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The global tax landscape continues to change in a dramatic fashion, with near-constant news hitting the headlines regarding shifting tax policy, increasing levels of enforcement and the growing potential of reputational risk.
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Multinational companies now have to balance more competing priorities than ever before, ensuring they protect their business by monitoring and responding to changes in policy, legislation and tax enforcement, while at the same time ensuring they not only maintain the highest levels of compliance but also add value from the tax function.
Governments work to secure each tax dollar they're due
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At the same time, they want to increase the amount of revenue they bring in. Governments are treading a fine line, constantly assessing how to secure the tax revenues they see as rightly theirs, while at the same time being in direct competition with other nations, making sure they do not scare off mobile capital.
Tax administrations for their part are adapting their enforcement strategies, focus and policies in response to the changing dynamics of business. They are working to ensure that their resources are being applied to the right issues and taxpayers. They share more leading practices and taxpayer information with their foreign counterparts, to help them collect every dollar due.
Disputes are on the rise
The result has been more frequent, complex and higher value disputes between taxpayers and taxing authorities — a trend that is only increasing as countries collaborate together and as emerging markets gain in stature and influence, taking a more sophisticated approach to taxation. Penalties are becoming more stringent and the threat of reputational risk has risen significantly in recent months.
We can help you to navigate a route through this complex landscape.
We can help you monitor and react to quickly-changing tax policy and assess the economic and fiscal impact.
Where tax policies might create an impediment to your business that is unintended by policy makers, we can help you to collaborate – either solely, or as part of a broader grouping of companies who share a common objective – with government to:
- Explain the impediment
- Develop alternative policy choices which are logical and well thought out
- Model the potential outcomes
- Deliver an alternative choice to the government in a form with which policy makers can comfortably work
We also help you address your global tax controversy, enforcement and disclosure needs.
We focus on pre-filing controversy management to help you properly and consistently file your returns and prepare the relevant back-up documentation.
Where a controversy has already occurred, our professionals leverage the network's collective knowledge of how tax authorities operate, and increasingly work together, to help resolve difficult or sensitive tax disputes. To ensure that continuous performance improvements are instigated after a controversy, we work with EY's other tax professionals to ensure that similar events are less likely to occur.
Below you can access our views and analysis of some of the substantial policy and enforcement trends and issues at play today.
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- Building tax effective supply chains
Today's business environment for large, global companies is more fluid and complex than ever before. Companies are adapting their supply chains to respond to increasingly competitive market conditions and to deliver higher revenue and greater value to their shareholders and customers.
Now, more than ever, multinational companies are expanding their global footprint, to both seek new markets and to capture cost efficiencies. As part of this drive, they are increasingly expanding their supply chains.
With every development in the supply chain comes new costs and new risks to factor in
Alongside the advancement into new markets, leading companies are also further developing their existing supply chains to drive cost efficiencies and boost margins in their mature market operations.
Leading companies recognize the need for comprehensive, proactive planning
But whether it is to enter new markets or to drive efficiencies in existing markets, the new leading companies have one shared characteristic – they fully recognize that carrying out comprehensive, proactive planning across the new supply chain model can maximize the opportunities and mitigate the risks as much as possible.
Only with a truly holistic approach can all supply chain costs - including taxes - be assessed and managed.
The challenge of change
Every day companies face decisions about how to change their operations on a global basis.
The challenge in making such decisions is to look at the problem holistically, considering all facets of the problem. Tax consequences should be a part of the analysis because the tax impact of any business change may be very large and lead to a different result than an operations only analysis.
Our approach
Often, companies will bring tax planning into the process only after the operational opportunities or alternatives have been narrowed and defined, limiting the effectiveness of the planning. Instead by integrating international tax planning at an earlier stage, different alternatives or operating models may emerge as the most effective overall.
With the integrated approach of our Tax Efficient Supply Chain (TESCM) practice, we can often unlock benefits that would not have been possible if such integration had not been present from the beginning.
- Managing mobile workforce risk
In today's globally integrated, tightly regulated and increasingly competitive business environment, one critical success factor stands out: people. People represent an organization's most significant investment and offer a tremendous opportunity to gain a competitive advantage.
Where the leading companies are focusing their efforts
- Attracting and retaining the right people
- Global talent deployment and mobility
- HR and payroll effectiveness
- Risk, governance and compliance
Managing the risks of mobile employees
While optimizing the competitive advantage of your people has long been a core objective, a more recent set of trends in the tax landscape means that large companies with an internationally mobile workforce are at a higher risk of tax noncompliance and resulting controversy than ever before.
The business and tax landscapes that have changed so much over the last few years continue to shift. The pace of globalization is increasing, and the global financial crisis has acted as a catalyst to both globalization and business transformation, with many emerging markets now seeing faster growth than before the crisis.
Alongside these megatrends, a variety of underlying issues are converging, resulting in a growing set of risks for multinationals who have globally mobile employees. While companies may closely define and execute their formal expatriate assignment policies, business travelers outside the scope of such formal policies are widely accepted to be creating a new set of risks for companies to manage.
Unintended tax compliance obligations
These travelers are increasingly creating unintended tax compliance obligations, and the resulting risks are not just personal. They are increasingly felt at the corporate level, with the corporate tax function often unaware of the extent of the spreading problem. Tax administrations are becoming increasingly aware of the issue, however, and are very effectively using new technology to identify where a tax obligation has arisen. In a rising tax enforcement landscape, this issue has significant potential to grow.
Managing these risks should be a burning platform issue for multinational companies.
A burning platform?
What may start as a relatively simple personal income tax compliance issue can quickly create a ripple effect, with risks such as the creation of a permanent establishment, an employment tax audit or the payment of a significant related penalty all occurring at the corporate level.
At the same time, the pace of legislative change (such as the increasing enforcement of permanent establishment) is actually speeding up. Countries are using this type of legislation to increase overall levels of tax revenue.
As governments continue to look for ways to widen the tax base, they are likely to learn from one another in fora such as the OECD's Forum on Tax Administration, CIAT, CIOT and SGATAR and quickly replicate the processes and technologies used. As they do so, we will likely see penetration of this issue into a broader number of companies of smaller size.
Companies, recognizing the spectrum of reputational, personal and financial risks related to tax, are making strong efforts to be compliant. There is an increasing acceptance that such issues are becoming increasingly urgent from both a reputational and a financial perspective.
How we are helping companies
Our Human Capital network embeds processes and technology that will help companies to identify and manage STBT-related risks before they occur. Where controversy has already arisen, EY's global Tax Controversy network can use our insights into the culture and processes and relationships with each key tax administration to remediate issues. With prior year issues being rapidly unearthed, and with tax administrations focusing on this issue more than ever before, the time to act is now.
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[August 1 for international applicants]
Applications are processed as they arrive up to the deadline date.
Number Required: 2
From Whom: Letters of recommendation should be obtained from evaluators who can provide insight into an applicant's abilities, talents, and aptitude for graduate study.
All applicants must present credentials that are the equivalent of the appropriate Bachelor of Music degree at Temple University, which is based on a curriculum of 124 to 135 hours.
Bachelor's Degree in Discipline/Related Discipline:
A degree in music is expected.
The Statement of Goals should include an applicant's special interests within the discipline and expectations for the program.
Minimum TOEFL score or range of scores needed to be accepted:
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1. Two contrasting etudes.
2. Two movements from contrasting solo repertoire (concerto, sonata, or other solo works).
3. Excerpts from the standard orchestral repertoire.
Applicants are required to arrange for an accompanist .
A resume is required.
student who wishes to transfer credit should speak with her/his academic advisor and obtain a transfer of credit form, available at: www.temple.edu/grad/forms/documents/Transfer_Grad_Credit_05.pdf. Transfer credits must be approved by the advisor, the department chair, and the Associate Dean. The maximum number of credits a student may transfer is 6.
Due to the large number of applications for admission and the competitive nature of its music programs, the Boyer College admits only a portion of its applicants. In addition to the general admissions credentials required of all Temple University graduate applicants, specialized admission criteria (i.e., auditions, portfolios, interviews, recommendations, departmental term papers, and standardized examinations) are very heavily weighted in admission decisions. Graduate applicants may be rejected for admission for failing to obtain the required level of proficiency in any one area of the specialized admission criteria regardless of the level of success in meeting Temple University's general admission criteria. In addition to the level of success demonstrated in the above-mentioned criteria, a final admission factor is the College's Optimum Enrollment Policy. This Policy may preclude the admission of any student who meets the minimum requirements.
Number of Didactic Credits Required Beyond the Baccalaureate: 30
Required Courses:
Music 430 (3) Instrumental Lessons
431 (3) Instrumental Lessons
432 (3) Instrumental Lessons
433 (3) Instrumental Lessons/Recital
560/561 (4) Instrumental Ensemble. (M.M. candidates must be available for ensemble assignments which are determined by the department chair and may exceed curricular requirements.)
Music Studies 508-513 (3) Seminar in Theoretical/Stylistic Analysis
700 Research In Music
Electives (8) Select from Music, Music Education, Music Studies, or other graduate departments with a minimum of 3 s.h. in the elective area selected from non-performance, academic coursework. Advisor approval is required.
All degree credits are to be earned at Temple University.
Internship: No internship is required.
Language Examination: No language examination is required.
Additional Requirements:
Comprehensive Listening Examination
Public Recital:
Fourth semester of Instrumental Lessons (Music 433)
Diagnostic Examinations:
All entering Master of Music students are required to take Diagnostic Examinations in Harmony, Counterpoint, Aural Skills, and Music History prior to the first semester of graduate study. The purpose of these examinations is to determine inadequacies in undergraduate preparation. Depending on the examination results, students may be required to take one or more remedial courses. In these instances, the remedial courses will be graded on a "Credit / No Credit" basis and the official university transcript will indicate "CR" (for "Credit," meaning that the deficiency has been satisfied) or "NC" (for "No Credit," meaning that the deficiency has not been satisfied). Students must have a "B-" or better average in any remedial course or section thereof to earn the grade of "Credit" and to satisfy the requirement. Students who earn a grade of "NC" (that is, having a class average below "B-") must retake that course or section until an average of "B-" or higher is achieved and a grade of "CR" is recorded on the official university transcript. Remedial courses are offered for undergraduate credit only, and may not count toward graduate degree requirements.
1. All entering M.M. students must take the Diagnostic Examination in Harmony, Counterpoint, and Aural Skills prior to the first semester of graduate study unless conditions for exemption have been met (see below). Students may take the test only once, and if they do not pass the test or any portion thereof, they must enroll in the remedial course(s) during their first semester of study. Depending on which section(s) of the examination are failed, the examiners will stipulate which sections of remedial coursework the student must take. The courses are "Diatonic Harmony Review" (Music Studies 201), "Chromatic Harmony Review" (Music Studies 202), "Counterpoint Review" (Music Studies 203), and "Aural Skills" (Music Studies 042 and/or Music Studies 141).
2. All entering M.M. students are required to take the Diagnostic Examination in Music History prior to registering for their first semester of graduate study unless conditions for exemption have been met (see below). If the student is unsuccessful in passing any portion of the Music History examination, the student may select one of two options. Option A entails registering to take Music History Review (Music Studies 253 for 1 to 5 undergraduate credits, with 1 credit assigned to each of the following five periods: Renaissance, Baroque, Classic, Romantic, and Twentieth Century). Students may register for a maximum of 3 credits of Music History Review in any semester; thus, it is possible to extend the remediation over two semesters. Option B entails the student's studying independently and retaking the failed sections of the examination at the end of the first semester of study. Students may retake the examination only once, and if any section is failed a second time, they must take the assigned remedial sections in their second semester of study.
3. Conditions for Exemption: The requirement to take the Diagnostic Examination in any area is waived only for graduates of the Boyer College who: 1) matriculate and enroll in the semester immediately following completion of all undergraduate degree requirements, and 2) received grades of "B-" or better in every undergraduate course taken in each individual examination area to be waived.
Professional Development Policy:
All students in the Boyer College of Music and Dance, in addition to the required subjects toward their degrees, are obligated to serve in a number of capacities in order to enrich their academic and musical expertise. Boyer College believes that such experiences give impetus to successful professional careers. Among the duties that may be required are conducting laboratory classes, tutoring, teaching private lessons, coaching, participating in the distribution and inventory control of Temple University-owned musical instruments and instructional materials, participating in ensembles, accompanying, performing at admissions and open house events, supervising performance classes, and engaging in other academic activities.
Performing Ensembles:
1. Touring: All students in touring performing ensembles are required to participate in all scheduled tours. These tours, usually one or two weeks in length, often take place immediately after termination of semesters. Students must arrange their schedules to accommodate this requirement.
2. Participation: Master's degree candidates in wind, brass, and percussion instruments must be available for ensemble assignments at the discretion of the department chair, including participation beyond curricular requirements.
3. Non-Credit Participation: With special permission, graduate students for whom there is no ensemble requirement, or where previous ensemble credits exceed the graduation requirement, may participate in choral and instrumental ensembles without cost, with prior permission from the ensemble director, the department chair, and the Associate Dean.
Independent Study Courses:
Independent study courses provide a special opportunity for graduate students to work in a highly individualized setting with one or more faculty members. All such study must receive the approval of the faculty member providing the instruction, the students' major advisor, and the Associate Dean. Approval will be granted only after the student has presented a detailed description of the intended independent study project. Approval of independent study projects will be granted only for students whose academic and musical record provides substantial support for the benefits of this type of study. In no case may more than 20% of a graduate student's curriculum be taken as independent study. Private lessons beyond those required in the curriculum are not an appropriate form of independent study.
Acceptable English:
All students, including those for whom English is not the native language, are expected to present all written work in acceptable English. No double standard exists to differentiate students on the basis of proficiency in the use of the English language. Students are also responsible for becoming familiar with the College's statement on plagiarism and academic honesty.
Graduate Private Lesson Policy:
Weekly one-hour private lessons are provided for all matriculated master's and doctoral performance majors in good standing, provided at least three additional credits of programmatically required graduate-level study are taken simultaneously. A $200 per semester lesson fee (subject to change without notice) is charged for all private lessons. Tuition remission may not be used to cover the private lesson fee.
Private applied lessons beyond the four-semester requirement currently in effect for graduate performance students may be extended with the permission of the jury, department chair, and the Associate Dean or Dean of the Boyer College of Music and Dance.
Recital Extension:
Students withdrawing from the recital requirement during the recital semester will receive an Incomplete and must register for extended study for non-degree credit (Music 300: "Recital Extension" for 2 credits). Recital Extension must be taken each semester until the recital has been presented. This course will be offered on a credit/no credit basis only. Upon satisfactory completion of the recital, the Incomplete for the recital course will be replaced by a letter grade and "Music 300: Recital Extension" will be issued a grade of "CR." Credit derived from Recital Extension will not be counted toward degree requirements.
1. Recital Extension Fees: Tuition for these additional terms of private study will be the cost of 2 graduate credits plus a $400 Recital Extension fee. Graduate assistantships and other forms of university-sponsored financial aid do not cover the Recital Extension fee.
2. Exceptions to Recital Extension: The exceptions to the Recital Extension Policy are as follows:
a. Students who perform their recitals during the first three weeks of the Spring semester are not required to register for Recital Extension that semester.
b. Students who register for Recital Extension during the Summer may perform their recitals during the first three weeks of the Fall semester. However, if the student does not take Recital Extension during the Summer, he or she may not present the recital in the Fall semester, regardless of the date, without also registering for the Fall semester of Recital Extension.
3. Failure to Present Recital: The degree status of students who are unable to present a recital after one semester of Recital Extension will be reviewed by the Associate Dean and the major advisor, who, in consultation with the major teacher and department, will determine whether or not the student may continue in the program. Inability to present the recital after one semester of Recital Extension may be grounds for dismissal from the degree program for failing to maintain reasonable academic progress.
Incompletes: All incomplete grades and keyboard proficiencies must be fulfilled by the first day of the month in which the student expects to graduate.
Comprehensive Exam:
All candidates for the Master of Music degree are required to take a one-hour comprehensive examination in music literature and theory. A list of 100 musical works of the standard literature from the Middle Ages through the 20th century is available to the student when admitted to the College. The list is intended as an aid to preparation for the examination.
The examination is in three parts: identification of specific selections from a list of 100 works, identification of a "mystery" selection, and score analysis. Students should plan to take the examination in the penultimate semester of study.
Members of the graduate music history and music theory departments select the music scores and musical selections. Two graduate faculty members grade the examination.
Students must pass all three sections. A score of 70% or better must be achieved in the identification section, and a "pass" or "weak pass" must be achieved on the "mystery" selection and the score analysis sections.
The examination is administered approximately ten times each year. Students notify the music graduate secretary no later than one week prior to the requested examination administration date.
For examination dates, visit the Graduate Music Examination Schedule page on Boyer's website.
Performance majors present a public recital as the culminating event for the master's degree (Music 433). Graduation recitals are typically one hour in length and presented on-campus in either Rock Hall or Klein Recital Hall. The student must show evidence through Temple University transcript records of having taken private lessons up to the time of the graduation recital. Students who wish to play a recital in the early Fall should plan to register for and complete the final semester of lessons during the preceding Summer months.
A recital approval jury must be performed to demonstrate the student's ability to perform the degree recital successfully. Normally, this occurs at the preceding semester's jury. If, by departmental approval, this jury does not occur, then a jury must be scheduled at least four weeks prior to the recital. If the jury is not successfully completed by that time, the department reserves the right to cancel the recital date. Further details are available from the department chair.
Graduation recitals are adjudicated by three full-time music faculty members.
Dept. of Instrumental Studies
Boyer College of Music
and Dance
2001 North 13th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122
James Short
Program Coordinator:
Professor Jeffrey Solow
Graduate Chairperson:
The master's degree in flute performance develops expertise beyond baccalaureate-level achievement. Students specialize in the study of the major instrument and take courses outside the major area that support advanced musical and academic development. The Department of Instrumental Studies provides the potential professional performer and/or teacher with the finest instrumental training within the context of a comprehensive university. Students study privately with professional artist-teachers and enjoy opportunities for performance in numerous large and chamber music ensembles.
Time Limit for Degree Completion: 6 years
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Students are required to complete the degree program through classes offered before and after 4:30 p.m. Students are also able to complete the degree program on a part-time basis (8 credit hours or less per semester).
Boyer College of Music and Dance
2001 North 13th Street
With the approval of the major advisor, students may elect to take up to 6 graduate credits outside the field of music.
Not applicable.
Boyer College has been ranked
among the top 30 music schools in the country
by U.S. News & World Report.
This degree program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM).
Study focuses on performance of the major instrument, the solo and ensemble literature of the instrument, and academic support areas in music.
The program prepares musicians for either professional activity or doctoral study.
Non-matriculated students may enroll in selected courses in music with permission, but may not take applied lessons until they have been fully admitted and matriculated.
Boyer College offers a number of assistantships and academic internships to matriculated graduate students. Full awards carry a cash stipend plus full tuition remission for the Fall and Spring semesters. Partial awards also are available in values of 1/4 or 1/2 of a full award. Duties for assistantships and internships vary, but typically include teaching, tutoring, classroom assistance, research, artistic performance, and/or direct service related to academic programs. Applicants must submit an assistantship/internship application by March 1 to obtain priority consideration for an award.
Applications are available online at the Graduate Financial Aid page of Boyer's website. Typically these awards are made only in the Fall semester for up to two semesters: Fall and Spring. Awards may be renewed on an annual basis (typically up to one additional year for master's students and up to three years for doctoral students), based on departmental needs as well as satisfactory academic and musical progress by the recipient.
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Android 2.2's most important improvement is without doubt the significantly faster virtual machine. The API, however, got some new features too. For me, the most intriguing new feature is the access to Google's experimental push services.
I have already posted about push feature in relation to iBus//Mobile asynchronous communication package so push is not new to Android. There are also open source alternatives like MQTT, Deacon or Urban Airship. It has also been present in certain Google applications from the beginning. Whenever Android Gmail application sends a notification when a new mail arrives on the server, you see push in operation. It is pretty fast, according to my experiences, even though time to time it takes longer time for the notification to arrive. 2.2 opened that already existing mechanism to general-purpose applications, even though the push service is still in early beta.
In order to do push, either one has proper push bearer (a network mechanism able to deliver unsolicited messages to the device) or such mechanism is simulated. Currently only two real push bearers are deployed widely on mobile networks, SMS and Blackberry's proprietary push solution. SMS is costly and the Blackberry solution is available only for Blackberry so the push bearer has to be simulated. The most common simulation method relies on the device to open a TCP connection to the push server. As the TCP stream is full-duplex, the server can send the push message to the device, provided that the stream is still alive. And that's the tricky bit whose complexity should not be underestimated. TCP streams time out if there is no communication on them and the other side does not necessarily notice it. A constant ping-pong traffic needs to be generated to prevent this. Frequency, however, is critical. Too frequent ping-pongs and the data cost associated to ping-ponging will be unacceptable and the battery is drawn down quickly. Too rare ping-pongs and the device or the server will not notice that the TCP stream was closed, only after a long timeout. For the user, it means that he did not get his urgent message immediately, only after, say, an hour.
There is no perfect solution to this problem, therefore it is a good feeling that Google made its best to create a simulated push bearer, along with the server that is able to keep that many TCP sockets open and shared that infrastructure with us. The Google push architecture has the following elements.
- The device that authenticates and registers with the push server (Cloud to Device Messaging in Google lingo) and provides authentication ticket to the 3rd Party Application Server.
- 3rd Party Application Server that uses the authentication ticket generated by the device to send push requests to the push server.
- Push server provided by Google that authenticates push requests from 3rd Party Application Servers and delivers the messages to the devices.
Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) has many tricky aspects but I wanted to create a test program that is as simple as possible. To try it out, you need the following:
- A PC connected to the Internet so that Google C2DM servers can be reached (and C2DM servers can reach us).
- Android emulator with 2.2+Google API AVD created (API level 8).
- Google App Engine SDK for Python.
- A Google account that you register with Google for push. It is better not to use your real e-mail address because you have to insert the password for this account into the server script. Use aexp.push as package name for the application in the registration form.
- Unpack the download package. Start the Android emulator. Create a Google account if no such account exists (Settings/Accounts & sync). This account does not have to be the same that you registered for push, it can be any Google account that you know the password for.
- Enter the "client" directory in the download package, update client/src/aexp/push/Config.java with the Google account you registered for push (C2DM_SENDER)
- Open server/pushserver/pushserver.py and update it with your push Google account (lines 165 and 167). Unfortunately here you have to insert the password for your push Google account into the server script.
- Enter the "server" directory, customize "ae_pushserver.sh" according to your directory layout and start it. Google App Engine SDK starts.
- Start the Push application on the emulator, select the account using the Menu and wait for the "Registered" message to appear. Now the server application is ready to deliver push messages.
- Go to http://localhost:8080 with your browser and type a message. Select the account from the drop-down list that you configured on the device and click the submit button. The message should appear on the emulator screen.
If you want to do the same trick from a real phone, you need a server with fix IP address or a fix DNS name and run the App Engine SDK there. Or better, deploy it on the real thing, on Google infrastructure. In any case, make sure that you update the server address in client/src/aexp/push/Config.java (and delete client/bin/classes directory as there are occassionally troubles with javac's dependency resolution).
About the application. The application reuses c2dm utility library from the JumpNote sample application. When the account is selected, the application registers with the push server using the phone user's credentials and the application ID that you registered with Google. Then comes the interesting bit. After the application registers with the push server, it sends the registration ID to the application server. The application server will use the registration ID to talk to the push server when it wants to do push. The server uses the Google account that you selected for push for authentication and therefore it needs the password for this account.
The implementation in the example application server program is a not efficient as it always requests an authentication token before it sends the push message. In an efficient implementation the token can be requested only once and can be used to authenticate many messages. Eventually the token expires and only then should new authentication token requested.
The client application also sends the client account name to the server but it is not used for authentication, it is only needed so that you can select the push target by account name in the web application's drop-down menu.


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Stanczyk just wanted to let his readers know they have this Labor Day Week/Weekend to search Ancestry.com for free in at least their Immigration records!
I took advantage of this to do some new searches related to the Social Network Analysis (SNA) I did a while back. I also remembered my Haller's Army article too and so I decided to search for one of my returning Haller's Army vets (actually his brother Leon). Boleslaw returned in 1920 on Princess Matoika and I got to thinking, I know his brother Leon fought in World War I (in the US Army — not Haller's Army); Perhaps I can find US Troops returning from World War I too.
Well all of a sudden I found Leon Wlecial on his INITIAL arrival in America in 1913. Too bad it was only the Hamburg Ship Manifest which has such little detail. But then my forensic mind kicked in. If he came to US via Hamburg there had to be a NYC or Philadelphia arrival record for him. I tried variations on the name to no avail to find the matching ship manifest in NYC/Philadlephia. I finally decided to look at all arrivals on 12/20/1913 on SS Pretoria. I searched for all "Leons" assuming they butchered the last name on indexing. No Leon Wlecial in the Leons??? I then did a search on all "Lean"s and lo and behold there was my Leon hiding amongst the Leans with his last name also butchered coming form his wife (??? — never knew he was married) and going to his brother Boleslaw whom I knew well and had a lot of documentation on. So indeed this was my Leon Wlecial (as if there could be another Leon Wlecial with a brother Boleslaw Wlecial in Detroit, MI).
Now the Wlecial/Wlecialowski name is very rare indeed so I did not need much convincing but this info was too good. I now knew Leon had been married in Poland to a woman named "Maten" (??) from whom he was arriving from. I also knew he was living in "Baczanow" (a corruption of Pacanow, often written Paczanow in Ship Manifests) and that he was born in Rusek. Rusek, really ??? Well that might explain why I found his two siblings birth records in Pacanow, but not his. Note to self – FIND R-U-S-E-K (if it exists) in a Gazetteer. I also now had a new residence for his brother Boleslaw Wlecial who was living at 449 Grady Ave, Detroit, MI on 12/20/1913 apparently if you can believe the stuff written on Ship Manifests.
The moral of this story was … Do NOT stop at just the Hamburg Ship Manifest. It means there is a matching Ship Manifest in Ellis Island or for Philadelphia port. Use the date and ship name if the name does not pop up in NYC/Philadelphia searches. You can always go page by page on the Ship Manifest, but often some shrewd guessing can help you divine how the name was mangled by an indexer misreading the Ship Manifest.


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Oh la. C'est pas bon.
I was all excited to inaugurate my cocotte to make a brisket for my family this year for Rosh Hashana.
I should have known she would live up to her flirty-sounding name when my beautiful oval cadeau arrived in disguise …
… despite my expectations of a deep red ombre dress. But she came out of hiding as pretty and dainty as expected.
Et, elle est tellement française. Si française, in fact that it is stamped onto her little derrière.
She and I held a little photo shoot, anticipating her culinary debut.
Alas, when it was showtime, my cocotte got performance anxiety.
Well, to tell the truth, my eyes were a bit too big. I bought 2 briskets totaling 10 pounds and a single brisket, when unfolded to its full size, barely fit in my lovely cocotte.
While I share responsibility, I believe that my cocotte turned her nose up at the traditional brisket recipe in a coquettish manner. Perhaps she only likes les recettes françaises. She must be holding out for the kosher version of a boeuf bourguignon that I have been working on developing. Let's just hope that she doesn't snub one of Julia Child's signature dish as well.


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Bill Brady came painfully close to becoming governor in 2010, losing to Gov. Pat Quinn by 46.79 percent to 45.94 percent. He was popular locally, winning Boone County with 60 percent of the vote, Winnebago County with 56 percent, and Stephenson County with 63 percent. Brady won 98 of Illinois' 102 counties.
Now Brady, a Republican state senator, home builder and real-estate businessman from Bloomington, is back in the race and hoping the second time is the charm. First, he has to win the GOP primary against state Sen. Kirk Dillard, Treasurer Dan Rutherford and venture capitalist Bruce Rauner.
Brady met Monday with the Editorial Board, and here's some of what he had to say.
"If we're going to turn the state around, we're going to need to take bold initiatives. My opponents say they're for pension reform, but when they had the chance to vote for it, they ran away," said Brady, a member of the special committee that negotiated the final bill.
"It's a chance to save $180 billion. It wasn't perfect, but it was necessary" to begin making the state fiscally sound.
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Brady said that the Illinois minimum wage should stay at $8.25, a dollar more than the federal minimum.
He also wants to dismantle the State Board of Education and put education under the governor's office. "The board is really not accountable to anybody. We should eliminate the state bureaucracy." Brady would empower local regional superintendents of education and make their boundaries coterminous with community college districts.
"We need to move away from the several decades-long opinion that every student who graduates from high school should get a four year baccalaureate degree. I want to see an opportunity for a student to leave high school with a two year associates degree in either a vocational career designed to meet the community's economic needs, or leave high school with a two-year associates degree and go on to get a baccalaureate degree." That would reduce student loan debt, he said. Brady also wants state education tax dollars to follow a student, and not be distributed according to complicated formulas.
What does Brady think about the proposed airport at Peotone, backed strongly by Quinn?
"I'm not for any more government money going for that. It would be up to Will County and the private sector to make that work."
On Medicaid, Brady wants to change the system to give people an incentive to not think of it as "free" health care.
"We have to preserve the integrity of Medicaid, make sure ineligible people aren't getting into it. I'd like to have Medicaid savings accounts and we need a federal waiver to do that. Cash from Medicaid would go into a Medicaid savings account and you spend it as you need it."
And he wants to encourage less nursing home care and encourage alternatives like home care, to reduce the costs of Medicaid for the elderly.
Brady had some harsh words for Rauner: "We don't know where he is on minimum wage, we don't know where he is on anything, and we know he's closely aligned with Rahm Emanuel. I've got people in Chicago who tell me he was the impetus for the 67 percent tax increase, with all his Chicago cohorts."
Brady wants to return to cumulative voting so every House district again has three members, with at least one being from the minority party. Brady would limit people to serving no more than 10 years in the legislature.
He doesn't believe in a tax on services; he does support the so-called Amazon.com tax, to make online shoppers pay the same as they'd pay at a store.
Brady would implement a 35-year capital improvement plan, "where we're reinvesting equal amounts in every region. If we're going to put $1 million into an area, we need to put $1 million plus inflation in the next year."
Brady also promised to cap state spending and use new revenue to pay down bills and cut taxes.
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I'm very pleased to announce that my first full-length publication, Rabun County, Georgia, Newspapers, 1894 – 1899, will be ready for purchase and delivery early next week.
I'm so excited about this publication. Newspapers are an underutilized source of historical and genealogical information, primarily because they're unindexed and sometimes difficult to locate. There are three newspapers covered by this compilation: The Clayton Argus (1894), The Tallulah Falls Spray (1897 – 1898), and The Clayton Tribune (1899).1 Of the extant issues, only a handful have been microfilmed. The remainder are only available as original issues or as photocopies of news items clipped from the originals, and all of those are held by the Rabun County Historical Society, which is open a limited number of hours each week.
In anticipation of this volume's release, I've placed excerpts and portions of the index online.
Excerpts from this volume:
- Serenading, December 1897
- Christmas Novelties, 1897
- Cincinatus Taylor's Estate, April 1, 1897
- "The scene of battle seems to be changed from Chicago to Pine Mountain"
- Bleckley Family Cemetery, August 3, 1894
- Upper Warwoman, January 20, 1899
- Tribune's Publication Day Changes from Friday to Thursday, 1899
- Honor Roll, March 30, 1899
I made the index as thorough as I could, including subjects, place names, and people. There are two indexes available online. The first was taken from the book's index, and the second is an index I created while transcribing:
- Every Name Index to Rabun County, Georgia, Newspapers, 1894 – 1899
- Index to Obituaries and Death Notices from Newspapers of Rabun Co., GA, 1894 – 1899
Localities mentioned include a number of places in the United States and around the world, although the focus was on the regions of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, adjacent to Rabun County, including:
- Georgia: Acworth, Aid, Alto, Anandale, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Baldwin, Banks County, Blairsville, Blue Ridge, Brunswick, Canon, Carnesville, Catoosa County, Chappel Hill, Chickamauga, Clara, Clarkesville, Cleveland, Columbus, Cornelia, Covington, Cumming, Currakee [Currahee], Dahlonega, Dalton, Dawson County, Dawsonville, Deep Creek District (Habersham County), DeKalb County, Demorest, Dixon, Elberton, Eppes, Fannin County, Franklin County, Fulton County, Gainesville, Gillsville, Gilmer County, Gordon County, Griffin, Grantsville, Gwinett County, Habersham County, Hall County, Harmony Grove, Hart County, Hartwell, Hawkinsville, Hiawassee, Homer, Ivy Log, Jasper County, Jefferson, Lagrange, Lavonia, Leatherwood, Lincolnton, Macon, Mayesville, Millidgeville, Monticello, Mossy Creek district (White County), Mt. Airy, Murray County, Nacoochee, Newton County, Norcross, Novetta, Ocee, Ocoee, Porter Mills, Providence, Randolph County, Red Hill, Ringgold, Rock Mountain, Royston, Savannah, Soque, Stone Mountain, Tallapoosa, Toccoa, Towns County, Troy, Tugalo, Tugaloo, Turnerville, Union County, Vissage, Warm Springs, Washington District (Banks County), Watkinsville, White County, White Plains, Whifield County, Wilkerson County, Winder, Winston, Winterville[?], Yonah, Young Harris
- North Carolina: Asheville, Beaty, Betor, Blue Ridge, Bryson City, Charlotte, Cherokee County, Clay County, Clear Creek, Cowee Valley, Cullasajah, Dillsboro, Ellijay, Flatts, Franklin, Graham County, Hamburg, Haywood, Highlands, Horse Cove, Jackson, Jackson County, Jeptha, Looky, Macon County, Mulberry, Murphy, Nantahala, Otto, Prathers, Raleigh, Ridge, Sapphire, Scaly, Shooting Creek, Smith Bridge, Swain, Sylva, Transylvania County, Victoria, Winston
- South Carolina: Abbeville, Anderson, Anderson County, Charleston, Clemson College, Columbia, Damascus, Double Springs, Fairplay, Fort Hill, Fort Madison, Greenville, Hampton, Hardensville, Iva, Long Creek, Mountain Rest, Oakway, Oconee County, Pendleton, Piedmont, Port Royal, Russell, Seneca, Spartanburgh, Walhalla, Westminster, Whetstone
This volume is hardbound, 8 1/2 x 11″ with 292 + viii pages. The price is $30 plus $5 shipping and handling. For those who are interested in purchasing a copy, order before May 15 to receive $5 off. To order, e-mail me or write to Dawn Watson, PO Box 292, Rabun Gap, GA 30568.
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1. The dates inside parentheses are the years for which there are known extant issues. The vast majority of extant issues are from the latter two papers, as there are only two extant issues for The Clayton Argus. The Tallulah Falls Spray was first published in 1896 and seems to have discontinued in 1898 at some point after The Clayton Tribune began publication in that same year. There are no extant issues for The Tribune from its first year. Other newspapers were known to have been published in Rabun County during this time period; however, no issues from these papers have survived to the present day. For more information, see the preface and introductory remarks about each newspaper in Rabun County, Georgia, Newspapers, 1894 – 1899.


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Let me start off with a disclaimer of sorts. I have found that over the last few weeks I have kept a constant expression of ambivalence to all the new xkcd comics. I believe this is a result of two different factors at play at once. On one end, after being on xkcdsucks for so long, I believe I'm so ready to see the bad in xkcd that it prevents me from laughing at jokes I might have otherwise found funny. On the other end, whenever I question how bad a comic is, I ask myself "is it really that bad, compared to the verminous, soul-tainting badness of 631?" and the answer is always going to be a resounding "No".
That in mind, here is my review.
The Art
Since this is xkcd, it is impossible apparently to say the artwork is bad, because as the cuddlefish have yelled oh so many times, "the art is just XKCD's style!" So I am going to judge art on two different questions: 1. Does the art enable the audience to figure out the setting of the joke? and 2. Does the art add any more humor to the joke?
1. Yes. You can clearly see that the first person is a surgeon and the second person is patient, it isn't like some of the earlier xkcds where an anchor chair could just as easily be a bathtub. I mean, sure the surgeon shouldn't technically have the mask on while talking to the patient, unless the patient had SARS oozing out of his arm, or something. But we most associate the mask with a surgeon, so it is an acceptable break from reality.
2. No, the art does not add any humor to the comic at all. This whole thing could have been written in IRC conversation form and no humor would be lost.
The Joke
As I said in the top, I would have trouble laughing at new xkcd comics even if they were of top quality. But this one feels more like a paid 'comedic' endorsement of Linux than a joke. I may be the only one here, but this comic has the structure of a 'comedic' commercial, you start with a silly, outrageous situation then you plug whatever feature could cause that outrageous situation to occur, then you name the product. Here you have 'controlling USB ports with your mind' -> 'there will have a patch for everything eventually' -> LINUX. In a good joke comic, everything is supposed to build up to a punch line, but here the only thing that is funny is the beginning of the comic, and everything leads up to the message "Linux is great" which is kinda annoying and not really funny at all. [Carl again: I think this is a good point and I am going to rephrase it: The humor of the situation comes from the idea, tired as it is, of making humans like machines. That is a vaguely unusual concept. But it's introduced in the first panel - the last panel, the joke, is just a run of the mill Linux joke. It feels like a letdown. Sorry for interupting, Kirk.]
Randall has already had a few comics that are more a plug of a product than a comic, but he usually goes at it from the other direction: Product -> Feature of that product -> wacky thing that occurs because of the feature. Here are a few examples:
Smarter health care -> Digital prescriptions -> Bad handwriting becomes bad font
Google Latitude-> Show locations ->Megan is one kinky girl
Kindle -> Lets you check Wikipedia everywhere -> secretly Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
So yes, this isn't the first time where xkcd is used to plug things Randall likes, but I feel like the change in order weakens the current comic, because in the three examples I've linked, if the joke is strong enough on its own, the comic can still be funny. Of course, the punch lines of the three comics I posted range from terrible to alright, so the comics aren't great, but the potential is there. But as I've said before, the current one's order makes the message of 'Linux is great' come across as the true theme.
Oh and I guess I could talk about how the dialog in the last panel is fucked up nine ways to Tuesday, and we have another Humans as Robots comic. But you know, you get enough of that on the blog normally, and I am not guest posting to say exactly what Carl would.
The Alt text
Ok, the alt text made me laugh. I'll admit it, I like the alt text here a bunch. The suturing of a vista sticker reminds me a bunch of early black hat, and was unexpected after the 'Linux is great' theme of the comic. And a lot of humor is derived from the unexpected. I only wish he took the same wacky situation and looked at from the surgeon's perspective throughout. Then the comic would be making fun of people who take Linux too seriously, which I would have enjoyed heartily.
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Numerous animal studies4-15 and preliminary human trials 16,17,18 indicate that extracts from alfalfa seeds, leaves, and roots might be helpful for lowering cholesterol levels. However, there have not been any well-designed, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials demonstrating alfalfa useful for this (or any other) purpose. (For information on why double-blind studies are so important, see Why Does This Database Rely on Double-Blind Studies? )
Studies using mice to investigate alfalfa's traditional use for diabetes found that it improved some symptoms. 19,20
Alfalfa has also been investigated in the laboratory (but not yet evaluated in people) as a source of plant estrogens, which might make it helpful for menopause . 21,22,23 Alfalfa may also have some use in fighting fungi. 24,25,26 Rats fed a disease-causing fungus were able to eliminate more of the fungus from their systems when fed a diet high in alfalfa. It has been suggested that one of the saponins from alfalfa causes damage to the cell membranes of fungi.
Finally, alfalfa has been proposed as a treatment for hay fever , but there is no scientific evidence that it is helpful for this purpose.
Safety Issues
Alfalfa, in its various forms, may present some health risks. Powdered alfalfa herb, alfalfa sprouts, and alfalfa seeds all contain L-cavanine, a substance that may cause abnormal blood cell counts, spleen enlargement, or recurrence of lupus in patients with controlled disease. However, heating alfalfa may correct this problem.
Researchers investigating alfalfa seeds' ability to lower cholesterol levels discovered that it had another effect on the lab animals used for testing. In some of the monkeys, it caused a disease very similar to lupus. 27 Further research on this effect revealed that monkeys that had abnormal blood cell counts when eating either alfalfa seeds or sprouts, and then recovered when alfalfa was no longer part of their diet, developed the symptoms again when given an isolated component of alfalfa called L-canavanine. 28 Alfalfa seeds and sprouts have a higher concentration of L-canavanine than the leaves or roots.
In a clinical trial of alfalfa seeds for lowering cholesterol involving only 3 human volunteers, one man who participated developed pancytopenia (an abnormally low number of all of the various types of blood cells) and enlargement of the spleen. 29 Additionally, there are two published case reports of patients, who had lupus which was controlled with drug therapy, suffering relapses after consuming alfalfa tablets. Again, L-canavanine is thought to be responsible for these effects.
When alfalfa seeds were autoclaved (heated to extremely high temperatures) and fed to monkeys for a year, no ill effects were seen, and the monkeys' cholesterol levels decreased. 30 It may be that the L-canavanine can be destroyed by extreme heat, while the saponins that seem to be responsible for the beneficial effects of alfalfa remain intact. If so, a heat-treated product might prove safe; however, much research remains to be done before we can know this for certain.
At present, it seems prudent that people who have been diagnosed with lupus, or those who suspect a predisposition to it based on family history, should probably avoid alfalfa. This includes the tablets used for supplements and the sprouts on the salad bar (go for the lettuce or the spinach instead).
Because of the estrogenic effects of some of alfalfa's components, alfalfa is not recommended for pregnant or nursing women or young children. In addition, the high vitamin K content in alfalfa could, in theory, make the drug warfarin (Coumadin) less effective.
Finally, a number of cases of food poisoning have been documented from fresh sprouts infected with bacteria that was present on the seeds prior to germination. 31,32,33 Unfortunately, sprouts can appear fresh and yet host enough bacteria to cause illness in people who eat them. Some healthcare workers recommend that those at higher risk for such infections—young children, those with chronic diseases, and the elderly—avoid eating sprouts altogether.
Interactions You Should Know About
If you are taking warfarin (Coumadin): the high vitamin K content of alfalfa might make it less effective.
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There was a time for the Dodge City Red Demon players to have a time to refocus on the task at hand for the final six games of the regular season and the playoffs. Ever since the Red Demons gave up 22 points in a fourth quarter loss at McPherson where they led after three quarter, there has been more emphasis on communication and playing as a team.
That was evident Thursday night when the offense was successful by being patient and the defense smothered the Colby Eagles' offense in a 44-18 victory at the DCHS Fieldhouse. It was the Red Demons' fourth win in their last five games, but it was the loss to the Bullpups that woke up the team.
"It was a tough loss," said senior Jordan Doan. "They hit a few shots and beat us, and that kind of woke us up. We started getting back to practicing hard and winning like we had been. My teammates are trying to get me involved and I'm trying to help my teammates get involved.
"We're all thinking going into every game that we're going to win. We're just going to have to continue to play like we did tonight, and it, hopefully, falls into place and we can get the 'W'."
The Demons' defense gave up only one first half field goal – a fade-away 3-pointer just before the end of the first quarter – and forced 14 turnovers in the first half as Dodge City (9-6) built a 19-4 lead by halftime. Fourteen of Dodge City's points before intermission were off of Eagle turnovers.
"We'd like to have this effort every night out. I think our kids are starting to get it," said DCHS head coach Dennis Hamilton. "The kids are switching screens and they are doing it with communication.
"The great thing about playing good defense is that all it really requires is to come and play hard and talk. It's a desired trait like rebounding. When you have a group that is buying in, then it always gives you a chance to win."
Hamilton was just as pleased with the way the offense ran against the Eagles (4-11). Dodge City made five of their nine 3-point attempts, with most of them being open looks. The Demons also had 14 offensive rebounds and turned that into 11 second chance points.
"Things are clicking at the right time, but we still have a mountain to climb with the second time going through the conference," Hamilton said. "Every game is a new experience, but if we continue to stay true to form, then the winning and losing will take care of itself."
Colby showed some signs of life on offense in the third quarter, but didn't reach double digits on the board until the final minute of the third quarter. The Red Demons increased the margin to 36-11 by the end of the stanza.
Dodge City scored six of the first seven points in the final quarter to start the running clock with four minutes remaining in the game.
The Red Demons will return to action Saturday night with a road game against the Wichita Collegiate Spartans. Tipoff is scheduled for 6 p.m.
COLBY (18) – Connor Mountford 2, Zane Winger 4, Todd Kane 6, Ashton Russ 3, Marc Bremenkamp 2, Wiatt Binder 1. Totals 7 3-5 18.
DODGE CITY (44) – Rashaan Taylor 2, Jackson Oldham 3, Zach Norton 2, Shaphan Gross 8, Bryce Unruh 2, Austin Weiser 6, Jordan Doan 5, Jace Larson 4, Matt Goedeken 12. Totals 16 7-7 44.
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Three-point baskets – Colby 1 (Kane 1), Dodge City 5 (Oldham 1, Gross 1, Weiser 2, Doan 1). Records – Colby 4-11, Dodge City 9-6.


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