With the recent release of the Tax Gap report from the IRS (June 2012), cost basis reporting is at the top of the list on IRS priorities to rake in that untapped tax revenue they so desperately need. That makes it all the more important for taxpayers to get it right!

2. Seems like the average analyst opinion is around “hold”, or even slightly positive, depending on your sources.

3. Nokia’s div. yield has always been OK, but with the recent drop in the stock, its div. yield beats most of the competitors.

All in all, seems like an interesting opportunity to join Nokia.

Even Nate, StatsTrade’s (free) robot-analyst, reported a low-confidence BUY sentiment on the stock very recently.

The only appropriate and affordable form of wheeled trahsport for this very poor population is some form of lightweight handcart.

The primary source (as well as users and exporters) of the essential handcart wheels is China. Yet the wheels are not imported into Malawi, despite their enormous market potential.

Despite positive assessments of handcart use by the Malawi Ministry of Agriculture in 1998, by the World Bank funded Malawi Rural Travel and Transport Programme in 2003, by Bunda College of Agriculture in 2009, no agency has acted to ensure that handcart wheel axle sets are commercially available in Malawi.

In essence this condemns Malawian farmers, mostly women, to transport all of their farm inputs and harvested crops into and out of their fields on their heads. This burden is in addition to their daily loads of water and firewood to their homesteads, and their headloading of marketable crops to the marketplace.

If the World Bank thinks that Malawi’s economic (i.e. agricultural) development can be accomplished by reliance on headloading, it is sorely mistaken. Yet it has made no attempt to assess and implement the only viable transport technology that is both appropriate and affordable to the vast majority of Malawians.

It is time to reassess this failure and to act to make handcart wheel-axle sets commercially available, so that affordable, lightweight and rugged handcarts can be manufactured in Malawi, and purchased by Malawian farm families, empowering them and enhancing not only their agricultural productivity, but also their quality of life.

World Bank representatives to and in Malawi do not carry their luggage on their arm, nor on their heads. For some four decades they have employed wheeled luggage to transport their luggage. It it time for them to apply that same basic technology — two wheels on a common axis/axle — the handcart, to the needs of Malawian farmers!

I’m loath to quote Dick Cheney, but if no adult supervision is imposed on this rogue state, “the next warning may be a mushroom cloud.”

They’re poor, desperate, corrupt and have a seat in the UN. Am I the only person who sees that we may someday look back at the Stanford International Bank fiasco and think “US$ 7 billion, is that all?” I know as someone who stood on his roof eleven years ago and watched almost three thousand people die before my eyes, and lived several years in Antigua, I would have to say, “yea, I saw that coming a decade away”.

Is this poacher turned gamekeeper?.Slatkin certainly was the “Turnaround CEO” for Titan, presided over the transformation of the former venerable British outdoor advertising company ,Maiden founded in 1927, to the busted wreck that was Titan Outdoor as it entered administration in January 2010 owing over £100m.In less than five years.

Gyms seemed to have been sound investments before the financial crisis as they had a steady stream of income from memberships.

Based on recent court filings, Hamersely apparently
himself sold fraudulent tax shelters and threatened to
kill Jane, the fiancé of one of Hamersley’s former co workers
who apparently killed herself as a result off Hamersley’s threats
and acts of intimidation.

FACTS. Hamersley was an accountant at KPMG who
knowingly promoted and implemented abusive tax shelters for his clients. When the IRS began
investigating the tax shelter industry a decade ago, Hamersley decided to try and mask his own
involvement with promoting abusive tax shelters by misdirecting governmental attention toward others.
Hamersley was angry with David Greenberg because Greenberg had publicly voiced his opposition
within KPMG to Hamersley being admitted to the KPMG partnership. Greenberg was thereafter targeted
by Hamersley. As Hamersley’s motion demonstrates, he still holds considerable animosity toward
Greenberg. But this case is not about Greenberg. This case is about the negligent and intentional acts
Hamersley committed toward Jane Holtel, the mother of a child fathered by Greenberg. Attached as
Exhibit A is a copy of Ms. Holtel’s suicide note, which sets forth some of the acts of defendants in this
case, including actions by Hamersley. Hamersley and the other Defendants engaged in a systematic
pattern of harassing and threatening Ms. Holtel, which proximately caused her suicide.

KPMG Whistleblower