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5 Reasons to Read GI Joe Classics
5 Reasons to Read GI Joe Classics, Volume 3 and 4
Back Issue Ben
I've expressed my admiration and respect for Larry Hama before, but you can never spend enough time praising someone that was so important to an entire generation of kids, even if they never realized it. As the writer, creator, and occasional artist of the G.I. Joe comic series, he brought life to hundreds of toys, giving them all interesting personalities and defining characteristics. What could have been another run-of-the-mill licensed toy comic, became one of the defining comics of the '80s (the cartoon would also use many of the bios he developed as a basis for the series.) G.I. Joe and Transformers were groundbreaking cartoons unlike anything really seen before it, and I happen to believe they, along with Star Wars, unlocked the imaginations of untold amounts of children. We owe Larry Hama a tremendous debt.
With that, I have decided to read those original Joe comics again, and highlight a few things to help inspire, entice, or nag a few of you into doing the same. G.I. Joe: Classics volume 3 and 4 cover issues 21 through 40 of the original series. All were written by Larry Hama, with art primarily by Mike Vosburg, Hama, Russ Heath, Frank Springer, Rod Whigham, and others.
One of the interesting things I noticed as I read these comics again, is how few captions Hama uses. There are hardly any to be found beyond the standard "elsewhere" or "later that day." This is drastically against type for the show-and-tell method of storytelling in the '80s, especially under the Shooter regime. Writers like Claremont and Byrne would write numerous paragraphs of captions for every single page, often describing something that was already readily apparent from the artwork. That's no knock, I love those guys work, but it makes these comics a little bit easier to read than others from the era.
I've already covered the silent issue and the origin of Snake Eyes elsewhere (and those alone are reason enough to get volume 3) so let's uncover what delicious meat remains on the bones of this discarded carcass. (I may have been watching too much Shark Week at the time of this writing.)
THE INTRODUCTION OF BELOVED CHARACTERS
For those of us that grew up primarily watching the cartoon, it can be quite surprising to see such iconic characters like Duke not appearing in the comic series until issue #22.
I always assumed that the blonde soldier jumping at the reader in that iconic cover to the first issue was Duke, but no, it was Hawk. In a coincidental reversal, Hawk wouldn't appear in the cartoon until the second season.
Roadblock makes his debut alongside Duke, and quickly establishes himself as a badass of the highest order.
Other notable favorites that were introduced in this stretch include Spirit
In a scene where Spirit is at the mall trying to find something to heal his Spirit after being injured in battle, I joked to myself that he was really looking to score some weed. Then he goes to a florist shop and starts eating plants. I don't know which version I like better.
Lady Jaye
Cartoon headliner Flint.
and Shipwreck.
Shipwreck was inexplicably one of the main characters of the cartoon series. Inexplicable, because I've never met anyone that liked Shipwreck, much less considered him a favorite. Thankfully, he is much less prevalent in the comic. That should be more than enough reason to rush out and purchase these for yourself.
In nearly every single comic, Hama had to include multiple new characters and vehicles, and yet he did it so expertly that it never felt like it was overwhelming or distracting. They may not have gotten a full-issue showcase, but you learned from even a few panels who they were, and what they were about. (Lady Jaye, for one, kind of disappears after she's added to the team. You can't win them all.)
DYSFUNCTIONAL COBRA
One of the more entertaining aspects of the comic series was watching the various evolving loyalties among the main Cobra characters. Baroness, Major Bludd, and Destro are often at odds with Cobra Commander, which makes it that much more important that the Commander maintain the loyalty of (recently introduced) characters like Storm Shadow, Firefly, and Zartan.
Storm Shadow is only around to learn the true identity of the man that killed his uncle. Storm Shadow isn't actually evil, which is something that is often left out of subsequent interpretations of G.I. Joe. As the series continued, these characters would continue to change their alliances and allegiances.
Baroness and Bludd combined forces to coerce a young Springfield resident named Billy to shoot and kill Cobra Commander during an upcoming ceremony. Destro eventually stops the assassination attempt, not wanting to see a boy kill his own father. (Billy would become an important long-term character in the G.I. Joe saga.)
SHOOTOUT IN THE SIERRAS
Snake Eyes is granted leave, and he decides to enjoy it at his secluded cabin in the Sierras. Hawk wants to make sure nothing bad happens to their most valued warrior, and assigns Spirit and Airborne to secretly keep an eye on him.
Fortunately they were there to help him fight off an all-out assault from Destro, Firefly, and Crimson Guardsman Fred. (Cobra used undercover operatives to spy on high profile targets, giving them all plastic surgery to look the same, and assigning them the name Fred, plus a number.) An explosive encounter that is one of the rare instances where Snake Eyes isn't depicted as invincible.
This is just one example of Hama's ability to tell a captivating one-and-done tale (though this one is technically a couple issues long) which there are several great examples of in this run. Whether it be an aerial dogfight between Ace and Wild Weasel, or the Dreadnoks out causing trouble with Zartan's hologram technology.
THE POLITICS OF TERRORISM
Cobra Commander has Billy interrogated using Dr. Venom's brain wave scanner, to learn the identities of the co-conspirators in his assassination attempt. Billy shows an impressive amount of mental fortitude in resisting the scanner, concealing his memories of Baroness and Bludd coaching him in their plot. (It's this mental strength that impresses Storm Shadow into freeing Billy, fleeing with him, and taking him on as a pupil.)
However, during the interrogation, Billy does reveal a few glimpses into his father's early days in forming Cobra. (Something that is fascinating for those of us that only watched the cartoon, getting a glimpse into the back story of Cobra. Well, one that doesn't involve snake people and a hidden land called Cobra-La.) Sadly, these scenes aren't all that different than the political landscape of the world as of late. So much unnecessary hate.
BONGO THE BALLOON BEAR
The Joes commandeer a party supplies van driven by a bear, while in pursuit of a covert Cobra operative and his manufactured family. (This was Fred II.) As I've said many times before in reference to many other situations, if that description doesn't fill you with delight, comics are not for you. (Incidentally, the bear happened to be a woman named Candy in a costume, and her and Rip-Cord struck up a romantic relationship.)
There you have it. Five fantastic reasons to read one of the best and most influential runs in comic book history. Larry Hama wrote nearly every comic of that original 155 issue G.I. Joe run, and infused it with a level of storytelling skill and military knowledge that truly earns the designation "classic." If you remember watching the cartoon but never read the comics, or if you simply love good comics, I can't recommend enough rushing out and purchasing your own copies today. Go ahead, we'll wait for you.
Now that they're gone, we can talk freely. Just kidding, I'm done.
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Featured In: Back Issue Ben, Frank Springer, gi joe, Larry Hama, Mike Vosburg, Rod Whigham, russ heath
sonsoftaurus said...
GI Joe #2 started it for me, and for the next 9-10 years it was a staple of my comics collecting. Good stuff indeed. I may need to pick up the early volumes to fill in a few of the early issues I missed.
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review: apotheosis interruptus…
Cannoli Sundae Pulino's, New York Say you arrive into New York late, and the taxi stand has a tail that coils halfway to New Jersey. There is no way you're going to get into Manhattan before 11 p.m., when most restaurant kitchens close. And suppose that you haven't had dinner yet. Where do you go […]
Cannoli Sundae
Pulino's, New York
Say you arrive into New York late, and the taxi stand has a tail that coils halfway to New Jersey. There is no way you're going to get into Manhattan before 11 p.m., when most restaurant kitchens close.
And suppose that you haven't had dinner yet.
Where do you go for a decent plate of food?
Both The Spotted Pig and momofuku ssam bar serve until 2 a.m., as does Blue Ribbon Sushi. It's sister restaurant, Blue Ribbon, diner to the chefs, serves food until 4 a.m., as does The Breslin, which, although their kitchen closes at 11:30 and serves until midnight, offers a limited bar menu in the early hours of the morning. Minetta Tavern, serves dinner until midnight and offers a limited supper menu until 2 a.m. And, of course, there's Sarges Deli, which never closes.
For any sensible traveler, these are important things to know.
And now there's also Pulino's Bar & Pizzeria, Keith McNally's latest neon-lit venture on the corner of Bowery and Houston. You can't miss it. It glows red and screams for attention, its din spills out on to the street.
Here is where young Nate Appleman, who was named one of Food + Wine's Best New Chefs and the James Beard Foundation's Rising Star in 2009, has landed after a rather surprising and sudden uprooting from A16 and SPQR in San Francisco.
On the West Coast, he was hot, seemed invincible, and able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. He was on the cusp of opening A16 in Tokyo.
Yes, the media (perhaps unfairly) set him up awfully high.
Pulino's
And now he's under McNally's thumb.
What was he thinking?
That question you might ask after having read the first round of critical reviews of Mr. Appleman's New York debut from the heavyweights. They have not been kind.
I won't recap or dissect their evaluations. Instead, I'll give you mine.
Dropping off my luggage at my friends' awesome two-story pad in the East Village, we three walked a few blocks to the restaurant, arriving at half-past 11 p.m., and put in our order just minutes before midnight, when a shorter "Supper" menu featuring limited edition (just 30 per night) "Pulino's Midnight Cheeseburger" replaces the full dinner menu.
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Antipasti + Bruschette
Battuto di Pesce + Bruschetta
Ground octopus, shrim, garlic, tomato, peas + white wine. ($13)
Smoked Sablefish
Bottarga agliata, celery, capers + dill. ($15)
Roasted Snap Peas + Hen of the Woods
Fennel, Parmigiano, lemon, + garlic pangrattano. ($13)
Smoked ricotta, lamb ragu + Pecorino. ($12/$19)
Goat Polpettine
Roasted goat meatballs with honey, black pepper, almonds, pea shoots + white wine. ($25)
Burrata Pizze
Marinara, burrata, basil. ($?)
Ricotta gelato with candied orange, amarena cherries,
apricot, crushed cannoli, pistachios + bitter chocolate. ($10)
Nuance, here, you will not find.
The food at Pulino's is rustic. It's bold. Some of it verges on crass.
The flavors are calibrated more for a party than a quiet dinner for two.
And so is the restaurant, which has a grunge-meets-revolutionist feel to it. There are checkered floors and back-lit walls lined with liquor. There's an open kitchen with wood-fired ovens. There are hipsters and preps, tourists too, all seated in a rambling sprawl of tables located roughly between the street curb and the kitchen all under a yellowish, incandescent glow.
We ate off of a plywood tabletop with "POLICE LINE, DO NOT CROSS" stenciled across it. We shouted at one another, competing with the likes of Lady Gaga, who was piped in at volume 84. She bounced off the tile walls with amazing vigor.
Keith McNally spent how much to make this place look, feel, and sound this way?
Yes, look for subtlety and character elsewhere. At Pulino's, prepare to be bulldozed.
The lamb ragu that was ladled over the "Fazzoletti," for example, might have actually had body, flavor, and character under that hailstorm of salt. The flavor was flat, one-dimensional, a pity given that it accompanied what was otherwise amazing and rather unorthodox stack of "kerchiefs." More crepe-like than pasta, these fazzoletti were delicate and light, filled with a thin, fluffy layer of milky ricotta whose smokiness was unfortunately lost in the over-seasoning.
Oversalting drowned the sweetness, and, therefore, the primary pleasure out of a salad of snap peas and hen of the woods mushrooms. Roasting the snap peas took the snap, and,therefore, the remaining pleasure from them. I did, however, like the gritty crunch from the garlic pangrattano, even if it did slightly remind me of a fistful of sawdust.
But given the sturm und drang over Appleman's food, I was pleasantly surprised by most of what we had.
The "Goat Polpettine" were delicious. These meatballs were moist and fatty, boasting a daringly musky flavor that was tempered by a mound of braised vegetables sweetened with honey. In October, or February, I might have been able to finish the whole thing.
The "Smoked Sablefish" was also very good. The buttery slices were more raw than cooked, having only been lightly smoked. They came bathed in olive oil on a bed of creamy bottarga agliata dotted with what appeared to be smashed capers.
And the "Battuto di Pesce + Bruschetta," a strange but delicious blend of ground octopus and shrimp in a rich, tomato-based sauce imbued with white wine, was a wonderful surprise. Dotted with green peas, it was served in a mini skillet sided by a stack of grilled bread. We all commented on how thick and heavy the slightly chunky stew looked, yet marveled at its lightness.
Then we arrive at the pizza, which has been debated, ad nauseum (truly), on the food fora. Critics have villainized Appleman for it.
I won't do the same. I liked it.
It's not amazing, mind you, but the one we had was a fairly good specimen of the thin, cracker-crust genus.* As a good Midwestern boy, I found it rather satisfying. Yes, they cut the pizza into squares, not wedges, leaving acreage in the middle with all sauce, no crust; a minor detail, really. But the crust is quite crisp, though a little weak on the yeast factor. I like a wollop of yeastiness in my cracker crusts.
There were about a dozen pizzas on the menu. We went off-menu with the pizza of the day – "Burrata" – which was essentially a marinara pizza with splotches of burrata and bits of basil scattered about. The sauce was fine, smooth and tangy. The burrata was milky and soft, but a little cool in patches, a slight annoyance (I suspect it went from fridge to oven with no thawing period in between). Overall, the pizza we had was good, not great (certainly, no second coming of godot, like the calzone at keste pizzeria was), and certainly not worthy of crucifixion.
There are bigger fish to fry here, like the oversalting issue, a problem that seems to have carried over from my meal at SPQR last year.
Service was surprisingly pleasant and informed given the gruffness of everything else about the place. Our late-night meal straddled a staff change (with the rotation went Appleman, who walked out around midnight), and our first server introduced us to his successor, a courtesy I've rarely encountered before. Perhaps our first server didn't want us to think he was slacking on the job sitting at a nearby table with other servers eating and drinking for the remainder of our stay.
The list of dolci is short.
Though my dear friends the Brunch Queen and her husband, Simon Says, were quickly wilting as we approached the two o'clock hour, I pulled out my Out-Of-Town Guest Trump Card and made them stay for a sweet night cap.
The "Cannoli Sundae" was fairly straightforward. It was basically a cannoli, and all its wonderful parts, shattered over a parfait glass of ice cream and dark chocolate syrup. There were pistachios, crunchy and toasty. There were candied orange peel, meaty and fragrant. And there were shards of cannoli, crisp and caramel-y. The menu also said there were cherries and apricots, neither of which I found on my spoon, and neither of which I missed greatly. The sundae was pretty good the way we had it.
In the eyes of many, Appleman's rising star has stalled. It now hovers low on the horizon over the corner of Bowery and Houston, they might say.
I think that's a little harsh.
Is Pulino's a travesty? Far from it, it is not. But I did walk away scratching my head slightly: What was he thinking?
Certainly, I'm aware that the culinary zeitgeist trends toward the casual, rustic, hearty, and honest. Appleman's food at Pulino's Bar & Pizzeria is all of this. But, based on this one meal, it didn't strike me as a particularly compelling, or even memorable expression of those sentiments.
Table for a weary traveler on a late flight into New York? Yes.
Good food for that late hour? Yes.
Worthy of a transcontinental journey? No. Not yet, anyway.
Pulino's Bar & Pizzeria
282 Bowery (at Houston)
* To the critics: Pulino's is not selling their pizzas under a Neapolitan or any other banner. Evaluate the pizza for what it is (thin, cracker-crust – perhaps purely a Midwestern phenomenon), not what you wish it were.
Categories dessert dining restaurant restaurant review travel
Tags 2010, bar, dinner, italian, keith mcnally, late night, nate appleman, pizza, pizzeria, pulino's
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Aaronsays:
I can't believe you didn't has the cheeseburger.

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Picture yourself in their situation: wouldn't you also want to run and tell the other people that loved Jesus that "he is not dead, he is alive"? (since you wouldn't have your smart phone back then). The Marys would have just considered themselves to be two people who wanted to share great news with their friends.
When we put their story with the other parts of our Scripture lesson today – Jesus' commission to the disciples at the end of Matthew, and Paul's assertion to the church at Rome that the good news of the risen Lord needs to be shared – and with some other similar Bible passages, we get this pretty clear statement from Scripture: Part of being a disciple of Jesus Christ – part of responding to all that Jesus has done for us, in his life, death, and resurrection; part of being "Easter people," like the two Marys – is to be willing to tell the story of Jesus to others. "Go make disciples of all nations," or all peoples, teaching them what Jesus has taught us. "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved, but how can they call on" him unless they've been told about him?
You won't find it in the Old Testament, because belief in the one true God then was still identified with being born Jewish, but throughout the New Testament, we find the message that spreading the news of Jesus Christ to other people is expected of Christians – because a knowledge of the one true God is now available to all people. Go and tell others what you have heard.
And yet we do resist going and telling the story of Jesus and Jesus' love, don't we? We have opportunity; a recent survey found that 38 percent of Americans could be classified as "unchurched" – about 77 million adults. The "mission field" is right here, right around us, as well as in other "nations." But we are uncomfortable, many of us, with the idea of speaking the good news.
Arnold Lovell has tried to figure out the, quote, "ambivalence and discomfort that many Presbyterians feel about evangelism, or, the "E word." He has found through his conversations that for many people, the discomfort comes from bad memories or bad experiences or bad images associated with the idea of evangelism, a (quote) "litany of personal and congregational experiences marked by evangelistic tactics based on fear, intimidation, manipulation, and coercion. As one person confessed, 'I am convinced the church was seeking to speak a word of hope and good news, a word I needed to hear, but the style and arrogance it used got in the way. The message was lost because of the method': chanting Hare Krishnas in airports, too-aggressive Jehovah's Witnesses, shouting hell-fire preachers gasping for air and sweating in their white polyester leisure suits, Mormons on bicycles, scandals involving televangelists, and the apocalyptic visions of Jim Jones and David Koresh" – end of quote.
Perhaps it's because of these negative associations that we've become pretty good at coming up with excuses. 62 percent in a survey of Presbyterians responded that "well, almost everybody from my community already belongs to a church," or wouldn't be interested in my church because they're from a different cultural or ethnic group. 56 percent said most of their members liked their church the way it was, and didn't want to grow too much and risk not knowing everyone, or the changes in worship style newcomers might want: New people might bring in new ideas, after all.
So while 90 percent in another survey of Presbyterians said that the church ought to be "preparing Presbyterians to be better able to communicate their faith to others," only 29 percent of those church members—the same people!—said they would be interested in getting prepared themselves. 90% "we should"; 71% "but not me." And when specific ideas about how to do evangelism were listed, from holding evangelism rallies to producing evangelistic radio commercials, every single idea had fewer than 50 percent saying they'd be willing to devote resources to that project.
We're ready to endorse the concept of evangelism, but find a way to reject every suggestion that actually involves us in doing evangelism.
So we don't have to wear leisure suits, or Hare Krishna robes, or go door-to-door – drop all those pictures, if they're distasteful to you.
We also don't have to go overseas and live in a tent in a jungle, like the picture of missionaries many of us still carry around in our heads; we've heard: there are plenty of people around us who are unchurched. And we don't have to shout about hellfire and brimstone either, though I imagine you can try that if you want. Because study after study shows that 70 to 90 percent of new people attend or join churches because they were invited by a relative or friend. The reason 70 to 90 percent of new people attend or join a church is because they were invited by a relative or friend. That's what it took; that's what was most important – just an invitation.
We can do all the TV or radio advertising we want, design glossy brochures, have 12-week classes on how to do evangelism, put in a bigger parking lot; I can shape every single word of every sermon perfectly, so mine are like Laurie's; we can conduct extensive market research. . . but 70 to 90 percent of new people attend or join a church because they were invited by a relative or friend. That's the main thing it takes: inviting someone to come with you.
Lovell offers this definition of evangelism: "any form of communication which helps move or lead a person into faith in, or greater depth of relationship with, Jesus Christ." No particular formula, no particular clothing, no particular words you have to use. Be yourself, and invite them to come with you. Andrew Weeks reinforces the point that this is something anyone can do; in fact, it's more effective when a church member does it than when the pastor does. A newcomer greeted or welcomed by only a clergy person will return to a church less than twenty percent of the time, whereas eighty-five percent welcomed by a church member return. Invitations by clergy don't impress them – "he has to do that; it's his job." It's like being told a restaurant is great, Weeks says, by its owner. But when a member reaches out, a newcomer takes that as a sign of genuine and voluntary enthusiasm. Then, they want to give the place a try.
Now we also have a job to do here as a church; going out and inviting people isn't all there is to it. We have to be ready when they come; we have to have quality worship and good programs and friendly people. We do have to work on what's here, to be ready. But the main ingredient is the invitation.
Well congratulations! That's good evangelism! Paris Presbyterian Church didn't happen to grow in numbers that day, but you have shared good news, spread the Easter message, been an evangelism "angel." You've done well.
Now often the two goals work together; often inviting someone to come to church with you is an effective way to get them started toward that relationship with Jesus – so we can certainly work on both at once.
em to be a hopeful person; or what you did this weekend – tell them you went to church. Ask them if they'd like to come with you some time. Give them some "good news," when the time is right. Let's recover the real meaning of evangelism, do it our way and carry out what Jesus said.


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Cameron Bailey
Co-Head & Artistic Director
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Cameron Bailey is the Co-Head and Artistic Director of TIFF and the Toronto International Film Festival®. He is responsible for TIFF's programming and curatorial vision, as well as maintaining relationships with the Canadian and international film industries.
Bailey grew up in England and Barbados before migrating to Canada. He began his career as a film critic, then joined TIFF in 1990 as a seasonal programmer. At TIFF he headed the Festival's Perspective Canada program, and founded its Planet Africa section in 1995.
Bailey has taught film curation at the University of Toronto, and holds an honorary doctorate from Western University. He is a Chevalier in France's Order of Arts and Letters. For eight consecutive years (2012–2019), Toronto Life magazine has named him one of Toronto's 50 Most Influential People.


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Civil Society in Hybrid Regimes: The Challenges of Democratization in Georgia
Melikidze, Giorgi; მელიქიძე, გიორგი
The nowadays established term "Hybrid Regime" combines a broad group of states and covers the elements of democracy and authoritarianism. The hybrid regime is generated by the democratization of the authoritarian regime. The prospect of its transformation into an electoral democracy depends on many factors, and first of all on the development of a civil society. Totalitarianism causes the collapse of civil society and its restoration in post-totalitarianism conditions is a very difficult process. The stimulation of civil society is conducted by the non- governmental sector, although this is not a perfect civil society. The goal of this work is to determine the role of civil society in the ongoing process of democratization in Georgia. The democratic transformation of the hybrid regime is associated with the development of civil society. The special focus is made on the concept of civil society, because if it has only a facade nature, then it has no value for democratic transformation. According to the research hypothesis, in countries where a clientelistic / elite civil society was formed, democratization was impeded, which caused stagnation. In the 1990s the stimulation of civil society formation in Georgia had been carried out by a creation and activation of nongovernmental organizations, but these organizations were funded from the West. The NGO sector, which acted on behalf of the civil society, played a significant role in the "Rose Revolution." A precedent of cooperation between the newly formed government and civil society was created, but this happened only at the initial stage. As during Saakashvili governance also in subsequent years, the civil society was opposed to the government. Civil society in post-soviet Georgia was not distinguished by a high level of development, which negatively impacted on the democratization process of the country. The building of democracy in post-soviet Georgia is the main statement of any government, however the country couldn't go beyond the status of a hybrid regime. Georgia belongs to the countries which didn't incline to the democratization or to authoritarian governance. The main challenges of Georgia are the rule of law, the election process and the state functions. The authoritative organization "Freedom House" called such governance "Outlaw Democracy". The last ten years were a turning stage for Georgia, not only due to the Historical and Political processes, but also in terms of democratization. It is interesting, that from 2008 up-to-date the different indicator of democratization changed its position, however the civil society firmly kept an average indicator. A qualitative method is used in the research, such as in-depth, interviews with experts.
Name: Giorgi Melikidze.pdf


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W: J. Arrieta (5-4) L: C. Ponce (0-1) S: C. Kimbrel (10)
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PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Attendance: 6,750
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K. Bryant, RF 5 0 1 0 1 0 1 .308 .400 .591
I. Happ, CF 4 0 1 0 1 0 2 .213 .324 .393
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C. Kimbrel, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
D. Bote, 3B 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 .188 .264 .293
P. Higgins, C 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000
J. Arrieta, P 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 .154 .214 .154
E. Sogard, 2B 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 .253 .301 .333
A. Frazier, 2B-LF 3 1 1 0 1 1 1 .335 .401 .459
B. Gamel, LF 2 1 2 1 3 1 0 .219 .286 .281
W. Difo, PH-2B 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 .254 .274 .394
B. Reynolds, CF 4 0 0 0 0 0 3 .291 .381 .461
J. Stallings, C 4 0 1 1 1 0 1 .248 .353 .436
G. Polanco, RF 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 .211 .288 .350
E. González, 3B 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 .209 .245 .284
C. Tucker, SS 4 0 1 0 2 0 2 .167 .167 .333
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C. Holmes, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
S. Howard, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
D. Bednar, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
K. Newman, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .207 .238 .256
C. Shreve, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
I. Vargas, 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .121 .194 .182
2B: ChC 2, J. Pederson (3), J. Báez (5). Pit 4, B. Gamel (2), W. Difo (3), C. Tucker (1), W. Craig (1).
HR: ChC 2, J. Pederson 2 (4).
HR Detail: ChC, J. Pederson (Inning: 3 , 1 Out, 0 on) off C. Ponce, ChC, J. Pederson (Inning: 5 , 1 Out, 1 on) off C. Ponce.
Scoring Position: ChC - 1 for 6.Pit - 2 for 10.
J. Arrieta, (W 5-4) 5.0 5 3 2 1 7 0 22 79 25 - 54 4.37 .249
K. Thompson, (Hld 1) 1.2 0 0 0 2 2 0 6 27 13 - 14 0.00 .213
A. Chafin, (Hld 11) 0.1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 1 - 4 2.45 .154
R. Tepera, (Hld 7) 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 12 5 - 7 2.82 .160
C. Kimbrel, (S 10) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1 0 4 15 5 - 10 0.90 .130
C. Ponce, (L 0-1) 5.0 9 4 4 1 2 2 23 87 25 - 62 7.20 .409
C. Holmes 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 13 5 - 8 3.22 .214
S. Howard 0.1 1 0 0 1 1 0 3 13 9 - 4 3.45 .151
D. Bednar 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 7 2 - 5 3.00 .197
C. Shreve 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 13 4 - 9 3.86 .278
Errors: ChC 1, J. Arrieta (1).
Double Plays: ChC 1, (Báez to Sogard to Rizzo). Pit 2, (González to Frazier to Craig; Tucker to Frazier to Craig).
Passed Balls: ChC 1, P. Higgins.
Hit by Pitch: Pit, A. Frazier by J. Arrieta.
Umpires: HP--Miller, 1B--Eddings, 2B--Additon, 3B--Morales.
Attendance - 6,750


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Science Book Publishing
This session will revisit a subject discussed at the 2006 annual meeting: the potential and special challenges of publishing books in the natural and physical sciences. Most university presses avoid these areas in favor of the humanities and social sciences. However, science books can be profitable, create synergies with other areas of a list, and enhance the relationship between presses and their parent institutions.
Speakers in this session will describe the issues that are unique to science publishing programs, from the need to persuade scientists to write books in the first place, to special production requirements.
Chair: Christie Henry, Executive Editor, University of Chicago Press
Panelists: Jenny Wapner, University of California Press; Ingrid Gnerlich, Princeton University Press; Heidi Steinmetz Lovette, Cornell University Press
Who should attend: directors, editorial directors, acquisitions, marketing
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Peaches and ice cream: both are summer staples that taste delicious on their own.
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Does This Facebook Group Go Too Far In Its Attacks On Shreveport's Mayor?
Robert J Wright Published: November 23, 2021
If recent surveys are any indication, it's going to be an uphill battle for Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins and backers of his latest bond package, a $240 million proposal to fund a number of areas of city government.
A KEEL poll, for one, shows all but one part ($70 million for police and fire funding) not only losing, but trailing substantially.
But one local social media group is taking opposition to the Perkins plan to new levels, not only attacking the bond proposal, but the Mayor himself.
The Facebook page Vote No in December - Shreveport features a series of posts, photos and memes questioning the wisdom of passing the massive borrowing package and the Mayor's honesty.
Some of the accusations seem to push the limits:
"If the bond proposal is passed, the fees paid to Perkins friends, the bond lawyers, will be 4 to 5 million.
This 4 to 5 million is enough to give every Shreveport policeman a $10,000 bonus!"
Another questions the competence of city government, bringing up the pre-Perkins water billing debacle and even attacks the City Council:
"The City of Shreveport has spent 1 million taxpayer dollars to fight against us, the taxpayers, in receiving our water refunds.
This, at a time when the City of Shreveport is sitting on a $60 million water reserve fund which amounts to $1,000 for every household in Shreveport.
Adrian Perkins and the City Council are asking us, the taxpayers, to give them $240 million more to waste.
Vote no to the absurdity."
And another (of many) breaks down the size of the bond proposal, but with another anti-Perkins twist:
"1. The new $240 million dollar bond proposal Adrian Perkins is asking you to approve in December amounts to $4,000.00 in debt for every family in Shreveport.
2. If approved by voters this new $240 million dollars would allow Adrian Perkins to spend a half-million dollars a day for each and every day left in his term.
3. $240 million in new debt and spending would allow Adrian Perkins to spend $94,000.00 AN HOUR for each working hour remaining in his term.
4. Only a very small percentage of this new debt will be paid back by the time Perkins leaves office but the citizens of Shreveport will be burdened with the increased taxes for many years."
Perkins, meanwhile, continues to emphasize the importance of this funding for badly needed city projects, including a new police station. "This has to be a collective effort between government and citizens to make sure we get what we need out of this bond," the Mayor told the Times in June, "But it is unequivocal, a need to invest in our city…public safety, infrastructure, technology, you name it."
And Perkins also said that February's ice storm and ensuing city-wide outages underlined the need for infrastructure upgrades. "We know after the storm that we have to invest in our infrastructure if we want to have a more resilient water system."
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THE ISSUE: The 83rd Precinct's arrest of 32 students on their way to a funeral in Bushwick.
"Gangs and Adult Enablers" (Editorial, June 8) cobbles together contested police rhetoric, bits of real newspaper articles and some errant guesses at circumstances to excuse the precinct.
Using this uninformed position to try to sling shame on those who support the peaceful and organized response of these youths is a weak ploy to screen those who are actually being negligent in this matter.
I find it inspiring that these youths, faced with an ongoing, frustrating pattern of racial profiling and police harassment, choose to pro-actively bring the community together to work for positive solutions. The true shame would be for city and NYPD leaders to dismiss the voice and efforts of these concerned students.
I have respect for the police who stopped this gang from doing anything violent. But the fact that all the police had to go on were a couple of warning signs shows that the cops are not doing their job in terms of finding proof.
"Warning signs" are not proof that something illegal is going to happen.
The police acted too quickly.
You argue that the funeral-goers committed a crime because "they assembled without a permit." Since when do 30 people need a permit to go to a funeral together?
If 30 Post reporters met outside the office, then headed on the subway together to a funeral for a colleague, would they need a permit to do that? Would the police even think of arresting them?


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There are two varieties of foil in use today: the "dry", or nonelectric, foil; and the electrically scored foil. The components common to both varieties are the pommel, grip, guard, thumb pad, and blade. The nonelectric foil has a real tip with a blunted end that is capped with a plastic or rubber knob.
The electric foil also contains a socket underneath the guard that connects to the scoring apparatus via the body cord and a wire that runs down a channel cut into the top of the blade. The tip of the electric foil terminates in a button assembly that generally consists of a barrel, plunger, spring, and retaining screws. The circuit is a "normally closed" one, meaning that at rest there is always a complete power circuit. Depressing the tip breaks this circuit, and the scoring apparatus illuminates an appropriate light: white for hits not on the valid target area, or either red or green representing hits on the valid target area.
The pommel, a type of threaded fastener used to fasten blade, guard, plug, and grip assemblies together, is specific to the type of grip that is used. There are two types of grips used for foils: straight grips with long, external pommels, comprising the French, Italian, and Spanish varieties, and orthopedic, or pistol grips, which are designed to fix the hand in a specific position and have pommels that fit into a countersink in the back of the grip. Electric foil plugs are fixed so that the body cord plugs into the weapon along the inside of the wrist. There are two varieties in use today: the two-prong variety which has unequal diameter prongs and is held in place by a retaining clip, and the single-prong Bayonette which twist-locks into place. Foil guards are limited to a diameter of 9.5 to 12 cm in international competition.
Foil blades are made of tempered and annealed, low-carbon steel and are designed to bend upon striking an opponent in order to both prevent injuries and breakage of the blade. For international competition maraging steel is required, which is designed to break so that the incidence of potentially dangerous spikes and burrs is reduced. The foil blade is no more than 90 cm in length with a blunted (or foiled) tip. The overall weight of the full assembled weapon is at most 500 g, and the maximum length of the assembled weapon is 110 cm.
The blade itself is subdivided into 3 regions: the foible, or weak, at the last third of the blade near the tip, the medium, and the forte, or strong, is the third of the blade near the guard. Inside of the grip is the tang which is threaded at the end to allow the pommel to fasten the foil assembly together. Where an Italian grip is used a ricosso extends from under the guard, inside of the grip's quillons, into the tang.
The modern epee typically has a blade which measures 90 centimetres, and weighs up to 770 grams, although it sometimes weighs as little as 150 grams due to various metals and construction techniques. Only hits, or "touches", made with the push-button tip of the weapon are registered. The epee has a three sided blade, in contrast to the foil and sabre, which have four and two sides respectively. In competitions a valid epee touch is scored if a fencer depresses their tip with 750g of pressure. Since the hand is a valid target, the bellguard is much larger than that of the foil and is most often made of aluminum or stainless steel. The tip is wired to a connector in the bellguard, then to an electronic scoring device or "box". The bellguard, blade, and handle of the epee are all grounded to the scoring box to prevent hits to the weapon from registering as touches.
In the channel (fuller) formed by the V-shaped blade, there are two thin wires leading from the far end of the blade to a connector in the bellguard. These wires are held in place with a strong glue that protects them from the rigors of an encounter. The amount of glue is kept to a minimum as in the unlikely (but possible) case that a fencer manages a touch in that glue, the touch would be registered on the electrical equipment, as the glue and blade are not earthed. But in the event of point to point and point to glue hits, a point should not be awarded. A "body wire" with a three-pronged plug at each end is placed underneath the fencer's clothing and attached to the connector in the bellguard, then to a wire leading to the scoring box. The scoring box signals with lights (one for each fencer) and a tone each time the tip is depressed.
The tip of an epee comprises several parts including: the mushroom-shaped movable tip; its housing or "barrel" which is threaded to the blade; a contact spring; and a return spring. The tips are generally held in place by two small grub screws, which thread into the sides of the tip through elongated openings on either side of the barrel. The screws hold the tip within the barrel but are allowed to travel freely in the openings. While this is the most common system, screwless variations do exist. The return spring must allow the tip to support a weight of 750 grams without registering a touch. Finally, an epee tip must allow a shim of 1.5 mm to be inserted between the tip and the barrel, and when a 0.5 mm shim is inserted and the tip depressed, it should not register a touch. The contact spring is threaded in or out of the tip to adjust for this distance. These specifications are tested at the start of large competitions. During competitions, fencers are required to have a minimum of two weapons and two body wires in case of failure or breakage.
The epee is the heaviest of the three fencing weapons (approaching the weight of an actual court sword). However, ultra-lightweight blades can actually reduce the weight of an epee to below that of a foil. On low-end weapons, the epee has a relatively stiff blade, though new technology has resulted in a flexible blade comparable to the other weapons.
The epee is characterized by a V-shaped or approximately triangular cross-section , and a large round guard which offers much more protection to the hand than the foil guard.
The cross-section of the sabre blade is Y- or V-shaped, unlike the quadrangular shape of the foil, but not as stiff as the epee. Adult (Size 5) blades are 88 cm (35 inches) in length. At the end of the blade, the point is folded over itself to form a "button", although no actual button exists. The bell guard of the sword is curved around the handle, giving the fencer hand protection. On electrical sabres, a socket for the body wire is found underneath the bell guard. A fastener known as a pommel is attached to the end of the sword to keep the bell guard and handle on. The handle of a sabre is standardly a French grip, as most other grips are incompatible with the bell guard. The entire weapon is generally 105 cm (41 inches) long, and 500 grams (1.1 lb) in weight. It is shorter than the foil or epee, and lighter than the epee, making it easier to move swiftly and incisively. Many equate the sabre's blade to a matchstick, in that they are easy to snap but relatively cheap to replace.
Unlike the other two fencing weapons, there is very little difference between an electric sabre and a steam or dry (non-electric) one. The blade itself is the same in steam and electric sabres, as there is no need for a blade wire or pressure-sensitive tip in an electric sabre. An electric sabre has a socket, which is generally a 2-prong or bayonet Foil socket with the two contacts shorted together. Early electric sabres were equipped with a capteur socket. The capteur was a device that was intended to detect a parry by use of an accelerometer. If a parry was detected, the electronics were supposed to invalidate any subsequent closing of the scoring circuit due to the flexible blade whipping around the parry. This device never worked as intended and was quickly discarded, and the whipover effect was greatly mitigated when the FIE mandated stiffer sabre blades in the S2000 specification. The electric sabre also has insulation on the pommel and on the inside of the guard to prevent an electrical connection between the sabre and the lame. This is undesirable because it effectively extends the lamé onto the sabre, causing any blade contact to be registered as a valid touch.
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sixty guns, commanded by Mon. tagu, the brother of Sandwich. Boston Gazette, 19 Aug. 1771. Yet there was no one salient wrong, to attract the sudden and universal attention of the people. The Southern Governors felt no alarm. Eden from Maryland congratulated Hillsborough, on the return of confidence and harmony. Robert Eden to Hillsborough, 4 August, 1771. The people, thus Johnson, the Agent of Connecticut wrote after his return home, appear to be weary of their altercations with thof this Colony which inhibit their assenting to such laws, as might Chap. XLVII.} 1772. May. check so very pernicious a commerce. In this manner Virginia led the host, who alike condemned slavery and opposed the Slave-Trade. Thousands in Maryland and in New Jersey, were ready to adopt a similar Petition; so were the Legislatures of North Carolina, of Pennsylvania, of New-York. Massachusetts, in its towns and in its Legislature, unceasingly combated the condition as well as the sale of s
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uce new collisions. Inhabitants of Providence, in Rhode Island, had in the last March, complained to the Deputy Governor of the conduct of Lieutenant Dudingston, Commander of the Gaspee, who obstructed their vessels and boats, without showing any evidence of his authority. Hopkins, the Chief Justice, on being consulted, gave the opinion, that any person who should come into the Colony and exercise any authority by force of arms, without showing his commission to the Governor, and if a Custom House officer, without being sworn into his office, was guilty of a trespass, if not piracy. The Governor, therefore, sent a sheriff on board the Gaspee, to ascertain by what orders the Lieutenant acted; and Dudingston referred the subject to the Admiral. The Admiral answered from Boston: The Lieutenant, Sir, has done his duty. I shall give the King's officers directions, that they send every man taken in molesting them to me. As sure as the people of Newport attempt to rescue any vessel,
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sal attention of the people. The Southern Governors felt no alarm. Eden from Maryland congratulated Hillsborough, on the return of confidence and harmony. Robert Eden to Hillsborough, 4 August, 1771. The people, thus Johnson, the Agent of Connecticut wrote after his return home, appear to be weary of their altercations with the Mother Country; a little discreet conduct on both sides, would perfectly reestablish that warm affection and respect towards Great Britain, for which this country f Illinois, weary of the shameless despotism which aimed only at forestalling tracts of land, the monopoly of the Indian trade, or the ruin of the French villages, took their cause into their own hands; they demanded institutions like those of Connecticut, and set themselves inflexibly against any proposal for a Government, which should be irresponsible to themselves. In 1771, they had assembled in a General Meeting, and had fixed upon their scheme; they never departed from it; expecting to ap
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4 March, 1772. Compare Gage to Hillsborough, 6 August, 1771; Hillsborough to Gage, 4 Dec. 1771, and 18 April, 1772. In Illinois the corruption and favoritism of the military commander compelled the people to a remonstrance. The removal of them allh agree with you, rejoined Hillsborough; a regular Government for that District would be highly improper. The people of Illinois, weary of the shameless despotism which aimed only at forestalling tracts of land, the monopoly of the Indian trade, or ll civil Magistrates. Hamilton to Gage, 8 Aug. 1772. The rights of freemen were demanded as boldly on the Prairies of Illinois as in Carolina or New England. Towards the people at Vincennes, Hillsborough was less relenting; for there was no Spaniment already seventy years old, Notre établissement est de soixante et dix annees, Memorial, 18 Sept. 1772. as those of Illinois to give up the hope of freedom. The spirit of discontent pervaded every village in the wilderness; and what allegiance
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use in Boston. The long altercation on that subject subsided; but the system of British supremacy was sure to produce new collisions. Inhabitants of Providence, in Rhode Island, had in the last March, complained to the Deputy Governor of the conduct of Lieutenant Dudingston, Commander of the Gaspee, who obstructed their vesselsents of Darius Sessions and Chief Justice Hopkins to Chief Justice Horsmanden in January, 1773. On the ninth of June, the Providence Packet was returning to Providence, and proud of its speed, went gayly on, heedless of the Gaspee. Dudingston gave chase. The tide being at flood, the Packet ventured near shore; the Gaspee coning more water ran aground on Nauquit, a little below Pantuxet. The following night a party of men in six or seven boats, led by John Brown and Joseph Brown of Providence, and Simeon Potter of Bristol, boarded the stranded schooner, after a scuffle in which Dudingston was wounded, took and landed its crew, and then set it on fire
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Chapter 47: Great Britain Centres in itself power over its Colonies. —Hillsborough's Administration of the Colonies con-cluded. June. 1771—August, 1772. regarded the contest with Massachusetts as involving not only the power of Great Britain and the rights of the Crown, but his personal honor. Wise men saw the evsides, would perfectly reestablish that warm affection and respect towards Great Britain, for which this country was once so Chap. XLVII.} 1771. Sept. Remarkable. merican dominions. We are sensible that some of your Majesty's subjects in Great Britain may reap emoluments from this sort of traffic; but when we consider, that ilonging to the fleet, and subjected the accused to a trial in any county in Great Britain. Of this statute, which violated every safeguard of July. justice and mt. They regarded the Charter as a most solemn compact, which bound them to Great Britain. By that Charter they held, they were to have a Governor and Judges, over
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perennial fund raised by an Act of Parliament. They regarded the Charter as a most solemn compact, which bound them to Great Britain. By that Charter they held, they were to have a Governor and Judges, over whom the power of the King was protected by the right of nomination, the power of the Colony by the exclusive right of providing support. These views were embodied Hutchinson's History, III. 358. by Hawley in a Report to the Assembly, Report and Resolutions of 10 July, 1772; in Bradford, 325 and on the tenth of July, adopted by a vote of eighty-five to nineteen. It followed, and was so resolved, that a Governor who like Hutchinson was Chap. XLVII.} 1772. July. not dependent on the people for support, was not such a Governor as the people had consented to, at the granting of the Charter; the House most solemnly protested that the innovation was an im portant change of the Constitution, and exposed the Province to a despotic administration of Government. The inference wa
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fortitude. Compare Samuel Adams to James Warren of Plymouth, 25 March, 1771. He persever- Chap. XLVII.} 1771. June. ed; but John Adams retired from the service of the people, and devoting himself to his profession, John Adams: Works, II. 260, 301, 302. for a time ceased even to employ his pen in their defence. John Adams: Diary, June 22, 1771. Otis who had returned to the Legislature, disordered in mind, and jealous of his declining influence, did but impede the public cause. In Hancock, also, vanity so mingled with patriotism, that the Government hoped to separate him from its uncompromising opponents. Hutchinson to,——, 5 June, 1771. The Assembly which for the third year was convened at Cambridge, overruled the advice of Samuel Adams, and was proceeding with business. Yet it adopted the Protest in which he drew the distinction between the existence of a prerogative and its abuse; and significantly inquired, what would follow in England, if a British King should ca
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e was led to speculate on the personal opinions of their Sovereign, and to inquire into the use of regal power itself; while the King regarded the contest with Massachusetts as involving not only the power of Great Britain and the rights of the Crown, but his personal honor. Wise men saw the event that was approaching, but not tlin foretold a bloody struggle, in which America's Chap. XLVII.} 1771. July. growing strength and magnitude, B. Franklin to Committee of Correspondence in Massachusetts, 15 May, 1771. would give her the victory. The progress of opinion was marked by the instructions of the House to its Agent, which unreservedly embodied the pe. Thousands in Maryland and in New Jersey, were ready to adopt a similar Petition; so were the Legislatures of North Carolina, of Pennsylvania, of New-York. Massachusetts, in its towns and in its Legislature, unceasingly combated the condition as well as the sale of slaves. There was no jealousy among one another in the strife
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ed to many a pledge of relenting; and his plausible professions hushed the people into silence. The glorious spirit of liberty is vanquished and left without hope but in a miracle, said desponding patriots. I confess, said Samuel Adams, we have, as Wolfe expressed it, a choice of difficulties. Too many flatter themselves that their pusillanimity is true prudence; but in perilous times like these, I cannot conceive of prudence without fortitude. Compare Samuel Adams to James Warren of Plymouth, 25 March, 1771. He persever- Chap. XLVII.} 1771. June. ed; but John Adams retired from the service of the people, and devoting himself to his profession, John Adams: Works, II. 260, 301, 302. for a time ceased even to employ his pen in their defence. John Adams: Diary, June 22, 1771. Otis who had returned to the Legislature, disordered in mind, and jealous of his declining influence, did but impede the public cause. In Hancock, also, vanity so mingled with patriotism, that the Gov


Neglecting tax reporting when you close your business can cost you in the long run.
When you go out of business, your tax obligations are your most important debts to repay, because governments are given extraordinary legal powers to collect back taxes. In addition, you are personally liable for some tax debts, such as payroll taxes, even if your business is a corporation or LLC. So before you pay off even one trade creditor, make sure you've met of all your tax obligations, as discussed below.
First and most important, if you have employees, make your final payroll tax deposits and file all of your final employment tax paperwork on time. First priority should go to federal taxes withheld from employees' paychecks—income tax withholding and Social Security and Medicare taxes. Next in line are state income withholding taxes and sales taxes that you have collected. (When you file the final sales tax forms, be sure to write FINAL across the top of the return.) With these serious tax obligations behind you, it's time to take care of the employer's share of the Social Security and Medicare taxes. For more information, see our article on prioritizing business debts to repay.
Negotiate with the IRS. If you owe the IRS more than you can pay, you might be able to pay less than you owe through an offer in compromise or installment payments. To start the offer in compromise process, fill out IRS Form 656, Offer in Compromise. To obtain an installment payment plan with the IRS, use Form 433A, Collection Information Statement. For more information on the advantages and disadvantages of each, as well as how to calculate the amount you should offer to pay, see Stand Up to the IRS, by Frederick W. Daily (Nolo).
There are a number of IRS requirements you need to take care of when ceasing business operations; similar state requirements apply as well. Because tax requirements can get complicated in a hurry, consider enlisting the help of a tax professional, especially if your business makes over $50,000 per year or has several owners.
Sole proprietors. As usual, report your income and expenses, including information on gains or losses, on Schedule C of your Form 1040. File your return by April 15 the year after you close your business. There is no "final return" box to check on Schedule C.
Partnerships and LLCs. File Form 1065, U.S. Partnership Return of Income, and check the box that says this is your final return. Also report any profits or losses allocated to each partner for the year by filing Form 1065 (Schedule K-1), Partner's Share of Income, Credits, Deductions, etc. This form must be filed by the 15th day of the third month after your tax year ends.
C Corporations. C corporations should file Form 1120, U.S. Corporation Income Tax Return, and check the box that this is their final return. This form must be filed by the 15th day of the fourth month after you close your business. Corporations also need to file IRS Form 966, Corporate Dissolution or Liquidation, to report their dissolution.
S Corporations. C corporations should file Form 1120, U.S. Corporation Income Tax Return, and check the box that this is their final return. S corporations should file Form 1120S, U.S. Corporation Income Tax Return for an S Corporation, and check the box that this is their final return. This form must be filed by the 15th day of the third month after you close your business. Corporations also need to file IRS Form 966, Corporate Dissolution or Liquidation, to report their dissolution.
If you had employees or independent contractors working for you, you'll also need to take the following steps. This also applies if you were the sole employee of your corporation.
Employer returns. File your final employer's federal tax return, IRS Form 941 or 944, and your final federal unemployment tax return, IRS Form 940 or 940EZ, by their regular due dates. Mark the returns as final and include the proper amount of taxes. You must attach to both of these forms a statement showing the name of the person who will be storing the payroll records for the business and the address where the records will be kept. Also, don't forget to file your state's version of the wage and withholding report.
Contractor statements. Issue payment information to freelancers and contractors using Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Income. Report the information from the 1099s to the IRS using Form 1096, Annual Summary and Transmittal of U.S. Information Returns, (unless you file the 1099-MISC forms electronically).
Pension plans. If you provided your employees with a pension plan, you'll need to close it down. If the plan was a simplified employee pension (SEP) plan, simply notify the financial institution running the plan that you won't be making any more contributions. If you had a savings incentive match plan (SIMPLE), you need to wait until the end of the year to shut it down. Legally, you are required to continue to fund the plan until the end of the year.
You won't need your business ID numbers anymore, so take steps to cancel them.
Federal employer identification number. The IRS will not cancel your EIN, but if you no longer need the number for your business, the IRS will deactivate your business account (and reactivate it if you ever go back into business). To deactivate your account, write to the IRS at: Internal Revenue Service, Cincinnati, OH 45999 and say that you're going out of business and want to close your account. If you have the EIN Assignment Notice that was issued when your EIN was assigned, include a copy of it when you send your letter. Otherwise, be sure to include the complete legal name of your company, your name, the EIN, and the business address. You must file all tax returns due before the IRS will close your account.
State employer tax ID number and business tax account. To close your state tax account, contact your state tax agency. Some state agencies have a notice of discontinuance form that you must file; in other states you have to write a letter to the tax agency. Most state tax agencies have clear instructions for what you need to do on their website. You must file all tax returns due before a state tax agency will close your account.
You would be well advised to hire a tax preparer or accountant to file your final tax forms for you. It saves you the headache of preparing them yourself, ensures their accuracy, and will no doubt gain you some deductions for business losses that you can take against other income you or your spouse bring home. After you've wrapped up all of your tax paperwork, the IRS recommends that you keep tax records for seven years after closing your business. If youre worried about your tax obligations, or you can't pay your payroll taxaes, speak to a local tax lawyer immediately.


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Students Hangry at CUNY Cafeteria Still Shut Two Years After Return to Class
Hostos Community College students are entering their second year of in-person classes. But they still have to go off-campus for food.
By Jonathan Custodio
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Hostos Community College students protest a lack of access to the school's cafeteria, Nov. 30, 2022.
Jonathan Custodio/THE CITY
The cafeteria at Hostos Community College closed when the pandemic shut down New York. Nearly three years later, it remains shuttered — and hungry students who have returned to campus want it back.
Hostos students demanded the college reopen its school cafeteria on Wednesday at a rally inside a campus building, saying their waning energy levels due to lack of access to nutrition on campus have made it harder to get through classes.
The cafeteria has been closed since spring 2020 when the COVID-19 struck New York.
Students at the rally at the Bronx school said the closure limits available healthy options. Their alternatives include fast food restaurants on the often busy 149th Street and Grand Concourse in Mott Haven, bodegas, a popular halal cart in front of the campus or whatever's available in the nearest vending machine.
"The vending machine is not enough. You can't put no sandwich in the vending machine," said 22-year-old radiology student Sulenny Dominguez, one of the rally's organizers, who added that they had to face combative campus security guards that stood outside the dining hall as students sat with rally signs.
The students protesting had previously been asked to leave a different campus building by security as they marched and protested. "If you don't have a full stomach, you don't have a happy heart."
Hostos student Sulenny Dominguez holds a sign reading "Unite and Strike" in front of the community college's shuttered cafeteria.
A Hostos spokesperson said the cafeteria will reopen in the coming spring 2023 semester and that its procurement office is in the final stages of solidifying a contract with a food service vendor, attributing the holdup to the previous one leaving much of the equipment in the cafeteria in poor working condition.
Students currently have a space to eat in the dining hall that's connected to the closed cafeteria.
"Hostos Community College makes the health and well-being of its students a high priority. Despite many challenges during the past two years, the College has gradually re-opened many crucial services for its students," said spokesperson Diana Kreymer, highlighting interim microwave ovens and vending machines that have hot coffee and tea, salads, hot sandwiches and breakfast foods.
"During each phase of the College's re-opening, the seating area in the cafeteria was accessible, for both day and evening students, who brought their meals to campus," she said. "We look forward to working with a vendor to secure food service in the near future."
Kreymer added that the demand for on-campus food services was not high pre-pandemic, as students preferred to bring food from home or grab meals from fast food restaurants nearby, resulting in vendors losing money.
No Time, No Food
Complaints have piled up in recent months for CUNY schools, especially in the borough. Bronx Community College has had issues heating its buildings and both students and faculty have criticized the university's Covid protocols that disallow testing at non-CUNY sites.
Mariam Ouederaogo, a 23-year-old liberal arts student who attended Wednesday's rally, has two early afternoon classes that are only half an hour apart. The limited time to have lunch would be easier with a nearby cafeteria, she said, but she has to leave campus for meals.
"I don't have enough time to sit and eat," she said. "I'm usually late for class."
Food insecurity can lead to academic difficulties for students in the classroom, according to a survey from Healthy CUNY and the CUNY Graduate School for Public Health and Public Policy published in 2018. About one in five CUNY undergraduate students experience food insecurity, the survey found.
That study measured students' level of food insecurity based on campuses that had access to a full cafeteria. While it underlined that lack of money is a major reason for the insecurity — campus cafeterias don't offer free food — students also reported having gone hungry for lack of convenient access to meals.
Michael Partis, executive director of The Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative, a local economic development organization, told THE CITY Hostos has "a tremendous opportunity" to "reimagine, especially at a public university, what is our relationship to food," including prioritizing ethically and locally sourced food and Bronx businesses.
"This could be an opportunity for that instead of going with a major corporation," said Partis, noting that limited contract visibility, months-long delays in payments and expensive liability insurance often limits small businesses from obtaining contracts with large institutions like CUNY.
Partis added that the contract could be an opportunity for what BCDI calls economic democracy, building wealth for Black and Brown Bronxites and a system where they begin to scale up food supply and source local vendors who could reinvest in workers in a "cooperative system."
Students and faculty alike suggested solutions. Liberal arts major Allan Casas, 23, proposed an on-campus garden big enough to feed campus-goers. And both Partis and math professor Lauren Wolf pointed to community kitchens.
"What I'd like to see, ideally, is a mutual aid kitchen to come in here and feed our students," Wolf said.
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It appears Schulzy has finally got a GDJB Intro. However, because it has no specific ending, I just put all of his talking into the Intro as well. I don't usually do this, but it worked with the Shana track this time around.


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The Continuing Education Program of the School of Social Work is based upon the School's commitment to the delivery of quality social work services and community service. This commitment is based on the awareness that is by sustained participation in professional development that social workers maintain and enhance their competencies.
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As the position of the pieces was under your own observation, it is only necessary to state that the Parrott gun and one howitzer were posted in the battery immediately on the right of the road leading to Hampton; that a howitzer was placed in the battery erected on the right beyond the ravine, through which a passway was made for the purpose of withdrawing the piece if necessary; a howitzer was posted near the bridge; the rifled howitzer was placed on the left of the road behind the right of a redoubt erected by the North Carolina regiment, and a howitzer was posted in the rear of the road leading from the Half-way House, a howitzer having been previously sent to the Half-way House under the command of Lieutenant Moseley.
Early in the action the howitzer in the battery on the right having been spiked by the breaking of the priming wire, was withdrawn from its position, and the infantry supporting it fell back upon the church; but it was subsequently replaced by the howitzer of Lieutenant Moseley, which arrived at later period of the action.
The ford on the left being threatened, the howitzer at the bridge was withdrawn and sent to than point, and the rifled howitzer was withdrawn from the left for the road and sent to assist in the protection of the rear. The same disposition was subsequently made for the howitzer at the main battery situated immediately on the right of the road .
The enemy came in sight on the road leading from hampton a few minutes before 9 o'clock a. m., and their advance guard halted at a house on the roadside about six hundred yards in front of our main battery. Fire, however, was not opened upon them for ten or fifteen minutes, when from the number of bayonets visible in the road we judged that a heavy column was within range. The action then commenced by a shot from the Parrott gun, aimed by myself, which struck the center of the road a short distance in front of their column, and probably did good execution in its ricochet. At no time could we see the bodies of the men in the column, and our fire was directed by their bayonets, their position being obscured buy the shade of the woods on their right, and two small houses on their, left and somewhat in advance of them. Our fire was immediately returned by a battery near the head of their column, but concealed by the woods and the houses so effectually, that we only ascertained its position by the flash h of the pieces. The fire was maintained on our side for some time by the five pieces posted in front of our position, but, as already stated one of them being spiked and another withdrawn to protect the ford early int he action, the fire was continued with three pieces, and at no time did we afterwards have more than three pieces playing upon the enemy. The fire on our part was deliberate, and was suspended whenever masses of the enemy were within range, and the execution was good, as I afterward ascertained by a personal inspection of the principal position of the enemy. The cannonade lasted with intervals of suspension from a few minutes before 9 o'clock a. m. until 1 1/2 o'clock p. m., and the fact that during this time but ninety eight shot were fired by us tends to show that the firing was not too rapid. The earthworks thrown up by the battalion were struck several times by the cannon-shot of the enemy, but no injury was sustained. They fired upon us with shot, shell, spherical case,canister, and grape from 6 and 12-pounders, at a distance for about six hundred yards, but the only injury received front heir artillery was the loss of one mule.


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Metso USA Renews Domestic Services as Finland-Based Engineering and Technology Company Renews a Global Networking Services Contract with AT&T
Atlanta, Georgia,-AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) has announced that Metso's U.S. division has renewed an AT&T OneNet® contract for domestic and international long distance voice service. Metso, a global engineering and technology corporation that serves customers in the industries of pulp and paper, energy, and rock-and-minerals processing, adds this OneNet contract to a recently closed global networking services deal with AT&T.
Metso's established AT&T Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution supports the company's locations in Europe, North America, South America, Africa and the Asia Pacific region and enables Metso to develop, deploy and easily relocate mission-critical, real-time applications on its corporate network. The network services support a broad array of applications, including e-mail, financial reporting, Web conferencing and several Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
Metso maintains a large subset of its global managed VPN in the U.S. The company's renewed AT&T OneNet service allows Metso to apply a wide variety of call-management, routing and call-processing features to minimize costs and maximize flexibility of services across its corporate enterprise.
"The AT&T global network infrastructure has already allowed us to implement, consolidate and upgrade a number of global business applications," said Peter Brodin, director of Information Technology Infrastructure Services for the Americas, Metso. "We are now seeking to leverage our strong existing network resources to add value and build communications capabilities that will drive our business. AT&T's OneNet service is another offering that has helped Metso establish a very strong, mutually beneficial relationship with AT&T."
Metso first selected AT&T as its global network services provider four years ago when it required more flexibility from its network services to adapt and grow with new applications. Among other global services, AT&T currently provides Metso with Wi-Fi access as an extension to a Remote Access Service and global networking solution that links Metso's approximately 120 sites in 23 countries.


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This is a really simple, highly effective crayfish pattern for smallmouth bass. Works all year in deeper spots. It lands hard, so in shallow flats it might scare fish off, but in deeper pools and runs it works great.
Tie in a small tuft of rabbit deep into the bend of the hook. Trim the hairs before tying in.
Put in a small pinch of Crawdub dubbing, then attach the V type eyes. Again, we are still slightly down into the bend of the hook at this point, working our way up to the shank.
One more pinch of dubbing to cover the stem of the eyes.
Take 3 full length rubber legs, tie them in at the midpoint, and fold them backwards. Tie down and secure. Should leave you with 6 legs facing back.
Yet another clump of dubbing. Make this one a bit larger to help keep the claws spread out.
Take 2 strips of rabbit, and trim the hair to resemble claws. Tie them on either side of the hook, so they flare out off that dubbing ball.
Add another small pinch of dub, then take 2 full length rubber legs, tie them in at the middle, and fold front portion forward.
Now tie in the brush. Move your thread in front of the lead the eyes so you'll be able to tie down the brush once it makes it there.
Wrap it forward, making sure to stroke the fibers back with each wrap. When you get to the lead eyes, pass the brush under the eyes.
Do a couple turns in front of the eyes, then take a pair of long blade scissors and trim the underside to clear the hook gap a bit.
Trim the rubber legs so they are slightly longer than the claws. Done. Feel free to glue around both sets of eyes for more durability.


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At the junction of ul. Pilsudskiego and ul. 17-go Marca is the attractive Brama Garncarska or Potters Gate, which in the past has also gone by the names Holy Spirit Gate or Elblag Gate. Built in the second half of the XIV century as part of the original defensive town walls and gave access to the city to routes from the east. Built of brick with three spans, five floors and a four-sided tiled roof, note the access at the top of the gate for winching supplies. The building served as a youth hostel before the war and was rebuilt in 1955 after suffering damage during WWII. Today it has been restored and they only way to see inside is to go into the jewellers now housed on the ground floor.
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Baum, Christopher, Mark Schaffer, and Steven Stillman. "Instrumental variables and GMM: Estimation and testing". Boston College Working Papers in Economics 545, 2002.
We discuss instrumental variables (IV) estimation in the broader context of the generalized method of moments (GMM), and describe an extended IV estimation routine that provides GMM estimates as well as additional diagnostic tests. Stand-alone test procedures for heteroskedasticity, overidentification, and endogeneity in the IV context are also described.


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