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Qantas Socceroos Squad Announcement
Qantas Socceroos Head Coach Holger Osieck has named a 19-player squad for the upcoming international friendly match against the Korea Republic at the Hwaseong Stadium, Hwaseong in the Korea Republic on Wednesday 14 November 2012 (kick-off 7:00pm local, 9:00pm AEDT).
Receiving their first call up to the Qantas Socceroos squad are Hyundai A-League players Tom Rogic (Central Coast Mariners) and Aziz Behich (Melbourne Heart) along with overseas-based player Eli Babalj (FK Crvena Zvezda Beograd, Serbia).
Returning to the Qantas Socceroos squad after varying times of absence are Mathew Leckie (FSV Frankfurt 1899, Germany), Mathew Ryan (Central Coast Mariners) and Michael Thwaite (Perth Glory).
Should he take the field against the Korea Republic, Carl Valeri will make his 50th
A-International appearance for the Qantas Socceroos.
Check out the rest of the squad here.
Watch the match live at 9pm (AEDT) on Fox Sports.
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Μάρκος Μάρκου: Παρουσιάζει το «Papadopoulos and Sons» στην Θεσσαλονίκη
Η ταινία «Papadopoulos and Sons» είναι η πρώτη μεγάλου μήκους ταινία του ελληνοκυπριακής καταγωγής Άγγλου σκηνοθέτη, Μάρκου Μάρκου η οποία παρουσιάζεται σήμερα στο 53ο Φεστιβάλ Κινηματογράφου Θεσσαλονίκης.
Το φιλμ αυτό σχολιάζει την οικονομική κρίση και την αξία των οικογενειακών δεσμών.
Ο Μάρκος Μάρκου γεννήθηκε στο Μπέρμιγχαμ, αλλά δεν ξέχασε ποτέ τις ελληνοκυπριακές ρίζες του.
Όσο για το σενάριο της ταινίας;
Ένας ελληνικής καταγωγής επιχειρηματίας της Αγγλίας, ο Χάρι Παπαδόπουλος, ενώ είχε καταφέρει να στήσει μια… αυτοκρατορία, χάνει τα πάντα.
Τελικά το μόνο που του έχει μείνει είναι η οικογένειά του και αυτό θα το καταλάβει στην πράξη.
Μια οικογενειακή επιχείρηση fish'n'chips θα σημάνει μια νέα αφετηρία για εκείνον από το μηδέν και ο αδερφός του θα σταθεί στο πλευρό και θα τον βοηθήσει να σταθεί και πάλι στα πόδια του.
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Λίτσα Γιαγκούση: Επιστρέφει δυναμικά στην πίστα
Η Λίτσα Γιαγκούση επιστρέφει στην νυχτερινή ζωή της Αθήνας.
Η τραγουδίστρια από την Κυριακή 11 Νοεμβρίου θα εμφανίζεται στο «Noiz club» στο Γκάζι. Με την χαρακτηριστική χροιά στη φωνή της έχει επάξια κερδίσει τη δική της θέση στο λαϊκό τραγούδι.
Θα μας χαρίσει μια νύχτα γεμάτη κέφι και αληθινής διασκέδασης με τις μεγάλες της επιτυχίες "Όταν μια γυναίκα", "Χαλάλι σου", "Χιλιόμετρα", "Όταν βλέπω αεροπλάνο", "Απιστία", "Μια δεκάρα δε αξίζει η αγάπη σου", "Κέρνα Φαρμάκι", "Άστο μην ορκίζεσαι", "Πάρα πολύ" κ.α αλλά και πολλά γνωστά λαϊκά τραγούδια.
Δεν είναι μόνο η ερμηνεία αλλά το αστείρευτο κέφι της και η επικοινωνία της με τον κόσμο, που την κάνουν ανεπανάληπτη.
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Greek Editor Vaxevanis on Tax Scandal 'Many Friends of Leading Politicians Are on the List'
Source: Spiegel.de
Greek editor Kostas Vaxevanis: "A majority of Greeks are being squeezed by austerity measures while the elite are bunkering their money abroad."
Police arrested Kostas Vaxevanis at the end of October for publishing the names of hundreds of rich Greeks suspected of tax evasion, only to be released a short time later. He tells SPIEGEL that Greek politicians are complicit in the scam and seek to pass laws to retroactively legalize tax offenses.
SPIEGEL: Were you surprised when you were arrested for publishing a list of names of people suspected of evading taxes?
Vaxevanis:Yes I was. Dozens of police surrounded my house as though I were a dangerous criminal. But three different governments have done all they could to make sure that this list remains secret. There had frequently been rumors, but nobody wanted to take the risk of naming names. It is absurd: A majority of Greeks are being squeezed by austerity measures while the elite are bunkering their money abroad.SPIEGEL: The public prosecutor has now asked parliament to investigate further to determine if politicians were guilty of failing to pursue tax evasion.
Vaxevanis: The only problem is that many friends of leading politicians are on the list. Everyone is connected with everyone.
SPIEGEL: What makes you so sure that this is indeed the so-called "Lagarde List," the collection of names of HSBC account holders that then-French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde handed to Greece in 2010?
Vaxevanis:Not even our politicians dispute the authenticity of the list. First, we called the owners of shipping companies, who are allowed to hold large quantities of money in offshore accounts. They confirmed the list contents. We spoke with HSBC employees and then called people to see how they reacted. Parliamentarian Giorgos Voulgarakis denied everything even though there is evidence that he failed to declare large sums of money being held in a Swiss bank account. An advisor to Prime Minister Antonis Samaras told us that, as a lawyer, he was managing the money for someone else. There are peculiar networks.SPIEGEL: Do you think that the lax approach to tax-code violations will now change?
Vaxevanis: Germany used the Lagarde List to go after tax evaders, as did France and Spain. But in Greece, the list simply disappeared. Why? Because everyone here is complicit: politicians, business leaders and journalists. Laws are passed here that retroactively legalize violations. Evangelos Venizelos, head of the socialist PASOK party, is an expert in the discipline. But nobody writes about it.
Interview by Julia Amalia Heyer
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Blake Lazarus' Greek Odyssey in one of his two appearances in the NRL for the Wests Tigers
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Blake Lazarus in one of his two appearances in the NRL for the Wests Tigers. Copyright: NRL Photos
The mercury is high, the humidity intense, we are a mere stone's throw away from the Sydney Football Stadium yet miles away from the dizzying heights of the NRL. Welcome to the life of former Wests Tiger Blake Lazarus now working as a personal trainer.
Far from being disappointed at his two appearances in Rugby League's premier competition, the nephew of five-time premiership winner Glenn is more than content with his newfound career.
The 24-year-old is no stranger to gruelling preseason fitness workouts and is putting that knowledge to good use, battering your correspondent to almost total exhaustion. While his former first-grade teammates enter their first week of Rugby League's equivalent of bootcamp, Lazarus is the one in charge, dishing out the pain. He has been up since 5am, his first client was at 5:30am and he has more sessions to run after we are finished too.
"I'm happy doing my personal training and I may go back and play with the Entrance Tigers," Lazarus tells NRL.com.
"The hardest thing with footy is you are always competing against someone. It is tough and you don't get any younger, you have to accept it at the end of the day there are a lot of young kids coming through and you are all vying for a position.
"I have no regrets, I had a few injuries, but I really love the personal training, despite the early starts."
Lazarus has just returned from a trip to Vanuatu to represent Greece, which he describes as the best Rugby League tour he has ever been involved in.
The ground wasn't packed to the rafters; it was packed to the tree branches and rooftops, with locals cramming in and finding any vantage point to watch this emerging sport.
The curtain-raiser to the international saw two local Vanuatu teams clash, big boys making even bigger hits. They hope to have their own league up and running soon too. It is a very humble beginning, but they aim to make a real fist of Rugby League.
"Vanuatu is doing some great things over there with Rugby League," Lazarus enthuses.
"They are trying to start a competition over there, so the curtain-raiser was two local teams – they had some big fellas and they were putting on massive hits.
"There were about 5,000 fans there to watch us play and there were people hanging from trees watching the game and on rooftops, it was amazing. I hadn't seen anything like it."
While his famous uncle represented Australia 29 times, it had been discovered that both Glenn and Blake had Greek ancestry. And while the thought of Blake representing Greece had seemed a little strange at first, this is how emerging nations grow the game.
It all started with a phone call from Rugby League News Magazine editor Terry Liberopoulos to Newtown enquiring whether Blake would be interested in playing.
The rest they say is history.
Without Liberopoulos, Lazarus says Greece wouldn't have a Rugby League team.
"They had done a bit of research behind my heritage and my background and they found some Greek heritage," he said.
"I didn't know too much about it to be honest, but Terry had approached Glenn about it a few years back at a dinner.
"If they don't have the heritage players playing, they wouldn't have a team to start with. So it is a big thing for them."
Lazarus found himself playing alongside Queensland Cup players, boys from the country and guys who had represented Greece in 2003. It was a similar story for the Vanuatu team.
But for three days, they were embraced as superstars – Rugby League royalty.
"The Vanuatu people were so welcoming and they love their Rugby League," Lazarus recalls.
"There were Broncos jerseys and NSW Cup jerseys and a few other NRL jerseys being worn, it was awesome.
"Some of the hits in the game were huge too, just as big as I've seen in the NRL.
"They had a couple of Queensland Cup players who were of Vanuatu heritage and a few of the local players. The standard of the game was really good; the first 25 minutes were hard and fast.
"Sure it might have dropped away in the second-half, but it was still a pretty good game of footy. They definitely have a lot to work with."
For the record Greece were victorious 24-14, Lazarus finished with a try and three conversions.
But as players completed their third lap of the ground after the game to make sure they had shook hands with every single spectator who had turned up, not leaving the ground until more than two hours after the full-time siren had sounded, it could aptly be said that Rugby League was the real winner.
As for Blake, he'll continue to train and torture would-be fitness enthusiasts under a scorching sun, and will happily put his hand-up to keep representing Greece if he gets the call from coach Steve Georgallis – a man he believes should be a head-coach in the NRL – but that's another story.
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A Rose Bay walkathon for Greek welfare
Source: Wentworth-courier
Andrew Boucas creates a Byzantine Cross for the Greek Church in Rose Bay as part of fundraising efforts for the Greek Welfare Centre.
GREEK delicacies were a welcome reward for those who took part in the Rose Bay walkathon for the Greek Welfare Centre on Sunday.
More than 600 people took part in the walkathon which was hosted by the Greek Orthodox Parish of St George, Rose Bay.
Woollahra mayor Andrew Petrie and state opposition local government spokeswoman Sophie Cotsis joined other local councillors and walkers in the fundraising event.
Funds raised will go towards a range of community and aged care services.
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From Jewboy to Greek drama – Dead Europe, adapted from Christos Tsiolkas's
Source: Jewishnews
AUSTRALIAN filmmaker Tony Krawitz was catapulted into the international limelight in 2005 when his short film Jewboy premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Now his first feature film, Dead Europe, adapted from Christos Tsiolkas's controversial novel, is set to make him a household name, especially in Jewish homes.
Jewboy was set in Sydney's ultra-Orthodox community and was based on Krawitz's own experiences driving taxis when he was a university student.
While Dead Europe has its dark heart and central mystery in the persecution of Jews over the centuries, culminating in the Holocaust, it is set around a gay, non-Jewish, Australian-born photographer of Greek heritage named Isaac (Ewen Leslie from Jewboy), who travels to Europe to take back his father's ashes.
"As a Jew I'm really fascinated by my culture," says Krawitz, who lives in Sydney. "From the amazing stories and experiences of the Jewish people over the ages and in contemporary culture, there's a rich well to draw upon.
"I found Dead Europe interesting because it was about Jews, and in a sense the Holocaust, about hatred and especially anti-Semitism. It was written in a way that I hadn't come across before."
Tsiolkas's novels are multi-layered and powerful, and like The Slap, which was made into a hit TV mini-series by the ABC, Dead Europe viscerally probes beneath the surface of all its characters.
It was this quality in the storytelling that excited Krawitz, and made him want to turn Dead Europe into a film.
"It reminded me a lot of Greek tragedy, or even biblical stories such as Job, or 'I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.' Those really old, ancient ideas and beliefs really inspired me to make the book into a film," he says.
"What really underpins the story is a powerful scream for human rights. Christos began writing Dead Europe when the wars in the former Yugoslavia broke out. He was shocked that this kind of inhumanity could be happening again on European soil. It reminded people again of World War II. But at the end of the day what really moved me is that Dead Europe is a gripping read."
As adapted by Krawitz and his collaborators – Oscar-winning producer Emile Sherman and actress turned writer Louise Fox – the film is different in many ways from Tsiolkas's novel, which combines two narratives: a fairytale that takes place in a Greek village before and after World War II, and a second story which takes place in the present.
In Krawitz's film, these two stories are blended, and Isaac's hallucinogenic descent into the horrors of the past makes for riveting cinema.
Krawitz was born in South Africa and migrated with his family to Australia in 1987, aged 19. With memories embedded in his consciousness of his maternal German-Jewish grandparents, who were forced to flee Berlin in 1935, Krawitz was impressed with Tsiolkas's Dead Europe because of the way it strips bare the prejudices that, even today, lie like a dark secret under the surface of European culture.
"I found it really brave that with Dead Europe Christos interrogated his own preconceived notions of Jews and inherited hatreds," he says.
"In South Africa, Jews were classified as white people. I grew up under a really unjust system that had paternalistic notions about what black people were like. It was something I had to unpack for myself, and that resonated for me in the book as well."
Krawitz is particularly proud that three Jews worked together in bringing Dead Europe to the screen.
"Emile Sherman, the producer (The King's Speech, Disgrace), writer Louise Fox and I are all Jews, and I think we were drawn to Dead Europe for similar reasons," he says.
"It is a powerful story about someone we can identify with, who seems like a really good person, who becomes infected with his own prejudices.
"Isaac is having a psychological breakdown, and the film is told through his point of view. But the Europe we see on the screen is the Europe he experiences.
"When I read the book I loved it. I found out that the option rights were available, and it was only about a month later that I got a call from Sherman, completely out of the blue.
"'Have you read the book?' he asked me. I didn't know him very well then. 'That's really weird,' I told him. 'I've been trying to get the rights myself.' So we got together," Krawitz says.
"Louise was one of the founding members of Barrie Kosky's Gilgul Theatre and a good friend who I've known for 15 years. She comes from a theatrical tradition and was involved as an actor in contemporary Yiddish theatre in Australia in the '90s.
"Since then she's become a full-time writer, and is not only one of the smartest people I know, but interested in what it means to be Jewish in a historical sense, and as an Australian Jew in the 21st century."
Krawitz has notched up an impressive CV since his days studying film at the University of Technology in Sydney, and the Australian Film Television and Radio School.
Since Jewboy he has directed many episodes for television dramas and mini-series, and his feature-length documentary The Tall Man (2011) won a swathe of awards, including an AWGIE (Australian Writers' Guild award) for best documentary script.
On a personal level, his greatest achievement has been his long-time friendship and marriage to fellow Australian director Cate Shortland (Somersault, 2004), whose latest film Lore – about five destitute German children who travel about 900 kilometres to their grandmother's house in Hamburg after the defeat of Germany in World War II – has been selected as the Australian entry for the best foreign language Oscar at the 2013 Academy Awards.
Krawitz met Shortland 20 years ago and the couple have two adopted South African children, aged 18 and four.
"The funny thing is that when we met at a friend's party, and we were both in our early 20s, we ended up bonding over a discussion about history and fascism," says Krawitz.
"It's just curious, a weird twist of fate, that these two films (Dead Europe and Lore) got funded at a very similar time, which made for a crazy time last year trying to juggle two films and two children."
Dead Europe opens in cinemas on November 15.
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Greek MPs to vote on austerity
Source: HeraldSun
GREEK lawmakers vote on Wednesday on austerity measures needed to unlock international aid and stave off bankruptcy, despite strikes and public anger against billions more euros in tax hikes and pension cuts.
A general strike was expected to paralyse Athens for a second straight day and Greeks gathered in front of parliament to voice their opposition to making further sacrifices as the country heads for its sixth year in recession.
Lawmakers were due to wrap up their debate and hold a late-night vote on the package of 18.5 billion euros ($23.6 billion) in new spending cuts and other reforms by 2016.
Implementing the austerity plan is a condition for Greece to receive a 31.5-billion-euro tranche of bailout funds from its troika of international creditors — the European Union, International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.
Without it, Greece risks running out of money on November 16, when a debt repayment falls due.
Despite the country approaching bankruptcy and a possible euro exit once again, many Greeks are angry at repeatedly having to tighten their belts.
Police estimated that 40,000 people turned out on Tuesday at an Athens rally on Syntagma Square, near parliament, under banners screaming "No to measures of impoverishment" and "The people above everything else — not numbers and measures."
In the northern city of Thessaloniki, 20,000 joined a march.
"The people came here today to protest against the measures that bring us back centuries. They are abolishing our rights and depriving our children's future," said teacher Thanassis Pargas at the rally in Athens.
Traffic was paralysed in the capital as public transport workers joined the 48-hour general strike.
Ferry services were also crippled, with ships linking Greece's islands remaining docked.
Many flights were cancelled or rescheduled as air traffic controllers staged a three-hour work stoppage.
Judges and lawyers also joined the strike, while publicly-run museums, archaeological sites and post offices were shut.
The measures to be voted on Wednesday include a rise in the retirement age to 67 from the current 65, and cuts of five to 10 per cent in pensions of more than 1000 euros a month.
Civil servants' 13th and 14th month pay would be scrapped and further salary cuts imposed on academics, hospital doctors, judges, diplomats and members of the armed forces.
"These measures essentially bring us many years back. All the labour rights the Greek people won post-World War II and post-dictatorship are taken back," said union activist Marie Lavrentiadou at the Athens rally.
"The measures will be voted in (Wednesday), but measures are not voted in the conscience of the Greek people and they can be ousted," she charged.
However, the government has warned that the country has no choice but to adopt the measures if Greece wants to stay solvent and in the eurozone.
Eurozone creditors were due to make a decision on the bailout funds — part of a massive rescue package for Greece — at meeting of finance ministers on Monday.
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Miss Teen America 2012 Proud of Greek Origin
ΕΛΕΑΝΑ ΦΡΑΝΓΚΕΔΗ: Η ωραιότερη πιτσιρίκα της Αμερικής έρχεται στην Αθήνα
Άρωμα Ελλάδας είχε ο φετινός διαγωνισμός ομορφιάς στις ΗΠΑ για νεαρές κοπέλες κάτω των 18 ετών.
Η Ελεάνα Φρανγκέδη (Eleana Frangedis), Ελληνίδα τρίτης γενιάς, στέφθηκε Miss Teen America 2013.
Η 17χρονη Ελεάνα γεννήθηκε και μεγάλωσε στη Φλόριντα, αλλά επισκέπτεται συχνά την Ελλάδα. Σε λίγες ημέρες μάλιστα θα έρθει στην Αθήνα για να λάβει μέρος στον 30οΚλασικό Μαραθώνιο της Αθήνας.
Η ίδια μιλώντας στον ΣΕΓΑΣ, δήλωσε: «Είμαι πολύ ενθουσιασμένη που θα συμμετάσχω στον μαραθώνιο. Ως Ελληνίδα του εξωτερικού, νιώθω μεγάλη χαρά και θέλω να προσφέρω στην πατρίδα μου με τον οποιονδήποτε θετικό τρόπο. Είναι μια μεγάλη ευκαιρία για εμένα να συνδεθώ με την ιστορία της χώρας μου».
Eleana Frangedis, the 18-year-old Greek-American from Clearwater, Fla. who was crowned Miss Teen America 2012 earlier this year said she's proud of the title, but more so of her origin and one day would like to live in Greece. She has made a good impression not just with her beauty, but her intelligence.
She is going to study Biomedical Engineering while staying active in the community and said she especially loves Greek culture and Easter celebrations.
According to an interview in Real Life magazine, she will be in Athens to take part in the 30th Athens Classic Marathon on Nov. 11 and was photographed for the campaign Marathon for Greece, which aims to change Greece's image abroad.
She said her dream is to eventually be able to buy a house in Greece and stay here with her family, but for now her obligations as the Teen Queen of America and education will keep her busy.
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Astoria Characters: The Greek Dancer, Anastasia Tsantes
Anastasia Tsantes stands on her feet all day. She's a waitress who's used to pulling 12- and 13-hour shifts.
Yeah, working leaves her dog tired, but she's never too worn out to dance in the footsteps of her Greek ancestors.
"The dancing, it comes from my soul," she says.
Every Tuesday and Wednesday night, Anastasia, the president of the Greek-American Folklore Society, lifts up her heels and her heart to the tunes that made her mother, and her grandmother before her, tap their toes.
Photo by Nancy A. Ruhling
Anastasia is president of the Greek-American Folklore Society.
Greek folk dancing may be a dying art — the society has fewer than 50 members — but keeping it alive brings Anastasia to life.
Anastasia, an Amazon with amazing tattoos, long grizzled hair and an industrial-strength classically chiseled profile, was born in Manhattan's Greek ghetto town. Her parents hailed from the island of Ikaria, home of the mythical Icarus, who, you will remember, had his waxy wings melted by the penetrating rays of the sun.
She and her older brother grew up in Elmhurst, living what she calls "the Greek-American dream." Her working-class parents were frugal and careful. Although her mother stayed home to raise the children, her father, a cook, worked lots of shifts. They saved enough to buy a three-family house and send their children to Greek school, where Anastasia and her brother learned, among other things, their parents' mother tongue.
The society is on Crescent Street at Ditmars Boulevard.
"Half of my life was in the Greek community, half was in the American community," she says.
It was the 1950s, and Anastasia did what women then did: She married straight out of high school. But it was not a free ride. That's not what she would have expected. She did have jobs — she was a shampoo girl in a beauty shop and worked for a stained-glass store.
"My parents never encouraged me to go to college," she says. "I wish I had had the opportunity."
Waitressing is her job, dancing is her joy.
Anastasia soon found that nothing in life lasts forever; she got a divorce then eventually married again. When she was 35, her second husband died, leaving her to raise two sons by herself. By then, she had a waitress job. More than a quarter century later, she's still serving tables. For the last four years, she's been taking orders at Manducatis Rustica in Long Island City.
She laughs about her job choice. Her father's work showed her how rough the restaurant business is. It wasn't anything she ever wanted to do. But she finds she likes it; it connects her to people she otherwise would never meet.
That's what the dancing does, too.
Under the spotlight, the costumes glitter.
"I don't have a social life," she says. "The folklore society gets me out of the house. We are all different ages and ethnic groups. At 60, I'm the oldest; the youngest is a 12-year-old boy from Colombia. When we dance, we represent all the ages of people in a village; we're dancing in celebration. We are like an extended family. When we buried our director, we went in costume and danced at his grave site."
Anastasia's dedication to the dances doesn't stop with her feet. She has a mermaid tattoo on her upper left arm and a pair of costumed characters close to her heart. They are taken from common folklore drawings.
"I consider my body my canvas," she says, adding that she has a fancy for adorning herself with chunky amber, silver and turquoise jewelry.
Anastasia's tattoes are drawn from Greek folklore.
For nearly three decades, Anastasia has remained devoted to the society, whose mission is to spread the word about Hellenic folk culture through performances, lectures and exhibits. The group has performed at a variety of venues ranging from Lincoln Center to Athens Square Park.
"It's the dancing, the music, that has kept me involved," she says. "Running the society has been an act of love. We have a rich culture, and we want to pass it down to the next generations."
Sadly, it won't happen with her sons. Unlike Anastasia, they don't speak Greek, and they've shown no interest in folk dancing.
The costumes are clothed in history.
Keeping the society on its toes is easier danced than done. The nonprofit organization, which was established in 1983, relies upon dwindling dues.
"We're behind on the rent," Anastasia says. "The landlord is very understanding. Some months, we pay the utility bill out of our pockets."
The ground-floor space, which is next to a laundry, is filled with traditional costumes, old and new. They are reflected in the floor-to-ceiling mirror that dominates the room. In the cool of autumn, when the world is between air conditioner and furnace, the society opens its doors and the music, a river of sound, flows out into the street, prompting passers-by to peek.
Anastasia remains committed to the society.
Anastasia doesn't know what her next step in life will be. Her brother has been asking her to open a shop in a building he owns in Long Island City, but she's not sure if she has the stamina to do it. But the dancing — hey, that's no problem. She'll keep doing it until she can't stand up any more.
Nancy A. Ruhling may be reached at Nruhling@gmail.com.
Copyright 2012 by Nancy A. Ruhling
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Cape Cod boatyard has a new owner
A long-standing boatyard in East Falmouth, Mass., is under new ownership.
Edwards Boatyard, owned and operated by Edward Swain since 1979, was sold to Bosun's Marine, which is owned by Tim Leedham, for $1.72 million, according to a deed on file with the Barnstable County Registry of Deeds, the Cape Cod Times reported.
Swain said his family owned the business since 1951.
"I'm long overdue," Swain, 75, told the newspaper. "My (three) kids didn't want it. I wanted a good outfit to look after the employees and the customers. [Leedham] has a very good reputation."
The business has 48 boat slips and does service and inspection on more than 400 town moorings, Leedham said. It also has a sales and service shop for powerboats and sailboats.
Leedham said eight of the 10 staff members from Edwards Marine were retained and he expects to expand to 12 full-time staff members at the boatyard. During the summer the number of employees should reach about 20, he said.
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Defense - January 2011
This Defense spotlight looks at local companies, contracts awarded and some of the hot issues in the industry.
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Unmanned aircraft take over as robo-fighters, watchdogs and spies
Think about unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and the picture that probably comes to mind is of the remote-controlled drones that have been in the news recently for conducting air strikes in the remote regions of Pakistan that border Afghanistan.
Transgender vets want military access for own
SAN FRANCISCO -- Before handcuffing herself to the White House fence, former Petty Officer First Class Autumn Sandeen carefully pinned three rows of Navy ribbons to her chest. Her regulation dress blue skirt, fitted jacket, hat and black pumps were new -- fitting for a woman who spent two decades serving her country as a man.
AFCEA San Diego hosts 2011 C4ISR Symposium April 5-8
With more than 1,000 attendees expected from government and industry, the San Diego chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) will host its 33rd C4ISR symposium April 5-8 at the Hall of Champions in Balboa Park. With the theme of "Assuring Information Dominance in a Denied C4ISR Environment -- the Best Defense is a Good Offense," participants will collaborate on future requirements and gaps in current capabilities with featured speakers and panelists to build solutions for the Department of Defense's future direction of C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance).
Experts unravel government contracting rules for local engineers
Dozens of engineering business representatives from around San Diego now have a better understanding of several changes taking place this year when it comes to government contracting.
Maxwell Technologies awarded $1.7 million DARPA contract
San Diego-based Maxwell Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: MXWL) said it has been awarded a $1.7 million technology development contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the initial phase of a multi-phase program to develop a lighter, longer-lasting, energy source for field radios and other portable electronic equipment carried by military personnel.
Cubic Corp. to acquire XIO Strategies
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Philosophy of Science Association (1)
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (2)
The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion (2)
Testing Bottom-Up Models of Complex Citation Networks
Mark A. Bedau
Journal: Philosophy of Science / Volume 81 / Issue 5 / December 2014
The robust behavior of the patent citation network is a complex target of recent bottom-up models in science. This paper investigates the purpose and testing of three especially simple bottom-up models of the citation count distribution observed in the patent citation network. The complex causal webs in the models generate weakly emergent patterns of behavior, and this explains both the need for empirical observation of computer simulations of the models and the epistemic harmlessness of the resulting epistemic opacity.
14 - Artificial life
By Mark A. Bedau, Reed College
Edited by Keith Frankish, The Open University, Milton Keynes, William M. Ramsey, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Artificial Intelligence
Print publication: 12 June 2014, pp 296-315
Artificial life research is mainly a scientific activity, but it also raises and illuminates certain philosophical questions. This chapter explains what artificial life is and how it is connected with artificial intelligence (AI). It briefly describes some of its representative scientific achievements. Some soft artificial life models focus on self-organization and study how structure can emerge from unstructured ensembles of initial conditions. The chapter discusses some associated philosophical issues involving emergence, creative evolution, the nature of life, the connection between life and mind, and the social and ethical implications of creating life from scratch. The science and engineering of artificial life impinges on a number of broad philosophical issues, including how life emerges from non-life, whether the evolution of life has a directional arrow, what life is, whether software systems could ever be literally alive, and what the social and ethical implications of creating artificial life are.
1 - The nature of life
from Part I - The metaphysics of life and death
By Mark A. Bedau
Edited by Steven Luper, Trinity University, Texas
Book: The Cambridge Companion to Life and Death
Print publication: 13 February 2014, pp 13-29
By Nicholas Agar, David Archard, Mark A. Bedau, Krister Bykvist, David DeGrazia, Eyjólfur K. Emilsson, John Martin Fischer, Matthew Hanser, Katherine Hawley, Thomas E. Hill, Jens Johansson, Simon Keller, Noah Lemos, Steven Luper, Eric T. Olson, Marya Schechtman, Michael Tooley, Kadri Vihvelin, James Warren
Print publication: 13 February 2014, pp ix-xi
Mark A. Bedau, Reed College, Oregon, Carol E. Cleland, University of Colorado, Boulder
Book: The Nature of Life
Print publication: 30 September 2010, pp ix-xi
The Nature of Life
Classical and Contemporary Perspectives from Philosophy and Science
Mark A. Bedau, Carol E. Cleland
Print publication: 30 September 2010
Bringing together the latest scientific advances and some of the most enduring subtle philosophical puzzles and problems, this book collects original historical and contemporary sources to explore the wide range of issues surrounding the nature of life. Selections ranging from Aristotle and Descartes to Sagan and Dawkins are organised around four broad themes covering classical discussions of life, the origins and extent of natural life, contemporary artificial life creations and the definition and meaning of 'life' in its most general form. Each section is preceded by an extensive introduction connecting the various ideas discussed in individual chapters and providing helpful background material for understanding them. With its interdisciplinary perspective, this fascinating collection is essential reading for scientists and philosophers interested in astrobiology, synthetic biology and the philosophy of life.
31 - Four puzzles about life
WHAT EXPLAINS THE PHENOMENA OF LIFE
Life seems to be one of the most basic kinds of actual natural phenomena. A bewildering variety of forms of life surrounds us, but we usually have no difficulty distinguishing the living from the nonliving. That flower, that mushroom, that worm, that bird are alive; that rock, that mountain, that river, that cloud are not. Just as any attempt to divide nature at its joints must account for mind and matter, so it must account for life.
Yet it is notoriously difficult to say what life is, exactly. Many have noted this (e.g., ref. 1); Farmer and Belin (ref. 2, p. 818) put the point this way:
There seems to be no single property that characterizes life. Any property that we assign to life is either too broad, so that it characterizes many nonliving systems as well, or too specific, so that we can find counter-examples that we intuitively feel to be alive, but that do not satisfy it.
The fact today is that we know of no set of individually necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for life.
Nevertheless, there is broad agreement that life forms share certain distinctive hallmarks. Various hallmarks are discussed in the literature, and Mayr's list is representative and influential:
All levels of living systems have an enormously complex and adaptive organization.
Living organisms are composed of a chemically unique set of macromolecules.
The important phenomena in living systems are predominantly qualitative, not quantitative.
All levels of living systems consist of highly variable groups of unique individuals.
Supplementary bibliography on life
SECTION III - ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY
As the discussions in Sections I and II underscore, natural life as we know it on Earth today is an extremely complex phenomenon, having distinctive functional characteristics at the abstract level and comprising specific chemical elements, molecules, and biochemical pathways at the physical level. Its complex, multi-leveled, interconnected character poses problems for biologists trying to generalize to all forms of life: Which features of our only unequivocal example of life are fundamental to all life? Artificial life (also known as "ALife") is an interdisciplinary study that aims to circumvent this difficulty by artificially synthesizing lifelike processes both in isolation and together at different levels of analysis. This allows researchers to better explore questions such as whether the stuff that comprises life is essential to it. Underlying research in ALife is the view that one of the best ways to understand something is to learn how to make it. The term "artificial" refers to the fact that humans are involved in the construction process, and indicates that the results might be quite unlike natural forms of life. There is a lively debate among ALife researchers over what types of artificial life qualify as genuine examples of life, instead of mere simulations or models of life. The question is, when is a simulation or model of life complete enough to be the real thing?
Artificial life research can be subdivided into three broad categories, reflecting three different types of synthetic methods (Bedau 2003, 2007).
By Mark Bedau, Portland,, OregonCarol Cleland, Boulder, Colorado
Print publication: 30 September 2010, pp vii-vii
This book is a collection of readings about the nature of life. The idea for it was born when we first met and discovered our mutual interest in the nature of life, a shared background in philosophy of science and philosophy of biology, and a complementary scientific expertise in the origin of life and astrobiology (Cleland) and artificial life and synthetic biology (Bedau). We both wanted to have a book like this, so we decided to compile it together. Our interests and orientation led us to include material in four general areas: (i) classical philosophical and scientific discussions about the nature of life, (ii) contemporary scientific and philosophical discussions of the origins of life, and of chemical possibilities for unfamiliar forms of natural life, (iii) discussions of contemporary artificial life creations, including not just computer simulations but also self-reproducing robots, protocells, and other synthetic biology constructions created in the wet lab, and (iv) attempts by contemporary scientists and philosophers to describe and explain the nature of life in its most general, non-Earthcentric, form. Producing this book confirmed for us the value of combining multiple perspectives on life.
We hope that this book will inform philosophers about the latest scientific advances and introduce scientists to subtle philosophical puzzles and problems, and thereby foster new, well-informed and thoughtful philosophical and scientific reflection about the nature of life. In our opinion, genuine progress in understanding life crucially depends upon combining both scientific and philosophical perspectives on life.
SECTION II - THE ORIGIN AND EXTENT OF NATURAL LIFE
The chapters in this section discuss contemporary scientific views about two issues: how the familiar forms of life that exist on Earth originated from nonliving material by physico-chemical processes, and how familiar life forms might differ from other forms of life that naturally exist. Our scientific knowledge of natural life is limited to current life on Earth, which includes microbes (true bacteria, bacteria-like archea, and protists, e.g., paramecia) as well as larger, more familiar fungi (e.g., mushrooms), plants, and animals. For better or worse, our paradigm of life is founded upon these organisms because they represent the only examples of life of which we can be certain. Our understanding of life in general, including the possibilities for artificial life and extraterrestrial life, is strongly influenced by what biologists and biochemists have discovered about life on Earth. Moreover, by asking specific biological questions, deeper philosophical ones inevitably emerge. The import of these chapters is thus not limited to the topic of this section. Taken together, these chapters bring important and sometimes underappreciated discoveries in biology and biochemistry to bear on some of the oldest questions about life.
Philosophical questions inevitably arise as soon as one starts probing the origin and extent of natural life. Both scientific projects raise general philosophical questions about life, such as the following: What presuppositions about life are embedded in different views about how life arose or what forms could exist? What weight should we place on those presuppositions?
Print publication: 30 September 2010, pp v-vi
Print publication: 30 September 2010, pp xii-xviii
SECTION I - CLASSICAL DISCUSSIONS OF LIFE
Print publication: 30 September 2010, pp 1-8
Humans have long been puzzled about the nature of life—how living things are similar to and different from nonliving things, both natural and artificial, and whether the characteristics that are universal in familiar Earth life are genuinely essential to all possible forms of life. The chapters in this section provide classical historical perspectives on present day philosophical and scientific debates about life. These perspectives have an often underappreciated and sometimes even unrecognized influence on current philosophical and scientific thought. Cutting-edge contemporary ideas are sometimes not so novel after all! More importantly, however, sometimes the older debates, which typically focus on more general, and hence more fundamental, conceptual issues, can provide unexpected insights into present-day controversies.
This section begins with the writings of three intellectual giants: Aristotle, René Descartes, and Immanuel Kant. Best known today for their philosophical work, each also made important contributions to the development of modern science. Each holds a different view about the nature of life. As the remaining chapters in this book illustrate, the differences between them are still relevant today.
One central theme running from the writings of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle right up to the present is the idea that living things have distinctive functional characteristics. Aristotle also thought that living things are distinguished from inanimate objects by the ability to self-organize (develop from fertilized eggs) and maintain this self-organization against both internal and external perturbations.
Print publication: 30 September 2010, pp xix-xxii
This book is a collection of classic and contemporary readings by philosophers and scientists on the nature of life. Philosophers have pondered the question "what is life?" since at least the time of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. In recent years the question has taken on increasing scientific importance. Molecular biologists and biochemists investigating the origin of life or trying to synthesize chemical life in the laboratory from basic molecular building blocks want to know at what stage an ensemble of nonliving molecules turns into a primitive living thing. Astrobiologists charged with designing instrument packages for spacecraft to detect extraterrestrial life struggle with the question of which characteristics of familiar Earth life (metabolism? reproduction? Darwinian evolution? carbon-based chemistry?) are universal indicators of life. Even computer scientists find themselves mired in questions about the nature of life when they speculate whether lifelike systems constructed of software (purely informational or digital structures) or hardware (metal, plastic, and silicon) could ever literally be alive. Many of these pressing questions are notable for their lack of obvious scientific solutions; one cannot answer them merely by performing more experiments or constructing additional lifelike systems.
SECTION IV - DEFINING AND EXPLAINING LIFE
The chapters in this section focus on the big question: What is life? This question cannot be answered by providing a list of things that are or were once alive. It is concerned with the very nature of life, with what qualifies something as a living thing; life in this sense is not contrasted with death but rather with nonlife. This section contains a diverse collection of views, but the authors all share the conviction that there is something special and fundamental about living systems, and hence that a general, unified explanation of life is in order. Not everyone shares this view. As the chapters in Section III by Sober and Keller illustrate, some researchers are skeptical about the wisdom of formulating general theories of life.
Running through this section is a disagreement over whether the stuff that composes life is essential to it. Some authors simply assume that this is the case, although they might also emphasize the importance of the way in which it is structured (spatially arranged). Others explicate life in terms of abstract organizational or functional properties that are independent of the material out of which it is composed. How one decides this issue has critical consequences for the possibility of strong artificial life (see Section III) as well as the possibilities of truly alien forms of natural life (see Section II).
Print publication: 30 September 2010, pp i-iv
Print publication: 30 September 2010, pp viii-viii


What kind of double sided adhesive tape can be used in Paperfox tape applicators?
The Paperfox TD-1 tape applicator head is an affordable device for placing double coated pressure sensitive adhesive tape on paper cardboard plastic foil or other sheet materials but the usage of this useful device has some limits.
The most obvious limit is the width of the tape. We are manufacturing this heads for 12 and 20mm maximal tape widths.
The other limit is the material of the tape.
To understand this limit let's have a look at to the construction of the double coated pressure sensitive adhesive tapes.
The construction of the double coated pressure sensitive adhesive tapes.
The white paper strip on the photo is the release liner. Release liners are usually paper coated on booth sides with silicone layer.
The width of the liner is usually the same as the width of the adhesive coated carrier, but the so called "finger lift" tapes having extended liners to make the manual removal of the release liner easier.
Paperfox tape applicators can applicate tapes only with easy to tear carrier such as paper, felt or non-woven tape.
There are different adhesives used. Rubber based adhesives are having a high initial strength so they sticking to the paper quickly providing a stabile workflow. Unfortunately if you keep this kind of tapes long on stock it loses the quality don't sticks well the tape application can be unstable.
Acrylic adhesives having weaker initial strength but the quality is more stabile and having better environmental (temperature, chemical...) resistance.
The easiest way to determine if the tape can be used in Paperfox TD-1 Tape applicator is to test. Try to tear the tape.
Breaks easily as the white tape on the photo, then it can be used. If the backing material is stretches and hard to tear then maybe that the tape applicator head can't cut the tape well.
If the tape is old and there are gaps between the turns then the glue maybe dry and don't sticks to the paper well. In this case the tape application can be stopped.
What if the tape sticks "too good", and it sticks to the guiding elements of the tape applicator?
In this case you can put a drum sanding cylinder on the guiding screw as in the picture below.


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Peers reinstate three amendments as clock begins to tick on LASPO
Parliament: battle of wills
The House of Lords yesterday reinstated three of its amendments to the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill to intensify the battle of wills with the Commons.
Peers voted again to exempt mesothelioma sufferers from the impact of the Jackson reforms, to require the Lord Chancellor to ensure that people have access to legal services "that effectively meet their needs", and to widen the categories of evidence that can be used in legal aid applications for domestic violence and lengthen the time for which the evidence is admissible from two years to six.
They were brought respectively by crossbenchers Lord Alton and Lord Pannick, and former Labour Attorney General Baroness Scotland.
However, LASPO opponents lost five further votes on other amendments, including making the legal aid telephone gateway non-mandatory, restoring legal aid for claims by children and exempting all disease claims from the end of recoverability.
The amendments will continue to go between the Lords and the Commons during this 'ping pong' stage until agreement can be reached. A conclusion is needed by next Monday, when the Houses will have to sit all night if necessary.
Lord Alton countered the government's argument that the Jackson reforms rightly give clients an interest in their lawyers' fees. He said: "It is not the job of someone dying of mesothelioma to become the government's regulator or watchdog, watching the clock or challenging exorbitant legal fees. That is the job of regulators, not victims of a lethal industrial injury."
He continued: "The minister argued that it would be unjust to single out one class of claimants for exemption. Of course it is never possible to do what we would like for everyone – I fully accept that – but does that mean that we can never see the difference between one category of victims and another?
"Is there not a difference between someone lodging a claim for whiplash and someone who has contracted a terminal illness? Are we really incapable of prioritising or seeing grounds for exceptions, as we have now, for instance, in medical negligence cases – and rightly so?" The amendment was passed by 214 votes to 205.
Lord Pannick rejected the government's assertion that his amendment – which says the Lord Chancellor's duty would be subject to available resources – would have adverse financial consequences or lead to litigation.
He said: "The purpose of the amendment is to ensure that the Bill recognises that we are cutting back on legal aid, most regrettably, because of current financial stringency, but that the principle of securing that individuals have access to legal services that effectivelymeet their needs, which has been part of our law since 1949, has not been forgotten." Peers voted 248-233 in favour.
Baroness Scotland said she welcomed the concessions the government has already made on domestic violence cases – while regretting the time it took to do so – but said her amendments would take them a bit further.
She said: "It is clear… that the government do not entirely understand the issues in relation to domestic violence as I had hoped that they would… I wish that I could simply say to the House that we have moved far enough, but it is now a matter of whether the House and the government will choose to assist those who are in dire need." The vote was won by 236 votes to 233.
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I am so happy to have adopted two very cute Basset mixed pups. They are about 9 weeks old and very feisty. I have always wanted a Basset for a pet so when I heard of these puppies I got very excited.
My husband took me to the owner's home to choose the pups. I just fell in love with all of them. I choose 2 (both female), one for me and one for my mother. On the ride home, I picked the name for the blond one "Ginger" and my 4 year old daughter was holding the brown one and said, "Your name is Pickles." I laughed but the name stuck.
For the weekend we took the pups to my mother's home so she could pick the one she wanted. Problem was (1) she really didn't want a dog and (2) I was already in love with both of them. My mom noticed Ginger wasn't looking too well. So I watched her very closely. That's when I found out both pups had worms really badly. Neither one had ever been treated for worms.
I went to the pet store and found a dewormer and gave each a dose. Then next morning I found out just how bad the worms were when they were outside. I cried. I felt so sorry for them. Apparently, we got all the worms because I took them to the vet yesterday and they said they both look great.
They seem to be very happy now. They play and eat a lot. They tolerate my 4 year old carrying them around. They even love playing with our border collie, even if she's not to excited about the pups.
Thank you very much. I am really enjoying them. They are a little too much for me right now but I am hoping to get used to it soon. I'll be glad when school finally lets out here and my son will be able to help with them and the other dog. They aren't getting along to well with our other dog, any suggestions.
Congratulations and thanks for sharing. Sounds like you are taking good care of them. Enjoy!


Everybody likes to save money, especially on taxes. It's not a crime to reduce, avoid, or minimize business or personal income taxes by legitimate methods. State and federal tax codes provide for many exceptions and deductions to reduce tax burdens.
However, when you resort to deceptive or fraudulent tactics to save on taxes, you run the risk of sizable penalties and even jail. Although only a tiny fraction of returns are audited each year, it's not worth the risk. These famous tax evasion cases show just how high a price you can pay for this crime.
From the famous to the infamous, tax evaders end up paying a high price for their crimes.
An American entrepreneur, Mr. Anderson made his millions after the breakup of AT&T. He was convicted of the largest tax evasion scam in U.S. history for evading more than $200 million in taxes. It is reported that in 1998, he paid $495 in taxes on $67,939 of income. The I.R.S. alleges he paid $126 million that year. Mr. Anderson was sentenced to nine years.
America was watching as Richard Hatch won $1 million the first year of the reality TV show "Survivor." Hatch received a Form 1099-MISC for his winnings from CBS because winnings from contests are taxable. However, he failed to pay taxes on his winnings and other earnings from his new celebrity status. He was convicted in federal court, receiving a combined prison sentence and fines and fees of more than $300,000.
The Grammy Award-winning rapper, whose real name is Dwayne Carter Jr., has an I.R.S. lien against him for more than $12 million for two years of back taxes plus penalties. The I.R.S. reports that Carter had only paid $175,719 for 2012 and still owed 11,979,365.48.
Ron Mix was a former offensive lineman with the San Diego Chargers, who turned successful worker's compensation lawyer since retirement. He faced a three-year prison sentence and $250,000 in fines for listing referral fee payments as charitable donations. Between 2010 and 2013, Mix reportedly donated $155,000 to charity in this manner.
In 2009, the IRS charged Mr. Cage owed more than $6 million in unpaid taxes. He accounts the failure to pay taxes to high managements team. He ended up suing his money manager for fraud and negligence.
It's hard to say what made Willie Nelson more famous, the songs he wrote in the late 1950s or his decades long struggle with the I.R.S. In the late 1990s, federal agents seized most of Nelson's property and alleged a $32 million tax debt. It's believed that bad advice from his accountant who hid money in bogus tax shelters caused his tax woes. In the end, Nelson negotiated a settlement with the I.R.S. and recorded The I.R.S. Tapes: Who'll Buy My Memories? (The I.R.S. Tapes). That album was recorded as part of the settlement to pay down Nelson's tax debt. The IRS only collected $3.6 million from the sales of the album, but Nelson's career picked up and he was able to pay-off his debt.
The infamous Chicago gangster of the early Twentieth Century, was linked to murder, extortion and bootlegging. He was eventually brought down by a tax scandal after prosecutors failed to make any other charge stick. In 1931, Capone received an 11-year sentence for not paying $215,000 in taxes. He did not serve the full term and retired in Florida.
In a case dubbed by federal prosecutors as "the biggest criminal tax fraud in history," former attorney Daugardas received a 15 year prison sentence for helping clients evade taxes. He was convicted of creating a fraudulent tax shelter that would create fake loss to reduce the tax bills of the extremely wealthy. During its operation, the tax shelter generated more than $7 billion in fraudulent losses, creating $1.6 billion in lost tax revenue.
Mr. Snipes received a three-year prison sentence for willfully failing to file I.R.S. tax returns for six consecutive years, avoiding $7 million in taxes. He reportedly was following his advisors that claimed they he didn't legally have to pay taxes. His advisor was wrong.
In addition to her high-profile conviction for insider trading, television celebrity and entrepreneur Martha Stewart was fined $221,677 in back New York State Taxes for her home in the Hamptons.
Failing to file or pay taxes can have tough consequences. There's a fine line between legal tax avoidance techniques and evasion. As you can see from the famous examples shown above, what you save now isn't worth the trouble you face later. If you have tax questions or received a notice from a tax agency, it's a good idea to contact an experienced tax attorney to discuss your situation and find out about your options moving forward.


Open Farm is a family-run business. They get their ingredients from local farmers who respect the land they live on and treat animals with equal respect. The ENTIRE food-to-bowl supply chain is audited and certified by third-party organizations specializing in humane animal care and sustainable farming practices. Open Farm meat and poultry is 100% certified by the Humane Farm Animal Care Program. I like the sound of this.
Wynston and Khloee had a chance to try the three foods that Open Farm offers, which are all grain free. The recipes include homestead chicken and turkey, catch of the day whitefish and green lentil and farmer's market pork and root vegetable. No surprise here – Khloee and Wynston loved every recipe!
As a dog mom, it means a lot to me when a company, especially a pet food company, cares about animal welfare and sustainability. You can read about Open Farm's environmental initiatives here.
You'll notice that the main ingredients on each recipe is humanely farmed chicken, turkey or pork, or ocean caught whitefish. You won't see grains, byproducts or corn. But you will notice that the recipes include healthy ingredients such as coconut oil and fresh vegetables.
Their standards. You have to appreciate a pet food company that respects the welfare of all animals AND our Earth, by putting sustainable practices in place.
The size of the kibble was perfect for Khloee and Wynston. It is small enough for their tiny mouths so they didn't have a problem crunching on it.
The first ingredients are humanely farmed meat or fish.
The food is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for all life stages.
They make a food that is not only good for our pets but also does some good for family farms, farm animals and the environment.
Open Farm homestead turkey & chicken recipe.
If you're looking for a healthy, humanely made, grain free food, Open Farm is the perfect option for you. What's better than supporting a company that cares about animal welfare and protects the environment in the process? On the website you can find a local retailer that sells Open Farm near you.
Check out this great video that shows why Open Farm is so wonderful and be sure to like them on Facebook!
Hello from a fellow Blog Paws Community member!
I have just purchased this food for my pup Penny (you can read more about her on my blog) who has serious gastrointestinal issues. Short end of the story is we are getting pretty tired of cooking 7 chickens and 20lbs of potatoes per week for her. I am so hopeful that this high quality food is going to do the trick! It will save us so much time, effort and money. Thanks for your review, it was very helpful. Fingers crossed!
I have confidence this food will help Penny! I hope she enjoys it and you can get her gastrointestinal issues under control. Poor baby! Good luck with this fantastic food!
i was not even aware of that , can a dog have vegetable and any other food items than meat, i'm new in to the "having pet world" & really confused about giving my pet good healthy food, so i'm just reading all the possible information i can get from internet & thanks to you, i'm going to buy some of these bags for my sweet little baby.
Hi there! Welcome to the wonderful world of pet parenthood! There are MANY fruits and vegetables that are great for dogs. Some are kale, spinach, carrots, apples, blueberries and peaches. Make sure you consult your veterinarian if you have specific questions but I give my dogs everything I just listed. They are very healthy and enjoy the yummy treats!
Well this product is seems to very nice as according to your review and moreover it seems to be healthy as they buy ingredient's from local farmer. Thank you so much for this post and I will definitely going to give a shot on this.
So glad to hear it Alex! Khloee and Wynston loved it and I feel very comfortable feeding it to them!
This is the first kibble my english setter will eat straight away. Sooooo happy with this food.
I have seen this video and i am glad to visit here & got lot of information about dogs and their food.I think i am going to much take care of my pups by taking tips.Thanks for sharing.
I just got the new puppy, and she is 3 month old, I notice they don't have puppy food, is it too big bite for a puppy?
The bites are not to small for a puppy in my opinion. But I would recommend looking for a brand that offers a puppy food. Foods specifically for puppies have different nutrients that allow for proper growth. You may want to ask your vet what's best!
Is it made in the states? Or Canada? All the chemicals, dyes, preservatives, that are in dog foods made in USA freak me out. So I try to aim for something locally made in Canada. With out BHA's, BHT's, by products, ethoxyquin, propylene glycol and few carbohydrates. This open farm sounds amazing. Any good dog foods to me, also mean no recalls.
My 3 year old male chocolate lab started drooling excessively and licking everything in sight during the months he ate two 24lb bags of the Turkey and Chicken dry food.
I put him back on Fromm and he has stopped drooling and licking.
Why did this happen with your Open Table food?
Hi Pat! I am just a blogger who wrote a review. I am not associated with Open Farm Dog Food. I'd suggest getting in touch with the company. Have a great day!
My two dogs have been on OPEN FARM TURKEY/CHICKEN for a couple of years and they both love it. The size of the kibbles are great for a 20 or 40 pounder!
The only concern I have is the possibility of the "junkier" pet companies buying out OPEN FARM and turning it into another junky pet food, which happens more often than one might think.


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From Mixed Cities to Shared Cities: Attitudes, Challenges, Solutions
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Shared Cities initiatives conducts in-depth survey publicly launched at conference in Acco
By: Abraham Initiatives 02.01.2020
Mayors and other leaders of the 7 mixed cities gathered on one panel at the Shared Cities conference in Acco
FIRST SHARED CITIES CONFERENCE IN ACCO
Every mixed city is a world full of complexities and challenges, but it is also where communities meet and create relationships between Jews and Arabs, building a shared life together. But this doesn't happen in a vacuum – it takes a lot of work. In a reality where more Arabs are moving to mixed cities, one must think about which city management models work for all residents. That is why we held our first mixed cities conference in Acre this week, where we launched our new venture, which aims to develop policies for managing the mixed cities and shaping them as inclusive and equitable spaces. Over 120 city council members, professionals, social activists and stakeholders gathered to talk about how to transform mixed cities into shared cities.
IN-DEPTH SURVEY EXAMINES RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ARABS & JEWS IN ALL 7 MIXED CITIES
Our new in-depth survey, presented at the conference, systematically examines and compares Jewish-Arab relations in the mixed cities. The extensive survey includes 2,100 residents of the 7 cities involved: Haifa, Acre, Lod, Ramla, Jaffa, Nof Hagalil (formerly Nazareth Elite), and Ma'alot Tarshiha. The findings were presented by Dr. Hisham Jubran of the Afkar Institute which conducted the survey. Dr. Jubran presented a complex and multidimensional picture of life in mixed cities. On the one hand, 81% of Jewish respondents and 89% of Arabs described the relationship between Jews and Arabs in their cities as positive. On the other hand – 18% of Jewish residents of mixed cities fear entering the Arab neighborhoods, and 14% of Arabs in these cities report that they often encounter discrimination, and there are quite a few who want to live in separate neighborhoods – 41% of Jews and 32% of Arabs in all cities consent to separation.
But the exciting findings emerged from the questions we asked about education. The findings have provided very broad support for co-education in various ways. 55% of the Jews and 86% of the Arab residents of the mixed cities are ready to send their children to a bilingual school. 36% of Jews and 39% of Arabs in all cities strongly agreed with the statement, "I am in favor of joint study subjects between Arab and Jewish schools" (ie, Arabs and Jews from neighboring schools studying certain subjects together).
40% of Jewish respondents and 42% of Arabs in all cities strongly agreed with the saying: "I am in favor of joint educational programs for Jews and Arabs." These are surprising and encouraging results, which show that the public, more than ever, desires the advancement of joint educational initiatives. It is time for all the mixed cities to operate, and to establish bi-lingual schools, to promote shared learning and to develop informal education programs for Jews and Arabs together.
The survey language was Arabic for Arab residents and Hebrew for Jews ones. The survey was conducted between November 14 and 23, 2019 by the Afkar Research Institute, led by Dr. Hisham Jubran.
For key findings from the survey results: HERE
For media coverage of the survey:
Jerusalem Post: Mixed cities residents get along but hesitant on kids playing together.
Israel Hayom: Cities with Mixed Populations are Breaking Down Barriers
For an overview of our Shared Cities initiative
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58% of Arab Israelis would join protest if it highlighted communal issues
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Q: Choosing methods for calculating Confidence Intervals and P-values with gtsummary's tbl_uvregression I am having trouble producing the desired output with the awesome gtsummary's tbl_uvregression.
The data I am using can be reproduced with this helpful function from http://www.cookbook-r.com/Manipulating_data/Converting_between_data_frames_and_contingency_tables/ which produces a long data frame from 2x2 tables. I wanted to use "real" data as there might be something in there that triggers the behavior I do not understand:
ExampleDF <- data.frame(
  Exposure = factor(c("exposed","exposed","control","control")),
  Outcome = factor(c("positive","negative","positive","negative")),
  Freq = c(590,90,11,5)
)

###

countsToCases <- function(x, countcol = "Freq") {
  # Get the row indices to pull from x
  idx <- rep.int(seq_len(nrow(x)), x[[countcol]])

  # Drop count column
  x[[countcol]] <- NULL

  # Get the rows from x
  x[idx, ]
}

ExampleDFlong <- countsToCases(ExampleDF)

I found that in my big univariate regression table with the whole data set, produced with
tbl_uvregression(
  method = glm,
  y = Outcome,
  method.args = list(family = binomial),
  exponentiate = TRUE
  )

the ORs and CI reported in the output are "off" (CI: 0.92 to 8.40; P = 0.066) compared to when I calculate them by using the formula like here: https://www.medcalc.org/calc/odds_ratio.php (CI: 1.01 to 8.78; P = 0.048). The applied methods here are, as I understand, "Wald" and "LRT", respectively.
I found this workaround that produces the CIs I was expecting: Wald confidence interval in gtsummary. But the P-Value I am getting is still the "LRT"-one and I have not been able to get the "Wald"-P displayed.

But what's really confusing to me is that when I don't use my original data set but the minimal example from above I get "LRT"-CIs and the "Wald"-P. Something in the data has to be different so that different methods are applied but I cannot see what that might be.
ExampleDFlong %>% tbl_uvregression(
  method = glm,
  y = Outcome,
  method.args = list(family = binomial),
  exponentiate = TRUE,
  pvalue_fun = ~style_pvalue(.x, digits = 3)
  )

To cut a long story short, I am looking for an approach that allows me to choose the methods applied and displayed so that it's easier for me to discuss my results with my biometrician, and that I can be sure I understand my output.

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Ezenkosi have suffered the same fate they did two years ago as they got relegated for the third time now from the Pretoria Soccer League, They failed to win against Swallows & therefore have gotten the chop. Ezenkosi failed to impress most of the season although they got to a brilliant start showing signs of improvement but that only lasted for the first five games or so and when it started raining it really started to pour. In their place is yet another Cape Town side in the form of Vasco Dama who ousted Black Leopards. Aces will have to wait for the play –offs to try to seal their fate in the premiership.
A hundred days till the World Cup was being separated in the country a week back. The South Africans seem really set to provide a very joyous tournament. When this day came one remembered the journey so far and how this tournament has eventually landed here. We were supposed to have the 2006 tournament if you can remember that far. When we eventually got this 2010 one it set the wheels in motion for a number of transport services that were supposed to make the World Cup that much more pleasant. The Gautrain will not be ready in time and the BRT is up and running bringing a lot of convenience to Johannesburg residents but has had its own threats from the taxi industry. The Safa boss debacle has also caused its fair share of controversy including the new Chief Executive controversy.
On the day a summit was held in East London on the readiness of the province to host the World Cup this included aspects such as health, emergency, safety, security, tourism etc. Sports Minister Makhekensi Stofile who attended the event reiterated how successful tickets sales have been sold in the past two months. There was a point of panic early January about tickets sales that prompted Danny Jordan to bring the matter to the nation's attention. Over a million tickets have been sold in the period between January and February. SAFA has also echoed how tickets will not be donated. Various stadiums in fact most have sold out their category 1 tickets. However certain provinces have shown ominous hopes in their marketing endeavors i.e Empumalanga who are hosting Honduras. One would fathom the pessimism as the country is not the most well known place but they have a chance to gain popularity in the World Cup as the whole world will be watching come June.
The tournament is beckoning and promises to be quite an entertaining one especially after seeing most of the teams in the tournament go up against each other last week. These matches had very interesting outcomes. The biggest game was probably the Argentina vs Germany bout which the South Americans won. Another high profiled game was the AFCON champs playing against England who happened to have woes in the form of the Terry & Bridge saga. Bridge has since withdrawn from the English camp and to make matters worse Ashley Cole will be absent. England managed to whip Egypt with a convincing three goals. England are being hosted in Rustenburg and the media recently reported on a spat that recently happened about how the rooms England are to be staying in are half done but Capello showed no fuss about it as he projected confidence that these rooms will be finished in time. Capello has also taken measures to acclimatize the team with the high altitude in the North West by setting up a camp in Austria.
Locally Bafana's preparations are not looking too good as they drew with lowly Namibia through a Katlego Mphela goal 20 minutes before end of play. Bafana's ostentatious play from Mokoena and Modise did not bear any fruit. Destitude still seems eminent as Benni Mccarthy could miss the tournament. The Bafana leading striker of all time though hasn't seemed in top form ever since his return to the team. A camp to Brazil could do wonders for the boys though as they are going to have tough competitors in the form of Brazilian local teams and a friendly match against Paraguay.
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Vegan Luxury Resort and Animal Sanctuary to Open in Thailand
PlantLife will spread across three football fields of coconut-producing land, serve organic vegan food, feature furniture made of pineapple leather, and house 100 rescued animals.
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Vegan five-star luxury resort PlantLife is slated to open on Koh Phangan island in Thailand. PlantLife was founded with the mission to provide a luxury, vegan travel experience to guests who do not want to compromise their ethics to enjoy a vacation. Founders Joanna and Max Hellier met while traveling and were disappointed with the lack of vegan accommodations, citing that plastic-wrapped slippers, chemical-laden cleaners, and animal-based food menus are hard to avoid at most hotels worldwide. "We aren't just a hotel," Max Hellier said. "We are a living, breathing, compassionate business with real values." Comprised of 23 huge luxury villas on nearly five acres of coconut-producing land, PlantLife will only serve organic vegan food made with locally sourced ingredients; feature furnishings made with pineapple-based leather, bamboo, and organic cotton; strive to be waste-free; and rely solely on solar power. In addition to human guests, the resort will be a sanctuary to 100 rescued animals, including the many cats and dogs rescued from the streets of Thailand. "This place will be a home for them as much as it is for you," Max Hellier said. PlantLife launched its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo on March 16 to raise the $870,000 needed to build the resort. Supporters of the campaign are considered PlantLife members and will be eligible to win one of four weekly prizes of a three-night stay, a giveaway that PlantLife will run for the next three years.
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Feitzinger ist der Familienname der folgenden Personen:

 Eva Feitzinger, österreichische Verlegerin und Produzentin
 Gerhard Feitzinger (* 1960), österreichischer Geologe und Autor
 Johannes Feitzinger (* 1939), deutscher Astrophysiker
 Paul Feitzinger, US-amerikanischer Percussionist, Komponist und Schauspieler
 Robert Feitzinger, österreichischer Redakteur und Filmproduzent

Siehe auch:
 Feitzing

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