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2008: first commercial broadcast
to extra-terrestrials
On June 12, 2008, Doritos made history, as they broadcast the first ever commercial directed towards possible extra terrestrial beings.
The transmission, aided by the University of Leicester in England, was undertaken as part of the Doritos Broadcast Project, which invited the British public to create a 30 second video clip that could be beamed out to the universe offering a snapshot of life on earth to anyone "out there." Some 61% of the UK public believe this is just the start of communication with ET life and that we will enter into regular communication with an alien species at some stage in the future.
The winning space-ad entitled "Tribe" was voted for by the British public and directed by 25-year-old Matt Bowron. It will officially be entered into the Guinness Book of Records and was aired on the more conventional medium of television after the interplanetary transmission during a soccer game.
The space message was pulsed out over a six-hour period from high-powered radars at the EISCAT European space station in the Arctic Circle.
EISCAT Director, Professor Tony van Eyken who supervised the transmission said: "The signal is directed at a solar system just 42 light years away from Earth, in the Ursa Major or Great Bear Constellation. Its star is very similar to our Sun and hosts a habitable zone that could harbor small life-supporting planets similar to ours."
Peter Charles, Head of the Doritos Broadcast Project said: "We are constantly looking to push the boundaries of advertising and this will go further than any brand has gone before. By broadcasting the winning ad to the Universe, Doritos is delivering a world first and Matt Bowron, the winner, will go down in advertising folklore. We also shouldn't be too surprised if the first aliens start arriving on planet Earth immediately demanding a bag of Doritos."
The broadcast received praise from Nick Pope, former Head of the MoD's UFO project. Nick, a leading authority on UFO sightings and alien abductions commented: "I support this bold new venture in space communication. As humanity reaches out to the stars, this broadcast could lead to us finding the real ET. This is a historic day in our continuing search for alien life."
Dr. Darren Wright, a Lecturer of the University of Leicester Department of Physics and Astronomy said: "The University is particularly committed to outreach programs along with the National Space Centre - the brainchild of the University of Leicester - and engaged in a number of programs with the wider public."
The commercial features a tribe of Doritos escaping from the pack and sacrificing one of their own to the God of Salsa, as soon as there are no humans around. (info from Science Daily)
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There's no doubt that giving up driving can be a tough step for many elderly seniors, as well as a difficult conversation for concerned family members. While there's no one way to handle this sometimes touchy topic, there are a number of tips and resources that can help you evaluate and adjust your mom's driving and ease her out from behind the wheel when she can no longer drive safely.
To get a clear picture of your mom's driving abilities, your first step – if you haven't already done so – is to take a ride with her and watch for problem areas. For example: Does she drive at inappropriate speeds, tailgate or drift between lanes? Does she have difficulty seeing, backing up or changing lanes? Does she react slowly, get confused easily or make poor driving decisions? Also, has your mom had any fender benders or tickets lately or have you noticed any dents or scrapes on her vehicle? These, too, are red flags. For more assessment tips see SeniorDriverChecklist.info.
These courses will show her how aging affects driving skills and offers tips and adjustments to help ensure her safety. Taking a class may also earn your mom a discount on her auto insurance. To locate a class contact your local AAA (AAA.com) or AARP (AARP.org/drive, 888-227-7669). Most courses cost around $20 to $30 and can be taken online or in a classroom.
If your mom refuses to quit, you have several options. One possible solution is to suggest a visit to her doctor who can give her a medical evaluation and if warranted, "prescribe" that she stops driving. Older people will often listen to their doctor before they will listen to their own family.
Once your mom stops driving, she's going to need other ways to get around, so help her create a list of names and phone numbers of family, friends and local transportation services that she can call on.
Green Mountain Transit offers an interconnected bus route system. Maps are available at ridgemt.com or call 864-2282 for more information. SSTA is a private not-for-profit that offers regional rides in Chittenden County for anyone who qualifies as needing it under the Americans with Disabilities Act. This means if climbing a city bus is too tough, she may apply for the SSTA and could get rides to where she needs to go that cost $2.50 each way. Call 878-1527 to qualify. And the Essex Senior Van offers rides to seniors getting around the town or village, for free if they are over 60. More information at essex.org.
To find out about other options, contact the Rides in Sight (RidesInSight.org, 855-607-4337) and the Eldercare Locator (800-677-1116), which will direct you to her area agency on aging for assistance.


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Ronald March 24, 2016 Harnessing the Power of Your Website to Generate Leads2016-03-24T08:31:29+08:00 Topics: Internet Marketing. Subjects: Lead Generation.
Your website has the potential to be a well-tuned lead generation machine; it all depends on how much effort you put into it. Take the time to address the needs of your potential customers and provide them with an easy-to-use site that provides valuable information, and your website will be much more than some static page on the Internet — it will help you get the leads you need.
Before you update your copy or make a massive overhaul to your site, you need to consider who exactly you are targeting and who you want to visit your site. This will play a big role in building a site that actually appeals to your customers.
Once you have developed a list of your idealized buyers, you'll be prepared to actually make changes to your site to appeal to these users. In doing so, you'll have the tools necessary to build a website that users will actually visit and, in turn, will give you more chances to generate real leads.
An outdated website won't do you any favors when it comes to lead generation. Today's buyers expect the websites of professional businesses to be up-to-date and optimized for multiple devices; anything less makes you look like an amateur.
If your site hasn't been updated in the last two or three years, invest in an upgrade. Website functionality and design shift every few years, and a site that looked and felt great in 2010 might be woefully inadequate for your customers today. Spruce up your site and make sure it's optimized for mobile. A majority of the public views websites on mobile devices, so be sure yours is adaptable to different devices.
A mobile-optimized site that looks and feels current will position you as an adept, modern business, provide your potential customers with a better user experience and giving you a better shot at capturing leads.
No matter what you're selling, you are providing a solution to buyers. And what better way to help buyers solve their problems and position your business as a thought leader than to offer great content?
By publishing valuable content regularly, your website is more likely to appear in search results relating to your business and, in turn, attract customers seeking out specific info. Gate your content by asking visitors to provide their email addresses and other vital info, and you'll be able to capture tons of great data and create email lists to reach out to them later.
This is a perfect example of how answering your customers' questions, and giving them information that benefits them in some way that no other business can provide can result in having a captive audience of potential leads.
A modern-looking website with great content can go a long way, but if you don't make it an easy enough process for your customers to acquire that content, you're wasting your time.
The conversion path should be smooth. For example, if a visitor comes to the site and wants to download your fantastic new whitepaper, you need to make it easy for them to do so by including easy-to-follow call to actions (CTAs), a quality landing page, thank-you page, etc. Bury your CTAs and muddy up your landing page and those potential leads will at best, be frustrated and at worst, be annoyed.
This is especially true if the main purpose of your website is to help consumers get and compare quotes from multiple companies all from one place. If your site is a hassle to deal with and the conversion path hard to understand, you can bet that will impact whether your business is able to continue providing this service. Streamline your conversation path and you'll make both your and your customers' life easier. They'll get the content they need and appreciate the smooth user experience, and you'll get the leads you were looking for.
Where are your visitors coming from? What parts of your homepage are they clicking on? How much time are they spending on each page? This type of info is valuable in helping to create a user experience that appeals to your potential customers.
Whether you use Google Analytics or another analytics service, these services can help you get a clearer picture of your customer and, in turn, help you change your website and content to generate leads. For example, if you find out that the bounce rate for your homepage is incredibly high (meaning, a large amount of users only visit that page before leaving), it's probably a good idea to change the look and feel of your homepage in response.
As you can see, there are so many things you can do to improve your website and make it more suitable for generating leads. Consider the age of your site, track what pages people are visiting, create detailed buyer personas, and your website will be the better for it. Make your website a priority in your lead generation process and you'll see the benefits in time.


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Akeyless Empowers Enterprise Code Security with Comprehensive Secrets Management
Meet Akeyless, a secure identity and access management platform that helps organizations manage user identities, passwords, and access control.
Today's enterprise IT infrastructures are built for speed and scalability, conditions that make Akeyless's secrets management solution all the more useful. Companies like Cimpress, Stash, and Constant Contact have turned to Akeyless for help with secrets management, which makes sense given the way today's operations, development, and security teams operate.
Considering the competitive business landscape, having the ability to get workloads online as quickly as possible has become an advantage. As such, organizations are actively embracing the DevOps approach to software supply chains, which often involves extensive containerization and automated orchestration.
Acumen Research and Consulting predicts that the global DevOps market will reach $37 billion in revenues by 2030. The move to hybrid and cloud-native app development, which require resources to communicate with one another, has made secrets such as credentials, passwords, certificates, and keys, an integral aspect of IT management. Secrets facilitate the interconnectedness of infrastructure components. Users, devices, and applications must undergo verification and credential exchanges to connect and interact with others securely.
Because all workloads now involve IT, it is possible for even a small enterprise to have thousands of secrets in use within its ecosystem, giving rise to the problem of secrets sprawl. IT teams often lack complete oversight and visibility over all the secrets across the organization, making zero trust principles like dynamic, "just in time" credential generation, a major challenge.
This challenge often ultimately becomes an alarming security issue. Leaked passwords from human users are obviously potential security risks; static secrets such as keys and certificates can also be left neglected on servers and instances. Malicious actors can exploit any secret in use. According to Verizon, stolen credentials account for nearly half of today's data breaches.
Akeyless looks to solve this issue for enterprises through its SaaS-based solution. Through its Akeyless Vault Platform, the company enables security teams a comprehensive control, injecting all credentials as needed, across the organization, whether on-premises or in the cloud. By centralizing oversight and control, companies can assign, revoke, and redeploy efficiently and securely.
Overcoming Security Silos
While there are older ways to manage secrets, they are generally tied to a particular type of secret. For example, credentials and levels of access are often managed using identity and access management tools. Username and password combinations are organized using password managers or, as often is the case, Excl sheets. Companies requiring more robust security use devices like hardware security modules to store their keys and process encryption.
While many of these solutions can be effective independently, they can lack interoperability. Security teams often end up using several tools to manage all of their secrets, which do support integrations and DevOps use cases. This becomes a stumbling block for organizations looking to leverage orchestration and automation.
Akeyless works around this by unifying the management of secrets to a single platform, including passwords, keys, and certificates, with a back end that refreshes and encrypts keys across environments, injecting them into code using API calls.
As a SaaS solution, implementing Akeyless is quick and easy. Individual users can instantly take advantage of multi-tenant password management. They can even conveniently sign in to services using a browser extension. If the organization is already using other secret managers, Akeyless can readily import data from Kubernetes Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, and Azure Key Vault.
The platform's native integrations with DevOps solutions like Terraform, Jenkins, and CircleCI ensure that coders can maintain security without the need to change work environments.
The Akeyless dashboard also features an intuitive interface that allows IT teams to organize secrets using folders and subfolders, much like how file systems in operating systems work. Access and permissions can then be assigned to these folders. This way, CISOs, and IT teams will be able to sort secrets as they see fit. For instance, folders can be organized according to business units, making it easy to identify which groups have access to particular secrets.
Integrating into Modern Workflows
A defining advantage that the platform offers is its seamless integration into workflows. Akeyless can be hooked up to identity providers like Active Directory and Okta. The platform also provides an SDK, allowing developers to integrate Akeyless into existing libraries, scripts, and applications. It can integrate seamlessly into DevOps pipelines, including with CI/CD tools like CircleCI, GitHub, and Jenkins.
Enterprises can also use Akeyless to handle dynamic or rotating secrets. Assigning and reassigning keys and certificates is usually done during provisioning and as part of security measures, and that these tasks can be managed centrally and automatically is a game-changer for enterprises leveraging the cloud, DevOps, and containerization.
The typical back-and-forth between development and IT teams for requests to generate keys and assign certificates can be eliminated, allowing for greater efficiency across the enterprise.
Achieving Zero-Knowledge Security
Akeyless believes that enterprises should retain complete control and ownership of their secrets through zero-knowledge security.
Akeyless's patented Distributed Fragments Cryptography (DFC) technology makes this possible. Not even Akeyless can see any of the actual secrets stored on the platform or reveal them cryptographically. Secrets information is stored in secure fragments distributed in different servers and regions and constantly refreshed mathematically.
Users keep a key fragment in their own environment, which is used to prove themselves as trusted identities. Through DFC, there is no need to reassemble the fragmented encryption keys. It becomes virtually impossible for secrets to be compromised by external threat actors.
With all these capabilities, Akeyless ultimately provides a comprehensive and practical secret management solution for the modern enterprise. Security and product teams alike can become true custodians of secrets and security in their respective organizations while enabling efficiency for all IT stakeholders.
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Q: Horizontal alignment of elements in css I am quite of a newbie in css and don't manage to figure out how to solve this little issue. I have the following footer in my html:

and in code:

        <button class="btn btn-primary btn-sm btn-submit-search" data-bind="click: ..." data-i18n="..."></button>

As you can see in the next picture, with the red line, there is an horizontal alignment (I guess):

But what I want to achieve is that they get aligned like this:

In other words, the Reset link should be at the same level of the Submit button. How can I achieve this? Thanks in advance!

A: Set some margin-top to the Reset
a
{
   margin-top:5px //as your need

}

A: Use vertical-align:bottom; alongwith display:inline-block;
See the below snippet.

footer{
  border:1px solid black;

}
button{
  height:40px;
  vertical-align:bottom;
  display:inline-block;
}

  Reset
  <button>Submit</button>

A:

footer{
  border:1px solid black;

}
a{height:40px;vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block;line-height:40px;}
    button{
      height:40px;
      vertical-align:bottom;
      display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;
    }

  Reset
  <button>Submit</button>

A:

footer{
  border:1px solid black;

}
a{
  height:40px;
  vertical-align:bottom;
  display:inline-block;
  line-height:40px;
}
    button{
      height:40px;
      vertical-align:bottom;
      display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;
      float:right;
    }

  Reset
  <button>Submit</button>

A: If you are using Bootstrap framework, try using a grid system by adding a right align for the second column. Then add a line-height to a link equal to the height of the button to have a horizontal alignment centered
See the following code
HTML

    Reset

    <button class="btn btn-primary btn-sm btn-submit-search" data-bind="click: ..." data-i18n="...">submit</button>

CSS
footer{ display:block; border-top:1px solid #DDD; margin:20px; padding:8px 0;}

.btn-reset-search-form{
    display:inline-block; line-height:40px;
}

.btn-submit-search{
    height:40px;
}

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"The Voices of We," a new play by Boston-area stage and screenwriter Robbi D'Allessandro, is making its world premiere April 25 to May 9 at the the Boston Playwrights Theatre.
D'Allessandro is donating the proceeds from all performances to nonprofit organizations that benefit women in need, including Our Bodies Ourselves.
The performances benefiting OBOS are on Saturday, May 2, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, May 3, at 2 p.m. Judy Norsigian, OBOS co-founder and former executive director, will take part in a talk-back with the audience following the show on Saturday night.
"Voices of We" explores the challenges women face as they try to contend with societal norms and expectations. The play addresses such issues as domestic violence, the struggle for reproductive rights, gender identity and sexual orientation, motherhood, positive body image, and more.
We're hugely grateful to D'Allessandro for her generous support — and excited to share the honor with Casa Myrna, GLAD, The Cambridge Women's Center, and other terrific Boston-area organizations!
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit VoicesOfWe.com.
#WhyIMarch: Dispatches from the Women's Marches by Kiki Zeldes January 23, 2017 Our Bodies Ourselves was one of the many partner organizations supporting the Women's March. On Saturday, OBOS founders, board members, staff, supporters and friends marched under the Our Bodies Ourselves banner in Washington D.C., Boston, New York City, and Seattle.


Tasmanian Quality Meats, one of the best Australian meat exporters, needed a protective solution to keep their animals out of the unpredictable Tasmanian weather in Cressy, Tasmania.
Allshelter was dedicated to providing Tasmanian Quality Meats with a shelter that met their every need. It needed to be designed to withstand a variety of elements. Since animal welfare is a top priority for Tasmanian Quality Meats, the shelter needed to make the animals comfortable in any type of weather.
Allshelter collaborated closely with Tasmanian Quality Meats to provide a protective shelter that worked for the space and their needs. The protective solution needed to give the animals shelter, but also provide plenty of room to keep the animals relaxed.
To provide Tasmanian Quality Meats with the shelter that they needed, we provided a PMAG2028A. It is a post-mounted Agrishelter that is 20 meters wide and 28 meters long. Post-mounted Allshelter shelters are designed to be waterproof and to withstand winds of up to 300 km/h.
Tasmanian Quality Meats was very satisfied with the protective solution provided by Allshelter. They loved that the shelter has easy side access, provides protection for their animals from Ultra Violet Rays, and is post-mounted for stability. Their spacious protective solution was roomy enough for their animals- with room to spare.


You would think that this equal listing of the Holy Trinity would be enough to indicate that all three persons shared equally in the divinity.
But in the first three Christian centuries people used the phrase without any deep examination of its meaning. About 300 AD there arose in Alexandria, Egypt, a priest named Arius, who began to teach that Jesus, though the Word made flesh, was not equal to the Father, not God, but like us a creature, though, of course, the highest of all God's creatures. Now Arius was no fool. He had a brilliant mind and presented "proofs" that at first seemed pretty convincing. As a result, a great turmoil arose in the Christian centers of both East and West. The Roman emperors and other rulers took sides in the dispute and "Arianism" which labeled Christ as just a man, caused trouble right up into the middle ages.
Editor's note: Original second paragraph ended before the word "divinity". If a better word or phrase is known, it should be substituted.
B219: I believe in God, but I have difficulty understanding the Holy Trinity. Does this mean that I have a weak faith?
Not at all! We are in the area of "mystery" when we speak about things "divine" because God is on a level far removed from our "human" capabilities of understanding. On the other hand, through his infinite goodness, God has revealed Himself to us in various ways: certainly in the common sense way (e.g., by observing nature); occasionally in the spectacular way (e.g., cosmic events at Fatima such as a "spinning sun" and rain without clouds; or the "burning bush" in Moses' time); and the most important way, through his only son Jesus.
In Jesus' words as well as his repeated actions of supernatural power (e.g., healings) we come to know the "personalities" of God. Jesus told us, "if you have seen me you have seen the Father." We speak of the "works of power" as works of the Father; "works of wisdom" as works of the Son; and "works of love" as works of the Holy Spirit. And yet all of these "works" are done by all and are common to all in this "divine Godhead" (Thomas Aquinas' attempt to explain the Trinity). It is indeed a "mystery," but one which we accept and believe in faith.
We sometimes "draw a blank" when asked, "When did you last encounter God?" But if we ask, "When were you Christ to someone else," or "When did someone become Christ for you," then it begins to dawn on us that the Holy Trinity continues to be revealed daily! God dwells within us, from the moment of our Baptism. Jesus has sent us his Holy Spirit. Now it is our turn to "reveal God to others" by passing on his message of love and salvation (Matt 28:16-20). The Holy Trinity is revealed as a continuing interaction of love!
KNOW YOUR CATECHISM! The revealed truth of the Holy Trinity is the very foundation of our faith, and we express that in the Creed (see the Catechism – the Creed is lodged between CCC #184 and 185). The faith of all Christians rests on the Trinity (CCC #232). We are baptized in the name (not "names") of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit – the Most Holy Trinity!
Q531: Trinity: another enormous mystery. How can I understand it better?
Here we are, fragile and needy persons, "little specks of life" on this huge planet called Earth. So what does our creator God do? He "limits" himself, and becomes one of us! As St. Paul puts it, Jesus "emptied himself" of his divine glory and power, and became human like us in all things except sin (Philippians 2:7). He "comes down" from his mighty throne in heaven, and "sits down" with his little children, teaching us his truths. Who sent him? Our heavenly Father, who loves all his children and calls us to holiness, to imitate Jesus.
True love always involves others. It is a relationship that almost "demands" three people! For example, my wife Patricia and I love each other deeply. And that love between us produced still more love, as children were born to us from our shared love relationship. Love is never selfish, but is giving, cooperative and creative.
As St. John would say, we can only love because God first loved us! So in that love relationship between our Heavenly Father and His only begotten Son, we find Love Itself: the Holy Spirit. As our Creed says, the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son; love produces love. This very same Holy Spirit empowers us at our baptism and confirmation to carry out the will of the Father – to make known his love for his children, and his desire for their eternal salvation.
In our Liturgy we hear stories about how God's people struggled to be faithful to the Covenant with God. It is our story! So we need to approach the altar at communion time with great humility – our God desires to give himself to us in still another special way, the gifts of consecrated bread and wine, his very Body and Blood! This is Love! This is Trinity!
KNOW YOUR CATECHISM! The mystery of the Trinity in itself is inaccessible to the human mind, and is the object of faith only because it was revealed by Jesus Christ, the divine Son of the eternal Father. The faith of all Christians rests on the Trinity (CCC #232, 237, and especially 253-56).
To know God as Trinity is to believe that in God there is community. God is love and love by its very nature requires giving and receiving. If God is love, there must be community of persons who give and receive love among themselves. For us to believe in the Trinity it is not enough to accept the doctrine in the mind. We must live as the image of God giving to and receiving from others in love.
Lord God our Father, Lord Jesus our Redeemer, send forth on us your Holy Spirit that we may learn to live together here on earth according to your divine example. Help us to meet the demands of this common life and forgive us when we fail. Bring us one day to share more fully in the divine life of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.


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Marie de Baux (ou Marie d'Orange) (?-1417) est une Princesse d'Orange issue de la Maison de Chalon-Arlay.

Biographie
Marie est la fille unique héritière du Prince d'Orange  et de Jeanne de Genève.

Elle épouse le  le seigneur d'Arlay , fils de Louis seigneur d'Argueil et de Marguerite de Vienne, avec qui elle a :
 (dit  le Bon) (1390-1463)

Elle disparait le  à Orange et son mari en 1418. Leur fils  leur succède au titre de Prince d'Orange.

Voir aussi
 Liste des seigneurs des Baux - Château des Baux
 Liste des seigneurs de Chalon-Arlay - Principauté d'Orange
 Comté de Bourgogne - Liste des comtes palatins de Bourgogne - Histoire de la Franche-Comté - Maison d'Ivrée

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  Site officiel de la famille del Balzo/de Baux

Histoire d'Orange (Vaucluse)
Famille des Baux
Maison d'Orange-Nassau
Décès en 1417
Princesse d'Orange

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Tag Archives: Senate Finance Committee
Surgery with hammers
So the House passed a tax bill including a measure that will make Vermont's income tax system more progressive by capping itemized deductions at 2.5 times the standard deduction. Since affluent taxpayers benefit from deductions far more than low earners, the deduction cap will (modestly) increase their taxes.
That's a good thing. And of course the Senate can't leave it alone.
Sen. Tim Ashe, D/P-Chittenden, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, wants to take a more "surgical" approach [to tax deductions].
… In a Senate Finance Committee bill he introduced on Tuesday, Ashe proposes three changes: A cap on mortgage deductions (to be determined, but between $12,000 and $15,000); a 3 percent minimum income tax; the elimination of charitable deductions and the creation of a 5 percent income tax credit for donations of over $5,000 made in Vermont.
Tim Ashe is a very smart man. He should consider developing a personality if he wants to run for higher office, but he's got a lot of good ideas — such as wanting to take a comprehensive look at how our tax structure works and doesn't work.
But "surgical" is a misnomer in this case. Using tax deductions and tax credits to influence public behavior is inherently inefficient. Those tax breaks are almost always marginal and have little to no effect on most financial decision-making by individuals and businesses. This is especially true of state tax policy: Vermont's deductions are worth far less than the federal ones, and their impact is feebler and harder to measure.
Don't believe me? Well, when was the last time "tax implications" were a decisive factor in a purchasing decision?
Sure, it's a factor, but the benefits are dwarfed by the costs. We'd be far better off if we stopped trying to micromanage how people use their money and created a much simpler tax system.
Still don't believe me? Okay, let's take a popular and very direct tax incentive: the sales tax holiday. Yes, it encourages people to buy goods on a given day — but most of those goods would have been purchased anyway, sooner rather than later. The tax holiday concentrates that purchasing in a single day, but it creates little or no additional demand. The state foregoes sales tax revenue for very little real effect on the economy.
Still don't believe me? How about this: even when a tax incentive has an effect, it has even greater side effects. Take, for example, the mortgage interest deduction: it has encouraged home ownership — which may or may not actually be a good thing, especially in an age of greater mobility — but it gives the biggest tax breaks to those who need them least. A rich guy owning a million-dollar home and a country estate will get a whole lot more benefit than a median-income family scratching out a mortgage.
The mortgage interest deduction's unintended consequence: We are all subsidizing the mansions and playgrounds of the wealthy.
Ashe's ideas for a "surgical" approach seem okay, I guess, but I'd much rather take the House's approach of a simple deduction cap. Let's stop pretending we can steer our economy through the tax code. Let's have a bias for simplicity when considering changes to our tax code.
This entry was posted in Taxation and tagged Senate Finance Committee, tax code, tax deduction cap, Tim Ashe on April 18, 2015 by John S. Walters.
The hidden costs of Vermont's outdated tax system
There was a bunch of stuff going on at the Statehouse on Friday. The gun bill was moving through the Senate Judiciary Committee; two House committees were mulling possible taxes to pay for an improved health care system; and all committees were rushing to meet the crossover deadline for non-financial legislation.
To me, the most important thing going on — well, the thing with the biggest potential long-term impact — happened before the Senate Finance Committee, which heard testimony about systemic problems with Vermont's tax system, and how they contribute to our current fiscal mess.
In a nutshell, a major part of our budget trouble has to do with a narrow tax base for our income and sales taxes, and sales tax revenue lost to the rising tide of Internet retail. And we're not talking a jot and a tittle; we're talking tens of millions in foregone revenue.
In other words, if our tax system were up to date, our budget would only need a little tweak instead of major surgery. And the Democratic majority wouldn't be constantly scouring for ways to scare up some additional money; it'd be flowing in just like always, enough to cover our expenses.
You can see why I wanted to be there.
Senate Finance chair Tim Ashe (D/P-The Big City) called the hearing because of his concerns over our creaky tax system.
"This discussion is about realignment of our tax structure in line with how our economy works today. …We need to be thinking about the future. It's not about taxing Vermonters out of the state or any of that; it's saying, how do we avoid an annual crisis management approach? It's not about taxing this or that person more or less; it's, are we taxing the right things? Once you determine that, then you determine the rates that are fair and reasonable."
As part of this work, the committee is taking a fresh look at the fabled 2011 Blue Ribbon Tax Commission's report, which I'd thought had been relegated to the Dustbin Of Perpetual Ignorage. The commission had some pretty sound ideas for a better tax structure — but ideas that promised to raise many a hackle in the Statehouse.
Among many other things, the Commission called for imposing the sales tax on most services as well as goods, and repealing many sales tax exemptions. This would allow for a 1.5 cent cut in the sales tax rate. On the income tax, it recommended moving to Adjusted Gross Income as the definition of taxable income, plus the elimination of pretty much all tax deductions. Tax rates would have been adjusted downward to make the changes revenue-neutral; but it would have made for a much simpler and fairer income tax system. If Senate Finance is resurrecting the report under Ashe's leadership, then that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
Teachout's teach-in.
Sara Teachout of the Joint Fiscal Office presented a series of charts highlighting portions of the tax system; all are available online here.
On the sales tax, she showed that American consumption patterns have reversed in the past six decades. In 1952, 60% of our consumption was in goods and 40% in services. Today, goods consumption has fallen to roughly 35%, with services up to 65%.
You can see how that would create a problem, when your state's sales tax is applied only to goods.
And then there's Internet retail. It was about 0.5% of total retail purchasing in the year 2000; it's up to 8% now, $80 billion annually nationwide, and seems certain to continue its inexorable rise.
You can see how that would create a problem when there's no structure to enforce state sales tax on Internet retail. And the Internet is a double whammy for Vermont's economy and tax collections; not only is there the direct impact of lost sales tax revenue, but there's the broader impact from lost retail sales at local brick-and-mortar stores. That means less economic activity, plus fewer jobs and lower incomes in the retail sector.
Ashe estimates the loss in sales tax revenue at about $50 million per year. Please note: this is not new revenue; this is revenue we used to take in but we've now lost. As the Senator puts it:
We get blamed for overspending, but $50 million would have just been coming in. Instead, we have to fill the gap. That's the part where we keep raising revenue and people say, 'Why are you doing that?' It's not a desire to raise taxes; it's a replacement strategy.
Now let's look at the income tax. Vermont has one of the narrowest income tax bases in the country because of the way we calculate taxable income and our generous rules on tax deductions. As I've noted earlier, the average million-dollar earner in Vermont claims more than $500,000 in deductions. Nice work if you can get it.
A proposal now before a House committee would cap itemized deductions at 2.5 times the standard deduction. This would substantially increase taxable income for top earners, and generate more modest tax hikes for the upper middle class. Total revenue is estimated at $35 million per year*.
*Correction: I misread the source for this figure. It's actually about $15 million per year. It's part of a proposed House tax package that would raise $35 million.
I may be more of a policy geek than the vast majority of Vermonters, but perhaps you see why I'm so interested in this work.
Sen. Ashe is not necessarily in favor of the itemized deduction cap; he would prefer a broader, deeper consideration of Vermont's tax structure.
What I would not want to do is have the House and Senate entertain that, and then have that not be satisfactory to put us on a sustainable path, and have to do something else very substantial a year or two later. So the question is, can you configure our revenues in a way where we won't have to come back for a while? Can we buy 20 years of revenue structure with what we do next? That's the thing that's important to me.
Philosophically, I don't like the radio-dial approach that most legislatures take, which is 'This year we go up a little, next year we go down.' Predictably is worth something.
Indeed, Ashe predicts that the preponderance of this year's budget-balancing will come in spending cuts, not revenue hikes. That's mainly because of a timing issue built into the system: spending cuts take effect right away, while changes to the tax code take months — up to a full year, in fact — to take effect and start generating new money. But in spite of this year's very crowded legislative agenda, he is hoping to clear the groundwork for a full consideration of tax issues in the near future:
I would like the [Finance] Committee to do what it can to choose a path this session. That path may be articulating what the future ought to look like, as the Blue Ribbon panel did. Maybe not in the same way, but to say, 'This is what we intend to do, the broad outline of a tax structure for the future,' take it on the road, let it get beat up a little bit, have it evaluated by others, and come back next year.
Go big, or go home. I wish him the best in his endeavor, which does seem awfully optimistic and (dare I say it) progressive. On the other hand, I wouldn't want his best to become the enemy of the good; if there are positive steps to be taken this year, and I see the deduction cap as an obvious positive step, then I don't want to put it off in hopes of getting pie in the sky next year.
This entry was posted in Taxation and tagged Joint Fiscal Office, sales tax, Sara Teachout, Senate Finance Committee, tax deductions, Tim Ashe on March 17, 2015 by John S. Walters.
For health care expansion and SSBT, a long road ahead
Last week brought some relatively cheery news for fans of better access to health care and of the sugar-sweetened beverage tax. The House Health Care Committee passed a fairly wide-ranging bill that would help close the Medicaid gap, provide more assistance to working-class Vermonters seeking health insurance and encourage more primary care providers, among other things. To pay for all that, the Committee opted for a two-pronged approach: the revised 0.3% payroll tax proposed by Gov. Shumlin, plus the two-cents-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages.
A good package, a nice bill. But is it a meaningful step, or simply a McGuffin? When you read between the lines of Committee chair Bill Lippert's statement, and see the slightly shopworn look on his face, well, you start thinking the latter.
I have no illusions that what we propose will be a final product at the end of the session, but it was our responsibility… to identify and articulate priorities that could make a difference now and could be investments for the future, even in a time of tight budgetary constraints.
Glass half full, or glass half empty? I hear a guy resigning himself to the inevitable disembowelment of his bill.
Enough inference. The next stop is the Ways and Means Committee, where opinion is split on the SSBT and there's widespread opposition to the payroll tax. After that, well, there's a lot of room for pessimism.
There's little appetite for raising taxes in Montpelier — or should I say "raising more taxes," since tax increases will almost certainly be part of a budget-balancing deal. (Front runner: Ways and Means chair Janet Ancel's plan to cap itemized deductions at 2.5 times the standard deduction.) There's also the EPA-mandated Lake Champlain cleanup that needs funding. In this climate, it'll be hard to justify funding the health care package as well.
Regarding the SSBT specifically, Governor Shumlin and House Speaker Shap Smith don't like it. Really, there aren't many real fans; some just see it as the least bad option. Most lawmakers seem allergic to the payroll tax, even in reduced form. But let's say, just for the heck of it, that the Health Care Committee's bill passes the House. What awaits in the Senate, that notorious den of centrism where liberal House bills go to die?
"I wouldn't predict what a vote today would be," says Senate Finance Committee chair Tim Ashe (more D and less P with each passing day). "I'd say they both start in difficult places in terms of a Senate vote. Individual committees may be more or less favorable, but in the whole Senate, both would struggle to pass at this time."
Gulp. Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. So I guess that leaves us with no money for enhancing our partially-fixed health care system?
"That's an open question," says Ashe. "There are the resources to pay for new initiatives or increased support for existing initiatives can come from existing sources or new revenues."
Oh really? You've found a pot of money somewhere?
"I'll mention just one resource. …This year, Vermonters without insurance are going to ship about six million bucks to the federal government in a penalty. Next year that money goes up to 12 to 14 because the penalty basically doubles.
"So 23,000 Vermonters will be shipping all that money to Washington, and they will get nothing for it. Question is, is there a way to help them NOT send the money to Washington and get nothing for it, but to keep the dollars here and give them something for it? I don't know what the answer to that is, [but] it makes you scratch your head and say, 'Well, jeez, wouldn't it be easier if they just had insurance here?'"
Nice to see the Senator thinking outside the box, BUT… he himself admits he doesn't know the answer to that. And even if we could somehow funnel the penalty money into health insurance, we're talking "about six million bucks" this year and 12 mill the year after that. That's a far cry from the Health Care Committee's $70 million a year.
Six million, or even 12, isn't going to buy you a whole lot of improvement. The Medicaid gap would remain painfully wide, and good-quality insurance would remain out of reach for many working Vermonters.
But that's the kind of year we've got. Best to ratchet down expectations.
Of course, we're now looking at budget gaps in the $50 million range for each of the following two years. Substantial health care reform keeps receding further over the horizon. And universal access? Rapidly approaching pipe dream territory.
This entry was posted in Budget, Health care reform, Taxation and tagged Bill Lippert, House Health Care Committee, payroll tax, Peter Shumlin, Senate Finance Committee, Shap Smith, sugar-sweetened beverage tax, Tim Ashe on March 16, 2015 by John S. Walters.
Searching for revenue in all the right places
Warning: This post is full of public-policy geekery. You should not operate heavy machinery during or immediately after reading. Still, I hope you'll stick around; you'll learn some useful stuff.
I spent Tuesday morning at a hearing of the House Ways and Means Committee, as it conducted an item-by-item overview of tax expenditures and tax deductions. The subtext is the state budget situation, with its projected $100-million-plus gap. Committee members engaged in a lot of poking and prodding, in search of ways to goose income or reduce outgo.
"Tax expenditure," for those not in the know, is the technical term for a tax exemption. "Expenditure" is a nice insightful term; in granting an exemption, the state is forgoing tax revenue. In essence, it is spending that money without ever receiving it. In granting a sales tax exemption on food, for example, we are "spending" the uncollected revenue for a social purpose — making food more affordable, and limiting the regressive impact of the sales tax. The Earned Income Tax Credit, given to the working poor, is a tax expenditure. It's the largest one, in fact, accounting for 49% of the foregone revenue from expenditures. (The second-highest, at 32%, is the Capital Gains Exclusion, which almost entirely benefits top earners.)
As for the sales tax exemption on major equipment at ski resorts… Well, you tell me what social purpose that serves. Beefing up resort owners' profits, is my guess.
I learned a lot of interesting stuff about expenditures and deductions. The most crucial stuff is about deductions, and I will write about them in a subsequent post. For now, some notes on expenditures.
(For those interested in a whole lot of detail, the Joint Fiscal Office's 91-page report on state tax expenditures is available online.
Sen. Tim Ashe, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, has his eyes set on the ski-equipment exemption as part of a broader reconsideration of the financial arrangements between the state and resort operators. Auditor Doug Hoffer recently reported that Vermont's leases of public land to the resorts are outdated and don't generate as much revenue as they could.
Ashe agrees. "Circumstances have changed dramatically in the industry," he told me. "The lease conditions haven't kept pace." He sees an opportunity to reopen the leases as part of a "recalibration" of the state/resort relationship. On the government side, that might include more lucrative leases and an end to the equipment exemption. On the resort side, it might include changes in state regulation.
The door seems to be open. But as Sen. Ashe puts it, "Is the legislature interested in recalibrating the relationship?" This, and many other taxation issues, may not be settled until the session's closing days, when the House, Senate, and Governor try to agree on a balanced budget acceptable to all parties.
Ashe also told me that his committee "went through every tax expenditure in the tax code" last year. Some were eliminated, all others were more clearly defined. This year, Ashe has introduced a bill that would require a determination that each tax expenditure is achieving its intended purpose. That might touch on some of the corporate tax breaks, such as the exemption for research and development. At the Ways and Means hearing, it was said that large corporations can simply assign a portion of their entire R&D expense to Vermont, whether or not the work was actually done here. There was some sentiment on the committee to rein in that exemption — define it more narrowly, or tie it more directly to job growth in Vermont.
Most tax expenditures are relatively uncontroversial. Purchases of home heating supplies — oil, gas, propane, wood — are exempt from sales tax. This is a big item, but who'd want to repeal it?
There was surprise around the table that the sales tax exemption on food is very broadly defined. It includes soda, candy, and nutritional supplements. That's a lot of foregone revenue for stuff that is either harmful to health, or whose benefits are questionable. And it's ironic, at a time when we're considering a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. But it's difficult to draw a hard and fast line. Is a CLIF Bar "candy"? Pop-Tarts? Yogurt-covered almonds? Kettle corn? Vermont Maple Syrup?
So that's a can of worms that no one will likely want to open.
One item that might be revisited is the exemption on clothing sales. Vermont used to cap the exemption at purchases of $110 or less. That cap went out the window when the state adopted something called the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement, a mutually agreed-upon standard for rules on sales taxes that includes 44 states and the District of Columbia.
At the time Vermont adopted the SSUTA, it did not include limits on clothing purchses. It has since been amended, and Vermont could reimpose a limit so that, say, fur coats would be subject to sales tax.
However, Sara Teachout of the Joint Fiscal Office warned the committee that much of the potential revenue would be unrealized because so many clothing purchases are conducted online. And I'm sure brick-and-mortar retailers would scream if lawmakers considered limits on the clothing exemption.
The terms of some tax expenditures are outdated, or in imminent danger of becoming so. For example, there's a sales tax exemption for newspapers. But does it apply to digital subscriptions? No one in the hearing room had a clue.
There's an exemption for movie theaters' purchases of films — on the grounds that ticket sales are taxed, so taxing the film purchases would be a form of double taxation. But these days, virtually all theaters are showing digital movies. They don't get cans of film; they get a "black box" that contains a playable (but not reproducible) digital copy of the movie. That copy is set to expire and become unplayable at the end of a movie's run. Can it be said that the theater is actually buying anything?
Mobile and modular homes have a partial tax exemption. But these days, almost all home building includes modular elements, pre-constructed at a factory. Has the tax code kept pace with the industry?
Those were the most interesting tidbits about tax expenditures, at least to my eyes. The JFO's report includes a wealth of information; for each expenditure, there are figures for the total estimated cost, the number of taxpayers who take advantage, and a short explanation of the reasons for the expenditure.
Coming in the near future: tax deductions — the #1 creator of unfairness in Vermont's income tax system. This may become the battleground over how, or whether, to raise additional revenue and limit the scope of necessary budget cuts.
This entry was posted in Taxation and tagged House Ways and Means Committee, Joint Fiscal Office, Sara Teachout, Senate Finance Committee, ski resort leases, tax deductions, tax expenditures, Tim Ashe on January 29, 2015 by John S. Walters.


Techknowledgy – Tap it likes it Hot!
In this week's show we will look at the #AppoftheWeek, #Screenz with a "z", and XR.
The #AppoftheWeek is Drag –Its actually a Chrome extension which lets you turn your Gmail inbox into a drag and and drop Task list with to do actions.
#Screenz with a Z – Brett reviewed the Lucyd Loud glasses. Voice activation and Bone conduction in some Wayfarer styled frames. Use the word UPGRADE for $15 off at checkout.
In XR – special mention to Leap Motions Grant application and Honeywell for their Military grade VR!
The take away from this episode is that you can turn email into tasks. Angela still doesn't know what she really wants from a laptop and NFC in operational environments is really cool.
Email is a task so turn it into a task list!
Is the Surface going to be a power-house now that it has built in LTE?
Aussies are happy to tap and pay so we should be really excited about other NFC applications!
Jamie has been involved in numerous companies over the last few years – his most recent one was Tapit. This is a company that specializes in NFC, Near Field Communications.


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Christmas in Laois
Lots of Laois students to get free Late Late Toy Show PJs from Penneys
More than a thousand Laois students in Portlaoise, Mountmellick and Mountrath are set to get special gifts from Penneys ahead of the Late Late Toy Show.
Penneys has teamed up with Barnardos and children's hospitals to donate its Late Late Toy Show pyjama collection to children across the country.
With its 36 stores in the Republic of Ireland temporarily closed, Penneys says it wanted to help spread festive excitement in the lead up to the much-loved Late Late Toy Show annual broadcast.
Through Barnardos, over 50,000 pairs of pyjamas will be distributed to children in DEIS schools across Ireland and to children who access Barnardos centres as well as direct donations to over 600 families from disadvantaged communities, all packed and coordinated by Penneys volunteers.
The Deis schools in Laois are Portlaoise College, Mountmellick Community School, Scoil Bhríde NS in Portlaoise, St Joseph's Girls NS, St Fintans NS, Mountrath, Scoil Bhride, Mountmellick Boys NS.
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The official pyjama sets of Ireland's most anticipated show will also be distributed to all children in Children's Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin, Temple Street and Tallaght hospitals in time for 27th November, the night of the Late Late Toy Show. In addition, Penneys will make a donation of €5,000 to each of the three children's hospitals via The Children's Health Foundation Temple Street and Crumlin and The National Children's Hospital Foundation Tallaght.


Lake Forest-based Brunswick Corp. said Monday that it has ended talks with K2 Inc., a Los Angeles-based sporting goods company that was interested in acquiring several of Brunswick's outdoor recreation equipment businesses.
Last month, the company announced it had signed a letter of intent with K2, but the deal was dogged by a host of contingencies, including K2 obtaining a loan and regulatory clearance. The deal was valued at $200 million in cash, subordinated debt and securities arrangement.
"K2 is in decent shape, but they don't have as healthy of a balance sheet as Brunswick," says Tim Conder, a leisure analyst at A. G. Edwards & Sons in St. Louis.
K2 could not be immediately reached for comment.
A Brunswick spokeswoman says the company will "continue to pursue the sale of these businesses," but refused to comment further. Among the businesses for sale are Igloo coolers, Zebco fishing equipment, MotorGuide trolling motors, Swivl-Eze marine accessories and Hoppe's hunting sports accessories.
"Brunswick had other people they were talking to, and I would suspect they're pursuing those avenues," says Mr. Conder. He would not reveal who those other potential buyers could be.
Losing this deal means that Brunswick may sell off parts of their outdoor recreation business to several different buyers, Mr. Conder adds. And although he says he believes the company will push to divest these businesses quickly, "I don't think they'll do it at fire-sale prices."
The outdoor businesses account for 10% of Brunswick's total sales. Sales have been hurt by competition from cheap imports (Crain's May 1).
At midday, Brunswick stock trading at its opening price of $19.19.


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So you ask which of these things did you do? Ummm, none of it, but I read some great books! Check out my review page!
Last year I decided not to do NaNoWriMo and instead thought we should all just work on writing one journal entry in the month. This year I'm going for the goal with NaNoWriMo of writing 50,000 pages this month. Today this first day I managed 3,728 words…only 46,272 more to go! To show your moral support either send cookies, Dr. Pepper or maybe just plan on writing one journal entry this month and mention me! Thanks for reading!
He caused a pain in my brain!
If child protective services were to enter my house, it is possible that they would consider taking away my children in fear of someone have masochistic tendencies. I HAVE BODY PARTS STREWN AROUND MY HOUSE! Seriously, I wake up in the morning and never know if I will accidentally step on a wet leg, arm, ear, eye ball. But before you rush for the phone to call the police, let me assure you that the perpetrator will give herself away because of the "fluff" hanging out of her mouth! Our one year old puppy, Lizzy, is a nut job!!! I'm sure that you all know that dogs like to chew, but puppy's LOVE to chew. Trust me, we know this, in our six years of dog ownership we've had cords chewed, couches ruined, toys, shoes, you name it one of the two dogs have probably chewed on it. I'm known to say "If the kid's don't destroy it then the animals will!" When getting our dumb puppy a year ago we knew we needed to buy things for her to destroy, I mean, chew. We found the cheapest way to go was the dollar store and buy dog toys there OR EVEN their kid's stuffed toys! You can't go wrong, she gets to chew on something you've pre-determined, and I don't have to spend too much.
Her strange neurosis started with the dollar store children's toys. Literally within one minute of having a toy should would rip out the eyes…then simply stand up and leave the toy alone. If she didn't have anything else new to play with, she may eventually come back to the item a day or two later and then rip a hole in it and pull out the stuffing. I must admit, it was a little creepy to be finding eyeballs strewn around the house…and stuffed animals blindly "starring" at you through holes in their heads. Eventually she began to also rip out any whiskers or ears. JellyBean started taking pictures of the said animals because she found it hilarious!!!
A new more disturbing tendency started this December. During our annual friend's White Elephant Party we actually got a rather useful gift! We got a HUGE bag full of old stuffed toys! My kids all looked through and grabbed a few to keep, and then the rest have been slowly given to the dumb puppy. Ever since she got these toys, she has been ripping them apart…one body part at a time! Have no fear, she still goes for eyeballs first, but then she will rip off a leg, then an arm, maybe half of the body…and then she gnaws on it and will leave the wet, slobbery body part laying around to be discovered by your bare feet later!
Hmmm, maybe as part of my New Year's Resolution to write a thank you card each month I may include a body part….very creepy idea….sounds like fun!


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Q: Unable to get feeds from the facebook using koala for rails 4 Hi I am using Koala gem and graph API for getting the Facebook information.
Here is sample implementation
def facebook_profile
    a_token = current_user.facebook_oauth_setting.access_token
    @graph = Koala::Facebook::API.new(a_token)
    @picture = @graph.get_picture("me")
    @feed = @graph.get_connection('me', 'posts', {fields: ['id', 'message']})
end

and when I tried this I am getting following result
{"name"=>"Firstname Lastname", "id"=>"1053124034660975"}

But didn't get any feed or post.
I referred following links
https://github.com/arsduo/koala/wiki/Graph-API#getting-public-data
but getting the same issue.
Also checked the permissions on the facebook but getting the same issue.
So how can I get the feeds from the facebook or is there anything that I am missing.

A: Usually you have to get permissions from the user before reading his information. According to documentation  https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.5/user/feed you need to obtain user_posts permission


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If you could have fillings that perfectly matched the colour of your existing teeth so well that nobody could tell the difference, wouldn't you choose them over the artificial look of metal fillings?
The good news is that now you can! At Forster Dental Centre we offer tooth-coloured restorations that scientific studies and clinical experience have shown to be safe, reliable and long-lasting. Plus, they look great.
Not only do tooth-coloured fillings offer a more aesthetically pleasing alternative to "silver" (amalgam) fillings, they can also allow a more conservative treatment method that preserves more of the tooth's original structure.
Tooth-coloured fillings are a blend, or "composite," of silica fillers and plastic resins. This blend mimics many of the qualities of natural tooth structure, such as wear-resistance and translucency. Dental composites also help strengthen teeth.
Let's take a look at the tooth restoration process offered by tooth-coloured fillings.
How a filling is placed. There are many reasons a tooth may need to be filled or restored: decay and chipping are the two most common. The procedure begins with anesthesia (usually by a numbing injection), and the tooth is "prepared" by removing decay.
Next, the filling material is placed into the tooth. Once it has securely bonded to the tooth structure, the process is done.
Here is the first significant advantage of a tooth-coloured filling: To build a good bond with a traditional amalgam filling, we often have to shape the tooth with a series of "undercuts" that help hold the filling in place.
This requires removal of some healthy tooth material meaning that less of the tooth's structure remains intact. A tooth that has been weakened in this way can be prone to cracking.
But composite resin fillings don't require this undercutting to bond to teeth — instead, they physically bond directly to the prepared tooth. This means the treatment is more conservative and may create a better and longer-lasting restoration.
Here are several other advantages of tooth-coloured fillings.
Quick treatment. The filling procedure is painless and quick. It takes less than hour to treat one or two cavities. After anesthesia, we remove infected tooth material and clean the tooth.
Next, we apply a tooth-coloured resin (blended to match the existing shade of your teeth) into the cavity left behind by the removed tooth decay. We shape the composite resin to maintain your natural bite and harden it with a curing light.
Aesthetically pleasant. In contrast to the gold fillings and the silver amalgam of the past, tooth-coloured fillings blend in with the surrounding tooth structure. It is impossible to see that you have had a cavity or filling. When you laugh, speak, or even yawn, all anyone will see is beautiful, white teeth.
Long-lived. With proper dental habits, your tooth-coloured fillings can last for a decade or more. Of course, you must brush twice a day, floss daily, and visit Forster Dental Centre regularly.
Besides, you should avoid bad habits such as chewing on objects like pens or fingernails and avoid chewing on hard candies or ice. These habits can damage or dislodge your fillings or crack your teeth.
Safer for teeth. Silver amalgam fillings tend to expand and contract as the temperature of the mouth changes. This expansion and contraction can put pressure on the tooth, causing it to crack and break. Tooth-coloured fillings don't expand or contract, making them safer for the teeth.
Mercury-free. Silver amalgam fillings contain mercury, which is known to be toxic. Although the amount of mercury in silver amalgam fillings is small and not considered particularly dangerous, many patients opt for a mercury-free option, such as tooth-coloured fillings.
In fact, some patients choose to have their amalgam fillings replaced by tooth-coloured fillings for safety and appearance.
Improved confidence: Tooth-colored fillings restore your teeth to a beautiful, cavity-free look and feel. You will be able to smile confidently, knowing your teeth look clean and metal-free.
Other restoration options. In some cases, a dental filling is not enough to meet a patient's needs. In these cases, the Forster Dental Centre offers additional dental restorations such as onlays, inlays, and dental crowns. The best option for your needs will be considered during our consultation process.
And, while tooth-coloured fillings are great, the best way to maintain a bright and healthy smile is still to avoid cavities in the first place!
More about tooth coloured fillings at Forster Dental Centre.


Poetry writing has a mystique founded in a general belief that it is somewhat highbrow. This misconception is only added to when it is possible to read that poetry 'is a delicate and intricate art form, practiced by many, but rarely mastered'. In the writing poetry group, we believe that this is not the case and that writing poetry can be the most artistic and liberating form of creative writing.
The group is made up of writers with different levels of expertise and we meet once a month. For the month ahead, a subject is set by each member in turn and recently this has included such diverse topics as Nature, Colour, Winter and Happy Surprise. We do not have any rules regarding poetic form.
When we meet, the main focus of the monthly meeting is on the giving and receiving of feedback relating to the written poems based on the monthly subject. This is done in an environment that both nurtures the writer but also allows us to improve as writers. It is always surprising how very different the written poems are.
ceaselessly surges, retreats, strikes again.
his torso rough, pitted, ravaged by rust.
more torment on his corrupted body.
waiting perhaps for his own destruction.
for his feet are planted in shifting sand.
and the sea, triumphant, can claim its prey.
We are a welcoming group and meet in Lichfield in the morning of the third Thursday of the month at 10 am so if you are interested in writing poetry, even as a beginner, then please get in touch.
For further information please contact Martin Hellawell by clicking onto the CONTACT link at the top of the page and leave a message.


The University of Bayreuth welcomed the International Biogeography Society for its 7th international conference. This modern research university has a major focus on ecological research housed in the Bayreuth Center for Ecology and Environmental Research (BayCEER). Novel concepts for research and teaching are established such as the Ecological-Botanical Gardens and the Global Change Ecology study program.
The conference was marked by four plenary symposia, keynote lectures by the awardees of the society's Alfred Russel Wallace Award and the MacArthur and Wilson Award, contributed paper sessions, and dynamic poster sessions in the evening. Topical focus sessions spanned the breadth of biogeography, from watersheds to the global scale, from Paleozoic to the Anthropocene, and from microbes to megafauna. Over 600 scientists from more than 50 countries participated in the conference.