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Nassau County will use funds from a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grant to help prevent a property-tax hike that a number of county residents would have faced because of Hurricane Sandy, according to New York state's grant proposal and state and county spokespeople.
Nassau home and business owners whose properties were damaged by Hurricane Sandy will receive a tax "exemption" to reflect their property-value losses, and taxes will remain the same for property owners not affected by the storm, who would have had to pay a higher portion of their area's property-tax levy if not for the influx of federal monies, according to Brian Nevin, spokesman for County Executive Edward Mangano.
The U.S. Congress passed a package of about $60 billion in disaster-relief spending in January, of which $16 billion was allocated to HUD, according to Adam Glantz, HUD's public affairs officer for New York and New Jersey. HUD announced on April 26 that it had approved $1.71 billion of this money for New York state in a Community Development Block Grant. The state's "action plan" for the grant shows that the state anticipates "allocating up to $300 million" to county and local governments. Mangano said in a written statement that he had secured "property-tax stabilization funds" for Nassau through the state's action plan.
"In order to address the unprecedented and widespread property damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, and recognizing that families and businesses are struggling to recover," Mangano stated in the release, "I created a plan which protects non-Sandy victims from a tax increase while making certain taxes are reduced for Sandy destroyed and damaged homes."
Eunice Huang, a spokeswoman for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said, "Governor Cuomo specifically prioritized protecting taxpayers in communities impacted by Sandy through securing federal funds that will offset lost property-tax revenues for county and local governments. Under the governor's action plan, these localities will not have to cut critical services and residents will not be burdened by tax hikes."
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OTTAWA — The Trudeau government's long-awaited plan to provide lifelong disability pensions to veterans has been met with confusion and frustration from many of those that it is expected to help.
Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O'Regan unveiled the new pension plan on Wednesday, more than two years after the Liberals promised it during the last federal election — and only days before Christmas.
The plan promises more money to injured veterans than the current suite of benefits, especially the most severely disabled who can't work and continue to suffer from service-related injuries.
Yet it offers only modest increases to those on the other end of the spectrum, and continues to provide many with less than the previous lifelong disability pensions, which were abolished in 2006.
"We were focused in this program on those who are catastrophically injured," O'Regan explained during a news conference at National Defence Headquarters.
"Those who have received a disability or an illness during their service. Those who have a hard time going back to work. Those who have a hard time, as they say, re-establishing themselves."
The plan is expected to cost $3.6 billion over six years, and will take effect in April 2019.
Veterans and support groups were scrambling after the announcement to figure out exactly how the changes would affect them and their clients, citing a lack of detail as a major complaint.
"It's confusing," said Jim Lowther, president of VETS Canada, which support homeless veterans in different cities across the country. "We've been going over this all morning, but it's very vague."
Veterans receive financial benefits and compensation based on the extent of their injuries or disabilities and whether those factors have an impact on their post-military career and earnings.
The existing system, created in 2006, provides a lump-sum worth up to $360,000 for the most severely disabled, in addition to rehabilitation, career training and income support.
While veterans who want the money right away will still be able to choose the lump-sum payment, the Liberals are also giving them the choice of a monthly payment instead worth up to $1,150.
Those with severe or permanent disabilities will also be eligible for an additional new benefit worth between $500 and $1,500 per month. Both benefits are tax free.
Officials said the more than 61,000 veterans who have already received a lump-sum award will be assessed to determine how much they would have received per month. They will also be eligible for the new benefit, which officials said will be retroactive and could result in substantial one-time payments.
The government will also lump together six different benefits for veterans who can't find work or whose post-military careers pay less than when they were serving in uniform.
Yet it wasn't immediately clear who will be eligible for different elements of the new pension plan, or even which of the income-replacement programs will remain in existence after they are merged.
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Alan L. Borror 3/5/2007 2:46:04 AMBeautiful macro, Marcie! Great composition and lighting! #615630
Glenn E. Urquhart 3/5/2007 2:54:43 AMOutstanding tones, texture, lighting... Beautiful Abstract, Marcie!!! Well Done! Cheers, Glenn. #4022446
Donald K. Cherry 3/5/2007 3:00:51 AMVery cool image and effects, Marcie! #4022487
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Katarina Mansson 3/5/2007 3:48:23 AMI love such old things! Beautiful capture with the "old" colours and effects plus a nice composition. #4022654
Claudia Kuhn 3/5/2007 4:06:15 AMWow, it's still in use? Wonderful find, great comp Marcie! #4022706
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Part of a food scale taken at a little country store in Stuart, VA (correct me if I'm wrong on the town Darren) not far from Mabry Mill.
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NORTHFIELD, Vt.—Junior running back Al Georgio (West Greenwich, R.I.) ran for 109 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Norwich University football team to a 38-6 win against Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) foe Anna Maria College on Saturday evening at Sabine Field at Haynes Family Stadium.
The win marks the third straight for the Cadets, who improve to 4-3 on the season and 3-1 in ECFC play. The loss drops the visiting AMCATS to 1-6 overall and 0-4 against ECFC competition.
Georgio scored back-to-back Norwich touchdowns at 4:51 in the second quarter and 14:52 in the fourth quarter, giving the Cadets a commanding 35-0 lead. The Cadets used four plays to travel 46 yards to set up Georgio for the two-yard touchdown run to mark his first score of the day. Norwich started the fourth quarter with the ball on the Anna Maria 7-yard line. A false start penalty pushed the Cadets back to the 12, which set Georgio up for a 12-yard touchdown run on the next play.
Following today's performance, Georgio has a team-high nine rushing touchdowns on the season.
The Cadets also saw rushing touchdowns from quarterback Keyen Foley (Hemet, Calif.) and running back Mike Cavanaugh (Raymond, N.H.), in addition to a touchdown reception by freshman Trystan Colaire (Pickering, Calif.). Freshman kicker Wesley Medeiros (Gilford, N.H.) finished a perfect five-for-five on extra-point attempts and nailed a 32-yard field goal with 9:21 to play in the fourth quarter to tally eight points for the Cadets.
Foley notched the first touchdown of the day at the 12:38 mark of the first quarter on a seven-yard run. Two Norwich drives later, Foley escaped the attempted sack and while on the run, found Colaire in the endzone. Colaire made an impressive one-handed grab in the air under strong Anna Maria coverage to score the first touchdown of his career.
After a 14-point first quarter, the Cadets added 14 more in the second quarter. Positioned on Anna Maria's 1-yard line on third down, Cavanaugh jumped over the AMCATS defensive line to net his first rushing touchdown of the season. Georgio's two-yard touchdown set the score at 28-0 entering halftime.
Following a scoreless third quarter, Georgio his second touchdown before Anna Maria was able to get on the board.
The AMCATS scored as sophomore running back Christopher Bettano (Tewksbury, Mass.) caught a six-yard pass from quarterback Gregory McGoldrick (Brooklyn, N.Y.). The AMCATS were able to get into scoring position on the strength of a 49-yard pass by McGoldrick to Bettano. A seven-yard pass to Josh Sundquist put the AMCATS in the red zone, and a five-yard offsides penalty by the Cadets moved them within 15 yards of the end zone. A five-yard pass to William Ricard (Billerica, Mass.) set up the scoring play. AMCATS kicker Julian Diaz's extra-point attempt was failed to clear the uprights.
The AMCATS had another opportunity to score late in the fourth quarter as Bettano broke through the Norwich defense at midfield and had what appeared to be an uncontested run to the end zone. However, freshman defensive back Donovan Murby (Manchester, N.H.) sprinted to catch up and grabbed Bettano's ankle on a diving swoop, stopping him five-yards shy of the endzone. Bettano totaled 64 yards on the run.
Bettano totaled 157 yards on 19 attempts for the AMCATS, and averaged a game-high 8.3 yards per carry. McGoldrick completed 18 of 36 passing attempts with one interception. He was sacked six times, including a game-high 12-yard sack by Norwich linebacker Addison Nye (Hooksett, N.H.). Jepthe Soulouque (Everett, Mass.) and Dane Pallotto (Westbrook, Conn.) both recorded eight-yard sacks.
Senior captain Ethan Hanks (Hull, Mass.) paced the Norwich defense with eight tackles. Andy Mangin (Concord, Mass.) chipped in with five. Pallotto, Soulouque, captain Luis Delgado (Accord, N.Y.) and James Cejka (Brunswick, Maine) all recorded fumble recoveries for the Cadets, while Sir Michael Finney (Killeen, Texas) returned an interception for 18 yards.
The Anna Maria defense was led by Tyler Rocha (Cranston, R.I.) and Jordan Koehler (West Warwick, R.I.) with nine tackles each. Koehler totaled two sacks totaling 19 yards, and forced and recovered a fumble.
Norwich recorded 19 first downs on the evening, while Anna Maria totaled 14. The Cadets totaled 75 more yards of total offense than the AMCATS, and bested Anna Maria 259 to 137 in rushing yards.
The Cadets return to action next Saturday, Nov. 2. Norwich will travel Newton, Mass. to take on the Mustangs of Mount Ida College. Kickoff is slated for 12:00 p.m.


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- Favourable geographic position, close to the European market
- Strategy to move to high-end market and diversify industrial production
- Political stability and commitment to reforms
- Growing integration in African market
- Economy very dependent on performances in the agricultural sector
- Significant social and regional disparities. Although falling, the poverty rate remains high
- Weak productivity and low competitiveness
- High unemployment rate and low female participation in the labour market
- Political tensions with regional neighbours
Slight downturn in 2018
Growth in Morocco is correlated to that of the agricultural sector, which, although on a trend towards greater diversification, is still concentrated around cereal production, which is sensitive to weather conditions. 2016, characterised by a period of drought, was followed in 2017 by heavy rains pushing agricultural GDP up by 15.1% and total GDP up by more than 4%. From a sector perspective, manufacturing industries continued their upturn begun in 2016, as has the services sector, buoyed by the recovery in tourism. Construction is still on a downward trend, evidence of the downturn in the residential property market since 2016. In 2018, growth is likely to be more muted mainly because of the underlying effect associated with a slowdown in agricultural GDP growth. However, the economy, excluding agriculture, is expected to continue perform well, buoyed by still resilient internal demand. Household consumption, although benefiting from moderate inflation, will be slightly penalised by falling agricultural incomes. Investment is expected to remain firm, thanks to the ongoing pursuit of an expansionary public investment policy based on major projects, chiefly oriented towards port projects (Tanger-Med 2, the Nador West-Med port complex) and robust private investment encouraged by a policy of tax incentives (exemption from registration fees for new businesses, lower tax rates on certain sectors). Exports, on the way up in 2017, are expected to continue the same positive trend in 2018 with recovery consolidating in the markets of the Kingdom's main trading partners.
Ongoing fiscal consolidation
The fiscal consolidation begun in 2013 has led to a gradual stabilisation of the public deficit. Rising internal demand pushed up revenues from indirect taxes, particularly VAT, and from direct taxes. Spending remained contained, despite there being no government from November 2016 to April 2017. In 2018, public spending is likely to edge upwards, boosted by an increased investment drive by public-sector companies, but also by higher operating expenditure associated with the rise in the number of civil servants in the national education system. Financed primarily on the domestic market on preferential terms, the public debt is expected to remain stable in 2018, so debt interest payments look set to remain moderate.
The deepening trade deficit puts pressure on the external accounts. The combination of temporary factors like the increase in purchases of capital goods associated with infrastructure projects and the higher energy bill resulting from the rebound in the oil market has pushed imports higher. However, this increase obscures the dynamism of agri-food, automotive, and aeronautical exports. Phosphate sales have also risen, driven by increased demand from emerging markets despite a fall in world prices. In 2018, firm oil prices will continue to adversely affect the cost of imports, but to a lesser extent than in 2017, while the expected increase in investment will continue to sustain imports of capital goods. In contrast to 2017, the growth in remittances from expatriate workers driven by more favourable economic conditions in European countries, improved tourism income and higher FDIs will help consolidate foreign exchange reserves at a satisfactory level of just over five months of imports. Following the announcement of a move to a floating exchange rate, these reserves came under downward pressure from the massive purchase of hedging products by domestic economic players and from central bank interventions aimed at stabilising the dirham's exchange rate. The reform, which is intended to result in greater flexibility for the dirham, has been postponed to a later date.
Increased social risk
Although he won the 2016 parliamentary elections, the leader of the JDP (Justice and Development Party), Abdelilah Benkiran, failed to capitalise on his victory in the polls by building a coalition able to form a government. After 5 months of impasse, a new prime minister, also from within the ranks of the JDP was appointed by King Mohammed VI to replace him. Saâdeddine El Othmani took up his post as head of the government in April 2017, after concluding an agreement with five other parties. Among the challenges the new government will face is the uprising affecting the landlocked regions in northern Morocco. The Hirak movement is campaigning for greater social justice and action to address the regional disparities penalising the Rif region. Street demonstrations intensified in July 2017 following the arrest of the movement's main leaders now facing serious charges. The police response was not the only response by the Moroccan authorities. In October 2017, King Mohamed VI announced the sacking of several ministers and secretaries of state. This reshuffle came after several speeches by the king strongly denouncing the administration's ineffectiveness and its inability to meet the demands of its citizens. Morocco is strengthening its economic and political presence on Africa by becoming a key player in the region after its reintegration into the African Union on the 30th January 2017, as well as its accession to ECOWAS.
Last update : January 2018
Cheques are still commonly used as instrument of payment and also constitute efficient debt recognition titles: debtors may be prosecuted if they fail to pay the amount owed. Bills of exchange also constitute an attractive means of payment, because they are a source of short-term financing by means of discounting, installment, or transfer.
Promissory notes are used to record the financial details of personal debts, business debts and real estate transactions. They are legally binding contracts that can be used in a court of law if the debtor defaults. A promissory note acts as solid evidence of an agreed payment, and subsequently debt in case of dispute.
Nevertheless, bank transfers are becoming the most popular means of payment for both domestic and international transactions.
Debt collection
Amicable phase
Debt collection must begin with an attempt to reach an amicable settlement. Creditors attempt to contact their debtors through different means (telephone calls, written reminders such as formal letters, emails or extrajudicial notifications, etc.). Amicable settlement negotiations can be intense, and cover aspects such as the number of payment installments, write-offs, guarantees/collateral, and grace period interest. Moroccan law states that a lawyer can acknowledge the signature of the debtor via payment plans, which are signed, certified, and legalized by the competent authorities in Morocco. The creditors' lawyer can subsequently use this payment agreement as debt recognition in case of legal action.
Legal proceedings
Morocco has a dual legal system that consists of secular courts based on French legal tradition and courts based on Islamic traditions. The appointments in brackets are written in French because they are the own appointments of different courts in Morocco.
Secular courts includes proximity courts (juridictions de proximité) in charge of settling disputes between individuals, Courts of First Instance (tribunaux de première instance) dealing with all civil matters, Commercial Courts dealing with business disputes, Appellate Courts (Cours d'Appel) dealing with civil and administrative matters, and a Court of Cassation (Cour de Cassation).
There are 27 Sadad Courts, which are courts of first instance for Muslim and Jewish personal law.
Fast-track proceedings
The order to pay is available when the debt has a contractual cause or the obligation is of a statutory origin. It is characterized by a petition form sent to the relevant clerk of the court. The debt must be certain, liquid (i.e. clean and clear), due, and uncontested. An enforceable order to pay is obtained within an average delivery time of six months, unless the defendant lodges an opposition against the ruling. In the defendant opposes the order within one month of being served, the case is referred to ordinary proceedings.
Ordinary proceedings
A writ of summons is sent by the creditor's representative to the relevant court and served by a bailiff to the debtor, who may subsequently obtain legal representation in the period prescribed by the judge and file a counter claim. Several hearings may be required for the exchange of written submissions, transmissions of documents and to produce the relevant evidence.
The main hearing is set by the judge to hear the presentation of the pleadings. Discussions and pleadings are conducted by the judge during the public hearing. The case is then taken under deliberation to allow judges to discuss the means, grounds, and pronouncement that make up the content of the judgment. After the sitting of the judgers, a reasoned judgment is rendered. It can usually be obtained within an average delivery time of one year.
Enforcement of a court decision
Once all appeal venues have been exhausted, a judgment becomes final and enforceable. Garnishee orders are normally efficient for seizing and selling the debtor's assets.
According to Moroccan law, commercial courts are obliged to recognize judgments rendered abroad, even if there is no convention signed for this purposes with the issuing country. In order to be recognized and enforced, the original copy of the foreign judgment must be provided to the court with a certificate of non-appeal.
When a foreigner gets final judgment that they want to enforce in Morocco and, if not, when seeking enforcement of a Moroccan judgment abroad, they must follow exequatur proceedings.
There are two enforcement procedures. The first is uniquely Moroccan, whereas the second is fixed by judicial bilateral agreement between Morocco and other countries, including Germany, Belgium, the United States of America, the United Arab Emirates, Spain, France, Italy and Libya
Insolvency proceedings
Insolvency proceedings are regulated by Book V of the Commercial Code. It provides for prevention of difficulties (alert procedure and amicable settlement procedure) as well as formal insolvency procedures (judicial rehabilitation proceedings and judicial liquidation proceedings).
Alert procedure
Businesses are compelled to work towards the internal prevention of their financial difficulties and recovery with the aim of maintaining their activity. The alert procedure is initiated by a business' auditors or partners (external auditors hired by the company to rectify the financial situation), who are required to notify the manager of the business of any opportunities to redress the situation within eight days. If no steps are taken to remedy the situation within fifteen days, a general assembly must be convened to take a decision on how to redress the situation based on the auditor's report.
Amicable settlement procedure
Amicable settlement procedures can only be implemented by a commercial company, trader, or artisan, who is experiencing financial difficulties but is not yet cash flow insolvent. Once initiated, the debtor is placed under the supervision of the Court. The Court subsequently appoints an external mediator for a limited period of three months to assist the debtor in reaching an agreement with its creditors. A settlement can be reached with all creditors or the debtor's "main creditors". Creditors are entitled to their entire claim, but the mediator may propose an arrangement or creditors may assign a portion of the debt if they so wish. Once approved by the Court, all judicial proceedings relating to debts covered by the agreement are suspended for the duration of the amicable settlement agreement.
Judicial rehabilitation proceedings
This insolvency procedure is only available for debtors that have become insolvent (état de cessation de paiement), but whose financial situation is not irreparably compromised. An insolvency judge and an office holder (the person appointed by the court as part of an insolvency or liquidation; also acts as the syndicate) are appointed by the court. During the process, the debtor and its management remain in possession of the company's assets and the debtor continues its business. The rehabilitation procedure can result in either the reorganization of the debtor's business or its liquidation. The office holder is required to prepare a report on the situation of the company within four months from the opening of the proceedings. In his report, the office holder will either recommend a rehabilitation plan for the debtor, the sale of the business, or liquidation. The court is then required to reach a decision on the fate of the debtor, based on the report. There is no direct vote by the creditors on the options available to the debtor during the procedure.
Judicial liquidation proceedings
The judgment initiating the procedure makes all the debts immediately due and payable, the creditors within a period of two months must present their claims. Moroccan creditors have two months to submit their declarations; creditors residing abroad have a period of four months. Liquidation proceedings may terminate prematurely before a distribution in liquidation if:
- the debtor has no more debt, or
- the office holder has sufficient funds to pay all the creditors in their entirety, or
- the debtor does not have enough assets to cover the costs of the liquidation procedure.
Under Moroccan law, there are no specific rules on the priority of claims in the event of insolvency. Nevertheless, there are some privileged creditors such as: the employees, the public treasury, the social agencies, the creditors of a collective conciliation, finally the unsecured creditors.


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From the series "Big Face, Transgender Intimate Portraits". A series of decontextualized street portraits taken in informal circumstances and with natural light, using an extreme close-up as the main format to create uncomfortable results for the viewers. Working in an intimate close-up, these portraits destabilize the conventional notions of male and female faces through presenting the real face of the LGBT community in Mexico City.
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|pt. I. How are we taxed? : 1. The view from 30,000 feet: Why is everyone always so worked up about taxation?, What is a tax?, What are the major kinds of taxes?, How are taxes like ducks?, Are there "hidden' taxes?, --
Are there ways to raise revenue other than taxes?, Why not just borrow the money instead of raising taxes?, How can taxes be like regulations?, How have taxes changed over time?, How do state and local taxes vary?, How does the composition of tax vary across federal, state, and local governments?, How do tax burdens vary around the world?, Federal taxes in the United States have been at about 18 percent of GDP for 50 years. Does that mean that this is the natural rate of taxation?, Why is the long-term fiscal outlook so dire?, Can taxes be discussed without getting into government spending? ; 2. Personal income taxes: What's the difference between personal taxes and business taxes?, Who really bears the burden of tax?, Are there cases in practice where it does matter who writes the check?, Can taxes affect asset prices?, What is the personal income tax?, Isn't the income tax a fraud?, What are exclusions, deductions, exemptions, and credits?, Why are there itemized deductions? Isn't it unfair that most people don't benefit from them?, At what income level do people start owing income tax?, Is it true that half of households owe no income taxes?, Is this bad for democracy?, Do we tax capital income the same as labor income?, What is economic income?, Why do economists think my home earns me rent?, Why don't we tax economic income?, How do we tax capital gains and dividends?, What are the arguments for and against lower capital gains tax rates?, What is the "angel of death" loophole?, If we want to favor capital gains and dividends, does it make sense to do it via lower rates?, What is the AMT?, Where the heck did this turkey come from and why is it so hard to get rid of?, What is the AMT patch?, What is the "Buffett Rule"?, What are hidden tax brackets?, Does Uncle Sam really want you to live in sin?, How does inflation affect the income tax?, What are payroll taxes and how are they different from income taxes?, Aren't other taxes also dedicated to Medicare and Social Security?, Is it true that most taxpayers owe more payroll than income tax? ; 3. Business income taxes: How do we tax corporations' income?, Why do economists say that we "double tax" corporation income?, What are the other ways business income is taxed?, Why tax corporations?, Which people bear the burden of the corporate income tax?, What are the impacts of double-taxing corporate income?, What would happen if we just eliminated the corporate income tax?, How can some companies get away with paying no income tax despite billions in profits?, Why is it troublesome that some companies view their tax departments as profit centers?, Income earned by corporations is double-taxed, and tax avoidance opportunities abound: is corporate income taxed too much, or too little?, What is depreciation?, What is "bonus depreciation"?, Are there implicit spending programs run through the corporate income tax?, Are multinational corporations taxed differently than domestic companies?, What is a foreign tax credit, Why do we try to tax corporations on their worldwide income? Why not follow the practice in most of Europe and simply exempt foreign income from tax?, What is transfer pricing? Why is it important to multinational corporations (and taxpayers)?, What is formulary apportionment? Would that be a better option than trying to enforce pricing rules?, What are tax havens?, How does the U.S. corporate tax rate compare to the rate of other countries?, Does our relatively high corporate tax rate hurt our companies' competitiveness and the country's competitiveness?, How do recent corporate tax reform proposals work? 4. Taxing spending: What is a consumption tax?, Why tax consumption rather than income?, A consumption tax sounds great. What's the catch?, What is a retail sales tax?, What is a use tax?, What is a luxury tax?, What is an excise tax?, What is a sin tax?, What is a Pigouvian tax?, What is a VAT?, The credit-invoice VAT sounds really complicated. Why do it that way?, Are small businesses subject to the VAT?, Why doesn't the United States have a VAT?, How much money would a VAT raise?, What is the typical VAT rate in other countries?, How would a federal VAT interact with state and local sales taxes?, Does a VAT promote exports?, What is the flat tax?, Wouldn't a flat tax be super simple and fair?, There are flat taxes all over Eastern Europe. Are they the same as the flat tax advocated for the United States?, What is the X tax?, What is a consumed income tax?, Are tax breaks for saving and retirement indirect steps toward a consumption tax?, Do these tax breaks actually encourage saving?, If the economy runs on consumption, why would we want to encourage saving?, What's the difference between Roth and traditional IRAs?, Do consumption taxes disproportionately burden the old? ; 5. Other kinds of taxes: What is the estate tax?, How is estate tax liability calculated?, Why tax estates when the assets that went into them were already subject to plenty of tax?, What are the estate tax's effects on work and saving?, How does the estate tax affect small businesses and family farms?, What is the difference between an estate tax and an inheritance tax?, What is a financial transaction tax?, What is the property tax?, What is a lump-sum tax?, Do economists have other goofy ideas about ideal tax systems?, Do these ideas explain why people don't like economists? pt. II. The costs and benefits of taxation : 6. Taxes and the economy: How do taxes affect the economy?, Why do economists think that raising funds costs much more than the tax sticker price?, Do some taxes help the economy?, What is the Laffer Curve?, Which is a better economic stimulus, cutting taxes or spending more?, What kinds of taxes provide the most stimulus?, What are built-in stabilizers?, Why do smart, serious people disagree about optimal tax policy?, How do taxes affect prosperity and growth?, How do taxes affect working and saving?, How do taxes affect entrepreneurship?, How do taxes affect research and innovation?, What is "trickle-down" economics?, Why not run deficits forever?, If people care about their children, won't they just save more to make up for any deficits? That is, do deficits matter at all? ; 7. The hidden welfare state: Are a trillion dollars in middle-class entitlement programs really hidden in the tax code?, What exactly is a tax expenditure?, Why do we call tax expenditures entitlement programs? They're tax cuts, Who benefits from tax expenditures?, Why has the use of tax expenditures been growing in recent years?, How should policymakers decide whether to run a subsidy through the tax system?, How should tax expenditures be designed?, Are all tax expenditures run through the income tax?, Is the whole concept of tax expenditures based on the fallacious assumption that government owns all your money? ; 8. The burden of taxation: What makes a tax system fair?, What is the benefit principle?, Do special fairness concerns come into play when tax laws change?, How is the tax burden distributed?, What is the burden of deficits?, Is progressive taxation class warfare? ; 9. Tax administration and enforcement: How much does it cost to run the U.S. tax system?, How does tax remittance and collection work?, Who gets audited, and why? What's the DIF?, What is information reporting?, What is tax withholding?, Why do people cheat on their taxes? Why do they comply?, How much cheating is there?, How much more tax could the IRS collect with better enforcement?, Why not audit everyone?, Are refundable tax credits especially prone to tax evasion?, Do most people get tax refunds? Should I?, How many people use tax preparers? Do they help or hinder compliance?; How should tax complexity be measured?, Do fewer tax brackets promote simplicity?, Why is there a trade-off between simplicity and other goals such as fairness?, Should states be able to tax Internet and mail-order sales from other states?, How fast are we moving toward e-filing?, If almost everyone use tax software or paid preparers, should we stop worrying about complexity? Should we start worrying about democracy?, Could most taxpayers be spared any filing requirement (as in the United Kingdom)?, Could the IRS fill out our tax returns for us?, Would simplifying tax compliance be unfair to H & R Block and Intuit?, What is a data retrieval platform? pt. III. A tour of the sausage factory : 10. Misperceptions and reality in the policy process: What does the public know about taxes?, What does the public think about taxes?, How are new taxes enacted?, What are regulations and why are they important?, How does the tax sausage get made? (House and Senate rules), Who estimates the revenue impact of tax changes?, How do they do it? Do they ignore behavioral responses to taxation?, What is dynamic scoring?, Must taxes be raised?, Can we solve the problem by raising tax rates only on those with high incomes? ; 11. Snake oil: The FairTax sounds, well, fair : is it?, Wouldn't a flat tax be super-simple and efficient?, How about offering a new tax system on an elective basis?, What is the "starve-the-beast" theory?, Does the taxpayer protection pledge protect taxpayers?, What is the "two Santa Claus" theory? ; 12. Tax reform: Tax reformers talk about a broad base and low rates. What does that mean?, Is the broadest base always the best base?, Does the framing of taxes matter?, What is a revenue-neutral tax change?, Should tax reform and deficit reduction be separated?, Are there some sensible tax reform ideas?, What have we learned?
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|Leonard E. Burman, Joel Slemrod.
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Kristin & Sonny's Playful Bungalow
Who Lives Here: Kristin, Sonny, daughter Loie and a fish named Thing
Location: Livermore, California
Tell us about this home: "Walkability was a huge factor when we were looking to buy a house. We wanted to be in walking distance to downtown, farmer's market, the library and other amenities our town had to offer. We were also hoping to live in an older home. Location, age, price and a competitive market left us searching for almost a year and half before getting the keys to this charming 1929 bungalow..." More photos below:
"We haven't had to do much, just add our playful and forward thinking style to the bungalow's existing charm. Since we moved in, we have repainted with low VOC paints and started an herb and vegetable garden. We have also added small touches with vintage and salvaged furnishings both inside and out.
One of our favorite places that we just recently finished is our outdoor dining area. Vintage windows hang from the existing trellis to help define the space. Below stock tanks serve as raised garden beds and enclose one side. Using reclaimed redwood and galvanized pipes we assembled a long dining table. The low seating vintage chairs add a burst of color and playfulness to this rustic dining space."
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Orlando Mini Maker Faire
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Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly celebration featuring DIY science and technology, rockets, robots, arts, crafts, and music. With over 28 thousand square feet of air conditioned exhibits plus a Power Racing Track, Orlando Mini Maker Faire will be one of the largest community organized "Mini" Maker Faire events in 2012.
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After Monday's Harvey County Commission meeting, commissioners took a short road trip down to 12th Street and Halstead Road to celebrate the culmination of a project involving a partnership between the county government and private citizens.
County officials and cycling enthusiasts watched workers install a new bicycle safety sign designed to remind motorists that by law, they must give cyclists at least three feet of clearance when passing them on the road.
The ReNewton Bicycling Initiative group came up with the idea for the project. About 70 signs will be placed alongside county roads, and the signs will be 30 inches by 30 inches in size. Community members raised the funds for the signs, contributing about $1,400.
Other business
At their meeting Monday, commissioners also reviewed bids for the replacement of the county's current phone and voicemail system.
Anthony Swartzendruber, assistant administrator and finance director for the county, previously reported the current system was nearing the end of its useful life, and he believed it would be more cost-effective to purchase a new system rather than to keep making repairs to the old one.
Commissioners voted to award the project to the low bidder, Inside Connection Communications, for $24,285. About $30,000 originally had been budgeted for the project.
Commissioners also said they liked the fact the low bidder for the project offered lower hourly rates for technical support and programming than the other bidder on the project.
Swartzendruber also presented a year end fiscal report, informing commissioners how the county fared financially in 2012. He said the county's assessed valuation is on the rise again, after experiencing a drop from 2009 to 2010 due to the economy.
According to initial unaudited figures, the county took in about $8.5 million in tax revenue. Some of the county's largest expenditures were personnel at $6.1 million, and public safety at $5.5 million.
Swartzendruber said the county was able to save money due to lower than anticipated utility and fuel costs, and staff also worked to reduce overtime expenses.


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What The RIAA Is Really Afraid Of: Its Own Demise
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It's no secret that the RIAA has been known to fudge the numbers to prove their point that file sharing hurts sales. What was never entirely clear, however, was why they simply refused to believe any study that suggested file sharing could help sales. If anyone were interested in such studies, it should be the RIAA -- because they would show them a great way to increase sales (which should be their goal). However, Mark Cuban makes an excellent point about why the RIAA is acting the way they are, despite these studies. Even if sales are up, it's not the sales of RIAA members. Cuban suggests that sales are probably up, but it's the independent musicians who are making up the difference, while RIAA member sales are holding steady, or slightly decreasing. Remember, the RIAA represents the big music labels -- not the tiny ones. Almost everyone agrees that the real impact of file sharing is that it spreads the success outward. Rather than just a few mega-rockstars, you get many more successful musicians. The big record labels have built their business models on the idea of just a few mega-rockstars dominating the market. What this means, then, is that the RIAA members are losing marketshare. It's not overall sales that are down, it's just that the competition from smaller players is taking away sales from the big labels -- which is why that coalition of independent artists is supporting the Grokster side of the case. If this theory is true (and a lot of the evidence does seem to support it), then what the RIAA is really fighting about is not saving the recording industry. It's about saving the RIAA.


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PRATT - Wayne W. "Jake" Williams, 93, retired farmer, passed away on March 20, 2013 at the Kansas Medical Center in Andover, Kansas. Wayne was a life-long resident of Preston and Pratt County.
Wayne was born on January 27, 1920, in Cadillac, Michigan to parents, S. A. and Belle Dietz Williams. He graduated from Preston (Ks) High School and attended Pratt Junior College and Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina Ks. On March 11, 1943, he married Helen Nelson of Wayne, Ks. Wayne served in World War II in the Army Air Corps at Eagle Pass, Texas. After the war, Wayne farmed in Pratt County for most of his life on the family farm near Preston, Ks. He was active in the Preston community, Preston Methodist Church, Democratic Party, 4-H, American Legion, B.P.O.E, and at one time ran for Kansas State Representative. Even though he retired from active farming in the 1980s, he still maintained an active participation in the family farm business and lived at home in Pratt until his death. Wayne loved people and would stop and talk to anyone. His gregarious and irreverent nature enlivened all conversations and "discussions" and will be greatly missed.
Wayne was preceded in death by his wife, Helen, brothers, Paddy, John and Jack, and daughter Diane. He is survived by: brother, Lyle Williams (Muskegon, MI); sister, Claudia Long (White Cloud, MI); children, Douglas (Madelyn) Williams (Woodland, CA), Don (Mary) Williams (Bel Aire, KS), Diedra (Bill) Woolery (Clearwater, KS), and Drew (Shirleyann) Williams (Wichita, KS). He was a friend and confidant to his 23 nieces and nephews. He is also survived by 13 grandchildren, and step-grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren.
At his request, no funeral services are planned. He indicated to us many times, he preferred you to visit him when he was still alive. A memorial reception will be announced in the near future. As he would say today to all "Sending 4 Big Hugs! May all your needs be met and all your dreams come true."
Memorials may be sent in care of Larrison Mortuary, Pratt KS. These are some suggested recipients, Prairie Travelers Inc. c/o Prairie Sunset Trails, Kansas Democratic Women, American Cancer Society, Pratt County 4-H Clubs, American Heart Association, American Diabetes Association, or the Pratt County Library.


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The most likely scenario is as follows:Justice Department seeks to throw out major terror conviction
There was a trial. Sombody was convicted (found to be guilty) by a jury. JD wants a judge to overturn the verdict of the jury. JD seeks to have the conviction thrown out of court by the judge.
Sharper doesn't work well here unless there is a context of competition among astronomers looking for new planets, resulting in a sharper era of competition[/b][/i]Astronomers have discovered four new planets in a week's time, an exciting end-of-summer flurry that signals a sharper era in the hunt for new worlds.
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CENTRAL ISLIP, New York (Reuters) - U.S. officials on Friday arrested a 25-year-old man in a New York suburb and charged him with trying to travel to Yemen to join al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, one of the most active wings of the militant network.
The man, Marcos Alonso Zea, pleaded not guilty to the charges contained in court papers unsealed on Friday contending he sought to join and provide aid to the group, which the United States regards as one of the most active wings of the militant network.
Appearing in U.S. District Court in Central Islip, New York, not far from his Brentwood home, where he was arrested earlier in the day, Zea answered "yes" when Magistrate Judge Arlene Lindsay asked if he understood the charges contained in the five-count indictment.
No bail offer was made and Lindsay noted that "the evidence strongly suggests the defendant poses a danger to the community and given his previous actions, a risk of flight."
Prosecutors charged that Zea planned to join al Qaeda outside the United States that would result in murder.
The United States also charged Zea, who appeared in court wearing a brown shirt and brown pants, his hair pulled back in a ponytail, with attempting to give money to al Qaeda affiliates.
Zea tried to destroy his computers when he learned he was under investigation, prosecutors said. But investigators were able retrieve documents including issues of al Qaeda's "Inspire" magazine from his hard drives. They also recovered a semi-automatic rifle that Zea had given to an acquaintance before his planned trip to Yemen, prosecutors said.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has claimed responsibility for the attempt by a Nigerian man on Christmas Day 2009 to take down a Detroit-bound airliner with a bomb concealed in his underwear.
After the hearing, Zea's parents denied that he had any role in a terror plot.
"This is all lies. All fake. I raised my son, I know who he is," said his mother, Sandra Zea.
Marcos Zea's parents said they had raised him as a Roman Catholic but that about three years ago he began attending a mosque in their hometown of Brentwood, New York, about 50 miles east of Manhattan.
Alvaro Zea, said his son told him he had converted to Islam last year, after he was returned to the U.S. after flying to London.
"I said 'Why? Why are you telling me this,?' And he said, 'I like the religion and religion is free,'" the elder Zea told reporters after the hearing.
The parents said they asked their son to stop attending the mosque in 2012, claiming their entire family was being watched by the FBI.
Zea faces five criminal counts that include conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country, two counts of trying to provide support to terrorists or terrorist organizations, and two counts of obstruction.
"Despite being born and raised in the United States, Zea allegedly betrayed his country and attempted to travel to Yemen in order to join a terrorist organization," said Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
Federal prosecutors said that in January 2012, Zea attempted to fly from New York to Yemen, but was intercepted by British customs officials while changing planes and returned to the United States. Having been foiled in his attempt to reach Yemen, he then helped an 18-year-old associate, Justin Kaliebe, attempt a similar trip in January 2013.
Kaliebe was arrested while trying to board a flight to Oman and charged with trying to provide support to terrorists, according to court papers.
A law enforcement official familiar with the case said investigators had "no indications" that Zea or Kaliebe were actively recruited by al Qaeda operatives. The official said investigators believed the two had been indoctrinated by al Qaeda messaging and propaganda disseminated over the Internet.
The official also said that while there is no reason to believe the two men are part of a larger militant network, the fact they apparently teamed up "demonstrates that oftentimes individuals sharing a warped ideology find support and encouragement from one another."
The law enforcement official said the prosecutions of Zea and Kaliebe grew out of a joint investigation by federal and local authorities. An officer from the Intelligence Division of the New York Police Department developed a relationship with Zea and learned through statements by Zea and his associates that Zea was going to be traveling overseas in January 2012 to join the Ansar al Sharia militant group.
Additional reporting by Mark Hosenball in Washington; Writing by Scott Malone; Editing by Steve Orlofsky, Bernadette Baum, Bob Burgdorfer and Gunna Dickson


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There's little comfort in their early lead however, with Harry Melges' Star tied on seven points and second on a countback.
North American crews overwhelmed the 26 boat field on day one of the five day, 12 race regatta, filling the top three places.
Larson swept to victory in the first two races, aggressively covering Star as the pair aimed at the finish line in race one, then dropped to fifth in race three.
Harry Melges and tactician Andy Burdick scored two seconds and a third, the same consistency that furnished Star with a win in last week's Melges 24 Open Australian Nationals on the bay.
Bruce Ayers' Monsoon (USA) completed the top three thanks to a bullet in the final race of the day.
Larson was the 2009 Melges 24 world champion and he's reunited with his winning team, including Emirates Team New Zealand and five time Canadian Olympic sailor Richard Clarke, for the first southern hemisphere staging of the title.
"We now have Richard our tactician on the water with us so it's the same crew as the 2009 worlds," Larson said. "We haven't sailed together since then. Today was an encouraging start to our campaign.
"Corio Bay has flat water and it's super shifty. It's definitely challenging. The person who ends up on top will be the most consistent, and not have a bad race," added Larson.
Last night teams from Japan, Italy, Switzerland, USA, Germany and Canada were treated to a surprise at the official welcome function held at the Royal Geelong Yacht Club - native Australian animals they could touch and hold.
"We got to meet the local animals last night. We are learning there are a lot of things that will hurt you in Australia," Larson jested.
Harry Melges was all smiles at the day's end, "It felt good out there, a lot of breeze and really shifty; a lot of opportunities to gain and lose. It's good to be mixing it up at the top."
Star's bowman Federico Michetti, a five-time Melges 24 world champion added, "It's a really tough level. We are having a great time here at the yacht club with the guys".
A 20 degree temperature drop from yesterday's scorcher alleviated the discomfort off the track. On the course on the northern side of Corio Bay it was a different story; unrest at the starts, congested mark roundings with up to seven Melges 24s abreast going around the top mark buoys, and some crunching fibreglass.
Brendan Garner's Melges 24 Team Morris Finance was put together late for the world championship, one of the crew driving nearly 2,000 kilometres to Sydney and back to Geelong last week, including registering the trailer.
Today at 12.30pm the crew stepped aboard for the first time, just an hour before the world's opening bout.
Team Morris Finance had a clean race one and two then tangled with another boat in race three and was hit. "It gets pretty busy at those marks," said Garner. "One of the other boats fell onto port and caused a fairly big pile up. We had nowhere to go. Lucky for us there's no damage."
On sailing with the world's best in the class Garner added, "A couple of times we had Harry Melges right next to us then we came around the top mark and said to each other 'where did he go?'"
Top Corinthian boat was Robin Deussen's Red Mist from Adelaide Sailing Club. A fifth and a sixth had them best-placed Australian boat overall after race two.
"To have a fifth and a sixth from such a strong fleet is pretty good," said Deussen. "We are still trying to figure out the boat, it's an older version but in good nick. It depends how you sail it.
"We came here to fight amongst the big boys," Deussen warned.
Nathan Wilmot's Melges Asia Pacific Kaito is the highest ranked Australian team.
The Gill Melges 24 World Championship 2014, opened with an average 14-16 knot sou'east breeze, shifty at the top mark and puffs up to 21 knots.
It was text book race management for PRO Hank Stuart for races one and two, a conservative fleet starting on time with just one OCS each time.
Then the fleet pushed hard, forcing two general recalls before race three began cleanly.
Tomorrow's forecast is for afternoon sea breezes up to 20 knots. Racing is scheduled to start with a 1330 hours warning signal.
Series Results [Open] up to Race 3
1 - 19 CAVILLINO / MCLUBE Chris Larson (CAN795)
2 - 17 STAR Harry Melges (USA841)
3 - 24 MONSOON Bruce Ayres (USA747)
4 - 21 BLU MOON Flavio Favini (SUI825)
5 - 26 ALTEA Andrea Rachelli (ITA735)
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For most people, except maybe for Bill Gates or Warren Buffett, $16 billion is a lot of money. Former National Cotton Council Chairman Kenneth Hood would concede that going into the debate on the 2007 farm bill.
In the bigger picture, however, $16 billion is miniscule, accounting for only 0.6 of a percent of the federal budget, according to Hood, a farmer, ginner and precision agriculture advocate from Perthshire, Miss.
"Let's put that in perspective," Hood told a group of young farmers and ranchers. "The current farm bill costs $16 billion. A single B-2 bomber costs $1 billion. The Iraq War has already cost in excess of $200 billion. The Hurricane Katrina recovery is now over $200 billion.
"The task you and I face is to convince America it is worth that $16 billion a year to ensure that we produce an abundant supply of food and fiber here in the United States."
Speaking at a Mississippi Farm Bureau Region One Young Farmer/Rancher Symposium in Batesville, Hood said the outlook for a new farm bill is fraught with uncertainty.
"It changes every 30 days," he said. "Forty-five days ago I would have guaranteed you we would have an extension of the current law. I just got back from Washington, and I would almost guarantee you we won't have an extension of the current law."
That means the writing of a new farm bill and any number of challenges for farmers, including the ongoing WTO negotiations, the federal budget deficit, budget pressures from the Iraq War and this fall's mid-term, congressional elections.
"We've been fairly secure with the leadership we've enjoyed in the House and Senate," he said. "But if this thing turns around like some are projecting, we won't have the same committee chairmen that we have now. Where would we be without Sen. Saxby Chambliss and Sen. Thad Cochran and other leaders?
"If we lose them (the current chairmen of the Agriculture Committee and the Appropriations Committee), things won't be the same for agriculture. And the members of those committees in the Senate and the House will change, as well."
All of these challenges — the Doha Round, the federal budget deficit, and changes in Congress — could alter the landscape for agriculture in the coming years, he said.
"So what is the future of domestic support programs?" he asked. "What's the future of our counter-cyclical payment? The loan deficiency payment? Maybe even the CCC loan itself? There's a lot of heat on it right now."
Hood said southern farmers are fortunate to have two organizations — the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Cotton Council — representing them in the effort to write and pass a new farm bill.
"Both of them have been in the forefront of agricultural changes," he said. "Both of them helped us overcome the challenges that we have. But they also pursue the opportunities that are out there for us. They are the envy of all others."
The debate over the next farm bill can be summed up in a few words, he said. "On one side are those who fear payments will be cut. On the other, you've got those who think payments are too high. In some way, form or fashion, something will have to pull these two sides closer together."
Farmers who have always been inventive when it comes to farm policy — with ideas such as the marketing loan and counter-cyclical payments — must rise to the occasion again, Hood noted.
"As Sen. Cochran told me in one of my last visits, 'You'd better go home and do some serious, innovative thinking,'" said Hood. "They need help. They want to know what can we do to replace the counter-cyclical payment, for example.
"We've got to come up with new ideas to offset the potential reduction in payments because not only will this affect income, it's going to affect equity. We don't have to go back very far to the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act to see what it did to our local communities. Look at what happened to equity."
One of the questions that has to be answered is how much "pain" farmers can stand in the name of free trade.
"That's what we hear about all the time — free trade and market access," he said. "Market access is not worth a flip if the price is so low that you can't sell your crop. Until the rest of the world reaches our standard of living, we cannot maintain our domestic food supply without providing support to keep the farmer in business."
Another question farmers must answer is whether the United States will "sit idly by" and watch production agriculture go the way of steel, gas, oil, fertilizer and, more recently, the textile industry.
"I don't want my children and grandchildren having to depend on another country for a loaf of bread, and I don't think you do, either," said Hood. "We've got to change the mindset of people in the United States so that we don't have to depend on other countries for all of the necessities of life."


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Just a quick post. Ill do an in depth review once i can figure out how to post pictures again. Simply put this is one of the best fun and functional guns you can buy for $300. It will eat anything, from reloads to corbons. 50yd accuracy with a 2 mil dot red dot scope from walmart is sub 6". I have not tried the magpul extended mags, i have 6 of the factory 10 rnd mags. Its heavy, has a plastic trigger ( that hasnt failed in over 3000 rnds) Shooting reloads or even WWB its a cheap, fun plinker. with a light/lazer its my wife's home defense gun.(Shes a recoil whimp). You can get it in 9, 40, or 45acp. As I am a bigger is better guy i went with the .45. Ive Chrono'd Winchester Ranger +p rounds at 700 fps at 50 yds. 1050 at the muzzle. 25 yd zero gives you less than 2" of drop at 50 yds. For those of you that live in the country this might not be exciting. But for us Urban dwellers 50 yds is zombie range. Its not a tack driver, and its trigger leaves a lot to be desired, but for the money its a honey!
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This could be interesting; I'll look forward to your review.
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The pharmaceutical business is an extremely profitable one. According to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics, spending on medicine in the U.S. alone exceeded $307 billion in 2010. For many drug makers, one money-spinner can carry a company for years, even longer, before the patent expires and low-cost generic versions can be made.
The IMS recently released its annual list of the ten top-selling drugs in the US, based on sales. Each of them have brought in at least $3 billion dollars.
However, a majority of these drugs will lose patent protection in the next five years. Generic versions will quickly dent sales and revenue.
Here's a look at their sales, when their patent protection expires and which generic drug makers will offer alternatives.
IMS data is based on only U.S. sales and wholesaler invoice prices; it does not reflect off-invoice discount and rebates, thus total dollar sales numbers almost always exceed those provided by the manufacturers themselves.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's most influential aide on Saturday rejected criticism from China that Japan is lurching toward militarism and said Tokyo would keep seeking dialogue with both Beijing and Seoul, ties with which have been badly strained by rows over territory and wartime history.
Sino-Japanese ties, long plagued by China's bitter memories of Tokyo's wartime aggression, have worsened since a feud over disputed East China Sea islands flared in 2012. Relations with South Korea are also badly frayed by a separate territorial row and the legacy of Japan's 1910-1945 colonization.
"For the 69 years since the end of World War Two, we have built the present-day Japan based on the notions of freedom, democracy and peace," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, who acts as Japan's top government spokesman and is one of Abe's most trusted aides, told Reuters in an interview.
"They say that Japan is a military power but (the defense budget increase in the year to March) was just 0.8 percent, while China has kept increasing its defense budget by more than 10 percent annually for 20 years," Suga said. "To be called 'militarist' by such a country is completely off the mark."
China's announcement late last year of a new air defense identification zone, including the skies over the disputed isles, increased tensions with Beijing, while Abe's December visit to a controversial shrine for war dead seen by critics as a symbol of Japan's past militarism further marred Tokyo's ties with its two Asian neighbors.
Japan's close ally the United States has made clear it is keen to see a dialing down of tensions in the region.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in Asia ahead of President Barack Obama's April visit to the region, on Thursday urged Tokyo and Seoul to "put history behind them" and calm tensions in the face of the threat from a volatile North Korea.
Looming large among the issues fraying Japan's relations with South Korea is the question of compensation and an apology to so-called "comfort women", as the women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime military brothels are euphemistically known. Many of those women were Korean.
Suga reiterated Japan's stance that the matter of compensation was settled in the framework of a 1965 treaty establishing diplomatic ties. In 1993 Japan's then-government spokesman, Yohei Kono, issued a statement apologizing for the involvement of Japan's military in the brothels.
In 1995, Japan set up a fund to make payments to the women from private contributions, but South Korea says that was not official and so not enough.
Japanese media have speculated about a possible summit between Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye during a international nuclear security summit at The Hague next month, but Suga declined to comment on the prospects.
"China and South Korea are neighboring countries, so the door to dialogue is always open, and while stressing what we must stress, we want to deal with both countries calmly and from a broad perspective," he said.
Suga also said that Tokyo's ties with Washington were solid despite Abe's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, where wartime leaders convicted as war criminals are honored along with other war dead.
The United States issued a rare public statement of disappointment after the December pilgrimage, which Abe said was not intended to honor the "Class-A" war criminals enshrined there but to pay his respects to those who died for their country and to promise never again to go to war.
"The U.S.-Japan relationship is not wavering," Suga said.
He cited progress on a plan to relocate a U.S. Marine Corps air base on Japan's Okinawa island, Abe's decision to join talks on Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free-trade pact and Tokyo's decision to join a treaty for cross-border child custody disputes, steps urged when Obama met Abe last February.
The governor of Okinawa has signed off on a plan to relocate the Futenma air base from a crowded part of the southern Japanese island to the less populated city of Nago. But Abe suffered a setback when the incumbent mayor of Nago, who opposes the plan, was re-elected last month.
The central government has nonetheless vowed to go ahead with the controversial relocation plan, which is opposed by many residents who link the U.S. bases with crime, accidents and pollution.
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I'd rather teach Numitor about the law than argue with you, Denny, about my own life. I am currently offering free lessons to law school students who want to go more in depth in the legal analysis of the law. I will teach people what I know on my spare time. I start my last semester in two weeks and the class line-up is easy and small so I have virtually nothing to do except wait to take the LSAT... I won't be going to Harvard until next fall so I will be bored throughout this year and the first half of the next since I decided not to work until I get a better pay grade, benefits, and office. As for class statistics, the topic, before it was derailed by a bunch of ruffians... You should not worry about the stats as they aren't tantamount to anything unless you're in the top percentile (especially on dumb curves). Be happy that you aren't getting kicked out and worry more about your understanding of the topic because the bar will weigh more than some class stats.
This is easily an ethical violation.
untrained people teaching law students about the law.
Many students who scored consistently high were discouraged to learn that their actual score was lower.
Therefore, he is free to @#!* up his future
Well hopefully your parent's die simultaneously so a goldigger doesn't come along and cut you out of the will (I hope that does not happen to you in all honesty, but I have seen that happen to a number of cocky rich kids and with 0 work experience and no parent's to back you up, you may have to get a menial job. Probably won't happen and you will be the greatest human being on earth and the bar won't care that you are violating ethics, you are sonofapickle. If you go into the stock market and do insider trading what does the SEC know? Nothing you are sonofapickle the GREATEST!
You realize he is a 100% fake personna just sporting on these boards right?I figured as much, but to hear the ridiclous responses are entertaining.


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We all have had a rough day today and I needed my own release, so I put together my own Sean tribute wallpaper. Let me tell you, it was rough putting this together with Sean watching the whole time, but I hope he likes it.
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TPDC needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 66 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
A logo for The Private Designer Collections - this project will follow up with a header that it fits in well with. We have a logo that can be seen here: http://www.privatedesigners.com. Also, to see WHERE it will be shown, look here: http://v120026.ak5xdw5exsjh.demo.vo…efault.asp
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TWO FAVORITES ARE #50 and #46
The Private Designer Collections
Think Barneys New York, Saks Fifth Avenue, eluxury - some sort of sexy stylish fashion forward logo that is easy to read as well, and will play well with a white background and a header it will be fit into after we find a good logo.
Also - avoid clipart - think of this as needing to be printed on a white shopping bag walking through the streets of NY - no one in their right mind would take a piece of cartoon clipart seriously.
- It must be sexy
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Name: Garth
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Age: 44
Location: South Africa
Hi, I fissured my butt sometime ago and I think it has healed. I have undergone a Lateral Sphincterotomy twice – inner and outer. Unfortunately the area is now VERY sensitive and when I defecate the area 'screams' in pain. The softer my stool the worse the pain. When my stool is firm, the pain is less. Will this go away? Is there any medication that I can use?
Everyone in my audience please listen up! I am not a medical doctor, nor do I play one on the internet. The Dr Dick moniker I use refers to my Ph.D. I am a clinical sexologist or a sex therapist if you prefer, not a physician. Get it? Got it? Good!
That being said, anal fissures are a common proctological problem, especially for the heavy ass play crowd. An anal fissure is a tear at the anal tissue. The most common complaint is pain in the anal region during and after taking a dump, itching and possibly some bleeding. Pain and irritation result in spasm of the internal anal sphincter muscle, which then fails to relax during defecation further aggravating the condition.
The lateral sphincterotomy you mention is a surgical procedure that removes the fissure. This operation remains the primary form of treatment for chronic anal fissure.
From all that I could learn from my medical consultants, if your surgeries healed properly you shouldn't be experiencing pain, let alone "screaming pain" when you shit. We all understand that the area will continue to be sensitive, but the pain you describe is not a good sign. You may very well have an infection. You need to have that looked at ASAP. This is nothing to roll around with.
Here's a tip for all everyone in my audience: pain, of any sort, is one way our body talks to us. Its message is: things are not as they should be; get it fixed NOW. Sometimes the pain will subside when we stop doing something…like holding our hand too close to a flame, or being flogged senseless by Christian Grey. Some pain will only subside when a condition is fixed…like getting a cavity in one's tooth filled. Other pain, like the emotional pain that come with depression is harder to soothe, but it is important to try. Finally, pain like Garth is experiencing means something is very wrong. And if not attended to immediately, things will only get worse.
Good luck