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Mobile, mobile-only, mobile apps, smartphones: Enough said
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Intel's intc -1.6875% Intel Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD31.46 -0.54 -1.6875% /Date(1427749200409-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 50960706 AFTER HOURS USD31.47 0.00999999999999801 0.03178639542275906% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 430835 P/E Ratio 13.108333333333333 Market Cap 151552000000 Dividend Yield 3.0514939605848697% Rev. per Employee 523618 More quote details and news » future is beginning to look brighter than investors have assumed. Early evidence suggests the company is on the verge of big market-share gains for tablet and smartphone chips. Also on the horizon are stronger sales of server chips, and even a stabilization in personal computers.
The shares (ticker: INTC), which badly trailed the Standard & Poor's 500 index in the past one, three, and five years, are outperforming this year. Now $24, they could double in five years, and perhaps sooner.
Long gone are the days when personal computers needed upgrading every couple of years as their chips fell behind the demands of new software. Today's Web-based programs leave the heavy thinking to Internet servers, and a five-year-old PC that can get a user online will do just fine.
A capital-spending spree could help Intel lower costs and win new foundry contracts. Stuart Goldenberg
This year, PC shipments have been slipping amid strong growth for tablets and smartphones. Intel seems heavily exposed to the wrong part of the market: Two-thirds of its revenue and a greater percentage of profit come from PCs. It enjoys an 80% market share for desktop chips and an 87% share for laptop chips, but just 1% for tablets and even less for smartphones. Most of the smaller devices get their processing power from ARM-based chips made by Qualcomm QCOM 2.7676240208877285% Qualcomm Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD68.88 1.855 2.7676240208877285% /Date(1427749200403-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11181457 AFTER HOURS USD68.72 -0.159999999999997 -0.23228803716608595% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 223008 P/E Ratio 14.32016632016632 Market Cap 110561765444.275 Dividend Yield 2.4390243902439024% Rev. per Employee 861470 More quote details and news » (QCOM), Apple aapl 2.5314401622718052% Apple Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD126.37 3.12 2.5314401622718052% /Date(1427749200851-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 46530466 AFTER HOURS USD126.45 0.0799999999999983 0.06330616443776213% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 569204 P/E Ratio 16.917001338688085 Market Cap 717900196777.344 Dividend Yield 1.48769486428741% Rev. per Employee 2153110 More quote details and news » (AAPL), and Samsung Electronics (5930.Korea). They license designs from ARM Holdings ARMH 0.38461538461538464% ARM Holdings PLC ADS U.S.: Nasdaq USD49.59 0.19 0.38461538461538464% /Date(1427749200252-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2991990 AFTER HOURS USD49.55 -0.0400000000000062 -0.08066142367412785% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 35204 P/E Ratio 55.61287428507345 Market Cap 22658975267.562 Dividend Yield 0.8377656785642267% Rev. per Employee 397470 More quote details and news » (ARMH), whose stock price has quadrupled in three years.
Intel lately has been lifting its spending faster than sales. This year, earnings per share are expected to fall 12%, to $1.87. The stock trades for 13 times that figure, versus 15 times for the S&P 500. Dividend yields rise as share prices fall, and Intel's stands at 3.7%, nearly double the index's yield. Investors might do best to scoop up shares now and pocket that yield while waiting for the company's resurgence.
Last year, Intel spent seven times as much on chip research and development as No. 2 spender Qualcomm. This year it is outspending the world's largest chip foundry, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing TSM 1.3513513513513513% Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. ADS U.S.: NYSE USD23.25 0.31 1.3513513513513513% /Date(1427749337655-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 14430925 AFTER HOURS USD22.805 -0.445 -1.913978494623656% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 276175 P/E Ratio 13.893868770168519 Market Cap 118146626819.134 Dividend Yield 2.1481832258064517% Rev. per Employee 651908 More quote details and news » (TSM), to invest in manufacturing. The result could be faster chips, lower power consumption, and lower-cost production than rivals for years to come.
Watch for four positive developments, starting with long-awaited gains in mobile devices. Intel launched its Atom processors in 2008 as low-cost components for netbooks, but has quietly moved them to the forefront of its development efforts. This year it launched Atom chips with cutting-edge, 22-nanometer designs, and next year it will move to 14 nm, while ARM-based chips likely will be stuck at 28 nm. The numbers refer to the line width of patterns created on chips. Finer patterns allow for faster processing, lower power consumption, or both. Samsung and Asus recently chose Atom chips to replace ARM-based chips in larger tablets that use Google' GOOG 0.6729401466243572% Google Inc. Cl C U.S.: Nasdaq USD552.03 3.69 0.6729401466243572% /Date(1427749200251-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1271838 AFTER HOURS USD552.03 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 12120 P/E Ratio 27.240159287057185 Market Cap 376343753218.795 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1228170 More quote details and news » s (GOOG) Android operating system. Deutsche Bank analyst Ross Seymore calls that a harbinger of success, and expects Intel to gain share in tablets this year and smartphones starting next year.
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Intel has trailed the market for many years, but that could start to change.
Gains in mobile may win Intel more fans among investors, but they won't boost revenue massively. Atom chips sell for less than $30, versus more than $100 for desktop and notebook chips, and nearly $600 for server chips, according to Wells Fargo analyst David Wong. Even if Intel grabs a 10% share in smartphones and a 30% share in non-Apple tablets, it would add only a few percent to its sales.
More important will be the increased data traffic from all those mobile devices, which will raise demand for server chips. The company reckons that 122 new tablets create the need for one new server, and each server is likely to contain at least two chips. Intel's server revenue, now 21% of the total, could grow at a midteens rate for several years and contribute richly to profits, according to Wong.
AS FOR PCS, MUCH OF this year's decline stems from global economic factors and a dearth of new models rather than fatigue among users, as evidenced by firm selling prices, according to Suji De Silva at Topeka Capital Markets. PC shipments could fall 7.8% this year but just 1.2% next year, predicts market researcher IDC. Wells Fargo's Wong thinks Intel will raise its desktop-chip revenue at low single-digit yearly rates in coming years, and laptop revenues at double-digit rates, on emerging-market growth and further market-share gains, now that rival AMD AMD -0.7352941176470589% Advanced Micro Devices Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD2.7 -0.02 -0.7352941176470589% /Date(1427749200288-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8531951 AFTER HOURS USD2.69 -0.0100000000000002 -0.37037037037037035% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 26256 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 2115439182.40743 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 567629 More quote details and news » (AMD) has fallen behind on high-end chips.
Finally, Intel's $12 billion capital-spending spree will help it reduce manufacturing costs and is winning it a new business line: high-end foundry contracts. This year it has signed small deals with Microsemi MSCC 1.309422146313692% Microsemi Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD35.59 0.46 1.309422146313692% /Date(1427749200221-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 328911 AFTER HOURS USD35.59 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 22872 P/E Ratio 80.88636363636364 Market Cap 3340863047.97363 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 593103 More quote details and news » (MSCC) and Altera ALTR -3.5368326199594504% Altera Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD42.82 -1.57 -3.5368326199594504% /Date(1427749200556-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 35247584 AFTER HOURS USD43.1 0.280000000000001 0.6539000467071462% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 250166 P/E Ratio 27.986928104575163 Market Cap 13356640324.7723 Dividend Yield 1.681457262961233% Rev. per Employee 625069 More quote details and news » (ALTR), and down the road could sign Apple, which has been forced to use rival Samsung for foundry work, according to Shawn Webster at Macquarie Capital. Long-term, foundry could be a backdoor to more chip-design wins in mobile.
Intel's earnings per share could rise 8% this year, to $2.02. Earnings could top $3 later in the decade, helping the stock attract a higher price/earnings multiple. Applying a market multiple of 15 to $3 of earnings yields a $45 stock. Add five years of dividends, assuming only modest payment growth, and that totals $50, well above the current price.
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damage to Trex board
Today we had a new grill delivered and the guys "rolled" the grill across our Trex deck with the grill's brakes on. They realized that the brakes were on but not before leaving a two-foot long double track of skid marks. I'm pretty sure the marks are scratches or dents in the Trex boards.
Does anyone know the best way to remove the marks? Or am I going to have to replace the damaged boards? Will the marks fade over time?
Thanks for any help.
If I do get that piece or two of decking replaced, how long will it take before it's the same color as the remaining boards? Or will it always be a shade or two darker?
The deck was installed in late-2006 and is dark brown with the fake wood grain design. I'm assuming it's lighter now than it was when it was first installed but I don't have a spare piece for comparison. Too bad I didn't think ahead and ask the builder for an extra piece or two.
I may just live with it since the marks are very close to where we plan to put our table and chairs--but I'm annoyed.
Most composite colors fade in about 3 months then stabilize after that. I'm no expert on trex tho, haven't installed but 2 or 3 trex decks & those were quite a few years ago.
Are the skid marks the same color as the wheels of the grill or are they scratches from the wheels? The residue should come off with a light sanding or possibly a solvent. Test it on a piece of scrap first. I can't see the Trex being dented(grooves) from skid marks unless this was a very heavy grill.
Pictures will help.
Thanks everyone. Very good questions and advice.
I'll have to look at it more carefully to see whether it's just a color transfer or a scratch. (You're right; I don't think it could be a dent but it is a big grill, relatively speaking. DH went shopping while I was out of town and got a six-burner, rotisserie, smoker kind of thing.)
Sanding or solvents sound like good ideas but the warnings on the Trex site about power-washing, etc., scared me off. I wish I did have a scrap piece to test.
The deck is a dark brown. I think the wood grain is embossed because I can feel it. The wheels on the grill are black casters.
From some angles you can't even see the marks but they're very obvious from other angles. (My neighbor thinks I'm crazy to even notice them but it's more the fact that this is a new, previously undamaged, deck and it irks me.)
I'll see if I can take photos later on. Thanks again.
I think that will weather out, I suggest just leaving it. The material is the same throughout, if the heavy grill just 'smushed' the woodgrain a bit, I think in a few weeks you won't notice it. If you replace the boards, you will notice that a lot longer. Remember, your deck won't look perfect forever, but it will be durable and safe and add value to your home for a long time.
Try to keep grease off the deck though - that's the big thing I would say about the grill.
Thanks for your responses. (I just found them.) The guys who delivered the grill suggested that I wait for a hot sunny day, then use my foot to kind of rub the board, hoping to remove the scuff mark.
We have a mat for under the grill but I'm not sure it's big enough or in the right area. I'll look at the deck and see if there are any grease marks, then adjust the mat.
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The US Dollar has fallen and it is not done yet.
Look at your cash (if you have any) At the top it says Federal Reserve Note. A note is an IOU. The Federal Reserve is printing over a trillion IOU's out of thin air a year. What would a share of stock be worth if the company created a trillion new shares every year ?
When I was a kid in the 1960s gas was .30 cents a gallon. But we had real money and dimes were silver. I think 3 silver dimes today are worth $6.00 in Federal Reserve Note IOU's. So gas today is cheaper than it was when I was a kid.
Everyone should hold some gold and silver. Think of it as an insurance policy that will pay off.
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Interview with Stuart Christie, author of My Granny Made Me An Anarchist and other books, about his views on the anarchist struggle, defining anarchism and ways forward and in the tradition of libertarian socialism/anarchism.
- A common peoples history of the UK part 5: Villages of co-operation
Find out how the cooperative movement develop, find out about Robert Owen and his New Lanark communities and the relevance the cooperative movement has for us to day.
- 5. Self reliance for everyone - Go for it! - Self reliance essentials
Can the idea of Self reliant communities offer us an alternative to capitalism and the fossil fuel economy?
- Food not Tennis courts – the dairy of a community garden developing
This is the first piece in a series following the development of a community food growing project on a disused tennis court site in Bolton
- 4. Skills for community self reliance - Self reliance essentials
This piece takes a brief look at the skills that we would need to bring about community self reliance
- 3. Land access - Self reliance essentials
This piece in the series looks at the different ways to acquire land for your community self reliance project
- Film: Introduction to Radical History - Bristol Radical History Group
Bristol Radical History Group do history in a different way, watch this film to see why peoples history is important, why a women's football team became ranters and why they hate bailiffs. Filmed at Cloudcuckooland festival 2012
- 2. Sustainable healthy seedstock - Self reliance essentials
Seeds are really important for developing a self reliant community, read this to find out more.
- One million gardens can save the world, show us yours :)
Do you grow food in your garden, then you could be one of the one million gardens that could feed the world, show the world your garden, connect with other gardeners and be part of the permanent culture now project :)
- Permaculture, Queerness & Feminism
This article is a conversation between queer permaculture practitioners and community organisers, Nicole Vosper and Annie-Rose London, communicating across continents about gender, sexuality and design.
- 1. Structures for community self reliance - Self reliance essentials
This second piece in the series on self reliance looks at some of the organizational structures that can be applied to form fair and cohesive working groups
- The re-emergence of Horticultural communities
Fossil fuel based agriculture is struggling to feed the world, as community gardeners and local food growing projects grow exponentially
- Part 2 – How to grow potatoes
in this piece we get down to the business of planting potatoes
- Introduction to self reliance essentials
This is the first piece in a series that looks at community self reliance and how we can bring this about
- How to make a low carbon outdoor kitchen for free
How to build an outdoor low impact kitchen using rocket stoves and cob
- A common peoples history of the UK part 4: The people's farm
Find out why Thomas Spence, Mary Wollenscroft, Thomas Paine and William Blake are so important to our struggles today.
- At what point do we claim self defence?
This piece looks at when and if there is a likely to be mass social unrest in the UK due to the prevailing Neoliberal ideology.
- Part 1 - All about potatoes
this first piece in the series looks at potatoes, where do they come from? and why are they so popular?
- 4. Occupy permaculture series: Living in a Permanent culture
How can we live a permaculture way of life asks our final post in the occupy permaculture series.
- Permaculture ethics: Part 1 - Earth Care
The earth care ethic of permaculture is very important for a permanent culture of the future, read this to find out why.
- A Gift From Above: Capturing Rainwater for Green Irrigation
please welcome a guest writer to the website who has written about the importance of water harvesting
- 3. Occupy permaculture series: Community action plan
this is the third piece on the occupy permaculture series
- 2. Occupy permaculture series: learning and connecting
this is part 2 of the occupy permaculture series that looks at community building
- A few tips to help you start a vegetable garden
A few tips to help you start a vegetable garden, some basics and the personal benefits you get from gardening.
- Book: Commons a model for managing natural resources
Want to know how a commons system could work in reality and what a commons system means then look no further than this excellent book, free to download
- 43 Essential essays on the commons and Peer 2 Peer theory
43 Essential essays on the commons and Peer 2 Peer theory, this is essential primer from the p2p foundation for anyone interested in the commons.
- Reclaiming our Food series 4: The food fight back
The most simple and direct way that we can fight back against the control of our food supply is by growing as much of our own as possible
- Film: Resistance in an age of austerity
What does resistance mean in an age of austerity, how can we change the world for the better when all around us we see the dismantling of our public services, watch this debate to get a range of views on this thorny issue.
- Conspiracy theories and keeping your eye on the ball
A piece about how conspiracy theories can distract us from the real social injustice of capitalism and a link to rational wiki a great resource for the background to these many theories
- The struggle: from dependence to community self reliance
It is challenge to become self sufficient in the UK and the world for most people, but there things you can do together.
- Creative learning for a Permanent culture?
Creative learning is a great process that is being used in some of the poorest communities in India and could benefit you wherever you live.
- An Overview of a Permaculture Design Course
This piece maps a daily account of my permaculture design course at Ragmans Lane Farm
- Reclaiming our Food series 3: Big food, the Major players
this piece looks at some of the major players in the food industry
- Reclaiming our food series: An introduction
Reclaiming our food is crucial to developing not only sustainable futures, but also control over our lives, this new series looks at home we can do that for the benefit of us all.
- Pay day loans
this piece looks at high street money lenders as a vehicle that fuels poverty.
- Making use of invasive plant species
How to use invasive plants such as Japanese Knotweed and Himalayan Balsam as food.
- Reclaiming our Food series 2: Food as social control
Food has always been used as social control throughout history, our times are no exception to this rule. If you cut off the food supply to a nation or community they are at the mercy of those who control and have power over food
- Requiem for Detroit - A film about what happens when Capitalism leaves the city
Detroit has seen capitalism develop it and now leave it in ruins to a degree, what does this mean for Detroit people and why has this happened asks Julien Temple in the film Requiem for Detroit.
- Scientific evidence states happiness is linked to being kind and cooperative
Scientific evidence states happiness is linked to being kind and cooperative
- All about seeds part 5 – Saving seeds
Find out all you need to know about growing, storing and planting seeds in our seed series, part 5 is about saving seeds.
- Neoliberalism: Back to the cave?
Neoliberalism has a detrimental effect it on human beings and their habitat, community is what is needed, Steve
- Happy New Year & Our Plans for 2013
A big happy New Year to you all and our plans for 2013.
- Permaculture & Human Rights
This is a guest piece written by our friend Lasse Bresson Krøner on the subject of permaculture and human rights, very interesting read
- Allotment tips and diary: 2012 A year on the plot
A brief look back over 2012 and the work on my allotment plot
- All about seeds Part 4 – Seeds in human development
Find out all you need to know about growing, storing and planting seeds in our seed series, part 4 looks at how humans have used seeds in history.
- Shale Oil and The Transition?
this piece briefly explores some of the issues of shale oil
- Christmas TV boring watch something good instead
Want to watch something interesting this Xmas, then switch of your TV and check out permanent culture now TV, for inspiring talks on how to build a sustainable world and better future for our generations.
- Film: Ruth Potts: Falling in Love with the Material World
Ruth Potts: Falling in Love with the Material World: How the joy and intelligence of craft helps us understand limits and sets us free, filmed at Small is festival 2012
- Film: Diggers 2012 : Reclaiming the land - Off Grid Festival 2012
Talk from the Diggers 2012 group that have been inspired by the Gerald Winstanley and the original Diggers and have taken to reclaiming the land at Runnymede Park.
- Occupy Sandy A community responds
Occupy Sandy is a community response to the devastating effects of the hurricane on New York city, it is an important example to us all of how community and solidarity are becoming ever more important for all of us in these uncertain times.
- Film: Trevor Baylis OBE - Inspiring Innovations and life as inventor
TREVOR BAYLIS OBE Inventor of the wind up radio, Trevor talks about inspiring innovations and life as an inventor.
- Film: Martin Shaw: Cultural myth making at Cloudcuckooland Festival 2012
Storyteller & mythologist Martin Shaw explores our dominant cultural stories and describes the powerful influence of myth making over our lives.
- Tickets for Sunrise Offgrid 2012 a good xmas present :)
Sunrise off grid is back in 2013 and its sure to be a great event for all, why not buy friends, family or yourself a ticket for xmas :)
- All about seeds part 3 - Types of seeds
Find out all you need to know about growing, storing and planting seeds in our seed series, part 3 looks at certain types of seeds that provide certain types of plants
- Film: Tony Juniper: People Power and Sustainability
Tony Juniper shares his views on People Power and Sustainability filmed at Small is festival 2012
- Film: Lucy Gilliam: The New Dawn Traders
New Dawn Traders is a brand new social enterprise powered by sail! Join Lucy and share in her incredible experiences, twice crossing the Atlantic by sail in 2012, as well as her empowered vision of future trade!
- Offshoots Permaculture project
about Offshoots permaculture project in Burnley
- Climate change and human diet
this piece looks at how climate change effects our food supply and how we can grow other plants to replace energy hungry crops
- Film: Tim 'Mac' Macartney - The relationship between power, money and nature
Tim 'Mac' Macartney Founder of Embercoombe explores our troubled yet crucial relationship with power, money, nature, and each other, filmed at Small is festival 2012
- Film: Wendy Stephenson Power to the People: social impact investments and social change
Wendy Stephenson: Power to the People: Join the revolution and make social impact investments mainstream to enable social change, filmed at Small is festival 2012
- Film: Steve (PCN) - Is permaculture political?
Is permaculture just about growing food or is it inherently more political, join us to find out if we think permaculture is political.
- Film: Colin Power – The Harmonic Economy - Off Grid 2012
Colin Power asks How could sacred geometry, and vortex mathematics be used to re-energize a withering economy? Filmed at the 2012 Off Grid festival
- Film: Adam Hart Davis - Small scale solutions to climate change
Adam Hart Davis talks about small scale solutions to Climate Change at the Small is Beautiful festival 2012.
- Film: Bread or batons: the old market riots 1931: Walking tour
Relive the Bristol 1931 riots on this walking tour of Bristol with Bristol Radical History Group
- Film: Mike (PCN): Why the commons are important today
Michael from Permanent Culture Now, explains the notion of the commons and why the commons are so important today.
- All about seeds part 2 – Seeds in action
Find out all you need to know about growing, storing and planting seeds in our seed series, part two looks at seeds in action and the germination process.
- Film: The Haymarket, Chicago and Mayday
Want to know why May 1st became workers day, labour day, this talk explains the Hay market Martyrs role in history and the formation of Mayday - Enjoy
- Film: Uk Video Activism Discussion - Bristol Radical Film Festival 2012
Discussion about UK video activism from Bristol Radical Film Festival, includes speakers from vision on tv, Camcorder guerillas, Reel News and Permanent Culture Now.
- FIlm: Chris Larcombe (Waysphere Project) – Holographic Mapping
Chris Larcombe talk on Holographic mapping for co-creating new worlds - Social Media for a new paradigm based on co-creation and well-being from Off Grid 2012
- Film: Peoples Assembly - Environment Debate Cloudcuckooland Festival 2012
People's Assemblies are democratic bodies representing everyone in a community and this is a film of the peoples assembly formed at the Cloudcuckooland festival, this one discussed the economy and the environment, some great discussion around how we should move to protect the environment and what the economic crisis means for the environment.
- Film: Peoples Assembly - Economics Debate Cloudcuckooland Festival 2012
How can a peoples assembly address economic issues watch this debate from Cloudcuckjooland festival to find out more.
- Film: Vision on tv guide to street reporting
Want to become the news then check out how to do street reporting with vision on tv crew, they can also host your films and distribute them for you, a great project.
- All about seeds Part 1 – An introduction to seeds
Find out all you need to know about growing, storing and planting seeds in our seed series, part one looks the component part of a seed.
- Film: Ed Dowding (Sustaination) – The Future Of Our Food Systems
Film Ed Dowding (Sustaination) talk – The Future of our food systems - Looking at food mapping, transparency and the future of our food systems in these difficult times.
- Film: David Taylor Green Party - Beyond Green Politics Off Grid Festival 2012
Film of David Taylor (Green Party Founder/EarthSpirit Centre) talk -- Beyond Green Politics/The Emergent Politics - The future of 'green' politics beyond simple ecology, energy and waste into deep ecology, spirituality and earth healing,
- Permaculture as a revolutionary force for change
is permaculture a revolutionary force?
- Capitalism: The Global disease
Capitalism has our consent through two different channels, one through the consumer choices that we…
- Film: David Holmgren Beyond Sustainability Talk
Dave Holmgrens talk Beyond sustainability, essential viewing on why we need to move towards a post oil society in an age where resource peaks are inevitable, using the principles of permaculture.
- The sow and grow project: Part 3
this is the final piece about the Sow and Grow project
- The Sow and Grow project, part 2
this is the second piece about the sow and grow project
- Film: Silivia Federici Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
In this talk Silvia Federici talks about her forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women's struggles, excellent talk.
- Useful traditional skills 3: Providing your own source of heat
Want to find out more about how you heat yourselves using traditional skills, read this to find out more.
- Felix Wood - Why small is beautiful is still relevant
In this talk from Small is beautiful 2012 festival, Felix Wood explains why Schumacher's small is beautiful message is still relevant today, watch the film to find out more.
- Film: George Mckay on radical gardening, Vandana Shiva and others discuss the importance of gardening, seeds and capitalism
Great series of lectures from Documenta (13), includes George Mckay and Vandana Shiva talking about our relationships to nature, seeds and animals great viewing
- Useful traditional skills 2: water harvesting
This piece in the traditional skills series looks at water harvesting.
- Film: Godfrey Boyle - Living on the sun how we can power the world on 100% renewables
talk from small is beautiful festival 2012
- Useful traditional skills 1: Grow your own food!
The first piece in the traditional skills series, looks at growing food the most traditional skill out there.
- Film: Jeremy Birnstingl - Jack and the jumping gene a biologists view of sex and business
Jeremy Birnstingl - Jack and the jumping gene a biologists view of sex and business talk from the small is beautiful 2012 festival, how does sex and genes influence business practice, watch this talk to find out more.
- Useful traditional skills: An introduction
An introduction to the useful traditional skills series, learn new techniques from old skills.
- Film: What the Economic Crisis Really Means - and what we can do about it
This is a great film from Doing It Ourselves about the economic crisis, fractional reserve banking, peak oil and what it means for all of us and how people are developing ways of moving towards a new form of society.
- Film: Karambu Ringera - Reclaiming wastelands: awakening possibilities in unlikely spaces
In this inspiring talk from the Small is Beautiful Festival 2012 she talks about reclaiming wastelands: awakening possibilities in unlikely spaces, through telling her life story and the stories of others.
- Mark Boyles new book Moneyless Manifesto now available for free and to buy :)
Mark Boyle releases new book the Moneyless Manifesto for free, a great read on how to unplug yourself from the money system and begin to live a more saner happier life, read this to find out more about the book and where to get it now :)
- Film: Molly Conisbee - Uncommon Land, what we lose when we give ground
Molly Conisbee talks about the links we have with the land and why they are so important and should be treasured, this talk from small is beautiful festival 2012.
- Illustrator needed for modern day radical fairy tale
Mario Molinari needs a Illustrator for his new modern day fairy tale book, UPBRINGING! NEW FAMILY STRUCTURES, he believes Reinventing the Family is the same as reinventing the Human and the State and it needs to be redesigned based around food, water and energy.
- Film: Odri Ighamre - From a Twig a Tree Grows: Empowering young people
Odiri talks about the organisation Kori Arts she is involved in, which empowers young people to become leaders and change makers in the UK and other countries, very inspiring talk from small is beautiful festival 2012.
- Film: Polly Higgins - A Proposal for a 5th Crime Against Peace: Ecocide
Polly Higgins believes there should be a crime of ecocide, do you? find out more in her talk from small is beautiful festival 2012
- Film: New Age Travellers - A personal story
Steve from Permanent Culture Now takes us through an enlightening, funny and sad personal history of his involvement in the UK new age traveler communities.
- Film: Bristol pound the first citywide local currency
Find out about the first citywide local currency the Bristol Pound, in a talk from just before it was launched. It is now operating throughout the city of Bristol
- Remaking Our World
Heartfelt and positive message from one person on how and why she is working to remake the world, we really relate to this message and I am sure you will to.
- Film: Squatting past, present and future - Off grid 2012
Phoenix from solutions zone TV talks about the origins of squatting past, present and future at Sunrise Off Grid Festival 2012.
- Permaculture design game
Great little permaculture design game.
- Film: The Reconomy Project talk - Off Grid 2012
Talk about the REconomy Project which is here to help build the capacity of Transition Initiatives, and other community organisations doing similar work, to grow a new kind of local economy.
- Global transition to a new economy add your project
The Global Transition to a New Economy maps innovative projects that challenge business as usual and contribute to the systemic change to our economy that we urgently require.
- Film: Why radical history is important talk - Off Grid 2012
Michael Thomas of Permanent Culture Now begins the Radical History Day at the 2012 Sunrise Off grid Festival with a talk on Why Radical History is important.
- Film: Yesterday's To-Morrow - Bristol's garden suburbs talk - BRHG @ Cloudcuckooland
Thought the transition movement was the first movement to look at localised food production and sustainability, think again as Bristol had its own transition type movement over a hundred years ago.
- Film: Panel discussion on small scale food production - Off Grid 2012
Film: Panel discussion on small scale food production - Off Grid 2012
- Film: Patrick Whitefield "A Permaculture Life" - Off Grid 2012
Patrick Whitefield "A Permaculture Life" - Off Grid 2012
- Film: Paddington Farm: community & educational project talk: Off Grid 2012
Film of talk: Running Paddington farm: community & educational farm project: Off Grid 2012
- Film: Ragmans Lane Farm: small scale farming talk: Off Grid 2012
Film of talk: Ragmans Lane Farm: small scale farming: Off Grid 2012
- Film: Running Vallis Veg a diverse horticultural smallholding talk - Off Grid 2012
Film of Talk: Running Vallis Veg a Diverse Horticultural Smallholding - Off Grid 2012
- Film: Edcombe farm: small scale mixed farming - talk: Off Grid Festival 2012
Film of a talk about Edcombe farm a residential off-grid smallholding from Off Grid Festival 2012
- Film: A three fold attack on protest
The film looks at how policing has changed to control/stop protest occurring in the UK through the history of the police, the development of militarised methods of policing, and the increasing criminalisation of protest.
- Film: Blackthorn farm: residential off-grid smallholding talk - Off Grid Festival 2012
Film of a talk about running Blackthorn farm a residential off-grid smallholding from Off Grid Festival 2012
- Film: Small is beautiful festival
A short film about the Small is Beautiful festival 2012, a great festival, check our site for more great talks and films
- The Self Under Siege (Part 8) - Baudrillard Fatal Strategies
Rick Roderick's great course on the Philosophy of the modern age that examines how the self is under siege (this one focus on Baudrillard) from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This one discusses Baudrillard and his post modern views of the world.
- Taking control of our food supply
Can we control the our food supply in the future, or are we powerless over it, read this to find out more.
- The Self Under Siege (Part 7) - Derrida and the ends of man
Rick Roderick's great course on the Philosophy of the modern age that examines how the self is under siege from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This one discusses the Post Modernist Derrida.
- The sow and grow project: part 1
how can permaculture principles help people reintegrate back into community and learn new skills
- The Self Under Siege (Part 6) - Foucault and the Disappearance of the Human
Rick Roderick's great course on the Philosophy of the modern age that examines how the self is under siege from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This one discusses Foucault and his ideas around the control of the body and surveillance society.
- Social class: A useful tool of the ruling elite
To understand society you need to understand class, its function, who it serves and how to break down the barrier of class for a fairer world
- The Self Under Siege (Part 5) - Habermas and the Fragile Dignity of Humanity
Rick Roderick's great course on the Philosophy the modern age that examines how the self is under siege from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This one focuses on Habermas of the Frankfurt School.
- Semiotics: a tool to understand meaning
How can semiotics help you to understand the world, read this to find out
- A common peoples history of the UK part 3: Levellers and ranters and diggers
This is an on-going serialisation we are doing of a great little book called, 'A history of…
- The Self Under Siege (Part 4) - Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man
Rick Roderick's great course on the Philosophy of the modern age that examines how the self is under siege from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This one focuses on Marcuse and his theory of the one dimensional man.
- Multiculturalism in 2012
Where does multiculturalism stand today and is it still a valid project, read more to find out
- A common peoples history of the UK part 2: Desolation and wilderness
This is an on-going serialisation we are doing of a great little book called, 'A history of…
- The Self Under Siege (Part 3) - Sartre and the Roads to Freedom
Rick Roderick's great course on the Philosophy of the modern age that examines how the self is under siege from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This one focuses on Sartre and existentialism.
- Do we eat enough fruit and vegetables?
Do we get enough nutrients in the modern day diet, is convenience food making us ill, read more to find out
- The Self Under Siege (Part 2) - Heidegger and the Rejection of Humanism
Rick Roderick's great course on the Philosophy of the modern age that examines how the self is under siege from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This one focuses on Heidegger and his seminal work Being and Time. - Mike
- Permaculture praxis
Permaculture needs action, and praxis is action, read this to find out why its needed to achieve a better world
- The Self Under Siege - Masters of suspicion (lecture 1)
Rick Roderick's great course on the Philosophy of the modern age that examines how the self is under siege from modern day neo-liberal capitalism, although recorded in the 1990s, still very much relevant today. This is the intro that explains why the self is under siege.
- Film: Bristol Green Week Schumacher Talks 2012
Permanent Culture Now is proud to bring you the Bristol Green Week Schumacher Talks, these talks cover a wide range of issues around sustainability and green issues, from ethics, to behaviour change, to zeronauts and more.
- The work ethic
The work ethic, is almost a given that is never questioned, but why do we work the way we do and where does the view that we should work come from, read this to find out more
- The Real Economic Scandal: Understanding the Debt-Based Economy
The debt can never be paid off! To understand the economic crisis you need to understand how money is created and some of you may be surprised at how this occurs and why paying off the debt could cause economic collapse.
- Planting seeds of hope in El Salvador
The Permaculture Institute of El Salvador (IPES) brings hope to El Salvador with projects that empower people to take control of their lives, read more abut this inspiring project here
- Film: The Politics and Ethics of Change
Is it ethical to resist corporations, corrupt political systems, to save the planet, how can we implement ethical change, when all around us we see unethical practices, listen to this talk to hear from 3 people about what it means to be ethical in the world today.
- Film: Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink
Is peak water going to be an issue, can water be better managed, how can business help towards water sustainability, watch this Schumacher talk from Bristol Green Week to find out about this and more.
- Film: Regeneration for Real
What does real regeneration look like asks Kevin Cloud (Grand Designs), Rob Hopkins (Transition Towns) & Tim Smit (Eden Project) watch this film of the Schumacher talk to to find out what they think regeneration really means.
- Film: No more business as usual
What role can business play in addressing environmental issues, can business ever be sustainable and ethical, the panel from a variety of backgrounds from Dragons Den Deborah Meaden, Good Energy's Juilet Davenport to Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation attempts to address these questions
- Film: Behaviour Change: warts and all
Can we move towards a more sustainable world by changing our behaviour, what can be done to change behaviour, whose behaviour needs to change, , watch this talk to find out some of the ways that people are working to achieve positive behaviour change
- Film: Moving to a 'zero' society: meet the Zeronauts
Can a sustainable society be reached through a zero approach, watch this Schumacher talk to find out new and innovative ways people are taking to achieve this.
- How to survive the future
Want to know How to survive the future, then follow Naimo and Sam through there voyage to find a new way of living in a post peak oil world, will they succeed, will they come home, how can we help them, what can they teach us about how to survive the future!
- Write for us
We want to share your stories, your view, theories, ideas, musings on our website, write for permanent culture now and share the knowledge.
- Film: Clare Hedin: Green Economics. Dynamic Emergence
Is a new convergence possible between humans and nature, Clare Hedin believes that we have to, watch to find out more.
- Film: Who says we can manage the planet?
Who says we can manage the planet, first of the Schumacher talks of Bristol Green Week, includes Clive Hamilton author of Requiem for a Species, Johnathon Porritt and James Vaccaro of Triodos Bank.
- Urban Foraging in Bolton
This piece takes a brief snapshot of an urban foraging event that we held in may 2012
- Redefining work in an age of late Capitalism
this piece briefly explores the idea of redefining work for a future permanent culture
- Film: Living memory, Future Worlds: Bristol Voices on Climate Change
This film of the Living memory, Future Worlds: Bristol Voices on Climate Change exhibition is brought to you by Older Woman for World Change (OWWCh!), a small group of Bristol women concerned about the future Bristol's children may face if we continue burning fossil fuels the way we're doing now.
- Social class and Ecology
a brief analysis of social class and ecology
- Rocket Stoves
A brief history of rocket stoves, and why they are useful for the transition from fossil fuels
- How to make cheap cider
Learn how to make great cheap cider with this easy to follow video.
- Permaculture systems with and without livestock
This piece provides a basic breakdown of permaculture systems that use of refrain from the use of livestock.
- Celebrating being human
This piece briefly explores the notion of celebrating the fight back as we strive towards a permanent culture of the future
- Thrifty times series: Grow, coppice and scavenge your own wood fuel
explores the use of reclaimed or home grown wood fuel.
- Permaculture and Politics
Explores permaculture and politics and how they might work together in the politics of the future.
- Exploring models of Education: Critical Multiculturalism
this piece explores the potential of critical multiculturalism as a possible eduction model of the future
- Film: The Friends of Durruti and the Maydays in Barcelona (1937)
Film of the talk "The Friends of Durruti and the Maydays in Barcelona (1937)"
- ANOK4U2: Crass and Anarchism in the UK
this piece looks at Anarchist punk band crass.
- The Freeman movement
this piece looks at the freeman movement in the UK.
- Employability trainers: a valuable people centred resource or lucrative money spinner
the piece questions the need for private training companies and also questions their future role, if any.
- Thrifty times series: Baking your own bread
home bread baking and the use of different grains to make the bread of the future
- Thrifty times series: Home grown food
this piece is about home grown food production as part of moving towards a permanent culture of the future.
- Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor
this piece looks at the idea of socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.
- Thrifty times series: Keeping Chickens
a piece about keeping chickens as part of future ecological local food supply.
- Experimental permaculture: The pond flower
this piece looks at how a permaculture flower pond could help pollinator insects
- Film: Permaculture allotment plot project update: April 2012
This piece looks at the development of a permaculture plot with a future of scarcity in mind.
- Thrifty times series: wine making and beer brewing
Looks at home wine and beer making within the context of localized low impact future.
- Allotment tips and Diary: 25rd March 2012
looks at the progress of my allotment two plots as I move them towards a permaculture system for the future.
- Sharing your surplus to create abundance
Shows how sharing fruit cuttings can provide a large volume of sustainable fruit in an area.
- Thrifty times series: One pot cooking
Explains how one pot cooking can play a part in sustainable and permanent culture of the future.
- African keyhole garden
This piece looks at the African keyhole garden as a growing structure for a future permanent culture.
- Living the Permaculture way
What does it mean to live a permaculture way of life, read our experience and thoughts on this.
- Retrofitting the Mind: Holistic thinking for a permanent culture
this piece looks at the influence of how we think as we move towards the development of a permanent culture.
- Fallowfield Secret Garden Project
We are proud to present this guest post from Gavin Pate of the Fallowfield Secret Garden, a great example of a community permaculture project that is developing.
- Film: Satish Kumar - Reverential Ecology Talk
Film of Satish Kumar explaining reverential ecology, what is our relationship to nature and how should we think about our place in the world, watch this film to see how reverential ecology approaches this questions.
- Film: The Peace Chiefs
Tim Mac Macartney explains how the Native American wisdom can be used to hep us transition towards a better future, inspiring and thought provoking film of his talk at sunrise off grid festival.
- The struggle
this piece is about how our actions can have a very effect as we move away from the old order of capitalism and exploitation towards a permanent culture of the future.
- We need your help to build a Permanent Culture Now can you recommend us to your friends
We need your help to build the Permanent Culture Now Project, can you spare a couple of minutes to tell your friends about us, we've made it as easy as possible for you to do - cheers Mike and Steve
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- Permaculture pioneers: Patrick Whitefield
A profile of Patrick Whitefield the foremost temperate permaculture teacher and his importance in the development of a future permanent culture.
- Synergy: The Permaculture design software tool
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- Allotment tips and diary: 27th Feb 2012
This piece is about Converting an allotment plot into a perennial permaculture growing area, and how this method can help to develop a more permanent culture in the future.
- Film: Bees and Permaculture Article - Brigit Strawbridge
Film and article by Brigit Strawbridge on bees and how they can be integrated into a permaculture design, loads of tips and information on beekeeping and permaculture.
- Permaculture pioneers: Masanobu Fukuoka
This article is about the work of Masanobu Fukuoka and it relevance in the development of a permanent culture.
- Permaculture pioneers: David Holmgren
this piece looks at the work and contributions of David Holmgren in working towards a permanent culture of the future.
- Permaculture pioneers: Bill Mollison
A short biography of Permaculture pioneer Bill Mollison, and the importance of work set against a background of peak resources and climate change
- Another seedy Saturday
a description of our seed swap event this year, and how they can be geared towards dealing with climate change.
- Allotment tips and diary: New season seed sowing, Feb 2012
Tips on which seeds to sow in the month of February.
- Discovering Ruskin College Oxford
My experience of Ruskin College and why it is a great place to study, also links application process for the College.
- The true origins of the credit crunch
The origins of the credit crunch, want to understand why it happened, the jargon and the ideologies that drove the financial crisis, then read this now!
- Guide to Planting Perennial Plants
Guide to planting perennial seeds/plants in a temperate climate.
- Allotment Tips and Diary: Jan 2012
Preparation work for the coming gardening season.
- Food Transition Now
A crucial part of transition to a permanent culture is to develop a food strategy and new ways of providing food, read here to find out more
- Permaculture principles
Permaculture principles are key to permaculture, find out about them here and how they apply to real world situations and can be used to develop a permanent culture.
- Film: Hidden Histories: The Captain Swing riots
Captain Swing is the first part of our new hidden histories series. Captain Swing was the name used to sign letters that were delivered to land and farm owners as a means of protesting against the starvation and poverty that new grain threshing machines were creating. Read to find out about Captain Swing and more about why it's still relevant today.
- Guerrilla gardening
A brief outline of guerrilla gardening and why it is important for a sustainable future.
- Stop Online Piracy Act is an attack on our internet freedoms
The Stop Online Piracy Act is an attack on our internet freedoms and needs to be stopped. It is about the censorship of the Internet and controlling the information we have access to. Why should multinational corporations have the power to moderate a common resource, read this article to find out more.
- Social ecology
A basic description of Murrey Bookchin's social ecology and its importance in a world that is in transition.
- Are Governments attempting to stop citizens from growing their own food?
Here we look at some of the legislation that is geared towards curbing people growing their own food.
- Film: Seattle Solidarity Network how to setup and run a solidarity network
Film of a presentation put on by Seattle Solidarity Network on how to setup and run a solidarity network, solidarity networks are cooperatives of people who get together to support each other against dodgy, landlords, employers, institutions in order to make sure their rights are upheld and they are treated fairly.
- Permaculture ethics series: Fair shares
the 'Fair shares' permaculture ethic is explained here and how it might be useful for a more sustainable future.
- Film: Avoiding Burnout when doing Activism Workshop
Film of a great workshop at the Sunrise Off Grid festival on how to look after yourself when you are involved in Activism, it is all to easy to be swept along by issues, feel depressed when everything can seem so hopeless. Mike offers some practical advice on how to look after yourselves and others when undertaking activism.
- Allotment tips and Diary: Winter Solstice
General allotment activities during the winter months.
- Film: Resilient Farms Conference
This is an interesting debate on the future of farming and resilience of food production, stick with the debates becuase there is some really good discussions on types of food production and sustainability of food production, supermarkets and local food production. Would love to know your views on these films, what do you think about the issues raised,
- Reducing our dependency on money: an introduction
a discussion on how we can reduce our dependency on money by looking at other ways of trading and working.
- Film: Bonnington Square (Housing Cooperative)
Bonnington square was aa cooperative housing community established in Vauxhall in London in the early 1980's after people who had been squatting the derelict buildings decide to legally take on the properties. This film documents this story. Thanks goes to Alister Oldham who gave us permission to post his film here.
- An urban forest garden Hackney shows us how it's done
provides a brief history of hackney forest garden, and explains their usefulness and diversity.
- Permaculture ethics series: People care
discusses the people care ethic of permaculture and why it is important for a low impact future.
- Film: November 30th Strike Films uncovering the pensions myths and highlighting the attacks on the general population
Part one pensions myths. Who really gets the gold plated pensions. Part two: The…
- Allotment tips and diary: December
general allotment activities that happen during the winter months.
- Film: Organising your own seed swap event
Learn how to put on a seed swap event and why they are important for moving towards a Permanent Culture.
- Permaculture ethics: Part 1 - Earth Care
The earth care ethic of permaculture is very important for a permanent culture of the future, read this to find out why.
- Heirloom Seeds
describes heirloom seeds and their importance for a sustainable future.
- The Promise
a short piece about transport and transition towns.
- Exploring models of Education: Popularist Education
looks at popularist and critical multiculturalist models of education within the context of a permanent culture.
- Allotment Diary and tips: Winters Coming!
General allotment tasks that take place as autumn moves in the winter.
- Film: Ian Bone Talk '1919 Revolutionaries'
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- Organic food production can feed the world!
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Reggae music and Punk rock, a musical synergy as a soundtrack to alternative culture.
- What are Weeds?
Some of the plants that we see as weeds are useful as food stuffs and medicines.
- Allotment Diary and tips week 2 (25/9/2011)
allotment activities at the end of the yearly growing season.
- Agency Versus Structure
Agency Versus Structure a theoretical explanation by out first guest writer Mark Hepburn. Agency and structure are the two biggest issues when it comes to social change, can agency have an impact on structure or does structure define our agency, read more to find out.
- Freeganism and urban scavenging
A discussion about freeganism and scavenging as a useful way of using discarded usable resources.
- Allotment Diary week and tips (20/9/2011)
Cropping food at an allotment plot, and carrying out soil repair.
- Film: Transition UK Talk By Rob Hopkins at Sunrise Off Grid Festival 2011
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Rental Deduction info needed...
I am still alittle confused about the $5000.00 allowed "start up deductions". Maybe someone here has the answers:
This will be the first home that I will rent out. I just bought it as an REO and am waiting for escrow to close.
I know that paint and basic repairs fall under this section BUT If I want to replace some carpet, replace stove and some light fixtures that are broken these do not seem to fall under the "start up" deductions (or am I wrong).
I have heard that you must advertise that the home is available in order for these things to be deemed "operating expenses". But how do you advertise that the home is available for rent, thus allowing you to take improvement depreciation, if it is not truely move-in ready? I'm confused. I can also afford to have the home vacant but I would like to get the best tax break available also. How do you plan to work through this? Thanks for any info.
Well--this is Feb. 2010. If you are acguiring the house now and working on it all summer to prepare it for rental, you will have till April 15, 2011 to file and take all the deductions possible. You should have it rented out by then.
This is the first time I've heard of startup costs. We've always deducted any costs associated with a business or a rental, including mileage to pickup materials.
I have read this in several NOLO books. Remember that this is my first rental property and it needs some work done to it to be considered available to rent. Here is some of what they say...
"You can deduct up to $5000 of your start-up expenses the first year that you're in business. Start up expenses are any expense you incur before offering your property for rent, so long as they're related to getting your business up and running. Once the property is posted as available to rent, then all your expenses are cosidered operating expenses. Start-up expenses can include "repairs to get the property ready to rent,office supplies,
advertising and educational how-to books, etc."
"A special tax rule allows you to deduct up to $5000 in start up expenses the first year you are in business, and then deduct the remainder, if any,in equal amounts over the next 15 years. The date you offer your first property for rent is considered the date your business starts.".. NOLO Evert Landlords Tax Deduction Guide .
In many places renting property is not, by itself, a business.
Do you need a business license?
Tread carefully.
Most of the expenses are already deductible, so what expenses would qualify as a "business expense" that would not be deductible anyway?
OK, forget about the business and/or start-up expenses.... you are saying that if I buy a home today and take a few months to repair and improve it to a point that it is rentable, I can take all available deductions for repairs and depreciations for improvements from the day I purchase it, as long as it gets rented by the end of the year? I do not have to wait until I advertise the home for rent to be able to take these deductions?
You should read IRS publication 527 (link below) and see your tax accountant, if taxes are material to your purchase and what you spend to make the property rentable. There is a difference in tax treatment between maintenance and investment expenditures. It would be wise to understand the whole subject better at the outset so you can make good decisions and keep and retain proper records to back up your tax returns.
Here is a link that might be useful: Publication 527, Residential Rental Property
Manyhosta~Thank you so much for this link. I have the 4562 form but this publication is very helpful. Thanks.
hendricus~Thank you. I was getting confused with what I had read about "business rental start up" but since it is only one property and I do not need a business license,that makes perfect sense to me.


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Jade grafting update
Hey everyone,
A while back I posted a question about if grafting jades was possible. I didn't get a conclusive response, so I decided to experiment and see what I could do. People knew it could be done, but no one that responded had successfully done it.
Either over Christmas break or spring break, I whacked one of my large jades. I also lopped a branch from another one of my jades and cut both at a diagonal. I matched up the segments and wrapped twine around the stem since I only had a night to do it and had no quality grafting materials around. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures of that stage of the process.
I just got back home yesterday, and over those few months it looks like the graft took. Here are the pictures:
This is the plant with the twine still attached. The entire top foliage is grafted on.
Closeup of twine & graft.
Twine removed.
Closeup on graft after twine. Note the aerial roots it tried to develop before (I assume) the graft took.
Another closeup. Here you can see where the real meat of the graft took.
With the success of this project, I really want to try a FrankenJade with branches of hobbit, gollum, compact, normal, hummel's sunset etc. It would take time, though, and right now the only other variety I have is a small gollum. Someday, though...
Also, here are some pics of another project. I'm trying to graft these two trunks together while growing it around a hunk of granite. We'll see what happens. The granite is already starting to get swallowed around the edges.
The whole plant.
A closeup on the granite chunk.
The leaves are mostly plumped back up now, but I can tell that there's not enough space for enough water to get completely through, because some are still sort of wrinkly, while on a normal jade I'd think they'dve plumped up by now.
The link is fairly sturdy - after I removed the twine, I transported the jade out of my room, down the stairs and out onto the porch without supporting the top part. This morning I noticed that the weight of the leaves was bending the top part at the graft, but it still held. I reinforced it with some wire and am going to whack the top later this evening.
I realize this is an old thread but it gave me hope that I could save my broken Jade that met with gravity and the floor yesterday, I fear if the graft doesn't take I'll have to prune the other side to balance it out or keep it with a permanent crutch.
This was my first attempt last night using only a pink shotgun shell hull, black string, kabob skewers, toothpicks and some black electrical tape.
This is my second attempt and I'm sealing the seams of the wound with wax the same as I have with hybridized fruit trees to keep it from oxidizing and sealing off the capillaries before the graft takes.
I really hope this takes, I grew this baby from a little pair of 1/2" leaves I found at my folks ship center in a box of packing peanuts 18 years ago.
Well as I suspected a 90 degree graft was a bad idea...
The wax cracked when I moved it days after the first post I made and I noticed that the edges had already contracted...
I noticed a few days ago that it appeared that *if* the graft had taken it was only thru an area just smaller than a pencil...
Then yesterday morning I came out to the studio to find the graft had fallen off completely.
Decided to try *once* more this time with an offset V cut, and using a small miter gauge to assure the cuts were 100% straight.
I used medical wrap, latex free, that sticks to itself and wrapped that sucker as tight as I could get it. When done I couldn't wiggle the grafted branch at all.
I ended up adding a single strand of black tape at the center most point of the graft as it appeared that overnight the cooling of the house had let the medical wrap loosen a little.
Hopefully this time it takes, if it does I think next summer I'll dock the dangling branch on the left and the new plant at the base and graft those to the central stalk of this plant see if I can't rebuild some of the lost foliage.


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The Department of Defense manages the nation's defense satellites worth a collective $13.7 billion, but the ground stations and control networks that operate them need to be modernized significantly, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.
The report states DOD's satellite control networks are "fragmented and potentially duplicative," and states that the Air Force Satellite Control Network (AFSCN), DOD's largest shared satellite control network, is undergoing $400 million in modernization efforts over five years that won't actually increase the network's capabilities. The network's antennas are spread around the world.
This isn't the first time GAO has reported critically on DOD's satellite control systems – reports on the matter date back to 1994 – but GAO officials told FCW that in light of budgetary issues experienced across government, it makes sense for DOD to consider modernizing.
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"Given the budgetary situation, we do believe it's time for DOD to take satellite control more seriously, and to really put an effort into modernizing their efforts, bringing them up to current practices and software," said Cristina Chaplain, director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management for GAO.
The GAO report makes two specific recommendations, both of which DOD officials agreed with in the report. The first recommends the Secretary of Defense conduct an analysis at the beginning of new satellite acquisition project to determine a business case for either a shared or dedicated satellite control operations network. The report cites one unnamed Air Force base that has 10 satellite programs operated by 8 separate control centers, creating the potential for significant duplicity, something the report suggests wouldn't happen in the commercial sector.
"Commercial practices have the potential to increase the efficiency and decrease costs of DOD satellite control operations," the report states. "These practices include: interoperability between satellite control operations networks; automation of routine satellite control operations functions; use of commercial off-the-shelf products instead of custom ones; and a hybrid network approach which allows a satellite operator to augment its network through another operator's complementary network."
The second recommendation from GAO directs DOD to develop a department-wide long-term plan for modernizing AFSCN and any future shared satellite control operations network. A sufficient plan would identify estimated satellite control costs, program manager authorities required to ensure ground systems are built how the business case says they should be, and which commercial practices, if any, can improve how DOD manages it satellites control operations.
"Right now, the business case is all about the satellite program, not the other supportive pieces, and there's no long-term plan that says it's time to get modernized and be more integrated," Chaplain said.
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