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The Professional's Toolkit - Shelf Companies
Contributed by A.C.T. - Offshore Limited
08 January, 2012
Contributed by A.C.T. - Offshore Limited. [www.actoffshore.com]
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What is a shelf company?
Shelf companies are companies that have been previously incorporated and can be purchased off the shelf. They are also called ready-made companies and when they have been on the shelf for more than a year they are called aged shelf companies or vintage shelf companies (as in wine). Many types of companies from a number of jurisdictions can be bought from the shelf and the term shelf only refers to the fact that the company has already been registered and is sitting on a shelf waiting to be purchased.
Shelf companies can remain on the shelf for many years but it is very rare to find shelf companies older than 12 years. Shelf company specialists deliberately allow a certain number of companies to age so that they always have companies of all ages. The older the company the greater the investment by the seller in statutory fees and in keeping the company alive, and so few sellers are able to maintain large lists of aged shelf companies. Availability decreases with age whereas price increases.
A shelf company must remain on the shelf unused until purchase this is very important. A shelf company must not have traded, must not have entered into any agreements, and the seller must be able guarantee that the shelf company does not have any existing obligations. If you buy a company that has traded or has entered into an agreement it is like buying a second hand car, and carries the same risks. If you buy a company that has been used, you are buying a business, not a shelf company it is a business acquisition and you must carry out extra due diligence accordingly. A clean shelf company avoids this problem completely.
Shelf companies are usually formed with standard memorandum and articles (bylaws) and with very general objects to cater for the wide range of permissible activities. Authorised share capital is usually large, typically US$100,000 so that issued share capital may be anything between US$1 and the authorized maximum as needed. As well the memorandum and articles, certificate of incorporation, first minutes and registers, reputable service providers who specialise in shelf companies will also provide as part of the package, a certificate of non-trading guaranteeing that has not traded and has no liabilities up to the time of purchase.
A shelf company is good to go on purchase if the jurisdiction does not require public filings. The registers of directors, shareholders and secretaries and other officers can be updated privately by the seller (by addition, change or correction), allowing the buyer to take full control immediately. If public filings are required then there can be a small delay while changes are registered and the buyer may have to employ the sellers professional directors and nominee shareholders until the changes are filed.
The term shelf company is sometimes confused with the term shell company. The latter is a company through which business transactions are put through but which has no significant assets and operations of its own. While a shell company is not in itself illegal (and there are legal uses of shell companies), it has acquired negative connotations because of its association with tax evasion, pump and dump schemes and other frauds. Any company can be used as a shell company including a shelf company but a shelf company is not necessarily a shell company. After purchase, the shelf company can acquire significant asset and can have operations of its own as it should.
After purchase a shelf company is like any other, especially once it has started trading and has established operations of its own. A third party may never know the company was bought as a shelf company unless it is revealed by the buyer.
Why would you want a shelf company?
Speed. When action must be taken immediately shelf companies are ideal, for example when an arrangement must be concluded while all parties are in the same room or when an asset must be transferred immediately. You do not have to go through the name application process. If you are a lawyer, accountant or other intermediary and the clients preferred company names are rejected you would have to go back to the client until suitable names are approved. The chance that a shelf company would no longer be available when you get back to the seller is smaller. Additionally you do not have to wait for documents to be prepared. The buyer will usually be impressed with the efficiency and will be happy to get down to business immediately. Online incorporations may have reduced incorporation time considerably but getting a shelf company is still faster and you dont have to grapple with an unfriendly website. You can send an email to a dedicated person and can even place the order over fax or phone when internet connectivity is poor.
Certainty. If you are an intermediary you can go into a meeting with a client armed with a shelf list knowing that the client is guaranteed to get one of the chosen names. This works better the longer the shelf list as there is less chance that the chosen companies would have been sold by the time you revert to the seller, but you could also pre-reserve five or 10 companies based on what you think the client will want. When your client makes a choice you can draw up agreements and business plans. This may also demonstrate preparation.
Making up for delays. If a partner or a client had asked for a company weeks or months ago but a company has not been incorporated, a shelf company can still give the required date. Perhaps an associate or your regular service provider procrastinated a little bit too long. A shelf company can rescue the situation. You get to keep your good reputation and the partner or client will be none the wiser. If the name is not exactly as was required a quick name change can put everything right.
Name. It is usually hard to think of good names when you are asked to. If you cannot think of a good name then you can pick one up from the list, already incorporated. If you pick a young shelf company then you will probably pay the same amount as a new incorporation, ie, there will be no aged company premium. Alternatively if the buyer is not concerned with the name and simply wants a company, and this is often the case if the company will be a simple holding company, you can simply pick any company on the shelf list. Shelf company specialists spend a lot of time thinking of good names or names with universal appeal.
Longevity. Aged shelf companies suggest longevity and at the very least show that the sellers have systems in place to keep a company alive for many years. It shows that statutory requirements have been met for a number of years and that the seller will be able to attend to future statutory requirements. An old incorporation date can be a very useful marketing tool as well. Some clients and suppliers prefer seemingly long-standing businesses over start-ups and pioneers and a shelf company allows you to legally state incorporated since 1997 on your website, adverts and brochures.
History. The seller will have attended to filings or at least would have paid certain statutory annual fees on behalf of an aged company. This means the company will already have a history when purchased. Some contracts require bidders to have a history as do some banks, without asking anything more than the certificate of incorporation and other statutory documents. If you are as good or better than established businesses an aged company can allow you to bid for those contracts and apply for accounts with those banks. Common history thresholds are one or two years.
Smarter record keeping for better privacy, tax advantages and lower personal liability. A business owner may sign a contract in his own name only to later realize, perhaps after discussing with his accountants or lawyers that for avoidance of personal liability it would have been better if a company had been used instead. Expenses or assets paid by the business owner as a sole trader can be treated as expenses or assets of the company paid by the business owner via shareholders loans. Essentially a shelf company can be used to merge the business owners history with that of a company so that the shelf company adopts the business owners transactions and obligations.
Where and how to get one?
An internet search will quickly reveal sources from all over the world including the UK and a number of US states such as Delaware and Wyoming. Your existing corporate service provider may have a small shelf list but it is usually best to buy shelf companies from a provider that is in the business of shelf companies (more on this later). Shelf companies are also available from international financial centres such as the BVI and Seychelles, often for lower prices.
International financial centres such as BVI and Seychelles also have the advantage of not requiring filings to register the buyers directors and other officers allowing the company to be fully operational immediately on purchase.
Getting one requires little more than emailing or faxing the service provider and picking a company from the given list. If you are buying from the service provider for the first time, you will most likely have to register with that service provider and undergo a due diligence procedure. Your first purchase may be slightly delayed because of this but a friendly provider may give you the company documents on receiving faxed or scanned due diligence documents and payment. A pre-registered buyer can have a shelf company within minutes of asking, in advance of payment.
Cost Considerations
The price of a shelf company usually increases with age. This is because an older company requires more years of maintenance. The older the company, the more statutory fees the seller will have paid. Older companies are also rarer as sellers maintain less and less companies as they get older and usually only continue to maintain the ones with the best names. Like with wine, vintage is more expensive.
Since cost increases with age, you should only get a company that is as old as you need. If speed or name is the only reason you are getting a shelf company then you may as well get a one that is days or weeks old only. If you shop around you can get a young shelf company for US$900 or less and a one year old aged company can be purchased for around US$1500.
Potential Pitfalls
Some shelf companies are sold with add-ons such as bank accounts, merchant accounts and credit records for a very high premium. Such companies will have been represented by the seller at more than one place (the company registry) and their history will have more of the sellers participation than a simple shelf company. It is always prudent to get the history of the add-ons as well, for example all bank statements, to ensure that the seller has not allowed another party to use the account at any time. The more add-ons, the more risk, and the more due diligence that is required by the buyer.
Some shelf companies are sold with credit schemes as the primary attraction. Those particular sellers promise instant credit profiles and guaranteed loans. The idea is that an individual or business with a bad credit history will be able to obtain corporate credit via the aged shelf company. It is reported that many such sellers fail to deliver and that the profiles are ineffective. Lenders are increasingly thorough and so should you when eyeing a shelf company in the hopes of getting easier loan financing.
A shelf company can allow you to enter a current transaction or event in the companys records but with an older date. This can be very tempting but also dangerous. It is called backdating and if the transaction or event relates to other transaction or events and the dates to do not correspond you could be found out. As a lawyer once told me we record now what happened then but we do not backdate. Backdating is not recommended.
It is possible that the seller will not have kept the shelf company up to date and will sell you a company that is not in good standing or even a company that is struck off. Particularly if you are buying from the seller for the first time and the seller is not a reputable shelf company specialist it is prudent to ask for proof of current standing. The seller must be able to quickly provide a certificate of good standing from the company registry.
Some sellers offer second hand companies and pass them off as shelf companies. Second hand companies may not be clean and may have been used by a previous client. Without the sellers knowledge they may have opened bank accounts for the company and they may have signed contracts before returning the company to avoid paying the service providers incorporation fees. If you buy such a company you may also be buying hidden liabilities and someone else out there may have yourcompany documents. In their attempt to recoup costs many non-specialist service providers have small shelf lists of consisting of 10 or 20 returned companies. Good shelf company specialists will not want to damage their main line of business.
SummaryA shelf company is a very powerful tool with some unique benefits for professionals and their clients. Like any powerful tool the possibility for misuse and mishaps exists but risks can be reduced by choosing a reputable shelf company specialist providing clean companies. A shelf company purchase does not have to be expensive and by buying simple shelf companies without special add-ons you may save on cost and reduce risk. I hope this quick introduction will encourage you to explore shelf companies further and offer them as a solution when appropriate.
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Taillevent, Illy, Chez Dumonet, and O Chateau Wine Tasting
Taillevant & Le Cave Taillevent
Last month I had a fabulous lunch at Taillevent, the recently-demoted three-star restaurant, courtesy of some good friends from the states. But if our lunch was any indication, I don't know who's plucking the stars. And at 70€ it's the deal of the decade: Three courses and lots of little extras. Plus they were very pleased to substitute any of the desserts which didn't appear on the fixed menu for the selection offered. And to make the lunch even more special, another recent guest kindly bought me a bottle of lovely champagne…what's not to get all starry-eyed over?
But whether or not you can make it to Taillevent, the restaurant, you should definitely visit their wine shop in the main Printemps department store. Run by Alison Vollenwider, with the help of Stéphanie (aka la petite), this wine cave is one of the most interesting in Paris.
Alison trained as a sommelier at Windows On The World with famed wine expert Andrea Immer, then worked in Bordeaux as a sommelier before settling here in Paris. Stop by and say hi—you'll find plenty of reasonably-priced wines, starting at less than 10€, and lots of good advice from Alison. She's friendly and knowledgeable…what more could you want from a caviste?
(Update: Alison is now a proud mom and no longer working at Le Cave Taillevent.)
Ever since I got my new espresso machine, I've been trying to learn as much about the complex art of making espresso as possible.
Is it the quality of the coffee? The water? The muscle force used to tamp in the grounds? Is it too strong, or too weak? So I decided to head to Italy, where each cup of coffee is a delicious revelation…how do they do it?
This coming week, Illy coffee invited me to attend their Coffee University in Trieste. I was offered a factory tour and classes. You can read more about it at Making Perfect Espresso at Illy.
Grand Marnier Soufflé
When my Francophile cousin came to town, I was dying to have her try her first taste of confit de canard. But where to go? When you get a bad version, there's nothing worse; the skin's limp and fatty, and the greasy flesh is anything but appetizing. But a good confit de canard has well-crisped skin which shatters and crackles when you bite it with succulent long-cooked meat underneath and comes accompanied with a pile of potatoes cooked in searing-hot duck fat alongside.
One of the best versions in Paris, if not the best, is at Chez Dumonet. But although I come for the confit, I stay for the dessert, which needs to be ordered at the same time as dinner. And their Grand Marnier Soufflé tops my list of best desserts in Paris.
It's brought to the table…and it's géant. A small glass of Grand Marnier is set down too, and you pour it into the center, creating an eggy, molten volcano with a chewy crust and a soft, pillowy interior. Spoon up the last tastes of orange liqueur, the warm orangy puddle in the bottom, a perfect final touch to this sublime Parisian pleasure.
Chez Dumonet (Josephine)
117, rue du Cherche-Midi (6th)
Tél: 01 45 48 52 40
(Closed Saturdays & Sundays)
This week I went to the Big Seven Tasting at Ô-Chateau.
Oliver Magny led us through the basics of French wine, including discussions of the various regions and terroirs. Then, since there's no better way to demonstrate the glory of France than via la bouche, we began to sample the wines.
Even though there are 150,000 wine makers in this country, Olivier chose glasses which demystified the regions and represented the various climates and grapes grown in l'hexagone. Starting on a festive note with a full, tall, cool glass of icy ArchiBald champagne (except for some woman named Mireille, who only had half a glass), then we visited the Loire with Sancerre, made from Sauvignon Blanc grapes (a favorite of mine). We sipped several more, including a mineral-rich white Bourgoune before we ended up with a Corbières, made from ruby, fruity Grenache grapes.
Great fun…in moderation, of course!
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You are banned! Can you not talk about spinach and spring onions for a while?
Pour toi David
Si c est ton bras muscle sur la photo?
Il y a une expression en francais
" C est muscle!" si on peut l appliquer au cafe
" Ton cafe est muscle!
Cela veut dire fort ou corse……
Corse: qui est fort au gout
Desole je n ai pas les accents sur ma machine
Pour les amateurs, c est accent aigu sur le E.
On en apprend tous les jours!!
Too bad about the cancellation by Illy. A coffee University–are they accepting new students? ;) I'm sure your Paris Chocolate Exploration will more than make up for it.
Parisians are often honored for their coffee. But, to be honest, it's most often bitter and a poor facsimile of what you can get in Italy. This likely goes back to French colonial times, where they imported beans from colonies in SE Asia (French Indochina/now Vietnam) where the quality tends to run low (often robusta instead of arabica beans), and they had to devise roasts to make up for it (a "French roast" is coffee's equivalent to the well-done steak: charred to disguise imperfections).
Illy is a fantastic company for quality controls. But unfortunately, coffee is a lot more like fresh baked bread than it is like imported, bottled wine (which is the way most people treat it). Coffee begins to oxidize it as soon as it is out of the roaster and it begins to lose flavor — no matter how fancy your vacuum sealing process. As a result, Illy coffee can be a bit flavorless (and, actually, stale) in the States, given the minimum four weeks of shipping time from Trieste. Illy has been unable to meet the freshness of any neighborhood roaster, but they do try to make up for it in consistent processing and grading.
I hope you get to see their Trieste operations, because Illy coffee in Europe gets lost in translation over here in the U.S. for the above reasons.
yes Greg, the coffee in Paris could definitely use some improvement.
I've adopted a few coping strategies; one being to only order coffee at a select few cafes that know how to make it (and that I can see flush their machines after each cup), and I try to stand at the counter. I've seen grounds being re-used on more than one occasion (if anyone did that in Italy, they'd be run out of the country…can you imagine?) so standing and watching them ensures at least freshly-ground coffee will be used.
Am still hoping to get it Illy…someday…
Thanks David for the heads up on the blog by Alison of Taillevent.
What a terrific, fun writer she is!

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Yesterday afternoon I stopped in at Habersham Beverage on Abercorn St. (Savannah, Georgia, USA) to pick up a few bombers since I had depleted the beer stockpile (see #618 for more info) the night before. The beer I tried last night (1/10/2016) was Terrapin's Side Project 26: Poivre Potion, a 9.3% alcohol by volume (ABV) Dry Hopped Pink Peppercorn Saison from the Terrapin Beer Company (Athens, Georgia, USA).
Terrapin's Side Project 26: Poivre Potion came in a 1 pint 6 fl oz (650.6 mL) bottle with a label consisting of a lipstick-kissed glass of beer sitting on an outside table in front of a French restaurant with a turtle smoking in the background, wearing a beret. According to Terrapin's website, Poivre Potion was brewed using Two Row, Vienna, Wheat, and Flaked Wheat malts; Amarillo, Galaxy, and Jarrylo hops (the same three hop varieties were used for dry hopping as well); and pink peppercorns. This beer exhibits 35 IBUs (International Bitterness Units) and an Original Gravity (OG) of 19.2.
Terrapin's Side Project 26: Poivre Potion was actually the winner of Terrapin's 2015 Employee Homebrew Challenge where the employees "choose a name, design a label concept, develop a marketing strategy, and present the brew through a skit at the company holiday party". This year had a slight twist in that a secret ingredient was announced (peppercorns) and employees had to integrate these into their final submission. The winning team consisted of Daniel Armstrong, Randall Davis, James Zarzour, Martha Floyd, Christian Hurley, Jack Albanese, David Stock, Nathan Palardy, John Wetzel, Johnathan Ryder, Sophia Recalde, and Lynnsey Lafayette.
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"The Library that means the most to you."
When my daughter was eight months old we moved to a new house, in a town about half an hour from where we used to live. I didn't know anyone, I didn't know where anything was, I didn't know anything. I was also on maternity leave which meant I had hours upon hours upon hours alone with my daughter during the day. And, as those of you with kids know, there are only so many hours you can spend playing with Duplo before your brain begins to shrink. After just a week of being in the house, I was bored. I needed to find something.
So I packed my daughter up in the stroller and off we went, looking for something. What we found was the library.
It was only about a 15 minute walk from our house, down a beautiful tree-lined street. It was September, the leaves were changing and the whole street seemed to be on fire. The library was at the end of the street, an old, dark, depressing looking building but, upon closer inspection, I could see some construction trucks tucked in behind. They were in the process of building a new library, right behind where the old one stood. Once it was done they would tear down the old one and put in a courtyard where it used to be. It wasn't much to look at, but it was what was inside that mattered.
We made our way up the ramp that led us to the second floor. I had to struggle to get the stroller through the door and I was wondering if maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all. But once I got inside I knew I was home. All of the books, shelf upon shelf upon shelf. The light was dim, the carpet was dark, the windows were small but I didn't care. My eyes adjusted quickly and my heart beat faster; I hardly knew where to begin.
I don't remember how long we stayed that first day. Knowing my daughter as she was at that age, she probably gave me 10 or 15 minutes before she started to fuss and whine in her stroller, no longer entertained by the crackers or toys or keys from my pocket. I can't remember how long we stayed but I can pretty much guarantee that by the time we left, the bottom basket was full of books. I probably never even read half of them but just the idea that I could if I wanted to was enough, it was enough for me that day. When my brain was shrinking from stacking and unstacking blocks all day, I could read a book and feel better, feel human, feel like maybe I could still matter.
As overly dramatic and cheesy as it may sound, I feel like that library saved me. Whenever the walls of my house felt like they were closing in, I went to the library. Whenever I felt out of touch with the rest of the world, I went to the library. Whenever I just wanted 10 minutes to flip through the latest edition of People magazine and find out what the Kardashians were up to, I went to the library. It helped me remember, if only for a few minutes, who I used to be. When I used to read and read and read, hardly coming up for air, when I used to dream of one day writing a book that someone else would devour in the same way I had devoured the words of others. Slowly I began to come back into focus.
When the new library opened, I went through the doors that first day and stood in awe at the floor to ceiling windows, the spacious aisles, the comfy arm chairs. It was beautiful and filled with so many new books I hardly knew what to do with myself.
Nine years later we still live in the same little town but we're in a different house and sadly, we're no longer walking distance to the library. No matter, I'm still there at least three times a week. My hubby jokes that it's my second home. It's really not a joke though because, next to my own home it's the place where I feel most at peace. There's just something about being surrounded by all of those words, all of those ideas; it simultaneously makes me feel incredibly small and yet part of something incredibly big.
Maybe one day my name will be on one of of the books on one of those shelves. Maybe one day someone who is lost, like I was, will find it and not feel so lost anymore. Maybe. You never know, amazing things can happen.
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Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice production designer Patrick Tatopoulos has shared a brand new look on the design of Parademons. The flock of extraterrestrial minions is set to be one of the villains in November's upcoming DC Extended Universe ensemble film, Justice League. Recruited and brought together by Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), The Flash (Ezra Miller) and Cyborg (Ray Fisher) are uniting to defend the earth from the upcoming danger caused by this alien species under the command of Steppenwolf (Ciarán Hinds).
Since the announcement of a Justice League movie has been made, fans have already been on the lookout as to which antagonist in DC's storied comic book history will Warner Bros. pick out as the team's first mission. The concept of the parademons in the DCEU was first introduced via the highly ambiguous nightmare scene of Bruce in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice where an apocalyptic world is brought about by Superman's existence on Earth. While the Dark Knight was ultimately wrong about the Man of Steel, the idea of the world being attacked by these insect-looking aliens seems to be coming to fruition in Justice League.
The close-up design of the terrifying creature has been shared by Tatopoulos on his official Instagram page. Known to have worked with several other blockbusters including Independence Day and 2012, the Greek-French production designer was also heavily involved in the overall visuals for Dawn of Justice where the parademons first appeared in. Check out the cool artwork below:
My Parademon design for BATMAN VS SUPERMAN Dawn of Justice #patricktatopoulosdesigns #batmanvsuperman #concept #fashion #bug #warrior #beautiful #ugly #dc
Despite the difference in its comic book counterparts in terms of the used color palette (it had colorful variations in the comics), the creature looks pretty on-point with its aesthetics and more fitting to the doom and gloom that they are planning to bring to the Earth. Fans who have spotted the upload also quickly got on board with its menacing look and design.
Up until now, not much was known with regard to Steppenwolf and his legion of parademons. Speculation is running high, however, that they are out to collect the Mother Boxes -- one which was used to turn Victor Stone into Cyborg, for use in a bigger evil plan. Shall this be the case, it is up to the League to get the supercomputer devices as far as possible from them.
With a few months left before Justice League hits theaters, reshoots under the supervision of Joss Whedon is still ongoing. The Batgirl writer and director took over the project when original helmer Zack Snyder had to step down from the gig due to a personal tragedy.
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my sweet boy turned 5 today. i cannot believe how fast the time has gone! he is such a sweet boy. he is my funny, crazy, always smiling, lovey boy. he is so excited to start kindergarten and to be at school with his brother. we had a fabulous party for him yesterday. it was a pancake and pjs party. papa told a "pop-up" story, decorated pancakes, gave awards, and played a game. everyone had a great time! happy birthday "M"--thanks for letting me be your mama. love you lots!!! xoxoxox!
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Usually I like the idea of brownies more than the brownies themselves. Especially when they're commercially made, I find them so sweet they sting my mouth, and there's a strange flatness in their taste, possibly from the white flour. These brownies are made with more substantial ingredients, whole wheat, nutella and jaggery, a raw Indian sugar.
I will confess here that I've posted this recipe before, but since we gobbled them down so quickly, I couldn't take any pictures. Today I made these for our Tai Chi High Tea, a mother's day event.
This time I veered a little off the original recipe. My first recipe is very rich and squishy, and since these brownies need to be transported to the Tai Chi centre, and eaten while standing up, (in the middle of parting wild horse's mane, for example) I wanted them a little less squishy. So I added additional whole wheat flour, increasing the amount to two thirds a cup. I also cut down on the butter just a smidge, say a scant half cup rather than a level half cup.
|You'd be crazy not to lick the spoon and cup afterwards...
Otherwise, I've used the same recipe:
2/3 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 teaspoon coarse salt (reserve a little)
scant 1/2 cup melted butter
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup jaggery (raw Indian sugar, or use brown if you must)
1 cup nutella
First, mix the flour and salt in a separate bowl. In the mixing bowl, combine cooled melted butter, eggs, vanilla and jaggery. Beat at medium speed till jaggery is dissolved. Add the nutella. (You are allowed to lick the spatula and measuring cup later.)
|Beat till the jaggery is smoothly mixed in.
Turn the mixer onto low, and add half the flour mix, along with half the melted butter. Slowly mix in. Add the rest of the flour and butter and continue to beat at medium speed.
Pour the batter into a parchment lined eight by eight inch pan. Smooth with a spatula, and sprinkle in mere grains of the remaining coarse salt. These morsels need to be few and far between.
Bake at 325 F for thirty-five minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool on a rack for one hour. Lift parchment and brownies from pan and continue to cool for another hour before cutting into squares.
As I said in my original recipe, these don't need icing. If you like them super sweet, you could go ahead and make a chocolate butter icing, but why? They are delicious as they are.
|Even prettier when the nutella is blended in.
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Highlights from Bass Player Live! Carlitos del Puerto
The Sunday clinics that close Bass Player LIVE! are always worth the wait; in 2012, an on-stage interview with Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Chris Squire went opposite a powerful performance by young turk Hadrien Feraud. This past November, the weekend's closing ceremonies saw a similarly heavy pairing, with a three-man bass jam with Nate Watts, Sekou Bunch, and Brandon Brown playing the funky yang to the soulful, swinging yin of a trio led by Carlitos del Puerto one of today's most exciting rising stars of bass. The clinic came just hours after Carlitos' guest spot honoring Lee Rocker at the weekend's marquis concert, where del Puerto's musical depth and technical mastery made an unforgettable mark.
"I've gotten to see this guy play in so many settings," BP's Chris Jisi said in introducing the clinic. "He changes the way the bands he's in play. We're talking, Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Chick Corea, David Sanborn." The list goes on. The BPL! clinic room may have been small-time compared to the big stages Carlitos is accustomed to, but those in attendance—Brian Bromberg, Neil Stubenhaus, Phil Chen, Jimmy Earl, Brandino, Jerry Watts, and Rufus Philpot among them—definitely made it feel like the hippest venue in town.
"I was going to give a whole clinic, but no need," said Carlitos as he thanked those smart enough to stick around. "I'm just going to play for you guys." Introducing guitarist Ramon Stagnaro and drummer Jimmy Branly, Carltos set the mood with a gorgeous rubato intro on upright bass before kicking it into gear. "As we were driving over here, I was thinking, What can I give these new friends for them to take home?" said Carlitos. "The only thing that I can really explain and be coherent about it is in Cuban music." Del Puerto went on to shine a light on how the influence of American music on the classic rhumba led to its morphing into the more modern, funky, timba style. On top of Branly's cascara rhythmic pattern, Carlitos demonstrated a few of the ways he plays with the traditional tumbao feel by using rhythmic displacement. Similarly, he showed how vastly different the tumbao pattern feels when played over a typical funk beat. The listening audience may have been seated, but there wasn't a still body in the room.
Closing with a nod to the two giants of Cuban bass, Israel "Cachao" Lopez, and Carlitos' father, Carlos del Puerto, Carlitos closed the clinic with another performance, bringing those in the room to their feet, wanting to hear more, and anxious to do it all again next fall.


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My review of Mitchell Duneier's Ghetto was published this week in Seattle Review of Books.
Duneier's book traces the history of the "ghetto" from its 16th-century origins as a contained area for Venetian Jews to its post-WWII context as the urban landscape for African-Americans.
But what about the ghetto's future?
Who will be the next people to ponder the history of the ghetto and say, "Hey, that's how we live now! We live in a ghetto!"
Some obvious candidates come to mind — displaced persons, economic migrants, climate refugees, and other dystopian masses.
Or, the common practice of cultural appropriation may redefine the term "ghetto" as being chic and exclusive. Fabulous, even. Imagine wealthy people feeling victimized by populist, class-warfare politics embracing the term as a symbol of their separation from the rest of society.
With mass unemployment, infrastructure decay, and the scorching heat, you don't want to go out.
And with near-instant home delivery, you don't have to go out.
The Ghetto.
Coming soon to a rezoned, razed-to-the-ground, and repopulated neighborhood near you.


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Accountability Moving Beyond Math, Reading Tests
State accountability plans counting more subjects
As states seek waivers under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, one effect may be to chip away at the dominance reading and math have had when it comes to school accountability.
Many state waiver applications include plans to factor test scores in one or more additional subjects into their revised accountability systems. Seven of the 11 states that won waivers in the first round intend to do so, and about a dozen of those that applied in the second round have the same intent.
Science is the most popular choice, followed by writing and social studies.
Georgia, for instance, plans to include all three of those subjects in the elementary and middle grades in its new accountability system for schools, plus a set of high school end-of-course exams.
Kelly R. Price, the president of the Georgia Science Teachers Association, said she's glad to see science added to the mix.
"We're excited about it because we notice with [the NCLB law], the topics that got the priority of instruction during the day were those that were tested and those whose tests had high stakes," said Ms. Price, a former science teacher and now a curriculum coordinator in the 37,000-student Forsyth County, Ga., district. "So we have seen a reduction in science instruction, especially at the K-5 level."
Other states, such as Florida, Kentucky, and South Carolina, have for years factored achievement in subjects beyond reading and math into separate state accountability systems, but those results were not counted for No Child Left Behind purposes.
Through their waiver plans, officials in those three states say they offer an approach to end the problem of having two sets of competing demands by creating a unified system, and one that would consistently count the same subjects.
Oklahoma is moving to a new A-to-F grading system built around test scores in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies, as well as other measures.
A state official said that even though subjects like science and social studies had a role in the state's prior accountability system, those subjects were not part of rating schools, and now are poised to gain greater attention.
"We did feel like the other tests were part of the [prior] accountability system, but not to the degree they will be now," said Maridyth M. McBee, Oklahoma's assistant state superintendent of accountability and assessment. In fact, she said she's heard positive feedback from social studies teachers in particular.
"They say, 'Finally, we won't be the ones on the outside,' " she said.
The state plans come as Eugene Judson, an assistant professor of science education at Arizona State University, in Tempe, has completed a study, to be published in September in the journal Education Policy Analysis Archives, which finds that states that use science in their accountability calculations see significantly higher achievement gains over time at the 4th grade in the subject than states that do not. For 8th grade, there was no difference.
Mr. Judson also found no evidence that the extra attention to science had a harmful effect on achievement in reading and math at either grade level.
He suggests one factor that may explain why the science benefit was only found in 4th grade is that elementary schools have more latitude in the time they spend on science, and so may have increased it when science became a part of the accountability system.
With Congress far behind schedule in reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, of which the NCLB law is the current version, the U.S. Department of Education has begun to issue waivers of some key provisions.
It already has approved such relief for 11 states—two of which are conditional waivers—that hand them considerable flexibility on federal requirements in the design and implementation of their accountability systems. Later this spring, the department will make decisions on a second round of 27 state applications, with more likely to apply in September. The waivers will be good through the end of the 2013-14 school year, the point at which the NCLB law called for states to raise all their students to proficiency in reading and mathematics.
To gain a waiver, states must adopt college- and career-readiness standards and assess students on those standards, craft guidelines for teacher- and principal-evaluation systems that are based in part on student performance, and develop differentiated accountability systems that include a focus on 15 percent of their most academically troubled Title I schools. Those schools are to be identified as either "priority" (the bottom 5 percent in achievement) or "focus" schools, for intervention. In addition, states must identify a set of high-achieving "reward" schools for recognition.
Other Indicators
Experts say states have always been permitted to count achievement beyond reading and math when determining if schools have made adequate yearly progress, or AYP, under the No Child Left Behind Act, but nearly all states have focused strictly on those two subjects. The law requires annual testing in those subjects in grades 3-8 and once during high school.
States must use "at least one other academic indicator" for both elementary and middle schools in measuring AYP, the law says, such as other test results, attendance, and grade-retention rates. For high school, the graduation rate must be a factor.
Liz Utrup, an Education Department spokeswoman, said agency officials are aware of just one state, New York, that explicitly calls for science to count as the "other academic indicator" in gauging whether elementary and middle schools have made AYP.
Georgia had recently signaled plans to start including science scores in federal AYP determinations, but that action was postponed and now is being pushed aside in light of the state's receipt of a conditional NCLB waiver, said Matt Cardoza, a spokesman for the state education department.
In Georgia, he said, school accountability has essentially been driven by the federal law, but that's about to change. The state is developing a college- and career-ready performance index that will provide a numerical score, on a scale of 1 to 100, for each public school, he said. As part of its approach, the state will also identify federal priority, focus, and reward schools.
The new Georgia system will draw on academic results from multiple subjects, including science and social studies. It is also expected to factor in other matters, such as Advanced Placement participation and achievement in high school and even the proportion of students at the end of 5th and 8th grades who complete "career portfolios."
"So many times under AYP, if a student is struggling in English/language arts and math, they get pulled from science and social studies," Mr. Cardoza said.
Schools, he added, "do so much more than what AYP measures."
In Oklahoma, Ms. McBee, the assistant state superintendent, said that while science, social studies, and writing achievement will gain more prominence in the new grading system for schools, they will not be given as much weight as reading and math. That also appears to be true for many other states.
Federal waiver guidance says states may use test data in multiple subjects to identify priority, focus, and reward schools, but must give "significant weight" to reading/language arts and math. And the other tests must meet certain criteria.
One reason reading and math hold greater weight in Oklahoma, Ms. McBee said, is that they are tested more often and, therefore, are the only subjects that will count for the "growth" dimension of the accountability system.
One-third of the grade is to be based on academic performance across all tested subjects, she said. Another one-third is academic growth in reading and math. The final third is what's called "school and community participation."
In the elementary and middle grades, that will include attendance rates, parent- and community-engagement factors, and what the state's waiver application calls "school culture indicators," among other factors. At the high school level, graduation rates are also included, as well as participation and performance in Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses.
Despite the wider array of measures to gauge schools than under the NCLB law, Linda S. Hampton, the president of the Oklahoma Education Association, said she has deep concerns.
"We just don't think it's accurate and fair," she said. "The purpose should be to improve learning, not to label or punish schools or kids. And we think assigning letter grades is shortsighted and doesn't give a complete picture."
'Disconnect' in Systems
Florida has long included science in its A-to-F grading system, but not as part of federal AYP requirements.
"Before, there was a disconnect between the two systems [on a variety of issues], and they seemed to be pointing in different directions," said Jane A. Fletcher, the state education department's director of accountability and policy research.
Under Florida's approved waiver plan, she said, the state will essentially define federal priority schools as those receiving an F, and focus schools as D schools. And science achievement will be a factor.
"We've tied it all back in," she said.
Ms. Fletcher said adding science will "broaden" what the state uses for federal accountability and reporting purposes, but may not make much difference for schools.
"In Florida, schools were paying in recent years much more attention to school grades than they were to AYP designations, because of the problem with the target getting so high that very few schools were making AYP," she said.
Florida will soon bring additional subjects into the accountability fold, Ms. Fletcher said: civics achievement in middle school and U.S. history in high school, based on legislation approved last year.
Adding those subjects is another step toward giving a broader picture, she suggests.
Maryland, meanwhile, plans to incorporate science into a new school performance index, but the subject will not be used in identifying priority, focus, or reward schools.
Tennessee, on the other hand, will factor science into those federal designations, explaining in its successful waiver plan that counting the subject will encourage "high achievement" and recognizes "the importance of science in guiding future job prospects for students."
Colorado recently developed a new state accountability system, with a focus on incorporating student growth in achievement that has drawn national attention.
"We framed our whole application based on our current [state] system," said Keith E. Owen, the associate commissioner of the Colorado education department.
Science was already taken into account as part of that system.
Mr. Owen said his state expects to eventually factor in student achievement in social studies, once an assessment is designed.
"The state board has adopted that assessment, but it's not been developed yet," he said. "The intent is to include it in our overall accountability system."
That move is welcomed by Fritz Fischer, a history professor at the University of Northern Colorado, in Greeley, and a former chairman of the National Council for History Education.
"In the educational world we live in, it is a positive development," he said of the plans by his state and some others to include history and social studies in their accountability systems. "I am very sympathetic to those who think we test too much and we are obsessed with testing, but that battle is over."
At the same time, said Mr. Fischer—who co-chaired a state panel to revamp Colorado's K-12 social studies standards—it's critical to make sure the tests "move beyond multiple-choice exams that test memorization and factual recall, and move toward the type of assessments that examine the historical-thinking ability of students."
Vol. 31, Issue 29, Pages 1, 20-21Published in Print: April 25, 2012, as Waivers to Widen Test Menu
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Connecticut Unemployment Guide
If you've recently lost your job in Connecticut, you may be eligible for Connecticut Unemployment Insurance benefits. This is a guide to filing your claim for Connecticut unemployment benefits. Since each situation may have its own unique circumstances, make sure you check with the contact numbers and websites listed below to make sure you get the maximum benefits you can claim.
Filing for Unemployment:
Many unemployed Connecticut workers can file for unemployment benefits online – Check here to see if you meet requirements to use Connecticut's online system. Otherwise you can file for unemployment over the phone using TeleBenefits or 1-888-CTWORKS – local numbers and hours are listed on Connecticut's Department of Labor Site.
File your claim right away after you've stopped working – don't delay. Your claim starts the beginning of the week you file, based on the date you filed online or called. Benefits are not retroactive, so if you delay you may lose benefits.
You'll need the following to process your Connecticut Unemployment Application:
- Name
- Address
- If you are not a US Citizen, you'll need your Alien Registration Number, expiration, and type
- Name/address/phone and employment dates of all employers for the last 2 years
- The separation packet or notice issued by your employer
- If you were discharged from the military in the last 2 years, you'll need Copy #4 of your DD Form 214
- If you were a Federal employee in the last 2 years, you'll need SF 8 or SF 50
- Birthday of children you plan to list as dependents
Upon your termination, your employer should present you with a UC-62T separation package, listing instructions for unemployment filing. While this packet gives helpful information, there's nothing magic inside. If you employer is mailing the UC-62T, don't wait to receive it to file – file as soon as possible anyway.
Filing Your Weekly Claim:
Connecticut unemployment benefits are 1/26 of the average total wages paid during the 2 highest of your base period (first four of past 5 quarters you last worked). For more information about your base period, see question six here.
In addition, you can file for up to 5 dependents at $15 per week for each dependent.
File weekly for continued unemployment benefits, by phone or online. You should receive your unemployment benefits by check within 10 days of weekly filing.
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Unemployment Benefits:
You can find information on insurance benefits, training, and other services available to unemployed Connecticut workers at http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/progsupt/bussrvce/rrt-infopacket.htm.
Connecticut makes career services available on its site at http://www.ctdol.state.ct.us/gendocs/JobSeekers.htm.
Filing for extensions:
Just before your initial unemployment benefits have been completely utilized, the Connecticut DOL will mail applications for any state or federal extensions available.
Ending Unemployment:
When you find full time employment and begin work, call the TeleBenefits line with the following information:
- Date you started work
- Name & address of employer
- If work is self employment
- Wages earned if start day of week was other than Monday
If your unemployment benefits check has not been received after 10 days from filing your weekly claim, call the TeleBenefits line. See more frequently asked questions on the Connecticut Department of Labor's website.
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DevOps with Windows Server 2016
Delivering applications swiftly is one of the major challenges faced in fast-paced business environments. Windows Server 2016 DevOps is the solution to these challenges as it helps organizations to respond faster in order to handle the competitive pressures by replacing error-prone manual tasks using automation.
This book is a practical description and implementation of DevOps principles and practices using the features provided by Windows Server 2016 and VSTS vNext. It jumps straight into explaining the relevant tools and technologies needed to implement DevOps principles and practices. It implements all major DevOps practices and principles and takes readers through it from envisioning a project up to operations and further. It uses the latest and upcoming concepts and technologies from Microsoft and open source such as Docker, Windows Container, Nano Server, DSC, Pester, and VSTS vNext.
By the end of this book, you will be well aware of the DevOps principles and practices and will have implemented all these principles practically for a sample application using the latest technologies on the Microsoft platform. You will be ready to start implementing DevOps within your project/engagement.
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Kerinci Seblat National Park, West Sumatra
Kerinci Seblat National Park comprises an area of 1.5 million ha in four provinces: West Sumatra, Jambi, Bengkulu and South Sumatra. A large part of the biggest national park of Sumatra lies above 400 m and is relatively cool. The park probably contains the largest contiguous population of the[…]Read More »


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How do I mute or unmute an assignment in the Gradebook?
By default, Canvas allows students to see assignment grades as soon as the instructor has graded the assignment. In some cases, instructors may wish to hold student grades until all assignments have been graded, and then release grades to all students at the same time. To hide student grades temporarily, an instructor can choose to mark an assignment as muted. Students can still see and submit a muted assignment. Only the grade will be hidden. You can also mute assignments in SpeedGrader.
A muted assignment will not send out grade change notifications or any new instructor comments until the assignment is unmuted. A muted assignment displays a Mute icon on the student grades page so students know the assignment is muted. Students will be unable to view their grades, including grade and score changes, instructor submission comments, Canvas DocViewer comments, and curved assignments for the assignment, until the assignment is unmuted. In Gradebook exports and reports, muted grades are part of unposted grades.
Muting should only be used to temporarily block grading work in progress from student view. It should not be used to conceal grades for longer than reasonably necessary.
If you do not want students to be able to view their total grade, you can hide the total grade from students.
If your course uses the New Gradebook, you can hide or post assignment grades in the New Gradebook.
- If you make changes to a muted assignment, the total score as you see it (in both the Gradebook and the student Grades page) will be affected. However, students will not see any changes when they view their Grades page. Once you unmute the assignment, the total grade in the student's view will update accordingly.
- Anonymous and moderated assignments are muted by default. Moderated assignments cannot be unmuted until final grades have been posted.
- Students can see peer review comments when an assignment is muted. However, students cannot see instructor comments until after the assignment is unmuted.
- If you unmute an assignment with varied due dates, all students will receive score results at the same time.
- Viewing the Total Column in the Gradebook may be restricted when multiple grading periods are enabled.
- Students will not be able to see their quiz responses while a quiz is muted.
Open Grades
In Course Navigation, click the Grades link.
Open Assignment Menu
Hover over the name of the assignment. Click the drop-down menu.
Mute Assignment
Click the Mute Assignment link.
Confirm Mute Assignment
Click the Mute Assignment button.
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View the muted icon for the assignment [1]. In the Total column [2], the Gradebook displays a mute icon, warning that your grade view is different from the student's grade view because of the muted assignment.
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- Viewing the Total Column in the Gradebook may be restricted when multiple grading periods are enabled.
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Life and circumstances sometimes get in the way of routine and it's been a short while since I last participated in the MENA Cooking Club. Prior contributions have been Algeria, Bahrain, Djiboui, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan. This time it's Malta's turn.
Malta is a little country highly influenced by Italy and Arab culture due to its funny geographical location. First off, it's an island, and it's located south of Italy and north of Libya and Tunisia (both MENA coutries). So one can see where the influence stems from. This lemon ricotta flourless almond cake is undeniably inspired by the Italian side of Malta. It is light but still holds its own. Try not to skip the flaked almonds on top as they are not only pretty, but hint as to what's inside and give a delightful textural contrast to the cake.
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 1/3 cups sugar
1 tsp vanilla
3 Tbsp lemon zest, finely grated
4 eggs, separated and at room temperature
2 1/2 cups almond meal
1 1/4 cup ricotta
Flaked almonds, to decorated
Icing sugar, for dusting
Heat oven to 325F. Line the base and sides of a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper and set aside.
Place the butter, sugar, vanilla and lemon zest in an electric mixer and beat for 8-10 minutes or until pale and creamy.
Scrap down the sides of the bowl, then gradually add the egg yolks, one at a time, continuing to beat until fully combined.
Add the almond meal and beat to combine.
Fold ricotta through the almond meal mixture.
Beat the egg whites in a clean bowl with a hand-held electric mixer until stiff peaks form.
Gently fold a third of the egg whites into the cake mixture. Repeat with the rest of the egg whites.
Pour the mixture into the prepared cake tin, smooth the tops with a palette knife, decorate the cake with almond flakes, and bake for 55-65 minutes or until cooked and firm to touch.
Allow to cool completely in the cake tin.
Dust with icing sugar to serve.