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Until they are reviled by the people paying their wages, then they might just think twice about it. The key here is for the general populace to make it clear that it is morally unacceptable. Then we no longer need to wait for the government to close loopholes they are probably exploiting themselves we just need a few investigative journalists to expose the schemes and those in them.
The responsibility lies entirely on legislators and law enforcement. People cannot be subject to a witch-hunt for using legal means to pay as little tax as they can. It's not a voluntary charity scheme, it's a legal obligation. No more and no less.
The places I mentioned before are already full of such people, and the higher the burden the more people join them.They don't vacate their job. They continue doing it from abroad and this income simply goes elsewhere.
One has to be rational about these matters not emotional. Just because you want to say "go away, I don't love you any more" that doesn't help the lesser medical attention you can afford, the worse social services, pensions and so on. There are real, tough compromises to be made. Not saying it cannot be done better, just pointing out that it cannot be taken to an extreme simply based on one's particular sense of morality, when there are objective things at stake.
I, for one, have no problem paying due taxes but there are a number of things that get up my nose e.g. 1. as I understand it, anyone visiting the UK gets free healthcare which has resulted in some people actually planning their holidays to 'go sick' and receive expensive healthcare, paid for the UK tax paying public. If this is true, it outrageous primarily because it would be so simple to stop e.g. you must be an UK resident before you receive free healthcare. If not, get some travel insurance!2. I also understand that we've been giving loans to overseas students, some of whom, having received their education, have gone home and not paid back the loan. Again, may be an urban myth but, if its true, well, I'm gobsmacked. Please tell me I'm wrong, as I'd feel a whole lot better about paying 81% tax (61% direct + 20% indirect on anything I buy)!
Of course people can question the morality of a decision taken, be it currently legal or not. Apartheid?As Spike said, Do The Right Thing.
HARRY SHEARER INTERVIEWS DAVID CAY JOHNSTONHARRY SHEARER: This is Le Show, and it's not tax season, but on the other hand it's always tax season, and I can imagine that that has several people reaching for their dials. But don't do that. A gentleman who has been making taxes and the games played with them comprehensible to mortals like me for many years, going back to his days as the tax writer he didn't write the tax law, he wrote about it for the New York Times is now unveiled as a columnist for Reuters, and I wanted to catch up with him because he's an expert on something that's been catching my eye more and more. David Cay Johnston, welcome to Le Show. DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Well, thank you for having me on.HARRY SHEARER: My pleasure. And the subject that I wanted to tackle with you, and it's complex but you're good at making the complex comprehensible, is this whole idea of offshoring, which you've written about. Can you explain in less than half an hour what offshoring is?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: It's actually quite simple conceptually. What you do, if you're a business, is you take your expenses here in the United States and then you arrange to collect your profits in a place like the Cayman Islands, Panama, Bermuda, where you will not be taxed on them.A simple example of that is the Viagra tablet. They sell for about $18 each now, and there's a huge profit in that.Well, when the researchers at Pfizer were working on what became Viagra, it was intended to be a heart drug, a cardiovascular drug, and some of the male researchers noticed an unusual property. The Pfizer corporation immediately packaged up the information it had at the time, which wasn't worth very much because it was still experimental, and Pfizer America sold it to Pfizer Switzerland, which in turn licensed it to Pfizer Lichtenstein, and every time somebody buys one of these $18 tablets now, the cost of manufacturing them is a tax deduction in the United States and the royalty paid on it for the ownership of the intellectual property is tax-free, collected by Pfizer in its Lichtenstein pocket.The result is, they pay very little tax, they build up all this money offshore, and you and I have a heavier tax burden.HARRY SHEARER: I've grasped that sort of basic scenario. But then does that money forever live in Lichtenstein?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Well, seven years ago Congress passed something called the American Jobs Creation Act.HARRY SHEARER: Well what could be wrong with that?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Right. With a name like that, how could you not be in favor of it, right? And right now there is a proposed new American Jobs Creation Act. And it said, if you have offshore profits, you may repatriate them to the United States and instead of paying the 35% corporate tax, you only have to pay 5¼%.The biggest beneficiary of this law back then was Pfizer. And Pfizer saved 11 billion dollars in taxes.And what happened the day after they repatriated this money for very little tax? They started firing people. And they kept firing people until they fired 40,000 people. I'm not sure that they're through firing people at Pfizer. Now, not all companies did this, but they got 1/3 of the benefits and it was clearly an American jobs destruction program.So the new bill, like the old one, actually doesn't require you to create jobs, despite its title. You can do all sorts of things with the money. You can use it to finance buybacks of your company stock. And executives, of course, like that because if there's less stock out there and the company is buying it, it tends to push up the price of the stock, and that means their stock options are worth more money all thanks to the generosity of you and I as taxpayers.HARRY SHEARER: Now, about a year ago there was a piece I think in the Washington Post that went into some detail on this, and I gather this is related to what we're talking about. The Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: (laughs) Harry, there's an enormous number of devices out there. I wrote about ones many years ago. Peter Whoriskey at the Washington Post wrote about some of these. But there's a couple of simple basic concepts. You take advantage of tax treaties.So, I'll give you one example: An American corporation I hope I can remember the name of it, that I wrote about years ago legally moved its headquarters to Bermuda. All they did was rent a mailbox in Bermuda and they pay the Bermuda government $26,000 a year for the privilege of on paper being a Bermuda company. Nobody works there. They have a mailbox. And they pay some local lawyers very nicely. In order to get money to Bermuda, they take advantage of a tax treaty in Barbados, another British island down in the Caribbean. And lo and behold, to take advantage of that tax treaty, once a year the directors of the company must fly to Barbados and hold a meeting.HARRY SHEARER: Oh the poor things!DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: And as we all know, that's one of the worst possible places in the world to want to go, say, in the middle of January when your company's headquartered in the Northeast.HARRY SHEARER: Yeah.DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: And they pay effectively a 1% tax on their profits.HARRY SHEARER: Wow. But now this Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich Google and a lot of companies who are heavy with intellectual property were domiciling their IP property in Ireland? And then somehow moving it paying an affiliate in the Netherlands and then went back to Ireland and then ended up in one of the Caribbean islands was that sort of ?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Correct. And the Dutch and Dutch banks and German banks like Deutschebank and Swiss banks are all very big players in this.Harry, here's the fundamental difference between now and when you and I were little children, in terms of taxing businesses. When you and I were born, America was a country of big manufacturing enterprises. There were automobile factories and television factories, and in Southern California where you and I grew up big huge agricultural organizations that had oranges and whatnot.HARRY SHEARER: And aerospace factories.DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Oh yes, aerospace. LA was forever and maybe still is the real center of the American war business. And when a company has a big factory, you can tax that company. It can't get up and move. That's when we made things like that.But today in America what we principally manufacture are numbers. That's what a software is. It's an algorithm. It's a series of numbers. CDs. All sorts of things are numbers.The other thing we manufacture are molecules. That's what the drugs we get are.Well, the ownership of those things, and in the case of the numbers, the representation of them, you can move outside of the U.S. with a push of a button.And so our tax system still operates as if we lived in a national industrial wage economy, when we now live in a global digital services world. And we need to have a fundamental reform of our tax system.HARRY SHEARER: You mean like the kinds of meetings that we've been watching in recent weeks between Democrats and Republicans to craft a fundamental reform of our tax system?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: First of all, there's no way to fundamentally reform the tax system the way they're doing that. It's an enormous project that will take a number of years to work out. That's a game of chicken.HARRY SHEARER: Well, chickens got to eat too. We'll be back with more of our interview with David Cay Johnston moments from now, here on Le Show.* * * *HARRY SHEARER: Now let's return to our conversation with tax expert David Cay Johnston.Let's get back to offshoring. If the repatriation bills didn't pass and I'm not enough of a naïf to think they won't pass this time, as they did last time but if the companies can't repatriate their profits from, you know, poor old Bermuda or Cayman Islands, are they able to assert operational use of the money, even though it's never been repatriated in the United States?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: It's a little complicated. If you have 100 billion dollars in your offshore account, you can't go to your bankers in America and say, "Loan us $100 billion here and we'll pledge that as collateral." That's what you do when you buy your house, right? Let me live in this house and I'll pledge the house as collateral through a mortgage.But, when you go to your banker and you say, "Look, we need to borrow some money, and by the way, you know perfectly well we have 100 billion dollars sitting over there in this tax haven, and we need to borrow 50 billion dollars to do X or Y, you can get the loan on pretty good terms. So they certainly have access to this money.HARRY SHEARER: Well, let me just pursue that for a second. If it's so simple to just rent a mailbox and have a subsidiary in Bermuda if you had the telephone number or the e-mail address of a Bermudan lawyer, why couldn't, you know, Jim's Drug Store do that?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Well, because in order to do that you've got to have, first of all, enough scale to afford the costs of it. Many of the tax shelter devices that I've exposed over the years, and they literally have totaled many hundreds of billions of dollars on a 10-year basis in theory you and I could go do, but to do it you really have to have a huge amount of money. I mean, some of them come with, for example, a million-dollar up-front fee just for an opinion letter from a lawyer that will keep you from going to prison if the government finds out about it.HARRY SHEARER: That's an expensive Get Out of Jail Free card, in other words.DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Exactly.HARRY SHEARER: So the table stakes are high is what you're saying.DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Absolutely. This is not the $2 table at Binion's in Vegas. This is the $5,000 or $50,000 private room at Wynn.HARRY SHEARER: Yeah, this is the baccarat table upstairs at Wynn.DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Yes.HARRY SHEARER: So do companies get any other benefits from this offshore apparatus that extends around the world, other than tax benefits? Is it just basically done for tax dodging?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: It is basically a tax benefit. And the real problem these companies face, Harry, is this: They can't use that money to buy back their stock. And that's what they want to do.One of the big stories in America that's very important to understand about why your investments are what they are and what's happening to wealth and income is that many, many companies are using most of their profits to buy back their stock, and then they issue to executives an amount of stock equal to what they bought back, and it's a way to pump up executive pay, and it damages all the rest of the investors over a long period of time.In the case of Pfizer, where they spent their tax savings and their repatriated money almost exclusively to buy back their stock, it didn't work. The price of Pfizer has continued to fall, and I think now it's about half what it was when that Jobs Creation Act, that I call the Jobs Destruction Act, was passed seven years ago.HARRY SHEARER: You're saying Pfizer needs Viagra for its stock price?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: It's exactly ! That's very good, I wish I'd thought of that, Harry. That's why you're a comedian and I'm an investigative reporter. They need Viagra for their stock.HARRY SHEARER: But do they get any kind of regulatory benefit from offshoring?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Not really. I mean, one of the challenges I think we face is that corporations in the modern world have become so incredibly complex. What you see as the New York Times or CBS or General Motors a company with that brand name in fact internally is hundreds and in some cases thousands of separate little companies. Every corporate jet is its own corporation.HARRY SHEARER: (laughs) With its own board of directors?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: That's (laughs) well, technically yes.HARRY SHEARER: Yeah.DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: That they're internal executives, and...So these structures, which are all designed to limit liability and limit taxes and are a full employment program for corporate lawyers regulators really, I believe, you can't expect government-grade regulators to truly understand these things. And the IRS actually admitted, I don't know, in response to some story I wrote when I was at the New York Times, that Enron was so complicated, just that company, Enron, that they really didn't understand what was going on inside Enron.HARRY SHEARER: Well that's the same thing we heard during the financial crisis, that regulators just couldn't keep up with the complexity of derivatives and of CDOs and CDSs and the pyramid of debt that was being built. Isn't that sort of ?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Exactly. And the few people who did get it, like Brooksley Born, of course, were immediately slapped down by politicians and told, you know, "Stay out of this, this isn't your business." When in fact that's exactly the point of regulation.HARRY SHEARER: Yeah. So it is a jobs creation act for corporate lawyers?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Oh, yes. In fact, all of the tax law changes we're making, for the last 30 years we've had this incredible growing remake of the tax code. Every year you may only hear about a few stories in the news there are thousands of changes being made in the tax law, often to benefit one individual or handful or a small industry or to gain an advantage for one industry against another, and many of them, they don't have a label on them. If you read the thing you would never know what it means unless somebody tips somebody like me off to what it is and shows you how to walk through it. And so that's why we have this just terrible, indefensible mess of a tax code.HARRY SHEARER: And whom did you anger when you were in school that you inherited the job of reading all this stuff and trying to figure it out?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: (laughs) I actually asked for this, Harry. I was, you know, 30 years ago I was the guy at the LA Times who remade the reputation of the LAPD and revealed the worldwide spying they were doing and the brutality and the failure to solve a lot of crimes, but I started to become interested in wealthy people and taxes because of two scandals in California.One of them was the Hiltons. Conrad Hilton left his fortune to the starving children of the earth, and I exposed how his son Barron arranged to divert the money to himself, and he ultimately got about 2/3 of it.And then the Keck brothers, as in the Keck telescope, made this deal with then candidate for governor Deukmejian, who was attorney general and who was supposed to be the guardian of charitable trusts, to get a million dollars a year in what I called anti-pauper insurance, anti-poverty insurance, from their father's charitable fund.And that's when my eyes sort of opened up to, you know, there's more to this tax system than what I've been hearing.HARRY SHEARER: Than more to taxes than form 1040.DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: And, and yeah. And what comes out of your paycheck. And I began to realize that, you know, there are people who are getting rich off this, and what is it? It's taken me 20 years, and I assure you there's no small number of detractors out there who will tell you I have no idea what I'm doing.HARRY SHEARER: But you do have a Pulitzer Prize to show for it, right?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: I do, and I also have an unusual distinction. I am not a lawyer. In fact, I'm not a college graduate, though I have a college education including graduate school, but I am a professor of law and a professor of graduate accounting at Syracuse University.HARRY SHEARER: Wow. Without ever having graduated from college.DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Yeah. I have a college education HARRY SHEARER: Yeah, I understand.DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: I went to the University of Chicago graduate school but never got a diploma because I never stayed in one college long enough.HARRY SHEARER: You and Sarah Palin!DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Yep. Not somebody I particularly identify with, I'm sorry.HARRY SHEARER: You're not usually lumped in with her, but there you go.David, anything more we need to know about this, this offshoring, that I haven't been smart enough to ask you about, in terms of how it works or whom it benefits and whom it hurts?DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Well, here's the other thing I think people should think about, about offshoring. The techniques that are used by wealthy Americans and large corporations offshore are the very same techniques that not nice people who want to blow people up and kill people and undertake revolutions, and people who are in the drug business, as with the incredible explosion, epidemic of murder and violence we're seeing right across the border in Mexico they use the same techniques.So we should be thinking about international flows of money in terms not just of tax and tax avoidance and tax evasion, but in terms of stability, in terms of avoiding war and death and conflict, and having a regulatory regime that serves the interests of stability, democracy, and the liberties of the people.HARRY SHEARER: Thank you so much. I've read you for years and you've done the impossible, which is make me understand this stuff, and I wanted to share that gift with the audience today and it's really a treat to talk to you.DAVID CAY JOHNSTON: Well, thank you, Harry, very much for having me on.HARRY SHEARER: Appreciate it.
You confused me with that reply. Surely the responsibility for apartheid was on legislators and not on people living under it?
As VdM alluded to, companies that wrung their hands whilst making plenty of cash from South Africa at that time suddenly found that saying It's The Law didn't cut it with their customers.
No. You pay the tax you're legally required to, Jimmy Carr was paying the tax he was legally required to.
I think using 'morals' as a basis of law is a very, very silly idea.
Jimmy Carr as you quite rightly pointed out did pay the tax he was legally obliged to but only in so far as using an off-shore account. Had he been taxed on the same basis as the rest of us mere mortals, hed have paid a considerably higher percentage.
Morals can and do have an effect in Law, one example off the top of my head, the hated Poll Tax, we all know the outcome of that.
Oh. OK.Still, I can agree that the apartheid was a criminal regime, but I cannot see how using legal means to pay "only" 1.4 million in personal income tax alone, can be Universally considered a crime, or even morally wrong.
He was taxed on the same basis as us mere mortals. He didn't take advantage of some strange laws that only rich people get to use - there's nothing stopping anyone from doing the same things if they can afford to pay an accountant to organise them for them.Have you ever bought anything in the duty free when you're on holiday? Been on a booze cruise? Bought anything off Amazon?That was nothing to do with morals and everything to do with the fact that it was pretty much unenforceable.
Too many fucking drama queens in here - if the arl arses had their way we'd be pushing burning tyres down Anfield Road.
Duty Free - Dava you are getting desperate lad
If you live in Iran? Yes.
Liverpool Football Club is the heartland of football folklore... Liverpool are one of the dynasties of the game... I will fight for my life for the supporters and the people of this city
The hypocrisy in here is unreal - how many people have paid 'cash in hand' for a job? How many people have done a job for 'cash in hand'How many people have been straight on the phone to HMRC when they've messed up their tax in the individuals favour - or have you waited until HMRC contact you?How many people have bought knock off DVDs, music, fags, alcohol?How many people have downloaded music, films etc from the net illegally?How many people have copied their mates CDs?All of the above have broken the law and evaded tax - Jimmy Carr only avoided tax.Tax evasion is illegal but tax avoidance is legal.Tax avoidance is about implementing schemes to pay as little tax as legally possible - in simple terms it is making sure you have an accountant that understands how to deduct all your tax allowable expenses from your sources of income so you 'avoid' paying as much tax as you can.The problem here is the law - the law needs to be changed, plain and simple
Morality is human, and thus ever changing. If we decide that aggressive tax evasion is unethical then it becomes so. You've just made the point yourself by calling apartheid a criminal regime. It clearly was not, it was the legitimate legal regime in South Africa. Yet gradually the rest of the world came to see it is as immoral and criminal.
I am suggesting that the same thing needs to happen, and is happening with aggressive tax avoidance and that as with South Africa we do not need to rely on the politicians. This is a change that we can bring about ourselves through public pressure (or a series of witchhunts as I am sure you would characterise it).
Your time is up and we are coming to get you.
I don't look to society in order to make up my mind. It clearly violates (Hobbesian) natural rights, and I strongly believe in this concept. Maybe it's because I'm rather asocial, but I don't believe in the concept of justice by consensus, or moral relativism.Qualified representative rule is a much, much more effective means of government than mob rule. What you describe is simply ochlocracy.
Cue wikipedia (emphasis mine)Ochlocracy (Greek: ὀχλοκρατία, okhlokratía; Latin: ochlocratia) or mob rule is government by mob or a mass of people, or the intimidation of legitimate authorities. As a pejorative for majoritarianism, it is akin to the Latin phrase mobile vulgus meaning "the fickle crowd", from which the English term "mob" was originally derived in the 1680s.[1]I understand your frustration. It's only human to want change in those things that seem unfair to us, but as you can see in this thread there isn't any sort of social agreement on your position even if you and your peers may have it.I for one don't see anything wrong in Carr's behaviour. I do see wrong in Cameron's false flag rhetoric.
Erm, I know what it means.
Why do people insist on ignoring the vital distinction between people keeping the money they have earned and people taking money earned by others whether legitimately and legally (through housing benefits) or illegitimately through benefit fraud?
1. as I understand it, anyone visiting the UK gets free healthcare which has resulted in some people actually planning their holidays to 'go sick' and receive expensive healthcare, paid for the UK tax paying public. If this is true, it outrageous primarily because it would be so simple to stop e.g. you must be an UK resident before you receive free healthcare. If not, get some travel insurance!
On official figures, tax avoidance (£35bn) is over 30 times more costly to the taxpayer than benefit fraud (£1.1bn). Even if unofficial higher figures for benefit fraud (£5.5bn) - but not avoidance - are used, it is more than 6 times as costly.
So why aren't the Government closing the loopholes instead of dickhead going on TV discussing one person's tax affairs that really are fuck all to do with anyone except that person, his accountant and the Exchequer so long as they're legal?
Because a) what VdM said and b) Cameron's an idiot - because he's opening his own party and backers up to some examination. Hopefully, inadvertently, this will create a bit of pressure to tighten some of the loopholes; though I won't hold my breath. I'd hope that Labour would take note that there has been a public reaction (the point that public services are being cut while the rich avoid paying their taxes is a powerful one) and work a serious review of tax avoidance schemes into their policies before the next election.
1. Not true. If you are a citizen of an EU country then you are entitled to free care throughout the EU with an EHIC card (replaces the old E111 emergency care). 2. Presumably you're equally as up in arms about the people from the UK who go over to Poland or other countries to get cheap dental work done and thus defrauding our poor, hard-working dentists of some coin?
Like labour wouldn't need to clean shop themselves. Both parties have the exact same problems, they just play a different act.
It's rather puzzling that one of the standard defences of the Tories is "They're all the same/Labour are just as bad". Surely if you felt like this you would either declare you have no intention of voting for either party, or be just as comfortable voting Labour as Conservative?
its only legal for people who make lots of money.
Why is it legal for someone earning 3 million to pay basically fuck all tax, but not for someone paid a few quid cash in hand not to declare it?
Why cant someone working for the council, or in a cafe avoid their tax legally.
Thats fair enough, but people like yourself saying 'so what its legal' wind me up just as much. Its only legal because someone has said it is, and further to that its only legal for people who make lots of money. So what if its fucking legal, thats not what we should be questioning and whether jimmy carr is bad or not, but rather why the fuck is this legal?Why is it legal for someone earning 3 million to pay basically fuck all tax, but not for someone paid a few quid cash in hand not to declare it? Why cant someone working for the council, or in a cafe avoid their tax legally. Whole countrys a bunch of fucking mugs, ringing phone ins saying 'if i could get away with it i would, dont see what the fuss is about', your never gonna get away with you dickheads the systems set up so you cant possibly get away with it, but people with dough can.
I know plenty of lads who aren't on huge money who are legally avoiding a lot of tax.
Probably the same lads who are slagging JC off for his tax affairs
So set up your own business and go self-employed. That way you can avoid paying all your direct and indirect taxes together with your NI contributions - you'll have no employer deducting your tax at source that way.Except that is blatantly illegal unlike what JC has done which is to order his tax affairs in such a way as to legally mitigate as much tax as is legally possible - if you think he's paying too little tax then take it up with your MP not JC.
Because the entire population can set up their own businesses and become self-employed? The line of argument that you are Dava are pursuing is farcical. Comical.


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Statement on Assembly Election Results
The severe drubbing received by the Congress in the elections to the four assembly elections to Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh and Delhi show the extent of people's mounting anger against the policies pursued by the Congress led UPA government causing unprecedented price rise, corruption and unemployment, which have pushed the issues concerning the states to background.
Laboratory of Fascism: Capital, Labour and Environment in Modi's Gujarat: Rohit Prajapati and Trupti Shah
We are reproducing below a study on the development model projected by Modi and BJP in Gujarat, which is sought to be taken to all India level by promoting him as the prime ministerial candidate by RSS.
On the Current Crisis of Capitalism: P J James
The tendency towards crisis is integrally linked to the existence of capitalism itself on account of the contradiction between private nature of capitalist accumulation and the appropriation of surplus-value on the one hand, and the development of the social character of production on the other.
On Elections to Chhattisgarh Assembly
The CPI(Maoist) leadership which had given boycott call and once again were excluding BJP from their targets and was selective in threatening those contesting the elections in the areas where they claim to wield influence, should try to learn lessons from the massive voting in the elections by the masses.
What should be our approach towards Nuclear Arms
What is nuclear energy? What should be our approach to nuclear arms? Can we use nuclear energy for power generation at present stage of its technology? What should be our approach towards alternate, renewable energy and towards people's energy policy? - Position/study paper by Com. KN Ramachandran, presented for Anti-Nuclear Convention at Bhopal on 1st December 2013
Severely Condemn Attack on CPI(ML) State Committee office at Bhubaneswar.
Hoodlums in the service of the local BJD Corporator of Jaydev vihar and the real estate mafia attacked Inquilab Bhavan, the Odisha state committee office of the CPI(ML) at Bhubaneswar on 8th November mid night. CPI(ML) Central Committee severely condemns this heinous attack and appeals to all left and democratic forces to join the protest meeting organized on 15th November at Bhubaneswar.


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Awards Show & After Party
Ponos Restaurant & Nightclub, Dewey Beach
Friday March 25th, 2011 @ 6:30PM
After Party with DJ Bis + Martin starting 8PM
The Schellies Awards are all in good fun! Each year, specially crafted awards are bestowed upon all employees to acknowledge their uniqueness ... in the form of funny and friendly jabs! They're all inside jokes, so don't be surprised if you don't get them - but trust us, they are hilarious.
The 2011 awards were presented by Dan Matta and Matty Adler, appearing as J-Lo and Bjork in the photo above. A lot of work happened behind the scenes as well, as Christina Harvey and Ivana Biela created the awards and orchestrated the entire event, along with the presenters. This year's Schellies committee has certainly set the bar high!
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For hundreds of travelers, Christmas Day in North Texas meant an overnight stay at the Dallas//Fort Worth Airport.
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Sylvia Plotkin Judaica Museum
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10460 N 56th St, Scottsdale 85253 480-951-0323
Distance: ~5.02 mi *
NORTH SCOTTSDALE. Five millennia of Jewish history are brought to life in this nationally-acclaimed museum. An impressive permanent collection of art and artifacts is supplemented by traveling exhibits of photography, ceremonial items, and other pieces that visually describe the culture of the Jewish people. Favorite features include a Tunisian synagogue period room, an interactive Western Wall exhibit, and a holiday ceremony display. Additionally, the museum offers a schedule of talks, symposia, and films to further educate and entertain. Admission is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.
Shemer Art Center & Museum
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5005 E Camelback Rd, Phoenix 85018 602-262-4727 602-262-6713
Distance: ~10.25 mi *
BILTMORE. Formerly a private residence, this art center and museum sits on four acres overlooking Camelback Mountain and is one of the few places to see large-scale sculpture outdoors. The displays change throughout the year as some are sold and others make way for newer works. The museum's permanent collection has over 100 artworks by contemporary Arizona artists. In addition, art classes for children and adults are offered.
Scottsdale Historical Museum
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7333 E Scottsdale Mall, Scottsdale 85251 480-945-4499
Distance: ~10.63 mi *
OLD TOWN. This small red schoolhouse serves as a repository of artifacts, photographs, documents, and art pieces detailing Scottsdale's history. You'll find a replica of an original schoolroom from the early years of the 20th century and an exhibit focusing on Winfield Scott, the Civil War veteran and minister who founded Scottsdale. Plenty of memorabilia from the Old West delights the family, and the adjacent gift shop sells books and souvenirs. A great addition to a day of shopping and eating in Old Town.
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
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7374 E 2nd St, Scottsdale 85251 480-874-4666
Distance: ~10.69 mi *
DOWNTOWN. Five galleries and a sculpture garden make up the nucleus of this facility. Additional exhibits of interest include displays of international art, architecture and design, with a predominant focus on hometown attributes.
Deer Valley Rock Art Center
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3711 W Deer Valley Rd, Phoenix 85308 623-582-8007
Distance: ~13.70 mi *
DOWNTOWN PHOENIX. On a 47-acre site north of Phoenix, Indians from throughout the Southwest carved more than 1500 petroglyphs, or rock etchings, along an ancient trade route. Between 500 and 5000 years old, these pictographs have an unknown meaning but may relate to hunting, religion, astronomy, or intertribal communication. Today, they're open to viewing along a quarter-mile trail; you can follow a guided tour or direct yourself among the boulders. Indoors, a video speculates on the nature of the carvings, and exhibits and a gift shop are available.
Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting
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6101 E Van Buren St, Papago Park, Phoenix 85008 602-275-3473
Distance: ~13.90 mi *
DOWNTOWN PHOENIX. Presenting the world's largest display of firefighting equipment, this museum highlights 100 restored pieces of hand-to-hand, horse-drawn, and mechanized firefighting equipment from 1725 to 1961. Additional exhibits include a fire truck for children to climb on and several other restored fire engines. A firefighter wannabe can dress up in official-looking coats, hats, and other gear, just like the real thing!
Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
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4619 E Washington St, Phoenix 85034 602-495-0900 602-495-0901
Distance: ~14.30 mi *
EAST PHOENIX. This museum and its adjacent park are built on the site of 1500-year-old Hohokam Indian ruins. Exhibits showcase lifestyles of the Hohokam and of other Southwestern tribes, and visitors learn about Phoenix's cultural heritage through displays of arts and crafts created and used by Native Americans. An informative and fun hands-on exhibit encourages children to learn more about archaeology.
Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art
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2301 N Central Ave, Phoenix 85004 602-252-8840 602-252-8848
Distance: ~14.98 mi *
DOWNTOWN PHOENIX. The well-regarded Heard Museum specializes in Native American cultural exhibits. It also features works by contemporary Southwestern artists, craft demonstrations, amphitheater performances, a café, and a gift shop. Paintings, drawings, and sculpture figure into the collection, along with domestic objects, textiles, pottery, dolls, and jewelry. Temporary themed exhibitions add to the place's intrigue. One of three branches in the Valley of the Sun.
Phoenix Art Museum
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1625 N Central Ave, Phoenix 85004 602-257-1222 602-657-1880
Distance: ~15.27 mi *
DOWNTOWN PHOENIX. Another institution growing by leaps and bounds, this museum's scope is indisputably international with works representing American, Asian, European and Latin American art. The museum also features exhibits on fashion and the Thorne miniature rooms (rooms from different historical periods, scaled down to hatbox size).
Rosson House
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113 N 6th St, Historic Heritage Square, Phoenix 85004 602-262-5070
Distance: ~16.03 mi *
DOWNTOWN PHOENIX. Built for a local doctor and his family, this residence was constructed in 1895 in Eastlake style. The Victorian home boasts a wide verandah, an octagonal tower, and ten rooms. It was equipped with running water, electricity, and a medical office and featured such luxuries as parquet floors, a carved staircase, telephone, and refrigerator. The home was acquired by the city in 1974 and restored to its current state. While visitors often believe the structure was moved to its current location, it was actually built where it now stands.
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I am a huge fan of vinegars of all sorts. I have a decent collection of vinegars ranging from Barrel-Aged Balsamic, to Rice Wine Vinegar, to your plain old Apple Cider among others. Last night, I decided to make a balsamic marinated grilled pork chop with sauteed cole slaw. Both had…you guessed it, vinegar. This is a super easy dinner to make, just allow 30 minutes for the pork chops to marinate in the balsamic mixture.
For the pork chops, the marinade goes something (I never measure) like this:
In a plastic freezer bag, add your pork chops then add
1/2 cup of balsamic vinegar
3 tablespoons of olive oil
1 table spoon of seedy mustard
1 table spoon of pureed garlic
1 teaspoon salt
Let this sit for 30 minutes and make sure to flip it over 15 minutes in so that both sides get all the goodness.
The cole slaw was simple. Most supermarkets have ready bags of cole slaw handy. I bought a bag of chopped cabbage and a bag of broccoli slaw because they didn't have the conventional cole slaw bags handy…and I love broccoli slaw.
I added the slaws in a pan and drizzled olive oil.
Let it cook down, until it is soft…about 3 minutes.
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A dash of salt and pepper to taste.
For something extra, I baked some small tomatoes with olive oil and kosher salt at 350 degrees while the other things were cooking. This way we felt full from the meal without having to eat carbs.
The pork chops and the slaw took approximately 6 minutes (although I cooked my chops on my Foreman Grill, so cooking times may vary).
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Who can give me support during labor and birth? How do my options for labor support compare? What kind of care can I expect if I choose a doula? Can I get supportive care from my partner alone? Can I rely on nurses, midwives, and doctors to meet my need for supportive care in labor? Can a relative or friend meet my need for supportive care in labor? Given these challenges, does it make sense to consider inviting a friend or relative to provide labor support? Who can give me support during labor and birth?
How do my options for labor support compare?The table below can help you think through your options for labor support. It shows which types of personnel are most likely to be able to offer specific aspects of supportive care. Although the ratings are generally accurate, there will always be exceptions.
Table adapted with permission from the ICEA Position Statement: The Role and Scope of the Doula, (1999) published by International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA), PO Box 20048, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55420 USA 952/854-8660. Original table by Penny Simkin, PT, CD (DONA). A growing body of better quality research is clarifying that the impact of labor support companions varies, by type of companion. To learn about effects of a person from the woman's social network versus a member of the hospital staff versus someone such as a doula who is present solely to provide labor support, see the Best Evidence page. What kind of care can I expect if I choose a doula?As is clear from the table above, a trained labor support specialist is likely to to be your best option for optimal labor support. A doula stays with you throughout labor. According to your wishes, she may be close to you, if not in actual physical contact, nearly all of the time. She offers comfort measures such as cool cloths, massage, and handholding. She gives emotional support, including reassurance, encouragement, and honest praise. She can suggest ways to improve progress or ease discomfort. She can explain what is happening or interpret what hospital personnel have said. She can also help you communicate your needs to hospital staff and support decisions that you and your partner have made.A doula looks after your partner as well, acting as a resource and guide and making sure your partner's needs are met. Some couples wonder if having a doula will disturb the privacy and intimacy of labor and birth; in fact, a doula can help to protect privacy and create an intimate atmosphere in a busy, institutional setting. A doula usually meets with you before labor to learn your personal preferences, priorities, or concerns, and stays with you until an hour or so after the birth of your baby to help get breastfeeding started. Most doulas are also available before labor and in the days after the birth of your baby to provide information, reassurance, nonmedical advice, and, when appropriate, referrals. Can I get supportive care from my partner alone?Giving your partner responsibility for supporting you through labor puts pressure on someone who may have little or no prior familiarity with birth, and who may have strong emotional needs of his or her own during the experience. Some partners do not have temperaments suited to this physically and emotionally nurturing role. The lack of privacy and the impersonal atmosphere in the hospital may inhibit others.Partners can benefit by having someone with more experience mentor them through, offer practical ideas for helping with your comfort, reassure them, and look after their needs. Having an additional person allows partners to take a needed break and relieves pressure to meet your every labor support need. If labor is intense, you may welcome having more than one person to help you. For example, you may want one person in front of you talking you through each contraction while the other is behind you pressing on your lower back. If labor is long, members of your support team can relieve one another so that you always have someone relatively refreshed working with you. The Tips & Tools: Labor Support page offers ideas to help your partner prepare to support you in labor. Can I rely on nurses, midwives, and doctors to meet my need for supportive care in labor?Hospital-based practitioners and staff may have difficulty providing optimal labor support for several reasons:
These factors are less likely to be a problem at out-of-hospital ("freestanding") birth centers. They would rarely have an impact on home birth care. Can a relative or friend meet my need for supportive care in labor?When all or most births took place in homes, women learned about birth and cared for other laboring women as a central part of family and community life. This knowledge was lost when birth moved into the hospital and women were isolated from their loved ones during childbirth. Few women today are in an optimal position to assist a laboring woman, even if they have given birth themselves, for several reasons:
Given these challenges, does it make sense to consider inviting a friend or relative to provide labor support?The essence of labor support is to "mother the mother." A calm, nurturing person with a basic understanding and respect for birthing processes can provide helpful labor support. A friend or relative who takes on this role can offer a special gift to you, and can experience the great privilege of participating in this important event in your life. The Tips & Tools page in this section offers help choosing a family member or friend to provide labor support. The Resources page offers books and videos to help your labor support companion prepare for your birth.Most recent page update: 11/16/2012
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I completely lost interest in this week's Zombie Current Events. I will post it Friday. But why did I lose interest? We'll a friend of mine had a new picture up on her Facebook holding a rifle with a scope, and to tease her a bit I looked up the names of some historic snipers. And then I realized I was doing zombie research while Facebooking. I'm pretty much hopeless at this point.
My point is, I found the number one person in history you would have wanted on your survival team.
Simo Häyhä was not only a good sniper, to date he is the best battle tested sniper in history. With 505 recorded kills in battle, this was one bad ass soldier you would never see before you died. Fighting for the Finnish army in the Winter War (1939-1940) his record for killing Soviet soldiers earned him the nick name "White Death."
You see Simo was a master of a tool of the sniper trade that wasn't always common practice at the time. He camouflaged himself perfectly for his surroundings. Fighting on the Finland/Soviet border in the dead of winter allowed him to completely cover himself in white, rendering himself invisible to Soviet troops. Something else that may have accounted for his success was his choice in weaponry. The White Guard M/28 "Pystykorva" was a smaller rifle and worked well for him because he had a smaller frame. Also at a time that technology was advancing quickly in the battlefield, he decided to stick with a tried and true iron sight instead of using a telescopic sight. This allowed him to stay concealed better because he didn't have to lift his head up as much as one with a telescopic sight would.
Simo Häyhä was so feared by the Soviets that they tried most everything they could to get rid of him. With counter snipers, and artillery strikes aimed for the sole purpose of getting rid of this master gunman, the Soviets were unsuccessful in their efforts to dispose of Simo until he was finally shot through the face during battle.
In a true show of how completely manly this man was, not even being shot through the face killed the White Death. Reports show that after being unconscious for a week, and after having half of his face removed from the attack, Simo woke up the day that peace was declared on March 13, 1940. With an average of 5 recorded kills a day, Simo could have very well surpassed 540 kills had he gone unscathed.
Simo Häyhä recovered from his injuries and lived a long life of 97 years before passing away in 2002. To this date no other sniper has had as many recorded kills as this man, and defiantly not in such a short time period. His time on the battlefield was only 100 days.
So what can we learn from this great hero of Finland? First, is always use the weapon that best suits you. Had Häyhä tried to use a larger gun, or more powerful firearm, he might not have been as successful as he was. Second, don't always rely on technology to make you better. Keep in mind that he accomplished his feats with just using his iron sights. It was the best tool for the conditions he was fighting in, and that's why he used them.
Next, practice makes perfect. Before the war Häyhä was a farmer and a huntsman. He had lots of practice with his weapon which made him proficient at what he did. And finally, never underestimate the power of a good hiding spot. The combination of his knowledge of his surroundings, the conditions he was fighting in, and his excellent camouflage made him a near perfect threat to the Soviets. Using these same tactics you could hide well from the zombie danger until the coast is clear.
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Park prove too strong for Southend ahead of the big kick off
12:54pm Monday 2nd September 2013 in Sport By Charlie Addiman
Rosslyn Park rarely had to extend themselves to beat a game, but limited, Southend side and ran out 48-8 winners in their final match ahead of the new season curtain raiser at Cinderford this weekend.
Park started brightly enough, soon having Southend on the back foot inside their own 22.
Awarded a penalty, fly half Scott Sneddon put the points on the board for 3-0. However almost from the restart Park conceded a penalty that allowed their hosts to equalise.
Back on the attack, Park always looked dangerous and after a brief period of pressure there was nothing the home defence could do to stop Ben Lonergan crashing over, Sneddon adding the extras.
Southend rarely troubled the Park defence, but were themselves the masters of disruption and Park looked to have difficulty in establishing a rhythm of their own for all their being clearly the better side.
Sam Sneddon attempted a penalty to stretch the lead but suffered a radar malfunction.
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When a Southend player incurred a serious injury after 40 minutes, Park readily agreed with the referee to call it half-time despite the fact that he was playing a penalty advantage in their favour.
Park made wholesale personnel changes shortly after the re-start, and immediately looked a more cohesive combination. Winning a lineout close to the Southend line, they crashed over en masse, the consensus being that it was Harry Broadbent who actually touched down, though other claims may be valid. The conversion attempt was missed.
Southend gained some encouragement with an immediate riposte in the shape of a move up the left for a good try, but one that Park will be disappointed to have conceded. That brought the scores to 15-8.
The gulf between the two sides looked far greater than seven points and Park soon set about proving the fact. Southend were not helped by a yellow card as they resorted to extra-legal means to keep out the visitors.
A line out on the left saw the ball whipped across the field for Dom Shabbo to coast in on the right, Sam Katz converting for 22-8.
Breakaway: Sam Katz goes for the line
Back on the attack, Park forced a scrum which led to a quick tap penalty and centre Will Simpson darted over, Katz adding the extras for 29-8.
A good attack up the left saw several attempts to breach the line until it was switched across for Shabbo to cross the line on the far side and run round behind the posts to give Katz the easiest of conversions for 36-8.
Park were now scoring at will, and sound support running from lock Richard Boyle reaped its reward when he crashed over, Katz again converting. The pack had the last word, driving over for Sam Shires to claim the try for the final score of 46-8.
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Wait, it's not cheating if the students don't know you are changing their answers right?
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Some Hartford school officials have apparently joined the ranks of those who have engaged in cheating to make their students' standardized test scores look better.
The Hartford Courant has the latest news in a story entitled "Investigators Confirm Test-Tampering At Hartford School."
Major cheating scandals have already rocked Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
Hartford is just the latest in a series of school districts across the country where school administrators have doctored test results to make it appear that their students are doing better on standardized tests such as the Connecticut Mastery Test.
In Connecticut, former Hartford Superintendent of Schools, Steven Adamowski, introduced the "bonus for the improvement of standardized test results scheme" when he ran Hartford's schools for five years.
As a result of Adamowski's policies, many of which have been continued under present Hartford Superintendent Christina Kishimoto, school officials receive bonuses if they can show improvement in standardized test results.
Apparently, the scheme leads some school administrators to take matters into their own hands…literally.
According to the Hartford Courant story written by Kathy Megan and Vanessa De La Torre,
"An investigation has confirmed that dozens of Connecticut Mastery Tests taken earlier this year at Betances Early Reading Lab School in Hartford were tampered with by unknown individuals.
The investigation by the Hartford law firm of Siegel, O'Connor, O'Donnell & Beck concluded that "testing irregularities are present in the CMT reading content area test booklets, completed by third-grade students" at Betances."
The Courant goes on to report, "'Changes were made to students' 2013 CMT reading content area test booklets by an individual or individuals that were not the students,' the investigators state in a report for the Department of Education dated Nov. 5."
According to the investigation, a number of teachers identified potential problems with their student's test scores.
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"The report contained many examples of teachers saying that students' scores were much higher than could be reasonably expected, as well as statistics showing that the number of answers changed from wrong to right was well beyond what might be expected.
For instance, one teacher, describing 'Student D,' noted that the student had 'an extremely hard time recognizing words and comprehending text.' She expected the student to score poorly on the test.
When the teacher was advised that the student changed answers 26 times and that 25 of those times were from the wrong answer to the right answer, the report says, 'she could not believe it. Based on her experience with Student D, she did not feel it was possible.'
The timing of this cheating scandal is particularly noteworthy because starting this year, as a direct result of Governor Malloy's "education reform" law, there is a new state-mandate that schools, teachers and many school administrators be evaluated based, in part, on whether standardized test results improve.
In Hartford, Superintendent of Schools Christina Kishimoto called the test tampering "really poor judgment that I want to really get to the bottom of."
And not to be outdone, Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, told the Courant that the state was discussing what steps to take with Hartford school leaders regarding the cheating scandal.
Considering Stefan Pryor's record and overwhelming fondness for massive amounts of standardized testing, in what might have been misinterpreted as a joke, Commissioner Pryor's PR operation released a statement to the media yesterday which read;
"Testing irregularities are rare in our state. In general, Connecticut teachers, administrators and students display great integrity around the administration of statewide assessments… However, when such instances of possible tampering do occur, we take the matter very seriously… Unfortunately, the investigators' report concludes that tampering has occurred in this case. We are in communication with Hartford's board and central office leadership regarding this matter."
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Ride 2013 with a BANG! - with 100-500 other crazy people. How much fun is that? We'll explore the trails in: http://www.bikewashington.org/ We will also take trips on the road; don't worry, we won't compete with traffic, but there are great road rides in the city that are safe from cars. Depending on the expertise and resilience of our riders we'll do either short (10 miles) or longer (20+ miles); if the group on any given day is large enough I will have two routes to accommodate the long and s …
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