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Global Tax Alert | 31 October 2013
Mauritian Financial Services Commission introduces additional conditions to enhance economic substance of GBL1 companies
On 4 September 2013, the Mauritian Financial Services Commission (FSC) issued a communiqué on amendments made to the Guide to Global Business (the Guide). The amendments are aimed at enhancing the economic and physical substance of companies holding a Category 1 Global Business (GBL1) in Mauritius.
The amendments confirm the Mauritian Government's commitment to the financial services sector as one of the emerging pillars: at the same time the amendments should mitigate challenges from treaty partner countries. Accordingly, GBL1 companies are required to comply with any one of the following as from 1 January 2015 (the effective date):
- • Office premises should be available in Mauritius.
- • Mauritian resident employees of an administrative or technical level should be employed on a full time basis.
- • The constitution should contain a clause whereby all disputes arising out of the constitution shall be resolved by way of arbitration in Mauritius.
- • The company should have Mauritian based assets of at least US$ 100,000.
- • The shares of the company are listed on a securities exchange licensed by the FSC.
- • The yearly expenditure of the company in Mauritius should be of the same level as a similar corporation which is controlled and managed from Mauritius.
The current rules on the central management and control of a GBL1 are provided in Appendix I.
Additional requirements
As from the effective date, the FSC shall also consider the following in determining whether the central management and control of a company are in Mauritius:
- • The corporation has or shall have office premises in Mauritius.
- • The corporation employs or shall employ on a full time basis at administrative/technical level, at least one person who shall be resident in Mauritius.
- • The corporation's constitution contains a clause whereby all disputes arising out of the constitution shall be resolved by way of arbitration in Mauritius.
- • The corporation holds or is expected to hold within the next 12 months, assets (excluding cash held in bank account or shares/interests in another GBL1 corporation or a company that holds a Category 2 Global Business License) which are worth at least US$ 100,000 in Mauritius.
- • The corporation's shares are listed on a securities exchange licensed by the FSC.
- • The corporation has or is expected to have a yearly expenditure in Mauritius which can be reasonably expected from any similar corporation which is controlled and managed from Mauritius. In that respect, the onus is on the entity to satisfy the FSC that its level of expenditure in Mauritius is reasonable. Reasonableness of expenditure would be judged in the light of circumstances of each case. Factors to be considered to decide whether the level of expenditure is reasonable include the type of activity of the corporation, its average turnover, the country (countries) in which it is conducting business, the value of its net assets and the industry average.
The Guide provides that only one of the above should be satisfied.
Chapter 4 of the Guide also provides that each resident director should comply with the circular letter issued by the FSC on 28 March 2013. The said letter provides that the FSC may consider whether the current or proposed directors have the capacity to perform their duties in accordance with the law. In that respect, the FSC shall consider the factors listed in the attached Appendix II. The circular letter expressly provides that the FSC shall consider matters raised by directors on a case by case basis.
The amendments represent a step forward for GBL1 companies to reinforce the level of their economic and physical substance in Mauritius. Some GBL1 companies already have office space and senior employees in Mauritius and thus would not be affected by these new requirements. The office premises should be available at any time during the year so that the business affairs of the company are not interrupted. Regarding the full time employee, he/she should work under the supervision of the Board of directors and typically he/she should be reporting to the Mauritian resident directors. Determining a reasonable amount of yearly expenditure may be challenging in practice. Investment holding companies typically do not have any full time employees and the employee remuneration generally consists of directors' fees only. It is expected that in the context of the presence of nonresident directors, the relative fee and all expenses, like accommodation and air ticket costs, should be reflected in the income statement of the company.
Appendix I - The current rules
Under the Mauritian tax laws, a company is a resident of Mauritius if it is either incorporated in Mauritius or if it has its central management and control in Mauritius. Financial services, other than banking, are regulated by the Financial Services Act 2007 (FSA 2007). Under the FSA 2007, a resident corporation may apply for a GBL1 and in considering an application or renewal for a GBL1, the FSC takes into account whether the business of the corporation is being managed and controlled in Mauritius. In that respect, the FSC considers a number of matters and without limitation, the following factors are considered:
(i) The company shall have or has at least two directors, resident in Mauritius, of sufficient calibre to exercise independence of mind and judgment;
(ii) The company shall maintain or maintains at all times its principal bank account in Mauritius ;
(iii) The company shall keep and maintain or keeps and maintains, at all times, its accounting records at its registered office in Mauritius;
(iv) The company shall prepare or proposes to prepare its statutory financial statements and causes or proposes to have such financial statements to be audited in Mauritius; and
(v) The company provides for meetings of directors to include at least two directors from Mauritius.
Appendix II - Relevant factors pursuant to the circular letter dated 28 March 2013
Qualification and experience
A director shall have the relevant qualification and experience to exercise sufficient care, diligence and skills for the good conduct of the business of a licensee/ reporting issuer.
Independence of mind
A director shall act with integrity and freedom of mind, without any influence, interest or relationship that might impair his professional judgment or objectivity.
In the performance of his duties, a director shall provide impartial and good judgment.
Time commitment
When a director serves on multiple boards, he/she shall ensure that sufficient time and attention is given to the affairs of each board he/she serves on. The director shall be adequately involved in the control and management of the licensee and perform his/her functions properly and efficiently.
It is expected that a director shall be able to demonstrate that he/she will be able to devote sufficient time to:
- • Adequately prepare for each board meeting;
- • Attend each board meeting including the annual general meeting;
- • Address the complexities and risks involved in each licensee;
- • Actively participate in deliberations of the board meetings;
- • Adequately prepare for any board committees he/she is a member of and actively participate in the deliberation of the committees;
- • Be acquainted with the affairs and business of each licensee;
- • Fulfill all his/her obligations and responsibilities in accordance with the requirements set out in the Companies Act 2001.
In assessing his/her time commitment, the director may consider the following factors:
- • Number of available working days in a year;
- • Other commitments of the director-whether self-employed, retired or full time employment;
- • Number of years of experience as Director;
- • Number of hours per day available for preparing and attending board meetings and any committees he/she is a member of;
- • Availability of support staff with relevant qualifications and expertise to assist director in performing his/her duties.
- • Frequency of meetings-board and committee meetings;
- • Number of committee meetings per year;
- • Size, nature and complexity of business of the company, such as whether the company is an investment holding company or is an active trading company or a service related company or an active fund;
- • Other factors such as the company being part of a group structure.
For additional information with respect to this Alert, please contact the following:
Ernst & Young (Mauritius), Ebene, Mauritius
- • Assad Khoosee
+230 403 4738
- • Ryaad Owodally
+230 403 4717
Ernst & Young (China) Advisory Services Limited, Pan African Tax Desk, Beijing
- • Rendani Neluvhalani
+86 10 5815 2831
Ernst & Young LLP, Pan African Tax Desk, New York
- • Dele Olaogun
+1 212 773 2546
Ernst & Young LLP (United Kingdom), Pan African Tax Desk, London
- • Leon Steenkamp
+44 20 7951 1976
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My name is Ben Thompson. I am currently a Game Development student at Tribeca Flashpoint Media Arts Academy focusing in Game Design, and more specifically, level design. I've been designing and implementing games since my Sophmore year of high school when I first became aquainted with Game Maker 7. Since then, I've been a part of many small projects in the Unreal Development Kit, Unity, and in-house engines.
My strong points lie in my level design abilities as well as my determination and technical problem solving skills. With those combined I've been able to overcome many obstacles in my path to become an industry professional.
Through the course of this blog, I'll be posting about my struggles and triumphs as I refine my skills in the Unreal Development Kit. I'll be testing and straining all of my skillsets in this glorious engine, from the material editor to the cascade editor to the world editor, no tool shall go untouched.
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Learning from a Martial Arts Camp
Last weekend, my son Jeremy participated in a martial arts camp. Jeremy is a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and he's just started learning one of the forms of karate.
I noticed something last weekend. During the camp, the instructors talked about the forms and movements, showed the students how to do the forms and movements (and even explained why), then helped the students do the forms and movements. Often, the students would even help one another.
On the drive back home, I kept comparing this martial arts camp to several Christian conferences that I've attended. At all of those conferences, people talked about stuff, but that's where it ended. This is not disciple making.
I'm tired of just talking about stuff; I'm ready to show people how to live for Christ and then help them live for Christ and then live for Christ together.
I'll probably never have my name added to a conference speaking list, but that's okay. I'll be making disciples instead.
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If the purpose is "knowing about," then talking (and sitting and listening, even taking notes) will do fine. If the purpose is doing, well, then you have to get out on the floor and break a sweat…
Okay Alan, Here is your chance. I am opening my home starting this week for Bible study, prayer, singing, talking, eating, whatever is needed.
I kind of hope it is free flowing, and kind of a "do-what-is-needed" type gathering. My concern is that it may not have much direction and people will not stay interested.
Do you have any advice?
Oh.., and like your post says;
"I'm tired of just talking about stuff; I'm ready to show people how to live for Christ and then help them live for Christ and then live for Christ together."
I'm also in need to "be" shown how to live for Christ by these people.
Alan, you asked, "Art, So… what is the purpose?"
To be conformed to His image.
I believe this happens bit by bit as we follow Him (doing), and in following Him, we come to know Him (not merely "about Him"). Following Him will bring us into contact with other followers, and into contact with the lost.
"Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men."
For me, the classic line describing this "action bringing His leading" comes from a servant:
Gen 24:27 "…I being in the way, the LORD led me…"
- Starting With A Meeting | Looking For Church - [...] question to Alan over at The Assembling Of The Church, in response to his post, Learning from a Martial Arts…


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Holiday Hot Chocolate Mix Recipe
This is the recipe I make for holiday gifts. I put it in decorative jars and tie pretty ribbons around the jars for a festive looking gift.—Debbie Klejeski, Sturgeon Lake, Minnesota
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- 3-3/4 cups instant chocolate drink mix
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1. Place all ingredients in a very large bowl or kettle. Stir until well blended. Store in airtight container or pack into small gift containers. To serve, add 1/4 cup chocolate mix to 2/3 cup hot water. Yield: 3 quarts mix.
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Life sometimes throws you curves. Ross didn't plan on being a father at age 19 on top of all the demands from football and school. He was a teenager with an adult's responsibilities, and by last December, it became too much.
Not anymore, he says.
"Things have settled down," he says. "My family issues are straight. The academic issues are good. Football is going very good."
Settling came with a cost. He was suspended from last season's bowl game and the first half of spring practice. Coach Danny Hope would only say Ross wasn't meeting his classroom responsibilities, although it never got so bad that he became academically ineligible.
"I'm definitely settled," he says. "I'm ready to get things rolling."
Still, rolling comes with obligations. His daughter, A'lyric, recently celebrated her first birthday. She lives with him in West Lafayette, which mean his off time isn't off anymore.
"I wouldn't say it's tough," he says. "You've got to know how to handle things. It's definitely a blessing to have a daughter. That's my world right there. That's why I do what I do. She's keeping me motivated. That's my responsibility and I have to take care of her."
It's not his only responsibilities. The suspension sent a message that Hope won't let him slack off in school or football, no matter how talented Ross is.
"The spring semester was good for him," Hope says. "He had to fight his way back up the depth chart. He had to make a bigger commitment to football and school. We wanted more from him, and he's gotten the grasp of where we're coming from."
Adds Ross: "I had to mature. I had to find myself. I'm ready to move forward. I know my role. I'm going to play it well and help my team win the best way I can."
That mostly means catching passes. As a freshman, Ross had 11 catches for 149 yards and a touchdown. As a sophomore, it was 33 for 356 and three TDs.
Now the goal is to break into the Big Ten's receiver upper echelon. At 5-10 and 188 pounds, he won't do it with size and strength as much as speed.
"He's very fast," Hope says. "He has outstanding speed — very fast and sudden.
"He can be a difference maker. He can catch a ball well in a crowd. He brings a lot to the table. We have a chance to be very fast on the perimeter, particularly at the receiver position, when O.J. is there."
With a receiving corps of Ross, Antavian Edison (ran a 10.7-second 100-meter dash in high school in Florida), Gary Bush (a Florida state placewinner in the long jump) and Raheem Mostert (Florida state qualifier in the 300 hurdles), speed is a strength the Boilers figure to exploit.
"Expect a lot of speed, a lot of big plays, a lot of wins," Ross says.
That leads to the question, who is Purdue's fastest receiver?
"Of course I'm going to say me," Ross says. "Gary is real quick and fast. Antavian is quick and fast. Raheem Mostert is fast. I think we're at the top of the charts (in the Big Ten). I really think the Big Ten should look out for us."
If that sounds bold, Ross quickly raises the ante when discussing the prospects of a Purdue team that returns 19 starters from a 7-6 team.
"We can go to a Rose Bowl," he says. "We can go to any big bowl we want to."


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Two persons were injured as a paraglider broke down on the inaugural day of the three-day Kakinada Beach Festival. Three persons were in paraglider when the mishap took place. Two persons escaped with minor injuries. However, major mishap averted as paraglider broke down far from the public meeting. It is learnt that operator of paraglider has no experience in handling it.


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Traffic Alert: Road closures for the week ahead
Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:00:00 GMT —
Out and about this next week, the Texas Department of Transportation says motorists can expect delays throughout Amarillo because of construction projects.
Paul Braun, TxDOT spokesman, said all projects are subject to change because of the weather, emergency work and other unexpected events.
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Barber's block
. In the end, it became merely a footnote in another loss. But Ronde Barber contributed a game-changing play when he batted away an extra point off the foot of Shaun Suisham. Trailing 10-3 in the third quarter, the Redskins got a 17-yard touchdown pass from Jason Campbell to tight end Chris Cooley. But on the extra point, Barber lined up on the far right side, raced in untouched and dived low to block the kick. The play maintained the Tampa Bay lead and put an instant damper on the home crowd's spirits. It also gave Barber a career kick-blocking trifecta, having blocked a punt in 2001 and a field goal in 2003. "It was just there," Barber said. "It could have been huge, but it wasn't. If we score a touchdown and win by one, it's a big deal. But as it stands, it's not much." Added special teams coach Rich Bisaccia: "Ronde's been a great edge rusher for a long time. And we always put in blocks according to what we see. We took advantage of a great push by Chris Hovan, Sabby Piscitelli and Geno Hayes. And Ronde did a great job of getting low, which isn't easy for a lot of guys to do."
Bryant: 'I'm getting better'
. Antonio Bryant's sore left knee has minimized his impact this season, but the Bucs receiver showed a glimpse of last season's greatness early Sunday. Tampa Bay faced second and goal from the 8 after recovering a fumble, and Josh Johnson lofted a pass to the left corner of the end zone. He led Bryant just enough to give him a chance to beat the tight coverage of Carlos Rogers. Bryant responded by pulling the ball in with his fingertips to give the Bucs a 7-0 lead just two minutes into the game. "At the end of the day, I'm getting better," said Bryant, who had surgery for a torn meniscus in August. "Hopefully, there will be an opportunity to see more of me. Josh saw the same thing I saw. The defense sort of rotated toward the strong side of the field, so I figured if I ran my route and came out (further back in the end zone), I'd give him time to read that side and come back to me with the ball."
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. For oft-criticized Gaines Adams, it was a day of tangible gains. During the past week, there was a question if the third-year defensive end would play due to a groin injury. Then when he did get on the field, the question was if he would play better. He answered that on the second play of the game, when he sacked Jason Campbell for a 4-yard loss — his first sack of the season. Moments later, on third and 10, Adams pressured Campbell into the path of defensive end Jimmy Wilkerson, who nailed Campbell for a 9-yard sack and jarred the ball loose. Adams recovered the fumble at the Redskins 10 to set up Tampa Bay's only touchdown of the day. "The only thing I remember is seeing Jimmy tackle Campbell," Adams said. "And I was fortunate the ball popped out and I was right there at the right time. I just picked it and tried to make a play off of it. And to be able to go out and get a sack on the first series, it felt great. But I have to give credit to the secondary on that play. It was a coverage sack. (Campbell) didn't have anywhere to throw the ball."


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To cheers of "Ole! Ole! Ole!" Bolivia's President Evo Morales walked on stage to officially open the People's Climate Change Conference in the city of Cochabamba on Saturday.
Five thousand people from more than 40 countries applauded Morales for hosting the summit, which is focused on how climate change is impacting the developing world.
Morales wasted no time in blaming capitalism for the environmental crisis, saying it has ''achieved nothing in the world.'' He called for a halt to deforestation, telling his critics — who note that around two-thirds of Bolivia's greenhouse gases come from deforestation — that for every person in Bolivia there are ''more than 5,000 trees.''
RELATED: Nature First: A Look Back at Bolivia's 2010 Climate Conference
While some environmental groups are disappointed that the Bolivian government has allowed oil and gas exploration in areas they would like to see preserved, Morales often points out that it is industrialized nations that release the vast majority of greenhouse gases.
That point was stressed at the conference, with leaders from the developing world calling on Western nations to take responsibility for the effects climate change is already having on the Global South.
France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius was one of the few representatives from a Western government at the summit. He conceded that ''industrialized countries have a particular responsibility'' when it comes to climate change and urged those in attendance to ''engage and show what direction the governments should follow'' in their efforts to tackle the problem.
Bolivia's ambassador to the UN, Diego Parry, told teleSUR English he plans on presenting those views at the next major gathering of the global community. ''We want to hear the voice and the words of the people on climate change," he said, "and to hear their proposals for discussion at the Paris summit in December."
Any proposals discussed at the Bolivia summit will be formally submitted for consideration at the Paris talks.
The main focus of the summit is to give grassroots activists and other ordinary people in the developing world a say on how future policy should be shaped. According to the Global Climate Risk Index, in the past 25 years an estimated 95 percent of fatalities from natural disasters have occurred in developing countries, with the rate of such disasters expected to increase as the effects of climate change worsen.
At the conference, attendees heard that if the temperature of the planet increases by another 2 degrees celsius than an environmental catastrophe will be unavoidable. In addition to natural disasters, people could go also go hungry: For every 1 degree rise in the global temperature, grain yields are expected to fall by 5 percent.
Those who will be most affected by changes in the climate want to be heard. Indigenous people from all across Bolivia arrived in Cochabamba with one simple message. ''We just want to protect our beloved mother earth,'' one delegate told teleSUR english. They hope to confront the UN's Ban Ki-moon and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with that message, both of whom are attending the conference.
RELATED: Bolivia Gives the Poor a Platform to Demand Climate Action
So far no concrete proposals have been discussed. Delegates hope that behind all the pomp and ceremony, however, real solutions to help combat change will be found.
In the words of President Morales, ''the planet has a limit and we have almost reached that limit.'' And whatever the shortcomings of Bolivia when it comes to its environmental record, few here would disagree with that — and with the reality that those most responsible for pushing the planet to its limit have yet to fulfill their responsibilities to the world's poor.


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Munich City Event cancelled
MUNICH — The FIS announced today that due to unseasonably warm temperatures and no cold weather in the near forecast, the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup City Event scheduled at the Munich Olympiapark in Germany for Jan. 1, 2014 has been cancelled. There will be no replacement of this City Event at any other point during the winter.
It has been a tough start to the season in central Europe, and organizers in Munich simply have nowhere else from which to harvest snow for the event. The race was also cancelled in 2012 for the same reason. Temperatures dropped in the German city to winter-like conditions today, but there is no sustained cold weather in the upcoming forecast.
"Despite the challenges caused by the constant weather changes, the organizers tried truly everything to prepare and stage this big event. Significant ticket sales and a huge number of requests from media partners and stakeholders showed a big interest in the Munich City Event," commented FIS men's chief race director Guenter Hujara when the 2012 race was cancelled. "At least 60 hours of temperatures below minus 5 degrees and dry conditions are needed (to produce enough snow) but not in the forecast. All alternatives were checked but the probability of success of all these efforts was too low."


text: Are you able to tell if you have successfully connected to the MSN server through Jabber? What should happen in JIM is after you have registered with the transport, it should show up on your roster, and if your authentication credentials are correct, the lightbulb next to the transport in your roster should be "on". If you're seeing this, then log into the other MSN account and see if you can get presence information from the MSN account you're using with Jabber. (You should see the other account as "online".) If this works correctly, messaging should be working fine. However, there are several reasons this could fail. For example, if you have a firewall between your Jabber server and the MSN server, it is possible that it might be blocking the necessary socket connection that it would need to authenticate. If you provided more information on the environment you've set your Jabber server up on, it might be easier to track down the problem you're experiencing. Cheers, Ben On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Riyaad Miller wrote: > That would be the situation > I have attempted both with no luck > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Schumacher [mailto:ben at blahr.com] > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 7:16 PM > To: jdev at codc.com > Cc: Riyaad Miller > Subject: Re: [JDEV] MSN Transport Problems > > > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Joe Hildebrand wrote: > > "Riyaad Miller" <RMiller at mweb.com> writes: > > > Could somebody show me the 'light' side on this query. > > > > > > I've setup a MSN id and downloaded the MSN chat client on my local > > > desktop. Note I also have WinJab and JIM running on my machine. Here's > > > the problem ... When I go online with my MSN userid, theoretically > > > according to my limited understanding of Jabber, I should be able to > > > find myself (merely testing here), add myself to my list of contact > > > and in theory ....chat to me myself, one as the MSN user, the other as > > > the Jabber user. Problem is though ... I don't! > > I'm a little confused about what you're trying to do here. Are you > attempting to use the same MSN account through both the Jabber client and > server and the MSN client? > > For example, if you have only one MSN account (user at hotmail.com), you > can't be logged into that account through both Jabber and MSN at the same > time. Try setting up another bogus MSN (Hotmail) account and log into that > one through MSN and see if you can contact your other account through > Jabber. > > > Have you tried this with a different MSN user? You can't be logged in > > to the same MSN account from more than one place at a time. > > Indeed. > > Ben >


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Atlanta, GA, United States, 2007/03/28 - Atlanta new home builder, Sharp Residential, thanks ReMax 400 North real estate agents with a catered luncheon held at the Parkstine clubhouse.
Sharp Residential welcomed agents from the ReMax 400 North office to a catered lunch at held at the Parkstone community clubhouse. Attending agents enjoyed a catered Cajun-style lunch by Chef Kern Chiasson, a tour of the model homes and prizes.
The agents at ReMax 400 North do an amazing job selling homes in our communities, said Tom Sharp, President of Sharp Residential. We thought providing them with this luncheon was a great way to thank them for all that they do.
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State Rep. John Legg wants to return to the House of Representatives next year. The Republican, who has become an influential legislator on education issues, says he's got unfinished work to do.
On the top of his list: education reform. Insurance rate and property tax relief. Consumer protection laws.
But unlike his 2006 bid for re-election, Legg faces two challengers in this year's District 46 race.
One is Democrat Ron Rice, a Hillandale Estates resident and first-time political candidate who works in Clearwater's land survey department.
Rice, 40, who has volunteered for other Democratic campaigns, said he was moved to run partly because of the economy.
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The father of two girls, ages 8 and 6, Rice has seen his own share of struggles, particularly when it comes to health care. His younger daughter, Madalynn, was diagnosed with kidney cancer when she was a baby. She has been cancer-free for five years, but Rice remembers well the twice-a-week drives to All Children's Hospital for chemotherapy, the $200 a week in co-pays, the other families caring for sick children and dealing with lots of bills.
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Ubele, 30, is a high-ranking member of the St. Petersburg-based Nationalist Coalition, a group that says whites should have their own "living space." A posting on the Web site of ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke praises Ubele as "unmistakably a pro-white candidate."
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Less than two weeks ago, we were sitting around watching conference championship games and rooting for other teams to lose so that La Salle might make it to the First Four.
Now Dr. John Giannini, Ramon Galloway and the rest of the Explorers are hanging in Los Angeles and shaking hands with Reggie Miller. The only reason they're not getting even more attention is because the world found out that something called Florida Gulf Coast exists.
Tip off between the 13th-seeded La Salle Explorers and 9th-seeded Wichita State Shockers for the opportunity to advance to the Elite Eight is scheduled for 10:17 this evening and can be seen on TBS.
The Explorers have not gotten this far in the NCAA tournament since losing to Bill Russell's San Francisco in 1955. That was 58 years ago. Of the five Atlantic 10 teams that made the tournament 4 Saint Louis, 5 VCU, 6 Butler, 9 Temple La Salle received the lowest seed by four spots and is the only one left standing.
As for what they'll meet in Wichita State, the Shockers are the first team La Salle has played in this tournament that isn't four-guard (Boise State, Kansas State) or generally undersized anyway (Ole Miss). In fact, Wichita State grabs the 27th-most rebounds of the 347 teams who play Division I basketball, with 38.4 per game. La Salle, on the hand, is 292nd in that category. In a surprise turn of events, La Salle backup center Steve Zack was cleared to play yesterday, although what exactly he'll be able to contribute is unknowable.
Regardless, nothing has really changed for La Salle. The key to tonight's game is the same key for every game involving a four-guard team make shots. The more shots the Explorers make, the fewer rebounds will be available for them not to grab. If it seems simple, that's because it is. Small teams can't afford to be inefficient.
Whichever way this goes, it's like we mentioned up top, La Salle went from sweating out the selection show to flying from Dayton to Kansas City to Los Angeles without ever coming back to campus, and at some point in between, SouthwestPhillyFloater was trending worldwide.
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text: Freedom executive Kennedy had felonies By David Gutman January 12, 2014 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Freedom Industries, the company responsible for contaminating the water of 300,000 Kanawha Valley residents, was founded by a two-time convicted felon, benefited from the 2009 federal stimulus and at least two of its executives have longstanding ties to the Charleston business community.Since the chemical spill on Thursday, Freedom Industries executives have entirely avoided media requests, except for a brief news conference Friday night.On Sunday morning, Charles Ryan Associates, a prominent Charleston public relations firm hired by Freedom, abruptly dropped the chemical distributor as a client."I made the decision not to represent them," said Susan Lavenski, who was handling Freedom for Charles Ryan. She would not give any details as to why she would no longer represent the company.Freedom Industries was founded in 1992 by Carl Lemley Kennedy II, according to filings with the West Virginia secretary of state. The company's website, however, says it was founded in 1986."Our friends and our neighbors, this incident is extremely unfortunate, unanticipated and we are very, very sorry for the disruption to everybody's daily life that this incident has caused," Gary Southern, the company's president, said at the news conference Friday night. "It has been an extremely long day, I'm having trouble talking at the moment. I would appreciate it if we could wrap this thing up."He has not spoken publicly since.Kennedy is still listed as "incorporator" with the secretary of state, but a woman who answered the phone at Freedom Industries on Friday said he left the company "years ago."As recently as 2005, Kennedy owned 5 percent of Freedom Industries, according to a bankruptcy filing. That stake was valued at $675,000, according to Kennedy's filing, meaning that in 2005 Freedom Industries was valued at $13.5 million.That valuation has almost certainly increased over the past eight years. In 2008, the company employed 45 people, sold 10 million gallons of material and earned $26 million, according to newspaper records.Within the last two weeks, on Dec. 31, 2013, Freedom merged with three other companies, Etowah River Terminal, Poca Blending and Crete Technologies.The companies were already interrelated. Freedom markets and distributes chemicals that are mixed by Poca Blending in Nitro. Etowah River Terminal is the storage facility on the Elk which leaked the chemical. It has about a dozen tanks, each of which can hold tens of thousands of gallons of chemicals. 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microsoft went on the offensive against spammers by filing a total of 15 lawsuits in the united states and the united kingdom. 12 of the lawsuits were filed in washington state in accordance with the state's anti-spam law; one lawsuit was filed in california, and the remaining two were filed in the united kingdom. the lawsuits brought by microsoft will attempt to stop the activity of spammers as well as pursue monetary damages. microsoft claims that the 15 spammers accounted for a total of two billion e-mails received by microsoft through its msn and hotmail operations.
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now these are the kind of lawsuits i want to see. previously, aol made a similar move against spammers (see our previous coverage). it's nice to see microsoft join the fight.
i really would hate to be a lawyer representing one of the spammers named in the lawsuits. it's bad enough that you are fighting against one of the largest and richest companies in the world, but ms is also well experienced in the court room. we now get to see that court room experience put to good use.
i like the tactic microsoft is using by filing 12 of the lawsuits in washington state. that state has a pretty strong anti-spam law which will strengthen microsoft's lawsuit.
don�t forget that aol, microsoft, and yahoo! all agreed to team up and fight spammers (see our previous coverage). that being said, i am sure we can expect yahoo! to file suit soon. yahoo! may be waiting for microsoft to test the waters first before investing the money and resources into fighting the spam problem legally.
anyone who is a hotmail or msn users knows how annoying it can be to look in your mailbox and know that 80% of the e-mail you receive is spam. the problem got a little better with msn 8 and its junk filtering capabilities, but ramped back up after spammers figured out ways around the junk-filtering technologies.
one can only hope that these lawsuits have some impact on the problem. some of you may find yourself for once actually cheering for microsoft in the court room.
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|good… (11:26am est wed jun 18 2003)
i hate microsoft and all that it stands for, but this is a good thing. i hope that m$ will be successful and deminish the f@$# spamers at least somewhat.
– by bob
|well (11:31am est wed jun 18 2003)
i think they need to sue themselves.
other than that i will pat microsoft on the back for doing something after allow their systems to spam us for the last 4 years. i stopped half my spam by rejecting everything from hotmail.
– by rax
|woot i am glad to see this (11:38am est wed jun 18 2003)
i use hotmail for junk now days, so that whenever i buy something online i just send them my hotmail account, why you ask? cause almost invariably they sell my name and i get spammed, my hotmail account is usually full of crap, :-p
i sure hope they win and make the spammers go bankrupt. – by eric the red
|the biggest crooks… (12:00pm est wed jun 18 2003)
i just set up a hotmail account two days ago without ever sending out a message. the next day i had 47 spam messages! now how is this possible bill ?????????? you are the biggest criminal that has ever walked this planet! >>may lightning hit you while you are taking a dump! – by shifty
|the source (12:07pm est wed jun 18 2003)
a good portion of the spam i receive seems to be bounced off / through of hotmail (and when you contact them they give you a run around)…. perhaps this is a plot to make sure micro$oft is to be involved with ever aspect of (even) the spamming communitiy – by youwillbeassimilated
|ms is the main supply of spam (12:32pm est wed jun 18 2003)
it's about time they sue someone for a friggin legit reason…just like the rest of you said though, most of the junk mail i receive is sent through microsoft based products…(hotmail ect…) – by confused
|shifty (12:47pm est wed jun 18 2003)
when you sign up for hotmail, there's an opt-out checkbox that allows ms to sell/publish your email address. that's how you got spammed so quick. you need to look closely at that crap when you sign up. – by hecklar
|re: shifty (12:51pm est wed jun 18 2003)
iv'e had a hotmail account just as long as iv'e had my yahoo account (going on 5 years now) and my hotmail accout got constantly spammed since the day i got it…the yahoo account maybey gets 4 spam emails a week. it got so bad on hotmail that i had to set my inbox filter to exclusive because i got tired of deleting all of the junk. you should know by now that nothing from microsoft is free. hotmail may not cost you money, but they are making money off of you by selling your email address to spammers. – by techwarrior
|i saw heckler's post after i posted… (12:53pm est wed jun 18 2003)
and i have had my hotmail account for so long that, that options wasn't present when i signed up!!! yikes! – by techwarrior
|as if they need more (1:18pm est wed jun 18 2003)
>the lawsuits brought by microsoft will attempt to stop the activity of spammers as well as pursue monetary damages.
ok, since when does m$ need more money? i know that this would be the best tactic in shutting down the spammers, but there are 2 issues here:
|spam on hotmail (2:40pm est wed jun 18 2003)
it's interesting…
i have a hotmail account (paid version) and a private isp email account. i was getting lots of spam on the hotmail account, now i only get 1-10 pieces per day.
however, my private isp email gets over 200 spam per day. most is marked as spam by their filtering software, but i still have to check it and delete it.
looks microsoft is doing something right. – by lurker
|re: rax (2:46pm est wed jun 18 2003)
rax == in crack
what does stopping spam has to do with ms sueing themselves? hotmail is free email. anyone could sign up. the problem is that if everyone had to pay for hotmail, then a lot of the spam would dissapear, but then people like rax will complain about ms ripping them off. you see rax, no matter what you will never be content, because the subject or the story behind it have no meaning for you. all you wanted to do is pointlesly bash ms. god, could there be a bigger moron than you? i do not think so. and by the way, that bridge you have been thinking about jumping from to your death? go ahead do it. it's time. good luck. – by wd
|i never had this… (2:47pm est wed jun 18 2003)
… problem before ms owned hotmail. since then it has just gone down hill. i remember hearing from somewhere that ms sell its list of hotmail addresses. a question, if ms wants to stop mail than why don't they stop selling the addresses to people who want to spam? – by bitter hotmail user
|6556546545554612123 (2:52pm est wed jun 18 2003)
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|me too (3:03pm est wed jun 18 2003)
i wanna sue microsoft 'cause i never got that check bill gates said he would send me if i forwarded that email to all my friends. i forwarded it to everybody i could but got no check. – by gimme$$$
|re: bitter hotmail user (3:18pm est wed jun 18 2003)
well hello there dumbass. there are about 40 million hotmail users right now. now that is a big number compared to b4 ms owned hotmail when hotmail was literally unknown, and had few users. don't you think that makes a difference you dumbass? it's somple. spam advertisers will target the most used email accounts. for example: yahoo, hotmail…and aol. i have closed two yahoo accounts because of spam. now i have 3 hotmail accounts. 1 is for spam. which means, when i want to download free stuff, or register for certain things on the internet i use it, and i clean it every few days. it accumulates about 150 spam messages over 3 days. i have one which i use with my very close firneds. for over 1 year now, i have never ever received a spam email. and i have one which i just keep active in case, and that one has never been used, thus never received spam. i'll be honest. the problem with spam first and foremost is with dumbass users, who sign up for everything, and or put themselves into mailing lists, or give the address whenever a popup window asks them for it. a lot of users go to porn sites, and sign up with hopes to get free downloads of free passwords to unlimited porn, only to find out that it's a hoax, but by then it's too late, their email has been submitted to thousands of porn sites. in my it career i have found a lot of people getting spam, because someone who knew their email and maliciously submitted it to porn sites etc. so be careful who you give your email addy to. follow these rules and you will be spam free from any free email account(except yahoo, which i think sells the list)
1) choose an interesting name. a lot of times bots will email to names generated from a various combo of first and last names. even if they get 100 out of 1000000 right, they did their job. imagine millions of bots doing that.
2)do not reply(or click) to "remove me from mailing lists". it's just a trick to see if your account is alive.
last but not least: use some common sense, and you'll be fine. – by wd
|sue them all (3:52pm est wed jun 18 2003)
as far as i'm concerned, they should all be sued including the spyware/adware people and the popup people as well.
they are a waste of cpu usage/hard drive storage/internet bandwidth.
useless. – by superdude
|re: wd (4:11pm est wed jun 18 2003)
now do not get me wrong but
1) true my email is not so unique that a bot could not figure it out, but couldn't a good bot figure out just about anything?
2) i have not replied to these bait messages, but i still get them everyday.
3) i have never and never will sign into any porn sites. and i do have several email accounts with different providers, none have the same problems as hptmail.
4) i never gave out my hotmail adderss to anyone just for this reason.
and why do you call me the dumbass?
is it simply that i might have had a good point and it struck a nerve?
the only point i was trying to make is that ms should just leave some things alone. i am sure that one reason that ms bought hotmail is because they saw something good in it. but yet they have not been able to migrate it to windows based servers.
|good info wd (4:15pm est wed jun 18 2003)
i have had 2 email accounts for over a year now, and my hotmail gets spam from only 2 companies (no idea where they came from) because i do not give that email out at all on the web. whenever i sign up for anything i use my yahoo account. and by the way, if you click on a banner that says you win free stuff, they lie, i tested it out and started receiving 100+ spam mails in my yahoo every 2 days from just one banner, and never got my digital camera, those communist liers…..anyway, follow wd's rules and you will be spam free. – by masterz
|spam microsoft (5:02pm est wed jun 18 2003)
i agree with wd and bitter hotmail user. i know both are right because i have several hotmail accounts and some get 100+ spam per day and some get practically none. even if you follow wd's rules you can still get spammed, it's just a matter of time. they are good rules and worth the minimal effort involved in following them.
what i'd like to see is for all you disgruntled anti-gates people to just find out an email address at microshloft or ho-mail support and just forward all your spam to them. not only would this piss them off, which i suspect is what you're after, but it might provide them some leads to the spammers. maybe not, but it should at least tick them off a little. – by sanity shmanity
|who cares anyway? (5:51pm est wed jun 18 2003)
spam is a fact of life.. get used to it. does it really take that much effort to highlight some check boxes and click "delete"? i mean, you dont even have to read the email! – by pau|
|re: paul (6:53pm est wed jun 18 2003)
it may not take too much time, but it sucks when your junk mail and non-junk mail is mixed, and you have to sort it all out. plus it takes a lot of space in the in-box, preventing you from getting large attachments or emails that you are expecting and waiting for. it's my email, i should choose what gets sent to it. companies do enough advertising with the hundreds of popups that you get for going to just about any website. why should we get more ads in our email? – by masterz
|bitter hotmail user (2:15am est thu jun 19 2003)
… "but yet they have not been able to migrate it to windows based servers."
wow! amazing how ms can't stop spam but apparently they've found a way to run .net on non-windows machines?
amazing, simply amazing.
|my 2 cents (2:16am est thu jun 19 2003)
boo frickety hooo. spam will always be on the net and no matter what dumbfuck microsoft (and this comin from a major comp geek here)can do they will lose and everyone will laugh. they make a point, spam sux and it should be stopped but it will stop as fast as getting microsoft to put their entire windows code on the net to sell, or 'open source' – by stachu
|who cares (7:51am est thu jun 19 2003)
nothing is going to stop spam – by greg gebhardt
|most of you are idiots… (9:38am est thu jun 19 2003)
to all who have commented on this article saying (in one way or another), "i signed up for a hotmail account yesterday and i have 47 junk emails today!"… you are retarded. i've been using my hotmail account since 1999 and the only junk i get are the weekly reminders from m$ to upgrade to msn 8 (thx but no thx), and the one for penis enlargement. besides that i don't get shit. bill isn't selling your emails to companies, m$ does not need to resort to that. they already have a money maker, it's called windows. ) – by johny-d
|sad truth (1:24pm est thu jun 19 2003)
the sad thing is that there are people who actually respond to spam. it wouldn't exist otherwise. – by middle
|i hate to hear people bitching about spam (3:57pm est thu jun 19 2003)
you foo's dont even know about spam yet.
i have had the same msn isp email adress for at least 5 years. ive used it to do everything internet, bussiness, or school related. i recieve almost 500 emails a day. i dont even check it anymore. so i don't wanna hear any of yo jibba jabba foos – by whitetrashix@yahoo
|yawn (8:43am est fri jun 20 2003)
i find it amazing that an article showing how microsoft is sueing spammers demands such negativity towards microsoft.
what amazes me further is that many of the commenters here actually believe microsoft is selling your details on illegally. this is just lunacy. they could easily be bankrupt if they were found guilty of such actions (the eu, for example, have a fine of $11,000 per user whose privacy has been comprimised).
secondly, why on earth would microsoft want to sell your details on illegally? they ask you if you will opt out of the standard marketing exchanges…but then, even if you opt out, you seriously believe they'll do it anyway?!
its like all these conspiracy theories there are about microsoft sneaking your info from your windows computer to use of their own marketing purposes. 1) thats totally illegal and they would be out if it were true. 2) how would they process the enormous amounts of data they'd collect every day into a usable form which would make them more money than the costs it would take to mine and process it?
think about these things, and you may see microsoft are actually doing something good. – by miseldine
|my hotmail (1:53pm est fri jun 20 2003)
i also got a hotmail account to use when signing up for stuff that i figured had a good likelihood of being an email harvester. for awhile i was getting 15 to 25 spam-mails a day. but, i noticed in the last week that has dropped to maybe 3 a day and i'm actually getting mostly real email. – by robguy
|how to sue spammers? (1:07am est wed mar 31 2004)
how can individual sue spammers? are there any "special" lawyers to consult? what exactly are the laws against spammers? – by mr. x
|wow! (9:42pm est tue jun 29 2004)
lol, i'm just posting how out of time you are mr. x, i mean, this forum ended like…a year ago, or longer – by z-t
|spam is constitutional (3:30pm est wed oct 12 2005)
jane you ignorant slough! i bet most of you people are liberal pinko commies. when a telemarketer calls i just hang up. it seems rude to just hang up but i don't know them well enough to care. i hear you people complain that after a free download that they use your email address to make money. if you don't like it don't take the free download. nothing is free. i don't mind getting spam mail any more than junk snail mail. if i don't see something i like i just throw it away. i hate tha spam folder on aol. before the spam folder i just deleted the mail i didsn't recognize. now i have to sift through all the junk mail to see if they filtered something i wanted to get, like a confirmation email for a download that i needed to activate. it was much easier before the spam filter. if someone wants to send me mail at their own expense so what. i threw their money into the trash. hey if you really want to get even pack it up in the self addressed stamped envelope and send it back to them. i guarante they will take you off of their mailing list. people spend too much energy on getting angered over stupid stuff. relax! take a pill or something – by firstname.lastname@example.com


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BREA – Biggest win ever.
That was the only proper description of Canyon Springs' decisive 63-53 victory Saturday over Brea Olinda, the No. 3 ranked girls team in the nation, in the semifinals of the Southern California Regional Championships.
It wasn't even the fact that third-seeded Canyon Springs won, but the manner in which they did it, and where they did it.
The Cougars (30-3) went into the Brea gym and outplayed the second-seeded Ladycats (31-2), who have won nine state championships. They outplayed Brea in every facet.
Just as impressively, teams don't win at Brea. It just doesn't happen. But this one wasn't even close. Canyon Springs led by 17 points at one point in the fourth quarter.
Junior Jasmine Johnson scored 20 points. Freshman Cheyenne Greenhouse scored 17, more than twice her average. And Nebraska-bound Tear'a Laudermill scored 15 but just as important controlled the game against Brea, which until last week's loss to second-ranked Mater Dei had been the No. 1 team in the nation.
Under Laudermill's guidance, the Cougars committed only nine turnovers. Brea committed 16 with some of its worst passing of the season.
Even though Canyon Springs won a Southern Section title in 2005 during the Jennifer Risper era, the victory Saturday far exceeded it. The Cougars avenged a 55-36 loss in the section semifinals, a game in which coach Gail Hale thought her team was overpowered by the arena environment.
This time, though, they simply overpowered Brea.
"We looked at films and said if you start doing this stuff right, you got this game," Hale said.
Canyon Springs did stuff right all night, with the exception of using the clock in the fourth quarter, but the lead was so big even that didn't hurt them.
With its victory, the Cougars will play Mater Dei, a 59-39 winner over Narbonne, next Saturday at the Galen Center for the opportunity to play for a state championship the following weekend in Sacramento. Mater Dei (32-1) is now ranked No. 1 in the nation.
Canyon Springs put together the necessary runs all night to forge its upset. An 8-0 run in the first quarter provided a 9-4 lead. An 11-2 run in the latter stages of the second quarter made it 30-19, and a drive by Laudermill with 10 seconds left gave the Cougars a 33-21 halftime lead. Brea didn't score more than four consecutive points in the first three quarters.
"This started when we lost in the playoffs," Laudermill said. "As a result of losing, we had to build up ore confidence. Had to take it to them."
It wasn't until the final three minutes that Brea scored as many as five consecutive points and that cut the deficit to 59-48.
Holding a 49-36 lead going into the fourth quarter, Brea got consecutive baskets from Justine Hartman—who had scored only two points in the first three quarters—and Keitra Wallace to make it 49-40, but Canyon Springs scored the next eight points with Laudermill scoring six of them. That gave the Cougars a 17-point lead with 3-1/2 minutes remaining. Brea hadn't scored more than 15 in any of the previous three quarters.
"We couldn't defend, we couldn't keep them from scoring on us," said Hartman, who scored eight in her final game before embarking on a career at UCLA. "We couldn't pass, we weren't in our rhythm. We were off our game. I was off my game, for sure. Couldn't hit a shot."
Brea made only 21 of 65 shot attempts.
"We didn't expect their role players to step up the way they did," said Brea coach Jeff Sink. "They played as hard as we did, and that's unusual for teams to do that, and they were more effective."
Jeanier Olukemi scored 16 and Wallace had 12 for Brea, which lost two of its last four games after going undefeated for three months.
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Jennifer Lopez will released her 10th album A.K.A. on June 17. The title came from the idea that Lopez is "also known as" J-Lo. The album promises an assortment of musical genres that have impacted her life. She has already released one single from the album called "I Luh Ya Papi" and debuted the second single, "First Love", last week.
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Standard & Poor's ratings service estimates the shutdown will cost us collectively $24 billion. The figure is based on the estimation of future GDP growth declining by 0.6 percent. Other economists have trimmed that number in half.
There is disagreement.
American University Professor and economic expert Mark Waldman believes that number is grossly inflated. And when it comes to the big picture, even though government employees weren't working.
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While total losses in the District aren't known yet,{ } there are some losses that are being tallied. The Smithsonian lost about $2.8 million in revenue from visitors since Oct. 1, said spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas.
It's a tough sell on furloughed workers, particularly contractors who may not receive back pay, along with workers who may get their money back but who, economists say, will likely be more cautious in spending it now – especially with another government debt showdown looming just a few months down the road.
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