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Posted Tuesday, September 29, 2009
St Andrew's Church Hall
Corner Curtis Rd & Darling St.
Balmain (where the markets are held)
Door charge: $5 (light refreshments supplied)
Enquiries: Michael Azzopardi
M.A.S.S. will be celebrating the passing of yet another year of fine performances with its final show for 2009 on Sunday 6th December. M.A.S.S will return in February 2010 kicking off what's set to be a special year for us as M.A.S.S. will be 10 years old! Wishing you all a safe and happy festive season.
Artists this month include:
For the audience M.A.S.S. provides an intimate & friendly venue where they can enjoy quality performances for very little cost.
Michael Azzopardi

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Christopher FitzHenry Robling from Riverside, Illinois
Posted: January 24th, 2013 9:49 PM
at this point, seeing what we see in this article, i urge a fourth candidate to run as a write-in, so that none of the incumbents will be re-elected.
i stand by my statement to mary ellen on October 24: "your failure to protect the children and families of D96 by leaving colleen in office is appalling. frankly, having gotten this far into this mess, and showing such poor judgment as to be here, in this place, i think it is shown that you are unfit for the post you hold.
"the very least you can do is fire colleen now, even if that means reassigning her to the end of her contract."
the board is approaching basket case status. it has repudiated its "leadership." to read this article is to glimpse bedlam.
susan battersby has been irreparably harmed. procedures were not followed. kids were left in class with someone reported by the very principal of the school in which this happened as a possible sex offender. we have an attorney who may have a conflict of interest. we have contradictory statements, and actions, attacks on the integrity, competence and professionalism of our police department and the bizarre tableau of D96 officials — despite the foregoing — presuming to tell the village of riverside and the riverside police department how to do their jobs. and that's not even the half of it.
if you thought about running but chose not to, please do. we will get you on the official list at david orr's office so your votes will be counted. please consider offering the voters a choice. please consider preventing one of the folks responsible for this from coming back. please consider cleaning all of this up. please consider helping the students, parents, taxpayers and community members of district 96. whoever you are, please run.


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Favro Reviews
by Favro4.4 / 5 394 reviews
Reviewed on 2018/05/21
Welcoming software screaming to get hands-on
Ivan S.
Comments: The software can be used across departments connecting people and departments in a collaborative platform. And it is very friendly to share the project progress during meetings.
Favro is friendly, super flexible and yet powerful when going skin deep. The system is built around super-customizable tasks called CARDS. CARDS can be connected to each other, or arranged hierarchically. CARDS can contain checklists like a list of subtasks, a list of languages to translate, whatever.
The CARDS can be grouped in BACKLOGS which are containers that will do for AGILE working styles but also for more traditional project management. They are not a Gantt chart yet I am pleased that I can have a list reflecting when the tasks (CARDS) have to happen, by whom, and grouped under project stages (for which I create a CARD one level up).
The approach is completed with BOARDS, a very Agile approach in which CARDS are placed in columns. Favro beats its competitors in that you can build as many columns as required with whatever labels. In example To-Do/Doing/Completed, or In analysis/Approved/In progress/Under testing/Ready/Closed, you choose. Favro strength is its flexibility, making it suitable for Marketing, a software development team, a Manufacturing company, Sales department, you name it. You can fit in any project.
To round off a CARD can live in more than one BACKLOG and one BOARD. This allows to make very powerful views on the tasks, like concurrently in a Dev team BOARD (To-Do/Doing/Completed) as the manager BOARD (Goals Q1/Goals Q2/Goals Q3) and yet still be one single task (CARD) maintained by all these roles. A BOARD can have more than one LANE i.e. for the
Cons: The obvious con of so much flexibility is that at first it is not clear what will be the best way to use it, and some users may even feel lost. Actually it could be easy to make a few bad choices in the start and find yourself with a hard to maintain collection of boards and backlogs. Also the flexible categorization can make searching for existing tasks (CARDS) a dark science scrolling through a long list in which you have to hope you found all the relevant CARDS, the alternative being to go to the full featured reporting system. Being a new contender in the category at the moment it lacks the expansive list of integrations that some of their competitors have, yet the frequent updates denote they will catch up quickly.
Reviewed on 2018/10/12
It's a great start - but hope they start adding more features soon...
Verified Reviewer
Comments: It has been good overall - I think they just need to making updates and improvements more often.
Pros: I like how it flows and how cards can be in multiple areas. I like how the cards can be built out and be pretty custom. While we haven't been able to get them 100% for our needs - we've been able to get close. I also like how you can see a full history of everything that has happened. The workflow rules are nice (these seem pretty basic though - would love more options for these).
Cons: I'll be honest, I don't know the history of Favro or how long it has been around. We've been using it for around 4-5 months and it is replacing some of the other tools we were using. But the impression I am getting from it is that it is still in a beta phase. The main bones are there but it could really use additional features, or improvements made to the ones there. I haven't seen a single update since I've started using it in this time, and when you reach out asking if Favro does something they are helpful to offering other ways you can use the tool if the feature you want isn't available, but if the feature isn't there they just say they will make note but don't offer any other information. As someone who also works for a SAAS company I am not expecting any etas on anything, but having been almost 5 months and no updates to anything have happened it makes me wonder what's going on... One of my biggest pet peeves is with the custom fields, I wish there was an option to hide them from the card face because on some of our teams we had to stop using them because it made the cards too long. This was disappointing because they were super helpful, but when you have 30-40 cards in one lane - it's a lot to scroll through. Something else that needs improvement is alerts and knowing what all is assigned to you. I could have 100+ cards at one time and "my feed" is not an easy way for me to see what all I need to do.
Reviewed on 2018/05/22
Favro has been great - we migrated from Trello, and it has been overall pretty seamless.
Taylor P.
Comments: Overall - this has been a great productivity software. We have very much enjoyed the ability to have cards live in multiple locations, so that people in different departments can all make updates to the same card.
Pros: The ability to have cards live in multiple locations is the #1 reason we switched from Trello to Favro. The Marketing and Product teams have separate boards, but, often work together on tasks. It is great to have a single card or group of cards live in multiple locations, so that when anyone makes an update to the card, it is updated for everyone.
Cons: Management of cards and boards isn't as easy as I'd like it to be. Every week, we make a new board for tasks that we want to accomplish that week, and we move the cards between columns as we make progress on them. When we complete the task, we move the card all the way over to a 'Done' column that we create. The columns are the same every week, and each week we need to manually create a new board and all of the columns. It would be great if we could have a new board automatically created each week to satisfy this. Or, at the very least, be able to create new boards from a template, to make this process easier. Additionally, managing tags is a bit of a problem. We migrated our boards over from Trello, so the old Product team boards and Marketing team boards from Trello each had their own tags, but, some of them overlapped. Favro doesn't offer a way to manage these tags and clean them up, so, assigning tags is difficult. For example, there could be 3 distinct tags for Video: "Video", "video", and "Vids". When creating a new card, and assigning a tag to the card, if I type in 'vid', all 3 of these tags are available to assign to the card. I have to know which tag I'm supposed to use and which I'm supposed to ignore. If I choose the incorrect tag, that could make finding a card later on more difficult.
Reviewed on 2017/09/19
I've been looking for a tool to replace Trello for a while. Favro is Trello on steroids.
Liran B.
Pros: The ability to turn features on and off. For example swim lanes are huge. Another example is the Slack integration. The core functionality is there, but I can also add additional pieces per project as needed. I also love the fact that if you can use Trello. Favro feels like its older, stronger, smarter brother. After a while, some of my client Trello boards turned into 30 column monstrosities. Favro allows me to turn those into clean organized boards. LOVE swim lanes. Swim lanes are a Kanban staple and allow me to easily organize my boards vertically and horizontally. Also love the Backlog elements. Helps keep things organized and contained. Clients and most people in general get overwhelmed with too much information. Favro allows me to strip away the noise for my clients so they know exactly where to look and what they need to do. For example, I can hide the backlogs, I can minimize the boards I don't care about. Less noise = more focus.
Cons: I wish the card templates were dynamic. In other words, I create a template, and after updating the card template it updates all the other templates moving forward.
Reviewed on 2017/11/28
Trello built for real work.
Fredrik W.
Pros: It's ease of use. It's a better version than a whiteboard and post its (and I don't say that lightly!). It gives our team the same flexibility to structure and re-structure how we organize our work for our current needs as a white board would, but with all the added benefits that delightful software brings. A+!
Cons: I don't have that many annoyances. At the top of the list would proper two-way sync with JIRA, simply because of all the workflows associated with JIRA are awesome for so many things, except of doing actual work. I would absolutely love if I could get a synced backlog from JIRA, but keep the process of doing work and resolving tickets via Favro. That would honstely be my killer app because someone of the team has do to double work at the moment. And please don't try to replicate JIRA:s features, embrace it instead. Another, much smaller thing I would like is to automagically tag all cards in a backlog with a tag as soon as it's added to it. Would make it much easier to get a glance of what areas my team members are working on in the lanes themselves. And better markdown support with syntax highlighting and such would be a welcome addition as well.
Reviewed on 2017/12/04
Great tool to manage boards/cards/bugs over weekly sprints.
Chris G.
Comments: Easier management of sprints and greater insight into time to complete tasks. ie If cards are spanning multiple boards. The ability to have more granularity over the control of boards was a huge win over trello. That was the main reason for choosing this product over trello.
Pros: We switched from Trello to Favro because managing bugs/tasks across sprints became time consuming. Being able to easily see boards across multiple sprints was a huge win. Also, the fact that bugs are always visible is great as well.
Cons: My main wish is if there was a way to quickly identify clutter. For example, bugs that have not been touched for 6+ months are probably not bugs or have already been fixed. Maybe have a way to call attention to those cards for deletion. It would also be awesome if there was some sort of "smart" check to let the user know that a card being added may have already been added. It can waste quite a bit of time when you start looking into a bug that someone else has already fixed because it was added twice.
Reviewed on 2017/09/20
Easy to use. Constant improvement. You do feel like part of a family due to good customer support.
Esther P.
Comments: More structure and a better overview for our project.
Easy to understand and use.
More project structure than in Trello.
Report abilities
More geared towards scrum with estimations (point system).
Clone function.
Distinction between backlog and board
Templates for boards and collections
Copy function
Cons: Relationship between cards difficult to see and check once a ticket is in a board. Subticket relations are hard to maintain and review. User role/rights management is very rudimentary and needs improving. Customer fields is a welcome feature. Several templates per board or backlog are not possible. Opening a link to card/board/backlog/ etc. will just open that as a singular entity with no ability to move back to the system properly. Checklist items are not detailed on any of the reports just how much items there are in a list. Ability to navigate to the next ticket with a keyboard shortcut. Ability to scroll through pictures if a ticket has more than one attachment. Ticketnumber is not displayed on tickets when in board view. Very little export functions for different systems.
Reviewed on 2018/05/17
As simple or as complex and you need it to be for light project management. Like Trello on steroids.
Arturo R.
Easy to use, easy to set rules, easy to create and assign tasks.
Once you set the rules and procedures adapted to your processes, it's very easy to use and to keep organized. I recommend spending some time setting up processes and rules: It'll make your project management bulletproof, even when multiple team members collaborate in one board.
It's also very easy to switch from one board to the other and it's easy to differentiate your dashboards from one another.
Integrations are amazing, you can connect with many other third-party software.
Centralized time tracking is not offered, making project accounting difficult.
Multiple clients or projects might require different ways of working, so I recommend diving into the details of the platform to fully understand it and master it.
It also does not provide Gantt chart or project completion graphs that are so useful. I recommend complementing this platform with other tools for these features.
Integrations are very useful to compensate for these cons.
Reviewed on 2018/10/16
Intuitive and great for tracking individual tasks
Shun E.
Comments: It's a great tool that is easy for an individual contributor to understand and use for tasks . I hear from the side of project managers that it is a little hard to configure sometimes to keep track of all the nuances of projects and tasks.
Pros: I like the visual format of the software, and the clearly marked columns showing the status of the task(in progress, in review, approved, done, etc). It keeps my managers aware of the status of each of my tasks, and I can choose who to notify. I also like that it notifies people I tag in the comments.
Cons: As a graphic artist who attaches several images to tasks, the time it takes to load an image on screen for viewing is very slow. I did not encounter this on Trello, so surprising. It needs to be much snappier.
Reviewed on 2018/10/26
Very Reasonable and Useful Project Management Software
Verified Reviewer
Pros: I work with a team of people at the HR department. Although we handle different tasks and projects, there are some projects that we collaborate together. It's important to find an app that has everything centralized in one system. This is where Favro comes to the picture. I was very happy to find this application which has very cheap monthly fees. I don't even know where to start with the features, but this software allows you to brainstorm, track and plan ahead. You can use it on your phone and computer. The interface looks so cool and you can print out the reports of your projects.
Cons: It looks like a relatively new software that seems to be dynamic, but not all features can be used to its full potential. Better to not have many features but excel in what it can offer.
Reviewed on 2018/10/14
Honest Opinion
Grunbaum G.
Comments: Getting all of my clients/projects orgenised as my calander and in control of my work and personal goals and tasks.
After Reviewing 10 most known Managing Apps - I have decided on Favro - it was a hard and long process which took me about a little over a month in which I have used all my "free trials" periods on all of them.
Favro was the most suitable for my way of working - I can freely and quickly load my tasks for various projects as they come later I can deal with each of them and assigned each of them to team members and keep track of my progress - it's visually very appealing and enables me to distinct right away where I am standing. I have checked 10 Apps - were left with two which Afro was one of the two.
The mobile follow up is wonderfull too i can be in a meeting and look at my check list of that meeting and have no need of printouts of my meeting notes and use it to update my meeting notes as the meeting goes along.
Cons: I wanted to share one of my clients (projects) with his dashboard and found out accidentaly he could olso see my own privet dashbord - i have immidiatly cancled the option - so far hadn't have the time to learn to overcome that problem - i guess it's my lack of experience of operating Favro.
Reviewed on 2018/05/17
Better than trello, less complexed than jira, but can be improved,
Verified Reviewer
- Gives more clarity to team and org
- Providing separation of backlog and sprint goals increase the productivity
- Two separate section really make the backlog and current sprint stories easy to maintain
- Separation also gives the clarity to the team, hence increase the team velocity
- Defining a template for each card is a pretty cool feature.
- Having integration with 3rd party softwares like slack, mail really makes easy to track stories
- Changing the estimation measure at one place changes at every place
- I dont like the new UI, lot of light colors, decreasing the contrast, can't differentiate between different cards easily
- There should be an easy option to get the address of the card, instead of clicking on the card and then copying the card link
- If u write something and accidentally u refresh page those changes are discarded automatically this should not be the case it can be improved
Reviewed on 2018/10/24
A Sophisticated Virtual Project Management Software
Verified Reviewer
My score for Favro is 9.5/10, but they don't deserve to have it rounded down to 9.
10 it is.
Pros: I was searching for an app to manage my projects and was thrilled to have stumbled upon this program called Favro. Favro has so much to offer when it comes to working as a team. We can visualize our projects while discussing virtually and writing it down on the virtual whiteboard. You can create a board and add frames. I am a visual person when it comes to learning and Favro captured my attention. The program keeps me focuses and excited about our projects. The program allows you to do video conferencing calls and chats. Favro is a sophisticated software for project management.
Cons: I don't have any problems with the software because it has really helped me with my projects and tasks. The price is also very reasonable and affordable. Only thing I'd suggest Favro improve is to how fast their team replies to tickets.
Reviewed on 2018/03/22
Organized, functional, keeps team on task, provides transparency about WIP
Susan B.
Comments: My team knows exactly what to work on, and stakeholder know all the projects that are currently WIP, or on deck.
1. Having a customizable backlog in addition to Kanban boards for team members.
2. The estimation field helps us follow scrum/agile process.
3. The ability to tag members, setup workflow rules, card limits, and manage a checklist of tasks to complete that card.
4. Private To Do list
1. Would like a "Go To" link to be able to open the card in it's location (whether in a different collection, backlog or board).
2. A way to sort my backlog ( rearrange order by card title, board location, dates, estimation, tags, members, etc.)
3. Double-click to open attachments instead of downloading.
4. The option to add a card from a backlog to a specific columns on a Kanban board (Doing, Done, etc.)
5. Adding/Moving a backlog card to the bottom of the list instead of to the top of the first column.
6. Sync the order/prioritization of backlog cards with a column on the Kanban Board. Meaning, if I have prioritized cards in the backlog, to have that prioritization reflected in the Kanban column.
7. An option to remove tagged jobs from the private To Do list.
8. To have a full screen view of the backlog, similar to what you have for the boards.
Reviewed on 2016/10/28
EXCELLENT, but a few minor functionalities missing
Damiaan M.
We've recently made the transition from Trello to Favro, and on the whole we're very happy with the quality of the software and the service provided. The only constructive criticism i have is:
- having to download linked files to preview them, in trello you could view files linked to cards in browser without having to download them first. This is an essential functionality that favro is sorely lacking!
- when you have multiple long collections of different long lists, it can become quite complicated to navigate around the collections, maybe an expanded set of shortcuts allowing you to jump from collection to collection and card to card could be quite useful in terms of the user experience. At the moment it can be quite tricky to find specific cards in big collections.
Pros: Great UI and UX design, very useful for keeping track of big projects with lots of moving parts
no linked file preview on cards,
confusing to navigate large collections
Reviewed on 2017/09/29
The best tool out there to manage a development organization
Guillermo E.
Comments: Excellent visibility, a great way to motivate the team and keep them focused on the most relevant stories on a sprint. Overall a very elegant solution for managing software organizations.
Pros: Favro is very easy to use and they continuously deliver new functionality that makes a lot of sense. It's almost like they read my mind. I've tried other similar solutions in the market and nobody adapts so nicely to an agile/scrum development process. I can keep track of multiple developments, testing and implementation teams in the same tool.
Cons: Since Favro is really a "first of breed" product, some desirable functionality is just not there just yet. However, they're way further ahead than any other similar solution and they deliver new functionality very often. I do not like the fact that some of the key features are in the top version/pay plan. I do try to get the best out of what I actually have in my version.
Reviewed on 2018/05/25
Favro's main competitive advantage is the hierarchical listing of cards to help organize process.
Travis anna H.
Comments: Project management is challenging in startups. Things are moving fast and devoting the resources to tracking progress on reaching goals and organizing your team isn't easy. Favro helps us communicate as a team and track progress on our big goals. The customized collections and views enable our strategic team to look at the "big picture" while our developers can look at the day to day task list, but all our information is synced up.
Pros: The primary reason we went with Favro was the ability to hierarchically organize cards (like Asana) but also organize workflows like a Kanban tool. This fits our team approach the best. I also like that cards are the atomic unit of organization and that individual cards can show up in multiple boards, backlogs, and collections. In addition, the multiple and cutomizable collections is also helpful. But one of the best parts of Favro is their responsive and intelligent customer service reps who are able to answer questions quickly and effectively.
Cons: The UI is very text heavy and doesn't allow for incorporating custom iconography. Icons improve efficiency in working with SaaS tools and I see places that would help in Favro. The pricing tiers seem steep. Doubling the monthly rate for an increase from 5 to 10 users feels inappropriate.
Reviewed on 2018/05/17
Overall great for managing our project - a bit lacking in search
Colleen M.
Comments: It helps our team manage what features we're working on and what we would like to build in the future.
Pros: We use Favro to manage one product with a small team, having made the switch from Trello when that product couldn't handle our card volume. It's good as organizational software goes. It's nice that you can link cards together. The ability to have multiple boards and backlogs within the space, and to categorize cards within a backlog, are major selling points over Trello.
Cons: It's very difficult to find cards. In Trello you can just do a search and it'll find you cards that have your search terms anywhere. In Favro you have to do an advanced search and look for your search team in individual fields (title, description, etc). This has definitely led to some resentment within our team because it's difficult to track things down.
Reviewed on 2018/10/12
Great software! Highly recommendable for any business!
Jonathan O.
Comments: Our overall experience is very positive. We are extremely satisfied with the system, as we use it to both manage our day-to-day tasks and our various projects - both client projects and internal projects. We use a mix of agile and waterfall methodology when planning and managing our projects and the possibility to create a project plan (tree view) and have a corresponding board next it, is one of our favorite features!
Pros: The flexibility of being able to set up multiple collections with boards and lists (even project plans). It makes a mix of conventional project management methods (waterfall) and agile methodology work in one software. Furthermore the reports which can be created out of the software bring even more value to managing the business with Favro.
Cons: One thing that is missing for our organization is the possiblity to sort the cards when looking at "Cards assigned to me".
Reviewed on 2018/06/04
We needed to manage the workflow of multiple teams working on a single project.
Andrew H.
Comments: Managing the progress of multiple teams working on the same project.
Pros: It gave a quick and easy way to create and mange the tasks of different teams, while at the same time being able to have teams collaborate and understand what all the other teams are working. The integration of the other software into Favro was also a benefit since we were already using some of them, and they seamlessly worked into the Favro backend.
Cons: In our line of work we share a lot of large files and it would have been nice if it had something that could have integrated into it that could have handled the large file sharing and also integrated into each individual task.
Reviewed on 2018/11/05
Almost perfect project management platform
Andrei K.
Pros: I have been using Favro for 3 years. What I like most is that the workflow is configured quickly. It's hard to say at once what functions might be useful in the future, so Favro gives you the opportunity to add new functions to an already running workflow.
Cons: The application for iOS needs to be improved and added the ability to save images. It is also necessary to add the ability to track archived cards (after archiving, they are difficult to find even through a search).
Reviewed on 2018/03/26
Very powerful tool bringing the best from Trello and adding exactly what I was missing.
Karel S.
Pros: We can look at our work in any scale we want and keep everything connected. It is possible to both comprehensively present high-level roadmap to the stakeholders and keeps the tiny tasks for the development team in the same app. This is huge in terms of sustainability and maintenance of our work. The tool is incredibly flexible and I'm still trying to get the best from it.
Cons: Sometimes Favro can be overwhelming. Just today I was creating a huge WBS and I was scared I am missing something since the project tree hierarchy is missing some kind of visual cues to prevent accidents (like more group spacing). Favro is a little bit slow I get a feeling like an app is not running super smoothly like Trello for example and the lag disturbs me a bit. More problematic, however, is the fact that it sometimes hangs up on me altogether I cannot scroll in the backlog for example and need to reload the page. But my biggest trouble is with card moving when I want to move or add a card to a board or backlog, there is no indication of the collection name and my backlogs and boards are usually simply called "Backlog" and "Board". I understand that this can be considered a feature more than a bug since the magic of Favro is based on the fact that a board or a backlog can live in multiple places, but still, the collection is my main workspace and my it helps me navigate. This leads to manual card manipulation using a good old mouse. Which is fine until you need to move card between collections.
Reviewed on 2019/11/08
Favro Is One To Look Out For!
Skyler B.
Comments: I have used Favro for project overviews and estimates. It's worked very well and really helps me visualize time spent and time allocated.
Pros: Favro is a very interesting concept that I would not have supported on paper. But, in application, it works exceptionally well. It is a great way of visualizing tasks and seeing how projects are progressing. It fits exactly how I think about projects and works very well.
Cons: I found myself feeling like I was missing something when I first started using Favro. I wish there was a quick tutorial or overview video that wouldn't take all day or multiple parts to get into. Something to get me started.
Reviewed on 2018/10/13
Great enhancement to Trello-style Kanban with some unpolished edges
Verified Reviewer
Comments: It's a positive experience and so far I've used it for two projects I manage (invited 20+ co-workers to join). I hope the integration with other tools especially JIRA are even more thorough (it's functional right now, but not to a point I can just rely on that without manual touches)
Pros: Features. Features. Features. It's fully packed with features I dreamed of in Trello and now all available and even better. The visual style is appealing and the product itself is solid
Cons: There're some rough edges in how the web app is loaded in the browser. For large boards it takes a long pause, sometimes so long that I wonder if the board is empty. The pricing is on the expensive side. Lack of a personal / individual plan is also unfortunate so I can't use that for both professional and personal projects.
Reviewed on 2017/09/25
Intuitive and powerful tool for team and cross team collaboration
Julia H.
Comments: Better team collaboration and less admin time.
Pros: Favro is fast, intuitive and easy to use which means the team is actually using it! Other project management solutions I've used have ended up taking too much admin time. Favro also gives a really great overview when collaborating across teams and the filtering and search functionalities are working great, making sure you always see the cards that you are interested in.
Cons: There are still some features and integrations that I think are missing.. But the development seems to go pretty fast and I'm sure they'll come sooner or later.


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UK tax: what will change in 2011?
Continuing the recent trend of expanding the UK's already extensive body of tax legislation, 2011 looks likely to be a busy year for the law makers. This article summarises the key tax changes that are set to take place over the next year.
Foreign branch taxation reform
In its June 2010 Budget the Government announced several proposals as part of a five-year plan to reform corporation tax, including a proposal to exempt foreign branch profits from corporation tax. This followed the previous government's announcement in the 2009 Pre-Budget Report that it recognised foreign branch taxation as a 'matter of growing importance' and intended to engage with businesses to explore potential future rule changes. A discussion document setting out the proposal for such an exemption and key issues arising from it was published on 27 July 2010, alongside the reform of the Controlled Foreign Company (CFC) rules.
Coalition government's plan for tax reform
The Coalition Agreement made between the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives, published on 20 May 2010, together with the Queen's Speech delivered on 25 May 2010, contained several proposals for tax reform, which in the government's view are aimed at creating a fairer and simpler taxation system. The tax measures that have been proposed widely reflect most of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat manifesto pledges, though the scope of a few of the measures has been reduced.
This article provides a summary of the coalition government's key proposals for taxation reform, which are widely expected to be introduced in the emergency budget. In addition, this article specifically focuses on the proposed changes to the capital gains tax (CGT) regime and considers the implications that these proposed changes may have on certain taxpayers.
Will high-earners suffer further wealth reductions?
It was hardly surprising and perhaps inevitable given the current economic and financial crisis, coupled with a general election, that the government would attempt to find ways to raise funds to repay the public debt, without adversely affecting the majority of voters. One such method devised by the Labour government was to restrict tax relief on contributions to registered pension schemes, with effect from 6 April 2011, for high-income earners.
The Labour government introduced legislation in the Finance Act 2010 to restrict the tax relief for those people with pension savings, and for those who have a gross income of £150,000 and over. Relief will be tapered away so that for those earning in excess of £180,000, it is worth only 20%, the same as to a basic rate taxpayer. This means that individuals affected by the restriction will continue to receive at least basic rate relief on all pension contributions (subject to the existing annual and lifetime allowances).
EFRBS Attractive alternative for high earners?
6 April 2006 saw the introduction of the Employer Financed Retirement Benefit Scheme (EFRBS), replacing the now defunct Funded Unapproved Retirement Benefit Scheme. An EFRBS is an unregistered (ie not registered with HM Revenue & Customs) pension scheme commonly used to provide retirement benefits to high-net-worth individuals (defined as those earning over £150,000 per annum for the purposes of this article). It is commonly used as a retirement vehicle to incentivise and reward key employees, directors or shareholders.
The employer will usually establish a trust that has the purpose and power to enable the employer to provide retirement benefits to employees. Employees cannot make contributions to the EFRBS. There are two types of EFRBS: a funded EFRBS and an unfunded EFRBS.
A Swift analysis
The First tier Tribunal's finding in Swift v HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) [2010] that a Delaware limited liability company was not an opaque vehicle for UK tax purposes has caused a stir in the international tax structuring arena. However, while this decision appears to go against HMRC's stated general view that Delaware LLCs are not transparent vehicles and so are treated as companies rather than look-through vehicles for UK tax purposes, the tribunal reached its decision in Swift on its particular findings of fact relating to the agreement governing the LLC in question.
It is important to note that the decision does not cover all LLCs and it results from the tribunal's finding that under the agreement governing this LLC the members of the LLC were entitled to the LLC's profits as they arose. This decision highlights, however, that taxpayers cannot automatically follow HMRC's published general practice and assume that a Delaware LLC will be treated as a company for UK tax purposes. Instead, the taxpayer must look at the particular rights of members of the LLC in question and cannot assume that all Delaware LLCs (or other non-UK entities) will be treated in the same way for UK tax purposes. The individual facts of each case must be considered.
Tax and social policy
The world of tax is quite interesting at the moment – to me, at least – because it brings into sharp focus the way that tax is used as an instrument of policy and what role it is playing in the field of social policy. It is hardly news that the state of public finances in most western economies is, to be charitable, delicate. No doubt the finances will be redressed, to an extent, by cuts in spending. However, it is equally clear that some of the improvement will have to come from an increase in public revenues.
Pre-Budget Report 2009: international tax matters
In this month's corporate tax article, we have considered some of the proposed international tax measures introduced inthe Pre-Budget Report (PBR 2009). The headline-grabbing measures of the PBR 2009, such as the bank bonus tax or the increases in national insurance contributions, have already received considerable media attention and commentary, and therefore this article does not seek to review those measures. Instead, I will focus on some of the international tax measures introduced in the PBR 2009, and consider whether the proposed changes are an effective and proportionate response to the problems that the new rules are seeking to address.
HMRC sharpens its tools to combat avoidance
A consultation document, 'Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes' (the consultation document), has beenpublished in respect of proposed changes to the disclosure of tax avoidance schemes (DOTAS) regime, which are largely aimed at improving compliance and widening the scope of the types of transactions that are disclosable. It is clear that HMRC consider this legislation to be extremely effective in countering and reducing tax avoidance, and consequently they would like to improve and develop the disclosure regime by broadening its application. This article will briefly review the current DOTAS rules and consider whether the proposed new rules are likely to have a positive impact on tax recovery and mitigatingtax avoidance.
Immediate tax clampdown on debt buy-backs
The Government announced on 14 October 2009 in a written ministerial statement that changes will be made in next year's Finance Bill, with retrospective effect to 14 October 2009, to amend the UK tax rules applying where existing debt is purchased at a discount by a company connected to the debtor.
Background and current law
In the present economic conditions many banks and other businesses have issued debt that is trading at a discount to the amount borrowed. Given the uncertainty and volatility in the financial markets, many banks and other businesses are seeking to buy back their debt.
First-tier tribunal applies Redrow to accountancy services
In Airtours Holiday Transport Ltd v HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) [2009], the tax chamber of the first-tier tribunal decided that Airtours Holiday Transport Ltd (Airtours) was entitled to a credit for input VAT on fees that it had paid to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). HMRC argued that Airtours was merely a third-party payer and that PwC's services had been provided to financial institutions, not to Airtours. The tribunal applied the ratio of the decision of the House of Lords in Commissioners of Customs & Excise v Redrow Group Plc [1999] and determined on the facts that the supply of accountancy services was made both to Airtours and the banks. Accordingly, Airtours was entitled to an input tax credit as it had been a recipient of a supply of services.
Yet another change of heart
Although it may go unnoticed by the world at large, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) recently issued a further release on the subject of the correct tax treatment of unapproved options. While this may appear a fairly dry subject at first, the history to the recent announcement is illuminating and highlights issues that are of concern to all taxpayers (and not just those who are affected by the recent announcement).
Laerstate: the dangers of the UK corporate residence test
Offshore corporate structures have been, and will remain, an important tool in corporate tax planning. However, there has been a renewed interest in the taxation of offshore corporates, highlighted by the recent emigration of certain high-profile listed companies from the UK. Although relating to a disposal back in 1996, the decision in Laerstate BV v HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) [2009] has therefore arrived at an opportune time.
Calling all senior accounting officers: are you ready for your additional roles and responsibilitie
THE BUDGET 2009 INTRODUCED SEVERAL unexpected reforms to the current tax regime with arguably the greatest surprise to businesses and advisers being the introduction of legislation relating to senior accounting officers (SAO). Specifically, Schedule 46 to the Finance Act (FA) 2009 was introduced to make SAOs of large companies liable to taxes and duties in the UK, responsible for ensuring and certifying that appropriate tax accounting arrangements have been established and are maintained on an annual basis.
Cross-border VAT changes in 2010: immediate action required
The Government announced in the 2009 Budget that the cross-border VAT rules would be amended and there would be changes to the way the intra-EU reporting regime is operated. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has published draft legislation and guidance setting out further information on the changes announced in the 2009 Budget.
Simplifying capital gains taxation
In the 2007 Pre-Budget Report the government indicated that it was committed to simplifying tax legislation, particularly in the areas of VAT, anti-avoidance and corporation tax for related companies. The government has now published a consultation document, 'Simplification Review: capital gains rules of companies – a discussion document', in relation to simplifying certain aspects of the existing capital gains rules for groups of companies.
Revised rules for the taxation of foreign profits
In the 2008 Pre-Budget Report the government announced a package of reforms to the taxation of foreign profits to be introduced in the Finance Bill 2009 (the Bill). Draft clauses were released for consultation on 9 December 2008, together with explanatory notes (the original rules). In IHL168 (p54), we focused on the draft legislation and explanatory notes published by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and HM Treasury (HMT), and outlined the approach of the draft legislation.
Tribunals reform: General and Special Commissioners – RIP
As a result of Sir Andrew Leggatt's Review of Tribunals in 2001 and the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, a new two-tier tribunal structure is, over time, replacing all the old tribunals.
Changes to the grouping rules and foreign denominated losses
On 18 December 2008, the government announced that it proposed to introduce new legislation in the Finance Bill 2009 to address two distinct problems that have arisen as a consequence of the recent turbulence and volatility in the global financial markets. Although the issue has come to light with regard to the financial sector, the new rules will apply to all relevant companies and not only those companies within the banking industry.
UK-Netherlands Treaty: a new tie-breaker test to determine residence
The UK government has agreed a new convention with the Netherlands (the new Treaty), which will enter into force once both countries have completed their legislative procedures. It is expected that the provisions of the Treaty will take effect from 1 April 2009 (for corporation tax purposes) and from 6 April 2009 (for income tax and capital gains tax purposes).
The future of extra-statutory concessions
Extra-statutory concessions (ESCs) have been a feature of the UK's tax system for decades and will continue to be made and withdrawn as necessary. However, following the decision in R (on the application of Wilkinson) v Inland Revenue Commissioners [2005], it is now clear that the scope of HM Revenue & Customs' (HMRC's) administrative discretion to make ESCs that depart from the strict statutory position contained in the legislation is not as wide as HMRC previously thought.
Pre-Budget Report: impact of tax changes on businesses
The 2008 Pre-Budget Report (PBR), published on 24 November 2008, contained widely anticipated measures for individuals designed to support the economy, together with some unexpected measures to claw back some of the tax giveaways from higher-rate taxpayers in the future. The tax rate changes and temporary reduction in the rate of VAT have been widely reported in the press and accordingly this article does not attempt to summarise any of those changes. Instead, the article focuses on a number of measures that were introduced that may affect UK corporates and their businesses.
Non-domiciliaries: 30,000 reasons to be taxed on an arising basis
Changes to the residence and domicile rules were announced in the 2007 pre-Budget report. The final changes to the legislation have now received Royal Assent and can be found in ss24 and 25 and Schedule 7 to the Finance Act (FA) 2008. The revised rules are extremely complicated and will likely result in having the desired effect for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) of causing many non-domiciled individuals to be taxed on an arising basis of taxation (as opposed to the remittance basis of taxation), especially those non-domiciled individuals who have little in the way of foreign assets, income or gains.
Issue of HMRC guidance following Demibourne v HMRC
Following consultation with various employers and interested professional bodies, HMRC has published guidance on how it will deal with cases involving an underpayment of PAYE.
House of Lords clarifies 'part of a trade'
The roller coaster litigation of Maco Door and Window Hardware (UK) Ltd v Revenue and Customs [2008] has finally concluded with a 3-2 victory in the House of Lords for HMRC. The point in issue was whether the phrase 'a part of a trade' in the definition of an industrial building or structure in s18 of the Capital Allowances Act (CAA) 1990 referred to a trade that was itself part of a composite trade or whether the phrase referred to an activity that was a constituent activity of the overall trade but not itself a trade.
Vodafone 2 and continuing uncertainty over the CFC regime
THE DECISION GIVEN BY THE HIGH COURT IN Vodafone 2 v Revenue and Customs Commissioners [2008] (published 4 July 2008) is the latest subplot to the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the application of the controlled foreign company (CFC) rules and the taxation of foreign profits.
It is worth noting that in spite of the uncertainty surrounding the CFC regime as a result of the pending hearing before the Special Commissioners of Cadbury Schweppes after the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision in 2006 (Cadbury Schweppes plc & anor v Inland Revenue Commissioners [2007]) and the decision of the High Court in Vodafone 2, the Finance Act 2008 actually increases the scope of the CFC rules by extending the definition of control to companies who control the economic rights of a subsidiary (being the entitlement to dividends, proceeds on a sale of shares or assets on a winding up).
Prior to 12 March 2008, the control test for CFC purposes turned only on voting control. Although beyond the scope of this article, companies who previously have not fallen within the CFC regime will need to consider whether the extended definition of control brings any of their overseas subsidiaries within it.
Capital gains group exit-charge rules confirmed
THE COURT OF APPEAL HAS CONFIRMED THAT GROUP companies must be 'associated' both at the time of intra-group transfer as well as on exit from the group if the exemption from the exit charge under s179(1) of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act (TCGA) 1992 is to apply.
Proposed changes to late payments of interest rules
HM REVENUE & CUSTOMS (HMRC) RECENTLY published the consultation document 'Changes to corporation tax rules on late payments of interest between connected companies' (Revenue & Customs Brief 33/08). It has acknowledged that recent decisions of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) have questioned whether the current rules concerning late payments of interest between connected companies are compatible with the principles of European Community law, which legislate against non-discrimination.
Government backs down on taxation of foreign profits
THE TREASURY HAS MADE PUBLIC AN EXCHANGE of letters between Richard Lambert, directorgeneral of the CBI, Julian Heslop, chairman of the Hundred Group fiscal committee, and Jane Kennedy, the Financial Secretary, in which HM Treasury has indicated that it will back down on some aspects of the proposed changes to the UK tax system in relation to foreign profits earned by UK multinational enterprises.


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The president of Lane's employee union has removed the volunteer chairwoman from the college's advisory committee responsible for diversity issues.
At the behest of Lane Community College Employee Federation President Bob Baldwin, Elizabeth Andrade was notified via email during winter break of her removal from the Diversity Council.
In the email, Baldwin wrote that Andrade had chosen a negative approach when she publicly disparaged those representing Lane's employee and faculty unions in the college's governance system.
"As Federation president, I can no longer have you using (your) Federation appointment to engage in your own personal agenda," Baldwin wrote.
Baldwin was unavailable to comment and Andrade declined to comment.
The college is passing a policy requiring its employees to complete some form of diversity training. The initiative to pass a policy concerning cultural competency has spanned several years — and has gained considerable steam during the past 12 months.
Four proposals were brought before the College Council in May 2013, but all four were left at the table after council members failed to reach consensus.
Lane President Mary Spilde said the council's failure to reach consensus stemmed from the inclusion of procedural language in the policies themselves.
During the Dec. 3 Lane Board of Education meeting, Spilde said including procedure into policy (requiring 18 hours of diversity training, for example) was unnecessary.
As long as the policy clearly stated the college's commitment to establishing some form of diversity training, Spilde said, "that's all it needs to say."
Andrade was invited before the board during the December meeting to present a short chronology on the cultural competency policy. During Andrade's presentation, she said Lane's Diversity Council began considering a cultural competency policy at the council's formation in Spring 2008 — and since then has failed to reach consensus on five separate occasions.
"Just because of one vote," Andrade said.
According to the college's governance system manual, the removal was within Baldwin's rights. However, his decision still brought controversy.
Some union members publicly voiced their disapproval during the Jan. 8 Board of Education meeting.
At the meeting, Andrade said she was saddened by her removal and considered the move to be a tremendous abuse of power by Baldwin.
"It feels like a witch-hunting," Andrade said. "(It was like) nails on the chalkboard, because I have the audacity to bring (forth) the issues the governance system was having."
Andrade spoke before the board during its November and December meetings to detail the lineage of Lane's initiative to establish a diversity education policy for its employees.
"I don't understand what he means when he said I 'chose an approach of negativity and public disparagement,'" Andrade said at the meeting.
Workforce Development Career Pathways Coordinator Rosa Lopez, who sits on the Learning Council, said she was deeply bothered by Andrade's removal from the Diversity Council.
"As far as I know, there was no justification or reasoning behind it," Lopez said.
Lopez said she spoke with Baldwin, and said she recognized Andrade's removal was a union issue that will be dealt with internally. However, Lopez thinks the governance system is ineffective because the union leadership has the authority to appoint and remove people from the Diversity Council.
"We have no entity on this campus with the focus on diversity that would have been able to appoint its members with or without the approval of union leadership," Lopez said.
Lane Student Adviser Claudia Riumallo also spoke at the meeting, where she said she was very concerned about the state of the governance system after Andrade's firing.
"What happened to Elizabeth Andrade is scary to me," Riumallo said. "I'm afraid I will not ever be represented — and if I bring up an issue, I wonder if I will be safe."
Andrade was appointed to the Diversity Council at its inception.
Despite her removal, Andrade still attended the Diversity Council's Jan. 15 meeting.
Donna Zmolek, Lane's assistant to the president, said, "Some people were saying (Baldwin) didn't really have the authority to kick (Andrade) off in the first place, so was she ever really off? I'm not sure."


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Lily Collins: 'Writers' Premiere at TIFF
Lily Collins makes a statement on the red carpet at the premiere of Writers during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival at the Ryerson Theatre on Sunday evening (September 9) in Toronto, Canada.
The 23-year-old actress wore a show-stopping Balmain dress with Casadei heels. Lily completed her look with Tiffany jewelry.
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Before you begin reading this blog i'll like to warn you that this might turn out to be one of my most boring blogs .. so read at your own risk . Also this post will not serve any literary purpose so no need to preserve it.
One fine Sunday ... ( I verified the day from my mom .. she told today is tuesday. This is what happens when you get a month off after a hectic sem ends in IIT - You don't bother whether it is sunday, monday or any other day as you are so busy relaxing and eating that you wish this time to freeze ) ... bored you enough huh... now back again ...
One fine Tuesday ... I got up at 6 o'clock to surf internet and download a movie ( 'Paa' ). Download started .... 0% ... 1 % .. 2 hrs remaining . In the meantime I was checking my mail which had about 81 unread messages (41 facebook , 29 orkut , 8 newsletters and 3 personally addressed). Facebook & orkut messages went to trash ... read those newsletters which were actually advertisements ... thrash :x ... now the 3 messages...
One was sent by someone whose email id read as firstname.lastname@example.com and the content of the message was as usual - ' Identify me if u can ! ' .... I recognized this kind of email-id can be possessed by only one guy - Monoj Kumar ... a friend from my school days who used to torture our ears ! ... School Days ... I wish to relive those days ... phew .. but time has flowed ... I moved on ..
The next message was sent by Osama (not the one whose image came in your mind :P). It was to inquire whether I was in kanpur or jamshedpur. I wanted to pay him a surprise visit so I replied i'm in kanpur.
Then came the message for which you have waited for so long... It was sent by someone who claimed that he was in std. 11 and was studying in my school and wanted some help regarding a programming question .. hmmm.. I quickly browsed thro' the question ... it was familiar to my eyes ..
I had already come across that question in 12th std. while I was preparing for a programming competition... M*I**L(currently in 12) had given me the question as a challenge stating that it was asked in an International Olympiad. At that time I just looked it for 5 minutes .. calculated in my mind that I could not solve it ... pocketed that question saying i'll try it at home ... but I never tried to solve it ... saying that I have no time .. gotta prepare for JEE
but reality was something different ... I feared .. u heard it right ... I did not want to loose this challenge and my confidence ... so made a very good excuse and escaped.
But see the fate ... the same thing the same fear ... it came back again ... but itz just an email .. delete it .. who cares .... nope solve it this time ... otherwise it will remain as a burden in your mind ... and many such random thoughts were flashing in my mind.
In the meantime ... Download Complete ! .. yippee ... and a voice said - relax dude ... your sem has just ended ... take a break .. leave the question aside and enjoy the movie ... But i was feeling leaden. I went back to my bed and ... i don't know what happened ...
My next vision ... It was a room full of ........ air .. you got it right - it was empty. I turned to my right and saw a computer occupying the damp and dark corner. Sensing no way out, I went near the ordinary PC. Something was already running on the screen .... Before I could see the name of the application (my wild guess - BlueJ as its interface was familiar to the application running on screen) characters started floating out of the screen and enlarged .... soon a river of characters started appearing .. enlarging .. arranging ... disappearing in front of my eyes ... trying to convey what hadn't struck me in the past 1 year .... yeah ... it was in front of me... unbelievable ... the entire algorithm to solve the problem program ..... my eyes ... popping out ... out of sheer excitement and .....
I saw my mom's face. Her hands were on my shoulder .. shaking me ... a signal to get out of the bed .. it was 11 o' clock ... my mom told me that today I showed a very peculiar behavior .. my eyes were open and she thought that I was awake but in reality I was not ... I did not bother to listen to her. Quickly switched on my computer. I still had a faint memory of that algorithm .. quickly wrote the corresponding code ... no compiler error .. no runtime error .. program successfully running in front of my eyes ... but some deep thoughts were still traveling in my mind -
was it really a dream ... a deja vu .. or a creation of my mind which over the year had reached a solution without my knowing it .... i have no answer .. a mere lucky coincidence perhaps .. whatever it was it relieved me of a burden today ... the fear had vanished .... but the wait continues .... wait for more such dreams which come true ..
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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I keep a close eye on what new enterprise gamification companies have to say; after all, I too am in the game and I want to see what my competition is writing.
I am always disappointed (and surprised too) when I see the following texts, typically in the marketing text of a company that touts its sales gamification: "ignite competition".
Come on! If competition was the only driver for sales gamification wouldn't companies just be better off with a sales competition and good sized cash bonuses? Why spend time and money on enterprise sales gamification?
Drive isn't only created by competition or cash bonuses
The answer is that gamification isn't about competition and motivation isn't about cash bonuses. It is about engaging people with what Daniel Pink's book – Drive: the Surprising Truth about What Motivates us – calls the "third drive".
What is the third drive? It begins with monkeys and a puzzle. In the 1950s a scientist noticed that monkeys were engaged in puzzle solving even when there was no reward. This was a surprise. They were supposed to only dedicate themselves to the task if it provided them a reward. A raisin, a banana. But no, "the performance of the task … provided intrinsic reward".
When monkeys were offered raisins as a reward for solving the puzzles, they "actually made more errors and solved the puzzles less frequently". The introduction of an extrinsic reward seemed to extinguish the intrinsic reward; it was also a poorer driver of problem solving ability.
More money? less "third drive" and less intrinsic motivation
Two decades later research found that "when money is used as an external reward for some activity, the subjects lose intrinsic interest for the activity". Rewards do boost activity, but their effects wear off soon and the longer term behavior is that of less engagement and motivation as was before.
Pink argues that the assumption that individual performance improves with short term incentive plans and pay for performance is wrong. Not only do these schemes not work. They may even cause harm, and we have the science to prove this.
Motivation can be intrinsic or extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation is the satisfaction of doing something better, with autonomy and a sense of growing mastery. Extrinsic motivation is doing something for a reward or competition.
Yet many studies show that extrinsic rewards "tend to have a substantially negative effect on intrinsic motivation… when institutions – families, schools, businesses, and athletic teams, for example – focus on the short term and opt for controlling people's behavior… they do considerable long-term damage".
The book then tells the story of an experiment by Dan Ariely and others, in Madurai, India, to understand the effects of extrinsic incentives on performance. People were offered small, medium and large rewards for reaching performance levels when playing a game. Small rewards were equivalent to a days' pay, medium rewards were equivalent to about two weeks' pay and a large reward was equivalent to about five months' pay. What were the results? The low and medium rewarded groups performed about the same. But the highest incentives led to worse performance. The bottom line? "one cannot assume that introducing or raising incentives always improves performance".
Performance gamification is about intrinsic motivation
That's why you should never think of enterprise gamification as a way to set goals or reward employees or drive them through competition. Think instead of how to use intrinsic drivers and how to use gamification to do just this. It's possible. I will discuss what these are and how they can be achieved through gamification in later posts.


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PROKOFIEV Complete Piano Sonatas
You will search high and low for a more meticulously prepared set of the Prokofiev piano sonatas than Anne-Marie McDermott's, which also includes the early, outrageous Sarcasms for good measure. With technique to burn and a fierce commitment to every note, she offers highly individual performances which none the less remain scrupulously true to the composer.
In her accompanying notes McDermott speaks of Prokofiev's "intense and dramatic musical voice", for her a "visceral and stimulating challenge". Such eloquence is reflected in all these performances where no stone is left unturned; where every "i" is perfectly dotted and every "t" no less perfectly crossed. And just when you feel, in the Seventh Sonata's 7/8 precipitato finale that her tempo is perhaps more judicious than thrilling, she whirls you away with a vengeance in the Sixth Sonata's opening, discarding Prokofiev's allegro moderato in favour of something more racy. She is smartly on the move again in the following, sardonically dancing Allegretto, yet is at the same time glowingly alert to the fourth movement's Romance, to its expressive weight and intensity. Here, in particular, you are made aware of her rich tonal resource, big-scaled but never confusing strength with violence. The popular single-movement Third Sonata is a far cry from, say, Weissenberg's depth-charge but unmusical virtuosity; and in the second movement of the quirky Ninth Sonata (dedicated to Sviatoslav Richter) McDermott's command is as breathtaking as her ethereal resolution of Prokofiev's elfin capering at the close of the finale.
Just occasionally (in, for example, the "scherzoishness" – the composer's own term – of the Second Sonata's second movement) I wished she had indulged herself in a little more fantasy and freedom, let the music off the lead, so to speak. Personally, I would never want to be without certain classics of the recorded repertoire: Richter "live" in Nos 2 and 8 in his 1961 London recital (BBC Legends, 3/09), Horowitz's disc of No 7, which so astonished the composer (Philips, 1/93) and Pogorelich in No 6, always among his finest offerings (DG, 11/84), yet all in all you could hardly wish for playing of a greater integrity than from Anne-Marie McDermott. Hers is a formidable achievement, reminding us that we have waited a long time for an American pianist of this stature.


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Two hours of Eyehategod was amazing last night. My ears are still ringing. Thanks to everyone that showed up, banged their heads, bought our shit and talked to us in a drunken mix of English and German. Awesome Scheisse.
Next up, SCOTLAND!
As mentioned before we will be playing Incubate this year, on Sunday the 16th of September. We will have to do some meticulous planning and high-speed driving (unless someone has a spare flux capacitor that we can borrow) because on the same day we also have a tentative release show planned for the split with Terzij de Horde (The third time is a charm, hopefully...) at CRY ME A BADGER FEST.
Apart from Starve and Terzij de Horde, our labelmates Ortega will also be playing. The show will be headlined by the barbarian warriors of CONAN (UK)!
For us, there is no summer. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm.


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Four hours after giving birth, Anna Walker was lying in her own bed, drinking champagne.
It had been a short journey from the front room, where she had been attended by a private midwife, as she gave birth to son Tommy at home in Hampshire.
Mrs Walker is part of a growing trend; professional, middle-class women who are used to paying for the best, and are prepared to spend thousands of pounds to ensure that the birth of their child runs as smoothly as the rest of their life.
While total numbers are small, they are rising sharply. According to new figures, last year more than 1,000 women paid for the service; a three-fold rise, in less than a decade.
Demand has become so high in parts of London and the South East that expectant mothers have been unable to find a private midwife to assist them.
The self-employed midwives - who charge between £1,800 and £4,000 for a birth - say their services are especially popular among well-educated women, and older expectant mothers, who have often been horrified by previous experiences of NHS maternity units.
Earlier this year, the head of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said services were "teetering on the brink" of crisis, as the number of midwives fails to keep up with rising birth rates.
Although the NHS says women should be given the option of a home birth, staff shortages mean many of those with such intentions still end up being rushed to crowded wards.
Mothers' groups say that for those who can afford them, private midwives offer expectant mothers some degree of control over the kind of care they receive, and the chance to establish a relationship with one midwife, rather than being seen by a succession of strangers.
For Mrs Walker, 37, who gave birth to Tommy, her first child, last year, that meant spending £3,000 - the price of a good holiday, for her and husband Matthew, who run their own communications business.
She said: "I had heard all about my friends' experiences of NHS maternity care, and none of the stories were positive. I wanted to give birth at home with a midwife I had got to know.
"I knew that while the NHS said you could have a home birth, that could change on the day; I didn't want to take the luck of the draw, and end up with the bright lights of a hospital, and strangers rushing in and out, changing shifts."
Instead, she was able to establish a relationship with the midwife they hired. On the day her labour started, last March, she felt calm and reassured, and found the experience of a water birth, in their front room "amazing".
She said: "I gave birth to Tommy at 6.01pm. By 10 o' clock, I was back in my own bed, drinking champagne. It was perfect."
Mrs Walker is in many ways typical of the women prepared to pay for a good birth.
Eleanor May-Johnson, from Independent Midwives UK, said: "A lot of the women who seek out an independent midwife tend to be a bit older, often over the age of 35, and while they aren't always well-off, the majority are well-educated.
"They know that they want a home birth, and they know that while the NHS says they can have one, that can be taken away from them at the last minute."
The midwife, who last year had the highest number of clients since she began private practice seven years ago, said concerns about the standard of NHS maternity care were one of the main reasons for the rising numbers.
Mrs May-Johnson said: "There are parts of the country, especially London and the South East, where the number of independent midwives can't keep up with the demand.
"Those tend to be the same areas where the NHS maternity services are under pressure, and turning away women in labour."
The organisation's figures show the number of births involving private midwives increased from 350 in 2002 to just over 1,000 last year.
Even these statistics are likely to provide an underestimate, since the group's membership covers about 70 per cent of independent midwives.
Separate figures show that last year, a further 2,000 mothers-to-be paid up to £500 each for "doulas" - birth coaches - to give them one-to-one support through an NHS birth.
The rising popularity of doulas - who have no specific training or qualifications - has proved contentious.
While many women who have hired doulas - the Greek word for slave - say they have provided comfort and reassurance, senior hospital doctors have accused them of interfering, and creating dangerous levels of conflict in the delivery suite.
Cathy Ranson of campaign group Netmums said: "Our research has found NHS maternity services are very stretched. Some women are choosing independent midwives and doulas in an attempt to get more control over the kind of care they receive."
Earlier this year, the RCM said maternity units were reaching "breaking point" as midwife numbers fail to keep pace with a baby boom.
In the last decade, the birthrate has risen by 19 per cent, while midwife numbers rose by 12 per cent - leaving a shortfall of more than 4,000 midwives across the service.
Last year, an NHS survey of 25,000 women who recently gave birth found one in five had been left alone during childbirth, at a point when it worried them.
Sue Macdonald from the RCM said staff shortages were one of the main reasons women were denied the highest standards of care.
She said: "What women want is to feel special, and listened to and cared for, and to develop a relationship with their midwife right from the start of pregnancy. We want every woman to get that gold standard of care, not just those who can pay for it."
Debate over the safety of home births has raged for decades. Forty years ago, more than a third of women gave birth at home, but currently, fewer than 3 per cent of births take place in the home.
Last month, a landmark report by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said the NHS should do far more to encourage home births, declaring that in one in three cases, identified as low risk, women were safe to give give birth "without a doctor going anywhere near them" - either at home or in a midwife-led unit.
However, The Birth Trauma Association has warned that cases which appeared low risk could quickly develop life-threatening problems during labour.
Last year a US study which claimed that a home birth carries three times the risk that a baby would die provoked divisions among medics and midwives.
The research, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, showed the average mortality rate of babies born in hospital was 0.3 per 1,000 births, rising to one per 1,000 births for those born at home.
The RCM said the research was flawed, and said that in Holland, where one in three women have home births, the perinatal mortality rate is the lowest in Europe.
In 2009 a private midwife who delivered two of the author JK Rowling's children was found guilty of professional misconduct after a baby died during labour.
Deborah Purdue, who ran the Dorset and Wiltshire Independent Midwives company, did not properly examine the mother in labour, so that complications were missed.


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Feelin' Good (SSATB - L4)
This classic, hard-swinging, soulful tune is transformed into a fairly epic show piece that is MADE to close your vocal jazz group's set. Features either a male or female soloist (due to the range) and a tempo transition that lets your group begin by swinging in a more modern, reharmonized setting with an aggressive scat solo section, and then they'll finish the chart powerfully in a hard 12/8 feel.
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Discovery of the two-ingredient no-churn ice cream has opened the doors wide for endless flavor possibilities. With the bountiful mulberry harvest this season, it came to me that I should try out a mulberry ice cream recipe, using that very same two-ingredient base. I was not disappointed.
The violet hue is a hundred percent natural, induced by the reduced syrup of boiled sugared mulberries. Once the cream and condensed milk are whipped into submission, the almost black mulberry concentrate is folded into the base. You can choose to leave it marbled or go full-on purple.
1 cup mulberries
1/2 lime, juice
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups whipping cream
1 can (400g) sweet condensed milk
Put the mulberry, lime juice, and sugar in a sauce-pan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer, and cook for about 4 minutes, mashing the berries with a wooden spoon against the side of the pan. Push the mixture through a sieve; discard the solids and refrigerate the syrup until cold.
Whip the cream to soft peaks, then whip in the condensed milk to a stiff peak. Fold or whip in the cold mulberry syrup until incorporated.
Pour the mixture into a wax paper-lined loaf pan, and cover the top also with wax paper. Freeze at least 4 hours, or overnight. Serve scoops in cones or bowls.
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Are You There, Chelsea? (NBC, Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m. ET) remixes a collection of humorous essays by the multitalented irritant Chelsea Handler into a sitcom starring Laura Prepon as Handler's almost-all-id alter ego. The book is called Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea—a name which, though too polysyllabic and dipsomaniacal to work for network primetime, undeniably makes irreverent sense in its corrupted echo of Judy Blume. The title's elision for television is perhaps ill-considered; however, given Handler's persona as a dedicated lush, you can parse it as a question posed by a friend or first responder desperate to snap her back from a boozy brownout.
The first two installments of the show lift themes, incidents, and narrative strategies from the book. These include Chelsea's spasm of amused disgust upon confronting the ruddy pubic shrubbery of a ginger-haired lover; her supra-Rogetian command of madcap synonyms for the female genitalia; and a condescending affection for little people, whom she likes to call "midgets" and really likes to call "nuggets." There is also, fundamentally, the matter of a self-concept that grounds such a worldview: "I consider myself to be a very obnoxious person."
The heroine is not a brat or a "bitch" but something like a female bro. She cares not a whit about her mind or heart, and it would be a stretch to say that she contemplates her navel. Instead, she concentrates on her clitoris and hopes that her liver won't give out. The writers focus strictly on her spleen, which sometimes puts them at odds with Prepon: Her brightness and buoyancy—her natural amiability—threaten to undermine the character's integrity.
It is difficult to situate the fictional Handler in terms of class. Blue-collar isn't quite the word. Rather, her social station is typified by the deep V-neck collar of the t-shirt that clings fondly to her as she waits tables at a New Jersey sports bar. This is not a service-industry gig held in the spirit of a middle-class slacker or a working-class striver, but of a career party chick. We might compare Chelsea's life as a real alewife of New Jersey with that of her friend and roommate Olivia (Ali Wong) who has gone to college to become a journalist, God help her, and who has designs on an internship in Manhattan. Chelsea, in contrast, is going nowhere, professionally or emotionally. To underscore the latter point, the series offers her a second foil, an innocent soul named Dee Dee, played by Lauren Lapkus, who, with her round eyes and wiggling limbs, reads as a hybrid of Zoe Kazan and Shelley Duvall's Olive Oyl.
The opening moments of the pilot allow Chelsea to explain how she came to be arrested for driving while intoxicated. One night, while unwinding with colleagues, she "power-slurped a worm out of a high-end bottle of tequila"—a statement that may lead you to believe that the girl is all talk. (If there's a worm in your high-end tequila, then your tequila is mediocre mezcal.) Then, she got in her car. Perhaps you will find the show's casual treatment of this crime to be a turnoff. (If Chelsea were more exuberant in her drunkenness and more passionate about her misanthropy, she might achieve a sturdy W.C. Fields effect, and we could be amused without complication.)
After sharing a kiss with a butch cellmate—tee-hee!—the fictional Chelsea Handler is bailed out by her crabby older sister, Sloane, who is played, crabbily, by the real Chelsea Handler. Theirs is a difficult relationship, and it's easy to imagine Sloane barking the question of the show's title through the fictional Chelsea's front door: "Are you there, Chelsea? I know you're in there, you little slut. Open up!" But it would require a fundamental misunderstanding of the show to give the title any credit as an existential query.
Who is Chelsea? What are her values? The show only bothers to care in the last act of each episode, when, after 20 minutes of antic cynicism and splattered wackiness, the time comes for hugging, learning, and plot-resolving. Are You There, Chelsea? is viable, just barely, as entertainment because it keeps things simple. If it had the slightest aspiration even to have an aspiration beyond stringing wisecracks on a loop of pure attitude, it would disappear. The show gets by as the vodka of television comedy. It aims to have no taste.


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Obituary for W.(William) Finn
January 7, 1928
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Color-sergeant Finn, Ridgetown (Kent Co., Ontario, Canada)
In the early hours of Sunday morning, November 27th, Color-Sergeant W.(William) Finn, suddenly passed away. Our comrade was a faithful follower of the lamb, and an example to many because of his readiness to pray and testify. Before his end the Color-Sergeant was able to give the blessed assurance that all was well with his soul.
On Tuesday afternoon, November 29, Adjutant Harrison conducted an impressive Funeral service at the Citadel. All present were moved as the Adjutant spoke of the veteran's faithfulness to the Flag at all times. The Band played softly the promoted comrade's favorite song, "My Jesus I love Thee," after which Mrs. Adjutant Harrison and Young People's Sergeant-Major L. Down rendered very sweetly in duet, "The Beautiful Land." The large assemble, as well as many floral tributes, testified to the affection in which our comrade was held. Adjutant Harrison committed the remains to the grave in Greenwood Cemetery.---M.W.C.
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