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Steve and Mary Alessi reveal the unlikely foundations of their family business, and show how you too can build a strong foundation for your family.
Have you ever thought about the foundation of your family - and how that foundation affects your present and your future?
You should...because the values that shape your family are the values that will shape your future.
In our inaugural episode of Season 1: "Being Before Doing", the Alessis share the powerful story behind what has become the family business.
Steve and Mary Alessi have been married for over 30 years, and have four young-adult children - Christopher, Stephanie, Lauren and Gabrielle - who work alongside them as they lead a thriving multi-campus, culturally diverse church in Miami.
On first glance it would appear that the Alessis have all the resources they'd need to have a great family life. Long before they became pastors and parents, however, their individual paths were being orchestrated by divine interventions and decisions that would impact their lives, as well as the lives of future generations.
You'll hear Steve and Mary dig deep into their roots, and share personal recollections of their childhoods. Together they discover powerful and pivotal moments in their family's history that guided their family from the streets of Brooklyn, to the forests of Georgia, and finally to the sunny skies of South Florida.
Throughout this episode, Steve and Mary unearth the powerful values that have helped them from the strong bonds of family that have held them together for over 3 generations - and explain how you can apply the same values to build a strong foundation for your family.
Key Takeaways You'll Discover
The foundation of a successful family must be rooted in love for God and living authentic lives in full view of each other.
Just one person reaching out and helping another person with a Godly influence can impact countless people over the long term
Knowing and appreciating your history and background is a key element to forging strong bonds in your family over time
The Family Business Question of the Day!
Listen to the end of the podcast to hear Steve and Mary's "Question of the Day" and then share your answer on social media with the hashtag #alessifamilybusiness!
Strong Family Values Quotes from The Alessis
"The only way to have an harvest is to have a seed" - Steve Alessi
"You don't hope against the seed, you speak over that seed." - Mary Alessi
To learn more about the Alessis, visit http://alessifamilybusiness.com
Well, today, we want to welcome you to the very first start of something very special to Mary and I we are calling it our family business podcast. Because let's face it, family is everybody's business. So today, Mary and I are here and how you doing, Mary?
Mary Alessi 0:28
I'm doing good. How are you Steve?
I'm great. We're supposed to be acting as though we're at home. just chatting. Sure, like, so often we do. You had a recording last night that you showed me of when you're chatting about things that we usually chat about, because so much of what we do in our professional world is ministers and pastors. So much of it is reviewed rehearse? Yeah,
we spent a lot of time talking about all Yeah. And my phone and recorded it,
you did, we'd have it. So we're preparing ourselves for some kind of environment like this, where we want it to be natural, organic. And us just talking about things here that maybe we can't talk about on Sunday, say, because we're in a mixed company have crowd members in the church, and we don't have enough time. And so that's what the family business podcast is about. The little tagline there, because family is everybody's business. There's kind of a little thought provoker there because some people in society wants you to think that hey, what happens in my family is our own personal business don't metal. Yeah. And yet, they're not happy when all of a sudden things get all jacked up in their business, or their home, their family. That's true. But what we've tried to do in our lives is just live our lives out loud, as they say, we put it out there for people to see how we adjust with our kids, how we work with our kids and work with our marriage, how we go about living at home, but yet also working together. So family is everybody's business, it should be everybody's business. Because if you keep it in private, sooner or later, it's going to become somebody's business Anyway, when you're having to go to them and say oh my gosh, my, my kids are jacked up or my husbands or wives. So it becomes everybody's business. So we
put as much effort into our families. As we do our businesses, we'd probably like the outcome a whole lot more. This is what we're going to talk a lot about, yeah, how to do that.
So that's where we're coming up with the whole family business podcast. So you feeling good about this?
I am we have a lot to share. We we spend a lot of time talking, analyzing, dissecting the things that we have done the things that we know, we wanted to do what God's word says about family, and we put a lot of it into practice, we've, we don't just talk about it, we walk about it. And I just made that up right there. I just made that up.
right there on the spot, my brain just was going.
We do I mean, we spend a lot of time sharing, we get asked constantly, you know, the who, what, when, where how of our family, because we have a unique situation with all four of our kids that are working with us in ministry that we never forced, we did not make them do this, this is not something we said Your life will be perfect if you work for us at the church. We didn't do that. And so we get asked, Well, how did you get to where you are with your kids? And and really, we've, we've processed that along the way, it's been a daily work, that we've just really looked at other people's lives. And we said, well, we don't want that. And we do want that. And that maybe that will work. And then of course with God leading us all the way in God's word and wisdom is a big word for you. You like to incorporate in every decision. Wisdom. Yeah. And that has been an anchor in our marriage. And it's been an anchor in parenting our kids, we, we will draw from other people's experiences, but we don't draw conclusions. We'll just analyze to be able to see where the fruit is. And then we back up and say, Okay, what, where's wisdom here for Christopher? Where's wisdom here for Stephanie? Lauren. And Gabby, they're all different. And God has a different plan for all of them. So, yeah, it's just
it's just kind of cool that we get to talk about it here. And we get to talk about it from the family standpoint. But also, here's the unique thing is from the Ministry standpoint, yeah. You know, the fact that we've got adult young adult kids that we've been able to raise, yeah, all these years and now they're all in their 20s right now. is unique in itself that they all love one another care for one another like you and I as parents want to hang out with us, you know, do the whole thing when we hang as a family. But then you add on top of it, this other component of man, you guys work together and you work together not just the same profession, but You work together in the same company, which just happens to be a church, which is ministry in the same building in the same building? You know, we were we're working at this Yes. On a daily basis with our kids, which required us to do things early on that were pretty intentional. And then some of them are just all God, because there's things that happen that only God was able to make happen as we abide by certain principles of wisdom that we played out. So part of this was intentional. A lot of it was just grace, it was just a good grace of God. But people also want to know that how in the world do you guys do that? And all four of your kids are level headed. They love God, they love each other. They love ministry, they love the people of the church. That's a big deal, because we've been in this our entire life. Yeah. And we've seen a lot of pastors kids grow up that are now adults, that some of them don't even have a relationship with God. Now, I know, I know. And they don't, they surely don't love God's people. They don't love the church. Some of them rarely go to churches, pastors, kids. And here we are. We're second generation in this. You may be third generation, but I'm second or third. Well, my papa was not in nonstress. Yeah, he thought he's the Apostle Paul. But my father, first generation, second generation or your third generation. So how in the world is this happening? And that's something and the sense that of course, you think of family business, you tie it into mafioso stuff? It's a family business. Ours just happens to be another you do another m word, which is the ministry oh my lord, the mafia, the mafia ministry know, the ministry, how do we then how do we work together? Not just we live together. But now how do we work together?
It can I just say that one of the things this podcast is going to do, we are not going to use christianese. We're going to talk like we talk at home, we're not going to, you know, my first thought when you say That is to say, Well, if you'll just lead people into relationship with Jesus, if you'll just lead your children and your children will love what you love. And if you just exemplify the love of Christ, and walk that out, and you love the church, they'll love the church too. Well. That's not always true. You know, that's not every day. That's not true. There are times where... did you like that noise? I scare you?
It's what I'm gonna say go don't
know, but the truth is, it's not perfect science. Yeah,
so you're just gonna talk raw?
Yeah, real.
That's why are we doing this? So that means the studio here is going to have to hit the Bleep button on occasion when you get riled up, because sometimes what comes out of you? Yeah,
well, you know, I'm a Christian first, but I'm a human being, and sometimes your human being first. Christian. Okay, so I'm a Christian human here. But I'm 53. Now. So the filters are almost completely removed. So it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun. And we've, we've lived a lot we've seen a lot. Yeah, we've experienced a lot in our lives and being raised in ministry is, is really prepared us in a lot of ways for the hard days. Yep.
You know, this is gonna be a lot of you and I, it's going to be a lot of Chris and I, and then you and Chris, it's going to be Stephanie and I and Stephanie, and you, then we'll get Lauren and Gabby all in here. And then we're going to also reach out to some friends of ours that serve alongside of us in the ministry that are actually I call them friends, thank God, I can call our staff friends, I know, they're going to sit in here around the table. And we're going to hear from them about how they really interact with us as a family. Because that's not easy. When your pastor is the father of the other staff members that is on a board and they don't know how to always deal with them. And they you know, sometimes they think, wow, that you know that staff, that kid of the pastor could be spoiled, they could be favored. They could be given privileges that the average person won't give them, or they're afraid to even deal with them. Because they don't want to get in trouble by you know, someone in the higher ups and right and the family, and yet, we tried our best with all of them to recognize when we get here. First, if you're an Alessi, you need to lead by example, not by parking space, sure, not by title or name. And that means they have to work hard to gain the respect of the other staff members that are in leadership. And thankfully over the years, the leadership here our friends, our staff, have been so cordial along the way to help even get our young adult kids now Yeah, all still loving the environment here not hating each other, not dreading going to work, but they love working together and there's a beautiful respect that is going to look really super as we continue to do this together. So but it's gonna be good. Here's what I'd like to do today since we've kind of given some introduction. First, I feel like we're supposed to pray. But I know that's not the case here.
We can pray. No, we got it.
Mary Alessi 10:17
Jesus. Here we
here's what I'd like us to talk about today. Okay? because not a lot of people are, know our story know where we came from to. We didn't just get here in ministry, because we went to college, and because we got an education, and we came over and started our church instead, and so forth. This even happens before there was any college experience for us. Right? You and I were raised in the ministry. And we said we're second and then third generation. Yes, ministers. Yep. And so what did that look like for you growing up in the church?
You know, I remember my earliest memory of really having an encounter with the Lord was as a little girl, when my grandfather would tell the story of being his family was not saved. This is on my dad's side, his family was not saved. And he came from one of like 11 brothers, and he was walking home one day in the mountains of Georgia. I know this sounds made up but is not is the truth. And he heard out of one of the little houses, little church houses, like what we see when we go to Georgia, those those little church across the street like that in the windows were open. And he heard people praying and singing, and then he heard someone speaking in this language he'd never heard before. And so he just remembers as a little boy walking home in the dark, that he walked over to that window when he peered in, and it was filled with white people, black people. Yeah, probably no, Hispanics, wow. But they were worshipping, they were singing and they were speaking in tongues. And that was such a story that marked me of this. I want that too, even as a little girl and how he got saved. And he took it home and his family got saved. And then he got in ministry. Then he had my father. My father was extremely talented in music, like he was almost a prodigy, musically, songwriter, incredible guitar player just would blow your mind how talented. He taught himself to play the piano. His mom and dad were both very gifted. My grandmother, his mom did kids crusades for years and she did magic. And I just remember being so enamored, not only by the things that they could do in front of crowds, big crowds, little crowds. I just knew that I wanted to be able to make an impact with what Jesus did in my life. I wanted that same story. I wanted that on, you know, I wanted that to be me too. And, and so all of my sisters, we all went the ministry way we felt called into ministry very young. By the time I was 12, I knew what I wanted to do with my life. And I always, you know, over the years, I would question that, did I really know was I really that kid or that I just think I was until Gabby, at around 12 years old was one of the four of our children who at 12, she knew already know, she already knew. And I was like, that was me. That's it. I didn't do that. God did that. And I didn't do that. And Gabby needed to do God did that. Yeah. So it was just a hunger that I had, that I wanted to be in full time ministry. From that time, I didn't know how it was going to happen. I didn't know how it would play out. But I knew that God had spoken to me somehow someway.
And then you were raised on the what they call the evangelistic field, which means you you and your family went from church to church. Yes, you and your mom and sisters would sing and dad would preach.
So we would travel in the car during the day going from state to state, city to city and my mom and dad would teach us to sing in the car and I take the high notes and the high harmony and Martha would take the lead and Marvin lane would take the low and my mom and dad would saying and we would just spend hours in the car learning to sing all of my dad's songs. Yeah. And then we'd get to a church and you'd start on a Sunday morning. And you remember these days and you'd have crusade was they call her saved was like a revival of revive night that lasted two weeks, every night of the week. So yes, we were homeschooled clearly or we wouldn't be gone every summer and we would go and so I just knew really early on being entrenched in that culture. Being around church 99% of my life, yeah, really caused me to be even more hungry, because I saw what God could do. I just watched salvations as a little girl people transformed by a relationship with God by a moment in a crusade where my mom and dad were singing and preaching, you know, and we were getting up and singing and you know, that was just it really shaped us. It really really did. So we spent the majority of our childhood doing that.
Yeah. And during that time, because you're in the church world, you know, there was good there's bad there was ugly. It is what it is. No
no yeah, no perfect
ministry is perfect. And but you saw the good, you did. And the good really outweighed all the bad in the far because you had a love for the ministry as you got older. I did. So then you're in high school and you didn't just attend youth group. You guys were more. Okay. We're gonna lead.
We did. And I think our parents, and you've said this, which is what connected you and me together, we were raised with the same values about ministry and about church. Yeah. And it made our relationship so much easier. You did not marry a wife that you had to say, Come on. Just put your hair in a ponytail and let's get to church. We've got to be on time you married someone that would, you know, church was priority. I could not wait for Sundays to get up. And Saturdays we knew that Saturdays are when we started getting ready for church. You know, we didn't wait until Sunday morning. We were both raised that Saturday is the preparation for Sunday. So that helped us be on the same page. And our dads knew each other before you and I ever knew each other because they went to Bible school together.
Yeah, people don't know that. I don't know. Sorry. Dads were buds in Bible school and even up until the year your dad passed away, they still stayed in touch with each other strange bedfellows, no doubt about it, but they still stayed in touch with each other. But our relationship started. Again, here you're raised as a evangelists, daughter on the road. Before that even started, our fathers would connect at Bible school in Lakeland, Florida. The school I eventually went to later on and graduated from right and the city that you and I both were born in. We were both in the same hospital in Lakeland, Florida. A few years apart just a few while our dads were at southeastern at different stents along the way,
are suing their ministry calling That's crazy. It is and they had us.
So my story's unique and that my grandfather, Papa Alessi was here in America that came over from Italy. And he's in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He's a good Catholic, they go to Mass pretty much every day, he gets handed a track, which is a story of a paper pamphlet. That's a story of the salvation message of Christ. He reads it feels convicted gives his heart to the Lord. Which makes me always go back and think about the one person what a difference one man can make if you're just obedient and give somebody a lift up by a good word or good Bible or something that introduces somebody to God, because that man that did that for my grandfather is going to in heaven to this day, he is going to receive a real crown life because of all of those who have come to the Lord since my grandfather got saved. And then his three sons were in full time ministry. And that's the coolest story. It really is a great, most amazing testimony. We never forget that man never gets so caught up in the success of today, you know, and all the numbers and the crowds that we forget. It started with one on one to the job on the john church taught how important it is to be an inviter and get people to church on Sundays and
the courage that it took that guy we don't even know his name. But he had that track in his pocket. We'll never know his name. But he reached out and said here what evangelism? You know, we don't need a microphone for that. No, that's beautiful in an entire generation. today because of that guy,
yeah. Because then my grandfather got saved. And when he got saved, he wanted to make sure his sons and daughter were in church all the time. So in Brooklyn, they went to church on Monday night, Tuesday night, Wednesday, they go to the Spanish church, they go to Puerto Rican church, they would go to the Italian church in the black church. They were always in church, which then put a hunger for God and my dad's heart. He comes down to Miami, runs into my mom at a church evangel Christian or evangel temple. I think it's called up in North Miami. My mom came from a unique upbringing. Her father was a truck driver was into construction. He was a heavy smoker and he drank quite a bit. And but her mom was godly. Yeah. Ody May Grice. She was so godly, she was angelic, passed away way too soon my grandfather passed away which by the way, that's where I got my red hair from when I was younger, was Graham was granddaddy, we call them and he died in his 50s from emphysema. And then grandma passed in her 60s, way too early grandmommy. And then my mom was raised pretty much for a love of God and the love of the things of God, because grandma mommy would stay home first to take care of grandma. Daddy, granddad didn't want to go into church. And a lady, a minister in North Florida or South Alabama, came and picked up my mom and took her to church on Sundays. And
she recently told us the story. This was amazing.
One person I know one person,
one, Pastor, lady, yeah, would pick my mom up, take her to church. And then one day, my mom asked my grandma, her mom to go, and they went to church together. And my mom, at that point, just developed a love for God and a love for the ministry. Because she saw that and so she always saw herself as somebody who would be set aside for ministry. Then she runs into this Brooklyn, New York guy who comes down here. And you know, he got to Southern or Northerner, and he was a walk. And yeah, you can say that her family had a hard time with meeting him at first, but then they get married, they start a church right here in Miami, I was raised in the church, as you were raised on the evangelistic field. And in high school, you know, I knew my job was to be a youth leader, and I'd be the president of the CIA is the Christian, and that Christ Ambassadors was what they called it. And it was the youth group. And so I served as you did growing up. So the point was that we were kind of forced at times to work in church force to serve. We never had the privilege of staying home. Never even when we were sick, burning with fever, our parents had us in church on the back row, somebody who's babysitting us, but we were there. Yes. In the office, one day, they left me in the office at the Chamber of Commerce in South Miami.
Really, I got left in the office that left me off.
I was sick, they supposedly told us to keep an eye on me. And all of a sudden, in the middle of the service, they started smelling smoke, and they ran in and I found a set of matches, and I lit the garbage can on fire and church kids, I'm telling. But we were raised in that. And we served we did and we love serving, right? We learned to love God, which then allowed us to love God's people. And then we did feel the call the ministry. So Mary, as you and I are living at this season of our lives. It's not surprising now to our parents, that we would then have kids come alongside of us to want to serve alongside of us because our parents sowed towards this they did. We knew what it was then to take those same seeds and sow them again. Yeah, into the future, right for our own kids, which then are kids. And this is where we're getting even more intentional. Because we don't want this thing to stop at the third generation. Now. We're going to see this thing continue. God is not a God of just limited by three genders, right? Oh, my gosh, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That's not where it stops. No, it doesn't. It may be harder for the third generation. But that doesn't mean it's impossible for the third generation. Yeah, we can see this thing happen, which means that we're more intentional today than ever to have conversation like this with our kids. Have them dialogue with us when they're struggling with something that's going on in their life or in the ministry or their relationships we're very hands on, even though they're young adults, because we know now this seed that they have been given the Bible says he gives seed to the sower, we got the seed to sow, because we were part of the harvest of our parents seeds. Our kids will have seed the sow, because they are part of the harvest of our seed. That's right. And babe, our grandchildren will have the seed to sow because our kids are going to so that's right, the right kind of seed. A farmer knows the only way to have a harvest is to go plant a seed. So we're planting seeds. It's not surprising.
No, but what you're what I hope people are hearing when you say the way you're phrasing what you're saying. You're not saying hopefully, and I, you know, that's what we're working for. You are saying it very absolute. This will happen. And I think there's a lot of moms and dads out there single moms, single dads. I hear it all the time. Well, you know, I'm sowing the seeds. And I want my kids to grow up and serve the Lord. So hopefully, well you just exit out the seed. You don't hope against your seed. You speak over that seed you stand firm knowing our parents didn't hope and anything but Jesus We didn't have options, we were going to go to church, we were going to serve the Lord because it was the main thing. And it was the best thing. And that wasn't a mistake. We weren't caught up in a very strict bubble of Christian church that that we rebelled against. No, they exemplified what it was like to live for God and serve God, not just be a Christian, but serve God. There was no "and hopefully one day"... they raised us with an absolute truth and an absolute faith. And that's in both of us. So I think even as you might be hearing us talk about some of the how tos and the principles of how we've operated, we stand on a firm foundation of if the Word of God is true, and we know it is we will sow the seed and we will reap this harvest. So what do we do? We protect the seed. Yep, we germinate the seed, we make sure that seed has the right environment for it to grow into the harvest that we will walk in.
Yep. I'm glad to hear you say that. So what we're going to continue to be talking about is on some of that intentionality, some of the things we've been able to do things that we felt were important things that we learned from others were important to do the right kind of position to put our kids in the keep ourselves in Yeah. Because you know, you and I, we've got a, we've got to keep this relationship together. First and foremost, it can't be one thing on Sunday, and another thing on Monday through Saturday are the kids will get that image in their head, which is a reason why some of them will rebel over years because they see that the parent are, they're just not on the same page. And there's not this concurrency that is going on. So it's important that you and I continue to work this out with each other, but then we're going to be talking on our family business podcast about how we were able to accomplish accomplish some things with our kids. Okay, before we're done with this. I want them to know something a little bit more personal about you. Okay. All right. What is your favorite color?
no, I like all the colors. What do you think is my favorite color?
Don't ask me I'm asking you man ever answer a question with a question. Well, sales.
What is my favorite color?
A lot of things.
Ask me asked me.
What's your favorite color blue? Is Oh, that's not creative, honey.
That's perfect though. It's color
to Boy Color. Okay, let's like me saying pink.
Hopefully a buddy can maybe share this podcast with people. And if they do so on social media, somebody tell them to come listen to this thing. Maybe they can then put in that little shared thing that they do your favorite color and hashtag it. Mariela C's favorite color,
so then I need to give them my favorite color. No, let them let them guess. You know,
what are they thinks they're your favorite color. only getting the hint? Well, I know. Yeah.
I don't have a hint Christopher's
wedding. Christopher's wedding. No, man, that was my favorite color on you.
Oh, but here we go again. Okay, we
got to go. With an M. Oh, magenta. Great talk with you. Hope you enjoy the first the launch of our family business here.
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I hope that apartment has solid gold fixtures and cashmere carpeting.
The problem with it is that it's furnished and has dishes and linens. All tof that in town would have run me $1600, so this is a deal. I could have done no dishes and linens in town for $1000. The prob is that I need furniture and I'm only there for three months, so I pay a premium. Who knows though, the freaking bed might be gold. Hopefully that's the case.


Ellen Paltiel is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as an Intern to Honorable David G. Trager of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Her practice includes commercial and securities litigation, white collar defense, and regulatory enforcement matters. Ellen formerly practiced with Debevoise & Plimpton and also served as an adjunct associate professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism where she taught libel law. She co-authored the book "Reporter's Privilege," as well as numerous articles on various First Amendment issues. She speaks French.


This is my Marie Antoinette dress.
This is my modern Marie Antoinette dress.
Personally, I like the first and if I could wear it and still be considered a sane person then I would!
French Maddie who secretly lives in the Marie Antoinette era!
I think that u should of maybe put more bows on the 2nd dress, but all in all i think there amazing!!!


It's Customer Service Week in October—and if you're all out of ideas, do not despair, here are some awesome themes and activities.
When it comes to planning your Customer Service Week celebration, you should always start with the theme.
The theme sets the tone for the entire event and serves as the guideline for your decision making.
However, coming up with a creative theme can be the hardest part, so we've put together five of our favorite themes and coordinating activities that any budget can pull off.
Create your own hall of fame with employee names on gold stars.
Put together swag bags for every member of your team.
Host a trivia contest or have a Scene-It DVD game show down in the afternoon.
End the week by giving your team a memento to remember the week, like a Twist Top Tumbler in the Star Performer theme.
Take a picture of the entire company in their patriotic colors outside the building or in a large gathering place for a photo. Print copies for everyone.
Host a red, white, and blue potluck and hand out awards, such as most creative use of color, judge's favorite, and best presentation.
Customer Service Week isn't complete without a little competition, so create teams and challenge them to build an American monument using only toothpicks and gum drops.
Customer Service Week is about thanking your employees, but you can use this week to focus on your external customers, too. This year, dedicate Customer Service Week to your community with a Making a Difference theme.
Have a competition to collect canned goods, clothing, or loose change. Send daily updates to the entire organization about the status of the challenge.
Volunteer as a team during the week at a local soup kitchen, food pantry, or other charitable organization.
Begin a Pay It Forward campaign during the week within your organization using Cheerful Change.
Ask employees to share their stories of random acts of kindness on the company blog or intranet. See how far the tokens spread outside of your organization by the end of the week!
Each day, visit a different country and bring in a snack that is associated with that area. For example, travel to Mexico and enjoy chips and salsa in the afternoon, or stop in Hawaii and sample a fresh fruit tray.
Host your own geography bowl. Quiz employees on all things geography in a meeting and award the winner a prize.
Create a passport for each employee at the beginning of the week using our specialty event paper and give them a stamp when they participate in various activities and events throughout the week. Enter employees who fill their passports into a prize drawing.
Declare one day Dress Like Your Favorite Super Hero Day. You'll be amazed at the outfits your team will come up with!
Create a matching game with super heroes and the movies, TV shows, or comic books they came from. Discover who in your organization knows their super heroes the best!
Treat the team to superman ice cream and super hero popsicles.
Have a super team relay obstacle course as a team competition during the week. The team with the fastest time wins!
Bring in a game console and have your staff's favorite super hero video games available to play during lunch or breaks.
Play super hero cartoons in the TVs in your break areas and have photos of super heroes on your intranet or television screens around the office.
Many of you may not have a large budget – or any budget! – to celebrate Customer Service Week, so everything you do comes out of your pocket. Don't worry, there are lots of low and no cost ideas that you can use and still have a great event.
First, use ePraise to send a personal note to every member of your team. It's completely free on Baudville.com and there are cards specifically for customer service.
Finally, create a truly memorable gift for each person on your team using Jumbo Postcards. Print "Nice Things About _________" at the top of each card and leave the rest of it blank. Give each employee enough cards so they can fill in the blank with their co-workers' names and write a nice note about them. Collect all the cards before Customer Service Week – don't forget to add your cards to the pile! – and assemble them into individual booklets for your employees. During the week, present the books to employees and reinforce the fact that you're glad they're on your team!
We hope you have enjoyed these themes and activities and wish you a wonderful Customer Service Week!
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 Sulamu (onderdistrict), een onderdistrict in het bestuurlijke gebied Kupang in de provincie Oost-Nusa Tenggara
 Sulamu (plaats), een plaats in het bestuurlijke gebied Kupang in de provincie Oost-Nusa Tenggara

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It was during my house hunting that I first heard 'dirty kitchen.' I was genuinely puzzled. The words were uttered with pride and an inner satisfaction which added to my puzzlement. How on earth could someone be proud of a 'dirty kitchen'? It conjured up images of cockroaches and rat infestation in my western head. Thank goodness I could not have been any further wide of the mark.
A 'dirty kitchen' is such a great idea. It is practical too. I'm sure its origins lie in the days when all cooking was done on an open fire fueled by wood or maybe coal if available. There was no bottled gas or electric stoves back then.
Many Advantages of a Dirty Kitchen
The first advantage of the outdoor cooking is safety particularly if an open fire is used, as it still is in many areas of the Republic. I have heard it said that it derives its name owing to the fact that dirt or soil was used as the base for the open fire. The other fairly obvious advantages are that it isolates cooking smells and smoke from the inside of the home. Many Filipino dishes are fried in oil in the stove top pan. Fried fish will stink the house out if not cooked outside in the dirty kitchen. A bonus is that the heat generated from the cooking is also kept outside. A factor not to be sniffed at in a tropical climate.
Another way of looking at the dirty kitchen is that it is a bit like an outside BBQ area with the emphasis on practical as opposed to some of the clinically clean BBQs I have seen in the United States. I have seen outside BBQ areas in California that would put a top class restaurant kitchen to shame with the amount of stainless steel used!
You will find the dirty kitchen in both rural and urban areas of the Philippines. The rural version will more than likely be the wood fueled variety with the likes of mango trees, coconut shells and talisay being the mainstay of the fuel. It is said that the wood adds flavor to the cooked meat or fish. That is easy to believe! The urban cousin will invariably be fueled by gas hooked up to a two, three or four burner stove.
Like a 'dirty kitchen' the term 'dirty ice cream' was new to my foreign ears. Once again I was thinking who would want to eat contaminated ice cream? The 'dirty ice cream' man or sorbetero can be regularly seen on my sub division as he pedals his bicycle and rings his hand held bell to announce his presence. A more pleasant sound than the monotonous chimes heard coming from the ice cream vans to be found all over the UK. Sorbeteros are also to be seen pushing around their brightly colored carts. Whether cart or a bicycle the ice cream will be kept cold in a metal container using shaved ice and salt to keep the temperature as low and as long as possible. Your serving of the cooling dessert could be in a cup, cone or even in a bread bun.
Traditional Philippine Process
On speaking to the older generation here I discovered the process of making the 'dirty ice cream'. Or at least how it used to be made. It involved the use of a wooden bucket filled with ice. Inside that bucket was a metal cylinder that contained the liquid ice cream ingredients. The cylinder was connected to a handle which was turned by hand until the mixture reached its desired consistency. The turning would take an hour or so of churning therefore it was common for all the family to lend a hand.
The Philippines is noted for its variety of ice cream flavors and some of them are really traditional – mantecado (Spanish crumble cake) ube queso helado (a kind of iced cheese with the distinctive purple coloring of ube), pinipig (a topping made from rice), nangka (jackfruit) and salted caramel.
The traditional basic ingredients of true 'dirty ice cream' are carabao milk and eggs. Coconut milk and cassava flour are commonly used to give it a distinctive flavor. The homemade variety of ice cream is known as 'dirty' to differentiate it from the store variety or 'clean' ice cream. I enjoy 'dirty ice cream' but must admit to some trepidation on my first tasting. I survived and I am sure you will too.
The answer to the question in the title is entirely up to you. I am sure you will enjoy the products of both the 'dirty kitchen' and 'dirty ice cream' where ever you eat!
Paradise Kitchen Is A Dirty Kitchen
Where's The Beef?
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About Stephen Bentley
Stephen is originally from the UK but is now proud to call Bacolod his home. He is a former police officer and barrister-at-law and now writes prolifically in his retirement.
Peter Brown says
I must admit the term dirty kitchen did take awhile to settle into my pshycie.
Although I've seen a lot of the ice cream
And the peddle bike I have never heard the term dirty ice cream! Maybe my asawa has been trying to save me from that term! Pretty funny!!
Catabisis says
I have heard the ice cream called The 12 Flavors of The Road due to those guys peeing on the side of the road and not washing their hands. I never, ever, eat their ice cream
Bob says
I must admit that the thought of frying fish in the house is a stinky proposition, and an outside dirty kitchen sounds like a very good idea. I naturally do all of my barbecuing outside and if/when my asawa and I move to the Philippines, we will have a dirty kitchen. As for dirty ice cream, it will take some time to get used to the name. I think everyone in the U.S. has either made or eaten hand-cranked home-made ice cream, so if I think of dirty ice cream that way I could get it down. The flavors in the P.I. sound interesting. But let's not forget mango-flavored ice cream, or even avocado. The sky is the limit so use your imagination. Bob.
David Fitts, Sr. says
I have now been here a full year. Yeah! But I have yet to hear either "dirty" term; not even my Filipina fiancee knew what the terms meant. So we both learned something new.
The apartments where I live have a small concrete walled area for each ground unit, I think what I have seen noted as service area, for doing laundry by hand. All but mine have slanted awnings made up of panels of corrugated metal, fiberglass, wood, or apparently whatever could be found. Every day I can hear, and smell, cooking being done in the unit to the east. And I mean from inside my unit. When they cook fish, the horrendous smell permeates through the area where the aircon sits. Other days it is a very strong, eye-watering, smell of so much garlic that I think it would make Emeril wince.
As far as the ice cream peddler (pun intended) goes I would cherish hearing some nice chimes. Currently, the one who hits this neighborhood plays music through what seems to be a small bullhorn like speaker that has seen its days. The tinny sounding, warbling "song" is short and plays over and over. The ice cream he sells is typical fare you would find in the US; Popsicles, Fudgesicles, and novelty ice cream.
Terry Tarbeck says
Thanks for this info. I have wondered about this since visiting Cebu where I will soon move.
graham wilkes says
thank you for clearing things up for me I was also worried about the term dirty kitchen and as for the ice cream I do no and love it also there are some places that make coconut milkshakes they are heavenly not been able to find any over here in the uk
Joe K says
The term "dirty kitchen" quickly resonated with me because in Singapore it's called a "wet kitchen" and is usually very much separated, but still inside the home (or apartment) so that the oil spatter and smell are contained in that space. It took me a while to get used to the idea, but now we designed it into our new home and really can't imagine it any other way!
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163 | Financial adviser: how to deal with US clients
Richard Gould, Business Development, Cazenove Capital
Martin Heale, Director, Schroders US Wealth Management
How to establish if your client counts as an American when it comes to tax
The responsibilities of a financial adviser to establish if a client counts as an American
How US tax authorities treat SIPP and ISA investments
Mark: Investment and tax planning are bread and butter issues for UK financial advisors. But if the client turns out to be an American, and that's not as simple to work out as you might think, it can get to be a whole lot more complicated. To discuss why the rewards are worth the extra work and what the key issues are, I caught up with Martin Heale, director at Schroders US Wealth Management and with Richard Gould, private client director at Cazenove Capital. But before that, let's have a look at the learning outcomes from this Akademia session. First, how to establish if your client counts as an American when it comes to tax. Second, the responsibilities of a financial adviser to establish if a client counts as an American. And finally, how U.S. tax authorities treat SIPP and ISA investments. And now here's Richard Gould and Martin Heale. Mark: Well, Richard, first of all, how many Americans are there living in the UK? Richard: Yeah, I mean, it's a very topical subject of discussion at the moment. It's caused a lot of problems and a lot of headaches over the last few years in terms of, can they offer financial advice to US citizens residing outside of the U.S., but more importantly to some extent, is there an investor management capability solution available to these U.S. Citizens, and you know, coming back to original question, to put numbers into the frame, the numbers vary substantially, depending on which source that you look at. But if we were to look at the end of 2017, the U.S. State Department alluded to the fact that they're around 9.4 million U.S. citizens residing outside of the U.S., now that is clearly a very high number, but when we try and dig deeper into how many of those are living here within the UK, the UK census essentially estimated that at the end of 2001, bearing in mind, that's almost 20 years ago. There are approximately 158,500 Americans living here in the UK, 10 years forward from that, the number jumped by 40,000 to just under 200,000. So, bearing in mind, we're in 2020 now, it's pretty safe to assume that there are now well over 200,000 if not more than 250,000 Americans living here in the UK. Now, clearly, that in itself is quite a high number, but what, and this is kind of where it gets interesting, what the statistics do not take into account is the notion of the accidental American. And this is, to cut a long story short, a person who is completely unaware that they are actually deemed a U.S. person for many reasons. It's grabbing headlines, a phrase that's something Martin's gonna be talking about in a lot more detail today. But what many believe, actually, when you factor this into the equation, the number of U.S. Citizens living here in the UK is gonna be significantly higher than what I quoted previously and that is incredibly important for a number of reasons and one of the main ones being the citizenship based tax regime of the U.S. which, to cut a long story short, basically, dictates and requires that every U.S. person, and this is whether they are an accidental American or not, has to file reports to the U.S. tax authorities regardless of where they live. Failure to do so can lead to pretty heavy penalty fees or penalty fines or create a lot of headaches for these clients and U.S. citizens. So, it's incredibly important to get this right. Mark: And we'll come onto the strict definition of accidental American a little later. But fundamentally, you could be in American without having an American passport. Richard: Yeah, and it's caused a lot of people quite a few headaches because they were blissfully unaware of that. Mark: Um, Martin, how are U.S. citizens treated differently to UK taxpayers. A lot of people think, well, we're too big countries, there's probably double taxation treaties, pay tax in one or pay tax on the other. Martin: Absolutely, and we speak the same language, we're very similar. How different can it be? Well, as Richard said, U.S. citizens are taxed on a citizenship basis, and to repeat what Richard was saying, that means that wherever a U.S. citizen is in the world, they still have to declare and file their taxes to uncle Sam, whereas most other countries will tax on a residency basis. So, if there's a UK person living in a resident in a different country, they may only be paying tax in that country and not still have an income tax obligation to the UK, so that's the critical difference. Therefore, an American living in the UK still has to be cognisant of the tax impact of any financial transactions or decisions they make in the UK They may not only just be paying UK tax, they have to be aware of the U.S.. tax as well. Therefore, their advisers have to be aware of their dual status and appreciate that an investment that may work or a structure that may work in the UK may not work in the U. S. That's the key difference as far as tax is concerned. The other main difference when it comes to investments and investment advice is that U.S. persons are governed by the SEC when it comes to investment regulation, and again, that is different to how a UK investor is governed. Mark: And how likely is it? Bit of devil's advocate, that the U.S. tax authorities or that the SEC is going to realise that somebody was, you know, didn't quite get all their paperwork right for two or three years? Martin: Well, for a very long time it's been a legal requirement for all U.S. Citizens to declare and file their taxes, but a new law was passed starting back in about 2008, running through to 2011/2012/2013. It came in stages, called FATCA. This is the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. We refer to it sometimes jokingly, as the fear and total confusion act. Now the interesting thing about this act is that it was passed on foreign financial institutions, FFI's. It's actually a law that was passed on foreign companies, foreign banks, foreign financial institutions, not U S citizens. And it basically asked for those foreign financial institutions to discover if any of their clients are U.S persons, and if they are to then report on them to uncle Sam. And to begin with, this caused some confusion because it's unusual for one country's government to pass a law on other countries. Uh, but as a result of this, what it means is that foreign financial institutions have an obligation to report on their clients, who are U.S. persons and so that puts quite a significant responsibility and onus on those institutions to, to adhere to that law. Mark: Richard, when you're out and about talking to advisers, do you find this means that they're quite reluctant to what this means for their clients? Richard: Yeah. I mean, the amount of times I've heard the same story where an IFA has been introduced to a client and then has found out from their fact finding, from their due diligence said they have U.S. connections or affiliations to the U.S. It's been so many examples of that where they have actually just been turning clients away because they actually weren't even aware that they could provide financial advice to them and you know what we want to say to them is that is not the case at all. You know, we have a very specialised US wealth management arm here at Cazenove capital within Scroders that tailors exclusively to U.S. clients and we can help with. Mark: So, what are some of the problems, that, from the sounds of it, aren't insurmountable, that it throws up if you're a UK adviser. Martin: So, if you are a UK advisor. First of all, you have to be aware that your client is a U.S. person and once you've established that, the responsibility is for their investments to be efficient from a U.S. tax perspective and also allowable under an SEC regime as well. The U.S. client will also want their financial affairs reported, you know, in a way that is helpful and compliant to fill in their U.S. tax filings as well. So, all of these issues together make it a little more complicated for a UK advisor to advise a U.S. person. Mark: But in a sense, you have to be master of two completely different tax systems and regimes and know how to bridge them. I mean, that sounds nigh on impossible. Martin: It's hard and it's complicated, and this is why in the U.S./UK financial community, professional community in the UK. This is what people do full time. So, you come across UK/U.S. specialist lawyers, accountants, investment managers and bankers like ourselves, and we only look after U.S. clients, you have to do that as a full time job in order to keep up to date and keep up to speed with changes in tax laws or legal requirements in order to do your job properly. It requires a lot of ongoing learning and development. Mark: So, if an American comes over here, they're looking at, thinking about their retirement options, they get themselves a SIPP. It seems very sensible, lots of people have got them, are they able to do so? Martin: That's a very good question. We come across a lot of Americans with SIPP's. Usually, it's a Brit that has built up quite a good pension fund, opted out and taken his SIPP and then moved to work in the U.S. and has become a U.S. taxpayer, but SIPP's are very interesting because SIPP's are specifically a UK structure. However, the investments within that SIPP are owned by the beneficial owner that is the U.S. person. So, this is where the conflict arises, should those investments be managed in accordance with the regulations governing a U.S. taxpayer or not? And time and time again, we come across the fact that a lot of people don't know how to deal with SIPP's. So, if the clients accountant submits the form 35 20 annually, then the U.S. tax authorities can view that SIPP as a foreign pension and not tax it in a punitive way. However, if that submission isn't made, then as far as the U.S. tax authorities are concerned, they don't recognize the SIPP as a tax beneficial RAPA, which is obviously what the UK authorities see it as they would look through, and that's a very common term in U.S. tax law. They would look through the SIPP RAPA, look at the underlying investments and treat them as if they were held in the client's own name. And of course, that means that the client may well be receiving the tax benefits in the UK but losing them in the U.S. So, what's the solution? Now, if we take our Brit that is living in the U.S., His UK manager may then discover that he's U.S. resident and may decide I can no longer act for you. So, the client then has to find another manager. He'll go to an investment manager in the U.S. who will say I'm not familiar with SIPP's, So the solution is to find a manager, an investment manager in the UK who is cognisant of how a UK SIPP works. But also, how investments are affected for a U.S. person and crucially, they're accountant should be aware of how to treat both. That leads me onto one other point in that, as I said before, the U.S. professional community serving Americans is really quite small and we come across a great deal of advisors who think, as you were saying earlier, how hard can it be? How different is it, and, critically, they can miss an odd point. My advice to everybody would be always get a specialist US/UK adviser. Be it an accountant, lawyer or investment manager if you have dual citizenship. Mark: Richard, have you come across cases where there's been a problem or actually there's been an elegant solution to it? Richard: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the beauty of my job is I've hosted countless seminars and presentations across the country over the last few years and it's interesting, every time I introduce the concept that we have a U.S. wealth management solution for U.S. clients, it's incredibly interesting for a lot of the IFA's in attendance, and inevitably they come up to me after the event and coincidently there was one several months ago where an IFA I've never had any business dealings with in the past. He had been introduced to a client who had U.S. affiliations and he was reluctantly gonna have to pass the client away because he didn't think he could advise on it. And this particular client had substantial assets for investment. We had a chat. I introduced him to Martin and his team. We went into depth about what this client was and all the different structures. Set up a meeting with the clients at his offices with the IFA there and was able to not only talk about the general investment companies, But to uncover the SIPP that this particular client had and, they were completely unaware that this was something that we could help manage. And, you know, two weeks later, the client had, uh, completed all the forms. We were able to introduce him to a cross border UK/U.S. tax specialist tax accountants who were able to go through everything to make sure everything is U.S. compliant. So it's a great example of a collaborative approach that benefits both the IFA and allow them to maintain that relationship and for us to grow that relationship with them. Mark: Now Martin, you were talking earlier about SIPP's, but obviously there's lots of other pensions in the UK, some are trust based, some are contract based, but in broad terms. How does how does the U.S. authorities look at those If you're an American or an accidental American, that's playing into one? Martin: I'm not a pension advisor, but if a U.S. person joins a company pension scheme, in my experience, the company pension schemes are usually aware of that U.S. person's status and there is a section and a part of their corporate pension scheme that is appropriate, suitable for an American. Mark: Right. Okay. Thank you for that. I guess that also that brings the other great savings vehicle or RAPA, is the ISA. How do the tax authorities look at that? Martin: Yes, well, again, ISA's are an interesting one, on this side of the pond in the UK, we're well aware of their beneficial tax status for an ISA holder, but in the USA, they are a classic look through. They're not recognized by the U.S. tax authorities as a beneficial tax RAPA. So, the holder of the ISA is taxed as if he were holding those investments in his own name. So, this brings us to an interesting point. So, an American resident in the UK aged over 18 can subscribe to an ISA and can receive the tax benefits under the UK tax regime. But they are still paying tax in the U.S. tax regime. So is an ISA worthwhile and, it's interesting because I think the opinion on this is pretty equally divided. I find a lot of people say an ISA is worthwhile for an American because it's a disciplined form of savings. Others say, what's the point? Because you're paying tax in one jurisdiction, so you you're losing the benefits. It becomes more interesting if you have a UK taxpayer who then moves to the USA. He loses the tax benefits as far as the U.S. tax authorities are concerned on his ISA investments but if he plans to return to the UK, then maybe it is worth retaining those ISA's. However, that is just a simple mathematical calculation that one can make over a period of years to say, I'll be a U.S. person for this length of time. I plan to be a UK person again for that length of time. Is it worth me retaining them, and usually one could get a good outcome. Mark: So, how difficult, when you mention this concept of look through, how far through do they look? So, you had an ISA portfolio, and it had four oeic funds in each, of which had 60 underlying holdings. How far do you do you look into each of those 60? Do you go through the fund or do your calculations of how much you've gained loss where the income comes from stop at the level of those six underlying funds? Martin: So, this is capturing a term called PFIC. This is PFIC. It stands for passive foreign investment company, now classically in many SIPPs, in many pensions and in many ISAs. It's the normal choice for the investment manager to acquire a fund. It might be a mutual fund. It might be a unit trust. It might be an ETF an exchange traded fund, and the benefits of these funds is they are a broad spread of investments across a market or many markets. However, in the UK, they're treated as an investment very similar to a non-ordinary stock or share, in the U.S. The term PFIC has a different tax status, which is where we're going to with oeics and so on without going into too much detail. Essentially, they're taxed on a punitive basis in the U.S., so they're taxed. The tax treatment and return is broadly based on the underlying investments rather than the RAPA of itself. So, what it can mean in effect is that a U.S. person holding a PFIC in the UK they can hold it for two years, not sell it, but still receive a tax bill. It's quite bizarre, and in addition to that, they could receive quite a hefty accountant or CPA bill for the work involved. So, this is where I was saying that investment managers have to be aware of the dual tax status of the US/UK client and in many cases, PFIC's are not appropriate for those clients, and the manager needs to be aware it's a very easy mistake to make. Mark: Just so I've got this right, I was giving my example of six underlying funds, lets say each has got 40 underlying holdings to sort out the tax, you'd have to employ somebody to go into each of those underlying six oeics. Look at every single holding that was in them, when it got bought, when it got sold, what your little bit of gain or loss was in each of that, pull it all together and then say to the U.S. Tax authorities, we owe you $48 or 22 50? Martin: Broadly speaking, that's correct, and that's exactly where the hefty CPA or accountants bill comes in to play. Mark: The one fund you didn't mention, was an investment trust. How's that treated? Is that counted as an individual share or as a PFIC? Martin: In many cases, that would be a PFIC, now the rules on PFIC's are very clear, but really there's no handbook that says these are PFIC's and these or not. It really takes an expert investment manager or accountant to look at each specific investment to determine whether something is a PFIC or not. But in essence, if you're dealing with the U.S. Person and they're holding a fund. That would be a red flag to say I should look at this in more detail. Mark: Richard. We talked a little bit about why financial advisers might be reluctant to take on U.S. clients. But in your experience, are UK financial institutions that providers reluctant to do so as well? Richard: Potentially I mean, for example, a lot of SIPP providers Yeah, we have. We come up against them and then some of them have turned, turned the business away, you know? But then we have a select few SIPP providers that we work with are very happy to take these on because they've done their due diligence. We worked with them and so on and so forth. So, the answer's yes. But again, this is a very niche area of the market. So, having our specialist knowledge and having the contacts that Martin and his team have is incredible because we can fit the right people to the rights clients. Mark: Have you ever met a SIPP provider who's been reluctant to deal with the U.S. client that you've got the expertise that will hold their hand and as a result, that's where their business should be? Richard: Absolutely. But then you're working with Martin. We have those providers that we do want to work with that are happy to work with us for these clients and they get a lot of businesses resulting. Mark: Now, the big topic, because you've both alluded to, what is an accidental American? How easy is it to be an American and not know? Martin: Well, it's a very interesting area, but essentially an accidental American is someone who is an American, but they don't know they're an America. Now, this may come about because they were born in America, but they may have left at a very early age and not really taken on board that they were born in America but under the U.S. laws. If you're born in America, you are an American, and you have a duty to submit and file and and pay your taxes? Mark: There's Boris Johnson's paying taxes, Martin: And I believe he was once called an accidental American some years ago, and I think he has now renounced his U.S. citizenship. But that's a classic example. Yes, other situations when somebody may become an accidental American is that they may be born in, say the UK. But both their parents are U.S. persons and as a result of that, they are a U.S. person themselves. Now this is interesting because there's a notion that because the child was born on UK soil and perhaps the parents didn't register them with the U.S. Embassy, they're not a U.S person, they don't have to pay U.S. tax. That would be a big mistake. They should take professional advice and decide what to do with that, what to do. Slightly more complex is when a child is born of a one U.S. parent, and broadly speaking if that U.S. parent had been resident in the U.S. for more than five years, two of which were after the age of 14 then there's a very high chance that their child is a U.S. person as well. So, if you're an advisor and you talk to a client who explains that one of their parents is in America, that's an immediate cue to dig a little deeper. Mark: And what about Brits who go and work in the states? We hear a lot about people wanting to get their green card. Does that bring them into the U.S. Tax system? Martin: Well, in many cases, yes. People move to the USA for many reasons, marriage, to study, but mainly to work. And they'll be employed using a U.S. visa. And there are many different types of VISA, far too many to go into detail for, but essentially if their residents unemployed and working in the U.S. and paying US tax. They're captured as a U.S. taxpayer and their financial affairs have to be advised accordingly. Now the green card is more serious. It's a permanent leave to remain, and essentially when somebody applies for a green card, they're saying I want to become an American. This is my home and whereas a normal work employment visa will expire, and they could move back to the UK. A green card is more permanent than that. And whilst a green card has an expiry date on it, it doesn't just expire, and you can forget about it. You actually formally have to renounce it using a form I407 So once something has a green card. You should treat them as a fully-fledged American forever, really, unless they can prove to you that they did renounce, and they have shown you their certified I407. Mark: Presumably, if you could renounce your green card can an American renounce their American citizenship as well? Martin: Yes, they can. It's not a straightforward process. Its lengthy. It may involve paying some back taxes it will involve an interview at an embassy. My advice would be to anybody thinking of renouncing their citizenship is to seek a good immigration U.S. lawyer to help them through the process. Mark: And, in your experience, Richard, how do people react? How do advisers react if they discover they've got a client who is an accidental American? Richard: With trepidation. A lot of the time they that they think everything is fine. It's a normal kind of process. They find out there's an affiliation to the U.S and as I said earlier, they instantly thing they can't provide financial advice and that is completely inaccurate. You know, they can in the majority of cases, and we can help them through that, and it's a great relationship tool, revenue generator for them. Mark: But how easy is it to unpick it? So, you're an adviser. You've done everything you think that's right and you genuinely have. And then you discover somebody's got one U.S. parent. They were in the States for three years or, you know, five or six years at some point in their life after the age of 14. How do you go about unpicking? How sympathetic are the U.S. authorities if you've made an error. Martin: Well, I think as an advisor, you have a duty of care to your client, and you have a duty to get to know your client and to understand their circumstances. So, in my opinion, really is the responsibility of that advisor to discover that that person is an American. Even if the client doesn't know they're an American themselves, it's still your duty to discover it for them because also, your firm will have a duty to under FATCA to report on that U S person to the U.S. tax authorities. So how do you do that? I think there are three critical questions you can ask to capture most American clients, be they accidental or otherwise. The first question is, do you have a U.S. passport, because many advisors asked for proof of ID and a client will produce a UK passport. They may have a U.S. Passport as well. The next question is, where were you born? And if they were born on U.S. territory again, that's an indication they may well be a U.S. person. Mark: How easy is it to discover what U.S. territory, is it one of the 50 states, or are there other dependent territories? Martin: There are some dependent territories as well. If in doubt, speak to a lawyer or accountant. You can even google U.S. territories. But my point is, the second you're getting this clue… Mark: Yeah. Martin: That's when you should be alert and take more professional advice. Now, the third category, or third question really is to ask, where were your parents born? If the answer is that, were either parent born in the U.S. again, that's a good indication that your client may be a U.S. Person. Mark: But, taking all of that on board, you have responsibilities, but you made a genuine mistake. How easy is it to unpick what it is creating? Does it create fines for you as the adviser? Does it mean you're telling your client, I'm sorry we messed up a bit. You have to write a big cheque to sort it out. What's the sort of response you get back from the U.S. Authorities? Martin: Uh, well, first and foremost I would say. Have you done your job correctly as a UK adviser? And have you breached any of your internal company policies and your regulatory rules by not discovering whether this client was a U.S. person or not? I think it would be case by case, very specific. Sometimes you should have spotted it, sometimes, perhaps it was a lot harder. In my experience, the IRS would really have an issue with the underlying client, the citizen who they're taxing and I think they're less likely to be concerned that their chosen advisor made the mistake. They're more inclined to say to their taxpayer, you owe us this much tax. Then that may, in turn, caused the client to seek a claim against the adviser who they may feel didn't give them appropriate advice. Mark: But is it a rule of thumb that the IRS is interested in is the money rather than going any further than that. Mark: Yes, that's right. Equally, if you have a SEC license in the UK and perhaps you haven't conducted your role properly, then I'm sure the SEC would take an interest in that as well. Mark: Richard, from your point of view, any other red flags, sorts of things to be aware of if you're if you're an adviser dealing with clients? Richard: To be perfectly honest, I think those three questions are absolutely imperative to ask and it gives you the grounding to ascertain whether they are an accidental American or not. And if they are, then the IFA needs to really get the advice and the support that they need, which we can help to introduce them to, because if they're doing as Martin quite rightly alluded to, the headaches that causes is gonna be pretty steep. Martin: Can I add in there as well, those three questions are great, but I think a good advisor would also be alert to what we call U.S. (inaudible). So, when a client is filling in a form, what address of it? What correspondence address are they putting down. What phone number are they putting down? Is there any reference to any time spent in the U.S. So, if there's any hint or a clue anywhere that they've spent some time in the U.S, or have some U.S. involvement, then that should be followed up. Mark: Do you get to point with U.S. clients where actually is just easier if you channel all their investments and all their savings via U.S. vehicles in the U.S. It just keeps it much, much cleaner? Martin: No, not really. There are very many UK investments that are entirely suited and attractive for U.S. clients. I think the key thing in investment management is that we like to be able to invest on a global basis because there can be good opportunities at any one time, anywhere in the world, so we do not restrict our global investment offering for U.S. clients. It gives us the opportunity to diversify, and it gives us the opportunity to overweight those areas we think are gonna be best. I can well understand why an investment manager may want to restrict their investment offering to easy, simple areas. But if you have sufficient resource of capability, then yes, certainly should you should be looking to invest as wide as possible. And with the right expertise there's nothing stopping you doing that for an American. Mark: Well Richard, if somebody has dual citizenship or is an accidental American and you think about it. I mean, I suppose part of this depends on where you long term, you plan to end up, to what extent do people have to have a clear view of, being blunt, where they want to retire before they know whether it's worth it? Brit, American, French, whatever it happens to be. Richard: I think they need to have an idea of where they're gonna be ending up. But I'll be perfectly honest with you the majority of the time. These clients actually don't. They might have a five-year plan rather than 15 or 20 year plan. So, it is kind of the IFA's job and then our job working collaboratively with the IFA to try and ascertain where they see their future with their long term future, and then come up with a strategy accordingly. Mark: We talked through a lot in the last half hour. I want to get a final thought from each of you. Richard, if you're a financial advisor, this is potentially topic for you. What should you do next? Richard: I mean, as I said, this is a very topical subject of discussion of the moment. It has caused a lot of clients, and in turn, IFA's a lot of headaches, as far from our research, we are one of a very few numbers of DFM's that can actually manage U.S. client's assets. And there's a raft of information on our website, as Martin alluded to, if IFA's and clients can't ascertain this information from their fact-finding due diligence, there's gonna be a lot of headaches to come. So, we want them to have a look at everything that we have. There's a lot of information there, and we would be delighted to help with them. Mark: Martin. Martin: I think to repeat those three critical questions. Do you have a U.S. passport? Where were you born? Where were your parents born. Martin: We have to leave it there. Martin Heale, Richard Gould. 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The toilets are awash with vomit.
We arrive in sunshine and calm waters.
like Pompeii, a city redeemed from ash.
and inundated like all of Minoa.
We leave as the sun is beginning to set.
The glow lingers on the waters awhile.
Then a cold wind blows as the dark falls.
The ultimate in day cruises – taking all back to the days and disasters of Minoan civilization itself. The gods have their work cut out demonstrating their power here – as if bad weather and vomit weren't enough, they have to resort to an epic sunset. The fate of Santorini, the cold wind and the darkness are suitable reminders of our historic and continuing vulnerabilities.


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Twilio launches an app for frontline workers, a free 1:1 video toolkit and a new IoT platform
Twilio is hosting its annual Signal conference today and as usual, the company is using the event to launch a host of new products and features. For the most part, especially if you're a web or mobile developer, these are not groundbreaking new features. The core Twilio services, after all, have been in place for a while now. Instead, today's announcements build out some of the edges of the overall Twilio product ecosystem.
The most interesting launch — at least from the perspective of most developers — is probably the general availability of Twilio's Video Web RTC Go. The free video service allows you to add 1:1 video chats to your web and mobile applications. The company notes that this is not a free trial, but you are limited to 25 GB of bandwidth through Twilio's relays per month, or about 100,000 participant minutes. You also get logging and diagnostic features. So freemium, I guess, but with generous limits to get you started. If you need more, you can upgrade to a higher tier later.
"Twilio Video WebRTC Go is a free tier and a free offering for developers to get started building those one to one video connections for things like distance learning, client consultations — all of those things that you might have a need for in these new use cases that we've seen evolve through the pandemic," Quinton Wall, Twilio's Senior Director for Platform and Developer Experience, told me. "And what we really wanted to do is take away all the barriers and make a free tier — and a perpetually free tier — that gives them all the tools that they need to build on top of WebRTC to get going. "
The second major announcement is the launch of Twilio's latest IoT service: the Microvisor IoT platform. Twilio acquired IoT hardware and software specialist Electric Imp earlier this year and when it first launched its IoT efforts, it started with cellular connectivity through its Super SIM product. The idea behind the Microvisor IoT platform is to give embedded developers all the tools they need to build connected devices and the lifecycle management tools to keep them updated and secure.
Twilio acquires Electric Imp to bolster its growing IoT business
As Evan Cummack, the GM of Twilio IoT, told me, as the company dug deeper into the IoT market, it found that a lot of projects were failing.
"When we really dug into what was going on with our customers individually, what we saw was the reasons for a lot of these failures," he explained. "Sometimes it was a fundamental misjudgment in terms of what end-users wanted, or the end-user experience, or value and business models, but a lot of the time, it was a technical failure, or it was that the technical challenges were so steep that the ROI equation fell apart. You couldn't deliver substantial enough value in order to justify the technical effort required."
With Electric Imp, Twilio bought a full-stack platform — and there are others like it on the market. But as Cummack noted, most businesses aren't buying those. Instead, they are trying to build their solutions from scratch and Twilio's hypothesis was that they were doing so because they wanted to be able to write native code for these devices. Combining that with the convenience of a full-stack platform is difficult.
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The solution the team came up with combines this new software platform with a recent hardware innovation by Arm: TrustZones. But with Arm's TrustZone hardware isolation feature at its core, the Microvisor platform only runs on devices that use the latest Cortex M-based processors, which obviously means its not a service you can use to upgrade your existing solutions. In return, users get secure boot features, over-the-air firmware updates and secure tunnels to connect to their devices, in addition to remote debugging features.
Also new today is Event Streams, a new API that helps developers aggregate data from all of their Twilio-powered experiences across voice, SMS, wireless connectivity through Super SIM, TaskRouter and more. The idea here is to give users a better understanding of how these channels are being used — and less so for understanding their bills and more for helping them build tools that allow businesses to better understand how they are interacting with customers.
Lastly, there's Twilio Frontline. This isn't really a developer product but a React Native-based app for frontline workers who may need to communicate with customers. Think of an employee in a store who needs to talk to a customer who is waiting outside. The app focuses on chat, with support for SMS, WhatsApp, and web-based and in-app chat clients. Frontline can also be integrated with existing enterprise authentication and CRM systems.
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Grilling Tip
Remember to let cooked meat rest for 5 minutes after coming off the grill. It'll retain moisture and continue to rise to temperature.
Direct heat
A method of cooking whereby meat, seafood or veggies are placed right over the heat, akin to broiling, the preferred method for food that can cook in under half an hour. Think steaks, sausages, hot dogs, chops, loins, veggies and meats on a stick, like kabobs. Also used for searing, which will impart a caramelized texture on the outside of the meat.
Indirect heat
A method of cooking whereby meat, seafood or veggies are placed on either side of the heat, akin to roasting, whereby heat circulates slowly around the grill, cooking the food evenly on all sides. The preferred method for food that might take 25 minutes or longer. Think ribs, pulled pork, brisket, whole chickens, turkeys, roasts and fish fillets, ideally placed within a roasting rack set inside a heavy foil pan.
A seasoned liquid that can be absorbed into meat, seafood or vegetables to impart flavor and add moisture before grilling. A good marinade relies on a base of acidity (citrus juice, vinegar, red and white wine) to complement the charred qualities of the food. That acid is then mixed with oil (canola is recommended). There's no limit to what can be added to the base to create a unique marinade - anything from chili peppers and garlic to soy sauce and ginger.
Meat thermometer
An important tool for assessing whether a piece of meat has cooked through and evenly to doneness. An instant-read thermometer checks the internal temperature when placed 2 to 2 ½ inches deep into the thickest part of the food. Cooked food should be removed from the grill when it's 5-10 degrees away from what is desired; the meat will continue to cook as it rests.
A mixture of spices applied to meat before grilling or smoking. Similar to a marinade, but distinct in that rubs also add a layer of crust to the meat.
A condiment used on meat that should be applied after the meat is done, since most sauces contain sugar and can burn. Sauces can also be used for basting when smoking meats at a low temperature to add flavor and keep meat moist.
A process of cooking at a low temperature for a long period of time, also known as smoking, which uses wood chips that have been soaked in water.
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