I know, it's common to claim that Americans are tax haters. But actually, Americans, even the wealthy, pay their taxes at a rate that would shock an Italian. We grumble, but in the end, we pay.
Note Italy versus America, along with the salary at which the top rate kicks in. Yes, local taxes effectively increase that rate a bit. But still.
This chart is also worth keeping in mind during the debate over the eminently reasonably health care surtax proposal.
I believe she was referring to the fraction of people who actually pay their taxes and not the actual tax rate.
Well, maybe, in jurisdictions that have meaningful local taxes - many don't. I'm told that the combination of state and local taxes in Manhattan has a bit of a bite to it, but whole states (Texas, Washington, New Hampshire for example) have no state income tax and others have moderate ones. In any case, the federal income tax is not Italy's only tax, and it looks like their other taxes more than match the tax burdens imposed by state and local governments in the US.
Businesses also need to become familiar with IVA (roughly equating to UK VAT or US sales taxes) and the codice fiscale. IVA (Imposta sul valore aggiunto) rises in stages from 4% to 10% to 20%. Standard rate is 20% for clothes, food is 10%.
I defy you to find me any US locality with a 20% sales tax on anything (other than booze or tobacco), and most don't tax food (at least, as groceries).
That same web page has a section on property taxes or asset taxes that I didn't read carefully but there is also a property tax of some description, and capital-gains are taxed annually on assessed values (which assuming they had a real-estate bubble like ours or Britain's must have been a real treat to pay, and especially to have paid after values plummeted back to earth). And, of course, for all I know Italian cities and regions might also charge their own taxes.
Ironically, the table you post is very misleading in one way: because of the regressive nature of the Payroll Tax in the US, the lower tax brackets should be boosted by an incredible 15% (half paid by the employer) - but because the payroll tax is capped, the upper tax bracket is not affected.
Shorter me: Megan either had not the faintest idea what she was talking about. Unless, that is, she was relying entirely on one other tidbit I picked up at my random website, that seems to greatly reduce the effective tax rate for many Italians: Massive Tax Fraud.
McArdle is writing about tax compliance, not tax rates. Slemrod, a very respected tax economist, claims that US tax compliance is on the same order of magnitude as in the UK and Sweden, with Sweden potentially more compliant than the US. There does seem to be a non-compliance problem with VAT in the EU though, but that is due in part to criminal enterprises. There appears to be little solid public data on this issue.
So no, I don't thing McArdle has any evidence that US tax compliance is better than in well run OECD countries.
I had got around to checking out Megan's post and thinking about it a bit more, and had read the comment by John Harrold (which came up while I was writing my own very long comment), and I decided that Publius's post was just wrong, as Harrold said - and discovered that the entire post was gone, for a good several minutes. Indeed, I was just about to post a comment in another thread calling out the Ethics Patrol when the post returned in modified form, and I'm very glad that it did return - when it seemed to have just gone down the memory hole, it did not look good.
Warren - that one was clearly outside statute of limitations. I generally give myself about a 5 to 10 minute window to pull a post.
And only then when I see the error myself. And even then, I think I've only done it a handful of times, more b/c I feared something was too nasty as opposed to wrong.
it's actually hilzoy's fault -- she's retiring and it got me all flustered. quality of the blog is already in a spiral.
Shocker: the country that gave us the Mafia has low rates of tax compliance.
I'm not sure I've really accepted hilzoy's imminent retirement as reality. I suppose I'm in Denial about it, suggesting that the next step of my coming to terms will be Anger (expressed how, I wonder?) - though I'd be happy to skip ahead to Bargaining.
"Plus, the post has probably been up too long to pull. "
This is one of a zillion reasons why it's helpful to time-stamp updates: I have no idea what length of time you're talking about.
The original post is time-stamped 10:28, and it's only 11:43 now.
But I can't argue with you over the specifics here, because you're not bothering to inform us of the relevant specifics. When was your update made?
gary - you're right. i probably should have done that. Anyway, i htink the original post was around 8:20 CT, and then I pulled to revise around 9:15ish (I actually posted and then put my son to sleep -- otherwise, i might have caught it within the "window" so to speak).
reposted about 10 minutes later (which is why it now says 10:28/9;28 CT).
Funny thing: I did NOT misread McCardle the first time, but I still thought the excerpt publius quoted was a bit odd. Is her point that Italians in general are culturally inclined to cheat on their taxes? Or just the rich ones?
I will read Megan's post in a minute, but I will take a guess first: her point is that highly-paid Italians are the ones who cheat, because their top marginal rate is so oppressive. Lower-paid Italians, confronted with more reasonable rates, cheerfully comply. It's not that Italians are dishonest. It's that rich Italians are dishonest. But they have to be, poor dears. And if we raise the top marginal rate here in the US, our own put-upon rich people will, quite justifiably, start cheating too.
I owe myself a beer if my guess is wrong.
What's really staggering is the comparison to Italy, which in terms of government operation is practically a third-world country; it's corrupt, inefficient, corrupt, backwards, corrupt, bureaucratic and corrupt. My word, the Italian general revenue agency isn't as competent as other OECD nations at collecting revenue? I am shocked by this revelation.
I wonder how rates of cheating or noncompliance are figured. Out here where i live there is a pretty high rate of noncompliance through nonreporting of income by low and moderate income people. I know this because lots of the local contractors for various small jobs run their businesses at least partly off the books. Lots of people employ themselves at second jobs that they don't report at all--care providing, dog walking, housecleaning, carpentry, woodcutting, gathering ferns and salal for florists, that sort of thing. My guess is that wealthy people have a more sophisticated understanding of the tax code and can lower their rates through the use of loopholes and exemptions whereas the more working class folks just don't report chunks of income at all. My tax accountant last year was a Ron Paul supporter and he is quite open in his efforts to keep mhy taxes down by whatever it takes. In fact I switched to a different guy because the Ron Paul guy seems like the type who is going to end up in jail some day and I didn't want him taking me with him.
I'm pretty law abiding when it comes to taxes.
Thanks for the info, publius.
I'm pretty strict, really, about thinking that when people have embarrassed themselves, in most cases, they should let the post stand, with an update and apology if necessary, but I'm not absolutist. If it's really super-duper-unbelievably embarrassing, or maybe there were really extenuating circumstances (you were totally drunk out of your mind, you were on prescription drugs, you were having a psychotic break, someone just put a gun in your mouth and you were that upset, you had a concussion, stuff like that), I can forgive a complete pull even after a few days, so long as an explanation is given. After all, there are no absolute rules about this stuff. Just peer pressure, basically.
I think the only really absolute rule there should be is that stuff shouldn't just vanish like it was never written, with no explanation at all, if it's been up more than ten-to-fifteen minutes or so, give or take, roughly speaking, and can I put a few more weasel words in there?
Anyway, "oops, I totally misread X, and wrote something really wrongheaded as a result, so I've pulled that post" seems reasonable to me for a period of a few hours, if it didn't contain something that you were otherwise trying to dishonestly conceal.
On the other hand, this is all also why I think it's unfair for people to never let go of something stupid someone said, like, four years ago. For god's sake, bloggers put themselves out there with constant risk of making themselves look like asses, and the risk is an essential part of the form; because that's so, I think readers and other bloggers should be somewhat forgiving that people can say things they regret, and if they apologize for it, folks should generally quit bringing it up after a year or two. Let alone four or more years.
The surtax will take the top marginal tax rate to over 50% - second highest in the OECD.
So if you make over a million dollars a year, you'd have to -- somehow, out of your desperate poverty -- come up with a few thousand more dollars.
Which is to say, if you're in a four person family unit, your family had an income (in 48 states) of $22,050 or less. The median household income in America in 2007 was $50,233.
The 47 million Americans without health insurance? Too bad. the 26.5 million people below the poverty line, who struggle to pay rent and have enough to eat? Well, life is struggle. The the wealthiest 1.2 percent of households? We should weep for their fate of having to cough up what they pay annually for lawn care. Woe!
The German high court decided long ago that the limit is 50% (i.e. for those taxes that are related to your income). Interestingly this also applies to the progression, i.e. the last dollar must not be taxed above 50%.
The math resulting from that can be quite devious incuding calculus of implicit functions.
Is that the top rate that payers BEGIN their calculations from? Or is that AFTER the numerous deductions created as loopholes for the wealthy are actually applied?
If that question was targeted at me, I can give no definitive answer. I'd say it is the highest percentage one can legally be charged with. Loopholes just decrease the amount of money the tax rates are applied to.
As almost everywhere the number of people actually paying at the highest rate is rather small and the 50% is the maximum allowed, not the maximum applied in reality. It just says that the government can't increase taxes beyond that, should it desire so.
All this talk about cheating on taxes makes me consider the wide range of loopholes, dodges and workarounds that were designed into the code to permit the wealthy to shield income from taxes.
Being part of the tax code, these provisions are prima-facie evidence of privilege - private law enacted for the good of the few. In a land that prides itself on the notion that 'no-one is above the law'. Flatly dishonest when we provide special laws for the coddling of "the rich".
Substantial revision of the tax code to provide for a fair system without loopholes, tax-havens, or accountant-driven windfalls might promote more "cheating"...then again, it might impose real penalties for the cheating that is currently going on under color of tax-avoidance.
And if the question is about the rightness of 'depriving the wealthy of the fruits of their labors', we must consider the rightness of keeping the poorer classes so close to the baseline for food and shelter that any unforeseen event can cause the family to either starve-in-place or lose their home AND starve.
The defenders of wealth & the wealthy need to understand that the purpose of society is not to protect and enable the rich at the expense of the poor: even (honest) libertarians can make this case with ease.
This is a great lead-off for an article on breaking our national addiction to wage slavery.
"So if you make over a million dollars a year, you'd have to -- somehow, out of your desperate poverty -- come up with a few thousand more dollars."
If you make $2M a year, you're going to pay an additional $54K, about 2.7% of your total income. You'll work about a week and a half more each year for Uncle.
If you make $100M a year, you're going to pay an additional $5,246,000, no small sum. You're giving Uncle another two and half weeks of your work year.
If that ends up pushing your all-in effective rate to 50%, which is actually not that likely because local taxes are usually not that progressive, you'll have to make do on $100M a year, or about $2M a week.
an increase from 55% to 60% actually sounds smaller than an increase from 15% to 20%. Yet from the perspective of the taxpayer, the former represents a much greater encroachment on their disposable income.
US median household income for four-person families is just north of $60K. You're living on $1200.00/week for four people. An increase from 15% --> 20% means your disposable income goes from $1020.00 to $960.00.
If you make $2M a year, you're living on about $40,000.00 a *week*. 55% --> 60% means a change from $18K of weekly disposable income to $16K.
I recognize that a difference of $2,000 more or less dwarfs a difference of $60 in absolute dollars. No question.
In terms of experiencing that change, however, it seems kind of obvious to me that four people living on about a thousand bucks a week are going to feel the loss of sixty bucks a hell of a lot more than four people living on $18K are going to feel the loss of $2K.
If you're making $2M a year, you are rich enough that, frankly, money is just not something you worry about. It's a given, like the air you breathe, or the water that flows from the tap when you turn it on.
You have all the money you need, and then much, much more. A loss of $2K a week, which is a sum that would, for most folks, represent a quite desirable total income, will register as, at most, a couple of luxuries that have to be foregone.
If you are a family of four living on $60K a year in most places in the US, you notice, and feel the loss of, pretty much every dollar.
And half the four-person households in the country make less than that.
I don't mean to pile on McArdle, because she's no worse than any other conservative pundit, and in fact is better than most.
But her inability to recognize the *basic and fundamental reality* of the things she's talking about quite simply astounds me.
A sense of real-world proportion is the thing most often missing from all these 'detailed analyses' (along with a dispassionate deconstruction of Adam Smith).
No self-respecting Italian, rich or poor, will pay anything close to the taxes he actually owes -- and I'm allowed to say that.
If Ephraim Kishon was right then the same was/is true in Israel. He reports real-life incidents (he also used in his satires) where people refused to take 'white' money from him, i.e. money that was taxed and therefore on the books. As a result he couldn't get a repair done because he lacked the necessary black money. He also told that it was considered extremly dishonorable to pretend that the white money was black (in order that someone would accept it).


Elijah Prychodzko catches this amazing event on his iphone. He attached it to a telescope and noticed a small UFO like object orbiting a larger bright object. A few minutes later the larger object explodes.
CBS13 in Sacramento reports on the story. They sent the tape off to Dr. Stephen P Maran, who wrote the book Astronomy for Dummies. His response was "My personal opinion is that it is not an astronomical event."


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In response to this, the fragrant Mademoiselle Mathilde Christian kissed me on the cheek. And Mr. Peek proposed a little ride.
EVEN INSIDE PEEK'S CARRIAGE, among the manly odors of leather and tobacco, the departed beauty remained in my mind's eye just as the light fragrance of her kiss stayed on my skin. Why this was so familiar, I did not know. Was it the drape of her light dress, with its very clear suggestion of the naked form? Or was it the sturdy well-formed calves, the little feet?
You see already where the "memory" came from--Marianne, the wanton warrior of Delacroix, her pagan breasts bare to the sky, the musket and bayonet in her hand. I had seen her in that bloodthirsty painting at its vernissage. And the runaway devil with a pistol and those piles of broken bodies, which made a mound, a plinth, a pulpit for the Revolution.
As Peek's carriage macerated the fresh green grass which grew ever hopeful between the cracks of cobbles, the banker placed his hand on my knee and declared himself well pleased that we had released my cosignatory. I was shocked he would think this entire performance had been undertaken for so base a purpose.
Certainly I could not say a word about Marianne. Nor was it proper for me to express my low opinion of a society in which money was all that might guarantee an innocent man justice.
This was not the better future I had sought with such faint heart. It was certainly not the system of American law as it had previously been laid out for me like precious silver at our municipal luncheons. Only the single egg spot on the banker's chin gave the clue that all was not as it should be at this interim.
My thoughts regarding Marianne, touching as they did both politics and philosophy, did not seem appropriate for the occasion. Yet I could not refrain from some observations on the subject of the runaway boy, for there was something vile about the creature's very form, as if his limbs, being bound from birth, had shaped him as criminal. One needed only to glimpse him lurch and slither into that narrow lightless lane to know he would return to the nest of contagion unreformed and further spread the strain of criminality through the veins and arteries of his society.
Peek listened to this opinion politely, but when I had finished he patted my leg once more.
"Watch," said he. "He will end up president."
In other circumstances I would have thought this insolent or mad. However, I beheld his high forehead, his noble nose, his strong chin, and recognized the proud man who told me he would not break the rules of his bank and that he held its laws above all those of common friendship. I had thought him the perfect specimen of Yankee Puritan, and indeed I had recently discovered that he and his family were very strict about the Sabbath, and I had already seen him upset by a neighbor who had used a Sunday to split wood for his wife's oven.
"This boy was not a criminal," he told me now. "He was an innocent witness, and as such he was in great danger. It is better done like this."
"He will end up president?"
"As Americans, we must allow the possibility. He may simply end up rich. My dear Olivier, this is not your ancient France. But if it were, that boy--if he showed similar initiative--might take possession of half the lands along the Loire. If he works hard. There are countless acres of America owned by no one, waiting to be taken. You want our American Avignon, it is empty. It is yours. I give it to you."
I thought this childish and ignorant. I reminded him I had seen this boy. There had been not one fine thing about him, not even a cheap facsimile of nobility. While one might possibly take Peek and cast him in a play and have him, so long as he spoke only English, play the part of a comte, you could do no such thing with that lumpen child.
"That boy, Peek," I said, properly eschewing the use of his Christian name, "you cannot hold him up as the seed of a new nation. If he is your exemplar, the experiment is doomed."
"Experiment," he cried, laughing too violently for my taste. "There is no experiment. We make this transformation every day. It is called rags to riches. Have you never heard of it? Why, I could put him in a house. I have a house for him. I could make that boy a loan. He could work and pay it back."
"I do not believe you."
"Well, don't frown so, my dear Olivier. If you do not like this boy, why not your valued servant or his buxom little wife?"
"I am not sure she is his wife."
"So much the better," he said, and I caught an odd excitement in those careful gray eyes. As so often, when we detect signs of base passions in those whom we expect to be beyond the siren call, I was discomforted. "There," he said. "I will put her in a house."
I must have blushed, for he caught himself.
"Sir," he said, "you misunderstand me. Actuarially, she is superior. She is a better credit risk than her mate."
I was becoming very weary of this national manner of joking, where the main point, by dint of boastfulness and exaggeration, was to make the visitor appear a fool. And all this in the service of some ignorant notion of American superiority.
"Why lend to either of them?"
"Did you not observe her on the ship?"
I thought, What did he see? What does he know? "She was a dreadful flirt," I said, "as you must know yourself."
"I thought her very able at her business."
I suppose I made a face. Certainly I found the whole conversation so disagreeable that I expected he would understand and let it drop. But he was not French.
"Do you know how many women run boardinghouses in this city?" he persisted. "Let me tell you: one hundred and fifty. I would lend to almost all of them. This girl. She painted you."
Yes, I thought, and now I was embarrassed. In any case, she never finished anything one could put on the wall at rue Saint-Dominique.
"I know how much you paid her," he insisted. "I know how much the others paid. Now, do you know how many of her portraits one could commission in this city this afternoon?"
"If one were a fine painter, hundreds possibly." I thought, Money, money, money.
"Did I not hear you declare yourself very happy with your likeness?"
Peek had been born on Staten Island but he was clearly of the Anglo-Saxon race, which, in these matters, likes nothing better than a pile of dead rabbits as the subject of their art. In any case, I could not discuss the art of painting with a farmer.
Peek was smiling amiably, and one could deny neither the deep power revealed by those gray eyes, nor the amiability of his character and I reminded myself that he was indeed a rich man and a banker. Had I not seen his Doric columns?
We left the cobblestones. We journeyed through a dismal streetscape of vacant lots and raw timber structures in such disarray that one could not tell if these were new houses being constructed or old ones pulled by dentist's pliers.
I had not known America would look like this. In my innocence I had hoped to find here a model for the future of France, or at least some sign as to how, if democracy was unstoppable, we might at least safeguard our future with certain principles or institutions.
Yet all I had learned was that when the mob was allowed to rule, a second mob sprang up beneath them, and the difference between the Americans and French is that the Americans do not need to steal from their fellows when they can roam the countryside in bands, cutting trees and taking wealth. Anyone can claim a site for his chateau, whether he be a night soil man or a portraitist.
"Look here," Peek cried, and thumped his fist on the roof. His driver brought us to a halt in a forlorn place: the intersection of many tracks and roads, vacant lots, a blacksmith's forge, brambles, a stand of maples.
"See," he cried. "I could set her up there. She could have a studio."
Mr. Peek had seemed such a straight stick, but his stick now seemed to be like a dog's or duck's. In thinking this, of course, I was aware of what passions the woman had aroused in my own loins.
"Perhaps," I said, "it would be more sensible to lend it to her husband."
"But you said he is not her husband. In any case, you might need to tak
e that man away, no?" I refused to look at him. "But she has a future here. I'll show you another spot," he cried, banging on the roof until we left the desolate sight behind us.
I believe that was Union Place, which later made Mr. Ruggles such a grand man in New York.
As we rolled and bucked our way farther up the island, I was at once shocked and relieved to find evidence that the Protestant was not quite as severe as I had feared. I thought, He is going to put his Marianne in a petite maison. It was a joke on Delacroix, at least.
"Mr. Peek," I said, "my English is poor and sometimes I make a foreigner's mistake. I know you are a banker, monsieur. Am I right in thinking that you are suggesting you will loan money to my servant's mistress in order solely that she buy a house, and you do this--forgive me, I must be plain--with no ulterior motive?"
He looked at me and roared with laughter, slapping my knee again. I thought he laughed much too loud and slapped too hard. My knee was rather stung.
"You mean, sir, am I a scoundrel or a fool? I am neither. Now look." He drew a pencil from his pocket and thumped upon the ceiling, and when the coach had stilled he opened a notebook and began to write, speaking as he formed his letters.
"The business of land in Manhattan," he said, "is mathematical. I am a mathematical man. It is my hobby and my interest, and I do not mean arithmetic. Do you read Mr. Newton's calculus, sir?"
"I know of it."
"Well, first the A plus B. Arithmetic. Immigration to America increases thirty thousand persons annually. Seventy percent of these immigrants come through New York."
"I understand."
"Then you understand too quickly. The workers stay close to jobs; the people with the money are moving out, here and here, farther from the city. Now can you read what I have written?"
It was as follows: h(t) = Xitb.
"The first equation," he said, "expresses the quantity of housing (in logs) as a linear function of the attributes X of housing unit i."
Blah-blah, I thought. What this means I do not know, except it has a nasty smell of freemasonry--the strange symbols, the mathematics, their use in the service of a prophecy.
"You could predict the price--Xit--of a Manhattan lot in any given year."
A farmer spouting calculus. That is what it is like with Americans. The moment you think you understand a man's character, then you are a foreign fool.
Ph(t) = -dt bT = o
"It is Greek to me," I joked.
"Ah, but it is Greek," he said, the autodidact.
"But no matter what the equation, it makes no sense to lend money to a debtor who will almost certainly default."
"Ah," said he, "spoken like a banker. Spoken like my good friends who are busy lending money to each other, but your painter will pay me back for a year, for two years, for three years. I will do very well. The moment she defaults why it is back to
"The land is worth a fortune. I have a house on Sixteenth Street and then I make money again."
At which he thumped on the roof once more and we traveled for half a mile, after which he thumped again. We had arrived in a muddy track with a tall thin house beside it, all alone, with its arms and elbows pressed hard against its clapboard sides. From this structure a family was carrying tables and beds and mattresses and loading them on a cart, an operation that had clearly been in progress for some time. The harried man of the house kneeled to pick up a stone which he then hurled, his face contorted with a horrid rage, shattering the front window of the vacated cottage.
"Get your head down," said Peek quietly.
I assumed myself a potential object of attack, but then I understood the banker wished to fetch the musket, which--together with an axe--was affixed to the carriage behind my head. In a moment he had set the charge and dropped the ball.
"Watch," he whispered, and put his barrel out the window.
He fired.
I heard a whinny, a curse, and the cart took off down the road.
"Owning New York property," said the banker, replacing the musket on its shelf, "is a science."
So I understood this house was his property and he had foreclosed.
Thus we descended to inspect the site and, while defending his right to resume his own property, I was shocked by Peek's animal spirits. Only then did I understand that his excitement was not caused by the eviction--which had, in any case, already taken place--but the plump pigeon he had shot from the carriage window. And even this I did not understand correctly, for the source of his most un-Protestant pleasure was that he had dropped the pigeon close by the horse and the horse had shied and bolted, thus removing his debtors from the site of their loan. And with this achievement he was as happy as a child. He held the pigeon high for me to see.
"Not bad," cried he.
I thought, A little house for Marianne. It was a considerable idea that had escaped the attention of the Revolution.
SEVERAL DAYS THEREAFTER I returned to my boardinghouse to find Master Perroquet waiting on the stoop. "Sir," said the former prisoner, rising slowly to his feet. "I have decided to remain in your service until you are safely settled."
"Indeed," I said, thinking it impossible I had heard correctly.
"I have informed the Marquis de Tilbot."
It appeared that this strange hard creature was now dismissing me. "That is damned civil of you," I said.
The green eyes remained steady and unblinking, but could that subterranean expression be a smile?
"I thought so," he said.
"Very well," I said, thinking I will not be dismissed by a servant, "you must let me consider your offer."
"While your lordship is considering," he mimicked my way of speaking, "perhaps he would enjoy signing some papers at the bank."
"But I hesitate to intrude on your time," I told the rogue, how I wished him still in jail. "When might you be free?"
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What could I do but laugh? He laughed along with me, and perhaps his intention was benevolent for all I knew. It was still a mystery minutes later when the impossible villain and I were seated as equals at the Bank of New York. Here he produced a sheet of arithmetic which explained what he had earned by day and week, indicating Tilbot's customary tip. Was I being served or robbed, I did not know, or even care. I paid him. He signed. I drew an order for Mr. Peek, to repay him all his loan. This too Parrot and Olivier signed together. Who could have imagined such an extraordinary world? I waited for him to declare that he had ordered some change in the financial instruments, but not a word, and how could I possibly ask him. I watched him saunter down Broadway intent on what further fraud I did not know, but I knew I would never see the crook again.
Yet the following day he was back at my stoop.
"You continue in my service yet?" I inquired not kindly.
Mr. Peek, he announced, had invited me to visit him at Peek Farm for luncheon on the following day, a Saturday. "When will we be starting, sir?" he asked.
We? I stared at his brand-new frock coat and gray waistcoat. Then I saw the invitation contained the directive that I bring my servant and his wife. Peek would send a carriage for us all. My heart sank at the sheer awfulness of it--Olivier de Garmont delivering a woman like a common pimp. Quite clearly Peek had plans for her.
So I was completely prepared, on the morrow, to find the buxom Mistress Parrot aboard but I was not at all happy to learn that we must also be accompanied by her mother, who would chew raw garlic and parsley while giving her harsh commentary on the passing scene.
"Broadway, puh!" she cried, as we passed Canal Street. She declared it no better than a cart track in Aubagne.
I could hardly blame the Americans for the coarseness of a French peasant, and yet all this malodorous egalite depressed me awfully. She wished to converse with me, and I could not stop her. Could monsieur not see where a drunken coachman had argued the best way to get around a bog? Or
cross that stream? And that disputed track--it set off as a detour, then wandered down the hill like a soldier who has lost his wits. He was drunk, monsieur, sozzled, there he is, off into the glen. Mathilde, regardez the wilderness, the fol Americain has built a house.
"Please, madame, I would prefer that you did not hit my knee."
And then she was in a huff. It was too grotesque for words, and I certainly had no idea that this would be the most significant day of my life. It was October, and the trees were aflame with passion and all I could think was that the air was filled with molds and fungi that would precipitate a crise.
It was not hot enough to make my nose bleed, but it was a very rough journey to Peek's farm which was located at what may have become by now--if the New York Commissioners' Street Plan has any real authority--land bordered by East Forty-eighth on the south and East Fifty-sixth Street on the north. Emerging in bad temper from the wilderness, I found a silky driveway, a wooded ravine, a mature orchard, a clear narrow rocky stream running through native grasses. We rattled across a dam wall, came upon a rise from which we enjoyed the grand prospect across the East River to Blackwell's Island. Were my spirits lifted? Not at all. Along the shores of a little cove grew a number of pretty trees in low situations, quite green, very still, and through the leaves the white sand of a beach. I viewed them sourly. When, in a moment, I beheld the Peek mansion I was pleased only because its size reduced the old woman to stunned silence.
In the grand foyer I renewed my acquaintance with Mrs. Peek and her stringy daughters.
"So," said my creditor immediately, "we must take the tour."
This, it appears, is the American custom, to escort one's visitors from room to room like an auctioneer. Even the meanest object will have some story, and the grandest ones a price. I noted that the so-called library held no books, the furniture had been copied from engravings, and, of the six paintings in the thirty-four rooms, three of them had been painted aboard the Havre. And this was the home of one of New York's foremost citizens.
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SATURDAY PM UPDATE: Sources tell me that the studios are having difficulty getting their nightly Rentrak numbers. But initial intel is that this back-and-forth North American box office battle for #1 isn't over yet and may continue until Sunday night. Sony Pictures' Just Go With It, starring the sometimes funny Adam Sandler and the always annoying Jennifer Aniston had a big Saturday jump (+41%) from Friday with $13.4M in grosses. If that holds, then this latest Valentines Day-timed rom-com could come in at $31.2M for the weekend. As for Paramount's PG-rated Justin Bieber: Never Say Never 3D, "Bieber fever hasn't broken but at least he's sweating," a rival studio exec said tonight. Even with higher 3D ticket prices but about 450 less theaters, the punk kid held strongly from Friday to Saturday with only a -13% drop for $10.7M which would put the kid at $30.2M for the weekend. As for other openers, Disney's Gnomeo and Juliet 3D opened with a soft $6M Friday but that was doubled Saturday by the matinee kiddie bump for a $25.4M weekend. And Focus Feature's PG-13 The Eagle had decent numbers in both major cities and suburbs.
If the rom-com holds at No. 1, then like him or not, Adam Sandler's track record as one of the most consistent top performers in the business continues. This latest is based on the old Cactus Flower play/movie (which itself was based on a French play) by Sandler's Happy Madison production company and directed by Dennis Dugan. But by now who hasn't seen this dumbass premise of a single man who pretends to be married all over The Hallmark Channel? Yet it received an "A-" CinemaScore overall and an "A" from females despite lousy reviews. Just Go With It, should also be the main Date Night movie choice on Valentine's Day so expect to see a substantial spike on a typical non-holiday Monday. Last weekend, Adam did a lot of press during the Superbowl as well as MTV Networks (including VH-1, Spike, and Comedy Central) where special interstitials were created with footage from the film. Additionally, there was a TNT and NBA promo tied to the upcoming NBA All-Star Game, while Sony worked with ESPN for a special "Just Go With It Moment" promo which was cut using footage from last year's Game 7 final match-up, and a clip from the film.
In terms of Disney comps, this is less than the $31M opening weekend of Disney's 2008 Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best Of Both Worlds Concert Tour pic but massacres 2009's Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience opening weekend of $12.5M. Considering Bieber's pic had a budget of only $13M, the punk did fine. (But if he's "living his dream" at soon-to-be age 17, then mine is to send him packing from Hollywood until his testicles descend.) Born out of production boss Adam Goodman's Paramount Insurge initiative overseen by Amy Powell to find talent from the Internet, this is the first offering. Goodman came up with the idea of pursuing a Bieber pic, so he, Powell, Megan Colligan, and Rob Moore traipsed to the Target Center in Minneapolis to watch the kid's concert first-hand at the end of June. Negotiated with LA Reid of Island Def Jam records and Bieber's manager Scooter Braun, the idea was to follow Bieber's journey to a sold-out Madison Square Garden. Justin's Internet army of fans were enlisted to submit photos and videos that would be incorporated into the film and the initial one-sheet. At the end of November, the decision was made to let fans pay $30 to sneak the film complete with souvenir purple glasses and wrist bands. About 60,000 fans saw the film Wednesday so they could spend Thursday and Friday spreading the word at schools. Paramount only included the value of the ticket in its box office reporting, though. The premiere featured a stunt with Ellen DeGeneres (who early on identified Justin as a star) after his Tuesday appearance on her show: Usher showed up with a fleet of vans and brought Ellen's entire audience of over 300 people to the premiere. The promotion included sister company MTV's Jersey Shore and The Situation to let teens know this film was not just for tweens. Meanwhile, Bieber's mom went on Christian Radio to make inroads with faith-based audiences.
The project was at Miramax and, as part of the recent sale, Disney kept the film which was distributed by Touchstone. Executive Produced by Elton John and his Rocket Pictures, Gnomeo & Juliet is the only animated film in the marketplace right now. The soundtrack released February 8th from Buena Vista Records features 9 songs from the songwriting team of Elton John and Bernie Taupin, performed by Sir Elton. (There's a remake of Elton's 1973 hit, "Crocodile Rock" sung with Nellie Furtado.) The voice cast included James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Ozzy Osbourne, Dolly Parton, and Hulk Hogan. Shrek 2's Kelly Asbury directed what was billed as "the greatest love story ever told" starring… garden gnomes with plastic pink flamingoes and lawnmower races in the mix.
Focus will hit projected numbers if the film makes $8 million for the weekend. Tracking best with men both over and under 25 (strongest with men over 25), the film had a budget of mid-$20sM and strong international pre-sales. Reviews were only mixed (35% positive on Rotten Tomatoes, 55% on Metacritic). The film drew a mostly male, ethnically diverse audience: 64% Male, 47% Under 30, 62% Under 35, 38% Caucasian, 27% Hispanic, 21% African American, 13% Asian.


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Posted by Trent Williams on Dec 8th, 2019
Analysts expect Orthopediatrics Corp (NASDAQ:KIDS) to report ($0.26) earnings per share (EPS) for the current fiscal quarter, Zacks reports. Three analysts have provided estimates for Orthopediatrics' earnings, with estimates ranging from ($0.35) to ($0.21). Orthopediatrics posted earnings per share of ($0.19) in the same quarter last year, which indicates a negative year-over-year growth rate of 36.8%. The company is scheduled to report its next quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, March 4th.
According to Zacks, analysts expect that Orthopediatrics will report full year earnings of ($0.86) per share for the current financial year, with EPS estimates ranging from ($0.93) to ($0.79). For the next fiscal year, analysts forecast that the business will post earnings of ($0.26) per share, with EPS estimates ranging from ($0.33) to ($0.11). Zacks Investment Research's earnings per share averages are a mean average based on a survey of sell-side analysts that that provide coverage for Orthopediatrics.
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Orthopediatrics (NASDAQ:KIDS) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, November 7th. The company reported ($0.18) EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($0.17) by ($0.01). The company had revenue of $20.74 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $19.87 million. Orthopediatrics had a negative return on equity of 12.12% and a negative net margin of 15.80%. Orthopediatrics's revenue for the quarter was up 31.1% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted ($0.15) earnings per share.
Several research analysts have recently commented on KIDS shares. Zacks Investment Research downgraded Orthopediatrics from a "buy" rating to a "hold" rating in a research note on Friday, November 15th. BidaskClub upgraded Orthopediatrics from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating in a research note on Thursday, November 14th. Piper Jaffray Companies increased their target price on shares of Orthopediatrics from $40.00 to $44.00 and gave the stock an "overweight" rating in a report on Friday, November 8th. Finally, ValuEngine raised shares of Orthopediatrics from a "sell" rating to a "hold" rating in a report on Thursday, November 28th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the company's stock. The stock currently has an average rating of "Buy" and an average target price of $45.40.
Several hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Aperio Group LLC purchased a new position in shares of Orthopediatrics in the second quarter valued at about $39,000. Meadow Creek Investment Management LLC raised its stake in Orthopediatrics by 125.0% during the 2nd quarter. Meadow Creek Investment Management LLC now owns 2,160 shares of the company's stock valued at $84,000 after purchasing an additional 1,200 shares during the period. Bank of Montreal Can raised its stake in Orthopediatrics by 56.3% during the 2nd quarter. Bank of Montreal Can now owns 2,853 shares of the company's stock valued at $112,000 after purchasing an additional 1,028 shares during the period. Neuburgh Advisers LLC lifted its holdings in Orthopediatrics by 125.0% in the 2nd quarter. Neuburgh Advisers LLC now owns 2,970 shares of the company's stock worth $116,000 after purchasing an additional 1,650 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Tyers Asset Management LLC lifted its holdings in Orthopediatrics by 125.0% in the 2nd quarter. Tyers Asset Management LLC now owns 3,780 shares of the company's stock worth $148,000 after purchasing an additional 2,100 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 50.21% of the company's stock.
NASDAQ:KIDS opened at $39.24 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.24, a current ratio of 2.35 and a quick ratio of 1.61. The stock has a 50-day simple moving average of $38.06 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $36.68. Orthopediatrics has a 52-week low of $27.20 and a 52-week high of $47.82.
Orthopediatrics Company Profile
OrthoPediatrics Corp., a medical device company, designs, develops, and markets anatomically appropriate implants and devices for the treatment of children with orthopedic conditions in the United States and internationally. The company's products comprise PediLoc, PediPlates, cannulated screws, PediFlex nail, PediNail products, PediLoc tibia products, anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction systems, locking cannulated blades, locking proximal femurs, RESPONSE Spine systems, Bandloc, and Pediguard.
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        DemoEffect currentEffect = 0;

        // Effects used by this sample.
        Effect desaturateEffect;
        Effect disappearEffect;
        Effect normalmapEffect;
        Effect refractionEffect;

        // Textures used by this sample.
        Texture2D catTexture;
        Texture2D catNormalmapTexture;
        Texture2D glacierTexture;
        Texture2D waterfallTexture;

        // SpriteBatch instance used to render all the effects.
        SpriteBatch spriteBatch;

        #endregion

        #region Initialization

        public SpriteEffectsGame()
        {
            graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this);
            Content.RootDirectory = "Content";
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Loads graphics content.
        /// </summary>
        protected override void LoadContent()
        {
            desaturateEffect = Content.Load<Effect>("desaturate");
            disappearEffect = Content.Load<Effect>("disappear");
            normalmapEffect = Content.Load<Effect>("normalmap");
            refractionEffect = Content.Load<Effect>("refraction");

            catTexture = Content.Load<Texture2D>("cat");
            catNormalmapTexture = Content.Load<Texture2D>("cat_normalmap");
            glacierTexture = Content.Load<Texture2D>("glacier");
            waterfallTexture = Content.Load<Texture2D>("waterfall");

            spriteBatch = new SpriteBatch(graphics.GraphicsDevice);
        }

        #endregion

        #region Update and Draw

        /// <summary>
        /// Allows the game to run logic.
        /// </summary>
        protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
        {
            HandleInput();

            if (NextButtonPressed())
            {
                currentEffect++;

                if (currentEffect > DemoEffect.Normalmap)
                    currentEffect = 0;
            }

            base.Update(gameTime);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// This is called when the game should draw itself.
        /// </summary>
        protected override void Draw(GameTime gameTime)
        {
            switch (currentEffect)
            {
                case DemoEffect.Desaturate:
                    DrawDesaturate(gameTime);
                    break;

                case DemoEffect.Disappear:
                    DrawDisappear(gameTime);
                    break;

                case DemoEffect.Normalmap:
                    DrawNormalmap(gameTime);
                    break;

                case DemoEffect.RefractCat:
                    DrawRefractCat(gameTime);
                    break;

                case DemoEffect.RefractGlacier:
                    DrawRefractGlacier(gameTime);
                    break;
            }

            base.Draw(gameTime);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Effect dynamically changes color saturation.
        /// </summary>
        void DrawDesaturate(GameTime gameTime)
        {
            // Begin the sprite batch, using our custom effect.
            spriteBatch.Begin(0, null, null, null, null, desaturateEffect);

            // Draw four copies of the same sprite with different saturation levels.
            // The saturation amount is passed into the effect using the alpha of the
            // SpriteBatch.Draw color parameter. This isn't as flexible as using a
            // regular effect parameter, but makes it easy to draw many sprites with
            // a different saturation amount for each. If we had used an effect
            // parameter for this, we would have to end the sprite batch, then begin
            // a new one, each time we wanted to change the saturation setting.

            byte pulsate = (byte)Pulsate(gameTime, 4, 0, 255);

            spriteBatch.Draw(glacierTexture,
                             QuarterOfScreen(0, 0),
                             new Color(255, 255, 255, 0));

            spriteBatch.Draw(glacierTexture,
                             QuarterOfScreen(1, 0),
                             new Color(255, 255, 255, 64));

            spriteBatch.Draw(glacierTexture,
                             QuarterOfScreen(0, 1),
                             new Color(255, 255, 255, 255));

            spriteBatch.Draw(glacierTexture,
                             QuarterOfScreen(1, 1),
                             new Color(255, 255, 255, pulsate));

            // End the sprite batch.
            spriteBatch.End();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Effect uses a scrolling overlay texture to make different parts of
        /// an image fade in or out at different speeds.
        /// </summary>
        void DrawDisappear(GameTime gameTime)
        {
            // Draw the background image.
            spriteBatch.Begin();
            spriteBatch.Draw(glacierTexture, GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Bounds, Color.White);
            spriteBatch.End();

            // Set an effect parameter to make our overlay
            // texture scroll in a giant circle.
            disappearEffect.Parameters["OverlayScroll"].SetValue(
                                                MoveInCircle(gameTime, 0.8f) * 0.25f);

            // Set the overlay texture (as texture 1,
            // because 0 will be the main sprite texture).
            graphics.GraphicsDevice.Textures[1] = waterfallTexture;

            // Begin the sprite batch.
            spriteBatch.Begin(0, null, null, null, null, disappearEffect);

            // Draw the sprite, passing the fade amount as the
            // alpha of the SpriteBatch.Draw color parameter.
            byte fade = (byte)Pulsate(gameTime, 2, 0, 255);

            spriteBatch.Draw(catTexture,
                             MoveInCircle(gameTime, catTexture, 1),
                             new Color(255, 255, 255, fade));

            // End the sprite batch.
            spriteBatch.End();
        }

        /// <summary>
        // Effect uses a scrolling displacement texture to offset the position of
        // the main texture.
        /// </summary>
        void DrawRefractCat(GameTime gameTime)
        {
            // Draw the background image.
            spriteBatch.Begin();
            spriteBatch.Draw(glacierTexture, GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Bounds, Color.White);
            spriteBatch.End();

            // Set an effect parameter to make the
            // displacement texture scroll in a giant circle.
            refractionEffect.Parameters["DisplacementScroll"].SetValue(
                                                        MoveInCircle(gameTime, 0.1f));

            // Set the displacement texture.
            graphics.GraphicsDevice.Textures[1] = waterfallTexture;

            // Begin the sprite batch.
            spriteBatch.Begin(0, null, null, null, null, refractionEffect);

            // Draw the sprite.
            spriteBatch.Draw(catTexture,
                             MoveInCircle(gameTime, catTexture, 1),
                             Color.White);

            // End the sprite batch.
            spriteBatch.End();
        }

        /// <summary>
        // Effect uses a scrolling displacement texture to offset the position of
        // the main texture.
        /// </summary>
        void DrawRefractGlacier(GameTime gameTime)
        {
            // Set an effect parameter to make the
            // displacement texture scroll in a giant circle.
            refractionEffect.Parameters["DisplacementScroll"].SetValue(
                                                        MoveInCircle(gameTime, 0.2f));

            // Set the displacement texture.
            graphics.GraphicsDevice.Textures[1] = waterfallTexture;

            // Begin the sprite batch.
            spriteBatch.Begin(0, null, null, null, null, refractionEffect);

            // Because the effect will displace the texture coordinates before
            // sampling the main texture, the coordinates could sometimes go right
            // off the edges of the texture, which looks ugly. To prevent this, we
            // adjust our sprite source region to leave a little border around the
            // edge of the texture. The displacement effect will then just move the
            // texture coordinates into this border region, without ever hitting
            // the edge of the texture.

            Rectangle croppedGlacier = new Rectangle(32, 32,
                                                     glacierTexture.Width - 64,
                                                     glacierTexture.Height - 64);

            spriteBatch.Draw(glacierTexture,
                             GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Bounds,
                             croppedGlacier,
                             Color.White);

            // End the sprite batch.
            spriteBatch.End();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Effect uses a normalmap texture to apply realtime lighting while
        /// drawing a 2D sprite.
        /// </summary>
        void DrawNormalmap(GameTime gameTime)
        {
            // Draw the background image.
            spriteBatch.Begin();
            spriteBatch.Draw(glacierTexture, GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Bounds, Color.White);
            spriteBatch.End();

            // Animate the light direction.
            Vector2 spinningLight = MoveInCircle(gameTime, 1.5f);

            double time = gameTime.TotalGameTime.TotalSeconds;

            float tiltUpAndDown = 0.5f + (float)Math.Cos(time * 0.75) * 0.1f;

            Vector3 lightDirection = new Vector3(spinningLight * tiltUpAndDown,
                                                 1 - tiltUpAndDown);

            lightDirection.Normalize();

            normalmapEffect.Parameters["LightDirection"].SetValue(lightDirection);

            // Set the normalmap texture.
            graphics.GraphicsDevice.Textures[1] = catNormalmapTexture;

            // Begin the sprite batch.
            spriteBatch.Begin(0, null, null, null, null, normalmapEffect);

            // Draw the sprite.
            spriteBatch.Draw(catTexture, CenterOnScreen(catTexture), Color.White);

            // End the sprite batch.
            spriteBatch.End();
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Helper calculates the destination rectangle needed
        /// to draw a sprite to one quarter of the screen.
        /// </summary>
        Rectangle QuarterOfScreen(int x, int y)
        {
            Viewport viewport = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport;

            int w = viewport.Width / 2;
            int h = viewport.Height / 2;

            return new Rectangle(w * x, h * y, w, h);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Helper calculates the destination position needed
        /// to center a sprite in the middle of the screen.
        /// </summary>
        Vector2 CenterOnScreen(Texture2D texture)
        {
            Viewport viewport = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport;

            int x = (viewport.Width - texture.Width) / 2;
            int y = (viewport.Height - texture.Height) / 2;

            return new Vector2(x, y);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Helper computes a value that oscillates over time.
        /// </summary>
        static float Pulsate(GameTime gameTime, float speed, float min, float max)
        {
            double time = gameTime.TotalGameTime.TotalSeconds * speed;

            return min + ((float)Math.Sin(time) + 1) / 2 * (max - min);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Helper for moving a value around in a circle.
        /// </summary>
        static Vector2 MoveInCircle(GameTime gameTime, float speed)
        {
            double time = gameTime.TotalGameTime.TotalSeconds * speed;

            float x = (float)Math.Cos(time);
            float y = (float)Math.Sin(time);

            return new Vector2(x, y);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Helper for moving a sprite around in a circle.
        /// </summary>
        Vector2 MoveInCircle(GameTime gameTime, Texture2D texture, float speed)
        {
            Viewport viewport = graphics.GraphicsDevice.Viewport;

            float x = (viewport.Width - texture.Width) / 2;
            float y = (viewport.Height - texture.Height) / 2;

            return MoveInCircle(gameTime, speed) * 128 + new Vector2(x, y);
        }

        #endregion

        #region Handle Input

        /// <summary>
        /// Handles input for quitting the game.
        /// </summary>
        private void HandleInput()
        {
            lastKeyboardState = currentKeyboardState;
            lastGamePadState = currentGamePadState;

            currentKeyboardState = Keyboard.GetState();
            currentGamePadState = GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One);

            // Check for exit.
            if (currentKeyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Escape) ||
                currentGamePadState.Buttons.Back == ButtonState.Pressed)
            {
                Exit();
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Checks whether the user wants to advance to the next rendering effect.
        /// </summary>
        bool NextButtonPressed()
        {
            // Have they pressed the space bar?
            if (currentKeyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Space) &&
                !lastKeyboardState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Space))
                return true;

            // Have they pressed the gamepad A button?
            if (currentGamePadState.Buttons.A == ButtonState.Pressed &&
                lastGamePadState.Buttons.A == ButtonState.Released)
                return true;

            return false;
        }

        #endregion
    }

    #region Entry Point

    /// <summary>
    /// The main entry point for the application.
    /// </summary>
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            using (SpriteEffectsGame game = new SpriteEffectsGame())
            {
                game.Run();
            }
        }
    }

    #endregion
}


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Chicago, Illinois Man Sentenced To 108 Months In Prison
U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Indiana
For Firearm Offense
HAMMOND- Andrew Buchanan, 35 years old, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Philip P. Simon, after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson.
Buchanan was sentenced to 108 months in prison followed by 2 years of supervised release.
According to documents in the case, in March 2022, Buchanan was driving a stolen SUV southbound on Interstate 65 when law enforcement stopped him for committing multiple traffic violations. As an officer approached the SUV, Buchanan pulled away at a high rate of speed and fled several miles before crashing the vehicle. He then exited the vehicle, ran up an exit ramp, and attempted to conceal himself, but was apprehended. After he was taken into custody, law enforcement searched the SUV and recovered a loaded AR-15 assault rifle and two loaded semi-automatic pistols with obliterated serial numbers. Both pistols also had "auto sear" devices attached to them which converted them into fully automatic weapons. Buchanan's criminal history revealed that he has five prior felony convictions and is therefore prohibited from possessing these firearms.
This case is the result of the investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Lake County Drug Task Force. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Michael J. Toth.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.
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Marx's theory of alienation describes a separation of innate things. It illustrates how conflict is created between harmonious issues. Alienation is the separation of people from life matters. Religion has a role to play in the process. This is because it is based on the Essence of Christianity which purports that God has indeed divided the characteristics of the human being. Isolate originated from capitalism which is a very ancient ideology.
Capitalism is a school of thought where the financial systems favor the business owners through the process production. In this regard, companies produce goods and services purely for profit. Workers are merely used by the entrepreneurs as tools to help them get their income out of their businesses. The employees do not have control of their lives, actions and feelings. Instead, they are fully dictated by the company owners, (Scott, 1987).
The writing explores on Marx's theory on alienation with banking as the workplace of choice. This is achieved by the analysis of the isolation concepts and how they apply for a worker in a bank. There is a discussion on the production value in relation Marx's concepts. The essay is concluded by a comparison with other work places as well as t the validity of these concepts in the contemporary world.
Having explained alienation, its origin as well as the relationship with capitalism, we now proceed to analyze the major concepts of isolation. Marx's has put across four main issues in the work place to demonstrate the idea of separation. Each concept is examined while attaching a relation to banking which is the work place of choice in the writing as shown below.
Worker is alienated from the production of his labor. This is a very key concept of alienation according to Marx's. It is also called exploitation. This means that the employee is not given chance to contribute in any decision making process. The owner controls the intellectual ability of all the workers in the company. Employee simply works to get wages which are very low to ensure that maximum returns are secured by the owners. The same applies to the bank where the business owners give instructions which must be followed. At the same time the staffs only work for their salaries as the owners benefit from huge surplus value.
Another thought is the alienation of worker from himself as the producer. It explains a very important aspect of work. In normal circumstances, human spirit should never be separated from the actions. But capitalism does exactly the same. People are separated from their work through machines and they cannot define their value. An example is the work place in the bank where the staffs are completely isolated from themselves via the use of computers and many meetings and appointment with clients. These efforts are aimed at making the shareholders to be rich as the workers are left in conflict with themselves.
Alienation of worker from working is also a concept of Marx's. In this case, work is organized into a pattern with an endless sequence that gives no motivation to the staff. This is characterized by repetition and meaningless processes that makes the employee to be bored. Labor is quantified into wage and the worker has no other benefit apart from the production. The same case applies to banking where the staff is put into rigorous work procedure. For example credit policy has a very lengthy practice that adds no constructive value to the staff.
An interesting concept is the alienation of worker from other workers. This has the meaning that the proprietors strive to create conflict among the workers so that they benefit. Labor is commercialized through marketing and no room is given for workers to unite and share ideas or fight for their rights. This is the situation in the work place. In banking, hatred among workers is caused by institution of targets for staff which are measured by performance contracts. Different staff will perform differently. Depending on appraisals, people normally differ instead of pursuing a mutual interest.
Several ideas have been put across to support the alienation of workers. The concepts portray different views. This section focuses on the theories that relates to the production value. In this regard, we analyze how the points expose the creation worth in view of capitalism both to the worker and owner. Once again the relation is compared with banking which is the work place of choice.
The fact that the worker is alienated from the work he produces relates to the production value. This is because the employee has no direct benefit from what he manufactures. This is irrespective of the surplus value. It therefore means that the value of production entirely goes to the proprietor. The worker does not enjoy what he produces. At the bank, the same case applies. Workers work very hard to grow the portfolio and clientele. But when huge profits are realized, the staffs are only given their normally monthly wages. The rest of the benefit goes to the shareholders of the company, (Blackledge, 2008).
Another fact related to the production value is the isolation of worker from the act of production. This is where the staff works but he is not involved in the particular by himself. The owner has simply put work system that the worker must follow using the provided machines. The owner gets good produce from the set process but the employee becomes fatigue and demoralized.
The spirit of the worker is not engaged in the pattern of work imposed by the company owner. This applies in the bank where systems are set within the computer to capture profits from the accounts. The worker is just there to command the machine but is not really part of the process. In the end, it becomes monotonous and does not produce value to the worker at all. On the contrary, the shareholders reap dearly from the surplus value produced.
It is very challenging to become a banker. Banking is the business of money and there is force from other competing banks. Compared to other jobs, it is demanding and one must be ready to work under pressure. This is because the owners are after the profits. At the same time, banks can easily be affected by financial crisis. For example, the 2007 crisis affected the entire world and made many banks to collapse. All the four concepts of Marx's suit the job.
The perspective of Marx's is very useful in the society today. The concepts educate the workers and employers on the principles of work. Several factors support this fact. He is passing a message to the employers to stop separating the workers from their colleagues. At the same time the ideas persuade the owners to stop alienation and create self-worth and meaning to the life of the employees. The ideas give room for the motivation of workers.
In conclusion, Marx's theory of alienation has pointed out very fundamental ideologies in the work place. Application of the concepts to the bank has been illustrated accordingly. The relevance of the thoughts to the contemporary society has also been put across.


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Court overturns day laborer ruling
Source: EasyReaderNews.com | September 22nd, 2011 by Mark McDermott filed in Redondo Beach
A six year legal battle that began with the arrests of day laborers along Artesia and Manhattan Beach boulevards added another chapter as the Ninth Circuit "en banc" panel weighed in last week. Photo by Mark McDermott
An eleven-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit federal appeals court last week ruled that a Redondo Beach ordinance aimed at curtailing day laborers soliciting work on city streets was unconstitutional in a vehemently contested 9-2 decision. A strongly worded dissent by Chief Judge Alex Kozinski that begins with the words "This is folly" signaled that the case is a candidate for U.S. Supreme Court review [See majority opinion and dissent].
The Court, which met in a relatively rare "en banc" gathering to hear the case in March, overturned an earlier decision by a three member Ninth Circuit panel, overruling its own precedent-setting upholding of a 25-year-old ordinance enacted by the city of Phoenix. Redondo's law ordinance was a word-for-word copy of the Phoenix ordinance.
Judge Milan Smith, the author of the majority opinion, wrote that Redondo's ordinance went beyond "time, place, and manner of expression" limitations of First Amendment freedom of speech rights the Supreme Court has deemed allowable to protect a government's interest.
Smith sided with the plaintiff, a national day laborer organization called Comite de Journaleros, in arguing that the ordinance "technically appl[ies] to children selling lemonade on the sidewalk in front of their home, as well as to Girl Scouts selling cookies on the sidewalk outside of their school," as well as "to a motorist who stops, on a residential street, to inquire whether a neighbor's teen-age daughter or son would be interested in performing yard work or babysitting."
"The Ordinance is not narrowly tailored because it regulates significantly more speech than is necessary to achieve the City's purpose of improving traffic safety and traffic flow at two major Redondo Beach intersections, and the City could have achieved these goals through less restrictive measures, such as the enforcement of existing traffic laws and regulations," Smith wrote.
Kozinski, who is also an essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker and the National Review, vigorously attacked the majority opinion in an unusually entertaining, freewheeling dissent. He took particular aim at what he called the majority opinion's "parade of horribles" in its challenge that the ordinance was overly broad. "The judicial imagination can always run wild in conjuring how laws can be misapplied, but the Supreme Court instructs us that 'the mere fact that one can conceive of some impermissible applications of a statute is not sufficient to render it susceptible to an overbreadth challenge,'" Kozinski argued.
"There is no evidence that the city has ever enforced, threatened to enforce or dreamt of enforcing the ordinance against sidewalk food vendors, tyke lemonade moguls, Girl Scout cookie peddlers, high school car washers, disaster relief solicitors or middle-aged men cruising neighborhoods looking to pick up teenage girls from their front yards," Kozinski wrote.
"The majority is demonstrably, egregiously, recklessly wrong," Kozinski added. "If I could dissent twice, I would."
City Attorney Mike Webb likely has a new favorite author in the chief judge. Webb, who has defended the city's ordinance (enacted by City Council in 1987) since it was first legally attacked in 2004, said the vehemence of the dissent was clearly intended as a signal to the Supreme Court. He said it perfectly articulated everything he thought was in error in the majority's opinion.
"You just don't expect this in a dissent," Webb said. "And it was everything you think, as a lawyer, when you read something that is so wrong but would never dare say – but he's Chief Judge, so he can say it."
The city's anti-solicitation ordinance was enacted by the City Council in 1987 but didn't draw legal fire until it was enforced in 2004 with police sting operations that led to the arrests of 69 day laborers and a handful of contractors who sought to hire them. The city said it was responding to complaints from residents and businesses near two spots in the city where day laborers congregate to look for work, near the intersections ofArtesia Boulevard. andFelton LaneandManhattan Beach Boulevard near Inglewood Ave.
Webb said he particularly agreed with Kozinski's assertion that the court's ruling undercuts city's ability to govern itself and address public safety problems associated with the day laborer gatherings.
"The bottom line is that city officials, after years of effort, found existing tools inadequate or too expensive to rid the city's streets of day laborers," Kozinski wrote. "Appointing themselves as a Super City Council, my colleagues – who need not answer to the voters – decide that they know how to run Redondo Beach better than its elected officials."
Webb said the only other tool that had proven effective was Immigration and Naturalization Service (I.N.S.) sweeps, which in themselves create public safety hazards because illegal workers often flee into the streets.
"If we don't get Supreme Court review, we don't have any effective tools to address this," Webb said.
The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which has provided the laborers' defense, has long argued that the city is in effect trying to kick day laborers out of Redondo Beach. MALDEF president and general counsel Thomas Saenz, who argued the case, called the victory a vindication of First Amendment rights for day laborers that would set a precedent throughout the nation.
"The dozens of similar ordinances throughout the region that purport to prevent day laborers from speaking on sidewalks are now even more plainly violative of the Constitution," Saenz said in a statement. "Each municipality with such an ordinance should immediately suspend and repeal its law. The longstanding principle that the right of free speech belongs to everyone has been significantly bolstered by this decision."
MALDEF staff attorney Nicholas Espiritu said the fact that an en banc panel majority of nine judges found the ordinance unconstitutional makes it less likely to be reviewed by the Supreme Court.
"We think the fact that an overwhelming majority of the Ninth Circuit held the statute to be unconstitutional is an indication," Espiritu said. "…We think the majority got the legal analysis correct, and we don't feel there is a big controversy here. There isn't a circuit split. We doubt the Supreme Court would take the case if Redondo Beach sought to petition."
Pablo Alvarado, Executive Director of National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), said the decision is the culmination of a two-decade long struggle.
"The ordinances were intended to render day laborers invisible, but the struggle against these ordinances has made day laborers more visible, more powerful," Alvarado said. "For the past two decades, the ordinances have stigmatized day laborers as criminals – now they are civil rights leaders. So this victory is not just for them, it is for every American – a victory achieved by humble people for everyone."
The city has 90 days to seek review of the ruling.
Category: NewsBy NDLON Staff September 27, 2011
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Anger at camping site plan for travelling showpeople
Campaigners are calling on Nantwiich residents to sign their petition saying the scheme will affect the town
Residents are rallying against plans to turn a former RAF camp into an industrial estate-style development for travelling showpeople to live, and to store and repair fairground equipment.
An application has been submitted to turn the Hack Green camp off Coole Lane, Nantwich into nine yards for 10 families.
The camp became disused in the early 1970s and has since been reclaimed by nature. It is now home to dozens of bird species, a wide variety of trees, butterflies, flora and fauna, as well as four protected species – great crested newts, grass snakes, bats and badgers.
The applicant, represented by a Dorset-based agent, says it expects to accommodate around 30 cars and 60 light goods vehicles.
But residents in Atcherley Close, Crisham Avenue and along Coole Lane believe those figures are misleading and fear that the reality could be substantially greater, with the nine initial yards being divided into numerous smaller plots, and the vehicle usage including HGVs carrying fairground rides of up to 70 tonnes.
Nearly 100 people packed into Broomhall Chapel last Thursday for a residents' meeting to discuss the proposals. It was also attended by Cheshire East councillors Rachel Bailey and Andrew Martin, who is also leader of Nantwich Town Council. Sound & District Parish Council has already declared its unanimous support in objecting to the application.
Concerns expressed include loss of habitat and protected species, size of development in open countryside and in relation to existing community, inaccessibility to services, a substantial increase in heavy traffic throughout the local area and potential contamination that exists on the site.
A similar application was submitted in 2003 and rejected by the former Crewe & Nantwich Borough Council. It was also dismissed on appeal in 2006.
And the residents' group, Save Hack Green Camp, say nothing has changed with this new application.
Campaigner Bryn Davies said: "While we acknowledge a need to find suitable accommodation for travelling showpeople, we feel this application is wholly inappropriate for the site.
"This development is contrary to many local and national policies in place to safeguard suitable development; this proposal also contradicts several guidelines laid out by The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain.
"We feel there are numerous aspects of the proposal which are inappropriate; the size of the development in relation to the existing community, the potential loss of a historic site, the loss of diverse habitat and wildlife and the visual impact on the open countryside, among many more."
The residents' group is appealing on the wider community in Nantwich to support its opposition, as they believe this proposal would have consequences for the entire local area, including exacerbating the strain on an already overloaded local road network.
Bryn added: "The potential impact of this proposal is a real concern, both for immediate residents and for the wider local community. Any help and support we can get in objecting to this development is greatly appreciated."
The deadline for comment submissions is July 23. Anyone wishing to comment can find the planning application 14/2714N on the Cheshire East Council website. You can also add your name to an online petition at www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-the-former-raf-hack-green-camp.html
You can also keep up with the group's activities and latest news on the application by finding 'Save The Hack Green Camp' on Facebook or following @HackGreenCamp on Twitter.
Rachel Bailey
Nantwich Town Council