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Investors, get off the couch. It’s time for big tax moves

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Harvesting tax losses is something most investors know about. But like dieting and exercise, it is easy to put off, causing foot-dragging among stock and fund holders who miss out on a tax break.

While losses can be taken anytime during a year, November and December are common because the year’s investing results are pretty clear. Since the long rise in stocks has left many investors with big gains, it may be especially valuable to hunt for offsetting losses before this year’s Dec. 31 deadline.

Most ordinary investors use mutual funds and exchange-traded funds rather than individual stocks, and many avoid taking losses because they’ve been told over and over not to try timing the market and to instead ride out downturns. Many also don’t want to miss a rebound and shy away from booking losses, because the government’s “wash sale rule” can disallow a tax loss if the same security or one “substantially identical” is purchased within 30 days before or after the sale. You cannot sell and immediately buy the same security to ride a rebound and still claim the loss.

The ETF advantage

Experts say tax-loss harvesting is still a sound and basically conservative strategy. With ETFs, there are better opportunities now for fund investors to enjoy rebounds during the 60-day wash-sale period by purchasing a stand-in ETF that should behave just like the security they sell.

“If we are selling out of a large-cap growth mutual fund, for example, we will purchase an ETF that mirrors a large-cap growth index,” said Divam N. Mehta, founder of Mehta Financial Group in Glen Allen, Virginia. “By executing this type of transaction, we are able to not only stay in the market but also stay invested in a similar asset class without running afoul of the wash-sale restriction. … We should be able to find an ETF that will replicate the sold asset.”

Loss harvesting means selling a holding that’s worth less than you’d paid for it. The loss can be subtracted from gains on other investments sold during the year to reduce taxes, “carried forward” to offset gains in the future, or used to reduce ordinary taxable income by up to $3,000 in the current or future years.

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The tricky part comes with the desire to ride a recovery. The wash-sale rule says if you sold General Motors, you can’t get the tax loss if you buy GM during that 60-day period. For mutual fund investors, the problem can be even worse, because many fund companies — to reduce turnover that raises expenses and trigger tax bills for other investors, ban quick in-and-out trading — sometimes with a waiting period as long as six months.

But if you cannot sell GM and buy it right back, you could buy Ford instead, in the hope another car stock would behave much like GM. In the same way, an investor who sells Fund A can buy Fund B. ETFs are useful in these strategies because they are not as likely as individual stocks to diverge from the holding they replace because of unique factors like a lawsuit or loss of an executive.

“By keeping your investment constant, you will not miss a jump in the market and are simply taking advantage of the tax benefits,” said David Hryck, a tax lawyer with Reed Smith in New York City. “If you’re still confident that the sector [you have a loss in] will turn [around], you could sell the losing investment and buy an ETF in the same sector.”

3 key investing tax strategies

Here are strategies, from simple to not so simple, for getting around the wash-sale rule:

1. Double up.

If you wanted to sell 100 shares of XYZ to book a loss, you could buy another 100 shares more than 30 days before the sale, sell the first 100, and use the second batch to enjoy any rebound. This can be expensive but satisfies the rules. Be sure to tell your broker or fund company to sell the older shares, and ask if that instruction should be in writing.

2. Buy an ETF that behaves the same.

Since ETFs trade like stocks and can be bought or sold all day, an ETF stand-in can be held for as short or long a period as needed.

The rule barring “substantially identical” securities still applies, so don’t use an ETF tracking the S&P 500, such as the SPDR S&P 500 (SPY), to stand in for a mutual fund tracking the S&P 500. Use an ETF that tracks the Dow or some other index of large U.S. stocks.’s ETF Screener to find ETFs in specific categories. It shows 30 ETFs holding large-growth U.S. stocks, for example.

Be aware that the rules on what is substantially identical are subject to IRS rulings that make them quite tricky.

Imagine, for example, you wanted to book a loss on gold while staying in the market. The SPDR Gold Shares ETF (GLD) is trading around $116 a share, up 20 percent this year but far below the peak of $177 in 2011, or even this year’s high of $129 in July. So an investor who bought GLD during a period it was higher could book a nice loss now.

Gold investors “have done pretty well this year but are still sitting on a loss,” said Ed Coyne, executive vice president at Sprott Asset Management USA, a registered investment advisor based in Carlsbad, California, and an affiliate of Sprott, a global alternative asset manager. The firm manages the Sprott Physical Gold Trust (PHYS), an exchange-traded trust that represents ownership of gold bullion stored in the Royal Canadian Mint.

Coyne said investors who sell GLD can buy PHYS to stay in the market. Sprott believes they would escape the wash-sale rule because PHYS is a closed-end trust, while GLD is an open-ended fund — they are not substantially identical. (As a bonus, gains in PHYS are taxed as ordinary capital gains, at rates of 15 percent or 20 percent for long-term holdings, while GLD gains are taxed at the 28 percent rate on collectibles, Coyne said.)

Of course, in a similar case, the IRS may not feel that two very similar securities are different enough, so investors should be careful about treading a fine line.

3. Buy a call.

A call stock option gives its owner the right to buy 100 shares of stock or an ETF at a set price for a given period. If the stock or ETF rises in value, the call contract will go up as well. So the investor who sold XYZ for a tax loss can buy a call on a similar but not identical security to stay in the market. Because options cost far less than the underlying security, buying one contract would cost a fraction of the cost of buying 100 shares of the real thing.

Here’s where it gets tricky: You could instead buy a call on XYZ itself rather than something different, guaranteeing your stand-in would track XYZ exactly. A call on the same holding you sold would be considered substantially identical, so the loss on XYZ could not be taken if the call were purchased within 30 days before or after the sale.

But the strategy could work anyway by effectively switching the loss to the call, said Robert N. Gordon, president of Twenty-First Securities, a brokerage in Manhattan.

In his example, an investor who bought XYZ for $50 sells at $30 for a $20 loss. At the time of the sale, the investor buys an XYZ call with a strike price of $35, paying $1 a share and gaining the right to buy 100 shares of XYZ for $35 each to ride a rebound.

The investor cannot claim the $20 loss on XYZ, because of the call purchase, but can add that $20 to the cost basis of the call, raising its price for tax purposes to $21. If the call were then sold for $1, the investor could claim a $20 loss on the call instead of claiming it on the XYZ shares sold earlier.

This move would also allow the investor to buy back the XYZ shares as soon as the call is purchased, to stay in the market, while still staying clear of wash-sale problems, Gordon said. He added that to avoid being substantially identical, the call must be “out of the money” — have a strike price higher than the price at which the security is trading.

“I think a lot of people try to do loss harvesting and probably would be well served to understand what the rules are before they do,” he said. “You have to be correct.”

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Concert Review of the Moment: Albuquerque, NM - Neil Young & Crazy Horse, 8/3/12

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The Neil Young & Crazy Horse Concert Review of the Moment is from Albuquerque, New Mexico on Aug. 3 by Hal:
I was really excited to see the opening show of the tour and was expecting to be surprised no matter what, having loved the "Horse Back" jam streaming at neilyoung.com, having had mixed feelings about the concept on Americana, and having hopes that the new material that Neil wrote after the Americana sessions broke his writer's block might turn up. I hadn't quite realized that the last time Neil had played live with Crazy Horse was the final leg of the Greendale tour in early 2004, which was also the last time he'd played in New Mexico (and an incredible show it was). That seemed like half a lifetime ago.

I just couldn't have dreamed up a better performance than this one. "Love and Only Love" was a powerhouse and Neil's lead guitar was like an unleashed force. The second song was the best version of "Powderfinger" I've ever heard, just heartbreakingly beautiful and passionately played.

And then the new stuff started: "Born in Ontario" an incredibly good-natured bounce, and the repeated "...Ontario" was like a good-trip inversion of the bad-trip classic "...four dead in Ohio."

Unbelievably things went up another notch. "Walk Like a Giant" was overwhelming, with a whistled (!!) opening riff and searching, questing, questioning lyrics about reaffirming the legacy of the '60s and mourning "how close we came" that put it on a level with "Thrasher," "Ordinary People," and "Days That Used to Be." Easily one of the greatest songs he's written in years, with more genius lead guitar and a perfect Crazy Horse vehicle. It went on forever and ended with a series of deafening T-Rex giant stomps.

Then a beautiful acoustic interlude, "Needle" and a gorgeous, happy, nostalgic new tribute song, "Twisted Road," which namechecked hearing "Like a Rolling Stone" the first time, hearing the Dead on the radio, and playing a venue where Roy Orbison had played. And then the gorgeous unreleased 1981 song "For the Love of Man" (also known as "I Wonder Why") that's about the sorrow and love of having a disabled child.

And then yet another electric Crazy Horse epic, "Ramada Inn," a sprawling portrait of both sides of a marriage that rivals "Walk Like a Giant" for the title of most brilliant new song. Absolutely great stuff the likes of which we haven't heard since at least Sleeps with Angels.

Killer versions of "Cinnamon Girl" and "Fuckin' Up" (with Crazy Horse as tight and as loose as I've ever heard them, with Poncho literally kicking a grinning Neil in the rear end occasionally). Then ANOTHER new song about a girl "looking for a good time," apparently titled "Psychedelic Pill." Just when things couldn't get more delirious, "Mr. Soul" and a celebratory "Hey Hey, My My" with everybody singing along.

The encore was a blistering punked-out version of "Jesus' Chariot" (aka "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain") that made the Americana version seem positively limp and by-the-numbers in comparison. And finally a bleary "Roll Another Number" with bright green ganja lights to close things out, and then Neil gave a shout out to Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos and Las Cruces.

One of the greatest times I've ever had it my life. I think it was a challenging show for casual fans who hadn't fathomed the perversity and unpredictability of Neil Young. If they were expecting a nostalgia-fest or a run-through of Americana or a tour of the greatest hits, forget it, and a fair number of people drifted away before the concert was over as the long, intense, unfamilar new songs rolled out, most ending with a prolonged feedback and noise coda. But for a hard-core Neil Young & Crazy Horse lifer, it was the end of a long drought and Christmas in August. Fantastic new songs, Crazy Horse playing better than ever, Neil Young in a great mood and claiming the World Heavyweight title for most lyrical, inventive, scorching electric guitarist alive, Old Black just spitting fire.

Don't miss this tour.

Thanks Hal! Glad you enjoyed show and we're looking forward to seeing The Horse whn they head to our neck of the woods later this Fall.

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At 8/13/2012 08:19:00 PM, Blogger Sandy Horne said...

Hal, I was there that night. Can I please have your concert review and say it was from me????? haha Thanks for putting that astonishing experience into actual words!!!

At 8/13/2012 09:25:00 PM, Blogger Sandy Horne said...

Oopps. I wasn't there. I was at Red Rocks!! geezz...

At 8/13/2012 09:31:00 PM, Blogger SONY said...

Thinking your mind was my own in dream.....

Great review, c'mon Cleveland get here....and there and to your house

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Comment of the Moment: Bob Dylan's "Masterpiece" Song "Murder Most Foul" + 17 Minutes of The TRUTH

"This song is a masterpiece." ~~Neil Young
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Earlier this week, Neil Young wrote about Bob Dylan's song "Murder Most Foul" saying: "This song is a masterpiece."

The Comment of the Moment is from the post "This song is a masterpiece": Neil Young on Bob Dylan's "Murder Most Foul": 17 Minutes of The TRUTH by Dan:
As musical cinematic wordplay goes, this definitely falls under the label “masterpiece”.

I am conflicted about the label, as it certainly falls into the realm of opinion. Everyone has one, and rarely do we all agree. Longevity will always be one way to identify a masterpiece, and this being a relatively new release, not much time has passed. Dylan has already become a living legend by way of his prolific and inspirational output over the past several decades. Therefore his releases tend to come with much higher expectations than most of his contemporaries. As we all know; expectations are typically unrealistic when directed towards a gifted artist such as Bob Dylan, or Neil Young for that matter. Expectations sometimes have a negative impact not only on the listener but the song itself. Both Dylan and Young have been victim to unrealistic expectations. Fortunately neither one seems to be concerned about it.

I approached Murder Most Foul without any expectations, and found it to be a brilliant use of wordplay to communicate its subject matter. The musicians were able to elevate the intention with restraint and articulation. Taking its time to create a visual landscape and using a clever mixture of references to articulate not only the event itself but the emotions stirred by the event. By succeeding in combining the emotional experience and connecting it with musical references, Bob has created yet another example of his genius. The pace of the song may feel arduous to some, but for me that 17 minutes flew by as the lyrics and the delivery just drew me into Bob’s universe.

Masterpiece??? Maybe. Epic musical genre buster??? Definitely.

Thanks for the supporting arguments Dan.

"Then they blew off his head while he was still in the car
Shot down like a dog in broad daylight"

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Whether Dylan's song "Murder Most Foul" is a "masterpiece" or "genius" is secondary to the song being the single most important artistic release statement thus far in the 21st century. Full stop and we challenge anyone to suggest another song since 2000.

For to understand the truth of Dylan's "Murder Most Foul" is to understand the truth of what happened that day in Dallas in 1963. And therefore, it is to understand the truth of virtually everything in the history of the American 20th century. JFK's assassination (a murder most foul, if ever) is literally and metaphorically "The Rosetta Stone" to untangling what has happened there, what is happening here, and what will happen later. Profound and prescient doesn't begin to come close as an understatement of the century.

Frankly, for us here at TW calling the song a true "Rosetta Stone" essentially constitutes "masterpiece" status for us by definition. Whatever you want to call the song, it is a magnificently powerful emotional song that strikes at the heart of the truth as we revealed in our initial analysis (see ANALYSIS: Bob Dylan's "Murder Most Foul" | Why Bob Dylan's "Murder Most Foul" Is 17 Minutes of The TRUTH). About as pure of 17 minutes of the truth anyone of this generation will ever find and hear, we are beyond stunned while deliriously delighted about what this song means to us going forward all together.

The song is pure TRUTH for those with open eyes and minds. It names names. Gives dates, locations, colors and players. The song explicitly details who did NOT kill U.S. President John F. Kennedy and obliquely references the true plotters of "The American Coup of 1963" (which we explained in detail back on the 50th anniversary in 2013).

"The day that they killed him, someone said to me, “Son,
the age of the Antichrist has just only begun.”

From Bob Dylan’s New JFK Assassination Epic Couldn’t Be More Prescient | Vulture by Craig Jenkins:
The image of a nation huddled around the radio looking for solace in times of tragedy is a mirror on the present, as American cities in lockdown wait for good news about the end of the current crisis.

We are all, for the first time in years, facing the same foe.

But we’re not all on the same page. Shoppers are hoarding precious supplies, and shops are ramping up the prices. People continue to gather in crowds in spite of orders from doctors and epidemiologists. Will this be a decade where we set aside our differences long enough to serve the greater good, or do we pry the union apart thread by thread, drunk on the myth of exceptionalism and the siren song of individualism?
From Bob Dylan’s Midnight Message to JFK’s Ghost | Dissident Voice by Edward Curtin:
While speaking the unspeakable truth about President John Kennedy’s murder might seem hopeless, it is actually a sign of great hope. For our only hope is in telling the truth, which Bob has done.

This is art, not theory, and art of a special kind since Dylan is an artist at war with his art.

His songs demand that the listener’s mind and spirit be moving as the spirit of creative inspiration moved Dylan. A close listening will force one to jump from line to line, verse to verse – to shoot the gulf – since there are no bridges to cross, no connecting links. The sound carries you over and keeps you moving forward. If you’re not moving, you’ll miss the meaning.
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At 4/04/2020 07:01:00 PM, Blogger Dan Swan said...

Thank you Thrashers for correcting my minor spelling error. And for the “comment of the moment “. Obviously this song has garnered much attention over the past week, and rightfully so. Not sure exactly when it was recorded but to me anyway, feels like something from the Time Out Of Mind period. On the Dylan website it just says it was recorded a ways back. Although I imagine someone has figured it out, I just haven’t heard anything yet.

Peace 🙏

At 4/05/2020 03:01:00 PM, Blogger thrasher said...

And thank you Dan, of course for all of your valued thoughts which you have shared here with us.

Your insightful contributions -- along with all of our fellow rusties -- once again demonstrates that Neil fans/rusties are some of the most knowledgeable, articulate and kind music fans out there.

we are honored and blessed.

At 4/05/2020 11:08:00 PM, Blogger Unknown said...

Thank you for the article. This is Jeremy Ryan Holloway, or J.r. Wylie. I am here because what Bob has written troubles me not only for myself, but for him, as well as, the President.

It is hard being in these roles. There is an enormous amount of pressure.

For me I am not as weary yet as Bob if he ever was..

He once said, "Happy? Anyone can be happy!"

Thank You for your time and consideration.

- J.r.

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Supplementary Materialscancers-12-02659-s001. tumor. Taken together, the findings presented here indicate that a B7-H3-targeted TriKE has the potential to enhance natural killer cell immunotherapy in solid tumor settings and supports further development. Abstract We improved the bispecific antibody platform that primarily engages natural killer (NK) cells to kill cancer cells through antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) by adding IL-15 like a crosslinker that expands and self-sustains the effector NK cell inhabitants. The overall objective was to focus on B7-H3, a recognised marker indicated on tumor cells and minimally indicated on regular cells mainly, and confirm that it might target cancers cells in vitro and inhibit tumor development in vivo. The tri-specific killer engager (TriKETM) was constructed by DNA shuffling and ligation using DNA encoding a camelid anti-CD16 antibody fragment, a wild-type IL-15 moiety, and an anti-B7-H3 scFv (clone 376.96). The indicated and purified cam1615B7H3 proteins was examined for in vitro NK cell activity against a number Col4a4 of tumors and in vivo against a tagged human being MA-148 ovarian tumor cell range grafted in NSG ZD-1611 mice. cam1615B7H3 demonstrated particular NK cell enlargement, high eliminating activity across a variety of B7-H3+ carcinomas, and the capability to mediate development inhibition of intense ovarian tumor in vivo. cam1615B7H3 TriKE boosts NK cell function, enlargement, targeted cytotoxicity against numerous kinds of B7-H3-positive human being cancers cell lines, and delivers an anti-cancer impact in vivo in a solid tumor setting. strain BL21 (DE3) (Novagen, Madison, WI, USA) was used for the expression of proteins after plasmid transfection. Bacterial expression resulted in the sequestering of target protein into inclusion bodies (IBs). Bacteria were cultured overnight in 800 mL Luria broth made up of kanamycin (30 mg/mL). When absorbance reached 0.65 at 600 nm, gene expression was induced with Isopropyl -D-1-thiogalactopyranoside/IPTG (FischerBiotech, Fair Lawn, NJ, USA). Bacteria were harvested after 2 h. After a homogenization step in a buffer solution (50 mM Tris, 50 mM NaCl, and 5 mM EDTA pH 8.0), the pellet was sonicated and centrifuged. Proteins were extracted from the pellet using a solution of 0.3% sodium deoxycholate, 5% Triton X-100, 10% glycerin, 50 mmol/L Tris, 50 mmol/L NaCl, and 5 mmol/L EDTA (pH 8.0). The extract was washed 3 times. Bacterial expression in inclusion bodies requires refolding. Thus, proteins were refolded using a sodium N-lauroyl-sarcosine (SLS) air oxidation method (20). IBs were dissolved in 100 mM Tris, 2.5% SLS (Sigma, St. Louis, MO USA) and clarified by centrifugation. Then, 50 M of CuSO4 was added to the solution and then incubated at room temperature with rapid stirring for 20 h for air-oxidization of CSH groups. Removal of SLS was performed by adding 6 M urea and 10% AG 1-X8 resin (200C400 mesh, chloride form) (Bio-Rad Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA) to the detergent-solubilized protein solution. Guanidine HCl (13.3 M) was added to the solution which was incubated at 37 C for 2 to 3 3 h. The solution was diluted 20-fold with refolding buffer, 50 mM Tris, 0.5 M l-arginine, 1 M Urea, 20% glycerol, 5 mM EDTA, pH 8.0. The mixture was refolded at 4 C for two days and then dialyzed against five volumes of 20 mM Tris-HCl at pH 8.0 for 48 h at 4 C, then eight volumes for 18 additional hours. The product was then purified over a fast flow Q ion exchange column and further purified by passage over a size exclusion column (Superdex 200, GE, Marlborough, ZD-1611 MA, USA). Protein purity was decided with sodium dodecyl sulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) stained with Simply Blue Safe Stain (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA). 2.3. Cancer Cell Lines and Antibody MA-148 (established locally at the University of Minnesota) is usually a human epithelial high-grade serous ovarian carcinoma cell line. For in vivo experiments, lines were transfected with a luciferase reporter construct using Invitrogens Lipofectamine Reagent and selective pressure applied with 10 g/mL of blasticidin. Ovarian carcinoma ZD-1611 cell lines OVCAR5 and OVCAR8 were obtained from the DTP, DCTD Tumor Repository sponsored by the Biological Testing Branch, Developmental Therapeutics Program, National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Institutes of Health (NIH, Frederick, MD, USA). Other cell lines were obtained from the American.


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Our NISSA Boys' Basketball and Girls' Football seasons are in full swing with the Snow Leopards having put on some outstanding performances thus far. The NISSA girls' football league is a 7-a-side affair, and our girls have already played four league fixtures, emerging triumphant in all their games. The league kicked off with a double-header against KISC, which our girls won 4-0 and 5-1. Thereafter, they played an inexperienced GEMS side and won 13-2 at home and 4-0 away. All these games gave our girls ample playing time as they worked to gel together as a team before heading off to the SAISA tournament in Mumbai on April 20-22.

Our boys' basketball team have played two league fixtures thus far, emerging victorious in our first outing of the league against GEMS. In our away fixture the roles were reversed, with our boys shots not sinking, and eventually falling to defeat. Despite this, lessons were learned and the boys and girls teams are now gearing up for their games vs TBS this Saturday, March 18th in the LS gym and turf respectively.

On March 25th, Lincoln School will host the NISSA girls football and boys basketball festival, which is sure to be an exciting affair. Go Snow Leopards!


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Suicide is generally seen as the ultimate escape route. If life becomes totally unbearable it is considered the way to end the misery. Most people probably think so and this idea is founded in a purely materialistic worldview: we only live once, physical matter is all there is, we cease to exist when we die because then it will all be over….
Or will it?

No, it will not! It will not be over, because our consciousness is not just extinguished when the physical body stops functioning. Our consciousness consists of a type of matter that is different from physical matter: ray-formed or spiritual matter. This type of matter is a kind of energy and energy does not cease to exist. Our consciousness forms a field of energy which we can also call our spiritual body. We are as alive in our spiritual body as we were while our physical body was still functioning. When we release our spiritual body from the physical body during the process we call death, this means that our sojourn on the physical plane is over for now. But our spirit lives on quite unaffected by the fact that it is no longer attached to a physical body. We are primarily spiritual beings and in our spirit everything that defines who we are is stored. We are quite simply the same person with the same ideas, personality, morals, habits, intelligence etc. Our spirit body holds all the information about the person we refer to as ‘me’.

The Spiritual Plane

When we pass over to the spiritual plane we will enter the spiritual world that can be envisaged as a light world of thoughts organized in a hierarchical structure. We will be fitted into this structure according to the wavelength our consciousness operates on.
Persons who commits suicide has their consciousness flooded with dark thoughts, depression and hopelessness. They are in a very dark and sombre place indeed. The dark and sombre thoughts do not go away when the spirit is released from the physical body. They will still be the predominant thought sphere in the consciousness of the suiciders and they take this state of mind with them onto the spiritual plane. Here they will be attracted to a similar wavelength in the spiritual world because like wavelengths attract each other according to the law of attraction.

From bad to worse

This means that suiciders, who by their acts were hoping to get out of the sombre state of mind, will be attracted to a wavelength where sombre and dark thoughts prevail. It is no escape at all. It is a flight to more of the same or worse. The suiciders will wake up from the suicide and find themselves in exactly the same state of mind as before. But when they were still in their physical bodies, they could walk out into the sunshine, take a stroll in the park, call their mother or go and have a pizza. But not on the spiritual plane. Here there is nowhere else to go, no mother to call, no garden outside, no pizzas… there is only the sombre wavelength which is filled with a lot of other equally miserable spirits. It is a very unhappy place to be and the suiciders are stuck there until they ask for help. But asking for help may not be the first thought in the suiciders´ mind, because if it were, they would have asked for help on the physical plane, wouldn´t they?
So now the suicider is stuck there in a very sad and miserable company. It is not a nice place to be, actually it is worse than a Machiavellian version of hell. But after some time, the suicider will get so miserable that he will ask for help. The act of asking for help opens a much lighter wavelength via which the guardian angels of the suicider can enter and help him out of there. He will then be taken to a wavelength that corresponds to the most developed part of his psyche and he will dwell there in his own version of paradise until it is again time for him to reincarnate into a new physical body.

The escape button, you tried to press, does not exist

But here is another hitch: he will go back to the physical plane to relive the circumstances that led up to the suicide. He has to do that because he has to learn that suicide is not the answer and all life is sacred, including our own. Our many lives on the physical plane are one large process of learning and if you have cut your process of learning short by taking your own life, then you will have to go back and do a replay. You will have to go back and learn to solve the problems that led up to your suicide in a proper, decent and logical manner. The escape button, you tried to press, does not exist. The problems you created for yourself have to be solved in a positive manner. If the suicider had asked for help on the physical plane before trying to kill himself, then he would have been helped in one way or the other. Help is always provided when we ask for it.

Going back to square one

So, the physical life we live following the life when we killed ourselves will be dedicated to repairing the damage that we did in the previous life. Suicide is like going back to square one. We have to relive the whole process that led up to the suicide in our last incarnation and sort the problems out in a good and proper way. Should we commit suicide again, it is back to square one again. Suicide does not solve anything. It halts our development because we have to dedicate all our energy to sorting out the mess we made of our last life.
Suicide is not the ultimate escape route that many people think it is. The only escape route from problems is to solve them in a proper way – in this life, the one we are living now.

Face the music

Let us say that you had invested all the family money in stocks and now suddenly the financial marked has crashed. You lost all the money. You are now very embarrassed and cannot face the family to tell them that all is lost. So instead of facing the music you kill yourself. This will not only put the family in an even worse situation than if you had been there to tell them and help everybody get on with life, but it will make them miserable and full of guilt. In that way you have, in addition to the killing of yourself, sown dark karma for yourself because in a future incarnation you will experience a close family member´s suicide. We all reap as we sow, and sowing suicide will only create dark karma on so many levels. It is not a good idea. It is far better to seek help and overcome the challenges that life has thrown at you, no matter how hard those may be, because the karmic debt of suicide is way too high a price to pay.

All life is sacred

All life is sacred, and we are all on a journey towards perfection. If we cut our journey short by killing ourselves, then we have, for a time, prevented our progression towards enlightenment. Thus, we have done ourselves a huge disfavour.
Forget about suicide. It is not an exit route. It solves nothing, it only makes things worse.
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Les semaines se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas
or in English:
Week follows week; none are alike

Here’s the one coming up for me, and wow,  is it busy!

First, this weekend I am preparing for  the shoot of a short independent movie “The Cry” by talented young director James Mehr. I will play the lead, her name is Claudine, a very dramatic French woman (contre emploi total!). The project is shot in super 16mm and I am really excited to get back into acting.

Then on Friday May 1st I will participate in one of the 2 movie nights extravaganza of Neo-Banchi and experimental videos at Dixon Place in Manhattan. Accompanied by Peter Knoll on electric guitar, we will perform an *enhanced* version of “Voyage dans la Lune,” a “Trip to the Moon”, the  George Mélies 1902 sci-fi movie. A detailed program can be found on Brandon Downing’s blog; among the presenters are Bruce Andrew, Nada Gordon, Linh Dinh, Julian Brolaski, Edwin Torres…and more

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Saturday May 2nd is the very anticipated First Brooklyn Food Conference. I will be part of the evening banquet crew and will be working in the kitchen the night of the event and a few days ahead.

While the Brooklyn Food Conference is a FREE event, we would also like to invite you to join us for an evening of fine dining and dance at the end of the conference. The spring menu will be prepared by professional chefs using sustainable foods produced by local farmers and producers. Seating is limited. Wine and beer not included in the $20 ticket. Free childcare and a low-cost child’s meal will be available. Casual attire. Purchase tickets here

And last but not least, I will need to be in great shape for Sunday May 3rd, to assist Joseph Mastantuono in filming & documenting the D’Artagnan 5th Duckathlon. This yearly happening is a culinary competition where top city chefs present their best team to compete in a series of challenges in costume, throughout the meat packing district.  Last year was GREAT FUN — see for yourself: below is the video shot and edited by Joseph.

Voilà, I will collect pictures, stories, recipes and more — and will report as soon as I can. Have a good week!

But before I go, save the date: Saturday May 16 at 6 p.m. @ Bowery Poetry Club for the  concert release of “WHISK! DON’T CHURN”  — my new CD with Michael Bisio

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Preview Recording & Thanksgiving

Preview Recording & Thanksgiving

Drawing Y.K.

Wow! my last post was over a week ago and I didn’t get a chance to write anything since then. So let’s go back in time a little bit:

The gig with Mike Bisio at Justin’s in Albany N.Y was a lot of fun and we couldn’t have had a better audience. If you were there: thank you so much for your undivided attention. Pierre Joris produced a live recording of the concert and and it looks like we might have enough material to cut a live album; Sten Isachen from Bender Studio in Delmar, NY did a great job recording us.

Michael Bisio & Nicole Peyrafitte

If you wish you had been there or want to listen to our very first song of the night, you can! Click to hear arrivé ici (though be aware that this is a very rough and not yet “mastered” mix). Arrivé ici or Come here is a poem by Pierre Joris from “hjr” published by OtherWind Press. Do not hesitate to let me know what you think.

Monday I rushed back from Albany to make sure to get an organic turkey from the Park Slope Food Coop and get all the my Thanksgiving food shopping done as Tuesday and Wednesday were going to be taken up by work. Below you can see the photo reportage —mostly photographed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte— of the preparation, but first let me give you our collaborative family menu:

Pumpkin & Passilla Chili Potage topped w/ crema, cilantro & chopped fresh jalapeño
Served with Marge’s Corn Bread
Stuffed Turkey *My Way*
This stuffing is closer to the one for French Dinde de Noêl or X-mas Turkey. Ingredients are ground pork, shitake mushrooms, onions, celery & carrot (very little), garlic, parsley, brandy, lots of freshly ground pepper, salt — and finish with eggs to bind. The turkey was in a brine for 48 hours.
Mashed Potatoes
Haricots Verts
(Joseph Mastantuono & YK)
Oyster Dressing (Joseph Mastantuono & YK)
Roasted Celeriac, Carrots & Shallots with bits of Bacon
Simple Cranberry Sauce
Orange & Shallot Gravy

Plum Tort (Dawn Clements)
Mousse au Chocolat (Joseph Mastantuono & YK)
Sweet Potato Pie
Cranberry & Orange & Peanut Butter Pie

Also, I wanted to forward an interesting op-ed New York Times ( I swear it was in the *real* New York Times!) article that has us thinking of a totally different menu for next year. Cocorico!
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Back from Albany (Capital City of New York State!)

Back from Albany (Capital City of New York State!)

Mike Bisio and I whipped cream at Justin’s on Thursday night. We had a big, wonderful and most of all very attentive crowd. The best audience I ever had at Justin’s so far. We mostly performed originals, contemporary poems with only a dash of French songs and jazz standards. Mike played two incredibly moving solos, one was John Coltrane’s Alabama & the second was a piece he created on September 11th, 2001 – as he was in the studio that day. By the way Mike Bisio will be playing next Saturday, 9/20 at The Clean Feed Fest at the Living Theatre with Basso Continuo : Stephen Gauci, Nate Wooley, Ken Filiano and Mike Bisio. Starts at 9pm. I will be there!

I also wanted to note that on Wednesday my younger son Miles Joris-Peyrafitte had his first solo public appearance as a singer/songwriter at the famous Tess’ Lark Tavern open mike hosted by the rock goddess of Upstate New York: Mother Judge. Miles did very well: he also accompanied me on guitar on my song the Brooklyn Bridge & on a poem by his father, Pierre Joris. After that he played drums for his long time friend, the very talented Lindsey Rogowski.

One of the poems Mike Bisio and I performed on Thursday was by Mustafa Benfodil. I met Mustafa at the Festival “Voix de la Méditéranée” in Lodève and really liked his work. With his permission I would like to post the poem I translated and performed with Mike Bisio on Thursday. Voilà for now, enjoy this short, but intense poem and THANK YOU so much if you were in the audience on Thursday & always THANK YOU to the wonderful crew at Justin’s for their graciousness –and I know this week was very hard for them as their were dealing with the sudden loss of one of their very dear co-worker. Merci à tous!

Lune de miel à Baghdad
Nous nous sommes connus à Gaza
Nous nous sommes aimés à Ramallah
Nous nous sommes embrassés à Beyrouth
Nous nous sommes mariés à Alger
Nous nous sommes envolés à Baghdad
Nous sommes morts sous les bombes
Et nos coeurs ont fondé une ONG
Pour la protection des amours à haut risque
Et la continuation de la passion sous les tombes!

Honey moon in Baghdad
We met in Gaza
We loved in Ramallah
We kissed in Beirut
We wed in Algiers
We flew to Baghdad
We died under the bombs
& our hearts founded a NGO
for the protection of high risk love
& the continuation of passion under the tombs!

Poem by Mustafa Benfodil translated by Nicole Peyrafitte


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Air Plane

Wonder Woman first graced the comic book world in December of 1941, when she appeared in DC Comic’s All Star Comics #8. Since then, she’s become probably the most recognizable female super hero. Aside from having super strength, she’s typically armed with indestructible bracelets, a boomeranging tiara, and of course, her Lasso of Truth — a lasso which, when it ensnares a bad guy (or for that matter, a good guy), prevents the target from fibbing. But perhaps her coolest gadget isn’t one she’s always equipped with and, for that matter, is one she’s never seen with. That’s because it’s invisible — the Invisible Jet.

The Invisible Jet wasn’t just a method of super transportation. It was a symbol (albeit a hard to see one). Wikipedia states that the Jet “represented the ‘invisible’ feminine compliance that women of the Depression Era had to rely on in order to survive in the hostile male dominated work place. To demonstrate this, it was allegorized that the Invisible Plane would be undetected while moving quietly at super sonic speeds so that it would not be shot down by the guns of Man’s World. The idea was avoidance of conflict rather than meeting hostility head on.” But as the years ticked by, the Invisible Jet became less and less important in the Wonder Woman story line. By 2010, it was something of a joke.

Actually, that’s an understatement. By 2010, it was, literally, a joke. Until it became real. But still invisible.

In July of 2010, San Diego hosted the 43rd annual Comic-Con, a gathering of comic book fans and those in the industry. Comic-Con 2010 set attendance records with more than 130,000 participants, and attracted people from around the world. Mattel, the toy licensee of Wonder Woman (and other DC Comics characters), decided to use her phantom plane as a promotional tool. A few months before Comic-Con, Mattel announced a new product on their Facebook page: a collectable Invisible Jet action figure, as seen below.

Most fans immediately saw through the announcement. The date of the Facebook announcement was April 1st, and the Invisible Jet was an April Fool’s joke. But some collectors weren’t willing to see the truth. They wanted the collectable plane and asked Mattel how to get one. Mattel seized the opportunity.

As the LA Times reported, “so many people asked the company where they could purchase the item that Mattel decided to make it a limited-edition collectible.” Mattel ended up making the Invisible Jet, as pictured above (or, not quite pictured above), available for $5 — as an exclusive item sold only at Comic-Con. The “toy” was just packaging; the plastic mold inside the case contained an outline of a plane, helping to sell the joke.

And it sold pretty well, even though the packaging was empty. Today, the not-quite-real “Invisible” Jet is sought-after by collectors — one which often sells for over $100.

Bonus Fact: Wonder Woman’s Invisible Jet is a lightning rod for April Fool’s jokes. On April 1, 2013, Seattle’s Museum of Flight announced that the Jet would be available for a limited, three-day engagement in its halls. The plane’s entry on their website (which has since been removed but is available via noted that the plane was ahead of its time: its “technology demonstrated advanced stealth and speed capabilities more than 20 years before comparable human-built aircraft.” (The pictures on the removed page no longer appear, but if you think about it, you’re really not missing out on anything.)

From the ArchivesInvisible Pink: A different type of invisible planes.

RelatedThe collectable Invisible Jet action figure. Be careful — once you open the packaging, you may not be able to find the item again.


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Sandhill Cranes at Riverbend Park

On our first full day in Florida we went up to Rivebend Park in northern Palm Beach county to paddle on the Loxahatchee River with our friend Gator Man/Tom. At lunch time we pulled off into a large picnic areas to eat and stand up to stretch our legs.

As we were sitting at one of the chickees we noticed a sandhill crane that was apparently injured. One of its legs was broken or bent backwards and it appeared to hurt pretty bad. Then we noticed a second crane off behind us on the other side of the picnic area. Soon they started communicating.

It’s hard to fathom how loud and echoing it was in person, but turn up your volume completely and you might understand it. The second more faint call is the second bird behind us. In addition to these two birds calling, somewhere across the water there were other cranes that we couldn’t see and occassionally we’d hear them call back.

These cranes appeared to be quite used to humans as you’ll see in a few more photos. This is not a good thing as people probably feed them.

I got up to go find the port-o-potty and when I returned I found what happened in the next photos.

A third bird had flown in during the meantime and thought Chris and Tom were interesting enough to go scope out what was going on under the chickee.

Now, these are quite large birds, standing about 4′ tall. I know what it was after, our lunch. I was concerned it would either peck at Chris to get our food or just outright grab the bag of food that I slowly pulled the bag over to the far side of the table.

Eventually it realized that we weren’t giving handouts and opted to mosey on out of the chickee.

The encounter was entertaining and was by far the closest I’ve ever been to one of the birds. Sandhill cranes are common in some areas of Florida but are also protected too. Other populations and subspecies of sandhill cranes in other states, including Texas, are not protected and it is legal to hunt them, which I find incredibly weird.

Shortly after we got back in our kayaks and paddled off the injured bird started picking a fight with one of the other birds, spreading its wings and running, and then taking off in flight. Suddenly we didn’t feel quite so bad for it!

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    Crazy that you were able to get so close!

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The Decalogue of Nick #2: I’ve trained as a linguist, and I have done computational linguistics stuff

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For Audrey Ackerman and Brian Collins and Zeibura S. Kathau.

Ask a Greek what they can tell you about Byzantium, and they won’t tell you what the millennium of the East Roman Empire achieved. They won’t tell you about the Palaeologan Renaissance, or the ambivalence about the Classical past, or the edifices of Roman Law, or the architectural marvels.

All they’ll tell you is that the Empire fell. And they don’t even pick the right instance when it fell. (The Empire at 1453 wasn’t worth saving.)

Well, so it is with my linguistics career. Scratch me just a little bit, and I will lament the defining woe of my life, that I did not become a professional linguist: Nick Nicholas’ answer to What is your personal experience with obtaining a linguistics degree? (If I’m feeling prudent, I’ll admit that the outcome was the right one: Nick Nicholas’ answer to What are your 3 worst mistakes? Would you fix any of them if you could go back in time? But only if I’m feeling prudent.)

What’s harder for me to do, as a glass half empty kinda guy, is admit how much I gained in the experience.

Linguistics gave me a sense of purpose when I had none. Linguistics gave me friends and companionship and stimulation. Linguistics gave me the place where I could act as glue between my peers—that trait that Clarissa Lohr continues to find approval-worthy in me. Linguistics gave me the opportunity to teach—and once I’d gotten to teach, nunc dimittis: I could have died a happy man, even if it was just three semesters.

And in truth, Linguistics gave me the opportunity to turn away from it, to say that no, I deserved better than to be strung along, and to regain myself even at the cost of losing myself.

I sidled into linguistics and out of electrical engineering towards the end of my undergraduate degree. Through a masters I did enough of the bridging undergraduate courses that they let me in to the PhD programme. They recognised, I guess, that I had some talent.

The Master’s was in discourse theory: Rhetorical Structure Theory, to be exact. Discourse structure and implicature was my early fascination in linguistics, and RST was all the rage back then (1994) in text generation. (Do people even call it text generation any more?)

When time came for me to pick a PhD topic, though, I wanted to go back to historical linguistics. Actually I wanted to go forward from discourse theory to historical linguistics: grammaticalisation gave a way for implicature to motivate language change that intrigued me. While I initially wanted to work on Tibetan (because Squiggles), I had a conversation with the doyen of grammaticalisation theory, Elizabeth C. Traugott, during which she asked, wouldn’t it be fascinating to look at how grammaticalisation interacted with diglossia.

Two years in to my thesis, I’d worked out that no, that was a dumb idea. But I was too far into my work by then. My topic was the development of the modern relativiser pu, and how it had diversified in meaning. I’d intended to work backward, and unearth all sorts of awesome instances of implicature and analogy from Early Modern Greek.

But theses don’t go as you’d planned. On the way towards internal reconstruction, I became captive to the diversity of Greek dialect—nature’s historical linguistic laboratory: they have a common starting point with dozens of divergent endpoints, so you can get an amazing sense of what is possible in language change. By the time I’d worked out what was happening in all the dialects, and detoured into what was happening in the rest of the Balkans, I’d run out of time. And space: the Balkan chapter ended up on the cutting room floor.

From the thesis, I’d gained an encyclopaedic familiarity with modern Greek dialect; a good knowledge of Early Modern Greek anyway (which I put to use in my later coauthored monograph, An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds); and a smattering of Balkan linguistics. I’d planned to use my knowledge to write a reference grammar of Early Modern Greek by the time I was 50. That isn’t happening; and the guys who were working on it (Greek Grammar to fill the gap) have run out of funding and have retired.

What I did not get is any Ancient Greek; I don’t have any formal training in that, although once you’re a linguist, you can make sense of a grammar book just fine. (And I picked up what I needed to later.)

I also picked up a fair bit of linguistic typology from a decade of working as a research assistant, mainly under John Hajek. It was a rocky relationship, as you can well imagine from someone with my ego in a second fiddle role. But it was a good schooling too. And working on a phonological survey of Papua New Guinea, I got at least some of the phonology I did not get from the department.

I wrote a bunch of papers after I finished the PhD. Some got published. Some got submitted at the time journals got switched over from paper to electronic submission, and got lost in the mail. It was fun to write the papers; but it was also writing in a vacuum. I didn’t really have a network of peers to care about what I was writing (part of the problem of not being in Europe), and the problems I was working on seem to have been too obscure to have stimulated any interest anyway. In fact, the papers that generated the most interest were about social history (the Greek colony in Corsica). I have 8 finished unsubmitted papers, and 8 more incomplete, from when I stopped writing in 2008. I’m not strongly motivated to do anything with them.

I got more interaction, if anything, out of the Ἡλληνιστεύκοντος blog I used to do (and will do again, if Quora disappears in a puff of smoke). And some of my favourite questions on Quora are when I do my own detective work, to solve a linguistic problem I don’t already know the answer to.

For Amy Dakin.

I have also done some computational linguistic stuff. Most of it has been at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, where I had worked from February 1999 through to June 2016.

I’ve been reluctant to go publicly into the specifics of why I’m no longer employed there, until now. But then again, my time at the TLG should not suffer the same fate as Byzantine History: what I achieved (what *I* achieved) is more important than the way I ceased to.

I have very high regard for my fellow programmer of 13 years Nishad Prakash; and if anything even more regard for my fellow programmer of 4 years, John Salatas, who is still working there. They are far better craftsmen than I am. And I don’t mean to take anything away from their achievements by what I’m about to say.

But anything you see at the TLG that involves linguistics? Me. Anything that involves stylometrics? Me. Anything that involves Natural Language Processing? Formatting? Peculiar sigla? Comparison of texts? Me.

There’s a lot of computer science things that I’m proud of working out while there. Some algorithmic refinements to recursive Longest Common Subsequence detection, to work out common phrases between passages. Some fiendish DFA and NDFA work, to deal with the quirky ASCII encoding of Greek we have in character-by-character and wildcard search. A lot of cleverness in contextual grammatical disambiguation, that I’m not confident will ever see the light of day (or will be highlighted for users if it does).

And my crowning work: the morphological analyser of Greek. It originated in Perseus’ Morpheus, but I have stretched and pulled and broadened and narrowed and reranked it over the past 15 years, to deal with all the stages of Greek the TLG has thrown at it, from Homer through to misspelled 17th century Cretan land deeds—and to still yield some semblance of order. In the process, I dare say I have developed as intuitive a sense of what grammatical wackiness Byzantine authors could indulge in as anyone living: I’ve had to deal with it all.

I didn’t get to write the reference grammar of Early Modern Greek. But the morphological analyser I curated, with all the proper names of Athenian courtesans and Albanian chieftains, of Egyptian decans and minor saints, with all the mangled Byzantine optatives and grammarians’ fictional conjugations, with every last utterance of Sappho accounted for, and as much of Theodore Metochites’ as I could disentangle: that has been just as great an achievement.

Which I now no longer can contribute to.

But those of you with access to a TLG subscription: click on some words’ analyses, and do some parallel text comparisons, and look up some of the online lexica. And taste some of the joy of the Greek language and the Greek literary corpus, that I got to savour in my time.

And you’re welcome.

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Welcome to the Pacific Motel in Gridley California.

You have many choices for hotels and motels, so take a moment to get to know us.

We are a small, family owned and operated motel. Our mission is simple, we want to provide you with a comfortable nights stay at a price you can afford. Since we are a small motel, we can't offer all the bells and wistles of larger hotels, but we can offer hospitality. We believe in hospitality and consider our guests, our family.

We are also giving back to the community. We are proud supporters of #CampFire victims and our local schools. Help us give back to those in need!

Hope to see you soon. Check out our photos below...

~motel managment

For best rates call direct:
(530) 797-9298

Rooms Available:

1) King 1 bed

2) Queen 1 bed

3) 2 Double beds

4) Queen 1 bed + kitchen

5) 2 Queen beds - Family Suite with connecting rooms (each room as 1 Queen bed) - Great when you  want to stay together and still have some privacy.

6) 2 Queen bed - Super Family Suite with connecting rooms (each room as 1 Queen bed)  + kitchen.

7) 1 Double bed- Economy room- Great if you want something simple and save some money. Most afforadable room we have.

8) 1 Bed- ADA accessable