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May 25th, 2005, 09:42 PM #1Days without Linkshare incident.
Recently read an interesting story about a trucking company that set a record by having 1,000 days without an incident.
It inspired me to start this thread to see how many days I could without a Linkshare incident. Incidents include late payments, failure to respond to support emails, reciept of inappropriate broadcast emails, beta software foul ups, and faulty and late reports.
Today we are currently at 0 days without incident.
PS. This is intended to be in good humor.
May 25th, 2005, 11:19 PM #2
I'm not laughing.
But you made a very good point. A strong company focused on profits and good customer/partner relations would go out of its way to have business go without incident. It's simply a fact of doing business to make a profit in this day and age.
If you were to this in retrospect for the last 30 days I'm afraid it would be 30 for 30 on days with an incident (just read my posts for the last 30 days).
May 25th, 2005, 11:54 PM #3
To make it meaningful, why not make it LS, CJ and SAS days without incident?Comments are opinion unless otherwise noted. Remember, pillage first. Then burn. Half of all people in the world have IQs under 100. You best learn to trust ol' SSanf!
May 26th, 2005, 12:07 AM #4
Maybe we should measure it in hours? It's pretty demotivating to always see a "0".
May 26th, 2005, 01:47 AM #5
You have to agree, CJ is starting to look pretty good at this point. Of course, when LS hits bottom like this, all the other networks look better.
May 26th, 2005, 08:00 AM #6
rather, free fall into a bottomless pit . . .
May 26th, 2005, 08:35 AM #7Days without Linkshare incident.
1/24 of a day for the last three months.
But I have a strong feeling that by the next Xmas season, all of this bad publicity will be a thing of the past, since by that time LS would be a totally parasite free network and all of the affiliates at LS will be posting a lot of good stuff about LS by January 2006.
People should know that any new features, take time to implement, so if you have waited for over three years for some improvements, what difference do a few more months of waiting would make?
I'm so impressed with the new direction that LS is taking, that in January of 2006, I will probably become a new LS member.
Just remember to bookmark this thread now and see the new and improved LS network by January 2006.
May 26th, 2005, 09:22 AM #8Originally Posted by Mr. Sal
It is a major hassle to get out of doing business w/ LS and I'd prefer not to feel forced to take that kind of stand. But this situation has gone beyond what is acceptable.
May 26th, 2005, 03:34 PM #9You have to agree, CJ is starting to look pretty good at this point. Of course, when LS hits bottom like this, all the other networks look better.Comments are opinion unless otherwise noted. Remember, pillage first. Then burn. Half of all people in the world have IQs under 100. You best learn to trust ol' SSanf!
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June 8th, 2005, 02:45 PM #12
Can't log in again. I wish I was getting paid by the hour for waiting for Linkshare to be available.
Merchants note - affiliates can't put up links when linkshare is down.
These "inconveniences" cost actual money. Very frustrating. Sorry for being such a grump today.
June 8th, 2005, 03:09 PM #13
Noxid just announced it is down.
Days without incident? Well, as some folks still complain they cannot get verified, have checks being sent to wrong name, etc., I think the post title should be upped to Weeks Without Incident. Much of this will sadlly go on for weeks, I'm sure.
June 8th, 2005, 03:27 PM #14
Since Linkshare likes metrics so much, let's make sure we keep metrics like this alive. Another metric we might like to use would be "Time to resolve issues" Right now, it looks like we have some that are running two months or more...
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The end is near! I mean, you can start signing up on the Obamacare exchanges October 1st. But that isn't stopping Republicans from continuing to try to defund it. In fact, they just held their 41st sham vote to block it. I mean… what else do they have to do? It's not like they're fix the Reaganomics hole they put us in. They're not going to start governing now when this whole "obstruct and drag us back to the gilded age" plan is coming along so nicely.
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The progressive solution – Single Payer – would have fixed these problems once and for all. But this is Obama's America, and Republicans and transnational corporations must be appeased. FDR "welcomed their hatred," and Obama "welcomes their ideas." So, we have a Republican plan that leaves the for-profit health system profiteering off the miseries of Americans. Still, Obamacare will offer some relief until "We The People" have had enough, rise up and demand a government that operates in the interest of the GENERAL WELFARE. Until then, if Republicans have their way, it's back to their health plan – which is… don't get sick and if you do, die quickly – and "if I'm not the one sick, I don't give a crap." Just like their favorite person jesus never instructed.
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News that the Hendersonville Winn-Dixie is closing carried me back to my first job.
I worked at the A&P, which was in Eastgate shopping center in Chapel Hill, catty-cornered from the Winn-Dixie.
First job in public work, I should say. I had earlier jobs delivering the Chapel Hill Weekly on my bicycle Wednesday afternoons and Sunday mornings and mowing lawns in the summer.
At the A&P, I was no longer an independent businessboy. I worked for Mr. Alexander, a serious, portly gentleman who always wore a short-sleeved white dress shirt and a black tie. Owl-like, Mr. A, as everyone called him, observed all that was going on in his store from one of those offices with the waist-high walls.
I liked to steal a glance up at the platform office because the clerks that worked up there were two attractive young ladies, one blond-headed with a bouffant, the other a brunette with straight long hair. But when I glanced, Mr. A glared sternly back at me.
A&P had already opened in Eastgate at the corner of U.S. 15-501 and East Franklin Street when we moved to nearby Ridgefield Park in 1962. I must have started working there about 1969 when I was 15. I worked on Saturdays. My job entailed three main tasks: bagging groceries and carrying them out to cars for customers, sorting the soft drink bottles that customers redeemed for 2 cents apiece and sweeping, mopping and waxing the floor at night after closing.
Eastgate was a treasure of shopping to me at the time, the mall of its day. It had a W.T. Grant department store, Woods 5&10, an Eckerd with a lunch counter and 6-cent ice cream cones, a One-Hour Martizining dry cleaners and Billy Arthur's Hobby Shop. It had Huggins Hardware, which, incongruously, was where I bought my first pair of Chuck Taylor Converse All-Stars.
I'd pick up lettuce discards from the produce departments of both grocery stores, and I sold the guinea pigs I raised to the manager of Woods. Got 75 cents for them, I think.
I was reminded of my A&P days when we got the news that Winn-Dixie on Four Seasons Boulevard is closing at the end of the month. A lot of us at here at the office were disappointed because the grocery store is so convenient; we can walk next door for a carton of strawberry-banana yogurt or a Hershey's bar with almonds or a to-go plate lunch of fried chicken, potato wedges and green beans.
The Winn-Dixie closing, it turns out, made others nostalgic, too.
The day after the news, I heard Larry Freeman and Don Michalove on WHKP-AM reminiscing about the Winn-Dixies here in Hendersonville. Their history here goes back further than in Chapel Hill.
"We got that wrong," Larry told me when I called him Friday. Believe me, that's going to happen when you try to talk about or write about local history.
Larry told me when I called him Friday that the station had heard from lots of listeners remembering the Winn-Dixie stores, which numbered five. The first, which he and former mayor Michalove had forgotten about, was across from the old Courthouse in the space now occupied by Sherman's Sporting Goods.
Others were down the block on South Main, south of the GO store; on Church Street at Fifth Avenue, which burned to the ground; across from the Hendersonville High gym where the Boyd Pontiac garage is located; and at the Four Seasons Mall location.
"When that one closes," Larry noted, "it's going to close about a half-century of history in Henderson County."
Larry talked about Hendersonville folks shopping at both stores, same way I remembered in Chapel Hill.
"They'd go to A&P to buy coffee and Winn-Dixie to buy their meat," Larry said.
"Eight O'Clock," I said, the old A&P store brand.
"Yeah, boy," Larry said.
That reminded me of another part of my job. Lady shoppers would come through the checkout line with bags of Eight O'Clock, which came in whole bean form. The checker would send me back to the coffee grinder to grind the beans into whatever fineness the customer wanted. The aroma stays with me to this day.
I got to be fast and efficient as a bagger. We double-bagged automatically. I could whip one bag into the other, flatten the bottom with a quick, back-handed slap and fill the bag strategically: soup cans and cereal boxes on the bottom, toilet tissue and eggs on top. A sign said baggers were not allowed to take tips, and the first day I worked I refused to take the dimes and quarters the customers offered.
But soon enough I learned the rule was one of those "official" proscriptions that civil society agrees to ignore. Bag boys weren't really expected to follow the rule because customers expected us to take their token of gratitude. Saturdays were usually very busy and by the end of the day I'd have a pocket heavy with coins, fuel for my daydreaming about the model car I might buy at Billy Arthur's.
You don't see bag boys anymore. Ask a checker to double-bag now and you risk getting either a blank stare or a stern look that indicates personal responsibility for the destruction of the forest.
Mr. Ingle has kept up with the competition while Wal-Mart steamrolls everyone else. A&Ps are long gone in these parts and by spring Winn-Dixie will be only a memory.
The range of merchandise is wider and Wally World uses its buying power and shelf-stocking science to keep prices low.
The big markets are all festival market places, tempting us with food choices we couldn't imagine at the old A&P.
I enjoy them sometimes but they can't match the memories of double-bagging a big order, grinding Eight O'Clock coffee and mopping the produce aisle under the watchful tutelage of Mr. A.
Bill Moss is executive editor of the Times-News. Contact him at 694-7876 or e-mail william. firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Facts about Robin Williams
Robin Williams is a comedian and actor known for Mrs. Doubtfire, Hook, Good Will Hunting and many others.
Robin was born on July 21, 1951.So he is 62
years old.He went to redwood high school.
Robin had ADHD this affected his learning witch affected his education.Like taking a bit more time on test.
He has a hard time even memorizing his lines for movies or plays.
Robin was a shy and quiet kid when he was younger.Till he joined the drama department in high school.
Learning Disability
If you look at some of his movies you may see his body language a bit odd this is him suffering from ADHD.
How he over comes it is he uses his
skill of talking and acting funny to overcome
his ADHD.
He is successful because even when
he as ADHD he does movies and stand up.
He has won many awards.Almost everyone
knows who Robin Williams is from his movies
and from his stand up.
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?
You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
When he was in high school he won the award
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What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.
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The UNSW Medicine Dean's Award have been established to recognise, reward and encourage exceptional and outstanding service or work performance by Professional, Technical, Teaching and Research staff in the Faculty of Medicine.
Nominations for these annual awards open around September each year. An application form and procedures will be available here when they re-open.
Awards are acknowledged on this website and certificates will be presented at UNSW Medicine's Annual Awards Ceremony in November of each year.
- Dean's Award for Outstanding Achievement (Academic)
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DURHAM � Duke doesn�t want Navy to have all the rushing accolades.
Duke�s revived rushing attack is something that the Blue Devils want to keep going as they tangle with Navy this afternoon at Wallace Wade Stadium.
�I think we have to keep it up to be successful,� Duke coach David Cutcliffe said. �I think it�s critical that we continue, and we�re certainly going to try to grow that. That was the best chance for us to be as good as we possibly can be.�
Duke is averaging 193 rushing yards per game, putting it on pace for its best ground attack in more than 35 years.
Putting a dent in some of Duke�s plans could be the look of Navy�s defensive front.
�This is, I think, the best Navy defense that we�ve seen and we�ve seen a lot from Navy since we�ve been here,� Cutcliffe said.
Cutcliffe said he likes how Duke quarterback Brandon Connette has contributed to the rushing attack, giving the Blue Devils another dimension.
Connette said the running backs, with Josh Snead, Jela Duncan and Juwan Thompson all taking turns with good stretches, have been difference makers.
�Our running backs are the most unselfish players on this team,� Connette said.
Duke didn�t fare well from a defensive perspective against the last triple-option team it faced. Georgia Tech pinned a 38-14 loss on the Blue Devils last month.
�The challenge is to get out there, get your feet wet, and try to get a rhythm of the tempo as quickly as you can before you get too much damage done,� Cutcliffe said.
With all the discussion about rushing attacks and triple-option schemes, Duke has other topics on offense.
The Blue Devils have been good throwing the ball at times. Receiver Jamison Crowder has a school-record seven career touchdown receptions of 50 or more yards.
The open week on the schedule could provide the Blue Devils with a little extra spark with fresher legs, Crowder said.
�Offensively, we�re getting our chemistry (and) we can build on that,� he said.
The Blue Devils also might have quarterback Anthony Boone back. He hasn�t played since suffering a broken collarbone Sept. 7 at Memphis, but he�s listed as questionable on Duke�s injury report.
Boone has been practicing with the Blue Devils, so his potential availability could make the quarterback situation more complex for Duke.
�He�s certainly on a faster track that I thought he would be,� Cutcliffe said. �When he gets back where he�s playing better than Brandon, then he�s the guy. Hopefully, we get Anthony back up to that level.�
Navy at Duke
Records: Navy 3-1; Duke 3-2
When: 12:30 p.m. today (ACC Network)
Where: Wallace Wade Stadium, Raleigh
Series: Navy leads 20-14-5
Extra points �: Duke has won the last two meetings, including 34-31 in 2010 in the most-recent matchup. � Duke safety Jeremy Cash, a transfer from Ohio State, leads the ACC in tackles with 10.2 per game after logging 14 two weeks ago against Troy. � Navy�s rushing offense ranks eighth nationally with 294 yards per game. � Navy plays another ACC opponent in two weeks when it goes to Pittsburgh. � Navy is aiming for its best five-game start to a season since it went 4-1 in 2008. � Navy starting slotback Geoffrey Whiteside is expected to be back after missing the past two games with an ankle injury.


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Telford, PA (PressExposure) October 27, 2009 -- One of the biggest questions you may ask yourself in business card printing is: What color should I use? Most especially if you want to print business cards with your own special symbols characters and inks.
The color of the card will be of prime importance when you start making them. Since you want your business card to produce cards that portray your true personality and professional image you should be pretty sure about color choices.
To help you out with your choice, here are a few of the common color schemes that people use in their business cards.
⢠Printing in classic black and white - The most basic color scheme that you can use is the classic black and white. This basically means that your information will be printed in black ink with a white card or background. It is a very simple and straightforward process, perfect for people who are new to business card printing. What is more, this is the cheapest kind of printing that you can do.
⢠The grayscale - A step up on the classic black and white is the grayscale business card. These have grayscale images or logos. It uses a mix of black and white ink to produce images in a classic sort of look, producing varying degrees of gray. Use this if you want to display good and detailed images in your business card, but still want to save money a bit in printing.
⢠The block color - Now, for a dash of color, you can usually tell your business card printer to print block or spot colors. These are basically pure colors that can be used. They are usually single color inks that give the cards a solid block or spot color. Some corporate businesspersons already use this kind simple spot color to save money on business card printing and still have that tinge of inviting color in their custom designs.
⢠Full color images - Finally, if you really want to spend on business card printing, then I suggest using high-resolution full color images or photographs. Using full color images usually negates the use of a color scheme on a business card. This is because the image will usually take over the theme and become dominant color or colors that you can use. This is the best type of scheme though if you really want to attract or impress your readers.
⢠Special colors - If however, you want to use colors that are exotic, then I suggest using some special colors and inks. Metallic gold and silver inks for example can easily be used for great effect. If you want your cards to be remembered then special inks should be the best place to start.
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Jack Black has claimed that his marriage has been successful because he is always willing to compromise.
The Gulliver's Travels actor told Parade that he tries to spend quality time with his wife Tanya by engaging in some of her favorite activities.
"Being a good husband is like being a gardener. You've got to give your partner lots of water and sunshine (love and support)," he said. "Communication is key - listening and sharing, finding a good TV show to watch together. My wife and I have really been into Project Runway."
Black also suggested that honesty is key to maintaining a healthy relationship.
The star noted: "It's also important to ask for what you want. I have a tendency to do whatever my wife wants, and then anger builds up inside me and comes out in little passive-aggressive bursts.
"It's better to just communicate your desires up front from the get-go. Such an obvious and strange discovery at the age of 41!"


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Steven Sotloff, an American journalist who's life is in peril at the hands the Islamic State militia known as ISIS, was a relative unknown as a missing member of the media until recently. Sotloff was kidnapped in August 2013 while on assignment for Time magazine. The journalist was last heard from in Syria shortly after crossing into the country from Turkey.
Sotloff's family wanted to keep the disappearance quite. The idea was that by keeping his disappearance quiet, Sotloff may not be valued as a bargaining chip, hopefully keeping him safe. However, after the video released by ISIS showing the killing of American journalist James Foley showed that Sotloff was indeed alive and was a captive of the Islamic State, there was little the family could do.
In the video, Sotloff was shown dressed in an orange jumpsuit, kneeling in front of a man dressed all in black. The video indicated that Foley's death was due to U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic group and if President Barak Obama did not cease the strikes and pull U.S. troops completely out of Iraq, Sotloff could be next.
From Florida, Sotloff's family has asked for privacy and declined interview requests from the media. However, along with some of Sotloff's friends, his family started a White House petition asking Obama to do all that he can do to rescue the American journalist who's life is in peril. So far, 7,336 people had signed that petition.
Prior to being captured, Sotloff tweeted about the Miami Heat and center Greg Oden. Then his twitter account went silent. For years the 31-year-old reporter had been working as a freelancer in the Middle East. Working with the Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, Time Magazine, World Affairs Journal and the Daily Caller, which had taken him all over the region including Egypt and Yemen. Like Foley, Sotloff knew the risks that his job entailed, but loved what he was doing.
The day after the video was released showing Sotloff's life being threatened, President Obama stated that the entire world was "appalled" by the actions of ISIS. After the President had addressed the nation, the U.S. military made an announcement that it would continue the air campaign against ISIS targets. This move by the U.S. Government may be seen as defiance towards the militants and force their hand against Sotloff and the United States.
Sotloff is a pure war correspondent. The journalist was drawn to stories in the region that were the most volatile, regardless of the dangers. He loves the area, and is passionate in his coverage of the conflicts, people and regions of the Middle East. During the U.S. Embassy attack in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, Sotloff appeared on Fox News with interviews of the Embassy compound guards and his personal accounts of the happenings going on.
While Sotloff is not the first journalist kidnapped, the appearance of the American in the ISIS video of Foley's execution has put him and the peril he is facing in the forefront. Whether the U.S. continues the bombings of ISIS or sends in a special forces group in to attempt a rescue is unknown. Sotloff has never worked with the Guardian Liberty Voice, he is a colleague of journalists worldwide. Guardian Liberty Voice would like to see the safe return of Sotloff to his friends and family, and all missing members of the media. Guardian Liberty Voice will continue coverage of his ordeal as more information becomes available.
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TEL AVIV, Feb 11 (Reuters) - The Bank of Israel said on Monday it will not make interest rate decisions around the week-long Jewish holidays of Passover and Sukkot as data are received with a lag and activity levels are low due to the holidays.
In 2013, the rate decision will not be made at the end of April and at the end of September. Therefore the rate set at the end of March will be in effect for April and May, and the interest rate set at the end of August 2013 will be in effect for September and October.
Passover falls in March or April and Sukkot is celebrated in September or October.
The Bank of Israel said its monetary policy committee maintains the authorisation to change the interest rate in the intermeeting periods, should it deem it necessary. (Reporting by Tova Cohen; Editing by Steven Scheer)


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1. If the right has it their way, basic firearms training will be taught on HS and general education college courses. Of course the left doesnt want that as all of their argument about gun control will fall.
Originally Posted by matthewuk
I was mearly pointing out that guns arn't banned or illegal in the UK, Australia ect..
And in a previous comment I pointed out that.
It's not about gun laws but rather gun culture.
In the US you view guns as a means to protect you from your government and your neighbour. You get no training and no expectations of responsibility
In Switzerland guns are to protect your country and your neighbour. And you trained and held in a position of trust
Additionally in countries with lax gun regs, they don't view that as a verse from the bible so they have a more rational less zelous view of ownership and reasonable and productive debate were the rights of ownership Vs public safety was settled a long time ago.
In other words it's not gun laws per see that is the problem, a rational society has rational gun laws lax or restrictive. It's the terrible premise your gun rights are based on.
2. About UK and Australia, see previous post. Good luck owning a gun on those places. You cant even own the thing and use it for self defense (not even pepper sprays in UK lol)
3. 2nd amendment is highly regarded because people understand the value of the U.S. constitution. Historically, without guns, US will stay as aUK territory. And the framers make it because they do not want another UK to rule over them. Its been said many times that the 2nd amendment protects the 1st. Its not a terrible premise like you say. When crap goes down, we resolve it ourselves, not ditch the country to be refugees. Historically speaking too, many blacks in slavery and abolition used guns and pro 2nd amendment as well...
The problem is we cant even get to that point, because of all the virtue signaling the left does. Most of the gun laws we have right now usually should be enough, aside from inept government effing up as usual (this killer should not have bought guns in the first place for example, but the air force didnt do paperwork... as usual).
Originally Posted by YourMaster
See, this is a valid argument. There's no need to argue both ways. You can say that the people's right to defend against a potential tyrannical government is worth the loss of life caused by the prevalence of guns. You don't have to argue that it helps against tyrannical governments AND causes zero additional deaths compared to a world with total gun control.
If that's the clear divide, both sides can argue honestly from that point. Determine how many innocent and criminal lives a year gun prevalence is worth, and come up with policies that help reduce gun deaths without making them more vulnerable for the government.
For example mandate guns to be stored in saves with a 3-day timer. Plenty of time to get your gun when US-Hitler is elected, but also enough time to cool off when your neighbor scratched your car. Or, at the very least say you want no further laws, and accept the deaths caused by it without wining.
I mean, look at the bottom post. Sorry but some people will even dispute the 2nd amendment... without comprehending US culture or basic understanding of how guns work (like many typical anti gun sentiment in general).
FYI japan in ww2 hesitated to do a land invasion in mainland US because of the 2nd amendment alone. The government also knows they cannot win with against a armed citizenry. Thats not even counting the possible defectors.
Originally Posted by phatmike128
As an Australian its hard to comprehend the US general obsession with guns. The 2nd amendment seems ridiculous.. as if citizens with their guns stand a chance against the military the government has at their disposal. The unconstitutional idea of changing it gets brought up. Its literally an amendment, so why not progress with the times?
Even if some sensible gun control or buy backs were applied, the argument seems to be that it wont automatically stop gun deaths. No, not straight away of course. It would be several generations probably with how ingrained gun culture seems to be in the country. Really that would need bipartisan support though, and like its been said, unfortunately with the current political parties and corporate structures the US runs it seems impossible, and any bipartisanship is a pipe dream.
And look at your argument again, we wont stand a chance against the military so we just go in the times, and bend over taking it up the butt and say daddy government? This is the perfect reason why people wont give up their guns. Even if they are about to lose (which they wont), people will rather freaking doe and go down fighting than bend over. This is the mindset that go us out of slavery in the civil war, and won 2 world wars. Dont underestimate patriots.


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Small business has much to gain and very little to lose if Congress establishes Social Security personal retirement accounts. These accounts, which would allow taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security retirement taxes, would make capital more available to small businesses without adding any appreciable administrative burden. In addition, since Social Security benefits are more likely to fund a larger share of the retirements of small-business owners, reducing the program's impending financial problems is even more important to their financial security.
Small business exercises an immense influence on the American economy. More than 99 percent of all U.S. employers are small, and they employ just over 50 percent of the private-sector work force. Such firms provide 75 percent of the nation's net new jobs and 50 percent of its private-sector economic output. 1
But current statistics alone tell only part of the story. While larger businesses tend to create process innovations that strengthen economic efficiency, smaller businesses and entrepreneurs are responsible for the lion's share of product innovations that create new businesses and industries. 2 Technological developments that are likely to play a central role in future U.S. economic growth--such as biotechnology, lasers, and computer software--have been closely linked to smaller technology enterprises. This is an unusual feature of the American economy. 3 And it is not a new feature: A recent study of Fortune 200 companies has shown that 197 of them could be traced back to entrepreneurial founders. 4
Small firms also are blazing trails in the rapidly globalizing economy. Between 1987 and 1997, the number of U.S. small business exporters tripled to over 200,000, and these companies were 20 percent more productive--with 20 percent faster job growth and 15 percent higher wages--than the rest of America's businesses. 5
At the same time, small business traditionally has provided a portal into the economic mainstream for younger and lesser skilled workers, the economically displaced, immigrants, and people leaving public assistance.
Consequently, Americans hold small business in very high regard. A 1997 Gallup poll found large majorities agreeing that small business represents "one of the best ways to get ahead in America" and saying that they admired small-business owners. Indeed, 92 percent of respondents said they would be pleased if a son or daughter started a small business. 6 These survey findings are essentially constant across age, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, political philosophy, and partisan identification, and they are significantly more positive than the results of comparable surveys taken abroad.
Factors like these have led to an unusual degree of political and partisan comity on many national small-business issues. The substantial impact of small businesses in a broad range of arenas strongly suggests that it is economically, socially, and politically vital that small business be helped--or at least not harmed--by decisions that are made regarding the future of Social Security.
Reform should be crafted with a recognition of the particular needs and vulnerabilities of small businesses and entrepreneurs. These can be explored in terms of two categories--concerns that affect the small business community as a whole and those related to the operation of specific businesses.
The debate over resolving Social Security's coming financial problems involves considerations that affect all small businesses. In addition to concerns that would affect the day-to-day operations of individual small businesses, some factors would affect the entire small business community. These include:
- Greater
Dependence on Social Security for Retirement Income .
Employees of small businesses and entrepreneurs almost certainly
will be more dependent on Social Security benefits than those
entering retirement from larger enterprises. Most people in small
businesses do not have pensions. While 79 percent of mid- to
large-size businesses offer employer-supported retirement benefits,
far fewer smaller businesses do so. Among businesses with 25-99
employees, the figure is 46 percent; for businesses with 10-24
employees, it is 34 percent; and for those with one-nine employees,
it drops to 22 percent. 7
Despite efforts to encourage Americans to save adequate funds for retirement, most workers have not done so. Only 15 percent have saved more than $100,000, and only 30 percent have saved more than $25,000. 8 While some of those with higher savings may be younger workers, this still is very little money for periods of retirement that are likely to span 10-20 years. Figures on personal savings for retirement are not generally available by business size. However, a study by the National Association for the Self-Employed found that more than three-quarters (78 percent) of the entrepreneurs it represents had saved less than $100,000 for retirement even though virtually none of them had private-sector pensions and their median age was 46. 9
With generally inadequate pensions and personal savings, entrepreneurs would be seriously and disproportionately affected by Social Security benefit cuts--unless these cuts are offset by an increase in personal accounts or other reforms. At the same time, such benefit cuts would make retirement planning an even more daunting challenge for small business. Many would surely turn away from entrepreneurship in favor of "safer" choices--with damaging consequences for the nation's economic openness, growth, and innovation.
- The Impact of
Marginal Taxes . Entrepreneurs (who already face high
taxes) are probably more sensitive to changes in tax rates and tax
structure than wage-and-salary workers are. Entrepreneurship
entails risks, and those risks will not be taken without prospects
for rewards that the entrepreneur regards as adequate.
10 Policymakers in Washington seem to grasp the
importance of this "knife-edge" risk-reward calculus with regard to
capital gains taxes but seem to ignore it when other taxes are
being considered. Yet it is marginal tax rates--the taxes on that
"next dollar" of income--that the entrepreneur must weigh regarding
any and all revenue that cannot be treated as capital gains.
This entrepreneurial calculus is apparent in a recent analysis of Internal Revenue Service data on sole proprietorships. Recent research indicates that a 5 percent increase in marginal tax rates leads to a 10.4 percent decrease in the probability of investment by those sole proprietors 11 and that marginal tax rates that are high and progressive strongly discourage entry into self-employment and business ownership. 12 Even the current level of Social Security taxes substantially distorts occupational choice and effort, as noted economist Martin Feldstein has demonstrated. 13
Social Security taxes already drive marginal rates above 40 percent for many taxpayers. A taxpayer in the 28 percent federal income tax bracket, for example, typically pays 5 percent in state income taxes and 15.3 percent in Social Security and Medicare taxes.
For entrepreneurs, Social Security taxes are even more threatening than income taxes. The entrepreneur must directly pay both the employer's and the employee's share of the taxes and must do so whether it has been a good year or bad year--regardless of what the cash flows and accounts receivable may be, and regardless of whether or not the business makes a profit. 14
Absent reform, the Social Security-driven marginal rates for small-business owners could well exceed 50 percent. Payroll taxes left on "automatic pilot" would rise eventually by more than 33 percent, increasing the annual taxes on a couple earning $50,000 by more than $2,000. 15 It would be hard to overestimate the damage this would wreak on entrepreneurship and small-business ownership. Marginal tax rates that are well above 50 percent for even the smallest entrepreneur almost certainly would lead to a precipitous decline in new business formations.
Like other countries with punitive taxes on starting and running a small business, the United States could expect to see the growth of a large "informal" sector of entrepreneurial activity. As in those countries, such "gray market" businesses would not be able to enter into binding contracts, obtain loans or venture capital, advertise, hire more than a few employees, offer those employees any legal protections or mandated benefits, grow, or provide the government with the kind of data it needs to make rational economic decisions.
- Access to
Capital. Small businesses need better access to capital
than they historically have received. That is the resounding
conclusion of three separate White House Conferences on Small
Business over the past two decades. Hundreds of delegates to these
conferences, elected by small-business owners themselves, indicated
that "access to capital" was the number one small-business concern.
Later, in the later 1990s, when this country's pace of business and technological innovation became the envy of the world, it was the agility and liquidity of American capital markets--exemplified by venture capital companies--that were widely identified as a linchpin for business development. While a large majority of small businesses are started with private savings or personal loans, most small business expansions depend upon banks and investors. For the whole system to work, small businesses must represent comparatively good risks for lending and investing, and sufficient capital to do so must be available.
The decisions that Congress makes on Social Security will have far-reaching implications for capital access. A decision to do little or nothing in the immediate future means that Social Security will not become an even partially "prefunded" retirement program. Instead, it will remain a 100 percent "pay-as-you-go" system. Its multitrillion-dollar unfunded liability will remain unfunded.
Given the country's likely demographic changes, additional debt and debt servicing costs would be almost inevitable. Government borrowing will compete with private borrowing and will almost certainly crowd out some of it. Interest rates are likely to rise higher, given the government's significant new demands on the capital markets, and this in turn will raise small businesses' costs of borrowing. If the political decision were made to use public debt to finance most or all of the coming Social Security shortfall, that additional debt would rise by approximately $47 trillion by 2075. 16
Moreover, unlike borrowing to finance a transition to a prefunded system, borrowing to maintain the current system could never be repaid from Social Security tax receipts. The existing debt load exceeds $10 trillion, and the system's "pay-go" structure would continue making it larger, given the demographic shifts underway in the U.S. population.
Such an open-ended borrowing approach also would risk substantial inflation, in addition to which the sheer scale of the fiscal irresponsibility inherent in that approach could jeopardize the dollar's international standing in denominating debt and also as a "reserve" currency.
Financing Social Security debt out of general tax receipts (largely income tax receipts) most likely would lead to significantly higher income tax rates. As noted above, higher marginal tax rates are a serious hindrance to entrepreneurship and business ownership. Higher taxes, like reduced Social Security benefits, would take money from the pockets of individuals and companies, thereby shrinking personal savings and retained earnings as sources of capital.
But the United States need not pursue this ominous scenario of fiscal dead-ends.
Allowing Social Security recipients to place a portion of their taxes in personal accounts that they own and control would initiate a "virtuous cycle" for capital markets.
For one thing, it would begin reducing trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, 17 which would create a favorable climate for balanced budgets or surpluses. If the experience of the past few years is any indication, federal budgets that have surpluses instead of massive deficits are good for small-business capital needs. Since 1998, small business has enjoyed the best access to capital on record, according to economic data tracked by the National Federation of Independent Business. 18
For another thing, creating personal accounts would have an effect not unlike creating employer-provided pensions. Capital would build up and would be put to productive use. Small business would benefit--directly, through investments from the funds themselves and, indirectly, through transactions with financial service intermediaries with access to the funds. This process is succinctly summarized in a World Bank survey of global pension reform:
[P]ension funds are critical players in "symbiotic" finance, the simultaneous and mutually reinforcing presence of many important elements of modern financial systems. They can support the development of factoring, leasing, and venture capital companies, all of which specialize in the financing of new and expanding small firms. 19
The experience of Chile is instructive in this regard. Chile's Social Security personal account system is the world's oldest, dating back 20 years. Since then, the country has sustained robust economic growth averaging 7 percent a year, and both its capital markets and small businesses have flourished. 20 Among the more than 30 nations that have adopted personal accounts since then, none has reported a contradictory economic experience.
Perhaps most important, personal accounts would dramatically improve the rate of return that entrepreneurs could expect on their payroll tax payments and thereby enhance their retirement income. Some of the most persuasive evidence of this dynamic is found in an analysis of the University of Michigan's long-running Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The analysis carefully tracked more than 200 independent business owners over a 35-year period. It showed that they could expect rates of return averaging about 3 percent to 3.5 percent within the Social Security system (in contrast to a 7 percent historical rate of return on equities). Over a working lifetime, 92 percent of the business owners would lose between $300,000 and $700,000 if they were to pay Social Security taxes rather than invest the same amount in a conservative portfolio of 50 percent blue chip stocks and 50 percent long-term government bonds. 21 Brighter retirement income prospects for small businesses and entrepreneurs would allow more people to take the many other risks that small-business ownership and entrepreneurship entail.
In sum, personal accounts offer two fundamental macroeconomic advantages for small business: what the government would not do (unnecessarily raise taxes, cut Social Security benefits, or borrow) and what the private sector would do (build up and deploy capital and improve retirement incomes).
The foregoing discussion has touched on four of the five basic options that the government could utilize to address Social Security's future financing needs. A fifth option would be to reduce other government spending sufficiently to cover Social Security's expected funding shortfalls.
Normally, this option might interest many small businesses, but the scale of the spending reductions required--perhaps $30 trillion to $50 trillion over time--renders it completely unrealistic. Funding for entire functions of government--for example, veterans programs, the administration of justice, transportation, space exploration, environmental protection--would have to be redirected. In 1994, in spite of the powerful mandate for belt-tightening evidenced by the Republican landslide, Congress barely summoned the political will to extinguish the Pennsylvania Avenue Development Commission. It would be utter fantasy to assume that Congress would opt to abolish entire departments on the scale of Transportation, Environmental Protection, or Veterans Affairs rather than borrowing, raising taxes, or cutting Social Security benefits.
Even if this were possible, moreover, it would send the wrong message: that every function of government should be subordinated to the imperative of providing retirement benefits. That is not a message that small-business owners (or, for that matter, any group of Americans) should want to be sent. As a prominent Democratic Party journal put it:
[Democrats opposed to Social Security reform] should drop the motto "Social Security First" and start using "Social Security Only"--it more accurately reflects their position's logical endpoint. Democrats must ask themselves whether every other issue they care about--inner-city poverty, public schools, the environment, job training, universal access to health care--should be sacrificed or starved to maintain [today's] Social Security. If raising payroll taxes is part of the solution, exactly how much of a burden in regressive taxes on low-to-middle income Americans are Democrats willing to tolerate? 22
The debate about Social Security reform also entails concerns regarding day-to-day business operations, one of which is the purported administrative burden that personal retirement accounts would place on small businesses. 23 Before examining the substance of this assumption, it should be noted that major small business associations in the United States--associations that presumably have had ample time to study the issue--have been strongly urging Congress to enact personal accounts for years. 24
While the "small business administrative burden" avenue of criticism has helped to identify various practical issues relating to the implementation of personal accounts, these critiques often overlook or misinterpret the approach entailed by the most widely accepted current proposals for personal accounts, which minimizes the administrative burden on employers. 25 Most of the current proposals for personal savings accounts do not require employers to:
Select investment funds or fund managers for their employees;
Frequently submit information relating to personal accounts;
Bear legal or fiduciary responsibility for the performance of any of their employees' investments.
In fact, the proposals generally follow the example of the Thrift Savings Plan that is currently available to federal government workers. Under this scheme, a portion of the employees' Social Security taxes would automatically be reserved by the Treasury Department for Social Security. This money would be deposited by that agency or the Social Security Administration into a "default" fund, indexing a large number of stocks, or purchasing low-risk Treasury securities, or both. As these accounts reached a specified size, workers would be given the option to choose from a group of carefully selected and regulated investment options. They, and not employers, would most likely do so by checking a box on a form at the time of employment or subsequently. 26
As for the employer's "administrative burden," the most that any of the current proposals entail is an annual reconfirmation of the "box" that employees have checked. Employers who want to do more may do so. For example, under recently enacted law, employers may, if they choose, offer free investment advice to employees, and this advice is not treated as a taxable benefit. 27
Indeed, it is significant that opponents' claims that private investments would bring excessive administrative burdens to employers (a potentially explosive criticism) have done little to reduce the strong support that small-business owners and entrepreneurs have registered for personal accounts. In one survey, the respondents were asked how they felt about being "required to help administer a Social Security account system" and whether they would be willing, at the extreme, to spend up to $1,000 per employee per year to implement a personal account system. 28 In another survey, respondents were told that employers would have to "separately deduct" the amounts for personal accounts and "deposit" these deductions "in a different place" from the taxes that are normally withheld for the federal government. 29
Yet, despite these misleading or false assumptions regarding likely administrative burdens for employers, the majority of respondents to both surveys still favored personal accounts. Indeed, only 20 percent were less enthusiastic after having been told, in the first survey, that they would shoulder a significant administrative responsibility for the system. Only 16 percent found the "separate deposit" procedure described in the second survey to be a "very serious new burden"; 41 percent said it was "not very serious."
To anyone familiar with small businesses' typically strident reaction against government-mandated paperwork, these survey findings are nothing short of astonishing. They suggest not an ambivalence toward Social Security reform, but a powerful depth of conviction favoring it.
Although the survey questions described above may have been the result of genuine uncertainties about how personal accounts modeled on the federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) would work, descriptions of employer responsibilities given by opponents of Social Security reform have often been intentionally exaggerated and distorted. The truth is that the administrative "burden" on small businesses would be very minor under such a TSP approach and that small businesses stand to benefit substantially from Social Security reform that includes personal accounts.
The energy invested in attempts to mislead small-business owners regarding Social Security reform should be countered with efforts to provide leadership on this issue. That is the task of those who favor personal accounts. They may find inspiration in the words of President Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Social Security is a "development towards [a] goal, rather than a finished product. [W]e should be constantly seeking to perfect and strengthen it in the light of our accumulating experience and growing appreciation of social needs." 30
James Morrison, Ph.D., has specialized in small business and entrepreneurship policy for more than 20 years. He has worked for Congress, government agencies, international development organizations, and small business trade associations.
1. U.S. Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, Small Business--Frequently Asked Questions , August 2001.
4. Courtney Purrington and Kin Bettcher, From the Garage to the Boardroom: The Entrepreneurial Roots of America's Largest Corporations , National Commission on Entrepreneurship, August 2001.
6. William J. Dennis, Jr., The Public Reviews Small Business, NFIB Education Foundation, 1998. Based on a 1997 Gallup poll of 1,108 American adults.
7. Employee Benefit Research Institute, EBRI Notes, Vol. 22, No. 1 (January 2001). Data compiled from U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Current Population Surveys, March 1995-March 2000. The figures are for 1999.
8. American Savings Education Council and Employee Benefit Research Institute, Retirement Confidence Survey, 2001.
9. National Association for the Self-Employed, Social Security and the Self-Employed, testimony, National Commission on Retirement Policy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, May 1997.
10. Douglas Holtz-Eakin et al., "Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables," Small Business Economics, Vol. 14, No. 4 (2000).
11. Robert Carroll et al., "Personal Income Taxes and the Growth of Small Firms," in James Poterba, ed., Tax Policy and the Economy (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001).
12. William M. Gentry and R. Glenn Hubbard, "Tax Policy and Entry Into Entrepreneurship," Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, August 20, 2001, at www.columbia.edu/~wmg6. Using the 1979-1993 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the research found, among other things, that the 1993 increase in the marginal tax rate lowered the probability for entry into self-employment by upper-middle-income households by as much as 20 percent.
13. Martin Feldstein, Richard T. Ely Lecture to the American Economic Association, American Economic Review, Vol. 86, No. 2 (1996).
14. Entrepreneurs believe that they pay higher payroll taxes than wage-and-salary workers, and beliefs can affect economic behavior, but are their taxes really higher? Is there really a "payroll tax penalty on entrepreneurship"? Most economists say no. The prevailing view is that employers simply reduce the wages and benefits of employees enough to cover the employer's share of payroll taxes. Thus, wage-and-salary workers are said to shoulder payroll taxes equal to those of the self-employed. But do employers actually follow this formula? That seems to depend on two fairly shaky assumptions: that all employer costs are constant and that employers weigh all costs equally. One wonders how the theory would apply, for example, to the business environment of the late 1990s, which included robust economic growth, rising productivity, commodity deflation, and labor shortages. Why would a business "pass through" all employer payroll taxes to scarce and/or valued employees in such an environment when so many more amicable and less visible alternatives for cost recovery were available? A recent Gallup Organization poll of business owners casts additional doubt on the "employee pass through" view. The survey found that, even under the more difficult economic conditions and higher unemployment of mid-2001, fewer than one employer out of eight would freeze or cut employee wages and benefits as a response to increased payroll costs. In fact, the "pass through" option ranked a distant fourth to (a) absorbing the increased payroll costs through lower profitability, (b) laying off employees, and (c) raising prices. See William J. Dennis, Jr., ed., "Adjusting to Cost Increases," National Small Business Poll, Vol. 1, No. 4, National Federation of Independent Business, forthcoming 2001. By contrast, self-employed workers would tend to have much less flexibility in cost shifting. "Absorbing" a cost, when one is self-employed, usually means paying for it personally. And there is no one else to "lay off." Even "raising prices" is probably a less viable option, so the entrepreneur most likely pays the taxes. Thus, the "belief" of the self-employed that they are paying higher taxes than wage-and-salary workers--a "payroll tax penalty on entrepreneurship"--may well be more empirically true than is currently acknowledged.
15. President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, Interim Report , August 2001. Congress and President Bush recently enacted a schedule of personal income tax rate reductions, in Public Law 107-16, that could partially offset these increases. However, most of those cuts are several years away, they could be changed by economic conditions or the outcome of elections during the intervening years, and they are scheduled to end in 2009.
16. President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, Interim Report . Data derived from 2001 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance Trust Funds , Social Security Administration, March 19, 2001.
17. It is worth noting that the "transition costs" to a prefunded Social Security system are not "costs," strictly speaking, but rather the explicit recognition of these unfunded liabilities.
18. William C. Dunkelberg, ed., Small Business Economic Trends , monthly publication, National Federation of Independent Business, 1973 to date; see especially issues for 1998-2000.
19. Dimitri Vittas, Pension Reform and Capital Market Development: "Feasibility" and "Impact" Preconditions , World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2414, August 2000, at http://econ.worldbank.org/search.php . Note, however, that this "virtuous cycle" would be disrupted if the federal government itself were to do the investing and own the equities. The government's investments presumably would include only the largest and safest companies, and the capital buildup would remain inside its treasury. Under such conditions, there would be no obvious point of access to the accumulated capital for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Even if there were, it would be problematic. The perils of political meddling in the selection of investments, worrisome enough with large and highly visible investments, would be magnified for smaller, more obscure investments. An equally profound danger would be federal government bias toward the larger companies in which the government held equity. That could adversely affect small businesses across a wide swath of issues--such as taxes, competition policy, intellectual property rights, and government procurement--where there is friction between large and small business interests.
20. "Chilean Social Security Reform as a Prototype for Other Nations," EBRI Notes, Vol. 18, No. 8 (August 1997), and Barry Bosworth et al ., eds., The Chilean Economy: Policy Lessons and Challenges (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1994).
21. The Impact of Social Security's Old Age and Survivors Insurance Program on Owners of Independent Businesses , A Report of the Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis, October 25, 1999. It is important to note that this study was not based on a specific legislative proposal. Rather, it calculated Social Security's historical rate of return for a group of independent business owners from 1968-1993 and then compared that to a notional portfolio over the same period. Current legislative proposals for personal accounts would yield different results, because their investment parameters are different and because Social Security's future rate of return is expected to be well below the 3 percent to 3.5 percent found in the study. The study's underlying message--that personal accounts would yield better retirement incomes than an unreformed Social Security system--has been corroborated by additional nonpartisan studies by the Congressional Budget Office, the Social Security Administration's own actuaries, and others.
22. Editorial, "Now for the Hard Part," The New Democrat , Democratic Leadership Council, Vol. 10, No. 6 (November 1998).
23. Kelly Olsen and Dallas Salisbury, "Individual Social Security Accounts: Issues in Administrative Feasibility and Costs," EBRI Special Report and Issue Brief No. 203, November 1998. This report also makes a number of other criticisms about the administrative efficiency of personal accounts that are beyond the scope of this paper but have been analyzed elsewhere. See, for example, Robert Genetski, Administrative Costs and the Efficiency of Public and Private Social Security Systems, SSP No. 15, Cato Institute, March 9, 1999.
24. For example, the membership of the ardently pro-personal account Alliance for Worker Retirement Security includes the National Association for the Self-Employed, the National Federation of Independent Business, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce--three of the nation's largest small business associations--as well as small-business-dominated industry associations like the National Restaurant Association and the Printing Industries of America. It is equally striking that there have been no "eruptions" of small business discontent about administrative burdens in any of the more than 30 countries that currently offer some form of personal account.
25. See, for example, H.R. 2771 of the 107th Congress, introduced by Representatives Jim Kolbe (R-AZ), Charles Stenholm (D-TX), et al ., especially Part B, Subpart 1, Sections 251-253, 261-262, and 273, and Subpart H, Section 532. See also S. 2774 of the 106th Congress, introduced by Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH), John Breaux (D-LA), et al., especially Section 2, Subpart B, Sections 251-254.
26. According to a recent account of the Clinton Administration's planning for personal accounts, Treasury Department and Social Security Administration officials favored placing the "check-off" box on the face of the individual income tax forms (Form 1040). See Douglas Emendorf et al., Fiscal Policy and Social Security Policy During the 1990's , paper presented at conference on "American Economic Policy in the 1990's," Harvard University, June 2001, p. 43.
28. Employee Benefit Research Institute, "The Small Business Community and Individual Social Security Accounts," EBRI News Release , April 16, 1999. Based on a survey of 500 small business owners in September-October 1998 by Matthew Greenwald & Associates, Washington, D.C. The survey presented three employer options for personal accounts, including an option similar to a TSP-style plan, but it strongly implied that all three options would be costly and intrusive for small businesses.
29. National Federation of Independent Business, Small Business Assesses Social Security , Washington, 1998.


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'Faisla Awam Ka' host Asma Sherazi has been awarded the International Peter Mackler Award for courageous and ethical journalism.
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MOVIE SYNOPSIS [ General Audiences ] Directed by Christopher R. Watson, this full movie with audio in English (original language) was premiered in 2014. This movie, whose libretto belongs to Ali Roberts, is an original production of Australia and USA. You can watch Beyond my Imagination online on TV cable or theaters with original audio in English at different dates. This film premiered in theaters in 2014.
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Runtime: 12 minutes
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Short film, Drama, Family.
12-minute film (full movie) directed by Christopher R. Watson.
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