Friday, May 12, 2006
Peter Costello’s budget announcement has led to rejoicing for small businesses, but the lack of joy for those pushing for radical corporate taxation reform has led to many businesses asking “what about us?”
Personal taxation and small business have been the big winners after this year’s federal budget. Although dampened by the twin economic threats of rising interest rates and petrol prices, there should be a reasonable amount of real income savings for both low and high income earners, with those receiving Medicare, or a superannuation benefit, privy to an even lower level of taxation (0% for those on super benefits).
Small business also has benefited from the Howard government’s 11th annual budget, with them receiving a higher level of reducing depreciation, leading to a higher level of deductions in the years following the uptake of new technology or other capital. They are also privy to a AU$435 million dollar tax cut to compensate for their changing accounting requirements under the government’s new AIFRS reporting standards, as well as increasing the uptake of both the small business tax relief scheme and CGT (Capital Gains tax) Concessions.
The budget was not a complete loss for big business however, as superannuation laws have been tweaked to streamline contribution and payment rules previously impeding those with multitudes of staff.
But this is not enough, says Big 4 accounting firm Ernst & Young. In their newly published paper “Taxation of Investment in Australia: the need for ongoing reform”. In it they lead the charge for a greater streamlining and organization of the corporate tax system in Australia, submitting that it will lead to reductions in “disincentives to work save and invest in Australia [as well as improving] the international competitiveness of Australian businesses.” This follows from a recent report brought out by Mr. Costello himself about the need for tax reform in Australia.
A budget night Mr. Costello was notably coy about any future reform of corporate tax in Australia. He alluded to the report by his ministers but kept from outlining the government’s plan precisely.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
On Saturday, the Trump Tower, in Midtown, New York City, caught fire shortly before 18:00 EST (2200 UTC) on the 50th floor, claiming the life of a 67-year-old resident, Todd Brassner, who lived in apartment 50C. All other residents were evacuated without incident. During the fire, six firefighters received non-life-threatening burns and other minor injuries. Neither US President Donald Trump nor the First Family were in the building at the time of the fire.
The high-end Fifth Avenue address is the personal residence of President Donald Trump, whose family occupies the top three stories of the 58-story building. The US Secret Service maintains a constant security presence inside the building with the New York City Police Department guarding a hard perimeter, intended to stop vehicular attacks, and a soft perimeter, intended for on-foot attacks.
The four-alarm fire required 200 firemen, extra police, and paramedics. At 20:00 EST (0000 UTC Sunday), the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) declared the fire was under control. Trump tweeted, “Firemen (and women) did a great job. THANK YOU!” This is the second fire at Trump Tower since the election; previously on January 8, a fire was caused by an electrical malfunction in a cooling tower on the roof. Three FDNY firefighters received minor injuries, and all residents and office workers evacuated without incident on that occasion.
Trump Tower provides a number of unique problems never before encountered by the Secret Service. Never has a US President’s personal residence been inside a skyscraper or in a densely populated area like Midtown. The security measures have disrupted vehicular and pedestrian traffic requiring time consuming detours and delaying emergency response.
The New York Fire Code did not mandate sprinkler systems at the time Trump Tower was built in 1983, which might have reduced the size and severity of the fire had they been present. The 50th-floor apartment was, according to FDNY Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro, “[T]he apartment was virtually, entirely on fire.” The Secret Service monitors all the fire alarms in the building but it took time to find the source of the thick black smoke emanating from the fire. Secret Service Agents escorted the firefighters throughout the building, including the Trump residence.
Brassner, the sole casualty, was unconscious when firefighters pulled him out of apartment 50C. He was transported to Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital. Originally listed as critical, he was pronounced dead sometime during the night. Brassner, guitar collector, was acquainted with artist Andy Warhol and was acknowledged in Warhol’s 1989 autobiography, The Andy Warhol Diaries. The cause of the fire is unknown, with investigations into Brassner’s death and the emergency response ongoing. Currently, the Secret Service leads the investigation.
By Kevin Dervin
Why are so many network marketers struggling to make it big?
Network marketing is often described as a simple business. It just takes focus and a willingness to do the work – even if it’s only part time initially.
And the great news you are told is that anyone can do this business. In network marketing there are no age, education level, or previous work experience requirements to succeed. Everyday people are told they can jump right in and make it big in the network marketing industry. That’s part of the attraction.
But, if it’s so simple, then why are so many people struggling? And why are thousands and thousands of people constantly switching from one network marketing opportunity to another without ever making it big?
Well let’s start with marketing (or lack of it). When you’re in a network marketing business, or any other small business, then you need to accept that part of your job is marketing. Without some kind of marketing approach, you won’t generate a constant flow of leads that you can turn into either business partners or customers.
Be careful about blindly buying into the phrase, ‘just follow the proven system.’ The so-called proven system too often misses the boat completely when it comes to proven small business marketing principles.
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‘So what is the most important marketing skill?’ I’ve been asked some form of this question many times over the years. The answer may surprise you.
Marketing success is not about having a sexy marketing message or the most impressive marketing materials. With network marketing it’s not about having the best story or materials that really demonstrate how great your products and business opportunity are. Those things are important for sure, but not as important as great follow-up.
In this industry, too many people get caught chasing the ‘holy grail’ of network marketing. They go from company to company looking for the ideal product with the ideal business opportunity and compensation plan to go with it. And then they’re hoping for great marketing collateral to make getting others interested a no-brainer.
Always looking for the ‘killer way’ to tell their story is one of the main reasons so many network marketers never build their business. Think about this for a second. All your message or story can do is get you some initial attention. That’s it. But then everything you do after that is really follow-up.
What I’ve found in working with many small business owners is that they don’t think all the way through their marketing follow-up process. Follow-up isn’t a matter of simply putting a tickler in your calendar to call or send an email every four to six weeks to see if your prospect has made a decision.
Follow-up is about communicating with your prospects (and clients) in a very planned and strategic way. And the most important thing to remember in doing it is to always provide your clients and prospects with something of value when you’re following up. Do that and watch your results soar!
The concept of follow-up is so simple. But, most network marketers launch into the business without so much as a thought as to the follow-up process. After all, you’re just following the proven system, right?
Here are Five Keys to keep in mind as you design an effective follow-up strategy:
Plan your follow-up with clients and prospects over the life of your marketing and sales flow. Yes, every business including your network marketing business has a flow. And you need to become aware of the flow so you can design your follow-up around it.
Use a good balance and combination of follow-up techniques. Letters, telephone calls, personal notes, as well as written articles and information of interest are all excellent ways to stay top of mind with your clients and prospects.
Be sure that each communication offers your client or prospect something of value. That might include information they can use, an incentive to act, a guarantee of results, etc. Just checking in to see whether they’ve made a decision tends to be viewed more as pestering than follow-up.
Send tip sheets and free reports of interest that continue to inform and educate. As you’re working to stay in touch, you’ll also be working to build a relationship of credibility and trust.
Set a schedule to contact your prospects or clients every four to eight weeks.
Take some time to think through and map out your follow-up strategy. Do this and I predict you’ll see measurable results in just a few short months.
About the Author: Kevin Dervin is a small business marketing coach focused on helping professionals who struggle to effectively attract more business. Become an Attraction Marketing Magnet. Sign up for a FREE Magnetic Sponsoring Bootcamp at
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Monday, November 10, 2008
A United States Secret Service officer has been arrested in Washington, D.C. after allegedly soliciting a prostitute for sex. The prostitute turned out to be an undercover D.C. police officer. The Secret Service officer was using his official Secret Service patrol car, which was marked, and was also in full uniform at the time of the arrest.
The unnamed Secret Service officer, a sergeant, was arrested after allegedly agreeing to pay the undercover police officer US$20 to receive oral sex. After agreeing on a price, the undercover officer told the Secret Service officer to drive around the corner, where the sex act would take place. When he stopped his car, he was arrested by police officers.
Police say they were performing a normal sting when the Secret Service officer pulled up. The unnamed officer thought the Secret Service officer was going to tell her to get off the streets, but instead told the officer that she had “nice thighs”.
In D.C., soliciting a prostitute for sex holds a maximum sentence of 180 days in jail. The Secret Service officer was released pending charges and was suspended from his job pending an internal investigation.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Political analysts widely regard Fred Thompson as a potential, if not likely, candidate in the United States presidential election in 2008. Thompson is a lawyer, lobbyist, character actor and former Republican Senator for Tennessee now residing in McLean, Virginia near Washington D.C.
A recent article in The New York Times (NYT) labelled his wife, Jeri Kehn Thompson as a “trophy wife” and a potential liability in the 2008 race. The NYT article described her as having “youthfulness, permanent tan and bleached blonde hair” and wonders if “so-called values voters” would “accept this union.”
Thompson and Kehn, married in June 2002, when he was 60 years old and she 35.
Television commentator and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough compared Kehn to a stripper and asked if “she works the pole.”
According to the Associated Press, “trophy wife” originally “meant the second (or third) wife of a corporate titan, a woman who was younger, beautiful and — equally important — accomplished in her own right.”
ABC News says that the current definition of “trophy wife” suggests Donald Trump‘s ex-wife Marla Maples and the late Anna Nicole Smith as examples.
However, ABC News also questions whether Kehn fits this definition. “Though she’s blond, beautiful and nearly 25 years younger than her husband, Kehn Thompson, a political media consultant who previously worked for the Senate Republican Conference and a prestigious Washington law firm, doesn’t appear to fit the typical description,” wrote Emily Friedman.
Karen O’Connor, a political scientist and the director of the Women & Politics Institute at American University, said Thompson may lose support from Republican women, a group he needs. It may also make it difficult to gain the support of the “value voters”, already skeptical after the report that he lobbied for an abortion-rights group.
“You have a situation where a candidate happens to have an attractive wife, therefore it’s open season for smutty thoughts and lowbrow humor, and no concern for the fact that this is a wife and mother, a professional woman?” said Mark Corallo, a former Justice Department official who is a consultant and the chief media adviser to the Thompson campaign. “One picture on the Internet and all of a sudden she’s reduced to being a bimbo?”
Toot Your Own HORNworm!
by
genny brown
The Tomato Hornworm has plagued me for many seasons. He loves the things that I love; eggplants, peppers, tomatillos and tomatoes. If he existed on the pages of a Dr. Suess book, I might think that he looked darling and colorful, but when I see him gnawing his way to the stalk on my tomato plants, all I can think is, KILL, KILL, KILL!
The Tomato Hornworm is the larvae of the hawk moth. They are the same color green as the foliage on your tomato plant. They have diagonal white stripes with equally spaced small black spots on their sides. The adult moth is not harmful to your plants, but the larvae can be devastating. These colorful pests are found throughout the United States.
The damage they cause is easy to spot, although the larvae themselves are well camouflaged. They will begin eating your plant, normally at the highest point, and can defoliate an entire plant in a few days. You can see their excrement, which are dark green in color, and up to an inch long.
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The parasitic wasp is a natural eradicator of the Tomato Hornworm. If you notice small white sacks on the Tomato Hornworm, this is the parasitic wasp mentioned in our previous blog. He will soon feed off the Tomato Hornworm, and rid your garden of this hungry pest. If you do not see any parasitic wasps ready to snack on your Tomato Hornworm, there are other measures that you can take.
Although there are no known preventative measures that can be taken to ward off the Tomato Hornworm, there are some green methods of
Pest Control
to eradicate the Tomato Hornworm without harming your beneficial insects. If you see the Tomato Hornworm on your plant, remove him or cut the stem directly below the Hornworm and place him in a bowl of soapy water, if you can t bear to smash him. There is a Bacillus Thuringiensis variety, called Kurstaki, that you can use to kill the Tomato Hornworm. It is also effective against cabbage worms, cut worms and corn ear worms. Basically, big fat vegetable plant eating moth larvae don t like it. You may also use a spinosad based product, which is a low toxicity biological insecticide. Spinosad is a new class of naturally produced metabolites from living organisms that provide excellent control of target pests, environmental compatibility, and low human risk. Both of these options should not damage your be
neficial pest populations while still managing to achieve
Garden Pest Control
. The products should be ingested by the targeted bad pests and cause them to die within a day or two. They are safe and effective, so you can administer the products yourself to rid your garden of unwanted eaters.
Online sites like ePestSolutions offer a wide range of
pest control supplies
to control every type of pest and insect, from
control of ants
, bed bugs and cockroaches to moles, pigeons and scorpions. All insecticides and pest control products are for do it yourself pest control.
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Friday, June 5, 2009
General Motors Corporation (GM), an American automaker which has filed for bankruptcy protection, announced on Friday that the Penske Automotive Group (PAG) was selected to purchase Saturn Corporation. The transaction should be completed in October.
The purchase includes rights to the Saturn brand, its five current models and its dealership network. Two models would be discontinued, the Sky and Astra. GM would continue building the Aura sedan, the SUV’s, Vue and Outlook for at least two more years.
Saturn has 350 dealers across the United States. The dealers employ more than 13,000 jobs and sell only the Saturn autos. Canadian Saturn dealers are not included in the deal.
According to Penske future Saturn vehicles will be fuel economy focused. An expert indicated that this would move Saturn back to its roots of a entry level car company. PAG is in talks with several international automakers to replace GM after 2011. Automotive News reports that Renault Samsung Motors of Korea is the most likely candidate.
Penske wants Jill Lajdziak, Saturn’s general manager, and Tom LaSorda, former Chrysler President to head up the company when it is independent of GM.
Serra Automotive in Grand Blanc Township, Genesee County, Michigan, is in talks to take a partial ownership in a new Saturn lead by Penske.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
On Sunday, Disney’s Zootopia won the Oscars award for the Best Animated Feature Film at the 89th Academy Awards ceremony held at Los Angeles. Pixar’s animated short Piper won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film and Disney’s The Jungle Book won for Visual Effects.
Others competing with Zootopia in the category were Kubo and the Two Strings, My Life as a Zucchini, The Red Turtle, and Disney’s Moana. This was the first Oscar for directors Byron Howard and Rich Moore who were previously nominated for, respectively, Bolt and Wreck-It Ralph.
In the acceptance speech, director Byron Howard said, “About five years ago, almost six now, […] we got this crazy idea of talking about humanity with talking animals in the hopes that, when the film came out, it would make the world just a slightly better place.” The Disney movie addresses several social problems such as racism, sexism, prejudice, stereotyping, and fear. The New York Times said the parental guidance (PG) rated movie was “Funny, smart, thought-provoking — and musical, too.”
Before announcing the award, Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal said, “As a Mexican, as a Latin-American, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I’m against any form of wall that wants to separate us.” The movie was released in March, during the 2016 US presidential race.
In an interview with Variety, the directors of Zootopia said movies about bias and discrimination haven’t been Disney’s main focus, but during its production, “Things were not great in the world. […] It was more like we had our finger on something important right now and we really need to do our best to portray this as honestly as we can. Then with the election and the campaign, the real move towards governing by fear […] I don’t think we could have predicted it any closer with this film.”
With this win, the Walt Disney Company has won nine out of ten Best Animated Feature Film Oscars in the last decade, with Pixar Animation Studio winning six out of them. Zootopia also won Best Animated Film at the Annie Awards and the Golden Globe Awards.
Yeast Infection Home Remedy Education
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joan87joan5
Education is the first and most important thing in curing this painful, annoying and relatively dangerous chronic problem. By learning about how to cope with candida infection and help your body mend itself from the inside out you will eliminate the pain, annoyance, humiliation and frustration associated with this problem.
The most frequent names of this condition are Yeast Infection, Candida, Candidiasis, Monilia or Thrush. Three out of four women will develop it at some point in their life and is in fact a very common problem. The most common treatment for thrush infection is with surface creams and medications whereas few are aware of its potentially risky side effects.
Yeast Infection is first and foremost an problem internally. Like most chronic conditions, there is not one cause for this fungal problem and so yeast infection won’t be permanently eliminated using medications or creams. You have to eliminate the root factors that trigger the formation of the candida infection in the first place.
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The problem is the vast majority of yeast infection sufferers choose to rid their condition by going to the doctor, pharmacist or applying an over the counter treatment. They willingly choose NOT to take responsibility for their candida condition and for the health and welfare of their own bodies.
If you are suffering from a yeast infection condition then I know you have experienced the confusion from conflicting advice. Truthful information about vaginal yeast infection or any other type of candida is harder to come by than ever before. Almost everyone has been misled at one time or another. You can throw away thousands of dollars on treatments that don’t work and anti-yeast infection products that won’t do anything.
There are in fact, alternative, inexpensive, safe, natural and holistic health practices that will permanently rid the symptoms of this condition and treat the root internal cause regardless of the type, place, or level of severity.
If you are seeking an all natural yeast infection home remedy, then this is an offer that you shouldn’t pass up.
Knowledge is key. Grasp it. Share it and apply it and you could be candida infection free.
Linda Allen is a certified nutritionist and former yeast infection sufferer. If you are seeking an all natural
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