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Omaha, Neb., March 20, 2008 Union Pacific Railroad and Premium Waters are helping the residents of Southeast Missouri, by providing 2,500 cases of bottled drinking water after recent heavy rains have flooded the area's water treatment plants.
"Throughout our history, Union Pacific has stepped up and assisted communities in times of need," said Ben Jones, director public affairs – Missouri and Kansas. "We are pleased to be able to once again help our neighbors."
The 2,500 cases of bottled water are enough to fill a tractor trailer. Supply Chain Services, LLC in Liberty, Mo., is providing the free transportation of the water from Kansas City to Poplar Bluff, Mo., where it will be distributed throughout the area by the Salvation Army.
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Starter's Basic Guide and Strategy
Introduction[edit | edit source]
The goal of this guide is for new players to be able to have basic feel for the units and decision making needed to be successful in the game without having to invest a lot of resources (gems/ quark points). The squad format I have used is my first formation I used in PvP and although it utilizes only Tier 1 Champs, it is easy to learn especially after going through tutorial and a few levels of the campaign. The Ghoul - although not part of the free squad you're given to start with - is a great unit and I recommend buying it as soon as you can.
Champ Stats[edit | edit source]
Here is a table of the Tier 1 Champs in this guide:
Reference: All Champ Stats
Strategies[edit | edit source]
Placement[edit | edit source]
This is totally up to you and your play style. Find what you are most comfortable with and what suits your units best. I personally, would sometimes switch the placement up for a mixed gameplay experience. Ask questions like:
- How many ranged units might I want in front to get them to a significant tile quickly?
- Which unit might I really want to have high survivability and where might it have that?
Focus[edit | edit source]
Focus down on the enemy squishies (units with relatively low/ average health) as the game is won by the player that reaches the specified amount of kills. Also, try to direct your different sources of damage to the ones listed here:
- Physical damage on units that deal magic damage as they are generally more vulnerable to physical attacks.
- Magical damage on units that deal physical damage as they are generally more vulnerable to magical attacks.
Early Game[edit | edit source]
Move your units to their maximum movement tile. When moving a unit, remember that it is always better to put them on an Energy Square even though there is no enemy unit within attack range. Control (and deny from your opponent) the Energy Squares for the energy recovery advantage (the faster you recover energy, the more moves and attacks you can make!).
Late Game[edit | edit source]
When a match is nearing an end (i.e. both players need only 1 kill left) and the kill scores are close, pay close attention to the health of the units on the field - whoever gets kills faster, wins. Focus units that are close to death in order to attain quicker kill scores while safeguarding your own units with dangerously low health away from enemy attacks (use your unit skill or move).
Synergies[edit | edit source]
Squire-Apprentice + Ghoul [edit | edit source]
The Apprentice uses Heal on Squire, restoring 100 Health, and then the Ghoul Feasts on the Squire, turning the Squire's 50 Health into 140 Health for the Ghoul. With this great Tier 1 synergy, you will effectively help your frontline last longer and soak up more damage for your team.
Ghoul + Squire [edit | edit source]
Works very effectively especially with Apprentice healing Squire. You can also adjust your strategy and focus on snowballing your Ghoul. (See Stack That Ghoul
Roles[edit | edit source]
Melee[edit | edit source]
Expendable! Make Basic Attacks your best friend! Your enemy squishies annoyances!
Squires[edit | edit source]
Your basic melee tank unit. Squires are extremely mobile and can harass well due to their fast energy recovery. Use them to hold the Energy Squares on the floor for your ranged, deny Energy Squares from enemy units (you can utilize the Squire's Pushback for this as well), run up to and harass with Basic Attacks or Rock Toss the enemy squishies (though try to always be able to use Basic Attacks since they are more energy efficient), block paths to keep the enemy melee from reaching your own squishies, and, of course, a health resource for your Ghoul's Feast . Try to place Squires adjacent to your Ghoul whenever possible/ needed and Heal when it needs more health for your Ghoul or if the enemy is wasting attacks on it.
Ghoul[edit | edit source]
Your basic melee fighter unit. Ghouls do more damage than Squires and can strengthen themselves with Soul Cut at the cost of lesser health, defense and energy recovery. Since your Ghoul has the same amount of maximum movement (3 squares) as your Squires, they function in almost the same way (again, harass with your Basic Attacks whenever it is useable!) with the only big difference being that the Ghoul has self healing through Feast . Use your Ghoul as you use your Squires while also Feasting to heal itself as it soaks up more damage. Only Heal when Feast is not useable (not enough energy/ no adjacent friendly unit) and you think the Ghoul might be taken out in the next 1 or 2 strong hits.
Ranged[edit | edit source]
Not as expendable as your Melee! Energy Tiles and Elevated Terrain are their best friend! Make Ultimate Attacks your best friend! Your enemy squishies demise!
Vagabonds[edit | edit source]
Your basic physical damage ranged unit. Vagabonds are more mobile than your Apprentice which makes them more expendable than your Apprentice (when they are slain, they can get back to attack range or Energy Squares faster than the Apprentice). Get your Vagabonds on elevated terrain especially if it is an elevated Energy Square +! Focus your Killshot on the enemy squishies, especially on their magical damage sources. Use (mainly for energy efficiency) Basic Attacks to finish off enemies if your Killshot becomes overkill. Dodge when your Vagabond is being focused by the enemy.
Apprentice[edit | edit source]
Your basic magical damage ranged/ support unit. Your Apprentice is the least mobile in this group so try to get it on an Energy Square and keep it alive. Like your Vagabonds, the Apprentice benefits greatly from elevated terrain! Focus your Fire Bolt on the enemy squishies, especially on their physical damage sources. Use (mainly for energy efficiency) Basic Attacks to finish off enemies if your Fire Bolt becomes overkill. Heal your units when they are dangerously low or have less than 50% health with your standard priority (take how much energy the unit has stored into account as well) from highest to lowest being: Apprentice, Vagabond, Squire, Ghoul.
TL; DR (In General)[edit | edit source]
Whatever assortment of Champs you use in your Army, focus squishies and threats to your own squishy Champs. Protect your damage dealers: keep them alive. Be aware and have knowledge of positioning, health, energy, attack range, move range and the Champs in play (know yourself, know your enemy). Take advantage and control the map. Have fun playing. =)


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Benign means that it is not caused by cancer of the esophagus.
Esophageal stricture can be caused by:
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FORT WALTON BEACH � The gift card has become a Christmas season staple. Crestview News Bulletin readers have a chance to buy nearly $150,000 worth of gift certificates from more than 90 local businesses.
FORT WALTON BEACH � The gift card has become a Christmas season staple. Crestview News Bulletin readers have a chance to buy nearly $150,000 worth of gift certificates from more than 90 local businesses.
The News Bulletin and its sister area newspapers with Halifax Media Group will launch their first online Emerald Coast Holiday Auction on Nov. 25, featuring gift certificates from 91 local businesses. It�s billed as the Emerald Coast�s largest-ever gift certificate auction.
You can view the selections online now before bidding begins.
Steve Krammes, the News Bulletin�s advertising director, came up with the idea and organized similar auctions while working at the Foster�s Daily Democrat in Dover, N.H.
�People love gift certificates for Christmas presents, and we worked the timing so the bidding will start on Sunday, Nov. 25, just a couple of days after Black Friday and the day before Cyber Monday,� he said.
Local businesses have pledged a combined $148,453 in gift certificates for the auction, which will launch online at 12:01 a.m. Nov. 25. Bidding will end at 8 p.m. Dec. 2. The minimum bid for each gift certificate will start at 50 percent of its actual value.
Go to www.crestviewbulletin.com and click on the auction banner to register and begin bidding.
Krammes said the program is designed to promote local businesses while minimizing the cost to them.
The News Bulletin already has started promoting the businesses participating in the auction, and will publish a special section on the program in its Nov. 24 edition.
Regardless of how much the gift certificate sells for in the auction � as long as it does sell � the News Bulletin will provide the business the gift certificate�s full retail value in advertising credit while keeping the revenue from the actual auction.
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A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show.Related: Six Year Old Terrorist Stopped by TSA Agents.
Federal agents also allege that Transportation Safety Administration Officer Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, who routinely searched airline passengers, uploaded explicit pictures of young girls to an Internet site on which he also posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform.
Homeland Security agents arrested the TSA officer March 24, and he is being held without bail.
The arrest comes as TSA grapples with several other incidents involving screeners, including a YouTube video posted last week by parents angry about the pat-down their 6-year-old daughter received at an airport in New Orleans. TSA officials said the pat-down was proper; the parents said the girl was "groped."
Citing privacy rules, TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis would not say if Gordon has been suspended from his job, but noted that he had been in federal custody since his arrest.
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Philadelphia TSA Agent Busted With Child Porn
And yet they want us to submit to full body scans or government mandated gropings (Philly.com, via Ironic Surrealism).
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*Halloween, Reformation Day, and Pamiatka Zosnulých.
Personally, I'm not a big fan of Halloween. I liked it when I was seven or eight years old and it meant lots of free candy, but as I'm too old to go trick-or-treating and don't even want to eat that much candy, it's not a "holiday" I get excited about anymore. That being said, Halloween is not commonly celebrated in Slovakia, and I wasn't the slightest disappointed to miss it this year. (Okay, okay, the costume part is kind of fun, but it's not like anyone needs Halloween to dress up).
It turns out that Halloween isn't the only holiday celebrated on October 31st though. Raised Baptist, the little I know about the Reformation is what I learned in history in school, but among Lutheran churches (perhaps particularly among European Lutheran churches), Reformation Day is still celebrated each year on October 31st. (This is the day that Martin Luther is said to have nailed his 95 Theses for church reformation to the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517). So yesterday, instead of donning some sort of costume and heading to a party, I went to an evening church service with my friends Miska and Milotka. The service was similar to a Sunday morning service in a Slovak Lutheran church and quite beautiful. Although I often miss the praise bands and simple services that I'm used to, there is something about liturgy and ancient hymns that reflects the beauty and holiness of God in a much more profound way.
After the service, the girls introduced me to another holiday I had never experienced before, Pamiatka Zosnulych, or All Souls' Day. I'm familiar with the name of the holiday (the English name, at least), but I recognize it mainly as words on a calendar, not as an event or something to celebrate. In Slovakia, this is a day to remember deceased family members, and it is often celebrated over several days. As Milotka explained to me, it is similar to "Homecoming in America," because family members living in different places often travel home to be with their family. Families visit cemeteries where their relatives are buried, and cover the graves in flowers and candles.
Perhaps "graves covered in flowers and candles" doesn't sound especially spectacular to you, but the reality of what this looks like is unlike anything I've ever seen before. After the Reformation Day service, Miska, Milotka and I walked to the nearby cemetery. This did feel a little bit like Halloween, but as the idea of a dark, empty cemetery at night sounds terrifying to me, there's no way I'd usually venture there on Halloween night! However, the cemetery was neither dark nor empty. Can you imagine a cemetery set on a rolling hill full of people, old and young, blanketed in candlelight? I was amazed at how many candles there were, and how beautiful it looked! (I really don't think of cemeteries as pretty places, but it truly was)! I've included a few pictures so you can get idea, but they really don't capture what it looked like.
I was glad to get to experience this, and it was fun to experience a part of Slovak culture that I'd never seen before. All in all, it was a unique "Halloween."
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LOS ANGELES � David Petraeus has a cameo role in the red hot video game �Call of Duty: Black Ops II.�
The retired Army general who stepped down as CIA director last week amid a scandal surrounding his extramarital affair pops up in the highly anticipated Activision Blizzard Inc. first-person shooter game released Tuesday.
A character with Petraeus� name and likeness voiced by Jim Meskimen briefly appears as the secretary of defense in the year 2025.
The cameo was first reported by the gaming site Kotaku.com.
�Call of Duty� games have often employed virtual renditions of political figures.
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LONDON � Sotheby�s says an original piece of artwork from the Beatles� �Sgt. Pepper�s Lonely Hearts Club Band� album has fetched $87,720 at an auction.
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Sotheby�s said the collage was sold from the collection of architect Colin St. John Wilson.
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SAN DIEGO � There is a little gift at the San Diego Zoo that�s going to get very big.
It�s been 100 days since the latest panda cub was born there. That�s the day Chinese tradition at the zoo calls for the cub to get its name.
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Of program the following issue should be to ensure that you have superior wheels! Never At any time purchase plastic wheels for the roll-aboard bag! They can not past and also you are going to be discouraged outside of perception needing to drag your bag all-around on flat-spotted wheels. Indeed, a bag with superior rubber roller blade wheels will be a lot more costly, but have faith in me its well worth the excess coinage!
Next, ensure that it experienced a lot of exterior storage locations. Place is in a high quality for the 30-days-in-your-carry-on-bags journey so that you really need to take full advantage of it. You will find lots of possibilities available and every man or woman are going to be unique, but regardless of that which you choose-get all those exterior pockets/slots and so forth!
And eventually, the final issue to contemplate is expandability. Throughout your thirty working day journey you'll, undoubtedly, have gathered several momentos in this article and there and also you should have to discover a means to squeeze in each individual past one among all those Mickey Mouse T-shirts that you simply purchased from the Magic Kingdom. Thats Okay for the reason that lots of producers include a zippered gusset that could grow your ability to hold by numerous inches. Envision the quantity of knick knacks that may get you! To the draw back, in case the procuring with your soul receives the most beneficial of you and also you come across oneself unzipping, you will likely really have to examine it back again on the airport. No major deal-you're headed residence at that time in any case! The purpose is always that shopping for expandibility offers you possibilities and obtaining possibilities is key towards the Artwork of Journey.
That getting stated, there's a chance you're inquiring oneself, "I surprise what he employs?" Happy you questioned! I've been refining the Artwork of Journey for quite some time now and possess experimented with lots of baggage from lots of unique producers. Just one issue I've observed is always that the regularity in a single maker from 12 months to 12 months can transform considerably. Consider Travelpro as an example. Quite a few many years back the standard wasn't around par and my airline life-style actually ripped the baggage up and so they would hardly past Osprey Atmos 50 a 12 months. Even so my current Travelpro 22" Crew Sequence expandible is certainly the most beneficial bag I've at any time owned and that i am now on 12 months four with it. There exists a lot of daily life remaining in that bag and it's got existed the whole world persistently now. There exists a single other maker which i want to point out and that's Purdyneatstuff. "Who" you check with? For those who are an airport men and women observer, you may have likely found the boxy wanting rollaboards that lots of flight crews are carrying nowadays. Properly, thats Purdyneatstuff! The benefit is they are incredibly solid and possess wonderful wheels. The drawback is always that a 27" Purdyneat will only keep just as much being a 22" Travelpro. Not less than which has been my working experience as I've the two; so I virtually stick with the Travelpro. Another a part of the equation is always that from the previous ten many years, European carriers have grown to be really stringent on that which you can and are unable to stick with it an plane and many from the time I've been pressured to examine the 27"er when the 22"er receives by.
Now on we visit bag range two. Here is the minor male that receives a cost-free journey about the back again from the 22"er! As of the composing North American airways enable us all to hold on two baggage; not so with other elements of the whole world in which you may very well be limited to only a single. Like a end result picking a free-rider can be a minor a lot more important than you'd feel in the beginning look.
The initially thing to consider is sizing. This is not a transparent lower issue principally for the reason that of each of the minor puddle-jumper jets managing all-around nowadays. Via the way this is not a stress about the major jets. The situation is always that here is the bag you'd like along with you in the slightest degree occasions and is particularly in which you will retailer your "must-haves". That necessitates possibly making use of the "huge" house underneath the seat before you on these minor jets and these areas are all unique. Such as, if the plane is configured by using a solitary seat about the remaining and a pair of about the correct, chances are high the house beneath the one seat is way scaled-down in comparison to the other two about the correct and should not accommodate your range two bag. Have you ever at any time checked out exactly how much house is from the overhead on these minor jets? Not significantly is there?
So the important thing is acquiring something which will suit underneath the smallest of seats or from the overhead. This implies generating confident that which you get is soft-sided so you're able to do some "forcing" should you should. When wheeled hard-sided range two baggage may very well be great, in addition, you may very well be pressured to component with them ala gate-checking. If this does not trouble you, you are golden but when it does you will need anything slightly scaled-down.
That getting stated I individually feel your best option can be a backpack for the reason that one) it could journey piggy back again about the major male with the airport with out difficulty and a pair of) it could double as your going for walks all-around bag at Disney Globe when you reach maintain your palms and arms cost-free to order a lot more T-shirts!
There undoubtedly are a pair of items I try to find in my range two bag. Energy and duribility are noticeable kinds. The not-so-obvious kinds are a lot of connect details, exterior storage locations, and zipper configuration. Connect details are crucial for such things as sunglass cases/cameras/binoculars/cellphones and so forth. I do think you receive the image in this article. Ensure that the connect details are about the straps before you so you're able to observe for "itchy fingers".
There are numerous superior brand names available. I've experienced superior luck with Kelty and my latest backpack-the Synergy by Wenger Swiss Gear. This bag has every thing I would like and serves not just as my expert flight bag for get the job done, but my have all-around working day bag at the same time!
The zipper configuration warrants a little observe in this article which is relevant to the two the 22"er along with the minor male. Every person understands that if another person wishes to steal anything they are able to and may, and minor is usually accomplished to halt them. Even so, why allow it to be simple? Ensure that that each bag you'll at any time purchase is usually locked in a few way. And that i counsel that you simply ensure that you can perform so by making use of all those TSA accredited locks. For those who use other locks, the 1st time you examine a bag and TSA is pressured to open up the "unapproved" form, they are going to be ruined. This involves investigating the zipper configuration and making certain they may have minor holes for your locking system to experience. You may be stunned to discover out how number of have this! Indeed, in case the poor fellas want in they are going to get in, but slightly little bit of deterrance is most likely well worth the preventive result!
Thats all on baggage. I've made use of the above mentioned approaches for twenty many years now from the Artwork of Journey and that i are already happy together with the effects. Now allows chat about filling them up for our thirty working day journey....
The Clothes
You are likely to really have to put on anything in your journey until you propose on expending thirty times at "Little Beach" on Maui-but thats an entire other tale. "Wrinkle-Free, Dampness Wicking, Dri-Fit, Rapid Dry" are all conditions you need to acquire observe of for the reason that should you are to be a real grasp from the Artwork of Journey additionally, you will really have to develop into the happy proprietor of trousers, shirts, underwear, and socks that bear these names or anything shut to it!
The trick here's to eradicate just as much washing, ironing and garments treatment as is possible when you are about the highway. And it can be really easy to try and do. Now, it needs to be stated that you simply will not be profitable a style contest at any time for the duration of your journey but which is not the target in mastering the Artwork of Journey. If large style can be a should to suit your needs, skip quickly towards the upcoming portion on leisure. The target should be to journey litely and unencumbered so you're able to get pleasure from seeing Mickey on Mainstreet United states!
Lets begin with shirts. You may need the two lengthy sleeve and quick sleeve shirts the two collared and "T". thirty times, thirty shirts you say! Thats not pretty how it really works as I'm confident you may have guessed. The trick should be to get convertable shirts which can be moisture-wicking. By convertible I indicate the sleeves roll up and they are anchored by way of a button system that retains them set up. The most effective instance of the is Steve Irwin of Television set animal fame. I do not feel I at any time observed the male without having one among these shirts! They are not really, however they are relaxed and might be modified for excess cooling and quick sleeves. But the majority of all, they may be hand washed from the sink and air-dried over a hanger in two several hours if accomplished correctly! A lot more about his later on. My most loved shirt is produced by Ex-Officio and that i have experienced it now for twelve many years and it has not worn a little bit. I child you not! I even have related shirts from Northface and Columbia that operate precisely the same way but I much like the Ex shirt the most beneficial for the reason that of its pockets. I remarkably advise them!
T shirts are available produced from the similar substance everywhere in the location. The early technology quick-dry substance did not flow into the air really effectively and also you tended to have much too warm but now they may have refined the fabric and its virtually like donning cotton! Besides you could clean them from the sink and they're dry within an hour. Cotton Osprey Atmos 50 shirts may have a 7 days to dry in a very moist lodge area. There are numerous maker and models and colours. Go stop by any sporting activities retailer and store until your coronary heart is information. In truth I discovered simple white quick-dry t shirts at Focus on for only a few pounds and they're best! But really don't purchase much too many- you simply require three for the thirty working day journey.
Pants is usually handled in a very convertible style at the same time. There exists no really need to acquire trousers and shorts as all people as witnessed the zipper trousers wherever the legs are eradicated and-Voila!-you have shorts. You will find a lot of resources to select from. Considering that we're working together with the Artwork of Journey I'd also advise using quick-dry substance with the similar producers over from the shirts portion. A set of tan plus a set of blue and also you are established for your upcoming thirty times!
Just like shirts, underwear and socks are available pretty quickly produced with the similar quick-dry substance. Even so, you'll find two suggestions with regards to underwear and surviving about the highway for lengthy intervals. Heck, for thirty times you would require a complete bag only for underwear by itself should you just introduced your normal cotton boys! The 1st way all-around this is certainly to order disposable. They may be available and they are mild bodyweight but at the time you put on 'em they can be lifeless and buried. Its form of a squander of cash. I do think the higher technique to go should be to provide just three pairs of quick-dry underwear together. The most effective I've observed are created by Beneath Armour. For those who undoubtedly are a male, you're likely pondering " cling over a sec, three pairs worn back-to-front and inside-out only provides four times for each pair and thats twelve times total". That could be suitable, but we live in 2009-there needs to be an even better way! And there may be......
Simply acquire benefit of the resources you may have at your disposal from the lodge. Specifically shampoo, sinks, warm h2o, towels and hangers! Your own personal washing and drying devices correct from the convenience of your respective residence far from residence. The fantastic thing about swift dry substance is always that it washes really really effectively from the sink or even the tub whichever you favor. Operate some warm h2o, include some shampoo, blend it up and you are in organization being an Artwork of Journey Grasp. Any time you complete washing, wring out your freshly cleaned duds, lay a towel flat about the mattress after which location your outfits about the towel in a very unfolded flat style. Following basically roll up the towel duration intelligent so it can be limited and location a single conclusion about the flooring when keeping one other. Action about the flooring conclusion to help keep it set up and start twisting the towel tighter and tighter and after you are unable to twist any tighter, launch and take away your outfits with the towel. You can be shocked at how dry they by now are! Provide them with a shake, cling them on hangers as well as in one hour or two you may have clear dry outfits. Hey its not one of the most glamorous of suggestions, however it is effective similar to a attraction!!!
There is a single other outfits merchandise which i normally have with me and that's a soccer heat up accommodate from Addidas. I have 4 sets and really like them to dying for journey for the reason that you could pretty much do everything in them from hanging all-around the lodge to likely out to consume to performing out to sightseeing. And after you pair a accommodate up along with your humidity wicking underwear, socks and T-shirts you could possibly reside in only them for thirty times by itself! Get some kind of a "warm up" suit-once you are doing, it is not going to go away your bag-guarenteed!
But how about sneakers it's possible you'll be inquiring? Huge clunky sneakers normally takes up 50 % of your respective bag and we do not want that. The Artwork of Journey demands lite-weight sneakers that could fold up into virtually practically nothing. You should stage around the microphone and sya many thanks to Nike for the reason that their line of Free of charge sneakers suit the monthly bill flawlessly and you may put on them without having socks which eradicates the necessity to clean them at the conclusion of your working day in Disney earth. Nike Frees have got a really light-weight top rated over a sole that bends generating them best packable sneakers. I've owned numerous pair and am thoroughly happy with how effectively they accommodate the journey setting!
Also as regards to sneakers, I'm an enormous admirer of getting a set of flip flops stashed with your thirty working day bag at the same time. They may be a necessity for your seashore and pool setting. They fold and lay flat and should suit effectively from the back again exterior storage pocket of your respective 22"er!
Finally we have to examine coats and sweaters. It actually is dependent in which you finish up likely and at what time of 12 months. In case your are like most folk, you'll typically know in which you are occurring each journey. Being an airline expert I hardly ever have got a comprehensive itenerary after i go away residence so its vital that you pack for hot/sunny and cold/rainy on the similar time. Sweaters acquire up much too significantly area therefore the solution can be a layered coat with all those levels getting detachable to accommodate the weather conditions. You will find tons and lots of these readily available everywhere you go. the one issue I'd counsel seeking is breathability so that you really don't sweat. I've experienced a Columbia two layer coat that actually works from the coldest of chilly along with the outer shell is ok in a very heat rain. I'm very happy with it and possess experienced it now for six or seven many years. It'll be a disgrace when it eventually wears out.
So there you may have it! three pairs of underwear and socks, three or four t-shirts, two convertible shirts, a pair of convertible trousers, a heat up accommodate, a set of sneakers much like the Frees plus a layered coat and also you are superior to go. Observe this and also you should have mastered the Artwork of Travel-clothing portion.
The Entertainment
Even although my target here's to generate you a Journey Artisan; right up until we invent a "Star Trek transporter", journey continue to can take time and infrequently plenty of it! Sitting down in airports, coach stations, accommodations, and so forth is usually down correct unexciting. Enjoyment is undoubtedly an crucial a part of prosperous journey at the same time! Most of us have unique likes and dislikes with this space so I'll confine myself to what is effective for me.
Size, certainly can be a important situation. You do not need to halt at Border's and decide up a huge hard-cover for the reading through pleasure for the duration of your thirty working day odyssey. I try to strike a made use of ebook retailer and purchase two or three paperbacks for pennies. Once i complete a single I go away it from the area or set it from the foyer. Lighten your load when you go! That getting stated, I've witnessed the Sony E-reader on show in several suppliers. Its the dimensions of the really really slender paperback and you may load it up by using a complete bunch of guides. I'm not an e-reader-I much like the challenging duplicate. However, if this floats your boat a lot more energy for you! You will be effectively in your technique to mastering the Artwork of Journey!
The ipod. Is there everything that even will come shut to this gem in well known lifestyle? I can not think about getting without having it. My complete CD selection is on there furthermore lots of podcasts and television exhibits. Paired up with a few great Shure earbuds; it's the quintessential weapon for all Artwork of Journey troopers. Trace: really don't trouble together with the major over-the-ear headphones, they acquire up way much too significantly area. If you cannot move enough time within an airport by using a ebook or an ipod there is certainly anything improper!
Quite quite possibly the one gadget that may surpass the ipod in worth for you when it comes to journey would be the electronic digital camera. I'm not likely to go into any depth in this article other than to say-get a little a single! By way of this complete excercise feel the final word in portability.
Then you'll find the pc men and women. Some should have them for get the job done ( myself integrated ), other people for private causes. For those who are from the personalized group perform some critical pondering prior to deciding to commence hauling that excess five kilos all-around. Can it be actually well worth the stress to examine your e-mail? Most accommodations have world wide web from the organization facilities. Loads of spots have world wide web accessibility close by. However, if you should, issue it into your backpack invest in and ensure it's got superior inside safety. What at any time did we do in advance of personal computers??? Have a PSP and go away the laptop computer in the home...
The difficulty with all of these devices is they all involve energy and also to get energy you will need adaptors and adaptors acquire up a lot of house and function a serious distraction towards the Artwork of Journey. Thankfully there may be an answer. Glimpse no even further than iGo. These individuals create a frequent adaptor that you simply connect minor personal connectors to for every unit you may have. Now in lieu of a single adapter for the cellphone, your Ipod, your personal computer, your PSP, your sony e-reader, your digital camera, ect, you could purchase only one normal sizing adaptor and each of the personal ideas ( they can be much like the sizing of the nickel every single). Buying the iGo procedure is one among the most beneficial items I've at any time accomplished so as to add to my journey IQ. Check out it-you'll like it!
The Toiletries and Food
Considering how frequently the polices transform regarding how we provide items on airplanes, this demands some new imagined. Allows chat munchies initially. You will find simple techniques to hold some foodstuff along with you and that i remarkably advise it. You only hardly ever know after you could have to return up by using a food. The best issue should be to have just-add-hot-water simple prep foods that are available in flat packets like soup and oatmeal. Protein bars undoubtedly are a most loved of mine at the same time. They acquire up little or no house and you may pack a months worthy of of feeding on without difficulty! I acquire it a single stage even further and convey my very own tea baggage plus a tall insulated and protected cup for heating h2o in. I execute this by way of an immersion heater. For those who have not witnessed one among these, its merely a metallic prong which is plugged in to the wall and hooked on to the sting of the cup when immersed in whatsoever liquid is from the cup. The prong receives really warm and boils the h2o swiftly! They may be low-priced much too. Trace: really don't use this over a plastic cup. Do I actually really need to say why?
Toiletries undoubtedly are a little bit a lot more hard to cope with primarily when you journey exterior North The united states for the reason that you hardly ever determine what form of "liquid" polices are in result in almost any supplied state. Usually do not believe that for the reason that we can easily stick with it three ozs in this article that you're going to be capable of accomplish that from the Phillipines for the reason that you will not! Considering that its beside unachievable to forecast what is going to take place out of the country, just believe your liquids are going to be taken from a stick with it baggage. Like that you will not be let down when it takes place! But allows restrict this to North American journey considering that everyone knows the conventional.
I'll really have to use some generalities in this article considering that there may be a serious big difference in exactly what the ladies acquire in comparison with the blokes! All you're permitted to take-as of the writing-is a single quart sizing bag stuffed with personal containers no better than three ozs every single. A six oz toothpaste tube with one oz remaining would not rely ( really don't get me commenced! ). Which implies you're remaining with shopping for really costly journey sizing merchandise with the supermarket that past about thirty seconds. This kind of would be the mother nature of our new article 9/11 world-please truly feel cost-free to deliver thanks playing cards towards the superb individuals liable catching rays down in Guantanamo Bay!
There is not significantly you are able to do in this article other than examine your bag should you definitely should acquire comprehensive size liquids. But that defeats the aim in turning out to be a fellow Artisan of Journey! I have only a single recommendation in this article and that's to have some after-market three oz or a lot less containers and fill them up with all of your potions and lotions. Its actually the one way and after you operate out you simply really have to go the nearby retailer.
It is my hope that many of these tips will advantage your journey encounters and make your visits slightly a lot more pleasureable for the reason that when you have exciting, chances are high you should get on an plane yet again and after you fly I receives a commission! Its a win-win condition.
You at the moment are a grasp from the Artwork of Journey! Go forth and investigate your earth!


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Growing up men like Iron Mike were my not just folk heroes, but were real people to admire in my life. From my adopted Grandfather "Easy" Smith (a five combat jump 82nd Airborne trooper), Uncle Walter Betley (WWII Europe, Korean War, Vietnam), Uncle Bernie (WWII), my DjaDja (WWII USN), my wife's Granddad (WWII), My Father in Law (Vietnam), my Dad (Desert Storm), my good gunner (SSG Thornburg Bosnia/Iraq/Afghanistant), and countless others I dare not forget in my prayers…taught me about what strength and courage really were. I also learned in the peace one needs just as much strength.
Easy Smith, my Airborne Pathfinder friend, told me of his missions and the leadership needed to accomplish them. He instructed me on the personal trials of fire I would face in combat, and what qualities to try and cultivate in myself to prepare for the supreme tests of leadership in combat. I was never a great army officer, decent/honorable but not GREAT. I never faced the test so many of my relatives and friends did. I often wonder if I would pass that test of combat…but in reality my life is still young. The ultimate test could come at any time in this wild wild west world we live in today.
Easy told me of his Army career, and then work on the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. He rehearsed all day, stayed up all night and got very little sleep. The work was exhausting. Like many musicians he turned to alcohol and became dependent on it. He got to the point where one day he had to have a talk with God. He knew he lived or he died based on his reaction to the temptation from the devil he would deliver in bottle. He lived if he left the bottle behind. He died if he picked it up again to drink.
Easy left the bottle forever that day. He became an active man of God. As a God fearing gentleman he mentored hundreds of youth in his third career as a Sheriff's Deputy in Northern Virginia through baseball, music and church ministries. If you ever visit the E.G. Smith Complex in Manassas, Virginia you will walk on the grass of my adopted Grandfather and personal embodiment of Iron Mike.
The men I mentioned above all fought through war, but thrived without conflict by living out God's commands in peace. In the list above I know of church councilmen, Knights of Columbus, a man baptized in his Episcopalian faith as an adult, and a non-denominational Christian who raised families with love and taught honor to them. I am proud to know them, learn from their example, and try to carry it on one more generation.
While it would be nice to have world peace, I am not foolish enough to think it will come without a miracle of the second coming of Christ first. Until then I will pray men will continue to be Iron Mike's in both war and peace. Just as strong to face a bullet as the challenges of peace.


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For the longest time I have been maintaining a single web social network account and that is Friendster. Friendster is so popular in the Philippines aside from getting your friends mobile number next to email is probably friendster account.
I have been actively updating my friendster account and refuses to sign-up for any other social networking website until i tried facebook. I really wanted to have just one since social networking is all about sharing your self with your friends. Soon after joining facebook, i realized that I have more friends in this site. I also find myself enjoying those fun applications, I am in fact a fan of SuperPoke 🙂 But what get me started is the friends you may know portion. After sending my first friend invite, this application started suggesting for names of people whom I may know. That was very convenient.
For once, my loyalty over my friendster account vanished on an instant. I ate all those words that I would like to stick with friendster period. I am enjoying facebook not just because you can share stuff with friends but you can virtually be closer to them by sending them not just words but gifts that can be posted on their wall. You can share coffee with an officemate, send havaianas to your friends or send an LV or Gucci to your BFF. Great isn't it?
Since i don't want to forsake my friendster account which I have been religiously updating before, now i had to maintain 2 social network accounts but honestly i frequent facebook more than friendster these days. It's so interactive!


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September: 23 & 30
October: 07 & 14
13 Nights / 15 Days
Day 1: USA - Madrid (Spain)
Flight with a good itinerary.
Day 2: Madrid
Arrival at Madrid International Airport. Transfer to your hotel. The rest of the day is at your own leisure.
Day 3: Madrid - Salamanca - Vigo
After breakfast at the hotel, departure at 8:00 AM to Salamanca. Time at leisure to walk through this monumental city and its famous Plaza Mayor. Continuation to Vigo. Dinner and accommodation (Breakfast-Dinner)
Day 4: Vigo (Spain) - Viana Do Castelo (Portugal) - Braga - Porto
Breakfast at the hotel. Crossing the Portuguese border we arrive in Viana do Castelo, city located between the mouth of the river Miño and Porto. Free time to visit the old town with cobbled streets and emblazoned buildings. We continue to Braga known as the city of the archbishops and the third most populated city in Portugal. Free time. Departure for Porto. (Breakfast)
Day 5: Porto
Breakfast at the hotel. Porto is considered as World Heritage city. Panoramic tour to admire the Cathedral, the Stock Exchange building, St. Clara church... we will finalize at a local wine cellar to enjoy a tasting of the famous "Porto wine". (Breakfast)
Day 6: Porto - Coimbra
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure to Coimbra, site of one of the oldest universities in Europe and birthplace of the Fado, the music of Portugal. Time at leisure. (Breakfast-Dinner)
Day 7: Coimbra - Fatima - Lisbon
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure to Fatima, important pilgrimage center. Free time to visit the Shrine and afterward continuation to Lisbon, the capital of Portugal located at the mouth of the river Tagus. (Breakfast)
Day 8: Lisbon
Breakfast at the hotel. Morning city sightseeing tour including old Alfama Quarter, Tower of Belem and Monastery of Los Jeronimos. Afternoon at leisure. (Breakfast)
Day 9: Lisbon (Portugal) - Caceres (Spain) - Sevilla
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure to the border with Spain and continuation to Caceres. Time at leisure to know its Plaza Mayor and to walk through the old city and its famous medieval quarter, very well preserved and considered as World Heritage place. Lunch at your own. Continuation southwards to Andalucia and arrival to Sevilla. (Breakfast-Dinner)
Day 10: Sevilla
Breakfast at the hotel. Morning city tour visiting the typical Barrio de Santa Cruz with its narrow streets, the Park of María Luisa and Plaza de España, with a panoramic sightseeing of the city. Afternoon at leisure. (Breakfast-Lunch)
Day 11: Sevilla - Ronda - Costa Del Sol
Breakfast at the hotel. Then departure to the Route of the White Villages and Ronda. Free time. Continuation to Costa del Sol. (Breakfast-Dinner)
Day 12: Costa Del Sol - Granada
Breakfast at the hotel. Departure to Granada. Sightseeing tour including the impressive Alhambra with its beautiful Nazari Palaces and the Generalife gardens. (Breakfast-Dinner)
Day 13: Granada - Toledo - Madrid
Breakfast at the hotel and departure towards the Imperial City of Toledo, full of history and monuments. Lunch and city sightseeing throughout its narrow streets and alleys. After that continue to drive back to Madrid. (Breakfast-Lunch)
Day 14: Madrid
Breakfast at the hotel. Today, enjoy an interesting panoramic tour of Madrid, you'll see the most important buildings, avenues and squares to know the monuments and its history from the old Habsburg and Bourbons quarters to the present modern city: Gran Via, Plaza de España, University, Calle Mayor, Puerta del Sol, Puerta de Alcalá, the bull ring, Columbus square, Real Madrid Stadium Santiago Bernabéu… (Breakfast)
Day 15: Madrid - USA
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport for your return flight home. (Breakfast)
-End of services-
Package Includes:
-Round-trip international flights between USA / Madrid with good itineraries
-Round-trip transfers between the airport and the hotel in Madrid
-Transportation by AC vehicles with multilingual English-Speaking tour escort between day 3 & 14
-1 night in Madrid at the Puerta de Toledo 3* hotel (or similar) in a standard room
-1 night in Vigo at the Eurostars Mar de Vigo 4* hotel (or similar) in a standard room
-2 nights in Porto at the Eurostar Oporto 4* hotel (or similar) in a standard room
-1 night in Coimbra at the Tryp Coimbra 4* hotel (or similar) in a standard room
-2 nights in Lisbon at the VIP Executive Picoas 4* hotel (or similar) in a standard room
-2 nights in Sevilla at the Silken Al-Andalus Palace 4* hotel (or similar) in a standard room
-1 night in Costa del Sol at the MH Marbella 4* (Marbella) or Sol Principe 4* (Torremolinos) (or similar) in a standard room
-1 night in Granada at Los Angeles 4* hotel (or similar) in a standard room
-2 nights in Madrid at the Puerta de Toledo 3* hotel (or similar) in a standard room
-Visits with multilingual English-Speaking guides in Porto, Lisbon, Sevilla, Granada, Toledo and a panoramic tour in Madrid
-All breakfasts + 2 lunch & 5 dinners (20 meals)
-All taxes, ans fees
Package does not include:
-Travel insurance
-Baggage fees (if applicable)
-Personal expenses and optional activities
-Beverages, snack, lunches, dinners unless otherwise mentioned
-Hotel tax (Between 2 and 4 € per person and per night) to be paid directly at destination
*Please note*
Additional fees apply for rooms in single occupancy. Prices can fluctuate depending on the season and availability of seats
Children from 2 to 11 pay 85% of the price in double occupancy if the room is shared with 2 adults


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This month, we're pushing aside our inner gypset girl, breaking away from our feminine side and ignoring the rocker inside of us that is just dying to come out. Why? There's a new girl in town that is ready to break loose: the modern cowgirl. For today's story, that means torn and frayed denim, layers of fringe, weathered leather belts, faded cotton and an abundance of turquoise jewelry, all packed nicely into a tooled leather saddle bag or strewn across the backseat of your battered car.
For Top Buys: Cowgirl Blues, we're taking inspiration from a slew of different sources. To start, we simply had to go back to Elle's February 2009 issue; much-adored style director Kate Lanphear styled comeback kid Trish Goff in Outlaw Country (pictured below), an ode to traditional Western style mixed with modern-day global cool. In addition, we looked to the runway for more muse-worthy ideas; D&G's Spring 2010 show channeled the American West's sexy side, while Ralph Lauren's Spring 2010 show was all about the blues (various shades of denim, that is).
Whether you are heading into the wild west this summer or just looking for some fresh style inspiration, we are sure you'll find plenty to love in our latest edition of Top Buys.
- Coin Oversized Cuff ($40) from Topshop
- Hammered Ring ($305) by Soixante Neuf
- Dree Fringe Stilettos ($615) by Alexander Wang
- Minsk Scarf ($19.99) from ModCloth
- Studded Cutoff Shorts ($78) by Blank
- Terra Shirt ($165) by Calypso
- Denim Vest ($39.95) from AE
- Studded Reptile Leather Belt ($182) by Fausto Colato
- Seaside Cowgirl Hat ($9.80) from Forever 21
- Festival Of Lights Fringe Skirt ($87) by Nanette Lepore
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If you are administrating a theater, you certainly know that it is very important to make sure that everything is safe and perfect for a new performance. It is a great responsibility because if something bad happens, you can have some great problems. Unfortunately, many theatres are very old and they are not using new tools, so everything is more complicate than someone can imagine. Stage drapes are an important element because they are significant for any performance considering the fact that they cover what is going on in the back stage and they create a mysterious ambient. They are very special and this is the reason why you need to be very careful when you have to use them. If the curtains and drapes seem to create some problems, you should know that it could be very risky to let this issue unsolved, considering the fact that something bad can happen in every moment during the show.
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ANGOLA: Budget Law 2016 published
Law No. 28/15 ("Budget Law 2016"), which had been adopted on 31 December 2015, was published on 30 January 2016 and applies with effect from 1 January 2016. The Budget Law 2016 provides for:
- the introduction of a Special Contribution on Banking Operations, to be levied at the rate of 0.1% on all financial operations by banking and non-banking financial institutions governed by the Financial Institutions Framework Law (Law 12/15 of 27 June 2015). The payment of salaries and other personal payments do not qualify as banking operations;
- the maintaining in force of the Special Contribution on Current Invisible Operations, established by Presidential Decree no. 2/15 of 29 June 2015. The contribution continues to apply at a rate of 10% levied on transfers performed under management services and foreign technical assistance contracts.
BOTSWANA: 2016/17 Budget and Income Tax (Amendment) Act 2015
Botswana's Minister of Finance, Mr O.K. Matambo presented the 2016/17 Budget Proposals to the National Assembly on 1 February 2016.
The Income Tax (Amendment) Act, 2015 which was gazetted on 30 October 2015, became effective on 1 February 2016. Amendments introduced by the Amendment Act include:
- empowering the Commissioner General to (a) refund tax overpaid (without having to wait for vote allocation from the Ministry and (b) set-off any refund due against any tax, duty, levy, interest or penalty payable under any of the relevant laws that he is responsible for;
- the amendment of the term "farming operations" and an exemption for income from specified farming operations accruing to a resident individual, provided certain conditions are met;
- abolishing the carry-back of farming losses and the indefinite carry-forward of farming losses. With effect from 1 February 2016, farming assessed losses can only be carried forward for 5 years;
- repealing the provisions allowing set-off by individuals of farming losses against up to 50% of chargeable income from other sources;
- introduction of a 4% withholding tax in respect of the purchase of livestock for slaughter or for feeding for slaughter.
BOTSWANA: Treaty with Ireland enters into force
The Botswana/Ireland Income Tax Treaty (2014) entered into force on 3 February 2016 and generally applies for Botswana from 4 March 2016 for withholding taxes and 1 July 2017 for other taxes, and for Ireland from 1 January 2017.
CHAD: Budget Law 2016 – details
Budget Law 2016 (Law No. 001/PR/2016), which introduces tax amendments to the General Tax Code, was enacted on 1 January 2016. Significant tax amendments include inter alia:
- withholding tax: the introduction of an advanced payment of withholding tax on incoming foreign calls and telephone interconnections at a rate of 25% on payments to non-resident companies made by telecommunications companies;
- value added tax: the levying of VAT on all transactions carried on by telephone companies related to the sale and delivery of goods;
- transfer duty: the introduction of the following new rates for the transfer of immovable property: (1) 8% on undeveloped land; and (2) 10% on developed land. The Law also amends the land registry's values with effect from 1 January 2016, depending on the municipality where the property is located, ranging from F.CFA 500 per square metre to F.CFA 5,500 per square metre;
- real estate tax: extension of the scope of application of real estate tax on developed land to include houses made of hard materials that are used as main owner residence. The taxable base is 8% of 30% of the market value, taxed at a rate of 2.5%;
- individual income tax: amendment of the rates of advanced payment of individual income tax on income derived from immovable property; and
- excise duty: the excise duty regime has been harmonised to be in line with the provisions of title 2 of CEMAC (Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa, Communauté économique et monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale) Directive No. 01/99/CEMAC-28-CM-03 of 17 December 1999, as amended by CEMAC Directive No. 07/11/UEAC-028-CM-22 of 19 December 2011.
REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: Finance Law 2016
On 31 December 2015, Law No. 33/2015 ("Finance Law 2016") was adopted by the parliament. The following amendments to the General Tax Code ("GTC") and to regulations not codified apply from 1 January 2016:
- corporate income tax: no exemptions from any kind of national or local tax, whether direct or indirect tax, may be granted under public contracts;
- individual income tax: taxpayers whose annual turnover (from non-employment income) does not exceed F.CFA25-million are subject to tax under the regime provided for microenterprises, which are exempt from lump-sum tax, but subject to the business licence duty. Taxpayers whose annual turnover from non-employment income does not exceed F.CFA100-million are subject to individual income tax based on the regime provided for small enterprises. The simplified regime of taxation (régime réel simplifié d'imposition) applies if annual turnover does not exceed F.CFA2-billion during a fiscal year;
- value added tax: VAT on imports applies at a rate of 5% on goods that benefit from the reduced rate on domestic transactions; and
- lump-sum tax: the applicable rates for lump-sum tax are amended to 7% of annual net turnover (previously 7.5%), and 10% of the overall annual net margin.
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO: Finance Law 2016 published
The Finance Law 2016 has been enacted, with the following amendments applying with effect from 1 January 2016:
- senior tax officers are allowed to propose an amicable arrangement with respect to tax penalties. In this respect, penalties ranging from CDF500-million to CDF2.5-billion are under the tax administration's jurisdiction. For penalties exceeding CDF2.5-billion, only the Minister of Finance has the power to propose an arrangement with the taxpayer. Once an arrangement is reached, the taxpayer must commit to abandon his right to file an appeal or to withdraw any claim which has already been lodged before the arrangement is concluded;
- tax losses may be carried forward indefinitely, but the deduction limit is reduced from 70% to 60% of the tax profits prior to the allocation of losses;
- the maximum annual turnover threshold in order to be eligible for the small enterprise tax regime is increased from CDF80-million to CDF200-million;
- pension income paid to employees through retirement funds is subject to income tax at the rate of 10%; and
- individuals deriving income from liberal professions are now subject to VAT only if their turnover reaches the minimum threshold of CDF80-million.
GHANA: Tax Amendment Act 2016 approved by Parliament
On 10 February 2016, Parliament approved the Income Tax Amendment Act 2016. The Act abolishes the 1% withholding tax on interest paid to individuals which was introduced with effect from 1 January 2016 and reduces the withholding tax on service fees from 15% to 7.5%. The Act is pending presidential assent.
GUINEA: Finance Law 2016
The National Assembly adopted Law No. 2016/001/AN ("Finance Law 2016"), which introduces tax amendments to the General Tax Code, on 18 January 2016. The following amendments apply, inter alia, with effect from 19 January 2016:
- value added tax: an increase in the standard rate from 18% to 20%, but zero rating of export and international transport sales. Taxpayers providing services or goods to public companies, mining, oil and telephone companies are required to pay VAT in advance by way of withholding tax in respect of 50% of the invoices; and
- tax on telephone use and tax on access to network communication facilities: the tax on telephone use is extended to include telephone text message (levied at GNF10.00 per message) and the tax on network communication facilities is to be levied at a rate of 5% on each authorisation of access to the Internet.
KENYA: Tax Procedures Bill enacted
The Tax Procedures Bill, which was assented to by the President on 15 December 2015, was enacted as the Tax Procedures Act ("TPA") and became effective from 19 January 2016. The TPA covers procedures for income tax (corporate tax, personal taxes and withholding tax), value added tax and excise duty and aims to provide uniform procedures for consistency and efficiency in tax administration. The TPA provides for, inter alia:
- interest on the late payment of tax of 1% per month (previously 2% per month);
- introduction of public and private rulings in respect of all taxes;
- a requirement for the Kenya Revenue Authority ("KRA") to respond within 60 days to an objection to a tax assessment;
- harmonisation of the time required to maintain records for tax purposes to 5 years (previously 7 years for income tax and excise duty);
- harmonisation and enhancement of penalties for non-compliance;
- no tax in dispute being payable on appeal to the Tax Appeal Tribunal or from the Tax Appeal Tribunal to the High Court; and
- no waiver of interest on assessed tax or late payments.
KENYA: Signs Multilateral Anti-Tax Evasion Agreement
Kenya became the 94th jurisdiction and the 12th African nation to sign the Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters ("the Convention") on February 8, 2016.
The Convention, jointly developed by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") and the Council of Europe in 1988 and amended in 2010, provides for all forms of administrative assistance in tax matters: exchange of information on request, spontaneous exchange, automatic exchange, tax examinations abroad, simultaneous tax examinations, and assistance in tax collection. It guarantees extensive safeguards for the protection of taxpayers' rights.
MAURITIUS: Introduction of SME Development Scheme
The Mauritian Government has agreed to introduce an SME Development Scheme, providing eligible SMEs with, inter alia:
- a subsidised interest rate on credit;
- tax exemptions for the first eight years of their operations; and
- VAT and import duty exemptions on purchases of productive equipment.
It is expected that the SME Development Scheme will be extended to a broad range of sectors that create jobs.
NAMIBIA: 2016/17 Budget
The Budget for 2016/17 was presented to the National Assembly by the Minister of Finance on 25 February 2016. Tax proposals include:
- the finalisation, approval and implementation of the environmental and export taxes;
- an increase in the fuel levy;
- assessing the feasibility of a presumptive tax on the informal sector;
- developing the double tax agreement policy and increasing collaboration with international tax authorities to counter transfer pricing;
- tabling of the Customs Bill;
- finalising of public consultation in respect of the proposed introduction of a solidarity tax;
- deploying the new Integrated Tax System;
- strengthening the provisions for recovery of tax debts; and
- implementing the transitional modalities for the establishment of a Semi-Autonomous Revenue Agency.
NIGERIA: Tax Appeal Tribunal rules that tax statutes supersede any contractual arrangements
On 18 December 2015, the Lagos Tax Appeal Tribunal ("TAT"), ruled that an upstream oil company can deduct capital allowances on capital expenditure incurred in line with the Petroleum Profits Tax Act ("PPTA"), irrespective of whether such costs have been approved by a counter-party under a contractual agreement.
In the case at hand, an International Oil Company ("IOC") entered into a joint venture ("JV") arrangement with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company ("NNPC") under which both parties jointly provided funding for oil exploration and production. The IOC and NNPC had 40% and 60% participating interests in the oil concession respectively. Each JV partner is to contribute to the costs and share in the benefits in accordance with their proportionate equity interest in the oil concession. However, due to incessant delay by the NNPC to meet its funding obligations, it was required to execute a Modified Carry Agreement ("MCA"), which requires the IOC to bear 100% of the JV's capital cost.
Under the MCA, the IOC is entitled to recover 85% of the capital cost through capital allowances ("Carry Tax Relief") and the balance of 15% through NNPC's share of crude oil production.
The IOC deducted the Carry Tax Relief in its tax returns for the period 2006 to 2011. The FIRS rejected the deductions and raised additional assessments on the IOC. The additional assessments, according to the FIRS, were raised because prior approval for deduction of the costs had not been sought by the IOC from NNPC. The IOC appealed to the TAT.
According to the TAT, the question of tax deductibility should be determined by the PPTA. As the PPTA does not stipulate any approval as a prerequisite to be fulfilled by taxpayers, the question of cost approval should not interfere with tax deduction.
NIGERIA: Communication Service Tax Bill, 2015 being considered
The Communication Service Tax Bill, 2015, which seeks to impose Communication Service Tax ("CST") at a rate of 9% on users of electronic communication services ("ECS"), is currently being considered by the National Assembly. "Users" for purposes of the CST include customers or subscribers of any electronic communication network or broadcasting service, as well as customers that are operators or providers of electronic communications networks or services.
RWANDA: Treaty with Singapore enters into force
The Rwanda/Singapore Income Tax Treaty (2014) entered into force on 15 February 2016 and generally applies from 1 January 2017.
ZAMBIA: Mining Royalties revised
Zambia's Cabinet has agreed on new proposals to redesign the taxation regime for mining companies, following the aborted attempt to hike royalties in 2015.
Under the tax arrangements that were subsequently revoked last year, the 6% royalty for all mines was to have been replaced by split levels of 8% and 20% on underground mining and on open cast mining operations, respectively. They were replaced by keeping the previous 6% royalty rate for underground mining and fixing a 9% rate for open cast operations.
The Government has now approved a system of variable royalty rates for copper. It has been reported that those rates will vary between 4% and 6%, depending on prevailing copper market prices. The new system is aimed at sustaining Zambia's significant copper mining operations, and the jobs they provide, in a period of low mineral prices.
In addition, a flat mineral royalty rate of 5% is to be set for other base metals and minerals; and of 6% for precious metals and gemstones.
The Cabinet have also approved a suspension of the 10% export duty on ores and concentrates for which there are no processing facilities in Zambia, but have maintained the current 30% corporate income tax on mining operations.
The review of the taxation regime for the mining sector, the Government said, "is deemed necessary to sustain continuous operation of existing mining companies, and avert the suspension of mining operations and job losses."
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Sharlston claim bragging rights in local derby
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Crigglestone All Blacks .. 18
Pennine Premier League
Sharlston Rovers claimed the local bragging rights in the Wakefield Pennine premier derby match as they eased to a comfortable victory whilst hosting a Crigglestone side which remains injury stricken.
Rovers continue to improve their form weekly in preparation for the Yorkshire cup final at the festive period but opened this match playing a game too expansive for the conditions. After an early spell of lacking completion Rovers played a more of boring style of play and left props Sean Emblem and Phil Hodgson to charge up the middle and on the back of good possession Craig Miles showed his strength to storm over, Geoff Hick added the first of his 5 first half goals.
Within minutes try machine Gareth Davies got in on the action showing his footwork to cut inside to go under the posts despite the attention of several defenders. Captain Craig Miles crossed on the half hour mark to complete his brace with a try almost identical to the first.
Crigglestone settled into a sterner defence but lacked the direction and go forward to register any likelihood of a response and minutes before the half time whistle were dealt a low blow as Rovers added a quick fire 12 points as Hick backed up a Carl Saville break before Miles completed his hat trick with a neat collection of Savilles testing kick to go into the interval with a unanswered 30 point lead.
Rovers remained in control and in the opening 20 of the second half proceeded to post the points with on fire Davies going in for 2 superbly taken tries to register his hat trick. Wingman James Byrom also got in on the action with a flowing play down touch side.
On the receiving end of a 42 point drubbing Crigglestone awoke and showed some real character to raise their heads to show the determination to go home with a score. With 15 minutes remaining stand out hooker Nick Ementon managed to ground a Ryan Horsley offload to score an all important try for the visitors, Tommy Malyan added on the extras.
With a new found confidence Crigg put together some of their best plays and an enthusiastic chase put the Rovers receiver under enough pressure to make an embarrassing fumble. Kyle Johnson was the first to react and Malyan converted the wingers effort.
In almost immediate reply Davies added his 4th of the game and 20th of the season getting to Rovers own testing kick through the in goal. With only 5 minutes remaining Horsley who impressed for the visitors showed great determination to score under the sticks twisting out the grasps of several defenders. It was Rovers though had the last say of the game as they went into the surpassed the 50 mark as Andy Booth barrelled over, Hick converting.
The win puts Rovers 4 points clear of Drighlington but with games in hand the Weeland road side must keep a foot on the gas and set the pace for the championship title.
This coming weekend Rovers travel to York based New Earswick to further their lead at the top of the Pennine premier. The club will be running a supporters coach to the fixture with the bus departing the Sharlston HQ at approximately 11.30am.


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An Australian policeman who died while whitewater rafting in Queenstown on Saturday has been described as a "great man … excellent detective" and a "good mate" by his squad commander.
Detective Senior Constable Joshua Paroci, 31, died while on a commercial trip on Shotover River, through Skippers Canyon, with Challenge Rafting.
He joined New South Wales Police Force in 2008 and was most recently working at the State Crime Command's Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad.
Squad Commander, Detective Superintendent John Kerlatec, yesterday said Det Snr Const Paroci was "a great man and an excellent detective, and will be sorely missed by the team".
"Professionally, Josh was a tireless worker; dedicated to investigating some of the most heinous crimes against children," Det Supt Kerlatec said.
"His passion was justice for victims. Not only was he a police officer, he was completing a law degree, which he intended to use to create better outcomes for young victims.
"Josh was inspirational, and everywhere he worked, he turned colleagues into mates. Today, we mourn the loss of our good mate."
Det Snr Const Paroci's family requested privacy.
NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller yesterday extended condolences to them on behalf of the force.
"The hardest part of my job is when we lose one of our own and my thoughts are with Det Snr Const Paroci's wife, who is also a police officer, family, friends and colleagues.
"Det Snr Const Paroci was well respected by all those who knew him and the police family will rally around his loved ones during this difficult time."
New Zealand Police continue to make inquiries on behalf of the coroner, and with the assistance of Maritime NZ, which is conducting its own investigation into what happened.
A postmortem was due to be held in Invercargill yesterday.
Det Snr Const Paroci was on a commercial whitewater rafting trip on the Shotover River with Challenge Rafting.
He died on the same stretch of Shotover River rapids where rafting guide Keith "Chief" Haare died due to a medical event just two months ago.
The raft overturned on the `Toilet' section of rapids about 3.45pm. Det Snr Const Paroci was in the raft with five other Australians and a rafting guide. There were two other rafts on the trip, along with safety kayakers.
A statement from the company on Sunday said he was being brought back from the far side of the river using a rescue rope after the raft flipped, but he lost his grip.
"He was swept through the next rapid where he was met by the safety kayaker, who helped him navigate the subsequent rapid before assisting him to the shore," the Challenge Rafting statement said.
'He became unresponsive, CPR was provided and a defibrillator utilised. The guest received further treatment from paramedics who arrived by helicopter just after 5pm but was unable to be resuscitated."
He was pronounced dead at the scene.