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Abernant Tax Fraud Defense
Tax fraud is one of the most common tax violations the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) looks for whenever they conduct regular checks on taxpayers through their audits. It usually involves making suspicious entries in one's tax records that do not match their tax payments. If a person is found guilty of tax fraud, they may face hefty fines and jail time, as well as a black mark on their financial records that will prevent them from using key financial services.
However, there are cases wherein the taxpayer suspected of tax fraud is unaware they made a huge error in their tax records. They may have missed it due to stress or the time-crunch brought by the tax filing deadline. Fortunately, if this is your situation, you can clear your name with the help of a trustworthy and experienced Abernant, AL tax fraud defense team like Defense Tax Partners.
From the moment you reach out to us, our team will immediately check with the IRS or the Alabama Department of Revenue to see what can be done to clear your name. We will tailor our defense accordingly to match your situation and reduce any potential penalties you may be given. We will also be with you throughout the case, so you'll always be prepared for any eventualities and we'll help you avoid the same charges in the future.
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Why Hire a Tax Fraud Defense Attorney
When facing a tax fraud accusation, it is recommended that you seek legal support from a professional Abernant tax fraud defense team to resolve it. Tax fraud is a serious legal offense that has large implications if you are found guilty. If you are not familiar with the legal process, you may make a gaffe that can be interpreted negatively by the court.
Defense Tax Partners can reduce the possibility of you being charged with tax fraud because you are unfamiliar with tax law. We will sit down with you to explain how the case will be reviewed, what the law says about tax fraud charges, and let you know what defense strategy we will use to clear your name. This ensures that you do not worry about how the case will go and you are prepared no matter what the result of the case is. We will do our very best to get favorable results, and if there is a possibility of penalties, we will do our best to mitigate them as much as possible.
The IRS usually looks for these indicators when looking for tax fraud:
- Understated income
- Failure to file tax returns
- Unorganized or incomplete tax records
- Asset concealment
- Inconsistent financial records and behavior
- Inability to explain a significant change in net worth
- Questionable cash transactions
- Unstated receipt sources
- Overstated deductions
- Reporting trust fund loans as expenses or deductions
- Falsifying receipts to donors
- Possible involvement in illegal activities
When we receive tax fraud cases, we may use one of the following defenses depending on your situation:
Insufficient evidence – We can argue that the IRS did not present substantial or enough evidence to prove that you committed tax fraud or other tax violations.
Entrapment – Considering how relentless the government can be when handling tax violation cases, we can help you prove that you were pressured or coerced to admit guilt.
Unintentional mistake – We can prove in court that your tax violation was a genuine mistake that you were not able to detect immediately.
Statute of limitations – The IRS is bound by a set of limitations when it comes to collecting taxes and filing tax violation charges. We can use this defense if the situation calls for it.
We can also apply other defense strategies for your case aside from these four. When you reach out to us, let us know every detail we need for us to customize our defense strategy perfectly.
Your Abernant Tax Fraud Defense Attorneys
Our Abernant tax law firm knows that legal battles can be strenuous, especially if it involves finances and tax. Tax cases, in particular, can cost you a lot more because not only can you face fines if found guilty, you may also end up with a black mark in your records and jail time.
If you find yourself facing charges for alleged tax violations, our team at Defense Tax Partners can help you prepare a strong defense to clear your name. Our experience has allowed us to work with any tax violation case and build the proper defense to get the best results possible. We will sit down with you to get a clear idea about your financial situation, what the IRS is pushing forward as evidence to the allegations, and use the best defense to dismiss the charge or reduce the penalty.
We don't just offer tax fraud defense services at Defense Tax Partners. After we sort out your case, you can also avail yourself of our other tax-related services to help you control your taxes better and pay off your tax liabilities without problems. You won't be disappointed with our services whenever you ask us for our legal assistance.
Let's Talk – Compassionate Legal Advice
The IRS constantly double-checks the tax filings they receive to make sure everyone is fulfilling their tax responsibility. The moment they spot something questionable in your records, they will surely be after you until you clear the issue.
If you don't want to be charged with tax fraud or other tax violations, don't hesitate to reach out to our Abernant tax fraud defense team. Our team will immediately look into the allegations and build the best defense needed to get the charges reduced or withdrawn. Sign us up as your trusted tax law firm, and we promise you won't regret trusting us with your tax case.
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Once you integrate these simple yet powerful Best Practices essential principles:
My name is Eric Bobrow. I've been working with ArchiCAD for 27 years as a reseller, trainer and consultant. My company Bobrow Consulting Group was a Graphisoft Platinum VAR, former U.S. Reseller of the Year and ranked in the top 5 American resellers for more than a decade.
I love helping people learn to use ArchiCAD better, and have created dozens of Tips and Tricks articles and Video Tutorials that have been published on the ArchiCAD Wiki, AECbytes, Cadalyst, my Youtube channel and other websites. I've also worked on the front lines doing tons of tech support on challenges from the most basic to the most technically challenging gnarly parts of the program.
I've been called "the veritable Guru of ArchiCAD experts" and "the ArchiCAD Jedi Master" by some of my colleagues. My ArchiCAD Tutorials YouTube channel has 16,000+ subscribers and over 2.600,000 views as of November 2016.
I love ArchiCAD, and I understand it inside and out – and I want you to feel as comfortable and confident as I do when working with this amazing software.
To that effect, I'm taking all of my knowledge and experience and putting it into a unique learning experience for ArchiCAD users around the world:
Do these points seem familiar? Am I reading your mind? For 20 years as I've helped architects and other design professionals I've kept hearing similar complaints, as well as fervent pleas: "Help Me!"
You need to figure out how to make things work — I'll help you. Along the way, you'll learn the general principles that stand behind the surface challenges, and pick up lots of little "gems" – the tips that will make you go "wow – I had no idea you could do that!"
You may know me personally as your reseller, or have only connected with me online through MasterTemplate or my numerous Tips and Tricks articles and video tips. It doesn't matter. Through the magic of Web 3.0 I'm going to be able to work with you and give you a "brain dump" of how I see things and how I work with ArchiCAD.
The Best Practices Course is delivered in bite-sized pieces that you can easily find the time to watch and digest. It is a combination of screen-capture (video demonstrations of how to do things within ArchiCAD), live video (listening and watching me explain concepts) and mind-mapping (diagrammatic representations of the inter-relations of ideas, methods and processes that help make things crystal clear).
The course is built around the 7 Keys to Best Practices for ArchiCAD, which are seven key principles that will help you become more effective and efficient in your use of the software. Understanding them conceptually is a good start, then examining, exploring and learning how to apply them throughout the interface and the project workflow will make a tremendous difference. They will literally transform your practice.
There's lots of meat to this course, yet it's designed to be easy for you to digest. The curriculum is organized as a series of 30 modules totaling more than 60 hours of material. Typical modules contain 3 to 6 lessons totaling about 90 – 120 minutes. You can watch an entire module during lunch, or grab a short lesson during a coffee break. Watch whenever it's convenient – take a couple of hours out on a Saturday to watch a couple of modules. If you're hungry, or hunting for solutions, you can gorge yourself and watch hours of satisfying materials on your own time.
Of course, since the videos play on demand, you can watch them whenever you want, and over and over again if you wish. That way you can glean all the goodies and make sure you really understand some of these challenging ideas.
In addition to 24/7 permanent online access, you may order the course on 7 DVDs at a small extra charge, which will be shipped to you with all the lessons and bonus materials.
Here is what you get:
Course materials are delivered through our online membership website and may be viewed in a browser or downloaded and saved.
The videos are fully compatible with the iPad and other mobile devices.
A set of DVD's is available to course members for an additional charge of $97 including shipping anywhere in the world.
The Best Practices Course registration fee is a total bargain at $697 – much less than the equivalent five days of classroom training. It's concentrated, covering much more material. It's convenient – you can do it on your own schedule, there's no travel time, and in smaller doses so you can really absorb it – and you can watch each module as many times as you wish.
Every lesson is carefully edited to make it clear and easy for you to understand, wasting no time. You'll learn essential principles along with practical step by step techniques. This course is better than classroom training, and costs less too!
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The Best Practices course is powerful and transformative. Many course members have called it the best investment they've ever made in the professional development.
$697 is a great bargain for the benefits and time savings you'll gain. However, I want to make sure you succeed in applying what you learn in the course to your actual work, so I've added two extra free bonuses to give you even more help integrating these lessons into your practice.
The first extra bonus is a 6 month membership in my Best Practices ArchiCAD Coaching Program.
You'll get extra help from me when you need it. Twice each month you can jump on a two hour coaching call and ask whatever questions you wish. (Don't worry if you can't make the call – each one is recorded and posted in the member area for you to watch at your convenience.) You'll get at least 24 hours of expert, caring support for your learning process.
Course member Chris Ellis from Cape Cod MA recently described these sessions as "literally life changing."
If you want, you can send in questions ahead of time, and even send me a project file. I answer these questions and demonstrate key principles as I go along. During the call, you may ask follow-up questions to ensure you understand everything as well as possible. Other course members often chime in with additional questions, comments and suggestions.
Using GoToWebinar, I show you things in ArchiCAD right on the fly. Before the Best Practices Course, the only people who got this were my clients who were members of the Los Angeles ArchiCAD User Group. Now you can get this sort of expert (and caring) help regardless of where you are in the world!
Did you have a favorite professor in college? Did you ever go hang out with him or her during "office hours"?
That's what I'm going to give you: extra help and personal assistance. For each coaching call I open the doors, and course members join me virtually. You can ask your questions, and get some advice, coaching, demonstration of how to deal with a technical question – whatever you need. The session are broadcast as a web seminar, and recorded and posted for later viewing.
You'll have access to this intensive coaching program for 6 months. You'll get an unbelievable 24 hours in all. This is training in the context of your project, learning what you need to get your work done – a perfect supplement to the carefully structured course. I fill in the gaps, wherever you and other course members need extra help.
Just like your favorite professor in college that mentored you when you needed guidance, I'll be there for you. It's fun, we hang out together, and you'll learn a lot!
I often "build" a house for a client as part of my first, free client meeting. They love it, and it often sells me and the 3D process. You've helped me improve my methods and increase my speed and confidence.
I've spent many $$$ in ArchiCAD dealer training – but the commute time and expenses are high – the sessions are too long and intense for maximum benefit – fatigue sets in.
The Best Practices Course works much better: it's posted online – convenient, view when you want, repeat videos at will to clarify procedures. The coaching calls are great – wonderful nuggets abound! You post your questions and find that many others may share your same questions = virtually personal attention.
I really enjoy your fearlessly exploratory style as you work through various solutions to a problem. You make it seem as though anything is possible. It is a pleasure to be taking your course. It has been literally life changing."
Consider the value you get when you sign up for the Best Practices Course: with this bonus coaching program, it becomes an even more amazing value. The course covers more than an equivalent five day training seminar worth $1295. And the monthly coaching calls are worth $462. So the total value so far is $1295 + $462 = $1757. (And there is a second bonus too – scroll down to learn about the QuickStart Course.)
Your investment is a fraction of that: only $697. To join the course today and get instant access, just click the orange button below:
I've had many people ask me if the course is for all levels of users, or just for people who have been using ArchiCAD for a while. The truth is that the course is designed to help anyone using ArchiCAD to work better, faster and easier.
If you're already using ArchiCAD for your design work, you're ready for the Best Practices Course. If you're working on your first real project, or your tenth, or even your 100th – you can and will benefit. The way I see it is – you've been focusing on getting your project done, and doing the best you can – while I've been focusing on how the software works in the most optimum way. So I've got lots to teach you that will help you be more efficient and resolve both the problems you know about, and the ones you don't even know you have!
On the other hand, if you're a beginner, just getting started – you need something different to get going with ArchiCAD. To help you, I've created a new mini-course – the Best Practices QuickStart Course! This series of 7 meaty training modules will get you going quickly in a way that is consistent with Best Practices principles. This QuickStart will enable you to benefit from the main Best Practices Course lessons.
The QuickStart Course may be consumed on it's own, or as a supplement for other training – such as a class with your reseller or distributor, or with a book such as ArchiCAD Step by Step, or using the free Interactive Training materials that Graphisoft provides. It will give you important guidance to make sure that you learn the basics in a way that will fit in with the Best Practices principles that will serve you over the long term.
The Best Practices QuickStart is also a good review of the basics for many users, since almost everyone has some gaps in their understanding that may be filled in with a quick brush-up like this. In fact, many ArchiCAD veterans who are enrolled in the Best Practices Course have commented how valuable it was for them to review the basics this way. They've written to me saying "when did Graphisoft add that feature?" and "I found out I was doing some things a much more round-about way! Thanks for showing me faster ways to get stuff done!"
Sign up now for the Best Practices Course and get this QuickStart Course free as an additional bonus!
With the QuickStart Course as your second free bonus, the Best Practices Course is an even bigger steal! The total value is $1295 + $462 + $197 = $1954. And your investment is a fraction of that: only $697. To join the course today and get instant access, just click the orange button below:
The Best Practices Course is constantly answering questions & providing insight which increases my efficiency. The big change is that I now work from the View and have defined ways to work. I have picked up about 20 new shortcuts that were highlighted in the video lessons, these simply make me faster. I can now remodel designs in half the time of the past. Well, maybe not half the time – a 5 day job, say a new simple dwelling, now takes about three and half days."
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. The guarantee. This is "risk-free". You have 90 days to try this out, and if you're not happy, you can get your money back. It's up to me to make sure you're satisfied.
Of course, I'd like the opportunity to resolve any problems or issues you have. But regardless, if you aren't happy, I don't want to keep your money. You have better things to do with it than spend it on something you don't want to keep.
All you have to do is email me within 90 days to say that you don't feel you've gotten your money's worth from the course, and I'll refund your credit card or PayPal account.
By the way – over 27 years, it's been extremely rare that I've had to give money back to people who weren't happy with my service or the products I sold to them – under 2% of all sales. It's a track record that I'm extremely proud of. That's why I'm not worried about offering a lengthy guarantee…
Members of the Best Practices Course have the opportunity to rate the course and share their comments. The information is collected by Shopper Approved, a recognized website rating service.
The results have been impressive: an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars!
The comments that members provided have been even more amazing. I am so pleased to see their enthusiasm and effusive praise for my work. I feel honored, and it motivates me to strive even harder to keep everyone happy!
This is an opportunity you won't regret – if you take advantage of it.
So if you want to transform your practice, learn the essential principles that will make you much more productive and allow your work day to really flow, don't miss out. Enough said.
And remember – you have no risk – if you don't feel like the course is going to offer you far more value than the money you invest in it, simply contact me for a refund within the first 90 days. I'm taking all the risk – I have to make you happy!
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Two years after its passage, the sweeping health care overhaul remains deeply controversial, with both political parties trying to use it to their advantage in the upcoming elections. As GOP lawmakers constantly deride "Obamacare" and threaten to repeal it, it's easy to forget that implementation marches on, and a number of notable changes will take effect for consumers this year.
They will, that is, unless the Supreme Court strikes down some or all of the law, including the requirement that nearly everyone have health insurance beginning in 2014. If that happens, all bets are off. Provisions that have already taken effect — such as allowing adult children to remain on their parents' health plans until age 26 and the 50 percent discount on brand-name drugs for seniors who reach the so-called donut hole in their prescription drug plans — could be rolled back, and provisions for 2012 cancelled. The court will hear arguments in the case later this month and a decision is expected this summer.
If the law stands, here are the major new provisions that will affect consumers this year:
Free Contraception Coverage
Starting in August, the Obama administration's new rules on contraceptive coverage that have generated such controversy take effect. That means that women in a new health plan or in an existing one that has changed its benefits enough to not be considered grandfathered under the law will be able to receive contraceptives without an out-of-pocket charge. In addition, these plans will have to provide a variety of basic women's health services, including well-woman visits; screening for gestational diabetes; HPV testing; counseling for sexually transmitted infections; counseling and screening for HIV; and screening and counseling for interpersonal and domestic violence.
Religious employers such as churches are exempt from the new requirement. Colleges, hospitals and other employers that are affiliated with religious institutions are not exempt, but employees at those institutions will receive free contraceptive services from their employer's insurer.
Religiously affiliated employers have a one-year grace period to implement this change, so some employees may not receive the free benefit until August 2013.
Rebates For Consumers
Under the health-care overhaul, insurers have to spend at least 80 to 85 percent of premium revenues on medical claims and quality improvement or else rebate the difference to policyholders. In most group plans, that would mean the employer.
How much consumers can expect to receive remains an open question. An analysis by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners based on 2010 data estimated that insurers would have returned $2 billion to consumers had the provision been in force then. The analysis said rebates would have gone to 53 percent of people in individual plans, 23 percent in small-group plans and 15 percent of large-group plan members.
In December, the Obama administration estimated that 9 million Americans might receive rebates totaling up to $1.4 billion, also based on 2010 data. The administration says some reports show insurers have been moderating their premium increases to avoid having to pay rebates. But other policy experts aren't so sure.
"My guess is that rebates will be higher [than the NAIC estimate] in 2011," says Timothy Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University who helped prepare the NAIC report. "Insurers seem to have raised their premiums based on projected increases in utilization that never occurred."
Clearer Descriptions
Beginning in September, at the start of the open enrollment season, all health plans will have to provide concise, consistent plan information aimed at allowing consumers to easily understand their benefits and compare plans.
Every plan will be required to give people a short summary of coverage and a uniform glossary of terms. It will also have to provide examples of how much the plan would cover if someone had a baby or was managing Type 2 diabetes — two common situations that should make it easier for people to compare plans.
"This is a big deal," says Jennifer Tolbert, director of state health reform at the Kaiser Family Foundation. "Some of the materials people get explaining their health plan benefits are extraordinarily confusing, and this should make it clearer." (Kaiser Health News is an editorially independent project of the Foundation.)
Shrinking Doughnut Hole
The health care overhaul is slowly eliminating the doughnut hole. This is the break in Medicare prescription drug benefits that, in a standard plan, begins after total drug spending by the beneficiary and the health plan exceeds $2,930 and continues until the beneficiary has hit the $4,700 out-of-pocket limit.
Last year, Medicare beneficiaries with high drug costs got a 50 percent discount on brand-name drugs once they reached the doughnut hole. This year, they'll see a 14 percent discount on generic drugs as well.
Drug costs will continue to diminish in coming years, until in 2020 the doughnut hole no longer exists and Medicare beneficiaries with drug plans will simply be responsible for 25 percent of their drug costs.
'Accountable Care'
Last December, the administration announced that 32 health-care organizations would participate in a three-year Pioneer Accountable Care Organization program aimed at providing better, coordinated care for 860,000 Medicare beneficiaries. Providers — including hospitals, clinics and physician groups — that work together to improve beneficiaries' health and to bring costs down will share in the savings that they achieve.
Although Medicare beneficiaries may not realize that their health-care provider is participating in the program, they may start to notice changes in their care this year, says Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families. She leads the Campaign for Better Care, a coalition of organizations focusing on improving health-care delivery.
"For some of these folks, it may start to feel like they have a team working with them, or like their primary-care provider is developing an individualized care plan," she says. "Compared to what happens now, it could feel like a pretty big change."
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Easy and tasty, great for tacos, burritos, and enchiladas
Yearning for some spicy Mexican, but don't want to heat up the kitchen during those long summer months? Just plug in the slow cooker – it's a cool way to make hot Mexican dishes.
This recipe for shredded chicken is easy, tasty, and versatile. You might call it Mexcellent.
Recipe: Slow-Cooker Mexican Shredded Chicken
You can make Mexican shredded chicken on the stovetop or in the oven if you wish (we describe how in the Notes). But we think the slow-cooker method is easier and more flavorful. And during hot summer months, it's the only method we want to use.
This recipe is simple, but it requires some lead time. The day before we want to cook the chicken, we start by preparing a Mexican-style spice rub. We coat the chicken pieces with that, then let them rest in the fridge overnight.
Prep time for this dish is about 20 minutes. Cooking time is 5 to 6 hours, almost totally unattended.
Leftovers keep for a few days if refrigerated in an airtight container. Or you can freeze them for a month or longer.
You can scarf down this dish as-is, of course. But we generally use Mexican shredded chicken to prepare tacos, enchiladas, burritos, or other Mexican-style dishes.
For the spice rub:
- 2 tablespoons ancho chile powder (can substitute a spicier chile powder if you wish; see Notes)
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1 tablespoon ground coriander
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- ~2 pounds boneless and skinless chicken thighs and/or breasts (see Notes)
- ~½ the batch of spice rub (or to taste)
- 1 medium onion
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 to 2 jalapeño peppers (to taste; optional)
- 2 to 3 tablespoons chipotle chile purée (to taste, and optional; we suggest using a 7-ounce can of chipotles to make the purée, then storing the leftover purée for later use; see Notes)
- 1 tablespoon cooking oil
- salt to taste (about 1 teaspoon kosher salt for us; see Notes)
- 1 14-ounce can diced tomatoes
- Make the spice rub: Combine the ancho chile powder, cumin, coriander, and oregano in a small mixing bowl. (You will probably end up with more spice rub than you need for this recipe; reserve the rest for another use.)
- Coat each piece of chicken thoroughly with the spice rub. Place the chicken pieces in a sealed freezer bag, then refrigerate them overnight.
- When you're ready to cook the chicken: Place a slow cooker on the kitchen counter (it will need to operate for several hours, so place it in a position that's out of the way).
- Peel the onion and cut it into dice of about ½ inch. Set aside.
- Peel the garlic and mince it finely or slice thinly. Set aside.
- Wash and stem the jalapeño pepper(s), if using. Cut the jalapeño in half lengthwise, then use a spoon to remove the seeds and white membrane. Dice the jalapeño finely. Set aside. Then wash your hands to remove the hot jalapeño oil from your skin.
- If using the chipotle chile purée: Pour a 7-ounce can of chipotle chilies (including their accompanying sauce) into a mini food processor. Pulse the chipotles until they're puréed. Set aside 2 to 3 tablespoons of the purée (then refrigerate the remainder in an airtight container for later use).
- Set a frying pan over medium stovetop heat. When hot, add the cooking oil. When the oil is heated (it'll shimmer; about 15 seconds), add the chopped onion, garlic, and jalapeño, plus the 2 to 3 tablespoons of chipotle purée. Season to taste with salt (about 1 teaspoon kosher salt for us). Sauté for about 5 minutes, until the onion is starting to become translucent. Add the diced tomatoes, then cook for another 5 minutes.
- Scrape the contents of the frying pan into the slow cooker. Remove the chicken pieces from the refrigerator and add them to the slow cooker. Turn the cooker to the low setting, then cook for 5 to 6 hours (until the chicken is tender enough for your taste).
- Remove the chicken pieces from the slow cooker and place them on a sheet pan or a large plate. Let the chicken cool for about 10 minutes, then shred it with 2 forks.
- Use the liquid that's left in the slow cooker: Skim off as much fat as you can from the liquid, then use as much as you wish to moisten the chicken (making sure to mix in some of the diced onions and tomatoes). We recommend using at least a cup of liquid, but use more if you prefer a saucy chicken.
- Use the cooked, shredded chicken in tacos, enchiladas, or other Mexican dishes of your choice.
- We like to use chicken thighs for this dish – they have more flavor. But chicken breasts work too.
- We sometimes prepare this shredded chicken ahead of time. In that case, we place the shredded chicken in a food-storage bowl, cover it with cooking liquid (from Step 11), then seal the bowl and refrigerate it until ready to use.
- If you're in a hurry and don't want to let the rubbed chicken pieces sit in the refrigerator overnight, you could add about 3 tablespoons of spice rub to the onion mixture as you're cooking (Step 8). The chicken won't be as flavorful, but it'll still be pretty good.
- We like to use ancho chile powder in the rub because it has good flavor and color, and isn't overly hot. But you can substitute a spicier chile powder if you wish. Chipotle chile powder has much more heat and lots of flavor.
- Don't want to bother with preparing the spice rub? You could substitute prepared chili powder. (Just a reminder: Chili – with an i – powder is made from powdered chilies mixed with other spices like cumin, coriander, oregano, and salt. Lots of salt.) If you go this route, we suggest using about 3 tablespoons of chili powder.
- Speaking of salt, we use kosher salt for cooking. It's less salty by volume than regular table salt (the crystals are larger and more irregular, so they pack a measure less tightly). If using regular table salt, start with about half as much as we suggest. But always salt to your taste, not ours.
- BTW we suggest using about 1 teaspoon of kosher salt in Step 8. That's about twice the amount we usually recommend for sautéing onions. Why use more in this dish? Because we didn't add salt to the spice rub, so you'll need a bit more since you'll be seasoning both the onions and the chicken pieces.
- In the US, canned chipotle chilies tend to be sold in 7-ounce containers (most grocery stores carry them in their Mexican food sections). The canned chilies are packed in adobo sauce, which has a tasty vinegar base.
- Don't want to use a slow cooker? You can make this dish on the stovetop, or start it on the stovetop and finish it in the oven. If going this route: Sauté the onion mixture (Step 8) in a Dutch oven that's large enough to hold all the ingredients. Add the chicken pieces and 1 to 2 cups of water, then simmer on top of a stove (or in a 300 degree F oven) for 1½ to 2 hours, until the chicken is tender (you'll need to check from time to time to make sure the liquid in the cooking pot doesn't fully evaporate).
- We like to use this Mexican shredded chicken for tacos (and that's what we used this batch for – see pictures). We prefer to make Soft Tacos, but you could make Hard-Shell Tacos if you prefer. We like to add both jalapeño and chopped sweet bell peppers to our tacos, as well as cilantro and chopped tomatoes. Grated cheese would be nice, too, and maybe some chopped onions.
- This shredded chicken also works well in any kind of Mexican dish where you'd use beef or pork, such as Enchiladas or Taco Salad. It would be great in burritos, nachos, or tortilla soup too (we owe you recipes for those last three.)
Taco Walk on the Wild Side
"Yum, glad you didn't chicken out on the spices," said Mrs. Kitchen Riffs. "Love me some Mexican heat."
"Watch me exercise my biceps," I said, hoisting a taco.
"Whoa, macho man," said Mrs K R. "I can see you're really into fitness."
"Yeah, I'm fitness whole taco into my mouth," I said.
"Careful, that chicken may come home to roost on your midsection," said Mrs K R. "You could run afowl of the bathroom scale."
True. But I don't want to taco 'bout it.
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ppmlabel(1) [ultrix man page]
ppmlabel(1) General Commands Manual ppmlabel(1) NAME
ppmlabel - add text to a portable pixmap SYNOPSIS
ppmlabel [-angle angle] [-background transparent | colour] [-colour colour] [-file filename] [-size textsize] [-text 'text string'] [-x column] [-y row] ... [ppmfile] DESCRIPTION
ppmlabel uses the text drawing facilities of ppmdraw to add text to a portable pixmap. The location, size, baseline angle, colour of the text and background colour (if any) are controlled by command line arguments. The text can be specified on the command line or read from files. Any number of separate text strings can be added by one invocation of ppmlabel, limited only by the maximum length of the command line. If no ppmfile is specified, ppmdraw reads its input pixmap from standard input. OPTIONS
The arguments on the ppmlabel command line are not options in the strict sense; they are commands which control the placement and appear- ance of the text being added to the input pixmap. They are executed left to right, and any number of arguments may appear. All flags can be abbreviated to their shortest unique prefix. -angle angle Sets the angle of the baseline of subsequent text. angle is specified as an integral number of degrees, measured counterclock- wise from the row axis of the pixmap. -background transparent | colour If the argument is ``transparent'', text is drawn over the existing pixels in the pixmap. If a colour is given (see the -colour switch below for information on how to specify colours), rectangles enclosing subsequent text are filled with that colour. -colour colour Sets the colour for subsequent text. The colour can be specified in five ways: o A name, assuming that a pointer to an X11-style colour names file was compiled in. o An X11-style hexadecimal specifier: rgb:r/g/b, where r g and b are each 1- to 4-digit hexadecimal numbers. o An X11-style decimal specifier: rgbi:r/g/b, where r g and b are floating point numbers between 0 and 1. o For backwards compatibility, an old-X11-style hexadecimal number: #rgb, #rrggbb, #rrrgggbbb, or #rrrrggggbbbb. o For backwards compatibility, a triplet of numbers separated by commas: r,g,b, where r g and b are floating point numbers between 0 and 1. (This style was added before MIT came up with the similar rgbi style.) -file filename Reads text from the file filename and draws it on successive lines. -size textsize Sets the height of the tallest characters above the baseline to textsize pixels. -text 'text string' Draws the given text string (which must be quoted if it contains spaces). The location for subsequent text is advanced by 1.75 times the current textsize, which allows drawing multiple lines of text in a reasonable manner without specifying the position of each line. -x column Sets the column at which subsequent text will be left justified. Depending on the shape of the first character, the actual text may begin a few pixels to the right of this point. -y row Sets the row which will form the baseline of subsequent text. Characters with descenders, such as ``y'', will extend below this line. BUGS
Text strings are restricted to 7 bit ASCII. The text font used by ppmdraw doesn't include definitions for 8 bit ISO 8859/1 characters. When drawing multiple lines of text with a non-transparent background, it should probably fill the space between the lines with the back- ground colour. This is tricky to get right when the text is rotated to a non-orthogonal angle. The -size, -x, and -y options MUST precede the -text option specifying the string they apply to, or they will be silently ignored in favor of the defaults. SEE ALSO
ppmmake(1), ppm(5) AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1995 by John Walker (firstname.lastname@example.com) WWW home page: http://www.fourmilab.ch/ Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, without any conditions or restrictions. This software is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty. 14 June 1995 ppmlabel(1)


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Write After Reading: Writing the Life Poetic has been a weekly online book club with poetry participation. It has alternated between my blog and Laura Salas's blog.
For a couple of months now Laura and I have worked our way through reading and writing poetry together. The exercises have been both fun and enlightening. It seems the more I struggled against the exercises the more I got out of it once I actually did the work. Having a buddy to read and discuss the book with made it more fun and, of course, made me accountable to actually doing what I said I was going to do.
We've reached the end of our journey with this particular book. It feels like the right time. And now that we're in the midst of summer, many readers have summer activities on their plate. I want to thank those of you who read along with us, whether or not you posted, and those who joined us in sharing our exercise here on the blogs. Poetry really can be a universal conversation.
The book we used, Writing the Life Poetic, by Sage Cohen, is so accessible. The chapters are short and the exercises are full of variety. Even if you didn't get the chance to read along with us this time, I highly recommend the book.
Thank you again, to all who participated and cheered us on. Stay tuned for further adventures in Write After Reading. If you have a book you'd like us to consider for the club, please let us know.


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For most Palestinians, the prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas is a cause for celebration. For President Mahmoud Abbas, it's shaping up as political blow and a security headache.
Israel and Hamas announced the deal today after weeks of secret negotiations mediated by Egyptian and German representatives. It calls for Israel to free about 1,000 Palestinians in exchange for the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, held by Hamas since 2006. Previous exchanges have been hugely popular among Palestinians, who in opinion polls regularly cite the imprisonment of their loved ones by Israel as one of their biggest sources of anxiety.
The problem for Abbas is that he and his Fatah party had no role in the agreement. In fact, it was engineered by his main rival, Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal, whose announcement about the deal was carried live on Palestinian state-run television. Hamas and Fatah have been on bad terms since they fought a brief civil war over Gaza in 2007. Since the list of prisoners due to go home includes Palestinians from across political and geographic divides—West Bankers and Gazans, members of Hamas and Fatah—Meshaal could legitimately present it as something tangible his party achieved for all Palestinians. "The deal represents the unity of our nation because it includes representatives of all the factions," he said in his address.
Abbas, by contrast, has had no tangible achievement to show for his leadership in some time. His effort to reconcile with Hamas earlier this year and schedule new elections—something Palestinian protesters had been demanding—has largely collapsed. In New York, Abbas's request last month for Palestinian membership with the United Nations did not have the diplomatic punch some had expected, and has so far cost the Palestinian Authority $200 million in American financial assistance. At the very moment Meshaal was announcing the prisoner agreement, Abbas was touring Latin America asking foreign leaders for their support in the membership bid—a campaign that, with America's veto power in the U.N. Security Council, has no chance of succeeding.
Then there's the matter of the prisoners, many of them hardcore Hamas militants. According to Meshaal, more than 300 of those slated for release have been serving life terms for organizing bombings and other attacks on Israel. While some number of them will be sent to Hamas-controlled Gaza or deported overseas under the agreement, many will end up in the West Bank, where they'll become Abbas's problem. With the rivalry between Hamas and Fatah surging in the West Bank, the insertion of more Hamas militants into the area could have at least some effect on the balance of power. It's unlikely to topple Abbas, but it might force him to act more aggressively against the group than is politically advantageous. Should the Hamas men resume their plotting against Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold Abbas and his security agencies responsible. Either way, it's a lose-lose for the Palestinian president.
Some of the damage might have been mitigated had Marwan Barghouti been included in the swap. A member of Abbas's Fatah party, Barghouti enjoys broad popularity in the West Bank and Gaza. His release, even in the context of a Hamas-negotiated agreement, would have galvanized Fatah and boosted Abbas. Instead, his ongoing imprisonment signals to Palestinians that Hamas's strategy—capturing soldiers and holding them as bargaining chips—works better than diplomacy. For Abbas, and for Israel as well, it's a dangerous message.


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- For the Crust:
- 1-1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted
- For the Filling:
- 6 extra-large egg yolks, at room temperature
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 2 tablespoons grated lime zest
- 3/4 cup freshly squeezed lime juice (4 to 5 limes)
- For the Decoration:
- 1 cup (1/2 pint) cold heavy cream
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Thin lime wedges
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
For the crust, combine the graham cracker crumbs, sugar, and butter in a bowl. Press into a 9-inch pie pan, making sure the sides and the bottom are an even thickness. Bake for 10 minutes. Allow to cool completely.
For the filling, beat the egg yolks and sugar on high speed in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment for 5 minutes, until thick. With the mixer on medium speed, add the condensed milk, lime zest, and lime juice. Pour into the baked pie shell and freeze.
For the decoration, beat the heavy cream on high speed in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment until soft peaks form. Add the sugar and vanilla and beat until firm. Spoon or pipe decoratively onto the pie and decorate with lime. Freeze for several hours or overnight.
Note: Remove the pie from the freezer fifteen minutes before serving.


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by Richard Denison, cross-posted from EDF Blogs
Today, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) unveiled its "10 Principles for Modernizing TSCA."  Also today, the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition – of which EDF is a member – issued a news release and unveiled its 9-point "Platform for Reform of TSCA." How do they line up?
I'll leave to you readers to decide just how much alignment (or lack thereof) there is between these dueling manifestos. To get the ball rolling, I'll use this post to single out three key differences.
First, however, let me say I welcome the fact that ACC is finally moving beyond rhetorical flourishes about "modernization" and "the need to restore public confidence in its products." At last ACC has begun to provide something that could become something that one can sink one's teeth into. Equally refreshing is that ACC is now acknowledging a number of deep problems with TSCA that it has traditionally denied – problems that many of us having been raising for years.Â
To be specific:
- TSCA does not require that chemicals be shown to be safe in order to be on the market.
- TSCA's reliance on a cost-benefit rather than a health-based standard to determine safety was ill-advised.
- EPA should be required to complete safety assessments expeditiously and within clear deadlines.
- Companies throughout the supply chain, not just manufacturers, should be required to provide information on chemical use and exposure, as well as hazards.
- Children are at particular risk from chemical exposures and merit special protection.
- EPA lacks but should be given authority it can actually exercise to regulate chemicals.
- EPA shouldn't have to prove risk to require testing of chemicals.
- The public should have access to chemical use and exposure, as well as hazard, information.
That's all good and welcome news. ACC has come a long way, baby.
But let's scratch below the surface a bit, and we'll see some fundamental differences quickly begin to emerge.
What ACC wants: ACC clearly wants the focus to be on only a few "priority" chemicals, and seeks to set aside the rest. Indeed, ACC's principles go even further to say we should skip over all but the "most significant uses and exposures" of the priority chemicals, and then narrow things even more to consider only their "intended" uses.
What we actually need: Robust data on all chemicals, not just the few we already know are bad actors. A full understanding of all chemical uses, not just those chemical producers have knowledge of and consider most significant. Authority for EPA to act promptly to control chemicals we already know are high-priority.
As readers of this blog know full well, the problem with ACC's approach is that it puts the cart before the horse:Â The state of knowledge about chemical hazards, uses and exposures remains poor despite more than three decades of life under TSCA – so poor that we can't begin intelligently to prioritize most chemicals.
One particularly huge gap in knowledge is about the full range of uses of chemicals. As I've discussed before, companies that make chemicals often don't know how and by whom their own chemicals are used – not even for the uses they intend for them, let alone those they may never have anticipated. That yields a very spotty picture of real-world exposures – which may help to explain why time and again government and industry have failed to predict which chemicals we're all exposed to, let alone how or to what extent.
Hazard information about a chemical is of value regardless of its use, and can help enormously to guide selections among alternatives when considering a new or revisiting a current use. Yet, in the name of prioritization, ACC would have us utilize various imperfect surrogates for exposure – production volume, known uses, etc. – to severely limit the number of chemicals whose hazards we would ever test for.
The evident gaps in hazard, use and exposure data add up to an inability both to prioritize and to decide a priori what's safe or not. What's needed instead is a systematic and thorough – not piecemeal – approach, both to getting better information about chemicals, and to assessing their safety. That's why we call for the development of at least basic information for all chemicals, and a requirement that all chemicals be shown to be safe, not just those we think might be problems based largely on supposition.
Prioritization is a means, not an end
We fully recognize that undertaking the extent of information development and assessment needed to ensure chemical safety cannot happen overnight, given the depth of the hole that TSCA dug by grandfathering in tens of thousands of untested and unassessed chemicals – which still today account for the great majority of chemicals in use. We welcome a legitimate debate over how fast and how best we can do all of what's needed, but not one over whether we need to.
It's one thing to prioritize chemicals to determine the order in which their safety should be determined, as long as we ultimately reach all chemicals; it's quite another to place such false confidence in priority-setting as to, as ACC proposes, sweep away most chemicals from ever being tested or assessed.
Now, none of this is to say we have to wait to control those chemicals we already know will rise to the top of anyone's priority list, such as chemicals possessing that deadly trifecta of properties of persistence, bioaccumulation potential and toxicity – the so-called PBTs – to which we know people are being exposed. That's why we support moving expeditiously to phase such chemicals out of commerce, retaining them only for the most critical uses where no viable alternatives exist. And we can and should be immediately taking steps to reduce exposure to other dangerous, well-studied chemicals, such as formaldehyde.
What ACC wants:Â ACC wants any requirements for testing or monitoring to be imposed by EPA strictly on a case-by-case basis.
What we actually need: Minimum hazard, use and exposure data sets on all chemicals, delivered up-front, not upon request. A major expansion in biomonitoring to encompass all chemicals with the potential for human exposure.
While ACC would free EPA at last from the Catch-22 of first having to prove risk to require testing, it would still retain significant evidentiary burdens on EPA to show that having access to data is "reasonably necessary to make safe use determinations." Huh?
ACC remains intent on avoiding the development of robust, consistent information across chemicals in commerce. As we've argued before, there's an inherent contradiction here, given that ACC is among the first to cry "regrettable substitution" when insufficient attention is given to what will replace a chemical targeted for restrictions. How are we ever to compare alternatives and select safer ones with confidence without good information about them?
EDF and the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition believe that prioritization must be based, not on the current state of data gaps and supposition, but on a firm foundation of public knowledge that will only come by requiring a minimum data set for all chemicals as a condition for entering or remaining on the market.
What ACC wants:Â ACC wants to continue to pretend that people and the environment are somehow able to distinguish between multiple exposures to the same chemical just because they're regulated under different laws or by different agencies.
What we actually need: An agency (EPA) charged with conducting a holistic assessment across the aggregate of all uses and sources of exposure to chemicals. And for chemicals that cannot be shown to be safe, the authority and responsibility to ensure that appropriate action is taken regardless of which agency or law has primary jurisdiction.
A major failing of our chemicals policies is that no one is charged with assembling a full picture of exposure to a given chemical, let alone regulating it on that basis.
Name a chemical in the headlines over the last few years – phthalates, bisphenol A, PFOA – and you're looking at a chemical with uses that span agency jurisdictions. Phthalates in cosmetics fall on FDA's turf, while those in toys fall to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. ACC would have us continue that atomized approach, where different agencies look at one product at a time, using inconsistent methodologies to measure and assess risk.
And people are exposed to a given chemical not just through its use in products, but through their workplaces, in air and water, and in some cases because of past uses that have yielded "legacies" of exposure, for example from contaminated dump sites or brownfields. Different offices at EPA are in charge of each of these areas and operate under different statutory authorities.
TSCA need not be the "statute of last resort"
It is with good reason that TSCA is often called the "statute of last resort," because under it EPA must defer to any other statute that could potentially address a problem. This is an ironic shame, but TSCA is unique among statutes in its intent (at least on paper) to address the full lifecycle of chemicals. This feature offered the hope – unrealized – that TSCA would break down the silos that artificially divide chemical exposures into neat little, unrealistic bits.
We seek to restore that latent promise of TSCA, by requiring EPA to assess aggregate exposures and risks, across all uses of and sources of exposures to a chemical. And if a chemical is found unsafe due to uses or exposure sources, some of which fall under another law or agency's jurisdiction, then TSCA should ensure that EPA has the authority and responsibility to ensure either that the other agency or office within EPA takes actions needed to restore safety – or, if it doesn't, that EPA acts under TSCA.
So, we welcome ACC in at last joining a serious debate over the future of TSCA. But it still has a long way to go to help the rest of us bring TSCA into the 21st century.
Richard Denison, PhD is a senior scientist with Environmental Defense Fund.


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Our data protection officer/data controller is Gina Soden and contact details for the aforementioned controller are as detailed above in section 2.3.
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Whilst visiting our website, some additional personal data may be collected, including but not limited to personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information concerning the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use.
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Data provided via our website forms is manually submitted by the user, and stored in an encrypted MySQL database.
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Google use cookies to offer this service and their privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
All data is stored on Google's secure servers.
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Our web hosting provider may track user behaviour and monitor potential security threats, and as such will collect data designed to keep the website operational and your information secure.
All data is stored on our web host's secure servers and will be made available in association with a relevant data protection request.
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Our website uses cookies, defined as a string or array of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer. YOUR browser provides this information on each visit to our website.
Website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website.
Further information on browser cookies and how to manage them can be found in section 12 of this document.
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Your personal data will only be used only to provide or enhance a service that you have initiated or requested.
GINASODEN.CO.UK will never use your personal data for operations outside the defined scope of our working arrangement or contract, unless legally required to do so.
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Should it be legally required to divulge your personal information to a higher authority such as law enforcement organisations, YOU as the user will be notified of any such data transfer.
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If it is necessary to utilise your details for a third party service such as Google Analytics, this data transfer will only take place upon your direct instructions in writing or email. No transfer will take place without your consent.
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Should any transfer occur, GINASODEN.CO.UK expect all third party organisations to adhere to the same data protection regulations.
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Should data transfer concerning YOU be necessary to an organisation outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), YOU will be notified beforehand and must consent before any data transfer takes place. No data transfer will take place without prior consent.
5.4 External data transfer via hyperlinks
This website may include relevant hyperlinks to external websites not controlled by GINASODEN.CO.UK. Whilst all reasonable care has been exercised in selecting and providing any such links, you are advised to exercise caution before clicking any external links. We cannot guarantee the ongoing suitability of external links, nor do we continually verify the safety or security of the contents which may be provided to you. No personal data will ever be passed to external websites via hyperlinks as detailed above.
5.5 Transfer internally across website
All data transferred from page to page, from page to mailer, or from page to database is sent encrypted via the HTTPS protocol. The site is protected via a COMODO RSA SSL certificate.
6. Your rights as a data subject
6.1 Your rights
At any point whilst GINASODEN.CO.UK is in possession of, or processing your personal data, all data subjects have the following rights as dictated by EU laws and regulations:
- Right of access – you have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
- Right of rectification – you have a right to correct data that we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to erasure – in certain circumstances you can ask for the data we hold about you to be erased from our records.
- Right to restriction of processing – where certain conditions apply to have a right to restrict the processing.
- Right of portability – you have the right to have the data we hold about you transferred to another organisation.
- Right to object – you have the right to object to certain types of processing such as direct marketing.
- Right to object to automated processing, including profiling – you also have the right to be subject to the legal effects of automated processing or profiling.
6.2 Refusal of access
In the event that GINASODEN.CO.UK refuses your request under rights of access, we will provide you with a reason as to why, which you have the right to legally challenge this refusal, or lodge an official complaint to the ICO (see Section 13).
7. Transparency of data held
7.1 Requesting information
GINASODEN.CO.UK is legally obligated to provide the data we have collected concerning YOU at any time. You may request the following information:
- Information concerning how we collected the data.
- Contact details of the data protection officer, if applicable.
- The purpose of the processing your information, in addition to the legal basis for processing.
- The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed.
- Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.
- How long the data will be stored.
- Details of your rights to correct, erase, restrict or object to such processing.
- Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.
- How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (ICO).
- Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
- The source of personal data if it wasn't collected directly from you.
- Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.
7.2 Verification requirements
To access what Personal data is held, identification will be required for verification. This may be a copy of your current driving licence, your passport, birth certificate and a utility bill not older than three months. A minimum of one piece of photographic ID listed above and a supporting document is required. If GINASODEN.CO.UK is dissatisfied with the materials provided, further information may be sought before personal data can be released.
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Through agreeing to this privacy notice you are consenting to GINASODEN.CO.UK processing your personal data for the purposes outlined. You can withdraw consent at any time by emailing or phoning the data protection officer detailed in this document.
9. Data retention policy
9.1 Data storage expiration
GINASODEN.CO.UK will process personal data during the duration of any contract and will continue to store only the personal data needed for three years after the contract has expired to meet any legal obligations. After this period any personal data no longer required or dormant will be deleted.
10. Data storage
10.1 Storage of data across multiple locations
Data collected by this website is held primarily in the United Kingdom using different (multiple) servers. However, data is backed-up to servers across Europe via cloud storage backup solutions. All servers are located in locations that are required to comply with the same data protection regulations. Our primary load balancing system for cloud server operation is based in Bulgaria.
10.2 Transparency of data storage by third party providers
As defined in sections 4 and 5, your data may be transferred by GINASODEN.CO.UK to a third party service to enhance your user experience or to provide client services. Companies that may have access to some of your data and the data they are able to process is as follows:
- Google (Analytics) – Email address and website address
- Mailchimp – Email address, first name, last name
11. Amendments
11.1 Policy updates
We may update this policy without notice. The most recent version will always be available on our website.
11.2 Keeping up to date with this policy
Website users should check this page occasionally to ensure you are in agreement with any changes to this policy.
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Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
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The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, from version to version, and can be dependent on operating system. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via the following:
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13. Complaints
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In the event that you wish to make a compliant about how your personal data is being handled, you have a legal right to complain. If you do not get a response within 30 days of your correspondence, you can initiate a complaint to the ICO.
Address: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, SK9 5AF
Telephone: 0303 123 1113
Email: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/
14. Policy Updates
14.1 Latest version
The latest version of this document is dated 1st May 2018.
14.2 Previous revisions


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Instead of playing it safe and relying heavily on the massive firepowah of Camilla Nylund's voice and cleavage, Jossi Wieler and partner-in-operatic-crime Sergio Morabito chose the high, furry, brothelastic road for the Salzburg production of Rusalka that opened last night. Unflattering granny apparel, big plushies and general mayhem took over while Nylund (with whom we shared an unforgettable experience at la Scala, an otherworldly Beethoven IX conducted by Daniel Barenboim), Piotr Beczala (with whom we shared a bad experience, a Rigoletto at la Scala where his Duke was notable essentially for cracking twice on La Donna E' Mobile) and the rest of the cast.
Unsurprisingly, even the jaded Salzburg rich dudes and their wives had something to object to the Wieler/Morabito production values; but the singers escaped unscathed, thankfully. Adoptive Clevelander Franz "Frank" Welser Moest whipped the Cleveland Orchestra into a quite controlled frenzy -- as much as FWM can, at least.


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The heroes and sheroes of New Orleans
Ten years ago on August 29, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast just east of New Orleans. Its landfall was devastating, but the worst was yet to come--weeks of horror as one of the most famous cities in the country was ruined and the federal government failed to answer the desperate pleas for help. The manmade catastrophe that followed Katrina exposed the Bush administration for its callous neglect and racist contempt when disaster struck a mostly African American city.
Socialist Worker contributors
and were attending a conference for emergency medical services (EMS) workers in New Orleans and were unable to get out before Katrina hit. They spent most of the next week trapped by the flooding--and the martial law cordon thrown up around the city.When they finally were able to tell their story, it rocketed around the Internet and helped show the truth about what happened during Katrina--especially the confrontation on the bridge to Gretna, where armed police fired live bullets over the heads of people attempting to flee. Here, we reprint their article from the September 9, 2005, issue of Socialist Worker.
TWO DAYS after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreens store at the corner of Royal and Iberville Streets in the city's historic French Quarter remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the windows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing, and the milk, yogurt and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat.
The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers and prescriptions, and fled the city. Outside Walgreens' windows, residents and tourists grew increasingly thirsty and hungry. The much-promised federal, state and local aid never materialized, and the windows at Walgreens gave way to the looters.
There was an alternative. The cops could have broken one small window and distributed the nuts, fruit juices and bottled water in an organized and systematic manner. But they did not. Instead, they spent hours playing cat and mouse, temporarily chasing away the looters.
We were finally airlifted out of New Orleans two days ago and arrived home on Saturday. We have yet to see any of the TV coverage or look at a newspaper. We are willing to guess that there were no video images or front-page pictures of European or affluent white tourists looting the Walgreens in the French Quarter.
We also suspect the media will have been inundated with "hero" images of the National Guard, the troops and police struggling to help the "victims" of the hurricane. What you will not see, but what we witnessed, were the real heroes and sheroes of the hurricane relief effort: the working class of New Orleans.
The maintenance workers who used a forklift to carry the sick and disabled. The engineers who rigged, nurtured and kept the generators running. The electricians who improvised thick extension cords stretching over blocks to share the little electricity we had in order to free cars stuck on rooftop parking lots. Nurses who took over for mechanical ventilators and spent many hours on end manually forcing air into the lungs of unconscious patients to keep them alive. Doormen who rescued folks stuck in elevators. Refinery workers who broke into boat yards, "stealing" boats to rescue their neighbors clinging to their roofs in flood waters. Mechanics who helped hotwire any car that could be found to ferry people out of the city. And the food service workers who scoured the commercial kitchens, improvising communal meals for hundreds of those stranded.
Most of these workers had lost their homes and had not heard from members of their families. Yet they stayed and provided the only infrastructure for the 20 percent of New Orleans that was not under water.
ON DAY Two, there were approximately 500 of us left in the hotels in the French Quarter. We were a mix of foreign tourists, conference attendees like ourselves and locals who had checked into hotels for safety and shelter from Katrina.
Some of us had cell phone contact with family and friends outside of New Orleans. We were repeatedly told that all sorts of resources, including the National Guard and scores of buses, were pouring into the city. The buses and the other resources must have been invisible, because none of us had seen them.
We decided we had to save ourselves. So we pooled our money and came up with $25,000 to have ten buses come and take us out of the city. Those who didn't have the requisite $45 each were subsidized by those who did have extra money.
We waited for 48 hours for the buses, spending the last 12 hours standing outside, sharing the limited water, food and clothes we had. We created a priority boarding area for the sick, elderly and newborn babies. We waited late into the night for the "imminent" arrival of the buses. The buses never arrived. We later learned that the minute they arrived at the city limits, they were commandeered by the military.
By Day Four, our hotels had run out of fuel and water. Sanitation was dangerously bad. As the desperation and despair increased, street crime as well as water levels began to rise. The hotels turned us out and locked their doors, telling us that "officials" had told us to report to the convention center to wait for more buses. As we entered the center of the city, we finally encountered the National Guard.
The guard members told us we wouldn't be allowed into the Superdome, as the city's primary shelter had descended into a humanitarian and health hellhole. They further told us that the city's only other shelter--the convention center--was also descending into chaos and squalor, and that the police weren't allowing anyone else in.
Quite naturally, we asked, "If we can't go to the only two shelters in the city, what was our alternative?" The guards told us that this was our problem--and no, they didn't have extra water to give to us. This would be the start of our numerous encounters with callous and hostile "law enforcement."
WE WALKED to the police command center at Harrah's on Canal Street and were told the same thing--that we were on our own, and no, they didn't have water to give us. We now numbered several hundred.
We held a mass meeting to decide a course of action. We agreed to camp outside the police command post. We would be plainly visible to the media and constitute a highly visible embarrassment to city officials. The police told us that we couldn't stay. Regardless, we began to settle in and set up camp.
In short order, the police commander came across the street to address our group. He told us he had a solution: we should walk to the Pontchartrain Expressway and cross the greater New Orleans Bridge to the south side of the Mississippi, where the police had buses lined up to take us out of the city.
The crowd cheered and began to move. We called everyone back and explained to the commander that there had been lots of misinformation, so was he sure that there were buses waiting for us. The commander turned to the crowd and stated emphatically, "I swear to you that the buses are there."
We organized ourselves, and the 200 of us set off for the bridge with great excitement and hope. As we marched past the convention center, many locals saw our determined and optimistic group, and asked where we were headed. We told them about the great news.
Families immediately grabbed their few belongings, and quickly, our numbers doubled and then doubled again. Babies in strollers now joined us, as did people using crutches, elderly clasping walkers and other people in wheelchairs. We marched the two to three miles to the freeway and up the steep incline to the bridge. It now began to pour down rain, but it didn't dampen our enthusiasm.
As we approached the bridge, armed sheriffs formed a line across the foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing their weapons over our heads. This sent the crowd fleeing in various directions.
As the crowd scattered and dissipated, a few of us inched forward and managed to engage some of the sheriffs in conversation. We told them of our conversation with the police commander and the commander's assurances. The sheriffs informed us that there were no buses waiting. The commander had lied to us to get us to move.
We questioned why we couldn't cross the bridge anyway, especially as there was little traffic on the six-lane highway. They responded that the West Bank was not going to become New Orleans, and there would be no Superdomes in their city. These were code words for: if you are poor and Black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River, and you are not getting out of New Orleans.
OUR SMALL group retreated back down Highway 90 to seek shelter from the rain under an overpass. We debated our options and, in the end, decided to build an encampment in the middle of the Ponchartrain Expressway--on the center divide, between the O'Keefe and Tchoupitoulas exits. We reasoned that we would be visible to everyone, we would have some security being on an elevated freeway, and we could wait and watch for the arrival of the yet-to-be-seen buses.
All day long, we saw other families, individuals and groups make the same trip up the incline in an attempt to cross the bridge, only to be turned away--some chased away with gunfire, others simply told no, others verbally berated and humiliated. Thousands of New Orleaners were prevented and prohibited from self-evacuating the city on foot.
Meanwhile, the only two city shelters sank further into squalor and disrepair. The only way across the bridge was by vehicle. We saw workers stealing trucks, buses, moving vans, semi-trucks and any car that could be hotwired. All were packed with people trying to escape the misery that New Orleans had become.
Our little encampment began to blossom. Someone stole a water delivery truck and brought it up to us. Let's hear it for looting! A mile or so down the freeway, an Army truck lost a couple of pallets of C-rations on a tight turn. We ferried the food back to our camp in shopping carts.
Now--secure with these two necessities, food and water--cooperation, community and creativity flowered. We organized a clean-up and hung garbage bags from the rebar poles. We made beds from wood pallets and cardboard. We designated a storm drain as the bathroom, and the kids built an elaborate enclosure for privacy out of plastic, broken umbrellas and other scraps. We even organized a food-recycling system where individuals could swap out parts of C-rations (applesauce for babies and candies for kids!).
This was something we saw repeatedly in the aftermath of Katrina. When individuals had to fight to find food or water, it meant looking out for yourself. You had to do whatever it took to find water for your kids or food for your parents. But when these basic needs were met, people began to look out for each other, working together and constructing a community.
If the relief organizations had saturated the city with food and water in the first two or three days, the desperation, frustration and ugliness would not have set in.
Flush with the necessities, we offered food and water to passing families and individuals. Many decided to stay and join us. Our encampment grew to 80 or 90 people.
From a woman with a battery-powered radio, we learned that the media was talking about us. Up in full view on the freeway, every relief and news organizations saw us on their way into the city. Officials were being asked what they were going to do about all those families living up on the freeway. The officials responded that they were going to take care of us. Some of us got a sinking feeling. "Taking care of us" had an ominous tone to it.
Unfortunately, our sinking feeling (along with the sinking city) was accurate. Just as dusk set in, a sheriff showed up, jumped out of his patrol vehicle, aimed his gun at our faces and screamed, "Get off the fucking freeway." A helicopter arrived and used the wind from its blades to blow away our flimsy structures. As we retreated, the sheriff loaded up his truck with our food and water.
Once again, at gunpoint, we were forced off the freeway. All the law enforcement agencies appeared threatened when we congregated into groups of 20 or more. In every congregation of "victims," they saw "mob" or "riot." We felt safety in numbers. Our "we must stay together" attitude was impossible because the agencies would force us into small, atomized groups.
In the pandemonium of having our camp raided and destroyed, we scattered once again. Reduced to a small group of eight people, in the dark, we sought refuge in an abandoned school bus, under the freeway on Cilo Street. We were hiding from possible criminal elements, but equally and definitely, we were hiding from the police and sheriffs with their martial law, curfew and shoot-to-kill policies.
The next day, our group of eight walked most of the day, made contact with the New Orleans Fire Department and were eventually airlifted out by an urban search-and-rescue team.
We were dropped off near the airport and managed to catch a ride with the National Guard. The two young guardsmen apologized for the limited response of the Louisiana guards. They explained that a large section of their unit was in Iraq and that meant they were shorthanded and were unable to complete all the tasks they were assigned.
WE ARRIVED at the airport on the day a massive airlift had begun. The airport had become another Superdome. We eight were caught in a press of humanity as flights were delayed for several hours while George Bush landed briefly at the airport for a photo op. After being evacuated on a Coast Guard cargo plane, we arrived in San Antonio, Texas.
There, the humiliation and dehumanization of the official relief effort continued. We were placed on buses and driven to a large field where we were forced to sit for hours and hours. Some of the buses didn't have air conditioners. In the dark, hundreds of us were forced to share two filthy, overflowing porta-potties. Those who managed to make it out with any possessions (often a few belongings in tattered plastic bags) were subjected to two different dog-sniffing searches.
Most of us had not eaten all day because our C-rations had been confiscated at the airport--because the rations set off the metal detectors. Yet no food had been provided to the men, women, children, elderly and disabled, as we sat for hours waiting to be "medically screened" to make sure we weren't carrying any communicable diseases.
This official treatment was in sharp contrast to the warm, heartfelt reception given to us by ordinary Texans. We saw one airline worker give her shoes to someone who was barefoot. Strangers on the street offered us money and toiletries with words of welcome.
Throughout, the official relief effort was callous, inept and racist. There was more suffering than need be. Lives were lost that did not need to be lost.
This article first appeared in the September 9, 2005, edition of Socialist Worker.


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