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I am a Tax Partner in WithumSmith+Brown’s National Tax Service Group and the founding father of the firm's Aspen, Colorado office. I am a CPA licensed in Colorado and New Jersey, and hold a Masters in Taxation from the University of Denver. My specialty is corporate and partnership taxation, with an emphasis on complex mergers and acquisitions structuring. In the past year, I co-authored CCH's "CCH Expert Treatise Library: Corporations Filing Consolidated Returns," was awarded the Tax Adviser's "Best Article Award" for a piece titled "S Corporation Shareholder Compensation: How Much is Enough?" and was named to the CPA Practice Advisor's "40 Under 40."

In my free time, I enjoy driving around in a van with my dog Maci, solving mysteries. I have been known to finish the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle in less than 7 minutes, only to go back and do it again using only synonyms. I invented wool, but am so modest I allow sheep to take the credit. Dabbling in the culinary arts, I have won every Chili Cook-Off I ever entered, and several I haven’t. Lastly, and perhaps most notably, I once sang the national anthem at a World Series baseball game, though I was not in the vicinity of the microphone at the time.

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The Top Ten Tax Cases Of 2012, #4: S Corporation Shareholder Reasonable Compensation - How Much Is Enough?

For the past six weeks, I’ve been counting down the ten most noteworthy tax cases of 2012. Here’s what you may have missed:

#10: Olive v. Commissioner, 139 T.C. 2, (2012): The IRS Wages War On The Medicinal Marijuana Industry

#9: Sophy v. Commissioner, 138 T.C. 8 (2012) and Bronstein v. Commissioner, 138 T.C. 21 (2012): The Mortgage Interest Limitation Is More Complicated Than You Realize

#8 -Storey v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2012-115 (2012): The Tax Court Strikes A Blow For The Documentary Filmmaking Industry

#7: Rolfs v. Commissioner, 135 T.C. 24 (2012), and Patel v. Commissioner, 138. T.C. 23 (2012): The IRS Would Like You To Stop Burning Your Houses Down Already

#6: Mohamed v. Commissioner, 2012-152 (2012): The failure to adequately substantiate your charitable contribution deductions can be costly. Like, $19 million costly.

#5 Maguire v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2012-160: The Tax Court allows S corporation shareholders to fix years of sloppy tax planning.

Up next, another case focusing on Subchapter S, this time coming out of the Eighth Circuit.

#4: Watson v. Commissioner, 668 F.3d 1008 (8th Cir., 2012). The courts offer a guide to determining an S corporation shareholder/employee’s “reasonable compensation.”

In December 2010, an Iowa district court decided Watson, a reasonable compensation case involving an S corporation shareholder-employee. As a reminder, a shareholder-employee’s compensation from an S corporation is often subject to IRS scrutiny because S corporation flow-through income enjoys an employment tax advantage over that of sole proprietorships, partnerships and LLCs. This advantage finds its genesis in Revenue Ruling 59-221, which held that a shareholder’s undistributed share of S corporation income is not treated as self-employment income. In contrast, earnings attributed to a sole proprietor, general partner or many LLC members are subject to self-employment taxes.

As employment tax rates have climbed, this advantage of operating as an S corporation has become magnified. Because S corporation income is not subject to self-employment tax, there is tremendous motivation for shareholder-employees to minimize their salary in favor of distributions, which are also not subject to payroll or self-employment tax. Consider the following examples:

Example 1: A owns 100% of the stock of S Co., an S corporation. A is also S Co.’s president and only employee. S Co. generates $100,000 of taxable income in 2011, before considering A’s compensation. If A draws a $100,000 salary, S Co.’s taxable income will be reduced to zero. A will report $100,000 of wage income on his individual income tax return, and S Co. and A will be liable for the necessary payroll taxes. S Co. will be required to pay $7,650 (7.65% of $100,000) as its share of payroll tax, and S Co. will withhold $5,650 (5.65% of $100,000) from A’s salary towards A’s payroll obligation, resulting in a total payroll tax bill of $13,300.

Example 2: Alternatively, A may choose to withdraw $100,000 from S Co. as a distribution rather than a salary. S Co.’s taxable income will remain at $100,000 and will be passed through to A and reported on his individual income tax return, where it is not subject to self-employment tax. The $100,000 distribution is also not taxable to A, as it represents a return of basis.  By choosing to take a $100,000 distribution rather than a $100,000 salary, S Co. and A have saved a combined $13,300 in payroll taxes.

Soon after the publishing of Revenue Ruling 59-221, the IRS began taking aim at taxpayers who abused the employment tax advantage of S corporations by minimizing salary. In the half-century that has followed, the case law is replete with shareholder-employees who opted to forgo salary in favor of distributions, only to have the courts recharacterize the distributions as compensation under the principle that any employee who renders significant services to an employer must be paid “reasonable compensation.” These decisions sent tax advisers scrambling to determine just how much compensation their S corporation shareholder-employees were required to pay themselves in order to minimize exposure to an IRS attack.

Watson, in many respects, was a precedent-setting case in the S corporation reasonable compensation arena, as it shed much-needed light on the methodology the IRS and the courts will employ to determine an amount of reasonable compensation, providing an analytical approach tax advisers can follow when guiding their clients.

In February 2012, the Eighth Circuit affirmed the district court’s decision in Watson, holding that an S corporation shareholder-employee (Watson) who paid himself $24,000 in salary during 2002 and 2003 while withdrawing over $375,000 in distributions was not reasonably compensated for his services. The court further upheld the district court’s determination of an annual reasonable compensation amount of $93,000, requiring Watson to recharacterize $69,000 of distributions in each year as salary. As a result, the corporation and Watson were held liable for over $23,000 in payroll taxes, penalties, and interest.

Facts in Watson:

David Watson — like many of the subjects of reasonable compensation scrutiny — was a CPA. (See Joseph M. Grey) He was also the sole shareholder and employee of an S corporation, that in turn was a 25% shareholder in a very successful accounting firm. Watson’s share of the revenue generated by the accounting firm was allocated to his S corporation, which would then pay Watson a salary and distributions. Any amounts not paid out in salary by the corporation were reported by Watson as his share of the S corporation’s income on his personal tax return, where it was not subject to payroll tax.

In 2002 and 2003, Watson set his compensation from his wholly owned corporation at a mere $24,000 per year, an amount that was less than what first-year employees at his firm were earning. In comparison, Watson received distributions of $203,651 and $175,470, respectively, in those years.

The IRS challenged Watson’s compensation as being unreasonably low; arguing that by foregoing salary in favor of distributions, Watson and the S corporation were avoiding payroll tax responsibilities.

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  • Ernie Villany Ernie Villany 2 years ago

    Great piece on what our firm sees as the most common question from our business owner clients. We can easily convey the urgency and importance of the situation to them when contributions such as yours are available. (I hope you don’t mind us sharing with them?) : )
    Its great when a knowledgeable CPA can explain something in way everyone can understand. It makes our job easier.
    Thanks Tony.
    Any relation to Frank “The Enforcer” Nitti? : )


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The First Step To Building Your Personal Brand

Sure, everyone knows what a brand is. Coke, Pepsi, McDonald’s. But that buzzword is getting thrown around a whole lot in career and job search conversations these days, too. And you might be thinking to yourself, “why do I really have to care about this?”

Here’s why: Whether you’re on the job hunt, a student, or gainfully employed, you must think, act, and plan like a business leader. With the surge of social media, you have not only the ability, but you now have the need to manage your own reputation, both online and in real life.

Employers will Google you before they even invite you to an interview. (Your current employer probably has an eye on what you’re doing, too.) And when you interact with people, both online and offline, they’ll build up an image of who you are over time.

And here’s where you come in: You want to be in control of all of those impressions. Why leave your professional reputation to chance, when you can be your own PR guru and manage your image?

Your personal brand is all about who you are and what you want to be known for. And while that’s a pretty broad concept, I’m going to break down the process for building your brand into a few easy steps, which we’ll cover over the next few weeks.

Your first task: Developing your “brand mantra.” Basically, this is the “heart and soul” of your brand, according to branding expert Kevin Keller. It’s the foundation of all of your branding efforts.

It’s not a mission statement (check out Guy Kawasaki’s blog post for the difference)—rather, it’s a quick, simple, and memorable statement describing who you are and what you have to offer. Ivanka Trump is “an American wife, mother, and entrepreneur.” FedEx is “peace of mind.” Disney is “fun family entertainment.” Rick Ross feat. T-Pain is “I’m a BOSS.”

And yes, those are all famous options, but the same basic principles apply for your own brand. Ready for your turn? Here are four simple steps to creating your mantra:

1. Determine Your Emotional Appeal

For starters, think broadly about your personality and how it affects the experience someone will have with you. Are you insanely organized? Do people love working with you for your killer sense of humor?

Make a list of words that best describe these features of your personality. These words are known as emotional modifiers. Hint: They can be as simple as Disney’s “fun.”

Questions to Consider:
  • How do I make people feel?
  • How do people benefit by working with me?
  • What words do others use to describe me?

2. Determine Your Description

Your next step is coming up with a descriptive modifier that brings clarity to the emotional modifier, identifying what or who your brand is for. In Disney’s case, it’s “family.” In Nike’s mantra, “authentic athletic performance,” “authentic” is the emotional appeal, while “athletic” tells you what the brand is for. As an individual, yours might be an industry (“healthcare” or “education”), or it might be a tangible skill (“creative” or “strategic”).

Questions to Consider:
  • What field or industry am I in (or do I want to be in)?
  • What are the words I would use to describe my work?
  • Who is my target audience?

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  • johnagno johnagno 3 years ago

    I would suggest the first step in developing your personal brand is to really know yourself.

    At one time or another, all of us have dreamed of becoming a heroine, a celebrity, a VIP, or someone else who stands out above the crowd. We know we have talent but we often resist taking a chance or going after our dream. Sometimes life seems like a runaway train that we are scrambling to catch.

    We have to discover the way we want to live our lives for ourselves!

    The first part of the discovery process is to learn about who we are. We need to become the Lewis and Clark of our own personal territory, discovering our strengths, weaknesses, triggers, motivations, tendencies, skills, goals, hopes, wishes, expectations, and themes.

    On Feb 14 and 15 only, the book “Women, Know Thyself” is free at Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0070WW33S/

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  • ksamuel ksamuel 3 years ago

    make yourself VISIBLE and keep your personal brand and connections online.. the future is not the same anymore so expect more drastic changes to come soon.

    check me to connect and share business and knowledge..

  • Greg McNeal Greg McNeal, Contributor 3 years ago

    Great post Megan.

    I wonder if MBA programs teach personal branding as distinct from corporate branding. I would think that for CEOs and other key leaders this is an essential skill. For example, in crisis communication circumstances (think BP oil spill) the CEO’s personal brand will define the corporations brand. The strategies seem integrated, I wonder how many corporations realize the synergistic relationship between individual branding and organizational branding.

  • Amy Pospiech Amy Pospiech 3 years ago

    MBA programs? The BA programs should teach this, too!

    Personal branding can help differentiate an undergraduate enough to land their first job, or even an awesome internship (speaking from experience). Think about how this could apply to resume writing, presentation skills, interview questions…

  • How would you define synergistic relationship and their impact on creating value for a company in regards to the junction where individual/organization branding meet? I’m interested to hear you POV.

  • rampersad rampersad 3 years ago

    The first step in Authentic Personal Branding is starting with your dreams and avlues, see http://tinyurl.com/y9bdxhd What you described here in not authentic, is not real. Is just based on self image, self promotion and self sales. Check this as well http://bit.ly/A1ofK1

  • edpen edpen 3 years ago

    I work with many individuals 50 years and older who are facing issues they have never had to deal with before. I start my classes out with a “Mining Your Past” approach, taking a look at things from a different point of view and then start looking at where they want to go. When they are confident in their past and the skills and experience they do posses, they become more realistic about their possibilities and stop looking for excuses. That is though for the ones willing to listen. This age group can be stubborn and singularly focused. My successes are found in those willing to change. An Engineer told me one day, I wish I could be as gregarious as you want me to be. He was working a month later because I know he changed and acted on it, even if he did not know it.

  • elmer elmer 3 years ago

    To find that creative zone where you can really identify your brand, there is nothing better than visiting one of your local “Day Spas” for a relaxing massage and facial.

  • Abu Taher Abu Taher 3 years ago

    Lot’s to take from this. Thanks.

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I've been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember. As a kid, I started selling cool rocks even before I sold lemonade. At age 8, I hired my two friends to deliver newspapers and gave them 75 cents a day, and I kept 25 cents. I've gone on to start much larger companies, divisions within companies, both within the US and outside, that have led to both success and failure. Venture backed, partnerships, bootstrapped, high growth, retail, commercial real estate, technology, energy, B2B, B2C, B20 - nobody is there to buy) and more. I’ve learned my greatest life and business lessons from my failures. I recently completed a book for Wiley & Sons, entitled The 7 Non Negotiables of Winning: Tying Soft Traits to Hard Results, which you can read about here: http://www.7nns.com. My current company, Fishbowl, is a culmination of everything I’ve learned over my 30-plus business years.

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Big Ego, Big Business: 6 Famous Failures, And 4 Key Ideas For Keeping Your Ego In Check

“There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry”  General George Armstrong Custer, 1876

–Game, Set and Match: Sitting Bull

My 3 Favorite People: Me, Myself and I

How much does ego cost your company? How about your career? A noted career psychologist says 51% of executives peg the cost at 6-15% of revenue. Another 21% estimate it costs 16-20%.  That’s as much as $2 million of every $10 million we produce. This is a tragic fact—yet in some respects, it’s extreme enough to be funny. Consider these true events:

  1. “The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is ‘relatively tiny’ compared with the ‘very big ocean’.” –Tony Hayward, beleaguered chief executive of British Petroleum (Cost to BP BP: est. $40 billion)
  2. William Orton, President of Western Union Western Union  Telegraph company, upon being invited to buy the patent for the telephone for $100,000: “Mr. Bell, after careful consideration of your invention, while it is a very interesting novelty, we have come to the conclusion it has no commercial possibilities…What use could this company have for an electrical toy?”
  3. “Let’s make snot beer!”  Robert Uihlein, CEO of Schlitz Brewing Company found a way to cut brewing time from 40 days to 15… to replace most of the barley malt with corn syrup…and to switch from one stabilizer to another to circumvent new labeling laws and as a strategy to outsell and outsmart Anheuser-Busch. Yes, the beer was cheaper, more profitable and got to market faster. Profits rose—until customers noticed the beer tasted terrible and—worse still—broke down quickly to form sediment that looked like mucous. Famous last words, in 1981, from a former mayor of Milwaukee: “How could that big of a company go under so fast?”

    General George Armstrong Custer (photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

  4. Steve Jobs to John Scully, about the Apple Lisa Computer, 1983: “We’re going to blow IBM away. There’s nothing they can do when this computer comes out.”
  5. “When your wardrobe malfunctions in front of 10,000 people, make it part of your act.” – Donald Trump (following the failure of Trump Airlines, Trump Vodka, Trump Mortgage, Trump Casinos—perhaps we should just refer to him as “Trumped?”)
  6. Eric Jackson, fellow Forbes Contributor, on WebVan’s failure, in TheStreet.com: “After raising hundreds of millions of dollars and going public, Webvan failed. The smart Web entrepreneurs overlooked some basics about running a grocery business … Before their failure, if you asked them about bringing in some industry talent their response had been: We’re trying to recreate this industry so we don’t want to tie ourselves down to the old ideas that failed.” – Why Tesla is the Next WebVan (What? Wait a minute –My Tesla is arriving this month.  Never mind that example. Moving on…)

We could add many hilarious, sad and even tragic examples to the list of companies and executives whose egos have sent them careening down the Freeway of Giant Mistakes. So how can we prevent these disasters? Here are four basic steps to keeping your own “Me Monster” (and yes, we all have one) in check:

1. Push Pause. When you feel the need to pound your chest, try to catch yourself. This is the time to tame the “Me Monster” by putting a gap between the stimulus and the response. Lean away from the situation and breathe until you can gain a fresh perspective on it. You don’t have to run head first into every “fire alarm” situation your work life (or even your personal life) presents.

Sitting Bull (photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

2. Perspective. How can you detect when the “Me Monster” cloud is gathering and preparing to explode in a storm?  It’s when you catch yourself in the age old question – “Why not me?  I should be getting the credit.”  There is no “I” in team. In fact, the thing that “TEAM” should actually stand for is Together Everyone Achieves More. When your brain asks “Why not me,” think of a tactic you can use to change your thought pattern. I think about the big blue monster from Monsters, Inc and start to smile, which breaks my brain pattern instantly. It helps to put my better thinking back in charge of my choice.

3. Beware the Backdoor Monster. Watch out for the “backdoor Me Monster” — you may not even realize your ego has “backdoored” you. This is the stealth approach a monster thought uses to subtly undermine your better thinking to keep the environment in check, by dropping hints of questions or doubt.  Perhaps it’s a small note or an email someone sends to subtly draw attention to themselves or to a negative issue, or a well-placed comment with a underlying “subtext.” Doubt droppings are like bird droppings. Be alert enough to avoid stepping in them, and they will generally disappear on their own. As to the subtleties—strive to forgive and move on. If you don’t reward the negative behaviors in others, they will generally either move to more productive tactics, or will be forced to move on.

4. Remember the Bigger Agenda. If you think about the “long game” journey, you can skip the small dramas that occur on the way. I enjoy seeing people on the team smile and enjoying life. What could I say or do that would create another “beam” in their countenance?  Happy teams produce and achieve more.  It’s statistically proven – the metrics are solid on this. Calmness and happiness are also important for health. Stress and Fear are first cousins to the “Me Monster.” No one wants to end their workday—or their life—as the victim of a “career cardiac.” Every day–every week–and every season, take the time to collect yourself and keep the bigger picture in mind.

Have I given you the right examples? Have I given you sufficient ideas and strategies to keep your own Me Monster in check? I welcome your stories and your contributions to this list. But most of all, I welcome your thoughts.

Additional reporting for this article was provided by Fishbowl President Mary Michelle Scott.

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  • Myke Argyle Myke Argyle 2 years ago

    Push Pause

    “putting a gap between the stimulus and the response”

    I love this because it’s something so many people have trouble with (myself included). The cycle is always *event* followed by immediate *reaction*. Even in the fast paced world we live in, we cannot afford to respond in a fast paced manner. Things move quickly, I am very aware, but there is always a few moments to think out an appropriate response. 100% in agreement that it is labeled number one. Everything begins with a thought, take a few moments and expand that thought just a little bit more.

  • Agreed Myke! Now, where is that pause button….? My mother always said that I should count to ten before responding. Even if you are counting fast, it gives you time to think more clearly before reacting. I think that anyone with any sort of sensibility knows in their heart when they are pushing the “me” envelope.

  • David K. Williams David K. Williams, Contributor 2 years ago

    Thank you, Mykel! Amen to everything you just said. Putting a gap between the stimulus and the response is not just wise – in so many cases, it is the vital difference between a success and a disaster. Thank you so much for taking the time to articulate this thought so well.

  • David K. Williams David K. Williams, Contributor 2 years ago

    And sometimes even ten is not enough–in many cases it’s important to actually sleep on a situation before you respond and react. Thank you for all you do, Marilyn, and thanks very much for the note.

  • Keeping an eye on the “Long Game” is such a great way to let those little things stay little.

  • David K. Williams David K. Williams, Contributor 2 years ago

    So true Heber so so true.

    Thank you

  • Simon Chulin Simon Chulin 2 years ago

    That’s so true, I think most of us have at one point or another noticed people get more egocentric than rational. While confidence and stamina/persistence are some of the traits that can be used to describe great people, I can see how letting those characteristics get out of hand can easily ruin a companies overall aura. Great job pointing out a problem that could otherwise go unnoticed.

  • David K. Williams David K. Williams, Contributor 2 years ago

    Thank you very much, Simon, for your kind remarks. I appreciate your note.

  • David K. Williams David K. Williams, Contributor 2 years ago

    Thank you very much, Simon, and you are so right. Confidence and persistence are vital–but when ego takes over, those same traits can easily become a blind spot and can get out of hand. Thanks so much for your note.

  • User_add User_add 2 years ago

    What is the line between Confidence and Arrogance?


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The Top Hiring Employers in America's Biggest Cities

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Detroit, Mich.

1. Chrysler: 790 job openings

2. General Motors: 778 job openings

3. St. John Health System: 773 job openings

4. Taco Bell: 676 job openings

5.  IBM: 514 job openings

Los Angeles, Calif.

1. Pizza Hut: 1,496 job openings

2. Staples: 1,428 job openings

3. Starbucks: 1,187 job openings

4. Taco Bell: 1,079 job openings

5. Providence Health and Services: 797 job openings

Miami – Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

1. HCA: 828 job openings

2. Miami Dade College: 478 job openings

3. IBM: 476 job openings

4. Baptist Health South Florida: 453 job openings

5. Winn-Dixie: 332 job openings

Minneapolis – St. Paul, Minn.

1. UnitedHealth Group: 2,898 job openings

2. Pizza Hut: 603 job openings

3. IBM: 521 job openings

4. Fairview Health Services: 479 job openings

5. Taco Bell: 395 job openings

New York, N.Y.

1. Staples: 2,174 job openings

2. Citigroup: 1,253 job openings

3. Accenture:  1,137 job openings

4. IBM: 969 job openings

5. Ernst & Young: 946 job openings

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  • Caleb Melby Caleb Melby, Forbes Staff 3 years ago

    Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, both belong to Yum! Brands. Any idea why they’re doing so well?

  • bcoz they can’t be prepared in home so soon as they deliver

  • susansmalbany susansmalbany 3 years ago

    Not sure where Forbes got its data on IBM hiring, but there is no way there are that number of IBM jobs posted in those cities…unless you’re counting US jobs with 75+% travel!

  • dawnmm dawnmm 3 years ago

    i believe J. Smith needs to check her facts before she writes anymore. I work with unemployed clients EVERYDAY, and let me tell you Ms. Smith….my numbers have gone up since August of 2011.
    And I agree the companies stated might be if you are willing to travel, work weird shifts, etc. Not anything livable i’m sure.

  • Shweta Rishi Shweta Rishi 3 years ago

    hi jacquelyn how are you

    Nice to know u r looking over leadership recruitments

  • i need a job I need a job o can help me?

  • Axel Foley Axel Foley 3 years ago

    All these companies hiring, yet they try to attract their top talent through ‘posting a resume’ in the darkest of all holes, their careers website.

  • How ironic that in the same issue and even on the same page we are reading about companies that are actually hiring now, and reading the list of the worlds richest people. LOL Want a job at Home Depot making $10.00 an hour (if your lucky) or would you rather have the job of being a billionaire? HHHHMMMMMM !!
    How hard is the billionaire job? HAHAHAHAHA

  • Matthew Matthew 2 years ago

    well in these tough times i have found a way to make unlimited $20-100 payments going into my paypal account. and its free.!$

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    I am Ngah Elvis Samba from Cameroon. I really need a work at home business. i believe some one out there can help me get one. I am really passionate about this, can anyone help me get out of poverty? God will bless you. my email is elvisngah@gmail.com

  • Clara James Clara James 2 years ago

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Arbréole, The Intersection Of Music, Light And Robotics

From a passion to create a social experience that is both digital, autonomous and interactive comes a wonderful discovery that music, light and robotics are more similar than you might think.

Leave it to the French to find a way to unite music, light and robotics to create a  intelligent lanterns/lights that interact with your movement to create a sensory experience that you control with your body. Arbréole – a modern interpretation of a string of lights.

Arbréole is a social, non-industrial robotic prototype and the latest project from France’s CRIIF (Centre de Robotique Intégrée d-Île-de-France), Le Cube, Strate College, a French artist, Laetitia Favart and musician / composer Robin Aziosmanoff. It represents four different elements that have come together in this robotic prototype: concept, technology, design and art.

Arbréole lights will sense movement and adjust the light and music to respond to your movements. If you move slowly, they will play slower paced music and different light colors will appear. If you make rapid movements or, say are dancing, the cadence of the music and light will change. But the lights can also induce your state of mind too – it’s a two way street with Arbréole. Each module can be the bass, the guitar or the drums – it’s dynamic so that each module can change its tune depending of the users reaction to the sound that’s played. So maybe you would move differently if there was just a bass solo or guitar playing directly to your movements.

Not all robotics is science fiction, Issac Asimov, Philip K. Dick Blade Runner-style.  Robotics can also be about creating a meaningful interaction with a machine that is autonomous and can react to our movements, sentiments or needs.

Concept for Arbréole – sensors detect movement and interact

Arbréole uses telemetry with three sensors to detect if there is a person or object nearby, in this case under. Inside the lights are a sophisticated set of metrics that includes interactive systems, artificial intelligence and electronics and design – how it looks and how we interact with it.

Arbréole’s user interface designer, Dominique Sciamma, Strate College, believes that design should be both aesthetically pleasing and accepted by those that will interact with Arbreole.

Each Arbréole module is autonomous and is comprised of a full range speaker to create clear, strong sound, 12 led lights to change the colors of the lights, a projector under the module to light up the people around it. At the base or hub of the string of Arbréole lights, there’s a Lithium-ion polymer battery pack which makes it less expensive to manufacture, more reliable and increases the adaptability to a wide variety of packaging shapes.

The lights use wireless communications to communicate to each other and are controlled by an Android phone that controls all the parts including the sensors  — gyro, GPS, camera and touch screen.

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Leading Economist Gives Up On Putin's Russia

Sergei Guriev (far left) greets President Obama for his address at the New Economic School, Moscow

Sergei Guriev has left Russia. Guriev, the Dean of Moscow’s New School of Economics, is Russia’s most respected economist with a deserved international reputation for his publications on contract theory and political economy. The New Economic School, which he heads, is the leading school of economics in Russia and remarkably among the best in Europe. Its small MA and BA programs attract Russia’s best young minds, and its graduates teach in top economics departments in the United States and Europe and occupy leading positions in government and business.  The New Economic School has the beginnings of the Russian Harvard – a private institution in a sea of state universities that has made its own way through hard work, brilliance, and a superior educational program.

As a path breaker in a country with no tradition of private education, the New Economic School has “arrived” after more than two decades of struggle. Putin himself congratulated the school on its recent anniversary, and Barack Obama chose it as the venue for a major address on his last visit to Russia. With Guriev’s departure, these hard won gains are jeopardized.

Guriev represents the balancing act that a scholar of international renown must pull off in current-day Russia. Putin has used Guriev to advise him on Russia’s formidable economic problems. Guriev served on the board of Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank Sberbank. Guriev counts among Putin’s “liberal” economic advisors, supposedly pushing for greater economic freedom, less corruption, and liberalized markets.  Guriev, however,  exemplifies Putin’s practice of fielding a liberal economic team for public consumption, while his Kremlin hardliners and statists call the shots behind the scenes.

The Putin regime has also used Guriev’s stature to sell the West on investing in Russia. Western investors are supposed to think: If Putin listens to people like Guriev, why not invest in Russia? Fortunately, American and European investors are not that stupid. Putin also used his liberal finance minister, Alexei Kudrin (before his resignation), to assure the world of the soundness of Russian fiscal policy. Yes, Putin’s liberal team does produce benefits for him but only if they do not stir up trouble.

Putin’s liberal advisors, for their part, must enter a Faustian bargain with his KGB state. They must ignore the corruption, state intervention, and the flaunting of the rule of law in order to play in Russia’s policy making game. They must look the other way when Putin orders a second kangaroo court for jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. They must continue to attend meetings when Putin arrests peaceful demonstrators, or indicts corruption fighter and blogger, Alexei Navalny, on trumped up corruption charges. They must not speak out when the murders of investigative reporters are not solved.

Such silence brings grants, protection, and government largess and the appearance of a voice in policy.

An honest economist like Guriev, however, has an international scholarly reputation to protect that is more valuable than any perks that the Putin regime may offer. Economics is ultimately an empirical science. Its hypotheses must be tested against facts, and the facts say that Putin’s corruption and a lack of rule of law ruin economic performance. A professional economist, like Guriev, cannot avoid compelling questions that may be uncomfortable to the state. In the course of his research, Guriev has addressed the  economics of oil expropriation, the role of oligarchs, and has asked inconvenient questions, such as “Was Stalin Really Necessary?”

It was inevitable that a Sergei Guriev could not continue this Faustian bargain as Putin ramped up political repression and shrunk the grey areas of allowed discourse. Remaining silent when Khodorkovsky was improbably charged with stealing  all of the output of his former oil company or when Navalny was ludicrously indicted on charges of giving bad (pro bono) legal advice to a regional government became impossible. On matters so important to the Putin gang, speaking out in conscience meant you had to  be punished. If you support Khodorkovsky and Navalny, we’ll make you one of them. (Apparently, Putin’s notorious tax police visited the New Economic School – the first step in closing it down. The message: If Guriev did not go, the school would).

What were Guriev’s sins against Putin? Guriev joined the human rights commission formed by former President and current (but not for long) prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, that decided (in agreement  with the European human rights court) that the Khodorkovsky trail was a sham. That was hitting Putin where it hurt. Even worse, Guriev spoke out in defense of Navalny in a public meeting chaired by Medvedev. Guriev openly contributed to the defense fund of  Navalny, who faces a sure prison term. When asked about his contribution, Guriev declared that he had every right to do so as a free man.

In Putin’s Russia, anyone who challenges Putin’s hot button issues, such as the Khodorkovsky or Navalny cases,  must go, no matter how great their symbolic value or international stature. Why should Putin care? No matter how badly he misbehaves, Russians are now afraid to go out into the streets to protest. The costs are too high for them.

In his twelve years in power, Putin has made Russia into a repressive Soviet state. Leonid Brezhnev or Yury Andropov would feel at home in Putin’s KGB state, adjusted, as is China’s, to fit in the internet age. Only under Putin, there is no communist ideology to justify repression, only the goal of maximizing the power and wealth of the ruling class.

True KGB informers are not in every apartment complex or workplace, but dissent is not tolerated. The mere act of attending a rally or throwing a stone at beefy armored security forces can land you in jail. But if you just mind your own business, you can go about daily life. You can buy what you want with the money you earn. You must pay the bribes that you must and tolerate corruption from top to bottom. You can express yourself on the internet unless you grow a following like Navalny. Otherwise you are simply venting – a little guy with a small audience. Who cares.

If you are a liberal intellectual, you see your limited freedoms evaporating just as your Soviet counterparts saw the ephemeral freedoms of Khrushchev’s “Thaw” of the late 1950s disappear.

When Putin’s star chamber Investigative Committee began investigating Guriev, he left for Paris, where his distinguished economist wife teaches at the Paris School of Economics. A Guriev is welcome anywhere as a prominent scholar. He has options that other Putin liberals do not have. Why go through the risk and grief of fighting losing battles in Russia?

There has been much written on Russia’s capital drain. Any entrepreneur who makes money in Russia does his best to move that capital abroad along with himself and his family. The families of Russia’s most successful business persons already live abroad where they are safe.

Guriev represent an even more serious drain – the loss of one of Russia’s few pre-eminent scholars, who heads an educational institution that can compete against any Western school in terms of talent of faculty and students. Not that the loss of the New Economic School would be universally mourned. An official of a rival state economics school  called the New Economic School a ”principal enemy of the state influence” in the economy and an outpost of ”socially irresponsible capitalism.”

If Russia cannot keep its Gurievs and New Economic Schools, it is lost forever, thanks to Mr. Putin.

PS Russian internet news services report today that Putin’s investigative committee is preparing a criminal case against Guriev over the objections of formidable supporters. It is also threatening to declare the New Economic School a “foreign agent” under the new NGO laws of Russia. One possible charge is that Guriev received payments from Khodorkovsky for his work on the council that declared his trial a political sham.

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The Worst Economic Recovery Since The Great Depression

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The record of President Obama’s first three years in office is in, and nothing that happens now can go back and change that.  What that record shows is that President Obama, with his throwback, old-fashioned, 1970s Keynesian economics, has put America through the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.

The recession started in December, 2007.  Go to the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research (www.nber.org) to see the complete history of America’s recessions.  What that history reveals is that before this last recession, since the Great Depression recessions in America have lasted an average of 10 months, with the longest previously lasting 16 months.

When President Obama entered office in January, 2009, the recession was already in its 13th month.  His responsibility was to manage a timely, robust recovery to get America back on track again.  Based on the historical record, that recovery was imminent, within a couple of months or so.  Despite widespread fear, nothing fundamental had changed to deprive America of the long term, world-leading prosperity it had enjoyed going back 300 years.

Supposedly a forward looking progressive, Obama proved to be America’s first backward looking regressive.  His first act was to increase federal borrowing, the national debt and the deficit by nearly a trillion dollars to finance a supposed “stimulus” package, based on the discredited Keynesian theory left for dead 30 years ago holding that increased government spending, deficits and debt are what promote economic growth and recovery. That theory arose in the 1930s as the answer to the Great Depression, which, of course, never worked.

That was the beginning of President Obama’s Rip Van Winkle act, pretending not to know anything that happened over the previous 30 years proving the dramatic, historic success of the new, more modern, supply side economics, which holds that incentives for increased production are what promote economic growth and recovery.  Indeed, that Rip Van Winklism pretended not to remember the 1970s either, when double digit inflation and double digit unemployment proved Keynesian economics grievously wrong.

As should have been long expected, Obama’s trillion dollar Keynesian stimulus did nothing to promote recovery and growth, and almost surely delayed it.  That is because borrowing a trillion dollars out of the economy to spend a trillion back into it does nothing to promote the economy on net. Indeed, it is probably a net drag on the economy, because the private sector spends the money more productively and efficiently than the public sector.

The National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as ending in June, 2009.  Yet, today, in the 49th month since the recession started, there has still been no real recovery, like recoveries from previous recessions in America.

Unemployment actually rose after June, 2009, and did not fall back down below that level until 18 months later in December, 2010.  Instead of a recovery, America has suffered the longest period of unemployment near 9% or above since the Great Depression, under President Obama’s public policy malpractice.  Even today, 49 months after the recession started, the U6 unemployment rate counting the unemployed, underemployed and discouraged workers is still 15.2%.  And that doesn’t include all the workers who have fled the workforce under Obama’s economic oppression.  The unemployment rate with the full measure of discouraged workers is reported at www.shadowstats.com as about 23%, which is depression level unemployment.

Today, over 4 years since the recession started, there are still almost 25 million Americans unemployed or underemployed.  That includes 5.6 million who are long-term unemployed for 27 weeks, or more than 6 months.  Under President Obama, America has suffered the longest period with so many in such long-term unemployment since the Great Depression.

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  • thequestioner thequestioner 3 years ago

    jimb82, What if the farmer who wasn’t taxed decided to save the money? How much labor income would that produce? The point is not to keep the farmer from spending, it is to keep the spending going when the farmer is saving or hoarding his money. If the economy is at less then capacity do you sit and wait until the farmer feels like buying something? Is a little bit of government waste worse than having 20% of the worke/rs unemployed? Isn’t that also a waste

  • lfeig lfeig 3 years ago

    “Worst Recovery from a recession since Great Depression” you say???

    TOO BAD THE FED DOES NOT AGREE WITH YOU when it comes to job growth- Bushes 2001 recovery was slower

  • “TOO BAD THE FED DOES NOT AGREE WITH YOU when it comes to job growth- Bushes 2001 recovery was slower”

    What exactly was the unemployment rate in 2001-2004? I seem to recall that the economy was near full employment then.

  • km524 km524 3 years ago

    Am I the only one who knows who Peter Ferrara is…? I find it laughable that Forbes even published him. And of course, there are people dumb enough to believe him… Talk about a media bias.
    But no, “osamaspajamas” (really?), you’re the enlightened one. I mean clearly you’re completely in touch with reality. I’m surprised forbes hasn’t allowed you to write your own piece yet! I bet if you try FOX, they’ll give you a shot. OhBummer, hahahaha, now that’s a good one! TOO FUNNY!
    But you can stop wasting your breath, I’m a brainwashed liberal, I’ll never understand. Seriously, stop.

  • dprosser77057 dprosser77057 3 years ago

    What’s so amaing is that people find this amazing. The problem is that people who vote don’t vote on the basis of reality and so we get this. The Keynesian Kenyan’s whole approach to government is flawed. His whole approach to management is flawed. He is even more flawed in believing that he alone has the answers and wont listen to those with infinitely more experience and knowledge.

    See elsewhere in Forbes the article: The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives – and real all about all of Obama’s seven habits that have caused him to be a worse president than Jimmy Carter. At least we recovered from Carter. But what the Kenyan will leave us with is more years of recovery. At least I hope he leaves us – the sooner the better.

  • legacyamerica legacyamerica 3 years ago

    America has endured social and economic hardship at varous times in its history, the struggle over slavery and abolition in the 1850′s, the Civil War, the Great Depression, the World Wars.

    An American Heritage song depicting an immigrant nation’s desire to be free of difficulty,”Hard Times Come Again No More” written by Stephen C. Foster in 1854. http://www.legacy-america.net/2011/08/23/spirit-heritage-in-song-hard-times-come-again-no-more-1854/

    Middle America would like to be free of manipulation of their freedoms and markets.

  • willfoley willfoley 3 years ago

    Mr. Ferrara,

    Fantastic article. I read a lot and have yet to see someone refer to the historical track record of Keynesian Economics, specifically. The fact of the matter is that this method is outdated and proven a failure. Any half-sane imbecile with a middle school history book and an ounce of common sense would do a better job reviving the economy than Mr. Obama has. The incompetence of this Administration is absolutely astounding on a whole new level. Good article.

    Will Foley

  • thequestioner thequestioner 3 years ago

    Here’s the track record of Keynesian economics. How about WW2 and Reagan’s (a closet Keynesian) massive600-ship/star wars rearmament spending? On the flip side here is a list of recession that proceeded government spending cut backs 1819, 1837,1857,1873,1893,1929, 1937, 1953, 1958, 1961, 1976, 1980,1990, 2001. There you can blame one on Clinton’s balanced budget.

  • gladrocks gladrocks 3 years ago

    Wow do you have your history and facts wrong. You realize that just because you put it in black and white, doesn’t make it true?

  • mj24 mj24 3 years ago

    The recovery is the second worst since the Great Depression, really? It’s almost like it was the second worst recession on the verge of a second Great Depression, go figure!! What’s your next article, the sky looks blue when the clouds part? Wow, brilliant!

    Why not point out all the other recessions were A) not even close to as bad B) had 70 years of regulations after the Great Depression that made crashes not as bad and easier to recover from C) most of Obama’s policies have been old recycled Republican ideas D) even Reagan’s economic team say what needs to be done is what Obama has been supporting but is getting blocked; Greenspan called deregulation one of the biggest mistakes he ever made after he called trickle down a “failed theory”. E) Republicans are calling for increased taxes under the disguise of closing loopholes – oddly enough same as the POTUS who says to lower corporate rates to 25% while closing loopholes but is getting blocked. F) All the Republican candidates offer nothing but cutting taxes as a solution which will increase the deficit even more, they don’t want to cut anything – in fact Reagan and both Bush’s expanded government like no other.

    He’s not a good leader, the whole from behind strategy is not good for any President! However, this piece is just partisan hackery leaving out half the facts of history and changes that took place the last 30 years to make it worse is not helping anything.


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Remarkable Editorial Bias on Climate Science at the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board has long been understood to be not only antagonistic to the facts of climate science, but hostile. But in a remarkable example of their unabashed bias, on Friday they published an opinion piece that not only repeats many of the flawed and misleading arguments about climate science, but purports to be of special significance because it was signed by 16 “scientists.”

Serious doubt has been cast on the actual expertise on climate science of the signers and on the accuracy of the content, here and elsewhere, and the strawman arguments and technical flaws of their opinion piece are evident to anyone actually versed in the scientific debate. For example, their op-ed has fundamental errors about recent actual temperatures, they use false/strawman arguments that climate scientists are saying climate change “will destroy civilization,” they launch ad hominem attack on particular climate scientists using out-of-context quotes, and so on. Formal responses are in the works, and will be available from a variety of groups in the next day or so. [Just as an example, as pointed out here previously, and at the Union of Concerned Scientists: the authors claim there has been a “lack of warming” for 10 years. The reality? 2011 was the 35th year in a row in which global temperatures were above the historical average and 2010 and 2005 were the warmest years on record.]

But the most amazing and telling evidence of the bias of the Wall Street Journal in this field is the fact that 255 members of the United States National Academy of Sciences wrote a comparable (but scientifically accurate) essay on the realities of climate change and on the need for improved and serious public debate around the issue, offered it to the Wall Street Journal, and were turned down. The National Academy of Sciences is the nation’s pre-eminent independent scientific organizations. Its members are among the most respected in the world in their fields. Yet the Journal wouldn’t publish this letter, from more than 15 times as many top scientists. Instead they chose to publish an error-filled and misleading piece on climate because some so-called experts aligned with their bias signed it. This may be good politics for them, but it is bad science and it is bad for the nation.

Science magazine – perhaps the nation’s most important journal on scientific issues – published the letter from the NAS members after the Journal turned it down.

Do you have an open mind? Read both, side by side. And understand that every national academy of sciences on the planet agrees with the reality and seriousness of human caused climate change.

The letter signed by 255 National Academy of Sciences members, from Science magazine.

The letter signed by 16 “scientists” in the Wall Street Journal.

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  • economart economart 3 years ago

    Hello Lynn,

    I read through your comment.

    I see. So one minute there is no statistically significant warming with the higher standard 95% CI, and then with the results for 2010 there is significant warming. How 1 year makes all the difference.

    I understand, very well. Jones comes in for heavy criticism, and his results change almost magically.

    What a true scientist!

  • economart economart 3 years ago

    Hello Lynn,

    What isotope?

  • whrosen whrosen 3 years ago

    That is not a counterargument. It is not even rhetoric – it’s just irrelevant, glaringly so, given the detailed refutation it responds to.

    Conduct like that does show a lack of credibility on the author’s part.

  • Cutting and pasting a wall of text is not a detailed refutation.

  • We know CO2 is being added to the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels because the mix of “isotopes” of carbon in fossil fuels is different, and we can measure how it is changing the mix of “isotopes” in the atmosphere.

    If you didn’t know this, you are, by definition, ignorant.

  • How does this “reply” thing work, anyway, I can never tell where my comments are going to show up.

  • lynneb4 lynneb4 3 years ago

    So what you are saying, economart, is that unsurprisingly you still fail to grasp the concept of significance in statistics.

    It isn’t the trend that changes. It is whether the trend can be distinguished as an actual trend instead of noise, because of its persistence. If you cannot grasp this, then I cannot help you, and suspect that no-one can.

  • l33t l33t 3 years ago

    economart, only you could turn a one-liner into three lines.

  • lynneb4 lynneb4 3 years ago

    “what isotope?”

    carbon-12. Specifically, though, the issue is the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 and carbon-14; carbon-14 is created only in the atmosphere and decays to nitrogen after 50,000 years, so any source of carbon older that that will have nil carbon-14 except through biological contamination. Carbon-13 “naturally” comprises a bit over 1% of the carbon in the atmosphere, and then the rest is carbon-12 — although plants have an higher proportion of carbon-12 in them because they prefer the lighter isotope.

    However, the ratio of carbon-14, carbon-13 and carbon-12 had only changed by about 0.03% in the last 8,000 years — until we started burning fossil fuels. In the last 150 years, carbon-12 from ancient sources, which has no carbon-13 and no carbon-14, has tipped that balance to increase its proportion in the atmosphere quite significantly.

  • economart economart 3 years ago

    Hello Lynneb4,

    Here is a nice little report out of the Met office in Britain, the core of AGW.

    The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.

    The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.

    Based on readings from more than 30,000 measuring stations, the data was issued last week without fanfare by the Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit. It confirms that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.

    But the AGW crowd with one defeat after another still cannot let it go:

    Yet, in its paper, the Met Office claimed that the consequences now would be negligible – because the impact of the sun on climate is far less than man-made carbon dioxide. Although the sun’s output is likely to decrease until 2100, ‘This would only cause a reduction in global temperatures of 0.08C.’ Peter Stott, one of the authors, said: ‘Our findings suggest a reduction of solar activity to levels not seen in hundreds of years would be insufficient to offset the dominant influence of greenhouse gases.’

    These findings are fiercely disputed by other solar experts.

    ‘World temperatures may end up a lot cooler than now for 50 years or more,’ said Henrik Svensmark, director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at Denmark’s National Space Institute. ‘It will take a long battle to convince some climate scientists that the sun is important. It may well be that the sun is going to demonstrate this on its own, without the need for their help.’

    He pointed out that, in claiming the effect of the solar minimum would be small, the Met Office was relying on the same computer models that are being undermined by the current pause in global-warming.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2093264/Forget-global-warming–Cycle-25-need-worry-NASA-scientists-right-Thames-freezing-again.html#ixzz1ktKC2dQx

    But do read all the cheery news for yourselves.


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Nanotechnology shows dynamics of nature’s molecular machines

Medical News Today tells of an advance by teams at Rutgers, UCLA, and Institut Jacques Monod in Paris on figuring out how an important molecular machine in nature does its job. Some excerpts:

Two papers by Ebright and collaborators in the Nov. 17 issue of the journal Science define for the first time the mechanisms by which the machine begins synthesis of RNA and then breaks free from its initial binding site to move along DNA to continue synthesizing RNA…

“Our findings were made possible by newly developed, single-molecule methods,” said Ebright, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. “These methods enabled us to analyze and manipulate individual molecules of the machine, one-by-one, as they carried out reactions”…

“The study of molecular machines and the dynamics of their moving parts hold great interest for nanotechnologists,” said Weiss, leader of the UCLA group…

Taken together, the two studies answer the longstanding question of how the machine acquires the energy required to break its interactions with, and leave, the start site. The machine acquires this energy by unwinding DNA and pulling unwound DNA during initial transcription. As DNA is unwound, energy is stored in the system, in the same manner, Ebright notes, as winding the rubber band of a rubber-band-powered airplane stores energy. Eventually, there is sufficient energy stored in the system that the machine is able to break its interactions with the start site, to shoot forward and, at the same instant, to rewind the unwound DNA.

This is important for at least two reasons: (1) it may help us address current medical problems, as described in the article, and (2) seeing how nature accomplishes its wonders using molecular machines will help us design and build our own new ones, for new wonders to come.

Richard Ebright of Rutgers, one of the team leaders, is a gutsy guy. He organized over 750 microbiologists to protest the current Administration’s approach to bioterror research. See the news story and an interview of Ebright. —Christine

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Robert Griffin III-QB Washington Redskins: The Heisman Trophy winner enters the nation’s capital with lofty expectations. He even won his first-preseason game last week against the Buffalo Bills. With a big arm and running ability, Griffin should get off to a good start in Mike Shanahan’s offense.

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Eight new head coaches will be on center stage during the 2012 National Football League season and it will be interesting to see how many of them will actually turn their teams around immediately.

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Dennis Allen-Oakland Raiders: The 39-year old Allen spent one season as a defensive coordinator with the Denver Broncos. He is the youngest head coach in the NFL; however, he is a branch on the coaching trees of Dan Reeves, Wade Phillips, Gregg Williams and John Fox, all defensive-minded coaches who preached an aggressive style. He will try to bring that to the Raiders and improve a unit that ranked 29th in both yards and points allowed last season.

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*The Pittsburgh Steelers and head coach Mike Tomlin agreed on a contract-extension that will keep him on the sideline through at least 2016. Financial terms were not disclosed. Tomlin is 55-25 with the Steelers, winning three AFC North titles, two AFC championships and the 2009 Super Bowl.

*Jacksonville Jaguars draft pick WR Justin Blackmon avoided jail time, leading guilty to drunken driving. Blackmon was fined $500 and ordered to complete 50 hours of community service.

*Former Raiders and Oilers quarterback Ken Stabler is the lastest big name from the NFL’s past to sue the league over head injuries. Stabler is the first plaintiff among 73 listed in a federal lawsuit filed in Philadelphia.

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*The Houston Texans will take on the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday, August 18th at 7:00 p.m. at Reliant Stadium.

*The Green Bay Packers have signed former University of Texas and Cincinnati Bengals running back Cedric Benson to their team.

*The Houston Texans captured their first win of the 2012 preseason with a 26-13 victory over Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers in Charlotte, North Carolina. Former LSU KR Trindon Holiday returned a kick 90-yards for a touchdown. The defense had eight sacks, including seven by the linebackers.

*NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson was arrested on a domestic violence charge over the weekend, after being accused of head-butting his newlywed wife during an argument in front of their home in Davie, Florida. Police stated that Johnson and his wife were at dinner when she confronted him about a receipt she found for a box of condoms. Because of his actions Johnson was released by the Miami Dolphins, making him jobless and a network canceled his reality t.v. show that he was scheduled with his wife.

*The Houston Texans have announced their 2012 Home game themes, which will start with the two home preseason games. On Saturday, August 18th the theme will be “State of Football” when they face Frank Gore, Randy Moss, Vernon Davis and the San Francisco 49ers.

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Gabby Douglas, at just the young-age of 16, became the first African American and the third straight American to win the all-around title giving her the first Gold Medal won by an American female gymnast in several years.

Douglas couldn’t believe her coach until she saw the scoreboard. And when she did, she was speechless.

“I wanted to seize the moment,” Douglas said. “It hasn’t sunk in yet and team finals haven’t sunk in yet. But I know it will.”

Douglas, who was in the lead from the first event, finished the night with an electric floor routine, flashing a dazzling smile and lots of pizzazz. When her score posted 62.232, coach Liang Chow told her that she had won the gold medal.

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v33_SonyaRichardsRossSanya Richards-Ross, the former University of Texas Longhorns track star from Jamaica, is now a U.S. Olympian after capturing the gold medal in the women’s 400 meters at Olympic Stadium in London, England.

Amid a series of freakish injuries in 2010, and a third place finish at the Beijing Games, Richards-Ross put that past behind her. At last year’s world championships , she finished seventh. Disappointment, tears and a bronze medal are all in the past. For on this trip to the Olympics, she closed the deal.

Four years later, Sanya Richards-Ross won the 400-meter gold that she had always thought she would. Despite nearly banging elbows with runners on both sides of her- and with the defending champion making up ground on the outside, Richards-Ross was stronger, this time over the last 100 meters.

“I just kept saying, “You can do this, you can do this,” Richards-Ross said. “I just dug really deep and I’m very happy with the outcome. This is something that I dreamed of for a very long time.”

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Jan 19 2007 19:03 GMT Maurabia
always nice a Buddha sculpture
Jan 19 2007 20:53 GMT Elise
nice shot!!!
Jan 19 2007 21:43 GMT beus PRO
Lovely the buddha statue I' love.
Jan 20 2007 08:05 GMT senna3
Thank you Baddi.
Jan 20 2007 08:32 GMT senna3
Thank you Elise.
Jan 20 2007 08:45 GMT senna3
Thank you Beus.
Jan 20 2007 13:49 GMT shalinipatel
Ok I see, so is it that the right hand has to be raised and in this position and the left one down?? :) x
Jan 21 2007 10:40 GMT senna3
I do not know Shalini. I was told that there are many hand positions, all expressing something Buddha has preached during his life. By some reason a few of them are so special that tourists are not allowed to take them out of the country. I have looked in several encyclopedia, but I found nothing about this aspect of Buddha sculptures.
Jan 22 2007 10:29 GMT gmastro
nice capture of that religious item!!
Jan 22 2007 16:20 GMT toshkatakb
Great capture!
Jan 22 2007 18:47 GMT senna3
Thank you Toshka.


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Brad Pitt's production company Plan B, as well as Brett Ratner's RatPac Entertainment, in association with New Regency, have optioned a pitch from Ian McCulloch for a film called 3 Videotapes, according to Deadline.

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