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"My wife tells me that I will have to grow up at some point," Michael says, "but I have found no evidence that she is telling the truth."
We think he's being facetious.
This Digital Content Expert escaped what seemed a certain life as an Ohio farmer after his wife, Michelle, was promoted at work. The couple relocated to southern Indiana in 2010 with their boys Connor, Nate, Josh, and Dominick.
Michael decided to return to school. After fours years' immersion at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, Michael emerged in 2015 clutching a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications. He joined SmartBox in February of 2016.
"I am passionate about writing," he says. "I spent the last 15 years trying to figure out what I liked doing (outside of sports and video games), and found that writing is something I love to do. It's easy for me to bring that passion to my work, because that is what SmartBox pays me to do. I write all day, every day, and have loved it from day three (days one and two were YouTube videos about SEO, so that wasn't great)."
We've seen the videos; he's not being facetious.
At present, Michael's job responsibilities are unique. "I'm the person who crafts the onsite content for SmartBox clients. I take the sitemap that the client develops with their Customer Success Manager, and I write all of their website content based on that document. I rarely use content that may have been included on their previous site, so their new site is a fresh and original representation of their dental practice."
He feels fortunate that his first job in his chosen career is at SmartBox. "I love working remotely. The freedom it allows to accomplish the other tasks I have is great. With me working on my master's degree, it really gives me the ability to get everything I need to do finished in a convenient time frame. And, this is the first company that I have worked for that seems to truly value their employees. The management staff seems genuine when they say they want to help you be successful."
Perhaps Michael can find the answers to some puzzling questions in his master's program. "I try to see the world as a place that is filled with intelligent people, but have a hard time figuring out why some people think and act the way they do. I am firmly center of the aisle on the issues of our time, and see merits in both the Left and Right points of view. I'm still baffled about why so many pressing issues in our society can't even be discussed without someone screaming about constitutional rights being trampled, but then I retreat to a Clive Cussler novel and everything seems worlds better."
Seriously? Well, okay.
When not pursuing much higher education or writing dentists' websites, Michael opts for less cerebral pursuits. "I love playing video games, PS4 mainly. I am a born and bred Cleveland sports fan, so the recent Cavs championship is still being celebrated in my home. I enjoy poker, but I'm also a terrible liar, so I tend to lose more than I win when I play."
Hmm. Noted for future reference.
It might be best to think of Michael as a person who rises to the occasion. "I am a very laid-back person who will never be accused of taking themselves too seriously. I don't get too worked up when I am confronted with a problem, and that leads some to think that I don't care. The truth is that I know that the problem won't be solved by how excited I get, but rather by the actions I take. Why waste the energy worrying when I can use that energy to start solving the problem? I also seem to excel when under pressure. I don't particularly like pressure, but I seem to work most efficiently when there is a large amount of it. This has shown through in almost every paper I had to write for my undergrad and now for my graduate degrees."
Given his responsibilities at SmartBox, these are excellent qualities to have. Let us know when you decide to "grow up," Michael.
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Laennec-style monaural stethoscope. Wooden tube, flared at both ends. Used by James Haller (1824-1907). Haller, a doctor from Middleton, Ohio, was commissioned as an Assistant Surgeon of the 38th Regiment Ohio Volunteers on June 10, 1861. On July 13, 1963 he was promoted to surgeon. Following the Battle of Chickamauga he was trasnferred to the hospital of the Third Division of the 14th Army Corps, where he remained until mustering out on January 9, 1865. Haller and his wife, Annie B. Schenck, settled in Burlingame, Kansas in 1868, where he continued to practice medicine. Haller served at least two terms as Mayor of Burlingame. He was also appointed by Governor Glick as a regent of the State Normal School at Emporia.
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What Is A Relapse? How To Deal With Relapse In Recovery?
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Patients who have been treated with substance use disorder often fall back to their old addictive habits, which becomes a source of frustration for them and their families. Many think relapse means the failure of a patient to recover successfully. They're mistaken.
This article will define relapse in light of perceiving addiction as a disease. Reasons will also be presented on why it should almost always be expected that a person recovering from addiction will experience it. While relapsing is common, it must be prevented at all costs because it can be fatal in many cases. Read further to find recommendations on how to define relapse, identify its warning signs and triggers, and how loved ones can help a recovering addict to prevent it?
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Table Of Contents:
The Definition Of Relapse
The Stages of Change or Transtheoretical Theory is often used to help explain why people suffering from substance use disorder typically undergo a relapse cycle before quitting for good. According to this model, people do not change addictive behavior following a unidirectional route. Proponents of this model define relapse as cycling through different stages that may be interrupted by recidivism from time-to-time.
Causes Of Addicts Relapse
According to NIDA, addiction relapse is a normal part of recovery. However, although relapse is part of recovery, the NIDA cautions that for some drugs, it can be extremely dangerous, sometimes even deadly. For the NIDA, relapse means the same way as when it occurs in other chronic medical illnesses. Relapse in addiction can result from triggers, ceasing medical treatment, or incompatible medications and treatment programs.
In a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, relapsation for substance use disorders were compared to relapsing among those suffering from hypertension and asthma. Study results showed that 40% to 60% of recovering addicts suffer from it at least once, whereas worsening occurs in as much as 50% to 70% of people with hypertension and asthma.
Preventing the worsening is a critical part of all drug treatment programs and involves identifying the warning signs and triggers. By improving awareness of the people, places, things, feelings, events that can catalyze drug cravings, the patient can better devise alternatives on how to identify the triggers, get relapse help immediately, and be able to determine when he is about to relapse.
Family and friends are encouraged to educate themselves on how to stop enabling an addict, and how to help them to stay clean.
The Stages Of Relapse
While experts agree that relapse is part of recovery and happens gradually, there are different explanations of the phases and warning signs of relapse.
In Relapse Prevention and the Five Rules of Recovery, dr. Steven Melemis presents a relapse prevention model that proposes 3 stages of relapse:
- Phase 1: Emotional. This phase is highlighted by poor self-care. Some of the tell-tale signs include missing counseling sessions, not sharing, fault-finding, and unhealthy habits. Melemis offers the acronym, "HALT" which stands for hungry, angry, lonely, and tired, which summarizes the emotional triggers for relapse. Filling out Emotional Sobriety Worksheets can help a patient flesh out his reactions when subjected to different positive and negative feelings. This is why prevention training may include concepts on anger management and mind-body relaxation techniques to teach the patient how to better cope with negative emotions.
- Phase 2: Mental. This phase can happen after or simultaneously with emotional phase. This next phase is what Melemis refers to as a bargaining stage where the patient is continuously weighing the pros and cons of using or drinking. Increased frequency of thoughts around this subject can trigger the third phase.
- Phase 3: Physical. The last of the relapse phases and warning signs, this is the stage when a patient starts using again.
Relapse Warning Signs And Triggers
Apart from increasing a patient's understanding of the correct drug relapse definition, it is also critical for them to become more aware of what may trigger them to recidivism.
Some of the most common triggers of relapsing are as follows:
- Stress and negative feelings. To overcome them, prevention worksheets often encourage patients to learn better management of time, stress, and health.
- Sight, smell, and images of drugs and drug paraphernalia. Things like bongs, cigarettes, syringes, lighters, or empty drug bottles can trigger cravings. To help a patient resist these temptations, they should identify substitute behaviors to distract the mind.
- Dealers or drug users in the patient's surroundings. They can be directly or indirectly related to the patient, but all these people can trigger memories of drug abuse. Medical professionals highlight the avoidance of people who have substance misuse issues.
- Familiar places. Substance abuse recovery programs encourage the patient to identify places where a patient used to do drugs and to consider relocation if necessary to avoid drug addiction relapse.
- Celebrations, parties, and other social gatherings. In such functions, there is an even higher probability for the patient to become exposed to triggers, and the sight of people drinking or taking drugs can derail his substance abuse worsening prevention goals.
Lapse Vs. Relapse Vs. Slip
These three terms are commonly misunderstood and are often used interchangeably. While each one can vary in terms of the extent by which a patient falls back to undesired behavior, all of which can easily open up the route to addiction.
Slip Vs. Relapse
It isn't unusual for a patient's loved one to suspect a patient may have "slipped" since just one use can affect outward behavior. There is general agreement that a slip is a one-time use of the substance of addiction.
Lapse Vs. Relapse
Compared to a slip, lapse indicates a relatively long period of use of an addictive substance. Despite use, however, a patient experiencing a lapse may still be complying with his recovery program or some components of it. Just like a slip, however, a lapse can also easily drag a patient to a full recidivism.
Relapse Vs. Slip and Lapse
In contrast to both slip and lapse, a relapse is a more sustained, more regular use of an addictive substance that happens over a more extended period. During a relapse, there is a complete abandonment of a patient's recovery program. Treatment and detox may be necessary.
Using the 12-Step Model perspective of relapse, however, a slip or lapse can be immediately construed as a sign of relapse and necessitate restarting the process once again from Step 1.
Dealing With Relapse In Recovery
Other than avoiding triggers, listed below are different ways to help a patient recover more successfully and more sustainably.
Live In A Sober Living House
Patients may elect to live in a sober living house, where they are compelled to abide by the rules and regulations and take on responsibilities. The patient's progress may be more closely supervised to stay clean and sober.
Find A Sober Companion
The duty of a sober companion is that of a life coach and confidante of the patient. They provide the patient with one-on-one support to keep from relapsing or reduce harm related to addiction.
Sign Up For Family Therapy
When a relapse occurs, family members also suffer. To encourage positive communication and sustain optimism for the patient's recovery, the patient and his family members may elect family therapy. It can help reduce blaming and working towards a sustainable solution to the patient's addiction problem.
Getting Further Medical Treatment
There are new methods to treat addiction today that include the following:
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. TMS is a non-invasive procedure that involves stimulating the part of the patient's brain involved in regulating mood and cravings. Although TMS is widely used to treat substance use disorder, more research is necessary, and, by far, it has only been found effective for the treatment of depression.
- Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide Therapy. NAD Plus is an intravenous procedure that replenishes a patient's supply of this enzyme, which, in turn, improves his energy levels, facilitates natural detox, and decreases cravings.
- EEG Neurofeedback is a therapy that involves observing brain wave activity using a computer program. Results show where a patient's brain may have lost or decreased regulation so that proper interventions to restore brain balance may be introduced in his recovery program.
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- Larimer M. E., Palmer R. S. & Marlatt A. Relapse Prevention: An Overview of Marlatt's Cognitive-Behavioral Model. Alcohol Research & Health. 1999; 23(2): 151-160. https://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh23-2/151-160.pdf.
- Hendershot C. S., Witkiewitz K., George W. H., Marlatt G. A. Relapse prevention for addictive behaviors. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy. 2011; 6: 17. doi:10.1186/1747-597X-6-17. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3163190/.
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administrtation. Substance Abuse and Mental Illness Prevention. 2019. https://www.samhsa.gov/find-treatment/prevention.
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St Ives Cycling Club enjoyed plenty of podium success yesterday.
They collected a victory, three second places and two third places after producing sizzling performances in freezing conditions at the second round of the Mud Sweat & Gears Mountain Bike League.
Ruby O'Dell was their triumphant rider at the Henham Park circuit in Suffolk as she raced to glory at Under 9 Girls level.
Sapphire Curtis (Juvenile Female), Nathan Gibson (Junior Male) and Sam Trotter (Youth Male) were the three St Ives runners-up.
Trotter was particularly unlucky to miss out on victory after leading for much of his race only to be pipped in a sprint finish.
Orla Kenna (Under 12 Girls) and Ralf Falkner (Juvenile Male) both finished third while the Pauley siblings - Dominic (Under 12 Boys) and Beatrice (Juvenile Girls) – only just missed out on the podium when both taking fifth places.
Father Leo (sixth, Open Male) and son Max Falkner (ninth, Youth Male) also recorded top-10 finishes with Jack Taylor 13th in the Sport Male section and Ian Megginson one place further back at Open Male level.
Mick Curtis (28th, Grand Veteran Male) and Elliot Kenna (54th, Open Male) also raced for St Ives.
Elsewhere, Nick Hall finished fifth at Category 4 Male level in the final round of the Full Gas Winter Circuit Series at Lee Valley Velopark in London.
Meanwhile the St Ives 'Go Ride' squad finished second in the final Muddy Monsters North Cambs Cylocross League standings after the final round of the series was cancelled last weekend.


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Astronomers find brightest supernova ever recorded.
Jesus Marquez, Reporter
April 19, 2020
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What To Expect From The Recent Apple Event
Madelyn Gastelum, Social Media Director
March 27, 2019
Monday morning, March 25, at 10am Apple hosted an event at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park in Cupertino California to talk about the exciting new things with Apple. The event started out with Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, who spoke about the things that Apple has brought to the world thus far. The...
National Day of Unplugging: Lets Make it a Habit
Erika Suarez, Podcast Director
March 7, 2019
National Day of Unplugging took place from March 1 to March 2. This national day is described as a "24-hour global respite from technology." The project came up by the Sabbath Manifesto, which was a project of the organization called Reboot. In the Manifesto 'An adaption of our ancestors' ritual of carving...
AI can make fake HD videos that brings next level of "Deepfake"
Gilberto Espana, Staff Writer
September 4, 2018
A new developed AI can turn animated drawings into a fake HD video. Created by Nvidia and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The program uses a moot network to create the fake video. In order to create the altered video. AI uses the same components used for a real video such as foreground, lay...
Is Your Information Safe? Over 48 Million Online User Profiles Leaked
April 22, 2018
Are you sure your information is safe on the 'net? Forty-eight million user profiles from the likes of Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn had their information leaked, without their knowledge or consent, by a little-known data firm back in February of this year. The incident just came to light this ...
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Ex-Advisor Tricks Companies into Investing Over $250 Million
April 22, 2018
Elizabeth Pierce, former CEO of FCC lead-man Ajit Pai's Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee (BDAC), has been arrested for wire fraud after using "forged guaranteed revenue contracts" to trick companies into investing over $250 million in a fiber-optic company. The news came April 12, courtes...
"The Golden State Warriors of Comedy," HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Set to Return for Season Five
Ramon Alvarado, Editor-in-Chief
March 18, 2018
HBO's hit comedy series Silicon Valley is coming back for its fifth season beginning Sunday, March 25. Richard Hendrick's and the Pied Piper crew are set to return and continue their attempt to create a new internet. The last team we saw the Pied Piper team, Gilfoyle (played by Martin Starr) sav...
Bones Found in 1940 Likely Those of Amelia Earhart
Ramon Alvarado, Editor-in-Chief
March 12, 2018
Bones found in a remote South Pacific island in 1940 have been reexamined and are now believed to belong to legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart. The bones were first examined in 1940 by physician D.W. Hoodless. The only conclusion Hoodless made was that the bones belonged to a man. University...
Geek Squad Working Closely with FBI
Ramon Alvarado, Editor-in-Chief
March 12, 2018
The FBI has been working closely with Best Buy's computer repair service, Geek Squad over the last decade. In an investigation launched by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a digital Civil right group, it was discovered that Geek Squad employees have been playing the role of informants for...
Mind-Reading Tech Coming Soon?
Ramon Alvarado, Editor-in-Chief
March 6, 2018
Self-driving cars, phones with facial-recognition, now mind-reading tech? Using some new artificial intelligence technology, a team at the University of Toronto-Scarborough (UT) were able to recreate images shown to people with surprising accuracy. They used electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors and a special...
Google Buys VR company Owlchemy Labs
Luis Gutierrez, Staff Writer
May 15, 2017
May 10 Google announced their purchase of Owlchemy Labs. For those of you who don't know who they are, they're the creators behind Job Simulator, and Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality. They'll be releasing a few VR games for a couple of different platforms. It's also important to add that Google...
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Energy is heading seaside as companies search for more efficient ways to produce power. This renewable energy resource comes from wind at sea. Developers have been building wind turbines out at sea and the technology has become increasingly cheaper over the years, coming down 22 percent in the last year...


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Centre for Social Cohesion and the Media
This page features an analysis of the type of content the Centre for Social Cohesion contributes to, promotes, inspires and provides to the UK press. It examines what kind of reports are stimulated by the Centre for Social Cohesion (CSC) and tries to establish what patterns of message emerge and the nature of the outlook and standpoint the CSC wish to provide and how they convey this or are used to convey this. The survey that Nexis quickly provides connect the CSC to articles prompted by, or are reliant on supporting evidence by the organisation, and are in some cases actually written by members of the CSC, mostly by Douglas Murray the Director of CSC. On analysis one main feature is that the CSC inspired stories also contain mention of a very small range of other similar types of think tanks and political action groups that bolster the view points on offer.
Using a search on the Nexis database with the search term 'Centre for Social Cohesion', and restricted to UK national newspapers, the results can be initially grouped like this:
- The Express (21), Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (18), The Daily Telegraph (12), The Express Newspapers (11), The Sunday Telegraph (10), The Sunday Times (7), The Independent (6), News International Newspapers Information Services Ltd. (5), The Observer (5), The Guardian (4), Independent on Sunday (3), The Sunday Express (2), The Business (1), The Times (1).
Some of these results are duplicates, mostly in the Newspapers with the lower results: the Sun for instance, is really only two reports "FANATICS' CALL TO PROSECUTE QUEEN", The Sun (England), August 1, 2009; and 'Terrorist mag row', The Sun (England), April 20, 2009. The Sunday Express is really only 1 result, 'Muslims back faith killings', Sunday Express, July 27, 2008; the Guardian only really three.
The headlines do seem to repeat in the Express and Daily Mail and taken as a whole they all (without any discernable exception) have the recurring sole theme of offering an overwhelmingly negative view of Muslims; and it can also be argued, that this contains a hostile and extreme reaction at the expense of any countervailing view point. It could be easily stated that on the evidence of all these results the function of the CSC, certainly as regards The Express, is to provide an overwhelmingly negative view of Muslims in a concerted campaign. All of the other newspapers more or less follow this pattern except where they refer to the CSC as presenting this negative stereotype; such as Seumas Milne's (2009) Guardian article, that explored the ideas underlying the new Government strategy to confront "nonviolent extremism":
- ... It is a policy that has been driven by neoconservative-leaning thinktanks - such as Policy Exchange, the Centre for Social Cohesion and the government-funded Quilliam Foundation - who believe Islamism, a political trend as broad as socialism or liberalism, is the enemy, rather than the tiny takfiri groups who think it's a good idea to blow people up on buses and tubes.[1]
Despite this evidence of fervent proponence of a specific idea, the CSC however, describes itself as a "non-partisan think-tank" and one which studies "issues related to community cohesion in the UK". 'Cohesion' as a term would seem to be some sort of government shibboleth: a prerequisite of discourse dating back to a change in government policy.[2] It also describes itself as "Committed to the promotion of human rights", and that "it is the first think-tank in the UK to specialise in studying radicalisation and extremism within Britain."[3]
The CSC also argues that its aims are: "to promote human rights, tolerance and greater cohesion among the UK's ethnic and religious communities and within wider British society." This is also coupled with a "focus on extremism, radicalisation and different forms of Islamism". So it is not surprising that its focus, as far as the print media evidence provided here goes, should focus on Islam as such, but it is the nature of its focus which is problematic: its slant. It also argues that CSC staff members seek to "appear regularly in the media" and that here they are "commenting on a variety of issues relating to the promotion of human rights and social cohesion," so we can view the output represented in the press as a desirable outcome for the CSC This mission seems to have a particular meaning for the CSC which we will examine below.
Daily Mail
All of the results in the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday also represent this overwhelmingly negative view of Muslims, and in substance, are much the same stories as the Express, again with some of these articles being written by Douglas Murray. This negative stereotyping continues into all of the articles in The Daily Telegraph, Daily Star, Sunday Telegraph and The Sunday Times' (which includes headlines such as 'Family of teen Muslim invited men to rape her'[4], with the exception of 1 letter from August 3, 2008 complaining of the way the 'Islam on Campus' report was promoted by the CSC.
The time scale of the survey was till October 2009 and new reports appear fairly regularly on Nexis such as Melanie Philips' (Daily Mail, October 19, 2009) observations on Rick Griffin's appearance on BBC TV's Question Time, this mentions the CSC as 'anti-Islamist':
- So there are reports that an early proposal to fill the ' independent gadfly' role on the panel by Douglas Murray, the right-of-centre director of the anti-Islamist Centre For Social Cohesion, was vetoed because of the danger of creating the impression that any of Griffin's ideas were legitimate. Instead, playwright Bonnie Greer was selected. But as a Left-wing black American, she is unlikely to get under Griffin's skin simply by virtue of the colour of her own.
Leaving aside the logic of this statement, previously in the Daily Mail the CSC was presented as 'a respected think-tank' (Daily Mail, February 26, 2009) and on examination this view (which may well be restricted to Philips) seems to have recently emerged: the CSC is normally refered to as 'an arm of the Civitas' (September 2, 2008) and Philips herself has drawn heavily on the CSC's reports (Daily Mail, July 8, 2008) and indeed is published by Civitas.
In the Express, where Douglas Murray, Director of the CSC's is quoted, we see headlines such as 'Police dress in burkhas for a day' with Murray quoted as stating:
- It's not the duty of police to empathise with particular sections of the community.[5]
Or, with headlines such as 'Now non-Muslims seek 'justice' at the sharia courts', Murray is quoted as saying:
- ...the unabated drive towards the full introduction of sharia law must be stopped.[6]
Or with the headline 'ban the burkha here in Britain; even muslims don't want it, Murray sees the burkha as part of the terrorist's arsenal:
- "One of the failed London bombers wore a burkha to get away, so the charge by some that the security issue is academic is also not true.[7]
This article also uses Ghaffar Hussain, "of the antiextremist think-tank Quilliam"; Hussein al-Alak, of the Iraq Solidarity UK; and Diana Nammi, of the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation in London to back up its argument.
These types of articles are repeated with headlines such as 'France's president wants women unveiled should the burkha be banned?' with the answer provided by Murray with:
- YES - says Douglas Murray Director of the Centre for Social Cohesion.[8]
With the headline 'fanatic freed to stir up hate', Murray is quoted alongside(and to a certain extent conflated with) other authority figures such as far right-wing Pauline Neville-Jones, an un-named British Army veteran and an un-named 'spokeswoman for the Ministry of Justice', with Murray's summation as the decisive peroration of the article:
- "The court has sent out the message that you can incite violence against British and American forces in Iraq and raise funds to kill them, and that your punishment will be nothing more than the most risible sentence."[9]
Or with headlines such as 'Schools could close for Islamic festivals' Murray offers something of a manichean (if not totalitarian) declaration (which simply avoids the question of Catholic or Jewish holidays or the variations between Scotland and England:
- Either people are British and have a particular holiday system, or we decide to carve the country up into areas that are Muslim and nonMuslim, and I think that's what this does.[10]
With an introductory paragraph that makes the bold assertion that:
- MILLIONS of pounds of taxpayers' money has been spent promoting terrorism and encouraging young Palestinians to hate the West, it emerged yesterday.[11]
Murray is quoted to simply reiterate the assertion and reiterate it again by introducing an analogy:
- "political commentator and director of think-tank the Centre for Social Cohesion, who said the Government "was absolutely to blame" and had been "spending money like a drunken sailor".
In connection with an attack on the BBC for letting 'Al Qaeda suspect Binyam Mohamed' speak 'without demanding answers about his alleged terror links', Murray is replaced by Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens:
- Al Qaeda expert Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, a senior researcher at the Centre for Social Cohesion think-tank, said: "The BBC's responsibility is to licence-payers. Really, they didn't press him hard enough on the issue of whether he had been to a training camp.[12]
What the CSC seem to be driving at is that all the main institutions of British society with the exception of their own recently formed organisation promote terrorism.
Douglas Murray also writes short articles for the Express, which tie in the CSC agenda with some sort of game of 'topical terrorism', with headlines such as 'It's no surprise Britons were among killers,' in connection with the terrorist attacks in Mumbai.[13]And indeed he has also written several leader columns.[14]Murray's findings here are self-referential and extol the work of the CSC:
- AND the lessened life chances which multiculturalism has imposed on women from parallel communities could not be more starkly demonstrated than in some of the so-called "honour crime" cases revealed in a report by the Centre for Social Cohesion published this year. Among the terrible cases were examples of women who had been abused by their families, who had gone to the police for help and whom the police - thinking such things were a "community issue" - returned to their families only for them to be beaten again.[15]
The question arises as to why does the Express gives itself over to the theories of such a small mono-maniac group?
Another leader with Murray as the writer[16] had a longer version in UK edition than the Scottish one, concerning the Governments aim to put £70million into Muslim communities to try to tackle extremism, whereby his opponents are linked to terrorist bombings, and this too is seen as funding terrorism:
- If, like the post-7/7 groups, Brown ends up asking for help from people who believe (like Ahmad Thompson of the Association For Muslim Lawyers) that British foreign policy is run by Jews and Freemasons, or (like Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain, speaking before 9/11) that Osama Bin Laden was a "freedom fighter", then the £70million will be little more than a windfall for the radicals. A kind of midjihad bonus.
The elementary pattern of the headlines, articles and leaders have elements of contrivance for effect: the headline 'Murders' threat by Muslims'[17] is accompanied by:
- 'ONE in three Muslim students believes it can be justified to kill someone because of their faith.' [...] Last night the Centre for Social Cohesion, an independent think-tank which commissioned the poll, called the results "deeply alarming". [...]YouGov questioned 600 Muslim and 800 non-Muslim students at colleges with active Islamic societies.
It is interesting to compare the local editions, such as the Lancashire edition, which used the headline 'Religion justifies killings'[18] adding:
- In a survey of 1,400 students at 12 leading British campuses, 32 per cent of Muslims polled thought murder in the name of religion could be justified.
The TaxPayers' Alliance are also also used to bolster Express' use of CSC (also interesting to look at the imagery which often accompanies these as a collage (on occasion Nexis will exerpt this in caption form). Indeed 'the taxpayer' is said to be funding terrorism:
- TAXPAYERS' money has been spent on stacking public libraries with the hate-filled works of extremist preachers like Abu Hamza.[19]
This makes no mention of what material it is talking about, other than it is 'like' that which it demonised, and was slightly amended from the Express' Cyril Dixon's first edition to convey less information moving down from 336 words to 185, with an imputation of a connection between the local Muslim community:
- Douglas Murray, of the Centre for Social Cohesion think tank that made the discovery, said: "This risks fuelling the tensions that lead to terrorism." The think tank found inflammatory literature at libraries in areas with large Muslim populations like east London, Blackburn and Birmingham.[20]
Of course this begs the question where do the CSC get their information from, do they read primary sources?
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Something subtler occurs with the coverage in the Independent, mostly by Jerome Taylor. Although the above pattern remains, it is as if the CSC are a cat's paw in drawing 'radicalised' individuals into the public arena:
- Douglas Murray, the director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, said he had agreed to attend the debate because "his opinions have to be countered". But he said the Government should move quickly to ban the group.[21]
The CSC are also Jerome Taylor's source for 'expert' advice on 'terrorism' (with a domestic slant) along with quotes from a "spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police" and a "security source":
- In the areas of London with large Tamil populations - such as Tooting, Mitcham and Harrow - donating to the Eelam cause is still as easy as going down the shops. The LTTE were proscribed as a terrorist organisation in March 2001 so those business and charities that once operated openly for the Tigers have since closed. But insiders say Tamils will continue to donate through the undiyal system, a shadowy money transfer network where LTTE-friendly businesses send money to Tiger-run businesses in Sri Lanka much like a backdoor Western Union system. Shortly before the war in Sri Lanka intensified, the Centre for Social Cohesion, a London-based think-tank, estimated that the undiyal system netted the LTTE £250,000 every month from Britain alone.
Coverage of the CSC (which makes no attempt to contextualise their work in any way) also confusingly presents them as advising the Home Office on who to ban from entering the UK.[22]
Jerome Taylor arguing that "Thousands of British Tamils will descend upon a major festival in London today despite accusations that it is a fundraising initiative for the Tamil Tigers, a banned terrorist group" quotes from "Dominic Whiteman, a specialist on Tamil fundraising at the centre-right think-tank the Centre for Social Cohesion", who said:
- the police should not allow the events to go ahead. "Without doubt the London Heroes' Day event has been a Tigers event where the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran's Heroes' Day speech has been made available by video link," Mr Whiteman said. "They are banned from congregating and this event should never be allowed to take place on British soil."[23]
Hermione Eyre in an article ostensibly on Feminism states (without attribution at the start of the article) that:
- On Monday this week, a new study was published that suggested that current statistics on honour-based crimes against young men should be revised upwards. It revealed anecdotal instances where the whole community - taxi drivers, local councillors, police - all worked together to return young runaway men to the abusive domestic situation they were trying to escape. The findings were so shocking that they even made it out of special interest man-magazines and into the general press.
And at the close of the article states that:
- ...was published by the Centre for Social Cohesion on Monday. Among its findings were details of a newsletter, sent to almost 1,250 Muslims in the Cardiff area that named and shamed specific women for non-Islamic behaviour. When issues such as this are "live", I cannot see how it is possible to write off women's studies at university as redundant and feminism as a thing of the past. It smacks of the liberated white female academic world pulling up the drawbridge after them. These are not just issues of faith, consumerism and culture: they are also issues of feminism. Or should that be masculinism?[24]
The Independent has also used the work of the CSC in its leader columns (designed to influence opinion) and here the reports elide into the text:
- The CSC report argues that such problems are no longer an issue of first-generation immigrants importing attitudes from "back home" but are "indigenous and self-perpetuating" as they are sustained by third- and fourth-generation immigrants. It is not a problem likely to die out as immigrants become more settled. But it would be wrong to assume that there is no resistance from Muslims themselves to this practice. The Government's Forced Marriage Unit - a joint department within the Home Office and the Foreign Office - deals with forced marriages and organises repatriations and refuge for those women and girls caught up in the process. Thousands of British Muslims ask for their assistance every year. That is an encouraging sign.[25]
So from the Independent's use and reporting of CSC, the reader would see its viewpoint sanctioned by the newspaper, the CSC validated by its use alongside, and given the same accord, as government agencies such as the police and intelligence services and as policy advisers to the Government. In contrast to this readers are not given any real details on the nature of the organisation, counter opinion as to its function and purpose, its track record in what it has promoted and provoked and so on.
Jerome Taylor the Independent writer who uses CSC material the most frequently has made something of a speciality of 'Britain's religious and ethnic minority communities' with his work on 'Minority Report'.[26] Some of his 'reports' here follow much the same pattern as that promoted by CSC, and contain a marked focus and ambiguous perspective on inflammatory issues.
A (2008) report pruriently dwells on attempts to set Muslims against Sikhs and seems to join in the goading that "risks damaging the historically tense relationship".[27]This is not in isolation and is predated by another attempt at rhetorical devices, whereby questions such as "Is there really any animosity between Britain's Sikhs and Muslims? are answered by reference to two reports. Taylor argues that the "BBC's Religion and Ethics department has made more than 40 programmes on Islam but just four on Hinduism and one on Sikhism since 2001." and couple this with a report from the think-tank Faith Matters.[28]
Taylor seems to have a close relationship and elective affinity with the CSC who in turn seem to lead him to stories. In a long blog on 'hate preachers' the CSC's Houriya Ahmed tells us:
- I have also just spoken to the press office - who, as soon as I mentioned 'press' in my email [Jerome Taylor of the Independent just blogged on this after I informed him], have decided to take an interest.[29]
Taylor circulates this back in Minority Report, asking "Should universities be doing more to stop hate preachers?" and including the 'update' and seems to enter the story himself:
- Houriya Ahmed, from the Centre for Social Cohesion, has written a more detailed blog on this including how UEL actually cancelled an event earlier this year that Abu Usama had planned to speak out which suggests the university is being rather inconsistent. It seems they only bothered to clarify their position this afternoon once the press (ie. me) phoned them. [30]
Several other reports which draw on the CSC in Taylor's capacity as Religious Affairs Correspondent, and are very close to the organisation and report and inflate the CSC's relevance and importance, even although it seems part of the inflammatory process itself, as evinced by Taylor's account of "Al Muhajiroun's British based leader, Anjem Choudary", who was "due to hold a debate with Douglas Murray of the Centre for Social Cohesion on Sharia law".[31]
In an interview Taylor expressed a general view on how Islam is treated in the media:
- 'Islam is continuously and routinely lampooned by the sway of columnists. The same level of criticism is rarely leveled at Christians, perhaps primarily because lots of readers might get offended and stop buying newspapers. But, yes, in the post 9/11 climate, particularly Islam has beena kind of free foray. 'I've lost track of the columns I've read where somebody talks about the creation of Islam and theysay it was written by a tribal chieftain, semi-illiterate chieftain orphan who married, had sex with twelve years olds and OKed the massacre of Jews. OK, in a sense they are historically correct factsabout Mohamed, we think. Is there a same approach to Christianity? Probably not; you don't getthe same number of columns taking a highly critical approach to the foundations of Christianity. You know, it's there but not as much as of other religions and one religion in particular.'[32]
Here he also adds that: 'I hope my lack of faith makes me approach religion the same way I would approach any othersubject as a journalist,' which he imagines to be 'Thorough, objective and impartial', adding 'I don't think religion should be treated any differently from any other subject [...] if your faith gets in the way when you report that, thenyou are slightly failing to do your job properly.' This does not seem to include faith in think tanks.
- ↑ Comment & Debate: This counter-terror plan is in ruins. Try one that works: Ministers want Muslims to accept shared values. Luckily they already do, including opposition to wars of aggression, The Guardian (London) - Final Edition, March 26, 2009; Pg. 31, Seumas Milne.
- ↑ See: IDeA: Improvement and Development Agency for local government, (2009) Community cohesion policy: Background and definition, which provides detail on how the policy framework evolved. In 2001 the then Home Secretary David Blunkett established the Community Cohesion Review team under Ted Cantle. This is arguably the point at which 'Community cohesion' as a term and a policy aspiration gained common currency in local government. Ruth Kelly, then Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government announced the creation of the Commission on Integration and Cohesion in June 2006. Some reports such as Maria Hudson's (2006) Understanding Social Cohesion: Everyday Interactions in Diverse Communities, Policy Studies Institute, offer criticism of the government's social cohesion agenda arguing that this "centred on the lack of clarity over the meaning of the term and a tendency to decouple social cohesion from issues of racial equality".
- ↑ 2009 The Centre For Social Cohesion, About Us, what we do.
- ↑ The Sunday Times (London), February 3, 2008
- ↑ The Express, August 4, 2009 (Scottish Edition), Police dress in burkhas for a day, Paul Jeeves.
- ↑ The Express, July 22, 2009, 1st Edition, Now non-Muslims seek 'justice' at the sharia courts, Paul Jeeves.
- ↑ The Express, June 24, 2009, 1st Edition, BAN THE BURKHA HERE IN BRITAIN; Even Muslims don't want it, Mark Reynolds.
- ↑ The Express, June 24, 2009, U.K. 1st Edition, FRANCE'S PRESIDENT WANTS WOMEN UNVEILED SHOULD THE BURKHA BE BANNED?
- ↑ The Express, May 7, 2009 Thursday, 1st Edition, FANATIC FREED TO STIR UP HATE; Anger over our soft justice, John Twomey
- ↑ The Express, April 21, 2009, 1st Edition, Schools could close for Islamic festivals, Chris Riches.
- ↑ The Express, March 16, 2009, U.K. 1st Edition, 'How GBP 100m of your cash goes to fund terror, Dana Gloger.
- ↑ The Express, March 14, 2009 Saturday , U.K. 1st Edition, BBC accused of being too 'soft' on ex-terror suspect, Cyril Dixon.
- ↑ The Express, November 29, 2008, It's no surprise Britons were among killers
- ↑ The Express, August 15, 2008, AS RACE WARS SPLIT GEORGIA, COULD IT HAPPEN IN BRITAIN?; Douglas Murray.
- ↑ The Express, August 15, 2008, AS RACE WARS SPLIT GEORGIA, COULD IT HAPPEN IN BRITAIN?; Douglas Murray.
- ↑ The Express, August 1, 2007, Scottish Edition, Politicians must rediscover art of the possible; Douglas Murray. Other leaders include: The Express, July 28, 2007, U.K. 1st Edition, 'Brown can't stop floods but he CAN plug leaky UK borders'; Douglas Murray
- ↑ The Express, July 28, 2008, U.K. 1st Edition, 'Murders' threat by Muslims.
- ↑ The Express, July 28, 2008, Religion 'justifies killings'.
- ↑ The Express, September 7, 2007, Uproar over Hamza's rants in public libraries.
- ↑ The Express, September 7, 2007, U.K. 1st Edition, Uproar over Hamza rants in libraries, Cyril Dixon. Again this uses the TaxPayers' Alliance as a source backing up the CSC.
- ↑ Independent, June 17, 2009,Al Muhajiroun's return presents test for terror laws; Controversial Islamist group stands accused of radicalising young Muslims ,Jerome Taylor.
- ↑ The Independent, February 26, 2009, First Edition, Call to ban 'spokesman for Hizbollah
- ↑ Jerome Taylor, The Independent, November 27, 2008, First Edition, Heroes' Day - or a terrorist fundraiser?; Commemoration of Tamil 'martyrs' linked with support for Tigers.
- ↑ Hermione Eyre, Whoever said feminism was a thing of the past? The Independent, February 9, 2008.
- ↑ The Independent, February 4, 2008, First Edition, 'We must not turn a blind eye to this cruelty.'
- ↑ IndyBlogs Home, Jerome Taylor, Independent News & Media 2007. This also states he 'joined The Independent's Foreign Desk in 2005 and is now a Home News reporter with a particular penchant for religious affairs.'
- ↑ Jerome Taylor, 8 October 2008, Minority Report: Freshers week 'seduction website' angers Sikhs.
- ↑ 9 September 2008, Minority Report: Is there really any animosity between Britain's Sikhs and Muslims? Jerome Taylor
- ↑ Extremist to speak at University of East London, Houriya Ahmed on June 17, 2009
- ↑ Minority Report, Should universities be doing more to stop hate preachers?, Jerome Taylor, 17 June 2009.
- ↑ Islamist group has to abandon relaunch debate, Jerome Taylor, 18 June 2009
- ↑ Annikka Mutanen (2008 – 2009) To do, or not to do God, Faith in British and Finnish journalism, Reuters Institute Fellowship paper, Oxford University.


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Again working independently from the NCRI, the ISIS wrote: "This site first came to public attention in May 2003 when the Iranian opposition group, National Council for Resistance of Iran, announced…the site."
August 2004 laser enrichment facility at the Center for Readiness and New Defense Technology (known as Lavizan 2), built with equipment removed from the Lavizan-Shian site, kept off limits to international inspectors since its revelation by the NCRI
Regarding the validity of these Iranian resistance revelations, Dr. Frank Pabian, Senior Nonproliferation Analyst at the U.S. Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, stated, 'They're [the NCRI] right 90 percent of the time. That doesn't mean they're perfect, but 90 percent is a pretty good record." Even if the NCRI and MEK did not have such an impressive track record, intelligence, especially those from resistance sources, is at least a "lead" to compare with information using other sources and methods.
Regarding sources of intelligence revelations, a U.S. Federal Court informed the State Department that the Court will delist the MEK (and the larger coalition, NCRI) unless State acts to continue the listing or remove it before October 1, 2012. The bottom line is that the MEK designation hampers the resistance from pursuing its opposition against the Iranian regime and harms intelligence collection on Tehran's nuclear progress, let alone cyberattacks and military operations against Iran.
Raymond Tanter served on the White House National Security Council senior staff in the Reagan-Bush administration, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan.


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Favorite Line: "Trapped within white stone the angel's heart pulsed." (p. 74)
The horror or Dante Baptiste's life is coming to light, the angels have found a maker capable of saving heaven and FBI Special Agent Heather Wallace is now disposable. Heather, Dante and their crew are on the run from forces they don't understand and the predators chasing them will do what ever it takes to capture Dante, a creature born of a vampire and an angel. Heather is also having dreams about her dead mother that threaten to reveal a secret that will rock her world.
Alliances have been made and will be broken in this third installment of the Maker's Song series written by Adrian Phoenix. Beneath the Skin showcases characters spiraling out of control in an easy to follow manner. It picks up right at the end of In the Blood which means people trying to read this book as a stand alone will be lost.
The drug use continues in this book, as does the volcanic rage that seems to surround so many of the characters. The explosions are passionate. Some are crazy while others are predictable. Phoenix has done a remarkable job of creating manipulative, insane, sincere and shadowy characters who are realistic, fully-hashed and believable.
This urban fantasy series just keeps on running. From solving the mystery in book one to the discoveries that take place in book two, The Maker's Song series keeps getting better. Beneath the Skin is a quick paced story that will suck you in and not let go. 'Cause Dante is the kind of vamp who faces things head on. Expect people's fantasies to be fulfilled and dashed, some major drama and the evolution of a powerful man.
This is my favorite book in the series. It is a strong book that puts Heather and Dante together as a couple, makes me hate certain characters, wonder about other characters and wish I had the next book in my hands.


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As we approach the end of 2018, I'm in a reflective mood.
Does that happen with you?
The days are shorter and the thoughts are longer.
Or deeper.
I'm thinking about how quickly things change.
What was once stable very rapidly shifts.
The bottom falls out.
All hell breaks loose as they say.
I see this in my business.
Years and years of China sourcing, I've always said, you successfully control 99 points.
But the 100th point slips under the radar and brings down a project.
What we micromanage and tightly control, comes out ok.
It's the things we cannot control.
So although whether in offshore manufacturing or life, you can control and control, you also have to be stable.
Stable as far as your outlook.
We cannot fall apart like a $2.00 suitcase every time life says "BOO!"
Have a firm mindset knowing that you did your best, things looks good but it can all fall apart.
Have a firm mindset knowing that when things fall apart, they can always get better…and usually do.
As humans we worry.
But isn't worry very illogical?
I heard a wise couple of sentences once.
"If we can do something about it, there's no need to worry. If we cannot do anything about it, there's no need to worry."
Worry constricts us.
We cannot focus on the important things when we worry?
"But what if, what if, and then…." All that stops us from doing our duties.
Worrying about our family can actually cause you to neglect your family.
Having anxiety about a project causes you to muck up the project.
It's like stage fright.
The thing you greatly fear comes upon you.
We don't have the power we like to think we have, right?
So all the control, all the preempting possible contingencies, mean nothing when it comes to providential happenings, right?
Did Alaska think they were getting such a huge quake this weekend?
Did we know our beloved Carolina coast was going to get so hard this year?
How about fires in California? Who was pondering that? Everyone was focused on their own business, families, daily concerns, name it.
We do our best.
We help others.
We have to trust.
What are you trusting in?
Have you found worry to help?
Instead of worry, I want to walk.
Walk in a restful excellence.
I'm talking more to myself than I am to you right now.


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January 18th Program
World Building: How to Layer in the Details Without Info-dumping
Seressia Glass is an award-winning author of more than twenty-five contemporary and paranormal romance and urban fantasy stories. Her paranormal series, (Shadowchasers, Sons of Anubis) are steeped in Egyptian mythology. Her upcoming work includes a novella in the Shadowchasers universe and FAKING IT, a story about a plus-sized nerd in a cosplaying reality show competition. She lives south of Atlanta with her guitar-wielding husband, gamer son, and two attack poodles. When not writing, she's at her day job as an instructional designer, or people-watching, belly dancing, and watching anime.
In science fiction and fantasy, it's acceptable to open your story with an almost encyclopedic recounting of the history of your world. In romance, we don't have that luxury even if our world is paranormal or scifi. This workshop gives tips on how to layer the details into your story without resorting to info-dumps. Bring your world-building ideas for on-the-spot suggestions for weaving them into your story!
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That price also includes beverage service as there will be a beverage station all day.
That no longer includes breakfast.
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Speaking of pretending. Do you know that I found great comfort in my dad's body at the calling hours? We all stood in line past his coffin and I felt like our whole family was together again. It was as if he was taking a nap in the corner. I wanted to take him home and prop him in a chair. Even if he didn't talk, that would be alright because he would still be there with me. Crazy...
Sometimes you just need to take a break. The reality isn't going to go away. The loss is still staring you in the face, but sometimes you just need to focus on something else. Maybe a movie.... I love movies, especially romantic comedies.
I've been thinking about the movies, "Sleepless in Seattle" and "PS I Love You" lately. The words of Sam Baldwin played by Tom Hanks ring in my ears ...
"Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning...breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breath in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while."
It's sad to watch Sam the widower with his precocious son grieve, but in the end, he finds a second great love. Aren't movies wonderful!
Here's the trailer for PS I LOVE YOU. I own it because it might be one of my all time favorite movies. It's not one I pull out too often though because I can't stand the emotions that flood me. You need plenty of tissues for this one. They've achieved a good balance of raw, real and funny. Half the time you laugh AND cry at the same time in this movie.... Just like real life... real grief. And again, our grieving heroine eventually moves through, changed forever but again able to smile, love, live. Wish I could condense this process into a two hour movie and move on to the "happy" stage again.
The truth is that I'm kind of drained today... don't want to be profound... nor spiritual. Just want to be quiet. Just want to pretend. Just want life to go back to a place of normalcy.
Emotions like grief are too much to sustain. Sometimes one has to just take a break from the realities of life. I've got some other things going on today that might impact my whole financial future, but I'm too tired even to think about it. It's all in God's hands and I'm not going to worry about it. I don't have the energy.
Think I'll stay in bed in my jammies, make a fruit smoothie and watch a few movies.


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Coffee is what I live for.
My name is Kelsey. I'm a coffee drinker, lover, and a Barista! I've been working in coffee shops for about 2 years. I began when I helped open up a Gloria Jean's in 2007 and was there until we closed in January of this year. Now I work at a little coffee kiosk called Cafe Macchiato in a hospital lobby. The medical crowd is a lot different than the tourist crowd, but I'm learning to love it here just as much.
Before I was trained as a Barista I didn't know a whole lot about coffee, just enjoyed the QuickTrip cappuccino. On occasion I'd get a cappuccino at Starbucks. Never understood why so much whip cream and foam, then I became a Barista and discovered they're doin' it wrong.
Eventually I'm going to open up my own coffee shop (Christian owned and operated), with a screen printing shop on the side. Right now I'm just getting payed to learn more about my most favourite thing in the world.
Lessee...I think I would say my favourite drink an Americano with an extra shot and a smidge of half & half. Sometimes adding a little caramel is good. My boyfriend, who works with me, and I are trying to learn Latte Art. Not easy. He's getting the hang of making the art, but I'm only good at getting the milk to froth just right.
When I'm not obsessing over coffee I love to watch Star Trek or listen to the Beatles & Monkees.
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A safe harbor provision simply means that you will not violate a statute or regulation as long as certain conditions are met. In other words a free pass for nondiscrimination testing for 401(k) plans.
Traditional Safe Harbor Costs
In order for 401(k) plans or other qualified plans to enjoy tax preferred status, they must comply with nondiscrimination testing rules. Through the application of mathematical formulas, plans must demonstrate that they do not discriminate in favor of the owners or highly compensated employees (HCE). For example, in a company offers a 401(k) plan and if the average deferral rate for staff employees is 2% then the maximum the owners and HCE's can defer is roughly 4%. However, if the plan is safe harbor, the owners and other HCE's deferral is not limited by the staff's level of participation. They could defer as much as $17,500, but to qualify for this free pass, the employer must be willing to commit to a specific match or a flat 3% of pay for everyone who is eligible. Either one of these safe harbor provisions could be very expensive for employers who have a poorly designed 401(k) plan.
Closely held businesses typically sponsor a 401(k) plan for one of three reasons:
- To allow owners and other key employees to save taxes
- To provide a vehicle for employees to save for retirement
- All of the above
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If the objective is for the business owner to save taxes, then the staff cost for the 401(k) plan should be equal to or less than the tax savings. Plan design strategies can be deployed to optimize the tax savings while minimizing staff cost.
Section 410(b) of the Internal Revenue Code permits a plan to remain qualified if it includes (covers) at least 70% of the eligible employees. This provision provides significant leeway when designing a safe harbor plan for closely held businesses.
A study by the American Benefits Institute found that on average 73% of eligible employees participate in their employer's 401(k) plan. It has been our experience that the participation rate is even lower in closely held businesses. This is a very important statistic when seeking to optimize a plan design.
If only 70% of the eligible workforce has to be included in the plan, and if only 73% on average find a plan beneficial to them, then why not only include those who see its value? This approach doesn't restrict the owner or other key employees from maximizing their contributions, but it does allow the employer to limit the potential cost by excluding groups of employees.
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For the employer whose primary objective is to offer a vehicle for employees to plan for retirement, a safe harbor 401(k) plan eliminates non-discrimination testing so highly compensated employees can defer the maximum.
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Employers seeking the maximum utility from a 401(k) plan may want to minimize taxes for the owner and other key employees, and provide a means by which everyone can save for retirement. A properly designed safe harbor plan, when paired with other features such as additional matching contributions, profit sharing and cash balance contributions, provides the general framework for the optimal balance between tax savings and retirement readiness.
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Regardless of status – highly compensated, non-highly compensated, or owner – everyone should have the same opportunity to save for an adequate retirement. A properly designed plan can include safe harbor provisions but with controlled staff cost. Plan sponsors, and consultants, who think outside the box can enjoy the benefits of greater tax savings and higher contributions while balancing staff cost.


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The photo in which we highlight every facial flaw I have.
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We now have a better concept of square footage we'll want to have enough space. Roughly 1800 square feet is enough to have our ideal bathroom, guest bed and office with good space for entertaining in the kitchen and greatroom.
Also, after having seen the fireplace with built-in shelving, shelving that uses the same face and finish of the rest of the wood, it's really nice. I think we'll add that if not too expensive. It's just lovely to have that match everything else.
Next, we have to figure location. Ideally, the site off Cross Country as it is bear both our jobs - well, where my job WILL BE in the next few years. But sites are going quickly. We sat with one of the guys haning at the model open houses today and reviewed what lots are actually open. And, uh... yeah. Most of Heather Glen is bought or under construction. We may end up in Linden Park which is hardly a bad thing - it is on the other side of M, north of Hawk's Landing. So, a little further north but still good location. I could still bike to work.
Head hurts. Too much information these last few days. But we're getting much closer to the scary How Will You Pay For This, Hmmm? portion of house buying. :)
Yesterday's photo was a huge hit. It topped 71 in the Most Interesting list for the day last I checked. Nifty.
What would you think of a QnA re: Photoshop? I have a lot of knowledge about it and would like to pass it on. I figure I open a poll every once in a while for questions and answer one in a post with examples. Would any of you like that? I think it would be cool
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