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The Volume Transit 2018 18 inch Bike is ready to be used by your little BMX rider on a very aggressive level. The Transit 18 inch is the 18 version of of Volume BMX team Rider, Billy Perry's bike and features a chromoly front triangle for strength and has an 18" top tube. Other high end features of the Volume Transit 18 inch bike are the sealed rear 9t cassette hub, intergrated headset and even a 4pc Mad Dog handlebar. The Transit 18 inch gets you the look and feel of a pro level bike but in a smaller size and with a much smaller price tag. Check the rest of the specs of the 18 inch Transit below.
- Frame: Chromoly front triangle
- Geometry: 18″ TT, 12.75″ CS, 75º HT, & 8.8″ ST Height
- Fork: Hi-Ten 2-pc steerer tube, threaded for pre-load bolt
- Bars: 4-pc Mad Dog type 8.25" high & 29" wide
- Stem: Volume Staple V2 Top Load
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- Brakes: Odyssey Springfield
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- Brake Cable: Linear
- Grips: Volume VLM w/ Bar Plugs
- Cranks: 8 splined spindle, 3pc tubular chromoly, 140mm
- Chainring: Alloy 25t
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I understand that for your body to absorb Vitamin D-3, it requires an oil. Is a quality flax seed oil supplement sufficient?
You had a wide variety of choices and you picked one of the few ones that does not work for this purpose. Flaxseed Oil, when taken in sufficient doses, does not get absorbed well. Flax oil forms what is called an oil-water partition in the gut.
If you are going to use an oil, your best bet is fish oil, followed by olive oil, followed by evening primrose oil, and maybe borage oil. Flaxseed and castor oil are the two things you should not use for this.
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In the past couple of weeks I've had some time to relax away from making pots and painting, and reflect on just how busy 2010 was for me! Pretty much rushed off my feet for most of the year, or so it seemed! And although it's been really good and I've learnt lots of things and had lots of positive feedback from people, in the last few months I've been feeling as though things were running away from me a bit: getting swept along in a rush. And so it seems a perfect time – especially since we're firmly into 2011 already – for me to re-evaluate what I'm doing.
Hence the photos of this teapot. A long time ago, back in March 2010, I made this 'unexpected teapot'. It was unexpected mostly because it was hand-built (which I don't really do, being mostly a potter) and also because it was unplanned and fairly spontaneous. And ever since then I've been meaning to blog about it when it came out of the kiln. It came out months ago but I never had the time to mention it. So here it is at last: slightly wobbly around the edges for being hand-built, but charmingly so I hope! It's been reduction fired in a gas kiln and glazed using a clear glaze that allows the natural iron in the clay to show through as a lovely speckled effect. It's only small – it holds just enough for a single cup of refreshing green tea - but it's very cute I hope you'll agree, and for once I decided to keep it all for myself (which is something I rarely do these days!)
But the point I'm trying to make is that this teapot was an experiment - and recently I've been feeling that experiments and creativity have been a bit sidelined in all the noisy demands and logistics of running a small art/craft business. It's probably inevitable at times that the 'business' side of things takes over, but I've decided that this year I'm going to be focusing much more on developing what I make by getting back to the creative side of things. Get the balance back. At least that's the plan.
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17 March 2017
Garraway Financial Trends has been recognised with another award, this time from the Hedge Fund Journal UCITS Hedge Awards 2017. Garraway Financial Trends has won the Best Performing Fund in 2016 in the Trend-Following CTA < $100m Strategy Assets category.
The prestigious Hedge Fund Journal UCITS Hedge Awards, now in their 6th year, are being held on 29 March 2017. They judge best performance as the best risk adjusted returns applying the Sharpe Ratio.
This further recognition follows the recent Top Ten Performance Award for 2016 from BarclayHedge and the maximum 5 Crown rating by Financial Express within the Managed Futures Sector, the only UCITS fund in the sector to hold this rating.


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The Adrian baseball team went 1-2 at the 2017 NCAA Division III Baseball Midwest Regional May 18-20 in Whitewater, Wis. to conclude their season with a 34-13 record.
The Bulldogs started the regional with a 5-2 win over St. Thomas in the opening round at Prucha Field, bolstered by a three-run triple from Brian Guck in the bottom of the eighth inning. After the Tommies scored twice in the top of the eighth, Adrian responded with five runs of their own to take the win. Tommy Parsons struck out eight in a complete-game effort on the mound.
On Friday, Adrian came up short in a 7-2 setback to No. 26 Concordia-Chicago, quieting a 3-for-5 effort at the plate by Ian Mikowski; the loss dropped the Bulldogs into the consolation bracket in the double-elimination regional.
Saturday featured wet and cold weather in Whitewater for Adrian's 11-8 loss against No. 19 St. Scholastica. St. Scholastica took the lead first with two runs in both the fourth and the fifth, but the Bulldogs answered with five runs in the following two innings to own a 5-4 lead. St. Scholastica fired back with three in the top of the eighth to regain the lead, only to have Adrian answer with three runs of their own in the bottom half. St. Scholastica then scored four in the top of the ninth and held Adrian in check.
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John Jacob Astor VI - a male celebrity - born on Sunday August 18th 1912, in New York, New York, United States.
John Jacob Astor VI possesses a great talent for creativity and self expression, typical of many accomplished writers, poets, actors and musicians. He is also witty, owns the gift for gab, and savors the limelight.
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Volkswagen announced that it would end production of its iconic Beetle cars in 2019 following a pair of final editions of the insect-inspired vehicles, reported News.com.au (Australia).
The move comes as Volkswagen emphasises electric autos and larger family-oriented vehicles, said Hinrich Woebcken, chief executive of Volkswagen Group of America. But Mr Woebcken opened the door to reviving the model at some point, saying "never say never."
Volkswagen plans to offer the two final edition models in both coupe and convertible styles. The cars will include nods to earlier versions and be priced at $US23,045 ($32,000) and up, the company said.
"The loss of the Beetle after three generations, over nearly seven decades, will evoke a host of emotions from the Beetle's many devoted fans," Woebcken said.
The sedans made their US debut in the 1950s and were popularised with the 1968 Disney movie The Love Bug.
US sales ceased in 1979, but the vehicle continued to be produced in Mexico and Brazil, according to Car and Driver. VW revived the "New Beetle" in the US 1997.
However, the vehicle's history goes back to the Nazi era, having first been developed by Ferdinand Porsche with support from Adolf Hitler.
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As we reported to you last month, the statue of St Bernadette in our outdoor grotto had been damaged due to vandalism and was in desperate need of repair. We are very happy to report that those repairs are almost complete and the newly refurbished statue should be reinstalled by early next week.
Recently, I was watching a TV series called "A Football Life." The episode was telling the story of one of the best and meanest football player from the 1990's. His name is Chris Spielman. When he played he was described as playing like a wild animal, but off the field it was another story.
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If you are trying to pick a state to visit, why not try the state of Washington? Unofficially referred to as the Evergreen State, Washington is the only state to be named after a President. Of course, this is not even the most notable thing about this magnificent region. It is known for its art, culture, structures, stunning landscapes and much more. These are just a few of the reasons that a larger number of people travel to this destination each year.
The state of Washington does encompass a considerable amount of area. In total, it is composed of 71,303 square miles, which results in it being the eighteenth largest state in America. While the largest part of the state is all land, it does consist of 4,721 square miles of water. The average elevation of the area stands at 1,700 feet above sea level.
Washington is bordered by two states, the Pacific Ocean, and even shares a state line with Canada. Canada can be found in the Northern region of Washington. To the South, it is adjacent to Oregon while the Eastern area shares a border with Idaho. Finally, the Pacific Ocean contains the state in the West.
The population in Washington has been steadily increasing over the last few years. While the state might be the eighteenth largest state, it actually holds the title of thirteenth most populous state in America. The population estimate carried out in July by the Census Bureau assessed the current population at 7,288,000.
The number of people living in Washington had increased by 1.73 since 2015. The main reason for the elevation in numbers was due to the rapidly rising migration rate from other states. In contrast to the natural growth of the state, the migration rate was considerably higher. A greater number of jobs, quality standard of living, and no income tax are just a few of the reasons that people are moving to the state.
The capital city of Washington state is Olympia. Altogether, there are thirty-nine counties within the state. Were you to divide the state based on geography, the regions would separate into six distinct parts. These are the Olympic Mountains, the Puget Sound Lowlands, the Coast Range, the Columbia Plateau, the Rocky Mountains, and the Cascade Mountains.
The majority of the Olympic Mountains lies within the Olympic National Park. Despite this, there are portions of this wilderness that have only been tentatively explored and are quite desolate. The Puget Sound Lowlands is one of the most populous areas of the state. In fact, it is estimated that about 75 percent of the people in Washington live in this area.
The Coast Range is best known for the Willapa Hills. This is also the range that Washington shares with Oregon. The Columbia Plateau is also known as the Columbia basin. This consists of one of the more fascinating geological sites in the world. In fact, it is part of the largest lava plateau in the world.
A small part of the Rocky Mountains does cut through the state of Washington. Due to this, this portion of the Rockies is known as the Columbia Mountains. The Cascade Mountains mark the highest point in the state and is home to Mount Rainier.
The most beloved places in the state of Washington include Seattle, Tacoma, and Spokane. Seattle is a mishmash of culture, food, and nature. While Tacoma offers individuals attractions and museums, ideal for tourists. Spokane is known for its numerous higher education facilities as well as an abundance of natural features.
There is a considerable amount of distinction in the climate in the state of Washington, depending on the region. Not only is there a lot of variation in the temperature during different times of the year, the actual weather differs as well. For instance, certain areas of the Olympia Peninsula receive the greatest amount of rainfall in the entire country. The west part of the Cascade Mountains, too, experience some of the heaviest snowfall of the nation. East of the Cascade Mountains, however, are quite cool and dry by comparison.
Getting Around Washington
There are two main ways to move around Washington if you don't have your own vehicle. The first is by land. You can get to most places with the help of a train. If you are looking to travel between Tacoma and Seattle, you will find the Sounder, a light rail line, more than adequate. If you want to move between cities, the Amtrak is your best bet. The local bus routes will help you to move within a city.
The other option of mass travel is by sea, with the help of the ferry. Puget Sound, San Juan Islands, Seattle, and Kingston can all be reached by ferry.
Highlights of Washington
The state of Washington boasts an abundance of natural landscapes, mountains, water features, and numerous other sights. At the same time, it boasts modern amenities, popular cities, and is a patron of the arts. The considerable amount of diversity and opportunity available in this state is one of the reasons it continues to get more popular each year.
People are finding out increasingly just what Washington has to offer them. It will take just one visit for you to see that as well.


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Runoko Rashidi: The Pharaoh of Black History
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THE WORLD THROUGH AFRICAN EYES–AN ONLINE COURSE AND STUDY GROUP BY RUNOKO RASHIIDI 12 November 2015 THE WORLD THROUGH AFRICAN EYES is an online course and an attempt to begin to actually formalize an online study group for African history… Continue Reading
RAMSES THE GREAT: BLACK MAN OF THE NILE AND PRIDE OF AFRICA* BY RUNOKO RASHIDI Although it was the African Sudan–the "Ethiopia" (Land of the Blacks) of ancient times–that gave birth to the oldest civilization, it is in Kmt (Ancient… Continue Reading
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The WFC range of Dimplex Commercial wall mounted convector heaters offer accurate temperature control, with powerful and rapid heat output. These fan heaters are ideal for commercial properties such as shops, restaurants, offices and waiting areas. Their slim design provide a choice of modern or traditional finishes, and the fine mesh filter reduces dust particles from the incoming air. With an accurate thermostat control, and a choice of three output settings, the WFC range provide reliable heating in a more commercial environment.
- 1kw, 2kw or 3kw output settings
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It was announced on Wednesday that the Estes Park School District Board of Education had won an award as an All State Board by the Colorado Association of School Boards for pacesetting for the 2016-2017 school year.
The awards letter read that: "The Estes Park leadership effort modeled and sustained excellence in engaging constituents, developing shared vision, sustaining policies and plans for increasing student achievement, making decisions with sound reasoning and strong ethics, continually improving board effectiveness and displaying excellence in responding to challenges and issues."
Estes Park Board of Education President Cody Walker said the old model of the school telling the community what it wants is not part of this Board's culture, and the school district is going in the direction that the community has set for it.
"The taxpayers and the community deserved measured and accountable leadership, that is what this board has consistently brought and that is what this award is recognizing," Walker said. "This is the community's award as much as the Board."
Estes Park School District Superintendent Sheldon Ronsenkrance said that this Board was very deserving and in it for the right reasons, and do what is best for the school and community.
"Community, staff and the Board have worked hard and long to bring us all the pieces and put them together to be the leaders of education in the state of Colorado. Sufficient funding is the final piece of the puzzle," Walker said. "That will be decided in November by the taxpayers. I can say, without a doubt, this school district is accountable, and with that final funding piece, is in the perfect position to become an educational force worthy of this community. I'm proud of my board, it's been an honor to serve and getting this award really feels good after a lot of hard work."
The Estes Park Board split the award with Windsor's Weld RE-4 district this year and an awards ceremony will take place at CASB's annual convention in Colorado Springs on Dec. 1.


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West Coast Fossil Park Featured
Fossils were first discovered at Langebaanweg in the late 1950's during the course of phosphate mining operations by Chemfos Mine. Since then it has been estimated that this deposit contains the greatest diversity of 5 million year old fossils in the world. These fossils have attracted the interest of leading scientists from abroad who, together with local researchers, have generated over seventy publications realting to their discoveries. Some important finds include; Agriotherium africanum, the first bear ever found in Africa, south of the Sahara; Homiphoca capensis, an extinct true seal; and four extinct species of penguin. The Park is being proclaimed a National Heritage Site in an effort to protect the fossil deposits for posterity. Regular guided tours are offered daily except on Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Good Friday. The park also offers cycling and walking trails, a kiddie's play park, gift shop, picnic area, and a coffee shop. Open: Mon-Fri 08:00-16:00.
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My sister has her CT scans today.
I know the results will be fine but just know you are on my mind today Sissy. Sending you lots of ((HUGS))) from Colorado.
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I love you!!
- December 29, 2008 at 8:53 AM
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I will be saying a prayer (or 2, or 3!) for you guys :)
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Our artificial grass greens allow you to bring the game you love home with you.
Southwest Greens offers residents of Waco artificial grass for putting greens that will upgrade any outdoor space and elevate a golfer's short game as well. Our synthetic grass is made from the industry's finest artificial turf, and offers a true ball roll every time. This is no ordinary "fake grass." Southwest Greens prides itself on the ability to offer its clients a state-of-the-art artificial lawn that has been engineered to look and feel like real grass without the endless (and costly) maintenance. If you have considered adding a backyard putting green to your outdoor landscape or wish to upgrade your home with an indoor putting green, call Southwest Greens today to see how we can make your dreams come true with our high-quality synthetic turf!
If you live in Waco, a putting green from Southwest Greens can not only enhance the beauty of your landscape or home, it can truly improve your short game!
Southwest Greens is the premier company in Waco for golf green products of the highest quality. You'll find that our artificial grass is perfect for both outdoor and indoor uses. If you're a golf enthusiast or if you're simply looking for a low maintenance alternative to costly natural sod, you owe it to yourself to contact Southwest Greens and let us show you what we have to offer!
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Automated Test Case Generation using Coloured Petri Nets
In our efforts to develop a CPN-based library for model-based test case generation, we focus at the moment on Gorums [3], a novel framework for building fault tolerant distributed systems. We have already successfully modelled a simple quorum system with a number distributed servers in CPN Tools and use our library to record test cases from either state space exploration or simulation [1]. The left picture below shows the architecture of the Gorums framework. The right picture shows the overall testing architecture using CPN Tools and our library.
You can download the corresponding CPN Tools [2] model here: singlePaxos.cpn.
Also, here we list some colour set declarations (mainly appear in figures of our paper [4]) for this model:
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colset Value = STRING;
colset ReplicaIDxValue = product ServerID * Value;
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A move by Belgian lawmakers to make it impossible for residents to escape taxes on stock exchange transactions conducted through overseas accounts has created barriers for foreign banks and brokers—provisions that might be challenged before Europe's highest court.
On Jan. 1, Belgium's tax on stock exchange transactions was extended to transactions performed abroad on behalf of Belgian clients. The intention was to make it impossible for residents to circumvent the tax by opening securities accounts with foreign banks such as Banque Internationale Luxembourg and online brokers like Degiro, Keytrade and Lynx.
Belgian residents—who perform stock exchange transactions through intermediaries located abroad—are now required to submit monthly returns detailing the orders. They are also expected to compute and pay the tax, an arduous task, tax professionals say.
However, residents with local brokerage accounts can continue to benefit by this being done for them by Belgian financial institutions, who will continue to automatically calculate and withhold the tax due.
Considering the additional red tape for residents with brokerage accounts abroad, practitioners interviewed by Bloomberg BNA said the matter might successfully be contested as a violation of the free movement of capital and services enshrined under European Union law.
"If your foreign bank doesn't take action, you will have to complete all these formalities relating to payment of the stock tax every month as a client," said Kris Lievens, Brussels-based partner at KPMG.
"This might constitute a barrier for Belgian clients to keep investments in Switzerland or Luxemburg, and prompt them to repatriate this capital or these stocks and shares to Belgium."
Lievens noted in a March 14 phone interview that the free movement of capital and services guaranteed under EU law aims to preclude not just plainly unequal treatment or discrimination, but also the putting up of disproportionate barriers that discourage consumers from enlisting the services of businesses and institutions located in another EU country.
If other countries followed Belgium's example, he said, this might result in one Luxembourg bank, for instance, having to comply with a flurry of country-specific rules. It would then have to work out a procedure to withhold the taxes and make corresponding adjustments to its processes and systems for a small group of non-resident clients.
"That would be an enormous barrier and threat to the unity and freedom of trade in the European Union," he said.
"A Luxembourg bank might say: 'We've been hampered in our freedom of services because the barrier to provide services to our Belgian clients has suddenly become higher,'" he explained, adding that there was "certainly potential" for the expanded tax to be challenged before the EU high court on such grounds.
First introduced in 2007, the stock transactions tax affects retail investors who trade a lot by levying a 0.27 percent tax on sales and purchase of stocks, 0.09 percent on sales and purchases of bonds, and 1.32 percent on sales of capitalization funds, which are investments funds that do not distribute dividends.
The broadened tax, expected to raise 30 million euros ($31.9 million) by government estimates, is already having ripple effects.
Sven Sterckx, chair of the Flemish Federation of Investors (VFB) noted a two-fold impact—the volume of stock transactions had dropped and a modest number of Belgian clients had already repatriated their assets to Belgium, discouraged by the additional red tape. The decrease in stock transactions meant that the tax probably wouldn't meet the budget goal set by the Belgian government, he said.
The revenue raised by the stock transactions tax would probably continue to decrease, he said, adding that "we wouldn't have seen so many people going to foreign intermediaries, and the volume of stock transactions would have also remained higher" if the rates hadn't been increased. The rates have increased 80 percent since 2007 but remain less than 2 percent.
Sterckx said it was difficult to predict at this stage whether additional clients would repatriate funds to Belgium in the future because this would depend on whether their Luxembourg, Swiss or Dutch banks opted to act as withholding agents.
"For those banks that won't withhold the tax, I'm afraid those assets will return to Belgium because private clients" will themselves be responsible for meeting the payment and reporting obligations, he said.
Compliance with the tax requires retail investors to submit monthly returns that detail the taxable base and taxes due per transaction type and per tax rate. The latest stage permitted for payment of the corresponding amount in taxes to Belgium's Federal Public Service Finance is two months after the transactions are completed.
Investors who submit incomplete or incorrect returns will face fines starting at 1,000 euros ($1,062) and penalty interests of 7 percent.
Until now the tax only applied to transactions performed by resident banks on behalf of Belgian tax residents, and following successive rate hikes in previous years, many Belgians flocked to Swiss, Luxembourg and Dutch banks, physical or online, to avoid the tax, resulting in criticisms that the tax disadvantaged Belgian brokers and banks.
Belgian tax authorities will be able to monitor compliance with the new regime since they will receive the relevant information on residents' assets abroad under the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), which requires automatic information exchange of bank data for tax purposes.
Marc Van de Vloet and Patrizia Macaluso, respectively head of wealth structuring and estate planner at bank Degroof Petercam, emphasized that foreign banks were under no obligation to withhold the tax for their Belgian clients under the new regime.
In a March 14 email to Bloomberg BNA, they noted that the expanded tax instead imposed additional obligations on Belgian retail investors. "The broadening of the stock tax in itself does not contain any requirements for foreign brokers or financial institutions," they said.
They noted that those Belgian residents who declared the transactions in the monthly returns also would have to submit order execution slips in accordance with the Belgian provisions. "It's not certain that a foreign intermediary will supply such order execution slips. Foreign intermediaries are after all not required to do so," Van de Vloet and Macaluso said.
The Belgian government, however, has pushed back the deadline for the first monthly returns and tax payments to June 30, 2017, for stock transactions completed between Jan. 1 and April 30. The move is meant to give foreign brokers and banks time to adjust their IT systems and appoint an administrator/agent in Belgium who can withhold the taxes and submit the monthly returns on behalf of their Belgian clients, should they so choose to.
Because the deadline for the first monthly tax returns has been pushed back, it's not yet clear how many foreign banks will act as withholding agents for their clients and how many are leaving it up to clients to comply with the new Belgian regulations.
A spokesman for BinckBank N.V., which is active in several EU countries, noted that they observed Belgian tax legislation at Binck Belgium, just as they applied the French and Dutch rules for Binck France and Binck Netherlands. "A Belgian client is free to choose to become a client for Binck products offered abroad, but in that case the client has to declare the taxes themselves," spokesman Harmen van der Schoor said in a statement emailed to Bloomberg BNA March 14.
Gijs Nagel, commercial director of Degiro, a fast-growing online broker, welcomed the expanded scope of the tax, noting that until now competitors had pointed to foreign intermediaries' exemption from the stock tax to explain the bank's popularity among Belgian retail investors.
"Now, there's a level playing field," he said in a March 14 phone interview, describing the until recently applicable regime as a "distortion of competition."
Degiro allows clients to choose—either they meet the reporting and payment obligations themselves or Degiro can withhold the tax for them. Nagel said Degiro had put a team of developers to work to design software that could automatically track the relevant stock transactions and withhold the tax for Belgian clients, which he said was a project of a couple of weeks.
Degiro is active in 18 European counties with a market share of 10 percent in Belgium, Nagel said. He warned that Dutch banks with a mostly national clientele and just a few Belgian clients might face more difficulties.
"In that case, this would be a lot of extra work. You'd need a good tax adviser, and you'd also need people who are able to program all of this correctly."
He pointed out that the Belgian tax administration notably did not include the ISIN identification codes of the different investment products on the government webpage detailing the applicable tax rates, which he described as standard industry practice.
"So brokers would have to themselves search for the ISIN codes of the different funds, and that's so obsolete," he said. "It seems to us like they tried pretty hard to make this as difficult as possible."
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A veteran producer and one of the most experienced artists in drum & bass, Darren White aka dBridge is an artist whose multiple transformations and evolutions glide through a staggering list of achievements. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, he has been at the heart of some the most exciting collaborative partnerships drum & bass has ever seen from Future Forces to Bad Company, Club Autonomic and most recently Heart Drive.
dBridge has also devoted a large amount of focus to his label Exit Records with the Mosaic compilations, multiple ground breaking singles, and artist LPs as he continues to be a mentor to the new breed of producers inspired by his career. As a solo artist, dBridge remains versatile with his own productions for Exit, Metalheadz, Reinforced, Hotflush, and more.
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MAKURDI — Pandemonium broke out in parts of Makurdi, yesterday, following a bloody clash between men of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) and commercial motorcycle operators popularly known as Okada.
The okada riders, who have persistently refused to comply with the mandatory use of crash helmet in the state, were protesting the arrest and seizure of motorbikes belonging to their members by the Benue State Command of the FRSC.
The animosity between the two bodies got to a head, yesterday, when members of the Motorcycle Riders Association trooped out in their numbers to the area of the town where operatives of the FRSC were on duty to enforce compliance to the use of crash helmet and reflective jackets.
The okada operators, who resorted to violence as a means of protesting the new policy, vented their anger on the FRSC officials, destroying their operational vehicles and injuring some personnel in the process.
The action, which lasted several minutes, was only brought under control when the State Commissioner of Police detailed men from his command to quell the crisis which was almost hijacked by hoodlums.
When contacted the Benue State Sector Commander of the FRSC, Mr. Sobowale Gbenga-Oke decried the action of the okada riders, stressing that his men were only doing their jobs to ensure safety on the roads, regretting that "those we are out to protect are now hunting us. It is rather unfortunate.â€


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A round-up of reviews of The Audience starring Helen Mirren at the Gielgud Theatre.
Helen Mirren follows her acclaimed on-screen performance as Elizabeth II in a new play by The Queen writer Peter Morgan, charting the 60 years of weekly audiences the Queen has granted her Prime Ministers.
Award-winning director Stephen Daldry directs Mirren and an all star cast of British Prime Ministers through the ages including Michael Elwyn as Anthony Eden, Haydn Gwynne as Margaret Thatcher, Edward Fox as Winston Churchill, Richard McCabe as Harold Wilson, Nathaniel Parker as Gordon Brown, Paul Ritter as John Major and Rufus Wright as David Cameron. The Equerry is Geoffrey Beevers and the role of Young Elizabeth will be played by Bebe Cave, Maya Gerber and Nell Williams.
Read reviews of The Audience, below, from the Guardian, Telegraph, Independent, Evening Standard and more.
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"What a great if faintly guilty pleasure this play proves. In times past, the dramatist Peter Morgan would have been locked up in the tower for such impudent lese-majesty, and might have counted himself lucky to have kept his head on his shoulders. But as he showed in his screenplay for The Queen about the crisis that engulfed the Royal Family following the death of Princess Diana, Morgan admires his monarch. And in this marvellous piece, with Helen Mirren once again giving a magnificent performance as the Queen, he penetrates at least some her mystery, with compassion, grace, affection and humour."Read the review
"…Mirren also captures the Queen's mix of the extraordinary and the ordinary. Like HMQ in Alan Bennett's A Question of Attribution, she has the capacity to see through all forms of pretence. And, in her dialogues with her younger self, she conveys the sense of entrapment and loneliness that co-exists with a life of royal privilege. I have a theory that all plays about monarchy, from Shakespeare's Henry V to Howard Brenton's 55 Days, end up as studies of solitude. That's exactly what happens here. But if Morgan's speculative and essentially static high-class political gossip – what you might call Pepys behind the scenes – acquires emotional resonance, it is largely thanks to the naturally majestic Mirren."Read the review
"Haydn Gwynne brings steely forcefulness to Margaret Thatcher. We're also treated to a paranoid Gordon Brown (Nathaniel Parker), Paul Ritter's blundering John Major, and a sickly Churchill from Edward Fox, who stepped in at short notice after Robert Hardy cracked his ribs in a fall. Of greatest interest is Richard McCabe as Harold Wilson. Somewhat questionably, Morgan pictures Wilson as a buffoonish figure, adept at wacky impersonations and lacking any academic gravitas. McCabe makes this amusing and – as Wilson's mind deteriorates – affecting."Read the review
"The theatrical experience is sharpened and empowered with little vignettes in which Mirren communes sympathetically with her younger self (a shared role portrayed beautifully on the night I saw the show by Bebe Cave) about the magnitude of the job that awaits her. As with the audiences themselves (confidential, advisory, safe), there is a strong sense of the dynamics of therapy here, leading to some beautiful moments when the Queen reflects on her life – is she, she wonders, a "postage stamp with a pulse"? The set is beautiful. The palace meeting room is exquisitely recreated, as is the drawing room of Balmoral in a scene where McCabe's Wilson (supposedly a pipe smoker) puffs on his cigars. And we even get a surprise appearance from a pair of corgis. It's all hugely enjoyable – just don't believe everything you hear."Read the review
"Directed with restrained flair by Stephen Daldry, and designed with a voyeuristic elegance by Bob Crowley, "The Audience" seems destined to reign in the West End as an exercise in reassurance for uncertain times. It's a sort of starched-bosomed nanny of a play, offering the artistic equivalent of nursery food and equally digestible history lessons. But let's get one thing clear: As a work of speculative, fact-based fiction, "The Audience" isn't a patch on "The Queen," the excellent 2006 Stephen Frears film, with a screenplay by Mr. Morgan, for which Ms. Mirren won an Oscar playing the same role."Read the review
"The resulting vignettes are of variable quality but they add up to considerably more here than the sum of their parts. This is thanks to the thematically piercing idea of presenting the encounters non-chronologically – a format which is expressed with a haunting, magical malleability by Stephen Daldry's superlative (and beautifully designed) production. And the 67 year old Mirren rises to the daunting technical challenge with a quite uncannily fluid lightness of touch as she shifts back and forth on an age-spectrum of six decades. "Read the review
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Plot Summary:Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippou and their neko-mata friend Kirara, are now in the final leg of their quest to put an end to the elusive demon, Naraku and all of the chaos and evil he has caused, and to ultimately undo the unfortunate karma of the Jewel of Four Souls. Their journey, however, will not be easy as their remaining enemies put out all the stops to make sure that they do not accomplish their goal.Genres: Action Comedy Drama Fantasy
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SMC Men's Volleyball advances to semifinals with victory over San Diego Mesa
On April 22, the reigning 2015 CCCAA State Champion Santa Monica College Corsairs men's volleyball team won 3-1 (25-19, 19-25, 25-23, 25-22) over San Diego Mesa College Olympians in the quarterfinals of the state championship playoffs. SMC defeated San Diego Mesa for the second time this season. In the first victory the Corsairs swept the Olympians three sets to none, early in the season on February 17.
The Corsairs will face off on Thursday, April 28th against the Orange Coast College Pirates for the next round of the playoffs. The semifinal matchup will take place at 5 p.m. at Pierce College in Woodland Hills, CA.


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While zoning out in Chemistry class, Lily scribbles some of her favorite song lyrics onto her desk. The next day, she finds that someone has continued the lyrics on the desk, and added a message to her.
Soon, Lily and her anonymous pen pal are exchanging full-on letters— sharing secrets, recommending bands, and opening up to each other. Lily realizes she's kind of falling for this letter writer. Only who is he? As Lily attempts to unravel the mystery, and juggle school, friends, crushes, and her crazy family, she discovers that matters of the heart can't always be spelled out . . .
I cannot stress enough how much I absolutely loooovvveeeedddd this book!! I went in with high expectations because I heard so many great things about this author and this book and let me just tell you, I was not let down! I literally could not put this book down and I was so sad when it ended because it was over (even though it was the happiest of endings and so perfectly written I couldn't have pictured it any better.) Plus, don't even get me started on the poems/lyrics. Everything was so brilliant and perfect, my heart was on overdrive in the feels department.
Lily writes. She writes a lot. While in her chemistry class, her teacher takes away her notebook and demands to see her notes at the end of each class in an attempt to get her to focus only on her class notes. Well this doesn't have the effect he was hoping for because she soon begins writing messages and letters back and forth with another student who sits in her seat during a different class period. She finds herself falling in love with the person writing the letters and begins her journey to find out who that person is.


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Cafe Tremolo in the Foothills Mall
Cafe Tremolo occupies the space formally filled with Gavi's at the Tucson Mall, 7401 N La Cholla Blvd.I will admit that their lunch menu isn't large or varied, but the food is fresh, pleasing to the eye, and just plain good. I've gone there over 6 times for dinner, and they've just updated the menu choices.Appetizers aren't what you expect. If you're wanting bar food - this isn't the place. If you're wanting fresh, interesting, great food - then come here.
I have brought three different clients here so far and they've all been pleased. I've found new favor with beets, cabbage, and jicama slaw. (not my usual fare) I've enjoyed juicy salmon, tender chicken, and the most wonderful cherry cobbler as well. Below is pictured the Chicken Marsala - mmmm.
The place was opened by Paul Blackwell, who came from the Tohono Chul Park Tea Room - and also serves up light jazz and open mic events some Thursdays, and Friday through Sunday.The prices are a little higher than neighboring eateries, but again, the food is fresh, and GOOD, and it's a local restaurant - NOT a chain.I recommend Tremolo's and if you're a client and we're out hunting for NW homes for sale - we MIGHT just be stopping at Tremolo's for a bite!
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Royal Coronations
London's Westminster Abbey has been the venue for the coronation of almost every English and British monarch since that of William the Conqueror in 1066. The abbey hosted four coronations during the 20th century.
Queen Victoria died on 22 January 1901. Her eldest son Albert, then 59, became the second oldest person in British history to ascend to the throne. He chose to reign under the name Edward VII.
Edward's coronation was originally scheduled for 26 June 1902. However, two days before the ceremony, Edward developed appendicitis. Sir Frederick Treves performed a potentially life-saving operation on the king. Edward and his queen, Alexandra, were eventually crowned at Westminster Abbey on 9 August 1902.
When Edward VII died on 6 May 1910, his eldest son George ascended the British throne. King George V and Queen Mary were crowned at Westminster Abbey on 22 June 1911.
Edward VIII ascended the throne when his father, King George V, died on 20 January 1936. He became the first British monarch to fly in an aeroplane when he flew from Sandringham to London for his Accession Council. However, Edward was never crowned since he abdicated in order to marry an American divorce, Mrs Wallis Simpson.
Edward VIII formalised his abdication on 10 December 1936. In a historic radio broadcast the following day, he said: 'I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love'.
Edward VIII's younger brother Albert ascended the British throne as George VI on 11 December 1936. The day before Edward's abdication, George went to see his mother Queen Mary in London. He wrote in his diary that, when he told her the news, he 'broke down and sobbed like a child'.
George VI's coronation took place on 12 May 1937, the intended date of Edward's coronation. In a break with tradition, Queen Mary attended the ceremony at Westminster Abbey as a show of support for her son.
Elizabeth II ascended the throne following the death of her father, King George VI, on 6 February 1952. She became the 39th sovereign to be crowned at Westminster Abbey and the sixth queen to be crowned in her own right.
Elizabeth's coronation took place on 2 June 1953. It began at 11.15am and lasted almost three hours. The new queen took the Coronation Oath in front of 8,251 guests, officially representing 129 nations and territories.
Despite the overcast weather conditions, some three million people lined the streets of London. The crowd included more than 2,000 journalists and 500 photographers from 92 nations.
Everyone hoped to glimpse the new monarch as she travelled the four-and-a-half-mile route between Buckingham Palace and Westminster abbey. The 16,000 participants took two hours to complete the route and the procession itself stretched almost two miles.
The coronation received extensive media coverage. The B.B.C. set up its biggest ever outside broadcast - in 44 languages - to provide live coverage on radio and television. An estimated 27 million people in Britain watched the ceremony on television at the time when there were only two million television owners. Another 11 million people listened on the radio.
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LETTER: Lawmakers should support amendment
Speaking for my colleagues in Local 1091, we are just "regular people," which is to say we work hard for a living, and pay our taxes expecting that our government will do the basics, and do them well. Safe and efficient roads are the most obvious example of what we expect from our government. But with road funding, it seems that sometimes the link between jobs, the economy and basic infrastructure is forgotten — often for many years at a time — by legislators.
That's exactly why we stand strongly in support of a constitutional amendment dedicating the sales tax on auto parts to fund our aging and crumbling roads and bridges — particularly those here outside the Twin Cities metro. These funds are sorely needed, as even opponents of the amendment admit. Heck, anyone driving around and encountering our swimming pool-sized potholes understands that right now.
So, we need our legislators to act — now, and not make excuses for inaction. We've heard too much of that — even by our local legislators.
New sources of transportation funding — especially that used for maintenance — are rare in Minnesota. We have increased the gas tax only once since 1989, and it took a veto override to accomplish. A gas tax increase may make sense to us, but it's a political nonstarter. We don't think that will change anytime soon, and our roads need the investment now. We can't afford to wait years — maybe decades — until political conditions allow for a gas tax increase.
The amendment would take a very small portion of our general fund (less than 1 percent). This is very manageable for future legislators. They will absolutely not be forced to defund other important priorities, especially in years with a budget surplus (like this year).
If Minnesotans are given a chance to vote on this amendment, we think it would pass with flying colors. This will put thousands of Minnesotans like us to work in good-paying jobs, literally building our state's economic lifeline.
And doing so would create a very significant influx of funds for our roads budget. This dedication is the equivalent of a 9-cent gas tax increase — without raising taxes.
We know that one of the best ways to add funding to fix our roads and bridges is to lock away funds already being paid by those who use them. Roads should be paid for by user fees. Capturing the sales tax on auto parts is one way to guarantee that those who use the roads are paying for them.
It makes sense to hold transportation infrastructure funding above politics by placing the funds in a lockbox. Perhaps that's why voters continually respond favorably when asked to dedicate funds to transportation, and why 76 percent say they would vote for this one. Opponents claim that other areas of the budget will suffer as a result, but that's never been the case. The same arguments have been raised before, namely that schools, health care and local government aid would be cut. But that didn't happen. We (the voters) wouldn't let it happen in the future, just like we didn't let it happen in the past.
The time is now, the support is there and working people — like the vast majority of Minnesotans of both political parties — are enthusiastically supporting the influx in road and bridge funding. We're ready to get to work. We hope the Legislature is, too, because we need them to act.
Dan Olson
Business manager, Construction and General Laborers' Local 1091
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Religion and International Relations Theory: From Absence to Challenge
Responding to: Religion and World Order
By: Jocelyne Cesari
September 28, 2015
In the last ten years, a more ambitious thrust of the literature on religion and IR has been an attempt to respond to the question: How can religion be addressed within IR theory? Most of this literature consists of describing in detail religious factors that are important to some areas of international relations: religious identity, religious motivations for political behaviors, religious human rights, religious NGOs, religion in global justice and religious violence. For example, Thomas Scott suggests looking at religions as "interpretive communities" that may affect ideological justification as well as power relationships between political protagonists. Jeff Haynes apprehends religion as a soft power (culture/values/ideas). Dan Philpott argues in favor of ideas on political power (political theology) and differentiation (relation between state and religion) to connect religion to the IR research agenda. Finally, some discuss the aspects of religion and world affairs than can benefit the IR discipline (Snyder; Sandal and Fox). Interestingly, the bulk of the work on religion and IR concerns terrorism and political violence based on religion, contributing to the dominant and misleading perception that the scope and reach of terrorism in the name of God has grown out of control.
Nevertheless, two promising and much less visible ideas are emerging from this burgeoning literature. One is that religion is multifaceted or, in Alfred Stepan's terms, "multivocal" and therefore cannot be addressed with a priori, fixed definitions. The second is that most of the definitions or concepts of religion, secularism, modernity, and democracy that inform IR models are Western-centered and therefore not relevant when applied outside the West (or even necessarily within it). Interestingly, there has not yet been any significant work in the IR discipline at large that makes use of these two propositions. One can argue that a decade is not sufficient to produce significant scholarship on religion and IR. But it can also be said that acknowledging the multidimensionality of religion is the first step, with the second step being to operationalize it. In other words, a modus operandi is needed that would translate these new approaches into research protocols and make religion "work." I would like to contribute to this debate by suggesting that the relevance of religion is not in some of its forms per se but in the kinds of interactions between religious and political actors, institutions, and ideas. It means that there is no one-size-fits-all of definition of religion and secularism that can be used independently of the context in which they operate.
In this regard, the vast literature of sociology and anthropology of religion can be a resource to contextualize religion and secularism. IR scholars need not become experts on religion to incorporate the existing knowledge about religions as social practices in different contexts and cultural areas. For example, in my research on Islam and politics, limiting my approach to Islam to beliefs proves to be a dead end as the same belief can lead to opposite political mobilizations. Instead, looking at belonging and behaving and the ways they are interconnected helps us solve the puzzle of apparently secular projects leading to political battles over Islamically correct social behaviors observable in Turkey or Tunisia. In other words, the increased social and political visibility of Islam is not caused by an increase in beliefs. People are not stronger believers than they used to be, but their identification to belonging and behaving has certainly shifted, leading to a collusion between political and Islamic belongings that facilitates political mobilization.
The question is not anymore on the nature of religion but more on how historical processes and cultural transformations inform the tensions of religion versus politics or secular versus religious that we witness everywhere. Such a perspective requires a longue duree, historicized and interdisciplinary approach that drastically challenges the dominant rational choice-centered theories implemented through fixed variables that still dominate the IR discipline. But it will allow a better grasp of the increasing fluidity of the boundaries between national and international as well as secular and religious that are key to the "neo-Westphalian" order in which we live.
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Mono for Android was released on Wednesday! Congrats to the team at Novell for this tremendous accomplishment! I have many clients who have been waiting for this, and plan to roll out several apps in the coming months.
Now we can deliver their iOS apps using MonoTouch into production on Android.
People are really starting to get excited about this in the enterprise, but it's truly only the beginning.


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Here we have part two of my store snaps showcasing new arrivals at Marks and Spencer. Today we have a colourful spring floral, 70's inspired text, and an 80's rollerboot. I've also included boys wear today where dinosaurs still reign supreme. See what else is new in kids at M&S online here.
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August 26, 2006
Meetings and Other Time Killers
I schedule recurring meetings with myself throughout the week so that those time slots are "blocked" from someone else seeing that time in my calendar and scheduling a meeting with me. I am flexible with it and will at times move my scheduled time around to make way for larger meetings where corresponding time schedules is a chore.
But I keep that the exception rather than the rule.
Another things that helps is doing what you can to insure a productive meeting. A good facilitator will post an agenda prior to the meeting and keep things on point through the agenda. If topics come up that need to be addressed but are outside of the agenda, it's put in the "parking lot" which is either an internal Wiki, Sharepoint, or note on the whiteboard, to serve as a reference to schedule another meeting or handle the exchange via email with either the same group or a subset of the group.
I am currently working on a project with a project manager to holds pretty strict to these types of meetings and they are some of the most productive amounts of "scheduled time with other people" that I have ever had. It really goes to show me just how unproductive all the other meetings are as it serves as a bold point of contrast.
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KPMG Family for Literacy (KFFL) is a sustainable volunteer programme that benefits local communities and has a collective impact on our people.
The OECD Adult Skills Survey shows that many Irish people have difficulties with literacy and may be unable to understand basic written information. There are many reasons why people have literacy difficulties - some may have left school early, while others may not have found learning relevant to their needs.
KPMG's Head of Corporate Citizenship & Diversity, Karina Howley, says: "We understand that books can open up new worlds, and instil in children a lifelong love for learning, but often those new worlds and that love of learning are not accessible to children of low-income families. KPMG's KFFL programme was founded to help address childhood illiteracy, while at the same time creating a unique way for KPMG's partners and employees, and the extended KPMG family, to positively engage and contribute to our communities. As part of this initiative we are running a number of really exciting projects."
"We are enhancing our existing Time to Read programme and expanding it as part of our KFFL programme," says Karina. Time to Read is a programme run by KPMG in conjunction with Business in the Community Ireland, Elmgrove Primary School, Belfast and City Quay National School, Dublin. The programme involves volunteers from KPMG providing one-to-one reading support to 2nd class students.
KPMG volunteers provide reading support for one hour per week in the school, reading with two students for thirty minutes each. "We have increased our numbers involved in this initiative from ten to twenty volunteers to support a full class in City Quay National School. The desired outcomes of the programme are to increase the enjoyment of reading; improve fluency and comprehension when reading; increase confidence in reading; and improve and encourage self-discovery," adds Karina.
In 2017, a new paired reading programme was introduced with CBS Westland Row in Dublin. KPMG has a well-established relationship with this Dublin secondary school, where we run a two-year mentoring programme for students in their final two years in school (ages 16/17). "This year, we ran a trial reading programme with their
1st year students (ages 12/13) as they felt their students would particularly benefit from the one-to-one attention with reading and help them with the transition into their new school. The results so far have been fantastic," notes Karina.
Another new partnership introduced in 2017 was working with the National College of Ireland's early learning initiative, Doodle Den, an evidence-informed afterschool programme which aims to address literacy needs amongst senior infants. KPMG is running the programme in two Dublin schools in East Wall and Sherriff Street to support children's literacy development and encourage their interest in reading, while allowing children to enjoy themselves in the process.
To mark World Book Day in 2017, we donated over 500 new books to four schools across Ireland as part of our launch of KFFL. With a strong focus on literacy, we wanted to give everybody in the firm the opportunity to engage in World Book Day. KPMG volunteers visited four schools across Ireland.
KPMG's Manging Partner, Shaun Murphy, says: "KFFL is about more than just philanthropy; it sends our people into our communities to complement corporate giving with grass roots volunteer work. Our goal is to provide children in need with access to books as a way of promoting literacy. Literacy is the baseline from which all other opportunities are possible and we are delighted to be able to make a difference."


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DIY or DIE: Management Part II – Professional Artist Managers
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Our previous blog had to deal with well-intentioned friends turned artist managers. This week we talk about professional artist managers.
If you do sign with a label they may assign a new artist manager to you to help with the representation. (I'll talk about the importance of lawyers in the upcoming blog posts but two words: be careful!) Often they'll be past musicians, tour managers, or promoters themselves so they bring a wealth of knowledge and experience young emerging artists can benefit from.
[Rhodes]'s had a load of influence — especially at the start. He put the group together. And he also put us on the right track — mainly about song content.
These guys and gals take the same percentage (15-20%) but something to talk to your lawyer about in advance is what sort of a deal they will get. 360 deal means they're not limited to just album sales and show income but could include music licensing (if your song got used in a Gap commercial), merchandise, web advertising, etc.
If they receive their fee before all expenses are deducted from a tour date, e.g. if the band gets paid $500, broken down by 5 band members, the manager is essentially get paid the same rate as each band members but the band members have to use their collective income for gas, shared hotel rooms, food money (unless of course the promoter agrees to cover these costs plus guarantee). People definitely don't go on tour to get rich. Read the fine print in any agreement.
One way to avoid this is a flat fee per tour, per album etc. Again, this depends on if you're a new artist or established act that's received a generous (and realistic) advance. Standard is 15%-20% of your income so if you make $100 for a show, they're going to get $15-20 out of it. For a much more detailed breakdown at a higher mid-level artist level I highly recommend Donald Passman's books.
The nice thing about the changing face of the industry nowadays is how artists are generally able to choose their team. So that means the power is up to you. (There's some great online directories available though FYI huge concentration in Toronto, Ontario).
The best way to meet a manager is to have musician friends recommend them, so that's fellow musicians, promoters, your dog's babysitter (ok, maybe not that one, just checking if you were paying attention). Research who your favourite bands, or a band whose popularity-tour history you aspire to and contact their manager. (Cold calling sucks, we know, but hey, give it a shot!)
Do you like the bands they've worked with before? Do they understand your band's tour-style? If you're a party-all-the-time band you've got to have a manager that gets that. Same with if you're an all-vegan feminist Bikini-kill-cover band, you have to make sure they're not booking you into misogynistic biker bars in rural Ontario. Your manager's role is to be your guardian angel. They are there to protect you and make sure all the opportunities possible come true.
Finally, it is important to know that the manager must be a fan of the band's music and the musicians must believe in and respect the manager's point of view.
If you're looking into hiring a manager and aren't sure if the person you've selected is right for you, or has the experience necessary, send me an email! Part of the consultation services offered by YouRockRed means helping you build the strongest team. Let us help you avoid pitfalls of bad management and send an email today to email@example.com
Signing that contract did bother me a lot. I've been turning it over in my mind, but now I've come to terms with it. I've realised that all it boils down to is perhaps two year's security…. Before, all I could think about was my stomach…. Now I feel free to think—and free to write down what I'm thinking about…. And look—I've been fucked about for so long I'm not going to suddenly turn into Rod Stewart just because I get £25.00 a week. I'm much too far gone for that, I tell you.
—Joe Strummer, March 1977
(Great books on band legendary band managers including Peter Grant above include Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin's Uncensored by Richard Cole and A Riot of their Own by The Clash's sound guy Johnny Green


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by A.J. Coltrane
Disclaimer: Unusually shoddy use of sabermetrics and statistics ahead! This post is a thought experiment, a combination of ideas I've been kicking around. The concept can now "Fly, be free", and go roost somewhere else.
Prior to the 2011 season, the sabermetric community and the gambling community agreed in their assessments of how many games the M's would win. That number was about 69.5 – 70.
The Concept:
1. Given that the numbers and the public opinion are the same, let's say that we "know" that Mariners will win 70 games in 2011 — that the M's true talent level will produce exactly 70 wins.
2. Let's say that we also "know" the standard deviation of season wins around that result. The difference would result from things like the team under or overperforming their expected wins relative to their run differential, or an unexpected player addition or loss, or something as simple as "luck." This research has been done before, and the standard deviation of wins according to The Book is 6.4.
What does that mean?
It means that we could forecast the M's ceiling and floor for season wins, as well as make a pretty good guess as to their actual odds for contention. Like so:
I rounded off the win totals of course, it isn't possible for the M's to win 4/10th of a game, anymore than it's possible to have 6/10th of a kid, or be "kind of pregnant."
In reality it's hard to win fewer than about 48 games — a team composed entirely of fringe major leaguers would win around that many games. The 2001 Diamondbacks won 51 games. The 2004 Tigers won 43 games. Beyond that you have to go back to 1962 and the Mets, who went 40-120. I think it's interesting that there was a 42-year gap between the terrible Tigers and Mets — I'd have to think that teams are almost never "pegged" for fewer than 60 wins in the new millenium.. there's too much information available to even the most incompetent of baseball front offices, and the stakes are too high.
Blaidd wrote a post that focused in part on the M's poor attendance so far this year. I'm wondering if maybe to some degree it isn't "I already know how the movie ends, why bother going?" (That, and it's been a cold spring.)
There was a time, and it wasn't that long ago, that fans really didn't know the talent level of their favorite team coming into a season. Information consisted of weekly Sports Illustrated fluff pieces, a skimpy sports section headed by people with homer-centric viewpoints, and, if you were lucky, a half-page in the Sporting News weekly baseball edition. You wouldn't really know if your team had a shot or not until at least a couple of months into the season. Now, if somebody on the team gets a hangnail the fans know about it within a few minutes. The M's opened the season 2-7, continued on to 4-11, and were declared DOA on the spot. Looking at the chart above, the M's had less than a 2% chance of the playoffs this year before any games were played. The poor start basically finished their hopes for the playoffs.
And I think the fans "got it."