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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — There are few things that Bill Belichick respects more than history in the NFL.
And few teams elicit as much praise from the Patriots coach as the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Part of it is the reverence that Belichick holds for the way Steelers founder Art Rooney and his family has operated a franchise that's remained among the league's best, winning multiple Super Bowl titles more than 30 years apart. It is a model emulated when Robert Kraft bought the Patriots in 1994 and six years later hired Belichick, who has nurtured a "Patriots Way" that has helped bring four Lombardi trophies to New England.
Those histories will collide when two of the most successful programs of the 2000s meet in Sunday's AFC championship game.
"They've been tough to deal with going all the way back to coach (Chuck) Noll in the '70s," Belichick said. "They were pretty consistently tough to deal with through that entire period of time, which has been all of my years in the league."
Either New England or Pittsburgh has been a part of nine of the 17 Super Bowls since 2000, winning six championships between them.
But for all their individual successes, the teams have met only four times in the playoffs. The Patriots have won three of those matchups, including the last two in the AFC title games in 2005 and 2002 at Heinz Field. Both times New England went on the win the Super Bowl.
Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has been a part of both of the Steelers' recent championships, but the 34-year-old's only playoff meeting with the Patriots was the 2005 loss when he was a rookie.
He has spoken often about his respect for the Patriots and Tom Brady , which included him requesting a jersey from Brady prior to Pittsburgh's loss to New England back in October . Big Ben missed that game because of knee surgery. This is the latest opportunity to play in "the lion's den," he said.
"They are the best in the world," Roethlisberger said. "They are the gold standard, if you will. So you want to have that opportunity to go up to play the best."


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Farming isn't hard and fans of FarmVille have repeatedly wondered if the game might be better if there were more depth. Now, the game that gets Facebookers out to the dirt has added mastery bonuses to the game. Borrowed from FarmVille's cousin Mafia Wars, players gain mastery bonuses for repeating the planting of seed based foods. The details on what players gain from the mastery bonus is still a bit of a mystery, but any way to add more action to Facebook's hotttest game isn't a bad thing.
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From the very beginning
German group Touche´ consisted of five guys:Martin ,Alexander ,
Karim , Dennis and Glenn. Originally, Dieter Bohlen has told, that
will be only producer of this group and will not touch their music
and texts, but... Soon he has written I Want You Back, I Want Your
Heart. And thus became also their composer / poet, though and under
a pseudonym Joseph Cooley. In July 1997 Touche´ published first
single "I Can't Get No Sleep". In November, 1997 the group
published first album with the name Part One. The exit of an album
has anticipated single "I Want You Back, I Want Your Heart", issued by
month earlier. Then one more single - "I'll Give You My Heart"
(December 1997).In November 1998 published the cover-version Village
People"Y.M.C.A." feat. Krayzee. The record of
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(November 1998).
In December published next single of group - "This Goodbye Is Not Forever"
, which on the style considerably differs from
Part One. After these singles Touche of steel are known around Europe
and not only. Also in 1998 years the guys have taken part in
the charitable project together with Gil, Blumchen, ' N Sync, Aaron
Carter, Backstreet Boys, The Boyz, and others. They all together have
sung a song "Let The Music Heal Your Soul" . And March 31, 1999 Karim left the
group. And so, Last joint work of the guys was single " Kids
In America"(April 1999).
After that Martin, Alexander, Dennis
and Glenn published the Third album Touche - Another Part
Of Us (february 2000), this album represented singles "Dinner
In Heaven" (November 1999) and "Heaven is for everyone"
(February 2000). After it they stopped to work
with Dieter Bohlen
and they had to look for a new record company. They made/produced a
black song with rapping "Doomsday" which they thought to publish as
the next single. But they didn't find any record company. So Glenn and Dennis began to make own music. Martin took Donny and Chris in Touché in 2002. This way Martin, Alex, Chris and Donny published two singles called "Hey you" and "Can't hurry love". Anyway, the guys stopped work together in 2003. Martin begin to make own music! So we can see how good it will be!


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Registered 2012-11-16 by Joël Grand-Guillaume @ camptocamp
*Code hosting*: the code is now hosted on https:/
Mirror branches have been setup on Launchpad
This project aim to deal with modules related to manage document printing and sending in a generic way. You'll find modules that:
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- Add an printing queue
- Allow to choose printer
- ...
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- Report Printing and Sending Core Editors
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- GNU Affero GPL v3, GNU GPL v3
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All bugs Latest bugs reported
Bug #1308635: Locking seems wrong in base_report_to_printer's update()
Reported on 2014-04-16
Bug #1308614: "set default" on printers does not work in base_report_to_printer v7
Reported on 2014-04-16
Bug #1116672: [base_report_to_printer] User-specific defaults don't work
Reported on 2013-02-05
Bug #1086393: push_date and send_date are stored with the wrong timezone
Reported on 2012-12-04
Bug #1086027: undefined name 'company_id'
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|Scene Title
|When Elephant's … Attack?
|Bad things happen in Central Park, and Jason makes an elephant use a special attack.
The famed Central Park, an area that at times, has come to be known as the oasis of NYC. One of the great pleasures New Yorkers and tourists enjoy is getting away from it all inside Central Park. Stretching 51 blocks between 59th and 110th streets, this 843 acre, green rectangle has served its city well since 1859. From famous statues to castles, there is so much to see within this pastoral landmark. One of the more famous stops is The Dairy, built in 1870 as a milk bar, it now serves as the main Visitor Center. There is also the posh Tavern on the Green restaurant nearby. On the more romantic side of the park, Hansom Cabs can be found lined up across from the Plaza Hotel at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue, offering a romantic journey through the park. To the north lies a large, fenced-in body of water. with walking and jogging trails offered along the perimeter path.
Leandra is currently jogging, wearing a white t-shirt and navy tracksuit pants along with lightweight denim jacket and trainers, earphones disappearing into a pocket as she glides along a path with an unhurried disconcerting speed. <re>
Jason happens to be moving along that same path himself, although he is seemingly simply walking and not making the job of things that Leander his. A leisurely sort of pace suited to the enjoyment of the scenery. A pleasant day spent ambling.
Shopping! Rain is passing along, a few things in hand. She's wandering happily, in her usual clothes. She is mostly meandering along water edges, although her path nears Jason and Leandra's. She's not flailing at the moment. Rain even hums and sings a little.
Rupert also happens to be in the park, relaxing and smoking a cigarette as he watches the joggers and dog-walkers.
Leandra slows a little as she spots Jason heading in the opposite direction, then picks one earbud out to hang down her neck as she comes to a stop as she quirks her head a little. "Hmm, am I going to start randomly running into you as often as I do Rain then?" Rain is spotted, she blinks then smirks. "Maybe not."
Jason gives a good natured chuckle and he tilts his head to Leandra, "I would not mind if it were so. If one is going to have chance encounters they should be pleasant ones." He turns his eyes to track hers spotting Rain as well and lips quirking a touch he says, "She really does seem to find herself everywhere, always at the center of any gathering or any bit of trouble. Her life must be quite the exciting one."
Nope, not really. She's a chef! An aspiring iron one but! The woman lives in a world of veggies, meats and customers clamoring for the proper dish. Even with her knack for spotting trouble. Hum hum hum. And heeeey, people. Rain stops and peers at the two, waving. She's not in hearing range just yet but she's cautiously meandering over. "Allo!"
Rupert eyes the converging group idly, trying to place the vaguely familiar faces.
Leandra rests a hand on her hip as she looks over, then returns the wave before she shrugs to Jason. "Perhaps, she seems cheerful enough whenever I see her anyway." Then once Rain closes a grin. "Hey."
Jason returns that wave as well, making a motioning over gesture since Rain does in fact seem headed in their direction at any rate. "Good that she's accepted her fate then. Not all could handle that much adventure." Then as Rain does draw closer he calls out, "We were just saying how we both seem to always be bumping into you. Scavenging the park for ingredients?"
Rain does seem to have accepted her fate, much like the pigeon that keeps pressing the shock lever. She just keeps coming back. Either way, a smile. "Hello, how are you?" And then a ponder. "Yeah, I do don't I?" She has to consider that, furrowing her eyebrows. "No, not really. Pigeon on a stick doesn't really sell this season," She's joking there. "I was going home from shopping."
"Feeling better, and glad to know that when I eat at an expensive place I am not being fed stuff scavenged from the park." Leandra eyes Jason a moment there before shaking her head a little, then hmms. "So I was running." She inclines her head to Rain. "You were shopping." To Jason. "Dare I ask what you were doing?"
While the group is talking amongs themselves, it gradually becomes apparent that the ground is shaking a bit, and some of the trees in the park are swaying dangerously.
"You never know" Jason points out to Leandra, "When a place claims fresh picked ingredients in the city I always have to wonder just exactly where they freshly picked them. Still, I share your happiness in knowing that at least in this case it is not so. And.. I was walking. Enjoying the air and the green. I'm really not used to the city yet, felt I needed something of a respite from it. The park is not exactly a walk in the wilderness but at least it is something besides concrete and glass." Peering down at the ground he inquires, "Well. While I am always up for having the earth move and my world shake, I don't mean it quite so literally."
"That's good to hear," Rain grins a little. She seems amused. Then laughs softly, "Sometimes there are window gardens I suspect," She points out. She looks around. "Ummm… Not me… I stopped walking." She is taking a bit of a joke at her own expense, but there's concern written across her face. "I don't think there was supposed to be construction either," She admits.
"I can eat just about anything, so it is not really a concern, but still, one likes to know what one is eating." Leandra then frowns as the ground rocks, narrowing her eyes before she brings back one hand to the small of her back and fastens it on the grip of her pistol under her jacket. Rather dryly. "Does anyone want to bet me a hundred dollars we are not about to get attacked by something horrible?"
Jason glances sidelong to Leandra and he inquires, "You must be joking. Rain is here. Of course we are about to get attacked by something horrible. It's one of those immutable universal constants." Looking to Rain he inquires, "Right?"
As if in answer to Jason's flippant query, a huge shape can be seen stampeding through the park. As it clears the trees, it is revealed as HUGE elephant, twice the normal size. It stops and glares at the gathered Scions, trumpeting a war cry into the air.
Rupert throws down his cigarette and whistles. Pulling out a pair of claws, he slides them onto his hands as he glances at the others. "Good going, mate."
Rain just looks defeated, "Whaat? Oh no, maybe I should stay home more." She frowns and rubs the back of her head. Although, she does pick her pen off from behind her ear and sighs. "I guess it is," She admits. "At least, at this point I'm wondering if it's true." She looks to Rupert - hey! She knows that guy. Rain looks over towards what clears the trees. Then a horrified expression. "And I've got peanuts!"
"Well it could be a transcendantly beautiful and terrible- Ahh. No. Okay I am going to go and fetch my rifle." Leandra looks over toward Rupert and flashes him a grin, then she whirls and launches herself off with the kind of acceleration normally reserved for things powered by rockets, turf left in a torn path behind her as she beelines for her car.
Jason turns about to make some further flippant comment to a Leandera that suddenly isn't there. At Rain's mention of having peanuts however he takes a sidestep away from her even while tossing out, "Perhaps then you would like to make some sort of peace offering on our behalf Rain?" Even so of course he is reaching for his pistol.
Flail! Rain just stares at the elephant than eye Jason as he steps away from her. "Oh, /thanks/," She mutters. "Fine, I'll offer it peanuts but move away." She shooes him off, while taking a step away herself to toss the elephant some peanuts. Leandra's comment gets a blink.
The huge beast roars again, then begins a slow, steady trot towards the Scions, picking up speed as it goes.
A large eagle-sized bird, with two heads, flaps out of a tree and flies toward Rupert. He flashes a grin at the other Scions, and then leaps onto the back of the bird, which should in no way bear his weight. Perfectly balanced, he shouts at the others as he gains altitude, "This is gonna be a tough one! Bring your A-game!"
Leandra skids to a halt alongside her range rover, sprayed gravel doing the already somewhat battered paintwork no good before she slams open the back and grabs for her almost certainly illegally carried rifle, weapon in hand she slings a bandolier belt of shiny brass over her shoulder as she whirls back to face the park and.. Giant bird? Ahh, it has Rupert on the back, she nestles the stock of her rifle into her shoulder as she lines up on the gargantuan elephant with a grin of anticipation.
Rupert grins to himself as his two-headed eagle flies over the giant elephant. He adjusts his sunglasses, and steps casually off the bird, dropping onto the elephant's back. Despite the fact that the massive creature is charging full-tilt, he keeps perfect balance as he kneels and punches downward, pushing all his effort into jabbing the claws through the beast's thick hide.
Poor Rain. All she can do is … "No peanuts for you! BAD ELEPHANT! BAD!" She shakes her pen at the elephant. With a *fwip* and a twirl, it becomes a knife. She does however, reach for the peanuts just in case. Peanuts and knife in hand, Rain grunts. She sprints at full speed, then leaps into the air, bounding off a small plant taking a swing at the elephant's leg as she goes by. It would make Naruto fans proud, but she really begins to ponder the wisdom of her actions as she hurtles through the air.
Jason finishes pulling his pistol from inside his jacket even while he engages in his typical behavior when something big and horrific shows up, which is diving behind the nearest piece of cover. Not that the park bench he finds really seems all that.. impressive.. next to the giant elephant. Gun is elevated towards the elephant and with a look of focus he pulls the trigger, the usual sound of the pistol is somehow more sensual than usual. A purr of explosive gunpowder as the barrel for a moment sports a rainbow shimmer of a muzzle flash.
The charging elephant pauses as it is hit by the effect from Jason's gun. It shudders in its tracks, and promptly splurts.
Poor goo-covered Rain. Gross.
The elephant grumbles and attempts to gore the girl with one of its man-sized tusks, but is obviously distracted and misses by a wild mark.
Rupert runs up the beast's back and perches on its flailing head, once again trying to slam his claws through the thick hide. As he draws them back out, he notices blood. Success! The elephant does not seem particularly harmed, though.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUGH!" Rain wails after she's hit. She moves away. Jason gets a murderous glare. Her left eye twitches. Another wail and she turns her flailing into a quick slash, then running for it. "I hate yooooooooou," Did she just burst into tears? She did. Poor Rain. She's gritting her teeth and going all The Shining on the thing's leg before turning to sprint away. Her knuckles are white from gripping the knife and tears stream down her cheeks. After she's satisfied with a swing, she pushes off with a foot to lunge away.
Still balanced on the elephant's wildly swinging head, Ripper laughs. "Tough bastard, aren't you?" As the elephant raises its trunk to sweep him off its head, he backflips over it and lands in a handstand. Due to his claws, it's an oddly lethal handstand. He pauses in that position for a moment, then rolls out of it. Another scored hit, but the nemean beast is still chugging, not even slowed down.
Jason makes an expression of distaste and he calls out towards Rain, "Sorry!" But then Leandra is shouting in his direction and he says, "I'm going for it's left. On three then." He uses the back of the park bench to help steady his aim, drawing a beat quickly on that target while counting down and upon the count of three he pulls the trigger. No rainbows this time around, the gun is firing a bullet on this occasion towards that hopefully vulnerable area of the large beast.
After wiping the worst of it off, poor Rain just sort of eyes Jason warily. She seems to accept his apology. Men! SHe shakes and then looks to a tree. Dropping any peanuts she was carrying, she scrambles up the tiny aesthetic plant and as the tree bends, she is helped a little in leaping towards the elephant's back. *Sproing!* Or *whip!* depending on the noises trees make. Shakeashakea might be more apt. Either way, the cook half-jumps, half-launches herself up at the elephant's back. If she makes it, she'll use her momentum to stab at the thing's back/spine.
Leandra is aware of what is going on, but shuts it out, her breath held, concentrating to steady her heartbeat as she relaxes until she feels the rifle as an extension of her body. One, two, three, then at the same moment as Jason she smoothly tugs the trigger and her rifle bellows out before spitting the empty cartridge as she rises with a reflexive work of the bolt, starting now toward the elephant at a measured lope as she keeps the muzzle aimed at the beast.
The elephant bellows in pain as both eyes disappear in puffs of red mist. It swings its head, and blood gushes from the gaping empty sockets. Moments later, the huge beast collapses to the ground, moaning horribly as it continues to bleed out gallons of sticky, red fluid.
Rupert casually rides the beast to the ground, then walks over the moaning, prone creature and hops to the ground. "Nice," he says to the sharpshooters. "About time you joined the party." He glances at Rain and smirks. "Well, the other bit was funny, too."
Rain clings, less casually, for dear life as the elephant goes down. A soft sigh at that. Rain just hangs her head. And here she was about to ask him for his autograph! "Yeah…" She sounds a bit glum. Eventually, she slips down too. "Everyone's alright?"
Jason gets out from behind the park bench, moving over towards the elephant and looking not exactly happy with it's bellowing. "I'd say we should put it out of it's misery but I don't think there is much more we can do for it but letting it bleed out. Tough hide. Tough skull. And it took a little while but the shots were true." Back towards Leandra and he says, "Nice shot. And I'm fine, it didn't come anywhere near the rest of us." Pause and a wince at the unfortunate choice of words.
Leandra grins as the creature falls, relishing it and slowing a little before she to removes a cartridge from her bandolier and *snicks* it into the breech of her rifle. Then she continues forward. "Later than I might like yes. I think we can put it out of its misery though." She gives Rain a brief and rather appalled look, then raises her rifle as she moves to get a shot into the nearest ruined socket. BOOM! Leandra seems to be making a habbit of executing downed Titanspawn.
The elephant shudders again, then sinks into still silence.
"Right, well," Rupert says, wiping his claws on the elephant's hide and returning them to his pocket. "Wonder where the bloody hell all these nemeans are coming from."
Rain just eyes Jason, "What did I ever do to you?" She seems sad and annoyed all at once. And there's a faint hint of a joke. She seems really, really unhappy for the moment. "I don't know. I wonder if the same person who made the crazy rabbits did this," She considers, wiping herself off as back as she can.
"I really did not anticipate you.. being in the way" Jason says to Rain, "It seemed a good way to distract him. And he did miss you with this tusks?" Right. Clearing his throat he says, "A good question, one that warrants further investigation. For now though more scavenger happy concerns. I want to get a good piece of this things hide and a tissue sample for a friend to research."
"Cutting this thing's hide without using the tusks is going to be a problem, and I doubt we have long enough to screw around there before we have to start dodging the police, much as I am loath to leave those sitting here. Cut something from an eye socket maybe?" Leandra pulls a sour expression now, then slings her rifle over her shoulder before looking to Rain. "Do you want a lift so that you can get.. cleaned up?"
"You can say that, but until you've been bukakke'd by an elephant…" Muttermutter. She just sighs. "Next time just um, be more thoughtful I guess. You could've yelled, I mean, I'm grateful you tried to help and all, I suppose I'm just sad I'm covered in this stuff," She just shrugs. "Speaking of, I wonder if that hide would make good armor?" She ponders. She holds up her knife, "I can give you a little bit maybe. And um, sure… Or we could try getting the tusks out. I don't know." Rain is loathe to not give her enemy some revenge in the afterlife. He'd make a great *something*.
"We're in Central Park" Jason counters to Leandra, "Even if anyone heard our shots they'll not have pinpointed them easily. We've more time than we would if we were in the city proper. If you want to buy us some time run to the other side of the park and snap off a few there? You can move when you want to." Looking back to Rain and her convenient knife he says to her, "Probably works better than mine. Could you please? And.. you are. I'll get you a new outfit. Two new outfits."
Leandra points to the giant dead elephant, then gestures her hand to the overlooking skyscrapers, peers at Jason. "You realize this place does have its own police force even? I would be suprised if we have minutes. I mean we could stick around and explain we are children of the gods, we just shot a giant demonic elephant and we are busy scavenging its corpse. If you want."
Rupert rolls his eyes and snorts. "What the bloody fuck is up with all the new kids on the block trying to hide this bloody shit from the normals? News flash, princess, we're not the fuckin' MIB. And if the police come, I'll tell 'em what they need to know. We kicked ass and saved the day."
Rain just shrugs and sets to her task quickly, getting a couple of samples. If she has time, she will likely help work on the tusks and hides. "Sure, thank you. But you don't have to really," She just remarks quietly. She is focusing on her task, getting done as quickly as possible.
Leandra frowns there, then nods slightly. "Okay… After you made sure we got rid of that goat man thing before I figured you were not such a fan." Then she shrugs and moves over to Rain before tugging a sheath knife off of her bandolier belt. "Do you want a hand with that? I do not know if this thing will even work, but I'd be lieing if I claimed I had not cut the tusk out of the elephant before."
"I will, of course" Jason says to Rain, "And if you need help here do let me know. Although with the one knife, and your experience I think you're best suited for this sort of thing." He hangs back watching the cook go all scalping and he looks over at Rupert, "Excellent. Hopefully not necessary but if it is it's good to know we have someone that can talk us out of things. Besides, you're the Ripper, not like they are going to argue."
Rupert smirks and adjusts his sunglasses. "Exactly."
A pause. "By the way, did you want - a tusk? Or something?" Rain looks to Rupert as she works. Her hands are skilled, steady and experienced with a knife. She seems abashed at her rudeness, not thinking of him sooner.
"Yeah," Rupert replies. "That'd be a good trophy. Thanks."
Leandra has her knife away now, pulling a face as she uses the tip of the other tusk to slice through the thing's hide, though she seems to know what she is doing there as she skins it of the more supple and useable skin. She is also completely coated in blood from doing this, rifle and ammunition belt set to one side within reach. "Dammit, I really am going to be living up to sterotypes if I end up running around wearing magical leather."
"You really going to object to wearing the skin of your prey? Feeling it so close to you, it's power and it's history caressing you?" Jason inquires of Leandra with a quirked brow. "It's nothing to be ashamed of I would think." He simply paces, lacking the skill and expertise of the others at cutting up the corpse.
Someone should put Rain in a plastic bag and carry her home or something. Either way, once she gets the second tusk loose, she offers it over to Rupert. "You should probably clean it too, I don't have a hose here…" Obviously. "But thank you for your help, all of you guys." Yes, even Jason. After a moment, she offers the samples to Jason too. "I think we're almost done." She sets back to helping Leandra, preferring her knife to a tusk.
That might be awkward initially given the knife would have no impact on the hide - but it would be very useful for cutting away said hide from the flesh beneath. With Rain's Help Leandra peels back a huge roll of skin, seperating with a sticky tearing. She chuckles to Jason. "I was being less than entirely serious. Anyway, where do you want your share?"
"Just.. hand it over" Jason says with a grimace, "I'll have to carry it to my car. Goat men corpses. Bloody hides. I am so not getting my deposit back on the damned thing without a lot of fast talking."
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3 Ways to Boost your Car's Fuel EfficiencyBy Vic on April 30th, 2017
In our country, traffic is a common occurrence. Many drivers do anything they can to avoid it. However, in pursuit of roads that are clearer (which rarely ever happens), they are sacrificing more fuel than necessary. This can cost a lot of money over time, which is why most people long after cars that have higher fuel efficiency. Examples of cars with excellent fuel efficiency are the Toyota Vios and the Toyota Wigo. The Philippines also experiences fluctuations in gas prices which can be a hassle to motorists – especially when the prices reach expensive amounts.
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Millions of people all over the globe are house-bound and only allowed to go out for essential trips. Of course, I could write a book about the reasons for this, and whether the lockdown is justified or not. However, it is what is.
The more important question is what to do about it.
Is it possible to create gratitude rather than just feel it momentarily? Yes, it is. Let me explain.
The Universe is in complete balance - from the largest global pandemic to the smallest sub-atomic particle. That is how everything was created. We tend to forget about this incredibly beautiful balance when we get stuck in emotions.
Did you think that spirituality is separate from business?
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What is an empath? How does an empath differ from a medium or a psychic?
Why do I hear/see/feel things? Does that make me a psychic or a medium?
Who is the Indian guy? Why do I often see the Indian guy? Is he a ghost? What is he trying to tell me?
Spirit Guides and Guardian Angels. Who are my spirit guides and guardian angels? How do they help me? What can I do to get more help from them?
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What is a spiritual path? You may have outgrown your religious background and you are exploring options. You have heard about a "spiritual path" and you want to know what it means and if it is what you are looking for. Or you have never been religious, but you know there is more to life than meets the eye, and you want to fill that void.
Why do I feel like the odd one out? You are becoming more and more aware that you are different. You feel different, and your beliefs and view of life have changed. As a result you feel out of sync with the people around you. It has become a real struggle to discuss things that really matter and your questions about your life with your nearest and dearest. Even your friends don't understand what you are talking about. What is happening to you?
Am I dealing with the devil? With the simplest things that you question with your religious family and friends, you are receiving warnings that you should not explore what is not familiar to them. You understand their fear, but yo don't want to be held back by their fears and beliefs. So who is this devil? And how can you avoid the devil on your journey?
What if I want to turn back? Walking a spiritual path implies that you are going forward. However , what if you don't like what you discover? What if you would rather go back to your old beliefs which were comfortable for you? You can - it is always an option. Find out more on the course.
How do I deal with a non-believing partner? Do you have a relationship with a spouse or partner who is not interested in your desire to follow a spiritual path? What impact will this have on the relationship? What if the strain becomes too much and the relationship ends? What can you do to follow your heart and stay in the relationship? To be clear, a spiritual path is not a cult. It is a very individual path. If there are any prescriptions that you don't agree with - in fact, if a spiritual path is sold to you as if it is full of rules that don't make sense to you, then walk away.
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You will no longer need to remain in this no-mans-land of not knowing and wanting to move forward.
You will learn how spirituality is part of every day, and how we practice it without even being aware of it. You will learn simple skills for making your life better, and for planning your future and seeing those plans materialise.
Will you be able to practice as a medium or a psychic after the course? Probably not. You will be able to distinguish between what are known as "card readers" and "cold readings" on the one hand, and real, honest to goodness psychics who don't guess or use props or pepper you with questions on the other hand.
You will understand why things happen to you and how you relate to the people you come into contact with.
There are many people in the esoteric world who make the right noises, but how do you identify those who can be followed and those who are followers posing as leaders?
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How is it that some people retire at the mandated, government-regulated retirement age, while others seem to grow younger and retirement is not even an option for them?
Does retaining your youthfulness have to do with science, or is there something else - some magic elixir?
Ralph Maliphant tells his story and brings science together with spirit in a fascinating journey of discovery.
Ralph trained as a massage therapist at the Maitri Foundation at age 68 in 2003-2004, and completed an advanced year of training to learn the skills of Dynamic Bodywork.
He started training in the Rosen Method in 2009 and qualified as an intern in 2012, which means he is licensed to work on the public.
At age 83 getting ready to qualify as a full Rosen Method practitioner.
Tune in to The Elsabe Smit Show on Sunday 1st October live at 4 pm GMT using this link: https://www.facebook.com/AskElsabeSmit/videos
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Renee Baribeau is a wind whistler, soul coach, Hay House author, inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and workshop leader, known and respected for her down-to-earth approach. During her life, the wind gods have steered Renee's course in many directions. A former chef, in 1987 she opened the first farm-to-table restaurant in Central New York, Brown Bagger's, in Syracuse. In 2005, Renee established the Desert Holistic Network in Palm Desert, California, an online regional resource directory. Renee served as the Resident Shaman at We Care Spa in Desert Hot Springs. Since 2013, Renee has worked for Foundations Recovery Network, a national system of residential treatment facilities. Her current role is Marketing and Community Outreach Coordinator.
As a writer, Renee is a featured contributing blogger for Finer Minds, Elephant Journal. Renee has also contributed chapters to the anthologies Pearls of Wisdom: 30 Inspirational Ideas to Live Your Best Life Now (Hierophant Publishing, 2012) and The Five Principles of Everything (Five Birds Publishing, 2012). She makes her home on the West Coast, and Whidbey Island.
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"People are seeking a direct experience of God, which emanating and non-dualistic forces of Nature can provide. Nature Gods can fill the "God Shaped Hole" plaguing society. Ancient cross-cultural Wind Gods/Goddesses offer persistent guidance, to restore faith in humanity.
In my effort to provide navigational tools for the generation lost, 28 cross cultural Winds of Spirit revealed themselves. Each had a distinct sphere of spiritual responsibility for guiding humanity. My phenomenological research spanned 20 years of direct shamanic practice and scholarly research. Faced with planetary extinction, it is essential to embrace new ideas and formats. The Wind Work® is the answer to helping everyday, normal people, find a working partnership with spirit. "
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What do I need to do to grow spiritually and discover my life purpose? How do I know I am on the right path?
I am curious about measuring spirituality. Everyone seems to talk about spiritual growth and enlightenment nowadays, but there is not much talk about the science required to measure these things.
I see so many people boasting about how spiritual they are, but then they say and do things that are completely the opposite of what they claim to believe or what they sell to others.
How would you measure how spiritual a person is, or whether one person is more spiritual than another?
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Skip to 0 minutes and 1 second Welcome to the presentation about the role of social media in health care. As you know, nowadays, with the emerging smartphones and mobile devices and internet available on mobile devices, a lot of people have changed the way they interact with the information. Now, we don't only retrieve the information. We can easily add the information which we want. So we found out there is a very serious problem regarding misleading health-related information promoted through video-based social media. In this presentation, I am going to take an example of how anorexia is promoted on YouTube. And this is just an example. You can go and search for any disease. It is the same. A lot of misinformation is being available online in the social media.
Skip to 1 minute and 6 seconds Here is the paper about misleading health-related information, which was published in Journal of Medical Internet Research. And the paper talks about pro-anorexia and social media. And you see, as you'll see in the slides, that anorexia is lifestyle, not a disease. So there are a group of people who are promoting like anorexia is a beauty– anorexia is something we need to maintain, rather than it is a disease. Also, anorexia has a huge impact on health and quality of life of patients and relatives, especially for females. Due to anorexia, they go malnourished. And during the pregnancies they have really great problem just because of anorexia. And also, studies have proven it adds to morbidity and mortality of the patients.
Skip to 2 minutes and 11 seconds Well-known problem for nearly decades. And watching pro-anorexia website can affect health of viewers. That has been proven already. 13% of female teenagers have reported using pro-anorexia websites in Belgium study. And also basically these pro-anorexia websites are videos promoting anorexia and talking about the tips and tricks– how to maintain and how to achieve anorexia. And here are a few examples. You see one of video from YouTube, saying I am 17-years-old girl from Norway. In this video, I want to post about things for– tips and tricks that will help you to lose extra pounds. Actually it's about weight.
Skip to 3 minutes and 9 seconds And the goal of our study is to extract videos related with pro-anorexia and ask doctors to review whether the videos chosen are related talking about pro-anorexia as a disease. Here, I talk about the method from the study. First, we extracted 7,500 anorexia-related videos. And then we have selected the more popular and also 30 of random– 110 most popular and 30 random– altogether, 140 videos– and asked them to classify into informative, pro-anorexia, and unrelated. And there are a few examples. You can see how these pro-anorexia videos looks and how informative video looks. And the results are like this. Around one third of videos are pro-anorexia and half informative and 20% unrelated.
Skip to 4 minutes and 20 seconds And if we extrapolate the number from the sample size, it is around 2,000 videos promoting anorexia in YouTube. And pro-anorexia videos are less viewed, but they're more favorited and had more rating activity, meaning there is a community which is promoting pro-anorexia. When they want to see the pro-anorexia anorexic video, they put likes, they share, they add to their favourite. Whereas if they see informative videos, very less people are liking it, very less people are sharing it and adding to favourite, compared to pro-anorexia video. The top 20 pro-anorexia video had 9.5 million views. Also, we studied the demographic information available level in 15 videos. Minors were in top age group in 80% of them.
Skip to 5 minutes and 27 seconds And the conclusion is there is a need for better tools to philtre pro-anorexia content, actually. We need a tool which can filter misinformation– health-related misinformation– from the videos available in social platform. Also, pro-anorexia were highly rated, and they were being watched by minors. So definitely we need more research focusing on how to educate teenagers and how to make awareness and empower them– teenagers, teachers, parents– so that they should not believe whatever's available online. They should be able to distinguish between misinformation and health-related information out of videos.
Misleading information disseminated via social media
This video presents Syed-Abdul et. al. study on misleading health-related information promoted through video-based social media: anorexia on YouTube.
The amount of information being uploaded onto social video platforms, such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Veoh, continues to spiral, making it increasingly difficult to discern reliable health information from misleading content. There are thousands of YouTube videos promoting misleading information about anorexia (e.g, anorexia as a healthy lifestyle). Health authorities producing videos to combat anorexia should consider involving celebrities and models to reach a wider audience.
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1st June 1794
Today, Town will be nearly empty as the ton streams to the border between Wales and England, to a remote valley where the reclusive Duke of Bleidrich rules a fiefdom older than the four kingdoms.
Seldom does His Grace honour Town with his presence, and then to the benefit of Westminster rather than the rounds of Society. Never in living memory has he held a ball. What can be the reason? Is the duke in search of a duchess? Or can the rumours be true? Seven years ago, the duke installed a ward in the castle schoolroom, a maiden understood to be a younger daughter of Baron Whitleaf of Northern Lancashire. Will Isadora Whitleaf defy her humble origins to become the next Duchess of Bleidrich?
And if she does? No one can give details, but all agree there is something uncanny about the Bleidrichs.
1st July 1794
As Society stream back from the celebrations in Bleidrichvale, the Teatime Tattler has been able to confirm that the rumours about Miss Whitleaf were unfounded. The stated reason for the ball was to celebrate the eighteenth birthday of Lord Nathaniel Marrock, younger brother of the duke, before he left for his Grand Tour of those parts of the continent still available to travellers.
The true reason? Our editor has been told in confidence by several Grande Dames of the ton that His Grace was most attentive to their own particular charge. We have also heard from some of the young maidens, who described the duke as remote and scary. Given the gentleman's high estate, we do not see this as an insuperable bar to matrimony, and even those who shivered at his silver eyes, did not deny him beauty of form to an unearthly degree.
He may be uncanny, but he is rich, titled, and handsome.
10th October 1794
In an update to our story several months ago about the Duke of Bleidrich and his ward, we have recently heard that Miss Whitleaf has married. And married not the master, but the schoolteacher. Marriage to the highest noble in the land would have been a considerable step up for Miss Whitleaf. Marriage to a village schoolmaster, even one who has been tutor to the younger son of a duke, must be seen as a descent.
But then, Miss Whitleaf, more than any, must know the truth about the Bleidrichs. Has she chosen the better part?
12th August 1804
Ten years ago, the Duke of Bleidrich raised hopes in the hearts of matchmaking mamas and their daughters, when he held a ball at his remote estate. And then, nothing. Until today.
Today, dear readers, the finest in the land have been stunned to receive an invitation to another ball in Bleidrichvale. What surprise has the duke in store for us? The Teatime Tattler will not venture to make a guess, but warns readers that the Bleidrichs are known to be uncanny.
24th August 1804
Isadora Harris, formerly Isadora Whitleaf, is the new Duchess of Bleidrich. Yes, dear reader, you read that aright. The Duke of Bleidrich has reached down into the commonality to lift up his bride.
His Grace travelled to the far reaches of Yorkshire to retrieve his widowed bride, marrying her by special license in York a scandalous five weeks after her husband's death.
Furthermore, the lady comes with a considerable encumbrance in the way of a family. We have been unable to confirm how many are her own, and how many she and the eccentric Mr Harris added to their family by adoption, but we are told that the ducal nurseries, schoolroom, and dining table have been considerably expanded to add twenty-four place settings for the Harris children.
The correspondent we sent into Bleidrichvale has suffered an unaccountable memory lapse, and has been unable to tell us what else he has discovered. We will report soon.
24th September 1804
Sam Clemens sat at his desk, turning a sheet of paper over and over in his hand, staring at nothing.
Joe the printer, coming through from the workshop, stopped in the doorway.
"Fancy visitors, those, Sam." Joe had stepped aside to let the lord and lady pass, being careful not to let his inky apron touch the lady's fine silk.
Sam's voice seemed to come from a distance. "Hmmm."
"An advertisement? Not scandal. Not those two." The man made Joe shiver: silver eyes under a dark wing of brow, and the lady was unusual, too. Eyes of forest green, and the loveliest face he'd ever seen. But they were no gossipmongers, that was for certain.
"I came for the front page, Sam. You said you were writing up the news from Yorkshire. About Bleidrich and the Harrises."
Sam looked blankly at Joe, and then back at the sheet of paper. Joe moved closer, hoping it was the copy he needed, but it was blank.
"Story?" Sam seemed to shake himself awake. "No. There's no story from Yorkshire."
"No story? What am I to put on the front page?"
With a problem to solve, Sam was galvanised into action, and in the rush of moving things around, finding extra copy to fill spaces, and getting the paper to print, the weird incident was forgotten.
But later that night, as they sat over a celebratory mug of ale, Joe remembered where he had heard of silver eyes. "Sam," he asked his editor, "was that the Duke of Bleidrich and his wife who came to see you today?"
"Yesterday," Sam said, for it was three in the morning. And then his eyes went suddenly blank and he gave his head a quick shake as if to dislodge a blockage in his thoughts. "Bleidrich? Fine chance that would be. The duke in my newspaper office? No, Joe. You must have been dreaming."
Someone was, Joe thought. But he wouldn't mention it again. That way, there'd be no risk of drawing that silver gaze on him.
There was no doubt about it. There was something uncanny about the Bleidrichs.
To find out what happened ten years ago, and what brought about the marriage after a decade, read The Heart of a Wolf, a short story in Lost in the Tale. Lost in the Tale is released on 6 September. Buy links on Jude Knight's website at http://judeknightauthor.com/books/lost-in-the-tale/
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The Lost Wife: Teri's refuge had been invaded: by the French, who were trying to conquer their land, and by wounded soldiers from the English forces sent to fight Napoleon's armies. The latest injured man carried to her for nursing would be a bigger challenge than all the rest: he had once broken her heart. (short story)
The Heart of a Wolf: Ten years ago, Isadora lied to save her best friend, and lost her home and the man she loved when he would not listen to her. Ten years ago, Bastian caught his betrothed in the arms of another man, and her guilt was confirmed when she fled. Ten years on, both still burn with anger, but the lives of innocent children and the future of their werewolf kind demand that they work together. (short story)
My Lost Highland Love: Interfering relatives, misunderstandings, and mistranslations across a language barrier keep two lovers from finding one another again. The Earl of Chestlewick's daughter comes to London from her beloved Highlands to please her father, planning to avoid the Englishman who married her and abandoned her. The Earl of Medford comes face-to-face with a ghost; a Society lady who bears the face of the Highland lass who saved his life and holds his heart. (short story)
Magnus and the Christmas Angel: Scarred by years in captivity, Magnus has fought English Society to be accepted as the true Earl of Fenchurch. Now he faces the hardest battle of all: to win the love of his wife. A night trapped in the snow with an orphaned kitten, gives Callie a Christmas gift: the chance to rediscover first love with the tattooed stranger she married. (short story)
The Lost Treasure of Lorne: For nearly 300 years, the Normingtons and the Lorimers have feuded, since a love affair ended in a curse that doomed dead Lorimers to haunt their home, the Castle of Lorne.
Now the last Marquis of Lorne, the last of the Lorimers, is one of those ghosts, and the Duke of Kendal, head of the House of Normington, holds the castle.
Kendal doesn't care about the feud or the ghosts. He wants only to find the evidence that will legitimate the son his Lorimer bride bore him before her death, and to convince his stubborn housekeeper to marry him.
But the time allotted to the curse is running out, and his happiness depends on finding the Lost Treasure of Lorne before the 300 years draws to a close. (novella)


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Well, even in spite of all of my efforts, care, and paranoia, I finally dropped the hammer on my foot. Luckily it appears that I spotted this loophole before somebody on the LPRng mailing list did.
Or worse yet, got a call from CERT about this problem :-)
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chown root /usr/sbin/lpd chmod 555 /usr/sbin/lpd OR chmod 500 /usr/sbin/lpd
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THEN: lpd will append error and trace messages to /path
LPRng-3.6.1 - LPRng-3.6.15 installed LPD setuid ROOT. This appears to be, as they say, a dumb move. The current release (LPRng 3.6.20) installs it non-setuid.
The reason for the SETUID root installation appears to be a typeo introduced in the LPRng-3.6.1 Makefile when I was fixing up the install code to install the lpr, lpc, lprm and lpq programs optionally SETUID root or as normal processes. It appears that I installed the 'lpd' program the same way. This was in spite of my notes that "lpd should not be installed setuid ROOT".
When the Linux SETUID problem was announced on June 8 I looked at LPRng and made sure that it did not have similar problems. I did an analysis of LPRng and discovered the SETUID install during testing. I removed the SETUID install on the grounds that one less possible compromise was a good idea. This was done in the LPRng-3.6.16 released.
The LPD process is usually started up at system initialization time. But there is a simple attack that kills off a surprisingly large number of servers.
a) You start a large number of processes, each of which allocates and modifies a large amounts of memory. See the getrlimit(2) and limits(1) for the limits usually imposed on processes. You can exhaust the swap area using this method on most systems.
b) You now start sending requests to the server, i.e.- lpd. If the lpd process has not allocated enough memory to hold the pending requests information, then it will do a malloc(). This malloc() will fail due to brk(2) failing with: [ENOMEM] Insufficient space existed in the swap area to support the expansion, and this is a fatal error for the lpd process.
Finally, lets look at the files we can modify. The last set of conditions mean that the only files that lpd can modify are the ones owner daemon/group daemon, and that have write permissions for user daemon/group daemon. This, unfortunately, includes the files in spool queues.
So, if the user could find a way to stop the running lpd server, then they could append trace information into these files.
I would really like to see capability based permissions in UNIX and other systems. All that 'lpd' needs is the ability to open and bind to a 'reserved' port, i.e. 515 for listening, and open and bind to a port in the 'reserved' range for outgoing connections.
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Background to the revised tax reform
Swiss corporate tax reforms I and II In the first iteration of its corporate tax overhaul (CTR I), Switzerland introduced various measures to improve its reputation as an attractive jurisdiction for corporate tax. Included in the CTR I were measures such as a comprehensive exemption for participation income and participation profits of holding, mixed, and principal companies and finance branches (status privilege). These measures resulted in a substantial or complete exemption from income tax on the cantonal and communal levels for status privilege companies.
After the implementation of CTR I, Switzerland experienced an influx of holding companies and companies qualifying for status privilege, which prompted a new corporate tax reform in 2007 (CTR II). CTR II was intended to improve on CTR I and to further promote Switzerland as a top holding company location. Notably, CTR II included a partial tax exemption for qualifying participations in order to prevent double taxation on dividends for substantial shareholders, and also provided for the implementation of the capital contribution principle.
International pressure on the Swiss corporate tax system Simultaneously, Switzerland's corporate tax law became the focus of attention from the OECD, the G20, and the EU. The main criticism of these international institutions was that Switzerland enabled multinational companies with status privilege to shift profits globally without being taxed at the base where the income was generated. At the peak of the tax dispute, the OECD put Switzerland on a 'grey list' of countries that were not compliant with commonly agreed OECD standards.
Rejection of Swiss corporate tax reform III In view of this international pressure and Switzerland's desire to regain its position as a fair and attractive tax location, the Federal Council (government) and the Federal Assembly (parliament) drafted a new corporate tax reform that was introduced initially in 2015 (CTR III). The initial version of CTR III was compliant with international tax standards, including the OECD's base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) project, and entailed, among other things, the abolition of the heavily criticised status privilege. At the same time, the reform proposal would have enabled Switzerland to remain competitive from an international tax perspective.
Nevertheless, Swiss left-wing parties did not agree with CTR III and launched a referendum to prevent its adoption. With its many direct democratic instruments, Switzerland has a long history of placing certain legislative proposals to a public vote as a means of enhancing participatory democracy. Ultimately, Swiss voters rejected the CTR III in a referendum held in February 2017.
As a consequence, the status privilege remained in force, despite international pressure. For companies that were active on a cross-border basis, this situation inevitably led to legal and planning uncertainties.
TP 17 and TRAF After the rejection of CTR III, the Federal Council released a revised corporate tax reform called Tax Proposal 17 (TP 17) on March 21 2018. The majority of the measures in TP 17 corresponded to the measures already included in the CTR III. However, the make-up of the TP 17 was more balanced, hoping to ensure political consensus. Nonetheless, before TP 17 reached a vote in the Federal Assembly, it was unclear whether the political parties would reach an agreement on the matter.
For this reason, a new CHF 2 billion ($2 billion) per year subsidy for the Federal Social Security Scheme (AHV) was added to the TP 17 proposal as a form of socio-political compensation. With this addition, the new corporate tax reform, now called the Federal Act on Tax Reform and AHV financing (TRAF), was eventually adopted by a clear majority by the Swiss Federal Assembly on September 28 2018.
Some smaller parties called for a popular referendum against TRAF and it was put to the people's vote on 19 May 2019. TRAF was approved by a large majority of the Swiss electorate, and will accordingly be implemented as of January 1 2020.
Revocation of status privilege One of the most important consequences of TRAF is the abolition of the status privilege at a cantonal level, thus ensuring that the Swiss tax jurisdiction is again compliant with international tax standards (e.g. BEPS). As a result, holding companies will in future also be taxed on their income on a cantonal level.
Depending on the generated income of the holding company, the new dispensation must not necessarily lead to any or a significant increase of the holding's income tax burden. If a holding company receives primarily dividend income it would face no or only a small increase of its tax burden, as the cantons have already introduced a partial tax exemption for qualifying participations in order to prevent double taxation on dividends for substantial shareholders.
In addition, the cantons will lower their income tax rate in the course of the TRAF implementation which will further lower the tax burden of holding companies. However, should a holding company mainly generate interest or royalty income, this would result in a higher taxation as the partial tax exemption for dividend income would not be applicable. In summary, this means that the establishment of a holding company can still be very attractive from a tax point of view, provided the holding company mainly generates dividend income.
Disclosure of hidden reserves for status privilege companies As a result of the revocation of status privilege, companies remaining in Switzerland will be forced to transition from privileged to ordinary taxation. In such a case, a so-called two-rate system is applicable. Profits relating to hidden reserves obtained under the previous status privilege will be subject to a five-year limited special tax rate. Cantons will be free to determine this special rate. Alternatively, status privilege companies have the opportunity to disclose hidden reserves taxneutrally during a five to ten-year period (depending on the canton) and to amortise the tax-free disclosed hidden reserves (so called step-up). The disclosure of hidden reserves ensures a competitive income tax burden and is intended to encourage current status privilege companies to remain in Switzerland.
The canton of Zurich (ZH) plans to introduce a five-year limited special rate of 0.5% and a ten-year period for the step-up of disclosed hidden reserves. The cantons of Lucerne (LU) and Aargau (AG) have chosen a similar approach and plan to introduce a five-year limited special rate of 0.5% (LU) and 2.4% (AG), as well as a ten-year period both for the step-up of disclosed hidden reserves. The canton of Zug (ZG) fixes the five-year limited special rate at 0.8 – 1.6% and provides for a step-up period of five years in its revised cantonal tax act. Basel-Stadt (BS) uses its own tax practice for the step-up of hidden reserves and levies three percent (two-rate system). Geneva (GE) will introduce a five-year limited special rate of 13% for disclosed hidden reserves. The canton of Vaud (VD) has not implemented the possibility of disclosure of hidden reserves in its revised cantonal tax act.
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