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Work detailsThe Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition by Stephen King (1978)
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Alex Reidy November 13 The Stand The long and excruciatingly well thought out books is usually what gets published and this deservedly so. The Stand by Stephen King creates a story like no other, one minute you won't know what the heck is going on and then WHAM! You get a sucker punch in the kisser full of knowledge. The story woven through intertwining story-lines starts with an intro about a certain Charles Campion who works at bio-chemical warfare area set up by the military. The massively deadly illness they were created was let loose and might have been contained if Charles didn't bugger off and start the first reaction of the infection in a little town called Arnette Texas. So now everyone in the vicinity of the town is infected, except for the first main character Stu Redman. They take everyone to a medical building for testing. Everyone, except Stu, dies. This shows that clearly the main characters have developed infinity to the disease cliché and this continues as more characters are introduced. Next Fran Goldsmith, a pregnant college student from Maine with of course, Mommy issues and is again of course a Daddy's girl. The epidemic spreads there as well and she leaves before it gets ugly without knowing it after a fight with her mom. She returns and finds her parents dead , and without much else to go she buries them and leaves with the town nobody , Harold Lauder , who leaves directions to go to the Stovington facility where they held Stu and then to Boulder , Colorado . A up and coming star Larry Underwood who after leaving the epidemic in New York and having dreams of and man named Flagg he meets up with two travelers; Cross and Joe. There they travel to Ogunquit, Maine where they see the directions of Harold and travel to Colorado. Nick Andros a deaf, mute 22 year old who can write, and read lips finds himself being mugged and then stolen of some of his teeth. He then later joins with the sheriff, who helps him track down 2 of the three who mugged him. Not long after, the sheriff and the rest of the town, including the inmates die, except for Nick and Ray the third man. Ray eventually returns and tries to kill him, Nick proceeds to kill Ray but not without sustaining an eye injury and a leg injury from an accidental gun firing. He leaves after recovering and meets with Cullen, who suffers from retardation and Brethner a logical man with a mechanical skill. Nadine Cross a teacher of a private school, and is in sense is still a virgin due to a vaguely defined sense that she is destined for something great. She meets an emotionally damaged boy only known as Joe who when they meet Larry, he tries to kill him twice. Larry tries to become romantically involved with Cross but she denies him and he starts a relationship with another survivor Swann. Lloyd Henried who is convicted criminal of multiple crimes is in prison and starving, everyone at the prison is dead and he will be too, but Randall Flagg saves him and Lloyd becomes his right hand man in Las Vegas. The Trash-Can Man a pyromaniac psychopath who had a troubled past, he eventually becomes bored of lighting fires across America and teams up with Randall Flagg in promises for great work in the desert. Eventually the two groups split to good and evil, Randall leading the bad and the good led by a seer Mother Abigail. So one party is led by Stu (who has become romantically involved with Fran), Fran, Harold, and a scientist Glen. Another party is led by Nick, Cullen, and Brethner. And last there is Larry, Cross, Leo and few others. While these are the good there is the evil led by Randall, Lloyd, The trash-can man, and other deadbeats that have survived and drawn to Flagg. Everything comes to push and shove and Harold who is still jealous over Stu and Fran, while Cross had a secret relationship with Flagg leads to a large explosion of dynamite killer multiple people including Nick, and Harold and Cross flee. This leads to Stu, Larry, Glen, and Brethner to leave for Las Vegas to confront Flagg. Stu on the way breaks his leg and they leave without him. Glen, Brethner and F are captured and Glen is executed by Lloyd and Trashcan Man returns after killing multiple people at an airfield, with a nuclear warhead. "The Hand of God" come down and detonates it and kills everyone except Flagg. Meanwhile Stu recovers and makes it back in time to see Fran give birth, Harold dies from a large cut after falling off a motorcycle and shooting at Cross. Cross then was repeatedly raped by Flagg and then killed by him soon afterwards. The ending was ambiguous and left with Flagg landing on an island with black people and them worshiping him as god. I Thought this book was overall very well , but was plagued by over abundance of back-story , too much minor characters getting spotlight and a very confusing way of explaining things. the intro is dull and boring , this middle part all while setting the stage for the battles to come added too many things that were unneeded. Sometimes the book really picked up but only for a short lived moment , and then dies down very quickly. The whole time reading this book i wanted something to happen , something to really break out , but the whole time it already had but the characters were depressing the shock and awe of the whole thing by being so dull. Overall the book had some high points but oo many low points and , flagged it down to halt almost pushing the reader away from the book. This was the longest book I've ever read. 1320 pages on my Kindle, and I have to admit that affects my enjoyment of the book some, because long books just intimidate me, and after awhile it felt really long and drawn out to me. But not the whole way through...just for parts of it. The beginning was so scary I almost couldn't stand it! I almost stopped reading the book it was so scary to me. Ghosts I can handle. Vampires I can handle. Zombies I can handle. A superflu...that's just almost too much for me, apparently! But after the scary part, it really evened out...sometimes to the point of being dragged out too much. There were still exciting parts that kept me turning the pages, but I was left wondering if maybe it wouldn't have been better pared down in the original version. But really, for the most part, I enjoyed the story. I really enjoyed the main characters. The good ones, that is. I think mostly it felt long and drawn out because I don't really like long books. I know a lot of people have said this is their favorite of Stephen King's books, and I can see why, though I don't agree. I went out of my to get an old used copy that didn't have the added material. STILL, it was way too long and rambling. It could be cut by at least half. I found the general plot interesting, but the most the the characters were pretty flat. Also, I got tired of the good-old-days American nostalgia, does every food have to be referred to by its full brand name? This is my favourite of KIng's novels, although I think this edition was an unnecessary extension of a very long book. The imagery King uses is archetypal but at the same time one can identify with several of the characters and the situation, for an apocalyptic novel, is almost believable. I read the unabridged edition. The book started off great. In it's day the a worldwide plague and post-apocalyptic scenarios weren't so commonplace. My interest was high, but the book lacked direction. It was as if King didn't know how to end it and simply stopped writing. I finished it wasn't feeling in sort of sense of resolution. I often feel like I'm missing something at the end of King's fiction. Is that it? I find myself thinking as I close the book.
In short (well, not so short), this is the book that has everything - adventure, romance, prophecy, allegory, satire, fantasy, realism, apocalypse, etc., etc. Even Roger Rabbit gets mentioned. ''The Stand'' does have some great moments and some great lines... But the overall effect is more oppressive than imposing. Has the adaptationStephen King's The Stand, Vol. 1: Captain Trips by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa The Stand: American Nightmares by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Stephen King's The Stand: Soul Survivors by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Is an expanded version of
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in English (4)Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0451169530, Mass Market Paperback)In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil. "I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke." There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster (retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:51:16 -0400) Horrific disaster as a plague virus sweeps the U.S., leaving only a handful of survivors. (summary from another edition) |
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The development of clean, affordable nuclear power options is a key element of the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy (DOE-NE) Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap. As a part of this strategy, a high priority of the Department has been to help accelerate the timelines for the commercialization and deployment of small modular reactor (SMR) technologies through the SMR Licensing Technical Support program. Begun in FY12, the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy's Small Modular Reactor Licensing Technical Support program will advance the licensing and commercialization of domestic SMR designs that are relatively mature and can be deployed in the next decade.
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Alternative ROMs
When you receive your Zaurus, the default ROM is the Sharp ROM. This has the advantages of
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- Lots of software available
- Works out of the box!
This is a new page so please see the discussion.
Some points to consider are what environment you want to run. Choices are
- QT/embedded
- Opie
- X11 (which can run GPE and QT apps, but QT/e apps need to be ported)
- X/Qt, which is running an X11 server on QT/e; now there is also pdaXQtrom
If you were looking for a UMPC then you probably want an X11 based ROM. However, if you also want PIM functions, bear in mind it will be a lot slower.
This article is written for the perspective of a new user. For more detailed discussion, see Distributions.
Cacko is based on the Sharp ROM and therefore is also quick at running PIM applications. It also features:
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- Updated versions of the default Apps
- More device drivers
- Compressed filesystem, freeing up more space on the internal flash for your own needs
This is QT/e.
OpenZaurus was an attempt to make a fully open source version of the Sharp ROM.
OpenZaurus, often referred to as OZ is now superceded by Angstrom.
OZ gives you the choice of Opie or GPE.
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Angstrom is another Linux distribution; currently in beta. X11.
Debian on the Zaurus.
- PocketWorkstation can be installed on SL-5500 and SL-CXXX. This version runs in a chroot environment on a storage card. There is also PocketWorkstationXQT which is similar but with an X windows environment. See Debian on the Zaurus 5500! for a (old) How-to.
- TitchyLinux can be installed on the SL-C3X00. This uses an X windows environment
OpenBSD/zaurus is "is an effort to make OpenBSD run on several PDAs of the Sharp Zaurus family. Initially targeted is the C3000/C3100/C3200 models which contain a 4GB CF hard drive internally." Gives you X11.


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Two papers, published days apart, come to very different conclusions about whether the natural carbon sinks, which remove CO2 from the atmosphere, have started to reach the limits of what they can absorb.
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40% or 60%? which is it?
html is fubar after the O2 in the title.... fonts are 6 px...
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Both issues fixed, thanks.
Given the amount of carbon in the ground of biological origin, the Earth+biosphere appears to be a nearly infinite carbon sink. But that's over the long term.
The point the OP raises about the popular press using this information and reporting it to the public under their own conclusions, being unfavourable is well made.
Even if carbon quantities in the atmosphere haven't changed significantly over the past 50 years, it doesn't mean there is nothing to worry about, and I fear loose journalism would read this as so. Do the public question that step further? If it's not in the atmosphere, then where is it? What effect does high absorption of CO2 in the oceans have? Acidic oceans? I'm hoping that because it's governments that can make the biggest changes they are advised much more intelligently. Copenhagen will reveal this... |
One of the more interesting (at least I find them so) studies I've come across are the ones where they analyze the carbon uptake (by measuring waterflow) of trees under induced higher concentrations of CO2 and see how the trees respond.
While there is CO2 aplenty in the air, the whole process of carbon uptake also requires trace minerals, water, and sunlight. Furthermore, soil contamination can diminish growth as well. Nitrates and phosphates end up playing a critical role as well. Any forest that is heavily fixed by nitrogen availability will not uptake more carbon no matter how much water and CO2 is available. |
Ah, grey area. I wonder just how the
What I've heard from experts is that oceanic CO2 absorption is pretty complex. Dissolving gas in a shallow puddle or a beaker might be simple, but for an ocean the currents and different levels of mixing and temperature gradients make it really messy. I'm sure you know that, Dr. Jay, but readers might misunderstand from this sentence. Edit: Oh yeah, I guess you've covered it somewhat. So has Jeremy Jacquot. And compared to the feedbacks of the atmosphere, maybe it's relatively simple. |
The NGeo DOI doesn't seem to be in the system yet. Here's a direct link:
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/jou...ent/abs/ngeo689.html |
Thats the carbon cycle. The earth doesn't really recieve any new carbon from space. I'm sure there is a little from debris, but its not significant. |
Most of the literature I've seen over the past year or so is supportive of the linear CO2 response function.
A linear uptake response versus a logarithmic global warming response, hmmm – can't have that... |
I died a little. |
I assume that should say 1850. It looks to me like the two papers give ranges for the increase in the airborne fraction that overlap quite a bit. This would be more apparent if TFA had given them in the same units. Of course, the error bars on the GRL paper's trend are so large that this might not mean much. |
Ditto from the earlier paper: Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions increasing? |
Gaa! Quit bringing it up. They're easier to ignore that way. |
There is little fundamental surprise in a conclusion that the transport rate of CO2 out of the atmosphere could go down as the various/sequential reservoirs get saturated ... and the carbon uptake shifts to longer time-constant mechanisms.
The first step in the chain is always transport to an aqueous system of some sort, and then Henry's law solubility. If Henry's law were the dominant physics here, then the mass transport should go up as the partial pressure goes up. But even for the "simple" sorption of CO2 into the oceans, it isn't just a disolved gas problem, there are the carbonate equilibria and these dominate that problem. As the pH of the oceans gets more acidic we expect the CO2 uptake to drop ... god help us if we cross the first carbonate buffer though. The partition of CO2 uptake between terrestrial sinks and oceanic sinks also is expected to shift toward oceanic sinks as the terrestrial sinks saturate. |
Loose is better anyway.
yeah. loose means there's actually more room for CO2; we just have to figure out how to wedge it in.
I was under the impression that all the C (and all the O, both of em) were of stellar origin. And the carbon's just cycling, something like the water cycle, but different. :-) We ain't gaining or losing any (unless them damn greys are stealing our carbon). |
Surely tree growth is determined solely by temperature. At the very least for bristlecone pines. If there were other factors in tree growth then trees would make very poor temperature proxies, would they not? This comment was edited by AnonymousRich on November 20, 2009 02:40 |
I have some issues with the idea of sequestering CO2. At high concentrations (say, over 5%) CO2 is toxic to animal life, and unlike radioactives, CO2 does not decay with time and become less toxic. Just imagine the consequences of a breach in a pressurized CO2 storage near a populated area. It's happened before due to natural processes. |
what about the fact that the rain forests are being depleted rapidly? Wouldn't that decrease the carbon sink?


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They used to call Bertie Ahern the Teflon Taoiseach. You could throw plenty of mud at him but it none of it would ever stick.
Well, that's all changed now after the publication last week of the tribunal of inquiry into corruption in planning here.
The Mahon Tribunal -- named after the judge who was chairing it -- found that former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Ahern had repeatedly lied about the source of £215,000 Irish pounds in cash that passed through his bank accounts in the 1990s. The tribunal report said that it did not believe Ahern's statements that the money was a series of loans or presents from friends.
The tribunal rejected Ahern's various explanations regarding his personal finances during the period when he was minister for finance, including his claims that his friends had arranged the "dig-outs" because he was in financial difficulty after his marriage breakdown and separation.
Despite finding that Ahern's explanations about the source of the various cash lodgments into his bank accounts were "untrue," the tribunal stopped short of describing him as corrupt. This allowed Ahern to claim over the weekend that the tribunal had not found that he had received any "corrupt payments." But this is something of a technicality.
To prove corrupt payments here you must be able to prove not only that the politician was given money, but that he did something in return for it. In the case of Ahern, the tribunal was able to find a series of unexplained payments, but the source of them and whether anything was ever done in return for them remains a mystery.
The true source of the funds, and whether or not they had been corrupt payments, could not be determined because Ahern had not told the truth about his finances, the tribunal said.
And that's about it. After sitting for 15 years at a total cost -- once all the legal bills are in -- of an estimated € 300 million, the tribunal has told us more or less what we already knew -- Bertie Ahern was on the take.
It was small scale stuff, £30,000 here and £20,000 there. After a forensic trawl through his bank accounts over 20 years or more the total amount of possibly dodgy money that the tribunal was able to uncover added up to a maximum of £215,000 (it's so long ago we still had the Irish pound at the time).
Think about it. The Irish taxpayer has to pay out around € 300 million to find out that Ahern got the equivalent of around € 250,000 in payments that cannot be explained.
To the simple question, "Was it worth it?" the answer must be no. Not only has it taken an incredible 15 years and caused a lot of time wasting and disruption, the tribunal has failed to uncover the kind of major corruption that might have justified its existence for so long and at such expense.
The only people who are happy, as usual, are the lawyers. The tribunal has made the leading lawyers
involved multi-millionaires, with the top people getting between € 3 and € 5 million each. It fact the tribunal created a total of 17 lawyer millionaires during its time.
It was not Bertie Ahern who was exposed in the report, of course. A long litany of petty corruption involving senior and junior figures in Fianna Fail was uncovered going back over the years.
It was widespread through the system here in a way usually associated only with banana republics in South America or Africa or in a European country like Greece where bribes and kickbacks are normal.
We used to think that Ireland was better than this. Now we know officially that we are as bad as the rest of them.
Part of this had to do with Fianna Fail being in power for so long. As the saying goes, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Fianna Fail had close to absolute power for so long that it was almost inevitable that corruption would creep in.
This was aggravated by the planning system here which allowed local politicians to overturn decisions taken by planners deciding on construction projects. The votes of local politicians could be bought for a thousand or two, ensuring the green light for developments that were often worth tens of millions.
Some local politicians from other parties were also involved. But it was mainly Fianna Fail. For bigger developments you needed to get bigger political names behind you, and so some senior Fianna Fail figures were part of what was going on.
The sad truth is that Ireland was not just corrupt, but corrupt at the heart of the political system. And Fianna Fail was at the center of it.
Maybe we should not be so surprised. After 800 years of occupation, we have only recently (about 90 years ago) emerged as a free country allowed to rule ourselves.
We may snigger at some African countries where the elite, once they get into power, use their position to enrich themselves. Now it seems we may not be all that different.
The Fianna Fail party has always regarded itself as having a special place in Irish life, often claiming to embody the nation. In its early years, particularly in de Valera's time, the party was almost puritanical in its approach.
Private wealth was seen as less important than the task of building the new nation and leading a simple and moral (i.e. Catholic) life. In de Valera's Ireland, the comely maidens lived happily in cottages on little farms and danced barefoot at the crossroads.
But it was never that simple. Even then, de Valera was accumulating wealth for himself as he used the donations of thousands of little people, mainly in America, to take control and effective personal ownership of the Irish Press Newspaper Group. So even Dev was not so pure.
But the rot really set in when Charlie Haughey was taoiseach in the 1980s. By then Fianna Fail was the party of the "mohair suit men" and had become the nexus of politics, business and construction.
To get things done, you went to certain people in the party with brown envelopes stuffed with cash. The culture of "fixers" was endemic in Fianna Fail, and the one learning at Haughey's feet was his political heir apparent and Finance Minister Bertie Ahern.
An earlier tribunal has shown that Haughey was on the take on a massive scale, with millions involved. Although he had no income other than his pay as a politician he lived the grand lifestyle of a wealthy squire, paid for by businessmen who wanted to "get things done."
Ahern was never on that scale. In comparison, what he was taking was pocket money. That is evident in the size of the small house he lives in and the fact that he has no sign of any accumulated wealth, no big cars, or yachts, or racehorses or country estates.
For what amounts to chicken feed, Ahern has now been disgraced and humiliated. Despite his achievements on peace in the North, few people here have any sympathy for him, largely because of the way he promoted the boom economy that has now collapsed and cost us our economic sovereignty.
Ironically, it was Ahern's first government that established this tribunal back in 1997. Officially called the Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments, it was known as the Flood Tribunal then, under its first chairman, a retired High Court judge. It was set up to investigate planning corruption in Dublin from the mid-1980s because of revelations that bribes were being paid to local politicians to rezone land for developers.
When Judge Flood retired, Judge Mahon took over. Finally, after 15 years, 917 sitting days and a likely total bill of € 300 million the tribunal has come to an end, with a report that is 3,270 pages long.
It reveals dodgy behavior by former Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Minister Padraig Flynn, among others.
But it is mainly Ahern who has been left to carry the corruption can.
He only has himself to blame. His efforts to explain where he got the money were pathetic; at one point he even used the hoary old excuse that he won some of it on the horses!
An example is one lot of Ahern's money, which appeared to have an American connection. This was for a bank deposit of £28,772.90 on a particular day in 1994. The odd pennies at the end seemed to indicate that this must have been a round figure in foreign currency which had been converted into Irish money.
Ahern told the tribunal that it was 30,000 in British pounds (sterling) which he had been given by one of his friends from Manchester. But the trouble was that when the tribunal examined the bank records for the day in question, it found that the bank branch had taken in less than 2,000 sterling that day.
However, the bank's buy rate for U.S. dollars that day, if it was applied to a deposit of $45,000, would have produced exactly £28,772.90, the exact amount that had been deposited into Ahern's account.
Does someone over there know something we don't?
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ArmaghCity | Apr 23, 2012, 10:08 PM EDT
Banana Republic might be a bit extreme, but Eire is certainly closer to that then the Celtic Tiger it once was (albeit ever so briefly and fueled by American multiple-national corporations).
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PeterCUSA | Mar 31, 2012, 10:02 PM EDT
John, you asked was it worth it? and you said no. I disagree. It cost the amount it did, because the corrupt people being exposed, lied and frustrated this investigation to an enormous extent. It's not enough just to keep harping on that we all knew this was taking place. I grew up in North Dublin, and remember some of central characters well, (Wright, Dunne), there is a vindication here that what we knew, is being verified.
Should it have cost 300 million? No. But the crooks that lied and refused to tell the truth made it cost that much.
It's time for you guys in the media to turn your attention to this and actually apportion blame where it lies.
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Towngate | Mar 29, 2012, 05:17 PM EDT
Spot on, John! Not only is it a shameful Banana Republic, it was founded on dubious intentions by wholly incapable morons,and run by a succession of self-serving hoodlums ever since. The proof of which is; that after 90 years of 'freedom' it has only managed to slip on the banana skins and the country is now well and truly on it's arse down a very big black hole, where it will stay for the forseeable future!
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esatdigiwank | Mar 29, 2012, 05:36 AM EDT
FF - the Soldiers of Infamy also the nexus of the rc church, horse-breeders, welfare-subsistance small farmers And blood sports. L.Citizen: A h € r n supposedly had an incredible 23 bank a/c s at the time of his Finance ministry - that has not been explored in the public domain? Has he been rewarded heavily for giving away the future benefit of Corrib to Shell (?). Oligarchy (politicians, developers, banks, lawyers) is dead; does not mean there will not be another. Don't stick around. >>>A 'Terrible Beauty became a 'Banana Republic.
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barbaral | Mar 29, 2012, 12:45 AM EDT
Ireland has been a banana republic for most of its decades as a sovereign state. If you're a banker, a barrister, a cleric, a GAA bigwig, a minister, or a landlord then it was access all areas. If you were a working stiff with no connections you were and still are out of luck. It wasn't talent that made the republic it was connections. It's old boy system has chocked its potential and still does.
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sirpeter | Mar 28, 2012, 10:12 PM EDT
John I take offense to you calling my country a Banana Republic.When it comes to the least corrupt.The UK and Ireland rank 16th least corrupt countries in the world.The USA rank 24th.Just one place less corrupt than Chile.You deserve a big fu*k off for that headline.We are hardly a Banana Republic when you are ranked 16th out of 182 countries.You know John most Irish people can get things done by the civil service without paying a bribe.
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LoyalCitizen | Mar 28, 2012, 07:54 PM EDT
All Irish Politicians are rotten to the core, which is why they want to avoid prosecution by using opinions in law since 1922.......Bertie Ahern is some kind of accountant and Minister Finance at the time, but he does not have a bank account.......There has never been such a load of bull forced on a nation before in any judicial process..........The tribunals in Ireland are designed to pervert the course justice and commit treason.
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When deciding whether to provide workers' compensation coverage for an individual, employers are often confronted with the question of whether a worker is properly classified as an employee or an independent contractor. This information sheet attempts to explain the distinctions between these two classifications and clarify when workers' compensation insurance is required.
Pursuant to, the Vermont Workers' Compensation Act, an employer/employee relationship is generally presumed. However, recognizing that there are true independent contractors for which an employer should not be required to provide workers' compensation coverage, Vermont does retain a limited exception to this presumption. Two tests are utilized to determine if a worker is an independent contractor or an employee for purposes of requiring worker's compensation coverage. First, the "right to control" test. If application of the "Right to Control" test demonstrates that an employer "controls" the worker, then the inquiry ends and the worker will be classified as an employee and workers' compensation coverage is required. But, if the "right to control" test reveals otherwise, then the next inquiry, the "nature of the business", test, must be employed in an effort to determine if workers' compensation insurance would nevertheless still be mandated for that worker.
Under the "right to control" test, courts examine numerous factors to ascertain whether a company has exercised enough control over an individual to classify the relationship as employer‑employee within the meaning of the worker's compensation statute. This test does not require an employer to actually exercise control, it merely requires that an employer could, if it chose to do so, exercise control over the employee. This classification is entirely factually specific. The Department of Labor, as well as the Vermont courts, consider the totality of circumstances pertinent to a particular employment relationship before classifying a worker as an employee or independent contractor. If an analysis of the totality of circumstances indeed reveals that an employer "controls" an employee, then the inquiry ends and workers' compensation insurance is required. However, in the event that the "right to control" test fails to identify a worker as an employee for workers' compensation purposes, then the "nature of the business" test must next be applied to the specific set of factual circumstances. Under the "nature of the business test," if the work being performed equates with the business, trade or occupation of the employer, an employee‑employer relationship exists. In other words if the work performed by the alleged independent contractor is work that would otherwise be performed by employees workers' compensation coverage would be required.
The following list of sample questions can assist in the determination of an employer‑employee relationship. This list of questions is not exclusive. In addition, no one question is determinative.
1. Who controls the means and methods of the work performance?
2. Does the worker hold his services out to the general public?
3. Does the worker perform the task without supervision?
4. Does the worker possess the required permits, licenses and certificates?
5. Is the worker doing business as a corporation or under an assumed business name?
6. Does the work require extensive skill, education or experience?
7. Who establishes the routine or schedule?
8. What is the duration of the relationship?
9. What is the method of payment, whether by time or by job?
10. Are taxes deducted or withheld from the workers' check?
11. Who determines the hours of work?
12. Does the worker receive fringe benefits or bonuses?
13. Who provides the equipment necessary for completion of the work task?
If the totality of responses to these questions leads to the conclusion that an employer "controls" its worker, then the analysis concludes and the employer must be insured for workers' compensation purposes. On the other hand, if the cumulative results reveal that a worker should not be classified as an employee under the "right to control" test, then the next list of questions must be asked.
1. Is the work being performed of the type that normally could be carried out by an employee in the usual course of business?
2. Are the activities being performed by the workers an integral part of the employer's regular business?
If the response to these questions is in the affirmative, then a statutory employee-employer relationship exists, and the employer must provide workers' compensation coverage for that worker.
The following examples may prove helpful when determining whether a worker is properly classified as an employee or an independent contractor for workers' compensation purposes.
1. Under the "right to control" test, a truck driver is an employee when the company/employer exerts the requisite amount of control over their drivers. Specifically, if the employer instructs the driver on maintaining, parking and loading the truck; provides specific travel routes to the driver; instructs him not to drive during inclement weather; pays all maintenance and fuel costs for the truck and handles all contracting with third parties; then the employer controls the truck‑driving activities. Therefore, an employee‑employer relationship exists between the parties and workers' compensation is required.[1]
2. A manufacturer is a "statutory employer", for workers' compensation purposes, of a worker hired through a temporary agency, where the manufacturer owned the premises and carried on the business where the worker worked, supervised the work, and had the power to replace the worker if the work was unsatisfactory.[2]
3. A manufacturer that owned lumber to be shipped to its factory was in the business of hauling lumber, and thus was the statutory employer of a worker hired under contract to haul the lumber and load it on railcars at a specified price per thousand. If the work being performed pertains to the business, trade, or occupation carried on by the claimed employer for pecuniary gain, then the person performing the work is an employee, even if hired as an independent contractor.[3]
4. A landowner, who is not in the lumber or logging business, but hires a logger to cut and remove trees from the land is not the "statutory employer" of a worker hired by the logger to assist in cutting and removing the timber.[4] The logging work was not part of the landowner's regular trade or business and the landowner did not direct the means or method the work was to be performed.
In conclusion, all employers, employees and workers in the State of Vermont should be careful to consider seriously the ramifications and consequences of establishing an independent contractor relationship. The Department, and the Vermont court, narrowly interprets exceptions to workers' compensation coverage requirements. Accordingly, if an employer has any doubt as to the proper classification of a worker, the Department recommends that workers' compensation insurance be purchased. This coverage will minimize the risk to an employer. It can be an expensive mistake for both parties if handled incorrectly. Any questions on this issue should be forwarded to the Department of Labor at (802) 828-2286.
[1] Falconer v. Richard and Janet Cameron, d/b/a R&J Cameron Leasing Company, 151 Vt 530 (1989)
[2] Candido v. Polymers, Inc., 166 Vt. 15 (1996) (Court rejected workers attempt to sue manufacturer in tort, concluding that exclusive remedy was workers' compensation.)
[3] O'Boyle v. Parker-Young Co., 95 Vt. 58 (1921)
[4] King v. Snide, 144 Vt. 395 (1984).


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