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It's very simple and straightforward, at Spain4weddings.com you can find everything you need to get married in Spain. Browse our wedding package options and once you have found the one for you contact us to help customize it! Or we can design the whole wedding experience according to you. Our wedding experts will help you to select the perfect wedding venue, manage bookings, assist with deposits and payments to the vendors, offer support with the day of coordination service and much more.
No problem. Please feel free to select from the list of vendors provided on the website. The quality of our network of wedding vendors is one of our strongest assets and our vendors are seen as an extension of our company. Our extensive experience and local knowledge allows for us to contract wedding vendors with proven quality work in order to pair you with exactly the style of wedding vendor you are looking for in your dream wedding in Spain. "We pride ourselves on our reputation for creating exclusive events and delivering first-class service". José Levy, CEO.
Yes, of course. At Spain4weddings.com we are just as passionate about creating your wedding experience as you are. We love what we do. We feel privileged to work with couples to plan their big day and we strongly believe that no two weddings should be alike. We offer different wedding planner packages & rates for your unique wedding in Spain. Our goal is to take care of everything so that your day is perfect.
We understand how the wedding industry works in Spain. Our local knowledge, Spanish wedding contacts and experience, help ensure that you and your partner have a stunning tailor made wedding. You, your friends & family will profit from a careful organization, and we'll stay with you all day. With Spain4weddings.com we simplify the whole process so that you can make your dreams a reality.
Are you interested in organising a legal wedding in Spain? This brief guide addresses everything you need to know about getting married here. If you are Catholic, you should be happy because it's quite straightforward; we will walk you through the process. But if you were hoping to have a civil ceremony, watch out, this can be really very complicated!
Here are some quick facts about organising a legal wedding in Spain;
- Catholic weddings are the only legally recognised religious wedding ceremonies in Spain. In fact, a Catholic wedding is the only way to be legally married in Spain if you are a non national.
- For other religions, you can have a blessing, but the paperwork will have to be sorted out at home.
- There is a 2 year residency requirement if you want to have a Civil Ceremony.
Civil Ceremony
Not great news here I'm afraid. It's just not possible to have a civil ceremony in Spain unless one of you is a citizen or a resident in Spain for at least two years.
If you cannot comply with any of the requirements previously stated then you can have the ceremony in your home country and then afterwards have a blessing ceremony to your taste with an officiant that can be made to resemble an official ceremony here in Spain. This way you get to have an official looking ceremony, which you can even help to design or write.
If you or your partner are Catholic, then you can be legally married in a catholic wedding ceremony in Spain, actually – it's about the only way to get married legally in Spain. The process isn't too painful and you have to go through most of the steps the same way you would if you were getting married in a Catholic Church at home. Here's how it goes.
At least one partner in the couple has to be Catholic and neither can be divorced.
It's a long process, start at least 6 months in advance, longer if possible.
Paperwork needs to be completed at home, usually through the bride's parish but certain documents such as the groom's baptismal certificate will be required. The priest will get in touch with the parish in Spain and will guide you through the paperwork.
Forms and documents need to be translated into Spanish.
1 Pre-nuptial enquiry
Your local parish will provide you with this and it is required for both of you.
2 Baptismal, Communion and Confirmation Certificates issued by your parish church and within the last 6 months.
3 Fe de Solteria y Vida | Letter of Freedom to Marry
A formal letter from your parish priest that states that you have fulfilled your Pre – Marital course requirements. This letter should also include permission from the priest that you are free to marry in a Catholic Church elsewhere. The priest will forward this on to the local Archbishop who will prepare a cover letter. Along with the rest of the items listed below, your priest or Archbishop will forward these documents on to the local bishop in Spain (see next point) who in turn will let the church you are to be married in know that everything is in order.
Bishop's Special Permission
Non-nationals need to have their documents sent to the Bishop of the diocese in which they intend to marry to receive special permission. This can take up to four weeks and should be sent by your local Archbishop or priest.
4 Other Documentation
Along with the documents above, the Archbishop will also need to send on certificates that might be appropriate such as Death Certificate, a Decree of Nullity, or a dispensation letter if one half of the couple is not Catholic.
Documents should reach the church you wish to be married in at least 2 months before the wedding date.
Very Important
Wedding dates need to be organised directly with the church in Spain. After the wedding, you must deliver the marriage papers to the local Spanish Civil Registry to legalise them.
It's also possible for other religions to legally marry but they require different documentation.
If you would like any more information on this subject, just get in touch with the experts at Spain for Weddings: The Spanish Wedding Network
Our job is to help you in every situation with our multilingual team so you & your guests just need to enjoy your wedding in our country. We have been in business for over 15 years and we know not only the language but also the culture & the business; how the wedding professionals work in Spain. We would be delighted to assist you in the organisation of your dream wedding.
Will you only help us with the wedding organisation or also with transport, hotels and other services?
Yes we can help you find these additional services as we have agreements with the top professionals in this sector. We cater to clients demanding first class service and world-class events in Spain and we can take care of everything for you, from accommodation to booking touristic activities & restaurants and of course everything you may need for your wedding here in sunny Spain.
Once you have made the down payment, we will do our best to respond within 1 business day each time you contact us.
Yes, we do. The reason that we ask for the deposit upfront is this helps protect our wedding planners and vendors from doing what could amount to a lot of unpaid work but still allows the final payment be when the work is done. If you prefer, we offer a discount for a 100% upfront payment.
I might have a vendor for...., are we able to use this vendor or do you require us to go through your vendors?
We do not require that you contract all of your vendors through Spain4weddings.com
We help you contract and book the vendors that you ask us to and we always have more types of vendors available to suggest to you, but if you have a vendor you prefer you can book them directly. No worries.
What other expenses can we expect from your company beyond the quote that you will provide on the invoice?
You do not have to pay anything extra above the quote that we agree (for the pack you choose). If you would like to look into booking extended services, for example if you would like us to travel somewhere with you, or adding anything more than what we discussed to your package we would send you the information about the extra fees and we will not charge you until after we have discussed it and you have approved it.
Each "day-of-disaster" plan varies by vendor. If something were to happen on your wedding day that would prevent you from getting married each wedding vendor has different policies on the refund and rescheduling. We can send you the specific policies once we have narrowed down exactly which vendors you would like. Celebrating a wedding in Spain is an exciting & wonderful experience.
Depending on the package you choose. What we normally suggest is using methods of communication such as Skype, Facetime, or even Whatsapp. This way no one incurs a surprise charge at the end of the month.
If you have bought the package including our Wedding Day Coordination we always have a backup wedding representative, who will be briefed on your wedding profile and will be ready to stand in if needed.
Of course we will do our best to help you stay within your budget. We want you to enjoy your wedding in Spain with as little stress as possible and we understand that going over budget can add a lot of stress to the wedding planning experience.
I completely understand it can be stressful planning a wedding abroad with a company that is based in a different country. I am more than happy to answer any questions that you may have about Spain4weddings.com before booking. It's totally normal to not be sure about what you want to do, especially when it comes to your wedding.
I will make sure that you are making the right choice trusting our team to help you with your unique wedding here in Spain.
You can send questions to email@example.com or use our live chat on the website from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm (GMT+1) from Monday to Friday.
If you prefer, we will be more than happy to arrange a Skype call to discuss your wishes, requirements and personal needs.
My team and I are very excited at the prospect of working together to make your dream wedding in Spain a reality. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns–we're here to offer you all of the help you need in order to plan one of the most important days of your life as a couple!
Thank you for your trust in Spain4weddings.com
From Spain with Love,
José Levy
CEO & Founder

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Conviction: The Murder Trial That Powered Thurgood Marshall's Fight for Civil Rights (Compact Disc)
On New Year's Eve, 1939, a horrific triple murder occurred in rural Oklahoma. Within a matter of days, investigators identified several suspects: convicts who had been at a craps game with one of the victims the night before. Also at the craps game was a young black farmer named W. D. Lyons. As anger at authorities grew, political pressure mounted to find a villain. The governor's representative settled on Lyons, who was arrested, tortured into signing a confession, and tried for the murder.
The NAACP's new Legal Defense and Education Fund sent its young chief counsel, Thurgood Marshall, to take part in the trial. The NAACP desperately needed money, and Marshall was convinced that the Lyons case could be a fundraising boon for both the state and national organizations. It was. The case went on to the US Supreme Court, and the NAACP raised much-needed money from the publicity.
Conviction is the story of Lyons v. Oklahoma, the oft-forgotten case that set Marshall and the NAACP on the path that led ultimately to victory in Brown v. Board of Education and the accompanying social revolution in the United States.


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November 28, 2018
Two Heartside Area Homeless Missions Team Up on Christmas Store for Patrons
Public can donate gifts that homeless can purchase for loved ones
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — For many Heartside neighborhood residents, Christmas is the one time of year they may see their loved ones. Through a special Christmas store organized by Heartside neighborhood missions Degage Ministries and Mel Trotter Ministries, the neighbors have an opportunity to purchase gifts for their family at a low cost and in a dignified manner.
The one-day event is being held Tuesday, Dec. 18, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 200 Division Avenue South.
This is the third year the two organizations have collaborated on the endeavor, and is a terrific example of how the two seek ways to partner with others to eliminate duplication of services and make resources more streamlined for Heartside neighbors who are seeking assistance.
"We are excited to partner with Mel Trotter Ministries once again for this year's Christmas Store," said Degage Ministries executive director Marge Palmerlee. "Our combined efforts will have a greater impact in the Heartside community."
"The Christmas Store partnership with Degage Ministries is the perfect fit for the two agencies to come together and provide an opportunity for individuals and families to receive Christmas gifts this year in an efficient and dignified way," said Mel Trotter Ministries' president and CEO Dennis Van Kampen.
The gifts that the Heartside neighbors purchase are all donated to Degage and Mel Trotter from private donations.
Each fall Degage publishes a "wish list" of items needed to help its patrons enjoy Christmas. Degage utilizes Amazon's online shopping capabilities to make it easier than ever for people to donate gifts to Degage. These items are available for patrons to buy at discounted prices at the Dec. 18 event. Additionally, some patrons can use vouchers from Degage and Mel Trotter to pay for items. Vouchers are earned when patrons do jobs for the missions.
More on the online store and wish list is available by clicking here.
Organization officials are available to comment on this special Christmas gift-giving initiative and the impact this approach has on patrons who can 'buy' gifts for their loved ones.


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Rhapsody enables you to call your donors, report, monitor and analyze call effectiveness from your call center, office or remotely. We can help you with a complete solution or fill any programmatic needs you may have in the short-term. Options start from small office set-up to full service call center services.
The manager portion of the suite provides functionality necessary for configuring, monitoring, reporting and executing critical work-flow paths to achieve your fundraising goals. Features include:
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If you are changing jobs or retiring, and shares in your company stock are part of your retirement plan, you have an additional option to consider when you transfer this asset out of the company plan. Net Unrealized Appreciation (NUA) is a strategy which may significantly reduce the tax liability on your retirement plan.
What is Net Unrealized Appreciation (NUA)?
Upon switching jobs or retiring, you are faced with the decision of how you'd like to handle your retirement assets. One option is to "rollover" the assets into an Individual Retirement Account (IRA), which would be a tax-deferred account. However, the full value of the asset would be taxed as ordinary income when you start making withdrawals, usually when you retire.
If you have company stock in your retirement plan, you also have the option of moving the employer stock to a taxable account. In this scenario, you are taxed (income tax) based upon the worth of the stock at the time of acquisition. Assuming the stock has appreciated or gone up in value, the remaining value of the stock is the net unrealized appreciation (NUA) and this amount is not taxed until you sell the stock. At that time, the NUA would be taxed according to the capital gains rates for your tax bracket.
How Does NUA Work?
In general, to qualify, you must be leaving your employer, you must take the distribution as a lump sum payment (equal to the stock value at the time you acquired it, not the stock's current value) and you must have purchased the stock using pre-tax money. NUA is only applicable to the portion of your plan that comes from employer company stock. Any other assets in the plan would have to be handled differently.
NUA is most beneficial when the company stock has appreciated significantly in the time since you acquired it. If you are under age 59½, a penalty of 10% on the distribution amount may be incurred. In addition, if the NUA realized is only a small amount, or if the stock has gone down in value, it may make more sense for you to roll the full amount over into an IRA.
What's In It for Me?
To put it simply, by NUA may be an opportunity to save on taxes over the long run.
For example, assume you are over age 65 and you are retiring:
- Current value of company stock = $100,000
- Cost basis of this stock (the amount you paid) = $25,000
- NUA on the company stock = $75,000.
In this instance, you pay your current income tax rate on the $25,000. Five years later, you are ready to sell the stock at its current value of $125,000. The new NUA balance of $100,000 (which includes the amount the stock has appreciated since you retired) would be taxed at the appropriate long-term capital gains rate, which is typically much lower than your income tax rate.
NUA does not make sense for everyone. There may be little or no tax savings if the stock has not appreciated much, or if you would need to pay an early withdrawal penalty (10% if under age 59 1/2), for example. I can help you run the numbers for your situation.
Changes in tax laws may occur at any time and could have substantial impact upon each person's situation. Discuss tax or legal matters with the appropriate professional.
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Merely 1.7 million truck drivers snake through our country's arterial highways who deliver everything from food products to construction materials to electronics. We may not think about this type of transportation but these long-haul truckers are key to keep our economic infrastructure running. So, if you own production or manufacturing unit you know that truck is one of the primary means of transporting raw materials and freights from one end to another.
Although maritime or railway transportation may be a useful solution for large freight volumes over long distances, everyone agrees that truck transportation will remain the predominant mode of cargo transportation for many years to come.
On account of this, there are different types of a truck that many of the ISO tank container manufacturers are using to transport goods from one place to another. Every truck has its own capabilities but the needs for the logistics department are specific.
Semi-Trailer Truck– It is most suitable for supplying the palletized cargo which can either be loaded from the back, from sideways and from above by removing the tent cover of the semi-trailer. The maximum capacity allowed is 24, 000 kg.
Jumbo Trailer Truck– Some of the ISO tank container exporters in India uses this type of truck for transporting voluminous goods. You can load cargo onto the jumbo trailer truck from the back, from the top, and also from the sides.
Straight Truck– These types of trucks are commonly used to transport home goods, furniture, and small items, and for expedited freight deliveries.
Whatever the types of truck you are using but it may benefit for several reasons and some of them are listed below.
As compared to other means of transportation like flight and trains, trucks are relatively cheaper and cost-effective. When you intend to use a truck for transporting freight to a shorter distance, you don't have to pay too much, and your goods are delivered safely.
Deliver Goods Faster
When you wish to transport goods from the manufacturing unit to a nearby seller's unit, you can ensure that it is done quickly with the help of trucks. Other means of transportation such as flight and rail can experience delays because of multiple reasons, but the truck would not face such issues unless it suffers a breakdown.
Provide Door-to-door Delivery
Apart from quick delivery, trucks are also known to provide door to door delivery. These heavy equipment resources are capable of traveling into various areas irrespective of what type of road is available. This makes them extremely reliable and secure, and, the truck drivers know how to manage the freight.
Ensure Product Safety
Products delivered through trucks remains safe under any circumstances. Nowadays many trucks are also equipped with GPS tracking, you can view the location of the truck anywhere. This gives you a clear view of where your carriage met with an accident and how many products are lost in the mishap.


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Inscrypt 2013 : The 9th China International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology
Conference Series : Information Security and Cryptology
|Link: http://www.inscrypt.cn/2013/Inscrypt_2013.html
Call For Papers
9th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology
Inscrypt 2013
November 27 - 30, 2013, Guangzhou, China
The 9th China International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology
(INSCRYPT 2013) will be held in Guangzhou from November 27 to November 30, 2013.
Inscrypt 2013 seeks high-quality research contributions in the form of well developed
papers. Topics of interest encompass research advances in ALL areas of information
security, cryptology, and their applications. The conference proceedings will be
published by Springer-Verlag in LNCS series.
Authors are invited to submit full papers presenting new research results related
to cryptology, information security and their applications. All submissions must
describe original research that is not published or currently under review by another
conference or journal. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Access Control
Authentication and Authorization
Biometric Security
Distributed System Security
Big Data and Cloud Security
Electronic Commerce Security
Intrusion Detection
Information Hiding and Watermarking
Key Management and Key Recovery
Network Security
Security Protocols and Their Analysis
Security Modeling and Architectures
Provable Security
Secure Multiparty Computation
Foundations of Cryptography
Secret Key and Public Key Cryptosystems
Implementation of Cryptosystems
Hash Functions and MACs
Block Cipher Modes of Operation
Intellectual Property Protection
Mobile System Security
Operating System Security
Risk Evaluation and Security Certification
Prevention and Detection of Malicious Codes
Instruction for Authors
Conference language is English. All submissions must be anonymous, with no author
names, affiliations, acknowledgments, or obvious references. It should begin with
a title, a short abstract, and a list of key words, and its introduction should
summarize the contributions of the paper at a level appropriate for a non-specialist
reader. The paper should be intelligible and self-contained within 20 pages including
references and appendices and must be submitted electronically to
Submissions not meeting these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their
merits. It is highly advised to prepare the submissions in the Springer LNCS format
(see http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html).
More information can be found at conference web site http://www.inscrypt.cn/.
Important Dates
Deadline for Submission: August 22, 2013
Notification of Acceptance: October 22, 2013
Pre-proceedings version deadline: November 5, 2013
Proceedings version deadline: December 21, 2013
General Chair:
Dingyi Pei Guangzhou University, China
Program Co-Chairs:
Dongdai Lin SKLOIS, Institute of Information Engineering, CAS, China
Shouhuai Xu University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Moti Yung Google Inc. and Columbia University, USA
Technical Program Committee
Gouqiang Bai Tsinghua University
Elisa Bertino Purdue University
Zhenfu Cao Shanghai Jiaotong University
Bogdan Carbunar Florida International University
Kefei Chen Shanghai Jiaotong University
Liqun Chen Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Zhong Chen Peking University
Sherman S. M. Chow Chinese University of Hong Kong
Ed Dawson Research Director
Jintai Ding University of Cincinnati
Cunsheng Ding Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Xuhua Ding Singapore Management University
Shlomi Dolev Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Yingfei Dong University of Hawaii
Lei Hu SKLOIS, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Miroslaw Kutylowski Wroclaw University of Technology
Xuejia Lai Shanghai Jiaotong University
Jiangtao Li Intel Corporation
Hui Li Xidian University
Zhiqiang Lin University of Texas at Dallas
Donggang Liu University of Texas at Arlington
Peng Liu The Pennsylvania State University
Di Ma University of Michigan-Dearborn
Subhamoy Maitra Indian Statistical Institute
Florian Mendel Graz University of Technology, Austria
Atsuko Miyaji Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Yi Mu University of Wollongong, Australia
Claudio Orlandi Aarhus University
Xinming Ou Kansas State University
Ludovic Perret UPMC/LIP6 INRIA/SALSA
Giuseppe Persiano Universita' di Salerno
Bertram Poettering Royal Holloway, University of London
Kouichi Sakurai Kyushu University
Nitesh Saxena University of Alabama at Birmingham
Jae Hong Seo Myongji University, Youngin, Republic of Korea
Claudio Soriente ETH Zürich
Wen-Guey Tzeng National Chiao Tung University
Yevgeniy Vahlis AT&T Labs
Xiaofeng Wang Indiana University, USA
Wenling Wu Institute of Software, CAS, China
Huaxiong Wang Nanyang Technological University
Guilin Wang University of Wollongong
Duncan Wong City University of Hong Kong
Maozhi Xu Peking University
Danfeng Yao Virginia Tech
Chung-Huang Yang National Kaohsiung Normal University
Yunlei Zhao Fudan University
Fangguo Zhang Sun Yat-sen University
Rui Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R.C.
Hong-Sheng Zhou University of Maryland
Yuliang Zheng UNC Charlotte
Cliff Zou University of Central Florida


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Before you ever reach your grown-up, rule-following, upstanding citizen of a self, you begin with an original self. On the receiving end, an original self can deliver one hot mess. As if I needed more proof, I had a moment with one such self, Damien, last Tuesday.
Damien sported a flat-side haircut, and more space than teeth in his mouth with remaining teeth capped in silver. He had two deep brown eyes that swam in their sockets. Once he looked up at me and declared I am one crazy boy.
A month ago, I went into his classroom during free choice time. Kids could draw, play with blocks, and dress up. Damien popped out – tah-dah- from the shoe cubby wearing a wedding veil, a hoop skirt, and earrings made of scotch tape and red construction paper. How you like these earrings Principal? They nice, don't you think?
Nice, I said. Nice.
On Tuesday, when I heard his way-too-happy tee-hee-hee, I stepped into the hall to see him pop through the door of his kindergarten classroom, kick off his orange-and-scrunge shoes, drop his jeans and his polka dot drawers, and run naked down the blue-tile floor that extended from the south end of the hall to the north. Away went his two brown buns bouncing, fast, and disappearing down the school's back steps. I snatched pants, shorts, and shoes and began the pursuit.
Picture Damien. Then step back to think about how we build schools. Rows of concrete boxes tethered to the sides of long, shiny-slick hallways. Hallways are also boxes, albeit long and narrow. Whether stacked or stretched long ways, these cubes still have just a few cut-outs that that allow their human cargo outward and onward toward any available light. The laughter of children echoes within them, gets caught, falls to the floor, and dims. I do not know how we chose to make schools this way. Maybe we will change our ways.
If a boy gets caught here, he can sometimes make it out. He has to figure out patience, how to say yes when he wants to say no, how to sweet-smile, and how to sit still.
I caught up with him, holding naked court on the playground for a ring of fourth grade girls and boys. He got to be in the center of creation for that glorious, wide open moment. One of the yard supervisors, Ms. Agnus, snagged him by the arm and pulled his pants back on his squiggly body. I could see how this moment worked her nerves as she buttoned his jeans and tugged his red-cloth belt a notch too tight.
Now was when he would start his lesson – the one about staying indoors, being a good boy, a quiet boy who knows to keep pants on and his eyes down. As Ms. Agnus took him upstairs, I heard her saying, you should have thought about that, little boy, before you took off down that hall.
So, ask yourself what happens when a boy escapes? When he gets out without knowing how to run, where to go, where to get help? We don't yet have that answer and are still doing the research Damien.
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Google Analytics is among a PR pro's most valuable means of proving ROI on a campaign. But for communicators that consider themselves more wordsmiths than STEM experts, it can be challenging to move past "analysis paralysis" when approaching a complex tool like Google Analytics.
At PR News' Google Boot Camp on Nov. 17 in New York, Jocelyn Whittenburg, product marketing manager at Google, and Jon Silver, digital director at Golin, spoke about Google Analytics from a communications perspective. For PR pros just getting started using the tool, both speakers stressed the importance of setting specific KPIs for each campaign. Below, Whittenburg and Silver share six key performance indicators to guide communicators as they draft their GA game plan:
User behavior. What content is most effective at grabbing your target audience when they visit a website? Compelling images? Snappy written copy? Brightly colored buttons? Google Analytics' new feature Optimize allows PR pros to make small tweaks to websites (changing placement of buttons, images etc.), which can greatly assist with increasing user engagement with a page and accelerating conversions.
Number of conversions. This varies by industry, but might include mailing list sign-ups, downloads, clickthroughs or purchases. Whittenburg advised communicators to use Google Analytics as a scorecard to measure KPIs like conversions (specifically using the Data Studio feature).
Number of page views and unique page views. Page views encompass the number of overall views (can be the same user visiting more than once), while unique page views are views from different individual users.
Dwell time and bounce rate. Silver sets the optimal time for a user to stay on a site at 10 minutes. Bounce rate is the number of visitors who leave almost immediately after hitting a landing page.
Referral traffic. Silver related one case study wherein a paid promotion sent users to a client's website. He was able to see where those referrals were coming from—even in cases where users were visiting another site in between the referral link and the target page—using Google Analytics' Behavior tab (Secondary Dimension>Acquisition>Source).
Traffic spikes and dips. Silver advised communicators to set an email alert from Google Analytics whenever web traffic significantly rises or declines, so PR pros can take action in real time when a campaign is failing to land, or double down on tactics that are performing well.
Follow Jon: @jonmsilver
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Washington - The United States is failing to safeguard much of the highly sought weaponry it sends abroad - from assault rifles to sophisticated combat technology, a review by The Denver Post concludes.
Lax oversight of weapons exports opens the door for adversaries to get their hands on lethal missiles, assault guns and components for larger weapons systems, sources say.
Homeland Security agents recently have uncovered plots to divert night-vision lenses to Iran, fighter-jet parts to China, grenade launchers to Colombian guerrillas, nuclear triggers to Pakistan, and more.
And despite internal warnings, government-sanctioned sales worth more than $10 billion a year continue spreading more weapons worldwide.
Congressional leaders responding to The Post's review are promising legislation. Among the problems that caught their attention:
Tens of thousands of arms deals aren't fully reviewed, nor are weapons inspected abroad as required under the U.S. Arms Control Export Act to prevent diversion or misuse.
When government officials do review arms deals, they find increasing problems - including diversions to at least one criminal and several hostile nations. Nearly one in five arms deals checked last year - 76 out of 413 - had such problems.
Homeland Security agents investigating illegal dealing say sophisticated weaponry probably already has reached adversaries. Total arrests for illegal arms dealing doubled from 62 in 2002 to 125 last year. Customs agents last year made 665 seizures of arms worth $106 million.
The problems grow from a core dilemma. On one hand, the United States long has relied on arms exports to support private defense contractors and to get allies to support U.S. foreign policy goals. On the other, uncontrolled weapons mean a more dangerous world at a time when terrorist activity is increasing.
"At a time when many consider the greatest threat to our national security to be terrorists getting their hands on weapons of mass destruction, I am extremely concerned that the U.S. government is not doing enough to make sure that we ourselves are not the source of any weapons that may be used against us either domestically or against our citizens, soldiers or allies abroad," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., ranking member of the subcommittee on terrorism and homeland security and member of the Select Committee on Intelligence.
Feinstein will work on legislation that will "close some of the loopholes that allow American technology and products to get into the wrong hands," she said.
"Simply put, the way business is done now, we have no way of knowing if much of this technology - including advanced computers, telecommunications and information systems, lasers, toxins, and even certain nuclear material and technology, and the like - has been diverted or is being misused," Feinstein said.
Defense, Commerce and State department officials responsible for regulating what goes where acknowledged deficiencies.
Bush administration foreign policy has created pressure to move weapons quickly to allies, overwhelming controls, Air Force Lt. Gen. Tome Walters, head of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, said in an interview before his retirement in July. The agency is charged with facilitating sales to foreign governments as well as making sure weapons aren't diverted or misused.
"A big problem" is the lack of inspectors to keep track of weapons, Walters said. "And that's the challenge ... the manpower. ... Our system is not designed to do this."
Diversions exposed by limited reviews raise the possibility of more diversions not detected.
"I am not comfortable at all," said Greg Suchan, deputy assistant secretary of state for defense trade controls.
Even some defense industry leaders - traditional advocates for relaxing controls - now favor a safer approach.
"A lot of the health and strength of the U.S economy is based on exports, and it is going to be for some time. But we've got to find a way to manage those exports in a fairly uncertain world," said Bob Bauerlein, a former Air Force undersecretary who now serves as Boeing's vice president for international operations.
U.S. arms in high demand
Senior Bush administration officials defended the status quo. U.S. small arms "have not been the weapons that end up in the hands of child soldiers," said Lincoln Bloomfield, assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs. And accelerated sales since Sept. 11, 2001, will help in the war on terrorism, he said. "Most of the major arms exports the U.S. does are to armed forces who are going to do things we want them to do."
Today, more and more countries - from booming East Asia to the volatile Middle East - are seeking advanced items for their arsenals.
And the United States is by far the world's leading arms supplier, with annual industry sales topping $300 million and government sales topping $13 billion last year - a figure expected to reach $13.8 billion this year, government data show.
In Colorado, some 300 companies are registered to export military technology - mostly dual-use items that have commercial as well as military uses. The State Department lists 4,000 companies nationwide. Names are kept secret.
All deals are supposed to be screened - with congressional oversight to make sure Defense, Commerce and State department officials do their jobs. But government documents and interviews with senior officials, arms control experts, industry lobbyists, and consultants reveal a systemic failure to control weapons exports as required by law.
Eye on portable missiles
Consider the case of Stinger shoulder-launched missiles - which the United States supplies to at least 17 countries, including Egypt, Israel, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Experts agree that if any U.S. weapon must be controlled, this is it.
One man can carry a 40- pound, heat-seeking Stinger and, with a bit of training, shoot down a jumbo jet up to 3 miles away as high as 15,000 feet. In the past 20 years, shoulder- launched missiles have hit at least 40 civilian planes around the world, causing crashes and deaths, security analysts estimate. In November 2002, terrorists firing two Russian- made shoulder-launched missiles almost hit a Boeing 757 airliner chartered to evacuate Israeli tourists from Kenya.
Thousands are beyond U.S. government control, according to a study released in May by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.
The Defense Department office responsible "does not know how many Stingers have been sold overseas," it said. "Records on the number and destination of Stingers sold overseas are incomplete, unreliable and largely in hard-copy form."
The study followed an August 2000 GAO study that identified similar problems - which defense officials had promised to fix.
Stinger missiles still move out. A Defense Department spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Army has sent out 237 this year and is in the process of sending 249 more. He declined to say where.
Overall, State and Defense department regulators last year approved more than 49,500 deals involving all types of weapons without full review - let alone monitoring and inspection abroad, documents show. Arms deals are screened by staffers who process electronic applications but generally lack time and expertise to conduct detailed investigations of buyers and sellers. Even in cases where an application is flagged for closer scrutiny, the most detailed reviews seldom involve inspections.
Still more deals, involving dual-use technology, were approved without full review at the Commerce Department. A GAO study released in March found Commerce officials conducted inspection visits for only 1 percent of 22,490 sales of missile-related technology they approved between 1998 and 2002.
The GAO also addressed dual-use technology sent to government-designated "countries of concern" such as China, India and Russia that are supposed to receive extra scrutiny. Of 26,340 approved dual-use sales during that period, 7,680 involved countries of concern. Commerce officials reviewed 428, or 5.6 percent, of those, according to another GAO study. It concluded that the government "cannot ensure that dual-use items exported to countries of concern are not misused or diverted."
Congressional leaders are considering action to deal with "lagging oversight," said Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"It seems incongruous to say one of the primary purposes of the war on terrorism is to make sure weapons of mass destruction don't get into the hands of evildoers, and then not to enforce our own safeguards on weapons sales," Nelson said.
Probes uncover trouble
When the government does scrutinize arms deals, it finds trouble.
Last year, State Department officials charged with overseeing private-company deals selected 413 for more careful review, though still not inspections to verify where weapons are and how they are used.These targeted reviews found irregularities with 76, or 18.4 percent, of those deals. That's the highest percentage ever, up from 11 percent, or 50, of the deals reviewed in 2002, State Department documents said.
The 413 reviews interrupted a plan to move firearms to a criminal in Central America, sales of helicopter parts to a hostile country, and misuse of electronics and communications equipment sent to Asia, records show. Details were omitted.
The findings indicate more weapons may have slipped through in deals not reviewed. At a recent industry conference in Colorado Springs, Suchan, the State Department's chief regulator, appealed to defense companies for help. He urged senior managers to make sure their companies police themselves and voluntarily disclose violations.
State Department supervisors said 32 inspectors - including contract employees - must process applications for some 50,000 commercial arms deals each year.
At the Defense Department, officials couldn't say how many inspections they may have conducted or what they found. Instead, Walters, the chief overseer, described how after Sept. 11 he faced pressure to speed up sales.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "was frequently getting phone calls from the king of Jordan, from folks who were in countries that were friends of ours that were close by Afghanistan, close by Iraq. We needed their help, and they needed things," Walters said. "The spotlight was really turned on us to work faster and to provide things, to help Jordan if Jordan needed equipment, to help Pakistan."
Weapons on the loose
Now evidence is mounting that weapons likely are reaching adversaries including terrorists - via legal and illegal channels.
In Iraq, customs agents picking through stockpiles recently found much U.S.-origin weaponry and dual-use technology - evidence for "at least 40 cases involving U.S. companies or people that we suspect of exporting illegally to Iraq," Homeland Security spokesman Dean Boyd said.
And across the world "there is all sorts of material out there ... a lot of things we don't have any control over," Boyd said.
Agents last year opened nearly 3,000 new criminal investigations of suspected illegal arms deals.
In June, a Jordanian man accused of trying to sell fighter- jet parts illegally to China pleaded guilty in Los Angeles. In May, a federal grand jury in Philadelphia indicted a former television journalist from Houston accused of illegally selling night-vision lenses to Iran.
In April, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested a Florida businessman on charges of attempting to purchase more than 6,000 machine guns, grenades, grenade launchers and pistols, weapons worth nearly $4 million, and send them to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia - a group the government labels as terrorist.
In January in Denver, immigration agents arrested a South African man on charges he illegally exported nuclear trigger devices from a company in Massachusetts, via South Africa and the United Arab Emirates, to Pakistan.
Spreading insecurity
The failure to control weaponry presents a major threat to U.S. and global security, according to critics who question the use of weapons exports as a tool of foreign policy.
"What we've done is spread insecurity around the world," said former U.S. Sen. Tim Wirth, who also served in the State Department and now runs the United Nations Foundation.
Arms control advocates contend the rise of terrorism requires stricter control at home - as well as internationally through better treaties.
Americans "have to be certain who they are shipping arms to," said Wade Boese, research director for the Arms Control Association, a Washington think tank. "If there is any blind spot, any place arms slip through cracks, they can reach terrorists."
But many defense industry leaders oppose increased regulation. They argue weapons exports are essential even if there are risks. And some regard arms control as a political tactic at best.
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Terrorists have shown they can harness even ordinary technology to kill Americans, Farrell pointed out.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) is pushing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to work with Wyoming, Luzerne and Susquehanna County authorities to end the delay of buyouts of homes damaged in last year's flooding. Buyouts allow homeowners to relocate to safer areas, minimizing the potential impact of future disasters on vulnerable areas, but some buyouts have been stalled by administrative hurdles.
"Bureaucratic hurdles should not stand in the way of recovery for those still trying to return to normalcy after last year's flooding," said Senator Casey. "FEMA should redouble its efforts to work with Pennsylvania's County officials to eliminate the barriers preventing these buyouts from moving forward."
Wyoming, Luzerne and Susquehanna counties have already submitted applications for the acquisition of the damaged properties. However, the buyout process has stalled as a result of circumstances involving mineral rights and gas leases on the properties. In these unique instances homeowners have no clear path forward to resolve the situation, so Senator Casey is pushing FEMA to quickly resolve the issue with local and state officials.
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September 26, 2012
W. Craig Fugate
Federal Emergency Management Agency
500 C Street SW, Room 700
Washington, DC 20472
Dear Mr. Fugate:
As you know, communities across Pennsylvania are continuing to recover from last year's historic flooding. Each of our affected counties has taken significant steps forward, including submitting applications for the acquisition of properties that were damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee under FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. In order for our homeowners to successfully reestablish themselves we must ensure that these acquisitions are processed as quickly and efficiently as possible.
It has come to my attention that FEMA's process for acquiring damaged properties has significantly slowed in certain counties in Pennsylvania due to unique circumstances involving outstanding gas leases and mineral rights on several of the most severely damaged properties. The problem is most pronounced in Luzerne, Wyoming and Susquehanna Counties in northeastern Pennsylvania. Incidentally, these counties were among the hardest hit by Irene and Lee.
While I recognize that FEMA is attempting to work through these issues, I strongly urge your personal involvement in bringing this matter to a quick resolution so that the acquisition process can go forward without further delay.
It is my understanding that the problems encountered in these counties are due in part to FEMA guidance indicating that a property is ineligible for acquisition if that property has any mineral leases associated with it. FEMA has expressed concern that the owners of mineral rights or gas leases may seek to exercise those rights in the future and has instructed counties to identify and extinguish any existing property interests on these sites.
Three primary factors appear to support the conclusion that exercising these rights is practically unlikely or legally impermissible. First, my office has been informed that in many cases the mineral leases on the properties in question do not convey surface rights for mineral extraction. This fact appears to preclude development on the surface of these sites. Second, county officials have indicated that local and state ordinances prohibit development activities on many of these sites.
Finally, identifying and extinguishing the mineral rights has proven to be a daunting and costly task. In many cases, mineral rights were assigned decades ago to entities that no longer exist or are not in a position to readily exercise these rights. Given these unique circumstances, FEMA should work with local officials to move the acquisition process forward.
The significant challenges associated with searching titles and identifying leaseholders in these counties is particularly troublesome. County officials report that they have made a good faith effort to ascertain the identity of these leaseholders in an effort to extinguish their rights. In fact, counties have invested considerable time, money and resources to conduct title searches designed to ascertain leaseholders. However, county officials have encountered significant hurdles in completing these searches. Determining ownership of these holdings is a costly, time consuming process that has often resulted in identifying companies that no longer exist.
Affected homeowners have no clear path forward to resolve the situation. These constituents have been instructed that their acquisitions will not be moved forward unless ownership of these gas leases and mineral rights has been returned from the holding company. Homeowners who have suffered due to flooding continue to endure hardship due to these delays. Simply stated, this problem needs to be resolved so that the acquisition process can go forward.
To that end, I urge you to personally work with local authorities to resolve this issue and complete the acquisitions as soon as possible. I ask that applicable consideration be given to the unique circumstances in these counties, including the difficulties associated with identifying leaseholders and the express legal prohibitions that restrict development on the properties in question. Gas leases and mineral rights that are required to remain inactive under state or local ordinances should not prevent these critical acquisitions from moving forward.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this matter further, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. I look forward to continue working with you on this matter.
Robert P. Casey, Jr.
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- shriibhagavaanuvaacha .
omityekaaksharaM brahma vyaaharanmaamanusmaran.h .
yaH prayaati tyajandehaM sa yaati paramaa.n gatim.h .. 8.13..
He who departs by leaving the body while uttering the single syllable, viz Om, which is Brahman, and thinking of Me, he attains the supreme Goal.
- arjuna uvaacha .
sthaane hR^ishhiikesha tava prakiirtyaa
jagatprahR^ishhyatyanurajyate cha .
rakshaa.nsi bhiitaani disho dravanti
sarve namasyanti cha siddhasaN^ghaaH .. 11.36..
It is proper, O Hrsikesa, that the world becomes delighted and attracted by Your praise; that the Raksasas, stricken with fear, run in all directions; and that all the groups of the Siddhas bow down (toYou).
- shriibhagavaanuvaacha .
sarvataH paaNipaadaM tatsarvato.akshishiromukham.h .
sarvataH shrutimalloke sarvamaavR^itya tishhThati .. 13.14..
That (Knowable), which has hands and feet everwhere, which has eyes, heads and mouths everywhere, which has ears everywhere, exists in creatures by pervading them all.
- kaviM puraaNamanushaasitaaraM
aNoraNiiya.nsamanusmaredyaH .
sarvasya dhaataaramachintyaruupaM
aadityavarNaM tamasaH parastaat.h .. 8.9..
He who meditates on the Omniscient, the Anceint, the Ruler, subtler than the subtle, the Ordainer of everything, of inconceivable form, effulgent like the sun, and beyond darkness-(he attains the supreme Person).
- uurdhvamuulamadhaHshaakhamashvatthaM praahuravyayam.h .
chhandaa.nsi yasya parNaani yasta.n veda sa vedavit.h .. 15.1..
They say that the peepul Tree, which has its roots upward and the branches downward, and of which the Vedas are the leaves, is imperishable. He who realizes it is knower of the Vedas.
- sarvasya chaahaM hR^idi sannivishhTo
mattaH smR^itirGYaanamapohana.ncha .
vedaishcha sarvairahameva vedyo
vedaantakR^idvedavideva chaaham.h .. 15.15..
And I am seated in the hearts of all. From Me are memory, knowledge and their loss. I alone am the object to be known through all the Vedas; I am also the originator of the Vedanta, and I Myself am the knower of the Vedas.
- manmanaa bhava madbhakto madyaajii maa.n namaskuru .
maamevaishhyasi satya.n te pratijaane priyo.asi me .. 18.65..
Have your mind fixed on Me, be My devotee, be a sacrificer to Me and bow down to Me. (Thus) you will come to Me alone. (This) truth do I pormise to you. (For) you are dear to Me.
It was asked on the advaitin list, why these are selected. One answer suggested that this one originated in Kashmir. The answer by Sunder-ji is worth reading too!
The question remains as to the origin and the meaning of this selection!
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When people come to look at your home, they want to envision their things in the house, not yours. Finally, the house should be clean. If you don't have the time to do it yourself, you can hire a professional to do it for you.
#5 Remove the Evidence Of Your Pets
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Also, a Realtor will spend their time marketing your house. This is likely time that you don't have. They will follow up on leads, answer calls and emails about the home, hold open houses, and show the home for you. Best of all, they will give you important advice regarding pricing, staging, and updates that need to be made.
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Sagu, an adult male chimpanzee, holding a piece of meat from an animal he caught.
Scientists studying chimps in the Ivory Coast discovered that males give meat to females in exchange for mating access – a win-win exchange for both primates. And in this primitive style of wine-and-dine, it turns out the more meat you share, the more sex you get in return.
Researchers Cristina Gomes and Christophe Boesch from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropoloy in Germany published their new findings in the journal PLoS ONE on Wednesday.
"Our results strongly suggest that wild chimpanzees exchange meat for sex, and do so on a long-term basis. Males who shared meat with females doubled their mating success, where as females, who had difficulty obtaining meat on their own, increased their caloric intake, without suffering the energetic costs and potential risk of injury related to hunting," said Gomes, lead author of the study.
Male chimpanzees also were more likely to share a piece of meat with random females who displayed signs of being sexually excited, although their mating "score" rate remained high with female chimps who weren't in heat - as long as the females got fed.
This study specifically looked at the long-term (22 months) effects of meat-sharing, which proved more fruitful for both sexes than short-term exchanges.
"These finding are bound to have an impact on our current knowledge about relationships between men and women; and similar studies will determine if the direct nutritional benefits that women receive from hunters in human hunter-gatherer societies could also be driving the relationship between reproductive success and good hunting skills," Gomes said.
For now, though, it's just "monkey business."
Posted by: Azadeh Ansari
February 20, 2009
Al Gore, stem cells, and the perfect kiss
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-Saw Gore's presentation: Given that pop-culture conferences have concerts as their evening highlights, it makes sense that the AAAS would have America's climate-change rock star - who recently won a Grammy, no less - to get people on their feet. More than a thousand scientists, journalist, educators and students greeted Gore with a standing ovation as he took the stage.
In his speech, Gore identified a common thread between global warming, our national security and the world financial meltdown - our "absurd" dependence on carbon-based fuels. When you pull on the thread, he said, "then all three of these crises can begin to unravel." The solution: shifting to an infrastructure based on fuels that are free, such as solar and wind power, and bolstering the science of clean and sustainable energy.
Gore seemed optimistic about Obama's appointments to the Cabinet and the direction our country is taking to address the issue of climate change, which he called "a historic struggle." He emphasized the importance of us all working together as a species in order to prevent further threats to the entirety of human civilization.
Through a series of slides, which included the most recent scientific findings on climate change, Gore communicated his "inconvenient truth" to the audience while urging scientists to get more involved in their communities. He also called on scientists to get involved in politics, to speak out as "civic scientists" and to "find ways to communicate the truth." He concluded by saying, "Keep your day job, but start getting involved in this historic debate. We need you."
P.S. Gore uses an iPhone, too - he had to turn it off during the speech.
-Learned about stem cells: Bone marrow is one important source of adult stem cells, researchers say. And did you know that humans make 10 billion red blood cells every hour of every day? Dr. Will Li of the Angiogenesis Foundation talked about the potential of endothelial progenitor cells in the marrow for treatments of conditions such as diabetes.
-Got in touch with our emotions: People commonly feel better by writing their feelings down, and now scientists are beginning to understand why. Brain-imaging studies indicate that putting your feelings into words has the effect of regulating emotions, said Matthew Lieberman of the University of California, Los Angeles.
-Became kissing experts: Researchers presented their findings on the hormones involved in kissing, and the role of kissing in beginning (or ending) relationships. Full story
More from the conference: learn about a face transplant patient, think about foods of the future, and ponder Darwin's connection to Buddhism.
Posted by: Azadeh Ansari, Elizabeth Landau -- CNN.com Writer/Producer
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Published in Accounting Today
By Michael Cohn
The Internal Revenue Service has prevailed in U.S. Tax Court in a case involving an Arizona jewelry store business that received a tax break by insuring itself for millions of dollars, in part against the risk of terrorism.
Benyamin and Orna Avrahami, a couple who own three jewelry stores and three shopping centers in the Phoenix area, spent more than $1.1 million in 2009 and $1.3 million in 2010 insuring their businesses. They set up an insurance company called Feedback, but there were no claims made on any of the company's policies until the IRS began auditing them, according to the court.
Tax Court Judge Mark V. Holmes summarized the competing claims of the Avrahamis and the IRS in a colorfully written opinion Monday. "With money flooding in and none going back to pay claims, Feedback accumulated a surplus of more than $3.8 million by the end of 2010, $1.7 million of which ended up back in the Avrahamis' bank account—as loans and loan repayments, say the Avrahamis; as distributions, says the Commissioner," he wrote. "Also included in Feedback's surplus was $720,000 that the Avrahamis' jewelry stores sent down to a Caribbean company for terrorism-risk insurance. The full $720,000 then flew right back to
Feedback after—the Avrahamis argue—it distributed enough risk for the whole plan to
constitute insurance as that term is commonly understood."
They set up the captive insurance company in 2007 on the advice of their longtime CPA, Craig McEntee, who brought in a local estate-planning attorney, Neil Hiller, and a New York-based attorney, Celia Clark. She specializes in captive insurance and helped draft legislation on the subject for the Caribbean island of St. Kitts, where they ultimately established Feedback Insurance. Mrs. Avrahami was the sole shareholder in the company, as well as the treasurer and bookkeeper, though both she and her husband had signature authority over Feedback's bank account. They elected to have the company taxed as a small insurance company under
section 831(b) of the tax code.
The Avrahamis argued they relied on the advice of McEntee, Hiller and Clark. "We have no doubt that all three were competent professionals with sufficient expertise," the judge wrote. "McEntee is a CPA with more than 25 years of experience, Hiller is a reputable Phoenix-based estate planning attorney with more than 30 years of experience, and Clark is a New York lawyer with more than 35 years of experience who focuses her practice on small insurance companies. We also find that the Avrahamis provided their advisers with all the relevant data needed to assess the correct level of tax. The parties dispute, however, whether the Avrahamis actually relied in good faith on the advice of McEntee, Hiller and Clark."
The judge agreed with the Avrahamis not to impose some accuracy-related penalties related to loans they made with the insurance company and another entity the family owned called Belly Button, but agreed with the IRS's position on others. "Therefore the section 6662(a) penalties should not be imposed to the extent they are related to repayment of the $1.2 million loan," the court wrote. "But there is no reasonable explanation for why any underpayment flowing from the failure to report $300,000 in interest and dividends for the overrepayment of that loan from Feedback should be penalized. The Avrahamis don't even make that argument,
so the Commissioner wins on this one. We also have the penalty related to the $200,000 distribution directly from Feedback to Mrs. Avrahami, which we held should have been reported as an ordinary dividend. The Avrahamis argue that this was an inadvertent omission caused by their accountant's error. The Avrahamis, however, are sophisticated and successful business owners, and we find they acted at least in careless disregard of the Code in their treatment of this item."
Ms. Avrahami declined to comment on the case when contacted by Accounting Today and said she wasn't sure whether she and her husband would appeal the ruling. McEntee, Hiller and Clark did not immediately respond to requests for comment. An IRS spokesperson declined to comment, noting that federal law prohibits the IRS from commenting on any cases.
Tim Tarter of the law firm Woolston & Tarter, one of the litigators involved in the case who represented the Avrahamis with his partner Kacie Dillon, provided the following comment to Accounting Today: "The Avrahamis were disappointed in the Tax Court disallowing their premium deductions, but appreciated that the court did not find that their captive was a sham or find that they were negligent in deducting the premiums at issue. The Avrahamis are meeting with their advisers and considering their options going forward. It's clear that these cases turn on their facts and additional cases will likely need to be litigated before we know
what micro captives will survive court scrutiny."
Reactions to Ruling
However, a former IRS commissioner, Steven T. Miller, who is now national director of tax at alliantgroup, a Washington, D.C.-based tax consulting firm, sees some significant repercussions from the case. "We start from the perspective that this was the first case invoking an 831(b) captive," he told Accounting Today. "The IRS began its journey with respect to micro captives a few years ago. The IRS has been auditing many captives. The IRS put out at the end of 2016 a 'transaction of interest' notice in which they're making people disclose if they have captives. There's been a lot of friction in the industry between the captives industry and the IRS. This will be the first Tax Court case, and is really quite significant in terms of being the first real guidance coming out of the Tax Court."
John Dies, managing director of tax controversy at alliantgroup's Houston office, is an expert on captive insurance and believes the IRS scored a big victory. "In my judgment it's a decisive win for the IRS," he said. "The only aspect that the IRS didn't have a clear win on was the penalties. They would have been substantial."
However, the court pointed to the advice the Avrahamis received from Hiller and the others, along with the lack of clear guidance from the IRS. "The court mentioned that there was not guidance on this issue," he said. "If you're going to seek to penalize folks, first provide guidance on what compliance looks like." He believes the penalties would have been much larger without those mitigating factors.
However, the precedent for other captive insurance cases may be limited. "It's very specific to the facts of the case," said Miller. "The court laid out the four factors to define what is and isn't insurance. The court found there wasn't good risk distribution. These types of captives require that the risk they have be shifted to a third party and be distributed across a number of people. The court said the latter didn't happen. The court said you're not operating as an
insurance company and what you've done is not sufficient."
Dies noted that the opinion was very colorful in terms of its discussion of the pricing of premiums, and the court attacked the way some of the distributions were being made, pointing out it didn't conform to a model that was cited as being used by Chubb Insurance. Judge Holmes has two other cases involving captives that are being tried, and Dies expects rulings to be issued by the same judge that could provide further guidance on how the court will view captive insurance.
"The cases are all a little bit different," said Miller. "It may be that the court will use the future cases to point out different issues."
Risk shifting may be one issue where the rulings in the other cases may shed more light.
"That was one of the challenges of this ruling," said Dies. "The IRS in comments they made to us were looking for a bright line from the court in terms of this issue. Instead the judge dove very deeply, but you don't have that high-level guidance. There's going to be considerable distance between the IRS and the taxpayers and their representatives."
Miller believes the ruling will give the IRS a stronger hand. "There's nothing in this opinion that will limit the IRS's activity in any way," he said. "If anything, it will embolden them."
But he admitted it's hard to say if the ruling will have a material impact on the captive insurance industry. "These were very specific facts and in some ways outlier facts," said Miller. "I don't know that the industry will overreact. I would expect it to be appealed. We'll see what
"This court was very careful not to attack 831(b) captives," said Dies. "The criticisms that the court urged really had to do with the analysis in the sense that other captives were created with another approach."
Next IRS Commissioner
Accounting Today asked Miller, as a former IRS commissioner, about what direction the IRS might take in the future on the matter, once Commissioner John Koskinen's term ends in November. He responded that these sorts of enforcement activities generally fall outside the day-to-day responsibilities of the IRS commissioner, although one former IRS commissioner who also now works for alliantgroup, Mark Everson, did get heavily involved in cracking down
on LILO and SILO tax shelters.
"I would not expect a large wholesale change out of the new commissioner," said Miller. "You never know, but it would surprise me about a material change."
Miller declined to speculate on who the next commissioner might be and when the announcement might come. "There are rumors floating around, but they're just rumors; nothing solid enough," he said. "It could happen tomorrow. It's going to be an interesting time."
He thinks the next IRS commissioner is likely to be more occupied with other matters besides captive insurance, including tax reform and the attitude of Congress and the administration toward the IRS.
"A new commissioner is going to be worried about the budget, the upcoming filing season, and
the impact of legislation on the organization," he said.
Steven T. Miller served as former IRS Acting Commissioner in 2012, but prior to that he served for several years as the Deputy Commissioner for Services and Enforcement, leading all IRS enforcement and service activity. Steven also served as the Commissioner of the Large and Mid-Size Business Division, overseeing IRS audits of large taxpayers and the IRS programs relating to offshore tax compliance and international tax law enforcement. As the Commissioner of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division, he supervised the IRS oversight of governments, tax exempt entities and retirement programs.
In a career devoted to government service, Steven has spent the last 25 years with the IRS, serving the agency in a number of diverse and increasingly important roles.
John Dies is Managing Director of Tax Controversy at alliantgroup. As an experienced trial attorney and former
partner in a litigation firm, he has represented hundreds of clients and tried cases to verdict throughout the United States. John
specializes in rehabilitating audits where a taxpayer requires assistance after the IRS or other taxing authority announces its intent to issue a total disallowance or other negative result.
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Te amo. Mercadito Chicago is making Valentine's Day one to remember with a special Amor Por Favor Experiential Dinner on Monday, February 13 from 6-9 p.m.
Enjoy five courses paired with Jose Cuervo cocktails. The evening is hosted by special guest Dustin Miller of Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits and Mercadito's Corporate Chef Aldo Ayala.
The romantic night begins with Tostada de Pulpo Enamorado, slow-braised with love and spiced octopus, heart-shaped tostada, tomatillo pico de gallo, roasted garlic aioli, habanero, Serrano chile and micro cilantro.
Next, Vientre de Puerco, herb-marinated dry roasted pork belly, roasted sweet potato, honey, cinnamon, chile guajillo, piloncillo glaze and micro greens.
The third course includes Callo de Hacha, pan-seared diver scallops, stir-fried "fideo" noodles, short rib ragu, garlic mojito and crispy red onions.
Oysters are known to be notorious aphrodisiacs, so delight in Carne y Ostras, pan-seared rib eye steak for two, chile rubbed oyster mushrooms, leek fondue, Serrano oyster cream sauce and crispy oysters.
To end on a sweet note, Fundido de Chocolate, Mexican chocolate fondue, mini churros, homemade marshmallows, strawberries and cinnamon passion fruit whipped cream.
The Amor Por Favor Experiential Dinner costs $75 per guest, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 312.329.9555.


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