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Since 2006, the Ford Edge has made quite the impression on consumers and in the crossover segment. It continues to do so even today. But, to keep it current, it needs an overhaul. So that's exactly what the North American automaker has done.
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Unveiled at the Los Angeles International Auto Show, Ford shows the masses the mid-sized crossover, focusing on upping the ante on style and loading it with latest in technological gadgetry.
The concept embodies the six pillars of the Ford Design Philosophy one of which is 'Silhouette Innovation.' That comes in the form of a short, front overhang as well as a swept back hood. Next, the 'Perceived Efficiency' is seen via its sculpted body. Furthermore, they've reduced its weight and flushed out a lot of features. Ford says they also "Refined Surface Language," which means they have drawn inspiration from Fusion and Mondeo.
Up front they employ the 'New Face of Ford' philosophy, a hexagonal grille (aka the shield) that has been reinterpreted to take command of your gaze, thanks to a 3-bar grilled and fusing nicely with the headlights.
But look inside to find amalgamation of various tones and textures. The cabin is fully trimmed leather and the instrument panel is hand-stitched. There are also finely detailed brushed aluminum accents and a carbon fibre weave is made with copper wire.
As for technology, Ford says "advanced, automated driving technologies include self-parking and obstacle avoidance systems currently under development; these technologies preview a future of semi- and fully autonomous driving options delivering tomorrow's technology today."
No engine(s) had been specified what the upcoming Edge would likely come with, but to assist with fuel economy improvements, a next-generation EcoBoost engine with start-stop technology will likely be found, along with a new high-tech application of Active Grille Shutters.


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NEW YORK Oil prices fell for a fourth straight day on Tuesday, dropping 1 percent as nervousness over Britain's vote next week on whether to leave the European Union overshadowed signs of a return to health for crude after a two-year glut.
Safe-haven German Bund yields DE10YT=RR fell below zero for the first time, while industrial commodities and equity markets, seen as more vulnerable to economic risk, dropped after polls showed Britain's "Leave" campaign leading ahead of the June 23 vote on EU membership.
The referendum-related concerns eclipsed an upbeat forecast for oil demand growth from the International Energy Agency (IEA), which said the oil market is essentially balanced after two years of surpluses. [IEA/M] On Monday, OPEC forecast that the oil market would be more balanced in the second half of 2016 as outages in Nigeria and Canada help to speed erosion of a supply glut.
The market was awaiting direction from the American Petroleum Institute (API) data later in the day that was forecast to show U.S. crude inventories fell for a fourth straight week. [API/S]
Brent crude oil futures LCOc1 closed 52 cents lower at $49.83 a barrel, while U.S. crude CLc1 ended the session 39 cents down at $48.49. Gasoline futures RBc1 touched a more than one-month low of $1.50 a gallon during the session.
U.S. crude traded between $48.69 and $48.02 during the session, in the tightest range in nearly two years, traders said.
"Overall, the market doesn't seem to have been impressed, taking the (IEA) update as confirmation of known factors rather than fresh bullish news," Tim Evans, energy futures specialist at Citi Futures wrote in a note.
The campaign for Britain to leave the EU has a "significant lead" ahead of the referendum, and about 47 percent of likely voters said they will opt to leave, compared with 40 percent who want to stay, according to a poll of 2,497 people.
"This (the referendum) has rattled a lot of financial and commodity trader/investors with money seemingly starting to flow to the so-called safe-haven U.S. dollar until the dust settles and the voting is concluded," said Dominick Chirichella, senior partner at the Energy Management Institute in New York.
"The strong U.S. dollar versus most currency pairs is a negative price directional driver for the oil complex."
If Britain voted to leave the EU, a prospect dubbed "Brexit", investors fear the bloc could slip into recession, which in turn could undermine oil demand.
The dollar .DXY has risen about 1.7 percent from its June lows against a basket of currencies, spurred by Brexit fears.
Adding to the uncertainty in the markets was the ongoing two-day U.S. central bank meeting.
"Not increasing interest rates would be interpreted as the U.S. economy is not healthy enough for increasing interest rates," a U.S. trader said.
(Additional reporting by Amanda Cooper in London, Henning Gloystein in SINGAPORE and Aaron Sheldrick in TOKYO; Editing by Paul Simao and Tom Brown)
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The semester is winding down. Three weeks of classes. Just three weeks. And while the work and projects and page counts soar, so, too, does the clutter around our house. Some days, it just overwhelms me, how much stuff we have as a family of five. So I've decided to do something about it. I call it 10 and 10.
10: Every day, I get rid of 10 items in our home. Items so far have ranged from an old, rusty necklace to a shirt I no longer wear to a kid's meal toy to part of a kid's meal toy. Getting rid of it entails tossing or donating. I have a diapers box in my closet where I have been collecting my donation items, and our garbage can is already full for the week!
What went this week? Here are a few of the things I can remember:
- dried out nail polish containers
- expired make-up
- worn-out and unworn shoes
- worn water toys
- old plastic organizers
- a couple of t-shirts
Each day, I started in a different room. First the back bedroom. Then my room. The kitchen. The laundry room. The front bathroom, etc. Usually, the first item or two make me pause a little bit, but by nine and ten (or while I am chatting with Caroline), tossing becomes so much easier.
And here's the best part: I feel so much lighter afterward. Like I can physically feel clutter retreating. Definitely a domestic rush.
Now for the second half…
And 10: This phase, I just came up with the other night, but I haven't implemented it yet. I plan to start tomorrow night. This ten refers to ten minutes. Before I get ready for bed, I am going to start spending ten minutes straightening up and putting things away around the house. Who knows? Maybe I will even throw a few more items away. At the very least, I will get to wake up to a house that is a little bit tidier. Which means I will wake up a little bit more content.
I am starting to believe that there is a definite correlation between clutter and my productivity levels. Sometimes I can ignore the clutter, especially when I am in full throttle survival mode. But sometimes I can't. 10 and 10, I think, will help me manage the clutter with a daily dose of working to manage and cut down on it.
I'm pretty pumped about this plan! By Christmas, I'm hoping for some clear shelves and unstuffed drawers. I'm hoping to make this a habit I can maintain.
Less clutter = more productivity and less stress
I like that equation a lot.


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This is a guest post by webionate about their new project shipcloud.io (written by @andrecedik)
The easy SaaS for shipping packages
Small and medium sized business are constantly looking for a way to reduce costs and remove complexity from their daily operations. If you own a business that sends goods to its customers one of the first things you are probably thinking about is sending the packages with the cheapest, but at the same time most reliable carrier that's available. In Germany most businesses are still relying on DHL, because of their widely spread stores and because they are practically shipping to everywhere in the country. Unfortunately they aren't always the cheapest carrier and for lots of businesses there are better alternatives available. But what can you do if you want to integrate another carrier into your (e-commerce) software system?
That's where shipcloud.io comes into place. We're making it easy for our customers to get access to all the major carriers currently available in Germany (DHL, UPS, Hermes, GLS and DPD). All you have to do is integrate our simple restful API and you're done. So instead of integrating the webservice of every carrier (which is a daunting task, because every carrier has other criteria and terms how to access them), you can just sit back and relax, because we are taking care of the rest. The way to create a shipping label for UPS is the same way you'd create a label for DHL or GLS. Even better: You don't have to have coding knowledge at all, because everything you can do via the API you can also achieve using our website.
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For us it's not only the monthly fees we need to charge our customers, but we also needed a way to bill them for the shipping labels they've created using shipcloud. Since we've used PAYMILL in the past, we already had the chance to witness their awesome support and knew how committed they are to making payments on the web easy. Which is the reason we knew, that we wanted to work with them again. From there we only had to find a service that's using PAYMILL for doing recurring payments.
Eventually we were talking to the people from Reskribe and were excited about what they've told us, they were building. The best thing – aside from their office being only a few kilometers away – is, that we've been given the opportunity to give them feedback about what we think they should tweak on their side, in order for us and all the other customers to make better use of their service. They've been of tremendous help while we were integrating their API into shipcloud. What made it easy for Reskribe to convince us was their partnership with PAYMILL. Their use of PAYMILL UNITE made it easy for them to connect all three systems with each other, so everyone was able to profit from one single use case – shipping packages within Germany and maybe even worldwide soon. All of this while maintaining PCI compliancy and abiding the strict German privacy laws.
How charges at shipcloud work
To be a little more specific about how all of those systems are working together, here is a little insight into how shipcloud charges its customers: If a user registers for one of our payed plans (there is also a free developer plan) he/she has to enter credit card information. Like every other site using PAYMILL, when submitting the form, the JavaScript bridge is generating a token for the submitted credit card data. But instead of contacting the PAYMILL servers, the token is afterwards being send to Reskribe together with the users billing address and the info which plan he/she has chosen. Reskribe then uses the token to create the first monthly charge for our user. This way we're also able to verify, that the credit card being used can be charged.
Every night, a cronjob at our end checks to see, if our customers have created new physical shipping labels. If this is the case, the server sends information about the number of shipping labels (per carrier) and the amount, a user has to pay, to the Reskribe service as a so called add-on. Add-Ons are being added to a users upcoming bill and charged at the end of the current billing period. It really was that simple to implement recurring billing and we are thrilled, that we are already able to work on more features for our customers which will be released to shipcloud.io in the upcoming weeks. So stay tuned!


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Keystone Cougar Half-Ton fifth wheel 27SGS highlights:
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Looking for a fifth wheel that provides a large main living and kitchen area to entertain other RVers? Just imagine hosting the campground party inside due to the weather conditions with a free standing dinette to play games, two recliners to sit in and visit, and a sleeper sofa for overnight guests. The peninsula kitchen counter allows you to serve appetizers and wash dishes. The guests can walk up the steps to the bathroom and set their jackets on your queen bed in the master bedroom. The pivot hinge door into the bathroom gives everyone more space. Don't forget about the Hitch Vision backup mirror allowing you to safely hitch up before heading back home.
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Maybe you've seen them tucked away in a corner of the gym: Rowing machines simulate rowing on dry land and offer a wallop of a workout, burning about 438 calories per hour for a 160-pound person. Of course, the number of calories you'll burn depends on how much you weigh and how hard you work in each session, but you can easily burn a significant amount of calories in each rowing workout, which will help you lose 40 pounds. Combine your rowing workouts with strength training and a reduced-calorie diet to see even quicker results.
Calculate how many calories you'll burn during each rowing session to figure out how long it would take you to lose 40 pounds with rowing alone. This means not changing your diet or doing any other type of exercise. If you weigh 200 pounds, you'll burn 546 calories each hour of rowing. If you row for one hour three days a week, or 30 minutes six days a week, you'll burn 1,638 calories each week. To lose 1 pound of fat, you need to burn 3,500 calories. That means, if you make no other changes, it will take you approximately 85 weeks to lose 40 pounds rowing three hours each week.
Increase your intensity on the rowing machine to burn more calories and lose the 40 pounds more quickly. According to the MyFitnessPal calories-burned calculator, if you row for one hour at a very vigorous pace, you can burn 816 calories each hour. If you row three hours a week, that's 2,448 calories burned each week. You can increase the intensity of your workout by increasing the resistance of the rowing machine, by rowing faster, or a combination of both.
Perform interval training so you can push yourself even harder to burn even more calories. Row at an all-out pace for one minute and follow it with one or two minutes of a more moderately paced row instead of rowing at a steady pace for your 30- or 60-minute workout. According to fitness blogger and expert Charlotte Andersen, high-intensity exercise, such as interval training, burns more calories both during the workout and in the 24 hours following the workout. That's right, do intervals and your body will keep burning fat even while you're getting some shut-eye.
- Add strength training to your workout regimen to build more muscle and increase your metabolism. Perform total-body strength-training workouts two or three days each week targeting each major muscle group: arms, chest, back, abs and legs. Perform one to three sets of eight to 12 repetitions of each exercise to muscle failure.
- Reduce your calorie intake to lose the 40 pounds more quickly. Cutting 500 calories from your daily diet will help you lose a pound a week, in addition to what you'll be losing with your rowing workout. Cut out sweets, sodas and refined-grain products, and increase your intake of fruits, veggies, lean protein and whole grains to easily shave calories off your daily diet.
- Make sure you have already achieved a good level of fitness before you increase the intensity of your rowing workouts to avoid injury. Start with workouts of 10 minutes at a moderate pace and work up to longer, more intense workouts.
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West Plaza Hotel Downtown is centrally located in Koror, walking distance from Asahi Stadium and close to National Stadium. This motel is within the region of Rock Islands. Pamper yourself with onsite massages or make use of the other amenities, which include wireless Internet access (surcharge) and tour/ticket assistance. Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and a safe deposit box at the front desk. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge at scheduled times. Make yourself at home in one of the 20 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and desks, as well as phones with free local calls.


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Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway
Abandoned P&SF depot in Littlefield, Texas
|New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas
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|Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
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|Amarillo, Texas
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The Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway is a now-defunct railroad company that was a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
The railway was originally named the Southern Kansas Railway Company of Texas, and was chartered on November 2, 1886. In June 1914, the railway was renamed the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway.[1]
In 1931, the Panhandle and Santa Fe leased two separate companies: the Clinton and Oklahoma Western Railroad Company and the Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas, which together serviced the track from Clinton, Oklahoma, west to Hemphill County, Texas, and southwest to Pampa, located northeast of the headquarters city of Amarillo in Gray County, Texas. The P&SF purchased both the COW and the COW-T in December 1948 and held them until disestablishment in 1965.[2]
The P&SF operated in Texas, with a stop in the small community of O'Donnell, south of Lubbock, until the Interstate Commerce Commission overrode Article X of the Texas Constitution, which had required railroads operating within Texas to have headquarters inside the state. The company was dissolved following this ruling.
- ^ "Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway". Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
- ^ "Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad". tshaonline.org. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
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Office Tenants May "Get WELL" Soon
Tammy Faulk
JLL Indianapolis
The recent Energy Star accreditations awarded to the Precedent Office Park has had me thinking about building standards. We've all heard of LEED certified and Energy Star rated buildings. Both certifications achieve environmental protection and financial value, however there is more to strive for in 2016. This year the focus will be less on the building and more about its tenants. The WELL Building Standard® is the first benchmarking program to assess properties based on their ability to promote the health and well-being of their tenants.
According to the website for the International Well Building Institute®, "The WELL Building Standard takes a holistic approach to health in the built environment addressing behavior, operations and design." WELL measures the features of buildings that can impact occupant health by looking at seven factors including:
- air
- water
- nourishment
- light
- fitness
- comfort
- mind.
It involves a wide array of aspects from noise levels, lighting and temperature to corporate policies that promote work-life balance.
A WELL Certified™ building enhances overall quality of life by positively impacting a tenant's health, well-being, happiness and productivity. Furthermore, it can provide savings in personnel costs while adding significant value to real estate assets.
The first office to participate in the WELL Certified™ – Pilot Program published its results in their 2014 workplace study. Nearly 94% of the employees claimed the new space had a positive impact on their business performance, while 92% said it had improved their health and well-being. According to the feedback, 83% of their employees felt more productive in the new environment.
These statistics speak volumes on the positive impact the WELL program has on its occupiers. Many owners are starting to take notice of this revolutionary building standard. The International Well Building Institute® states that "nearly 100 projects encompassing more than 20 million square feet have already registered or certified through WELL". Health and wellness is one of the largest growing industries today.
The WELL Building Standard® allows owners to design and build using a human-centered approach. This supports the industry by comprehensively addressing human health globally. Owners can obtain a meaningful return on investment and generate increased savings while tenants enjoy improved productivity, plus a significant impact on their overall mental and physical condition. This could be the year for both owners and tenants to "get WELL" soon.


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The Strange Death of Europe
Background: More than 90,000 migrants have arrived in Italy from Libya so far this year and the country is now riven by deep political and civil divisions because of the strains the influx is putting on the country's infrastructure. Meanwhile, it is thought that at least 300,000 Africans from Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Chad and Sudan are en route to Libya in hopes of getting across the Mediterranean to Europe.
Long-term demographic trends mean millions of Africans could be driven to Europe by hunger, poverty and repression. How many millions? No one knows for sure but Niger, a huge, mostly desert country to the north of Nigeria, offers some indicators. According to Reuters, "With an average of 7.6 children born to each woman, its population is projected to more than triple to 72 million by 2050, from about 20 million now, according to the latest U.N. figures. By then, Africa will have more than doubled its population to 2.4 billion, the United Nations says."
As the poet wrote, the centre cannot hold.
How very timely, then, that The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam has arrived on the bookshelves. According to the blurb, this is Douglas Murray's "highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth rates, mass immigration, and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own comprehensive alteration as a society and an eventual end."
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Excellent book!
I hope it does not suffer the same fate, when translated to German, than Sarrazin's work, which basically conveys the same message


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New visa will give more Australians the opportunity live and work in Great Britain.
A new visa deal was being trashed out in response to the migration changes that the British government did two years ago whereby 20,000 skilled people were prevented from applying outside the EU. This has caused a significant drop of 50% less Australians coming to work in the UK.
The British Government was concerned that if they make an exception for Australia, it would have to make exception for other Commonwealth nations as well, but Australia insisted to be treated in a special way because of its status and relationship with Great Britain.
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It is expected that the new policy will be completed for review by a parliamentary committee by the end of this year.
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Love Our Wai - Let's stop the plastic!
By Niki Gladding
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Project: Community
Love Our Wai - Let's stop the plastic!: Help us stop the plastic pollution! Court date May 20th! Help us keep our lawyer so we can stop the water bottling at Otakiri!
Project: Community
Love Our Wai - Let's stop the plastic!: Help us stop the plastic pollution! Court date May 20th! Help us keep our lawyer so we can stop the water bottling at Otakiri!
NZ $31,680 pledged
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New Zealand: The plastic creation nation. Is this our future?
Sustainable Otakiri needs to raise $43,125 by May 8th or it may have to withdraw its Environment Court appeal against Cresswell NZ. Please give us a chance to stop the bottling and STOP THE PLASTIC!
PLEDGE or DONATE (Otakiri Save Our Water and Environment 06 0489 0754608 30 ) THANK YOU!
This will be disastrous for NZ and our region:
The factory will:
· take 1.1 million m3 of deep-aquifer water/year
· discharge up to 450m3 per day of high-phosphorus process water to a local stream flowing into the Tarawera River.
· produce 6m3 of compressed plastic waste daily, from reject bottles and packaging AND produce 2,451, 960 bottles (of various sizes) each day.
· create 202 truck and trailer journeys from Tauranga to Otakiri (and associated emissions) each day - that's one truck every three minutes.
We can win this!
Minister Eugenie Sage said she was powerless to stop this, but the community isn't!
Sustainable Otakiri has appealed the land use consent. If it is successful, the Court's ruling will prevent Cresswell building the plant and buying the land. The Society has a strongly arguable case that the application should be declined. AWA has seen the legal advice and agrees that the case needs to be heard by the Environment Court. The Hearing will be held on 20th May this year - in a matter of weeks. If the Society can't raise $43,125 by 8th May then it will have to withdraw its appeal. Sustainable Otakiri has twice applied for Government funding via the Environmental Legal Assistance fund and has now been turned down for the second time.
Who are we?
Aotearoa Water Action is a group of volunteers working hard to protect New Zealand's water sovereignty - we want to ensure there will always be enough clean water to meet the various needs of New Zealand's communities and to support healthy ecosystems. Part of our role is to facilitate legal action to achieve that, so we're fundraising on behalf of Sustainable Otakiri so they can continue their court battle against Cresswell NZ.
Our website is www.aotearoawateraction.org & our facebook page is @aotearoawateraction
Aotearoa Water Action has received permission from Sustainable Otakiri to run the Pledge Me campaign. If the campaign is successful, all money raised will go towards the group's (capped) legal and expert witness costs -$25 000 +GST for legal costs and $12,500 + GST for expert evidence. If the group decides they have to settle and withdraw the appeal then the full amount will be refunded to AWA to be put to one or more of the following purposes (in priority order): helping tangata whenua oppose two bottling plants proposed for Murupara; funding opposition to any other proposed plants in the Bay of Plenty; funding opposition to any other bottling plant(s).
AWA and Sustainable Otakiri are run 100% by volunteers so all money raised goes towards legal costs.
Sustainable Otakiri's facebook page is save Our Wai @sustainableotakiri
It's time to care a whole lot more about our precious water and how we use it!
Media & Resources:
Consent granted for Chinese water bottling giant to purchase Otakiri Spring
Green MP and minister Eugenie Sage under fire from party members over Otakiri water-bottling decision
Whakatāne iwi appeal water bottling consents
Cedar Nook B&B, Otakiri.
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NZ Government secretly funded water botting companies
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We're getting there - thanks for the support!
Here's a link to the story that aired on April 2nd: TVNZ Story - 2 April 2079
And here's the text of our Press Release that no outlet seemed to want to publish:
Media release 4 April 2019
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of tax payer money to fund two water bottling companies but has refused to release the names or locations of the companies involved or what exactly the money was given to them for. It has confirmed one company is foreign owned.
Documents obtained by Aotearoa Water Action (AWA) under the Official Information Act also reveal that NZTE invited water bottling company Nongfu to visit New Zealand in April 2015. The company is seeking to significantly expand the existing Otakiri Spring bottling plant in the Bay of Plenty with strong public opposition. Documents out of Minister Parker's Office state that Nongfu Spring's project with Otakiri Spring is in the NZTE investment pipeline as a 'significant project'.
Sustainable Otakiri, a neighbourhood group challenging the resource consent, is seeking to block the 16,800m2 plant which will take up to 1,100,000m3 of local water per year, discharge up to 450m3 of phosphorus-rich process water per day into a nearby stream and put another 202 truck and trailer units daily on the already dangerous road to Tauranga.
"It's a shock to learn that Nongfu may have potentially been funded by the taxpayer to take our water," says Maureen Fraser of Sustainable Otakiri. "It's clear that the government and our local council have been pushing this deal and the industry for years and it's all been done in the shadows. The lack of transparency around this is a big concern. We feel let down – by the government, Minister Sage and our local council."
She says it is unbelievable that the government is willing to fund multi-million dollar water bottling companies yet has left community group Sustainable Otakiri to crowdfund its Environment Court appeal against a subsidiary of Nongfu after the Government's Environmental Legal Assistance Fund (ELA) declined its application making it virtually impossible for the community to challenge the consents.
Peter Richardson of Aotearoa Water Action (AWA) says the Resource Management Act was designed to have public participation as a check and balance but the financial obstacles for people wanting to oppose decisions is prohibitive leaving communities vulnerable. AWA has set up a PledgeMe campaign to help assist Sustainable Otakiri's appeal.
"If the Ministry won't create good law to manage water allocation, won't adequately oversee the implementation of the Act by local councils and won't fund public participation then the necessary safeguards, checks and balances aren't there and our environment is at risk."
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How did children's birthdays become the battle of extravagance? What ever happened to a good old fashioned pool party at the local park?
How did it become the norm to bring gourmet cupcakes to school? What happened to the homemade ones or at least the ones from the local grocery store. Having a summer birthday, I never even got to bring cupcakes to school. We did not have a day when all the summer birthdays were celebrated. It definitely sucked but I survived and I am pretty sure that I was not scared for life.
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A friend recently questioned whether it would be strange to have people donate to a charity rather than bring gifts to the birthday of her three-year old. If this seems "strange" then we need to take a look at what we are teaching our children. After all, there are reportedly over 1 million charities in the United States alone. My response was that it was an awesome idea. Children will get plenty of gifts from family and close friends, most likely they will get more than enough. This is a great opportunity to teach children, both the birthday girl/boy and their friends, about empathy, thinking of others, and giving back. And it is great to start early, to make it a birthday tradition, something that is a way of life.
Here are some ideas for your child's birthday. Most provide the opportunity to involve your child's friends in the giving back process and for other parents to begin such discussions with their children and it encourages a family activity of giving back post-birthday party celebration.
1. Create a donation page for a particular charity. My friend chose the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
2. Collect children's books and then take them to a local charity. This is a fun one, as your child's friends get the chance to pick out their favorite books to bring.
3. Have guests bring non-perishable food items and then take them to a local soup kitchen or homeless shelter.
4. Talk with a local animal shelter and see if there is a particular animal that is in need of funding for vet bills. "Adopt" this pet to raise money for and include their photo in your child's birthday invitation.
5. Have guests bring a used toy or clothing. Imagine what kids will think if they not only do not get a goody bag for attending a party but are asked to bring an old item of theirs to donate!
Depending on the age of your child, allow them to be involved in choosing the charity to benefit. This will help them develop their passion for a particular volunteer activity.
It is time to stop trying to keep up with the "Joneses" birthday parties and instead celebrate your child's birthday in a way that both celebrates them and encourages them to think of others.
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In The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, authors Suzanne Anker and Dorothy Nelkin examine the intersections between art and science in the developing arena of genetic research and engineering. The book is clearly written, well documented, and lavishly illustrated. It will appeal to a wide audience, including artists, scientists, and the general public with an interest in the host of ethical and social questions raised by molecular science.
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The Molecular Gaze, published just months after the sad death of Dorothy Nelkin, is a work of art. Literally, in the sense of being about art (and more specifically, about art in the age of genetics), and figuratively, in the sense of being a visually elegant and aesthetically satisfying production. It is also timely: as Anker (an artist and art historian) and Nelkin (a sociologist of science) document, in the space of little more than a decade, the incorporation of molecular genetics into the visual artsas icon, as motif, as subject, and even as techniquehas emerged as a not so minor industry.
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ATM Skimming and How to Protect Yourself
ATM skimming is when criminals place a device on the face of an ATM, which appears to be a part of the machine. It's almost impossible for civilians to know the difference unless they have an eye for security, or the skimmer is of poor quality. Often, the thieves will hide a small pinhole camera in a brochure holder near the ATM, in order to extract the victim's pin number. Gas pumps are equally vulnerable to this type of scam.
A customer at a New York City bank discovered a skimming device on the face of an ATM and went inside the bank to inform the branch manager. The manager, who had never seen an ATM skimmer and wasn't sure what to do, took the skimmer and thanked him. The customer then remembered, from numerous reports about ATM skimming, that there is usually a second part to the ATM skimmer, the camera. In this case, he found it behind a small mirror that alerts the ATM user to beware of "shoulder surfers." He brought the camera to the bank manager, who replied by saying, "Maybe we should shut that machine down, huh?" The bank manager contacted bank security, shut down the machine, and alerted other area banks.
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Skimming is one of the financial industry's most difficult crimes to protect against. At one time the worldwide ATM Industry Association reported over $1 billion in annual global losses from debit/credit card fraud and electronic crime associated with ATMs.
Many of the large data breaches that have occurred over the past few years may have contributed to ATM fraud. When criminals hack databases full of credit and debit card numbers they then use that information to pull the victim's bank account cash out at an ATM
It's simple enough to hack into a database and compromise cards and pins. It's even easier to affix hardware to the face of an ATM machine and do the same. Once the data is compromised the identity thieves clone cards and turn the data into cash as quickly as possible.
Types of ATM Skimming
ATM skimming comes in two flavors. In the first scenario, a device called a "skimmer" is placed on the face of an operational ATM. When a card is swiped, the skimmer records the data on the card, and a camera hidden in a brochure holder or security mirror records the PIN. Usually, money is dispensed and the user is none the wiser.
In the second scenario, a used ATM is rigged to record data, and placed in a public area. These ATMs are only semi-operational and do not dispense cash. These used ATMs can be purchased easily on the second-hand market at bargain prices.
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- Scrutinize the ATM: This means every ATM, even ones from your bank. You also want to check any of the card sliders like ones at gas stations, etc, especially if you're using your debit card. If the scanner does not match the color and style of the machine, it might be a skimmer. You should also "shake" the card scanner to see if it feels like there's something attached to the card reader on the ATM.
- Cover the keypad when entering your PIN: In order to access your bank accounts, thieves need to have your card number and your PIN. By covering the keypad, you prevent cameras and onlookers from seeing your PIN.
- Check your bank and credit card statements often: If someone does get your information, you have 60 days to report any fraudulent charges to your credit card company in order not to be charged. For a debit card, you only have about 2 days to report any suspicious activity.
- Be choosy: Don't use general ATMs at bars or restaurants. These are not usually monitored and therefore, can be easily tampered with by anyone.


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Here's a couple pics of the anamorphic drawing I did for Aquascapes Inc. You'll notice that I'm using a water bottle to spray the floor because it's the only way to get the type of chalk I'm using to stick to the smooth surface of the sealed floor in this warehouse. Later I just abandoned my usual techniques and made pastes out of the chalk and literally began to paint with brushes. It was all just taking too long. Lots of lessons learned on this one!
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Here's the whole thing from beginning to end! Thanks to Greg, Ed and Ellen for having me out to the Aquascapes facilities!
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The importance of public relations is always being questions by new business and marketers alike, though it is an over one hundred year old functioning part of our every day lives. Can public relations truly change the public perception of a product or company?
The answer again and again has been found to be yes, public relations has and can change the public perception of a product, a business, or an organization.
For new business starting out who want to perform public relations case studies to find out if it is worth the effort and money to have a public relations department generally are going to need to conduct a series of interviews with locals regarding their company and it's products. These interviews should be done after a series of advertisements have been run, and the public has had a sufficient amount of time to recognize who this company is.
When conducting the interviews those being interviewed will need to be asked specific questions. Such as, what is the product this company offers? How well does it work? Would you purchase it? If so why? If not, why?
These will be important questions to know the answer to when trying to come up with a goal or an objective for your public relations department. Your public relations department must have an objective, and goals to reaching that objective, before it starts it's campaign.
If most of the people questioned do not know what who the company is or what the company is offering, then obviously it is time to go back to square one with advertising, find out what methods of advertising they have been using, and switch them up so as to try different methods. If most of the people question do you know who the company is and what product the company is offering than this would be a good time to focus on the next question.
How well does the product work? Has the company hired a famous face who can give testimonial to the product? If not that most likely the people being questioned are going to have to rely on whether or not they have used it to know how well it works. Though in the advertising the advertisement may claim it is the best product of it's kind, without a familiar face to back it the public will tend to be a bit skeptic.
After asking how well it works, if they say they haven't tried it, it is good to find out if they haven't tried it because they have no need, or because they don't trust it is better than another brand. Ask them if they would purchase it, and then why or why not? This will be important in finding out if the advertisement has given enough information about the product, and in what areas it needs to increase the consumer's knowledge on the product.
Once you know how well the advertising has worked then you can launch a public relations campaign. Your campaign manager or spokes person will most likely get in touch with local (or national) journalist, broadcasters, and magazine editors, to send out a press release and see if anyone will review the product. If their press release is successful then you will find quickly enough you will have more than enough testimonials. Your public relations campaign manager may also send out emails, post a web site of information, hold press conferences, or events for the public to come and learn more about your product.
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- Margie said...
A spectacular dress for certain. Good luck with creating your own version Suzanne. If anyone can do it, you can!! Quite the undertaking!! Hugs!
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- Italian Girl in Georgia said...
Hey Margie ~ I will let you know if this project idea becomes a reality!
Ciao bella,
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- Fleur de Bee said...
If you're taking orders sign me up! Stunning!!! Loving your pots!! xoxo
- 7/12/2011
A beautifully designed wearable art garment! Thanks for sharing it...joni
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- Lynn@ The Vintage Nest said...
I love it too! And hope you make one and share it with us. :) HPP
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- Italian Girl in Georgia said...
Thank you blog friends! Now you all have me inspired to get started on this fashion project.
- 7/13/2011
Hi there,
What a unique dress! Love the hat, too. Please post a photo of your creation when you get it done. I know it will be fabulous! By the way, I grew up in Florida and I had no idea there was a town somewhere called Watercolour. It sounds like it would be an interesting town to visit. Have a beautiful day! xoxo Kim
- 7/16/2011
- Denise said...
HI! Thanks for the nice compliment on my blog about that fishing rod picture. I will post it to etsy. I hadn't gotten there yet....thanks for the push.
I love those burlap bows and that wrought iron angel......so pretty!
- 7/19/2011
- ❀ⒹⒺⒺ❀ said...
WOW! I love the dress. Cute way to decorate your posts.
- 7/21/2011
- Fleur de Bee said...
Re-reading this...I think I might need to be buried in that dress. Or at least have it for the wake. I'd never take it off so I guess they'd have to bury me in it LOL. FAB!!! Kiss Kiss!
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Fripp Island, the most seaward of the beautiful South Carolina Sea Islands, is located eighteen miles east of inland town of Beaufort, South Carolina. Fripp Island holds a fascinating history, and bears an exciting future to match.
In days of yore, this majestic 3000-acre island was a popular oasis for world explorers and a quiet retreat for treasure hunting pirates who sailed the seas preying on ships of all nations. Because of it's reputation for being a pirate's hideaway, stories about buried treasure on the island still persist.
Fripp Island's history can be traced back to the 17th Century when the island was deeded to the Captain Johannes Fripp, a swashbuckling privateer who, like other letter-of-marquee men and pirates at that time, sailed the Seven Seas in search of gold and treasures. Captain Fripp was a big powerful man whose reputation as a skillful sea warrior marked him as a fearful foe. For reasons unknown, Captain Fripp never gained the notoriety of Blackbeard and other scurrilous pirates of the time. Being a privateer of sorts made it possible for Captain Fripp to take sides with any nation paying the highest price for his services. England needed all the help she could get at the time, so King Charles of England made Captain Fripp an offer he couldn't refuse and it proved to be a good arrangement for them both. Fripp was given the responsibility of defending the British encampment located in nearby Beaufort against marauding Spanish and French, which he successfully did. With the French and Spanish unable to penetrate the English stronghold in Beaufort, the English had time to reinforce their coastal defenses which eventually led to the successful British colonization of this southeastern territory. As a reward for his successful defense of Beaufort on behalf of England, King Charles officially deeded this island to Captain Johannes Fripp. The island became known as Fripp's Island. Captain Fripp settled here, married a lady named Martha Scott and had a family. His family, over time, became one of the wealthy Southern plantation families prior to the Civil War.
Amazingly, Fripp Island was a much larger island than it is today. However, in 1854, the ocean broke through two places on the island to form three separate islands: Fripp, Pritchard's and Capers. Today, a growing number of travelers, like the 17th Century seafarers, are attracted to this palmetto-studded island because of its mild climate. This "private world of beauty", resplendent with tropical foliage, a gently sloping beach that is swept by refreshing trade winds, the magnificence of the sunrise over the Atlantic, and the soothing sound of the surf, have never lost and will never lose its appeal.
The development of Fripp Island was started in 1961 when the only way to reach the island was by boat from Hunting Island, a South Carolina State Park. A half-mile access bridge was completed in 1963 (see photo) and a security gate stands at the entrance to protect the tranquil beauty and privacy of the island. Today there are approximately 1,474 privately owned homes and villas on the island with more under construction.
Hollywood has found Fripp Island fascinating as well. In fact, it was at the Ocean Creek venue and the surrounding tidal marsh that was used as a film set for both Forrest Gump and Disney's The Jungle Book! Additionally, Jacques Cousteau has said that Ocean Creek is framed by some of the world's most fertile and pristine salt marshes.
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We will reserve an area in the pub and cast our votes to decide on the CLOG choice for the plinth - while enjoying a good choice of beers, wines, food and company!
The gallery is open late that evening so if you arrive later you can still go to the gallery and then join us in the pub. Current members, new members and prospective members are all welcome.
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"Friend to Friend: Feeding the Birds," Friend, Aug. 1973, 16
Friend to Friend:
Feeding the Birds
Early one summer morning a mother and father quail with their brood of thirteen little chicks came out of the bushes in our backyard where they had been nesting. The little chicks looked like tiny balls of fur, and the parent birds were clucking and scolding.
The father quail went first, strutting and moving his head mightily from left to right. When he was far enough into the street that he could see clearly in both directions, he gave a call and the mother quail started across the street. Then, like little soldiers, the baby quail lined up single file and followed her, running as fast as they could. The father fell in line after the last chick, and the family scurried safely across the street.
The baby quail showed great obedience and devotion to their parents. The little ones had faith in their parents' leadership. They knew they would be protected and guided to a place where they could safely hunt for seeds they liked to eat. The parents expected obedience from their tiny chicks. They did not want them to stray, and yet they led them with tenderness.
About fifteen years ago a large flock of quail selected four blue spruce trees near the side of our house for their nightly roosting place. Our family decided to feed the quail every day during the winter months so they would live with us permanently. In back of our house we have a patio and a large lawn. Glass doors open directly to the back from our living room, and we always have a perfect view of our patio and lawn. We decided the patio would be an ideal place to feed quail and any other birds that came during the winter months.
I built a bird feeder about six feet high so snowbirds and other small birds could enjoy eating where they felt more secure off the ground. Each day we scattered milo on the patio for the quail, and we also put milo in the bird feeder for the smaller birds.
Shortly before sunrise a number of male quail would begin to crow and give their whistles and commands. The flock of quail soon grew to about seventy-five birds and would fly down from the blue spruce trees to the patio for their morning feeding. On days when there was no snow on our back lawn, the quail would finish their meal and then would usually lounge around on the lawn for about two hours to sun themselves. Then they would go out our back gate and up on the hills to spend the day gathering seeds.
Shortly before nightfall the large flock of quail would return through our east gate, pick a few seeds from the lawn, and then come down to the patio to have their final fill of milo before flying into the blue spruce trees to roost for the night. What a joyful experience our family had day after day as we watched these birds!
Many snowbirds and other small birds often spend the day in two flowering crab apple trees just south of our patio. They too come to the bird feeder, eat, and then fly back into the trees.
Early one fall twenty Steller's jays arrived at our bird feeders. These jays are gorgeous dark blue and have big topknots on their heads. They feed on the milo with the quail and the smaller birds. I told them that we would be delighted to have them join our birds and if they would stay with us all winter, I would give them all the food they could eat each day. To our delight, they stayed.
What has been our pay for feeding all these birds? As a family we have received great joy from watching them. We have come to realize that our Father in heaven provides for them as He does for us. They are part of His great plan. He created them to gladden our hearts with their songs and to give us joy in observing their beauty.
The Savior taught that our Heavenly Father feeds the birds and that not one sparrow is forgotten before God, for He takes note of every sparrow that shall fall on the ground (Matt. 10:29).


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Providing healthy, nutritious meals for the Phantom Regiment!
Did you know that Phantom Regiment spends over $100,000 providing healthy meals for its members every year?
Fueled by Phans is your opportunity to play an active part in supporting the members of the 2018 Phantom Regiment. Help ensure that each member's life-changing performing arts experience includes healthy, nutritious meals by sponsoring snack, lunch, or even an entire day's worth of food for the corps!
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With silicon-based processors facing some inexorable limits, scientists are looking elsewhere to keep computing on its exponential growth track. One potential alternative that is getting some traction is magnet-based computing. A group of electrical engineers at the Technische Universität München (TUM) is studying the feasibility of using miniature magnets as the building block for integrated circuits.
The group ran experiments using three-dimensional arrangements of nanometer-scale magnets instead of transistors. Their results are detailed in the journal Nanotechnology.
The 3D stack of nanomagnets function as a majority logic gate, which could act as a programmable switch in a digital circuit. The mechanism is a lot like ordinary bar magnets. When you bring them near each other, the opposite poles attract and like poles repel each other. If you bring together several bar magnets and hold all but one in a fixed position, the magnet that is free to flip will be determined by the orientation of the majority of fixed magnets.
Gates made from field-coupled nanomagnets work in a similar way, with the reversal of polarity representing a switch between Boolean logic states, i.e., 1 and 0. In the 3D majority gate created by the research team, the state is determined by three input magnets, one of which sits 60 nanometers below the other two, and is read out by a single output magnet.
Nanomagnetic logic is one of the technologies being considered by the industry group, International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors. Magnetic circuits are non-volatile, so they maintain state without power. They also have the benefit of extremely low energy consumption, operate at room temperature and resist radiation.
Perhaps most importantly, nanomagnetic logic can support very dense packing. The building blocks, the individual nanomagnets, are equivalent in size to individual transistors, but transistors require contacts and wiring, and nanomagnets operate purely with coupling fields.
The 3D design also works to make nanomagnetic logic competitive. TUM doctoral candidate Irina Eichwald, lead author of the Nanotechnology paper, explains: "The 3D majority gate demonstrates that magnetic computing can be exploited in all three dimensions, in order to realize monolithic, sequentially stacked magnetic circuits promising better scalability and improved packing density."
"It is a big challenge to compete with silicon CMOS circuits," adds Dr. Markus Becherer, leader of the TUM research group within the Institute for Technical Electronics. "However, there might be applications where the non-volatile, ultralow-power operation and high integration density offered by 3D nanomagnetic circuits give them an edge."


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The heart of the Startup Weekends are the people that are part of it - whether as participants or volunteers. We would like to introduce you to a few of them and ask about their motivation and experiences to give you a little insight. Today we start with Ben Sufiani.
Ben, in which Startup Weekend did you participate?
My first Startup Weekend was in Aachen in 2011.
What was your motivation to participate?
Two months earlier, I went to my first real startup event "The Pirate Summit". I was hooked from then on. I wanted to learn as much as I can and get to know the community.
Which idea did you and your team work on?
We worked on an idea of mine for an online platform for school hacks. Imagine something like "The 4 Hour Abitur".
What became of your idea and your team mates?
We mainly worked on it for the weekend, plus a few weeks afterwards with one of the team members. We put the project on hold and followed different ideas independently.
In retrospective, how did you profit from participating at Startup Weekend?
The biggest lesson I learned was that it's great to share your own ideas with others, rather than making a secret out of it. I understood that hardly anybody who is actually capable of executing your idea has the time or the motivation to do so. I also met my first real startup friends that I still frequently see and learn from today.
Do you have good advice for all future participants?
Join the event, share your idea freely, see the weekend as a learning experience and not as the "real" founding of your startup.
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So why did Microsoft try so hard to buy Yahoo? Simply put, Google is Microsoft's nightmare come true, and the Windows maker needed Yahoo to better compete with that growing search beast in Silicon Valley.
Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insiderhas posted Tuesday a good look at how Microsoft's Windows and Google's search will stack up by 2009. The results aren't necessarily surprising, but they're certainly interesting to see in print: By this time next year, Blodget predicts, Google search will pass Windows in total revenue.
Blodget makes a few other significant points: Both products are natural monopolies; both are incredibly profitable, with operating margins topping 75 percent, and Google search is growing a lot faster than Windows.
Of course, Microsoft doesn't just do Windows. The company has plenty of other, incredibly successful products, ranging from the Office suite to the Xbox 360 gaming console. But the mantra at Microsoft has always been that everything begins with Windows. When Windows has a real rival, Microsoft has real problems.
As Blodget notes, there are caveats: The unofficial Office monopoly should give Microsoft breathing room for a few more years. But even that could be threatened as Google's more-affordable Web applications improve.
This storm has been gathering for years. In 2005, we wrote a piece at News.com about Google's longterm threat to Microsoft. The impetus was a major management shuffle at MSN, but we had fun pulling out some old Microsoft memos about now-defunct Netscape in the early days of the World Wide Web. My favorite was a note written in 1995 by Microsoft engineer Ben Slivka describing a "nightmare" scenario for his company.
"The Web...exists today as a collection of technologies that deliver some interesting solutions today, and will grow rapidly in the coming years into a full-fledged platform (underlined for emphasis in the original memo) that will rival--and even surpass--Microsoft's Windows," Slivka wrote.
Microsoft didn't pay too much attention to the warning. Ten years later, another internal memo put a name to that nightmare--Google. Now Blodget has advanced that nightmare scenario a few more steps with his analysis.
It's always stunning that big companies can see a threat to their business years before it happens, and then fail to do something about it. (But then I suppose Clayton Christiansen wrote The Innovator's Dilemma for a reason.) Digital Equipment saw client/server computing on the horizon, and laughed it off. Sun Microsystems saw the threat from servers running x86 chips and Linux software long before it became a problem, but dithered for years before doing something about it. The list goes on.
More than a few bright minds inside Microsoft saw the threat years before it became a reality. The funny part is, they're still trying to figure out what to do about it.


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There can be nothing better than paying off tax dues in advance than keeping such payments reserved for the end of the financial year. Calculating and paying income tax is always a tedious procedure and it is better to get over with this sooner rather than later.
Advance tax implies the income tax that is paid well in advance, in lieu of lump sum tax payments made at the year end. It also goes by the phrase pay as you earn. The process associated with advance tax payment is not too complicated.
Such payments have to be carried out in the form of instalments, the due dates of which are decided upon by the department of income tax.
What is Advance Tax Payment?
Advance Tax Payment refers to making the payment of a portion of your annual taxes in advance. It is the income tax, which is payable if the tax liability goes beyond Rs. 10, 0000 in a fiscal year. You should pay this tax in the year in which you receive your income. Therefore, it is also called the 'pay-as-you-earn' plan.
The applicability of advance tax comes into picture when you have sources of income other than your salary. For example, if you're earning through interest on investments, capital gains, business, house property, lottery, the theory becomes relevant.
Any refund due brings you an interest of around 0.5 per cent on a monthly basis, or, 6 percent on an annual basis, as in the event of the income tax rebate. Nevertheless, if the advance tax is not paid on time, you'll be charged 1 percent each month, or 12 percent every year.
Advance tax us to be paid before the fiscal year ends.
Who should be Paying Advance Tax?
Paid by People with Tax Liabilities of 10,000 INR or More
While advance tax is very commonly paid every year by several people, not all are expected to make such tax payments. Only those who have a tax liability that is more than 10,000 INR in every financial year are expected to make a payment of advance tax. We do everything in our capacity to make our customers understand exactly what their tax liabilities are so that they never have to pay more than the bare minimum needed as advance tax payment.
Can be Paid by Both Salaried and Business Persons
- The payment of advance tax is something that applies to people belonging to every profession and every budget.
- Advance Tax can be paid by businessmen, freelancers as well as salaried persons.
Advance Tax Payments are exempted for Senior Citizens and those using Presumptive Schemes
- People who are above 60 years of age and who rank as senior citizens and who also don't own business establishments of any kind are those who are always exempted from making advance tax payments.
- Advance tax may also not be paid by tax payers who choose presumptive schemes in which business income is always assumed to be around 8% of the turnover.
Presumptive Schemes apply to Business Persons with more than 2 Crore INR turnover
The presumptive scheme of paying income tax is covered under sections 44AE and 44AD. Such schemes can be easily opted for by business people whose annual business turnover is more than 2 cores.
Presumptive Schemes Extended of Late to Salaried Professionals
- While the presumptive scheme for advance tax payments are usually reserved for business people alone, such a scheme has very recently been extended to architects, lawyers and doctors in the financial year 2016 to 2017.
- The scheme applies to such professionals only if their annual receipts come to about 50 lakh INR or less than that.
When should you file Advance Tax?
You have to pay the self-assessment taxes or the Advance Tax on 15th of March, September, and December, in instalments of 40 per cent, 30 per cent and 30 per cent, respectively, for the non-corporates. Corporates have to pat it on 15th of March, June, September, and December.
While the companies deduct the TDS on salaries, you have to make advance tax payment on the income, which has not been subjected to the TDS.
How can you file Advance Tax?
You can make an advance tax payment with the use of tax payment challan generated at the bank branches chosen by the Income Tax Department. You can deposit this challan with the State Bank of India (SBI), Reserve Bank of India (RBI), HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Indian Bank, Indian Overseas Bank, and other authorised banks. There are around 926 branches in the country, which can accept advance tax payments. You could also make the advance tax payment online via the National Securities Depository site or the IT department site.
What if the deadline is missed?
In case, you miss the deadline for the advance tax payment or the amount paid by you is less than the assigned 30 per cent of the overall liability by the 1st deadline, i.e. September 25, you'll be liable to make payment of interest on the sum that comes to 1 per cent simple interest monthly on the amount defaulted for three months.
What if advance tax payment is made more than required?
If you pay advance tax higher than your total tax liability, you'll get the excess sum as a refund. The Income Tax Department will pay an interest at 6 per cent per year on the excess amount (only if your amount is more than the 10 per cent of your tax liability).
What are the Due Dates for the Payment of Advance Tax in the FY 2016 – 2017?
Advance Tax Due Date
Amount Payable as Advance Tax
On or prior to 15th of June
15% of the Advance Tax
On or prior to 15th of September
45% of the Advance Tax
On or prior to 15th December
75% of the Advance Tax
On or prior to 15th March
100% of the Advance Tax
How to Acquire Assistance for Paying Advance Tax?
Efficient CA Services for the Calculation of Advance Tax
While the payment of Advance Tax may seem like a relatively easy thing to do, it is not actually so. We provide our clients with the best chartered accountant services, using which advance tax payments can be carried out in a smooth and hassle free manner at the end of the financial year or at the start of it. Our chartered accountants are highly qualified professionals who will do everything in their power to make sure that the tax calculations done are those that benefit our customers the most.
Calculations are always 100% Accurate and easily Affordable
The tax calculations that we make are always a hundred percent accurate and are designed to help salaried professionals and business men alike. Our tax calculation services are also very reasonable and can be easily afforded by and every advance tax payer.
Tax Payments made as Flexible as Possible for Customers
We try and make the tax payment structure as flexible as possible for our clients. We ensure they are always in a position to choose dates that are most convenient for them for the payment of advance tax and give them easy payment options like credit and debit card payments or cheque payment options using which tax dues are settled as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
How Can Advance Tax be calculated online?
- We offer our customers with an online advance tax calculator which generates the accurate sum of money that is required to be paid as advance tax.
- In order to use this calculator in the correct fashion clients are expected to enter their name, age, residential status, TDS salary, taxable income and the financial year for which they are making a payment.
- After submitting such details, the online advance tax calculator will produce the sum which will need to be paid as tax for that financial year.
- We make it a point to make our advance tax calculator regularly updated so that it can be used in a smooth and efficient manner by our customers.
- Our online advance tax calculator is mobile friendly and can be used in both computers and mobile devices in a hassle free fashion.
What are the Penalties for those who fail to make Advance Tax Payments?
Payment of Tax with Interest
Not being able to pay advance tax can invite the imposition of penalties from the government. Those who do not pay their advance tax will have to pay an interest under sections 23 4C and 23 4B of the Income Tax Act of 1961.
Penalty Payments made Easier and Quicker
Late advance tax payers can use our services to pay their penalties in an error free way and ensure that there are no more penalties they are likely to be subjected to in the near future. We have experts on our team to calculate such interest penalties very accurately, so that customers are able to dismiss their tax liabilities as early and as efficiently as possible.
What is the Procedure that we follow for paying Advance Tax online?
- We follow a simple and easy procedure to carry out advance tax payments for our clients. The first step that we take in this regard is to find out if the bank with which our customers have online banking facilities is one that is registered for the online payment of income tax.
- If the customer's bank is not mentioned in the list of banks that do enable income tax payments online, then we cannot carry out such a payment on behalf of our customers.
- The advance tax payment that has to be made does not have to of course necessary made from the bank account of the customer.
- It may also be paid from any account which enjoys the facility of paying income tax online. If the customer's bank is listed then the next step we take is to log in at tin-nsdl.com.
- The third step involves going to services and selecting e payment as an option and Challan No. ITNS 280 is selected.
- The taxes that are applicable are 0021, that is income tax paid by individuals rather than companies.
- The Assessment Year chosen is the year 2017-2018 while the type of payment chosen is 100 or Advance Tax.
- The PAN number and other personal details of the customer are then entered. The PAN name enters on the screen, this is verified and the details are then submitted once and for all.
- We are then directed to the customer's bank website. After logging into the account, the amount of tax is inserted in the challan and the payment is made.
- We always make it a point to note down the transaction ID and usually save or print a copy of the challan file that is received.
Can the Payment of Advance Income Tax be avoided?
The payment of advance income tax is something that can most certainly be avoided if the tax payer reports additional income to payroll department at the employer organization. In this case, the additional income will be deducted from the salary of the tax payer by the employer.
The amount that is reported as additional income has to be adjusted by the employer on the TDS that applies for such additional income. For this reason alone, it is very common practice on the part of tax payers to not report any additional income to the employer and to instead opt for the payment of Advance Tax.
The Advance Tax payment services that we provide are designed to ensure that customers have every incentive of making such payments in the first place rather than reporting additional income at the work place or paying penalties upon avoiding advance tax payments.
FAQs on Advance Tax Payment
Q.1. When should you make advance tax payment?
Ans. If the tax liability for a year is exceeding Rs. 10,000 after the deduction of TDS, you'll be liable for the advance tax payment.
Q.2. I'm a senior citizen with a pension and interest income. Can I make advance tax payment?
Ans. If you're a resident senior citizen and do not have income from any profession or business, then you're not liable to pay advance tax.
Q.3. Can NRI be liable to pay advance tax?
A3. A Non-resident Indian (NRI) having income accruing in India exceeding Rs. 10,000 is liable for advance tax payment.
Q.4. Do I need to pay any penalty if I don't make advance tax payment?
Ans. If you don't pay advance tax, then you might levy interest under section 234C and 234B of the Income Tax Act, 1961.
Q.5. Am I eligible to claim tax deduction under section 80C of the IT Act while calculating income for the determination of the advance tax?
Ans. Yes. You can take all these deductions into consideration while calculation income for the fiscal year for evaluation your liability for advance tax.
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We arrived back in the Tampa area early afternoon yesterday. It was really, really hot. In the summer, we travel with the generator and air conditioner on, but once we get to a site and ready to plug in, I turn them off while Al plugs in the EMS and coach. It takes a few minutes for the Progressive Energy Management System to check the circuits and give you the okay, then a little longer for the a/c to start running again.
Al got the ok from the EMS and plugged in the coach.
I was inside with no air and patiently waiting for it to start. The a/c never came on and it was getting really hot inside. It's amazing how fast an Rv can heat up when it's over 90 degrees. It's something I worry about in the hot months with the cats inside. If a circuit should be tripped, or the power goes out while we're away, we may come home to some dead cats inside a very hot motor home. Something to consider, even if it's not 90 degrees, Rv's heat up quickly in the sun.
Al checked the EMS box and it showed two fault codes. One was high voltage and the other was for an open ground.
Remember, this is the same site we just left 3 weeks ago. We certainly didn't expect to have a problem there. Looking back, we did remember having brief power outages since we moved to this site. In the future, that will tell me we need to have the pedestal checked.
I called the office and they sent handyman Herbie to come check it out. I was outside when he came up and I greeted him. No reply. He fiddled with some other things for a few minutes before he finally walked back to our pedestal. He completely ignored me. By this time Al was there and told him what the problem was. Herbie immediately told us he hated those EMS boxes because they were "unreliable." Okay. We told him that this system had saved us before (at a state park) and that we wouldn't plug in unless it told us it was okay. The next thing we knew, he was back in his golf cart and driving away. Was he coming back? We didn't have a clue.
A few minutes later he came back. I asked him if he found the problem. He ignored me (or didn't hear me). I asked louder so that he surely could hear me. I'm not sure if I had to ask again, but he finally told me he was changing out the box. Now, how hard was that?
All we needed to know was if we should continue to set up, or plan to move to another site.
It only took him a few minutes to change out the part. Al was a little aggravated by this time, after also getting ignored, and decided to ask him if we had offended him in some way. Herbie apologized and said he was real busy and didn't mean to be grouchy. We certainly understood that he was working outside in this oppressive heat and it would be easy to be irritable, but we needed to know if we would be moving to a new site or what.
I guess it's the heat that's bringing out the bad tempers.
For all of you out there that don't use any kind of energy management system, this is a good example of what can happen. We had a problem at a site that was only a few years old with all new equipment. We had stayed there before. I don't know what would have happened if we had plugged directly into the circuit, and I don't want to try. These systems are not cheap. I believe ours is now $431. We have the portable one and we prefer it because if we do get a bad pedestal, we can take the portable unit to another site to check before we go to the trouble of moving the coach.
Anyway.....just my two cents.
After we got set up, we took the truck in to see about fixing the broken bolts on the bracket for our Blue Ox tow bar. The guys there were extremely helpful (and not grouchy) and we made an appointment for next Tuesday. Unfortunately, that was the soonest they could get us in. Hopefully it won't be an expensive fix. Yeah, right. :)
My other continuing problem is Live Writer. I changed my Gmail password and ever since, I can't get LW to post to my blog. when I try to publish it the Blogger Log In box says that "Windows Live Writer is unable to log into the remote server using the user name and password. Please check that the information is correct and try again."