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Manufacture of an optical prototype for light-matter interaction experiments
Keywords:Surface Plasmon polaritons, Additive manufacturing, Nanotechnology.
An optical prototype was fabricated to perform measurements of surface plasmon polaritons in light beams diffracted at angles of less than 900. Experiments were developed to identify the excitation resonant angle of surface polariton plasmons by a diffraction grating with a pitch greater than the wavelength of the light signal. In the laboratory tests, measurements of the intensity curve of the diffracted light signal were carried out in the +1 and -1 orders. The experimental results were consistent with the theoretical approach. Based on the above, it is concluded that it is possible to excite surface plasmon polaritons, using the technique of the metallic diffraction grating with a wavelength shorter than the space frequency of the grid. The achieved optical prototype turns out to be very flexible for future applications in the measurement of plasmons. This is possible thanks to the speed at which it is possible to modify the frames and their assemblies for the alignment of the optical elements: laser diode, rugged metallic surface, linear polarizer. Likewise, the absolute control in the incident angle apparatus, and the ease of exchanging the light source and the rough metal surface, open wide possibilities for testing new hypotheses for the excitation conditions of surface plasmon polaritons.
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Senator Ron Wyden, Ranking Member
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Re: Business Income Tax Working Group
Dear Chairman Hatch and Ranking Member Wyden:
Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) is a national non-partisan budget watchdog that has been working on behalf of the nation’s taxpayers since 1995.
TCS, like many others, believes federal tax policy should foster economic growth. An improving economy will reduce the rate of growth of our debt – and should ultimately decrease its overall size. We also believe tax policy, like federal spending, should help maximize the benefits of economic growth for all taxpayers.
The attached comments begin with a description of principles for tax reform the Committee should embrace as it endeavors to overhaul the federal tax code. The comments are then divided into three sections: Business Tax Reform, International Business Tax Reform, and Introduction of Carbon Pricing. Many of the attached comments refer back to the discussion drafts put forth by then-Chairman Senator Max Baucus and the “Tax Reform Act of 2014” introduced by then-Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee David Camp last year.
It has been more than a quarter-century since the last overhaul of the tax code, and in that time it has become a confusing thicket littered with narrow carve-outs, parochial preferences, and revenue giveaways. There must be more regular review of the individual and corporate tax codes to ensure that they are providing a return on the taxpayer’s forgone revenue investment. The existing lack of oversight and scrutiny rewards political inertia, rather than performance. With that in mind, the Committee and Congress should take this rare opportunity to clear out the undergrowth and create a fair tax system that moves America forward.
Please feel free to contact me or my staff regarding any of these comments.
Tax Reform Principles
Make tax code simpler, flatter, and fairer. Reward hard work and innovation, not creative tax avoidance.
What does that mean? It means eliminating special interest breaks, collapsing brackets, and reducing rates in a transparent and accountable way. The nation needs a corporate tax code that rewards the best and most innovative businesses, not the best and most innovative tax attorneys. Policymakers should clean the corporate code completely, eliminating all those narrowly tailored tax breaks, snipping incentives to park profits overseas (without establishing “tax holidays,” which just reward those skilled in the art of tax avoidance), and lowering the statutory corporate rate to make us more competitive globally.
Tax things we don’t want.
Carbon pollution costs taxpayers real money now and down the road in environmental liabilities and health costs. Carbon producers are profitable industries that benefit from an entrenched system of federal handouts. Industry must pay for its costs of doing business, and no single industry should receive special treatment.
Put an end to the current practice of “tax extenders.”
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Business Tax Reform
- Repeal Domestic Production Activities Deduction (Section 199)
Although the stated concern of Congress when enacting the provision was retention of U.S. manufacturing jobs and investment, the Domestic Production Activities Deduction (Section 199) applies to many activities that could not realistically be sent abroad. Qualifying activities are loosely defined and complicated. Sec. 199 identifies qualifying income as receipts derived from disposition of property “which was manufactured, produced, grown, or extracted by the taxpayer in whole or in significant part within the United States.” However, it does not define the words “manufactured,” “produced,” “grown,” etc. Courts are often left to decide what qualifies as “production.”
Roughly one-third of all U.S. corporate activity now qualifies for this deduction, including mining, oil extraction, farming, construction, architecture, engineering and the production of software, recordings and films. Construction of real property in the U.S. that is eligible for the deduction includes the construction of residential or commercial buildings, swimming pools, parking lots, roads, and sidewalks. Electrical, plumbing, heating and air-conditioning contractors qualify. Qualifying production activity does not need to result from or in exports.
Section 199 doesn’t require a producer to demonstrate that any new jobs were created by the qualifying activity. Indeed, if a producer is able to increase net income by cutting wages and benefits or replacing workers with machines, the result would be an increased production activity deduction. The jobs associated with qualifying income do not need to be skilled or high-wage jobs. Non-production activities that create substantial economic benefit and high-skilled jobs, such as medical research, do not qualify for the subsidy.
Not surprisingly, the level of domestic manufacturing appears unaffected by the introduction of the production activity deduction. Almost a decade after enactment, the level of domestic manufacturing has continued its steady decline from the 1950s. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the manufacturing sector accounted for 13.6 percent of domestic jobs in 1992, 10.7 percent in 2002, only 8.2 in 2012, and will further decline to 7.1 percent by 2022.
- Repeal Last-In, First-Out Accounting
LIFO effectively allows a specific group of companies – those with physical inventories – to exaggerate their costs of producing goods, in order to lower the income they report to the government (not their actual income) in order to pay less in taxes. Congress should repeal LIFO for the following reasons:
LIFO is only about taxes. When Congress passed LIFO, it included a “conformity requirement” that companies use the same inventory accounting method in their financial reporting to shareholders as their reporting to the IRS. This, in theory, would prevent companies from reporting different income to the federal government for tax purposes than they report to shareholders. However, companies that use LIFO circumvent this problem by supplying additional disclosures in their financial statements that report their “LIFO reserve” or “inventory valuation allowance.” These measure the difference between the company’s net income when using the LIFO method versus the FIFO method. In other words, a company reports this difference in order to provide a more accurate picture of its balance sheet to its shareholders. Companies do not utilize LIFO in other nontax business calculations, such as management compensation. If Congress repeals the tax benefits of LIFO, it will likely disappear completely from general accounting practices.
LIFO creates demonstrably false assumptions about company inventories. Under LIFO, as long as a company’s sales do not exceed its purchases (and it maintains a constant or growing inventory), its inventory is considered to have never been sold. A company that has used LIFO for many years and maintained its inventory levels will theoretically have goods in its inventory dating back to when it started using LIFO, which could have been more than 30 years ago or more. In practice, few if any of the physical goods that companies added to their inventories in the last century are still in their warehouses, yet these goods rather than more expensive modern ones are still in tax inventory. In fact, most companies use FIFO inventory accounting because it more closely depicts the physical movement of goods, as companies generally use the oldest items in their inventories first.
LIFO distorts business decisions. Studies of LIFO’s effect on business decision-making suggest that the opportunity for tax avoidance distorts the inventory choices of firms that use LIFO. In short, LIFO firms are more likely to purchase extra inventory than FIFO firms. One study concludes: “that additional year-end LIFO inventory purchases appear to be made for tax reasons suggests that permitting the LIFO method to be used for tax purposes leads to inventory management inefficiencies.” Citing this finding, authors of a critique of LIFO take it one step further, “For firms to purchase additional inventory despite the incremental costs shows how significant the tax benefits can be and further demonstrates the distortion in firm behavior LIFO can cause.”
LIFO covers more than just inflation. LIFO allows companies to defer payment on increases in the value of their goods even if those increases have nothing to do with general inflation – the avowed purpose of LIFO. Oil and gas companies use the LIFO accounting method. The price of oil is affected by a variety of factors – such as security issues and global shifts in demand – that have increased the cost of oil far more than the general rate of inflation. From 2005 to 2013, the wellhead price of domestic oil rose nearly 130 percent, compared to a 32 percent rise in the producer price index for all manufacturing and a 21 percent rise in consumer prices. But because oil and gas companies use LIFO, there is no distinction between an increase in inventory values as a result of inflation or other factors.
LIFO is not available to all taxpayers. This kind of accounting method is only relevant to companies that maintain physical inventories. Service industries, for example, are not able to take advantage of this special tax break. Regardless of LIFO’s efficacy, it offers preferential tax treatment to a specific group taxpayers relative to other taxpayers based on the arbitrary requirement of maintaining physical inventories.
Both the Baucus discussion draft and Chairman Camp’s proposal proposed the repeal of LIFO. However, it is unnecessary to allow the accumulated subsidy that has resulted from LIFO accounting be taken into income over 8 years, as Baucus proposes, rather than 4 years, as would occur under normal accounting rules.
- Repeal Master Limited Partnerships
Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) have all of the characteristics commonly associated with corporations. Unit interests in MLPs are freely transferable on public markets. Investors are shielded from personal liability for the acts or omissions of the MLP; their only risk is the loss of investment. MLPs are subject to the same accounting and reporting rules as public companies and to the securities regulations that apply to publicly-traded companies. MLPs continue in existence for tax purposes even if a majority of the interests in the partnership change hands.
Although similar to corporations in many ways, MLPs that meet specified tax requirements are taxed as partnerships, not as corporations. For an MLP to qualify for the tax-advantaged partnership treatment under the tax code, 90 percent of its income must come from qualified sources. These include interest, dividends, capital gains, real property rents, gains on real estate, and income and gains from specified natural resources activities. The definition of qualified income has resulted in the oil, gas and coal industries dominating the use of tax-advantaged MLPs.
At the end of September 2013, nearly 130 MLPs had a combined market capitalization of $490 billion. Energy and natural resource MLPs accounted for 86 percent of this total. In terms of market capitalization, three-fourths of all MLPs are engaged in mid- and downstream activities, including gathering and processing; refining; compression; transportation by pipeline, ship or truck; storage; marketing and distribution (other than retail).
- Repeal Exploration and Development Costs Deductions
Exploration and development costs, also known as intangible drilling costs (IDC), include the costs of designing and fabricating drilling platforms as well as direct “wages, fuel, repairs, hauling, and supplies related to drilling wells and preparing them for production.” IDCs can represent 60 to 80 percent of the costs of drilling a well. The IDC deduction allows qualified natural resource developers to deduct all of these costs immediately. Integrated oil and gas producers are required to capitalize 30 percent of their IDCS and recover them over a 60-month period.
Non-oil and gas taxpayers who self-construct a plant, equipment or other productive property, by contrast, must capitalize the labor and supplies that are used to create the property. These capital costs can be deducted from their business income over a specified period of time through depreciation allowances, based on class lives (e.g. 5, 7 or 10 years). The book treatment of IDCs for oil and gas companies would be to recover these costs over the life of the well, which can be as long as 20 years or more. Not only is the immediate expensing unique to the natural resource developers who can claim this deduction, this deduction is not subject to any maximum dollar limitation, unlike small business expensing rules, which cap the deductible amount.
The oil industry characterizes the IDC deduction as the equivalent of the “research and experimental” (R&E) cost deduction and other business cost deductions that apply to all industries. Research expenses are defined as reasonable costs incurred: “for activities intended to provide information that would eliminate uncertainty about the development or improvement of a product. Uncertainty exists if the available information does not establish how to develop or improve a product or the appropriate design of a product.” IDCs are explicitly excluded from the definition of R&E under both the R&D tax credit (section 41) and the general deduction for R&E expenses (section 174).
The IDC deduction is not the same, or designed with the same purpose, as the R&E deduction available to other industries. In the case of oil and gas wells, the principal uncertainty that exists is only whether oil and gas are present in commercial quantities. Indeed, producers repeatedly use the same or substantially similar equipment and processes on well after well. Little or no new information regarding development, improvement, or design occurs when this happens, but developers can still immediately deduct the costs of designing and fabricating these drilling platforms. At this point in the technological development of the industry, the IDC deduction only serves to subsidize the business generally by allowing certain taxpayers to avoid the capitalization rules that apply to other taxpayers.
The Baucus draft proposed reducing the tax subsidies that allow for immediate write off of intangible drilling costs (IDC), tertiary injectants, and mining exploration and development expenditures, as well as the rapid amortization of geological and geophysical expenditures. Natural resources developers would be allowed a 5-year amortization of these expenditures. Non-US wells have 10-year amortizations under present law. The 5-year amortization also contrasts with the bill’s treatment of other forms of capital cost recovery, as it reduces depreciation benefits and lengthens the period for amortization of intangibles to 20 years. Granting a short 5-year recovery period for oil and gas well investments – the same as the proposed new recovery period for research and development expenditures (R&D) – implicitly accepts the oil industry’s fallacious argument that drilling oil wells is like R&D. While the Baucus discussion draft is an improvement to existing law, a 5-year recovery period for oil and gas well investments only lessens the existing tax subsidy. Amortization periods should be tied to economic data.
The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates the repeal of intangible drilling and development (or exploration and development) costs deduction for oil and gas wells will save taxpayers $6 billion over 5 years.
- Repeal Special Percentage Depletion Allowance
Depletion deduction is theoretically based on the principle that, as an income-producing asset is depleted, a company should be able to deduct from its income the cost of acquiring the proportion of the asset that has been used. In other words, depletion is similar to the depreciation deduction for the capital cost of plant and equipment; the costs are deducted from income before the net income is taxed. This deduction should allow recovery of the cost of leases for oil and gas wells, as well as the cost of other natural resources and timber. The way the cost depletion formula works, the total deduction will never exceed 100 percent over the life of the well, so it approximates an accurate deduction of capital costs.
Eligible independent oil and gas producers and royalty owners, however, can claim “percentage depletion”. While nominally designed to allow the oil and gas industry to deduct the cost of purchasing rights to oil and gas resources, the percentage depletion deduction bears no actual relationship to the cost of acquisition. It has been severed completely from the concept of recovering the capital cost of the resource; it effectively makes a certain portion of gross income tax-free without regard to capital costs. It allows independent producers a flat deduction of a percentage of gross income from each well. At the 2012 average wellhead price of $94.52 a barrel, 1,000 barrels a day would produce an annual deduction of more than $5 million on proceeds of over $34 million.
The percentage depletion deduction was first adopted in the 1926 Revenue Act. At that time, the deduction was set at 27.5 percent for oil and gas wells, and limited to 50 percent of the net income from the well. It has undergone a few modifications, with the most significant in 1975. The oil and gas percentage depletion deduction was reduced to 15 percent and the limitation was set at 65 percent of net income and 1,000 bpd. The most notable change was that integrated oil companies – those that operate refineries as well as producing oil and gas from drilling – were restricted from using the percentage depletion deduction. In 1990, the limitation was revised again to allow percentage depletion deductions up to 100 percent of net income from marginal wells.
Setting the limit at 100 percent means that the deduction may offset the entire net income – a producer may pay zero tax on the income from a marginal well. Even this limit was suspended for 1998 through 2007 and 2009 through 2011, meaning that a producer could deduct more than 100 percent of the net income from a marginal well. The special percentage depletion allowance enables producers to claim tax deductions in excess of their investment. No other taxpayer has such a benefit.
The Baucus discussion draft proposed repeal of the percentage depletion allowance. For new wells and mines, taxpayers will no longer be able to deduct more than the amount they have invested. However, the effective date for the repeal of percentage depletion (properties placed in production after 2014) allows owners of existing mines and wells to continue to deduct amounts in excess of their actual costs. This is poor tax policy, and it contrasts with the changes proposed for depreciation and amortization of intangibles, which would slow down the recovery of costs incurred before the bill’s effective date. A better policy would repeal percentage depletion for all properties and allow any remaining basis in existing wells or mines to be recovered through cost depletion.
The Joint Committee on Taxation has estimated the repeal of percentage depletion allowance for oil and gas companies would save taxpayers in excess of $7.4 billion over 5 years.
- Repeal Deduction for Tertiary Injectants
“Tertiary recovery,” sometimes called “enhanced oil recovery,” includes a variety of methods to increase the productivity of an oil and gas reservoir. Tertiary injectants increase the amount of oil or gas that is recovered and extend the life of a well. As oil and gas is withdrawn from a geological formation, the pressure inside the reservoir declines, making it more difficult to remove the hydrocarbons inside, requiring tertiary recovery. The principal means of tertiary recovery involve injecting materials into the formation to increase the reservoir pressure, increase the mobility of the remaining hydrocarbons within the formation, or to increase separation between injected fluids (used for secondary recovery) and the remaining hydrocarbons.
The oil and gas industry has suggested that the deduction for tertiary injectants is simply a standard cost recovery provision. If tertiary injectants were useful only in the year when they were injected, they could be deducted as an expense under other ordinary business provisions of the tax code. But the industry’s argument ignores the fact that tertiary injectants may support production from a well for a period of time, and not simply in the year that they are used. Section 193 allows oil and gas companies to deduct the cost immediately, and avoid capitalizing and depreciating the cost over the life of the injectants’ usefulness. Producers may also deduct the cost of tertiary injectants without limitation.
- Repeal Amortization Period for Geological and Geophysical Costs
Geological and geophysical assessments (G&G) are activities that oil and gas companies engage in to determine where oil and gas may be located on their properties, and in what amounts, and also to determine where drilling may be most appropriate. The activities may include seismic surveys, electromagnetic surveys, other types of remote sensing, shallow test drilling, and bottom sampling. While G&G does not directly yield income, the investment in G&G contributes to the income an oil and gas company may receive from the property assessed, throughout the life of the company’s use of the property. As such, the results of G&G investment are a capital asset whose cost should be recognized over the period of the usefulness of the data.
G&G expenditures include the costs incurred for geologists and geologic surveys that are used as the basis for decisions to acquire and retention of mineral properties. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 specified that the tax deduction for geological and geophysical assessments by smaller oil and gas companies should be recognized over an amortization period of just 24 months. For major integrated oil companies, the amortization period is seven years. Even this longer period is not tied to the actual usefulness of the information generated from G&G assessments.
Seven years is not an unreasonable estimate of the period that such information may be most useful, though in fact some information from the assessments may be used for decades. The size of the company conducting the G&G assessment is not itself relevant to determining the period that G&G data may be useful, so the current provision simply provides a tax subsidy to smaller companies.
The Joint Committee on Taxation has estimated that changing this amortization period to uniform 7 years would save taxpayers $700 million over 5 years.
- Repeal Carbon Capture and Sequestration Credits
Current carbon capture technology would need to be scaled-up as much as 100 times in order to be workable in commercial power plant. Not only would it take massive investments in infrastructure and subsidies to test the commercial viability of CCS, but any consequent clean-up, should leaks or unforeseen accidents occur, would likely be paid for by taxpayers. The Camp proposal includes the repeal of the carbon dioxide sequestration credit, effective for credits determined for tax years beginning after 2014. The Baucus draft proposes the option of claiming a 20 percent investment tax credit after 2016 for existing facilities that undertake a carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) retrofit that captures at least 50 percent of carbon dioxide emissions.
- Biofuels and Alternative Fuels
Production tax credits and investment tax credits (ITC) by their nature and design distort investment decisions and subsidize otherwise non-economic investment. Biofuel, biomass, and alternative fuel tax preferences – including the cellulosic, biodiesel, open-loop biomass, alternative fuel, and alternative fuel property tax credits – should be allowed to expire permanently, and they should not be replaced with other tax credits.
The Baucus energy discussion draft proposed simplifying current energy tax incentives by consolidating over 40 separate provisions into two production tax credits and two alternative ITCs. However, these new credits would still create unnecessary subsidies and distort the market. The transportation fuel credit proposed in the Baucus plan would allow corn ethanol facilities powered by biomass sources to once again become eligible for federal tax breaks, even though the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit (VEETC) was so unpopular that it was ended in 2011. For the first time, corn butanol, another corn-based biofuel, would become eligible for the new tax credit even though the use of corn-based biofuels has failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This proposed credit also fails to take into account full life-cycle carbon emissions since it would exclude carbon emitted during the production of feedstocks used in ethanol or biodiesel production, such as corn or soybeans. It would also create unintended consequences as a result of increased biomass and biofuel production, such as higher food prices and indirect land use changes which cause deforestation and production on previously uncultivated land.
The Camp proposal would have repealed tax credits for biofuels and electricity produced from certain renewable resources, including closed-loop biomass, open-loop biomass, and municipal solid waste.
International Business Tax Reform
New rules for international taxation need to be grounded in today’s economic environment of global taxpayers, characterized by the increasing importance and mobility of intellectual property and constant developments in information and communication technologies. Unless the corporate code recognizes and anticipates avoidance opportunities like inversions in a globalized economy, the U.S. corporate tax base will continue to erode. Several high-profile corporate inversions last year focused more attention on the shortcomings of the current international tax system. Members of both parties in Congress recognize gaps in the existing tax code provide opportunities for companies to eliminate or significantly reduce taxation on both domestic and foreign income in ways that are inconsistent with the intent of existing tax policy.
Congress should follow through on the international provisions in the Baucus and Camp proposals that sought to narrow the U.S. worldwide taxation regime and eliminate the disincentive under current law to repatriate foreign earnings; and enact base erosion protections to increase taxation of foreign income earned with respect to the U.S. market.
The Baucus draft, for example, proposed ending the present deferral of tax on pre-reform foreign income of Controlled Foreign Corporations (CFCs). Amounts earned by CFCs in years starting in 2014 will be deemed repatriated at the end of the tax year. A domestic corporation that is a U.S. shareholder of a CFC must include in gross income its share of the CFC’s accumulated undistributed foreign income (both current income and previously accumulated amounts), regardless of whether any distributions are made to the domestic corporation. The draft proposed a special deduction that results in a 20 percent effective tax rate on this income before foreign tax credits are included. A foreign tax credit would be allowed for taxes paid with respect to the taxable portion of the included income.
However, in the Baucus proposal, a U.S. shareholder could elect to pay the net tax liability that results from the mandatory inclusion of pre-effective-date undistributed CFC earnings in up to eight equal installments. While the draft denies taxpayers who took advantage of tax havens and aggressive tax planning the opportunity to reap another windfall in the taxation of deemed distributions, the option to spread payments over 8 years seems like a budgetary gimmick. Many of the affected companies file audited financial statements. For these companies, the additional tax required by the deemed repatriation will have to be accrued immediately upon enactment – in advance of even the first cash payment required by the change. The eight-year spreading of payments is a cash-flow windfall. Some installment payment may be appropriate to allow taxpayers to manage their cash effectively, but eight years is too long a period of continued deferral.
Introduction of Carbon Pricing
A carbon tax is an excise, or consumption, tax imposed on specified sources of carbon emissions. It may be imposed either “upstream” on products the consumption of which will result in the release of carbon into the atmosphere, or “downstream” on actual emissions.
A carbon tax would have important points in common with any federal tax. First, the proceeds of a carbon tax could be used to reduce other taxes, to reduce the deficit, to fund specific programs, or to achieve a combination of those goals. Second, in designing any particular carbon tax system, tradeoffs will be necessary between the desire to encourage certain behaviors through exemptions or credits and the competing desires either to impose as low a rate as possible on taxable substances or to achieve targeted reductions in emissions. Third, the administrative structures currently in place for a number of taxes, such as the motor fuels and the black lung excise taxes, could support administration of an upstream carbon tax.
Consumption tax as a policy choice
The federal government does not currently have a broad-based consumption tax; however, such taxes frequently are suggested either as a replacement for one or more existing taxes or as sources of additional revenue for deficit reduction. Prior to enactment of the income tax, consumption taxes in the form of tariffs and excise taxes were the principal source of federal revenue.
The policy considerations surrounding consumption taxation are well documented. Advocates of consumption taxes typically identify four advantages of this form of taxation. First, they argue that it corrects a current law bias that rewards consumption over savings and investment and is therefore, more economically efficient. That is, individuals can avoid a broad-based consumption tax by choosing to save rather than to consume. Second, they argue that a consumption tax, assuming some protection for very low income workers, would improve tax fairness by creating a flatter tax system. Third, they argue that consumption taxes, through border adjustments, would exempt U.S. exports making them more competitive and impose taxes on imports. Fourth, to the extent that consumption taxes are imposed before the last retail sale, they believe the tax would improve overall tax compliance.
Opponents of consumption taxes dispute the assertions of proponents and argue that such taxes are inherently regressive and that a federal consumption tax would interfere with the ability of states to impose sales taxes, a traditional source of state and local revenue.
Design of a Carbon Tax
As noted, a carbon tax could be imposed either upstream on products the consumption of which will release carbon, or downstream on actual emissions. A downstream tax must also include an upstream or mid-stream component that imposes tax on the carbon released by business and residential consumption of fuels.
The imposition of an upstream tax would have two principal advantages. First, imposition of an upstream carbon tax would not require the creation of a large new bureaucracy to measure actual emissions and collect the tax. The Internal Revenue Service already collects a variety of excise taxes under well established procedures. In some cases, it might even be possible to eliminate one or more existing excise taxes such as the motor fuels excise, oil spill liability, black lung, and leaking underground storage taxes. This could be done through appropriate adjustment to carbon tax rates on various products to approximate the present law tax burdens. Alternatively, the reporting and collection of existing taxes could be combined with reporting and collection of a carbon tax.
Second, the number of firms required to file tax returns for an upstream tax would be limited. Most of the tax would be paid by the operators of approximately 150 refineries, 500 gas processing plants and 1300 coal mines. In contrast, an emissions tax could require filings by, for example, every business consuming coal or petroleum products and by firms selling transportation fuels and fuels for residential use.
An upstream carbon tax would apply to the principle sources of CO2 emissions: coal, natural gas and petroleum products. The tax would impose differing rates on each taxable substance so that each is taxed equivalently in terms of tons of potential CO2 emissions. The CO2 equivalence rate could be set and adjusted to achieve any desired combination of revenue collections and CO2 emissions reductions.
As with any tax, credits and exemptions could be provided to encourage specific activity. The most frequently suggested carbon tax credit, one for carbon offset activities, would require new regulatory processes for the certification of offsets and new IRS expertise and audit resources to evaluate carbon offsets claims.
Carbon versus Value-Added Tax
The most commonly discussed consumption tax option is a Value-Added Tax (VAT) imposed on most goods and services. Such a tax would require extensive collection and reporting activities across the private sector as well as the creation of entire new systems within the IRS to administer and enforce the tax. The tax would be avoided by saving rather than consuming. For households with limited ability to save, the tax would be largely unavoidable although its impact could be mitigated through rebates to low-income households or other measures.
A carbon tax would be more targeted than a VAT; nonetheless, the tax would have a broad impact because carbon contributes to the value of many goods and services through its presence in raw material, transportation and energy. In contrast to a VAT, a limited number of entities, many of which already file federal excise tax returns, would have compliance responsibilities for an upstream carbon tax. Households could reduce the impact of the tax on them by taking energy savings measures.
 A federal district court ruled that the act of putting wrapped candy bars and wine bottles into gift baskets qualifies for the deduction. If a company produces a product and sells it in its own retail outlets, the retail sale can qualify for the deduction, unless the product is further prepared immediately prior to sale, such as food or beverage for consumption (the so-called “Starbucks Footnote”). Thus, roasted and packaged coffee is eligible, but a cup of coffee is not.
 Daniel Karnis, “Maximizing the Section 199 Deduction,” Journal of Accountancy (September 2010):
 “Roughly 95 percent of firms with inventories use FIFO accounting for tax purposes,” according to “Treasury I” inventory analysis for the Reagan Administration during the 1986 tax reform effort.
 The Year-End LIFO Inventory Purchasing Decision: An Empirical Test, Micah Frankel and Robert Trezevant, The Accounting Review, Vol. 69, No. 2 (Apr., 1994), pp. 382-398
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 Calculated from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data
 National Association of Publicly Traded Partnerships (NAPTP) data, http://www.naptp.org/documentlinks/Investor_Relations/MLP_101.pdf slide 33
 Treas. Reg. sec. 1.612-4(a)
 The Congressional Research Service reports that “Since 1986, major integrated oil companies have been able to expense 70% of their intangible drilling costs and capitalize the remaining 30% over a 60-month period.” “Oil and Natural Gas Industry Tax Issues in the FY2013 Budget Proposal,” CRS Report R42374, (March 2, 2012).
 26 U.S.C. 263(c)
 American Petroleum Institute fact sheet: “This is a deduction, not a credit or government spending outlay and is no different than the policy behind and treatment of R&D costs vis-à-vis the R&D deduction available for other industries.”
 Treas. Reg. sec. 1.174-2
 Joint Committee on Taxation, Estimates Of Federal Tax Expenditures For Fiscal Years 2014-2018
 26 U.S.C. 613A
 44 Stat. 9 (Feb. 26, 1926)
 Tax Reduction Act of 1975, Pub. Law 94-12 sec. 501, 89 Stat. 47 (Mar. 29, 1975).
 26 U.S.C. 611, 613, 613A.
 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, Pub. Law 101–508 sec. 11522, 104 Stat. 1388 (Nov. 5, 1990). (Marginal wells are defined as those that produce very little oil or only heavy oil.)
 26 U.S.C. 613A(c)(6)(H).
 Joint Committee on Taxation, Estimates Of Federal Tax Expenditures For Fiscal Years 2014-2018
 “API Key Tax Issues,” American Petroleum Institute.
 26 U.S.C. 193
 “Atlantic OCS Proposed Geological and Geophysical Activities Mid-Atlantic and South Atlantic Planning Areas Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement,” BOEM 2012-005 p. 3-3 (March 2012).
 26 U.S.C. 167(h), Energy Policy Act of 2005, Pub. Law 109-56 sec. 1329, 119 Stat. 1020 (Aug. 8. 2005).
 “Estimates Of Federal Tax Expenditures For Fiscal Years 2014-2018,” JCX-97-14 (Aug. 5, 2014).
 For early examples see, H.R. 2060, 104th Congress, July 1995 (The Flat Tax introduced by Rep. Armey [R-TX]); H.R. 2525 106th Congress, July 1999 (The Fair Tax introduced by Rep. Linder [R-GA]). Similar tax proposals have been reintroduced repeatedly.
 The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Simpson-Bowles) recommended a 15-cent a gallon increase in the gas tax in addition to additional revenues from tax reform.
The Bipartisan Policy Center debt reduction report (Domenici-Rivlin) recommended a 6.5 percent VAT described as a “national debt reduction sales tax.”
 See, A VAT Reader, Tax Analysts 2011.
 See CBO, Policy Options for Reducing CO2 Emissions, February 2008 at xii – xiii; Metcalf, Gilbert E., A Proposal for a U.S. Carbon Tax Swap, (The Hamilton Project October 2007) at 13 – 14.
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It was the final week of competition for the DLS team at Sentower Park after an epic month-long campaign.
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The DLS team were well and truly back into the swing of things in this their second week of competition in Belgium.
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According to a study published on Environmental Pollution there is a correlation between pollution and Covid-19 mortality rate.
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A study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health conducted by the Italian Francesca Dominici confirmed the above-mentioned thesis. «Someone who lives for decades in a country with high levels of fine particulate pollution is 15% more likely to die from COVID-19 than someone who lives in a region that has just one unit (one microgram per cubic meter) less of such pollution.».
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Universal Removable Bluetooth Keyboard PU Leather Case Cover For 7/8 Inch Tablet
This is the new released 2-in-1 Bluetooth keyboard leather case for all 7 and 8 inch Tablet, such as Samsung/Apple/Kindle/All android Tablet.
2in1: Wireless Bluetooth Keyboard + Folding PU Leather Protective Case.
Detachable and plastic wireless Bluetooth 3.0 keyboard in a tray design. You can take off the plastic keyboard from the case, very convenient to use and carry.
With wireless operation distance up to 10 meters.
Stylish, and high grade protective PU leather case.
Supports all operation systems due now
With display stand for easy viewing.
Built-In Lithium Rechargeable battery lasts for approximately 45 hours per charge.
Energy-Saving keyboard sleep mode.
With LED indicators.
Quiet keystrokes.Waterproof and dustproof design.
Lightweight, compact, easy to carry and handle.Ergonomic design.
Easy operation, need no drive, just plug and play.
Ideal for students, business persons, travelers, etc
1. Bluetooth version: 3.0
2. Operation distance: Up to 10m
3. Operation voltage: 3.0-5.0V
4. Lithium battery capacity: 750mA
5. Working current: <5.0mA
6. Standby current: 2.5mA
7. Sleeping current: <200uA
8. Charging current: >100mA
9. Standby time: 130 days Approx.
10. Charging time: 4-4.5 hours
11. Uninterrupted working time: 140 hours
12. Case Dimension: 215mm x143mm x 25mm
13. Key life: 5 million strokes
14. Material: Plastic (the keyboard); PU Leather (the case)
15. Color: Black
1 X Leather Case with Bluetooth Keyboard for all 7 inch and 8 inch.
1 X USB Power Charging Cable
1 X User Manual
Note:PACKAGE DO NOT INCLUDED THE TABLET
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Turn on the keyboard and press the Bluethooh pair button, then use your device search the name ''Bluetooth Keyboard'',
click on the connect. Enter the 4 digit code shown on the screen of your iPad on your keyboard and press Enter.The keyboard should be paired.
For Windows system:
1. Swipe in from the left edge of the screen and tap Settings
2. Tap change PC settings,then tap PC and devices
3. Tap Bluetooth—Slide the Bluetooth switch to the ''ON'' position
4. Turn on the keyboard by slide the power switch to the ''ON'' position,Bluetooth indicator blinks for 2 times
5. Press the Bluetooth pairing button to put the keyboard in pairing mode,Bluetooth indicator will blink until successfully paired
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Jarosław – the Town of Cellars
Discover the secrets of the Jarosław cellars! One ticket – two underground routes, double fun.
During a tour of the two underground tourist routes you will find out why Jarosław is sometimes called “the town of cellars”. These two places were once a part of the vast network of chambers and corridors serving as storehouses and natural refrigerators. Today they are a remarkable reminder of the great Jarosław fairs. While strolling the underground corridors you will encounter a story full of riches and fame but also of wartime and the great construction disaster, which led to almost complete annihilation of this part of the town. Together we will discover the secrets of the Jarosław cellars with just one ticket.
- The offer is addressed mainly to groups of at least 8 people.
- Prior reservation is required.
- Up to 15 people can enter the Passage at the same time.
- Organized groups of over 15 people are divided into smaller ones and enter the Passage at least 15 minutes apart.
- The group leader visits for free.
- A tour with the PTTK-guide.
- The tour takes about 90 minutes.

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Yesterday kicked off this year's batch of Art on the Streets sculptures, which we detailed here. Local artist Sean O'Meallie, who created "Poly Poly," won the $10,000 Juror Prize.
"I’d like to see an eventual treatment of the entire alley that makes it safer, more inviting and easier to use, and enriches the lives of anyone who encounters it,” O'Meallie says in a statement from the Downtown Partnership.
Andy Tirado, who won the Juror Prize last year, and served on this year's panel, won the $1,000 People's Choice award. "Lacuna" hung in the south tower of the Plaza of the Rockies last year, but is now moving to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, where it will hang until next January.
Read more details in the press release following the jump.
The launch party also premiered a video from videographer Rodney RJ Hooks featuring the whole batch of new works and onsite performances from the Soul Mechanics.
Elsewhere, the Colorado Theater Guild announced nominees for the 10th Annual Henry Awards (of which our critic Bill Wheeler is a part), which honor excellence in the state's theater community. Winners will be announced July 20.
Outstanding Direction of a Play: Geoffrey Kent, The Lying Kind, TheatreWorks
Outstanding Actor in a Play: John DiAntonio, The Liar, TheatreWorks and Steven Cole Hughes, The Lying Kind, TheatreWorks
Outstanding Actress in a Play: Amy Brooks, The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, Springs Ensemble Theatre
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play: Billie McBride, The Lying Kind, TheatreWorks
Outstanding Costume Design: Hugh Hanson, The Liar, TheatreWorks
Meanwhile, local photographer and gallery owner Kathleen McFadden posted an update on her search for a new location. McFadden's Range Gallery was formerly located in Old Colorado City. In March, McFadden sent a candid email about her relocation:
In our last exciting installment of "Cutter Bill, Range Gallery Dog," the landlord had darkened the doorstep of the gallery demanding an increase in rent which left Kathleen to ponder aloud, "Should we pay the higher amount, or just move?"
She looked over at Cutter Bill, the smartest, friendliest, best gallery dog in the whole world and asked, "Cutter, you're a thinking dog, what do you think?"
She noticed he had rolled up his astroturf mat, pushed all his toys to the door and was looking up at her with an eager smile and a carefree wag of the tail.
Kathleen exclaimed, "You're right again! Wait for me, I'll pack and we'll move to greener pastures!"
Stay tuned to find out where the greener pastures lie in the next episode of, "Cutter Bill, Range Gallery Dog!"
As of today, McFadden is still searching for a location, but in the meantime, she's redesigned her website and started a blog. She writes:
When I closed my gallery in Old Colorado City, I thought I'd have another building within, oh, say 20 minutes. My "20 minutes" has turned into 3 months now. I've taken a serious look at 5 different locations, each with their own attributes and downsides.
I've decided to be Goldilocks about this, I want the location to be Juuuuust Right. So, I have a list of requirements: must be attractive, solid, big, well-built, visible and memorable. Sounds like I'm writing a personals ad for the perfect man, but the perfect building is what I'm in the market for right now.
In the meantime, I'm being creative. I've completely redesigned my website, added new images, retired some. And I'm a lean, mean developing machine, processing dozens of old black and white rolls of film. It's like Christmas.
Which means, when I do find a location for my gallery that's Goldilocks perfect, I will have all kinds of new work to show and new stories to write. Oh boy!
WINNERS ANNOUNCED FOR 17TH ANNUAL ART ON THE STREETS SCULPTURE EXHIBIT
Colorado Springs, CO – Downtown Colorado Springs and Downtown Ventures are pleased to announce winners in the annual Art on the Streets sculpture exhibit.
The 2015-16 Juror’s Award and a $10,000 prize goes to Poly Poly, by Colorado Springs artist Sean O’Meallie. Poly Poly is a site-specific installation, where inflated parrots hover over a downtown alley. Local artist and former toy designer Sean O’Meallie, says, “I thought this space could use some inflated toy parrots. I’d like to see an eventual treatment of the entire alley that makes it safer, more inviting and easier to use, and enriches the lives of anyone who encounters it.” Poly Poly was chosen as the Juror’s Choice by the panel of jurors including David Tryba, founder of Tryba Architects, Denver; Blake Milteer, Museum Director and Chief Curator for the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; Andrew Tirado, Colorado Springs artist and winner of the 2014-15 Juror’s Choice Award; and Daisy McConnell, Director of the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs Galleries of Contemporary Art.
McConnell describes why Poly Poly was the juror’s pick for the top award: “Sean O’Meallie’s ‘Poly Poly’ sculpture pushes the boundaries of what we think of when we consider public art. The artist has taken big risks by engaging an otherwise overlooked space – the gap between two buildings over an alley in the heart of downtown. I believe public art is at its best when it engages the architecture, environment and viewers in ways that expand our understanding of a public space and spark critical and lively dialogue. O’Meallie’s ‘Poly Poly’ does all of this and more – it addresses heavy issues such as environmentalism and international commerce, while simultaneously delighting with formal elements of color, line and form. ‘Poly Poly' playfully invites the viewer to engage and spend time with the work and delivers a one-two punch of “pop” delight mixed with conceptual content that connects to our modern life in surprising ways.”
The 2014-15 People’s Choice Award and a $1000 prize goes to Lacuna, by Colorado Springs artist Andrew Tridado. The giant arm and hand constructed from reclaimed wood was suspended high in the south tower of the Plaza of the Rockies for the duration of the 2014-15 exhibit. Lacuna was moved to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, where it is on display through January 3, 2016. Votes for the People’s Choice award were collected at the US Bank downtown location, as well as online. Voting for the People’s Choice award for this year’s exhibit is open through May 2016.
Awards were presented at a public launch party Thursday, June 18, 2015, at the Historic City Auditorium. The 2015-16 exhibit, featuring 13 new works of art will be on exhibited throughout Downtown Colorado Springs though May 2016.
Art on the Streets is a program of the Downtown Partnership of Colorado Springs, through Downtown Ventures, Inc. The program is supported by private contributions, including founding sponsor U.S. Bank, with additional support from H.Chase Stone Trust, Nor’wood, Murphy Constructors, CALM Foundation and Culebra Properties. Through the 17 years of the program, Art on the Streets has exhibited more than 200 works of art downtown, with more than 25 works purchased for permanent display downtown. All of the artwork in the exhibit is for sale, and purchase inquiries are welcome. Additional information can be found at www.DowntownCS.com/AOTS.


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11-01-2008 05:49 PM - edited 11-01-2008 05:53 PM
Nope. Yours is the only reply so far. In case anybody with knowledge reads this, I should add that when the hang occurs during the WinXP startup screen, the rolling bars freeze.
11-03-2008 04:55 PM
This happens to these units and other manuf. types.
Unplug the unit when rebooting, or try different settings in the BIOS. Make sure no other devices are looked as a boot device.
The final thing is turn off USB in DOS mode or Legacy device.
IF you have a USB keyboad, it won't work until Windows starts with that last setting.
11-03-2008 06:26 PM
Thanks MrButkus. I'll try tweaking the BIOS settings. Turning off usb in dos mode seems drastic, considering it's a sporadic problem, and unplugging when hung works fine. Basically just another nagging WinAnnoyance. Seems like one more reason to get a Mac when the old 8400 goes by the wayside. Thanks again!
11-07-2008 12:23 PM
I have the same problem. I figured out that unplugging it during startup was a viable go around, but the problem still bothers me. My other externals, including my Seagate FreeAgent, don't cuse this problem, so why does the One Touch?
If I were to modify the Bios settings, what should I do?
12-22-2008 02:11 PM
Same issue here. One Touch Four Plus Firmware rev 01.2.1 S/N 2HAADN20. It hangs Windows Media
Center on an HP PCm7067 during boot up. Unplugging it from the USB port and allowing Windows to boot
and then plugging in the One Touch is the only way it works. I don't like to mess with the BIOS for the sake
of an external drive with an obvious engineering problem. Any ideas?
12-26-2008 10:22 PM
<<<< external drive with an obvious engineering problem. >>>
Sorry to say.. check the other USB HD products of different makers... same problems with boot up with their USB HDs attached.
One solution... remove Legacy USB support
Until Windows starts.. no USB devices are detected... this means your USB mouse nor USB keyboard won't work in BIOS nor hitting the F8 Key to go to Safe Mode. Just have a PS/2 keyboard handy.
No USB, not boot interruptions...


I’ve learned that taking on a transgender identity is not about becoming someone else; it is about erasing oneself.
Voters currently unaware of Minnesota’s record on these crimes would likely find the state’s actions and inactions extremely troubling.
The Archdiocese of Washington has seen fit to set aside millions of dollars for a man known for wasting egregious sums and for perpetuating sexual abuse.
In light of both the disastrous human rights situation in China and a sex predator’s dubious involvement in the Sino-Vatican accord, it’s time for the Vatican to come clean about Cardinal McCarrick’s role.
Anonymous ‘former staff’ called their story one of ‘workplace abuse and harassment,’ sending a message to Hollywood executives that ‘Katie Hill is not a hero for women.’
A new study from the CDC found a rise in anxiety, substance abuse, and young adults harboring suicidal thoughts.
Providing reasonable legal accommodation to this very specific and narrow experience should not be an open invitation for adults to exploit young teenagers by engaging in sex with them.
The Wuhan virus has provided an unprecedented opportunity for Big Porn to capitalize on our social isolation. Like the coronavirus, pornography use is silent but deadly.
There is a simple reason President Trump should not have been impeached by the House, and the Senate should acquit him: Epstein didn’t kill himself.
This Founders Ministries documentary clarifies the terms of the critical theory debate, offering a way forward for reconciliation among those who bear the name Christian.
A new memoir by the famed gymnast tells the courageous and riveting story of how she confronted the USA Gymnastics doctor who abused hundreds of girls and provides essential insight into combating sexual abuse in the future.
The Air Force investigation found no merit to the dozens of unsubstantiated claims made by Col. Kathryn Spletstoser in the last couple of years, as well as a history of unsubstantiated claims levied against supervisors.
Of all the people in the world who are in a position to write an article poo-poohing Al Franken’s problems or fretting about journalistic excesses, Jane Mayer may be the very worst choice.
State records say the 200-pound, 5-foot-11 man was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a child and is at a ‘moderate’ risk for reoffending. His YouTube channel shows him becoming transgender.
Amber Heard and Asia Argento are at the forefront of Me Too whistleblowing. But how do we deal with stories emerging that cast doubt on their credibility?
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops met in Baltimore this week hoping to address the sex abuse crisis. Instead, they made things worse.
The wrongs of the past can’t be retroactively undone, of course, but houses of worship can implement realistic policies to help keep more kids safe in the future.
This scandal will prove to be a crisis on the scale of the Protestant Reformation, which began just over 500 years ago — an earthquake of 9.5 on the Richter scale.
- Climate Of Fear? Colleagues Silent On CDC Retaliation Against ‘Superstar’ Scientist Who Tried To Prevent Vaccine ‘Pause’ DisasterThis climate of secrecy, retaliation, and intimidation continue reading >
- April Job Numbers Are So Bad, CNBC Thought It Was A TypoThe economy still remains 8.2 million jobs short of precontinue reading >
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Health workers and community members held a candlelight vigil outside Shellharbour Hospital on Thursday evening, as its future lies in the balance.
The crowd was united in its opposition for a proposed public private partnership (PPP) for the hospital and called on the NSW Government to commit to keeping the facility in public hands.
Shellharbour and Port Kembla Public Hospitals Community Group coordinator Irene Hatzipetros said residents and staff had been lobbying for 12 months – and wanted an answer.
‘’We’re fighting against any privatisation or partnership,’’ she said. ‘’We’re basing our decision on past experiences of privatising hospitals – it just doesn’t work.
‘’A lot of people can’t afford private health insurance and are hugely concerned about their access to vital services under the proposal.
‘’There’s a huge demand for services in this area, which is rapidly growing, and those services need to be readily available to every member of the community.’’
Health Services Union regional organiser Renee Sheridan said services at Shellharbour, and the closely affiliated Port Kembla Hospital, would suffer under a PPP.
‘’We’re worried about services,’’ she said. ‘’Staff are also worried about job safety and conditions.’’
On August 30, Shellharbour Council’s Labor candidates signed a pledge of support for a fully-funded public hospital. At midday on Thursday Wollongong Council’s Labor candidates did the same at Port Kembla Hospital.
At the vigil Australian Salaried Medical Officers Federation industrial officer Damien Lee said private investment had been taken off the table for three other regional hospitals – Bowral, Goulburn and Wyong.
‘’Why is Shellharbour any different, why is it taking so long to get an answer?’’ he said.
NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard was questioned about Shellharbour Hospital’s future during a budget estimates hearing on Wednesday.
‘’It is under review. The site is very constrained,’’ he said. ‘’Along with NSW Health, the ministry, the local health district and Health Infrastructure, I am looking at what we can do to maximise the development on the site and to deliver a fantastic new hospital.’’
‘’However, I am still considering how we can best achieve that.’’
Mr Hazzard said he had gone ‘’back to the drawing board’’ on the project after he and Kiama MP Gareth Ward met with local staff and residents.
‘’Some of them supported the project, but some raised concerns about the public-private partnership model,’’ he said.


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There’s a sense of rhythm in reading these sentences aloud, given by her placement of words and use of punctuation. Many writers make use of the rhythm of words, of course, but the music in these phrases is all the more clear due to the language’s incomprehensibility. I will often know the rhythm of a sentence before I know what the words will be, so I’ll write down any words, so long as they have the correct number of syllables, to preserve the rhythm in my memory. I went back to Stein when I was writing a piece called At the Heart of Things, when I felt like I’d lost the music of the writing. And also I find refuge in all its nonsense.
First published in 1914 as Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms. Current available from Dodo Press, 2016. Read some of it here

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..we interrupt this holiday sequence with a Dr. Who report. You may not have noticed this, but there is a new Dr. Who coming. He is being played by the actor Peter Capaldi who is just about a contemporary of mine. I made the mistake of mentioning to number one son that I was only slightly older than Dr. Who. He replied with "What, 300 years?" which didn't put him in my good books.
Anyhoo. Today we stopped off in Cardiff on our holiday travels. On the way through the town to the castle we noticed a bunch of folks waiting by barriers. Some of them were wearing rather familiar clothes. Turned out that the world premier of the first new Dr Who episode was taking place later in the morning and the stars of the show were going to be walking through the town.
So we thought we'd stick around and see what we could see. Number one son stationed himself close to the barrier, whereas I wandered around seeing what photographs I could get.
I got some quite good pictures, number one son ended up with better ones, plus he managed to snag Jenna Coleman's autograph, which was nice.
All the other stars of the show were there too and the weather was lovely. Sometimes you just can't beat being in the right place at the right time..


Lynette Isom was accomplished in basketball, track and especially so in band -- she was the featured baton twirler at Grambling State for two years, having convinced the world famous and then-twirlerless Tiger Band they needed one -- but she said her most important athletic role was decidedly unglamorous.
"We were the tackling dummies for the boys," Lynette said of she and Ji. "Everyone had to play. If you didn't play, you were in the house cooking. Whatever the game was, you played."
So it's no surprise her own two sons have already, or are poised to gain, some of that Harrisburg athletic limelight. The oldest, De'Lon, was an outstanding hurdler who just missed reaching the NCAA finals this year for Texas A&M. Darius, is just 15, but is showing promise as a wrestler, just like Uncle Raymond.
But with her athletics behind her, Lynette has taken on the role of genealogist. Without blinking, she can reel off all 19 of her first cousins and their parents in the Buie wing of the family tree -- including former Harrisburg High basketball star Dan Buie, the youngest of the Isom-Buie clan -- then jump right back into the five Mathis cousins
Those 24 cousins (not including the Isoms) played sports, often with a high degree of success that can be traced back to the Walnut Street experience.
"I tell people all of the time we literally grew up with 50 children," Lynette said. "It wasn't just us and our cousins, but there were other families with lots of kids."
Let's be honest: That could have been trouble, all of those kids and all of that free time.
But the Isoms never found the trouble that could have found them, almost entirely due to the respect they had for their parents.
"We honor and cherish our parents," said Lynette of her father and her mother (the mother, Minnie, was the Buie in the family tree and passed away in 2001). "That's what we constantly tell our children.
"My mother was a giver," Lynette said. "She gave to the entire block, to the entire family. And my daddy ... I've never seen a man work as hard as him."
The boys echo their sister.
"My mom was a seamstress, and she was the one who sewed the team's names on the back of the [Harrisburg High football] jerseys back when that was a really big deal," Raymond said. "She was incredible. She was always helping out, doing things for the team."
Said Rickey: "I was all set to go to [the University of] Arizona to play ball, but my mom got wind of it. She told me that she wouldn't be able to see me play, and that was it. That's how I went to N.C. State; it was that easy."
Marion Sr. is 71. A man of few words, according to his children, he tried retirement from Hershey a few years back, but didn't like it. He still goes out to Hershey every work day to tinker with the trucks at Hershey Nursery.
"Daddy doesn't say a whole lot, but he loves watching the Dallas Cowboys," Ji said. "When the Cowboys were on, you had to be quiet. Now Punchie, he liked the Steelers. When the Cowboys and the Steelers were playing each other ... oh my God."
The Isoms were tough enough; all five agreed on that. But there were moments of hilarity, too.
"My mom used to drive so fast, we'd call her Marietta Andretti," Ji said. "She'd hit that pedal and wooosh, she was gone.
"One time we were going to my dad's family reunion down South, and we were all in this camper," Ji said. "My dad would usually drive, but we stopped at this McDonald's and my dad got some coffee. My mom said she was going to drive, so my dad climbed in the camper with us.
"We all started going 'You'd better hold on to that coffee.' He said, 'Why?' Well, just then my mom leaves and she's flying down the road. My dad's rolling back and forth with the coffee spilling, and we're just all laughing as hard as we could, telling our dad, 'Every day. We deal with this every day.'
"So my dad goes to that little window at the front of the camper and slides it open and hollers at my mom, 'I don't have a load of cattle back here,'¤" Ji said.
So there were laughs but there were rules, and sometimes there were the inevitable sibling battles.
"Oh yeah, we fought a lot," Raymond said. "But I never fought with Punchie. That would have been too painful. I would have ended up in the hospital."
Some of the fraternal fights started over -- of course -- electric football games.
"They were cheating all of the time," Rickey said. "We'd have to hide our players because everyone was trying to mess around with them.
"You know how you find that guy who runs straight and becomes your running back?" Rickey said. "Well, next time you'd go to play, that guy would be spinning around in circles because someone had messed with his base."
But no one messed with Marion Sr. and Minnie.
"Respect," Ji said. "They had our respect. You know, some people said they were strict, but strict got us where we needed to go."