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IRS Issues Drafts of Individual Responsibility Reporting Forms
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1 IRS Issues Drafts of Individual Responsibility Reporting Forms The following is a summary of draft forms. Some of this information may change when final forms, and the instructions, are released. In order for the IRS to verify that individuals and employers are meeting their shared responsibility obligations, and that individuals who request premium tax credits are entitled to them, employers and insurers will be required to provide reporting on the health coverage they offer. Reporting will first be due early in 2016, based on coverage in On July 24, 2014, the IRS published drafts of several of the forms that will be used to provide the required reporting. Instructions were not released with the draft forms, so some questions remain unanswered. The IRS has said that it will issue drafts of the instructions in August and that the final forms and instructions will be available by the end of Generally speaking, an employer will not have any reporting requirement if it has fewer than 50 full-time and full-time equivalent employees in its controlled group and it sponsors a fully insured medical plan. All other employers will have at least some reporting. This appears to include employers with 50 to 99 employees for 2015 even though the employer-shared responsibility requirement has been delayed until 2016 for most employers in this group, reporting is still needed to help determine whether individual employees owe penalties or are eligible for premium subsidies. Employers with 50 or more full-time or full-time equivalent employees in their controlled group whether the coverage offered is fully insured or self-funded will need to complete both Part I and Part II of IRS Form 1095-C. This form will be required for each employee, regardless of whether the employee is eligible for medical coverage. Part I includes basic identifying information. To complete Part I, the employer will need: The name, address, and Social Security number of the employee The name, address, employer identification number (EIN) and a contact telephone number for the employer (the contact telephone number can be that of a third party)
2 Part II will be used to determine whether minimum essential, minimum value and affordable coverage was offered and accepted. This data will be used to determine whether the employer owes penalties for not offering minimum essential coverage (these are sometimes referred as the A penalty or the $2,000 penalty) or for not offering affordable, minimum value coverage (these are sometimes referred to as the B penalty or the $3,000 penalty) and if the employee is eligible for premium subsidies. The employer will use one of several codes to report whether it offered coverage to the employee, and the extent of the coverage it offered. If coverage did not vary during the calendar year, the employer may simply use one code to report all 12 months. If coverage varied during the year, a code is needed for each month. (Note that this reporting is made on a calendar year basis, even if the employer has a noncalendar year plan.) The employer also will report the employee s share of the lowest cost monthly premium for self-only minimum value coverage for which the employee is eligible (not the premium for the coverage the employee elected since the contribution amount which determines affordability is the lowest cost premium for self-only minimum value coverage). The employer also will enter codes that the IRS will use when determining if a penalty is owed. Those codes address whether the employee was eligible for coverage during the month, including whether the employee was employed, classified as full-time, in a waiting period or covered. If the employee was covered during the month, the employer will report whether coverage was affordable and which affordability safe harbor was used. In addition, employers with self-funded plans will complete Part III of Form 1095-C. Part III information will be used to determine whether the employee s family met its requirement to have minimum essential coverage. To complete Part III, the employer will need: The name and Social Security number (or date of birth if a Social Security number is not available) of each covered spouse and dependent The calendar months each spouse or dependent child was covered (if the person was covered for the whole year, that can be reported rather than month by month reporting) Information that is similar to the information provided on Part III of Form 1095-C will be provided by the insurer to the employee using IRS Form 1095-B. Form 1095-B will report whether the employee and the employee s spouse and children had minimum essential coverage for each month. This means that an employee who works for a mid-size or large employer that provides coverage on a fully insured basis will receive two forms: Form 1095-B from the insurer and Form 1095-C from the employer. Form 1095-B also will include the origin of the policy (presumably, whether coverage is through an employer, individual insurance, a multiemployer plan, Medicare, Medicaid or the Marketplace), the name, address, and EIN of any employer sponsoring the plan and the Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) Marketplace unique identifier if coverage is provided through the SHOP. Employers with 50 full-time and full-time equivalent employees in their controlled group also will need to file IRS Form 1094-C, with a copy of the Form 1095-C it issued to each employee. Employers that are not part of a controlled or affiliated service group (called an ALE Aggregated Group on the form) will complete Parts I, II and III of the form. To complete these parts, the employer will report: 2
3 The employer s name, address, EIN and the name and phone number of a contact person (who does not need to be an employee) The total number of Forms 1095-C submitted with the transmittal form Whether it is part of an ALE Aggregated Group (i.e., a controlled or affiliated service group) Whether the employer is exempt from some or all reporting or penalties because of its size or offer of coverage to a very high percentage of individuals On a month by month basis (with some ability to report for the full year if nothing changes): Whether minimum essential coverage was offered The total number of full-time employees of that employer The total employee count of that employer Whether the employer qualifies for transition relief either because it had 50 to 99 employees or because it had more than 100 employees, but is a non-calendar year plan Employers that are part of a controlled or affiliated service group also must enter the name and EIN of all other employers that were part of the group during the calendar year. Each employer in a controlled or affiliated service group must file a separate report, although one member of the controlled group may complete the form on behalf of other members. In certain circumstances, government plans may report on a single form through a designated government entity. In summary, the reporting requirements are: Form(s) to employee < 50 FTEs 50 to 99 FTEs 1095-B 1095-B/1095-C (Parts I and II only) Filed By Insurer Insurer/Plan Form(s) to IRS 1094-B 1094-B/1094-C (with copies of all 1095s) Filed By Insurer Insurer/Plan 100+ FTEs 1095-B/1095-C (Parts I and II only) Insurer/Plan 1094-B/1094-C (with copies of all 1095s) Insurer/Plan < 50 FTEs 1095-C (Parts I, III and line 14 only) 50 to 99 FTEs 1095-C (all Parts) 100+ FTEs 1095-C (all Parts) Employer Employer Employer Note: In this chart FTE refers to full-time or full-time equivalent employees. Employer Employer Employer The reporting will occur with the same timing and process as W-2 and W-3 reporting. The individual will receive a Form 1095 that provides information about his or her coverage. The individual s report will be due on January 31 following the calendar year that is being reported. The employer will provide a roll-up report using IRS Form 1094 and copies of the individual 1095 forms. The employer report will be due by February 28 (or March 31 if filed electronically). Employers will be required to file electronically if they issue 250 or more forms. Reporting must be done on a calendar year basis, even if the plan or policy operates on a non-calendar year basis. Because January 31, 2016, and February 28, 2016, are Sundays, employers and insurers will have until February 1, 2016, to provide the first Forms 1095 and until March 1, 2016, to file the first Form 1094 if Form 1094 is filed using paper. Form 1095 only needs to be provided to the named insured. Employers that mail the form may send it with the W-2 form. If the form is mailed to the employee's last known permanent address and it is 3
4 returned, the employer does not need to resend the form. Employers may provide the form electronically to the employee if the employee provides a consent that meets certain requirements. If the form is sent electronically and it is returned, the employer must try to obtain a current electronic address. If that is not possible, the notice must be mailed or hand-delivered within 30 days. Employers concerned about maintaining and transmitting Social Security numbers may use truncated numbers (e.g., XXX-XX-1234). Substitute forms will be permitted. Employers that offer particularly generous coverage may use alternative, simplified reporting instead of the "general" reporting explained above. Depending on the situation, the employer may be able to use alternative reporting for some employees even though it must use the general reporting method for others. The employer also may use different alternative reporting methods for different groups of employees. Three alternative methods will be available for reporting on coverage offered in 2015: 1. If the employer makes a "qualifying offer" for each month in the calendar year, it can provide a certification of coverage instead of some of the demographic reporting and provide streamlined reporting to the covered employees. If the employee was not eligible for the full year, this alternative method may not be used for that employee. A "qualifying offer is an offer that meets all of these requirements: Is offered to the employee and to any spouse and dependent children Provides minimum value Has an employee contribution for single coverage that is less than 9.5% of the federal poverty level in the 48 contiguous states (which would be a maximum contribution for 2014 of $92.38 per month) 2. If the employer offers affordable, minimum value coverage to at least 98% of its total employees (regardless of whether they are full-time or part-time) it does not need to report whether an employee is full-time and it does not need to provide a count of its full-time employees. However, it will need to provide all of the other information required under the general method, and if an employee requests a premium tax credit, it will need to respond to an IRS inquiry about the employee's work and coverage status. 3. For 2015 only, an employer that has provided a qualifying offer to 95% of its full-time employees, their spouses, and dependents may simply provide each of its full-time employees with a statement informing the covered employees that they will not be eligible for premium tax credits (if the qualifying offer was made for each of the 12 months of the year), or that they may be eligible for premium tax credits for any months in which a qualifying offer was not made. The statement must provide contact information for the employer. The employer transmittal will need to provide identifying information for the covered employees and affirmation that a qualifying offer was made. Even though these forms are not final, employers may want to study them as they begin to determine whether they are currently collecting, and will be able to retrieve, the information needed to complete the forms. 4
5 Notes: Minimum essential coverage is basic medical coverage. Coverage does not need to include the 10 essential health benefits to be considered minimum essential coverage. Minimum value coverage is coverage that has an actuarial value of at least 60%. A plan sponsor generally is the employer for employer-provided coverage and the board of trustees or committee for a multiemployer plan. The regulations acknowledge the difficulties that reporting may present for employers with employees covered by multiemployer plans. The plan administrator of the multiemployer plan may complete Form 1095-B for its members and provide it to the employer to transmit with the forms for employees not covered by the multiemployer plan. The employer is ultimately responsible for the filing. Additional details are to be provided in the instructions when they become available. Employees who receive a premium tax credit/subsidy will file IRS Form 8962 with their individual federal income tax return. Coverage that is obtained through a Marketplace, except for SHOP coverage, will be reported on IRS Form 1095-A. 7/31/ United Benefit Advisors, LLC. All rights reserved.
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THE assassination on October 7th of Mashaal Tammo, a Kurdish activist, in Qamishli, a town in northern Syria, has outraged Syria's Kurdish population. Mr Tammo was a founding member of the Syrian National Council and a respected opposition figure who, like many, had been jailed by the Syrian regime.
A video (this contains graphic images) of Mr Tammo's body has been uploaded on YouTube. "One, two, three, four bullets," counts a Kurdish voice off-screen. Switching into Arabic, the speaker points to Mr Tammo's wounds. "You and your mob are not worth a hair on Tammo's head", he continues, castigating the Syrian president, Bashar Assad.
Syria's Kurds were initially reluctant to join the uprising that has rocked the country since March, concerned that the regime might crackdown on them with particular ferocity. Conscious that Kurdish involvement could divide the opposition, some have discouraged and dispersed any rallies.
Kurdish participation in protests has been growing but last week's demonstrations mark a turning point. One Kurdish human-rights activist, Azad Dêwanî, says, that Mr Tammo's death "will fuel protests in Damascus, Aleppo and Darra."
The regime is doing all it can to prevent more widespread demonstrations. The Kurdish districts of Damascus and Aleppo have been blockaded by the Syrian security forces. At the same time the government has made various concessions to Kurds, including promises of citizenship for undocumented individuals.
The demonstrations in Qamishli and other Kurdish towns have highlighted the sense of solidarity that has characterised Syria's uprising, with Arabic slogans chanted as well as Kurdish ones. Mr Tammo's death could unite the popular and political opposition groups within Kurdish society. That in turn could provide crucial support for those Syrians who have been protesting for so many months. But further violence from the regime is also likely as its opposition grows more united.
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VERIFY: Dean Koontz did not predict the coronavirus outbreak in his 1981 book
Social media users have linked a fictional virus called 'Wuhan-400' from a Dean Koontz book to COVID-19. But the connection is a serious stretch.
Author: VERIFY, Jason Puckett, David Tregde, Terry Spry Jr.
Published: 2:24 PM PST February 24, 2020
Updated: 2:25 PM PST February 24, 2020
A deadly outbreak involving a new coronavirus named COVID-19 is now being connected to an unlikely person: author Dean Koontz.
Specifically, people claim he predicted decades ago this current outbreak, which has been traced back to Wuhan, China.
Some eagle-eyed fans recently started pointing out a passage from his 1981 book, "The Eyes of Darkness," that discusses a virus called "Wuhan-400."
On the surface, that seems like a pretty good start.
But what about the rest of the details surrounding the book's virus? How do those aspects hold up compared to the real coronavirus outbreak we're facing today? Not that well.
Did Dean Koontz really predict the current COVID-19 outbreak in his 1981 book "The Eyes of Darkness"?
While it's true the virus in his book originated in Wuhan, that's about where the similarities end. However, "Wuhan-400" wasn't even the name of the virus in the original version of his book.
The Google Books preview of the 1981 original describes a virus called "Gorki-400," named after the Russian city where it was created. It wasn't until sometime later that the book changed the virus' origin to Wuhan and called it "Wuhan-400".
A version of the book with a 1996 copyright indeed calls it "Wuhan-400."
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And while the virus in the Koontz novel was created in a lab, there is no evidence COVID-19 is man-made. While the World Health Organization is still evaluating the source of the virus, they believe it transmitted from animals to humans in a live animal market in Wuhan.
Which leads to another difference. The fictional virus in the book only impacts humans and "no other living creature can carry it." The Center for Disease Control says past coronaviruses, like SARS and MERS, originated in animals and believe this coronavirus to be no different.
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The book's virus also can't survive outside of a body for longer than a minute. A previous VERIFY showed the CDC estimated the current coronavirus had a life span "in the range of hours" outside of the human body.
Another strike against this "prediction" is that the book's virus has a mortality rate of nearly 100%. According to the numbers from the WHO's February 24 situation report, COVID-19's mortality rate is far less than that: it's just over three percent.
Finally, Wuhan-400's incubation period in the book is just four hours. The CDC currently believes COVID-19's incubation period to between two and 14 days.
So while the virus in Koontz's book is (now) from Wuhan, the same city COVID-19 originated in, that's about where the similarities end.
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NMB Bank Zimbabwe says chief executive Benefit Peter Wasahaya will step down from his post with effect from December 31, 2021, after seven years in his post, while deputy Gerald Gore will take over at the helm of the bank.
The announcement came as somewhat of a shock to the banking local banking community, given that the bank was beginning to steer in a better direction under his stewardship.
Under the stewardship of Mr Washaya, the bank managed to reduce its non-performing loans (NPLs) from a high of 14,9 percent in 2015, to 0,44 percent in the last financial year.
This is way lower than the regulatory target of 5 percent as at 31 December 2020. This was lower than the December 31, 2019 NPL ratio of 1,37 percent and this was attributed to aggressive collections and stricter credit underwriting standards. In the last financial year, the group's shareholders' funds and shareholders' liabilities increased by 31 percent from $3,21 billion restated as at December 32, 2019 to $4,19 billion as at 31 December 2020 largely as a result of the current year's total comprehensive income.
During his tenure the bank always had regulatory capital which was way above the minimum required, and in 2020 it was $2.18 billion, which was above the minimum required regulatory capital of $25 million.
Mr Gore has over 18 years of banking experience that spans over digital transformation, risk management, corporate banking, treasury and retail banking. Benefit Washaya had served as the Group's CEO from 2014 and he has been in the banking industry for over 43 years.
"Prior to his appointment, Gerald served as the Deputy CEO since September 2019 as well as chief operating officer since 2015 supporting the CEO in strategy execution and responsible for the bank's digital transformation," the Group said in a notice on Friday whilst expressing confidence in his leadership capabilities.
"The Board is confident in Gerald's ability to drive the growth of the bank on the back of a strong digital agenda and wish him all the best as he takes on this new challenge," the Group added.
He holds a Master in Business Leadership (MBL) from Unisa, MSc in Finance and Investments from NUST, BCom Banking from NUST and an Executive Development Programme from Wits Business School.
Gore is also an Alumni of the USA International Leadership Development Program (IVLP) under emerging African leaders. Prior to joining NMB in 2008, he worked for a number of financial institutions in corporate banking, treasury & risk management.
The banking sector of late has been seeing too many board and corporate changes due to mergers, acquisitions and personnel scandals. In the past twenty-three months First Capital saw Sam Matsekete leaving to join his former employer Old Mutual Zimbabwe, ZB Bank saw its CEO Ronald Mutandagayi resign due to a gender based violence scandal.
BancABC saw Lance Mambondiani take over reigns after leaving Steward Bank while he was replaced by Courage Mashavave. CBZ recently reshuffled its division managers and now NMBZ has followed suit. – Herald


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Come hear the fun, energetic sound of Boondock playing at Simms Park in Courtenay at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 21. This performance is part of the free summer concert series hosted by the City of Courtenay.
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Are the Bresnens and the Texas Family Law Foundation Done? Texas Attorney General Paxton Joins Fight Against State Bar
Posted by Sherry Palmer | May 3, 2019
Is the Texas BAR about to be neutered?
The recent lawsuit filed in March against the BAR association, filed by three attorneys with Empower Texans, would dry up the funds that the BAR association uses for lobbying against parents. This means that the money they use to pay lobbyists to fight against parental rights would dry up too, if this lawsuit prevails. This would be excellent news for parents and children in divorce. "These three Texas lawyers — Tony McDonald, Josh Hammer and Mark Pulliam — sued, pointing to the bar's legislative and diversity initiatives and arguing that their compulsory dues cannot be spent on political activities they do not endorse," according to the Texas Tribune.
"Their lawsuit was one of a handful filed in the wake of Janus vs. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, a 2018 U.S. Supreme Court case that decreed that mandatory public union dues may not be used for political activities without consent. The lawsuit, an existential threat to the state bar, could force the organization to splinter into a mandatory organization that would handle disciplinary disputes and a voluntary organization that could put on educational programming and other events — or even force regulation of the legal profession into the Legislature's hands," writes Emma Platoff, civil courts reporter for the Texas Tribune.
The Texas Family Law Foundation is one of the political organizations that represents the BAR and is paid with these mandatory compulsory dues. Amy and Steve Bresnen lobby for the Texas Family Law Foundation (TFLF). Both would be affected if this lawsuit prevails.
TFLF lobbies against equal parenting bills and against constitutional rights protections for parents and children. The BAR brags about this.
The BAR has bragged about this over the years claiming that they are protecting families. Parents have come forward to expose these lies and to share with legislators the damage that the current laws are having on their families. In Texas, parents have been trying to get an equal parenting plan option into the law for the last 12 years! TFLF has blocked their efforts at getting corrections put into the law. In Kentucky, where the BAR is not allowed to lobby, an equal parenting bill was passed without any problem.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Joins Fight Against State Bar
Texas State Attorney General joined the fight against the BAR, and the BAR association is pissed off about this. They state that the AG is supposed to defend the laws of the state and that this is unprecedented.
Attorney General Paxton is the only state attorney general to come out against his own state bar, and to blast a state law as unconstitutional," according to the Texas Tribune. The Tribune says that this is unusual and says that his job is to defend Texas law. They further hypothesize that the AG might have jumped in based on political motivations and cites that he receives some decent campaign donations from the three attorneys who filed the suit against the Texas state BAR's mandatory dues being used for political activities. What the Texas Tribune has missed however, is that the Palmers have sued the AG and the State BAR just last year after the BAR's UPL committee, sent a threat letter to them accusing them of practicing law because they provide information and advice to parents and attorneys regarding their constitutional rights in family law, and because they provide their arguments in motion format on their website. Their lobbying arm also has attacked the Palmers in the past through the Bresnens by sending out a memo to all of the Senators and House Representatives in an attempt to discredit them. These are attempts to restrict the sphere of information available to their attorneys and parents regarding the protections parental rights in family law. The issue has been that their attorneys are not being trained properly and have failed to provide parents with proper protections due these fundamental rights. The BAR, the Bresnens, and TFLF are attempting to restrict anyone they do not control. By requiring that only attorneys teach about the law, they can hide and restrict First Amendment activities. Since the Palmers are not attorneys, the BAR cannot directly limit their First Amendment Speech rights the same way they could an attorney. The BAR would remove the attorney's ability to practice if they taught something the BAR did not agree with. For non-attorneys, the BAR uses a Committee established by the Supreme Court to regulate non-attorney speech. The Palmers are suing them over this attempt to restrict First Amendment rights and limit the information and knowledge available to parents trying to protect their children from government influence and interference. The Palmers also are attacking them over the violation of separation of government.
This lawsuit "could force the organization to splinter into a mandatory organization that would handle disciplinary disputes and a voluntary organization that could put on educational programming and other events — or even force regulation of the legal profession into the Legislature's hands."
The Palmers Lawsuit Set the Stage for the Attorney General
You can read a sample from the Palmers brief in this excerpt filed in December 2018, the month prior to the Attorney General being asked to write an opinion on whether the BAR was violating First Amendment and separation of powers issues. The Tribune reports that "In January, Longley requested a formal legal opinion from Paxton, asking: "Is it constitutional to require Bar members to pay compulsory Bar dues, including to support Bar programs … that Bar members object to on First Amendment grounds (e.g., free speech, freedom of association), inclμding programs that are not within the regulatory functions of the State Bar?"
The Bresnens have been known to attack people who try to educate the public on any injustices in the law, and they lobbed an attack against the Policy Center three years ago, during the 85th legislative session. They sent a memo to all of the Senators and House Representatives defaming the National Family Law Policy Center and Ron and Sherry Palmer using these compelled dues. Then the UPL Committee attacked the Palmers through Fix Family Courts trying to censor speech and remove the education that they provide to parents and attorneys on their fundamental parental rights.
Now the BAR is being attacked from both ends as the Palmers are suing them for trying to censor their speech and stop them from educating the public, and the Attorney General has joined the suit against them for using compelled dues to restrict First Amendment rights of attorneys.
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The AG contends that he is not a proper party to this lawsuit because he is not tasked with defending the UPL statute. However, Article 2, Section 1 of the Texas Constitution prevents the Legislature from designating a judicial agency supervised by the Supreme Court of the state as "the proper law enforcement officer for certain statutes." Law enforcement is undeniably an executive power. Granting law enforcement power to a judicial agency not only diminishes the executive authority but deprives Plaintiffs of the protections of an independent, neutral, and disinterested judiciary. The core concept of the separation of powers doctrine is that there are inherent conflicts in the exercise of certain kinds of government power that are too basically rooted in human nature to be bundled together under one branch of government. The potential for bias is inherent in the conflict between the powers.
Even if the UPL Committee can legitimately defend the UPL statutes against 1983 attack generally, that Committee cannot legitimately defend the statute, Section 81.104 of the Texas Government Code, that grants them power where the complaint is that the Committee is granted power in violation of Art. 2, Sec. 1 of the Texas Constitution. Only the executive can legitimately defend against a statutory challenge of this type.
The AG admits that state law is well-settled that the UPL Committee and not the AG is authorized to enforce the UPL laws. According to the AG, the Texas Supreme Court has approved a legislative grant of executive authority to the Texas Supreme Court itself to oversee enforcement of Texas laws. It is difficult to imagine a more tyrannical scheme than one where the state's supreme court both regulates the enforcement of the state's laws and holds the supreme power of judging the enforcement of the state's laws. Here, we have three branches of government acting to vest the entirety of government power over the regulation of a profession of which they all overwhelmingly belong into into the hands of a single branch of government. The legislature made up predominantly of members of the bar, have taken executive power from the AG, a member of the bar, and conveyed that power to the judiciary, all of whom are current or former members of the BAR and have vested BAR members with absolute power over enforcement of statutes that directly benefit the BAR and its members financially and politically. In addition, the legislature has delegated legislative authority to the judiciary to determine who is subject to the UPL statutes. Parties subject to enforcement under these statutes for their political speech are commanded to hire members of the BAR to protect themselves from the actions of BAR members where the BAR member hired will potentially suffer pecuniary loss and possibly formal or informal BAR censure if they effectively represent their client. This entire scheme exists to censor speech based on content for the benefit of the BAR and only for the benefit of the BAR.
The scheme fails in its legislative mandate where the majority of the members of the BAR acquiesce to the absurd idea that domestic relations may be regulated outside of federal constitutional limitation and where attorneys overwhelmingly fail in their fiduciary duty to protect the constitutional rights of their clients in family law proceedings.
Now the AG suggests that the BAR, and not the state's senior law enforcement officer, should defend the state's statute that conveys this tyrannical power to the judiciary. Is this a matter of the AG deferring to legitimate separation of government power or a practical realization that he cannot directly challenge this power structure by presuming to exert his executive prerogative to defend the state's statutes. One has to ask whether the AG has the practical executive political power to exert his prerogative or whether he is politically powerless to protect the executive prerogative against the BAR's clear political power.
Plaintiffs allege that there is a clear appearance of bias in the AG's political acquiescence to judicial interpretation that on its face has the appearance of a judicial power grab of executive political power. Acquiescence of political power of this magnitude is not a normal occurrence in our political system and it's occurrence here must be evaluated under substantial constitutional scrutiny as an inherent threat to our government structure itself.
Plaintiffs assert that the AG and only the AG is empowered to represent the state statute that is alleged to unconstitutionally convey executive power to a judicial agency in violation of the separation of powers doctrine. Plaintiffs further assert that it is necessary that the AG be held to be the proper party to represent the state's statutes to avoid the conflict of interest inherent in the above referenced scheme. It is entirely unclear whether the AG, in this instance, has the requisite political power to act independently of the judicial branch of Texas government and independently of the Texas BAR. The appearance of power the BAR exerts over the AG and his political future cannot be taken lightly in this Court's analysis.
Plaintiffs further fear that a finding by this Court that the delegation of executive power to the judiciary is unconstitutional would create a legal paradox where the UPL Committee having been found to wield unconstitutional power couldn't, therefore, be a proper party to defend the state's statutes which would place this Court's holdings into question under jurisdictional and due process grounds.
The Palmers' core complaint against the UPLC and the BAR is that they cannot regulate the practice of law by regulating free speech protected by the First Amendment and that the UPL scheme violates the separation of powers doctrine. The attorneys' complaint is a free speech argument. They argue that the BAR cannot use compelled dues through compelled speech of attorneys who do not agree with the BAR's position. The Attorney General is essentially agreeing with the Palmers that the BAR association cannot regulate speech of their attorneys. The Attorney General yet again is agreeing with the Palmers. First he agreed on strict scrutiny applies to fundamental parental rights when he published his opinion, KP-0124, in response to James White's request, And now he files a brief against his own State Bar. The State Bar themselves said that this was odd. Not odd to the Palmers who have been schooling the AG in litigation for years about strict scrutiny, the standards the courts apply, parental rights are protected by the Fourteenth and First Amendment, separation of powers, and First Amendment rights of individuals and businesses to teach about rights and the law.
The Bresnens clearly are unhappy about being confronted by parents who have come forward to expose this corruption as you can see in this video posted by Dolcefino Consulting.
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Hungary: Things to do
Every country has its outstanding and special attractions. Goway has selected its top 14 things to do in Hungary (not in any particular order) for you to enjoy on your visit to this destination.
Castle Hill, Budapest
On the Buda side of the Danube River is Castle Hill perched on top of a large promontory. It is 1 kilometre/half a mile long reached either on foot or by funicular. This The most imposing building is the enormous Royal Palace which dates back to the 13th Century and once home to several Hungarian kings and now the venue of the Hungarian National Gallery and the Castle Museum which captures the history of the country over 2000 years. Fishermen's Bastion is a viewing promenade with breathtaking views of the river and the Pest side below. The Buda Castle Labyrinth is a cave system which contains a collection of displays including the history of Dracula and figures from various operas. Other highlights on a Budapest vacation are the Hospital in the Rock Museum, used as a hospital during the Second World War and the architecturally beautiful Matthias Church which is 500 years old.
Thermal Baths, Budapest
The therapeutic thermal baths are a special feature in everyday life in Budapest that must be experienced on Hungary tours. Széchenyi Baths (pictured) offer indoor and outdoor pools and spa treatments on the edge of popular City Park. The Gellert Baths are even more opulent, having been described as "taking a bath here is like taking a bath in a cathedral". The medicinal spring here was famous as far back as the 13th century. The spa is decorated with a wealth of original Art Nouveau furnishings, artistic mosaics, stained glass windows and sculptures Full spa treatments are available.
The Parliament, Budapest
The Parliament building is a major landmark in Budapest due to its size and unique architecture. A tour of the building includes the 96-step Ornamental Staircase, the 12th Century Crown of St. Stephen and the Congress Hall. Its interior includes 10 courtyards, 13 passenger and freight elevators, 27 gates, 29 staircases and 691 rooms (including more than 200 offices). It is one of the two tallest buildings in Budapest. The main façade overlooks the River Danube. Inside and outside, there are altogether 242 sculptures on the walls.
Basilica of St. Stephen, Budapest
This is the most sacred Catholic Church in Hungary and home to the most revered relic, the mummified right hand of the church's patron saint, King St. Stephen. In the interior is an outstandingly beautiful dome, complete with mosaics. Organ concerts take place here on a regular basis.
The Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest
This impressive opera house is located on the Champs Elysees of Budapest. It was designed in 1884 and is one of the most beautiful buildings in the city. You can join a tour of the interior followed by a mini-concert every afternoon at various starting times.
House of Terror Museum, Budapest
This was the headquarters of the dreaded secret police during the occupation of Hungary by the Soviets but is now a permanent exhibition mainly about the 1956 uprising. Having survived two terror regimes, Hungary erected a memorial to the victims, to present a picture of what life was like for Hungarians in those times. Opened in 2002, the House of Terror presents the horrors in a tangible way to help people understand that the sacrifice for freedom was not in vain.
Heroes Square, Budapest
This is one of the major squares in Budapest to be experienced on a Hungary vacation and is noted for its iconic statue complex featuring the Seven Chieftains of the Magyars and other important Hungarian national leaders as well as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The square lies at the end of Andrassy Avenue next to City Park and has played an important role in contemporary Hungarian history as well as having been the centre of many political events, such as the reburial of Imre Nagy in 1989.
The Hungarian National Museum, Budapest
This is Hungary's equivalent to the British Museum in London, England but definitely not as important. It contains a collection of the country's most important historical relics. Visitors can follow the events of Hungarian history during the medieval period by way of outstanding artifacts from the time. One of the most valuable items is the ceremonial robe once worn by Hungarian kings at their coronations.
The Great Synagogue, Budapest
In what is known as the Jewish Quarter is this remarkable which is the largest synagogue in the world except for one in New York City. Built in 1859, it can accommodate 3000 worshippers. You can have a visit inside where the highlights are decorative carvings of the ark, the beautiful Rose Window and the Hungarian Jewish Museum and Archives. In the grounds is the Holocaust Tree of Life Memorial.
Lake Balaton, a freshwater lake, is one of the country's most scenic spots which can be visited on a Hungary vacation and is the biggest lake in Central Europe. It is an hour's drive from Budapest and has been used as a retreat destination for centuries with its beaches, resort towns and hotels that are scattered over its 200 kilometre/120 mile shoreline. The hilly north shore is a wine-growing region with protected wetlands and hiking trails. Some of the highlights are the Festetics Palace dating back to 1745 a baroque building in the town of Keszthely, Tihany Abbey, a Benedictine monastery established in 1055, the Balaton Uplands National Park with its caves, buffalo reserve and hiking trails and Szigligeti Castle, over 750 years old.
Eger is famous for its magnificent baroque buildings and offers lots to see and do. The Episcopal cathedral was built on Castle Hill with the city growing around it. The castle and basilica remain the city's top sight, followed by the Valley of the Women, a series of wine cellars and restaurants built into surrounding hills. The Torok Kori Minaret, the northernmost Turkish minaret in Europe offers wonderful views of the surrounding countryside.
Gyor, situated between Budapest and Vienna, was ruled by the Mongols, Magyars, Czechs, and Ottomans. Everywhere you go, you will find statues and wonderful old buildings which include the Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola, an ornate Benedictine cathedral.
Debrecen was Hungary's capital at various times over the centuries and is an important cultural centre, considered the intellectual center of the country. The city has a thriving music scene and is home to the Bela Bartok International Choir competition. The principal attractions include the Reformed Great Church, the largest Protestant church in Hungary the Deri Museum with its collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and the annual Flower Carnival.
Pecs is a multicultural city where different ethnic groups co-exist peacefully together making it one of UNESCO's Cities of Peace. It was home to the first university in Hungary founded in 1367. It has been ruled by Romans, Christians, and Ottomans. Excellent museums, medieval buildings and fine wines make Pecs a popular travel destination. Some of the highlights on Hungary tours are Pecs Cathedral, Pecs Synagogue and Mosque of Pasha Gazzi Kassim.
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John Lennon on Fatherhood, Feminism, and Phony Tough Guy Posturing
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Three decades after his tragic death in New York City at age forty, John Lennon retains quite a grip on our cultural imagination. He has been the subject of countless biographies, magazine articles, and documentaries. In November, a BBC Masterpiece Theater special explored his final days with the Beatles; and the recently released independent film Nowhere Boy delved into his childhood and adolescence. His has been one of the most chronicled lives of our times.
Now some new information about Lennon has surfaced. Rolling Stone magazine writer Jonathon Cott interviewed Lennon just three days before his murder on December 8, 1980. After Lennon's death, only brief excerpts from the interview were published. Recently, Cott unearthed the original tapes and Rolling Stone published the entire interview in the December 23, 2010 issue.
Music critics and fans are understandably interested in the details the interview furnishes about Lennon's plans for a musical comeback just before his untimely death. I was intrigued by something else. Throughout the interview, the rock icon provides a wealth of commentary that relates to his evolving ideas about manhood. When Lennon was gunned down in front of his apartment on the Upper West Side by a deeply disturbed 25-year-old man, the world lost not only one of the greatest musical talents of the 20th century. It also lost an artist whose sense of himself as a man reflected the cultural shifts in gender norms that had been catalyzed by multicultural women's movements, and whose fame and example helped pioneer a new kind of masculinity for his and subsequent generations of men.
Lennon is revered on the left as an artist who used his public platform to oppose the U.S. war in Vietnam; his anthems "Happy Xmas (War is Over)," "Give Peace a Chance" and of course "Imagine" are revered by peace activists (and others) worldwide. But Lennon was perhaps the most well-known male artist of his era to embrace feminism — and incorporate feminist insights about masculinity and relationships into his art.
After a brief period of high-profile anti-Vietnam war activism in the early 1970s, the former Beatle turned to subjects in his music and personal life that spoke to some of the changes faced by men of his generation: growing up and assuming adult responsibilities, nurturing more egalitarian relationships with women, being emotionally present for their children. One of his songs that decried sexism, "Woman is The Ni#&*er of the World" (1972), earned Lennon a spot in Michael Kimmel and Tom Mosmiller's 1992 anthology Against the Tide: Pro-Feminist Men in the United States 1776-1990, a documentary history.
Lennon was a complicated person who struggled (often quite publicly) with his shortcomings as a father, a partner and a friend. He could be difficult and emotionally abusive. Many writers have noted that his audacious ambition and stunning musical achievements as a young man were propelled – in part – by his efforts to produce art through which he could communicate – and perhaps transcend – the pain he experienced as a young boy, when his parents effectively abandoned him. It is no small irony – and it is indefensible — that Lennon similarly neglected his first son, Julian.
But despite the shortcomings of the man behind the myth, as a Beatle and as a solo act John Lennon produced some of the most popular and memorable music in history. His songs have become a part of our cultural fabric and collective psyche; the enduring popularity of his artistic contributions is testament to the fact that he connected — emotionally and intellectually – with hundreds of millions (billions?) of people.
In light of that connection and Lennon's continuing appeal, I wanted to spotlight some of the things he said in his last interview about a number of topics related to the major gender transformations of his — and our — time: fatherhood, tough guy posturing, feminism, and women. Three decades later his thoughts on these critical subjects are just as relevant and enduring as his music.
On fatherhood:
The thing about the child is… it's still hard. I'm not the greatest dad on earth, I'm doing me best. But I'm a very irritable guy, and I get depressed. I'm up and down, up and down, and he's (then-five-year-old son Sean) had to deal with that too – withdrawing from him and then giving, and withdrawing and giving. I don't know how much it will affect him in later life, but I've been physically there.
On tough guy posturing:
I'm often afraid, but I'm not afraid to be afraid, otherwise it's all scary. But it's more painful to try not to be yourself. People spend a lot of time trying to be somebody else, and I think it leads to terrible diseases. Maybe you get cancer or something. A lot of tough guys get cancer, have you noticed? John Wayne, Steve McQueen. I think it has something to do — I don't know, I'm no expert — with constantly living or getting trapped in an image or an illusion of themselves, suppressing some part of themselves, whether it's the feminine side or the fearful side.
I'm well aware of that because I come from the macho school of pretense. I was never really a street kid or a tough guy. I used to dress like a Teddy boy and identify with Marlon Brando and Elvis Presley, but I never really was in real street fights or real down-home gangs. I was just a suburban kid, imitating the rockers. But it was a big part of one's life to look tough. I spent the whole of my childhood with shoulders up around the top of me head and me glasses off because glasses were sissy, and walking in complete fear, but with the toughest-looking face you've ever seen… I wanted to be this tough James Dean all the time. It took a lot of wrestling to stop doing that, even though I still fall into it when I get insecure and nervous.
On love, race and feminism:
…we hear from all kinds of people. One kid living up in Yorkshire wrote this heartfelt letter about being both Oriental and English and identifying with John and Yoko. The odd kid in the class. There are a lot of those kids who identify with us — as a couple, a biracial couple, who stand for love, peace, feminism and the positive things of the world.
On learning from women:
I have to keep remembering that I never really was (a tough guy). That's what Yoko has taught me. I couldn't have done it alone — it had to be a female to teach me. That's it. Yoko has been telling me all the time, 'It's all right, it's all right.' I look at early pictures of meself, and I was torn between being Marlon Brando and being the sensitive poet — the Oscar Wilde part of me with the velvet, feminine side. I was always torn between the two, mainly opting for the macho side, because if you showed the other side, you were dead.
On his song "Woman" (1972):
'Woman' came about because, one sunny afternoon in Bermuda, it suddenly hit me what women do for us. Not just what my Yoko does for me, although I was thinking in those personal terms…but any truth is universal. What dawned on me was everything I was taking for granted. Women really are the other half of the sky, as I whisper at the beginning of the song. It's a 'we' or it ain't anything. The song reminds me of a Beatles track, though I wasn't trying to make it sound like a Beatles track. I did it as I did 'Girl' many years ago — it just sort of hit me like a flood, and it came out like that. 'Woman' is the grown-up version of 'Girl.'
This interview — and many others over the years — makes clear that John Lennon was strong enough both to acknowledge his own vulnerability and fear, and also to embrace women's leadership, both personally and politically. For a man who would have turned 70 this year, he was way ahead of the curve. It is one of the defining tragedies of our cultural moment that a non-violent man – the leader of the Beatles! — who possessed the rare gift of translating his gender-bending introspection into brilliant, accessible art was ultimately silenced by another man's violence.
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