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Opinion: Is the White House for Sale?
This is a question that the Americans should ask themselves? Because, I am wondering as a foreigner, if my Kingdom doled some funds on Jared Kushner or on Ivanka Trump's bank-accountants. Would the Foreign policy will change because of that? That is a important paradigm shift from the Trump Administration.
Other, then being supportive of horrific migration policies towards immigrants and the ones who has liven there for generations, because it is only White America who deserves to live in the United States. The rest just living their and squatting there for time being. That is the memo the White House is sending out recently.
However, are the for rent signs on the lawn in front of the White House? Are there ads on Craigslist? Or is there unknown LLC that are in connection with the White House and delegates the newly operations from the Trump Organization abroad. As the Trump Organization and Kushner Companies continues to operate more abroad, getting loans from Qatar and Saudi Arabia. If not getting dozens upon dozens of Chinese Copyrights, while trying to build Hotels and Golf Courses all around the world.
Is this how the arrangements are done now? That you shake hands, trade-off deals with foreigners to companies in connected with the Trump Royal Family and then let-off the hook of the Nation in question. So if the need the US Army, the US Trade or lifting of sanctions, that will be softer after signing of deals with Ivanka or Jared. Because the Foreigners will deliver them a few silver coins, if their sanctions are lifted or trade of state companies get a better deal with the US; Because they gave some little money to the White House Royal Family.
The royal family, which is allowed to be revised over 40 times and as they didn't follow procedure for their forms. Still to get security clearance and all the perks of the White House. This is happening as they are still enlarging their pockets and trading away their value at the Public Office. They are really playing high stakes with the Republic.
It is like they can buy and trade policies now, the foreign interference is evident and the change of narratives comes quickly, especially if the ones in this Trump Administration gets a pay-off. If there is need in a government agency, if the lobbyist or company needs changes of policies.
Remember pay someone off, especially pay off the Trump Family and relatives, then you get the princess and the whole kingdom. They are easily giving way, as long as the profits are returned and delivered to a random company of the Trump Organization. If it is money laundering or any other operation. As long as the Trump businesses get their cut, they don't mind, that is what they do.
The White House is for sale, a giant haul sale and the evidence is in every story published, as the days go. I wonder how much does it cost to get them colluding with the Russians? Because surely that had a initial price. Surely, cost more than a box of crisps and a trademark in China. Peace.
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The new Financial Disclosure Form of 14th June 2017 – Doesn't reveal anything about Donald Trump, because it isn't verified value his supposed wealth!
Just as again this week there has been a new release of Financial Disclosure Form for President Donald J. Trump, still this is just estimates of his value, not the real-deal. That would be in a IRS Tax Returns. It is a reason why don't surface, because the Financial Disclosure Form of 14th June 2017, is another bragging document and possible values of estates and businesses. But is not saying the real value, because how it is taxed is the real value.
Because all of the estate and values are from a possible value into a skyrocketed one, while the profits of it might be meager or decent. Therefore, a new released Financial Disclosure Form isn't saying anything new. Other than President Trump is a coward, a little whiny bitch who cannot be transparent. Who doesn't have the capacity or is so afraid of how he really has earned his money, that he knows it is damaging for him.
If he wasn't afraid, if he wasn't whiny, but was an honest businessman, we would have seen the IRS Tax-Returns in 2015 or even in 2016, but he doesn't have the character. Even Hillary Clinton and her combined foundation with Bill Clinton, the Clinton Foundation had now troubles being open to society and disclose their earnings and profits. But Trump cannot do that because he is crooked and not honest.
I see no difference with this and what was delivered as his status as running Presidential Candidate, the ones that believes this paper is blind and has no vision. Since the various differences of value estimates are bananas. An estate cannot be either worth a million or ten million. It either is fixed to cost 1 million or cost 10 millions. Unless, the estate manager suck so much at his job that he cannot find people to give a just price for the prospect and the land it is on. So it seems like President Trump want to bloat his ego and try again to prove his wealth. That wouldn't be surprising.
Like Trump Marks Istanbul II LLC a license deal with Ortadogu Otomotive Ticaret AS, the income amount in the paper says between $ 1,000,000 to $ 5,000,000. Because that is 4,000,000 difference of earning possibly, this is one company and it is amazing how much royalty difference and profits from this Turkish company or whatever it is. Since the Trump Organization and President Trump isn't sincere. Since they would be straight forward with a set amount to the Internal Revenue Authority (IRS), since they don't want to pay to much cents on the dollars of their profits. That is if they are really trying to earn monies on this company alone.
While the new Hotel in Washington D.C. the Trump Old Post Office has no difference in earnings and profits. It has a total income of $ 19,666,129 and value which is over $ 50,000,000. This means that still the agreed rent of the hotel and the total value of the property isn't assessed, but since it has long-term rental facility, the Trump Organization doesn't mind, secondly since it is important placed hotel they have to straight forward on the profits.
So when you have these sort of things, it is hard to believe as the steady lies and deception from the President. Someone like me, will only believe the IRS Tax Returns that isn't being disclosed. Therefore, I cannot trust this man and his business practices, since his ways is not sincere and honest. Just like his misuse of students at Trump University and also the use of polish workers for building his Trump Tower. He has never had the ability to be truthful or use just behavior in his business practices. Peace.
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Trump Organization have licenced 34 trademarks since February 2017 in China!
Today thanks to some people leaking to Chinese Gazette documents for a serious Industrial and Commerce Authority, I today found a little scoop on the ways Trump Organization does business, as they are clearly active in China. That might be reason why one of the most mentioned nations during campaign was China from the now President Trump. Therefore, take a look at this!
On the 27th February 2017, the Trademark Office of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People's Republic of China gazetted new trademarks that prove the use of Chinese Industry in production of labels for the United States President Donald J. Trump. Still, as he claims "America First" his companies continue to produce and licence their production abroad.
The Gazette from the Chinese Authorities of Industrial and Commerce Trade Marks for dozens of Donald Trump products, alone 10 Trade Marks in his name and owned by businesses to the Fifth Avenue headquarters of the Trump Organization.
The second batch of Trump Trade Marks we're gazetted on the 6th March 2017 was issued about 24 more Trade Marks through the authority. Since my Chinese isn't that fluent, I don't know on what sort of products or what industrial trade mark these are put on. Still, this shows the ways of using the cheap workforce and possible export to the United States the Trump Organization does. When I could find in the documentation with address and in the name of the Trump or where the Trump Tower is.
Therefore, the will of putting 'America First' is only in the words and not in action of his own businesses or trading. That is just for the citizens, not for the business and corporate world. Since Trump Organization has by these gazetted Trade Marks initially started or secured production of 24 products in the Republic of China. That cannot be seen as policy of his own government, who wants to punish other businesses for importing instead of producing their products abroad.
Certainly, the sons and daughters don't care about the impression or even President Trump shows careless acts of tact by doing this. They are not following the same protectionist ways that he preaches and he wants to achieve. Therefore, the double standard are proven with this and how easily the Trump Organization can get licences in China, but the President expect big-business to stay in the United States. Peace.
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President-Elect Trump let's his sons' run the Trump Organization; still doubt that will clear their acts of impartiality; why because President-Elect Trump haven't been transparent!
This had to be an issue, as the Trump Organizations and businesses had to be obligated away from the Executive, the Commander-in-Chief as he ushers himself into the Presidency. The family seems to be picked to run his company, as they are already Executive Vice-President in the Cooperation, this being Eric Trump, Donald Trump Junior and Ivanka Trump. These have been behind their father, the President-Elect. This is important as the interest of Trump Organization should not be the sole purpose of the presidency, that should be as civil service and also guiding with good governance without having own personal gains by having the office. Therefore the nominees and the appointed government leaders in the Trump Organization has to go through not only sessions in the Senate before their appointments are getting accepted; as well as they have to give way to their business connection and positions in the boards in general.
That the international hotels and golf courses, the trademarked products in the portfolio of the Trump Organization that can implicate and create issues with both the foreign trade policies and also import regulations. The same can be seen in general with the regulation of banking, loans and all other fiscal regulation that can hurt the Trump Organization. Something Trump will already know before going to office, what he needs to create of legislation and what sort of economic stimulus or even economic framework that can absorb more profits on the business that are already owned by the Trump family.
Let's take look at what a blind trust is and what sort of agreements that can happen when Trump gets into office in just days.
What is a Blind Trust?
"Blind trusts are often used when a wealthy individual is elected to a political office where his investment holdings could potentially put him in a conflict of interest with a regulatory issue or other sensitive exercise of political power. In this context, there are some obvious issues with blind trusts in that the beneficiary setting up the blind trust is at least aware of the investment mix going in and cannot realistically forget that information when weighing future decisions. The trustors may also set the rules under which the investments are managed and, of course, pick trustees that they are confident will act in a certain way in potential situations. So again, the efficacy of the blind trust in truly eliminating conflict of interest is far from proven. That said, politicians with a large amount of wealth or in high office use blind trusts to show that at least the effort is being taken to establish impartiality" (Investopedia).
Director of Government Ethics Shaub on 11th January on Blind Trust:
"I think Politico called this a "half-blind" trust, but it's not even halfway blind. The only thing this has in common with a blind trust is the label, "trust." His sons are still running the businesses, and, of course, he knows what he owns. His own attorney said today that he can't "un-know" that he owns Trump tower. The same is true of his other holdings. The idea of limiting direct communication about the business is wholly inadequate. That's not how a blind trust works. There's not supposed to be any information at all" (…) "Here too, his attorney said something important today. She said he'll know about a deal if he reads it in the paper or sees in on TV. That wouldn't happen with a blind trust. In addition, the notion that there won't be new deals doesn't solve the problem of all the existing deals and businesses. The enormous stack of documents on the stage when he spoke shows just how many deals and businesses there are" (…) "The President-elect's attorney justified the decision not to use a blind trust by saying that you can't put operating businesses in a blind trust. She's right about that. That's why the decision to set up this strange new kind of trust is so perplexing. The attorney also said she feared the public might question the legitimacy of the sale price if he divested his assets. I wish she had spoken with those of us in the government who do this for a living. We would have reassured her that Presidential nominees in every administration agree to sell illiquid assets all the time. Unlike the President, they have to run the gauntlet of a rigorous Senate confirmation process where the legitimacy of their divestiture plans can be closely scrutinized. These individuals get through the nomination process by carefully ensuring that the valuation of their companies is done according to accepted industry standards. There's nothing unusual about that" (…) "Back when he was working for the Justice Department, the late Antonin Scalia also wrote an opinion declaring that a President should avoid engaging in conduct prohibited by the government's ethics regulations, even if they don't apply. Justice Scalia warned us that there would be consequences if a President ever failed to adhere to the same standards that apply to lower level officials. The sheer obviousness of Justice Scalia's words becomes apparent if you just ask yourself one question: Should a President hold himself to a lower standard than his own appointees?"(Shaub, 2017).
His sons will run the Trump Organization:
"President-Elect Trump will relinquish management of his investment and business assets for the duration of his Presidency. To accomplish this, all of President-Elect Trump's investment and business assets, commonly known as The Trump Organization—comprised of hundreds of entities—have been or will be conveyed to a Trust, which will be managed for the duration of his Presidency by his sons, Don and Eric, and a Trump executive, Allen Weisselberg. Collectively—and unanimously—Allen, Don, and Eric will have the authority to manage The Trump Organization and have full decision-making authority for the duration of the Presidency, without any involvement whatsoever by President-Elect Trump. To implement this transfer, President-Elect Trump will resign from all official positions he holds with The Trump Organization entities" (…) "the Trust Agreement prohibits The Trump Organization from entering into any new transaction or contract with a foreign country, agency, or instrumentality thereof, including a sovereign wealth fund, foreign government official, or member of a royal family, the United States government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or any state or local government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, other than normal and customary arrangements already undertaken before the President-Elect's election" (…) "President-Elect Trump is taking these extraordinary steps to ensure that the Office of the Presidency is isolated from The Trump Organization" (…) "the Constitution does not forbid fair-market-value transactions with foreign officials. To put to rest any concerns, however, the President-Elect is announcing he will donate all profits from foreign governments' patronage of his hotels and similar businesses during his presidential term to the U.S. Treasury. Historically, when federal officers received a gift or emolument from a foreign state, they surrendered possession of it to the federal government, though they were permitted to retain amounts necessary to offset their business expenses. Although the Constitution does not require the PresidentElect to do the same for profits from his businesses' fair-market-value transactions, he wants to eliminate any distractions by going beyond what the Constitution requires" (Morgan Lewis, 2017).
That Trump Organization can be run by his family it is acceptable by looking at the trust, but the initial issues with the way it gets done and that he shall not be reported on the way of the trade or business, is hard to believe as the business and family is very connected, hence with the campaign where all of the older kids we're taking part more or less. Therefore the Vice-Executives of the Trump Organization, his kids are now taking charge and taking his position in his company. That he owns and has controlled over decades. That needs to be clear that the family members cannot tell or say him company secrets as long as he is the Executive of the Republic. If they do than their doing illegal information and destabilizing the interests of the government, why is it so? That is so because the President is the head of the government and has to serve all the citizens, not just the ones that are working in his owned company. That is why the nominees for positions in the Trump Administration have to leave their boardrooms and their former businesses. This is done because they will not have other interests than serving the Republic, if not they should be back in the corporate office instead of being civil servants. If they serve Exxon or other businesses while they are serving as ministers or secretaries of departments, than they are opening up for corrupt and illegal trading from the top and stealing from the bottom. That is what we can worry about when we know how close the President is still connected with his businesses, without a clear line of procedure for how the transactions and creation of future business inside Trump Organization is not known.
The President-Elect have not delivered his IRS Tax Returns, neither proven his real value or what he owns, if it is in Missouri or Mississippi, because for all we know he could own a lobster-shack in Louisiana. Even than he should open the door so he could explain why he hasn't been through the process of showing his true colours and trade. The real honest profits and the expenditure of his companies, the facts of his royalties and the tax rate on his businesses as well. There are many open questions as to where he does business, what sort of people are he connected with abroad and what sort of agreements does the Trump Organization have and own outside of the United States. If he has a dungeon in St. Petersburg or has a palace in India, we don't really know, but if he was accountable or transparent. Then we could know what sort of conflicts and interests the President-Elect have. This is the missing picture in a flawed Presidential-Elect who doesn't' trust anybody, but himself.
Why does I say that is because he cannot be transparent with his own and therefore why would he be that with the public coffers? Are the public coffers safe when we have no idea about how he used his own private funds? Will the public coffers be used to function and give contracts to businesses close to him or to cronyism in the new Trump Administration? Peace.
Investopeida – 'Blind Trust' link: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/blindtrust.asp
Remarks of Walter M. Shaub, Jr., Director, U.S. Office of Government Ethics, as prepared for delivery at 4:00 p.m. on January 11, 2017, at the Brookings Institution (11.01.2017)
Morgan Lewis – 'WHITE PAPER Conflicts of Interest and the President Background for President-Elect Trump's January 11, 2017 Press Conference Prepared by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP' (11.01.2017)
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The nominations of Mnuschin and Ross proves that Donald Trump is not 'draining the swamp'!
The Economic Policies of any United States administration are usually bound by the people that are running two key positions; these are Secretary of Treasury and Secretary of Commerce. The Economy is bound by the decisions these ones do. This here will prove what kind of administration that Trump will run and what kind of regulations of trade, business and economy in general. Therefore the picking of personnel is central to how the state of affairs at the top of the food-chain in Washington.
Donald Trump the Presidential-Elect that has been all and mighty on draining the swamp. So he proves that it was just words during the campaign to sell to his supporters, he even pledged this earlier in the year:
"We have to give new voices a chance … so we can have a government that works again and can function properly …" Trump said" (Hughes, 2016).
Draining the Swamp:
"There is another major announcement I am going to make today as part of our pledge to drain the swamp in Washington. If I am elected President, I will push for a Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress" (…) "Decades of failure in Washington, and decades of special interest dealing, must come to an end. We have to break the cycle of corruption, and we have to give new voices a chance to go into government service. The time for Congressional term limits has arrived" (…) "Not only will we end our government corruption, but we will end the economic stagnation" (Trump, 2016).
We will first see what the Treasury are supposed to do and what the department will do:
"Treasury's mission highlights its role as the steward of U.S. economic and financial systems, and as an influential participant in the world economy" (Treasury.gov – 'About – Role of Treasury'). So the Secretary of Treasury is important for the financial system, therefore it's important to look at the nominee. So we have to look into the nominee who has influence of the financial systems.
Also, we have to see what is special about the Department of Commerce: "The Department works with businesses, universities, communities, and the Nation's workers to promote job creation, economic growth, sustainable development, and improved standards of living for Americans. Through its 12 bureaus and nearly 47,000 employees located in all 50 states and five U.S. territories and more than 86 countries worldwide, the Department administers critical programs that touch the lives of every American" (Commerce.gov – 'About Commerce'). So we can see the importance of the person leading these 12 bureaus that should make it possible to create jobs and commercial business in the United States, therefore the person leading here has to know how to improve the economic growth.
With this knowledge the persons acts before and their economic framework together with the economic platform; that means their faith in the markets or the regulations. That he will give way to free regulations for the financial markets instead of regulating them.
Steve Mnuchin is the nominee for Secretary of Treasury:
"Mnuchin worked at Goldman Sachs for seventeen years, where he eventually became an executive vice president. According to the Wall Street Journal, he left in 2002 "at the age of 39 with a reported $46 million stake in the bank." He was recruited by his Yale roommate, Eddie Lampert, to join ESL, a hedge fund, as vice chairman. A few months later, he jumped to SFM Capital Management as its CEO. But within a few months he changed jobs again, leaving SFM to co-found Dune Capital with his former Goldman colleagues Daniel Neidich and Chip Seelig" (…) "In 2009, Mnuchin helped assemble a group of investors (including computer capitalist Michael Dell, financier George Soros, private equity investor Christopher Flowers, and hedge fund titan John Paulson) to buy IndyMac Bank from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) as part of a sweetheart deal. They renamed it OneWest Bank and kept its headquarters in Pasadena" (Dreier, 2016).
Relativity bankrupt:
"Relativity explicitly blames the bank, founded by Steve Mnuchin, who until recently was one of studio founder Ryan Kavanaugh's best friends and a company director, for violating bankruptcy procedures and for delaying the release of a movie recently considered to be the studio's savior, a letter and an email from the company obtained by The Post reveal" (…) " OneWest's hoovering up of the $50 million, revealed in court papers, included $32 million drained from the studio's library and $17.9 million from two other accounts" (…) "The bank's actions placed Relativity in a precarious financial state, forcing it to largely "stop paying many vendor bills, to postpone production of certain film projects and to postpone the release of certain completed films," Blackstone's Tim Coleman, Relativity's financial adviser, said in court papers" (McCaulay, 2016)
Foreclosure from OneWest:
"According to Gudiel, when she tried to make the $2,500-a-month mortgage payment two weeks late in November 2009, OneWest refused the payment and instructed her to pursue a loan modification, a long process that ultimately ended in rejection in January" (…) "OneWest referred questions to the public relations firm Sard Verbinnen & Co., which said that Fannie Mae, which holds about one-third of the mortgages in the country, had not authorized them to modify the loan" (… ) "OneWest is pleased that it has been able to work with Fannie Mae, the owner of the loan, to authorize it to offer the Gudiels a loan modification that would allow the family to stay in their home," the firm said in a statement" (Huus, 2011).
Fraud from his bank:
"While the Rigalis were negotiating on the mortgage modifications, IndyMac Federal Bank failed in what would be the fourth-largest bank failure in U.S. history. What was left of IndyMac was acquired in March 2009 by a Mnuchin-led group of private investors for $1.55 billion" (…) "The Rigalis' court filings "alleged they were led to believe, by representatives of several banks over a period of years, that their $560,000 loan would be modified. They believed they had entered into several forbearance agreements with several but related banks." (…) "Crandall wrote in his denial of the motion that "the facts before the court are sufficient to defeat summary judgment" of most of OneWest Bank's assertions, and he concluded that the Rigalis produced enough proven evidence to show that they could prevail in a jury trial. OneWest quickly offered a settlement, sources said" (…) "Recent legislative measures "provide an important lens" for the court to look through, wrote Crandall in denying OneWest's motion" (…) "The judge was referring to the banking practice of dual tracking, in which a borrower in default seeks a modification while the institution continues at the same time to pursue foreclosure. By the time the borrower learns what is happening, it is usually too late to prevent the foreclosure" (Blackburn, 2013).
Just as he has become the nominee certain board positions he had to give up:
"NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CIT Group Inc. (NYSE:CIT), cit.com, a leading provider of commercial lending and leasing services, today announced that Steven T. Mnuchin has resigned from its Board of Directors, effective immediately. His resignation follows President-elect Donald J. Trump's announced intention to nominate Mnuchin as the next Secretary of the Treasury" (…) "On behalf of the entire Board, I want to thank Steven for his contributions to CIT," said Ellen R. Alemany, Chairwoman and CEO. "Steven has been a valued member of our Board, and we wish him well in this monumental role." (CIT.com, 2016). He also stepped down from being a board-member at Sears.
So the OneWest CEO Steve Mnuchin is becoming the Secretary of Treasury in the Trump Administration. He been a board-member in CIT and Sears, as well as been speculative in foreclosures in people's homes as well as Relativity studio or Film Company became bankrupt because of the loans and structure of funding through OneWest. So this speculative actions can be assured of will happen, but not with just one hedge-fund Wall-Street banker bravado, but now with the economic policies as underlining from the newly nominated Munuchin.
Than we have the other nominee that will lead 12 important bureaus that is now being delegated through the financial heavy weight Ross; which also have long history on Wall Street.
Wilbur Ross is the nominee for Secretary of Commerce:
Wilbur is another fellow with a spreadsheet that is impressive, but also sees the cynical side of the economy, where the importance of business is profits; not actually creating work. Therefore his nomination is more about securing equity is the reality than the person who actually earns those fortunes. Therefore the way he salvaged the businesses and made profits on them, as well as the reality of the man behind those transactions and how many settlements for fraudulent acts from his companies and subsidiaries. Here is a little look!
"Wilbur Ross is best known for his ability to find distressed companies and turn them around for a large profit – it is a talent that has given him an estimated net worth of more than $2 billion. And in recent years Ross's sights have been firmly set on financial companies. Since 2008 he has invested a reported $1.8 billion into banks. But now he has had enough. NBNK Investments, the investment company in which Ross took a 30% stake in 2013 and that tried and failed to buy TSB from Lloyds, is closing. In 2010 NBNK had raised £50 million in an IPO with the aim of financing European banks. Six years later, it didn't have a single investment to show for it" (Avery, 2016).
"WL Ross & Co. LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, is a private equity firm that was founded in 2000. WL Ross registered as an investment adviser with the Commission in April 2007. WL Ross is headquartered in New York, New York. Since 2006, WL Ross has been wholly owned by Invesco Private Capital, Inc., a subsidiary of Invesco Ltd., a publicly traded company (collectively, "Invesco"). WL Ross provides investment advisory services to the WLR Funds and other private equity funds, as well as to separately managed accounts and co-investment vehicles. According to its most recent Form ADV filing as of April 21, 2016, WL Ross has approximately $4.6 billion in assets under management" (Service Exchange Commission, 2016).
"Between 2001 and 2011, WL Ross adopted a Transaction Fee allocation methodology that resulted in WLR retaining a significant amount of those fees for itself rather than allocating them to the WLR Funds for the purpose of offsetting the management fee. Specifically, WL Ross allocated Transaction Fees that it earned from portfolio investments to the WLR Funds based upon their relative ownership percentages of the portfolio company without disclosing this practice. As a result, WL Ross retained for itself that portion of the Transaction Fees that was based upon co-investors' relative ownership of the portfolio company, without subjecting such fees to any management fee offsets. WLR did not disclose to the WLR Funds and to the Funds' limited partners that it would allocate Transaction Fees according to the above allocation methodology, and that WLR construed the ambiguous provisions in the relevant LPAs in its own favor rather than the WLR Funds' favor. If WL Ross had instead adopted a methodology requiring the allocation of all Transaction Fees pro rata among the investing WLR Funds (and other WLR funds that also had offset provisions) and offset the WLR Funds' management fees accordingly, the WLR Funds (and other WLR funds that also had offset provisions) would have received the benefit of all Transaction Fees received by WL Ross. WL Ross received approximately $10.4 million more in management fees using the selected methodology than if it had allocated Transaction Fees pro rata among the WLR Funds for management fee offset purposes during the relevant time period" (Security Exchange Commission, 2016).
Earning money on failing business:
"In May the board of NBNK, made up of private equity firm WL Ross & Co's senior vice president Stephen Johnson, and Labour life peer and barrister Lord Brennan, voted in May to make the payment to WL Ross & Co for the "recovery of legal fees and other due diligence costs." (…) "The vehicle's most recent accounts revealed a loss for the year of £271,000, from a loss of £182,000 the previous year" (Bambrough, 2016).
"Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross has reached a deal to buy Nexeo Solutions Holdings LLC, a distributor of plastic resins and chemicals, for roughly $1.6 billion, including debt" (…) "Nexeo is currently owned by private-equity firm TPG, which purchased the company for nearly $1 billion from U.S. specialty-chemicals producer Ashland Inc (NYSE: ASH) in 2011. The deal is expected to be announced on Monday morning" (…) "WL Ross Holding will pay $500 million in cash and fund the rest of the purchase with debt, the sources told the newspaper. TPG will roll over some of its equity into the new public company, one of the people told the Journal" (DiSavino, 2016).
"The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday that the group failed to disclose its fee allocation practices, resulting in investors overpaying by $10.4m between 2001 and 2011. WL Ross was not allocating transaction fees to the funds to offset management fees, the SEC said" (…) "WL Ross also agreed to pay a civil penalty of $2.3m, but neither admitted to nor denied the SEC's findings" (…) "We are pleased to have arrived at a resolution around historical management fee disclosure in a subset of our funds," said Jeaneen Terrio, a spokesperson for Invesco, which bought WL Ross in 2006. "This resolution reflects a proactive approach to handling the matter and our commitment to exceeding the expectations of today's private equity market." (Sampson, 2016).
Fixing Irish Economy:
"As an investor in Bank of Ireland, it would be a surprise if Ross thought otherwise – after all he needs to recoup his investment and more. But he is one of the world's most successful turnaround financiers – his involvement in the turnaround of over $200bn of distressed assets worldwide has earned him the nickname 'king of bankruptcy'. So his words will be a boost to Ireland's international standing" (…) "In the past few weeks of financial turmoil, Ireland has seen some faith in the international money markets restored, with 10-year bond yields down from 14% in mid-July to around 9%." (O'Carroll, 2011).
So Donald Trump's way of cleaning up the swamp is giving the idiom or a myth, because Wall Street connections with Washington D.C. cartels were not supposed to happen under the presidency. With the knowledge of the men he has picked in charge of the Economy, this proves that it was never a part of plan. If so Trump has a rare way of sending of the message with hiring and nominating Steven Mnuchin and Wilbur Ross.
These men have worked up fortunes and earned monies on the destruction of the American Dream. They have taken people's hard-earned monies and created profits overnight. These men have used sophisticated limited liabilities companies, hedge-funds and transactions to earn monies on failed houses and companies. With ease the men and woman could be stifled even the government banks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the foreclosed homes has even been a bargain. These men are supposed to create industry and the regulations for the finance industry. Together with the creations of consolidation funds and the roll-over money from the government; so that the debt could be staying longer as Mnuchin believes even can be put into 100 year bonds. That could create an unknown inflation of funds and also of the regulations of the combined currency in the market. Something that Wall Street people sees it as an opportunity.
Donald Trump has seeking to revamp the economy with men who are connected with the biggest investors of our time, with the families and using all kind of tricks to earn coins for themselves. Even the SEC has fined the companies of Mr. Ross for misbehaving with funds and with commissions, these men that has used ways of loop-holing the finance industry; the finance industry they now will steer. This can only be for the freedom of the giant companies and the wealth they have created in the market place on other people's misery.
Trump has picked and nominated men who's greed extend nearly no boundaries, these men will not drain a swamp or even follow up the promises on the campaign. They will continue and less regulates the economy. That might bring back the recession or even depression as the richer get wealthier and the poor will not become the middle-class.
These men has surely will secure the class there are set in and want to be part of. The one that they have been parts of and will secure the future of. These are not working-class friendly men who connect with the Indiana, Minnesota and Mississippi. So Trump clearly only a one-man show for the façade and not the real deal, sort of like a government acting on the Trump University philosophy: "You're selling a feeling, not a product" and the same does the Trump Organization and now the Trump Administration.
The lie this time is the draining the swamp, the corporate parts of Washington D.C. politics and elites, as Trump chooses the same or even more wealthier businessmen who has more connections inside Wall Street and has more conflict of interest than before. The Trump Administration in the White House will be filled with men who have their business at heart and not the citizens who voted for him. Peace.
Avery, Helen – 'Banking: Wilbur Ross chases shadows' (May 2016) Link: http://www.euromoney.com/Article/3551137/Banking-Wilbur-Ross-chases-shadows.html?copyrightInfo=true
Bambrough, Billy – 'US billionaire investor Wilbur Ross picks up £280,000 from the ashes of NBNK' (04.07. 2016) link: http://www.cityam.com/244546/us-billionaire-investor-wilbur-ross-picks-up–ashes
Blackburn, Daniel – 'OneWest Bank pays 7 figures in mortgage fraud case' (11.09.2013) link: https://calcoastnews.com/2013/09/onewest-bank-pays-7-figures-mortgage-fraud-case/
CIT.com – 'CIT Announces Resignation of Steven T. Mnuchin from Board of Directors' (02.12.2016) link: http://news.cit.com/press-release/corporate-news/cit-announces-resignation-steven-t-mnuchin-board-directors
Dreier, Peter – 'The Worst of Wall Street: Meet Donald Trump's Finance Chairman' (10.05.2016) link: https://www.thenation.com/article/the-worst-of-wall-street-meet-donald-trumps-finance-chairman/
DiSavino, Scott – 'Wilbur Ross to buy Nexeo from TPG for $1.6 billion: source' (20.03.2016) link: http://www.streetinsider.com/Mergers+and+Acquisitions/Wilbur+Ross+to+buy+Nexeo+from+TPG+for+$1.6+billion%3A+source/11434492.html
McCaulay, Scott – 'Controversial Film Financier Steven Mnuchin Joins Trump Campaign as National Finance Chairman' (05.05.2016) link: https://filmmakermagazine.com/98428-controversial-film-financier-steven-mnuchin-joins-trump-campaign-as-national-finance-chairman/
Hughes, Trevor – 'Trump calls to 'drain the swamp' of Washington' (18.10.2016) link: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/2016/10/18/donald-trump-rally-colorado-springs-ethics-lobbying-limitations/92377656/
Huus, Kari – 'Homeowner taps 'Occupy' protest to avoid foreclosure' (17.10.2011) link: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44908122/ns/us_news-life/t/homeowner-taps-occupy-protest-avoid-foreclosure/#.WEHO5fnhDIU
O'Carroll, Lisa – 'Ireland will be 'Celtic Tiger' again – Wilbur Ross' (31.08.2011) link: https://www.theguardian.com/business/ireland-business-blog-with-lisa-ocarroll/2011/aug/31/ireland
Samson, Adam – 'WL Ross in $14.1m settlement with US over fee disclosures' (24.08.2016) link: https://www.ft.com/content/e8424f8f-5031-3d50-941b-a51ccaa07980
Security Exchange Commission – 'Release No. 4494 / August 24, 2016 ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEEDING File No. 3-17491' (24.08.2016)
Trump, Donald J. – 'TRUMP PLEDGES TO DRAIN THE SWAMP AND IMPOSE CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS' (18.10.2016) link: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/trump-pledges-to-drain-the-swamp
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Opinion: The American people now have to live on the philosophy of Slim Charles; Actually fight for the lies of Trump!
Slim Charles: "Don't matter who did what to who at this point. Fact is, we went to war and now there ain't no goin' back. I mean, shit, it's what war is, you know? Once you in it, you in it. If it's a lie, then we fight on that lie. But we gotta fight" (The Wire, Season 3 Episode 12 – "Misson Accomplished", 09.12.2004).
Why do I start off with Slim Charles as he is talking about fighting a war over corners with Marlo Stanfield in Baltimore and Avon Barkesdal lost his companion and comrade Stringer Bell after he was ratted out… but what I will talk about isn't the Wire, but it has been the same way with the Campaign and Phenomenon of Donald J. Trump.
Today, I made realisation while taking public transport to work. I thought to myself what has been the main component of Trump's game-plan. It seems to show as little as possible of policy, as little as possible of political framework and being part of the establishment. But also transparency and accountability has been like aids to the Candidacy of the Republican Candidate Trump.
Another key part of the accountability and transparency is that he has constantly lied. The lies has been staggering and at massive levels. Like the ice that hit the Titanic, it should have sunk the ship of an ordinary campaign, but the American couldn't care less. Trump lied about his past, his wealth, his education, his lifestyle, his previous ethical background.
He has lied to public about his wealth, he is not as rich as he claims; if he we're so he would have given the public the IRS Tax Returns. Because there we would see the real value of the Trump Organization, the golf-courses and the value of 'the Art of the Deal'; because the toilet paper of stated wealth and ownership is oversaturated. If it we're the true deal and not a play of cards to the public, since if it we're true value than it would been given the same value of the estates, businesses and royalties. First lie!
Second lie, must be the portrayal of success in general; is with the bankruptcies in Casinos' in Atlantic City, Trump Institute and University, Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump Magazines, Trump Airlines and so on. The success now has been "the Apprentice" on the Television with a dozen of seasons. The rest he has earned money on is stifling his costumers and with dozens of law-suits. Other than because of shady reputation because of that the way of earning revenue hasn't become of building houses or high-raises, instead it has become a licensing operation. So his name is what makes the money, not his achievements. People are buying into the Trump name, but not the real value of premium products or quality service.
So when he is not as rich as he says he is, another lie; then you have the business-savvy point that settles with a licensing operation and not a true, yet another lie.
That is the most important parts of his project, as he was a successful businessman who wasn't a politician. Well, he is more flip-flopping politician and also a cruel one at that. The Political play has been to use the others past against them. Since he wasn't really a politician; still the Trump has lied about Ted Cruz, John Kasich, and Jeb Bush.
The other lies are is stances, at one point in life he was a very aligned with the Democratic Party, siding with Bill and Hillary Clinton, defending his infidelity and claiming that Hillary was a fine woman. At one point he was defending and saying that the U.S. should go quickly in to Libya and get rid of Col. Gadhafi. Another point where he defended George W. Bush and his father for their wars in Iraq; while on the Campaign Trial he has dined all of this asked for the tapes, asked for the evidence, but the clips are accessible and online for anybody who wants. His Video-Logs are there too, where he speaks of the similar matters too.
The lies are endless, and his image is a lie, his persona and his attitude to. Because he change as needed be, he is said to have a moral flexibility. Well, he has been structured on hatred for immigrants and for foreign interference, he is an isolationist. That is it! The rest hasn't been steady, on basic minimum wage his stance has changed, on deportation force it has change and the stances are endless.
The worst part is that American Electorate apparently didn't care, or not enough of them. They have bought into a cobb-web of lies and deceit. They ate it all up and bought into the sellers tale.
I wouldn't believe the words that come out of his mouth, he only says what he need to say or told to say. He talks against the usage of Teleprompters, but used it freely when it benefitted him. He claimed Mitt Romney released his tax-returns too late, but till this date he hasn't dropped his and I doubt he will. So his states and statement are pointless, are just needed for his own stature, but not for his character.
The Character of him only known by his close family and whatever friends he has; to rest of us it is lies upon lies. Deception of who he might be and what he stand for, except for his blatant racists spurges of vomit. Trump has been able to sit in golden chairs and licence out products with golden letters, but his true delivery is his lies. The lie that he is good and want to "Make America Great Again". He wants to make himself great again, back in the day when he was great and built the Trump Tower with the help of the Mafia. He doesn't care about the working-class in Wisconsin or Mississippi.
Trump lies and will continue to lie for the benefit of himself and his cause; the cause being himself and his fictions lifestyle. Therefore he wants to spend more time at Mar-A-Lago in Miami, Penthouse in New York, than at the White House. Because he want his loyal minions to work out the perks, while he carry the title. He doesn't care about anybody else than himself, he wants to spend time on the golf-course and eat the benefits of the Public Office. Not actually work for living, he has lied for living already and wants to relax as President.
Just wait and see, he will spend less time in office than Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, he is more concern about the benefits of being President for his donors, rich wealthy elite; which happens to be the establishment and not the common-man in Michigan or North Dakota.
The man that based his life on lies and built his current business on more lies; the lies that are deceptive and deconstructive to him and to society; that now is the true state of affairs. Trump has the choice either to destroy or rebuild.
But he went to war on that lie like Slim Charles said and now they have to continue to fight on that lie. The lie that Trump had something to deliver other than his own self-constructed bloated ego. Peace.
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On Trump: Lack of taxation and a few official allegation towards him!
Another day and another allegation as the Presidential Candidate for the Republican Party doesn't give to craps about Transparency and Accountability, that might be because his own operation is so shoddy and snobbish, while using shell-corporations and tax-havens to skim the United States tax-man out of money. The So-Called Billionaire is proving more questionable behaviour in both his Trump Organization and his Trump Foundation. That is vivid and direct acts of misbehaviour, even if legal still be questionable for his ethical acts of skimming the state of money through tax-codes and tax-breaks that the ordinary citizen only could dream of. If a citizen did the same and tried to take the IRS on the walk of tax-evasion than they would be made example off and taken to court for cheating; only because he is wealthy and has lawyers defending his case the IRS let him of the hook like they have done to the Scientology Organizations too. A quack knows another quack. Here is some outtakes of three different cases, two court documents and the second is from one of the leaked reports on the Real Estate Tax in New York City State.
Tax Evasion Complaints against Donald Trump and Trump Organization:
Count 1 – Political Corruption:
"In summer of 2013, at a time when her office was reviewing complaints against Trump University and related entities, Florida Attorney General Pamela Bondi Personally solicited a campaign contribution from Trump" (…) "Weeks after Bondi solicited the contribution, on September 17, 2013, a political group backing Bondi's re-election, called And Justice for All, reported receiving a $25,000contribution from The Trump Foundation. In its 2013 990-PF Information Return, the Trump Foundation reported making a contribution to Justice For All, although it listed the incorrect address for recipient of the $25,000 political contribution" (…) "By misappropriating the assets of the Donald J. Trump Foundation, and converting the assets of the foundation for his own personal use so as to promote his political agenda, Trump personally benefitted from the campaign contribution to And Justice for All. Because Trump converted and stole money from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, for his own use and benefit, he had a duty to report the $25,000 as income on his 2013 tax return" (IRS, 2016).
Count 2 – Failure to Report Income:
"In 2010, Richard Berlin, an Assistant Attorney General with the Texas Consumer Protection Division requested permission to file a lawsuit against Trump University, Trump and his business partners seeking more than $5.4 million in penalties andres titution related to fraud and deceptive business practices. The suit was dropped by the office of Texas Attorney General Gregory Abbott. Former Texas Deputy Chief of Consumer Protection John Owens said the case was strong and had been dropped for political reasons. In 2013, Trump contributed $35,000 to Attorney General Abbott in his campaign to be Governor of Texas. Gregory Abbott is presently the Governor of Texas. Trump has engaged in a pattern of corrupt influence peddling" (…) "By avoiding litigation in exchange for the payment of a bribe, Trump and The Trump Organization not only received a $5.4 million dollar benefit in that they avoided paying penalties and restitution, but they also received a valuable benefit in that they avoided the attorney's fees and litigation costs that they would have incurred if the Attorney General's Office had moved forward with the recommended litigation" (…) "There is probable cause to conclude that Trump and The Trump Organization did not report the $5.4 million benefit as income and that they did not pay taxes on this income because the payment itself was an illegal one and it is unlikely that Trump or The Trump Organization voluntarily disclosed these illegal acts to the United States government" (IRS, 2016).
Count 3 – Failure to Pay Tax:
"Trump oversaw the construction of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in New Jersey. In constructing Trump Plaza, a $7.8 million subcontract was awarded to S & A Concrete. S & A Concrete was partially owned by Anthony "Fat Tony" Salerno, the boss of the Genovese crime family. The Genovese crime family is part of "La Cosa Nostra" a notorious criminal organization originating in Sicily" (…) "Trump has also worked closely with other members and associates of organized criminal enterprises, including Danny Leung, Felix Sater, Salvatore Testa, and Kenneth Shapiro" (…) "Danny Leung, a vice president for foreign marketing at Trump Taj Mahal, was as an associate of the Hong Kong-based organized crime group 14K Triad" (…) "Salvatore Testa was a organized criminal who sold property to Trump in Atlantic City. Testa, a member of the Nick Scarfo crime family of Philadelphia, was active in drug dealing, extortion and murder" (…) "Felix Sater, was a partner and "senior advisor" to The Trump Organization from 2003 to2010. Sater has testified about his close relationship with Trump in opening the Trump Soho Hotel. According to the New York Times and the Washington Post, Sater has been convicted of money laundering, stabbing a man in the face with the stem of a Margarita glass, and participating in a "Mafia-orchestrated stock fraud scheme." (IRS, 2016).
Vice News Complaints for release of Trump's Tax Returns:
"On August 18, 2016, Plaintiffs, by and through undersigned counsel submitted a FOIA request to the IRS via fax for four categories of records: "any and all audits of Donald J. Trump's individual income tax returns for tax years 2002 forward"; "any and all records mentioning or referring to audits of Donald J. Trump's individual income tax returns for tax years 2002 forward"; "any and all requests by law enforcement agencies for copies of Donald J. Trump's individual tax returns"; and "any and all records mentioning or referring to requests by law enforcement agencies for copies of Donald J. Trump's individual tax returns." (…) "5 24. As of the filing of this Complaint, Plaintiffs have not received a response from the FBI as to whether or not their request for expedited processing will be granted. COUNT I: VIOLATION OF FOIA 25. This Count re alleges and incorporates by reference all of the preceding paragraphs. All documents referenced in this Complaint are incorporated by reference as if set forth fully herein. 26. The IRS has failed to grant or even rule on Plaintiffs' request for expedited processing. 27. The FBI has failed to grant or even rule on Plaintiffs' request for expedited processing. 28. Plaintiffs are deemed to have exhausted their administrative remedies because over 10 calendar days have elapsed without a determination as to whether or not they are entitled to expedited processing" (United States District Court for the District of Columbia, 2016).
Property Tax for Donald Trump of 26th August 2016:
As of the man who doesn't deliver Tax Returns at least I got some believable numbers on the man. Donald J. Trump in August owns the NYC: $102.62. By October 3rd the NYC to pay $95,334.15; the proposed Finance-Property Tax of 7th January 2016 he had to pay Zero in this one. His taxing rate for over 10 condos in New York we're on the rate of 12.883% and the average assessed value of $322.297. As his annual property tax is the rate of $190.463 (NYC, 2016).
If you don't find it interesting how the So-Called Billionaire is using his funds to bribe an Attorney General in Florida to subdue the Court Case on the Trump University. It was also funds taken from his private Foundation, the Trump Foundation that is supposed to be charity and not another branch of the Trump Organization to finance his operations and businesses. If used so it is corruption and fraud of the ones giving money to the charity! That is not something Trump wants to add on his already questionable CV and business record. He tried to do the same as he did in Florida and Texas, as a way to avoid litigation against the Trump University. That shows that he doesn't care about the ones he scammed in the University case, as he only cares about saving face and avoiding true judgement on the case in the states.
The others are directly cases on his Tax, as proven that doesn't want to pay taxes or avoiding to do; as even the Vice News have issued the courts to let him drop his IRS Tax Returns. The Other question the Vice has is that there no evidence of that Donald J. Trump is really under Audit as he claims and want the Authorities to drop evidence of so. If that would come by the case and by court orders than the American people would know who Trump really is and how describe his wealth and how he runs his companies. That would be a healthy way, as there are reports of tax-avoidance, using tax-codes to not pay and so on. This would be the proof of the real value and the ethical aspects of how he handled monies day-to-day.
We can also here see the reports going out how he describe and pay for a short time for his valuable real-estate in New York City. That proves the inequality and question if he has devalued his real-estate as it is very low taxes for such amounts of real-estate. If this is proof of the value he pays of this than the IRS together with New York City State should look into their Tax-Codes and make sure the wealthy real-estate owners we're doing due-diligent. Peace.
New York City Department of Finance – 'Property Tax Bill Quarterly Statement
Activity through August 26, 2016' – Donald J. Trump, Manhattan,5th Avenue New York
Internal Revenue Service – 'Donald J. Trump Vs. IRS' – James Whitfield Larrabee (03.08.2016) – IRS Form 3949-A
United States District Court for the District of Columbia: 'Jason Leopold and Ryan Noah Shapiro Vs. Department of Treasury and Department of Justice' – Case 1:16-cv-01827 Filed (09/12/16).
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In a small bowl sprinkle the gelatin over the 2 tablespoons cold water and let soften for 15 minutes.
In a small heavy saucepan combine the sugar, honey, and the remaining 1/4 cup water, bring the mixture to a boil over moderate heat, stirring until the sugar is dissolved, and remove the pan from the heat. Add the gelatin mixture and stir until the gelatin is dissolved.
Transfer the mixture to a metal bowl set in a bowl of ice and cold water and stir until cool. Add 2 cups of the cream, stir the mixture until cold, and with the mixer beat it for 3 minutes, or until thickened and almost double in volume. Add the remaining 1/2 cup cream, vanilla, and salt, beating, and beat the mixture for 30 seconds.
Transfer to the ice cream freezer and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions.


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Graphic detail: Shut up and play the hits
How bands display their history on the stage
The choices musicians make about which material to play live reveal how they see their back catalogues—and what pleases their fans
Christmas SpecialsDec 23rd 2017 edition
HOW MANY roads must a man walk down? Analysis of every gig that Bob Dylan has ever played provides no definitive answer. But it does show that he has posed the question to a live audience nearly 1,500 times. Over a 60-year career, the voice of his generation has jingle-jangled his way through about 60,000 songs in 3,400 performances, according to Setlist.fm, a user-maintained website of concert information.
Our charts in this Graphic Detail combine those data with album listings taken from Discogs.com, an online encyclopaedia for vinyl-lovers, to demonstrate how a musician's live repertoire changes. We have run such analyses for Mr Dylan and 30 other musicians and groups to demonstrate how the contents of their live sets vary over time.
Few have had as varied a track record as Mr Dylan. His early sets consisted almost entirely of covers of songs by other people (denoted by the brown bubbles at the bottom of his chart, above). In 1966 a motorcycling accident stopped him touring, leaving a yawning gap on the timeline. When he converted to Christianity in the late 1970s he abandoned his back catalogue, playing only new God-approved numbers. And since 1988 he has been on a "Never Ending Tour", playing at least 70 times a year. Today he rarely dusts off anything from the middle of his oeuvre, with the entirely justifiable exception of songs from "Blood on the Tracks". His last three albums have been made up entirely of covers—bringing him back in the recording studio to where he started on stage.
The chart below also depicts the careers of 30 other artists spanning a wide array of periods and genres, from David Bowie to Beyoncé. While the charts show data from all gigs, they list in the main only those albums which contain three or more original compositions later played live (though some exceptions have been made). Songs that were released on minor albums, singles, or indeed, never released at all—though sometimes bootlegged) are labelled as "Other recordings".
The data contain plenty of hidden gems. For instance, "Stairway to Heaven" is not even in the top three most-played tracks on Led Zeppelin's untitled fourth album. More than 20 years passed before a Beatle performed anything from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" at a major concert. And Whitney Houston's cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You" is the highest-selling single of all time by a female artist, but ranks only sixth on her list of most-played songs. If the numbers contain one overriding message, it is the enduring nature of the album format. Taylor Swift, Beyoncé and Kanye West—to name just a few—all rely heavily on thematic studio albums—and tour them extensively, too. Ageing rockers feared that the format might be dead, but it seems today's young troubadours just can't shake it off.
This article appeared in the Christmas Specials section of the print edition under the headline "Shut up and play the hits"
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Q: How do I find chain code location in Hyperledger Fabric? I am following through the fabric-samples - balance-transfer project on GitHub
I am able to walk through setting up the chain code and query the transaction with their provided example chain code in node.
I want to include my own custom chain code in the github.com/ directory, I was able to install the chain code by providing the curl command
curl -s -X POST \
>   http://localhost:4000/chaincodes \
>   -H "authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJleHAiOjE1NTkxNTU3NzIsInVzZXJuYW1lIjoiSmltIiwib3JnTmFtZSI6Im9yZzEiLCJpYXQiOjE1NTkxMTk3NzJ9.52cwFysSFcADjvGUtri-hBSERhj2lz3MiGNk8yvBT-Q" \
>   -H "content-type: application/json" \
>   -d '{
> "peers": ["peer1","peer2"],
> "chaincodeName":"mycc",
> "chaincodePath":"github.com/car-trade",
> "chaincodeVersion":"v0"
> }'

I was able to get the message
Successfully Installed chaincode on organization org1
But when I instantiated the chain code using the curl command
curl -s -X POST \
>   http://localhost:4000/channels/mychannel/chaincodes \
>   -H "authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJleHAiOjE1NTkxNTU3NzIsInVzZXJuYW1lIjoiSmltIiwib3JnTmFtZSI6Im9yZzEiLCJpYXQiOjE1NTkxMTk3NzJ9.52cwFysSFcADjvGUtri-hBSERhj2lz3MiGNk8yvBT-Q" \
>   -H "content-type: application/json" \
>   -d '{
> "chaincodeName":"mycc",
> "chaincodeVersion":"v0",
> "args":["a","100","b","200"]
> }'

I got an error message
Failed to send instantiate Proposal or receive valid response. Response null or status is not 200. exiting...
When I tried to log the response that I`m getting in the chain code API in the file here.
const results = await channel.sendInstantiateProposal(request);
proposalResponses.forEach((pr: ProposalResponse) => {
    console.log(pr);
}

I got the message,
{ Error: error starting container: error starting container: Failed to generate platform-specific docker build: Error returned from build: 1 "can't load package: package github.com/car-trade: cannot find package "github.com/car-trade" in any of:
        /opt/go/src/github.com/car-trade (from $GOROOT)
        /chaincode/input/src/github.com/car-trade (from $GOPATH)
        /opt/gopath/src/github.com/car-trade
"
    at self._endorserClient.processProposal (/home/raj/Documents/verifyV2/fabric-samples/balance-transfer/typescript/node_modules/fabric-client/lib/Peer.js:140:36)
    at Object.onReceiveStatus (/home/raj/Documents/verifyV2/fabric-samples/balance-transfer/typescript/node_modules/grpc/src/client_interceptors.js:1207:9)
    at InterceptingListener._callNext (/home/raj/Documents/verifyV2/fabric-samples/balance-transfer/typescript/node_modules/grpc/src/client_interceptors.js:568:42)
    at InterceptingListener.onReceiveStatus (/home/raj/Documents/verifyV2/fabric-samples/balance-transfer/typescript/node_modules/grpc/src/client_interceptors.js:618:8)
    at callback (/home/raj/Documents/verifyV2/fabric-samples/balance-transfer/typescript/node_modules/grpc/src/client_interceptors.js:845:24)
  status: 500,
  payload: <Buffer >,
  peer:
   { url: 'grpcs://localhost:7056',
     name: 'peer2',
     options:
      { 'grpc.max_receive_message_length': -1,
        'grpc.max_send_message_length': -1,
        'grpc.keepalive_time_ms': 120000,
        'grpc.http2.min_time_between_pings_ms': 120000,
        'grpc.keepalive_timeout_ms': 20000,
        'grpc.http2.max_pings_without_data': 0,
        'grpc.keepalive_permit_without_calls': 1,
        'grpc.ssl_target_name_override': 'peer1.org1.example.com',
        'grpc.default_authority': 'peer1.org1.example.com' } },
  isProposalResponse: true }

I went inside the peer container and looked into the github.com directory which need to have the chain code both the example_cc as well as my custom chain code. But I was not able to find neither.
I would like to know where the chaincode reside, both the example chaincode and the custom chaincode.

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Men's soccer wins double overtime battle
Casey Bleuel
Junior Joseph Korb (17) scored the Lakers winning goal in double overtime giving the Lakers a 3-2 win over West Chester.
Marco Cicchino, Staff writer
The Mercyhurst men's soccer team picked up their first win of the season against West Chester University in an intense double overtime game. This gave first year Head Coach Nenad Vidakovich his first win as a Laker.
During the first half of the game the Lakers and Rams went back and forth with scoring goals. Redshirt sophomore, Michael Lennox started the scoring at 18:15 with a shot into the top right of the goal. The goal was assisted by grad student Thom Derks, his first of the season. The Rams came back at 28:52 to tie the score 1-1.
Redshirt senior Thomas Davis gave the Lakers the lead again at 36:59 but the Rams rallied back at 44:23 to tie the game again 2-2.
Neither team scored in the second half or in the first overtime.
The Lakers were finally able to take advantage in the second extra-time session.
The action started when Derks grabbed control from the left side and fired from the box. The shot was saved by Rams goalkeeper Matt Palmer, but he muffed the ball, allowing Korb to fire home the rebound. He sent the ball into the upper-right of the net securing the Mercyhurst win.
"Coach Nenad kept telling us all during practice just to follow everything through," said Korb about his play. "The ball came to me, and I just tapped it in. It was a good team effort today."
Laker goaltender, junior Nicholas Smith saved five out of seven shots on goal during the game.
Following Friday's win, the Lakers fell to No. 18 ranked Bloomsburg in a close 2-1 game. Junior Michael Dirienzo made his first goal of the season this game. His shot was blocked by Bloomsburg goalkeeper but came right back to him where he beat the goalkeeper on the right side on his next attempt.
The Lakers will be on the road for their next two games.
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