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Religious head
The religious head is the character holding the highest position within a religion. The major ones are:
- Catholicism: the Pope
- Orthodox Christianity: the Ecumenical Patriarch
- Miaphysite Christianity: the Coptic Pope
- Sunni Islam: the Sunni Caliph
- Shia Islam: the Shia Caliph
Unreformed Pagans have no religious head, although they can create one by reforming the religion, called the High Priest or (for Germanic) Fylkir. Some heresies also have heads, not all of which exist at game start but can be created by decision. Some religious head titles cannot be destroyed, but are always held by some character; for some heresies, frequently the only character of that religion is its head. Indian religions also have no religious head.
In most religions the religious head is part of the clergy. In Islam and reformed Germanic paganism he is a noble who often wields considerable secular power. Religious heads may grant divorces, call Crusades, jihads and great holy wars (except Orthodox and Miaphysite and their heresies), and sanction invasions. The Christian religious heads can also excommunicate members of their church.
There is also a separate but related concept of a character's religious head, which is not always the same as the religion's head. This is particularly important for Orthodox and Miaphysite Christianity, which have autocephalous patriarchs; they have limited power compared to other heads. It is also relevant for Catholicism when antipopes exist.
The Pope is the head of the Catholic Church, usually residing in Rome. His title has the rank of king, so he cannot be vassalised except by an emperor. The Sons of Abraham expansion added a number of unique features to the Papacy.
Papal elections[edit]
Main article: Papal succession
The Pope is elected by the College of Cardinals. In-game, there are nine cardinals at a time, and when the Pope dies, the cardinals elect one among their number to replace him. Vacant cardinal positions are awarded to bishops based on their total suitability score. This is calculated based on the age, traits, culture, and secular power (rank and number of titles held) of the candidate, as well as the Pope's opinion of the bishop's liege. Rulers may invest in a campaign fund to increase the chance that their candidate will be chosen.
The cardinals choose the next Pope based on a similar ranking system, which rulers cannot directly influence. However, Popes who received votes from cardinals from a particular ruler's realm will have a massive +100 relations modifier per vote received.
Papal favors[edit]
Catholic leaders in good standing with the Pope can call upon him for special favours. Most of these require the Sons of Abraham DLC; the exceptions are divorce, excommunication and invasion. You can ask the same things of an antipope. The piety cost is halved for realms under Papal Investiture law.
|Ask to nominate bishop
|480 months
|If under the Papal Investiture crown law
|Ask for divorce
|100 piety
|480 months
|Spouse's family unhappy.
|Ask for claim on duchy or county
|100 piety
|480 months
|By selecting "claim" when viewing the title screen for a duchy or county. This will only be granted if the Pope dislikes the current ruler of the title. Cannot be used for prince-bishoprics or republics.
|Ask for excommunication
|100 piety
|480 months
|Pope must dislike ruler. The target must control fewer cardinals than you do and have the same religious head as you. Moral authority > 40%
|Ask to lift excommunication
|50 piety
|480 months
|Ask for money
|100 piety
|480 months
|Gives double ruler's annual income. Antipopes and vassal popes generally won't have much money to give.
|Ask for invasion
|480 months
|Pope must dislike ruler. Invasion casus belli. Moral authority > 50%
|Ask for crusade
|480 months
|Moral authority > 5%
Main article: Antipope
Antipopes are a special feature of Catholicism. They are bishops controlled by a ruler, and hold a rival claim to the papacy.
Heretic Popes[edit]
If the Sons of Abraham DLC is active and Rome is held by a Fraticelli ruler, that ruler can, by decision, create the Fraticelli Papacy for a cost of 1000 piety. The Fraticelli religion works just like Catholicism, except that the Fraticelli Pope is duke-tier instead of king-tier.
Main article: Autocephaly
Some religions have a feature called autocephaly with intermediate religious heads called Patriarchs, autonomous in their jurisdiction, but reporting to an overall head.
The following religions use autocephaly and have the associated overall religious head:
- Orthodox: The Ecumenical Patriarch (usually in Constantinople)
- Miaphysite: The Coptic Pope (usually in Alexandria)
- Monophysite: The Monophysite Pope (usually in Alexandria)
- Nestorian: The Patriarch of the East (usually in Antioch)
- Monothelite: The Monothelite Patriarch (usually in Antioch)
- Iconoclast: The Iconoclast Patriarch (in Constantinople, if formed)
- Paulican: The Paulican Patriarch (usually in Constantinople)
These always exist, except that no one holds the Iconoclast Patriarchate initially; if you have the Sons of Abraham DLC, the Iconoclast Patriarch can be created decision by the liege of the Bishop/Patriarch of Constantinople if both are Iconoclast. The Ecumenical Patriarchate is king-tier, and is usually the Byzantine Emperor's vassal and religious head (so he cannot appoint an autocephalous patriarch, but he has all the benefits of one); the rest are duke-tier.
Bogomilism, though a heresy of Orthodoxy, has no head. The same applies to Messalianism.
Mending the Great Schism[edit]
If all five seats of the pentarchy; Constantinople, Rome, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch; are controlled by Orthodox bishops whom are all, along with the religious head, vassals (direct or indirect) of an independent ruler of the same religion, this liege has a decision to mend the Great Schism. This gives all Catholic characters the opportunity to convert to Orthodoxy and makes Catholicism and its heresies into heresies of Orthodoxy. This will not happen to Miaphytism or Nestorianism, however, likely because these branches of Christianity broke off before the Great Schism.
Iconoclasts, and Monothelites can also mend the schism if one of these heresies manages to replace Orthodoxy as the parent religion. Bogomilists, having no religious head, cannot mend the schism. Miaphysites and their heresies, though they use the same mechanics as Orthodoxy, cannot mend the schism either. It should be noted that even though Nestorianism is not a heresy of Orthodoxy anymore, it can still mend the Schism instead of Paulicians. It is likely a bug.
Unlike Papacies and Patriarchates, which mainly hold religious authority and are usually regional secular powers at best, caliphates are often large feudal lands ruled by noble lords. This means one can play as the Caliph and call Jihads against enemy religions. In the rare event that there are all three Jihad-calling Caliphs exist, they will usually take a sizable chunk of the Catholic world.
While the papacy and patriarchate always exist, the caliphates function as regular titular feudal titles and are destroyed if their holder becomes unlanded. However, it is possible for a Muslim ruler to recreate the caliphate. The title may be created through the regular Create Title interface, but has special requirements:
- Shia, Sunni, Ibadi, Karijite, or Hurufi (as appropriate)
- 1000 Piety OR Sayyid trait (male-line relative of Mohammed) OR Mirza trait (son of a Sayyid mother)
- (1000 Piety AND Sayyid trait) OR (control Mecca AND control Medina) OR (control Baghdad AND control Damascus AND control Jerusalem).
Getting the Sayyid trait into a dynasty requires matrilineally marrying non-Muslim men with the trait, since Muslims cannot marry matrilineally.
The Yazidi heresy also has a religious head, however it only requires 1000 piety and the de-jure capital county of Mosul.
The Yazidi and Hurufi caliphs are called "shiekdoms," and cannot call Jihads. However, the Sunni, Shia, Ibadi, or Karijite religious heads are called "Caliphs" and can call Jihads - in the case of Karijite especially, even against their parent religion.
With The Old Gods DLC, Zoroastrians can restore their ancient religion to prominence by retaking the Persian Empire and appointing a Moabadan-Moabad (Priest of Priests) who will function thereafter as a religious head. A notable feature of the Moabadan-Moabad is his ability to call Great Holy Wars without having to wait until the 11th or 12th century like Christians, Muslims or Reformed Pagans.
Reforming Pagan Religions[edit]
It is also possible in The Old Gods to reform Pagan religions. The ruler who forms it and his vassals, demense, and courtiers will automatically convert, other rulers have the option of conversion. This has the following effects:
- The old, unreformed religion has "old" in front of it, showing that it's the unreformed version. e.g. "Old Tengri".
- The religion becomes organised, getting a permanent +20% moral authority, which makes conversion of others easier and makes them less prone to conversion to other religions.
- The religion gets a head. This is a duke-tier vassal like an Orthodox Patriarch, except the Germanic Fylkir who is a secular ruler like the Muslim Caliphs. The leader can call Great Holy Wars (which are Crusades with a different name), so long as both Christian Crusades and Muslim Jihads are unlocked. Once a Great Holy War has been unlocked for one Pagan type, they are unlocked for all Pagan types.
- If the Player has the relevent DLC, the reformed faith gets a Holy Order. The Germanic Jomsvikings require The Old Gods, the Zunist Sun Warriors require Charlemagne, and all others require Sons of Abraham. Note that you require The Old Gods to reform the faiths in the first place
- Rulers gain access to the Holy War casus belli.
- Rulers lose access to the Subjugation casus belli.
- Religions that get a defensive attrition bonus (all but Tengri and Aztec) lose it, but holdings keep their levy/garrison size and strength bonuses.
- Rulers may set Crown Authority higher than Low.
- Rulers may use succession laws other than gavelkind (and ultimogeniture for Mongols).
- Independence wars no longer have increased ticking warscore, making them harder to win. This is bad for vassals, but good for rulers.
- The "short reign" opinion penalty returns to its normal level (50% higher than other religions when unreformed).
- Germanic, Tengri, and Aztec rulers lose the prestige penalties for being at peace, but gain the usual opinion penalties for raising troops.
It is possible to reform any of the Pagan religions except the generic Pagan and Hellenic religions. This requires either all five holy sites, or three holy sites, 50% moral authority, and 750 piety.
A Jew who restores the Kingdom of Israel can, by decision, reinstate the office of Kohen Gadol, or High Priest. Like the Zoroastrian religious leader, the Kohen Gadol can call Great Holy Wars as soon as his office is reinstated.


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On film: summer lakeside beside Lake Tahoe, CA.
On film: summer lakeside beside Lake Tahoe, CA.
Taking a break in busy town.
Canyoning in Arizona.
Imitation in Seattle, WA.
Yosemite Village, CA.
Bold Boston, MA.
View from a bridge named Brooklyn, NY.
Skating type bowl in Venice, CA.
Summer sky.
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Light and shade.
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Bunkie, Your PreFab Cabin by the Lake… or wherever
There's No Money In This Banana Stand
But it looks kinda money.
Brooklyn Toile
Match Crystal & Pewter Double Rocks Glass
Dry Ice
A woven blanket / tapestry edition by Peter Sutherland, available through Exhibition A.
Bathroom by Newson
Bougie Parfumée
APOCALYPTIC, the fragranced candle from Byredo with "hot metal notes of fire irons."
(Thanks Analog Bass!)
Aquaponics Garden
"evolutionary architecture"
That Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Private Island Estate You've Been Unknowingly Buying Lottery Tickets For
The Massaro House on Petre Island in Lake Mahopac in Putnam County, New York.
Note: the house was based off of "designs of a never-constructed project conceived by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright"
Archer Air Superiority
21st century upscale novelty air fresheners. Perhaps they'll make a Tennis Ball Can scent soon, but for now you're stuck with the extremely boring options of european sports car, hunting lodge, or distillery. Buy them all.
Wi-Fi Lightbulbs
A Beetlejuice Terrarium
If You've Found Yourself in The Market For a Pillow…
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Best Wishes
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Rad Mats
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You know those hotel workers who are supposedly "doing the jobs Americans won't do?" Looks like one of the jobs the hotel workers won't do is wash dirty glasses properly. MyFoxAtlanta, a local news station in Georgia, went undercover earlier this month to investigate housekeeping sanitary practices at several hotels–and once you watch the results of their hidden-camera probe, I guarantee you'll never want to drink out of hotel cups or mugs again (via Duane at The Black Informant with a hat tip to Ace of Spades). Make sure to stick through 'til the end and find out where the rubber gloves have been:
Sure leaves a bad taste in your mouth, no?
Dana Fowle, the investigative reporter, blogs about the story here.
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The fringing reef surrounding Orpheus and the neighbouring islands offers some of the region's most diverse marine wonderlands. Whilst relatively shallow at 12 to 14 metres, Orpheus' local dive sites are home to 1,100 of the 1,500 species of fish on the reef, 340 of the 359 varieties of hard corals and some of the region's largest collections of soft corals.
The deeper, outer reefs of the Great Barrier Reef are approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes from the lodge by boat and are accessible by private charter. In this natural aquarium, dive and snorkel amongst a myriad of reef habitats and, if you're lucky, alongside green turtles, manta rays, bull rays and reef sharks.
Key Dates
- Manta Ray season: July to early November
- Humpback whale migration: late June to mid-late September
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Guests can take part in a complimentary pool 'try dive' whilst on Orpheus.
Discover Scuba
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Dive bookings and private reef charters are subject to weather and tidal conditions. Quoted rates include all gear. Certified divers to bring certification card. Anyone with a medical condition should consult a doctor and obtain a medical certificate prior to arrival. On Orpheus, you'll be asked to fill in a dive questionnaire. Discover Scuba max 4 divers at a time. Outer reef diving charters attract a vessel charter fee, which can be split between other guests.


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Sometimes you have to realize what you're not
Well yesterday I attempted to rush informal, well I've rushed formal, informal is a little different. I'm not going to explain the details of either, but I realized that well people involved in Greek life can be nice, maybe their personalities don't match well enough. Nothing against who they are, they were nice, but I think I am just not the bubbly kind of person. I do kind of tend to keep to myself (not in a creepy weirdo way), but in a way that I do not mind spending time with myself. I like who I am, and if someone cannot accept me for all my weirdness than what good is it?
Can I give up?
I know Christmas is coming up and I should be joyful, but my stress is overwhelming, definitely being on your own at 19 with no job and college to think about is literally nerve wrecking. In all honesty I have to figure out how to pay 2 months worth of phone bills, a speeding ticket, and how to buy books. There is nothing relaxing while that ticket is lingering in my life. Damn it, all I wanted to get to was the damn bathroom at the nearby rest stop… ugh beyond done with my life -_-
A glimpse back into my first semester at college
I had no idea what my journey at college would be, but it's definitely not what I anticipated. There were times I felt completely beaten down while there were times I felt uplifted. This experience has been like no other, I found things I really stood for, not what I said I stood for. I made a huge share of mistakes, some I wish I could take back, but no one understands what it's like to be on your own at first when you've been so connected with your family. I have never been perfect, I'll tell you that, but before college I was usually the goody goody, who did go a little rebellious at 18. However, I never dreamed I would compromise my own integrity to get a person who should have never matters approval. That is not like me, I am independent and make my own individual choices. I don't let others define who I am, but I can tell you instances that I did. I know what I did affected more people than just myself, it probably affected people that I am unaware of. I never met to destroy someones feelings or trust in me, and while I got to know what it's like to be on the receiving end of forgiveness, it is not an easy pill to swallow. The consequences continue to surround me. People who know the situation and are not directly involve villainize me, which is one thing that has never really happened to me. I'm not use to be the villain, I'm always the one who gets hurt, which has me question every bit of that decision. I wish that I could be a better person at times, especially that one defining moment. No one realizes how much it still hurts me. I look at myself with disgust and hate, but I was so lonely the first semester that no one could comphrend what I was going through. I will not justify what I did or give excuses, but my mindset was not in the right place, and people fail to understand that. While I probably don't deserve full forgiveness, by saying I was forgiven it should be let go.
While a few bad things happened this semester, a lot of good came out of it. I found out I can be independent. I also found out that there will be mistakes made and I must find ways to forgive myself. While others doubt me, I get to prove them wrong, especially those who do not know believe I deserve forgiveness. I know who I am and sometimes it takes straying a way to affirm who I actually am. While my search for who I am is not complete, I know what type of person I want to be and without that mistake I don't think I could fully appreciate the people in my life, especially the person I have hurt. Although I don't think there are enough apologizes in this world to prove to you that I will truly never do that again, I'm glad you're still here despite the fact I messed up.
Currently I'm laying in bed at 2:30 am unable to sleep with a 8 am final… No matter what I am unable to fall asleep. I'm too excited to go home and get a break from school. I'm also more excited of the things I'll do when I get back! All this anticipation makes it hard to sleep or study
Feeling a little low
I feel so alone that I cannot begin to describe it. Sometimes I don't even know why I feel down. I have some friends here, but then sometimes it feels as if I have no one. The one thing I do know is why can I not improve my mood? I want to be happy and excited instead I'm just tired and depressed. This feeling is a constant up hill battle sometimes because I have to fight through it to feel better. In all honestly it may be partly because I'm freezing, I have a lot of homework, projects, and test, and I'm sick and tired.


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Looks even better on wall. Was a little less wide by 2-3", which I could have used. But very impressive & beautiful displayed on wall!
I've had this sculpture now for about a year and although I like it very much, I think if I had seen it in person, I would have thought the price was too high and would not have purchased it.
bought it as a gift. person didnt like it i returned it
It is beautiful and good quality, looks great on my wall
My Mom received this today and What a beautiful work of art. This sculpture is so so beautiful. Thank you so much for your talent.


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January 11, 2012
This article is part of a series which explains legal concepts especially relevant to entrepreneurs in both words and (often funny) pictures. This entry in the series focuses on contracts. The article covers what a contract is, drafting a contract without a lawyer's help, what is exchanged in contracts, and the role of attorneys in drafting complex contracts.
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According to Kotaku, Eidos has made 25 Crystal Dynamics staff redundant.
The redundancies are part of a " continued drive to focus resources at the studio".
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sebastiansdrawings said: According to some (like Jeremy Vickery in his Gnomon video on color and light) you need to deal with subsurface scattering, when drawing fur. Your tiger looks great as it is right now, btw. :)
Thanks for the tip and the encouragement! I'll try to keep it in mind while I draw. Although I'm not exactly familiar with the technique, I plunged into the rabbit hole that is youtube tutorials, and am amazed I made it out alive! ;)
bsimser said: Lay down a base then lots of patience and strokes over top of it. Check out Acosta Images for some great examplesacostaimages.tumblr.com…
I was worried that was the answer… A lack of patience is probably my biggest problem with this drawing. But man alive, his tiger must have taken forever!
And by the way, I love your drawings!
amyblogschow said: And zhangyuok.tumblr.com! But like Sebastian's Drawings said, your tiger sketch is great as is :)
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Tonight could be the last time we witness the Dwight Howard-less Lake Show. The Lakers are in Vegas preparing for their 5th preseason contest as the Sacramento Kings get their chance to add to L.A.'s preseason misery.
But as we all know preseason outcomes mean less than wedding vows did to Elizabeth Taylor. So while we want to see the Lakers get a leg up on their NorCal rivals we're all setting our sights to Sunday for the second installment of this series.
If all goes according to plan then the first ever DH12 sighting in purple and gold will occur when the Lakers and Kings play their rematch for the weekend series. This report comes courtesy of Marc Spears of at Yahoo! and would seem to indicate that Howard's already quickly progressing rehab is much further along than anticipated.
Initially it was assumed Howard would miss the entire preseason. Then he was given the full clearance to participate in practice and many figured he would play in the preseason finale making himself ready for the start of the regular season.
But to hear word of Howard possibly playing this weekend is truly amazing. For someone as skeptical of this move as I was it is nothing short of inspiring to know Howard has come this far this fast. Just what kind of game shape he's in remains to be seen. But just seeing Howard on the court will be more than enough for those of us eager to see what this team will truly look like this season.


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Having shipped hundreds of electric vehicle charging stations, and with repeat orders now coming in from Europe, Coulomb Technologies, a privately-held Silicon Valley company, expects to be profitable by the 2010 introduction of the Chevy Volt, according to its chief executive, Richard Lowenthal.
(Mr. Lowenthal appears in the video above, explaining the company's ChargePoint Network.)
"Our plan was to sell a thousand stations, but we will probably double that," he told Green Inc. last week after the company secured its third Bay Area order this year. "Our company is structured to be profitable based on early adopters."
Founded in 2007, Coulomb is looking to crack the chicken-and-egg riddle that bedeviled the hydrogen fuel cell industry. Without a refueling infrastructure, consumers won't buy vehicles. But no one invested in refueling stations without potential customers on the road.
"It is a very fundamental issue for the business," Mr. Lowenthal said. "What do you do about the road trip?"
With electric vehicles, the additional problem is that in cities like San Francisco, where almost half of all vehicles park on the city's streets, many potential buyers couldn't recharge their cars overnight.
Mr. Lowenthal, a Cisco veteran who served as mayor of Cupertino, said that municipalities, parking companies and condo developers represent the first tranche of customers for charge points that will be deployed on city streets and in garages. They sell for $2,500 to $4,000 and can recharge an electric vehicle battery in four to ten hours.


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A little self-portrait along with a note expressing some gratitude~
Thank you all so much for the love and support! The sweet messages in response to my advise comics, 4000+ Tumblr followers, and the wonderful birthday gifts were all incredibly overwhelming for my little heart. You've all made me incredibly happy this year!!
I apologize for the slow activity but I am currently busy with finishing the university, trying to stick to an internship, and working on some secret freelance projects (hope to show them soon). I'll try my best to upload some pictures.
Also some of you have been messaging me more questions, and since I want to keep this Tumblr account art-oriented (and don't have the time to illustrate every response), I've made an Ask.fm account.
I will be taking all of your questions in THIS LINK. Ask me anything!
Thanks again for everything! I love you all!~
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Getting the housing market back on track
David Streitfeld's NYT piece on home-equity defaults is so aggressively anecdotal, rather than quantitative, that he even says at one point that "the amount of bad home equity loan business during the boom is incalculable". I really don't think that's true: a lot of very smart analysts have done a lot of pretty accurate work on that front. And Streitfeld himself belies the statement by including a pretty illuminating chart with his story.
The key thing in this chart isn't the drop from 2009 to 2010, which is a function of the fact that the 2010 data covers only the first quarter. Rather, it's the fact that first mortgages actually account for a minority of home-loan write-offs, and that home equity lines have accounted for significantly more, in the way of write-offs, than second mortgages.
Which brings me to the first of three op-eds that the NYT has published today on the subject of Frannie and the FHA. Here's Katherine Stone:
Until recently, most Americans paid for their homes through 30-year self-amortizing mortgages, in which interest and principal are paid at the same time. These work well as long as homeowners have stable, long-term jobs that enable them to regularly make their monthly payments.
But these days such careers are increasingly scarce. Therefore, any effort to recover from the crisis must include more flexible mortgages that take today's employment landscape, with its frequent job-hopping and episodic unemployment, into account.
The problem here is, as a glance at Streitfeld's chart will show, that "more flexible mortgages" are also more dangerous mortgages. Home equity loans had all the flexibility you could possibly want — and they failed disastrously.
What's more, Stone doesn't actually want to get rid of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. She just wants to layer gimmicks on top of it: an option to pay only interest if you're laid off here, an escrow account available in the event of unemployment there. These things don't really make the mortgage more flexible, they just make it more expensive for the borrower, who has to pay either for the option (which he might not want or need) or else has to pay directly into the escrow account, which would be a sure-fire money loser due to paying an interest rate lower than the rate being charged on the mortgage.
Bill Poole, meanwhile, has a plan which would make mortgage rates rise much further still, assuming that mortgages were available at all:
Fannie and Freddie could not be shuttered immediately; they are too large. A sensible transition plan would have them stop buying new mortgages, and their portfolios would decline as the mortgages they own are paid down. Within 10 years, the portfolios would shrink to insignificance…
In 10 or 15 years, the companies would be gone, closing a chapter in American financial history that enjoyed considerable success but ended very badly and at great taxpayer cost.
The fact is, as John Carney says in his own op-ed (the most sensible, but also the narrowest, of the three), that the FHA and Frannie now back more than 95 percent of new mortgages. If they simply stopped buying new mortgages, the entire housing-finance business in the US would come to a screeching halt. No one could buy, no one could sell, and home values would be entirely hypothetical for years.
Yes, it's possible to slowly build an entirely private system of mortgage lending. But you can't do that overnight, as Poole seems to think. And he's completely wrong, too, when he says that "if the home finance market were fully private, then it would bear the losses from its own mistakes in pricing and insurance". Not true: when there's a major housing crash, the government ends up bailing out the lenders whether they're public or private. Look at Ireland.
So let's embrace Carney's idea of forcing lenders to retain 5% of whatever they originate, even when they sell their loans to the FHA or Frannie. And let's try to get these state-owned behmoths out of the mortgage business in a controlled and non-chaotic manner. But let's not do anything drastic. The last thing we need is another housing crisis, before the current one has even finished playing out.
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Ameriquest is dead. Long live Ameriquest / Argent / ParkPlace…
There is quite a list of lenders who were not bailed out, mostly the non-bank finance types lending to sub-prime / non-prime / NegAm: New Century, Novastar, Ameriquest…among others (many, many others).
Those firms failed, and servicing was sold and/or transferred. Quite possibly to an institution that later received a bail-out though.
I completely disagree re: getting FNMA/FMCC out of the business.
A much more appropriate thing to do would be better controls on how the manage their book and compensate employees.
1 – They should ONLY be in the business of funding and packaging "standard" loans….like they were doing very, very well before this bubble. 80% LTV only with the requirement for PMI on top of that.
2 – Don't let them use the implied backing of the government to buy/invest in mortgages outside of their lending standards…of any kind!
3 – This should be a boring, bureaucratic job….compensate it accordingly. Don't turn it into a pseudo Wall Street, multi-million dollar position.
In a way, I think it would be better to take the pseudo government backing and make it actual. Don't have them be publicly traded institutions – it's apparently not appropriate.
On the other hand, Carney starts off his article from a false premise, namely that Fannie/Freddie were at the center of the subprime bubble, even though they weren't. (WaMu/Countrywide/citi/merrill were far more important; moreover, Fannie/Freddie mortgages weren't securitized and made into WMDs by the banks (and thus did not contribute to the Lehman collapse etc.)
It's a misguided assumption that rates would rise very much at all if Fan/Fred were wound down in an orderly manner. What's with saying rates raising "further still", anyway? We're at all-time record lows at the moment. If anything the 30-year amortization term might not be the standard anymore, but so what – plenty of other countries have robust availablity of mortgages at market rates without the help of GSEs. Their time was 50 years ago. Capital is much more fluid now.
As to Carney's "take away the GSEs and "No one would buy" argument – what bunk. No one IS BUYING even with the GSEs around right now. They're just refinancing if anything. Depsite, again – 50 year low rates. So what good are the GSEs again? Please, as a taxpayer, I'd like to know.
Unless I misread Carney, I think he was calling for Frannie & the FHA to retain 5% of what they securitize, not for the originators to retain a chunk of what the sell to the agencies. But he neglects to point out that Frannie has always retained 100% of the credit risk in the mortgages they pass-through to investors. Is that not enough skin in the game?
I think you have in fact misread Carney. When he says "this crowding-out effect will be magnified if, as many in the industry expect, regulators also exempt Fannie- and Freddie-backed mortgages from the 5 percent requirement …", he is referring to mortgages, not the agencies. That is, he is worried that the originating banks will be released from the 5% requirement on all agency-backed mortgages in order to maintain parity with specifically FHA-backed mortgages. The consequence he anticipates is that there will be no non-agency-backed mortgages. The point is that he doesn't trust agencies to manage mortgage risk and he wants originators to retain that role.
Home equity loans and second mortgages are naturally riskier. Very few people (especially early in their lives) can afford to pay 100% cash, so traditionally they would save up 20% and finance the rest.
Second mortgages are for those who don't have the cash flow or patience to save up 20%. Home equity loans are for those who need to borrow against their savings to support their lifestyle. (Even if used for remodeling or upgrades, only a portion of the money can be recouped in a sale.)
Always riskier to loan money to those without skin in the game and to those who can't manage their daily finances.
Home equity loans and second mortgages are naturally riskier. Very few people (especially early in their lives) can afford to pay 100% cash, so traditionally they would save up 20% and finance the rest.
Second mortgages are for those who don't have the cash flow or patience to save up 20%. Home equity loans are for those who need to borrow against their savings to support their lifestyle. (Even if used for remodeling or upgrades, only a portion of the money can be recouped in a sale.)
Always riskier to loan money to those without skin in the game and to those who can't manage their daily finances.
why would the private sector want to deal with mortgages? wasn't that what so many in wall street sold to investors as MBS. and how did that work out? think the odds of investors buying those any time soon will really happen? why? are they that dumb? the only way they might buy them is with government guarantees. but then why bother with shutting down F&F?
History has proven that the private sector will risk ANYTHING for a profit. If they stick to the basics, mortgages can be written safely and profitably. You just need to follow sensible underwriting standards, require a substantial downpayment, and don't bundle/slice loans in the hope that you can turn cheap meat into filet mignon.


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Hi Bigsemi,
Wow, you crammed a lot into such a short time. a big THANKS for the excellent review of your trip. I, too, will have to join Damombo and visit Razi and Sciandri.
posted 08-08-2013 08:00 PM
I would definitely check out Razi and Sciandri. Even if your tastes don't match ours, you will love Mr. Razi, and the Sciandri's. They are great people, and as I've always said, there are tons of great wineries, the people make the biggest difference.
posted 08-07-2013 01:52 PM
Sounds fantastic! Y'all always have such a fun time. I'm hoping we get to go in October, so maybe I'll be able to schedule us a visit with Bell or Razi or Sciandri - they would all be new to us. Perhaps I'll name drop - I do it all the time with Hawkeye's name and sometimes they let us stay
posted 08-07-2013 01:35 PM
It was a quick trip, but we had an awesome time. My brother lined up The Villa, at Dante's Vineyards. Nice 2 bedroom, 1 bath house, with a hot tub. It is situated halfway between Santa Rosa and Calistoga on Petrified Forest Rd, there is a second house on the property that can also be rented. Staying at the house was my wife and I, my older brother(4th trip with us), and my nephew and his girlfriend (Their first trip to the valley).
We landed in SFO on the morning of the 26th and headed to Calistoga, got lunch at Palisades, then to our first winery, Reverie. My wife and I are members. It was a good first experience for my nephew, they got a comprehensive cave tour, got to try some awesome wine, and enjoy the red wood grove. My older brother ended up joining their wine club.
From there we headed to our rent house to relax and cleanup before the first of 2 parties we were attending.
That evening we headed to the Castle for their Hot Havana Nights Party. Great Cuban food, music, and cigars! We hung out with a smaller subgroup and just hungout, shot the breeze, and enjoyed cigars and lots of different beverages. It was a great way to finish off our first night in Napa.
Saturday morning we headed to Palisades for breakfast, then headed down to Razi Winery. We tasted with Mr. Razi again. He is a great guy! We ended up purchasing a 06 and 09 Razi Red, and a 09 and 2011 Chard, my brother got an 09 Red, and the 2010 Syrah, and my nephew got a couple bottles as well. Very nice visit, great wine, highly recommend Razi.
From there we headed over to Domaine Carneros for sparkling wine tasting. We ordered a cheese and meat plate to accompany our tastings. Again another nice tasting with great views of Carneros, we ended up buying their flagship Pinot, very tasty, expensive, but very good, it just got 93pts in Wine Spectator.
From there we went and wandered around Yountville, and hit Bouchon Bakery. From there we drove down the street to Bell, the wife and I are members. We had a sit down tasting with a cheese plate. Lots of cool info about the various cab clones used around the valley, My nephew got a 375ml of the Clone 6 Cab, their flagship wine, and my brother got a couple bottles of merlot and syrah. From there we headed back up to the house to relax a bit before heading to V. Sattui for their Festa Italiana.
We headed to V. Sattui a little early to attend a VIP preparty for Sattui winemaker Brooks Painter for winning wine maker of the year at the San Francisco Chronical International Wine Competition, the biggest of its kind in the U.S.
As always great food, music, and friends. It was a nice relaxing evening.
Sunday morning, got breakfast at Palisades and headed down to Round Pond for an Olive Oil and Wine tasting. Our 6th time doing it, 3rd for my brother, and 1st for the nephew and gf. As always we had a nice time, tried several of there new oils, and their wines.
After we headed to Oxbow for ice cream and to wander around a bit.
At 2:30 we headed back to Sciandri Family Vineyards. We spent the next 3 hours with Ron and Roberta Sciandri enjoying great wine, food, and conversation. We have really come to love these guys every bit as much as family. We've already made plans to head back out for a barrel tasting in September. You guys really need to check them out. Great Cab, and Cab/Syrah blends. We bought their 2010 vintage to keep our verticals going, and my brother and nephew bought several bottles as well.
We ended the night back up at Boscos in Calistoga for dinner, then caught an early plane the next morning home. Quick but very fun trip.
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Criminal Justice
Washington State University's Online criminal justice program combines problem-driven research and real-world expertise to prepare students to be leaders in state, federal and private law enforcement.
Our faculty members routinely lend their expertise to a broad range of agencies. Many of our graduates hold top positions in law enforcement organizations. Others use the degree to prepare for law school or work in the corporate security field.
WSU's criminal justice program was founded in 1943 and is the second oldest continuous criminal justice program in the nation.
Washington State University is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities. For more information, see accreditation.wsu.edu/NWCCU-statement.html.
All courses are available online
All undergraduates must complete the University Common Requirements (UCORE) (These can generally be satisfied with a direct transfer degree. For a list of direct-transfer agreements, visit WSU's Transfer Information Web page.)
Students must also fulfill the College of Arts and Sciences graduation requirements and the program requirements of the degree.
Required Courses:
(15 semester credits)
- Crm J 101 - Introduction to the Administration of Criminal Justice
- Crm J 201 - Introduction to Criminological Theory
- Crm J 330 - Crime Control Policies
- Crm J 320 – Criminal Law
Crm J 420 - Criminal Procedure
- Crm J 450 - Senior Seminar: Ethical Issues in Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice Institutions:
(6 semester credits; choose 2 courses)
- Crm J 365 - Juvenile Justice & Corrections
- Crm J 370 - Introduction to Policing in America
- Crm J 380 - Criminal Courts in America
- Crm J 385 - Institutional Corrections
Criminal Justice Electives:
(9 semester credits; choose 3 courses)
- Crm J 320 - Criminal Law
- Crm J 365 - Juvenile Justice & Corrections
- Crm J 370 - Introduction to Policing in America
- Crm J 380 - Criminal Courts in America
- Crm J 385 - Institutional Corrections
- Crm J 400 - Issues in the Administration of Criminal Justice
- Crm J 403 - Violence Toward Women
- Crm J 405 - Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
Political Science Electives:
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- Three 300/400 level Pol S electives
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- Psych 324 - Psychology of Women
- Psych 350 - Social Psychology
- Soc 361 - Criminology
- Soc 362 - Juvenile Delinquency
- Soc 384 - Sociology of Gender
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- Psych 311 - Elementary Statistics in Psychology
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- Foreign Language: Complete 2 years of high school or 1 year of college in a single foreign language
- Additional 3 semester credits of [SSCI,] [HUM], or [ARTS] for a total of 12 semester credits of UCORE.
- Additional 1 lab credit of [BSCI], [PSCI] for a total of 8 semester credits and 2 labs.
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There really is an intangible spirit. Great faculty and staff and great girls. It's a place where a girl can happily and comfortably blossom into a young woman, while getting a great education. I was super prepared for college and for life. Thanks GHS!
Girls High, is an institution that provides young women with the opportunity to gain a great H.S. education without having to worry about the pressures of boys. It cultivates young women to be leaders and to have a voice. Women are encouraged to excel in all aspects of their lives, from education to extra- curricular activities.
I loved my whole school experience at Girls' High. Graduating from there gave me a sense of pride like no other. Girls' High gave me an opportunity to meet a diverse group of people from all over the city. I also left with great memories from all of the events. I wouldn't change it for the world.
Girls High School is an amazing palce to learn and grow. The teachers become your best friends, and you are surrounded by women so very quickly become your sisters. Once you are apart of the GHS family, you never leave and you always have that support system to catch you when you fall.
I graduated from Girls High 5 years and it was such a great school. If you are looking for an excellent well-rounded education, Girls' High is THE school!
i'm an rising senior and i think for educational purposes i would recommend this school to any one, i have never felt so prepared to go to the next level in life.yet, if you think yu cant handle the pressure of constant homework, projects, major papers all year round, which sadly includes the summer, i do not recommend this school. it's extremely challanging with all classes being advanced and up but it's all worth it in the end. i have 23.25 credits and 23.5 is whats needed to graduate and i really only need to take one class to graduate. at girls high they still require you to obtain more knowlegde than needed to further advance you in life. so, that means no matter how many credits obtain, you still have to take the required 7 classes.and about the consuelors,they are great. they care,it's the student who needs to care more.
Girls High is a wonderful college prepratory school. I am now entering my second year at Girls and the environment is welcoming and helpful. There are many after school acticities available to all students and most of the staff is helpful and inviting. Although the new principle has changed alot about the school, it is still fun and challenging. I would recommend it to a young female who is serious about her future and ready to do alot of work.
girls high is excellent school and I recommend it to anyone...as a current student for the last 2 almost 3 years I know the environment and the overview of the teachers and principal and vice- principals. Girls high academically is a great college prepatorial school. The enivonment of the school as of the kids are very friendly and sometimes its hard being all females their are many emotions, but I would not say it is starting to become just like a regular public school. And yes some of the girls in the school are struggling some more than others but there is indeed great help in our school. And I feel that a new student cant judge a school from the first couple weeks of attending it...being as though we are in the process of a great transformation with our new principal. You just have to give it some time.
We were very proud when our daughter was accepted here, but she has been struggling and the counselors don't seem to want to be bothered. So sad
This is a great school for young women who are trying to figure themselves out. The overall view of the school is changing it is slowly becoming a regular public school without boys.
When it comes to education Girls High is #1. For the past four years i have gained knowledge on topics that my peers at other schools don't know. Yes this is a good school if you put your all into what you are learning.
School for girls is an awesome school for girls to learnand more girls sports too it's a great school for girls.
As a Girls High Girl, well now graduate, I can honestly say that attending such a great school like GHS has further me in so many more ways then I could have ever imagined! I am currently a student at WCU and too am on the Deans List there. Many of my college classmates that came from Philadelphia, have struggled to get through their first year, but for me, I felt I was fully prepared for college! Girls High is a great place for any girl to go and receive an education, but it's all about an individuals self-determination.
Girls High is an excellent school, my daughter graduated from there in 2004 and has been on the deans list at Howard University for the last 2 years. She left Girls High prepared for college, and I thank the staff that was there during her 3 years at this wonderful institution of learning. May all the Girls that graduate from Girls High continue their success in life that Girls have prepared you for.
Girls High is a wonderful school full of tremendous opportunities for girls. They have an outstanding academic, sports, and over all self growth history and any child that goes there is assure to have a wonderful and broadened future
Okay but not great. The quality of education at Girls is better than at most Philadelphia public high schools but lags far behind Masterman and Central. My daughter is a graduate and went on to complete an Ivy League undergraduate degree. She often complained about not being adequately prepared for a highly competitive college. Per her, the education here will take you through Temple, but you'd struggle at Penn. The school is underfunded. Many of the textbooks at the time of my daughter's attendance were over 20 years old. Teacher quality widely varied. The school's strengthes are diversity and its traditions.
Philadelphia High School for Girls provides young ladies an environment will they will grow academically and socially. There is a community within those walls that buzzez with high self-esteem and happiness. The number of etra-curricular activities surpasses many other schools in that district and that too helps to build the esteem within the learning environment. Graduates of Girls' High return to the school year after year to show current students that the 'Intangible Spirit' lives on. An all around Great School, Philadelphia High School for Girls' will build your daughter into the woman you want her to be.
Girls High is the premier high school in the city of Philadelphia, second only to Central. They continue to seek academically talented young women and maintain their standard of academic excellence, by offering a challenging college preparatory curriculum. In addition to academics, they offer the ability to play and excel in competitive sports, such as tennis, softball, basketball & field hockey to name a few. My daughter is a current freshman, 254, and I am looking forward to becoming actively involved in the PTDA, as they welcome and encourage parent support. It's good to know the faculty is willing to work with the parents, to ensure the student's success.
I think Girls High is a very good school. It challebges the girls to think of things they never thought of. I am a senior there and Girls High has really helped me think of ways to accomplish something without quiting. The teacher there really get along with the students and they are very helpful when questions are asked. Girls High has a tremendous amount of sports and activities. We have it all and the teachers that sponser these clubs are very very nice and cooperative. I think that girls high is the school to go to. Also parents have a big part in our learning and participation. They hold charities that we become part of and they help the teachers when help is needed.
I like it very much. The school is very interesting and you can learn alot from it. My daughter was a former student there and she excelled greatly. She was on the honor roll many times, she had excellent teachers working with her, and the school had an over all great staff.
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CK Press Box Report – Portland Trail Blazers 103, Sacramento Kings 86
The Kings lose their second game in a row with an undermanned roster.
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Farmers Home Administration and Small Business Administration Natural Disaster Loan Programs:
Budget Implications and Beneficiaries
CED-79-111: Published: Aug 6, 1979. Publicly Released: Sep 19, 1979.
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The Small Business Administration (SBA) disaster assistance loan volume increased from $200 million in 1977 to $2.5 billion during fiscal 1978, while Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) disaster assistance loans increased from $1.2 billion to $3.4 billion for the same period. The increase caused a severe impact on the SBA budget, but had little impact on the FmHA budget. Because a uniform factor for measuring disaster could not be found, GAO was unable to determine the correlation existing between disaster severity and the amount of loans made. Since FmHA has developed an expertise for dealing with farmers' unique needs, the need for SBA to make natural disaster assistance loans to farmers seems questionable.
In a review of a sampling of SBA and FmHA loans, GAO found that many loans went to borrowers who could get credit from other sources. A FmHA test to screen out those who could get credit elsewhere was ignored or received only cursory attention. Limiting the disaster assistance loans to borrowers unable to obtain credit from other sources could target the loans to disaster related needs. The recommendations in a 1978 GAO report concerning FmHA and SBA disaster assistance loan programs are still valid, because the problems that prompted them still exist. These recommendations are: to amend the Small Business Act so that SBA would no longer be authorized to make disaster loans to farmers; if the Small Business Act is not amended in this manner, Congress should require the two agencies to work together to achieve consistency; Congress should maintain the FmHA credit-elsewhere requirement and enact legislation to impose a similar requirement on the SBA program; and the Secretary of Agriculture should direct FmHA to propose legislation revising the agency's minnimum loss criteria. The Department of Agriculture has been reluctant to propose such legislation.
Matter for Congressional Consideration
Status: Closed
Comments: Please call 202/512-6100 for additional information.
Matter: It is recommended that Congress strengthen the criteria in the FmHA program in the manner described in the previous GAO report. The Congress needs to take this action if it wishes to restrict disaster loans to the amount of loss that exceeds drops in farm income in 1 year that would normally be expected in a farm operation. Further, if SBA continues to make disaster assistance loans to farmers, the Congress should also establish in this program the same minimum loss eligibility criteria.
Recommendation for Executive Action
Status: Closed
Comments: Please call 202/512-6100 for additional information.
Recommendation: The Secretary of Agriculture should direct the FmHA Administrator to clarify FmHA's test for credit elsewhere for all county supervisors and review all disaster assistance loans made in fiscal year 1978 for possible referral to other credit sources.
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — The popular Soulard Farmers Market in St. Louis could be in for some changes, and not everybody is happy about it.
The city of St. Louis runs the 232-year-old market, located about halfway between Busch Stadium and the Anheuser-Busch brewery. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the city is sensing an opportunity for change.
Not everyone believes change is good. Many Soulard customers and vendors worry that modernizing the market might cleanse it of its gritty old soul.
Earlier this year, the city convened a steering committee and hired a consulting firm to conduct a $250,000 survey on how best to improve the market and make it more current and competitive.
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How can a state or city tax residents for buying an item somewhere else?
It seems like it would be difficult, but the state and most municipalities already do that by collecting a "use tax," usually the same rate as the local sales tax, on items that are used within their borders but purchased online or in another location that doesn't charge sales tax.
Gilbert's Town Council is considering adopting a use tax, while some in the business community try to figure out exactly what it is and how it works.
"I heard them talking about it at a council meeting, and I wasn't quite grasping it," Gilbert Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Kathy Langdon said Tuesday.
She said the chamber has invited Town Manager George Pettit to come and talk to the chamber board about the use tax, and she might then decide whether or not to endorse it.
Arizona Department of Revenue spokesman Dan Zemke said the state generally collects a use tax from major retailers on large purchases such as automobiles and appliances, either through self-reporting or audits. The state use tax rate is set at 5.6 percent, the same as the state sales tax.
But there are people who send checks and receipts into the DOR on their own.
"There are quite a few who do - not a huge number, but quite a few do," he said.
Arizona collected $303 million in state use tax during fiscal 2007, Zemke said, down from $306 million in fiscal 2006. Cities and towns collect their own use tax unless, like Gilbert, they rely on the state for all sales tax collection.
A discussion of Gilbert's proposed use tax ordinance was on the agenda for Tuesday night's Town Council meeting, with a final vote scheduled for Sept. 8. The only other East Valley city that doesn't currently levy a use tax is Apache Junction.
Town Councilman Dave Crozier said earlier Tuesday, "It appears that we really are the outlier on this compared to other communities, and on the other hand, business and industry is struggling right now, and I'm really very hesitant to do anything that might add to their trials and tribulations."
The ordinance, based on the League of Arizona Cities and Towns' model tax code, would create a 1.5 percent use tax, to be assessed on any items purchased by a Gilbert resident or business in a transaction that did not involve sales tax - unless it can be proved that the item isn't actually being used in Gilbert.
Tom Belshe, deputy director of the League of Arizona Cities and Towns, said the philosophy behind use tax has to do with wear and tear on city infrastructure. "Especially when it applies to cars, the reasoning is if I'm driving a car on the streets within the city limits, I am causing a lot of infrastructure costs, and sales tax is one of the things that helps us provide infrastructure for that car," he said.
While used-car lots on the edge of town may have been use taxes' original target, the growth of online commerce over the last 10 years has greatly expanded the number of transactions it could theoretically be applied to.
Actually doing that is a different matter.
Craig Carnahan, who in May moved his Cybergear business from Gilbert to Mesa because he felt Gilbert wasn't doing enough for small business, said any state or city's collection of use tax is very hit-and-miss. "Maybe two-thirds of the people that know about the use tax actually pay it, and a heck of a lot of them don't know about it," he said.
Brownie Connection owner Margo Fees, whose business sells baked goods online to customers worldwide, said she already charges those customers sales tax, and no one has ever complained about it.
She added that consumers in today's economy aren't exactly appreciative of facing any new costs as they cut back on spending, and town officials should consider doing the same.
"Maybe they should go back and tighten up their spending, get rid of extra people or whatever," she said. "Don't pass it on to business, big or small."
Belshe said that despite the difficulty some have in understanding and enforcing a use tax, the idea doesn't usually kick up a lot of controversy.
"There are other taxes that are more unpopular, like property tax," he said.


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Win 7 Network Map blocked on 32 bit Pro
Does anyone know why one [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]laptop[/COLOR][/COLOR] cannot be placed in the Win 7 network map? The troubled machine is running Win 7 Pro, 32 bit, and has the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) enabled in the wireless adapter.
View from [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]Asus[/COLOR][/COLOR] P8P67 running Win 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Here is the view from Dell 17R wireless Laptop running Win 7 Home Premium 64 bit
And last here is the view from the problem PC a Dell 1501 wireless laptop running Win 7 Pro 32 bit - NOTE BIG ? IN MAP, PC name is 'KATHIEW7LAPTOP'
I have home network setup and can see the shared folders from each to the other. I do not share printers because my printers are all networked through the router. The P4S8X-X shown is an old Win XP machine that I loaded the LLTD (Link Layer Topology Discovery and installed through a very complicated procedure in the CMD window. All machines are running AVAST anti-virus.
It is not a big deal that this network map will not work, but a irritant that I have something setup differently on the 32 bit laptop than I don on the 64 bit laptop. I sat the two PCs next to each other and checked all the settings in the Control Panel Network Setup and cannot find the difference. The firewall setting are all identical, although I did not go through the extensive list of outbound and inbound rules. The view on the problem PC shows a big question mark between the Dell 1501 and the router and I have no clue what it is. It is connected wirelessly just like the other laptop, which shows up just fine. COULD IT BE THE 32 BIT O/S?
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Do you have IPv6 enabled on the troubled Win 7 machine? Maybe try disabling that and rebooting. See if that helps.
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|02 Feb 2013
Yesiree - that fixed it
Will there come a time in the near future when we all will have to go to IPv6?
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|02 Feb 2013
Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
I don't recommend disabling IPv6 for any reason.
The Argument against Disabling IPv6
It is unfortunate that some organizations disable IPv6 on their computers running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, where it is installed and enabled by default. Many disable IPv6-based on the assumption that they are not running any applications or services that use it. Others might disable it because of a misperception that having both IPv4 and IPv6 enabled effectively doubles their DNS and Web traffic. This is not true.
From Microsoft's perspective, IPv6 is a mandatory part of the Windows operating system and it is enabled and included in standard Windows service and application testing during the operating system development process. Because Windows was designed specifically with IPv6 present, Microsoft does not perform any testing to determine the effects of disabling IPv6. If IPv6 is disabled on Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, or later versions, some components will not function. Moreover, applications that you might not think are using IPv6—such as Remote Assistance, HomeGroup, DirectAccess, and Windows Mail—could be.
Therefore, Microsoft recommends that you leave IPv6 enabled, even if you do not have an IPv6-enabled network, either native or tunneled. By leaving IPv6 enabled, you do not disable IPv6-only applications and services (for example, HomeGroup in Windows 7 and DirectAccess in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 are IPv6-only) and your hosts can take advantage of IPv6-enhanced connectivity.
Read more. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/m....cableguy.aspx
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