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Rangers-Orioles game postponed by rain
Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton will have to wait for
another day to continue his assault on the Baltimore Orioles'
pitching staff.
Less than 24 hours after becoming the 16th player in major
league history to hit four home runs in a game, Hamilton was
received an unexpected break when rain postponed Wednesday night's
game between the Rangers and Orioles.
The game was delayed for more than an hour before officials
decided on the postponement. It will be made up as part of a
single-admission doubleheader on Thursday beginning at 4:05 p.m.
The second game will not begin before 7:05, the starting time of
Thursday's originally scheduled game.
Moments before the announcement, several Texas players ran from
the outfield and slid across the tarp. Hamilton was among them.
"You've got to keep the game fun," he said. "It reminds you
of why you started playing as a little kid. When we were little
kids we weren't allowed to do that because you'd get in
Hamilton had no complaints about the rainout, mainly because he
would have been hard-pressed to come up with an appropriate
"The expectations and everything, you can't do much better than
that," he said. "Honestly, I hadn't been nervous for a game in a
long time but I was a little nervous today. So maybe (the rainout)
was a blessing in disguise."
With Hamilton leading the way, Texas won the first two games of
the series by a collective 24-6 score. Hamilton homered in his
final at-bat Monday night before going 5 for 5 with four homers and
a double on Tuesday in a 10-3 victory.
The Rangers have won seven in a row over Baltimore. The rainout
came at a good time for the Orioles, who could only hope Hamilton's
bat would be cooled by the time off.
Recalling the feeling he had at the plate in his record-setting
game, Hamilton said Wednesday afternoon, "You know when you're
seeing the ball well and really putting the good part of the bat on
the ball. That's what you feel. Everything kind of slowed down for
me. You don't have to do much. Just put the barrel of the bat on
the ball and it goes."
The pitching matchup in Thursday's first game will be Wednesday
night's starters: Texas right-hander Colby Lewis (3-1) against
Wei-Yin Chen (2-0). In the nightcap, Derek Holland (2-2) of the
Rangers will go up against Tommy Hunter, who will be recalled from
Triple-A Norfolk after being sent down on Monday. Jason Hammel was
slated to start Thursday for the Orioles, but he's been
experiencing soreness in his right knee.


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New coaches, new season, new schedule.
The Bayfield High School wrestling team, under the direction of a new coaching staff for the first time in a dozen years, will open the 2012-13 season today at the Dove Creek Invitational.
Normally, the Wolverines would be wrestling at home in their annual Wolverine Classic this weekend. But with major schedule adjustments in early Colorado high school tournaments this year, Bayfield officials opted to postpone the Wolverine Classic for a year.
Were going to bring it back next year after the schedules settle, said Todd McMenimen, a former Bayfield assistant who took over as the head coach this season.
Former head coach Herb Stinson, a member of the National High School Wrestling Hall of Fame, retired at the end of last season, ending his 12-year run at BHS. Assistant coach Marshall Hahn, the former BHS head football coach, also left the program at the end of last year when he took a football coaching position in Rogers, Ark.
But McMenimen, who has been involved with Bayfield wrestling for 15 years, already ensured a link from Wolverine wrestling past to Wolverine wrestling present and future.
McMenimen actually took over the program late when Stinsons initial successor was unable to start the season because of a business/family situation; McMenimen agreed to step in.
And he immediately reached out to former Bayfield state champion, collegiate wrestler and recent Colorado School of Mines graduate Jordan Larsen.
Im really excited about bringing Jordan back to the wrestling room (at BHS), McMenimen said.
He overachieved in high school. He went on to Mines, where he was a two-time national qualifier. His ... enthusiasm is 100-percent genuine, McMenimen said after Larsen led the new-edition Wolverines through a spirited workout in the same room where he trained to win a state championship for BHS.
Hes going to bring a lot to us. He wants to be able to take over the program at some point, said McMenimen, and hes all too happy to bridge the gap to a new generation of wrestling at BHS.
McMenimen said the Wolverines are eager to start the new season.
Its our first opportunity to wrestle ... somebody else, McMenimen said. Were a little rusty with football.
Several Wolverines are recovering from football injuries and wont compete this weekend.
McMenimen said the BHS lineup today will start with freshman Taylor Winch at 113 pounds.
Tyler Beebee, a sophomore with some varsity matches last year, will wrestle at 120. BHS senior Tyler Dowchar also will be in the 120-pound bracket.
Varsity returnee Colter McMenimen, son of the head coach, will wrestle at 126.
Allec Rodriguez, a senior and standout on the football team, will go at 132.
He is so quick on his feet. Hell be exciting to watch, the BHS head coach said.
Veteran Drake Rhodes, a four-year starter in BHS wrestling, will wrestle at 138 pounds.
Senior teammate Joe Zink, a two-time state qualifier, will go at 145 this year.
Ian Hermanns will wrestle at 145 this week.
Senior Mike Popke, a BHS soccer player, is back out for wrestling this year.
Hes a very athletic kid ... he drills hard, McMenimen said of the 152-pounder.
State qualifier Jon Roberts, who will wrestle at 171 this week, likely will go at 160 later in the season, according to McMenimen.
James Young, the goalie on the BHS soccer team, will wrestle at 160 for the Wolverines.
Blane Barnes, Michael Goodman and first-year wrestler Wyatt Williams will handle the heavier weights.
Wyatts decided hes going to give it (wrestling) a try. Hes hoping it will help his football, McMenimen said of the defensive/offensive lineman.
Hes so strong ... hes a strong farm kid, the BHS coach said.
Senior Dominic Brittain, the popular placekicker from the BHS football team, will wrestle at 195 this year.
Matt Certes, a senior, is set at 220.
Matt Eckstein, a senior and returning state qualifier, is ticketed for the heavyweight slot. Hes still dropping weight from football and wont hit the BHS lineup until after Christmas, McMenimen said. He played football at 315 pounds, but Eckstein will wrestle at the 285-pound heavyweight level.
He gets better every year, McMenimen said.

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Hi all,
In an continuing effort to keep SA up to date and make sure we're giving the members what they want, this thread contains a poll of some of the features on SA that maybe some of the newer members aren't aware of, or just some of the ones that maybe don't get used as often, etc.
What I need for you guys to do is vote for as many of the features that you use on site. It doesn't matter if you use them a lot or a little, if you use them at all cast a vote for them. Of course ones that you don't use or don't like, don't vote for them. We'll be using this poll to help gauge the interest of what goes into Steeler Addicts. If you don't use any of them, that's fine we just want to make sure we don't make any changes to stuff that people use if we can help it.
Of course the the things like the Arcade, Photoplog, Fantasy Games, Shoutbox, etc..things that we know people use all the time, those aren't going anywhere. This poll is for the 2nd tier features.
We're looking to do some house keeping here before the season starts and this is part of it.
These features can be found on the black nav bar at the top of page, listed under "SA Games" and "Fun Stuff"
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Georgia is on track to have one of its best and sweetest peach crops in a decade, experts say. The harvest is well under way. Weather conditions have been good. Peach growers should be happy with what they're seeing, says Kathy Taylor, a horticulturist with the University of Georgia Extension Service.
Dry weather has kept disease problems to a minimum. But it hasn't caused much stress on the trees, she says. Small afternoon showers and irrigation have given trees enough moisture.
The dry, sunny but cool spring helped the peaches become sweeter this year, too, she says. Excessive water generally dilutes peaches. "Georgia peaches have a good, sweet flavor this year," she says. "I know. I've tasted them already."
The harvest starts around the first of May and ends the second week of August.
Taylor says trees are strong and healthy right now. There should be many peaches for shoppers to buy well into August, she says.
During early harvest, trees generally produce around 75 pounds of peaches per tree. Later-harvested trees could produce as much as 300 pounds per tree, she says.
Georgia farmers grow about 15,000 acres of peaches.
The cool winter helped trees, too. Peach trees need a certain number of chill hours, or hours below 45 degrees Fahrenheit, to perform well in spring and summer.
Middle Georgia, where about 95 percent of the peaches are grown, had about 1,160 chill hours. South Georgia orchards got about 770 chill hours. This was enough to help trees remain dormant for their necessary winter naps. A little frost harmed some trees in the south this spring, she says. "But overall," she says, "everything has gone right this year for Georgia's peach crop."


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Fans of Tim Burton's films have come to treasure the scores by composer Danny Elfman as an essential part of the viewing experience. For the most diehard enthusiasts, Warner Bros. has released a special limited-edition package, "The Danny Elfman & Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box," to commemorate the partners' creative collaboration. Available only by ordering at ElfmanBurton.com, the set includes expanded versions of all 13 of Elfman's scores from Burton's films — from 1985's "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" through this year's "Alice in Wonderland" — plus rare and previously unreleased music from their projects, a DVD featuring an hourlong conversation between Burton and Elfman and a 250-page hardcover book with a foreword written by Johnny Depp, in addition to other collectibles. Elfman recently sat down with Hero Complex writer Gina McIntyre to discuss in detail how the collection came together, how his relationship with Burton had evolved over the years and what it's like to reflect on a shared legacy amassed over a quarter of a century. Look for Part 2 of the interview Friday.
DE: It's so far out of my realm of what I know, collectors' things like this. I've never owned one. It's been a whole kind of learning experience. Richard Kraft, my agent, this is really his baby. I tried to explain that in the opening letter [included in the collection]: This isn't the project of an agent doing something for his client, this is the product of a major film-music geek who lives for this kind of thing. We had many discussions. I was really resistant to putting on certain kinds of material I thought was private and trying to understand who it is that buys these things and what they're like, slowly trying to get an understanding of the kind of person who really looks for the odd, the rare, the unreleased. I thought, what if Bernard Herrmann had done half a dozen more movies with Hitchcock over another 10 years. He's the only composer out there that I would probably get a little nutty over. His career with Hitchcock I think of as this great collaboration, but it wasn't that long. Then not only would I want the box set, I would want anything — if he sang into a tape recorder, I'd want it. I'd want everything. Using that as a model, I started finally to [think], I should let some of this stuff go, even though it's embarrassing.
GM: How involved were you in the process of assembling the set? What embarrassed you exactly?
DE: They came to me with the idea. I just imagined it would be a collection of CDs. Only a couple of months ago really did [Richard] arrive, saying, we have our deadlines. I thought, oh my God, I have to edit and master 16 CDs. It was a huge amount of work. It's really a good thing I didn't think about what it would involve [beforehand]. … Everything anybody approaches me about that's an extra anything, I go, "I don't have time, I don't have time." I found myself in the middle of this huge thing. Richard and one of my assistants, they spent months combing through boxes and storage rooms. I write about this in the project. It's very bizarre. There's not a single thing I've collected over my entire lifetime that I haven't saved — things that I shouldn't, artifacts, things that I've come across — but I've never, ever saved a piece of music. Everything got thrown into trash bags and boxes and only because I think various assistants or housekeepers were afraid to throw it away — because I never gave any instructions about anything — it got dumped into storage rooms. I think I have seven storage rooms, none of which I've ever gone into. They just sifted through box after box.
In between an old box of unplayable synthesizer parts and old toys and books, there would be a box of cassettes, unmarked. … They spent months sifting through hundreds and hundreds of hours of old audio cassettes and DAT tapes. When they finally came to me a couple of months ago, it was like, "Alright, we've sifted through this stuff, but now, you've got to listen to everything." Then there was the incredible experience of listening to 25 years worth of work, both released and unreleased.
When I was talking about the embarrassing part — my demos. I never expected one of my synth demos of a piece of music would ever be for anybody's ears. There are two levels; there's one I call a work tape, which is me working stuff out. … Work tape is getting to the point where I'd even play it for Tim. That was very strange. I'm not a composer that puts a lot of polish work into their demos. … I'm probably in the minority that doesn't invest in really extensive libraries of stuff and/or have people that work with them just for that purpose of polishing up and making these demos really spiffy. Every demo, every work tape is my own hand. There are mistakes, bad notes, bad playing, and probably the most embarrassing thing is the early synth sounds back in the mid-'80s were really bad. By today's standards, it would be like what you hear in a kid's keyboard. In the middle '80s, that's kind of what there was. It's embarrassing because everything's of my own hand, and I'm not a great keyboardist, and the earlier they are, the more embarrassing they are.
GM: Are some things more embarrassing for you than others?
DE: The demo for "Batman" is an incredibly embarrassing thing. It wasn't until the mid-'90s that suddenly these demos are becoming less cringe-worthy for me, somewhere between the middle '90s and 2000. The sounds just got better. In my opening letter, I try to say, you know how we look at old science-fiction movies with really cheesy special effects and go, well, that's what they had. You can't compare that to today. It's the same with these. In the middle '80s through the early '90s, the sounds that we had to work with were what they were. You didn't think about it at the time. It's incredible for me to think now, this is a demo that I actually played for Jon Peters and Tim Burton to sell the "Batman" theme in 1989. Now it sounds so horribly bad, if you put it on, somebody would laugh. But at the time, everything kind of sounded like that. It was a lot better than banging on a piano and singing them a melody, which before that period, that's really what you did. For "Pee-wee's Big Adventure," that's what I did. I vowed I would never, ever do that again. I quickly embraced the technology to work up pieces of music to sound listenable. … I had one of the very first Macs ever, a very primitive version of what I have now, but the sounds available were very minimal. I remember I had a little box and it had strings long, strings short [laughs]. That's it. Two string choices. Trumpets, French horns, trombones — one, one choice of each — and sometimes it was hard to tell the difference between the French horn and the trumpet because they all sound like car horns at a certain point. It was still, for a director, a lot better for them to understand what I'm doing than playing on a piano and trying to sing a melody.
I've always been a big proponent of working out my ideas that way so I can hear what I'm doing and what I'm playing [for the director] is really trying to be a facsimile of what he's going to hear with the orchestra. As each year went along, [the demos] sounded more like what the orchestra was going to sound like. Today, it still doesn't sound as good as an orchestra, but you can hear the whole progression from, I think the first demo is from 1987 [for] "Beetlejuice" and "Alice" being the last demos. That was the embarrassing part. I decided if I'm going to do that, I might as well put on the stuff that's interesting to me, and the stuff that was interesting to me was the stuff that didn't make it in the score. I did a lot of moments of purposely picking a piece of music that isn't exactly the piece as you hear it in the movie. I guess once you open that door, you might as well embrace it and let the listener who is interested into the process of how I put something together. By the time I got to "Alice," I did a thing where I picked the one thing, the "Alice" theme which was on the CD, and I did three other versions of it going backward — an earlier first orchestral attempt at something that never got used and two or three synthesized versions going back to where you could just hear the beginning of the melody and now you can hear the B part of the melody. Now you can hear the whole thing, and then you can hear it go to orchestra, and then you can hear the final thing. If one was so inclined, they could hear the development of a theme, how I work.
GM: In the culture that we live in now, where people listen to DVD commentaries and watch behind-the-scenes features so frequently, there would seem to be a real interest in seeing exactly how something like that comes together.
DE: I don't know whether this type of person who's really interested in this … level of minutiae and detail, whether it's 10 people, hundreds or thousands, but it doesn't matter. That's who we put this together for. However many or few they are. The book, the same thing. At first I thought, this is going to be viewed as the most self-indulgent thing ever. I would die if I read that. Again, Richard was like, "No, no. … You have to think of this not as a biography but really extensive liner notes."
GM: How much of an impact would you say your partnership with Tim has had on your composing career? Didn't he initially come to you to ask you to score "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" before you had considered writing music for film?
DE: I'd never even thought of it. I was a film fan, and I was a film music fan. At that point, Bernard Herrmann was a god. I could listen to the scores of Max Steiner, Franz Waxman and [Erich] Korngold and identify them. I was really proud. I could hear something and go, "That's definitely Max Steiner," and Nino Rota was huge. I was a fan. Really it was almost like, the best way I can describe it, which I've often done: If you're a basketball fan and you've always got court-side seats, you're right there on the floor, and you know the game, and you're a fan of the game, and you know the moves, you know the players, but you're just a fan, and suddenly somebody threw you the ball and said, "Come on, get in the game." This was a case of going, "Well, what's the worst that could happen?" It was way off my radar, the idea of a fan becoming a player is not something a fan ever expects. My first reaction was actually to tell [Tim] no. I came home and met him, really liked him, I did an eight-track demo of a piece and sent it on a cassette, never expected to hear again, and two weeks later, I got the job. I said, "Tell him I can't do it." [For the record: A previous version of this post misspelled the first name of Nino Rota as Nina.]
Then I decided, I've never backed away from a challenge before, it's on his shoulders if I blow it. It will be a lesson, don't go to rock-and-roll guys for film scores. I did have this pre-Oingo Boingo background with the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo where I was writing music for an eight-piece ensemble. I decided if I could write for eight pieces, I could write for a dozen pieces. If you can write for a dozen pieces, you can write a film score. Even though my first score was 65 players, you're not writing 65 parts. You've got groups, you've got your violins, you have your cello, you've got your trombone and your French horns. You're not really necessarily writing for that many parts. Especially as I look back, it's a good thing "Pee-wee" was a very simple score. That was the first thing that struck me when I listened to it because I hadn't heard it in all these years.
Tim opened every door for me. Every score for the next 10 years opened up a new side of my career. "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" got me offered every quirky comedy … made in Hollywood. Out of the blue, I'm offered 10 movies, and they're all kind of contemporary, slightly — some of them were not so quirky — comedies. Then "Beetle Juice." Oh, fantasy, you can stretch out a bit more. Then "Batman," that was the roughest of my career — the time where I really had to fight for something — [it was,] "Oh, do a big movie." … Then "Edward Scissorhands" and it's like, ah, well, romantic, sure. Every one of those was opening up another door. Suddenly, the offers after each of those would be of a more diverse nature. By the time I got to "Batman," I wanted to keep doing it. I'd thought of my band as the day job, and this was my night job, my weekend job, my side project. By the time I got to "Batman," it was like, no, I'm enjoying this and was putting a tremendous amount of time [into] trying to learn the craft. Tim used to joke in between each of his films, I was doing four. "Pee-wee" was one, "Beetle Juice" was five, "Batman" was 10, my 10th film. "Edward" didn't quite make it to 15, I think it was 14 or 16 or something. He said, "How are you doing all of these films in between each of my films?" I told him, if I don't, I'm not going to be able to do each of your films because each film was asking more of me. I didn't want them all to be like "Pee-wee" with a different melody or different tone.
— Gina McIntyre
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Is Jaangle dead or will there be a new edition sometime in the future?
I think it is a pity that Jaangle, who is named the best music organizer ever shall die .
I gladly pay if someone pick it up but make it a pay-site
Unfortunately, I do not have such knowledge.


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Sorry about that Agincourt thing
It was around 1990 when a retired, very senior officer was giving a history lecture to a class of British officer candidates, reminding them that the 20th was the first century since the Norman Conquest of 1066 that Britain and France had never been at war with one another.
"There's still 10 years left," came a voice from the back rows.
Britain and France are, in defense terms, the most similar countries in Europe. They spend about the same percentage of their GDP on defense and together account for almost half of military spending in Europe. Their armed forces are of similar strength (228,656 for France; 173,020 for the U.K.). They are Europe's two nuclear powers and were the main actors in the 2011 Libya campaign. Culturally, more Britons speak French than any other foreign language. Two major players in both defense industries—MBDA and Thales—are already cross-channel companies.
But the defense relationship has been fractious. The U.K has had close ties with the U.S., particularly on nuclear and intelligence matters, but France was long absent from NATO. When it came to major combat aircraft programs, Britain and Germany collaborated and France went its own way. Later, BAE Systems' transatlantic and global strategy ran counter to the Franco-German formation of EADS.
In 2012, however, it was Germany's turn to torpedo a Eurocentric industrial strategy: the EADS-BAE Systems merger. The idea made perfect sense. BAE Systems is too reliant on military sales and EADS on civilian business, notably Airbus. Both were seeking to redress the balance. But Germany, where the majority of EADS's military division, Cassidian, is based, felt threatened. Even if EADS's CEO Tom Enders is German, the answer from his government was a firm "nein"—delivered, rather embarrassingly, after the companies had declared their intention to merge.
But if "static" is the best way to describe defense cooperation in Europe's industrial sphere, that is not the case among the armed forces of France and Britain where sometimes personal initiatives, and sometimes government steps, such as the signature in November 2010 of the Lancaster House treaties, have led to a positive trend in cooperation.
One of the objectives in those treaties is to set up a Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF), composed of two contingents of 5,000 from the army, navy and air forces of each country, plus a carrier strike group. The CJEF would be at the disposal of France and the U.K. but would also be available for NATO or European Union missions.
Encouraged by this, and on the initiative of their respective squadron leaders, French and British combat aircraft units' squadrons held a joint exercise in mid-October in which—for the first time—Rafales and Typhoons flew together as Blue forces, while Red comprised French Hawkeyes and Alpha Jets.
A few days later, the two-week Corsican Lion naval exercise was held in the Mediterranean to test the ability of British and French navies and marines to work together. They were based on France's Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier. A question mark now hangs over the feasibility of having a joint carrier strike group, because Britain's decision to equip its future aircraft carrier Prince of Wales with a ramp for F-35B Joint Strike Fighters rather than catapults means that France's naval Rafales will not be able to take off from it. (On the other hand, the U.K.'s alternative, the F-35C, would likely have been too heavy for the French carrier.)
The two nations are also cooperating on individual programs such as the Watchkeeper reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle (UAV), and have made progress on collaborating in the cyberdefense field.
Ambitions to collaborate on a medium-altitude, long-endurance (Male) UAV, and to blend the results of the French-led Neuron and U.K. Taranis unmanned combat air vehicle projects, have made less progress. In the case of a Male vehicle, German, British and French politics are entangled with competition from outside Europe. EADS tried to promote its Talarion design, but gave up the effort in early 2012. Dassault, meanwhile, has taken a two-track approach. In the medium term, it has formed the Voltigeur consortium with Israel Aerospace Industries to offer France a version of the Heron-TP, while working with BAE Systems on the Telemos project, based on the latter's twin-engine Mantis demonstrator. However, there is still no firmly identified or funded requirement.
On the UCAV side, the Lancaster House agreements led to a joint Dassault-BAE study of an operational vehicle to build on experience with the Neuron and Taranis. The two vehicles are closely similar. Both are blended wing-body "manta" configurations, they use the same engine and are intended to demonstrate autonomous search and semi-autonomous attack modes (that is, with an operator on the ground confirming the target and authorizing weapon release). Taranis is expected to fly within a few months of Neuron, which took to the air on Dec. 1.
The question is when, if ever, the U.K. and France will have the funds to develop Telemos, let alone a Neuron/Taranis-class vehicle. Both nations' tactical airpower funds are spoken for well into the next decade.
Intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance could be an area for collaboration. With the deep U.K.-U.S. relationship on signals intelligence, it is not surprising that the U.K. chose the U.S. RC-135—named Airseeker—to replace the Nimrod R1. However, another gap problem—maritime surveillance—remains unresolved. After the Nimrod MRA4 was canceled in the Strategic Defense and Security Review of 2010, previously extant agreements with, among other nations, the U.S., Canada and Norway, have continued to fill the breach. "The idea that we—or, frankly, anybody—could afford to do this entirely on our own is one that I just do not think is realistic," Nick Harvey, the Armed Forces minister, told the Defense Committee last May.
Nuclear issues continue to form a divide between the U.K. and France, but could intrude into European politics. Although nothing will be decided in 2013, an issue set to dominate the British psyche—and with considerable ramifications beyond the British Isles —is the question of Scottish independence. A referendum has been scheduled for the third quarter of 2014, and although polls at present suggest those campaigning for Scotland to leave the union will fail, there is plenty of time for the "no" lobby's lead to be overtaken.
The issue is of particular concern because of the questions it raises over the future of the U.K.'s nuclear deterrent. The Scottish National Party, which is likely to win an election in an independent Scotland, is avowedly anti-nuclear. Alex Salmond, the first minister of Scotland and SNP leader, has suggested that an independent Scotland would insist on the removal of the Trident missile system and submarines from its territory.
Although London is downplaying the issue—Defense Minister Philip Hammond told the BBC in late October that a "yes" vote in the referendum was not expected, and therefore no contingency planning was being made in Westminster regarding re-basing the Trident away from Scotland, it is clear that moving the Trident infrastructure is not a viable short-term option.
The Faslane base on the Clyde is undergoing expansion as part of a plan to relocate all Royal Navy submarines to the base by 2017. Faslane is already Scotland's largest employer, and cost estimates for replicating its capabilities elsewhere vary from considerable to astronomical. Similarly, the Coulport site, where missiles are stored, would need to be replicated outside an independent Scotland. Alternative sites, such as Barrow or Plymouth, would require extensive and expensive modification, which would take at least a decade to implement.
Salmond—who suggests that British Trident equipment could be moved to France or the U.S.—has noted that if Scotland refuses to host Trident, the U.K. may well end up having to decommission its nuclear deterrent.
The defense posture of an independent Scotland creates a host of issues to juggle, but the suggestion that an Edinburgh government could effectively force the U.K. into nuclear disarmament is potentially the most divisive. In evidence to (the London) Parliament's Defense Committee, Prof. Malcolm Chalmers, research director at the Royal United Services Institute, was blunt in his assessment of the political maneuvering that could take place.
"If a Scottish government said, 'Right, we want to be non-nuclear, and we want to do it now, these submarines have to be back in England by next Tuesday'," he argued, "the U.K. government would say: 'OK, you want our support to become members of the European Union; you want the Bank of England to support your currency, or to share a currency with the U.K.; you want to have free trade and you want your Scottish personnel to be able to serve with the U.K. Armed Forces: well, get real. We have needs as well'."
Given such serious outstanding issues, expanding cross-channel defense collaboration, while promising, is not going to happen without assertive leadership.


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February 14 - March 28, 2018
Lent This Year
offers us all a very special opportunity to grow in our relationship
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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. - After nearly a decade serving as a key member in Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's administration, Director of Economic Development William M. Mooney, III is stepping down from his position to take a job in banking.
On Friday, Mooney told Daily Voice what he told Astorino more than a month ago: he is resigning from the position he has held since June 2014 to become the Senior Vice President Group Director at Signature Bank, based out of White Plains.
With Mooney stepping away, Astorino's Chief of Staff George Oros is slated to take over as the new Director of the Office of Economic Development. Deputy Communications Director Phil Oliva will become Chief of Staff.
Mooney, a lawyer by practice, began serving his home county in January 2010, when he left the law firm he was a partner at to become the Chief Advisor of Governmental Operations. He took over as the Director of the Office of Economic Development and Acting Executive Director of the Industrial Development Agency (IDA) four years later.
"The opportunity to work here has availed me the opportunity to work in so many different sectors, whether it's healthcare, real estate development, not-for-profits, or otherwise," said Mooney, a Yonkers resident. "Now I have this opportunity to work in a field that affords me the ability to touch many of those worlds and industries I've worked in.
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At Signature Bank, Mooney said he will have his hands in every facet of the industry, from commercial or asset-based lending to more traditional banking services.
"In the last three and a half years as director of economic development, the overall picture was about attracting and retaining businesses, but another thing we do is collaborate, putting things and people together to benefit all involved," he added. "I've been privileged to work in a number of sectors, so this is a unique opportunity to utilize those relationships I've established to see if I can help out on the banking side."
Mooney said that while he will miss the personal relationships and being directly able to benefit his community, he hopes to continue the good work he started in Westchester, just from a seat in his office at Signature Bank.
"The thing I'll miss most is the ability to serve the public, which is really a wonderful thing. Often, public servants get a bad rap, but there's a lot of really good people working on behalf of the people of Westchester with the ability to make impact and change," he added.
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The Big Green, in a race for a top-four spot in the ECAC, posted a 3-2 victory over St. Lawrence at Appleton Arena in Canton, N.Y.
Freshman Tim O'Brien scored two goals and senior captain Mike Keenan netted the third as the No. 19 Big Green improved to 9-8-3 in league play and 13-10-4 overall. With one more weekend of regular-season play, the Big Green have 21 points, tied with Yale for fourth and only two points out of second place. The top four spots receive first-round byes and home ice advantage in the conference quarterfinals.
Freshman netminder Charles Grant was up to the task of stopping the most dangerous offensive team in the ECAC, finishing the night with 25 saves and his fifth win of the year (5-4-1). Grant was superb in his previous start, as well, a 5-4 triumph over Colgate last Saturday in Hanover.
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A person familiar with the NFL negotiations told The Associated Press that players would not vote Wednesday on a deal to end the lockout.
The person said there remained work to do to finalize an agreement between owners and players. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the process was supposed to remain confidential.
The NFL Players Association's executive committee and representatives of all 32 teams met Wednesday in Washington, but some participants left in the afternoon after reviewing portions of a tentative deal. A second person told the AP on condition of anonymity that players were going to relay information to teammates.
It's possible players will vote Thursday.
Early Wednesday, NFLPA president Kevin Mawae cautioned not to assume the lockout will be over by the weekend, saying that his group was "not tied" to a deadline for getting a deal done in the next 24 hours.
"We want to go back to work," Mawae said outside NFLPA headquarters in the morning, "but we will not agree to a deal unless it's the best deal for the players."
If the four-month lockout — the NFL's first work stoppage since 1987 — is going to end in time to keep the preseason completely intact, the players and owners almost certainly must ratify the deal by Thursday. The St. Louis Rams and Chicago Bears are scheduled to open the preseason Aug. 7 in the Hall of Fame game.
"Our goal today is to see what is on the table and discuss outlying issues," Mawae said. "The players are not tied to a July 21 timeline. Our timeline is that which gives us the best deal for the players — today, tomorrow or whatever it might be."
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and nine of the 10 members of the owners' labor committee arrived at a hotel near the Atlanta airport on Wednesday, so they could decide whether to recommend a finalized proposal to all club owners, who are due to be there Thursday
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, who is on the labor committee, wasn't expected to participate because his wife died Wednesday, at age 68, after a battle with cancer.
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One day after being fired as the Raiders head coach, Hue Jackson is in full spin-control mode.
On Wednesday, Jackson took to the air to give his side about comments he made minutes after his team's season-ending loss to the San Diego Chargers, in which he said he wanted more control over the team and blamed his players for their play against the Chargers.
It's interesting to note that new general manager Reggie McKenzie said Tuesday at his introductory news conference that Jackson's comments after the Chargers game had "nothing to do with" Jackson being fired. He said everyone makes comments that they wish they could take back.
New owner Mark Davis said he didn't want to comment on Jackson's postgame remarks Jan. 1. That was the only question that Davis refused to answer, by the way.
Here's the transcript from Jackson's interview, courtesy of NFL Network:
On if he was caught off guard by being relieved of his duties by new Raiders general manager Reggie McKenzie:
"I was a little surprised, but I do understand the nature of pro football. Sometimes things that look like they should don't always end up like they should. So I understand. The Raiders did me a favor by giving me an opportunity, Al Davis did and I thank him for it. What a tremendous organization. My time there was awesome, the people at 1220 [Harbor Bay Parkway] who I worked with, they were tremendous – the staff was tremendous. I understand the nature of this business, but obviously I wish it would have went a different direction than it did."
On how he found out that he would no longer be the head coach of the Raiders:
"[Reggie McKenzie and I] didn't really get into too many of the details. Reggie was very forthcoming and just said, 'I'm going to make a change, I need to bring in my own guy,' which I understand. I knew that anytime a new GM comes in, they like to line themselves with their head coach, somebody that they want to bring in. At the end of the day, I can't fault him or anyone within the organization for feeling like they feel. I wish the situation was different but it's not."
On his news conference following the Raiders' final game of the season:
"I wish I could it take it back and say it differently so people could really understand what I was trying to say. I wasn't trying to say that I wanted to take total control of everything. When you work for the Raiders, you understand that Al Davis is first and foremost – you work for him. So I didn't get an opportunity to put everybody that I wanted on my staff or run the team to do with football operations the way that I see fit. I took the job and I knew the parameters of the job, and I accepted that. At the end, what was coming out of me was the emotion of a long season, being 8-8, losing to the Chargers with so much riding on the line: the opportunity to win the AFC West, to host a playoff game there at home, the opportunity to have the first nine-win season since 2002. I went and talked to the team, and what I normally do is I go in and take a shower and put on my clothes before I go see the media. I carried some things with me and that's a lesson learned for me that I don't think you can go in there [immediately]. You need to settle down first and really think through what you're saying. But what I said is what I felt. Not that I was trying to say I wanted to run everything; I just wanted to be able to feel like I knew there were some changes that needed to be made and I wanted to be able to make them, and I was trying to voice that. Not take total control or anything like that."
On any conversations he had with Mark Davis over the past couple of days:
"I didn't talk to Mark [before the decision was made]. I have not talked to Mark. Mark is a good man and I have spent a lot of time ever since the night that Coach [Al Davis] died; the person that told me was Mark – he came to my room and informed me of what had happened to Coach. I haven't had an opportunity to speak to him. I did text him and tell him thank you for the opportunity and to thank him and his family, and I wish him well. But at the end of the day, like I said he's the owner and he's going to make the decision of which direction the franchise runs and I have to accept that."
On the Raiders down the stretch of the regular season:
"We didn't finish; it's a term that I've always used. We didn't play as well as we could have down the stretch, and again that's what I was feeling after that San Diego game. We had so many opportunities, whether it was going to Miami, going to Green Bay, finishing at home against Detroit, went to Kansas City and then here comes San Diego. We weren't able to get it done and I don't have an excuse for that. At the end of the day, that's my charge: to make sure that we do [get it done], and we didn't. I know we played decently on offense, we didn't play as well as we could or should on defense and the players know that. They own up to that and they respect that. But at the end of the day we just didn't finish. When you don't finish this is what happens: you end up 8-8 and you end up out of the playoffs."
On if he wants to coach in 2012:
"There is no doubt I do. I love coaching, I love leading men and coaching guys. Whatever is going to happen is going to happen, but I'm going to take a couple of days to just relax and then let the chips fall where they may. There is a place out there for me someplace and I think I'll find it."
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Chelsea's pursuit of Radamel Falcao is over after big-spending Monaco met the €60 million release clause in the Atletico Madrid star's contract.
The Colombian striker could complete a move to Monaco as early as Monday in a deal worth €10m-a-year after tax as the club's Russian owner, Dmitry Rybolovlev, looks to build a side to win the Ligue 1 championship next season.
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Blues owner Roman Abramovich was also prepared to meet the release clause in Falcao's contract but the player's agent, Jorge Mendes, has now agreed a deal for his client to move to the Stade Louis II.
There have been suggestions in Spain that Falcao is desperate to play for Atletico's city rivals Real Madrid, with an escape clause likely to be included in his Monaco contract to allow him to leave either in January or next summer.
Chelsea's attempts to sign the former Porto man had been complicated by third-party ownership issues - with Mendes part of a consortium holding an interest in Falcao - and his demands for a salary package worth around €295,000-a-week to move to Stamford Bridge.
As Real Madrid coach Mourinho prepares to formally re-join Chelsea at the end of the season, he is targeting a first-class upgrade on current strikers Fernando Torres and Demba Ba.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pennsylvania Rep. Jim Gerlach, one of a shrinking number of Republican moderates in the U.S. House, said Monday he will retire from Congress at the end of this term.
Gerlach said it's "simply time for me to move on to new challenges and to spend more time with my wife and family."
The six-term congressman's decision opens up a district anchored in Philadelphia's western suburbs and rural areas on either side of Reading, as well as a coveted seat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Gerlach has routinely had relatively close elections, though the latest round of redistricting made his seat more GOP-friendly.
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But the focus today is on bank earnings, headlined by positive earnings surprises from J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs. While Goldman's results show all-around strength, the market may not be as enthusiastic about JPM's results given the shortfall on the revenue front and net interest margin pressures. Results at U.S. Bancorp (USB) were along the lines of JPM, beating on earnings, but coming short on the top line.
Earnings growth expectations for the Finance sector as a whole had come down in recent days following the banks' major foreclosure related settlement, with the negative revision particularly pronounced for Bank of America (BAC) which experienced a roughly $2 billion negative swing in expected earnings. But the roughly 43% increase in JPM's fourth quarter earnings this morning should help offset some of that weakness. As of this morning, the composite fourth quarter earnings growth for the Finance sector (combining the results that have come out with those still to come) stands at 9.2%. This compares to earnings growth of +23.3% for the sector in the third quarter.
The overall scorecard for all sectors shows a total 36 fourth quarter 2012 earnings reports as of this morning, with total earnings growth for this Finance-heavy group of 36 companies at up +22.8% from the same period last year. Outside of Finance, total earnings growth for the 36 companies that have reported results are up only +2% from the same period.
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Nashville, Tenn. - The Tennessee State volleyball team defeated Eastern Illinois in straight sets (25-16, 25-15, 25-18) on Sunday afternoon in Kean Hall.
Sophomore outside hitter Rachel Ambroch led TSU (8-8, 3-1 OVC) with 14 kills and a .778 hitting percentage, while freshman middle blocker Lindsay Hornsby chipped in with 12 kills of her own.
Junior setter Erika Moss recorded another 30-plus assist match, recording 36 to go along with eight digs. Moss' eight digs were second highest on the team, trailing only senior libero Britani Hathorn who had 15.
The Tigers benefitted from five EIU errors and kills from four different players to jump out to an early 11-6 first set lead. Later in the frame, Hornsby became the fifth Tiger to record a kill, and a block forced EIU to use its first timeout of the period. The timeout did little to stop the TSU attack as Moss recorded her first kill in the match to extend the Tigers' lead to six. The Panthers used another timeout when senior defensive specialist Calasia Williams notched a service ace, but Ambroch had two of her six set kills to put the Tigers in the lead, 1-0.
The Tigers hit an impressive .478 during the first set, and only allowed EIU to hit .045.
After switching ends of the court, EIU took an early 5-3 advantage. The Tigers responded with three kills from Hornsby and one from sophomore outside hitter Sherryce Butler to take the lead, 8-6. A service ace from Hathorn later in the period forced the Panthers to call for a stoppage of play. After the timeout, EIU gained one point, but Ambroch and sophomore outside hitter Naomi Wells tallied more kills to put the score at 17-10 in favor of TSU. Butler became a force down the stretch, recording three kills before an attack from Ambroch allowed the Tigers to take set two.
It was a strong frame from Ambroch, as she tallied five kills in five chances for a perfect 1.000 hitting percentage.
Butler started the third period with a kill and the Tigers clawed to an early 9-5 advantage. From there, EIU mounted a small charge on the heels of multiple TSU errors. The comeback was short-lived however, as Butler slammed home a kill to make the score 15-10. Back-to-back points from freshman Emilie Sandve Aase extended the Tigers' lead to six and forced the Panthers to use a timeout. The timeout did little to change the outcome of the match as Wells tallied a kill to give the Tigers their eighth win of the season.
The loss dropped Eastern Illinois' record to 3-12 and 0-4 in conference play.
The Tigers' next matches will be at home on Oct. 5 and Oct. 6 against Tennessee Tech and Jacksonville State, respectively.
Hear Moss' thoughts on the match below:
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UNIONDALE, N.Y. -- It wasn't quite "The Shift," but it may get just get the Flyers back on track.
From the opening puck drop, Flyers captain Claude Giroux backed up his harsh words from Saturday night in Montreal with a 3-point effort on Monday.
Giroux scored 26 seconds into the game off a rebound from Matt Read's shot, as the Flyers blew the Islanders' doors off in a 7-0 railroading. His line also scored 15 seconds into the second period of Monday's matinee, the 4th time they've scored in the first minute of a period this season.
Turns out, a trip to the Nassau Mausoleum cures all that ails.
The Flyers are 28-3-1 against the Islanders since 2007, and an impeccable 28-6-1 in the NHL's second-oldest building since 1999. No truth to the rumor that the Islanders were just saving up energy for the day/night doubleheader they've got scheduled.
By the end of the rout, the Flyers had even stopped celebrating their goals. When you take out the Flyers' two major drubbings this season (14-1 combined wins over Florida and the Islanders), they've scored just 31 goals in 14 games (2.2 goals per-game).
Giroux's line combined for 3 goals and 7 assists. Jake Voracek (4 assists) netted his first career 4-point game in the new-look line combination, Read added a goal and 2 assists and Giroux posted 2 goals and one assist.
However positive the outing, Giroux still boarded the Flyers' post-game charter flight without his first career regular season hat trick. (He had one in the playoffs last year against the Penguins, the Flyers' next opponent.)
Monday marked the Flyers' first shutout of the season and Ilya Bryzgalov's first shutout since a 3-0 blanking of the Devils on March 13, 2012. Islanders coach Jack Capuano left Bryzgalov's countryman Evgeni Nabokov in net to suffer through all 7 goals at the other end of the ice.
Bryzgalov got help from the penalty kill, which staved off a 2-minute, 5-on-3 disadvantage while leading just 1-0 in the first period. The Flyers' penalty kill has reeled off 20 straight kills and they're now 37-for-39 (94.8 percent) over the last 10 games.
With his first goal of the season, Zac Rinaldo joined the party on the scoresheet in the third period to pile on.
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text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Tax refund procedures Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Tax refund procedures Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Next Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> FAQ View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message Ed ProvencherJoined: 15 Oct 2006 Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: Tax refund procedures I know how to get my pension refund, but I'm not sure if I am eligible for a tax refund too. I did a search and didn't find any specific information from anyone who has sought a tax refund from Korea. Have any of the Americans here ever received a tax refund on their way out of Korea? Back to top ttompatzJoined: 05 Sep 2005Location: Kwangju, South Korea Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:50 pm Post subject: Re: Pension refund... Okay! Tax refund??? Ed Provencher wrote: I know how to get my pension refund, but I'm not sure if I am eligible for a tax refund too. I did a search and didn't find any specific information from anyone who has sought a tax refund from Korea. Have any of the Americans here ever received a tax refund on their way out of Korea? Contact the foreign tax advocate on the tax website. http://www.nts.go.kr/eng/ Back to top Ed ProvencherJoined: 15 Oct 2006 Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject: Thanks. Do you know how to set up a password there? Back to top sjk1128Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:05 pm Post subject: Taxes in Korea There are several threads about this. I learned a lot about the tax rules because I was in a dispute last year with my employer. In general, your employer should file your tax return for you. It's called a "year end tax settlement." At that point, any difference should be settled in your next paycheck. The year end tax settlement should be calculated immediately after the last pay period for the year (at the end of December or beginning of January). Because of lots of confusion about the tax rules and tax rates for foreigners -- and lots of fraud by employers, there is a guide written in English and Korean to clarify how taxes should be handled for foreign teachers. There is also an online calculator in English so the foreign teacher will have an idea if he/she is due a refund and how much it should be. You'll need to enter your information including your total salary, pension paid, taxes paid, health insurance paid etc. You can easily get these numbers by multiplying the amounts on your pay stubs by the number of months you worked during the year (or adding up individual months if they're different). The calculator will spit out a number at the end - which usually involves your employer owing you a chunk of change back because foreign employees get a 30% break on taxable income. The links below are to all the info for last year. This year should be similar or identical, but if anyone has seen new ones, please post them!!!! I'm assuming they'll be out by January 1, 2008. Tax home page http://www.nts.go.kr/eng/ Calculator http://www.nts.go.kr/eng/front/jungsan2006/refer_2006jungsan_eng.asp Guide for foreign English teachers http://www.nts.go.kr/front/service/publish_book/valgan_book_view.asp?news_seq=5808 (Then click on the link to the guide.) You can print the guide and the results when you run the calculator and give it to your employer so he/she will be aware that you are aware how much you should be getting back at the end of the year. Then, if it isn't in your account within a reasonable amount of time, you can - and should- file a complaint at the nearest tax office with the help of a Korean friend. As I understand everything I read, the only time you may file taxes for yourself is if you are a resident of Korea or have several employers/ sources of income. This does not relieve your employer of his/her responsibility to file your taxes correctly. It is a supplemental form you may or may not need to file in May depending on your situation. If you are the typical E2 teacher who has one employer, it should all be done for you. As for exemption, you can read about the rules in the guide to see if you are exempt. That depends on the treaty your country has with Korea and your specific employment situation. In many cases, it makes little difference: I could have claimed Korean tax exemption last year because I was a US citizen working for a public school who was not a Korean resident at the start of my contract. However, I was eligible for a refund of all but 30,000 won anyway, and chose to go that route as it was easier and cheaper for me in that it did not involve my paying for the form from the IRS and having it sent to Korea (more than 30,000). BTW, lots of people will give you incorrect information and stupid advice about things like this here. My favorite was "They're your taxes, so you should file the return, right?" (...as if every process, government or otherwise, is handled the same in all countries/ cultures...) Do not listen to them - or me either for that matter. Read the guide and all the information on the tax page for yourself. You may be due a refund of 1m or more. It's worth it, right? Back to top Ed ProvencherJoined: 15 Oct 2006 Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject: Thank you very much! Back to top Ed ProvencherJoined: 15 Oct 2006 Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject: So it seems that, after reading the "Income Tax Guide For Foreigners", that I am not eligible for a tax exempt status. The guide gives two examples of teachers from the USA. The first example "John" gets a refund and the second example "Sara" does not. The main difference is that John works for a government-recognized educational institution such as a public school or university. Sara works for a private academy. I do too. You should read it yourself if you are curious about the details, but here is the section that answered my question: Quote: In conclusion Sara is taxable according to Korean income tax law, because she doesn't meet all the requirements for income tax exemption which are described in the tax convention (between Korea and the US government). Even though Sara works for an English academy for a year and a half (not exceeding 2yrs), and for the purpose of teaching, the private English academy is not a government-recognized educational institution. She teaches English for the purpose of private benifit. Back to top sjk1128Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject: You're right: as I understand it you're not eligible for an exemption if you work for a private academy. However, you may be eligible for a refund of almost all the taxes you paid. Plug your numbers in the calculator. If you had more than one employer during the year or have items which qualify you for deductions that your employer may not know about (credit card expenditure, education or medical expenses, etc.), it is your responsibility to get that information to your employer before the end of the year. He or she will already know about the deductions for which virtually everyone qualifies: pension, medical insurance, etc. The employer you worked for the longest or are currently working for at the end of the year is responsible for doing the year end settlement and getting you your total refund once you supply him or her with all the information about your deductions. If you're in the position of most E2 teachers in Korea for one year, you have nothing to submit but should receive almost a full refund the following January of any taxes taken out of your check. Don't let your boss cheat you out of 1,000,000 won!!! Back to top restlessJoined: 24 Oct 2007 Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:49 am Post subject: Hmm -- I wonder if a private elementary school would qualify. It's a government-recognized 초등학교 but it's still private. Back to top mooseheadJoined: 05 May 2007 Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: do you know who we should contact if it's in regards to a public school? that is, who files the taxes, the district office, the school itself? SMOE? (seoul public school office) this is excellent info - thanks for posting - i've asked about taxes before and never received good info. Back to top sjk1128Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 7:22 pm Post subject: According to the NTS website, the employer has to complete the year end tax settlement by the first pay date in January. At a public school, it is done by the school bookkeepers/ accountants. At private businesses, it should be done by whoever does the bookkeeping: e.g. the owner, accountant, etc. The dispute I had with the accountant at my school last year was because he first refused to show me the year end settlement he had done. He then showed me a year end settlement on which he had inexplicably declared me a part-time self-employed person -- who was therefore not due a refund. However, such a classification would have also meant he never should have been deducting taxes on me in the first place. Besides, there was no way to justify that classification because I was employed full-time there and could not have gotten my E-2 visa otherwise.... In the end, it got kind of nasty and I had to go to the district tax office to file a complaint. That office eventually wrote him a letter ordering him to file my taxes correctly and pay me my refund. Apparently, this kind of thing is a huge problem. The head of the NTS just resigned over corruption and bribes, right? (I read that in the news somewhere.) Frankly, I didn't get the impression that the main Busan tax office was any more honest than our school accountant. I think they just wanted me to go away and were willing to give me the 1m won the law said was mine to get me to shut up and leave them alone. I'm fully prepared to go through the same process this year if necessary. Dealing with 2-3 letters and 4-5 nasty, frowny Koreans for a total of 2-3 hours of my life is worth 1m won to me. Again, I suggest that anyone reading this who feels likewise read the foreign English teacher's guide and the tax return guide on the main NTS website. Then plug your numbers in the calculator. If you're due a refund and don't get one by the end of January, give 'em hell -- with a slight smile and the nicest possible attitude of course. I find endless politeness and never losing your temper - while firmly demanding the money owed you - a potent combination when dealing with crooked Korean employers. (BTW, I don't think a private elementary school would qualify as a government organization and would therefore not allow you to claim an exemption. You will probably, however, be due a refund of most fo the money you paid in taxes all year anyway.) Back to top jadariteJoined: 01 Sep 2007Location: Andong, Yeongyang, Seoul, now Pyeongtaek Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject: I saw many job offers for 2.2 million won/month. Can someone who knows the tax refund guidelines post what the refund should be taking into account the average amount deducted at each pay? This way, others would have a yardstick of comparison. If you have more taken out, you can then expect a refund. If there was less taken out, then maybe you won't qualify. Fighting this with simple, direct, and upfront info is the best way I think to stop bad employers from taking advantage of naive employees. Let's get the averages out there people. Post the numbers!! Back to top jadariteJoined: 01 Sep 2007Location: Andong, Yeongyang, Seoul, now Pyeongtaek Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 8:33 pm Post subject: "She teaches English for the purpose of private benifit." LOL, and the one who works for the government is doing it for the betterment of society? Back to top sjk1128Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject: According to the NTS webpage, if you earn 2.2 million, your monthly tax withheld should be 45,140. That works out to about 2 %. I usually hear that hagwons withhold 3.5 % "standard tax." Your pension withheld should be 4.5%, or (in this case) 99,000. My health insurance costs me about 55,000 per month, so I'll just fly with that number - and the higher tax because I've never heard of a Korean employer deducting that little for tax (even though that number comes right off the NTS webpage). Assuming you have no other deductions (for credit card spending, education or medical expenses, dependents, etc.) and worked the whole year, the calculator - for which there is a link above - yields this Salary 26,400,000 (2,200,000*12) Tax Pre-paid 924,000 (3.5%, or 77,000*12) Pension Premium 1,188,000 (4.5%, or 99,000*12) Medical Insurance Premium 660,000 (55,000*12) Final Tax Liability 135,720 Taxes Due -788,280 In this scenario, this is how much your boss would owe you back in your first month's paycheck the following year. Obviously, that will change if you have more deductions or more tax has been withheld. Just plug your numbers in the calculator. It takes all of 1-2 minutes to see what you should be getting back. There's also a calculator on the main webpage that tells you how much your boss should be withholding to start with.... Back to top Ed ProvencherJoined: 15 Oct 2006 Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:08 am Post subject: Salary 39,500,000 (I added up my pay stubs) Tax Pre-paid 1,593,000 (I added up my pay stubs) Pension Premium 1,777,500 (4.5% of 39,500,000) Medical Insurance Premium 660,000 (55,000*12) Final Tax Liablity 551,025 Taxes Due - 1,041,970 I'm wondering... do we pay taxes on the year-end bonus? Should that be included in the calculations?Last edited by Ed Provencher on Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:28 am; edited 1 time in total Back to top jadariteJoined: 01 Sep 2007Location: Andong, Yeongyang, Seoul, now Pyeongtaek Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:53 am Post subject: Thanks for both of your replies. Does "Final Tax Liability" represent how much is estimated? Does "Taxes Due" represent the actual amount? Does this mean Ed owes 490,945? Does this mean sjk1128 is owes... Well, I don't know why it is negative, so I'll stop there. Can either of you guys spell out the bottom 2 figures regarding taxes? 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