night. The Georgia Dome should be electric.
"It's a really challenging environment to play in -- it's loud, it's a dome, it's Sunday night," Brady said as the news conference turned more serious. "Coach always says, 'if you love football, then Sunday night at 8:30 in Atlanta will be the place to be.' I totally agree."
One area Brady touched upon is the Patriots' red zone offense, which has produced four touchdowns in 13 trips. In terms of touchdown percentage, which isn't a foolproof stat to measure red zone efficiency, the Patriots rank last in the NFL.
"We've been practicing it quite a bit," Brady said. "We definitely left some points on the board, just poor execution. I've been one of the main culprits."


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UAE economy records high annual growth in the face of regional conflict
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) beat the regional odds and recorded high economic growth last year despite poor market conditions caused by the US war on Iraq.
The UAE's gross domestic product (GDP) recorded a 10.2 percent growth reaching 271 billion Emirati dirhams ($737 million) for 2003, the highest GDP ever recorded to date, the nation's official news agency quoted an Emirates Industrial Bank (EIB) report.
The UAE's non-oil sector grew by 6.4 percent, contributing Dh 191 billion to the GDP compared to Dh 179.5 billion in 2002, revealed EIB. The state's manufacturing sector contributed to 13.3 percent of the last year's GDP totaling Dh 36 billion.
The bank named the 17 percent oil price in 2002 as one of the factors contributing to last year's positive results. The price hike led to a sharp increase in the country's oil revenue, a main source of the country's annual budget.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) described the UAE's macroeconomic performance as mixed for 2002. Due to OPEC-mandated oil production cuts, the state experienced a fall in real gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Lower crude oil receipts, together with rising imports and lower investment income, contributed to reducing the external account surplus — (menareport.com)
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Remarks for Anne S. Ferro
FMCSA Administrator
National Transportation Center Academy Graduation
San Marcos, TX
May 13, 2010
It is a great pleasure to be with you today. This ceremony marks a new beginning in your careers and I am very pleased to be a part of the occasion.
Someone once said, "We don't have to take life the way it comes to us. By converting our dreams into goals, and our goals into plans, we can design life to come to us the way we want it. We can live our lives on purpose, instead of by chance."
By becoming graduates today, you have taken a giant step to living a life of purpose and one of extra special meaning. I believe that there is no greater purpose than to work in the service of others. In our case at FMCSA, our work has a direct impact on saving lives.
Our commitment to safety gives us a purpose not easily matched anywhere else in the world of work – either inside or outside of government service.
Like you, I have felt most satisfied when I could see that the actions I was taking - whether it was big or small – and dealing with people I would never meet – may make a positive impact on people's lives. It's the lives you save that don't get reported.
As Administrator, I want to eliminate crashes and fatalities so that people may travel with greater safety on the road. But, it is only through your dedication and commitment can we see this vision truly become reality.
Focus on the Field
With your training behind you – a new chapter begins in your service to the public. As you go about your new duties, I want you to know that I support you on the front line. You are serving in a crucial function for our agency.
We could not carry out our safety mission without safety investigators. Along with our state partners and local partners, you have become the force multiplier that enables us to fulfill our mandate… to reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities.
I will be listening to hear your opinions and thoughts on how we can improve what you do.
And, each and every day, please return safely home from your duties knowing that you have made a difference because what you do has helped others to make it home safely.
At Headquarters, my job is to be sure you have the tools, trained supervisors, resources and partnerships to do your job. My greatest wish is to keep your enthusiasm level high and stay above any daily frustrations that may follow.
American writer William Ward once said, "Do more than belong, participate. Do more than care, help. Do more than believe, practice. Do more than be fair, be kind. Do more than forgive, forget. Do more than dream, work."
I congratulate all of you for achieving this landmark in your careers and marking a new beginning. I am sure you find the road ahead to be filled with enough exciting challenges to satisfy a purpose-filled life.
Good luck in your new assignments. On behalf of Secretary LaHood and President Obama, you have our sincerest thanks and the thanks of the American people for the important work you do.
Thank you again. Congratulations.


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The conversion of Saul of Tarsus while he was on his way to Damascus is one of the most touching miracles in the history of the early Church. It shows how faith comes from grace and from one's free cooperation. The doctrine of the Mystical Body of Christ receives proof and a clear illustration when Christ says, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" We should realize that the best way to hasten unity of all Christians is to foster our own daily conversion.
As a new revert, a term to describe someone like me, who fell away from the faith and the church at twelve, I was amazed over Saul of Tarsus's conversion story, and how humble he became, when he encountered Jesus, and was made blind by him. To me, this miracle stands out as the most unbelievable of all of Christ's miracles. Paul's memory and evangelicalism are what help make Christianity what it is today. Paul certainly went out and did what Mark said in his gospel, (Mark 16:15), "Go out to all the world and tell the Good News."
The Lord never wrote but once in his ministry that history records, and for sure he never told the apostles or disciples to go out and write a bible, but several centuries after his death, the bishops and priests loyal to Christ and tradition compiled the inspired words we have to day, to remember some of the things Christ wanted to be preserved for all mankind.


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Action epic 300 won the battle for international top spot, generating $14.1m in its second weekend. The film expanded into an additional five territories, including South Korea and Hong Kong, across a further 867 screens, giving it a 130% boost. Fox's Night At The Museum continues to attract international audiences as the family adventure grossed $6.8m in its 13th weekend after opening on a further 1,252 screens. Local films also fared well in home territories - Ho ...
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Levy argues that as long as sexbots are artefacts, without 'artificial consciousness', there are no ethical implications in having sex with them or using them for prostitution. However, should sexbots attain artificial consciousness, Levy argues there may be both legal and ethical implications not only for humans but for the robots themselves. But even if sexbots are not currently conscious, they do have the external markings of personhood, and we are programming them to be person-like. Indeed, we are programming them to be like a specific type of person: the type of woman who can be owned by a heterosexual man.
If women are the model on which most sexbots are based, we run the risk of recreating essentialised gender roles, especially around sex. And that would be too bad, because sex technology has the potential to alleviate longstanding human problems, for both men and women. Sex tech can help us take on sexual dysfunction and profound loneliness, but if we simply create a new variety of second-class citizen, a sexual creature to be owned, we risk alienating ourselves from each other all over again.
See also : http://theantifeminist.com/feminist-attacks-the-idea-of-sexbots-bbc/


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Although the housing market is showing signs of recovery, other indicators show the foreclosure crisis is getting worse. In a September interview with U.S. News, Austan Goolsbee, the former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said, "I think there's a lot wrong in the housing market. If Fannie and Freddie would start enabling people to rent out the vacant homes, that would also help."
Some foreclosure facts:
--The mortgage loans which are currently under the foreclosure process, is amounting to almost $45 billion (that is mainly in terms with negative equity)


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The following excerpt is from Chapter 4 of Christina Spence's book Living Large on Less.
As you continue your travels along this lovely road towards big savings, you'll notice that you're not the only traveler. Who's that cute little person over there? Isn't that someone you (or your beloved) just happened to give birth to? And who's that hunk of manhood, or gorgeous specimen of womanhood moseying along? Lucky you, it's your significant other! You'll need your family to join in on this journey of savings with you if you want to reach your financial goals.
That's why this chapter is devoted to helping you get your family involved in your new living large on less plan. And, although pets can't help you save money, we'll also touch on how you can save on the essentials needed to keep your feathered, furry or finned friends happy and healthy, too.
Working as a team for savings
Remember how Mary Poppins could turn anything - even a spoonful of vile medicine - into a wonderful game? Keep her strategy firmly in mind when you're establishing new saving habits for your family. How so? Make everything frugal a fantastic game and you'll have happy new frugalites hatching in your nest before you know it. Plus, as a bonus, you'll also be teaching your family that financial responsibility doesn't always have to be a chore - it's a necessity, but one that reaps huge dividends.
The Plan
Good intentions don't equal good results unless you have a plan of action to help you get there. A goal without a plan is like a meal without utensils—it might look temptingly good, but there's no way to get in there and enjoy all the benefits of what's set before you. Your family needs to know about this plan to save money in order for it to work.
You need to communicate to your family three basic aspects of your new spending patterns right from the outset:
1. Why you need to change your spending patterns as a family. Give as much information as is necessary. If your situation is dire, there's no need to scare everyone. Also, only provide information that kids can understand and won't be overwhelmed by. (Age appropriate information is important. Young children will only need to know that Mom and Dad want to save more money or pay off a few bills. Older kids can know more details if you're comfortable sharing them.)
2. What your current spending patterns have been. Armed with facts and figures from your B-4 budget (see chapter two), you can shed light on what's been good and bad about how the family has been spending money. Don't point fingers of blame at anyone; work at this as a team from the beginning to encourage your family to change for all the right reasons.
3. How you're going to change. The way you spend—and account for that spending—as a family is going to completely change. Be as specific as possible, again taking into account the age of your children and what information they can rea-dily digest. Get feedback from your family members. You'll be amazed by how their input and involvement will change new budgeting habits into something the whole family considers a challenge to undertake instead of a burden. This is your plan for action, including spending challenges, budgets, etc. You'll create goals, such as saving for the kids' education or paying off a car loan, and create charts and progress reports so that family members can see at a glance how their work is paying off.
Families who are happily living large on less do one thing really well: communicate. They make goals as a family, then track their progress and talk about what went right and wrong along the way. They don't blame each other for their current financial situation, but rather go at this savings challenge as a team, all in it together. If your family doesn't consist of natural communicators, perhaps especially not about money, then some habits are going to have to change. In fact, budget consciousness may very well open more lines of communication within your family. Set a day each week to discuss how everyone did with the budget during the past week and to stay focused on longer-term goals, such as savings. Young children may not have much to contribute to the meeting, but this is a great time to update everyone on the progress you are making toward your goals. Kids can stay for the update and then you and your spouse can discuss spending in detail after you let the kids leave the meeting.
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There is not a lot that I can say about this boreing, pointless, waste of money AND space on the shelves! What fun can you see about racing the same people over and over again just to buy a new car? At least Gran Turismo is good! Shall we start then? You start of with a lowly 25,000 credits (not a lot) to buy yourself a piece of c**p! You have to race for about 2-3 hours before you start earning some real money but when you buy the best car congratulations you have completed the game because there is nothing left to do! When your going quite fast and more than 3 cars are on the screen at the same time it goes incredibly slow! WHY??? The dreamcast is one of the most powerful machines out! Why does it go slow? I've got better things to do in my time than comment on this game! If your going to buy it......DONT
When a driving game claims to be different from your run-of-the-mill track or rally game, you feel a bit dubious. When that game is a release title on the "next big thing", you just that something is awry. Tokyo Highway Challenge, by Genki, is that title, claiming to be a mixture of two popular genres, driving and fighting. Yes, I said driving and fighting. The idea is that you are one of Tokyo's kamiaze style higway racers, challenging other driver on the city's twisted streets by flashing your headlights at them. Sound strange? You damn right it's strange. Both battling cars have beat 'em up style energy bars displayed at the top of the screen, when your car is in the lead, your opponents energy depletes and vice versa. The bigger the gap, the faster the decline. When I read the press release, I thought that it was a great idea. The only problem is that there are 137 different drivers to beat and the concept wears off after beating 3 of them. There is only 1 very straight and boring circuit that looks and plays more like the M25 in rush hour than downtown Tokyo, the only saving grace being that you can race it backwards if you wish. That said, there wouldn't be much point in having a racetrack to drive on, since the handling is so sluggish that all but the gentlest of corners lead to you having an improptu meeting with the wall. And I'm afraid it doesnt' get any better at all. The graphics, although quite impressive at first glance, reveal their flaws as you play on, with slowdown and pop-up rife throughout. The music and sound effects are just plain annoying and rather than adding to the game as they should, they detract from it, with the worst part being the constant 1-tone drone of your engine that is sure to make you fall asleep. There is never any damage to the car, which is strange considering that there are no official licences to prevent it. Another factor that makes this game rushed
. Poor music, poor AI, poor gameplay and poor handling leave just one word to describe the game. Poor.
Tokyo Extreme is like one of those movies that the critics downplay, but turns out to be a cult classic. Quite simply, it is the most addictive game I've ever played. If your tired of Grand Prix style racing games, check this one out...The cars you race are real cars and they've been designed to handle and perform like their actual counterparts. Really, the detail that went into this game is amazing. And it takes a while to beat, like a great game should! Alot of people that have played it thought it was boring. It's definitely a game for the hardcore racer. I think your actual driving style must fit this game in order to enjoy it. This is one of those games where you'll either love it, or you'll hate it.
In Tokyo highway challenge you drive around in Tokyo in a car, challenging other racers to race you. If you win this races you win money, which you can use to buy more expensive and better cars, gran turismo style. The graphics in Tokyo highway challenge are truly amazing, and the gameplay isn't bad either. The one problem with Tokyo highway challenge is the length of it (v short) and the fact that it is so easy. A very good, but quite a short game worth renting out for a night or 2.
this is one of the most boring games i have ever played, you might think driving round a highway, challanging other drivers to races would be fun, well trust me, its not.Its ok to start with, but all the races are the same and its quite difficult too. Another bad thing is that there are no different highways!, its the same boring one all the time! I enjoyed this game for about a day before i realized how rubbish it was, so dont make the same mistake, dont buy this game, you will regret every minute of it, recommend it to anyone who like being bored, otherwise, stay well clear of this game.
My mate got this game for chrismas in a package deal with some other games. Since this game had been given some quite bad reviews then I had never bothered to play it. The other day me and two of my friends where bored so we decided to play on Tokyo Highway Challenge and it actually turned out to be quite a decent game. This game has an all new style to it (like alot of DC games). What you have to do is to race around the highways of Tokyo and find other boy racers and give em a flash of your lights and ure away on a highspeed race!! The game has a new style of racing which is....Both players start off with a bar at the top of the screen. Once the race starts the car that is behind will start to lose enery from his bar, The further the leader pulls awat from the other car the further the quicker the other cars energy bar will start to go down. If the other car is closer to you then it will go down slower. If the car overtakes you then our energy bar will go down. The car which does not lose all its energy is the winner!! This game has various options aswell to keep you entertained. Quick Race = As you can probably imagine.....A quick Race!! Quest Mode = This is by far the best mode in the game. You start off with a small amount of money (enough to buy a rubbish car). Then you go out onto the streets of Tokyo to race other cars and earn some vital money to upgrade your car. The people out on the streets also upgrade their cars!! To start you only earn small amounts of money racing other slow cars like yourself.You race cars from other gangs.When you have beeten all the cars from a gang their leader comes up behind you and challenges you to a race.The leader normally has a faster car than you so this is a hard race. You will earn alot of money if you defeat him. Eventually you will be able to afford new cars and engines for them. VS Mode = This is where two people race. In this mode you can use your s
tandard cars or use you cars from quest mode!! In this game there are lots of cars available to buy but the only drawback is that they do not have offical licences but if you know anything about cars then you will know what cars they are because they look Exactly the same as the originals. There are lots of cars available including : Mitsubishi Lancer EVO6 Subaru Imprezza Honda NSX Twin Turbo Toyota Supra Nissan Skyline Porshe 911 Carrera Mitsubishi GTO and many more....... There is the option of renaming your cars so you can call them the original names. In quest mode you can buy lots of upgrades for your cars including : Engines Drive Trains Suspension Wheels Mufflers Spoilers Lights Front Grills Bumpers Rear Bumpers Side Skirts Mirrors and more...... This game is a good game untill you complete quest mode and even then you can always have a laugh with your mates. One drawback to this game is definatly the controls. The turning is not sharp enough so you have to brake alot but this might have been done on purpose. I have seen a few PRE-views of Tokyo 2 and that game looks Amazing!!!! It actually uses the full power of the DC which no game yet made has done!!!!
When released, this game was branded as being a poor attempt at a game. However, i feel the developers created the game aimed at people who like driving fast and NOT for general gamers. Fans of racing games such as myself only ask for a game with good graphics (Which it had) thats fast (Which it was) and with loads of cars (Sort of) I found the game to be exciting and fun. The thought of a game whereby you encourage other drivers to race along a highway at breakneck speeds is brilliant. "This game scratches the surface of Dreamcast's power", and the sequel WILL unleash the beast!.


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The Stepping into Freedom group would like to recognize Mrs. Sharon Kelty. Every Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Journey Church in Shepherdsville, Sharon teaches a faith-based 12-step group.
She goes above and beyond to help us. She makes sure the group has everything we need and, if not, she points us in the right direction to get it.
She also does church services every other Tuesday at the Bullitt County Jail for the female inmates.
She always brings a smile and a great attitude wherever she goes. We are so incredibly grateful to her.
Bullitt County is a caring community.
Look past the negative. This community will always rise to the top when the need is there.
During the past month, you've seen numerous stories and pictures about the generosity of this community. Young and old, the community has come forward to provide some of our less fortunate a brighter Christmas celebration.
None of the donors are seeking praise or recognition. They are doing it because they want to.
In all practicality, there is never a time when there isn't an election looming for somebody.
But, for 2017, there will be no elections on the ballot in Bullitt County -- or Kentucky, for that matter.
Why is that important?
It should give elected officials at least a few months before they start worrying about how their decisions will affect their next test from the voters.
Ok, so what does that mean to us, the people?
On Monday, you got a chance to look at several of the top, top stories of the past year.
Over the next two Wednesdays, we'll take a casual look at some of the headlines that hit the front pages of The Pioneer News.
When looking back, it is hard to believe how many things actually occurred.
The first headline dealt with the Southeast Bullitt Fire conflict. I guess it was a busy year when the years-long battle between the fire district board and the fire department didn't make the top list.
See the latest scams in BBB's January 2017 Hot Topics
1. A local consumer reported almost falling victim to a Craigslist scam involving a "too good to be true" deal on a car for sale. The scammer said she was in the military and needed to sell the vehicle quickly because she was being deployed. She requested payment with gift cards through the fake "Amazon Payment" program.
Mary Elizabeth Trunnell was born in 1849 in Bullitt County, Kentucky.
She was the daughter of Henry Trunnell and Mary Jane Field Bowman. Her father Henry Trunnell was born in 1817 in Montgomery County, Maryland. He married in 1838 to his first wife Louisa Grable.
They had a son who was Phillip G. Trunnell. Louisa divorced Henry in 1848 and remarried her neighbor leaving their son to be raised by their father.
Henry remarried in November 1848, to Mary Jane Field Bowman.
Charter schools.
We have all heard the statistics and the arguments. Forty-three states have approved charter schools in one form or another.
I have written about charters in this space before and my position is and has always been that I am not in favor of any particular organizational structure to educate kids; I am in favor of educating our kids, period.
Now that no legislative barrier blocks the passage of a charter school law, our attention needs to turn to the particulars.
From the day of the mass search for a missing teenager to the final sentencing of the uncle who would admit heinous crimes against family members, there was probably only one media member who was there.
At every one of the painful hearings. At the jury trial of another individual. At the press conferences when a family was desperately seeking help.
Little did they, or the world, know that the person responsible for the death of Jessica Dishon in 1999 was also responsible for the sexual abuse of others, including family members.
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|"The Painted Kiss is richly atmospheric and haunting."
Lauren Belfer
|"In Elizabeth Hickey's compelling novel of tempestuous lives amid the tawdry bohemia of artists' studios and the glittering innuendo of Viennese café society, longing pulses from the page. The Painted Kiss is vivid, atmospheric, engaging, and very, very real."
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In her passionate and atmospheric debut novel, The Painted Kiss, Elizabeth Hickey reimagines the relationship between Gustav Klimt and the woman whose name he uttered with his dying breath. Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafés, grand opera houses, and a thriving and adventurous artistic community. It was there that twelve-year-old Emilie Flöge met the controversial libertine and painter Gustav Klimt. When Klimt is hired by Emilie's bourgeois father to give her some basic drawing lessons, he introduces her to a subculture of dissolute artists, wanton models, and decadent patrons that both terrifies and fascinates her. The Painted Kiss follows the developing relationship between Klimt and Emilie, who blossoms from a naive girl to a sanguine woman, becoming mistress to one of the twentieth century's most fascinating artists and the owner of an exclusive fashion house, which Klimt helps design. Fin de siecle Vienna glitters with wealthy, beautiful women for Emilie to dress in her salon and for Klimt to undress in his studio. It is a world overflowing with the greatest artists, composers, and writers of the era, and yet doomed by the imminent collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although she is never sure of her place in Klimt's life, Emilie is a constant presence, supporting him through tragedy, self-doubt, triumph, and scandal -- and ultimately serving as the model for his greatest masterpiece. The Painted Kiss is a moving love story that is as sensual and compelling as a work by Klimt himself.
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Information Session about the Horizon 2020 "Societal Challenge 6: Europe in a Changing World" - 2015 Call for Proposals
24-11-2014 13:00 tot
27-11-2014 17:00
|Palace of the Academies, Brussels
|Mathilde Vivot
NCP Brussels, together with the Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS), the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and the EUROFED team of the Federal Government (BELSPO/STIS), organises an information Session about the Horizon 2020 "Societal Challenge 6: Europe in a Changing World" to present the 2015 Call for Proposals.
The event will represent the second part of a whole day of informative session about Horizon 2020. In particular, it will follow the "Information session on ERC grants" about the 2015 calls for proposals for the first H2020 pillar "Excellent Science".
This afternoon session will aim to support researchers and members of the research administrations of Belgian academia as well as Belgian SMEs in the preparation of their application for the forthcoming Societal Challenge 6 - Europe in a Changing World calls under Horizon 2020.
The event will take place on Thursday 27 November at the Throne Room of the Palace of the Academies in Brussels.
Register online!
For more information about the Societal Challenge 6 click here.
Your NCP contact @impulse.brussels for this event is:
- Mathilde Vivot - email@example.com (Inclusive and Secure society; Creative Industries)
For more information, visit the websites of the other involved Belgian NCPs:
- EUROFED (Belspo)


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The Stevie Nicks Documentary Of My Dreams
"In Your Dreams," the Stevie Nicks documentary of my dreams, will be premiering at the Mill Valley Film Festival on October 12. The cameras followed the Gold Dust Woman during the making of her most recent solo record, also called In Your Dreams. Obviously, I would watch Stevie Nicks talk about a piece of poop for two hours, but this really doc really does look amazing.
"With cameras in tow, documentarian [Dave] Stewart and diva Nicks set up shop in her home studio and reveal their collaborative creative process, as snippets of words and music undergo inspired tinkering and emerge as fully fledged gems. Throughout, Nicks shares intimate memories of childhood and her high-flying days with Fleetwood Mac," says the premiere description.
P.S. That's Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, by the way. If these clips are any indication of the rest of the film, it's part art film/ part music documentary/ part magicalness of my favorite gypsy about her creative process. All she has to do is mention Edgar Allen Poe and Jane Eyre and I'm basically salivating. (Also the check out the second clip above, where Stevie talks about going on tour after getting sober.) [ONTD]


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"It is hard work" says Ravi talking about the long hot days pedalling his rickshaw around the streets of Dhaka, "but it allows me to provide for the family, so hopefully I will be well enough to return soon" and then looking at his children watching he says "I have no choice".
Ravi has been hiring a rickshaw and working the packed streets of the city for the past two years but just over a month ago he suffered a broken arm in an accident. "You fear every day that something could happen" he says, "so we always put a little money in the tin" and then once a month they deposited that with a local money guard. But when Ravi's wife went to withdraw some funds the money guard could not be found, "people say he had lost money lending it on, others say he just ran away". Whatever the reason, Ravi and his family now need that money.
Poor households do save. This is a surprise to many who believe that saving is a luxury of the rich. But as shown by a CARE study in Malawi, where over half the population live on less than $1.25 a day, savings rates are in excess of 60%. Clearly the savings are small but they do occur. The issue is not, do the poor save? But, how do the poor save?
In the enlightening Portfolios of the Poor the stories demonstrate clearly that poor households do save and that they use a variety of techniques to do so. These include cash savings at home, with a neighbour or family member, in village savings groups and with formal institutions. In Malawi it was seen that 83% of savings were kept in the home.
Why is this? Savings that are kept in the home are known to be insecure and likely to be dipped into more easily, than those that are kept away from the home. The key reason for saving in the home is reliable access. All too often people who have worked hard to save find that when they come to access their money the neighbour, friend or money guard has either spent the money for their own emergency, which may be repaid later, or in the worst cases like Ravi's, disappeared with little chance of seeing the money again.
Accessibility is another big issue. Many large towns and cities do have a full range of banks, credit unions and cooperatives but for many who live in small towns and rural villages the cost of travel makes those options unviable. For Ravi it was the cost of more formal banking that was a stumbling block, as most accounts have monthly charges that make saving small amounts seem unattractive.
There has been much debate within academia about whether microfinance, and microcredit specifically, is able to reduce poverty since Muhammad Yunus established Grameen Bank in the late 1970s. Early exuberance has been tempered in more recent times as questions have been raised about whether it is able to help the poorest in society and whether credit is used primarily for consumption rather than investment. Jonathan Murdoch of New York University has raised such questions, whilst continuing to support the industry for its ability to allow clients to reduce their consumption volatility.
But there has been less focus on the savings industry, with early assumptions about the poor's savings habits taking time to change. One project that is showing positive signs is the Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) established by CARE in 27 countries, including Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. Here saving is promoted ahead of credit as the way to begin building financial assets.
It is clear to see why there is potential for success, as VSLAs overcome some of the problems associated with saving in the home or with friends and neighbours. Access is reliable as weekly meetings are held to allow new deposits, withdrawals or borrowing; group accountability ensures money is not misappropriated; and there are no costs.
Other exciting opportunities lie in mobile banking, which has already become well established in places like Kenya, where according to the IMF M-PESA alone provide banking facilities to over 70% of the population. The service, which was only launched in early 2007, allows users to deposit and withdraw money, pay bills and transfer money to other users. The speed at which M-PESA has grown shows there is a desire for accessible financial services if the right mechanisms can be put in place.
Though, access to basic financial services, such as saving, credit and insurance do not necessarily allow people to move swiftly out of poverty, they do provide tools with which to manage risk and avoid the downward spirals that can occur when disaster strikes and that in itself is a reason why such services should be available to all who wish to use them.
With the children now playing across the street Ravi says the family have been given a loan by his wife's family that is allowing them to survive but this makes him feel embarrassed, "we planned and did the right thing, we shouldn't have had to ask."


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[Identification of item], Marcy Randall Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
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Marcy Randall (1798- ) was a farmer's wife living in Visalia and Grant's Lick, Campbell County, Kentucky during and after the American Civil War.
Collection chiefly contains letters from Marcy Randall of Visalia and Grant's Lick, Campbell County, Kentucky, to her brother, Allen Hawkins, in West Glocester, Rhode Island. The letters primarily refer to matters of health, family activities, and religion. Many of the letters dated during the 1860s include Randall's commentary about the Civil War. Of particular interest are Marcy's comments about her fear of enemy depredations, rising costs of goods, the effect of the draft, and slaves returning to their masters. Acquired as part of the George Washington Flowers Collection of Southern Americana.


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Stress Relief: The Miracle of Massage (cont.)
Even more interesting: Kids with diabetes have more normal blood sugar levels after massage. Premature babies gain weight faster when they're massaged. Massage eases depression, keeps depressed mothers from giving birth too early, and prevents postpartum depression.
Massage does much more than relieve everyday stress, and studies are proving it.
Ancient Health Practice Gaining Credibility
Massage is one of the oldest of health practices, found in ancient Chinese medical texts written some 4,000 years ago. Hippocrates advocated massage in the 4th century BC, as have doctors since then -- until the 1930s and '40s, when the practice was virtually abandoned as medicine became high-tech.
During the 1970s, massage went through a slight resurgence -- one that's finally taken hold in more recent years as healthcare practitioners become more attune to ancient healing practices -- and as Medicare and insurance payers have begun covering it.
"We believe in it in our clinic," says Ka-Kit Hui, MD, director of the Center for East-West Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine. "We believe it does more than just help people feel better."
In Chinese medicine, massage is called acupressure, he tells WebMD. In essence, massage and acupressure both work with the body's own healing systems -- the nervous system, blood vessels, lymphatic system.
"The concept is to remove stagnation," says Hui. "When your muscle spasms, it's a form of stagnation. The blood is not moving as smoothly as it should, either because of internal stress or as a reaction to pain."
He runs a "clinic of last resort" for patients with various pain problems -- fibromyalgia, neck spasms, frozen shoulder, and what's called "failed back syndrome." They've had two or three surgeries for back pain and nothing has helped.
"Oftentimes our patients either do not respond to pain medications or can't tolerate medications, or can't tolerate surgery or don't want surgery, or they fail surgery," he says. "We have been a resource center for them."
Doctors have been slow to refer patients to massage therapy simply because most aren't acquainted with it in their training, he tells WebMD.
"Today's massage therapists are better trained, better regulated than ever before," Hui says. "In prevention of disease, health promotion, massage may be an adjunct for patients who need our medication, who need our surgery. It may decrease complications, decrease pain and suffering."
People with migraine pain, lower back pain, arthritis -- they all can benefit from massage. New parents know that babies who are massaged are calmer and sleep better.
The effects on premature babies are especially dramatic. The babies gain weight faster -- and leave the expensive hospital neonatal intensive care unit earlier -- if they are massaged, says Tiffany Field, PhD, a psychologist and director of the Touch Therapy Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine.


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- From: Jim Fleming (JimFleming at unety.net)
- Date: Wed Jul 16 18:19:15 EDT 1997
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On Wednesday, July 16, 1997 12:28 PM, Andrew Partan[SMTP:asp at partan.com] wrote: @ > Here's a copy. Please note that the existence of this work does NOT @ > constitute unequivocal endorsement of the concept. There are significant @ > business issues which are intrinsic to the model which would have to be @ > resolved on a case by case basis. The technical footing is sound. @ @ Please note that in order for Coalition or Geographic based address @ allocation to work really well, you have to have restrictions on @ your topology. @ For many small ISPs, "geo-netric" issues are resolved very close to home. Their main problem is that they get tied to an upstream provider and therefore their customers get tied. Significant changes in the relationship with that upstream provider now impact their customers. In the Coalition approach, ISPs have to understand they will be tied to the coalition. This seems like less of a problem for ISPs than being tied to an upstream provider. Of course, depending on the stability and greed factor of coalitions, the ISPs may wish they were tied to an upstream provider. This is one of the major concerns about organizations such as ARIN. Supposedly, ARIN is being "given" some unknown /8 delegations to manage. The companies that have allocations in those blocks have not been given any say about this. What happens if ARIN decides to enact policies and change companies allocations or charge high fees ? Small ISPs will probably have as much say as they did with the $50 domain taxes and the future of .COM, .NET and .ORG. @ Addressing works really well when you do it on a topological basis. @ @ Anyone who does not follow this needs to educate themselves in the @ basic physics of routing and how it applies to CIDR based allocations @ and keeping routing tables small. Many people feel that the routing tables can be reduced in size with better (and more fair) policies. Without experiments to prove and document this, people will never know. -- Jim Fleming Unir Corporation


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Governor Branstad's administration is making a big push to promote STEM education: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. This headline in the Des Moines Register today shows how badly we need math education, especially in Iowa's "Economic Development" bureaucracy:
165 jobs, $110 million in aid
Officials mull boosting incentives to keep $1.3 billion fertilizer plant project in Iowa
This is the worst kind of smokestack chasing, which is always the preferred approach of "economic development officials." Never mind that Iowa already has competing fertilizer plants — as Sioux Citian Debi Durham, Iowa chief official economic developer, surely knows. Never mind that Iowa and Illinois are getting played shamelessly by Orascom, the fertilizer company. Never mind that the money comes from taxes paid by existing competitors, and by thousands of unsubsidized businesses like ours, and our employees. Never mind all that — it's about buying a ribbon-cutting, not about making the state a good place for everyone to do business. Unless, of course, Roth & Company gets a nice state check for $21.3 million for the jobs we have already created.
At least some folks are catching on to the game. From the article:
Orascom has attracted a diverse group of opponents, from parents, environmentalists and liberal groups such as Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and Iowa Policy Project, to conservative groups such as Public Interest Group, Lee County Tea Party and Americans for Tax Reform.
So there's agreement from left to right that it's a bad idea for the state. But if politicians think it's a good idea for them, it will go through.
Related: Taking your wife's purse to buy drinks for the girls and LOCAL CPA FIRM VOWS TO SWALLOW PRIDE, ACCEPT $28 MILLION
Who catches the identity thieves? Hint: it's not Doug Shulman's IRS. From the Bradenton (Florida) Patch:
Det. B. Pieper from the police department's gang unit put together the case by paying close attention during a routine drug bust…
Pieper was one of several detectives watching traffic coming to and from a house where police suspected drugs were sold. He said he and his partner watched a car leave the house and then run a stop sign. When they pulled over the car Brydson was in the passenger seat with a laptop and a bag of marijuana on her lap.
Brydson quickly closed the laptop, which made Pieper suspicious. When he searched her purse, he said he found several TurboTax debit cards with different names on them. He also noticed a 60-step instruction sheet on how to perform tax fraud through TurboTax.
So local cops have to do the IRS's job of stopping the thieves who take $5 billion of our taxes annually while the IRS is busy building a new preparer regulation bureaucracy at the behest of the national tax prep firms. Priorities!
Courtney A. Strutt Todd: Congratulations on Your Scholarship. Don't Forget to Pay Uncle Sam (Davis Brown Tax Law Blog)
TaxProf, Tax Planks in Democratic Party Platform
Andrew Mitchel, Partnership Definition
Martin Sullivan, The Effects of Interest Allocation Rules in a Territorial System (Tax.com)
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Robert D. Flach has a new Buzz roundup of tax blog posts.
Jim Maule offers A Peek at the Production of Tax Ignorance. It's booming.
I think spending less than you earn works even better: Do Mandates or Tax Subsidies Do a Better Job of Boosting Savings?
Have a nice day: CBO: Federal Healthcare Spending Will Exceed Discretionary Spending by 2016 (William McBride, Tax Policy Blog)
GIGO: it's Tax Court Doctrine! From a case rejecting a taxpayer's use of TurboTax as an excuse for a bad return:
It is apparent that a portion of the information petitioner entered into the TurboTax program was incorrect; hence the mistakes made (which resulted in the underpayment) were made by petitioner, not TurboTax. TurboTax is only as good as the information entered into its software program. See Bunney v. Commissioner, 114 T.C. 259, 267 (2000). Simply put: garbage in, garbage out.
Tim Geithner, call your office.
Cite: Bartlett, T.C. Memo 2012-254.
Related: Reason #17 to Hire Me: Blaming Turbo Tax Can Not Protect You From Penalties (Anthony Nitti)


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Three months after it completed the $770 million takeover of capital-city radio group Austereo,
Chief financial officer Stephen Kelly said that while the new name – Southern Cross Austereo – was not surprising, it would "create a sense of belonging for people from both companies".
"We looked at creating a brand new name but Southern Cross is a strong television brand in regional Australia and Austereo is synonymous with radio," he said. "People from the two old companies are very proud of their brands."
Austereo's stations include 3Fox, 2Day, Triple, B105 and SAFM.
The new name was revealed yesterday at a conference for 200 Southern Cross Media senior executives and advertising sales and content staff, or 10 per cent of the company's total workforce, on the Gold Coast.
The company, which is 26.5 per cent owned by Macquarie Group, has set up a new division called Flying Emu to generate what Mr Kelly described as "big content ideas" across its capital-city radio and regional TV and radio stations, plus their websites.
Flying Emu reports to former Austereo chief executive Guy Dobson, who is now director of metropolitan radio and a member of the company's nine-person senior management team. Other members include Mr Kelly, Southern Cross Austereo chief executive Rhys Holleran and former Austereo executive chairman Peter Harvie.
Southern Cross shares have sagged from $2.16 to $1.34 since the Austereo takeover was announced on January 31. They are now 11¢ below the new shares issued to help fund the deal, which were priced at $1.45.
Earlier this year Southern Cross said the merger would produce $12 million to $15 million of "annual synergies and operational improvements" – including new ad revenue from cross-media deals – by 2013-14 and generate one-off costs of $3.5 million to $5 million during 2010-11 and 2011-12.
"We're slightly ahead of where we thought we'd be on both costs and synergies," Mr Kelly said. "Three months in, we're pleased with what we're finding."
Southern Cross Media has started selling joint radio and TV ad packages to marketers, as well as packages covering capital-city and regional radio stations.
Mr Kelly said the company would set up a new system to allow advertisers and media agencies to place ads across all its stations with one phone call.
"They can do it now, but all the ads have to be booked in manually," he said. "We're looking at various technology systems to do it."
Most of the one-off costs from the merger would be staff redundancies. Mr Kelly would not reveal how many staff had been, or would be, cut, but said that the number was "quite small".
The Australian Financial Review