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Another Day in Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories
Edited by Carol Bergman. Orbis, 2003
By Susan McClelland (reviewer) | 2004-04-01 12:00:00
Edmonton native Paul Ares didn't see the signs that he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In Another Day in Paradise: International Humanitarian Workers Tell Their Stories, Ares describes the initial symptom as a vibration or tremor deep inside his body. He was sure it was the result of a bug he acquired while heading up the World Food Program's operations in West Africa and that a round of antibiotics would cure it. After a year and a half of medication and medical tests confirmed that Ares didn't have a tropical parasite, a UN doctor diagnosed the PTSD.
That was the mid-1990s and the now 56-year-old admits it took a long time for him to accept it was even possible for him to have the illness. He always assumed he could cope with the evil he saw during his two decades as a humanitarian worker. But Ares, who is still plagued by tremors, now recognizes that if there was one assignment that may have affected him more than the others, it was Liberia. He worked there in 1996 during the height of the country's bloody civil war and again in 1999. He was twice taken hostage by rebels; came face to face with the barrels of AK-47s wielded by child soldiers high on drugs; and repeatedly saw his efforts to get food to the starving thwarted. As he writes in Another Day in Paradise, it isn't "necessarily one single incident or event that will take your body to the precipice but rather an accumulation of suppressed feelings, pain, denial and shock."
In Another Day in Paradise, Ares is one of 15 humanitarian workers who recount the horrors and joys they've experienced in the field. Dr. Panaytotis Ellinas writes about being the only doctor to provide medical treatment in a refugee camp housing thousands on the Thai-Cambodian border; Sister Theresa Baldini, 63, and Sister Madeline, 79, talk about their three-decade-long work in Sudan; and Paul Heslop illustrates the physical and emotional toll of defusing land mines in Angola. These are just a few of the people who are on the front lines of war zones and natural disasters and remain there long after the soldiers have gone.
It's a profession, many admit, that, at first, enticed them for its romantic appeal: the promise, for instance, of travels to foreign lands. But as seen most recently with the deaths of aid workers in Iraq and missions being targeted by suicide bombers, humanitarian work is an occupation increasingly fraught with danger. While much has been made in the past few years about the impact of war and unrest on soldiers and civilians, very little is known about how humanitarian workers cope.
Another Day in Paradise offers a rare glimpse into the lives of this small band of people whose sole aim is to alleviate the suffering, even though they often know it is only possible in the short term. Some of the stories provide little insight into why they put themselves in this position - other than, as one writer says, the adrenalin it offers, just as war is a stimulant for some soldiers and journalists. But it is the small rewards, explains Maria Blacque-Belair, an aid worker in Bosnia from 1992-1996, that draws them back. "I became friendly with the people on the street - an old woman, a young boy - and without these attachments, I don't know how I would have gotten through these four years."
Reviewed by Susan McClelland, a Toronto journalist.
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How can 'disruptive design' enrich sustainable packaging innovation?
in Sustainable Packaging on April 06, 2016
Video of Leyla Acaroglu: Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore
In her 2013 Ted Talk, Leyla Acaroglu poses the seemingly innocent question: Paper or plastic bag? Which is better for the environment?
How can positively disruptive design be used to create innovation outcomes and new business models that enhance sustainability and circular systems? What is "positively disruptive design" and what's the application to sustainable packaging?
SustPack 2016 keynote speaker Leyla Acaroglu plans to tackle these questions and more at next week's event (Apr. 11-13; Chicago).
Founder of the Un-School of Disruptive Design, Acaroglu has a unique voice that inspires me to believe in sustainability;—and not in an abstract, academic way, but in a way that feels real and is pragmatic. As I'm struggling with the disillusionment that comes from learning through experience that sustainability and business decisions don't usually go hand-in-hand, it is liberating to meet someone who is breaking down the silos between disciplines to understand everything as a part of the elegant whole.
Leyla Acaroglu, Ph.D., has always been interested in creating things. She studied industrial design and found the idea of solving problems that are the result of bad design compelling.
"However, I felt like I was creating crap to sell," Acaroglu explains. And it was at this time that she first learned the concept that everything in nature is interconnected: "I was 19 at the time. This changed my whole perspective. It made me question the role of design and my role in it. I felt this weight of responsibility but I had no practical skills to understand the impacts of my designs on the environment."
Acaroglu left the field of industrial design and began to study sociology. She wanted to understand the mechanics of the world. Here she learned of and became interested in life-cycle analysis (LCA) as a scientific process, cause and effect, and the impacts on the economy. This is where Acaroglu began her career: at the intersection of sustainability and design, warmly known today as sustainable design.
One of Acaroglu's first projects at the Center for Design in Australia was developing an online life-cycle analysis tool for product and packaging designers. Called Greenfly, this was produced at the same time as PKG, a sustainable packaging assessment tool that exists today (among many others). "But I realized that giving people access to data doesn't mean they are going to use it well," she says.
Acaroglu continues, "Most of the methods and tools that were available to the sustainable design world were really ugly. The content was coming out of academia and it was focused on how to reduce the environmental impacts of products and packaging through eco-design wheels and nice PDFs that were very prescriptive. My research indicated that people were not attracted to these resources and there was a deflection of responsibility. Here I decided that I needed to work on creating tools and resources that were desirable to the designer."
Acaroglu subsequently left the Center for Design and started Eco Innovators. One of her first projects was The Secret Life of Things, an online platform that uses cartoons and narrative to communicate the "hidden environmental impacts of everyday things."
Designed as an educational tool that made it easy for instructors to introduce life-cycle thinking into the classroom, The Secret Life of Things demonstrates how to demystify complex environmental concepts by breaking down the barriers to entry through gamification and other techniques. Thus, the focus of Eco Innovators became developing tools that helped amplify the role of design in solving social and environmental issues.
Gamification makes learning fun and stimulates designers' creativity.
Her latest project, the Un-School of Disruptive Design goes a step further. Yes, it is a knowledge lab, a global community of designers and social change agents interested in participating in social and environmental change and working to combat the knowledge/action gap—that is, the disconnect between having tools for sustainable design and using said tools to actually design sustainable products and packaging.
But during Acaroglu's doctoral research, she uncovered this "critical pedagogy," an area of reductionist thinking that is fundamental to the way we understand our exterior world. "We develop a practice of the inability of seeing the connection between things and systems," she explains.
The Un-School was therefore founded with this goal of creating more robust three-dimensional thinking skills that help solve complex problems, systemically.
The Un-School conducts programs around the world, offering classes and certifications where "emerging" and "established" leaders can learn about the Disruptive Design Methodology and then peer teach themselves.
"Design is very powerful," Acaroglu says. "We are not teaching graphic design. We are not teaching industrial design. We are teaching disruptive design—this is the intent to intervene in the system to create positive change."
Acaroglu looks forward to challenging the audience at SustPack 2016 to question the status quo of packaging. Instead of seeing packaging as a single-use, disposable product that is hopefully caught by the system of recycling, how can we design packaging that facilitates a greater outcome? That is, an outcome where the overall loss on the system is less than that of the status quo?
"And I am not talking about embedding a plant seed in a paper label as demonstrative of the power of disruptive design in packaging development," Acaroglu jokes. "I am taking about how, as producers of packaging, we can design systems that are regenerative into the creation of the product/packaging system itself."
Sounds heady.
For case studies on how disruptive design can be leveraged in packaging development, attend SustPack 2016 to hear Acaroglu's keynote address "Designing Change for Circular Systems."
Chandler Slavin is the sustainability coordinator and marketing manager at custom thermoforming company Dordan Manufacturing. Privately held and family owned and operated since 1962, Dordan is an engineering-based designer and manufacturer of plastic clamshells, blisters, trays and thermoformed components. Follow Slavin on Twitter @DordanMfg.
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Q: .bash_history permissions mysteriously changed So my ubuntu user's .bash_history just won't show up when I hit history.  So I check permissions and the .bash_history in /home/ubuntu is now owned by root.  Any idea what might've happened?  I checked the root user's history and didn't notice anything that would've caused this.
Also, when I use the mysql client, it appends a long string of " " to the end of some lines.
To solve BOTH issues, I chown'd the .bash_history back to ubuntu:ubuntu.  Any idea why this happened?

A: There's no way to know for sure what happened unless you have command auditing on your system and are willing to sift through every command executed between "when it last worked" and "when it broke".
As a wild-ass guess: You somehow executed bash as root with $HOME environment variable still set to this user's home directory. There are lots of ways to do this (e.g. su -m will preserve $HOME).

A: You probably ran a command like sudo su to get a root shell.  That will keep the same environment, meaning your home was used as root.  If you want a root shell use sudo -i.

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The big picture is this: if you read the long piece by Jeffery Goldberg in conversation with Obama, it is obvious that Obama sees thru and rejects the foreign policy consensus that has barely changed since the end of the Cold War, let alone realized how totally wrong it was about that conflict, ironically imagining that Marx was right about the threat to democratic social democracy.
That establishment treats phrases like "American credibility" and "national interest" as well defined terms of art that can be used to understand the world without the need to look behind them. Obama looks behind them. It's not hard.
Like all wrong paradigms, it looks absurdly stupid from the outside. But folks within the faith will always be able to correct the details of those without. Atheists are not well known for their encyclopedic knowledge of dogma. And having seen that the emperors have no clothes, he is prone to hubristic pronouncements.
Academic economics is the same way. How not to sound mocking and juvenile when the smartest people in the room debate recipes for orienting the broken clock of mechanical economics toward the proper time of Darwinian reality?
I agree in general with Obama's critique of establishment foreign policy, and I think his views are closer to Bernie's than to Hillary's more hawkish ones, even though she was involved with those initial negotiations with the Iranian hardliners, and she has strongly supported the nuclear deal with Iran publicly, while disagreeing openly about some other matters, notably Syria.
I would note that sometimes atheists know more than believers because they have spent a lot of effort thinking about what it is they do not believe. Really.
I have gleaned that the article was a mix of what Rhodes said and what the reporter thought, and it's hard to tell them apart. If the gist is that Rhodes thinks the press are a bunch of juvenile muppets, and the foreign policy establishment a circle-jerk of received wisdom, then he's surely right but unwise to say so.
The hoo-ha about the Iran deal is typical Beltway self-absorption. It was a multi-lateral deal, and the other parties are not about to unwind it on US say-so. Nor, given other US interests, would it be sensible to do so. But that won't stop the noise.
Funny thing about the author is that in 2009 he was supporting bombing Iran. Go figure.


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Every time you spot a stray dog, take a picture to alert the community.
This way you can take part in the creation of a database on stray dogs.
"Mappa il Randagio" (Map that Stray!) is an app for smartphones and tablets designed to help you report stray animals within protected areas. The aim of the app is to unite a sense of civic duty with a pinch of fun. Using "Mappa il Randagio" anyone can take a picture of a stray they've spotted. They can save the picture, give it a name, publish it and share it on social networks. "Mappa il Randagio" will provide real-time details of the sighting, allowing Park authorities to have up-to-date data on the presence of strays.
"Mappa il Randagio" is easy to use and encourages the direct involvement of all, starting from the very youngest. It's a way of establishing collaboration between those working in the Parks, livestock farmers, the police and civic society.
The app presents a simple menu, with few options. By clicking on "Fai una foto" (Take a picture) you can snap a photo, name, save, publish, and share it on social networks. By clicking on "Mappa" (Map) you'll be able to see the places where app users have added sightings. By clicking on "Profilo" (Profile) you can update your personal information. Finally, under "Cerca" (Search) every user will be able to view all general sightings.
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Attention, developers! Apple's got the third beta of iPhone OS 4.0 and its SDK available for download here. No word yet on what's changed from the previous release, but if you're registered with the iPhone Dev Center, get to it. If you're one of the rest of us, the official public release is expected this winter. Updated.
Update: Looks as though the camera crashing issues the previous release had have been resolved, for starters. Check out the rest of what's new here.


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Sir Arthur SOMERVELL (1863-1937)
Maud (1898-9) [35.07]
A Shropshire Lad (1904-05) [21.05]
A kingdom by the Sea [3.36]
Shepherd's Cradle Song [2.35]
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Susie Allan (piano)
rec. 2019, Menuhin Hall, Yehudi Menuhin School, UK
SOMM RECORDINGS SOMMCD0615 [62.24]
Another exceptionally fine release from SOMM. Arthur Somervell has been reasonably, if patchily served on disc over the years on disc. His output was not huge and most of the key works - with one area a notable exception - have been covered. Hyperion seem to have been the most active with a couple of their "Romantic Concerto" series covering the late violin concerto, the "Normandy Variations" and the "Highland Concerto". An early 1985 Hyperion release also saw the same programme as presented here in well-received performances by David Wilson-Johnson and David Owen Norris. The Housman cycle also appeared as part of the short-lived Collins "English Song" series - latterly on Naxos, and Maud was recorded for Pearl by John Carol Case amongst other versions.
So for a collector options do exist, but on its own merits this new disc is of the very highest order. No surprise that Roderick Williams should give such insightful and sensitive interpretations. He follows in a long line of superb British baritones and he is the equal of the finest. All his characteristic qualities of superb clarity and sensitive word painting are on display alongside his richly resonant voice which suits this style of music so well. He is partnered - "accompanied" seems to imply a rather secondary/lesser role - by Susie Allan. Allan makes the most of Somervell's evocative and atmospheric piano writing which extends far beyond being a simple harmonic support for a vocal line. Indeed, Allan's playing made me realise how dramatically effective Somervell's writing is. Yet, that is the area - stage works or indeed choral works – of Somervell that seems to have been utterly ignored to date on disc. By the measure of these two cycles, my sense is that Somervell the vocal dramatist must be worth re-examining.
The disc opens with Somervell's distillation of Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1855 sequence of twenty eight poems Maud. This was part of a collection which included The Charge of the Light Brigade and was his first publication after having been made poet laureate in 1850. This is Tennyson at the height of his powers and fame and embodying the Victorian taste for slightly heated melodrama. Somervell's notable skill was to condense the somewhat fraught emotional landscape of Tennyson into a coherent and cogent thirty five minute monodrama. The interest from a more detached 21st Century perspective is the slightly "penny-dreadful" nature of Tennyson's text. Hence the first setting, I hate the dreadful hollow does little to spare delicate sensibilities diving in with lines such as; "The red-ribb'd ledges drip with a silent horror of blood....". Somervell instantly sets the dark and glowering mood with a powerfully sombre opening gesture executed to perfection by Susie Allan. Part of the problem that Tennyson creates for composer and performers is that the poems are all set in the first tense of male narrator telling about his infatuated relationship to the eponymous Maud. Williams' great narrative skill is in finding the wide emotional range from rapture to despair to passion to nobility while not over-emoting these potentially sentimental feelings. In this he is supported by Somervell's skilful selection and ordering of the texts leading from the early tragedy of the narrator's father's death through his initial encounter with Maud, onto the killing of Maud's brother in an honour-duel leading to a final redemptive sacrifice for the Motherland where death in battle with allow a reunion with his beloved beyond the grave.
From the perspective of a cynical 21st Century, when read in isolation, it is hard not to find Tennyson's original poems as over-wrought and lacking in nuance and subtlety. Somervell's significant achievement, alongside that of Williams and Allan is to ameliorate that hot-house excess and instead draw the listener into a powerful and effective narrative - without doubt the song settings bring greater depth and humanity to the original verses. A.E. Housman famously hated the idea of any of his texts being set to music, convinced as he was that they were complete and sufficient in themselves. Posterity has judged him wrong with his sixty three poems that comprise A Shropshire Lad amongst the most often set British poems of the last one hundred and twenty years. Indeed, when Somervell made his selection of ten poems for his cycle in 1904, they were just eight years old. For all the most famous settings from Vaughan Williams to Butterworth, Gurney and Moeran, Somervell's cycle was the first. Again, Somervell carefully selected and ordered the verses to create a coherent narrative arc starting with a young innocent man in the first setting When I was young and twenty, then the years of growing awareness of life and mortality - No.4 In Summertime on Bredon and No.8 Think no more lads, laugh be jolly, to the closing prescience of No.10 The lads in their hundreds. The latter took on particular resonance during the carnage of World War I, but of course it should be noted that Housman was referencing the Boer War.
Somervell was never a folk-song influenced composer in the way that the young Vaughan Williams or Butterworth were. His training was a text-book (pun intended) example to young British composers of red-brick university, a sound academic training in Germany (Berlin in this instance) topped off by post-graduate study back in the UK with Parry. Somervell's musical Gods were very much the German models of Schubert, Schumann and Brahms. But in this Housman cycle his musical style is markedly different from the earlier drama of Maud. Both melodic lines and their accompaniments are deliberately simpler, with the writing appealingly fluent and tuneful. For sure he does point out a repeated ringing bell in the previously mentioned In Summertime on Bredon but it is integrated in the musical texture rather than overtly seeking to paint a dramatic scene. Again, the performance of Williams and Allan cannot be praised too highly. Once more I find that Williams finds an ideal balance between subtle pointing of the text without ever falling into mannerism or excess. He also manages to convey the essential vigour of youth and the intimations of mortality that these poems contain. As mentioned, the Somervell recital on Collins/Naxos from Graham Johnson and Christopher Maltman contains the complete Housman cycle as well as three excerpts from Maud. Maltman is another very fine singer and of course Johnson is an exemplary accompanist. However, in this instance he must cede to Williams who not only has a more richly resonant voice but whose handling of the text is even more sensitively achieved. Generally Williams favours flowing tempi that somehow seems to chime more effectively with the urgency of doomed youth. That said, the Naxos recital offers the interested collector a wider selection of Somervell's song settings and as such will be a compulsory addition alongside this new disc. At the time of its publication, Housman was criticised for the arch naivety of these seemingly simple texts. Yet that very simplicity has served them better than Tennyson's more convoluted and heated creations.
In addition to the two cycles, Williams and Allan offer a pair of brief single songs; A Kingdom by the Sea and Shepherd's Cradle Song. The former is a setting of Edgar Allan Poe while the disc closes with the gently rapturous cradle song described simply in the liner as "translated from German". Both songs receive delightfully caring and tender renditions which again belie a kind of folksong simplicity. The liner notes that Roderick Williams and Susie Allan have been collaborating for over twenty years and frankly it shows. There is an absolute sense of rightness about this recital that quite disarms any criticism. Allied to that is the technical quality of the production. This is in the very finest tradition of SOMM with the regular team of producer Siva Oke and engineer Paul Arden-Taylor achieving an ideal balance between voice and piano. I am not sure they have used the Menuhin Hall at the Menuhin School previously but it provides an excellent venue with a generous but not overly resonant acoustic. Completing the all-round excellence is a booklet with two valuable essays. First Jeremy Dibble contributes a typically informative and detailed description of the music and the composer. This is complimented by an article from Roderick Williams entitled "Somervell then and now - a singer's perspective". In it Williams offers the listener some fascinating insights into his interpretative understanding of the music which makes for not only a valuable critique into the composer's mindset and choices but also gives the reader a perspective on how a singer of Williams' stature sets about creating an interpretation. Full song texts in English only are also included.
Nick Barnard
Previous reviews: John Quinn ~ Ian Lace
1) I – I hate the dreadful hollow [1.44]
2) II – A voice by the cedar tree [3.59]
3) III -She came to a village church [1.24]
4) IV – O let the solid ground [1.08]
5) V - Birds in the high Hall garden [2.40]
6) VI - Maud has a garden [1.43]
7) VII – Go not, happy day [1.35]
8) VIII – I have led her home [2.35]
9) IX - Come in to the garden, Maud [3.28]
10) X - The fault was mine [3.40]
11) X - Dead, long dead (4.08)
12) XII – O that 'twere possible [1.45]
13) XIII – My life has crept so long [5.12]
14) A kingdom by the Sea [3.36]
A Shropshire Lad
1) I Loveliest of Trees [1.52]
2) II When I was one-and-twenty [1.09]
3) III There pass the careless people [1.25]
4) IV In summertime on Bredon [3.11]
5) V The street sounds to the soldiers' tread [2.00]
6) VI On the idle hill of summer [2.25]
7) VII White in the moon the long road lies [2.55]
8) VIII Think no more, lad, be jolly [1.43]
9) IX Into my heart an air that kills [1.37]
10) X The lads in their hundreds [2.45]


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Zim's changing economic landscape
Special counsellor to the Centre for Financial Stability in New York and Professor of Applied Economics and co-director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at the Johns Hopkins University, is a mark of honour for Professor Steve Hanke, is also a contributor at Forbes. By this standard, Hanke who is among the leading world experts on measuring and stopping hyperinflation. He has been studying Zimbabwe for many years. He speaks to our Washington DC-based correspondent Pearl Matibe (ND) about the changing landscape of Zimbabwe's economy. Below are the excerpts:
By Pearl Matibe
ND: Zimbabwe's in a hole, how do we dig ourselves out?
SH: The best way to dig out of the hole in Zimbabwe is for the government to get out of the way, so that Zimbabweans can dig. If the government stopped trying to control Zimbabweans, they would dig pretty fast.
ND: Zimbabwe's economy is quickly and sharply falling apart and in need of a major overhaul. You're an applied economist. In layman's terms and for the benefit of the Zimbabweans that may not have studied economics, what's the difference between an economist and an applied economist?
SH: What differentiates many economists from applied economists is that economists tend to spend most of their time and energy thinking about economic problems and the theories and tools that might be used to solve them. Applied economists apply the theories and tools of economics to solve problems. There is both an art and a science involved in the application. Let's say the distinction is a bit like the difference between an architect who designs a building and the builder who actually builds the building.
ND: What do you find more valuable in your day as you measure hyperinflation?
SH: Alas, the word "hyperinflation" is thrown around carelessly and misused frequently in the financial Press. Indeed, the debasement has gone to such lengths that the word "hyperinflation" has almost lost its meaning. The most valuable thing in measuring hyperinflation is first understanding what hyperinflation is. I use high-frequency data to measure inflation in countries where inflation is elevated; I have been able to refine Phillip Cagan's 50% per month hyperinflation hurdle rate that was adopted back in 1956. With improved measurement techniques, I now define a hyperinflation as an inflation in which the inflation rate exceeds 50% per month for at least 30 consecutive days.
ND: You're also a senior fellow and director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC Briefly, what is this project and what's its relevance to Zimbabwe?
SH: The Troubled Currencies Project was founded to solve the following problem: For various reasons — ranging from political mismanagement, to civil war, to economic sanctions — some countries are unable to maintain a stable domestic currency. These "troubled currencies" are associated with elevated rates of inflation, and in some extreme cases, hyperinflation. Often, it is difficult to obtain timely, reliable exchange-rate and inflation data for countries with troubled currencies. To address, this my Project collects black-market exchange-rate data from these troubled currencies and estimates the implied inflation for each country.
In the case of Zimbabwe, the Trouble Currencies Project has tracked both Zimbabwe's first episode of hyperinflation in November 2008 and its second episode in September 2017. In both cases, Zimbabwe's monthly inflation rate exceeded the 50% per month threshold for 30 consecutive days. I am proud to say that I, along with my team, were the ones who accurately measured both of these hyperinflation episodes and published the results in scientific journals.
ND: Why should people be worried about Zimbabwe's inflation?
SH: I would write a book on this topic. Lacking time or space, I will simply say that inflation is a form of State-sponsored theft. Just ask anyone who has been forced to accept a bond note or an RTGS if they haven't been robbed by the government.
ND: In 2008, you wrote a report that the source of Zimbabwe's hyperinflation is the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. From recent assertions in the news that may still be the case. The question everyone would like an answer to is how do we stop the hyperinflation?
SH: There are various ways, but one of the most reliable ways is the currency board system, in which a local currency becomes a clone of an anchor currency. I stopped a big hyperinflation in Bulgaria in 1997, when I was the President's adviser, by designing and introducing a currency board. The hyperinflation peaked at 242% per month. The currency board law was introduced, and with that the lev began to trade freely at a fixed exchange rate with the German mark. Each lev was backed 100% by German mark reserves. So, the lev was as good as a mark. The hyperinflation stopped within hours.
The other sure-fire way to stop a hyperinflation is by dollarising. I have done this in Montenegro in 1999, when I was the President's adviser and in Ecuador in 2001, when I was the Finance minister's adviser. By eliminating the local currency, a hard budget constraint and discipline are put into the fiscal system, because the government can no longer go to the central bank and force it to print money to finance government expenditure. So, hyperinflation stops immediately. The problem in Zimbabwe is that the government abandoned dollarisation whenever it started using bond notes and RTGS. The result has been a disaster. Indeed, high inflation has resulted. I measure it today at 152% per year.
ND: As a leading world expert on measuring and stopping hyperinflation do you think the 2% tax is the right first step and is it likely to work?
SH: The 2% tax was a terrible policy blunder. It was a spark that started the most recent economic wildfire in Zimbabwe.
ND: It's not the only measure, is it? We're hearing of more austerity measures to come.
SH: No one knows what will come. The government has no economic plan. Indeed, I don't think the authorities know what the word "plan" means.
ND: How does the new Finance minister, Prof. Mthuli Ncube dig the country out of this hole and who is his best aid? The Reserve Bank, private sector or should it be borrowing more from Afreximbank and GemCorp at this time? Is there not a limit to how much the Zimbabwean government can borrow?
SH: I answered the "digging out of the hole" question earlier. A big problem in Zimbabwe is the Reserve Bank. This corrupt institution should have been mothballed and put in a museum long ago. As for borrowing more money, given the current state of Zimbabwe's economic incoherent strategy that would not be wise. Borrowing money is only wise when you have a good strategy that will ensure that your borrowed money will be productively used.
ND: What does Zimbabwe need to do immediately to show "fiscal discipline?" And in the short-medium term?
SH: Mothball the Reserve Bank, and forbid the government from issuing any kind of quasi-monies, like bond notes and RTGSs.
ND: Does the economic turmoil in Zimbabwe threaten the region? If so, in what way?
SH: No. Zimbabwe's economic turmoil is homegrown and hurts Zimbabweans, and no one else.
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If ever these people where so concerned about Zimbabweans seriously, everybody is aware that this is not the right door to such contributions, the doors to all ministries are all open for idea buying. The two are interesting in such a way that they make fools out of themselves; THEY ARE OVERQUALIFIED, THE PLATFORM IS UNHEALTHY TO HUB THEIR OPINION EXCHANGE. THIS THREAD MUST BE READ BY RELEVANT MATCHMAKERS NOT GENERALLY COOKED CITIZENS, WE NEED TANGIBLE HELP
Kurekwemeso
The Professor is not being honest. Why is it whenever we have commentators from the West they never comment on the actual cause of Zimbabwean problem: sanctions. The Professor should also give the same bite on this Western induced shock as he has done on the institutions like RBZ. To be fair, if it weren't for the RBZ the problems could have been worse. There is an economic reason why the West applied sanctions and they were very clear of what will happen, with the complete dislocation of the Zim economy being the main one. They actually succeeded in causing the pain but failed in making the country a failure. Zimbabwe is slowly moving out of the Western induced intensive care and these commentators know that very well. The said part is that the Zimbabwean lady couldn't ask the right questions. If you want to make these people uncomfortable depart from their script and ask about the intentions of such things as sanctions and media war on Zimbabwe. As Zimbabweans we are doing the country a disservice by not educating the so-called Professors of what caused and needs to be done. Mbuya Nehanda said "mapfupa angu achamuka" and when we followed her words we won the struggle against these people. We need to do the same thing.
Mwalimu
Sanctions yes are part of the cause. BUT the RBZ is also part of the bigger problem. It is being used by the politicians to print money via bond notes and RTGS to finance consumptive expenditure. Why is it that in 4 years during the GNU the deficit was only 200 million? Five years later it is now at $6 billion. What changed? Face it the country is bankrupt. The sooner we realize this the better.
Pearl Matibe
Dear Mwalimu,
What changed was the introduction of bond notes together with the chosen set of socio-economic policies. The direction the country's policies take (formulation) are set at the top.
Thank you for posting a comment.
The prof has just given practical ways that can help us. The main issue hear is our gvt's lack of fiscal discipline. Even if sanctions are removed and we get all the funding in the world we will still fall again in the same pit without reforms that include fiscal discipline.
Dear Kurekwemeso,
1.	Professor Hanke is the interviewee. He was responding to questions I posed to him. Do you have specific question(s)? I'm more than happy to ask him directly on your specific question(s).
2.	You comment: "Why is it whenever we have commentators from the West they never comment on the actual cause of Zimbabwean problem: sanctions." For clarity, are you asking me to explain U.S. sanctions? If yes, to do the content justice, I can write a separate article that would provide the (i) history (ii) context (iii) current state of sanctions bearing in mind that sanctions are not the same thing as ZDERA. But, yes, do let me know what you'd like explained and I'm happy to help inform more on the topic.
3.	To correct you. I did not use anyone's scripted questions. All questions were created by me; all original content.
4.	I'll gladly write a separate opinion on your requested "media war on Zimbabwe" since this is a large topic in its own right.
I look forward to your response in clarifying if the above, yes, I'm happy to write an article that explains the difference between sanctions, ZDERA etc.
Dear Lambert,
I agree with you that fiscal discipline is key to Zimbabwe's long-term sustainability and prosperity.
I value your comment, thanks.
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Evan's story about living with schizophrenia - video transcripts
Evan was diagnosed with schizophrenia at 19. He has been hospitalised once and over time has tried counselling and a variety of medications. Re-engaging with the community has been important to his recovery, as has work and having good relationships with his GP and psychiatrist.
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Experiences with GPs
Evan: The one that I'm having now I've had for maybe 20 years or more. He's a friend of mine, a good friend of mine now, rather than a practitioner. Calls me his best patient. Isn't that cute! Anyway that's what he calls me.
You know, I'll tell you why he calls me his best patient, he said, "Evan," he goes, "you seem to come in here and you ask the right questions. You know I get patients coming in here, they don't ask any questions, they're not interested, they're not, they don't know where to go. They don't know, they don't want to get better. Whereas you have a curious mind", he said, "and you ask the right questions and I'm happy to answer them for you 'cause I know that that's how you're going get better".
I just ask him you know, questions like, "Is this medication going work better in a week's time"? "In two weeks' time"? Or, "When is it going work better?" Or, "Is it going work better like the other medication?" I ask him sort of curious questions that make me ponder upon my recovery and my wellness.
And he says they're the right ones, yeah, so which is good for me. But I think it's important that people just don't walk into a practitioner's room without not knowing, not having a plan in action, not having a plan of questions that they want to ask them. You know, because he's there, he's knowledgeable, make use of it you know. That's what I see as a practitioner. He's done a lot of schooling to be like that and he sees other people of the same nature. So he'll be able to, he's the best person to guide you.
Personal recovery - clip 1
Evan: My parents grew me up in a religious environment. And so I've been religious ever since and I think praying to someone who's up above everyone is important. Because it's validating, it's having hope, it's asking for things to happen, I think. And also the church environment allows social connection to happen, allows friends to develop, allows people to see people who have mental illness worse off than themselves as well. Or see people better off than themselves with a mental illness as well.
Either path is just as therapeutic because if you see people worse off than yourself then you would try to step in and help that person. If you see people better off than yourself that allows you one day that you may become like them too. So either path is therapeutic and so you see a diverse range of people in the church from all different illnesses, different mental illnesses, physical illnesses. And you socially connect with people there too. And the church is also, I mean pretty good with church because the priest that I connect with he's a priest that knows me from a child, knows me before my mental illness.
And he's a priest, a family priest. You know, Greek Orthodox priests get married, he has eight children I think or eight grandchildren so he understands and he's had some children who've had some hardship as well. So he understands all those circumstances and he's given me a leading role in the church as well, in being a committee member, in running the church and I enjoy that, I enjoy that. And my wife actually cleans the church on a voluntary capacity. She goes there every week to clean the church and sometimes I go and help her too. So church has been very therapeutic, it's been communal, it's been community focussed, it's been an environment where, has led me to, I'd say, an accelerated recovery.
Support in life decisions
Evan: Very much so, very much so. It's an area or territory if you like of uncertainty. When a person develops a mental illness he gets to come to a point where he's uncertain of where to go or with decisions or making decisions. And, not only that, it's also whether the medication will work or not as well - that's an uncertainty.
There's an uncertainty on whether I'm going to sustain a job, there's uncertainty in whether it's going happen, whether I'm going develop a relapse in the future. All these uncertainties create the need for trust to be developed through a practitioner and my family people. For them to maybe make decisions for me when I can't make them, yeah.
Talking therapies
Evan: But this counselling gave me a sense of motivation, to be able to go on with life and to be able to get interactive into the community. This form of therapy not only made me interactive in the community but made me become a soccer coach. Yeah and then advance to a soccer referee for [soccer organisation].Yeah, with a mental illness, mind you.
But I managed to do it and I did it successfully for a number of years. And now I'm at the local church, I'm on the committee and I help run the church as well. So I've had leadership roles in the community but I wouldn't have had those leadership roles if it wasn't for that, you know that therapeutic counselling that I got.
Negotiating daily life
Evan: There I was treated with medication - very sedative medication and then it was reduced to maintenance level. And then I got out in the community and gradually became a community person, if you like, with the other community members in the community. I tried to get back to work on numerous occasions, sustaining employment was the problem. I could get a job, there was no problem in getting work. The problem was sustaining a job for a long term period of time. And so I managed to get into a number of different industries, if you like, of employment.
I got into the finance industry, the retail industry, the real estate industry, the fashion industry, the funeral industry and also the, let me see what other industry? Oh so many industries I got into, different industries, diverse variety of employments I had. They were short term though, and that was the problem though. I couldn't sustain employment for a long time.
Evan: Well I guess in recovery there are people that are unique in their recovery. The definitions come right, left and centre about recovery and people talk about recovery. I think the main essence of recovery is to be hopeful. And also to never lose sight of one's abilities and to be self-responsible for one's actions and one's abilities. And to continue on with life as a normal human being like you were, like you are. And to get on with life regardless of having a mental illness.
And I think another part of recovery's accepting the fact that you've got a mental illness and getting on with life you know. I think the acceptance part is a big, big role. I've got my sister who's got bipolar, she accepts it now but she won't open up to the, she doesn't open up to everyone about her mental illness. And I think with that she's a little bit paranoid of who knows about her mental illness, who doesn't. And so she's still on recovery journey and she's trying to get better.
But I've always told her and I've given her time to think about this, that opening up about her mental illness in general will create a caring community, will create a caring community towards her too. So I think that… Yeah they're the essence of recovery. I think acceptance, self-responsibility, hope and just being a normal person in society, yeah.
Experience of receiving a diagnosis
Evan: Okay. Well, I first developed my mental illness in 1977, first diagnosed in 1977. But prior to that I just had symptoms of paranoia and I thought people were following me, I thought people were talking about me.
I didn't hear actually voices but I thought people were talking about me. I was paranoid about the way people were talking around me if you like. So, then it became problematic obviously and so I approached my parents. My parents could see that there was a problem. They took me to a number of GPs and I went to a spiritual healer, a priest of our local church as well. And through that I was told to just go home and it will just, it was just stress I was told back in '77, 1977.
So I went home and the problem became exacerbated a bit more. And I told my parents I needed to perhaps go and see the, the emergency department at a hospital. So I did. I went to one main hospital in Victoria, the emergency department. I actually went a few times there before I actually got to see psychiatrist if you like. And that psychiatrist finally, after a few visits to the psychiatrist, he decided that it was, I had schizophrenia and I was made an inpatient in the hospital for three months.
Discrimination and social responses to mental health problems
Evan: If there's more people like me in the community who would not hide their illness and open up to their illness to the community, then we might have a more caring community I think. You know, I just came from a conference, a psychiatrists' conference if you like. And they're discussing and dialoguing now about psychiatrists that aren't well, what should they do in those circumstances? Should they open up or should they hide the fact that they've got an illness?
And I was on the panel discussion and I actually spoke freely. I said, "Look you doctors here are humans as well you know. You have the potential of developing an illness as well you know. And if you do, what would you do in those situations you know? And I encourage that you open up". Because it would be a risk not to themselves but it'd be a risk to their patients as well, it'd be a risk to the community in general too. And it will be a risk to themselves mainly, you know. So if they opened up about their illness and they can treated and be functional back in the community.
Experiences with mental health practitioners: Psychiatrists, counsellors and others
Interviewer: What qualities in him that could – that you would see as being key to what makes him a good practitioner?
Evan: Well, the quality is he treats me like a human being, he treats me like a human being. He treats me like a friend. Over the years when trust is built he doesn't sort of create boundaries you know. And we give gifts to each other you know, for, when I know Christmas is there, Easter time. And he respects my spiritual belief as well, which is good, he respects that. And when trust is built he opens up with some of his judgements as well. You know, they say that a practitioner should be non-judgemental but I say for him to be a good practitioner he's got to be human too. So he's got to have judges, judging in there too. He's got to have a bit of non-judgemental comments, but I believe that that should be put forward in the right time. And not only that, but also when trust is built, not in initial basis, Yeah.
Interviewer: Could you think of an example where he might have made a judgement?
Yeah, I can give you an example. For example, I'm talking about high school times, how I enjoyed high school times and he says this to me, yeah he went to [university] for example and I used to do community education around the schools. I used to go to school and talk about mental health and mental illness. And I told him about the kids there.
Anyway we're talking about [high school] and he says to me, "Evan did you see my name up on the board"? [laughs] I said, "What board"? He said, "The Honours Board". "Yeah". "I was dux of the year there." So that's just you know, he's bringing on his personal details to me and that's cutting the boundaries a bit and that's like being a friend with me. I think that shows good quality in a good practitioner. To be able to do that at the right time you know and to be able to show that he's not just a doctor, to be a friend to the person too, yeah.
Advice to others: People with lived experience of severe mental health problems - clip 1
Evan: So I think the best advice from me is to see your GP and see what your GP comes up with. I think it's that area of discussion needs to be done through a GP about seeing a good psychiatrist. If you're not happy with the one you're referred to then you go back to your GP and say that to your GP.
You can get a second opinion now. I know a second opinion, the Mental Health Act has come in and with a second opinion area of work where you can, a second opinion scheme where you can be advised, not advised, where you if you feel like you want a second opinion you can go and ask for a second opinion. And it can be someone that's not connected with this psychiatrist you're seeing which is a good thing.
Usually second opinions in the past has been a colleague of your psychiatrist. So when he writes your second opinion he just supports him, so it's not really a second opinion. A real second opinion is when you see someone that's not connected with your existing practitioner. And that's why the second opinion scheme is going be set up, where it's going be a pool of psychiatrists in the department, where I can seek from that pool of psychiatrists, an independent psychiatrist to give me a second opinion.
Evan: If there's more people like me in the community who would not hide their illness and open up to their illness to the community, then we might have a more caring community I think. You know, I just came from a conference, a psychiatrist's conference if you like. And they're discussing and dialoguing now about psychiatrists that aren't well, what should they do in those circumstances? Should they open up or should they hide the fact that they've got an illness?
And I was on the panel discussion and I actually spoke freely. I said, "Look you doctors here are humans as well you know. You have the potential of developing an illness as well. And if you do, what would you do in those situations?" And I encourage that you open up because it would be a risk, not to themselves but it'd be a risk to their patients as well, it'd be a risk to the community in general too. And it will be a risk to themselves mainly, you know. So if they opened up about their illness and be functional back in the community.
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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only was published in the US in 2007. The author was Patrick McGilligan, the biographer of many icons of Hollywood cinema and an illustrious historian of McCarthyism in the cinema. For me, reading the book proved to be a journey into marvellous and unknown territories. The narrative was so unfamiliar and incredible in its various nuances that I could believe that it was partly fictionalised. I contacted McGilligan who confirmed that it was the result of in-depth work over a period of years that aimed to rediscover one of the most extraordinary figures in American film, the real father of African-American cinema. To understand better these incredible events, I began meeting African-American scholars and directors and then travelling to the places where Micheaux's personal story began, the rural south of Illinois and South Dakota. It was several years before I could put together the material and resources to illustrate his story.
This documentary reconstructs the Oscar Micheaux's extraordinary achievements and scrutinises his contemporary legacy, venturing into the places in which he lived: rural Illinois and lively Chicago at the beginning of the last century, the plains of South Dakota and also the jazz-infused artistic renaissance of Harlem. Micheaux's incredible challenges are recounted by esteemed scholars and the heirs of his cinema, including John Singleton and Kevin Willmott, as well as icons of popular African-American music and culture such as Chuck D., the legendary rapper and Public Enemy frontman.
Only four photographs of Micheaux himself and about ten of the more than 40 films that he directed have been preserved, but the moment has come to rediscover his uniqueness.
The project is made even more incredible by the way the documentary was made: realised entirely by remote connection via Zoom with an itinerant crew in the US. An adventure within an adventure. A method that would, perhaps, have pleased Micheaux, who undertook even greater endeavours throughout his whole life. I am therefore pleased that this 'rediscovered' director and his Murder in Harlem, which have also been saved from obscurity, are being hosted by Il Cinema Ritrovato.
Sog., Scen.: Francesco Zippel. Prod.: Quoiat Films, Sky. DCP. Bn e Col.
Director: Francesco Zippel
Running time: 79'
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Witowice – wieś w Polsce położona w województwie lubelskim, powiecie puławskim, gminie Końskowola.

Witowice leżą nad rzeką Kurówką. Miejscowość sąsiaduje bezpośrednio z Końskowolą, Opoką i Chrząchowem. We wsi znajdują się: remiza ochotniczej straży pożarnej, sklep ogólnospożywczy, zakład mięsny Drob-Wit, szkółka roślin wrzosowatych. W Witowicach mieści się także komin pozostały po zburzonej cegielni. Przy granicy z Chrząchowem rośnie niewielki las zwany "Zalochy". Częścią Witowic są też domy mieszkalne położone w południowej części wsi; tereny te są nazywane potocznie przez mieszkańców "zapłociem". Liczba ludności to 455 osób (dane z 2011 roku). Istniał tu także klub sportowy "KS Witowice", którego trenerem był Grzegorz Kozak. Kursują tu również autobusy i emki puławskiej komunikacji miejskiej.

Historia
Witowice powstały najprawdopodobniej w XIII wieku. W źródłach pisanych pojawiają się po raz pierwszy w 1408 roku. Wieś należała wówczas do Dziersława z Konina, a następnie do jego syna – Piotra. Wywodzili się z rodu Konińskich legitymujących się herbem Rawicz. Witowice były ośrodkiem macierzystym Konińskiej Woli (Witowskiej Woli). Wchodziły w skład tzw. klucza końskowolskiego. Następnie zostały przejęte przez późniejszych właścicieli Konińskiej Woli (Tęczyńskich, Opalińskich, Zbaraskich, Daniłłowiczów, Lubomirskich, Sieniawskich, Czartoryskich).

Wieś szlachecka położona była w drugiej połowie XVI wieku w powiecie lubelskim województwa lubelskiego.

Wieś wraz z folwarkiem wchodziła w 1662 roku w skład majętności końskowolskiej Łukasza Opalińskiego.

W 1907 roku została zbudowana cegielnia będąca własnością prywatną rodziny Borzęckich. Pozostałością po byłej cegielni jest wysoki komin. W latach 60. z inicjatywy mieszkańców wybudowano drogę bitą. Kolejnym przedsięwzięciem było założenie linii telefonicznej. W latach 70. na miejscu drewnianej remizy postawiono nową. Dzisiaj mieści się tam siedziba Ochotniczej Straży Pożarnej, która powstała w dniu 21 marca 1927 roku. Wieś nękały również liczne pożary, którym sprzyjała drewniana zabudowa.
Podczas II wojny światowej w walkach toczących się pod Witowicami zginęli polscy żołnierze. Pochowano ich na cmentarzu w Końskowoli. W czasie wojny we wsi działały oddziały Armii Krajowej i Batalionów Chłopskich. Niektórzy mieszkańcy uczestniczyli w kampanii wrześniowej, część z nich trafiła do obozów jenieckich. W okresie międzywojennym istniała szkoła, która mieściła się w prywatnym domu. Obecnie dzieci i młodzież z Witowic uczy się w szkole w Końskowoli. We wsi znajduje się sześć figur, w tym cztery krzyże i dwie kapliczki.

W latach 1975–1998 miejscowość należała administracyjnie do województwa lubelskiego.

Gospodarka
Źródłem utrzymania mieszkańców jest nie tylko rolnictwo (w tym uprawa zbóż, truskawek, malin, porzeczek, drzewek i krzewów ozdobnych), ale także praca w pobliskich Puławach czy innych miejscowościach w regionie. Hodowla zwierzęca stopniowo zanika.

Zobacz też
 Witowice, Witowice Dolne, Witowice Górne

Przypisy

Bibliografia
 Dzieje Końskowoli (red.) Ryszard Szczygieł, Końskowolskie Towarzystwo Regionalne, Lublin 1988

Linki zewnętrzne

Końskowola (gmina)
Wsie Opalińskich herbu Łodzia
Wsie szlacheckie I Rzeczypospolitej (województwo lubelskie)

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Sunwest Trust, Inc., is one of a few IRA LLC custodians in the country that allows you to invest your self directed IRA account into a single member IRA LLC. Although this particular type of LLC arrangement is not necessary to invest in alternative IRA investments, it can be more convenient and more economical for some investors. The purpose of an IRA LLC (aka checkbook IRA) is to offer you the convenience of checkbook control, or more specifically checkbook writing privileges over your retirement funds. The process of acquiring checkbook control of your IRA is relatively straightforward, however, we don't recommend setting up a checkbook IRA on your own.
Form an IRA LLC with the professional assistance of either a seasoned tax attorney or experienced IRA LLC facilitator who specializes in setting up IRA LLC regularly, and can ensure the entity is set up to meet your specific investment needs.
Set up a checking account in the name of your newly formed LLC.
Fund your LLC, by requesting your IRA LLC custodian fund the special business entity directly from your IRA. Note: Don't co-mingle non-IRA with IRA funds, as this is a prohibited transaction.
Ensure the business entity is set up with your IRA as the Member-Owner.
Pick a Manager of the LLC. The Manager is the person who is in charge of making decisions on behalf of the LLC. You or anyone you choose can act as the manager of the IRA LLC.
The Manager of the LLC has assigned special privileges. e.g. The Manager can set up a checking or brokerage account in the name of the LLC, can choose self-direct investments and can write checks in the name of the IRA LLC.
Is An IRA LLC Even Necessary?
It's a popular and common myth in the IRA industry that you must have an LLC in order to have a self-directed IRA. However, this simply isn't true. You may open an IRA with any custodian who allows you to invest in "non-traditional" or alternative assets, such as real estate, tax liens, gold, private placements, etc. and begin exploring those investment options immediately. In this scenario, you will usually need to fill out a form or a direction letter telling your custodian what you want to purchase, how much money to send and where to send the money. You will need to provide your custodian with something showing proof of investment for your purchase. Depending on the investment, this will usually be something like a deed, promissory note, operating agreement, etc. It is very important to review any and all potential investments with a trusted CPA or tax professional before proceeding with your purchase.
How Does Convenience Factor With IRA Choices?
If you do not have to have an LLC, then why do so many people choose to use them? The short answer is convenience. "Checkbook Control" has been a popular buzzword in the IRA industry for many years now. All this means is that a self-directed IRA client is using an LLC, or some other legal entity to control their IRA funds. An IRA LLC can also offer savings and a lower total cost of ownership. For example, although Sunwest Trust does not charge their fees this way, hypothetically if a particular custodian charges a per asset fee, and if your IRA owns 5 assets, then you would have to pay a fee for each asset owned by the IRA. However, in the case of an IRA LLC, the custodian typically would only charge for one asset, the LLC itself owned by the IRA. In this scenario, the LLC would own the 5 assets and technically not the IRA for billing purposes, thus lowering your IRA fees and increasing your return on investment!
May I Really Have Checkbook Privileges in My IRA?
With an LLC, you direct your custodian to purchase the membership units of your LLC in the name of your IRA (Example: "Sunwest Trust Custodian FBO John Smith IRA"). Then, you will open a checking account for the LLC at the bank of your choice. You may then act as an unsalaried manager, which gives you check writing privileges for the account. Having the convenience of checkbook control means that anytime you find an investment you are ready to make, you simply write a check out of the account and take title to the investment in the name of your LLC. You will make all of your investments through the LLC and once a year, you will need to send your custodian a Fair Market Value (FMV) for the LLC. This is what will be reported the IRS on your 5498 form. Please keep in mind ALL of the same IRS rules and regulations governing self directed IRAs still apply even with the autonomy and flexibility of the IRA LLC investment vehicle.
Setting up an IRA LLC does not exempt you from the IRS rules regulating IRA prohibited transactions. For example, you still cannot commingle investments funds with personal funds, invest in prohibited transactions or do any business dealings with disqualified parties. If you have specific questions about specific guidelines or the types of investments you can engage with inside an alternative IRA account, then we suggest versus trying to wing it or adopting a do-it-yourself mentality that you instead reach out to a competent, experienced IRA advisor, CPA or tax attorney for assistance.
Are Self Directed IRA LLCs Legal?
At the time of this writing, there isn't any specific IRS rules or case law prohibiting the formation of single-member IRA LLCs. Despite this, many IRA custodians including Pensco, Sterling Trust and Entrust either don't allow you to invest your IRA into a single-member LLC, which is their prerogative or they say you can, but the devil is in the details. It is not until you set up your IRA LLC with the custodian that you then find out just how incredibly cumbersome the process is to purchase an investment even with an LLC, leaving many investors to ask themselves, "What's the point?"
Consider Sunwest Trust as the Custodian for your IRA LLC. Sunwest Trust is one of the few IRA custodians, which allows you to invest in a single-member LLC. Generally, without checkbook control, it can be time-consuming to request your funds from your custodian and then wait for a check or a wire to be sent out. At Sunwest Trust, we get most transactions completed within a day or two, but with some other custodians, you may end up waiting as much as 5 business days for your transaction to be processed. Even if an IRA LLC is not the right investment vehicle for you, Sunwest Trust can often get most transactions completed within a day or two. If you need assistance establishing a self directed IRA account, then call us today and one of our knowledgeable IRA specialists will be happy to assist you. Disclaimer: Sunwest Trust does not provide legal or investment advice. This blog is just to provide you with general information about self-directed IRAs and other topics. We strongly urge you to speak with a CPA or tax professional before making any investment decisions on your own.
Sunwest Trust, Inc., is one of a few IRA LLC custodians in the country that allows you to invest your self directed IRA account into a single member IRA LLC.
Although this particular type of LLC arrangement is not necessary to invest in alternative IRA investments, it can be more convenient and more economical for some investors.
The purpose of an IRA LLC (aka checkbook IRA) is to offer you the convenience of checkbook control, or more specifically checkbook writing privileges over your retirement funds.
The process of acquiring checkbook control of your IRA is relatively straightforward, however, we don't recommend setting up a checkbook IRA on your own.
Fund your LLC, by requesting your IRA LLC custodian fund the special business entity directly from your IRA. Note: Don't co-mingle non-IRA with IRA funds, as this is a prohibited transaction.
Once a year, you are required to report to your IRA LLC custodian the value of the assets in your retirement account. Assets within your IRA LLC account are reported on an Asset Valuation Worksheet. The Asset Valuation Worksheet provides Sunwest Trust with the fair market value (FMV) of your account, which we then use as part of our custodial duties to report annually to the IRS on a form 5498 on behalf of your IRA.
It's a popular and common myth in the IRA industry that you must have an LLC in order to have a self-directed IRA. However, this simply isn't true.
You may open an IRA with any custodian who allows you to invest in "non-traditional" or alternative assets, such as real estate, tax liens, gold, private placements, etc. and begin exploring those investment options immediately.
In this scenario, you will usually need to fill out a form or a direction letter telling your custodian what you want to purchase, how much money to send and where to send the money. You will need to provide your custodian with something showing proof of investment for your purchase.
Depending on the investment, this will usually be something like a deed, promissory note, operating agreement, etc. It is very important to review any and all potential investments with a trusted CPA or tax professional before proceeding with your purchase.
If you do not have to have an LLC, then why do so many people choose to use them? The short answer is convenience. "Checkbook Control" has been a popular buzzword in the IRA industry for many years now. All this means is that a self-directed IRA client is using an LLC, or some other legal entity to control their IRA funds.
An IRA LLC can also offer savings and a lower total cost of ownership. For example, although Sunwest Trust does not charge their fees this way, hypothetically if a particular custodian charges a per asset fee, and if your IRA owns 5 assets, then you would have to pay a fee for each asset owned by the IRA. However, in the case of an IRA LLC, the custodian typically would only charge for one asset, the LLC itself owned by the IRA. In this scenario, the LLC would own the 5 assets and technically not the IRA for billing purposes, thus lowering your IRA fees and increasing your return on investment!
With an LLC, you direct your custodian to purchase the membership units of your LLC in the name of your IRA (Example: "Sunwest Trust Custodian FBO John Smith IRA"). Then, you will open a checking account for the LLC at the bank of your choice. You may then act as an unsalaried manager, which gives you check writing privileges for the account.
Having the convenience of checkbook control means that anytime you find an investment you are ready to make, you simply write a check out of the account and take title to the investment in the name of your LLC. You will make all of your investments through the LLC and once a year, you will need to send your custodian a Fair Market Value (FMV) for the LLC. This is what will be reported the IRS on your 5498 form. Please keep in mind ALL of the same IRS rules and regulations governing self directed IRAs still apply even with the autonomy and flexibility of the IRA LLC investment vehicle.
At the time of this writing, there isn't any specific IRS rules or case law prohibiting the formation of single-member IRA LLCs.
Consider Sunwest Trust as the Custodian for your IRA LLC. Sunwest Trust is one of the few IRA custodians, which allows you to invest in a single-member LLC.
Generally, without checkbook control, it can be time-consuming to request your funds from your custodian and then wait for a check or a wire to be sent out.
At Sunwest Trust, we get most transactions completed within a day or two, but with some other custodians, you may end up waiting as much as 5 business days for your transaction to be processed.
Even if an IRA LLC is not the right investment vehicle for you, Sunwest Trust can often get most transactions completed within a day or two.
If you need assistance establishing a self directed IRA account, then call us today and one of our knowledgeable IRA specialists will be happy to assist you.
Disclaimer: Sunwest Trust does not provide legal or investment advice. This blog is just to provide you with general information about self-directed IRAs and other topics. We strongly urge you to speak with a CPA or tax professional before making any investment decisions on your own.