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In one of my previous posts I compiled quite a decent list of software (and other resources) all capable of extracting article content from an arbitrary HTML document. While I was gathering all the relevant papers and software I kept updating a handwritten spreadsheet that compares the listed software from a feature-wise viewpoint. So I updated it and decided to dump it on my blog. Hopefully this comparison table will mitigate the decision making process of developers whose products are dependent on such software.

Firstly; let's review some shared functionality features explored for each piece of software in the table:

structure retainment - Articles are usually formatted using various html tags - paragraphs, lists hyperlinks and ohers. Some text extractors tend to remove such structure and yield only the plain text of the article.

inner content cleaning - The article content is sometimes broken into non-consecutive text blocks by ads and other boilerplate structures.  We're interested in capabilities to remove such inline boilerplate.

implementation

language dependency - Some are limited to only one language.

source parameter - Can we fetch the document by ourselves or does the extractor fetch it internally?

additional features (and remarks)

structure retainment
inner content cleaning
implementation
source parameter
language dependancy
additional features and remarks

Boilerpipe
plain text only
uses a classifier to determine whether or not the atomic text block holds useful content
open source java library
you can fetch documents by yourself or use built-in utilities to fetch them for you
should be language independent since the text block classifier observes language independent text features
implements many extractors with different classification rules trained on different datasets

Alchemy API
text only (has an option to include relevant hyperlinks)
n/a
commercial web api
include the whole document in the post request or provide an url
observation: returns an error for non-english content e.g. the document contains "unsupported text language"
extra API call to extract the title

Diffbot
plain text or html
an option to remove inline ads
web api (private beta)
does fetching for you via provided url
n/a
extracts: relevant media, titile, tags, xpath descriptor for wrappers, comments and comment count, article summary

Readability
retains original structure
uses hardcoded heuristics to extract content divided by ads
open source javascript bookmarklet
via browser
language independent but it relies on language dependent regular expressions to match id and class labels

Goose
plain text
n/a
open source java library
url only (my fork enables you to fetch the document by yourself)
language independent but it relies on language dependent regular expressions to match id and class labels
uses hardcoded heuristics to search for related images and embedded media

Extractiv
depends on the chosen output format - e.g. xml format breaks the content into paragraphs
n/a
commercial web api
include the whole document in post request or provide an url
n/a
capable of enriching the extracted text with semantic entities and relationships

Repustate API
plain text
n/a
commercial web api
url only
n/a

Webstemmer
plain text
n/a
open source python library
first runs a crawler to obtain seed pages, then it learns layout patterns that are later put to work to extract article content
language independent
the only piece of software on this list that requires a cluster of similar documents obtained by crawling

NCleaner  (paper)
plain text
uses character level n-grams to detect content text blocks
open source perl library
arbitrary html document
depends on the training language
reliant on lynx browser for converting html to structured plain text

The reason why some cells in the table are marked as "n/a" was that of this table was built by inspecting the respective software documentation or research papers where the information of an observed feature was absent.

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The cost of family breakdown to the country has shot up by more than £10 billion a year since 2009, a study found yesterday.
It put the price to taxpayers in 2015 of clearing up the damage after families fail and looking after the separated adults and children at £47.31 billion.
The bill takes in the cost of benefits, health and social care, housing, policing and the courts, and the price of failure in the education system of children hurt by divorce or the parting of their parents.
The Relationships Foundation think tank said that the money spent because of family breakdown amounts to three per cent of the economic product of the country and each taxpayer will have to contribute £1,546.
The bill has risen from £37.03 billion since the costs were first calculated in 2009. Over the past year alone, despite falling costs for policing, vandalism and disciplinary problems in schools attributable to family breakdown, the cost has risen by £1.55 billion.
The calculation comes a day after David Cameron's official survey of well-being found that married people have a much higher chance of happiness than those who live together in cohabiting relationships. Cohabitees are three to four times more likely to separate than married couples.
The report from the Relationships Foundation said: 'Despite cuts in Government spending the cost of family failure continues to rise. The continuing upward movement of the index does not even begin to take into account the intense pain and suffering felt by those experiencing family failure.
It counted the highest single element of the cost of family failure as benefits, responsible for 35 per cent of the bill. Most of this, the Foundation said, is tax credits for members of broken families, which will amount to £13.44 billion this year, compared to £6.31 billion in 2009.
Despite Labour attacks on the 'bedroom tax' which restricts Housing Benefit payments for claimants with spare rooms, Housing Benefit costs of broken families have gone up from £3.69 billion in 2009 to £5.47 billion this year, the report said.
Next comes health and social costs, 33 per cent of the calculated bill.
The price for the NHS and local council social care comes to £15.43 billion all together, the Foundation said.
Policing costs and the cost of vandalism are down at a time of falling crime, it found, as is the cost of disciplinary trouble in schools. Rising employment means fewer children from broken families are getting free school meals.
The cost to the justice system will be £7.27 billion this year, down from £8.52 billion in 2012, and to the education system £2.53 billion in 2015 as opposed to £3.34 in 2013.
Foundation director Michael Trend called for more Government attention to shoring up families. 'Our view is that if you sideline family policy you court systemic failure,' he said.


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É o lugar geométrico dos pontos que enxergam um segmento AB num determinado ângulo. Os pontos A e B não compartilham das propriedades do lugar geométrico.

Por exemplo, a circunferência tem como uma de suas características ser um par de arcos capazes dos pontos que enxergam o seu diâmetro AB à 90º, excetuando-se os pontos A e B do próprio diâmetro.

Processo de construção

Arcos menores do que 90º
Construção do par de arcos capazes de 60º, de acordo com a figura 1:
 Desenhe um ângulo de 60º, tal que B seja o vértice e AB um dos segmentos que o forma.
 No lado oposto, trace o ângulo complementar (no caso, o de 30º)
 A interseção da mediatriz de AB com o lado do ângulo de 30º determina o ponto O, que é o centro do arco capaz de 60°
 O par de arcos capazes pode ser obtido por simetria em relação ao segmento AB.

Arcos maiores do que 90º
O arco de circunferência desprezado na construção do arco capaz de 60º, o qual completaria a circunferência, é o arco capaz do ângulo de 120º, ou seja, o que falta para 180º.

Capazoide

A superfície capazoide é o lugar geométrico tridimensional dos pontos que enxergam um segmento de reta AB num mesmo ângulo. Ela é fruto da revolução (AB) do par de arcos capazes. Como na definição da Geometria plana, os pontos extremos do eixo de revolução não compartilham das propriedades do lugar geométrico.

Bibliografia
 Braga, Theodoro - Desenho linear geométrico. Ed. Cone, São Paulo: 1997.
 Carvalho, Benjamim - Desenho Geométrico. Ed. Ao Livro Técnico, São Paulo: 1982.
 Giongo, Affonso Rocha - Curso de Desenho Geométrico. Ed. Nobel, São Paulo: 1954.

Ver também
Ângulo inscrito
Lista de construções do desenho geométrico
 Lugares geométricos

Ligações externas
 Alfred North Whitehead: An Introduction to Mathematics. BiblioBazaar LLC 2009 (reprint), ISBN 9781103197842, pp. 121
 George Wentworth: Junior High School Mathematics: Book III. BiblioBazaar LLC 2009 (reprint), ISBN 9781103152360, pp. 265
 Robert Clarke James, Glenn James: Mathematics Dictionary. Springer 1992, ISBN 9780412990410, p. 255

Geometria
Desenho geométrico

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package com.scalapenos.riak

import scala.concurrent._
import scala.concurrent.duration._
import scala.util._

import java.util.UUID._

class RiakSecondaryIndexesSpec extends RiakClientSpecification with RandomKeySupport {
  // TODO: skip this test if the localhost backend does not support secondary indexes

  import RiakSecondaryIndexesTestData._

  "A RiakBucket" should {
    "support storing and fetching a value with one Int index (by key and each index)" in new StoreAndFetch[ClassWithOneIntIndex](ClassWithOneIntIndex("bar"), "bar", ClassWithOneIntIndex.indexes) {}

    "support storing and fetching a value with one String index (by key and each index)" in new StoreAndFetch[ClassWithOneStringIndex](ClassWithOneStringIndex("bar"), "bar", ClassWithOneStringIndex.indexes) {}

    "support storing and fetching a value with two Int indexes (by key and each index)" in new StoreAndFetch[ClassWithTwoIntIndexes](ClassWithTwoIntIndexes("bar"), "bar", ClassWithTwoIntIndexes.indexes) {}

    "support storing and fetching a value with two Int indexes with the same index name (by key and each index)" in new StoreAndFetch[ClassWithTwoIntIndexesWithTheSameName](ClassWithTwoIntIndexesWithTheSameName("bar"), "bar", ClassWithTwoIntIndexesWithTheSameName.indexes) {}

    "support storing and fetching a value with multiple mixed indexes" in new StoreAndFetch[ClassWithMixedIndexes](ClassWithMixedIndexes("bar"), "bar", ClassWithMixedIndexes.indexes) {}

    "support storing multiple key/value pairs with the same index and fetching them by that index" in {
      val numbers = (0 to 10).toList

      val intIndex = 42
      val intIndexKeys = numbers.map(n ⇒ "int-indexed-" + n)
      val intIndexValues = numbers.map(n ⇒ ClassWithConfigurableIntIndex("foo-int-" + n, intIndex))
      val intIndexKvs = intIndexKeys.zip(intIndexValues)

      val stringIndex = "foo"
      val stringIndexKeys = numbers.map(n ⇒ "string-indexed-" + n)
      val stringIndexValues = numbers.map(n ⇒ ClassWithConfigurableStringIndex("foo-string-" + n, stringIndex))
      val stringIndexKvs = stringIndexKeys.zip(stringIndexValues)

      val bucket = client.bucket("riak-index-tests-" + randomKey)
      val storedValues1 = Future.traverse(intIndexKvs)(kv ⇒ bucket.storeAndFetch(kv._1, kv._2)).await
      val storedValues2 = Future.traverse(stringIndexKvs)(kv ⇒ bucket.storeAndFetch(kv._1, kv._2)).await

      storedValues1 must have size (numbers.size)
      storedValues2 must have size (numbers.size)

      bucket.fetch(ClassWithConfigurableIntIndex.indexName, intIndex).await must have size (numbers.size)
      bucket.fetch(ClassWithConfigurableStringIndex.indexName, stringIndex).await must have size (numbers.size)

      Future.traverse(intIndexKeys ++ stringIndexKeys)(bucket.delete(_)).await must have size (numbers.size * 2)
    }

    "support storing multiple key/value pairs with int indexes and fetching multiple values using index ranges" in {
      val indexName = ClassWithConfigurableIntIndex.indexName
      val indexes = (0 to 10).toList ++ (40 to 60).toList
      val keys = indexes.map(n ⇒ "key-" + n)
      val values = indexes.map(n ⇒ ClassWithConfigurableIntIndex("foo-" + n, n))
      val kvs = keys.zip(values)

      val bucket = client.bucket("riak-index-tests-" + randomKey)
      val storedValues = Future.traverse(kvs)(kv ⇒ bucket.storeAndFetch(kv._1, kv._2)).await

      storedValues must have size (indexes.size)

      bucket.fetch(indexName, 0, 60).await must have size (indexes.size)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, 60, 0).await must have size (0)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, 0, 80).await must have size (indexes.size)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, -10, 80).await must have size (indexes.size)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, 0, 10).await must have size (11)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, 11, 39).await must have size (0)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, 10, 40).await must have size (2)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, 0, 0).await must have size (1)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, 0, 1).await must have size (2)

      bucket.fetch(indexName, 30).await must have size (0)

      Future.traverse(keys)(bucket.delete(_)).await must have size (indexes.size)
    }

    "support storing multiple key/value pairs with String indexes and fetching multiple values using index ranges" in {
      val indexName = ClassWithConfigurableStringIndex.indexName
      val numberIndexes = ((0 to 10).toList ++ (40 to 60).toList).map(_.toString)
      val letterIndexes = List("a", "b", "y", "z", "aa", "bb", "yy", "zz", "A", "B", "Y", "Z")
      val indexes = numberIndexes ++ letterIndexes
      val keys = indexes.map(n ⇒ "key-" + n)
      val values = indexes.map(n ⇒ ClassWithConfigurableStringIndex("foo-" + n, n))
      val kvs = keys.zip(values)

      val bucket = client.bucket("riak-index-tests-" + randomKey)
      val storedValues = Future.traverse(kvs)(kv ⇒ bucket.storeAndFetch(kv._1, kv._2)).await

      storedValues must have size (indexes.size)

      bucket.fetch(indexName, "0", "9").await must have size (numberIndexes.size)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "9", "0").await must have size (0)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "0", "90").await must have size (numberIndexes.size)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "00", "90").await must have size (numberIndexes.size - 1)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "0", "zz").await must have size (indexes.size)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "0", "zza").await must have size (indexes.size)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "zz", "0").await must have size (0)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "a", "zz").await must have size (8)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "a", "z").await must have size (7)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "aa", "zz").await must have size (7)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "a", "a").await must have size (1)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "a", "b").await must have size (3)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "aa", "b").await must have size (2)
      bucket.fetch(indexName, "A", "B").await must have size (2)

      Future.traverse(keys)(bucket.delete(_)).await must have size (indexes.size)
    }
  }

  // ==========================================================================
  // Misc Helpers
  // ==========================================================================

  import org.specs2.specification.Scope

  abstract class StoreAndFetch[T: RiakMarshaller](constructor: ⇒ T, expectedData: String, expectedIndexes: Set[RiakIndex]) extends Scope {
    val key = randomKey
    val value = constructor
    val bucket = client.bucket("riak-index-tests-" + key)

    bucket.fetch(key).await must beNone

    val storedValue = bucket.storeAndFetch(key, value).await

    storedValue.data must beEqualTo(expectedData)
    storedValue.indexes must beEqualTo(expectedIndexes)

    val fetchedByKey = bucket.fetch(key).await

    fetchedByKey must beSome[RiakValue]
    fetchedByKey.get.data must beEqualTo(expectedData)
    fetchedByKey.get.indexes must beEqualTo(expectedIndexes)

    expectedIndexes.foreach { expectedIndex ⇒
      val fetchedByIndex = bucket.fetch(expectedIndex).await

      fetchedByIndex must have size (1)
      fetchedByIndex.head.data must beEqualTo(expectedData)
      fetchedByIndex.head.indexes must beEqualTo(expectedIndexes)
    }

    bucket.delete(key).await must beEqualTo(())
    bucket.fetch(key).await must beNone
  }

}


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import * as React from 'react'
import {Component, ReactNode} from 'react'
import * as PropTypes from 'prop-types'
import matchPath from 'react-router/matchPath'
import AnimatedPage from './AnimatedPage'

const computeMatch:(...args:any[])=>any = (pathname, options) => {
    const { computedMatch, path, exact, strict } = options
    return computedMatch || matchPath(pathname, {path, exact, strict})
  }

const r = ({component, children, render, match, props}) => {
  return (
    component ? ( // component prop gets first priority, only called if there's a match
        match ? React.createElement(component, props) : null
      ) : render ? ( // render prop is next, only called if there's a match
          match ? render(props) : null
        ) : children ? ( // children come last, always called
            typeof children === 'function' ? (
                children(props)
              ) : !Array.isArray(children) || children.length ? ( // Preact defaults to empty children array
                  React.Children.only(children)
                ) : (
                  null
                )
          ) : (
            null
          )
  )
}

interface InnerHistoryRouteProps {
  pathname: string,
  children?: ReactNode,
  component?: Component<any, any>,
  render: Function
}

class InnerHistoryRoute extends Component<InnerHistoryRouteProps, undefined> {

  shouldComponentUpdate(nextProps) {
    return this.props.pathname !== nextProps.pathname
  }

  render() {
    const {pathname, children, component, render} = this.props
    const match = computeMatch(pathname, this.props)
    const props = {match, location: {pathname}}
    return r({component, children, render, match, props})
  }
}

const HistoryRoute:any = ({component, children, render, ...props}:any, {pathname}) => (
  // @ts-ignore
  <InnerHistoryRoute {...props} pathname={pathname} children={p => (
    <AnimatedPage {...p}>
      {p.match && r({component, children, render, match: p.match, props: p})}
    </AnimatedPage>
  )} />
)

HistoryRoute.contextTypes = {
  pathname: PropTypes.string
}

HistoryRoute.propTypes = {
  computedMatch: PropTypes.object, // private, from <Switch>
  path: PropTypes.string,
  exact: PropTypes.bool,
  strict: PropTypes.bool,
  component: PropTypes.func,
  render: PropTypes.func,
  children: PropTypes.oneOfType([
    PropTypes.func,
    PropTypes.node
  ])
}

export default HistoryRoute


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I'll be busy all week. The situation has changed dramatically. Next year will be worse. I have to go off because I have an appointment with a friend. I wanted to see if there was a chance to save the festival. It's the story of a cat. Irvin says he doesn't like air conditioning. He plays at aerobics just to please his girlfriend. He teaches us English. I think you know who I'm talking about.
I watched the news on TV after supper. I really can't be late. Let us know how it goes. I asked Natraj how much he thought it would cost to get someone to paint our house. Do you want to know what this is about? This insect is tiny, but very dangerous. How did you know Judith was here? I still have a lot to learn. Deirdre has signed a confession. Klaudia has lots of things to tell Raanan.
Tracy should tell the truth. When I'm sitting in this chair, it's really comfortable. Linda always got up early. Please stay where you are. Moore noticed the front door was open. My mother has been sick since last month. What did you two get into a fight about? I'm having lunch with Charlene later. Last night we enjoyed talking over our high school days. The patient is steadily recovering.
Rodger stayed in the car. Hey, I'm right here. What did she buy at that store? Where'd you learn to throw that curveball? Art is not a luxury, but a necessity. Children like gummy bears. News of his death wasn't published for several weeks. The money was enough to establish him in business. On December 5 2013, President Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum directing the federal government to buy at least 20% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. You won't stand a chance.


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Q: DataGridView Buttons I have a DataGridView control with the following columns, Item, Price, Qty and 2 DataGridViewButton columns in order to allow increment and decrement of the Qty of the Item in that particular row by clicking on the respective buttons, which will then update the new qty in the database. How can i achieve this? Using ADO.Net for DB.

A: Use the datagridview's CurrentCell property to get the row, and then get the cell value:
object val = dataGridView1.Rows[dataGridView1.CurrentCell.RowIndex].Cells["QTYColumn"].Value;

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 Who's driving in from the west??
Who's driving in from the west??
If you are traveling in from Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan or beyond on Thursday and would like to hook up for a caravan . . .this is the place to be! Post you information and lets start packing!
Re: Who's driving in from the west??
we are driving to Indiana on tuesday and heading to carlisle on thursday from Indiana.
I'll be getting on I70 East at mile marker # 208 in Ohio. And 4C we would like to meet up with you on the Pa. turnpike at the same place as last year, can you give a "window" time frame?
Not sure where that is, would meet up with you guys outside of indiana.
That exit/on ramp is near the W.Wv border, the 208 of course would equate to 208 mile east of the Indianna border, if you want and give us a time slot we will atempt to meet you there. Send me a pm or e-mail,....we'll do it !
let me figure out what time we would get there and I will give you a holler.
probably couldn't be there before 1-2 est time.
The trip takes about 5 hours for us, counting stops, and we meet 4C and the north west gang at the Sumerset oasis, on the Pa. turnpike so we will need to wait to see his projected arrival time at that point, but your time dosen't sound too far off, maybe a little adjustment here and there and it will all work out.
that was estimated leaving Terra Haute at 8 am, only guessing exact distance and time.
Time coordination can be tricky, so we usually allow for a 1/2 to even an hour window, besides, that gives some time for a leg strecher for old tired joints To give you another guestamate factor, we need about 5 hours to get to Indy, so depending on your distace to the east side of Indy this will give you and idea to the Ohio (I 70 / mile marker 208) location.
I can probably hit that target as well. I am still working out my morning schedule but I'm only 3.5 hours away(?) from that spot.
that is cool Troy. maybe with some luck we can work all of this out.
Troy, sounds like ya might be in the Cincy area, right?
Yep, I'm in Cincy (well, Hamilton but the cars are in Cincy).


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Trevis è stato un costruttore statunitense di auto da corsa presente nelle gare statunitensi negli anni cinquanta e sessanta.

Tra il 1950 e il 1960 la 500 Miglia di Indianapolis faceva parte del Campionato mondiale di Formula 1, per questo motivo la Trevis ha all'attivo anche 4 Gran Premi in F1, con un 6º posto conquistato da Eddie Johnson nell'edizione 1960.

Altri progetti

Scuderie di Formula 1
Squadre automobilistiche statunitensi


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Release the owlcat!
Patchwork is very, very busy. This is a film that wants to be a lot of things: an update on the Frankenstein tale; a body horror film; a revenge story; and action movie; a romance; a comedy. It succeeds marvelously at most of these.
The film stars Tory Stolper as Jennifer, a high power business woman of sort whose business is never really explained. She just got the big account and it's her birthday, so she's looking to celebrate. Unfortunately, none of her "friends" seem all that interested in spending time with her, so she leaves the bar and heads home to await the married coworker that she is having an affair with. We get the feeling that her life isn't exactly fulfilling.
While she's waiting. Someone clobbers her from behind and loses consciousness. She wakes up on a table confused and groggy. There are voices in her head: two other women who seem to somehow hear her thoughts and respond. When she finds a mirror, she will learn why.
Jennifer discovers that she has been cut into pieces and those pieces sewn together with the parts of two other women. Ellie and Madeleine are in her head because they are effectively sharing a single body.
Stolper plays the body of the three, with an assist from some really solid make-up effects creating that illusion that she is three women sewn together. The other two only appear in scenes that take place within their shared consciousness.
The three women learn to work together to control their new shared body.
Then they go about solving the mystery of who is to blame for their strange predicament. That quest pretty rapidly shifts into a search for revenge.
The violence rapidly escalates in both gory intensity and comedic slapstickery. This movie does not slow down once it really gets rolling. It wants to up every ante and bust every head. The physical comedy is top notch, and compares well to the likes of Evil Dead 2.
The movie works to a very clever twist that helps to build a satisfying ending. Viewers may not notice immediately that they are watching a feminist empowerment tale, but that is very clearly what this is. The film's ideology is expertly woven into the action until subtext becomes text. It is smartly done.
There is a romantic subplot that never really gels, and could honestly have been left out. It's one thread too many in a very packed movie.
Patchwork is a must for fans of horror comedy.
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Thanks to Mother Nature's tight grip on Ohio this past week, I have been on an almost week long hiatus from school. Extra time = reading time! It's been awesome and I feel like I've finally got my reading groove back. Hope it's here for awhile!
Odette and her parents are non practicing Jews that live in Paris. Their lives are turned upside down after her father enlists in the army, is captured and sent to a camp. Odette is sent to live and hide in the country and has to adapt to a completely new way of life. I enjoyed this novel in verse and think it would give middle school students a good perspective of a child's struggles during WWII in a place other than Germany.
Wren Abbot is in the wrong place at the wrong time. She stays in her mother's van while her mother goes inside a gas station, and the van is stolen. The van is stolen by Darra Monson's father, and he doesn't know anyone else is in the vehicle. When Darra's dad hides the van in his family's garage, Wren finds herself trapped. Wren manages to escape and the two girls lives are instantly intertwined and never the same again, especially after they meet years later at summer camp. I really liked this book and found the alternating viewpoints fascinating.
This One Summer won both a Caldecott Honor and a Printz Honor, which is pretty interesting. This coming of age story centers around Rose and her family's yearly trip to the beach. Most of the book is really sad and full of family secrets and Rose trying to figure out life and growing up. While I found some spots a little slow, the artwork in this book is beautifully done.
And We Stay is another 2015 Printz Honor book and I loved it. Emily is shipped off to a prestigious boarding school after her ex boyfriend threatens her in the school library one day and takes his own life. Her new school is Amherst College, where famed and tortured poet Emily Dickinson lived. Emily is forced to come to terms with what happened and move on with her life. Easier said than done. This book is very well written. The combination of flashbacks, present time and poems from Emily Dickinson intertwined into the storyline were beautiful. This is a really sad book but I think it was an excellent choice for a Printz honor. Highly recommend!
This book has had so many fans from the start that I knew I had to read it. Talk about a heartwarming book for teachers and students! Ally is a super smart young lady, but she can't read. She is too embarrassed to ask for help, her teacher and principal think she is a trouble maker and she is constantly picked on by the mean girls. Her dad is deployed, her mom works all the time and her brother has his own frustrations. It isn't until Mr. Daniels, a long term substitute, comes to Ally's class that things begin to change for her. I got choked up so many times while reading this book. It is so, so special. I loved the friendship between Ally, Albert and Keisha, and think this is right up there with Wonder, Counting By 7's and Mockingbird, which are all books that hold a special place in my heart. Highly recommend!


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With David Alaba's time at Bayern Munich possibly reaching towards its end, Real Madrid have emerged as the favourites for the Austrian's signature.
According to Spanish newspaper Marca, David Alaba has reportedly seized contract negotiations with current club Bayern Munich and is hoping to join Real Madrid who seem increasingly interested in signing the Austrian International.
David Alaba has been at the club since 2010 and has proven to be a vital cog for the Bavarians over the years. From an 18-year-old left-back to a 28-year-old seasoned professional, Alaba has proven to be one the world's best over the past decade. The Austrian is one of the most versatile players in world football. having played across the backline and even as a midfielder over the years.
The defender will be entering the last 6 months of his contract at the turn of the year, which marks the beginning of clubs from abroad officially beginning to approach the player. With Alaba's salary demands rumoured to be around €10 million per year, contract talks between Alaba and Bayern Munich have reached a standstill.
Alaba's contractual situation has thrown the door open for his suitors with Real Madrid reportedly leading that race. The Austrian is looking for a new challenge and given the fact that he has previously shown the desire to play in the Spanish top flight, Real Madrid's position in his pursuit is understood.
On his way to Real Madrid in the summer? (Photo by Alexander Hassenstein/Bongarts/Getty Images)
Real Madrid's interest in David Alaba is justified as two of their most important players of the last decade are ageing. Marcelo and Sergio Ramos are 32 and 34 respectively, and with Madrid's defence looking rather suspect this season, a move for Alaba would suit Los Blancos, for the Austrian can fit in as a centre-back or as a left-back.
Madrid, who are reportedly waiting for the turn of the year to officially meet Alaba's agent, Pini Zahavi, will not have it easy for the Austrian's signature. Paris Saint-Germain and Chelsea are interested in signing Alaba and are more than capable of meeting his demands. Zahavi's good relationship with Madrid could play a role in this race too.
PSG are looking to bolster their defence and fill the gaping hole left by the departure of Thiago Silva. Meanwhile, Chelsea are undergoing a complete overhaul and with Thiago Silva only a temporary solution to their defensive woes, Alaba is a player that the Blues have their eyes on. Alaba would bring immense experience and winning mentality to both these sides.
Despite the three-horse race for David Alaba, it is highly likely that a lucrative move to the Spanish capital could appeal to the Bayern Munich star. However, it will be interesting to see where the Austrian ends up at the end of the season.
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Q: Why there is such a $\mu_0$ such that both $ A-\mu_0 B$ and $C+\mu_0 D$ are both nonsingular matrices? Let $A,B,C,D\in \mathbb{C}^{n\times n}$. If both $A-\lambda B$ and $C-\lambda D$ are both regular matrix pencils, there exists $\mu_0\in \mathbb{C}$ such that both   $A-\mu_0 B$ and $C+\mu_0 D$ are both nonsingular matrices. I wonder how to prove the existence of such a $\mu_0$.

A: Based on Jin's comment, a regular matrix pencil is a line in  $\mathbb {C} \times \mathbb {C} $, given by $\{A - \lambda B \, \mid \, \lambda \in \mathbb {C}\} $ such that $\det ( A -\lambda_0 B) \neq 0$ for some $\lambda_0 \in \mathbb {C}$.
Define $p(\lambda) = \det(A - \lambda B)$ and $q(\lambda) = \det(C - \lambda D)$.  Then $p,q$ are polynomials.  Moreover, since both pencils are regular, both $p $ and $q$ are non-zero.  Consequently, the zeros of $p$ and $q$ form a finite subset of $\mathbb{C}$.  On the other hand, $\mathbb{C}$ is uncountable.  Therefore,
$\{\lambda \in \mathbb{C} \, \mid \, p(\lambda) \neq 0\} \cap \{\lambda \in \mathbb{C} \, \mid \, q(\lambda) \neq 0\}$ is an uncountable set.  Since a matrix is invertible if and only if its determinant is non-zero, the set $\{\mu_{0} \in \mathbb{C} \, \mid \, \det(A - \mu_{0} B) \neq 0\} \cap \{\mu_{0} \in \mathbb{C} \, \mid \, \det(C - \mu_{0} D) \neq 0\}$ is uncountable.
Explanation of original mistake: Before I edited my answer, I made the silly mistake of assuming that $p $ and $q $ were non-zero and wondered whether or not the regularity assumption is really necessary.  In fact, as I indicate in italics above, $p$ is a non-zero polynomial if and only if the pencil $\{A - \lambda B \, \mid \, \lambda \in \mathbb{C}\}$ is regular.  It is true that in the case of the characteristic polynomial $f _{A}(\lambda)
= \det (A - \lambda)$ we always get a non-zero matrix, but only because the spectrum of a matrix is a bounded set.  However, if the kernels of $A$ and $B $ have non-empty intersection, for example, then $\det (A - \lambda B) =0$ independently of $\lambda $.  This immediately implies the pencil won't be regular when $A$ is singular and $B$ is a multiple of $A$.  Actually, the most obvious example when a matrix pencil is not regular is $A = B = 0$.


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Peter has also served on the staff of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences and as a Visiting Lecturer at Duke University. He is a graduate of Duke University and is the proud father of two young children.
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Ready to Grow
Gary Sasso will become CEO of Carlton Fields PA, one of Florida's largest firms. His mission: Continue to grow the firm.
by: Adam Hughes Staff Writer
By Janet Leiser
In the past decade, Carlton Fields PA, one of Florida's five largest law firms, has grown slowly, opening offices in Miami and Atlanta to bolster its presence as a regional firm.
Now Carlton Fields has named Gary Sasso its heir apparent. A Wharton economics graduate and managing shareholder of the firm's litigation practice group, Sasso will replace CEO Tom Snow when he retires in February.
Sasso, 52, was at a meeting of the American Bar Association in Chicago when he was elected president and CEO at an Aug. 4 Carlton Fields board meeting. He was one of two candidates selected by a firm task force, led by board chair Sylvia Walbolt.
"Gary is a superb lawyer, just a consummate professional," Walbolt says. "I think he's going to be a superb leader for our firm going forward."
Walbolt, who has been with the Tampa-based firm since 1963, declined to name the other CEO nominee or to say whether the vote for Sasso was unanimous.
She expects the 240-lawyer firm, which has seven offices, to grow at a faster rate and to develop more of a national presence under Sasso's leadership, she says.
Sasso says it's important the firm not rest on its laurels.
"We've really enjoyed a great deal of success and progress over the past several years during Tom's leadership," he says. "We want to continue on the course we've been following, which is strategic growth for our firm."
Founded in the late 1800s, Carlton Fields last year moved into new headquarters at Corporate Center Three on Boy Scout Boulevard near Tampa International Airport. The firm occupies 87,000 square feet on the building's eighth, ninth and 10th floors.
Sasso, a Miami native, joined Carlton Fields in 1987, moving from Washington, D.C., where he worked at Bredhoff & Kaiser. He previously served as a law clerk for Justice Byron R. White on the U.S. Supreme Court and as a law clerk for Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III on the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia.
Within a year of joining Carlton Fields, he was named a shareholder. His leadership role evolved over the past 18 years.
"Little by little I got involved increasingly in different committees and management functions of the firm," Sasso says. "And over the years I've spent a lot of time dealing with law firm issues."
When Snow formally announced his retirement early this year, the firm formed a committee of board members to investigate potential candidates and narrow the field. Walbolt says the committee started out with six names and narrowed it to two.
As a business litigator, Sasso has represented some of the state's largest utilities, including Florida Power & Light and Progress Energy, before the Public Service Commission. He is handling an appeal for tobacco company Philip Morris. And he represents Wachovia Bank in its lawsuit against Arthur Andersen over Sunbeam's acquisition of Coleman.
He plans to continue his legal practice on a limited basis after he becomes CEO, he says. Snow was Carlton Field's first full-time CEO.
The day-to-day operations of the firm are mostly handled by practice group leaders, Sasso says.
"It's my job to stick my head above the trees a little bit and see where we need to be going and make sure we're heading in the right direction," Sasso says.
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Pokémon Sun and Moon players will soon get a chance to obtain Ash's Pikachu in their games. As of today, tickets for the 20th Pokémon movie that coincides with the event are available to pre-order in the United States through Fathom Events. Starting September 19th, Pokémon.com will host a unique QR code that rotates every week with a Pikachu wearing a hat from Ash Ketchum's adventures. Once you scan that QR code corresponding to a given week, you won't be able to scan it again in the same save file, so choose your Pikachu carefully.
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package org.apache.sshd.common.kex;

import java.security.PublicKey;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.NavigableMap;

import org.apache.sshd.common.NamedResource;
import org.apache.sshd.common.SshConstants;
import org.apache.sshd.common.digest.Digest;
import org.apache.sshd.common.session.Session;
import org.apache.sshd.common.session.SessionHolder;
import org.apache.sshd.common.util.GenericUtils;
import org.apache.sshd.common.util.buffer.Buffer;
import org.apache.sshd.common.util.logging.LoggingUtils;

/**
 * Key exchange algorithm.
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 * @author Apache MINA SSHD Project
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Here's a photograph of the Van Vliet Flower Group's tour waggon parked up at one of northern Englands newest music venues, the Don Van Vliet Lounge (click on the pictures for larger images).
Sadly, the Van Vliet Flower Group is a multinational wholesaler of flowers and is not yet the name of a Captain Beefheart tribute band.
The Don Van Vliet Lounge is just one of a suite of rehearsal rooms named after old musicians at the newly opened Rock and Roll Circus in Leeds.
no snappie repartee or reply but this and the other beefheartiverse posts much appreciated.
somehow, I think Don would approve..breadtruck…flour..flower….yes!
another kind of system, without 3 or so flabby grabs at your tincture, and a squibble hopping coolant, then I'm sure you'll find me there. Although I'm sure it's quite delicious in a roll up.


Apologies, was sick last week. But this week wouldn't have had much to cover and probably would have been skipped anyway, so it all works out. Tournament numbers are decreasing as we head into LotV, but ACL Melbourne was last week and boy oh boy were there some interesting results.
Its cool to see some of the older players taking games off current day champs at ACL Melb!


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Quick Answer: Is it legal to own handcuffs in Australia?
Is it illegal to own real handcuffs?
Is it illegal to own handcuffs in NSW?
What is the law for handcuffs?
Do all police handcuffs use the same key?
Can I handcuff someone?
Why are handcuffs banned?
Can you own handcuffs in Qld?
What handcuffs do Australian police use?
Are handcuffs weapons?
What are the two types of handcuffs?
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In most states of Australia batons, handcuffs, training guns and body armour are classified as prohibited weapons. However under certain individual state laws depending on where you live in Australia batons, handcuffs and training guns may be classified as controlled or restricted weapons.
No, it's not illegal to possess handcuffs.
The exemption afforded by the legislation for possession and use does not authorise the purchase of batons or handcuffs. By virtue of section 23(1) of the Weapons Prohibition Act 1998, if you wish to purchase these weapons, you must be authorised by a permit to possess the weapon.
There is no general rule or requirement that a police officer must handcuff a person who is being arrested. … Although, circumstances in which handcuffing may be deemed to be necessary is to stop the person from committing a further offence, or preventing the person from escaping police custody.
Most modern handcuffs in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Latin America can be opened with the same standard universal handcuff key. This allows for easier transport of prisoners. However, there are handcuff makers who use keys based on different standards.
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Any citizen in California can make an arrest, said Harry Barbier, a retired San Rafael police officer who now works in private security. … "You can handcuff them, if you place them under citizen's arrest and you feel you have to arrest them right then and there before the police get there," Barbier said.
Unwarranted use of fetters or hand cuffs is thus, a violation of basic human rights as it is seen as a sadistic, capricious, despotic measure while humiliating the accused or convict in the eyes of others.
A security licence does not authorise you to carry any firearms, handcuffs or batons. To find out more about weapons laws, please contact Weapons Licensing.
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Using Your Handcuffs as Weapons (From Law Enforcement Bible, Number 2, P 81-87, 1982, Robert A Scanlon, ed. See NCJ-95077) Police officers can use handcuffs as defensive weapons with both overhand methods. … Holding the cuffs sideways in the overhand grip is useful in fending off punches as well.
The two main types of handcuffs are hinged and chained.
Assuming we're talking about traditional chain in the middle handcuffs the answer is Yes. It can be done but it is VERY difficult. It is much easier and safer to pick or shim the cuffs but it is possible to break them provided you do it properly. There's a bit of technique and a lot of brute force involved.
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Home News Briefs Atlantic Street sells A Wireless to Lone Star Funds
Atlantic Street sells A Wireless to Lone Star Funds
Atlantic Street Capital said Tuesday that it has sold A Wireless to Lone Star Funds. Financial terms weren't announced. Greenville, North Carolina-based A Wireless is a wireless retailer that markets and sells products and services from over 600 stores in 31 states. William Blair provided financial advice while Morrison Cohen acted as the legal advisor to A Wireless.
STAMFORD, CT, January 19, 2016 – Atlantic Street Capital, a private equity firm targeting entrepreneurial businesses poised for the next level of growth, announced today the sale of A Wireless, a reseller agent of wireless voice and data communications services, to an affiliate of Lone Star Funds.
Headquartered in Greenville, NC, A Wireless (formerly Z Wireless) is a full service wireless retailer that markets and sells a full suite of products and services from over 600 stores in 31 states.
Andy Wilkins, Managing Partner of Atlantic Street Capital, said, "Our investment in A Wireless was a fantastic success and we are very proud of what we accomplished over the last four years. We combined the passion and vision of two entrepreneurial founders, Kevin Tupy and Richard Balot, with the best management within the wireless retail industry led by Bryan Bevin. The operational excellence Bryan brought to the table allowed us to grow the business at a very high rate from a small regional retailer to a full national player."
Bryan Bevin, Chief Executive Officer of A Wireless, said, "Whilst A Wireless had a strong but regional presence in the market place four years ago, partnering with Atlantic Street afforded us the ability to attract and assemble a world class management team. Leveraging the resources, insight and 'value add' of Atlantic Street in concert with the A Wireless team has been terrifically successful, allowing us to support our customer facing employees to deliver industry leading service and satisfaction. The outputs of that have enabled us to confidently and diligently scale the business, and greatly accelerate the company's growth into a national player."
William Blair served as exclusive financial advisor in connection with the sale, and Morrison Cohen acted as the legal advisor to A Wireless.
About Atlantic Street Capital
Atlantic Street Capital is a private equity firm that invests in middle market companies with between $25 and $150 million in revenue. The firm invests in fundamentally sound companies that will benefit from capital investment and value-adding strategic and operational initiatives. Atlantic Street Capital's partners are hands-on investors who work closely with management to unlock their business' underlying value and help them succeed. The firm is currently investing from Atlantic Street Capital Partners, L.P. II. For more information, visit www.atlanticstreetcapital.com.


Some portion, or all, of Apple's profits (outside of the Americas) are deemed to be taxable in Ireland.
The headlines are all about #3 though the evidence is that #2 should be more likely. The longer the investigation goes on the more it seems like a saga that has jumped the shark and getting people's attention requires bigger and bigger leaps.
But let's just step back and ask (again!) on what basis could Apple's global profits be taxable in Ireland. The starting off point is obviously that the companies at the heart of Apple's tax structure are Irish incorporated. But place of incorporation is not the fundamental characteristic that determines where a company pays its income tax – if it was companies would incorporate in no-tax jurisdictions. Tax residency is important, and place of incorporation may be used to determine that, but it has already been established that these companies are not tax resident in Ireland and there was nothing preferential about the rules under which this was established.
The current system of corporate tax operates on the basis that tax is paid to the jurisdiction where the profit is earned. So is there evidence that Apple earns its global profits in Ireland? Possibly. The companies under investigation by the EU – AOE and ASI – have employees in only one country – Ireland. So if the Irish employees are generating the profits then maybe they should be taxable in Ireland. I'm sure Apple's Irish employees are great but I doubt they are $30 billion dollars a year worth of great.
The key to Apple's profits is its intellectual property. Some of this is design and innovation but a lot of it is brand and reputation. Through various agreements ASI, AOE and AOI acquired the rights to exploit Apple's intellectual property outside of the Americas. ASI and AOE have contracted with branches in Ireland using cost-plus agreements to do the underlying work involved in using this intellectual property.
This involves determining how many devices need to be delivered across the EMEA region; engaging in stock management; forecasting demand and directing manufacturing. There are no legal agreements, transfer pricing agreements, treasury functions or research and development activities undertaken in or managed by ASI and AOE's branches in Ireland.
Ireland has not codified how activities between parents and branches are dealt with under tax law. Transfer pricing rules for dealings between associated companies were introduced in 2010 but these did not extend to parent-branch relationships.
However, this relates to how much profit is attributed to the Irish branches and doesn't establish that all of the profit of these companies is taxable in Ireland. The 'arms- length principle' is intrinsic to EU state-aid law so even in the absence of domestic rules it can be applied to these agreements.
The agreements were on a 'cost-plus' basis so essentially were unrelated to the revenues and profits of the overall company. It could be argued that the agreements should have been on a 'return of sales' basis so that the profit allocated to the branch would have increased in line with the overall profits of the company which has accelerated hugely since 2007. There is merit to this position but this will give an outcome that is a long, long way short of the nine- and ten- digit numbers that have been bouncing around the place.
And this still only means we are in the realm of #2 above. If place of incorporation and location of employees can't give us a justification for #3 we need something else. The next place to look is obviously the ownership of the intellectual property. The European Commission have already established that it was not held by the Irish branches but that only says where it is not rather than where it is.
The rights to the intellectual property are held by the ASI, AOE and AOI parent companies. So is this in the US or is this in Ireland? Even if these companies are not deemed to be tax resident in Ireland can it be established that their profits should be taxable in Ireland? Is the presence of a branch enough to deem the profits of the parent taxable here?
There are a couple of ways of approaching this but the key aspect is the agreements granting the rights to use Apple Inc.'s intellectual property outside the Americas to these companies. All of the licensing and cost-sharing agreements were negotiated and signed in the US, at board meetings which took place in the US, and by directors and key decision-makers who were exclusively based in the US. None of the key risks, functions and assets that underpin the creation and ownership of the intellectual property had a connection with Ireland.
Why did Apple divide the rights to its intellectual property in this manner? It was done to avail of deferral provisions in the US tax code. There are plenty of intricacies to the arrangement so as to avoid triggering an immediate tax payment in the US and not incurring tax liabilities in other countries.
By having the profits earned in Irish-incorporated companies Apple can defer the payment of the US corporate income tax that is due on those profits until they are transferred to a US-incorporated entity in Apple's structure. However, just because the profits are in an Irish-incorporated company does not mean that Ireland, or any other country for that matter, has the right to tax them.
It is hard to know what the basis of the Commission investigation is at this stage. It is clear that it is not selectivity. The initial chatter was of a "special two per cent rate" which would obviously be worthy of investigation. But the Commission have determined that Apple pays the headline 12.5 per cent. There is no selectivity in the residency rules. There is merit to a transfer pricing investigation but that can only conclude in a "my number is better than your number" arm wrestle. It is hard to see what state-aid basis can be used to support a contention that Apple's global profits should be taxable in Ireland.
The Commission seem, in a manner, to be obsessed with Apple. The case was started at the same time as other investigations but has not concluded with them. Although based only on media reporting and speculation the Commission seem determined to rule that Apple's profits should be included in Ireland's tax base (and then also in our GDP!). It is difficult to find support for this through any engagement with the facts. But are they actually engaging with the facts? And some members of the European Parliament jumped on the bandwagon and suggested that Ireland shouldn't get the revenue but that it should be divided among the Member States.
The reaction from the US is, predictably enough, in utter contradiction to the nonsense that came out of the US Senate in May 2013. Back then, the accusations were of underhand and secret deals through which Ireland allowed these profits to go untaxed. Now a US Senate committee is raising "serious concerns" about the possibility that these profits may actually be taxed in Ireland. This position was put forward by Deputy Treasury Secretary, Bob Stack in testimony to the Senate Finance Committee on the 12th of December last.
"The 'stateless income' that is so often referred to is in fact the un-repatriated profits of U.S. companies. … The reality is stateless income isn't stateless at all — it's ours, and we have merely delayed taxing it until it's repatriated. It is nothing for the rest of the world to be obsessed over.
But obsessed over it we are, and in large part because the US wants to have its cake and eat it. Using the term "repatriated" gives the impression that the profit is in another country. But under US tax law repatriated is the transfer from a non-US-incorporated entity to a US-incorporated entity within a company structure. It does not mean there are jurisdictional boundaries to be crossed. In the case of Apple the money is already in the US and never even passed through Ireland.
From an Irish perspective a #3 type ruling from the Commission would actually be easier to defend when appealed to the General Court of the CJEU. A #2 type ruling on a technical transfer pricing issue has a much better chance of being upheld. But the motivations of the Commission are unclear and political bellyaching may swing the day. Does the Commission want to be right or does it want to make a splash?
Thank you, Seamus, for this explanation. From start to finish this is a US problem. The Irish taxation regime simply provided a means -and just one means and certainly not the only means – that Apple used to keep taxable revenue offshore the US.
There might be some case for tweaking the parameters so that Apple will have to pay (a little) more in Ireland – which is basically your second option. But that's about it. If consumers around the world are stupid enough to pay over the top for the devices that Apple produces so that it captures enrmous economic rents then it is not the role of the taxation system to expropriate these rents. And DG COMP would be far better employed tackling the egregious frent-seekers in the EU. But they have an uncanny ability to lament loudly the speck in the American while studiously ignoring the beam in their own.
The solution is to change patent law, to remove any barriers to competition and to fund and promote the education and training that will generate the entrepreneurs who will compete away these rents. And the US will have to recognise that its federal taxation policy will have to adapt to international realities.
I would suggest that the Commission officials concerned are applying the relevant treaty provisions as they see them and exercising the functions delegated to them.
The relevant Commissioner and Directorate-General clearly have little difficulty in getting the approval of the Commission when it comes to making formal decisions, acting as a college (deciding by simple majority, if a matter is put to a vote).
When a final ruling emerges, parties that consider it to be incorrect and/or inimical to their interests, can challenge it before the ECJ. Until it does, a fog will continue to envelope the shark, whether jumped or not.
Great post. Thanks. It'll be interesting to see the outcome.
Core point. This is IS ..oops … US 'deferred US Tax payment' …. and not only Apple. Must be Trillions of dollars of it rolling around in the globalized finance system ether … which appear to be beyond the recall of any State entity … including USA … where the 'corporate elite' controls both houses.
On transfer pricing …. Commission won't have any 'real and verifiable' data.
How will De Kommission decide? Not a clue anymore – I wouldn't buy a used car from them at the mo. Spose the outcome will fit whatever the controlling anti-state neolib ideologues in 'no minutes' dictatorial control will accept. Power to the Financial/Corporate System … citizen-serfs no longer count.
Now if the voter in the street could be motivated, facilitated or educated to do the same we would be better off.
Windfall or not, the times are changing and Seamus' scepticism on reducing corporate tax avoidance may have fans in the Dept of Finance but in recent times, Google's agreement to pay, back taxes and future higher taxes in the UK, the return of Amazon's European headquarters from Luxembourg and tax settlements made by Apple in China and Italy coupled with a rise in its overseas tax rate from 2% in 2012 to 6% in 2015, which has benefited Ireland, are early examples of a trend.
Last year Facebook engineered a loss in the UK.
Emmanuel Macron, France's economy minister, said Friday that Google is talking with multiple countries, including France, about how to "normalize" its tax relationships with them, adding that he met in Davos with Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, Google's parent company.
US affiliates should pay no overseas taxes?
Recall when Irish ministers and their cheerleaders sang the mantras about the tax system being "rules based," "transparent" and Ireland didn't do "special tax deals"?
Unlike for example Microsoft and Google, Apple did not use the Double Irish tax dodge routing funds via Amsterdam to Irish shell/ offshore companies in Bermuda. The shell companies used the address of Apple's Cork campus and Apple Operations International, the principal Irish holding company for foreign subsidiaries, was not always stateless for tax purposes based on the last filed accounts in Ireland.
Apple was able to keep its tax haven activities secret until a US Senate report in 2013.
Apple ceased filing a tax return from 2007, with the knowledge of the Irish authorities. Other shell companies also operated as both offshore and onshore, paying tax on some revenues booked through them.
The fog, at least as far as Belgium is concerned, has been dissipated.
The Commission must stick to its legal mandate. It is supported in the exercise of it by a definite change in the political mood in the matter of tax evasion.
The key issue as far as it is concerned, in terms of the action it can legally take, relates to that of unfair advantage or discrimination between companies. It remains to be seen if this is as clear-cut in the Apple case as it was in the Belgian one.
Debate on all other surrounding issues, including US tax rates, is rather irrelevant.
How one US company has responded to the Commission decision on Belgium.
The difference in the historic and legal background between the EU and the US is dealt with in this EP research note.
It took twenty minutes to find this information, freely available, on the Internet. It does not, however, answer the question of whether or not there could be the equivalent of a US "plea bargain" in a state aid context. It would seem not.
The common denominator on both sides of the Atlantic is that competition rules are primarily a matter of law, but informed by the political and economic context.
all that tax avoidance , leverage, buybacks, regulatory capture etc is killing US capitalism. Corporate profits as a % gdp is at record heights while investment is risible. Fiduciary duty is ignored in favour of thoughtless greed.
I think it is more accurate to say that on both sides of the Atlantic competition rules are primarily a matter of the political context, constrained somewhat by the legal framework. The vast majority of activities that are fishy from the perspective of competition rules either never come to attention or are waved through by regulators informed by the political context. As actually enforced, competition rules are mostly about providing politicians and officials with a stick to beat businesses that offend them.
You may need to distinguish between those with wealth, power and influence (or who attract widespread public attention – either favourable or unfavourable) and the small fry. Most competition bodies will brind their way through the latter largely without fear or favour. But when it come to the former the behaviour of economic regulators and competition bodies in the OECD is a sequence of sick jokes played on ordinary citizens – unless their political masters find it expedient to throw the book at some one or some organisation that has enraged the public.
Wallerstein is not too optimistic!
If they do go down the TP route it would be a legal mess, as the Commission would be establishing itself as superior to local tax authorities in implementing local tax policy. This means that companies could escalate cases to the Commission in instances where they feel a competitors TP policy is favorable, and puts the EC as a backstop to local authorities. As TP policies are subjective, and offer a range of possible models and outcomes, I really think they haven't thought this one through.
The capacity of the OECD to bind states to do anything in particular is, of course, zero. This is far from the case with regard to the EU. However, the issue of taxation touches on one of the core characteristics of what is generally viewed as defining the sovereignty of the states that make it up. Any decisions are subject to a strict unanimity rule. The pressure on any one state holding out, especially a small one, and more so if seen as one of the main beneficiaries of corporate tax avoidance, would be very difficult to resist.
The other states must, however, first agree a common position. Their capacity to do so, in near half a century of the EU's existence, has been shown to be very limited.
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