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CalderaFest will be returning in 2017. The festival was a landmark event bringing together Pagan musicians from around the globe for four days of fun. Organizer David Banach said, "I decided to do CalderaFest again mostly because the first one was simply pure magic." The 2016 festival was held in Lafayette, Georgia over May's long Memorial Day weekend. Most attendees agreed that, despite the problems, CalderaFest was a unique and powerful experience .
Acknowledging that the various problems, Banach said, "I see them as opportunities to make the next one better." He added that organizers will be making changes both big and small. "We are cutting back on the scale of things. Having 30 acts play on the stage in 3 days was a logistical challenge. Unfortunately, some set times and sound quality suffered […] We are going to reduce the number of vendors a bit and modify the vendor area so it is a more pleasing area for all. […] The stage is going to be slightly relocated. We will turn it almost 90 degrees to keep it out of the direct sun and to face it toward the vendors. We are also looking into a canopy for the front to provide shade for the audience." As for complaints about the heat, dirt and dust, he said, "We can't control them, really we are taking steps to reduce their influence."
One step to reducing that influence and perhaps the biggest event change is the scheduled date. The 2017 festival will be held in early October rather than late May. Banach said, "I was honestly concerned for the safety of some people. I, myself blacked out on Saturday." Moving the date to autumn will eliminate the heat problem, as October is one of the most popular camping times in Georgia due to its mild temperatures.
Originally, the fest was moved to Labor Day weekend in late August. Banach explained, "We very quickly realized that was an error and we needed to correct it. First, the heat problem would be there, possibly worse. Second and mostly was its clash with Dragon*Con in Atlanta. I must have received 70 or 80 messages in 2 days myself about this." The festival is now scheduled for Oct 5-9, 2017 at Cherokee Farms in Lafayette, GA.
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The Michigan Pagan Scholarship Fund (MPSF) awarded its annual scholarship to Pete Ryland Shoda, III. Shoda is a graduate of the West Michigan Aviation Academy, and will be continuing his studies at Grand Rapids Community College and Northwestern Colleges. Shoda plans to earn a Bachelor's Degree in Aviation Operations.
Shoda's essay, which is posted in full on the scholarship's website, is titled, "What Being Pagan Means to Me." It reads in part, "Being Pagan means that I have a lot to live up to. The God's [sic] and Goddesses are watching me, Mother Nature is watching me, and the wind is listening to me, carrying my spells, chants and requests to the Universe. Always helping, always taking care to leave a small mark, always being a good person to others, taking care of the Earth, giving back when I can. These are some of the things that being Pagan means to me."
The Michigan Pagan Scholarship Fund was created after the Tempest Smith Foundation closed its doors in 2014. In response, five organizations, including the Universal Society of Ancient Ministries, Magical Education Council, Pagan Pride Detroit, Witches of Michigan and Witches Ball, decided that the foundation's scholarship program was vital to their community. The group came together to pick up the project and, since 2014, have been annually awarding the $500 scholarship to winners.
All recipients must be high school seniors, residents of Michigan and Pagan (or a child of Pagan parents). Fund Chairman Gordon Ireland said, "The Michigan Pagan Scholarship purpose is to recognize and encourage young Pagans. Only one scholarships is awarded each year, winners must demonstrate evidence of leadership, and engage in community service."
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The Troth announced the election of its new Steersman (President) and High Rede (Board of Directors). As noted in a press release, "Robert Lusch Schreiwer took his oath of office as Steersman at Trothmoot at Fort Flagler, WA, on Saturday, June 11." Schreiwer is founder of the Urglaawe and is a Ziewer (godsman) of Distelfink Sippschaft, located in Pennsylvania. He has been serving The Troth as its Associate Steer under former Steersman Steve Abell.
The new Associate Steer is Lagaria "Gari" Farmer, who has been serving the Troth since 2006 as a Steward from Tennessee and has been serving on the High Rede since 2013. Both she, Lisa Morgenstern and John T. Mainer were all reelected to the High Rede for the coming term. Morgenstern is the Southern California Steward and a member of Hrafn Skjoldr Kindred. Mainer is the western Canada and Military Steward, and serves as Freyr of the Heathen Freehold. Mainer will also be the organization's new communication officer.
New faces on the Rede include Joanna Spinks and Mikki Fraser. Spinks is the Assistant High Steward of western Pennsylvania, and the founder and leader of The Hearth Of Yggdrasil. Mikki is a godhi (godsman) and co-founder of Vargulf Kindred based in northern Nevada. Other Rede members, who were not up for election, include: Officer Liaison Amanda Leigh-Hawkins, Tanya Peterson, Hrafn Skald, ande Brian K. Jenkins.
We will be bringing you more about the Troth under its new management this week.
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Raymond Buckland created a stir last week after weighing in on the hexing debate. In a public Facebook post, he wrote, "So very sorry to see so many people who call themselves 'witches' talking about hexing people. Just undoing all the work that we pioneers worked so hard to do.WITCHES DO NOT HEX PEOPLE; DO NOT DO NEGATIVE MAGIC – period! Send out love. Find a POSITIVE way to change someone, if you really feel that necessary. (I wouldn't mind betting that these people haven't got the power to hex the skin off a rice-pudding anyway!) In love and light — Ray Buckland."
Almost immediately, Buckland's post went "viral," garnering both support and backlash. It was shared 611 times on Facebook alone and earned passionate commentary across social media. Only four hours after making that statement, Buckland followed up with this: "We all walk on different paths and must all be accountable for ourselves. I can only speak for what I have learned and what I teach. In the early days of the Craft in the U.S. a number of us worked long and hard to try to get rid of the misconceptions of witchcraft; the belief that witches worked evil magic and cast curses/hexes on others. To me it is a shame to see all that work being undermined in many ways. But I have spoken my piece. Perhaps it's good that it has started a discussion?"
In Other News:
- Everglades Moon Local Council (EMLC), the Florida chapter of Covenant of the Goddess, is hosting a vigil for the victims of the Orlando attacks. In a Facebook event page, EMLC coordinators write, "Join the Witches and Wiccans of Everglades Moon Local Council as we hold space for the victims of the Pulse Nightclub shooting. We ask that people of all faiths join us to remember the victims and send loving, healing energies to their families and friends, and for our nation as a whole. We invite you to participate no matter where you are." Participants can join them from anywhere in the world. It will begin at 9 pm ET.
- Pagan filmmaker and Wild Hunt writer Dodie Graham McKay has announced pre-production of a new 15-minute documentary project titled, "Starry Skies." The film will feature amateur astronomer, Pagan author and teacher Kerr Cuhulain and highlight what the night sky looked like and what it meant in world without artificial light. With the help of Cuhulain, Starry Skies "will offer viewers an earthy version of [the Overview Effect], challenging us to restore our spiritual connection to our land and environment, by looking to the stars, and seeing them again for the profound markers of space and time that they are." Graham McKay has received a grant from BravoFactual and hopes to begin production in August.
- Other news out of Canada, Gaia Gathering has announced the location for its 2017 conference. It will be held at the Clarion Hotel in Calgary from May 19-22. The theme is "Rhythm and Flow." Gaia Gathering is an biannual Canadian Pagan conference that moves from city to city and is held over the long Victoria Day weekend.
- Immanion Press / Megalithica Books has announced a call for submissions for its new anthology titled Trans Pagan: Life at the Intersection of Faith and Gender. As noted on the website, "The vision for this anthology is to include a combination of academic and personally inspired pieces that explore the experience of transgender lives within a Pagan context." The anthology editor is Deirdre Hebert, a transgender Pagan "whose writing career ranges from technical writing to radio news copy. She is the host of PaganFM – one of the longest-running Pagan podcasts and radio programs." The submissions are due Sept 1.
- The Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, Cornwall is already thinking about October. The museum will be hosting a conference on Oct 15 titled "A Day of Talks on Halloween Past & Present." The event will be held at The Wellington Hotel in Boscastle and will celebrate the "2016 exhibition Glitter & Gravedust exhibition. Speakers include: Ronald Hutton, Judith Noble, Louise Fenton, Tommy Kuusela, Bekki Shining Bearheart, Dorothy L. Abrams and Mogg Morgan. Tickets are already on sale.


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Gotcha Fail: Rep. Frank Turns Tables on CNS
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The conservative Media Research Center-owned website CNSNews.com has a habit of springing loaded questions on members of Congress. For example, it asked Obama administration official John Holdren to explain something he wrote in a book published nearly 40 years ago.
Apparently feeling confident (and sufficiently homophobic), CNS decided to target Rep. Barney Frank with a question about the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell – specifically, whether he thought gay and straight soldiers should shower together. This was based on a statement calling for a ban on separate showers from the Pentagon's report on the impact of repealing DADT that CNS had previously singled out.
Frank saw this coming from a mile away. As CNS reporter Nicholas Ballasy slowly got out the words "shower with homosexuals," Frank let out an exaggerated gasp and responded, "What do you think happens in gyms all over America?" After calling it a "silly issue," Frank added, "What do you think goes wrong with people showering with homosexuals? Do you think it's the spray makes it catching? ... We don't get ourselves dry-cleaned."
Frank then turned the tables on his interviewer by quizzing Ballasy: "I know you're looking for some way to kind of discredit the policy. Do you think that gyms should have separate showers for gay and straight people? I'm asking you the question because that's the logic of what you're telling me. You seem to think that there's something extraordinary about gay men showering together. Do you think gyms should have separate showers for gay people and straight people?" Ballasy wouldn't answer, insisting that he was "just quoting the recommendation." Frank responded: "Don't be disingenuous. You're quoting those you think may cause us some problems. You're entitled to do that, but you shouldn't hide behind your views." Frank again asked the question of Ballasy, who again wouldn't answer, trying to change the subject: "So that's the question you would pose to people who have an issue with that part of the report, the recommendation?" Frank made his point one more time, and that's where the CNS ends the video.
The CNS article on Ballasy's gotcha interview ignores how Frank saw through his tactics, instead playing up the irrelevant point that Frank opposes opposite-sex soliders showering together. But give credit to CNS for posting the video of Frank using its reporter's gotcha tactics against him -- and thus providing other politicians with a how-to manual for the next time CNS pops up out of nowhere to fire a loaded question.
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The Opportunity for a Free Public Education in Utah. Our State Constitution requires that we provide a free public education for every child in the state. As such education is and should continue to be a top policy and funding priority for the Utah State Legislature.
Ensuring Appropriate Education Funding. I am one who believes that we do need to ensure sufficient funding and resources for our local schools. We must consistently work to use the money we have today more wisely as well as find ways to ensure sufficient funding to meet the challenges of our growing education system in the future. The best way to increase education funding is through a thriving economy, not just tax increases. Tax increases may offer a short term gains but they also have long term consequences that must be carefully evaluated. The law of unintended consequences is especially relevant when it comes to tax policy. The best way to grow our economy is to get our own state and federal government out of the way of small businesses, while enable a tax policy that provides consistent funding to invest in public education to support the growth of that economy. I believe this is a careful balance that we need to constantly monitor and adjust.
Local Decision Making. More local control over education is far better than more federal or even state control. It empowers parents and teachers to do what is best for the student and solve the local issues they face.
Local Budget Control. More of our education funding must make it all the way to the classroom so that our children get the best teachers, textbooks, and technology possible to ensure a great education. In addition, we need to empower our local schools to have the freedom to use their available budget how they see fit, rather than have the state mandate their budget usage.
Entice Innovation in Public Schools. We need to reward and recognize administrators and teachers for innovation in our public education system. The best ideas to achieve innovation come from those individuals actually dealing with the local school issues (principals, teachers and parents), not from top-down state and federal mandates. We need to enable and entice innovation in our public education system at that local level.
Transparency at all Levels. Transparency in government is essential, including at the local level. It gives parents and teachers the ability to monitor how education funding is being prioritized and spent and it reduces waste at all administrative levels. We need to continually improve the transparency in public education funding at all levels.
Direct Engagement. Finally, I am committed to personally staying engaged with our schools and school leadership through regular attendance to school board meetings, and regular visits to schools and teachers in my district, and regular engagement with concerned citizens in my district relative to education issues.


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A surprising number of people from a surprising number of different places, actually. Originally intended for residents of the West Hill area of Toronto, people are logging onto the West Hill News from all over the world.
The map above represents the log-ons from yesterday. Of course the main cluster, as intended, is located right here in West Hill and throughout southern Ontario, but we are also visited by an amazing number of people all down the East and West coasts of the United States.
Germany and Great Britain always generate a cluster of "hits" but so to do Australia and India. Westhillians vacationing down south are likely responsible for the cluster of hits we get from Mexico.
Both Japan and Nigeria are also often represented. Not on yesterday's map, but with surprising regularity.
So, to all of you out there, welcome and I hope you're enjoying your visit.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
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- BrownBullhead said...
I suspect I am your "Winnipeg" hit from January 18. :) Former resident here of Mornelle Court from 1976 to 2000. Your site is interesting. :)
- January 20, 2008 at 1:19 AM
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Thank you browbullhead, glad to have you with us!
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"How are things looking? When will the leopard race leave the mountain? . . ."
"Eric, another two people were hurt today. . ."
Eric was the grandson of the clan's oldest patriarch, but he was also the race's youngest and strongest warrior. He was kindhearted, and usually, people liked to ask him for help.
The leopard beastmen were disturbing their race, so Eric volunteered to go look at the mountains. Now, everyone was concerned.
However, the quick succession of questions were left unanswered as the clansmen caught sight of the petite woman behind Eric. Stunned, they all turned their attention to Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu.
Eric was of the reindeer race, and their general size was rather large. Both male and females were tall and strong.
Standing beside him, Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu did not even reach Eric's chest.
She was very small, slight in stature, with a thin neck that looked as though a pinch would snap it in two.
Compared to their bodies covered with hair, her smooth skin and hairless body was the appearance of a child not yet fully grown.
Faced with the doubts of his clansmen, Eric took the initiative to explain, "Her name is Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu, I met her on the mountain. She was separated from her race, and I invited her to stay overnight. She will leave the mountain after the danger is over."
Danger naturally referred to the leopard race.
The beastmen did not speak, and continued to stare at Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu with suspicion in their eyes.
This girl did not appear to be the same race as them, and she wore a strange style of dress. Wouldn't she just cause trouble?"
One could not blame these people for their thoughts. Recently, too many of their own had been injured, and everyone was endangered.
Eric was perceptive of everyone's thoughts so he quickly said, "She is like us, herbivorous. Smell it, she has the scent of peppermint."
At this remark, the reindeer beastmen raised there sensitive noses and really picked up the scent of grass.
In a split second, they lay down their guard and revealed friendly smiles to Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu.
"That being the case, it is better to live at my house. My family has a spare room."
"We have a new species of corn this year. I don't know if you would like to try it? I'll bring a little over."
"What is your race? You look like a minor, your parents will be worried."
. . .
The reindeer race really was friendly and good-natured.
Once aware that Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu was not a threat to them, they became very cordial.
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu barely managed to smile, her fingers tightly holding the sachet at her waist, which she quickly hid behind her.
In the end, Eric tactfully declined the clansmen's invitations and invited Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu back to his grandfather's place.
Eric's grandfather was called Barry, and he was the oldest and most prestigious elder of the race.
Both of Eric's parents died early, holding him in their arms.
"Grandpa, I brouht back a new friend," Eric said with a cheerful voice as he pushed open the gate.
An old man with a hunched back was drying mushrooms in the garden, and he slowly turned around when he heard Eric's words. . . If not for the antlers on his head, Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu would have thought him to be an ordinary old man.
The old man still had not turned to see who greeted him. "Eric, come help me set these mushrooms to dry in the sun. We have to store food before it becomes winter. . ." His line of sight fell on Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu and he immediately stopped.
Eric was very practiced in the way of introduction, "Grandpa, this is Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu. I met her on the mountain. . ."
Regardless of how shocked Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu was at that moment, she knew, that to survive, she had to integrate into them as soon as possible.
Therefore, she respectfully and obediently called, "Patriarch."
Barry's long face lost his smile and his hands dropped a fresh mushroom as he looked at Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu. After a long moment of silence, he slowly picked up the mushrooms dropped on the ground, "Oh. . . a new friend."
Eric nodded and continued, "She's gotten lost from her race. Grandpa, can we think of a way to help her find her way back?"
Barry was always tried not to hurt anyone, and he would rarely refuse those who asked something of him.
Eric's helpfulness and morality were inherited from him.
However, this time, he stared deeply at Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu and unexpectedly refused. "We won't be able to help her."
Eric was startled. He had not thought his grandfather would refuse so bluntly. "Why not? Every race has their own settlement. As long as we know what race she belongs to. . ."
Barry calmly interrupted, "Her race is not here."
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu's heart suddenly jumped and she looked up at Eric's grandfather.
But, after finishing this sentence, Barry said no more and turned back, walking silently into the wood cabin.
Eric scratched his cheek and comforted Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu, "Do not worry. With so many things happening recently, Grandpa may have said so to protect the race. You can rest assured that, since I promised to help you find your race, I will not go back on my word."
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu nodded inattentively and smiled at him, "Thank you, Eric."
Supper was a simmered soup served with rice, corn and wheat sprouts.
The raw corn and mushroom soup Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu found acceptable, but the sprouts were hard to swallow.
Luckily enough, Eric and his grandfather did not mind. Eric believed that she simply was not fond of wheat sprouts, so he gave her another bowl of mushroom soup.
After the meal, Eric when to his friend, Carter's, family to borrow some wood planks. There was a vacant house at the west side of the garden that was ventilated and clean, but it needed a bed.
Once Eric had left, Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu took the initiative to clean up the table and glanced at the old man weaving a mat in the courtyard.
After a long time of wavering, she shyly walked to the old man and asked hesitantly, "Patriarch, why did you say my race is not here?"
Barry stopped weaving the mat that was to give Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu a bed, "Where your race is, I think you should understand better than I."
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu originally held only a trace of hope in her chest, but to hear him say this, she was more convinced that he must know something.
He had said it well. Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu's race was not here, not even in this world anymore.
"Then . . . do you know how I can go back?" Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu continued to restrain herself, but nevertheless had to ask.
"I do not know," replied the patriarch without lifting his head.
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu hung her head. It came as no surprise, but she was still extremely disappointed.
After a while, the patriarch asked, "Does Eric know your real identity?"
"He doesn't. I did not tell him." Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu shook her head and pinched the hem of her coat, "Eric told me that. . . Is it true that humans went extinct seven hundred years ago?"
Barry nodded, his face tranquil, "Is true."
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu's heard crashed into the abyss.
The patriarch did not know what to think, so he turned to look into the distance. The bifurcated stag antlers also rose up, "Humans were the most intelligent and dangerous creatures since the beginning of time. They invented impossible things and changed many organisms. Unfortunately, they failed to adapt to the changes in the environment in the end and were reduced to such a state."
The old man's voice was distant. "Seven hundred years ago, the weather changed dramatically and the sky and earth turned upside down. The four seasons turned to chaos, the day and night continued without end, and while everything else began to adjust, humans, too, disappeared."
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu thought that there didn't seem to exist dusk and dawn here, and her chest tightened with fright.
The day and night turned so upside, causing the loss of dawn and dusk, happened after the seasons became chaotic?
Barry finished the well-made vine mat and eyed Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu, "Where are you from? Human survivors?"
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu shook her head, "No." How was she going to explain how she came here to the old man? "I do not know how I came here. When I tried to go back, I couldn't."
She clearly remembered falling from the cliff. There had been a force dragging her down.
As if it were deliberately pulling her to this world.
Barry didn't open his mouth to speak for a long time until he caught sight of Eric's figure from a distance. Then he slowly said, "This is the westernmost part of Asia. If you want to find out how to go back, it is better to go to the eastern sea. There is a turtle there, named Pat, that has lived for a very long time. He may be able to help you."
He had just finished when Eric pushed the gate open and entered, "Grandpa, what were you talking about?"
Barry shook the finished mat and said with a kind voice, "It's nothing. Go make the bed. It's going to be dark soon."
Eric smiled at Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu, showing his teeth, and turned to carry the pile of planks on his shoulder to the other side in a beat.
Eric was very efficient. Before dark, he made a solid little bed. A rattan mat was laid out over it, covered in a layer of cotton, then another layer of rattan mat. The two mats were then stitched together to make a simple mattress.
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu went to bed for the first time since crossing over. Though not as comfortable as home, she slept very well.
After daybreak, Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu made a decision.
Despite the uncertainty, she still wanted to go to the eastern sea to take a look.
What if she found a way to back? She had no other place to go.
After making her decision, Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu was prepared to bid farewell to Eric and the patriarch but found that Eric was not in the yard.
"He went to the mountain corn field," Barry told her.
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu inquired for the approximate direction and readied herself to go.
The patriarch wanted to send her off but he was getting old and his footsteps unsteady. Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu gracefully declined, "No, you just sit here. It's not that far anyway."
He knew his physical condition, so he did not insist.
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu slung her backpack onto her shoulder and went into the mountains.
She found that there were other races nearby aside from Eric's, the sheep and rabbits.
Gazing at a group of long eared beastmen, Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu thought about finding a longer way around. She didn't want to be discovered by them and provoke unnecessary trouble.
This road and the one Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu took yesterday were a bit alike. There a lot of unknown flying insects around, but Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu was wearing her catnip sachet so they did not come close.
In the distance, she could see the cornfields.
Eric was standing with his clansmen, breaking off the corn.
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu walked over step by step, when she suddenly stopped and looked towards the woods.
A mossy green ray of light flashed past. Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu looked carefully for it, but it had already disappeared.
An illusion?
Why did she feel like there was something following her all the way?
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu shook her head and was preparing to go into the cornfield when she saw the grass move. Followed by an oncoming breeze, an agile figure rushed out of the grass and, without allowing Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu time to react, threw her to the ground and claws tightly gripped her shoulders.
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu suffered immediately, her brow pinching in pain.
She looked up, and above her was the strange face of another beastman.
The other person's eyes were blue-green, under which a cluster of black hair spread down to the chin. He had a black nose, and his mouth was open, exposing sharp teeth.
Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu, astonished, opened her mouth in a gape. There was not enough time for the fear to set in before another member of the leopard race also emerged from the grass.
The beastman looked at the weak hands of the girl and asked, "Rhode, what are you chasing her for?"
The leopard called "Rhode" still pressed down on Jǐ Xiǎo Ōu. Leaning over, he sniffed her everywhere and said with certainty, "There is nothing wrong with my nose. She smells of Ryan."


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On Thursday, during the first game of the NBA finals between Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics, the Kiss Cam (designed to catch kissing couples) pointed at actors Dustin Hoffman and Jason Bateman, who were attending the game with their wives.
Noticing that they were on the JumboTron and that the whole arena was waiting for them to do something, Hoffman leaned toward his wife to give her a big kiss, but then suddenly leaned the other way and kissed Bateman right on the mouth. As the camera zoomed in, the entire stadium roared with cheers. Check out the photos below.
The two starred in the 2007 film "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium" and apparently became close friends.
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on June 4th, 2010 at 6:02:46 PM
"The two starred in the 2007 film "Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium" and apparently became close friends."
on June 4th, 2010 at 6:06:28 PM
they became very very close!
on June 4th, 2010 at 6:10:14 PM
At first I thought this article was titled "Dustin Putman and Jason Bateman Kiss" but then realized even Jason Bateman wouldn't stoop that low.
on June 4th, 2010 at 6:29:07 PM
^^^nobody would,the only thing putman puts in his mouth is a penis.
on June 4th, 2010 at 6:29:25 PM
Bateman's butt has seen more shaft than an elevator!
on June 4th, 2010 at 6:30:19 PM
That marriage, breeding thing doesn't fool me for a minute.
on June 4th, 2010 at 6:30:40 PM
I'll bet Jason winches when he's in vagina.
on June 4th, 2010 at 6:35:26 PM
how the hell did the bootleg Knight and Day movie get a 7/10? they need a new critic, all the reviews blow hard c*ck, can't wait for them to review the next brett ratner movie and give it a 10/10.Damn Douchbag
on June 4th, 2010 at 6:52:32 PM
on June 4th, 2010 at 6:59:45 PM
actually, that's pretty darn awesome.
on June 4th, 2010 at 7:08:50 PM
hahaha i f*cking knew Hoffman was gay i just f*cking knew it
on June 4th, 2010 at 7:12:54 PM
This was probably the highlight of the basketball game.
I wonder if they used tongue.
on June 4th, 2010 at 7:52:38 PM
actually the highlight of the game was the lakers metaphorically teabagging the C's
on June 4th, 2010 at 8:53:10 PM
Why the hell are those idiots sitting around them looking up at the Jumbotron when it's happening right in front of them!
on June 4th, 2010 at 8:59:30 PM
Both are awesome actors, this was just a publicity stunt. But kind of funny in a way.
on June 4th, 2010 at 9:18:10 PM
this is a funny joke...not real for sure.
on June 4th, 2010 at 9:29:17 PM
f*ckin love hoffman, true screen legend
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on June 4th, 2010 at 9:30:11 PM
'Hello darkness my old freind/i ve come to talk with you again'
Mrs Jumbo cam your trying to seduce me!
on June 4th, 2010 at 9:51:12 PM
^Ha, nice Simon & Garfunkel reference.
on June 4th, 2010 at 9:53:54 PM
Went to see 'The Graduate' in a play here. The lead was a regular known TV personality. She came out buck-naked.
And yes... the carpet matched the drapes.
on June 4th, 2010 at 10:05:09 PM
I will give Mr. Hoffman and Master Bate-man credit.
Good stunt.
Good sports.
Bet Jason got a boner.
on June 4th, 2010 at 10:09:56 PM
Next couple on the "Kiss Cam":
Jack Nicholson and Kobe Bryant.
on June 4th, 2010 at 10:18:47 PM
Gary Coleman's ex-wife and a Snake!
on June 4th, 2010 at 10:49:20 PM
I thought it said Dustin Putmann and I was so excited to call him a faggot.
Oh well, he's still a faggot for giving splice such a high rating.
on June 4th, 2010 at 10:49:50 PM
Wow, thats a man to respect!!
Max Rockatansky Junior
on June 4th, 2010 at 10:53:12 PM
I always suspected after Tootsie ... now, I know for sure, Dustin.
Wasn't Ishtar enough, you f*ckin' fagella ?
Max Rockatansky Junior
on June 4th, 2010 at 10:54:18 PM
Hey Jason, why don't you just do what they do with the " Kiss Cam " at a WWE event and just
blow him ?
I'm sure the guys in the crowd would've copped a reach around for a low five.
Max Rockatansky Junior
on June 4th, 2010 at 10:55:23 PM
Hey, Dustin ... gotta ask you ...
does Jason's breath smell like sh*t ... or c*m ?
Max Rockatansky Junior
on June 4th, 2010 at 10:56:48 PM
Knowing older people's psoriasis of the mouth, I bet a dollar to a donut that Jason had to gargle with industrial stength Listerine for a week ... and I also bet Dustin slipped him the tongue.
Max Rockatansky Junior
on June 4th, 2010 at 11:20:00 PM
I'm surprised Dustin's schnoz didn't poke Jason's eye out. Or his brown eye, either (in the parking lot).
Max Rockatansky Junior
on June 4th, 2010 at 11:24:04 PM
I understand. But Get Him to the Greek was worth it, even with DustinHead. Saw it twice without "Jeffrey", but laughed my ass off. Literally. I have to go collect it tomorrow.
�Greek� is the word
Brand brings it to summer�s breakout hit
By James Verniere
Memo to self: I never want to see Jonah Hill�s bare behind again. Nevertheless, this year�s Judd Apatow-produced, R-rated, raunchy breakout hit is going to be �Get Him to the Greek.�
While not as raucous or consistently well-written as last year�s �The Hangover,� this riff on the 1982 semi-classic �My Favorite Year� reunites Hill and Russell Brand with their �Forgetting Sarah Marshall� director Nicholas Stoller, who also co-wrote this script, and it fires on enough comic jets to warrant your attention.
Brand is once again the young-Ozzy-like British rock star/sexfiend Aldous Snow. After seven years of sobriety, Aldous fell off the wagon. His love affair with his soul mate and fellow hard-partying, sex-crazed rocker Jackie Q (Rose Byrne) is over.
Aldous� maudlin last album �African Child� trashed his career. Jackie Q has taken up with Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich (himself), and Aldous has been on a nonstop bender. His only real companion these days is his mum (Dinah Stabb). But as he likes to point out, �She�s an �idjit, in�t she?�
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on June 4th, 2010 at 11:47:24 PM
'... does Jason's breath smell like sh*t ... or c*m?'
Max Rockatansky Junior
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Oh, and I just read BumRush Limbaugh is marrying his fourth wife ...
a. What Russian Mail Order catalog sells to the same guy that rapes and buries them ?
b. Must be a 12 year old Somalian girl looking to escape the fighting
c. She must have a hairlip, a cleft lip or be partialy mentally handicap. Sorry to break the news to you RUSH, BUT THIS DOESN'T COUNT AS A TAX WRITEOFF, YOU FAT f*ck. IT'S CHARITY, BUT SHE'S BEING CHARITABLE HAVING TO WAKE UP TO YOUR f*ckIN' FAT, UGLY, HAIRY AND MORONIC ASS EVERY MORNING. AND f*ckING YOU MUST BE LIKE BAMBI GETTING ANALLY RAPED BY GODZILLA ... WANNA TAKE A GUESS ON WHICH ONE IS BAMBI, LARDASS ?
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Spooky-lol i was hoping it said Putman as well.
Ranger-second to last post- nice!
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@encore - were Gary's ex-wife and a snake to kiss... we could all lay bets to guess which one is the snake.
on June 5th, 2010 at 11:28:37 PM
Don't get too excited over Putman getting it right for once, he also gave the Killers 7 out of 10.
Heigl's ass isn't worth a 7!
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Conducted Java Training at CDAC for M.Tech. students at Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space Applications and Geo-Informatics (BISAG), Info City, Gandhinagar, Gujrat under Gujrat Technical University (GTU). Seen a great collaboration between BISAG, CDAC and GTU, never seen such program for students where are students getting chance to work on research projects and all.
During the training covered Java, Java EE, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, EJB, RMI, Networking, etc. all in 5 days daily 8 hours. It helps a lot to cover that much if you use NetBeans for training Java and other Java related technologies like JavaEE, Struts, Hibernate, Spring, HTML5, etc. Students were good.
I feel honored after receiving Diwali Gift and Dinner party from students. I would also like to thanks them for Akshardham visit and really love the fountain and water show at Akshardham. There are only 4 water shows like that all over the world. I really enjoyed a lot guys thanks a lot. And I would like to share the thing that you are doing for physically and mentally challenged people, I have never seen this from students.
Hey friends, the wait is finally over and Ministry of Railways, Government of India has launched the official android application for booking tickets on the go and much more. The official app is IRCTC Connect and is live on Play store and one can download for free.
Rail ticketing now made simpler just by SWIPE and SHUFFLE, SELECT and BOOK. Install the newly launched IRCTC android app and book a railway ticket anywhere in India at your fingertips.
• One step login to existing users
• Search and Book train tickets
• View and Cancel tickets
• Retains recently added passenger details
• New Users, register from App directly
• Upcoming Journey Alerts
Enjoy the never before experience of online ticketing with all new IRCTC mobile app.
Source : Google Play and Ministry of Railways, Government of India.
Android 5.0 Lollipop
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Finally Google has announced Android 5.0 and the curtains have raised from the suspense of Android L, the Android 5.0 is Lollipop.
Android 5.0 Lollipop has come up with great features and with full fledged support for Android wearable and Android TV. Let's take a look at the features here.
Android 5.0 Lollipop features :
- Material Design
- A bold, colorful, and responsive UI design for consistent, intuitive experiences across all your devices
- Responsive, natural motion, realistic lighting and shadows, and familiar visual elements make it easier to navigate your device
- Vivid new colors, typography, and edge-to-edge imagery help to focus your attention
- Notifications
- New ways to control when and how you receive messages – only get interrupted when you want to be
- View and respond to messages directly from your lock screen. Includes the ability to hide sensitive content for these notifications
- For fewer disruptions, turn on Priority mode via your device's volume button so only certain people and notifications get through. Or schedule recurring downtime like 10pm to 8am when only Priority notifications can get through
- With Lollipop, incoming phone calls won't interrupt what you're watching or playing. You can choose to answer the call or just keep doing what you're doing
- Control the notifications triggered by your apps; hide sensitive content and prioritize or turn off the app's notifications entirely
- More intelligent ranking of notifications based on who they're from and the type of communication. See all your notifications in one place by tapping the top of the screen
- Battery
- Power for the long haul
- A battery saver feature which extends device use by up to 90 mins
- Estimated time left to fully charge is displayed when your device is plugged in
- Estimated time left on your device before you need to charge again can now be found in battery settings
- Security
- Keep your stuff safe and sound
- New devices come with encryption automatically turned on to help protect data on lost or stolen devices
- SELinux enforcing for all applications means even better protection against vulnerabilities and malware
- Use Android Smart Lock to secure your phone or tablet by pairing it with a trusted device like your wearable or even your car
- Device Sharing
- More flexible sharing with family and friends
- Multiple users for phones. If you forget your phone, you still can call any of your friends (or access any of your messages, photos etc.) by simply logging into another Android phone running Lollipop. Also perfect for families who want to share a phone, but not their stuff
- Guest user for phones and tablets means you can lend your device and not your stuff
- Screen pinning: pin your screen so another user can access just that content without messing with your other stuff
- New Quick Settings
- Get to the most frequently used settings with just two swipes down from the top of the screen
- New handy controls like flashlight, hotspot, screen rotation and cast screen controls
- Easier on/off toggles for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and location
- Manually adjust your brightness for certain conditions. Then, adaptive brightness will kick in based on ambient lighting
- Connectivity
- A better internet connection everywhere and more powerful Bluetooth low energy capabilities
- Improved network handoffs resulting in limited interruption in connectivity. For example, continue your video chat or VoIP calls without interruption as you leave the house and switch from your home Wi-Fi back to cellular
- Improved network selection logic so that your device connects only if there is a verified internet connection on Wi-Fi
- Power-efficient scanning for nearby Bluetooth low energy ("BLE") devices like wearables or beacons
- New BLE peripheral mode
- Runtime and Performance
- A faster, smoother and more powerful computing experience
- ART, an entirely new Android runtime, improves application performance and responsiveness
- Up to 4x performance improvements
- Smoother UI for complex, visually rich applications
- Compacting backgrounded apps and services so you can do more at once
- Support for 64 bit devices, like the Nexus 9, brings desktop class CPUs to Android
- Support for 64-bit SoCs using ARM, x86, and MIPS-based cores
- Shipping 64-bit native apps like Chrome, Gmail, Calendar, Google Play Music, and more
- Pure Java language apps run as 64-bit apps automatically
- Media
- Bolder graphics and improved audio, video, and camera capabilities
- Lower latency audio input ensuring that music and communication applications that have strict delay requirements provide an amazing realtime experience
- Multi-channel audio stream mixing means professional audio applications can now mix up to eight channels including 5.1 and 7.1 channels
- USB Audio support means you can plug USB microphones, speakers, and a myriad of other USB audio devices like amplifiers and mixers into your Android device
- OpenGL ES 3.1 and Android extension pack brings Android to the forefront of mobile graphics putting it on par with desktop and console class performance
- A range of new professional photography features for Android Lollipop that let you
- Capture full resolution frames around 30 fps
- Support raw formats like YUV and Bayer RAW
- Control capture settings for the sensor, lens, and flash per individual frame
- Capture metadata like noise models and optical information
- State of the art video technology with support for HEVC to allow for UHD 4K video playback, tunneled video for high quality video playback on Android TV and improved HLS support for streaming
- OK Google
- Easy access to information and performing tasks
- Even if your screen is off, you can say "OK Google" on devices with digital signal processing support such as Nexus 6 and Nexus 9
- Talk to Google on the go to get quick answers, send a text, get directions and more
- Android TV
- Support for living room devices
- User interface adapted for the living room
- Less browsing, more watching with personalized recommendations for content like movies and TV shows
- Voice search for Google Play, YouTube and supported apps so you can just say what you want to see
- Console-style Android gaming on your TV with a gamepad
- Cast your favorite entertainment apps to your big screen with Google Cast support for Android TV devices
- Accessibility
- Enhanced low vision and color blind capabilities
- Boost text contrast or invert colors to improve legibility
- Adjust display to improve color differentiation
- Now in 68+ languages
- 15 new additions
- Basque, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese (Hong Kong), Galician, Icelandic, Kannada, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu
- That means now I support for my mother tounge Marathi
- Device set up
- Get up and running in no-time
- Tap & go: instant set up of your new Android phone or tablet by simply tapping it to your old one (requires NFC)
- Whenever you get a new Android phone or tablet, you can bring over your apps from Google Play automatically from any of your old Android devices
- And a whole lot more
- Tap & pay: easily manage multiple payment apps by quickly switching between them
- Print preview and page range support
- Revamped display for battery, Bluetooth, data usage, and Wi-Fi settings and new search functionality in settings
- New device level feedback for Nexus devices in Settings > about phone > send feedback
- Easier sharing with
- Improved ranking of your options within the share menu
- Android Beam: lets you share a file with someone nearby by gently tapping the two devices together
- Where supported by the hardware, your device will wake up as soon as you pick it up or tap the screen twice
- Improved hardware keyboard accessory support including support for multilingual, emoji input, search key, and improved app and system key chords


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We are currently looking to appoint a Deputy Manager at our gorgeous OSPREY LONDON outlet store at Swindon Designer Outlet. This is a great opportunity to join our expanding and successful luxury brand. If you have great retail and people management experience along with the ability to deliver exceptional customer service, we would love to hear from you.
To assist the Store Manager with managing the sales, operational and personnel functions of the store to ensure maximum profitability and compliance with company procedures. The Store Manager at Cheshire Oaks has senior management duties within our outlet store group and is out of store frequently, making this an ideal 'step-up' role for someone looking to further their management experience. The Deputy Manager helps ensure maximum performance and compliance with the brand image and company goals. You will need great organisational ability, commitment, self-motivation and a high standard of personal presentation.
Ideally candidates should have a proven track record in a supervisory retail role, preferably with a luxury brand.
- Passion for customer service and building effective customer relationships
- Strong leadership skills
- Ability to maximise sales opportunities
- Strong desire to achieve targets
- Good understanding of the luxury market and its customers
To assist the Store Manager in:
- Strive to achieve sales goals by forward planning and maximising opportunities
- Supervise sales floor
- Set and monitor store targets daily and monthly
- Ensure Company merchandising standards are met
- Delivery and coaching of team within Company customer service training programme
- Manage a team of Sales Consultants
- Implement Company training programmes and monitor team training in product knowledge, customer service and selling skills
- Supervise and train team to develop their skills and ensure all Company procedures are adhered to
- Motivate team to meet goals, review performance
- Monitor compliance to Company dress code
- Maintain standards of cleanliness and organisation within the store
- Maintain all store safety standards
- Maintain all assessments relating to Health and Safety issues
This is a full-time position working 40 hours over five days, Monday - Sunday. In exchange we offer a highly competitive salary and benefits package. To apply, please forward your CV and covering letter for the attention of Kelly Psarras (mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com) or hand them to Kelly in store.
Outlet Store
Ashford Designer Outlet
Kimberley Way
Ashford Kent TN24 0SD
United Kingdom
Posted on: 25-01-2017
Deadline: 28-02-2017


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The Immediate Surrender Ad Released
Republicans released their latest web ad today using the Democrats own words against them,… again.
Democrats "wave the white flag" HERE.
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Dear Annie: I have been married to a wonderful man for over 10 years. We have two young children. He is a great dad and good husband.
Dear Annie: I have been married to a wonderful man for over 10 years. We have two young children. He is a great dad and good husband.
In the last two years, sex has become an issue. I've suggested date nights and other little things to keep intimacy alive. I listen to what my husband wants and needs. He doesn't see a problem. Sometimes I think he is still here only because of the kids. Most of the time, I feel like a housekeeper.
A man I knew from my former job has slowly been coming into the picture. I always found him attractive, but he never interested me before. Lately, this guy has been throwing a lot of attention my way. I enjoy knowing he's attracted to me, since my husband doesn't seem to be. But if I let the flirtation go further and he rejects me, it will only confirm my feelings of inadequacy. I love my husband, but feel torn. I'm scared that if this other man actually gives me what I'm longing for, it will mess up my children's lives completely. Please help me decide what to do.
Lost and Confused
Dear Lost: We know you are craving attention from your husband and this makes you susceptible to other men, but please work on your marriage before giving in to temptation. Your husband needs to see his doctor and specifically ask for his testosterone to be checked. If there is no physical problem, ask him to go with you for marriage counseling so you each can discuss your concerns and clear the air. Please do this before jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
Dear Annie: I read the letter from "Disgusted in the Northeast," whose friend flosses in public. A real friend would tell her how rude and disgusting that is. But the reason I'm writing is your response. Did I hear you right? A quick nose blow at a restaurant is acceptable? No. No. No.
Every time I take my wife out for dinner I seem to get a nose blower near me. You have the ones who take out a tissue and wave it like they are calling a truce before using it. Then there are the ones who hold it up by the corners and inspect it, and then keep it on the table next to their plate. And don't forget everyone's favorite — the foghorn blower.
Blowing your nose at a dinner table shows poor manners. If you need to blow your nose, get up and go to the bathroom.
Never Blow in Connecticut
Dear Connecticut: Waving tissues and blowing germs all over the table is not what we meant. A "quick nose blow" is discreetly bringing a tissue or handkerchief to one's nose in case of an oncoming drip or allergic reaction. There is no waving, inspecting or multiple blows. And there are absolutely no foghorns.
Please e-mail your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190, Chicago, IL 60611.


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Recent private letter rulings by the IRS illustrate the broad scope of tax planning available with respect to internal restructurings of controlled groups.
An issue that routinely arises both in corporate tax practice and in the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) private rulings program is whether a transfer of property (including money) from a shareholder to a corporation that occurs in temporal proximity to a distribution of property (including money) from the corporation to the shareholder should be viewed as an exchange. This so-called "North-South" issue often is raised in the context of spin-off transactions, but may arise in reorganizations or incorporations as well. Examples include transfers that are nominally contributions of cash, stock or other property by a shareholder that occur relatively close in time with purported corporate distributions of cash or stock. The tax consequences of such transfers may be changed radically if treated as exchanges. Of course, shareholders and corporations may engage in transactions denominated as sales, the form of which generally is not pulled apart into separate contributions and distributions by the IRS and the courts. Rather, the circumstances that typically cause concern are those in which the parties engage in formally separate transactions (e.g., a spin-off distribution and an asset contribution to the distributing corporation) that occur at approximately the same time, but which the IRS may assert should be treated as in substance an exchange.
There are a number of different lines of IRS authorities addressing North-South issues. For example, Treas. Reg. §1.301-1(l) provides that a distribution is "within the terms of section 301 although it takes place at the same time as another transaction if the distribution is in substance a separate transaction whether or not connected in a formal sense." The regulation states that this is most likely to occur in the context of a recapitalization or a reorganization under section 368(a)(1)(F). The IRS has applied a "but for" test in applying Treas. Reg. §1.301-1(l) based on a representation like "the separate distributions will take place regardless of whether any other steps of the proposed transaction are consummated" (PLR 9749018 [Sept. 11, 1997]; see also PLR 200752014 [Aug. 22, 2007]).
Historically, in a number of private letter rulings involving spin-off distributions qualifying under sections 355 and 368(a)(1)(D), the IRS has treated contributions of assets to a controlled corporation and temporally proximate cash distributions by the controlled corporation as separate, even though both are part of a planned restructuring in preparation for a spin-off. Following the form chosen by the parties, the rulings hold that the cash distributions are dividends, not boot in the section 368(a)(1)(D) reorganizations (PLR 9737018 [June 13, 1997]; see also PLR 9544004 [Nov. 22, 1994]). A similar issue may be presented when the distributee in a spin-off has contributed assets to the distributing corporation arguably as part of the spin-off plan (PLR 9708012 [Nov. 19, 1996]; PLR 9705018 [Nov. 4, 1996]; PLR 9651007 [Sept. 6, 1996]). These favorable (non-exchange) rulings have been issued even in cases in which assets were transferred to the distributing corporation so that the distributing corporation would satisfy the active trade or business requirement of section 355(b). No special representations were required.
In several spin-off rulings issued in recent months, however, the IRS has required the following representation in order for exchange treatment to be avoided:
There is no regulatory, legal, contractual, or economic compulsion or requirement that the Contribution be made as a condition to the Internal Distribution. The fact that the value of Distributing will decrease as a result of the Internal Distribution was not a consideration in the decision to contribute property to Distributing. The Internal Distribution is not contingent on there being contributed to Distributing assets having a specified (or roughly specified) value.
See PLR 201033007 (May 21, 2010); PLR 201030005 (Apr. 28, 2010)
These rulings seem to reflect a conclusion that North-South transfers should be treated as made in exchange for each other if the property transferred to the distributing corporation is required to enable the distribution of the spinco (e.g., the distributor's creditors require that the value of the spinco be replaced). Thus, the IRS appears to be narrowing somewhat its historic pattern of respecting form in addressing North-South issues, at least in the spin-off context. The test applied reflects a limited iteration of the "mutual interdependence" test that appears to be somewhat less restrictive than the "but for" test that the IRS has used in applying Treas. Reg. §1.301-1(l).
That the version of the step transaction test now being applied by the IRS in the spin-off context still allows substantial room for tax planning is illustrated by the most recent of the IRS's North-South spin-off rulings, PLR 201034005 (May 20, 2010). This ruling involved an extremely complex transaction in which the IRS respected certain exchanges labeled as such, but treated other transfers as separate based on the representation quoted above. This approach would seem to permit taxpayers to achieve optimal results through tax planning except to the extent external factors (e.g., creditors, rating agencies) dictate that the property distributed be replaced. (Compare Rev. Rul. 85-164, 1985-2 C.B. 117, in which the IRS held that the consideration used in a part-sale, part-contribution transaction would be prorated.)
The private letter rulings described above illustrate the broad scope of tax planning available with respect to internal restructurings of controlled groups, even when the ultimate goal of each transfer is a distribution to public shareholders. The rulings also suggest that a ruling from the IRS may be useful in this context because in certain cases it may be difficult to reach a sufficiently high level of comfort in an opinion applying the step transaction tests to a transaction for which the IRS appears to be willing to issue a favorable private letter ruling.


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Five Things I have a Passion For:
- reading
- writing
- art
- technology
- animals
Five Things I'd like to Learn Before I Die:
- Mandarin
- guitar
- ballroom dancing
- coding
- how to project calm, control and confidence (all at once)
Five Things I Say A Lot:
- Hi, how are you? (Even when I remember or know people's names, my brain doesn't move fast enough in greeting mode)
- Large skinny flat white, no sugar, thanks
- Why are there socks on the floor?
- Do you have any homework?
- Quiet, Harry... Quiet.... Quiiiiiet....Good boy (training dog not to bark at everything)
Five Books and/or magazines I have read lately:
- New Scientist
- Readers Digest
- Royal Auto (the RACV magazine!)
- Christine, by Stephen King
- Joyland, by Stephen King (on a bit of a Stephen King thing at the moment)
Five Favourite Movies:
- Arlington Road
- Heathers
- Casino
- The Bourne Identity
- Madagascar 2
Five Places I Would like to Travel To:
- Egypt
- India
- China
- Japan
- Vanuatu
|HI FIVE by Paul Liu/Flickr CC


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11 July 2012
Curious about Rail along the Front Range?
Monday, July 16
Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments
15 S. Seventh Street, Colorado Springs
Bus: None (Maybe walkable from the 4 for the first presentation.)
Tuesday, July 17
Pueblo Convention Center
310 Main Street
Bus: #1 Eastside (Walkable from several other buses that go downtown.)
Wednesday, July 18
Windsor Recreation Center
250 North 11th Street
(Windsor is half way between Fort Collins and Greeley.)
Bus: I doubt it.
Thursday, July 19
Regional CDOT Office in Golden
425 Corporate Circle
Bus: 17 for the first presentation
As always, bring your bullshit detector, and mention that conventional rail does pretty well.
3 comments:
- Zmapper said...
I just got back from the Windsor meeting. It appears as though there is a real consensus for using the existing rail alignments, and a few people questioned the need for such extravagant High-Speed Rail for the population and distance of our region.
I mentioned to the CDOT staff the two key elements of Swiss Rail planning, those being planning for a timetable in 2020 and Organization before Electronics before Concrete. Any improvement to the Swiss rail network is planned around how it will affect the timetable in 2020. The Swiss also use the mantra "Organization before Electronics before Concrete", meaning, get your agencies to work together first, then improve the network with simple and cheap tools such as better signalling or faster switches, and if you still have a capacity problem, then pour concrete.
Overall, I get the feeling that they are doing the study just to do a study, and nothing of much subsistence will come out of it. Unless it has the words "Environmental Impact Statement" on it, then noting much could be done.
- July 18, 2012 at 9:05 PM
- Helen Bushnell said...
Thanks for posting, and thanks for letting me know how other people commented.
Worse than this rail study being a waste of time, it may be an effort to make rail look too expensive.
Can you also share your experience with the ColoRail Yahoo group? Thanks.
- July 19, 2012 at 2:47 PM
- Zmapper said...
Of special note are the two ridiculously sharp 90 degree curves the consultant drew the railroad alignment with, when there was plenty of space to use larger radii. Such blatant rigging of the study to favor a preferred alignment ultimately ends up hurting the public's trust in CDOT.
- July 19, 2012 at 2:54 PM


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set list tonight includes La Vie En Rose, A Tisket A Tasket, Ay Linda
Amiga, Rien de Rien, Dona Nobis Pacem, War Pigs and Imagine. I might
toss in a couple of originals, because I do recall giving the library
my cd once, but if they actually cataloged and made it available for
folks to check out, I don't really know. I tried.....
So I am sorry for the late notice, I have been kind of dazzled by
trying to get back into the Pittsburgh swing of things. I have had
breakfast at O'Learys, noodles at Lulu's and Thai Me Up, wontons at
Cambodican and a singular Black and Gold chocolate bob from the Get
Go. I sang at a benefit for the Brewhouse the same night I flew home,
and then for Zafira and the Indigo at the Rex a couple days later.
Photo by Chiko Sugimoto. Taken at the Rex Nov 29, 2009 with a show I was emceeing. Zafira presents The Indigo. From left to right, me, Christine Andrews, Zoe Jakes, Olivia Kissel, Mardi Love, Maria Hamer, and Rachael Brice.
I should have let you know about these things, but to be fair, I was
mired in gigs for BRAF and also in a movie shoot before I left San
Francisco for the movie FEED and I had little computer access, but I
do try and keep up with shout outs via twitter..... (I feel so Hannah
Montana) http://www.twitter.com/phatmandee
So tonight, it is Sunday December 6 and my friends The Typewriter
Girls have put together a benefit to save the library!
When I was in California, a community there was just building their
first library, and some small towns don't even have one, we have an
amazing legacy here, we need to protect it. It can be so easy to take
something as grand as the Carnegie Libraries for granted and say what
you want of Andrew Carnegie and his deplorable labor practices, the
library is a gift that has lasted over 100 years but it doesn't have
to be forever, it will only live if we continue to feed it, it will
only be around for our children and their children as a repository of
knowledge and ideas if we maintain and let it grow, so I entreat you,
come on out and show your love for the written word and knowledge and
information in general!
Specific info:
TypewriterGirls Save the Libraries!
What: A poetry reading and performance by the Avant-Garde cabaret
troupe The TypewriterGirls to raise awareness and funds for Carnegie
Library of Pittsburgh
Who: The TypewriterGirls Poetry Cabaret w/ Readers: Sandra Beasley,
and Nancy Krygowski; music by Phat Man Dee; stunts by Dave Doyle;
dance by NAKA; performance art by Christiane D.; comedy by Sean
Collier; and musical accompaniment by upright bassist Spat Cannon and
guitarist Chad Hammitt
Where: Carnegie Library Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA,
When: Sunday, December 6th Doors Open at 5:30 pm / Show
begins at 6:00 pm
Cost: donation based—minimum donation of $7.00 required
On Sunday, December 6th, utilizing the power of poetry, protest, pygmy
goats, awkward conversation, and, yes, even necromancy, The
TypewriterGirls gather up all of the forces at their disposal and
battle furiously to save the Pittsburgh library system--the same
libraries that spawned their very group's formation through its fine
artistic and educational programming, amazing international poetry
collection, and its generosity in employing Crystal as a security
guard despite her frequent and occasionally dangerous bouts with
delusions of grandeur.
This show will feature many of the area's greatest activist artists
including poet Nancy Krygowski, performance artist Christiane D., and
famed vocalist and song writer Phat Man Dee. Don't miss this
artistically stunning opportunity to show your support of and
contribute to our local library system.
True to the TypewriterGirls' cabaret spirit, the event will include a
library themed typewriter written exquisite corpse at the door, a sure
to be rousing and thoroughly literary round of the improv comedy game
"Poets" in the middle, and lots of inanely intellectual comedic
theatrics to tie it all together, as Crystal and Margaret and guest
comedian Sean Collier take to the streets (and many other indiscreet
locales) to round up the funds to keep our libraries running, with a
special guest appearance by Franco Dok Harris.
Many other acts will take the stage in this epic battle--including but
not limited to Naka Entertainment, a unique hip-hop dance group
comprised of youth from Pittsburgh's East End, Dave Doyle, a daring
performer who will amaze us with a round of physical stunts, poet
Sandra Beasley, author of I Was the Jukebox, forthcoming from W. W.
Norton, and poetic musical accompaniment by stand-up bassist Spat
Cannon and guitarist Chad Hammitt. In addition, there will be a silent
auction filled with goods from local artists, musicians, poets,
restaurants, and shops. Come bid on baskets filled with chapbooks,
CDs, handmade jewelry, and other goods! All the proceeds go to the
library's operating fund!
More Info: www.typewritergirls.net
Hope to see you, if not tonight then down the road, I am working on a
club date, probably at Istanbul Restaraunt for the holidays, more info
as it solidifies. I am still available for some last minute house or
corporate holiday parties before I head west again, so write or call!
Love, butter and follow me on facebook,
This painting was done by my beautiful friend Dr Deb from Palm Springs, CA. She and I met during a run of "How to Survive the Apocalypse, a Burning Opera" in San Francisco, 2009. I dream of singing back up for her in her show "Dr Deb's Southern Bapti-Jew-Bu Gospel Hour and traveling roadshow".
Love, butter and hope to see you out!
Phat Man Dee
PS New modeling agency in NYC, let me know what you think of my
PPS Also just posted phone video to you tube of my fabulous last
friday night, saw Jim Donovan, Zafira and Machete in one night....
reminding me again, exactly why I adore this crazy town we call
Jim Donovan Drum the Ecstatic @ Istanbul:
Zafira @ Pandemic:
Machete @ Pandemic:


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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Dinner's Ready!
I just wanted to share, I was so happy. Not only did my hubby cook me dinner for the first time in a long time, but then he did the dishes! What a sweetie. I feel so pampered! =D
Mmm... teriyaki beef stir fry. Delicious! Thanks, honey!
5 comments:
- Creations by Shirl said...
Wow you sure are spoiled... that stir fry looks delish.... I'm surprising my hubby with Pork Adobo for din din...
- July 31, 2012 at 7:02 PM
- Cely said...
wow! looks so yummy! my husband only knows how to make dorito salad. lol. doritos on lettuce!
lucky gal!
and thanks for the early bday wishes!
- August 1, 2012 at 4:11 AM
- Cely said...
My birthday is on the 8th. I leave on Monday though so no blog hops or anything planned. :( Maybe I'll hold a giveaway... :D
Gonna fly into indianapolis, visit in laws, all take a road trip to pigeon forge, TN and stay in a cabin. then hubs and i leave to visit the dad's side of the fam in albany, KY. another road trip. Lots of dramamine to be had, that's for sure!
- August 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM
- Kim Kelley said...
WOW what a sweetie! Looks good too! HUGS
- August 1, 2012 at 3:25 PM
- Lynn Weber said...
yummy!! You deserve to be pampered!!!! Good hubby!!
- August 9, 2012 at 11:10 AM
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