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It is not any secret that I shop almost solely from Amazon. I have found some really cool items on Amazon and I LOVE FREE SHIPPING.
Here are 15 of my favorite (inexpensive..not cheap) Amazon products that I am using to decorate my attempt at a modern farmhouse! If you are interested, just click on any of the pictures.
You can never have too many throws, they just make your home feel so cozy! But they are often more than I am willing to spend on something that isn’t absolutely necessary–that and I often use my throws to cover the ottoman the dog lays on so they get dirty quickly. But this one only looks expensive.
I love this felt board. I need to get better at updating mine but I think any quote from Ron Swanson is hilarious -or- if it is Christmastime anything from Christmas Vacation. You can put these in literally any room (I think each house needs just one though, don’t get crazy with the felt boards!) depending on what you make it say.
I chose these pillowcases because I love the big pattern. But, you can get some really good deals on pillow cases from Amazon. I went through a deer phase and you can literally find pillow cases for under 5 dollars. I get the really cheap inserts from IKEA–as long as you put two in one pillowcase to make them super fluffy.
I like these candle sticks because they’re a mix of the traditional brass, and a funky modern shape.
This one probably isn’t for everyone, but since I can’t have a cow on 1.5 acres, I can at least display one in my home. I like how vivid the colors are in this one in particular.
Air plants don’t scream farm house to me, but that is why I enjoy having them in my home. They are really neat, super easy to take care of, and it doesn’t look like we are trying too hard with the farmhouse theme. I want to decorate my house with things I like, not things that fit a specific theme.
I usually don’t like galvanized metal, similar to my reasoning in #6, I think it just makes the house look too themey. I’m not going to fill my house with something I don’t like just because it fits. But I thought this little envelope was pretty cute. I didn’t want a big clunky thing to hang by the door, but I also didn’t want the mail accumulating on the kitchen table for
days weeks. This little envelope is the perfect place to check each day. If I could find a white clay or ceramic envelope I would take that over the galvanized any day!
This is storm glass. The glass shape is filled with liquid and super fine crystals (maybe they’re crystals?) and they move and create shapes with the changing weather. I like the glass and raw wood look. These also make really interesting gifts–I bought one as a gift when I found it, but really wanted to keep it for my own mantel!
This is a neat take on an hour glass. Again, I like the mix between metal and glass. This looks really neat with the storm glass above. If I could afford an actual antique I would definitely go that route, but I haven’t seen one and I am pretty sure that would be expensive!
I like this bear because it is not a cutesy cartoon bear. Now we just need to learn bee keeping to keep this jar full!
I don’t have this chair..yet. If anyone gets it let me know if it is as comfortable as butterfly chairs were when we were kids! At $234, it is by far the most expensive item on my list, but for a nice leather chair that is actually not a bad price–plus free shipping! I love that it is leather but the chair doesn’t look clunky.
I like the mixed wood and metal, but also the simplicity of this book shelf. The items on the shelves are the star, not the shelves themselves.
I love using these kitchen towels as napkins because they are big, soft and extremely inexpensive. They come in a 12 pack for $14 which is usually cheaper than any 4 packs of cute cloth napkins I have seen. I don’t freak out if they get stained because they’re easy to replace. When my dining room table isn’t covered in starting seeds, I really like having the table set pretty and setting these out with a full cake plate makes my wanna-be-farmgirl heart happy.
If I can, I prefer real antiques. Antique or vintage laundry baskets are usually pretty expensive and I wouldnt want to use it for laundry then. This is a cool alternative. This could be used for laundry, to hold my excessive throw blanket collection or maybe in the bathroom?
I never realized how dated and frumpy fireplace accessories had gotten until I had to shop for them. It took forever to find something I liked. I like the modern shape of this one. If you need fireplace tools though, you really can’t beat antiques–they were made to last and look really neat too. Another plus side of antique fireplace tools is they are usually not going to break the bank, I have 2 sets now and they were each $25 or less.
Thanks for looking and happy shopping!


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New Album Releases – download full albums, daily updates! . FLAC (255 Mb): OBOOM: DOWNLOAD. Previously on NewAlbumReleases. net: September 7, 2016 - The Legendary Pink Dots – Premonition Reissue (2016). April 29, 2016 - The Legendary Pink Dots – Pages Of Aquarius (2016). October 8, 2015 - The Legendary Pink Dots – Come Out From The Shadows 4 – Live At Lounge Ax 1993 (2015).
Curse is a 1983 album by The Legendary Pink Dots. D'Archangel (Edward Ka-Spel) – vocals, glox. Stret Majest (Barry Gray) – guitars, prazhada. Prüümptje Jüste (Roland Calloway) – bass, suste glox. Aradia (April Iliffe) – keyboards, occ. vocal, glox. Keith Thompson – drums, vocal. Sally Graves – flute, voice. Pazhklah Zzäpp (Patrick White) – extra percussion. Engineered by Pat Bermingham.
Asylum is a 1985 album by The Legendary Pink Dots. The Prophet Qa'Spel – voice, keyboards. The Silverman (Phil Knight) – keyboards. Stret Majest (Barry Gray) – guitar. Patrick Q Paganini (Patrick Wright) – violin, keyboards, vocals. Poison Barbarella (Julia Niblock Waller of Attrition) – bass, keyboards, vocals. Adantacathar (Graham Whitehead) – keyboards.
This album has an average beat per minute of 136 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 99/166 BPM). Tracklist The Creature That Tasted Sound. 1. The Creature That Tasted Sound.
Always prolific, the Legendary Pink Dots have released at least one proper album a year for most of their long career, plus a sideline of Chemical Playschool compilations that gather up alternate versions and outtakes. But what about all those other CDs in the bin? Starting in the new millennium, it seems the Dots were so constructive that they began releasing at least TWO albums at a time. The Creature That Tasted Sound is an album-length EP that contains only 4 tracks, but it falls in line with the progression in sound the band had made by 2010's Seconds Late for the Brighton Line, with a new, headier focus on epic soundscapes and spoken word. The title track, a story song enhanced by sonic effects, was a featured piece on the Ka-Spel/Silverman 2012 tour but here it is more refined, and the "Premonition" track here ( is one of the better late entries to the series, droning and lush.
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The Legendary Pink Dots are an influential, staggeringly prolific group led by enigmatic frontman Edward Ka-Spel. Formed in London in 1980, the Legendary Pink Dots began contributing to underground compilations and issuing cassettes of dark, twisted synth pop in 1981, including Chemical Playschool 1+2 and Kleine Krieg, both on Mirrordot. Official debut LP Brighter Now was released by In Phaze Records in 1982. Curse followed in 1983, as the group continued releasing cassettes and further volumes of Chemical Playschool.
THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS – Any Day Now Remasterd and expanded CD with special packaging. THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS – Paris In The Fall (2009) DVD Spectacular and exciting DVD release from Paris in the Fall 2009. Imagine a club packed like sardines in a can and three cameras hovering over the throng. A marvelous spring clean for the sound on this album originally released back in 1986. Musically a collaboration between Edward and Patrick Paganini who played violin for the Dots at that time.
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Current or former Federal employees may apply to both announcements, but should be sure to apply to the Merit Promotion Announcement in order to avoid losing consideration since different referral criteria apply to each type of announcement. Disabled veterans, candidates with 3 or more years of active duty military service, and candidates eligible for special hiring authorities may apply to the Merit Promotion Announcement if they meet the criteria outlined in the announcement and submit supporting documentation.
PERMANENT OPEN CONTINUOUS RECRUITMENT: This is a continuously open vacancy announcement for one or more locations throughout the Forest Service. The number and location of positions to be filled will be dependent upon individual unit needs. To ensure that you receive consideration, applications submitted through the on-line application process must be received by 11:59 p.m. eastern time the day before a certificate of candidates is issued.
Applicants must be at least 18 years of age upon appointment. Some positions have other conditions of employment not specified in this announcement. Applicants will be notified of any specific requirements at the time a tentative job offer is made.
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
An Updated Charter for Canada in the 21st Century
Maybe it's time to treat Pierre Trudeau's, and all Canadians', Charter of Rights and Freedoms as a work in progress to be updated periodically but only for the purposes of enhancing its effectiveness and meeting threats to rights and freedoms not contemplated at its inception.
We may sometimes have to add new, or simply complementary, rights and expand upon freedoms. The world in 1982 was much different from the world we inhabit today. Canada has changed a great deal over the intervening 31-years. Our democracy was much safer in 1982 than it is today. We were a more cohesive society than we are today with a still robust middle class.
Equality - Perhaps it would serve us to enshrine equality rights to incorporate equality of opportunity through bolstering health care, relieving poverty and expanding access for all to education. At a time when the old ladders of social mobility are being pulled up by those at the top, why not simply build new ones, stronger and safer than before?
Religious Freedoms - We might consider expanding religious freedoms to include not only freedom of religion but freedom from religion and the clear separation of church and state.
The Right to a Free Press - Why not grant to every Canadian the right to a free press as an instrument of democratic freedom. Expressly state the need for the broadest possible ownership of media outlets offering the widest possible range of information and opinion.
Posterity - It should be possible to acknowledge that the rights and freedoms of Canadians today must recognize the interests of future generations of Canadians, including the rights and freedoms of those to follow.
Privacy, Transparency and Accountability - Canadians deserve from their government the protection of their right to privacy safeguarded by the right to transparency and accountability from their government.
Surely none of these is radical. None threatens the social fabric of the country. To the contrary, these ideas would be designed to heal the rents that have opened up to threaten our social cohesiveness. Why not? What do we have to lose?
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All of your suggestions make eminent sense, Mound. Therefore, I think it is safe to assume they stand not a chance of incorporation as long as the current cabal retains office.
MoS you should also consider some other rights such as those listed in The Canadian Progressive: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Criticizes Privatization of Water at World Environment Forum. So how about some basics like water and so on.
That blog post compliments yours.
For that matter, there have been some interesting constitutions since the Canadian one that might be worth a look to see if there are any ideas we could steal.
The Venezuelan constitution for instance guarantees not just democracy, but "protagonistic" democracy, talking a fair amount about the right of the people to be in the driver's seat rather than just passively submitting to representation.
Or take article 127:"It is the right and duty of each generation to protect and maintain the environment for its own benefit and that of the world of the future. Everyone has the right, individually and collectively, to enjoy a safe, healthful and ecologically balanced life and environment."
Lorne, none of the parties is prepared to do this and Canada will suffer for that. Just because things like these suggestions should be implemented doesn't mean there exists the political will and moral courage to make them happen. Love or hate Trudeau, he had that resolve and fierce moral courage to act, not on behalf of the Liberal party but for the sake of Canada, Canadians and generations to follow. We've not seen his like since.
@ Jan - I had resources in mind in my suggestions about equality and posterity. A nation should be considered to belong to the past, the present and, every bit as much, to the future.
The Norse, for example, have embraced this philosophy in their non-renewable resource policies. They treat their North Sea windfall as belonging not just to today's population but to the Norwegians of the future. Hence they retain that wealth, in specie, in the form of their sovereign wealth fund.
In our Canada it would be considered radical to the point of political and economic blasphemy to treat non-renewable resources as belonging to the future. We're slowly coming around on renewables although not out of altruism but of necessity. What is wrong with an ethos that requires renewables to be husbanded sustainably so that we pass to future generations as much as we received from generations past?
@ PLG - I totally agree. Thanks
Add the right to clean water.
There is one set of rights I want taken away: corporate rights. Corporations should not be allowed to override the public good.
Anon, you might enjoy reading Teddy Roosevelt's speech from 1910.
[quote] . . .you might enjoy reading Teddy Roosevelt's speech from 1910.[/quote]
Thanks. I've read it before but it is always worth a re-read.
And the Native Peoples. They ought to be considered with the right to clean water and the right to run their own lands.
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Benjamin Alarie is the Osler Chair in Business Law at the University of Toronto and the CEO of Blue J Legal Inc. Bettina Xue Griffin and Christopher Yan are senior legal research associates at Blue J Legal.
In this inaugural installment of Blue J Predicts, the authors use machine-learning models to anticipate and analyze the possible outcome of the IRS’s appeal in Cross Refined Coal. Future installments will focus on other pending tax cases.
Copyright 2021 Benjamin Alarie, Bettina Xue Griffin, and
All rights reserved.
Technology now makes it possible for tax practitioners to accurately anticipate the outcome of tax disputes. This article demonstrates how using machine-learning algorithms to study legal source data, such as past court decisions and revenue rulings, can provide novel and valuable insights into how tax disputes may be resolved.
The dispute we focus on in this inaugural installment of Blue J Predicts is Cross Refined Coal.1 The D.C. Circuit heard oral arguments April 12 in an appeal of the Tax Court’s decision, which found in favor of the taxpayer. The IRS appealed on the basis that the Tax Court incorrectly found the existence of a partnership for federal tax purposes.
Blue J predicts with 90 percent confidence that the appeal will be dismissed on the issue of whether a partnership exists. This article examines how a machine-learning model can generate this prediction based on the facts of the case, and it identifies the strengths and weaknesses of the parties’ positions using machine learning.
The dispute involves the denial of credits claimed by the taxpayer, Cross Refined Coal LLC, a producer and seller of refined coal. The IRS made adjustments to partnership items of the taxpayer for the 2011 and 2012 tax years on the basis that Cross lacked a nontax business purpose and thus was not operating as a bona fide partnership.
Cross was originally formed by AJG Coal Inc. (AJGC). AJGC invests in and operates coal refineries through limited liability companies such as Cross. AJGC successfully sought two investors to invest in Cross: (1) USA Refined Coal LLC (USARC), a subsidiary of FMR LLC (Fidelity), and (2) Schneider Electric Investments 2 Inc. Through a series of purchase agreements, Cross was eventually owned by the three entities: Fidelity (51 percent indirectly through USARC), AJGC (24 percent), and Schneider (25 percent).
The Cross venture, like many of AJGC’s ventures, operated at a pretax loss. Its business model contemplated purchasing raw coal from a utility plant, refining the coal, and then selling the refined coal back to the utility plant at a discounted price. The discounted rate would give the utility plant an incentive to purchase refined coal rather than use raw coal. This process entitled Cross to section 45(e)(8) tax credits for the production and sale of refined coal, which allowed the taxpayer to generate a post-tax profit. Without the tax credits, there was no economic reason for the buy-high-and-sell-low model.
USARC and Schneider made initial contributions of $4 million and $1.18 million, respectively, for the purchase of their interests in Cross. They made additional contributions for operating expenses throughout 2010 to 2013 (USARC’s $22 million and Schneider’s $10.5 million). Fidelity’s agreement with AJGC contained a liquidated damages clause that limited Fidelity’s risk of loss. When specified trigger events occurred, Fidelity had the right to exit from Cross and would receive from AJGC a pro rata portion of its initial $4 million contribution. Fidelity was not entitled to a return of its due diligence costs or its monthly contribution to the operating costs.
III. Blue J Predicts
Blue J predicts with 90 percent confidence that the D.C. Circuit will find that Cross operated as a partnership for federal tax purposes.
Our prediction is based on a data-driven analysis using a machine-learning model trained on the facts and results of 169 tax decisions between 1949 and 2021 that directly address whether a de facto partnership exists. Although we were able to locate a total of 203 decisions that addressed that issue in the 1949-2021 period, 34 of them were excluded from the data set principally because there was inadequate information about the underlying facts of the case or the dispute was decided by the court on another basis (that is, the court didn’t resolve whether there was a de facto partnership).
Blue J’s machine-learning models are constructed through a human-driven research and development process.2 The model used in this analysis has been generated from a machine-learning process known as supervised learning, in which machine-learning models are trained using labeled data. The result is a model that will generate predictions in hypothesized new scenarios based on analysis of the outcomes of previously decided cases. Each factor in a hypothesized scenario is weighed differently depending on the other facts. The model can detect when a given factor should be given more significance based on the facts at hand, and it provides an overall prediction coupled with a confidence level.
Our experience suggests that this supervised machine-learning modeling approach can be quite accurate. Our diagnostics reveal that the model for de facto partnership determinations is 91.4 percent accurate at predicting the outcomes in federal de facto partnership disputes since 1949.
Let’s turn to what this machine-learning model can reveal about the pending appeal in Cross Refined Coal.
IV. The Tax Court Decision
The Tax Court found that Cross was a bona fide partnership for federal tax purposes. It further found that each of the three partners had contributed to the partnership and shared in the profits and agreed to bear the risk of loss. The court applied the eight-factor test set out in Luna3 to determine whether the parties intended to, and did in fact, join together in the conduct of an undertaking or enterprise.
The IRS’s core argument before the Tax Court was that an unprofitable pretax venture cannot be found to have a real business purpose such that it can be classified as a partnership. It argued that Cross was a venture that existed solely to monetize tax credits rather than pursue a viable business purpose. However, the IRS raised this point within the framework of the eight Luna factors. The Luna factors do not squarely address the issue of the bona fides of a partnership arrangement; rather, the decision in Luna assessed whether the conduct of the parties amounted to a de facto partnership. The Luna decision does not assess the business purpose of a venture; it looks to the conduct of the parties to determine if, in reality, the parties intended to share in the profits and risk of loss as a partnership.
The Luna factors are:
the agreement of the parties and their conduct in executing its terms;
the contributions, if any, that each party has made to the venture;
the parties’ control over income and capital and the right of each to make withdrawals;
whether each party was a principal and co-proprietor, sharing a mutual proprietary interest in the net profits and having an obligation to share losses, or whether one party was the agent or employee of the other, receiving for his services contingent compensation in the form of a percentage of income;
whether business was conducted in the joint names of the parties;
whether the parties filed federal partnership returns or otherwise represented to the IRS or to persons with whom they dealt that they were joint venturers;
whether separate books of account were maintained for the venture; and
whether the parties exercised mutual control over and assumed mutual responsibilities for the enterprise.
The IRS asserted that two key Luna factors were insufficiently met for Cross to be a true partnership: (1) the capital contributions of each partner were deficient; and (2) there was no meaningful sharing in the profits and losses. The IRS argued that the capital contributions provided by Fidelity and Schneider were de minimis relative to the anticipated 10-year profits from the tax credits, and that the liquidated damages clause allowed Fidelity to claim back $2.5 million of its initial $4 million contribution such that no meaningful contributions were actually at risk. The Tax Court rejected those arguments on the basis that the liquidated damages clause did not eliminate the economic reality of the contribution and that the partners continued to contribute $1.9 million to the operating expenses, even when no credits were being generated during a nine-month facility shutdown.
In terms of profits, the IRS maintained that there was no sharing of profits because the business model contemplated that the sale of refined coal always results in pretax losses and that tax credits should not be included in the assessment of profits. The Tax Court rejected that argument. It concluded that because Congress has offered a tax incentive to encourage business activity that would otherwise not be viable, it would be inconsistent with the purpose of the credit to require the parties to share only in pretax profits in order to be considered a partnership.
On the risk of loss, the IRS’s position was twofold: First, the liquidated damages clause insulated Fidelity from loss; and second, there was no risk of loss for Fidelity and Schneider because “everything essential to the refined coal operation was already in place” from AJGC. The court rejected this argument as well. It reasoned that because the section 45 credit is a production credit, which is not earned until the refined coal is produced and sold, parties are exposed to the risk inherent in the production and sale of refined coal (including facility closures and environmental and regulatory risk), many of which did in fact manifest in this case.
V. The IRS’s Position on Appeal
On appeal, the IRS argued that the lion’s share of the capital contributions were made by AJGC and that the Tax Court grossly overstated the actual risk borne by Fidelity and Schneider. The IRS pointed to the fact that the Cross facilities were already operational before Fidelity and Schneider invested, and that the months in which the facility could not operate were ones with fewer expenses such that there was minimal risk of loss for Fidelity and Schneider. Ultimately, the IRS again argued that the risk of loss and initial capital contributions were minor and disproportionate to the anticipated high returns associated with the tax credits. The IRS maintained that a nontax upside for the partners is required for a real partnership to exist.4
VI. The Taxpayer’s Position on Appeal
First, the taxpayer argued that the risk of loss did in fact materialize as demonstrated by the fact that Fidelity lost $1.7 million of its initial capital contribution to Cross. Second, the taxpayer asserted that when the parties entered into the agreement, there was uncertainty about whether tax credits would ever be generated, given the demand as well as the regulatory and environmental risks. Third, the taxpayer contended that the partners’ contributions were not de minimis because the capital contributions corresponded exactly to the cost of producing the refined coal. Finally, the taxpayer sought to distinguish the IRS’s precedents on the basis that Cross was not a facade or a sham business. Cross had employees, conducted transactions, and produced and sold refined coal.
VII. Assessing the Parties’ Preferred Facts
As with any multifaceted test, parties will disagree about how specific facts should be characterized, which factors are actually satisfied, and the significance of each factor. Disagreements about the characterization of facts highlight the value of using machine-learning tools to discern the substantive implications of different potential and conflicting characterizations. With Blue J’s machine-learning algorithm, we can assess the full range of plausible scenarios by changing the facts and factors that are in dispute to test the likely outcome for each scenario.
Based on the version of facts accepted by the Tax Court, Blue J predicts with 90 percent confidence that a partnership will be found to exist. This indicates that if there is no change to the characterization of the facts accepted by the Tax Court, there is a high probability that the D.C. Circuit will dismiss the IRS’s appeal.
But what would happen if the appellate panel were to disagree with some of the Tax Court’s characterizations of the factors? Although the Tax Court’s findings of fact are unchallenged, that doesn’t mean that the D.C. Circuit will arrive at the same conclusions on the characterization of the Luna factors based on those underlying findings. We can test the likelihood of Blue J’s prediction by adjusting the scenario to see what would happen if the appellate court decided differently on each of the factual characterizations in dispute.
Each of the eight Luna factors can be further divided into many smaller objective factors. After canvassing the case law, we find that at least 30 different factors can materially influence a court’s analysis of whether a partnership exists. Each of those 30 factors is given different weight by the machine-learning model, depending on the particular facts of a given scenario.
Let’s begin our work with the model by stipulating that the judges on the appellate panel accept the strongest plausible position for the IRS — that is, they completely agree with the agency’s characterization of the facts. In the IRS’s best-case scenario, would the machine-learning model predict success for the agency? Our analysis suggests that yes, the result would likely switch to “no partnership,” with 69 percent confidence.
We generated that prediction by modifying the facts to better align with the IRS’s interpretation. To do this, we assumed, arguendo, that:
the parties didn’t divide the profits of the partnership because there were no pretax profits to divide (based on the IRS’s position that tax credits should not be included in the analysis of whether there was an intent to share profits);
the parties didn’t divide the losses proportionally (based on the IRS’s position that Fidelity and Schneider had very little risk of loss compared with AJGC);
the contributions of some of the partners were neither necessary nor valuable to the partnership (based on the IRS’s position that the capital contributions were de minimis); and
the capital contributions of some of the partners resulted in a debt obligation rather than equity (based on the IRS’s position that the contributions were fixed debt).
With those modifications to the characterization of the facts by the Tax Court, Blue J’s machine-learning algorithm predicts with 69 percent confidence that the IRS would prevail. Although this shows that the IRS’s most favorable view of the case would likely lead to the agency’s preferred outcome, it is reasonable to question how likely it is that those characterizations would be adopted by the D.C. Circuit and whether the IRS must succeed on all those characterizations to prevail.
VIII. Stress-Testing the IRS’s View of the Facts
To flip the predicted result from 90 percent in favor of the taxpayer to 69 percent in favor of the IRS, we gave the IRS the benefit of having all the disputed factors characterized in the most beneficial way possible. But what would happen if the IRS doesn’t succeed on those four disputed factors? Is any one of them alone determinative of the outcome?
To answer those questions, we assess the effect of changing each of the four key factors individually, beginning with the premise that the IRS will succeed on the other three factors.
A. Stress Test 1: Pretax Profits
If the IRS succeeds on all of its characterizations except for whether profits must be assessed pretax, the prediction switches to a finding that a partnership does exist, with 80 percent confidence. This represents a change of -49 percent from the IRS’s best-case scenario. It thus indicates that the IRS losing on this issue alone would result in a likely win for the taxpayer.
The importance of this factor aligns with (1) how extensively this issue was discussed in the Tax Court’s decision and (2) the significant amount of time the D.C. Circuit spent questioning the parties on this issue. The IRS’s position hinges on whether the section 45 tax credits should be included or excluded from the analysis of whether the parties agreed to share in the profits and whether the parties did in fact share in the profits. If the appellate court decides in favor of including the tax credits, that would necessitate a finding that the parties agreed to share in the profits, because the tax credits were the only profits to share. By running a Blue J analysis on the scenario, we are able to demonstrate that the threshold issue of whether section 45 tax credits should be included is alone likely to be determinative of the outcome of the appeal. In other words, Blue J’s algorithm predicts that this is not an issue that the IRS can afford to lose and that it is the most important of the four contentious issues.
B. Stress Test 2: Risk of Loss
If the IRS succeeds on all of its characterizations except whether the parties bore the risk of loss proportionally, the model still predicts there is no partnership, but with 59 percent confidence (-10 percent). If the D.C. Circuit finds that the parties proportionally shared in the losses of the venture, the IRS is still likely to succeed on appeal if it also succeeds on the characterization of the other three factors. In other words, Blue J’s algorithm predicts that losing on this issue would make this a borderline case for the IRS.
C. Stress Test 3: Contributions
If the IRS succeeds on all of its characterizations except whether the partners’ contributions were de minimis, the model predicts that there is a partnership, with 57 percent confidence (-26 percent). If the D.C. Circuit finds that the parties did meaningfully contribute to the venture beyond a de minimis contribution, the taxpayer will likely succeed despite the IRS prevailing on the characterization of the other three factors. In other words, Blue J’s algorithm predicts that losing on this issue alone would put the IRS in a risky position of being more likely than not to lose on appeal.
D. Stress Test 4: Debt or Equity
If the IRS succeeds on all of its characterizations except whether the contributions should be characterized as debt or equity, the model still predicts there is no partnership, with 59 percent confidence (-10 percent). If the D.C. Circuit finds that some parties contributed capital in the form of equity rather than debt, the IRS is still more likely than not to succeed on appeal if it also succeeds on the characterization of the other three factors. In other words, Blue J’s algorithm predicts that losing on this issue would make this a borderline case for the IRS.
IX. Machine-Learning Model Takeaways
The four stress tests indicate that there are two issues the IRS cannot afford to lose: (1) whether the profits must be assessed pretax and (2) whether the contributions of the partners were de minimis. Losing on either one will likely result in the taxpayer succeeding on appeal. Those two issues are not equally important; the first issue affects the probability of the outcome by almost twice as much as the second (a change of 49 percent as opposed to 26 percent).
Using a machine-learning model provides quantifiable insights into situations like the dispute in Cross Refined Coal. Several factors in the case favor a partnership characterization; for example, the fact that the parties shared management and operational responsibilities. However, there are also contentious characterization questions involving several elements of the eight-part Luna test for de facto partnerships. Using a machine-learning model, we are able to identify, rank, and quantify the importance of the disputed characterizations and to demonstrate, based on the previously decided case law, that it is more likely than not that the IRS will be unsuccessful on appeal.

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The environmental sustainability of a company goes also through the definition of a sustainable and cutting-edge logistics plan.
For this reason, Fedon has set the goal of achieving an "economic" and "ecological" balance that allows the company to be productive without having a negative impact on the environment.
On what points is sustainable logistics based on?
- reducing waste
Here are the strategies that our company put in play to be efficient in each of these aspects.
We have adopted an Environmental Management System which guarantees and certifies our commitment to research, management and reduction of the environmental risk of all our activities.
In addition, since 2015, a photovoltaic system has been installed in the production site in Alpago (BL) to promote energy saving and limiting CO2 emissions into the environment. Today, about 70% of the electricity used by Fedon plants located in Italy comes from renewable sources.
The desire to protect the environment also drives us to modify the company electrical system, by choosing one with greater energy efficiency, both for the offices and for the production departments.
Our warehouses are gradually reducing the use of plastic replacing it with more sustainable materials. In particular, plastic packaging materials have been replaced by recyclable cardboard, and we are working to reduce its use also in the entire Group.
The boxes chosen for the transport of products are made of cardboard and customized with graphics that tell how they can be reused.
Furthermore, all the Fedon suppliers guarantee full compliance with ethical as well as qualitative standards, and are periodically subjected to supervision.
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4th January 2021, 15:17 | LondonSkolars
Omari Caro has agreed to stay with London Skolars for the 2021 Betfred League 1 campaign.
Caro – originally from Hammersmith, London - joined the Skolars back in 2018 and has since become a prolific try-scorer for the club. Caro’s career began in London back in 2012 for the Broncos.
The 29-year-old went on to represent Hull Kingston Rovers in 2013 and 2014 crossing for an impressive 20 tries in 26 appearances for the Robins. Caro would replicate his try-scoring form at Bradford Bulls between 2015 and 2017, scoring on 31 occasions.
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Or maybe, they don't know that most of what we eat is made of cells. I dunno. Whatever. Because if you aren't currently on the Salt, Baking Soda, and Scotch Diet, you consume the DNA of plants and/or animals every time you eat.
Lettuce contains lettuce DNA. Potatoes contain potato DNA. Beef contains cow DNA. "Slim Jims" contain -- well, they contain the DNA of whatever the hell Slim Jims are made from. I don't want to know. But get the picture? If you put a label on foods with DNA, the label goes on everything.
Ilya Somin, of the Washington Post, even made a suggestion of what such a food-warning label might look like:
WARNING: This product contains deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The Surgeon General has determined that DNA is linked to a variety of diseases in both animals and humans. In some configurations, it is a risk factor for cancer and heart disease. Pregnant women are at very high risk of passing on DNA to their children.Despite the scary sound of Somin's tongue-in-cheek proposed label, there's nothing dangerous about eating DNA. Enzymes in our small intestines break down the DNA we consume into individual building blocks (nucleotides), and we then use those building blocks to produce our own DNA every time we make new cells. Which is all the time. Eating pig DNA will not, as one of my students asked me a few weeks ago, "make us oink."
But this highlights something rather terrifying, doesn't it? Every other day we're told things like "30% of Americans Are Against GMOs" and "40% of Americans Disbelieve in Anthropogenic Climate Change" and "32% of Americans Believe the Earth is 6,000 Years Old." (If you're curious, I made those percentages up, because I really don't want to know what the actual numbers are, I'm depressed enough already.) What the Oklahoma State University study shows is: none of that is relevant. If 80% of Americans don't know what DNA is, why the fuck should I trust what they say on anything else even remotely scientific?
But it's the voting part that scares me, because as we've seen over and over again, dumb people vote for dumb people. I'm not sure why this is, either, because you'd think that there'd be a sense that even if a lot of voters are dumb themselves, they'd want smart people running the country. But maybe that'd make all the dumb people feel inferior. Or maybe it's because the dumb people want to be reassured that they, too, could one day hold public office.
Either way, it's why we end up with public office being held by people like:
Mitt Romney: "I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love."
Louie Gohmert: "We give the military money, it ought to be to kick rears, break things, and come home."
Rick Perry: "The reason that we fought the [American] Revolution in the 16th century — was to get away from that kind of onerous crown, if you will."
Hank Johnson: "Guam is an island that is, what, twelve miles from shore to shore? And on its smallest level, uh, smallest, uh, uh, location, it's uh, seven miles, uh, between one shore and the other... My fear is that (if US Marines are sent there) the whole island will become so populated that it will tip over and capsize."
Diana DeGette: "These are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those now, they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high-capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available."
James Inhofe: "Well actually the Genesis 8:22 that I use in there is that ‘as long as the earth remains there will be seed time and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night,’ my point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous."
Henry Waxman: "We're seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point - they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn't ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there's a lot of tundra that's being held down by that ice cap."The whole thing is profoundly distressing, and brings to mind the quote from Joseph de Maistre: "Democracy is the form of government in which everyone has a voice, and therefore in which the people get exactly the government they deserve."
And as far as my claim yesterday that deliberate hoaxes are worse than outright ignorance, I respectfully withdraw my statement. Ignorance is worse. Especially when ignorance has crossed the line into outright stupidity.


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Kell Brook's IBF title defence against Errol Spence Jr could be held at Bramall Lane in the champion's hometown, says promoter Eddie Hearn.
A deal for Brook to defend his IBF welterweight title against mandatory challenger Spence Jr might be agreed before the end of the week and Hearn has revealed that Sheffield is the "most likely" location for the fight.
Venues in New York and Las Vegas are also under consideration as Brook is willing to fight the American in his own country, although Sheffield United Football Club is the ideal choice for the champion.
"Both countries are still in play," Hearn told Sky Sports. "We like the idea of staging it in the UK, but also Kell quite likes the idea of fighting in America as well. He beat Shawn Porter there, so if the money is right, he doesn't have an issue with going to the States, but most likely Sheffield.
"If we went to America, it would only be New York, or Vegas."
Hearn could push the fight date back a little further to June 4, with talks ongoing between both parties, and is hoping to reach an agreement before the fight goes to purse bids next week.
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Why does a change in religion bring about a change in art in ancient Egypt?
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U.S. Multisociety Task Force Issues New Colonoscopy Surveillance Guidelines
The U.S. Multisociety Task Force — comprised of representatives of the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterological Association and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy — has issued new colonoscopy surveillance guidelines, according to a news release.
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Behind the Science of Cancer Screening
Cancer care experts often look to statistics as a measure of how influential their prevention messages are. This video describes the efforts that the American Cancer Society is making to encourage more cancer screenings.
One figure that has remained static over the past few years is the number of lung cancer cases. Though the public is well educated on the dangers of smoking, the American Cancer Society is finding ways to more clearly demonstrate why smokers must stop. The rate of mammograms among women has also plateaued, which is why the ACS is trying to teach women the importance of annual screenings after 40 years of age.
Don’t wait until it’s too late to get checked for cancer. Riverside Community Hospital can help you assess your cancer risk. Riverside residents are encouraged to call (951) 788-3000 for cancer screenings at our facility.

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The #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series comes to a stunning conclusion in War Storm.
VICTORY COMES AT A PRICE.
Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal’s betrayal nearly destroyed her. Now determined to protect her heart—and secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like her—Mare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all . . . starting with the crown on Maven’s head.
But no battle is won alone, and before the Reds may rise as one, Mare must side with the boy who broke her heart in order to defeat the boy who almost broke her. Cal’s powerful Silver allies, alongside Mare and the Scarlet Guard, prove a formidable force. But Maven is driven by an obsession so deep, he will stop at nothing to have Mare as his own again, even if it means demolish everything—and everyone—in his path.
War is coming, and all Mare has fought for hangs in the balance. Will victory be enough to topple the Silver kingdoms? Or will the little lightning girl be forever silenced?
In the epic conclusion to Victoria Aveyard’s stunning series, Mare must embrace her fate and summon all her power . . . for all will be tested, but not all will survive.
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Victoria Aveyard was born and raised in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, a small town known only for the worst traffic rotary in the continental United States. She moved to Los Angeles to earn a BFA in screenwriting at the University of Southern California. She currently splits her time between the East and West coasts. As an author and screenwriter, she uses her career as an excuse to read too many books and watch too many movies. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, and you can visit her online at www.victoriaaveyard.com.
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Rapid Communication - Otolaryngology Online Journal (2022) Volume 12, Issue 11
Laryngeal trauma: an assessment of current diagnostic and control techniques
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Tulane University, Louisiana, United States
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Received: 27-Oct-2022, Manuscript No. JORL-22-78464; Editor assigned: 28-Oct-2022, PreQC No. JORL-22-78464(PQ); Reviewed: 16-Nov-2022, QC No. JORL-22-78464; Revised: 18-Nov-2022, Manuscript No. JORL-22-78464(R); Published: 27-Nov-2022, DOI: 10.35841/2250-03188.8.131.524
Laryngotracheal wounds are uncommon; but, they have a giant mortality rate. These wounds may be blunt or penetrating. Normally, the larynx is blanketed from blunt trauma via the sternum and jaw. A "clothesline" harm occurs whilst the uncovered neck is struck by using a tough object, along with a wall cord or tree branch, or whilst an assault is meant to damage the larynx. Additionally, injuries can also arise when the neck is harassed due to damage, together with in a rear-cease twist of fate that reasons a whiplash-like damage or while the larynx is intentionally cantered for damage. Penetrating neck trauma may additionally result in harm to the larynx. Anticipate a patient has suffered a penetrating or extreme neck injury. Additionally it is glaring from their medical records or a brief trauma evaluation in that case. But, it is recommended to be careful for anterior neck injuries in fashionable and to have a low threshold for setting up a surgical airway. The concern is securing an airway while a patient with a laryngeal damage arrives inside the emergency room. The operating health care professional can also request any flexible laryngoscopy, computed tomography (CT), esophagram, and chest X-ray for additional examination, depending on the character of the harm and the affected person's health .
After the exam, the preliminary step in treating laryngeal accidents need to be to locate and comfortable the airway. In line with the assessment and control based at the Schaefer category gadget for laryngeal harm, the affected person is dealt with primarily based on whether the patient has imminent airway obstruction or a solid airway. Medical control or statement and surgical control rely on the web site and severity of the harm, patient condition, and type of damage. There are several complications related to Laryngotracheal trauma, which can be minor or maybe deadly. Following successful treatment, postoperative and rehabilitative care, vocal relaxation, speech therapy, and swallowing remedy may be vital. A case report is supplied illustrating the key points inside the analysis and management of acute laryngeal damage. All patients with records of damage to the top, neck, or chest must be assessed for possible laryngeal injury. The prognosis calls for a excessive index of suspicion. Computed tomography (CT scan) of the larynx is strongly recommended as the maximum vital diagnostic device. The desires in control are airway guarantee and voice preservation. Activate prognosis will insure timely management and save you early loss of life or complicated secondary corrective strategies .
Trauma to the larynx is rare however may also prove to be fatal. There are kinds of laryngeal trauma: penetrating and blunt. Laryngeal injuries may additionally heal, despite a minor damage, fibrous union, a deformity, and impaired laryngeal function. These wounds can be penetrating or blunt and may expand in the supraglottic, glottis, or infraglottic areas. A thorough draw close of laryngeal damage is important, and ranging sequences and levels of wound severity can arise with blunt as opposed to penetrating laryngeal trauma. Patients with a history of anterior neck trauma ought to have their larynx very well tested for damage symptoms and have a comfy airway showed before extra trying out.
Tracheal trauma may be penetrating, blunt, acute, or subacute. A blow to the neck may purpose an acute stressful disruption of the trachea, a knife wound, or overwhelm injuries to the upper chest, despite the possibility of subacute injuries. The trachea may be disrupted after a blunt neck harm, frequently within 3 cm of the carina. Tracheal trauma may be accompanied by using damage to adjacent systems, including vascular damage to the principle arteries, carotids, or jugulars, or involvement of the digestive device, in step with etiology. but, early detection and surgical remedy are necessary to save you complications and the loss of respiratory characteristic. The preliminary step in treating laryngeal accidents is spotting and setting up an airway. If the affected person is speak me typically, the airway is at least patent; however won't be consistent .
There had been reviews of hoarseness, dysphagia, odynophagia, anterior neck pain, dyspnoea, stridor, coughing, and haemoptysis as laryngeal fracture symptoms. Clinical signs and symptoms include cracking on palpation, ecchymosis, hematoma, neck wound, ache, and surgical emphysema. Breathlessness, neck hematoma, excessive hemorrhage, subcutaneous neck emphysema, stridor, pain of throat, expectoration of blood, thrill or bruit, and adjusted throat architecture all decorate the want for intubation, cricothyroidotomy, or tracheotomy. Tracheostomy or cricothyrotomy must be finished right away for everybody with a glaring larynx fracture, stridor with improved respiratory exertions, or a coming near airway blockage .
In 2014, Schaefer tested ninety years' well worth of literature on acute trauma of the larynx. Primarily based on this literature assessment and his scientific understanding, he suggested the control strategy defined. Those patients ought to at the least spend the primary night in the critical care unit after surgical procedure under strict observation. Many patients will want tracheostomy till their larynx has fully recovered and might go through a proper assessment with the assist of a speech therapist. Because of the giant risk of aspiration, nasogastric or gastrostomy tubes need to be used to feed the patients until the larynx has healed .
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by Tony Noland
The woman saw trouble walking down the beach, but didn't say anything to her companion. Maybe they'd see someone else with bikini smaller, breasts bigger, anything to entice them to veer off and ruin someone else's day.
She tilted her head back down to her paperback, using her body and posture to make it clear that she hadn't noticed them or the irritated beachgoers in their wake. Overly muscled, overly tanned, two with greasy blond hair, the third bald, they kicked sand as they walked, clots flying forward and back with every step.
Laughing loud as they strode across the beach, they commented and jeered at the flabby, sunburned tourists. Wives scowled at husbands for not doing anything, husbands scowled at themselves for the same reason. Maybe twenty years ago, they thought, back when I was in shape, I would have challenged them... and their scowls deepened, for they were, to a man, old enough to be past the point of retaining any real delusions about what they would have said to three tough locals looking for a fight.
Kicking their way across the beach, the three saw her and her companion. Him, as fleshy and pale as any other man, sleeping through his vacation, fat legs splayed out from his beach chair. Her... even in a relatively demure tankini, she was an arresting sight. Brown hair with glinting red highlights, a richly pretty face, long legs, narrow waist, and high breasts, each a generous handful and perfectly balanced by her toned, smooth shoulders.
Like a triad school of barracuda, they changed course towards her.
She put her book down. Her companion snored lightly next to her, his expensive insulated water bottle forgotten in his hand, half-full of a cool, pleasant vacation beverage. His glasses were on the blanket next to the remains of lunch, his book on his face.
The locals dug their toes in and scuffed with more vigor as they approached. Along the crowded beach, heads turned to watch them cross the open space around the two of them. The first clots of sand landed across the man's big belly when they were still two strides away. He jerked awake and the book fell away just in time for the next mass of sand to hit him in the face.
He choked and spit. "What the hell? Hey, asshole, what the hell do you think you're doing?" The man was only half-awake, disoriented. "This is a private beach, goddamn it!" He reached for his glasses and pulled them on. His vision cleared as he looked at the three, realizing what he was facing.
The bald one, a big spider tattoo on his neck standing out against his tan, flexed and leaned forward into the man's face. "There's nothin' private about this beach, old man, is there boys?" The others laughed, flanking him on either side and flexing just as much. "We grew up here, unlike you, you fat old fuck. You hear that, sweetheart? You and all you fuckin' tourists, this is our beach, and don't you forget it." He punctuated his last with a shove to the man's chest.
The man staggered backwards one step, twisted to his left, then swung his water bottle upward in a wide, fast arc. The aluminum dented inward as it crushed the bald man's jaw. Two molars flew and a gout of blood sprayed from his mouth, and he dropped like a twelve point buck on opening day.
The man's grip shifted, his palm over the base of the bottle, and he pivoted in the sand to shove it deep into the solar plexus of the long-haired local on the left. Something cracked and the big man doubled over, vomiting. The third one shouted and stepped back; muscles bulged as he drew back his right fist. Before he could throw the punch, he screamed and twisted. He lost his balance grabbing at the paring knife the woman had shoved through his bicep; when he hit the sand, the hilt bent upward and he screamed again.
The man and the woman stood looking at the three locals lying on the sand - one screaming and clutching at the flow of blood between his fingers, one gasping and choking on his own foamy bile, one broken and silent. In less than ten seconds, two huge men in suits ran up, shouting, guns drawn. Both dropped to their knees as they arrived and brought the barrels down hard, blued steel cracking across the foreheads of the screamer and the gasper. Twin thudding cracks ended the noise on the beach, and three bodies lay still on the sand.
In a fluid motion, both suits went up on one knee and scanned their sections of the beach, guns out and at the ready. Nothing, and nothing more. "Are you OK, sir?" one of them said.
"And may I ask where the fuck were you? Incognito or not, I shouldn't have to deal with shit like this myself, for Chrissakes," said the man. He turned to look around at the faces staring from all directions at him and the woman. "Well?" he said in loud voice, "What are you staring at? Go back to your vacations." Up and down the beach, heads swiveled away, looking at books, the water, the sand, at anything but the scene of Aderesto "The Acrobat" Vincelli and his interrupted day on the beach.
"Private beach, my ass. Get the resort manager down here, right fucking now, and tell him to bring his security guy with him." He turned to the woman. "Sorry, honey. No more sun today."
She sighed. Was there anything worse than a day at the beach, ruined?
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Seodaemun Prison History Hall was built during the Japanese occupation of Korea in 1908 and used to imprison anti-imperialist activists for 40 years. Then, after World War Two when the Japanese were kicked out and the civil war ended, it was used to imprison pro-democracy activists. That’s a fact I’ll return to.
This didn’t bode well:
The museum/prison was well-organized; I just followed the signs that led me through the entire complex. It exposed the sordid story of how the Japanese Empire used Korea as a source for raw materials and cheap labour, inside and outside the prison.
I’d hate to be remembered like this:
A problem quickly became apparent: although the Japanese imperialists committed horrific crimes at Seodaemun Prison, the right-wing military dictatorship that took over after the civil war picked up where they left off. There were a few mentions of this:
But the vast majority of displays focused on the earlier nationalist struggle. I kept wanting to ask, “OK, but what happened after?” It was hard to tell; instead there were heroic displays of the Korean ‘people’ and their fight.
They might have been a little frustrated:
Presumably a torture manual:
Nothing mind-forged about these manacles:
The room of the martyrs focused exclusively on those whom the Japanese killed. It was quite moving in its breadth:
She looks like she knows what’s coming:
“Fuck you” in any language:
Given this was the 1920s and 30s, communists were heavily involved in the anti-occupation movement. I found it useful to compare the actions of the different groups. The communists organized terrorism and general strikes:
One of the Joesun communists:
The Christians published a magazine:
The academics organized a language school:
I’m not disparaging their sacrifices, they all died together nobly for the cause. It’s just that the communists aimed a little higher.
I was surrounded by school groups who, having been taken out on a field trip, were damn sure they were going to enjoy themselves, even in a recreated room designed for families to pick up their loved one’s corpse:
I exited onto the stairs, where a smiling young woman in uniform called out to me, “Go downstairs please!” and gave a little bow. Downstairs was the torture chamber:
That chopstick is not for eating:
This was the most surreal aspect of the whole experience. Someone had rigged up a video display where you stood at the back of a room, and waved your arm at a big screen opposite to indicate man or woman. A computer would then take a picture of your face in front and in profile, and superimpose it on a short drama. ‘You’ were led to an interrogation room, yelled at by a guard, had boiling water poured on you, then you ended up in a cell, raising your arms and calling out independence slogans. There was no simulated execution, unfortunately. The problem – well, let me just pick one – is that the people who most wanted to see themselves on screen were children. So the video image, when it appeared, was of a normal-sized person with a freakishly small head.
I wanted her in my shot. This is a torture chamber where you can’t stand up or move around. Koreans like her got inside and posed for their friends:
I hope I’m never converted to imperialism:
Look, it’s the panopticon! This is one of the few photos taken after the civil war. These aren’t national liberation fighters, they’re Korean student and worker radicals.
They’ve left a piece standing:
This was off the main tour, but someone had left a gate open so I wandered upstairs. I was treated to mannequin guards who looked quite lifelike close up:
I was touched by the displays of daily life in prison. Bowls for prisoners:
Bowls for guards:
The prison operated for over 40 years in the name of this flag, but I don’t think that’s what it’s supposed to signify:
One of the few places where leprosy could be a blessing. Just sitting up there watching your limbs fall off would be better than working:
Next door was the execution building, where it was forbidden to take photos. Prisoners sat on a chair in front of a tribunal, with a rope around their neck. An executioner would pull a lever and the floor would open beneath them. I found it interesting that the lever was behind the chamber: the executioner never had to see his victims die.
Burns: What are you doing in my corpse hatch?
Wiggum: Montgomery Burns, you’re under arrest for murder.
Burns: Uh, did I say “corpse hatch”? I meant, “innocence tube.”
This explanation, while technically accurate, is an obfuscation. Yes, the Japanese used a corpse hatch; but the Korean dictatorship also executed people. They would be buried in unmarked graves if their families didn’t pick them up. Often the families wouldn’t, not wanting to be tainted by the knowledge that their relatives had died awful deaths for being communists, as now their entire extended family was blacklisted by the government.
Not a bad place to be worked until you died. The photo doesn’t convey how hot it was that day, however:
The prison was built with bricks from another nearby prison – this is the seal of its kiln:
Believe it or not, there was a gift shop. I was itching to get through the designated tour because I wanted to see what a prison gift shop could possibly market as souvenirs. Turns out, quite a lot – here’s a diorama of an pro-Occupation American diplomat being executed:
This little guy was everywhere:
He was the Seodaemun Prison mascot designed, as the book says, to be a positive representation of an independence activist. He smiled and gave the thumbs-up in every room.
When they were handing out mascot jobs, I think he got a raw deal.
I don’t have any grand statements on historical memory. It showed me both the depth of feeling around the Japanese occupation, provoked by the sacrifices of people who gave up everything for the nation. I hope that some day, equal time will be given to those who fought for the working class against their own nation’s rulers.

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