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Subsequent to the Fifth Circuit's ruling, on April 18, 2018 the SEC issued a set of comprehensive proposals that would alter the regulation of broker-dealers, particularly when making recommendations to retail customers, and provide additional guidance regarding investment advisers' existing fiduciary duty. The SEC is accepting comments on its proposals through August 7, 2018. The proposals are comprised of:
- a requirement that broker-dealers act in a customer's "best interest" when making recommendations to retail customer (the industry is generally referring to this proposal as "Reg B.I.");
- a proposed interpretative release to provide further guidance on the elements of an investment adviser's fiduciary duty to its clients;
- a new "relationship summary" disclosure requirement for broker-dealers and investment advisers that would in no more than four pages lay out the basics of the firm's services, standards of conduct, fees and costs, conflicts of interest, and certain other information;
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Explanatory guidance from the SEC indicates that a participant in a defined contribution plan would be considered a "retail" customer, and that a "recommendation" can include a rollover recommendation with regard to a security. While the new best interest standard for broker-dealers would include many obligations that apply to fiduciaries, the SEC's proposal states that it does not intend that broker-dealers would be subject to the "fiduciary" duty that applies to registered investment advisers.
There will likely be many comments to the SEC from stakeholders and the proposals could change significantly before finalization. The SEC's broker-dealer proposal, commonly called "Reg B.I.", builds on a variety of existing duties and obligations already imposed on broker-dealers under SEC and FINRA rules, and previous comments from industry members suggest broad support for a best-interest standard when investment professionals make recommendations to retail customers. The SEC proposal would be a significant enhancement of the duties owed to retail broker-dealer customers, including those with retirement plan accounts. Like the DOL's fiduciary rule, the changes in the SEC's proposal are expected to have the greatest impact in the retail market, including recommendations of rollovers to IRAs.


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Successful aging takes on many different meanings for adults. Some adults focus on the importance of health while others focus on finding meaning in life. There is little consensus in the academic literature as to what constitutes successful aging, and oftentimes these definitions vary greatly from how older adults themselves would define successful aging. One common theme that has emerged from qualitative inquiries into successful aging is the importance of activity in later life. Little is known though about how definitions of successful aging relate to actual engagement in activities. The current study examines definitions of successful aging from over 700 adults and how they relate to engagement. The most common theme in the definitions was the importance of social relationships followed by the importance of activity. The relationships among the themes and engagement in four activities (paid employment, volunteering, caregiving, and education) will be discussed.

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The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) are charged with the vital mission of uncovering new knowledge that will lead to better health for everyone. To carry out this ambitious task, the NIH has become the largest agency for biomedical research in the world. It consists of twenty-seven separate institutes and centers and has a multibillion-dollar budget. However, it did not start out this way.
History of the National Institutes of Health
In 1887, the NIH began in Staten Island, New York, as a one-room federal laboratory within the Marine Hospital Service (MHS). At the time, it was called the Laboratory of Hygiene. The MHS was responsible for preventing the spread of infectious disease in the United States. For example, the staff at the MHS examined passengers on arriving ships for signs of communicable diseases such as cholera and yellow fever. By 1891, the federal government required the MHS to take on the additional responsibilities of developing and testing vaccines. That year, the service was relocated to Washington, D.C., and renamed the Hygienic Laboratory.
In 1902, Congress passed the Biologics Control Act to regulate vaccines sold in the U.S. This resulted in the Hygienic Laboratory adding divisions in chemistry, pharmacology, and zoology, all on a meager annual budget of $50,000. After ten years, this enterprise, now called the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), was further authorized to study chronic diseases (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, and cancer) and infectious diseases (e.g., tuberculosis, influenza, and malaria). Despite working with limited funds, its investigators made several remarkable medical discoveries during this period. For example, in 1920, Joseph Goldberger discovered that pellagra, a skin disease widely considered to be infectious, was in fact the result of a vitamin deficiency that could be prevented by proper nutrition.
In 1930, the Hygienic Laboratory became the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and by 1938 the unit had moved to a privately donated estate in Bethesda, Maryland. Today, this is the primary home of the National Institutes of Health.
Pursuing the Mission of NIH
The activities of the NIH are overseen by the Public Health Service, which, in turn, is directed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. However, the mission, goal, and activities of NIH distinguish it as a unique federation of biomedical research institutes. In pursuit of its broader mission, the specific goal of the NIH is to acquire biomedical knowledge that will enable researchers and practitioners to prevent, control, detect, and treat disease and disability. To achieve this goal, the NIH directs a number of programs and activities, including: (1) conducting research at the facility; (2) supporting scientific explorations of investigators in other settings (e.g., universities, medical schools, clinical centers) nationwide and internationally; (3) providing training for researchers; and (4) fostering the dissemination of medical information. The Office of the Director (OD) sets policy for planning, managing, and coordinating these programs and activities.
Within the OD is the Office of Legislative Policy and Analysis (OLPA). OLPA is responsible for making sure that the results of all of this research inform public policy and public health laws. To this end, the OLPA supervises legislative analysis and policy development, and also acts as a liaison between the NIH and Congress. As a result of the OLPA's participation in congressional hearings, for example, the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) was authorized in 1993. Consequently, the NIH established the Office of Dietary Supplements to conduct and coordinate research relating to dietary supplements and their impact on the health of the public.
The Institutes and Centers
To support its mission, the NIH has developed into a broad and complex federation consisting of a total of twenty institutes and seven centers. Each institute and center has its own medical or public health focus with well-defined priorities. For example, some institutes concentrate on a particular disease area (e.g., cancer, diabetes) whereas others support biomedical research (e.g., promoting diversity, providing medical resources).
One of the NIH's institutes is the famous U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, holding nearly six million items, such as books, professional journals (e.g., Science and Nature), and photographs. A plethora of resources and search engines, including PubMed and MEDLINEplus, provide access to these materials through the World Wide Web.
In general, the institutes' research priorities are shaped by two things: (1) epidemiological assessments (i.e., studies of the distribution and determinants of diseases and injuries in populations), and (2) political pressure. In some cases, political concerns have affected plans for specific research directions regardless of the results of epidemiological assessments. For example, a wide variety of research supports the idea that stem cells (undifferentiated cells taken from human embryos) have great potential to reduce the burden of illness (stem cells can be used to create other body cells, such as blood cells, or to regenerate tissue, bone, and muscle). However, despite the potential value of these applications, political concerns have threatened to end funding for this kind of research. On August, 9, 2001, President George W. Bush announced his decision to allow federal funds to support research on existing human embryonic stem cell lines under certain limited conditions.
Human Subjects: Protection and Ethics
Because much of the research supported by the NIH is conducted on human subjects, the NIH has several offices and programs in place to protect participants and address bioethical research issues. For example, to protect the rights and welfare of human subjects, the NIH has established at least fourteen separate Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). IRB committee members must review, and approve, all human-subject research activities prior to, and throughout, a study. Each principal investigator (the scientist in charge of directing a research project) must prove to the IRB that all of their human subjects provided informed consent before participating in study procedures. In addition, researchers must ensure the privacy of their participants is protected and their data are kept confidential.
In addition to offices that protect research participants, the NIH contains a number of offices that address ethical concerns and appraise the potential social consequences of scientific pursuits. For example, the Office of Science Policy (OSP) advises the NIH director on policy issues that affect the
In 1998 the U.S. Congress committed to increase the budget of the National Institutes of Health to more than $27 billion. A press conference calling for the increase featured entertainers Christopher Reeve and Mary Tyler Moore.
research community. In addition, OSP coordinates the Trans-NIH Bioethics Committee (T-NBC), composed of scientists, ethicists, and IRB members. This group is explicitly responsible for developing policies and considering the ethical, legal, and social implications of NIH-funded research.
Funding Research Projects
The NIH's important role in health and medical research and training is reflected in a yearly budget of 23 billion dollars (as of fiscal year 2002), a sum generated almost entirely through taxes. Today, the NIH uses these funds to support over thirty thousand research projects conducted on the main campus (intramural) and away from campus (extramural) at universities, medical schools, and independent research institutions.
Although the intramural research conducted at the NIH is important, nearly 80 percent of the NIH's budget is spent on extramural grants to investigators and research institutions throughout the nation and the world. The grants program seeks to stimulate the discovery of biomedical knowledge by encouraging qualified scientists to participate in particular types of research. In addition, research grants and contracts guarantee that facilities, equipment, and human resources are available to conduct research.
Research and Biomedical Advances
Nationwide and internationally, over fifty thousand researchers have been awarded grants to conduct their studies away from NIH's main campus. Together, these researchers have made more scientific breakthroughs than could be listed in this book. Some noteworthy examples, however, include: (1) the discovery that antiretroviral drugs could prevent transmission of the HIV virus from mother to infant, (2) demonstrating that weight loss and restriction of dietary salt reduce the need for blood pressure-lowering drugs, (3) confirming that tight control of blood glucose (sugar) may help people living with diabetes prevent complications such as blindness, and (4) identifying leptin (a product of the "obesity" gene) and suggesting how it might be used to combat obesity in humans. A number of extramural investigators have also been honored with the Nobel Prize for their significant contributions to biomedical science. For example, the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to Drs. Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism and its role in heart disease.
In addition to this work, research scientists, physicians, dentists, veterinarians, and nurses conduct more than two thousand intramural projects on the NIH campus. Several of these investigators have also received international attention for their discoveries. Currently, three Nobel laureates work at the NIH: Dr. Marshall W. Nirenberg (honored in 1968 for finding the key to cracking the genetic code), Dr. Julius Axelrod (honored in 1970 for discoveries concerning chemical transmitters in the nervous system), and Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek (honored in 1976 for identifying the cause of kuru, a fatal infectious disease that affects the nervous system). Today, intramural researchers continue to work on projects that will, ultimately, improve the health of the public.
Since its humble beginning as a one-room laboratory of hygiene, the NIH has become the largest biomedical research enterprise in the world. This well-funded public program has enabled scientists to make tremendous strides in preventing, controlling, detecting, and treating disease. Still, there are enduring questions for researchers at each of the twenty-seven institutes and centers to tackle, such as ways to prevent and treat cancer, heart disease, blindness, arthritis, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, depression, drug misuse, and AIDS. To pursue these and other issues, every year the NIH posts hundreds of requests for proposals (RFPs), encouraging scientists to submit grant proposals on different topics. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the NIH is especially interested in supporting research that will improve the health of infants and children, women, older adults, and minorities. Future projects will help scientists, practitioners, and educators better understand how biological processes, behaviors, and lifestyle practices impact health and disease. For example, more will certainly be learned about nutrition-related illnesses and how diet influences gene expression. By directing research in these areas, the NIH is leading the way to better health for everyone.
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Brown, Michael S., and Goldstein, Joseph L. (1984). "How LDL Receptors Influence Cholesterol and Atherosclerosis." Scientific American 251:52–60.
Pittenger, Mark F.; Mackay, Alastair, M.; Beck, Stephen C.; Jaiswal, Rama K.; Douglas, Robin; Mosca, Joseph D.; Moorman, Mark A.; Simonetti, Donald W.; Craig, Stewart; and Marshak, Daniel R. (1999). "Multilineage Potential of Adult Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells." Science 284:143–147.
Roe, Daphne A. (1973). A Plague of Corn: A Social History of Pellagra. New York: Cornell University Press.
Starr, Paul (1982). The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Washington, DC: Basic Books.
Internet Resources
National Institutes of Health (2001). "Press Release: FY 2002 President's Budget." Available from <http://www4.od.nih.gov/officeofbudget/press2002.pdf>
National Institutes of Health, Stetton Museum of Medical Research. "Historical Resources." Available from <http://history.nih.gov>


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STRANGE BUT TRUE- Year's end: The best and strangest... and truest
Q. In an unfamiliar restaurant, could an understanding of economics help you decide which menu items to order?–W. Puck
A. Despite the daunting plentitude of choices, you need not feel completely lost, says Tyler Cowen in Discover Your Inner Economist. At a fancy restaurant ($50 and up for a dinner), ask yourself: "Which item am I least likely to want? Which sounds least appetizing?" Then order that item.
The logic here is simple. No item will be on the menu long without good reason. If it sounds bad, it probably tastes especially good. Take the case of monkfish. It's hard to make good monkfish: Most people and most restaurants shouldn't even try.
"I don't try," write Cowen. "But when it is paraded with pride on the menu, it is usually an excellent entree. The dense and sweet flesh does very well in the hands of an expert chef." Other good bets include game, anything you've never heard of, and most organ meats, especially the nasty-sounding ones. Watch out for the popular-sounding items like roast chicken, since too often they're just okay. Many dining wimps will order roast chicken to experience the familiar. The same with fried calamari: Many people love this, so it will be on many menus no matter what. In general, popularity suffices, but it doesn't hit the highest peaks of taste. So, in summation, says Cowen, "Order the ugly, and order the unknown."
Q. Who was perhaps the dourest prognosticator of the last few centuries, and have we humans successfully beat his gloomy economics yet?–J. Dixon
A. Thomas Robert Malthus was the economist who in 1798 famously predicted that population growth tends to outstrip food production, depressing living standards and pitching the world back toward subsistence, says Jeffrey Sachs in Scientific American magazine.
Yet as advances in seed breeding, chemical fertilizers, irrigation, and the like seemed to buoy the food supply limitlessly, Malthusian economics became a source of mockery. As the population grew, it was argued, more geniuses would appear, spurring technology even more. But the replacement fertility rate of 2.1 kids per family now teeters perilously at 2.6, leading the U.N. Population Division to caution that with the current addition of 79 million people per year, world population may total 9.2 billion by 2050!
The dangers here include food and oil shortages, rising greenhouse gasses, gutting of the oceans, depletion of the rain forests, etc. Yet these are not inevitable, stresses Sachs, if we all take the right steps by converting to solar power and safe nuclear power plus developing water-efficient farming, green buildings, high-mileage cars. We'll also need to rethink our modern diets and lifestyles to reduce consumption.
So have we beaten Malthus? "Two centuries after his work, we still do not really know."
Q. They can weigh more than half a kilogram (about a pound), tasting a bit like a piece of veal and with recipes available for making them up into "meat" loaf, even smoothies. So why have vegetarians taken such a fancy to them? Clue: Tom Cruise famously announced his intention to eat one.–K. Holmes
A. Cruise was talking about his expectant wife's placenta, Nature's remarkable organ for the developing fetus that acts as substitute lungs, stomach, liver, bladder, says Katherine Robertson of the University of Cambridge, UK, in New Scientist.
Cells known as trophoblasts hijack the maternal blood system to provide the baby with needed oxygen and nutrients, serving as a protective barrier against Mom's immune system that might otherwise reject the growing mass. For certain vegetarians, the placenta affords the rare opportunity to eat meat without necessitating a slaughter of any kind.
True enough, concurs Robertson, who suggests that the life-giving placenta be both celebrated and investigated by researchers. "But I must confess an embarrassing failure of nerve when it comes to placental lasagna..."
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Sesame Seeds Roasting Machine Easy to operate. Microwave power Sesame Seeds Roasting Machine and the conveyor speed can be sleepless adjustment, there is no thermal inertia, can open and stop at an time, easy to control,improve the production environment.Microwave equipment European hot selling sunflower seeds oil extract machine, no waste heat radiation, no dust, no noise, no pollution, easy to implement the testing standards of food hygiene.Sesame Seeds Roasting Machine Low-temperature sterilization, less loss of nutrients.Retain vitamin C,conventional heating treatment for fruits and vegetables is 46% ~ 50%, but the microwave European hot selling sunflower seeds oil extract machine can reach 60%~90%.Retain vitamin A,conventional heating treatment is 58%,but Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,ltd. the microwave can reach 84%,and does not affect the original flavor, is a good method for deep processing of fruits&vegetables and get green foods.
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I. Pre-treatment process:
The oil material pretreatment process includes the cleaning section,breaking section,flaking section,softening section and oil pressing section.
1. Create a good product environment.
2. Minimize the total fat loss ,increase oil yield and output and improve the quality of oil and cake
3. Comprehensively utilize impurities and offal.
4. Perfectly match extraction production line ,design different production processing according to
different raw materials.
2. Solvent extraction process:
The raw material is conveyed to extractor hopper through feeding scraper, then enter into extractor through auger,after solvent spray,soak extract and drain off,fresh solvent spray and washing again(solvent and raw material flow reverse.In final,the extraction meal after eventually drain fall into the wet meal scraper conveyor ,then transported to the DTDC desolventizer through auger.The meal after desolventizing is conveyed into the meal storeroom through auger and scraper; strong mixing oil after removing impurities by cyclone hydraulic separator,enter into mixed oil tank sedimentation to remove impurities again,then start the first-evaporator.
Desolventizer (DTDC)according to SCHAMERHER theory,through pre desolventizing,mixed desolventizing ,desolventizing,drying and cooling 5 sections which are filled with a lot of direct and indirect steam,get rid of solvent, through access to a lot of heat,cold air make mealâs moisture and temperature meet the need of storage,hydrolysis of urea enzyme to fulfill the requirements of good forage.
The mixed oil which is purificator,after the flow measurement,first start the first-evaporation,the heat source of first evaporation is comes from DTDC Desolventizerâs second steam and negative pressure condenser jet pumpâs residual steam. The solvent is desloventizered by first-evaporation enter into vacuum condenser through separator.
Adopting negative pressure desolventizer can reduce mixed oilâs boiling point,improve the utilization rate of heat.The concentration of mixed oil after first-evaporation can achieve 70%,mixed oil flow by itself from first-evaporation to second-evaporation.
Second-evaporation use indirect steam to heat,the steam consumption of Second-evaporation is very low.the concentration of mixed oil can up to 95%.The mixed oil enter into stripper through pump,mixed oil is slowly fall down from the top of stripper to inside,at the same time inject direct steam from the bottom of stripper,get rid of the residual solvent,at the top of stripper,the mixed steam connect with vacuum condenser,this condenser is connect with inject pump,to make sure that the stripper is operated under negative pressure,at the bottom of stripper install liquid controller,make sure liquid seal and oil flow is stability.
3. Crude oil refining process:
Refining pot: also named Dephosphorization and deacidification tank,under 60-70â,it occurs acid-base neutralization reaction with sodium hydroxide ,After stirring by reduction box,it can decrease the acid value in oil and separate the impurity ,phospholipid which will enter into soap stock..The oil can be refined further.
Bleaching pot:Also named bleaching, dewatering pot,it removes water from oil by vacuum.The bleaching earth is breathed into bleaching pot ,after stirring,filtrated by filter and change the color of the oil.
Vertical blade filter machine: Equipped with vertical leaf filter to remove used bentonite from the oil, operating conveniently and continuously, low laboring tense, keeps environment well, keeps oil residence in deposable bleaching earth in low level.
Continuous and combined deodorization tower (stainless steel):
The qualified decolored oil enters into the spiral plate heat exchanger to recover most of the heat, and next goes to high pressure steam heat exchanger to be heated to the process temperature (240-260â) and then enters the deodorization tower. The upper layer of combined deodorization tower is the packing structure which is mainly used to remove the odor producing components such as free fatty acid (FFA); the bottom layer is the plate tower which is mainly for achieving the hot decoloring effect and reducing the peroxide value of the oil to zero. Oil from the deodorization tower enters into the heat exchanger to recover most of the heat and makes further heat exchange with crude oil, and then is cooled to 80-85â through the cooler. Add the required antioxidant and flavor agent, and then cool the oil below 50â and store it. Such volatiles as FFA from the deodorizing system are separated by the packing catcher, and the separated liquid is FFA at low temperature (60-75â). When the liquid level in the temporary tank is too high, the oil will be sent to the FFA storage tank.
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Our company is state sophomore enterprises which specialized in manufacturing large, medium and small sets of flour processing equipment, sesame cleaning equipment and other food processing equipment.
Our company has the self-management important and export rights, passed the ISO9001:2000 quality system certification. Company covers an area of 400,000.00m2, 1300 employees, more than 30 domestic well known machinery manufacturing and milling experts, more than 100 people who was graduated in all kinds of grain processing colleges, with assets of 34 million dollar, is the largest food machinery manufacturing enterprises.
Products are well-selling in more than 30 domestic provinces, and also exported to Asia, European, Africa and Americas.
In order to better facing fierce competition, our companyâs strategic target is âhigh grade, strict management, high quality, new technologyâ, âurgent user anxious, think what customers thinkâ as service policy.
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Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,ltd. type multi-purpose drum roasting machine Sesame Seeds Roasting Machine Mainly used for peanut, chestnut, walnut, almond, swallow beans, coffee beans, seeds and other granular material baking or roasting.European hot selling sunflower seeds oil extract machine Electric heating, fuel, or gas, coal as the heat source; the use of rotary drum, heat conduction, heat radiation principle, with coal to fuel; low production costs.The material does not contact with the fire during roasting ,Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,ltd. make sure the product quality is good, health, taste well, can reach the export standards.Temperature :300 degrees Set automatic constant temperature control.Sesame Seeds Roasting Machine Waterproof packing with the international export standard by 20ft, 40ft, 40hp container. European hot selling sunflower seeds oil extract machine Equipment Fittings, Electric Motor and Power Cabinet will be packed in Wooden Case or Iron Box.Shandong Leader Machinery Co.,ltd. Other Equipment will be packed by Color-Stripes Plastic Cloth.
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NOTE:We can specially design the machine according to your production's features.
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By then, his company, Murray International Metals, had been established for two years and its continued success despite the extreme physical and psychological trauma he must have endured made him an inspiration for a generation of aspiring Scottish entrepreneurs. His vision for Rangers was simple: to turn the underachieving giants of Scottish football into one of Europe's premier clubs. In chasing this unlikely dream, he began to spend astonishing amounts in transfer fees and on wages for England internationals such as Terry Butcher, Mark Hateley, Trevor Steven and Paul Gascoigne, as well as international stars who included the Danish forward Brian Laudrup and the Netherlands quartet of Ronald and Frank de Boer, Artur Numan and Giovanni van Bronckhorst. The Bank of Scotland, both before and after it merged with the Halifax, bankrolled Murray's mission with the sort of largesse that made you wonder if it thought it was dealing with Saudi princes, rather than a football club of limited means. Eleven League titles and 12 national cups were duly delivered in the 13 years before 2001. Yet meaningful success in Europe continued to elude this all-star cast, though Rangers in effect reached the semi-final of the inaugural European Champions League in 1993 (which consisted of only two groups of four). By then, the financial stakes had been raised by the birth of the English Premier League, powered by Rupert Murdoch's Sky. Not even HBOS's fabled elastic overdraft would stretch to match Murray's ambitions in these circumstances. Another source of income had to be found. It duly presented itself in the unlikely figure of Paul Baxendale-Walker, a former solicitor who had begun to produce (and appear in) his own pornographic films. Baxendale-Walker introduced Murray to an offshore tax arrangement called employee benefit trusts (EBTs). The structure of these vehicles is simple – a company places money into an offshore trust which is then divided into sub-trusts in the name of nominated employees. In Rangers' case, these included 60 of its highest-paid players and senior executives. The EBTs allowed the company to make discretionary payments to the beneficiaries in the form of loans that did not have to be redeemed. Neither the company nor the employee is liable for tax in such transactions, because the payments from the sub-trust are supposed to be discretionary. There ought not to be any contractual element in them. HMRC has deemed Rangers' use of these trusts to be aggressive tax avoidance. However, the club claims that they were legitimate tax-avoidance vehicles, all of which were rubber-stamped by teams of auditors and accountants. Aidan McLaughlin, a senior tax consultant with experience of setting up EBTs and operating them for clients, fears the worst for Rangers. "I can't see anything other than the first-tier tax tribunal rejecting their appeal," he told me. "In recent years the courts have strongly backed the government's drive against tax avoidance . . . I have seen a copy of one of the side-letters that Rangers issued to one of their players which indicates that the payment from the sub-trust was non-discretionary." Until around 2000, EBTs were used as bona fide instruments by companies to reward employees. After that, there was a Gadarene rush to deploy them as top-ups for highly paid executives. The contaminant factor in the Rangers scheme is the existence of the side-letters referred to by McLaughlin. If they had been arranged in this way, the payments would cease to be discretionary and would form part of a player's salary. The tax tribunal, sitting in Edinburgh but with UK-wide jurisdiction, has been considering its verdict for more than five months. Just as damaging are the claims about Craig Whyte's takeover. He bought the club for a nominal £1 from Murray, having undertaken to pay Rangers' £18m debt to Lloyds/Bank of Scotland. It has since been reported that the club withheld all VAT, income tax and National Insurance contributions during the nine months of Whyte's tenure from May 2011 to February 2012. A list of 332 creditors is owed amounts ranging from millions (to English and Continental clubs) to a few hundred to local newsagents, florists and taxi firms. The overall debt mountain is potentially more than £140m. Whyte funded the takeover of the club by mortgaging four years' worth of season-ticket revenue, amounting to £24m, with an English firm called Ticketus. In effect, he bought one of Britain's biggest clubs by trading on its future income. Although he had reassured Murray that he would be in a position to pay its debts, they have increased under his tenure to such a level that the club's continued existence is in doubt. Hand in glove The prospective new owner, Charles Green, an English financier who was previously chief executive of Sheffield United, had cobbled together a deal to buy the club for £8.5m, put up by unknown investors in the form of an eight-year loan with interest. The CVA had asked creditors to accept 9p in every pound of debt, but as HMRC has rejected it, creditors will now get less than 5p in the pound. HMRC and Ticketus together are owed 86 per cent of the Rangers debt, and as a CVA requires agreement from creditors owed 75 per cent of a firm's debt, the approval of both is a prerequisite. If either demurs, a winding up of the assets and liquidation will follow. In such circumstances a newco (a new club) would need to be formed. It might look like Rangers and sound like Rangers, but would it be accepted as Rangers? The sheer scale of the club's corporate failures is such that, not until a few more years have elapsed will the whole saga be exhausted. The Scottish FA, the SPL, an independent tribunal, three Scottish law lords and the Court of Session, sitting in Edinburgh, have been trying to unravel the extent of the misdemeanours and find condign redress. The shadow of Fifa, football's international governing body, has fallen across the hallway. If it rules that the Scottish FA has not sufficiently punished Rangers, then, based on precedent, it can exclude all Scottish clubs and the national team from competing anywhere in the world. Fifa is already irked that Rangers chose to challenge the edict of a transfer ban in a civil court. Any sympathy that Rangers might have had from fans of other clubs has largely evaporated because of an absence of remorse or shame on the part of the directors and executives. The football authorities must now decide if the new Rangers will be allowed to take the place of the old club in the SPL. If they reject the application, new Rangers will face the prospect of playing Alloa Athletic, Cowdenbeath and Stenhousemuir for the next three years. It is the football equivalent of the Rolling Stones playing Digbeth Civic Hall. The media in Scotland stand accused of failing in their duty of scrutinising Rangers' finances and of holding David Murray to account. It is a commonly held view that Murray had most of the Scottish football writers who mattered in his pocket throughout his period of ownership. Mark Daly, the BBC's splendid investigative reporter, has carried out two detailed investigations into Rangers' finances, but it has been claimed that the subsequent revelations of financial incontinence are largely a triumph of the new, very articulate and extremely well-informed citizen journalism. Unlike newspaper journalists, though, bloggers seldom need to concern themselves with much in the way of corroboration, writs for defamation or the Press Complaints Commission. However, one cannot deny the impact of two blogging sites, Celtic Quick News and Rangers Tax Case. Each is written elegantly, with a forensic understanding of the esoteric world of corporate insolvency. Last month, the anonymous author of Rangers Tax Case was awarded the Orwell Prize for best blog. Another whistleblower is Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, the Irish-based author, blogger and journalist who has broken four major stories about the Old Firm in the past two years. In April 2010, he supplied the Scottish News of the World with the first print story on the extent of Rangers' tax liabilities. Curiously, while several UK-wide news outlets still retain his investigative services, not a single Scottish newspaper has contacted him throughout the period of his breaking stories online. "I don't think there was a 'cover-up' [by newspapers] in the manner that some have alleged," Giolla Bhain told me. "But I do think there was a reticence to go after Rangers for fear that it may hit circulation. Also, David Murray used to be one of the most influential figures in Scotland and I think some people enjoyed being in his tent too much." It is impossible to underplay the Rangers debt saga and its effect on Scottish society. Rangers are much more than just a football club. Jeff Randall, the Sky business news presenter and Daily Telegraph columnist, once described them, and correctly, as "the quintessential British club". Founded in 1872, they draw their support, in the main, from what once would have been described as the white, Protestant artisan class. Between the early 1900s and 1989, Rangers had not knowingly signed more than a handful of Catholic players. Scotland had been the cradle of the Protestant Reformation in Europe, and while there was a Rangers FC, the spirit of reformed Protestant 18th- and 19th-century Scotland would always be alive. It is fashionable now to be outraged and censorious about the old Rangers signing policy, but for almost a century every major institution in Scottish life acquiesced in it by refusing to intervene: local and central government, the trade unions, the Catholic Church and Church of Scotland, the SFA and Celtic FC. Queen, flag and country Rangers supporters claim that their club is the most successful in the world because it has won more trophies than any other: 115, including the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1972. But all the old certainties that once underpinned the hegemony of the Scottish Protestant way of life have crumbled. The Church, the Queen and the Conservative and Unionist Party are now peripheral influences in a society in which the once-downtrodden Catholics (many of Irish origin) are rising to the top in every sphere of influence. Only Rangers remain as a potent symbol of what Scotland once was. Every match day at their home ground, Ibrox Stadium, is a royal jubilee day, with its Union flags, "Rule Britannias" and occasional tributes to British army personnel. When Rangers went into administration, Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party and First Minister, said that Scottish football needed them. He was stung when Celtic rebuked him by stating that their own financial well-being did not depend on Rangers' strength. Two years before a referendum on independence in Scotland, when every vote counts, Salmond's dilemma is that it is difficult to quantify how many Rangers supporters live in Scotland, as opposed to England and Northern Ireland, where the club is popular among Protestant loyalists. But if the 200,000 people who turned up in Manchester for the 2008 Uefa Cup final (between Rangers and Zenit Saint Petersburg) is any indication, it is safe to conclude that a large percentage of the Scottish population harbours affection for the club. If bad things happen to Rangers, they will surely look for an early opportunity to punish a Scottish government that fiddled as their club crashed and burned. It is hard not to feel sympathy for the ordinary Rangers supporter. While very rich and garlanded men were creating this scandal, the rank and file have continued donating a significant portion of their incomes in the struggle to save the club. Not long after the list of creditors was published by the administrators, assorted supporters' groups began to organise special fundraising events. Soon some of the small businesses that were owed money by Rangers were visited by fans and asked to accept handfuls of notes by way of payment for services rendered. Perhaps the most obscene irony of all is this: as these impromptu visitations were taking place, the cash meter on the Duff & Phelps account for three months' work was reported to be approaching £5m. Kevin McKenna is Scottish columnist for the Observer Subscribe £1 per month This article first appeared in the 18 June 2012 issue of the New Statesman, Drones: video game warfare SUBSCRIBE More


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I spent the last few days in Chicago at an education conference.
That's the good news.
The bad news is as soon as I arrived (late by the way… thanks Amtrak), I turned on the TV just in time to hear that Oprah Winfrey is leaving town.
Evidently, Chicago isn't big enough for the both of us.
I know I shouldn't take this personally, but this hurts. I've always felt like Oprah and I got along fairly well.
Sure, we had our disagreements about Gayle (Oprah loves her… I find her annoying) but for the most part we saw eye to eye.
I should admit that Dr. Phil strikes me as a little odd, but who am I to judge. Good enough for Oprah, good enough for me. Even though he seems like the creepy uncle your parents told you to avoid at family reunions.
But now she is leaving the Windy City.
Off to make her fame and fortune in Los Angeles.
Wait a second. Doesn't she already have fame and a little bit of fortune (by a little… I mean she bleeds gold bullion).
Why does she need her own television network?
More importantly, why is she starting her own television network.
She is worth about 8,000 billion dollars (when the market is down), so why doesn't she just buy one of the crappy 700 channels I get (and don't watch).
Then all she would have to do is move it to Chicago and rename it Oprah Land, OTV, or Oprah Classic (I would be very nervous TV Land, HGTV, and ESPN Classic… very nervous indeed).
But no, she has to wait until I arrive in Chicago to announce she is getting out.
To the uninformed, it looks like I drove her out.
That hurts Oprah. That really hurts.
I have to admit that while the conference was excellent, Oprah's little announcement put a damper on the whole weekend.
I found myself getting angry as I walked the streets of Chicago.
Then I realized I wasn't upset with Oprah. She has her life. I have mine.
Even though we don't always agree, I think it's important that we continue to support each other (after all… we both do it for the kids…).
Who am I to say that she shouldn't move for a job. Tough times mean tough decisions. Like all of us, poor Oprah has bills to pay (by poor… I don't mean poor).
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Where has common courtesy gone?
Large groups of idiots would stop directly in the middle of a sidewalk. Right smack in the middle of a pedestrian walkway on Michigan Avenue.
Why did they stop? Who knows. I'm guessing inbreeding, but don't quote me on that.
I've had it with people who seem oblivious to the rest of society and what is going on around them.
So I'm here to ask for your permission…the permission of well-educated, hard-working PrincipalsPage.com readers.
I need permission to carry a large snow shovel around so I can smack people in the face when they become a bother to the rest of us (mostly when they bug me… if they bother you it doesn't really effect me).
No questions asked. No legal liability. No second-guessing.
Just me, smacking people upside the head to make the world a better place (not my idea… I have to give credit to Mr. Tony on my favorite podcasted radio show).
I'm going to start with people who stop short on busy sidewalks.
In the future, the snow shovel may come into play with people who text while driving, anyone who honks .05 seconds after a stoplight turns green, smokers, loud talkers in movie theaters, people who burn leaves when their city prohibits it, and weathermen.
I'm also going to need permission to add to my list as I see fit.
Thank you for listening.
If you need me I will be in the garage looking for my snow shovel and wondering how my relationship went so wrong, so quickly with Oprah.


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text: Two Additional Deployments Added to Previously Announced Effort in Mayflower, Ark.Contact: Erik Ogren, 704-401-2117, email@example.com; Brent Rinehart, 704-401-2119, email@example.com CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 29, 2014 /Christian Newswire/ -- Crisis-trained chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team are in Louisville, Miss., and Baxter Springs, Kan., as part of the organization's response to the deadly and destructive series of tornadoes that cut through a large portion of the South and Midwest over the last few days. As previously reported by the ministry, chaplains are also on the ground in Mayflower, Ark."We're told to 'rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.' At this point there is not a lot of rejoicing, and there is a great amount of mourning through large portions of the United States," said Jack Munday, international director of the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team. "The destructive nature of this swarm of tornadoes has caused untold damage and pain. Our chaplains will come alongside those who are hurting to mourn with them and offer hope in the midst of the storm."The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team will deploy in coordination with Samaritan's Purse, a Christian disaster relief organization headed by Franklin Graham, who is also president and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Together the two ministries will seek to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of those impacted by the tornadoes."I would ask for your prayers for all of those who have been affected by the tornadoes, in Arkansas, Mississippi, Kansas, and the other states that took direct hits over the last 72 hours," added Munday. "Life will never be the same for thousands of families, and a sense of security they may have had before has been ripped away. They need our prayers now more than ever." The ministry is continuing to assess potential deployments in other areas, including Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team has deployed to more than 40 tornado disasters since its inception, including the deadly twisters in Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Joplin, Mo., during the historic storm season of 2011.For more information on the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team, including videos, photos, news articles and an interactive map of former and current deployments, visit www.billygraham.org/rrt. Updates can also be found at www.facebook.com/BGRapidResponseTeam.About the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team: The Billy Graham Rapid Response Team was developed by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. It has since grown into a nationwide network of chaplains in 48 states who are specifically trained to deal with crisis situations. They have deployed to more than 175 disaster sites, including shootings, floods, hurricanes, wildfires and tornadoes.


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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Time To Be Great Again, My Lord
by: Sippican Cottage
Sun's beaming in the window,
There's rumbling from the floor,
We're swinging while we're swaging
Boxes dancing out the door.
Oh how our muscles ripple,
We're making twenty knots,
We're alternating; current --
We're glowing with the watts.
Pounding down the corridors,
With Bill of Lading piles;
Our output's put the boss on ice
We're blowing out the dials.
They count the beans but can't keep up,
We're cooking with the gas;
Our arms are made from tempered steel,
Our heart is made of brass.
That brass is rolled to make a tube,
The tube is bent just so;
And if we blow that trumpet, Jack,
The girls get all aglow.
The whistle blows at five o'clock,
It's twenty-three skidoo;
The guys and gals that made that stuff,
Go out for dancing too.
They box the compass of the steps
Then swing from chandeliers;
They leave the clerks there in the lurch
Then kick it up a gear.
They pound the floor into the ground,
They swing and then they sway;
They'd drink to all their troubles,
But they've long since gone away.
They close the places late at night,
And walk home 'neath the stars;
Arm in arm, exchanging charms
One's Venus, one is Mars.
Mighty children spring from them,
To keep the flame alight;
They nurse them with acetylene,
And ultra-violet light.
They grow some whiskers when they're old,
And sit down for a spell;
Their Ercoles will take their place,
And raise a little hell.
6 comments:
- misterarthur said...
Oh, yeah. Where did you ever find this?
- SippicanCottage said...
No clue.
- Sixty Grit said...
Thanks for posting that again - I first saw it here and shared it with my friends. What can I say - it rocks in a way that no factory I ever worked in rocked. Oh yeah!
- SippicanCottage said...
Hi Sixty Grit- Happy Saturday!
- Sixty Grit said...
Thanks - it has been a great Saturday.
This morning at market I met a woman from Maine. I was wearing 5 layers of insulated clothing on my upper body, long johns and jeans on my lower body, two pairs of socks inside of my largest shoes, had a hat on my head and I was hoping it would warm up a bit.
The Mainiac was wearing a summer dress and a light sweater. She thought the NC weather was delightful.
It's all a matter of perspective, I reckon.
Okay, this is all apropos of nothing, other than it was nice meeting someone from Maine and seeing that 34 degrees as an overnight low is really not all that bad.
As you were...
Sixty Grit: The Mainiac's response to a cold spell in NC may help explain why, as a New England native, I wear shorts 9-10 months of the year in TX.Heat and AC can be dispensed with, for the most part.
Good video.


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Frasor adaptable to different pitching roles
ARLINGTON -- The Rangers had a 5-0 lead going into the ninth on Saturday night. It was not a save situation, so manager Ron Washington used Jason Frasor instead of Joe Nathan. Washington did have Nathan warming up in case Frasor turned it into a save situation.
Instead, Frasor closed out the shutout. He walked one and struck out two.
"It doesn't matter what the score is, you never feel good when those guys cross the plate," Frasor said. "I wanted to finish it out. I know Joe Nathan was warming up, but I didn't want him coming in."
It was Frasor's sixth appearance for the Rangers, but he really hasn't established a role in the bullpen. The Rangers signed him as a free agent in the offseason to be a right-handed setup reliever, but most of those duties have gone to Tanner Scheppers.
Frasor doesn't have a hold yet, while Scheppers has three. A hold can be considered a contrived statistic, but it does mean Frasor has yet to be used in what is classified as a save situation.
"Some guys are big on roles," Frasor said. "I go in when they tell me to go in. I think they're still learning me too."
Frasor spent most of the past nine years with the Blue Jays, mainly as a setup reliever anywhere between the sixth and eighth innings.
"We're just trying to get Frasor out there and get him going," manager Ron Washington said. "Things will pick up for him."


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