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I would like to list some really great angel books I run across and also do a mini-review on them and I would ask other's to also do the same thing here, but please keep your post's to only angel book reviews or questions about the books... etc.... or just discussing the book's in a general sense. Rather than a review of the book, you can also just tell stories about how the book worked for you or what you thought of it. If anyone would like to add their stories of the Tom Moore books, that's fine too, even though we discuss MBO's in another thread. One book I have been working with for a while is called "Angel First Aid: remedies for Life, love and Prosperity" by Sue Storm. This book has a fantastic amount of very simple exercises in it where you call out to a particular angel by name such as Tyler the angel of abundance or Evelyn the angel of manifesting and ask them to help you with a particular exercise. The book has an amazing amount of different exercises which are mostly visualizations, but also include other techniques, to help you with a particular area you want help in such as prosperity or bring more money into your life. I love to do one exercise called "money magnet" (page 115) where you're asked to call in the angel of abundance Tyler and then see him extending his hand and sending out a magnetic beam of light that comes into your body making you a.... mighty money magnet! I did this exercise for about 5 min. or so and later on that day found a 5 dollar bill in the street. I often find all sorts of small change too.... everywhere. I've also had more 5 dollar finds on other days.... so this exercise DOES work and it's nice to have an angel help you with your particular exercise, since you're not going it alone. I highly recommend this book for anyone wishing to increase their wealth or love life, or even get help in other areas, such as relationships, family, health, success, business, spirituality. Last edited by AngelPsychic444; 04-15-2011 at 07:34 PM. |
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On Wednesday, Democratic Rep. Sandy Levin of Michigan announced that he is preparing legislation that would require presidential candidates to make public 10 years of tax returns and disclose overseas accounts. In a statement, Levin said he would introduce the bill in the coming weeks in response to Romney's refusal to release more than two years of returns.
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- Since the Romneys paid no penalty despite their underpayment of estimated taxes for 2010, their 2009 income tax must have been under $1,245,000, less than half of what he paid for 2010. Assuming their investment return on their $200 million net-worth was only half that of the S&P500 for 2009, their federal tax rate was under 5% of their investment returns and income that year.
See alot more analysis of Romney's tax rate at http://fairsharetaxes.org. There's also a crackerjack proposal for fundamental reform of all our tax laws ... that would save middle-class and working-poor thousands every year, fix the distortions that are destroying our economy and the American Dream, increase spending to education, infrastructure, and the environment and and eliminate the federal deficit. - reply
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- I get a federal tax rate of 6% for Mr. Romney if you take his unrealized capital gains into account.
Here's the math. He is estimated to have a fortune of $190-250million, let's say $200M. In 2010 the S&P500 went up 15%. He's claims to be such a astute business man, I'm sure he equalled that in his capital gains, but lets be conservative and say his fortune grew 15%. That's $30 in capital gains. From reports, he had no significant capital gains (other than from partnerships) on his return, meaning they are not cashed in, not "realized", not taxable. It's easy for him to let these gains grow tax-free, since he had $21M in other income that year, plenty to live off of. Add the $30M to the $22M taxable income and you get him $52M ahead for 2010. He paid $3M in taxes. 3M/52M=6%. His social security tax from his "business" on his total income and investment gains was 0.05%, a rate 100-200 fold less than a minimum-wage worker pays. Add in all his other taxes ... state, local, sales taxes and I'm sure it would come to under 10%.
Little wonder the top 1% now how 40% of the nation's wealth, up from 22% 30 years ago, when Reagan started cutting taxes on the wealthy. The bottom 50% hold less than 1% of the nation's wealth. Here's why:
Consider typical 64 year-old widow living off a $15,000 pension or a minimum-wage full worker making $15,000. Once you add together all their taxes (Social Security, sales, gas, and property taxes), they pay over 30% of their income in taxes, leaving them about $830 a month to live on after-taxes. What a country.
To see much more on our corrupt tax system, the spreadsheets, the damaging effects on our economy, and the simple solution see Fair share taxes: http://fairsharetaxes.org - reply
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- And now we're learning that even those 2010 records are apparently NOT complete...
• Mr. Romney's 2010 Tax Return is MISSING some documents including key documentation connected to his Swiss bank account.
• That people who own foreign bank accounts are required to file a separate document with the IRS that provides additional details on such overseas bank holdings, and Romney has not released that form to the public.
• That Romney's tax statement, as presented, is missing a crucial form: The Report on Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, or "FBAR."
Apparently, if you want to BEAT the IRS, hey: get a Swiss account!
Now, there's concern that "by serving as a curtain between Romney's U.S. accounts and his foreign holdings, Romney's Swiss account could shield many financial activities from American scrutiny."
Maybe Romney just CANNOT afford to release his Taxes after all!!!
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- Mittens has had months to lay out what he will do for the country, we the people are still waiting! This man is an embarassment to the United States.
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- And they could not see the sucker punch coming---Republicans are shoving each other out of the way to get a poke in on Romney about his tax returns and everyone else just didn't see the sucker punch coming?
Expect that the 2011 tax return that Romney has accountants shaping around for release will show a man paying more than his share---you can't go to jail for paying too much, you know. It will be designed to buy him the presidency and make those calling him a tax dodger look like fools. Supposed critics in his own party will say Mitt is a giant of a man; even they did not know just how big.
A for seeing returns from back when he was pocketing money from melting down companies and leaving people without a means of making a living, he can expect everyone to now trust him.
Trusting Mitt Romney in the dark is a bit like a neighborhood association giving the job of night fire-watch to an arsonist---doing that would not be the kind of decision you would want to sleep on soundly. - reply
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- I think that his refusing to release any more info just makes the honest American people ask the question "Why not?" Nobody is accusing Mittens of anything but his OWN actions certainally make things seem suspicious. Good grief, if you have nothing to hide you should not mind disclosure. I feel the same way about being asked to prove you are in our country legally. If you have nothing to hide why would you mind being asked to show your papers?? It reminds me of when my son was little. He got caught taking a cookie from the cookie jar. When I asked "What are you doing?" He answered "Nothing" and put both hands behind his back. I said "Show me your hands please". He held out the right one (keeping the left behind his back) to show it was empty. I said "Now the other one" and he put the right one behind his back and pulled out the left to show me. If he had been truly innocent he would have showed me both his hands at once. Of course he got caught (as will Romney) and told to put the cookie back. If I get pulled over by a cop and am asked to search my veichle, my answer is "No problem" because I know I have nothing to hide in my vehicle. The more somebody takes offense at being asked for disclosure, the more it makes you think that they really do have something to hide. Mr. Romney, "Me thinks thou doest protest a little too much"!
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- The National Review and Rick Perry agree with you.
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- People want to see his tax returns because the guy says he created jobs! Let's see how much he made from creating them and what he will do to create more...What he did with his earnings? What kind of mind set he has about money and what he would do with the tax payers money? I don't think this is asking to much...
Asking the American people to forget this point and move on, is asking too much! This man wants to POTUS and we want to see why he should be!
Anyone but Obama doesn't fly with Independents! The GOP want to play hard ball..ID cards removing (none of the above) from Nevada ballots...Desperate and embarrassing...I am pissed that that he is an option! How stupid do you think we are...
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- "The American people are asking where are the jobs. They're not asking where the hell the tax returns are," Boehner said.
That's very funny coming from a party which tries to pass only two kinds of bills: 1) Those rolling back "Obamacare" and 2) Those restricting abortion and access to contraception. - reply
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- inhalin - But they DO want to restrict access to it! Planned Parenthood deals a LOT with contraception. But the GOP keeps trying to defund them - and Romney supports their efforts! Take that away and a lot of low-income women suddenly have a problem getting it.
And of course, if you listen to a GOP stalwart they make PP out to be all about abortions.
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- You just happen NOT to mention the 6 budgets & 28 job bills passed by the house only to sit in the senate never to have been brought up for a vote.
If transparency is your real concern, what about obama's curriculum & grades from the Madrassa through Harvard? How about his Executive Privilege in the Fast & Furious botched gun running scandal? Or the 62% of all the beneficiaries of the Stimulus I & II that were obama bundlers, a little cronyism at taxpayer expense?
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- While Senator Levin is at it, he should include in his proposed bill that ALL politicians, including Senators and Representatives release their tax and financial information if for no other reason than to see if any of them are profiting from legislation they are involved with.
Getting back to the subject at hand....Romney himself said if he releases any more tax information, it would be like, "... handing ammunition to the Democrats." This must be pretty damaging stuff if Romney himself categorizes it as "ammunition."
If he ( Romney ), really wants to make this campaign about the economy and creating jobs, he stands a greater chance of getting back to that agenda if he releases this information. A good question for all to ask is why isn't he willing to do that so he CAN return to the message he wants to get out there ? So far, his reluctance is not telling the American people that he won't be pressured into doing this by the Democrats, but that he does indeed have something to hide....and that can be disastrous for a politician seeking elective office....especially the office of President. - reply
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- Exactly! He wouldn't call it ammunition if he didn't think there was damning stuff in there. And when even GOP'rs are calling for him to come clean, it's clear that he's backing himself into a corner.
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- after 4 years, OBAMA POLICES GIVES US 25 MILLION UNEMPLOYED Americans.
The obama Job Council has not met in 6 months now,
and it looks like CBS just wants to Talk about old Tax returns
and NOT Jobless PEOPLE, or the reason why -- Interesting...! - reply
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- Tax returns topic how pathetic, you are right on! Ready these comments really makes me believe that there are many morons...
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- What's he afraid of, that Americans will find out he's investing offshore instead of here in the U.S., therefore creating jobs offshore and not here. If he is so much on jobs here in the U.S., then why is he investing offshore? That's where your 25 million jobs went, guys like romney that don't invest in the U.S.


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This year marks the 224th anniversary of the signing of our Constitution.
Take a moment today to ponder the founding principles of our nation and the ways in which our nation was built on freedom and democracy. We should ask ourselves if the nation we live in today is one that our founders would have been proud of.
After the Revolutionary War, having recently won independence, our nation was young and eager to grow.
However, it was a far cry from the United States we see today. Rather, our nation consisted of 13 uniquely individual colonies with their own sets of laws, agendas, and even currencies. States enforced these laws, collected taxes, and regulated trade on their own terms.
So while the United States did exist prior to the ratification of the Constitution, it was a nation held together by the feeble threads of the Articles of Confederation and an often ineffectual national government.
Leading statesmen, such as George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, spearheaded a movement to strengthen the Articles of Confederation; little did they know, their idea would be the impetus for one of the greatest governing documents ever to exist -our own Constitution.
The most detailed account of the meetings of the Constitutional Convention includes all discussions and is attributed to James Madison's meticulous note taking. The journal that he kept during the Constitutional Convention was kept secret until after his death. It was later purchased by the government in 1837 at a price of $30,000 and published in 1840.
Madison's journal makes for interesting reading click here to view it online.
Incidentally, Madison was the only delegate to attend every meeting.
On May 25, 1787, the Convention formally opened in Independence Hall. Twelve states had responded to the call for the Convention. Rhode Island had refused to send delegates because it did not want a national government interfering with Rhode Island's affairs. Of the fifty-five delegates who attended the convention, 34 were lawyers, eight were signers of the Declaration of Independence and almost half were Revolutionary War veterans.
The remaining members were planters, educators, ministers, physicians, financiers, judges and merchants.
Representatives crafted a document that was the result of dozens of compromises and shaped by the failures of the Articles of Confederation, as well as the failures of all well-known European governments of the time. The delegates were involved in debate from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. six days a week with only a 10 day break during the duration of the convention. After 4 months, their work was finally done.
One of our most studied founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, or, Dr. Franklin as they called him, is often portrayed as one of the key deist figures in the framing of our nation. It is therefore surprising to learn that it was actually Franklin who called for the inclusion of a daily chaplain during the Constitutional Convention.
Franklin called for God's intervention in their hearts and minds as they dealt with the weighty, heated nature of the task at hand. Unfortunately, the request for a daily chaplain was voted down due to a shortage in their budget (yes, even our founding father's dealt with budget issues). In a future newsletter, I will look at some of the examples of biblical principles woven into our nation's highest law.
The Constitution established not merely a league of states, but a government that exercised its limited authority directly over all citizens. The Constitution protects the rights of every individual and defines the powers delegated to the national government.
In a mere 4,400 words, the U.S. Constitution documented the design of the greatest nation on the face of the earth. It is the oldest and shortest written Constitution of any major government in the world.
The oldest person to sign the Constitution was Benjamin Franklin (81 years old). Because of his poor health, Benjamin Franklin required assistance to sign the Constitution. The youngest signer was Jonathan Dayton of New Jersey (26 years old). George Washington and James Madison were the only Presidents to sign the Constitution.
On December 7, 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify on January 1, 1788. On March 24, 1788, Rhode Island held a popular referendum on the Constitution, and it failed by a vote of 237 to 2708.
By June 21st of that year, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify and the Constitution met the minimum number of states required ratify under Article VII. Ultimately, all thirteen original states ratified the Constitution--even Rhode Island finally ratified it on May 29, 1790.
The new government went into effect on March 4, 1789. On November 26 of that year, by congressional resolution and proclamation by President George Washington, our first official Thanksgiving Day was celebrated to give "thanks" for our new Constitution.
On September 25, 1789, Congress passed the first ten Amendments as a group known as our Bill of Rights. By December 15, 1791, three-fourths of the states had ratified the Bill of Rights. Incidentally, Georgia did not ratify the Bill of Rights until March 18, 1939---almost 148 years later.
While many arguments envelop our nation today on the issues of immigration and even the languages spoken in our classrooms, perhaps it's important to note that the only other language used in various parts of the Constitution is Latin.
Currently, all four hand-written pages are displayed at the National Archives behind protective glass framed with titanium. To maintain the parchment's quality, the cases contain an inert gas, argon, and are kept at 67 degrees Fahrenheit with a relative humidity of 40 percent to ensure that future generations are able to view our Constitution--or you can simply download a copy to your smart-phone with the Pocket Constitution App.
However you choose to view the Constitution, take a moment on National Constitution Day to remind yourself of the liberties and freedoms afforded to us by our founding fathers. The challenge to preserve the freedom and liberty our founders envisioned for us is huge.


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UCStrategies.com defines unified communications as "Communications integrated to optimize business processes." The definition of unified communications narrows significantly when you can read and hear about real-world examples that other companies are implementing right now—and apply them to your situation.
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This week the UCStrategies Experts discuss wireless devices. The conversation is moderated by UCStrategies' mobility expert Michael Finneran, and includes Marty Parker, Dave Michels, and Kevin Kieller.
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The UCStrategies Experts take a look at the consolidation going on in unified communications; some of the surprising mergers from the recent past, and what to look for on the horizon. Don Van Doren moderates this Industry Buzz podcast, and is joined by Marty Parker, Jon Arnold, Steve Leaden, Dave Michels, Michael Finneran, and Blair Pleasant.
In this Industry Buzz podcast moderated by Jim Burton, the UCStrategies Experts deliver their impressions of Enterprise Connect 2013, held March 17-20 in Orlando. The discussion includes Blair Pleasant, Marty Parker, Phil Edholm, Don Van Doren, Michael Finneran, Steve Leaden, Kevin Kieller, and Art Rosenberg.
Mike Lauricella from Plivo discusses how Plivo makes it easy for customers to build applications such as conferencing solutions leveraging WebRTC.
In a special Industry Buzz podcast previewing Enterprise Connect 2013, the UCStrategies Experts use new conferencing technology that will be demonstrated at next week's event. The partnership between Dolby and BT Conferencing aims to transform the user experience around conferencing with spatial audio. (Use a stereo headset or stereo speakers to experience the full effect.) Jim Burton moderates the podcast, and welcomes guests Andrew Border, Vice President of Dolby Voice, and Daniel Edwards, Vice President of Marketing for BT Conferencing. Also taking up virtual positions around the conference table in today's conversation are UCStrategies Experts Don Van Doren, Jon Arnold, Michael Finneran, Marty Parker, Dave Michels, Steve Leaden, Phil Edholm, and Art Rosenberg.
In this Industry Buzz podcast, UCStrategies addresses the recent decision by Yahoo! to rescind the option for its employees to work from home. Phil Edholm moderates the conversation, which includes UCStrategies Experts Marty Parker, Dave Michels, Don Van Doren, Art Rosenberg, Jon Arnold, and Steve Leaden.
Microsoft held it first Lync conference, Lync Conference 2013, February 19-21 in San Diego. In this Industry Buzz podcast, the UCStrategies Experts discuss some of the announcements that came out of the event, from both Microsoft and its competitors. Dave Michels moderates, and is joined by Marty Parker, Kevin Kieller, Michael Finneran, Blair Pleasant, Steve Leaden, Don Van Doren, Phil Edholm, and Art Rosenberg.
Genesys' Lisa Abbott and Chris Doyle demo Genesys Connect for Salesforce Service Cloud and how to use templates to apply business logic in contact center to route inbound calls.
Ray Pasquale gives an overview of Unified Office, a next gen-managed service provider aimed at providing premise and cloud solutions for SMBs.
In this Industry Buzz podcast, Blair Pleasant, Orrin Broberg, Jon Arnold, Jim Burton, Michael Finneran, Marty Parker, Paul Robinson, Steve Leaden, Don Van Doren, Phil Edholm, Dave Michels, Art Rosenberg, Kevin Kieller, Jay Brandstadter, Russell Bennett, Samantha Kane, Jason Andersson,
At IBM Connect 2013, Amy Ewing, Marketing Manager of IBM, discusses the shift from unified communications to social communications and the value of integrating IBM Connections and IBM Sametime.
Ramsey Pryor, Product Marketing Social Business Cloud, explains IBM's "cloud first" initiative and IBM SmartCloud for Social Business.
In this Industry Buzz podcast, the UCStrategies Experts welcome representatives from Blackberry (formerly RIM) to discuss the new Blackberry 10 product line. Dave Michels moderates the conversation, which includes Experts Steve Leaden, Michael Finneran, Marty Parker, Jim Burton, Phil Edholm, and Art Rosenberg. Guests from Blackberry include Chris Wright, Director of Channel Accounts; Ajay Malhan, Technical Solutions Manager; and John Cash of Enterprise Accounts.
In this Industry Buzz podcast, the team welcomes Eric Kintz, SVP and General Manager, Logitech for Business, to discuss "hard phones, soft phones, and everything in between." Dave Michels moderates the podcast, and is joined by UCStrategies Experts Jim Burton, Blair Pleasant, Marty Parker, Phil Edholm, Art Rosenberg, Don Van Doren, and Steve Leaden.
The Consumer Electronics Show was held January 8-11 in Las Vegas. In this UCStrategies podcast, the UC Experts take a look at some of the products introduced at the show in respect to advances in unified communications. The discussion is moderated by Dave Michels, and also includes Phil Edholm, Art Rosenberg, Michael Finneran, Marty Parker, and Jim Burton.
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First thing after getting home from work, take off those shoes and soak those tired tootsies in a hot foot bath with a few drops of peppermint essential oil. Peppermint is tops on the list of essential oils to use for feet as it not only cools, but refreshes and eliminates any kooties that may be clinging to your skin.
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Redskins' Cooley tried to get 'beer' clause into contract: report
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The 30-year-old Cooley, who signed with Washington earlier this week after tight end Fred Davis suffered a season-ending Achilles injury against the Giants, tried to get the Redskins front office to include a case of beer in his contract before agreeing to the deal.
"Literally, I have text correspondence trying to negotiate a case of beer into my contract," Cooley told the Sports Junkies on 106.7 FM. "They wouldn't do it. I wanted it in writing so much."
Cooley, who has played in Washington for his entire nine-year career, was cut by the Redskins before the start of the season due to salary issues. The former Pro Bowl tight end was due $4 million this season and was not viewed as the starter after the emergence of Davis over the past two seasons.
The contract, which did not include a case of beer, was contingent on Cooley passing a physical. The tight end laughed off the notion that he would not pass the team's physical due to being out of shape or the after-effects of a knee injury that limited him to five games in 2011.
"I've had so many people text, 'How'd the physical go?'" Cooley said. "Literally, you go into the training room, and the doctor's like 'How are you feeling, man? Good? Good. Okay, you passed.'
"I'm healthy. My knees not swollen; I'm not overweight. I'm sure if I was a fat slob when I walked in there yesterday, someone would be like, 'Hey, let's run a little bit.' But I'm in good shape right now."
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WORDS: Jack Thurston | PHOTOS: Wig Worland
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By the third night, the roads are strewn with bodies. "It looks as though a serial killer has been on the loose, wantonly slaying cyclists and laying their bodies in a ritual manner at the side of the road," says Kieron Yates, slurring into an audio recorder he carried while riding the 1,230km from Paris to the western tip of Brittany and back, in the company of the world's toughest cyclists. "Occasionally they are covered with bin liners or a bit of matting, a silver survival blanket, as though a generous member of the public wanted to hide the bodies from the view of the other passing cyclists."
The bodies are laid out on verges and pavements, in front gardens and parking lots, utterly exhausted cyclists who have finally given in to the overpowering urge to rest, to close their eyes and slip into unconsciousness. Yates, himself wired and fatigued, has drawn the obvious parallel: sleep and death are brothers, two takes on oblivion, each a simulacrum of the other. Sleep, the essential, quotidian negation of consciousness. Death, the final, inescapable and infinite sleep, the negation of life.
"When you start to feel that you're actually falling asleep while riding; that's when your tiredness is becoming dangerous," says Pete Kelsey of the Willesden Cycling Club, tackling his first Paris-Brest-Paris. "That's when you need to get off the bike, find some shelter – a park bench, any flat surface – and set your alarm for fifteen minutes. I wouldn't normally find myself sprawled out at three o'clock in the morning on a garage forecourt, but you've entered a parallel universe and it seems normal… but it's not normal."
It is very far from normal. Wig Worland's photographic account lays bare the nihilistic qualities of PBP, an almost unimaginably arduous journey through a featureless landscape of dull, rolling farmland (with over 9,000 metres of climbing, it is by no means flat) that ends where it begins. You have to ask the question: what kind of person subjects themselves to a race like this? What is going on in their exhausted, sleep-deprived minds? Motivations are hard to fathom and every rider is different, but there is something that unites them all: it is about going to the limit, and then some, but coming out alive. Which is greater, the mental challenge or the physical? After all the body can be trained to perform, but can the mind be trained to suffer?
On December 28, 1963, a 17-year-old Californian high school student by the name of Randy Gardner was the subject of a sleep deprivation experiment. He was also going for a new World Record for staying awake, setting a target of 264 hours, or eleven days. It remains unbroken as the longest documented case of staying awake. By the second day Randy was experiencing difficulty focusing his eyes. By the fourth, he had become irritable, suffered memory lapses, slurred speech and found it impossible to concentrate. He began to see things that weren't there. Five days into his marathon of sleeplessness, he became convinced he was an NFL player and would get agitated with anyone who disputed this. By the ninth day Gardner was unable to finish his sentences, lost all facial expression and developed hand tremors and involuntary jerks in his upper arms. Keep laboratory rats awake for a fortnight and they will die. That could be why the Guinness World Records no longer accepts sleep deprivation attempts due to the health risks involved.
Sleep deprivation impairs the functioning of the frontal lobe, the part of the brain where much of our humanity resides. The frontal lobe gives us our powers of reason, memory, self-awareness, empathy, language, innovation, and critically when riding a bicycle at speed, the ability to do multiple things at the same time and to assess risks and react appropriately.
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Damien Breen
2nd December 2011 09:26pm
Amazingly I must have been standing right next to Wig Worland when he took the second picture above. This is my shot:
It was taken at Brest, the half way point in the ride. He was part of the leading group of riders, and this is the first time they actually stopped for any significant length of time in 600km (and that was only for 10-15mins at the most). He looked totally cooked and was getting plenty of attention from his support crew with massages and eye drops… I only hope it helped.
James Fairbank
4th December 2011 06:04pm
Loved your piece on PBP Damien (http://tinyurl.com/3nwfy27) It was really interesting to see it from the perspective of someone at the sharp end. Chris was still floating around when Phil & I finished, to hear the response "44 hours" to the question "How long did it take?" was mind-blowing…
Great site too by the way. (www.in-the-saddle.com)
Damien Breen
5th December 2011 02:31pm
Thanks James. P-B-P was a bit of a crazy experience, and I wasn't even riding! But I've got huge respect for everyone who took part - just completing that distance is a mind boggling achievement.
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HOME INVASION INVESTIGATIONfrom Eyewitness News Online Deputies Exploring Possible Links From Similar Incidents To Pinch Home Invasion Reported by: Leslie Rubin Videographer: Troy Morgan/John Tincher/Leslie Rubin Web Producer: Jeff Morris Reported: Feb. 28, 2013 5:01 PM EST Updated: Mar. 1, 2013 3:30 PM EST
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Kanawha County sheriff's deputies said they continue to investigate the home invasion in which a 74-year-old woman was seriously injured and are exploring possible links to similar incidents in the area. Deputies are evaluating evidence and interviewing neighbors and those with possible information regarding the home invasion robbery that occurred Thursday on Miller Drive in Pinch, according to a news release from the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office. Investigators believe it is possible the victim, who remains in serious but stable condition, opened a door through which the suspects entered the residence. They also believe more than one person committed the crime. Stay tuned to Eyewitness News for updates on this story. An elderly woman is in the hospital with very serious injuries and another man is recovering after fighting off several men from entering his home. Kanawha County deputies say a 74-year-old woman was found unresponsive in her home on Church Road in Pinch, Thursday afternoon. Eyewitness News has uncovered details that suggest this woman may not be the only target of these violent criminals. "Always in the back of my mind, now I'm going to think, 'okay where are they? Are they coming back?'" says Frank Mace. He's bruised and shaken up but ready to tell his story exclusively to Eyewitness News. He's still reliving the nightmare that unfolded in his home on Mace Street in Pinch early Thursday morning. "I remember thinking, f they get in my house. I won't be here tomorrow to tell this story," he says. Mace says around 12:30 a.m., two men wearing baggy clothes and bandanas covering their faces tried to kick his door down. They busted out his windows with a crow bar, and even vandalized his car, but they weren't able to get inside. Mace struggled to keep the two men out, and at one point, the door flung back and gashed his head open, causing him to get nine stitches. "Knowing that I have grandchildren that I want to see raised was helping me keep the adrenaline going so that I could do what I was able to do, because two strong young men trying to get in my house. I thought 'that's not going to happen,'" he says. Now, news that an elderly woman was found beaten and unresponsive in her home just two streets over, has Mace thinking it was the same people who attacked him. Kanawha County deputies say the victim's daughter hadn't been able to make contact with her all day and went to check on her around 3:00 p.m. on Thursday. Inside, the home was ransacked, and the elderly woman was near death. "I live and have lived on the same street my entire life never thinking that anything like this could ever happen to me," says Mace. Now deputies are left piecing together two crime scenes, as an entire community is fearful they could strike again. The elderly woman is in serious but stable condition. Her name is not being released at this time. Deputies are still working to see if the two crimes are connected. Authorities said the 74-year-old woman was found unresponsive by her daughter around 3 p.m. Thursday. Paramedics were called to the home, and they determined it to be a crime scene. The woman was taken to CAMC General where she is listed in serious condition. Authorities said a woman was seriously injured in a home invasion in Pinch. The incident happened Thursday on Miller Road. The victim was taken to an area hospital. Authorities said the suspect is still being sought. Stay tuned to Eyewitness News for updates. MORE NEWS FROM EYEWITNESS NEWS
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In the Wall Street Journal today, reporter James Areddy investigates why China's glass industry is booming. And as a sign of just how ubiquitous imports of Chinese glass have become, he explains that the Toledo Museum of Art's $30 million Glass Pavilion (intended as a symbol of America's "Glass City") was actually imported from China. File that under "Disappointing but true." China massively subsidizes its domestic glass industry. In fact, a 2009 study conducted by Dr. Usha Haley for the Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) found that China's glass manufacturers received roughly $30 billion in government subsidies between 2004-2008. This sort of massive subsidization helps explain such disheartening stories as why the new World Trade Center, currently under construction, will be using blast-resistant glass manufactured in China. Read more about China's subsidies for its glass industry. Read the full article in the Wall Street Journal. ##
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As Professor Geddes's paper says, Sarbanes-Oxley was intended to protect investors. The theory was that having "lost confidence," they were crying out for political action. We know Sarbanes-Oxley was very popular at the time among politicians. The Senate vote was 97 to nothing, and in the House there were only three votes against. So it's clear what the politicians thought.
It's a very good idea to measure, as this paper does, what investors in the aggregate were thinking, and in particular, what they were thinking about small firms. As the paper points out, these firms often compete on flexibility, as opposed to large scale operations. So as the investors in stocks in general, and in small stocks in particular, were watching the politicians pass Sarbanes-Oxley, were they saying to themselves, "Oh boy, I'm going to be better protected," so bid up the price of the stocks, and of small stocks in particular? Or were they saying, "Oh no, it looks like this will unleash a host of cost and bureaucracy, which will reduce the value of my investment?"
The paper is pretty clear that it was the latter. The market didn't like political events that made Sarbanes-Oxley more likely, and small firms were even more negatively affected in this investor behavior than large firms. So, the second view, "Oh no, looks like I'm going to get a lot of cost and bureaucracy," is consistent with the observed stock price behavior.
We now know, after the fact, with five years experience, that Sarbanes-Oxley did indeed unleash a host of expense, paperwork and bureaucracy, and this disproportionately affects small firms. So it looks like the pessimistic ex-ante investor reactions the paper measures have turned out to be correct. It makes me think of a line from the Declaration of Independence which says, in the bill of particulars against King George III, "He has sent hither swarms of officers to harass the people and eat out their substance." You might say analogously about Sarbanes-Oxley that it has sent hither swarms of accountants to harass the people and eat out their substance.
After the fact, as I say, virtually everybody now agrees that Sarbanes-Oxley unintentionally created a lot of unproductive cost, paperwork and bureaucracy, and that something should be done about it. The SEC and the PCAOB are changing their regulations to try to reduce the excess costs. That's good. Some people think that regulatory change should be and would be enough. I think we should have reform legislation in addition to it. But that's another issue.
Consider a fundamental proposition in business economics: if the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley are greater than its benefits, then, by definition, it is bad for investors. Even if the costs are less than the benefits, but the costs are simply a lot greater than they need to be, that's bad for investors also. These statements are true no matter how sincere the attempt may have been to protect investors.
As the paper points out, there is also debate about the opportunity costs involved. These are very hard to measure, if not impossible, but they reflect distracting managements and boards as they shift their efforts from production and innovation to dealing with accountants, corporate governance consultants, checklists, the regulators, the SEC, and arguably from entrepreneurial risk-taking to risk-avoidance.
I don't know whether that's true or not: I tend to believe it is. A wonderful example of the mindset that goes along with Sarbanes-Oxley is contained in a statement by the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac regulator, OFHEO, which recently has produced this biting criticism of Fannie Mae (and, by the way, I'm not a fan of Fannie Mae, in general). This biting OFHEO criticism is that Fannie "focused more on business innovation than on backend accounting."
Now there's a really terrible problem. Imagine a company that would focus more on business innovation than on backend accounting! This statement by OFHEO is deadpan. In writing it they were obviously not aware of how silly it sounds. It is an example of the sort of opportunity cost which is likely to be real.
Speaking of regulators, I want to take up the paper's idea of opaque industries, specifically banks and insurance companies. It's really hard to have any kind of an idea about what's really going on in a financial company by looking at its financial statements. Financial statements may tell you virtually nothing about its soundness. So, one social reaction to that is to put on a lot of regulation, so you have regulators and examiners running around inside these companies. For financial institutions, Sarbanes-Oxley is just more regulation on top of existing, already heavy regulation. A very common argument among smaller banks is, "Look, we've already got all this stuff, and now you just layered it on again."
On the question of whether accounting statements are opaque or transparent, one of the problems I have with the Sarbanes-Oxley era is that there is no simple way in which any financial statements can ever be "transparent." It is simply impossible in principle. In other words, "transparency" is an ill-conceived and unfortunate metaphor when applied to the whole set of problems that Sarbanes-Oxley attempted to address.
This is why: transparency suggests that you can actually see the object as it is, as if you were looking through a transparent window and seeing whatever is on the other side of the window, whereas financial statements are nothing like a window. Financial statements are a set of highly debatable, highly theoretical constructs, which take the data and form it in complicated ways, add in all kinds of guesses, estimates, and modeling parameters, which are themselves guesses and estimates, and produce a statement. So they can't ever be transparent. They're constructions. They are creations of the theories which result in the statements. I point this out as a reality check on what politicians may think they're doing in legislating for "transparent" or "accurate" accounting statements.
The Institute of Chartered Accounts in England and Wales has an excellent statement on this. They say, "Financial reporting attempts to measure inherently abstract and debatable concepts such as income and net assets and has particular features that make it, to some extent, inevitably subjective and arbitrary. It tries to portray a reality that's constantly changing, partially in response to changes in the measurement itself. Financial reporting measurement is therefore a matter of evolving conventions, not something to which there are immutably right and wrong answers." So, when we layer on a lot of costs and bureaucracy to try to create "transparency," there is always going to be some frustration.
I said before that virtually everybody agrees about the fact that the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley are large and excessive, but how about the benefits? The benefits, obviously, are debatable. We've seen in this paper an ex-ante judgment by investors that the costs were going to be greater than the benefits, but what would we say ex-post? This is very hard to measure, and debate continues.
Members of the Sarbanes-Oxley faith offer an exoneration of the Act: they say it increases "investor confidence." I leave aside the fact I think it's a bad idea to make investors confident, since I believe confident investors are stupid investors. However that may be, Sarbanes-Oxley makes investors confident, they say, and therefore "lowers the cost of capital." "Lowers the cost of capital" means it makes investors willing to pay more for securities.
Does Sarbanes-Oxley make investors willing to pay more for securities? In my mind, this sets up a natural experiment that we could do by amending Sarbanes-Oxley, particularly with respect to small companies. That is, simply make Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley voluntary, as opposed to mandatory.
This would be a good step anyway, if you believe in market economies and market discipline. It would not be simply "exempting" small companies, because that suggests you just get a pass. I suggest rather that small companies (better all companies, but at least small companies) should be able to make a decision about how they want to manage internal controls in compliance or not with Sarbanes-Oxley, and then explain to their investors what decision they've made and why.
I believe the argument that Arthur Levitt and others make, that if you do the Sarbanes-Oxley bureaucracy and certification of controls, and so on, it will lower your cost of capital--that is, make investors pay more for your shares--is actually a marvelous argument for having a voluntary system. If the companies find that they can make their shares go up by doing Sarbanes-Oxley, they certainly will. So I suggest we ought to run this experiment: make 404 voluntary (preferably for everybody, but at least for small companies) and then observe what happens.
If you choose to implement Sarbanes-Oxley, what happens will be one of two things. One possibility is that because you will have created a lot of cost and bureaucracy and opportunity cost, the share price will suffer, the abnormal returns will fall. The second possibility is that because investors view this as a good thing, the returns will rise, and the share price will go up. If we would do this experiment I'm suggesting, then in a couple of years, Professor Geddes could do a wonderful, similar study of price movements in small company stocks (or in all company stocks) to measure the market's reaction to this choice, the market returns depending on how you make this choice, and we would learn something highly interesting and useful.
For the present, the paper concludes that "Reform of Sarbanes-Oxley is worthy of consideration," and I certainly agree.
Alex J. Pollock is a resident fellow at AEI.
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