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Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism ; and Selections
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has been said, not essential. They might probably once have been settled in a sense altogether favourable to Episcopalianism. Hooker may have been right in thinking that there were in his time circuimstances which made it essential that they should be settled in this sense, though the points in themselves were not essential. But by the very fact of the settlement not having then been effected, of the breach having gone on and widened, of the Nonconformists not having been amicably incorporated with the Establishment but violently cast out from it, the circumstances are now altogether altered. Isaac Walton, a fervent Churchman, complains that "the principles of the Nonconformists grew at last to such a height and were vented so daringly, that, besides the loss of life and limbs, the Church and State were both forced to use such other severities as will not admit of an excuse, if it had not been to prevent confusion and the perilous consequences of it." But those very severities have of themselves made union on an Episcopalian footing impossible. Besides, Presbyterianism, the popular authority of elders, the power of the congregation in the management of their own affairs, has that warrant given to it by Scripture and by the proceedings of the early Christian Churches, it is so consonant with the spirit of Protestantism which made the Reformation and which has great strength in this country, it is so predominant in the practice of other Reformed Churches, it was so strong in the original Reformed Church of England, that one cannot help doubting whether any settlement which suppressed it could have been really permanent, and whether it would not have kept appearing again and again, and causing dissension.
Well, then, if culture is the disinterested endeavour after man's perfection, will it not make us wish to cure the provincialism of the Nonconformists, not by rendering Churchmen provincial along with them, but by letting their popular church-discipline, formerly present in the national Church and still present in the affections and practice of a good part of the nation, appear in the national Church once more; and thus to bring Nonconformists into contact again, as their greater fathers were, with the main stream of national life? Why should not a Presbyterian Church, based on this considerable and important, though not essential principle, of the congregation's share in the church-management, be establishe:1, with equal rank for its chiefs with the chiefs of Episcopacy, and with admissibility of its ministers, under a revised system of patronage and preferment to benefices,—side by side with the Episcopal Church, as the Calvinist and Lutheran Churches are established side by side in France and Germany? Such a Presbyterian Church would unite the main bodies of Protestants who are now separatists; and separation would cease to be the law of their religious order. And thus,—through this concession on a really considerable point of difference,-that endless splitting into hole-and-corner churches on quite inconsiderable points of difference, which must prevail so long as separatism is the first law of a Nonconformist's religious existence, would be checked. Culture would then find a place among English followers of the popular authority of Elders, as it has long found it among the followers of Episcopal jurisdiction. And this we should gain by merely recognising, regularising, and restoring an element which appeared once in the reformed national Church, and which is considerable and national enough to have a sound claim to appear
there still. So far, then, is culture from making us unjust to the Nonconformists because it forbids us to worship their fetishes, that it even leads us to propose to do more for them than they themselves venture to claim. It leads us, also, to respect what is solid and respectable in their convictions. Not that the forms in which the human spirit tries to express the inexpressible, or the forms by which man tries to worship, have or can have, as has been said, for the follower of perfection, anything necessary or eternal. If the New Testament and the practice of the primitive Christians sanctioned the popular form of church-government a thousand times more expressly than they do, if the church since Constantine were a thousand times more of a departure from the scheme of primitive Christianity than it can be shown to be, that does not at all make, as is supposed by men in bondage to the letter, the popular form of church-government alone and always sacred and binding, or the work of Constantine a thing to be regretted.
What is alone and always sacred and binding for
man is the making progress towards his total perfection; and the machinery by which he does this varies in value according as it helps him to do it. The planters of Christianity had their roots in deep and' rich grounds of human life and achievement, both Jewish and also Greek; and had thus a comparatively firm and wide basis amidst all the vehement inspiration of their mighty movement and change. By their strong inspiration they carried men off the old basis of life and culture, whether Jewish or Greek, and generations arose who had their roots in neither world, and were in contact therefore with no full and great stream of human life. If it had not been for some such change as that of the fourth century, Christianity might have lost itself in a multitude of hole-and-corner churches like the churches of English Nonconformity after its founders departed; churches without great men, and without furtherance for the higher life of humanity. At a critical moment came Constantine, and placed Christianity—or let us rather say, placed the human spirit, whose totality was endangered,—in contact with the main current of human life. And his work was justified by its fruits, in men like Augustine and Dante, and indeed in all the great men of Christianity, Catholics or Protestants, ever since.
And one may go beyond this. M. Albert Réville, whose religious writings are always interesting, says that the conception which cultivated and philosophical Jews now entertain of Christianity and its Founder, is probably destined to become the conception which
Christians themselves will entertain. Socinians are fond of saying the same thing about the Socinian conception of Christianity. Now, even if this were true, it would still have been better for a man, during the last eighteen hundred years, to have been a a Christian and a member of one of the great Christian communions, than to have been a Jew of a Socinian; because the being in contact with the main stream of human life is of more moment for a man's total spiritual growth, and for his bringing to perfection the gifts committed to him, which is his business on earth, than any speculative opinion which he may hold or think he holds. Luther--whom we have called a Philistine of genius, and who, because he was a Philistine, had a coarseness and lack of spiritual delicacy which have harmed his disciples, but who, because he was a genius, had splendid flashes of spiritual insight, -Luther says admirably in his Commentary on the Book of Daniel: "A God is simply that whereon the human heart rests with trust, faith, hope, and love. If the resting is right, then the God too is right: if the resting is wrong, then the God too is illusory." In other words, the worth of what a man thinks about God and the objects of religion depends on what the man is; and what the man is, depends upon his having more or less reached the measure of a perfect and total man.
Çulture, disinterestedly seeking in its aim at perfection to see things as they really are, shows us how worthy and divine a thing is the religious side in man, though it is not the whole of man.
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The final development and commercialization of Evonetix's breakthrough desktop platform is perhaps beyond the window of playing a significant role in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. However, Evonetix's vital and radically different approach to gene synthesis may play a significant role in the battle against the next pandemic, and the ones after that. The technology holds great promise for the future, enabling researchers worldwide the ability to develop life-saving drugs and vaccines—quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively.
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Among Friends by Rosalie MacEachern: Patience necessary for Westville bird photographer
WESTVILLE - Imagine getting a wild bird to eat out of your hand. Then imagine photographing the feat with your other hand.
SaltWire Network | Posted: Feb. 16, 2016, midnight | Updated: Sept. 30, 2017, 8:16 a.m. | 7 Min Read
It is all in a day's work, or a day's retirement, for Walter Agnew of Westville who has a stunning collection of bird and other wildlife shots taken on his property and around Pictou County.
Through his living room window, Agnew can watch 60 to 70 birds feeding at a variety of feeders that include a carved-out coconut shell, a cage feeder that offers safety to tiny birds and a wooden feeder with a roof where a chattering squirrel is often in residence.
"I'm a patient man," he said, when asked how he manages to get birds to land in his hand.
He has accomplished it with two types of birds, black-capped chickadees and pine siskins.
"The chickadees will land, pick up a seed and go off with it. The pine siskins will stay in my hand to feed which is pretty amazing."
He was filling a feeder one day when birds rushed in to eat the seeds that fell on his boots. That is when he decided to see whether it might be possible to hand feed them.
"I stood with a handful of seeds, my hand outstretched, for a long time and eventually it worked."
It just takes patience, he notes, adding his three-year-old grandson Noah was able to attract a bird to his hand when he was still two years old.
"He was used to being around the bird feeders with me. We talked a lot about birds and he listened attentively. I put a light pair of gloves on him because it tickles when the birds land and he waited quietly until a bird came. He stayed very still and he was just in awe to have a bird in his hand."
When he walks in the woods, which he does frequently, Agnew always carries seed for the birds.
"The chickadees will follow me, then take seeds from my hand, stick them in trees and come back for more. I'm just happy to have them share their time with me. I suppose I feel a calling to look after the birds because they are God's creatures."
For close-up photography, Agnew uses a small lightweight camera he loops around his wrist and can operate with one hand.
"I get lots of shots with movement, but I've gotten many I am very happy with. Recently, I got a shot of two pine siskins feeding in my hand and I call that one A Place at the Table. I got another that does a good job of showing the colourful tail feathers of the pine siskin."
One of the birds he photographs most is blue jays, often using a larger camera and telephoto lens against a glass window or opening a window and removing the screen to freeze his house this time of year. He sometimes tricks the saucy jays into a set-up shot, which he might forward to baseball writers or fans.
"I take lots of natural shots, but it can be fun to stage some with bats or balls. Jays are not as trusting – they won't let you get as close, but they are interesting birds."
Agnew and his wife Dawn have witnessed nature at work when predator birds swoop in for the kill. They once saved a bleeding black duck from a hungry red-tailed hawk, but also witnessed an eagle take down a mourning dove.
"We don't like it on our watch, but those are the laws of nature."
Through the years, Agnew has learned to identify the birds who visit his feeders and live in his woods, including European starlings, American gold finches, nuthatches, downy and pileated woodpeckers, ring necked pheasants, eagles, owls, pigeons and crows, but there is one bird he still has hopes of meeting – the bright red northern cardinal that he's heard sightings of as far east as Truro.
"I've seen them in Ontario and they are on my bucket list. Wonderful to photograph – if you ever get the chance."
In the meantime, he is happy to share his nature shots with the Nova Scotia Bird Society, Scotsburn-Northumberland Photography Society and on Facebook.
Rosalie MacEachern is a Stellarton resident and freelance writer who seeks out people who work behind the scenes on hobbies or jobs that they love the most. If you have someone you think she should profile in an upcoming article, she can be reached at [email protected].
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In its latest newsletter, Colorado SAM, the state affiliate of national SAM (Smart Approaches to Marijuana), reports on citizens' increasing dissatisfaction with the negative impact of legalization on local communities. In addition, there is substantial pushback to the marijuana industry's deceptive behavior. The folks who wrote Amendment 64 that legalized the drug in 2012 promised voters many things that have not come to pass. One promise was no marijuana smoking in public.
Now they're back with a new ballot initiative in Denver to ditch that promise, using the same deceptive "gotcha" tactics they used with Amendment 64. The Campaign for Limited Social Use collected enough signatures this week to place the initiative on the city's ballot this November. The initiative would allow establishments whose patrons are age 21 or older, namely bars and restaurants, to permit marijuana use.
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In last week's (August 12, 201) issue of The Marijuana Report, we asked neuroscientist Bertha K. Madras of Harvard Medical School to look briefly at a new study that has caused quite a stir among would-be marijuana cognoscenti, which contradicts major research about the impact of marijuana on physical and mental health. In that issue, we published just the bullet points of her review.
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For every military veteran appearing in a Colorado public meeting to advocate for the right to use marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder, mental health professionals throughout Colorado estimate they've worked with thousands whose pot use made their PTSD — and their lives in general — much worse.
Celebrating the medical benefits, if any, of marijuana has been an effective ruse to win social acceptance for getting high. This was thoroughly predictable, and now it's clear that the organized pot heads have been blowing smoke at us.
This is the preliminary conclusion of a new wide-ranging study of the effects of medical pot. The rush toward legalization, like most whoring after new things, is likely doing considerably more harm than minuscule good.
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The client need profile has also changed over the last decade with a rise in needs relating to dementia.
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The exhibition project In That Weird Part was initially produced by CTM Festival curators Jan Rohlf and Remco Schuurbiers as a contribution to the festival Faithful! Fidelity and Betrayal of Musical Interpretation and was presented in October 2012 at the project space General Public in Berlin. Subsequently, the project was pursued further to become a key element of CTM.13's exhibition In That Weird Age, that was shown January/February 2013 at Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien.
In recent years, the internet has spawned an enormous number of memes, which travel at lightning speed and often involve huge numbers of people as viewers, listeners, and processors. With millions of clicks, internet stars such as Ralph 'The Whistler' Giese, Gary 'Numa Numa' Bolstra, and the Techno Viking achieve a level of fame (albeit usually short-lived) that can surpass that of famous pop musicians and inspire countless reactions in the form of edits, remixes, and comments.
With Misheard Lyrics (incorrectly transcribed lyrics), Shreds (videos set to alternative, incongruent audio tracks), Literal Videos (re-dubbed lyrics that describe the video's action in a self-referential way), Hardware Music (music made with non-musical devices), Mash-ups and Video Re-enactments, social media platforms such as YouTube have spawned their own genres based on remakes of user videos, digitally distributed pop music, and adaptations of famous songs. Spontaneously, and outside the bounds of state subsidised art or the commercial marketplace, a continuous exchange between the cultures of amateurs, musicians, and geeks is being fostered and produces surprising ideas and reinterpretations that are sometimes remarkable but not infrequently of dubious quality. Explorations of the materiality of compressors, codecs, filter systems, and other features of Web 2.0 platforms as well as their communication possibilities, lead to an independent aesthetic that raises questions about the political economy of user rights, copyright issues, the exploitation of immaterial labour, the sociological and anthropological aspects of user interaction, and the psychology of online narcissism.
In this sense, the collective output of such laboratories must be read as a logical, albeit not less creative reaction to cultural upheavals brought about by the internet and extensive digitalisation. Shreds and other new internet-based cultural artifacts are in fact only possible by dint of the comprehensive mediatization of music, its ubiquitous availability, and the infinite possibilities of digital editing tools. As such, they remain inextricably linked to the medium in which they are gaining ground.
The internet, and platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo and co, not only facilitate unprecedented publicity, they also open up an active echo chamber in which, through sequences of posts, tagging, sharing, recommendation algorithms, comment features, and reviews, as well as through de- and reconstruction, appropriation, and re-contextualization, dynamic relationships unfold between users and what they have posted. Just as 'scenes' of individual musical cultures may be hard to define, the nebulous, collective, and distributed character of creative production creates a setting in which the individual author can only play a partial, often obscured, role.
It is no coincidence that the majority of user edits make use of parody and satire. As we know, parody works and legitimises itself best when taking aim at the (supposedly) powerful. With a focus on stars and famous pieces of music that are marketed as works of original creativity and, in the case of more recent works, protected by appropriate legislation, these user remakes document the recipient's increasingly problematic relationship with authors and their works within the copyright industry – the 'middle man' companies of the music industry. Thus user remakes seem to be as much an expression of appreciation as an urgent demand for emancipation from the potency of originals, which are bloated by the market. User activities and their ways of dealing with music are perhaps nothing less than survival strategies – ongoing attempts to digest the plethora of bids for attention from the media, or to somehow cope with the indigestible residue that accumulates as waste.
Something that is lost sight of quickly in the shadow of the ongoing conflict between originators, rights holders, and consumers empowered as active users, is the fact that new and powerful agents have already entered the scene, agents for whom music may be even less of a concern than it was with music industry majors. The business models of Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook place the user and 'user generated content' at the heart of their strategies to exploit digital network economies. Technology and the rules of its data infrastructure define the framework within which the creativity and communication needs of users may be conveyed – and where profits are made. However weak their official position may appear to be within these systems, users nevertheless remain influential and not entirely predictable figures. This is demonstrated by 'reframing' and other workarounds that are supposed to circumvent technological content filters, which are imposed by law or by voluntary commitments.
Of course, user cultures existed long before they were co-opted by the big players of Web 2.0. The internet, as we currently use and experience it daily, is inconceivable without them. A comprehensive elucidation of the role of these user cultures, their contribution to, for example, the preservation of cultural memory, where obsolete, outdated forms, styles, and technologies are cultivated and updated, and the analysis of their aesthetic production is still a long way off.


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EU okays new country-by-country reporting rules
On November 11, 2021, Members of European Parliament (MEPs) gave their final green light to new rules obliging big multinationals to publicly declare the taxes they pay in each EU country, to undermine tax avoidance.
Multinationals and their subsidiaries with annual revenues over EUR 750 million - and which are active in more than one EU country - will now have to publish the amount of tax they pay in each member state. This information will also need to be made available on the internet, using a common template and in a machine-readable format.
The directive will enter into force 20 days after publication in the Official Journal. Member states will then have 18 months to transpose the law into their national laws. This means that businesses will need to be complying with the first provisions of the directive by mid-2024.
See Announcement
Ireland consulting on new tax measures to apply to outbound payments
On November 5, 2021, Ireland Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, launched a public consultation seeking stakeholder views on the introduction of New Taxation Measures to apply to Outbound Payments.
The Update to Ireland's Corporation Tax Roadmap, published in January 2021, set out a series of commitments designed to update and enhance Ireland's corporation tax rules. This consultation delivers on the commitments contained in the Update to Ireland's Corporation Tax Roadmap as well as delivering on milestones in Ireland's National Recovery and Resilience Plan.
The consultation period will run from 5 November 2021 to 20 December 2021.
Mauritania joins BEPS Inclusive Framework
Mauritania has joined international efforts against tax avoidance by joining the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS as its 141st member.
Through its membership, Mauritania committed to addressing the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy by joining the two-pillar plan to reform the international taxation rules and ensure that multinational enterprises pay a fair share of tax wherever they operate, bringing to 137 the total number of jurisdictions participating in the agreement.
Collaborating on an equal footing with all other members of the Inclusive Framework, Mauritania will participate in the implementation of the BEPS package of 15 measures to tackle tax avoidance, improve the coherence of international tax rules and ensure a more transparent tax environment.
Ireland's 2021 Finance Bill includes international tax measures
On October 21, 2021, Ireland's Minister for Finance, Paschal Donohoe, published the Finance Bill, 2021, which includes key international tax measures.
The Finance Bill includes new measures which will complete transposition of the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directives, through the introduction of Anti-Reverse-Hybrid rules and a new interest limitation ratio to supplement our long-standing domestic interest rules.
As was announced in the January 2021 Update to the Corporate Tax Roadmap, the Finance Bill will introduce the Authorized OECD Approach for Transfer Pricing of Branches. This is another step in aligning our tax code with new international norms.
The Finance Bill will also transpose a recent EU Directive in respect to important new tax transparency rules for digital platforms.
Singapore revises e-Tax Guide on tax treaties
On October 23, 2021, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore published updates to the e-Tax Guide on Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreements.
Section 7 has been updated to provide guidance on arbitration provisions found in Singapore's tax treaties. Additionally, footnote 2 has been updated to remove the reference to the tax treaty with South Korea.
Editorial changes have been made throughout the guide for greater clarity.
See e-Tax Guide
OECD publishes peer review report on BEPS Action 13
On October 18, 2021, the OECD released the latest outcomes of the implementation of BEPS Action 13 on the transparency of global operations of large MNEs and BEPS Action 14 on the resolution of tax related disputes between jurisdictions.
Over 100 jurisdictions have already introduced legislation to impose a filing obligation on MNE groups, covering practically all MNE Groups with consolidated group revenue at or above the threshold of EUR 750 million. Remaining Inclusive Framework members are working towards finalising their domestic legal frameworks with the support of the OECD. Where legislation is in place, the implementation of country-by-country (CbC) reporting has been found largely consistent with the Action 13 minimum standard.
Many recommendations made in the first three peer review phases have now been addressed and these recommendations have been removed. More than 3000 bilateral relationships for the exchange of CbC reports are now in place.
The BEPS Action 13 peer review is an annual process, and the next peer review report will be released in the third quarter of 2022.
Mauritius to amend tax treaty with Germany
On October 15, 2021, the Mauritian Cabinet agreed to sign a Protocol to the tax treaty with Germany.
The objective of the Protocol is to amend the tax treaty so that it complies with the OECD's base erosion and profit shifting recommendations.
The Protocol, would incorporate in the Agreement, the following new provisions:
a statement in the Preamble to emphasize that the intention of both countries is to eliminate double taxation, without creating opportunities for non-taxation or reduced taxation through tax evasion or avoidance
the possibility for a taxpayer to have recourse to arbitration where a tax dispute cannot be resolved by the competent authorities within a period of three years after the case has been referred for consideration; and
to clarify the cases which are not eligible for arbitration.
136 jurisdictions strike global digital tax deal
On October 8, 2021, major reform of the international tax system was finalized to ensure that multinational enterprises (MNEs) will be subject to a minimum 15% tax rate from 2023.
136 jurisdictions (out of the 140 members of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS) joined the Statement on the Two-Pillar Solution to Address the Tax Challenges Arising from the Digitalisation of the Economy. With Estonia, Hungary, and Ireland having joined the agreement, it is now supported by all OECD and G20 countries. Four countries - Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka - have not yet joined the agreement.
Pillar One will ensure a fairer distribution of profits and taxing rights among countries with respect to the largest and most profitable multinational enterprises. It will re-allocate some taxing rights over MNEs from their home countries to the markets where they have business activities and earn profits, regardless of whether firms have a physical presence there.
Pillar Two introduces a global minimum corporate tax rate set at 15%. The new minimum tax rate will apply to companies with revenue above EUR 750 million and is estimated to generate around USD 150 billion in additional global tax revenues annually.
Ireland updates DAC6 guidance
On October 11, 2021, Irish Revenue updated Tax and Duty Manual (Part 33-03-04) on DAC6 reporting requirement.
Sections 3.2 and 4.2 has been amended to include updated screenshots and guidance in line with the new schema.
See Revenue eBrief No. 184/21
Anguilla, Dominica and Seychelles removed from EU blacklist
On October 5, 2021, the EU Council decided to remove Anguilla, Dominica, and Seychelles from the EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes.
All three had previously been placed on the list because they did not meet the EU's tax transparency criteria of being ranked as at least 'largely compliant' by the OECD Global Forum regarding the exchange of information on request. The delisting was preceded by the forum's decision to grant these jurisdictions a supplementary review on this matter.
Pending the granted supplementary review, Anguilla, Dominica, and Seychelles are now included in the state of play document (Annex II), which covers jurisdictions that do not yet comply with all international tax standards but that have committed to implementing tax good governance principles.
Spain ratifies BEPS MLI
Spain has deposited its instruments of ratification for the BEPS MLI Convention, thus underlining strong commitment to prevent the abuse of tax treaties and base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) by multinational enterprises.
The Convention will enter into force on January 1, 2022, for Spain.
The MLI offers concrete solutions for governments to close the gaps in existing international tax rules by transposing results from the BEPS project into bilateral tax treaties worldwide.
The MLI now covers 96 jurisdictions.
EU Council adopts position on public CbC reporting
The Council today adopted its position at first reading on the proposed directive on the disclosure of income tax information by certain undertakings and branches, commonly referred to as the public country-by-country reporting (CBCR) directive, paving the way for its final adoption. The adoption of the Council's position follows a provisional agreement reached with the European Parliament in June.
The CBCR directive aims to enhance the corporate transparency of big multinational companies. It will require certain multinational undertakings with revenue of more than €750 million to disclose publicly in a specific report the income tax they pay. For the first time, non-European multinationals doing business in the EU through subsidiaries and branches will also have to comply with the same reporting obligations as EU multinational undertakings.
The reporting will take place within 12 months of the date of the balance sheet for the financial year in question. The directive sets out the conditions under which a company may defer the disclosure of certain information for a maximum of five years.
The proposed directive also stipulates who bears responsibility for ensuring compliance with the reporting obligation.
See Release
India extends transfer pricing safe harbour rules
On September 24, 2021, the Indian Finance Ministry issued a notification extending the transfer pricing safe harbor rules.
The rules are contained in Rule 10TD of the Income Tax Rules 1962.
The extension applies for assessment years 2020-21 and 2021-22.
Cyprus provides further DAC6 penalty relief
The Cyprus Tax Department has informed that there will be no imposition of administrative fines for overdue submission of DAC6 information that will be submitted until 30 November 2021.
The penalty will not apply in the following cases:
Reportable cross-border arrangements that have been made between 25 June 2018 and 30 June 2020 and had to be submitted by 28 February 2021.
Reportable cross-border arrangements that had been made between 1 July 2020 and 31 December 2020 and had to be submitted by 31 January 2021.
Reportable cross-border arrangements made between 1 January 2021 and 31 October 2021, that had to be submitted within 30 days from the date they were made available for implementation or were ready for implementation or the first step in the implementation has been made, whichever occurred first.
Reportable cross-border arrangements for which secondary intermediaries provided aid, assistance or advice, between 1 January 2021 and 31 October 2021 and had to submit information within 30 days beginning on the day after they provided aid, assistance or advice.
The first periodic report for marketable arrangements that had to be submitted by 30 April 2021.
Philippines approves taxes on digital transactions
On September 21, 2021, Philippine House of Representatives approved a proposal imposing a 12% tax on digital transactions in the country to generate new funding sources for the country's Covid-19 response efforts.
The Chamber passed Bill 7425 seeking to amend Section 105 of the National Internal Revenue Code (NIRC) by taxing digital service providers that operate through online platforms. The bill seeks to clarify the imposition of VAT on online advertisement services, digital services in exchange for a regular subscription fee, and supply of other electronic and online services that can be delivered through the Internet.
Albay Rep. Joey Salceda, a principal author of the bill, said foreign corporations selling digital services, such as Netflix, Spotify, and others, will have to pay for and impose VAT on their services. Digital services include online licensing or software, updates and add-ons, website filters and firewalls, mobile applications, video games and online games, and webcasts and webinars, Salceda said.


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Thelonious Monk: Underground (1968) Columbia
Posted on July 24, 2012 by LondonJazzCollector
Track Selection: Ugly Beauty (Monk)
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Musicians: Charlie Rouse (ts) Thelonious Monk (p) Larry Gales (b) Ben Riley (d) recorded NYC, December 14, 1967 February 14, 1968; Tim Geelan engineer, Teo Macero producer.
Cover Art: photography: Horn Grinner Studios; art direction: John Berg, Richard Mantel,
John Berg was art director of Columbia between 1961 and 1985, overseeing notable projects for Chicago, Bob Dylan and Barbara Streisand as well as the famous Bruce Springsteen Born to Run fold out cover. In an interview, Berg said of the Underground cover:
"On Thelonious Monk's Underground, a project with photographers Steve Horn and Norman Griner, the title of the album came from a current jazz movement, which I twisted into a version of the French anti-Nazi underground of World War II. An entire set was built and the scene was full of costumed extras. There was no problem with budgets in those days. I won a Grammy for that cover, by the way."
LJC thinks: The rise and rise of "art direction": big budget "concept" cover art, detached from the musical content. Monk has his eyes fixed on the photographer, rabbit in the headlights, giving away the artifice in a glance. If he had concentrated on playing the piano, casting the viewer as voyeur of a "real" piano-playing resistance fighter, it could have taken it to a different level. But hey, it's Grammy-award winning. And Niiiice. An early Sixties laminate would have finished it beautifully, but those times had gone, the budget was for art direction, not cover manufacture.
His penultimate studio recording under contract to Columbia (1962-8), following which Monk all but disappeared from the recording scene. Perhaps over-shadowed by its cover art, Underground contains a significant number of new Monk compositions, some of which only appear in recorded form on this album. It was the last Monk album featuring the Thelonious Monk Quartet with Charlie Rouse appearing on only half the tracks. The selection "Ugly Beauty" is the only waltz in Monk's seventy compositions.
Vinyl: CS 9632 US Columbia two-eye 360 degree sound.
Immediately recognisable for its provocative cover image depicting Monk as a fictitious wartime French Resistance fighter, there is nothing fictitious about Columbia recording, which is of very high calibre. Not quite the same league as the era of six eye, but good, and in 1968 still comfortably positioned before the decline in vinyl quality. The stereo placement is a lot more balanced than some of the earlier Columbia recordings, which, due to positioning Monk in the left speaker and Rouse in the Centre, come across as a Charlie Rouse record rather than a Monk.
On a more sinister note, Columbia claim the record "will last as long as mono records played on the same equipment". Exactly how long do records last? I thought they all last around forty minutes, each time you play them, mono or stereo, but perhaps not.
The liner notes are as surreal as the cover art, and are worth a read. "Take that, you honkie kraut". That's two penalty points on his free speech license.
Record from a suburban record store specialising in Sixties rock and pop, like they all do. I had passed by the shop many times and ignored it for the same reason. It was a conversation with my GP, knowing I was something of a jazz vinyl fan, that the shop was recommended. Lo and behold, an interesting collection of records was found. No buried treasure of Blue Note originals, not surprising, but interesting nevertheless, and modestly priced with a fair number of original pressings and everything VG++ or better. Conversation with the owner confirmed he declines any records not in excellent condition, unless they are mega-rare. A very good policy.
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14 thoughts on "Thelonious Monk: Underground (1968) Columbia"
GARY SOUCIE on May 30, 2018 at 22:32 said:
I think Rouse complemented Monk very nicely, resulting in good sessions. Coltrane, on the other hand, did not and really got in the way of Monk's music.
Richard Leigh on June 5, 2016 at 17:13 said:
Was this cover a preparation for the final insult – the record with Oliver Nelson ? And as for Rouse: he's usually adequate, but I can't think of a single track, on any Monk record, where he does anything unexpected. Can anyone recommend a stand-out track by Rouse ?
LondonJazzCollector on June 5, 2016 at 20:11 said:
It's a lame analogy, but you might ask what contribution did the white canvas make to Da Vinci's Mona Lisa? I think of Rouse was a foil to Monk, not a competing performer. Whether Rouse in solo is a positive contribution or not to Monk we could debate.
Monk is one of the few performers (along with Bill Evans) I can enjoy in solo. There is so much going on, one mind is enough. This contrasts with a Steve Lacy solo performance, where I simply couldn't get my head around forty minutes of soprano saxophone solo. May be I missed something.
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alun severn on August 1, 2012 at 09:01 said:
UNDERGROUND is a fine Monk set — as long as you remember to knock it off before IN WALKED BUD with its ill-advised scat vocal. I could never understand why Monk didn't chase Hendricks out of the studio…
LondonJazzCollector on August 1, 2012 at 09:52 said:
Quite agree. The musical instruments of jazz are already the "voices" of the musicians. Adding singing seems artistically redundant. I too say "Trow de bum out"
dottorjazz on July 28, 2012 at 10:31 said:
many years ago I used to collect all Monk lp's: then my taste addressed to the revolutionary Monk of the 40's and 50's.
60's Monk is more elegant,smoother but lacks that sort of fire that had before.
that's my personal opinion and I may be wrong but compare older with newer recordings: Brilliant corners cuts them all out.
in addition I have never liked Charlie Rouse so much.
most of his Columbia records are very similar, in mood and personnel: for me it's boring enough.
Ruy Mauricio de Lima e Silva Neto on June 5, 2016 at 17:32 said:
Well, maybe you're right about Rouse. His tone really isn't any special and depending on the solo's lenght may become somewhat monotonous. But he's a respectable player, anyhow. Just for the sake of siding up a complex mind as Monk's for so many years he deserves our appraisal. But you're right – Monk's Sixties or Seventies are a far cry from Monk's Forties and Fifties of Blue Note or Riverside fame. Shihab,Donaldson,Rollins,Coltrane,Henry and Dorham are miles ahead of Rouse, Woods, whatever. But really important is that Monk's Music lives on.Brilliant corners.
vinyltim on July 24, 2012 at 18:19 said:
Another nice find.
I think his Columbia LPs are excellent and overlooked because they are less collectible compared to his 50's BN/Prestige stuff.
Tony on July 25, 2012 at 10:24 said:
I have always sought out Columbia releases – sound quality is up there with the best and they are generally very affordable.
Exactly–same here.
LondonJazzCollector on July 24, 2012 at 18:15 said:
Envy, humility, greed, disappointment, euphoria, emotions that all part of collecting jazz records. And that's just today!
Mattyman on July 24, 2012 at 17:44 said:
Hmmm… We learn something new everyday, don't we? I hardly dare saying it, but until today I hadn't heard of this Monk album. Love the cover and, as with everything Monk, I love the track you feature here today. This means that I'm going to chase this one myself, too.
Justin on July 24, 2012 at 09:23 said:
Agree with your assessment of the cover LJC, but top marks for effort. It kicks 50 shades of shit out of so many of todays zero budget, glossy stock photo covers.


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I am new to using core data..any suggestion what should be NSPredicate r NSSortDescriptor?

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Dispatches from Hollywood: GFS alumnus, producer Dan Sterling returns for speaker series
Matt Grady
Holiday shopping in Chestnut Hill. (Emily Brooks/for NewsWorks, file)
Not long after graduating from Germantown Friends School, an aspiring comedy writer contacted his alma mater to provide a progress report of sorts.
"I'm studying filmmaking at NYU," wrote Dan Sterling — a West Philadelphia native — to the GFS alumni bulletin. "I'm also doing the whole 'live in the Village, Mr. Cool, wear black, drink espresso, super-affected, toss my hair, it's all about me, misunderstood artist, politically apathetic-yet-cynical' thing."
For a young writer — who would later discover that his personal brand of humor stemmed from having a "clear target" — the comedic mark was himself.
Coming back to GFS
Some 20 years later, Sterling returned to Germantown Friends School last week to address a packed auditorium of students as this year's GFS 2013 Alumni Speaker.
Established in 2004, the series highlights the accomplishments of alumni who have drawn strength from the school community and feel their lives have been informed by their time at GFS.
Following his six-year stint at GFS, Sterling graduated in 1989, and went on to receive a Bachelor of Fine Arts from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.
Sterling's professional writing career began on the first season of Comedy Central's "South Park," when he was hired as a staff writer and wrote several episodes. Following "South Park," Dan rose through the ranks as a writer and producer at FOX's animated series, "King of the Hill."
After four seasons, he returned to Comedy Central, as a writer and producer at "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," and as an executive producer and show runner for "The Sarah Silverman Program." During the 2012-2013 season, Sterling served as executive producer of NBC's "The Office."
"The alumni speaker series represents all the possible paths that one can take in life, and Dan's path certainly is a unique one," said GFS Head of School, Dana Okeson Weeks.
Equal opportunity targeting
For Sterling, the comedic thread that unifies his career is the target-based attack. The theme came together for him in the writers' room at South Park, where series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone used the show to lampoon the people and events that angered them.
"They eviscerated sanctimonious celebrities, rednecks, liberals, Mormons, Christians, Jews, Scientologists, and for some reason, Canadians," Sterling explained, who reasoned that an attack — when placed upon a powerful person, an idea, or an institution — is the highest form of comedy.
"The world is filled with stupidity, evil, and hypocrisy, and most of it you can't do a thing to change," Sterling added, "but when it's publicly exposed, brilliantly ridiculed, and is used to inspire laughter, it does make me believe that there exists something close to justice."
However, Sterling was quick to point out that he targets with equal opportunity, with his own identity being the frequent point of attack. But for this GFS grad, it's all in a day's work.
"You might say that this is a career built on anger and negativity," he said. "I don't dispute that."
A script of his own
Just days before his speech at GFS, Sterling wrapped production on his first feature film, entitled "The Interview." It's described as a political action-comedy set in North Korea, and stars Seth Rogen and James Franco.
It's scheduled for nationwide release in the fall of 2014, but GFS students got a sneak preview of a few scenes on Wednesday.
"It's highly profane, and quite violent," said Sterling, who joked that it would skirt an NC-17 rating.
While the screenplay is his first to be produced, it's not his sole attempt. His first, known as "Flarsky," reportedly made Hollywood's 2011 "Black List" of Best Unproduced Screenplays. At present, Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron are attached to star in the project.
The idea of writing movies, he recalled, came at a turning point in Sterling's career: Despite having credits that included several successful shows, Sterling realized as he approached 40 that he had not created original material using his own voice in quite some time.
"I had spent a decade not thinking about what I wanted to say, or what I wanted to attack, but rather what makes my bosses happy," he recalled. In response to this, Sterling took a season off to write.
While the possibilities were infinite, Sterling felt like he needed boundaries, describing total creative freedom as being "a catastrophe."
Eventually settling on the world of Washington politics and broadcast journalism, he created a script that caught the attention of Rogen, which spawned a fruitful working relationship.
And what fomented this creative outpouring? "I located targets I wanted to attack," he said.
GFS' impact
Despite the mordant quality of his humor, Sterling reserved praise for his alma mater. Reflecting upon his own mixed academic performance, he noted that "you really can't get out of [GFS] without deeper critical thinking skills and a deeper sense of social responsibility."
"If I had actually engaged for several hours a day in the intellectual discourse that my parents were bankrupting themselves to pay for," he said, "I wouldn't be in this situation of sitting in a de facto fart-joke factory and feeling like a real philistine."
Avoiding bromides about the benefits of hard work, Sterling shared with GFS's students a frank assessment about the realities of a career in show business.
"No one is great at everything, even within a single discipline," he explained. "There are certain things in your career that you were born to do, and other things that you will just have to pretend to be good at — and if you're lucky, marginally improve at — to stay alive in your given field."
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Zaïda de Seville 1 2 3 4 5
Nom de naissance Zaïda de Seville
Alias Isabel
Nom de naissance Zaida
Âge au décès inconnu
Naissance [E10463]
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Décès [E4259] 13. septembre 1107
Famille de Abu Nasir al Fatah al Mamun et Zaïda de Seville [F1481]
Mariés Mari Abu Nasir al Fatah al Mamun [I3283] ( * + 26. mars 1090 )
Famille de Alphonse VI le Brave de Castille et Leon et Zaïda de Seville [F1479]
Mariés Mari Alphonse VI le Brave de Castille et Leon [I3200] ( * entre 1038 et 1040 + 30. juin 1109 )
infante don Sancho Alfonsez de Castille et Leon [I6278] vers 1093 29. mai 1108
infanta doña Elvira de Castille et Leon [I4967] entre 1100 et 1104 8. février 1135
infanta doña Sancha de Castille et Leon [I6279] vers 1102 après 10. mai 1125
Princess Zaida of Seville was a refugee Muslim princess who was a mistress and then perhaps queen of Alfonso VI of Castile.
She is said by Iberian Muslim sources to have been the daughter-in-law of Al Mutamid, the Muslim King of Seville, wife of his son Abu al Fatah al Ma'Mun, Emir of Cordoba, (d. 1091).
Later Iberian Christian chroniclers call her Al Mutamid's daughter, but the Islamic chroniclers are considered more reliable.
With the fall of Seville to the Almoravids, she fled to the protection of Alfonso VI of Castile, becoming his mistress, converting to Christianity and taking the baptismal name of Isabel.
She was the mother of Alfonso VI of Castile's only son, Sancho, who, though illegitimate, was named his father's heir but was killed in the Battle of Uclés of 1108 during his father's lifetime. It has been suggested that Alfonso's fourth wife, Isabel, was identical to Zaida,but this is still subject to scholarly debate, others making Queen Isabel distinct from the mistress or suggesting that Alfonso had two successive wives of this name, with Zaida being the second Queen Isabel. Alfonso's daughters Elvira and Sancha, were by Queen Isabel, and hence may have been Zaida's.
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Zaïda de Seville
Abu Nasir al Fatah al Mamun [I3283]
Alphonse VI le Brave de Castille et Leon [I3200]
infante don Sancho Alfonsez de Castille et Leon [I6278]
infanta doña Sancha de Castille et Leon [I6279]
infanta doña Elvira de Castille et Leon [I4967]
Brian Tompsett - University of Hull (Uk): Directory of Royal Genealogical Data [S0175]
Mark Humphrys: Humphrys Family Tree [S0176]