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Where was the Governor when this was taking place????
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the governor was asleep, just like judge andrew baxter, who let that child raping murderer loose back in january
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Don't worry, Judge Baxter will have to live with his decision for the rest of his life! |
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Andrew Baxter should be removed from the courts system.. We taxpayer and moral citizens do not need a judge setting people free ,indeed his thought should have been "what can happen if I set Renz free." Did he even consider the worst? He should have with all the evidence this guy had. Both these guys are creeps.
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Yes, I agree with all the above. How does that Judge sleep at night, and does he know what happened at all because of his lack of compassion for innocent women and childred? I hope he does. That little girl will have nightmares the rest of her life, I'm sure. Her mother was murdered right in front of her, and the 10 year old daughter was raped right in front of her mother.
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Magnolia Pictures had already picked up U.S. rights to the Kevin Macdonald documentary about the reggae legend. The pic made its world premiere last weekend at the Berlin festival, where it sold a slew of territories. Magnolia has set an April 20 release for North America, and it is timed to roll out worldwide throughout the summer to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Jamaican Independence. Here's the trailer, which promises new tracks and never-before-seen footage.
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We've been keeping an eye on the proportion of iPad users, and it's been increasing steadily. The total proportion of active iPad users for us now stands at 29 percent of iOS and 12 percent of mobile use. That's significant enough that we thought it was time to spend a while properly supporting the iPad. It's interesting that 13 pecent of iOS customers use both an iPhone and an iPad with Xero. We'll be watching the numbers pretty closely after the release to see if there's any change.
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There isn't much money floating around the Australian film industry. So when Eponine Films' Behren Schulz and Jim Lounsbury raised $2 million for their feature film, Love is Now, they knew they would have to make every cent count.
With 250 staff on payroll and more than 100 transactions every day on average, that didn't leave much leeway. What's more is they had to get it done in 23 weeks — a fraction of the time normally associated with feature film production.
"Think of it as multi-million dollar business that starts from zero; with zero staff. In 23 weeks, it has to be set up, staffed, payrolled, money spent, then shut down and wound up," says Schulz, the producer of Love is Now. "To do that without a dedicated production account (financial controller) is daunting, if not a little scary for many producers. For us, it wasn't a problem."
Doing it their own way
Most films hire an experienced production accountant; people who know how films work. They use specialised systems to keep track of the thousands, or millions of dollars spent each day on sets, costumes, equipment and staff. Continue reading ›
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Introducing UK Payroll in Xero
At Xerocon London we announced UK Payroll in Xero. Today, we're pleased to report that you can now set up your payroll ready for processing in the new financial year.
Getting Started with UK Payroll in Xero from Xero.
We've built beautiful online accounting and payroll software for small businesses. It's easy to implement and use from anywhere. Payroll information flows seamlessly into your general ledger, with journals created automatically.
We've produced online training in Xero U to help you get started. One series for our Accountant and Bookkeeper partners and one for our business customers.
Powerful UK payroll software
Changing your payroll software isn't a decision made lightly, but combining two primary business systems saves both time and money. Xero is the platform of choice for small business.
Starting today, you can get ready for 6 April by setting up payroll to suit the needs of your business, including adding employees. We're enabling payroll processing from 6 April, in time for the 2015/2016 financial year.
UK Payroll in Xero includes support for the following:
Employer Settings
- Claim £2,000 Employment Allowance
- Tracking by Employee Groups for cost analysis
- Standard Public Holidays provided, grouped by country
- Add custom business holidays and holiday groups as required
- Record Tax Office details for reporting to HMRC
- Record bank and pension fund details
Employee Management
- Personal details including employee photo
- Employment details including salary or hourly rate and hours per week
- Monthly, weekly, fortnightly, quarterly, annual & 4-weekly pay
- Leave balances for annual leave and custom time off types
- Notes to record comments against each employee
- P45 Leaver Forms
- New employee starter declaration
Pay Elements
- Hourly and salaried pay rates
- Unlimited custom earning rate types, based on either: base pay rate, rate per unit, or fixed amount
- Unlimited custom leave types in addition to the statutory leave types
- Unlimited custom benefit, deduction, and reimbursement rate types
- Student Loan repayments
- Record attachments of earnings orders
Tax & NIC
- Built-in Tax and NIC rates
- Tax and NIC rate updates automatically each year
- Week 1 / Month 1 pay basis
- Directors special NIC calculations
- Electronic payment of employee wages via BACS file
- P32 Tax & NIC amounts to be paid to HMRC
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Introducing New Zealand Payroll in Xero
Last week we announced the imminent arrival of New Zealand Payroll in Xero. Today we're pleased to announce it's been released so you can get ready for processing payroll from the 1st April. Now is the time to make the change in time for the new financial year.
Getting Started with New Zealand Payroll in Xero from Xero.
We've built beautiful, online New Zealand payroll for small businesses that's easy to implement and easy to use from anywhere. Information from payroll flows seamlessly to the general ledger with journals automatically created.
New Zealand Payroll
We know that changing payroll systems is not easy. Having your two primary business systems combined into one experience saves time and money and improves accuracy.
From today you can get ready for 1st April by setting up payroll to suit the needs of your business including adding employees. We'll be enabling the ability to process payroll from 1st April.
New Zealand Payroll includes:
Employer Settings
- Support for small & large employers for Inland Revenue reporting & filing obligations
- Tracking by Employee Groups for cost analysis
- Weekly, fortnightly, half-monthly, four-weekly, and monthly Pay Calendars
- Standard Public Holidays provided, grouped by region
- Add custom holidays as required by each business
Manage Employees
- Recording personal details including employee photo
- Managing employment details including salary/hourly rate, standard days per week & hours per day
- Enter IRD Number, Tax Code, ESCT Rate, (Tax Rate, Special Student Loan Rate)
- Manage KiwiSaver including eligible employees, Employee & Employer Contribution Rates, Opting Out and Contributions Holidays
- Employee's joining KiwiSaver or Opting Out advised via monthly filing to Inland Revenue
- Salary Sacrifice for KiwiSaver
- Leave balances for Annual leave, Holiday Pay, Sick Leave, Alternative Holidays and custom leave types
- Enter employee notes to record comments against each employee
- Enter employees past 12 months gross earnings easily
- New employees advised to Inland Revenue via monthly filing
- Create a pay template for each of your employees to make your pay runs quick and easy
Employee App
- Available online at launch and coming soon to iOS and Android
- Employees can access pay history, download payslips and view personal details
- Request leave and manage current leave requests
- Optional 'Manager' role can be given to employees to approve leave requests without accessing the business or payroll financials
Pay Elements
- Record current future hourly and annual salary pay rates
- Unlimited custom earning rate types, based on the either: base pay rate, rate per unit, or fixed amount
- Unlimited custom leave types in addition to the statutory leave types
- Manage statutory leave types including Holiday Pay (8%) and unpaid parental leave types
- Unlimited custom deduction rate types including Payroll Giving deductions
- Unlimited custom reimbursement rate types
- Student Loan Repayments, including Additional & Voluntary Student loan repayments
- Support for Statutory Deductions for Child Support, Court Fines, MSD Repayments and Inland Revenue Arrears
- KiwiSaver deductions and contributions
- Unlimited custom superannuation rate types in addition to KiwiSaver (for complying and Other funds)
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Six tips to strengthen client relationships (part 2/2)
Last Tuesday I shared some tips for improving client relationships. Today I've got the final three for you. This advice is great for any accountant, bookkeeper or business owner who wants to nurture client relationships.
4. Developing social intelligence
Humans unconsciously imitate the emotions of others. Moods often transfer between individuals – from the aggressive to the passive party. Actors use this principle of mimicking emotion onstage. It helps them get an emotional reaction from the audience.
Socially intelligent people can control the signals we send that mark our moods. Accountants who have mastered social intelligence can send signals to alter their client's moods. An appropriate use of mirroring and displays of empathy (discussed in the next section) will often do the trick. These techniques will help bring about coordination of moods, which is the essence of rapport. Increased rapport, motivation and encouragement all assist in strengthening client relationships.
Emotional rapport in a meeting is mirrored by how close the physical movements follow as the participants talk. Nodding while another person talks and leaning toward them as they make a point indicates engagement. Studies of school classrooms show a strong connection between this synchronicity of movement and levels of engagement by the students.
5. Three ways to display empathy
Empathy is identifying and understanding the feelings of others. It is one of the principal conduits for managing emotions in others. This skill helps people to provide social support and make positive interpersonal relationships.
Active listening is one of the key ways of displaying empathy. Be present, not thinking about anything else. Look the other person in the eye. Show that you understand the content of the discussion by repeating it back in your own words. Acknowledge your emotion and share that.
Another key way to show empathy is to share something of yourself. Building empathy goes both ways.
Try to understand the viewpoints of other people without making any assumptions about them. Do not judge or make hasty classifications. This way you will gain a deeper understanding of the person. Remember that your impression of the other may not be the true person. They might just be having a bad day, received bad news, or just be having an off day.
6. Systemised learning and development
Recent studies show that emotional intelligence (EQ) is dropping among younger people. At the same time, IQs are generally rising. This trend will have long term implications for industries that have high EQ requirements. Accounting is one of these. Decreasing levels of EQ across the industry could lead to widespread dissatisfaction. This will create an environment ripe for disruption.
Accountants and their firms can combat the trend of declining EQ with education programs. These programs can help staff learn how to display warmth and build empathy. This education should cover all firm members, from associate level through to director. Remember, changes in the emotional intelligence of an individual tend to happen slowly. People need time to practice the new skills and habits that they develop. To accommodate this, the education process should start early.
Education programs should:
- identify the particular skills needed
- develop education content
- deliver content
- evaluate outcomes.
The skill levels of participants should be measured first so that the education can target the area of greatest need. Review skill levels immediately after the delivery of the education program. This will ensure that the education is meeting the desired requirements. Develop exercises to allow individuals to practice their skills. This will help you meet the standard you're aiming for.
Strong client relationships benefit everyone
It's wise to recognise the significant gains to make from deepening client relationships.
- The average lifetime of a client extends and the value that the client contributes increases.
- Employees benefit from higher EQ as they have more fulfilling business and personal relationships.
- Clients gain a more open exchange of ideas and opinions, which gives greater depth to the advice they receive.
Specific skills, techniques and behaviours can enhance the characteristics of warmth (lovability). Many accountants seem to have these as natural talents, but all accountants can learn them. The challenge is to develop ways of training individuals. It may be profitable to be more loved than feared, but it may be more difficult to achieve.
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New release: Cheques in Canada and Quotes improvements
Today's release delivers a collection of improvements to Xero. For the first time we're delivering a feature for a country other than the US, UK, Australia or New Zealand: support for Cheques in Canada.
Here's a quick update on what's new in Xero this release.
Support for Cheques in Canada
We've provided support for US Checks for a long time, but with this release we move north. We're delighted that small businesses in Canada can now account for cheque payments in Xero.
Cheques can be made on any outgoings from a business – everything from paying bills to refunding credit notes. After recording the payment you can style and print the cheque – even use your own chequebook or cheque printing software.
Improvements to Quotes
Following our release of Quotes, we've made a few more updates to improve how quotes are embedded in Xero. These include:
- Quickly create a quote or purchase order from within a contact's record. A small but useful improvement, making it more efficient to keep your business moving. You can now quickly create a quote or purchase order while you're in a contact's record. Look up a contact, click 'New', and you can now create a new quote or PO just as you can for other items.
- Set a default expiry date for your quotes. If you usually send out quotes with the same expiry period, you can now set up a default quote expiry date which will automatically populate when you create a quote. You can override this if you need to when you create a quote.
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Panel discussion: mobilising the small business economy
During Xerocon London 2015, we pulled together a panel of business and technology experts to talk about the importance of tech. Specifically, how it will mobilise the small business economy in the UK.
Our panel included:
- Founder and CEO of Mumsnet and Gransnet, Justine Roberts
- Xero small business customers and co-founders of the Cereal Killer Cafe, Gary and Alan Keery
- Xerocon guest speaker and Editor of Wired David Rowan
- Our own UK managing director Gary Turner.
Our experts discussed some important business advice and a call to government to provide a more accessible broadband service to small business. They also talked about how SMEs must run with the rapid progression of new technology and the need to keep pace with consumer behaviour change and evolving business models.
In a world moving fast towards ubiquitous connectivity, every business will become digital. Small teams of highly motivated entrepreneurs have a unique opportunity to evolve and adapt with new technology and position themselves ahead of large, slow-moving incumbent businesses.
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Reflections on Xerocon, desktop data amnesty
Apparently the true measure of any conference that claims to be worth its salt these days can be quickly discerned by weighing both the quantity and colour of the social media chatter the following day. Indeed, judging from the large number of "Post Xerocon Blues" tweets that peppered my timeline twenty-four hours after Xerocon London 2015 had closed its doors, our UK conference seemed to have very much hit the spot for a good many of our 800 attendees this year.
In barely more than two years, Xerocon London has grown to become what I believe is now the UK's largest gathering of its kind, eclipsing the mainstream accounting industry bodies' annual conference circuits, nevermind those of the accounting software industry.
Alongside some great guest speakers, forty-odd exhibitors and sneak previews of coming product updates to Xero, the bigger news items that featured this Xerocon were the UK launch of our new Payroll in Xero, the accelerating pace with which the UK banking community is now attaching itself to our platform with news of our new technical partnership with Metrobank, our desire to support our UK Partner community in telling the cloud story and the growing incidence of Sage and Quickbooks customers choosing to migrate to the cloud with Xero.
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The American Dream is alive in small businesses
After completing a survey of small business entrepreneurs in the US, it seems the American Dream is alive and well. Almost three-quarters of US small business owners are optimistic about growth in 2015. What's more, two-thirds of entrepreneurs are prioritizing customer growth and one third plan to invest in technology. This indicates that 2015 will be a year of continued economic recovery.
What do US small businesses value?
While hacking scandals and ethics controversies rock big businesses, small business owners are prioritizing honesty and respect as guiding business values. It's no surprise then, that close to 20 percent of respondents aspire to be more like Ben & Jerry's than tech giants such as Apple, Microsoft or Google. Only 1.6 percent named Uber as their role model – the least aspirational of all companies named.
'Millennial' small business owners quicker to adopt new trends
Leading the charge toward the optimistic and ethically conscious small business are the tech-savvy millennials. An overwhelming 90 percent of are optimistic about growth in the coming year, compared to 74 percent of total respondents.
Millennials also feel more comfortable with the cloud. Over half report at least 25 percent of their business runs in the cloud – compared to just 23.5 percent of all respondents. And the majority of millennials (80 percent) use Facebook for their business, with only 40.4 percent of total respondents claiming to lean on the social media giant.
When looking at all this data it's quite clear where businesses see themselves in the very near future. Social media and the cloud are becoming the norm with younger business owners, and doing business fairly wins out over growth at the expense of ethics. Continue reading ›
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Why my small business switched to Xero
Today's guest author is small business and finance expert, and co-host of Sunrise, David Koch.
I'm not a huge fan of the Super Bowl, but I love seeing the ads. They're always the highlight of the whole event for a lot of people. This year there was a great ad by BMW that showed a clip of two TODAY show hosts from 1994 who were reading an email address out loud. It was obviously the first time they'd done so. They didn't know how to pronounce an '@'. This led to the perplexed duo questioning "what is internet anyway?"
Today's rapid outpouring of technology and innovation often leaves business owners wondering "what is this?" and "do I really need it?" In a lot of cases, perhaps not. Small businesses have enough on their plate without trying to educate themselves on every single new 'life-changing' product or service. But when it comes to online accounting, it truly is a revelation. And in the world of online accounting, Xero is at the leading edge.
Making the switch to online accounting
I've been a small business owner for over 25 years now and have employed teams from five people right up to 70. Bookkeeping used to mean shelves and shelves of folders and actual books. There were days on end spent reconciling accounts, and using a ruler to scroll down pages of transactions (yes, I'm old). At the time, it was just something we had to do. But now, with the beauty of hindsight, it was a nightmare.
After a lot of research into the market, my family business, Pinstripe Media, made the switch to Xero last year. This was because we'd heard so much hype from other business owners, and our accountants, about how easy and how enjoyable it was. I was sceptical at first. How on earth could anyone make small business accounting and bookkeeping enjoyable? Fortunately, I was convinced to give it a go.
Never looked back
Nine months later, and I can tell you without any embarrassment that I love logging on and checking the accounts. I'm a control freak, and Xero's platform really is impressive. Everything is simple, intuitive, and easy to navigate. In just a few clicks, I can see how much money is owed to us compared to what we owe. I can get a P&L for any specified time period – and even just for individual jobs – to compare against other jobs. I can see bank and credit card balances, and reconcile it all straight away. Our bank feeds come straight into the dashboard. I love the dashboard.
The best part about it is that I can do it all while sitting on the balcony at home. Because these days I'm trying to spend as little time in the office as possible. (That's why you have kids, to take over the family business isn't it?). With the footy season coming up and, a lot of trips to Adelaide and Melbourne, I can keep checking up on things from the road whenever I like. And that's the real beauty of Xero – it gives me not just peace of mind, but the freedom to have peace of mind from anywhere at any time.
So if you're still wondering what all the fuss is about, then give it a go and see for yourself how much it changes your life as a business owner. Because in a few years it won't be "what is internet" jokes playing on Super Bowl ads, it'll be "what is online accounting?" And when that day comes, you can sit back and be proud that you knew all about it. And you may even have your Xero dashboard open next to you.
As a side note, in case the sceptics are wondering, I did pay for my Xero accounting package. We made our decision to switch without contacting them.
David Koch is the owner of Pinstripe Media. He also hosts Kochie's Business Builders, co-hosts Sunrise, and chairs the Port Adelaide Football Club. Connect with him on Twitter @kochie_online.
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It's real simple. The bus company, heavily subsidized by local tax money, turned down more than $5,000 in bus advertising because its designated ad agency didn't like the religious content of the message shown here. The United Coalition for Reason wanted to run it, as a tame statement that atheists and agnostics are not bad people.
Lydia Robertson, who runs the ad agency with the contract to handle bus advertising, effectively nixed the deal by demanding a $36,000 damage deposit. No damage deposit has been asked of two churches that advertise on CATA buses — Geyer Springs First Baptist and Fellowship Bible. Robertson said she feared vandalism. "... in reality, Arkansas is the buckle of the Bible Belt and I can easily envision zealots or upstanding citizens with a strong faith acting out."
Sad to say, Robertson's view of Christianity is not without some anecdotal justification. Do unto us as we wish, or "upstanding" Christians will beat you, silence you or otherwise cram their beliefs down your throat.
It is no defense for CATA to say the ad decision was that of a private agent, not the public bus company. The decision was made in consultation with CATA, e-mails show. Robertson made it clear she would stall and fight back with her own attorney (in increasingly shrill and combative emails) to drive off the atheists' advertising.
It was a dark day for the First Amendment that atheists had to file a suit in federal court to run such an innocuous message. It was a dark day for CATA's integrity when it sent its attorney out to argue that he didn't believe the atheists really wanted to run the ad, they just wanted a lawsuit. Paid advertising in 36 other markets, including Fayetteville, is sufficient rebuttal of that lame argument.
I support public transit. I think we don't support it sufficiently with tax money. I like Betty Wineland. But I don't like governmental suppression of unpopular messages, be it advertising for the bus company itself (quite unpopular among the Tea Party types) or for a small band of atheists who threaten society with nothing more dangerous than a little free thinking. (I know. A little enlightenment can be a dangerous thing.)
Wineland tells me at press time that she hopes for a resolution of the dispute short of a trial and that this was her desire all along. "It wasn't supposed to turn out this way," she said. There's a simple gauge of these professed good intentions: Run the ad on CATA buses, with the same damage deposit required of churches — zero.
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Armed Man Robs Senior Couple At Knifepoint In Hyannis Hotel Room
BARNSTABLE (CBS) – An senior couple from Pennsylvania was robbed at knife point Sunday night after checking into a Hyannis hotel room, according to police.
Mike McGowan, 78, told police he and his 77-year-old wife, Arlene, were opening the hotel room door after checking in when a male suspect pushed it open and forced his way inside.
"He and I went against the wall there. When he got closer, I pushed him away with my feet and then he lunged at me and knocked me over between the bed and I couldn't get up," Mike McGowan told WBZ-TV.
Arlene McGown said she feared for her life once she saw the knife blade.
The incident occurred at around 8:30 p.m. at America's Best Value Inn on Main Street.
Mike McGowan grabbed the suspect's leg and kicked him. The pair wrestled on the floor and at one point, the suspect flipped the McGowan over on to his stomach and pulled a pocket knife on him and demanded money from the wife.
Arlene McGowan was taking money out of her pocketbook when the suspect took the purse and fled the scene, police said.
The suspect took $100 from the couple.
The suspect is described as a tanned white man or light-skinned African American, police said. He is around 5′ 10" with short, dark hair and blue jeans. He was wearing a light-colored tanktop and appeared to be about 35 years old.
Police responded to the scene and used a K-9 to track him to the Steamship Authority parking lot nearby, police said. Police saw the suspect jump into a railroad yard and lost his trail.
Police later located the victim's purse and wallet in the rail yard.
Authorities are investigating the incident. No injuries were reported.
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On the face of it, Sion Owens and Kenza Drider wouldn't appear to have a lot in common. Mr Owens, in case you missed it, was the BNP candidate who decided to incinerate the Koran in a Quality Street tin, while Ms Drider is the French Muslim woman who promised to become the first to be arrested when France's new burka law came into effect. One deliberately set out to insult and enrage Muslims, the other – notionally at least – is taking action on their behalf. But they do share some things. Both of them now find themselves at odds with the authority of the state in which they live, both of them have had their unrepresentative views amplified beyond their wildest dreams, and both of them are testing the point at which private liberty comes into conflict with public good. Both of them also illuminate a fundamental error when it comes to thinking about the defence of a tolerant society.
We're yet to find out how serious the error will be. Though Sion Owens was arrested and charged with a public order offence over the weekend he learned yesterday that the CPS was withdrawing the case against him (though investigations will continue). And while Kenza Drider was detained yesterday, after wearing a burka in public, the French police insisted – surreally – that she'd been taken into custody not because she had deliberately broken the new law but because she hadn't applied for official permission to protest against it. It was almost as if someone somewhere had recognised that applying these laws might actually be counter-productive. Yes, both Mr Owens and Ms Drider are intransigent zealots. And yes, they both engage in activities which are offensive to many people. But is their offensiveness so great and so dangerous as to justify prohibition rather than scornful disregard?
To say yes, is to make the mistake of thinking that a tolerant society is best created by ensuring that no citizen ever encounters something they find intolerable. But if you believe that, tolerance effectively becomes redundant. And in any case it's quite difficult to know where to stop. Is it to be an offence against public order to burn any religious text – or just one whose followers may violently over-react? And if the latter is the case doesn't that implicitly concede the power of prohibition to violent over-reactors? By definition the tolerant lose out and the intolerant get what they want. Of course there has to be reciprocity. In yesterday's paper, my colleague Yasmin Alibhai-Brown asked this: "Will the Koran-burner be backed by libertarians, atheists and Muslim-bashers? Or will he face the same opprobrium as those Muslims who burnt Salman Rushdie's book?".
To which I would want to answer that you can be a libertarian without being a Muslim-basher and that you don't have to "back" someone to defend their right to be offensively wrong. As for The Satanic Verses – do with your copy what you will. I might find it distasteful but I'll get over it. It's only if you burn my copy, or exhort people to kill its author, that we might have a problem, and it's at that point only that the law should become involved. Similarly while I personally find burkas offensive – an insult to men and an oppression of women – there are real dangers in expecting the state to protect me from the civic duty of peaceably putting up with my neighbour's folly.
A free society, in short, isn't one in which only people we agree with are entitled to speak and argue. It's one which also protects the rights of the offensive and wrong-headed – and understands that the best defence against their folly may be restrained indifference. Ignoring Sion Owens and Kenza Drider would damage their respective causes far more than turning them into self-appointed martyrs for liberty of conscience.
Always spike a book with plant names
Steve Hely's very entertaining literary satire How I Became A Famous Novelist includes a scene in which the narrator trawls through the bestseller tables in a big American bookshop assembling a set of rules to guide the composition of his book.
These include: "Rule 1: Abandon truth" and "Rule 12: Give readers versions of themselves, infused with extra awesomeness". The rule I liked most though was his last one – "Rule 16: Include plant names" – because it rightly identified an implausible botanical exactitude as one of the affectations of the upmarket bestseller.
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A family member about a year ago passed away and left us a time share in Hilton Head Island. This is new to my husband and I. We have 1 week deposited and deposted the 2010 week. We put in a request for the first or second week of July about 7 months ago. We have not heard anything yet. I have called several time and I always get the same answer. NOTHING IS AVAILABLE. This is getting very frustrating. We only have a short window for vacation. We already have rented a friend's condo for one of the weeks and need the time share for the second week. Our friend is flexible. I need advise on how to get a unit. Are their any "tricks" I need to know? Please help. We would be so grateful.
A family member about a year ago passed away and left us a time share in Hilton Head Island. which HHI resort? and for what week? We have 1 week deposited and deposted the 2010 week. We put in a request for the first or second week of July about 7 months ago. We have not heard anything yet. I have called several time and I always get the same answer. NOTHING IS AVAILABLE. This is getting very frustrating. We only have a short window for vacation. We already have rented a friend's condo for one of the weeks and need the time share for the second week. Our friend is flexible. I need advise on how to get a unit. Are their any "tricks" I need to know? one of the "tricks" of timesharing is flexibility. if there's only one week that will work for you, that makes it tougher (since a lot of other people may be asking for the same week.) if you don't have flexibility in when to go, there are a couple of things to consider: 1) you need to plan far ahead - when you deposit your week, request as far out as possible (a year or so usually). 2) are you trying to trade like-for-like? if you own a winter week in HHI, you simply aren't going to have much trading power since most people don't want to go to HHI in the winter (or the kids are in school). if you are constantly asking for a lot more than you are offering, you may find timesharing frustrating. it is sometimes possible to trade a 1BR for a 3BR...or a mediocre resort for a great one...but usually something else has to give (you are offering a summer week and looking for a shoulder week during the school year...or you are booking something that becomes available a few weeks out.) 3) is brand priority working for you or against you? if you are trying to request a marriott (or starwood) resort in II, any marriott villas that become available for trade will first be held for marriott owners for a period of time. so getting a marriott with an unbranded timeshare during a peak time will be tough. if you are trading a marriott for a marriott, or starwood for starwood, you improve your chances. (but a winter HHI marriott week will still lose to a summer marriott week if both want the same marriott trade.) 4) can you at least be flexible on location? if you want to trade into hilton head in july...or harborside at atlantis at most times, you will find that the owners there of those periods often just rent their weeks rather than deposit them. so you're not going to find them for trade no matter how much you are offering in return. someone else has to trade out for you to trade in. generally most experienced timesharers would caution you not to buy or accept a timeshare week that you wouldn't be able to use yourself on a regular basis. the trading game comes and goes...trading power and opportunities can vary widely over time. you should definitely evaluate whether there are ways to take advantage of your timeshare that you can use (orlando is overbuilt, for example, so trading there is usually easier if you can at least be flexible on which resort) or whether you just need to unload it soon to avoid paying fees on something that won't work for your situation. you should also check out TUG as that is a great place to learn about timesharing...but don't expect the impossible...
I own with II, it is an older resort and my unit is a studio so I have very little trading power. I always have to do a flex-exchange- I wait until 59 days out and then I can choose anything available. Since I travel off season I never have a problem, I always get 2 bedrooms at Marriott's in Orlando- but just the other day for fun I looked around Easter week (everywhere) and there was NOTHING! This year I am going to try to do a non-Orlando vacation in August - so this will be interesting to see what I get. FYI, Interval runs offers- book a getaway and get a bonus certificate, renew your membership early and get a bonus week... DON'T DO IT! They have taken me everytime! You ask them what the restrictions are ("none" of course) then 2 weeks later you get a certificate and it has crazy restrictions. Right now I have 2 certificates and probably won't be able to use them.
Our week is in September. I would think that would be a good trade. We are in the Marriott properties. I have asked for any property. We are not being picky. We have a 2 bedroom. We are a family of 5 we are not asking for a 3 bedroom. Do I keep calling? What should we do? We are at Harbour Pointe.
My parents always had the same problem with their property with II. They got so frustrated with the inability of trading that they literally gave up their timeshare. They were promised the world with II, and they were so unhelpful with everything, my parents in the years that they had their timeshare were only able to trade it once, and they tried every year.
LIke I said earlier, I have zero trading power- I have always gotten a 2br at Marriott Grande Vista or Harbour Lake when I travel in Jan, Feb (not Pres week), Labor Day through mid November and December (before Christmas). I even saw a 3br at the brand new Marriott Lakeshore Reserve last Sept. It is possible there are units during the holidays but I have never really looked much- I wouldn't be caught dead at Disney during peak times. There is hope!
What about if you deposit a week with Marriott and not II, isn't easier to trade then to another Marriott property?
Our week is in September. I would think that would be a good trade. well...not exactly. here is a link to the interval website- go to the link (or go to any other hilton head resort on the II site) and click on the "Travel Demand Index" for hilton head. the summer weeks are the absolute highest demand (july starts in week26), while in sept (week 35-39ish) the demand drops off to below average. the weather is still great but most people just can't go in september. We are in the Marriott properties. I have asked for any property. this definitely helps if you have a marriott and are asking for a marriott- the downside is still the demand. 1) many summer HHI owners can rent their weeks for cash and don't deposit them into the trade pool and 2) owners of platinum marriott weeks from other marriott resorts will still be in line ahead of you if you both want july in hilton head for what few weeks get deposited. but you would be ahead of non-marriott owners and there are eight marriott timeshares in HHI, so it's not impossible. if you've deposited your week and requested as far in advance as you can, that's a good start. calling can't hurt (although if something comes up, i think the fees for using the call center are slightly higher than online. keep checking online to see if something comes up. (some crazy timeshare people are up at 3am looking to see if anything great got deposited that didn't match immediately to a request - i can't recommend that but if you were up already... ) not sure if it's an option or it's already on your request list, but you might consider trading down in resort quality to offset the trade up in season. (sometimes II doesn't allow that though, to prevent disappointed marriott owners from complaining). you're asking for a very tough trade IMO. it's not completely impossible but definitely tough. something might become available at the last minute if you can wait it out but the odds are against you...hope it works out.
marriott owners trade through II - marriott does not have a separate internal trading service for weeks owners. (they get a discount on the trading fee when trading marriott for marriott but that's it.)
i've had great success with II, but you definitely need to have an understanding of "like-for-like" and be willing to make trade-offs.
as i said before, orlando is overbuilt. if you can travel when the kids are in school (or at the very last minute), you can definitely trade up for orlando in both villa size and resort quality. but hilton head in the summer is another issue entirely, i'm afraid.
I just called and added any of the Marriott Resorts to my list. I need to check with my husband to see if he would be willing to trade down and pay the extra fee. I am hoping to learn how to work this system as possible. Unfortunately the person who gave us this timeshare passed away and she was the one who had all of the knowledge.
i would recommend joining TUG. http://tug2.net/ if you pay the annual membership fee, they give you access to resort reviews and a "sightings" board where other members post stuff that they run across that's available on II and RCI. (it's useful to see what has been deposited in the past and when during the year...plus you never know when something will pop up that you might want to trade for.) but you can still read the TUG forums and post for free. link to forums: http://tugbbs.com/forums/ look around the marriott forum there to keep up with what is going on (the marriott timeshare spinoff from marriott corp is currently the big news). in a worst case scenario, a gold season marriott still has value if you need to dispose of it. but hopefully if you get a better understanding of how the system works, i think you might start to find timesharing more enjoyable and less stressful.
Thanks for the link. I will check it out. We pay two different bills so I guess we would be a member of this site. I will check it out.
I have family in Hilton Head and a timeshare at Harborside, so I'll add my two cents: a September week in HHI is not a good trader. Schools are all in session and your resort might be nice, but it is not oceanfront. That makes it a less desirable places on HHI. Sorry for the tough love, but you'll be better off if you know where you stand. If you can't use your week yourself in the future, you're probably better off renting it for whatever you can get or selling it.


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New Delhi, Apr. 18 (ANI): Indian poet-diplomat Abhay K's collection of poems on Nepal titled 'Jatra' will be released by Nepal's Vice President Parmanand Jha in Kathmandu on April 22.
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J-K: Shutdown in Srinagar as Geelani calls for bandh
Apr 18, 9:42 am
Srinagar, Apr. 18 (ANI): A complete shutdown is being observed across the Kashmir valley on Saturday on the call of Hurriyat hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani.
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Masarat Alam sent to seven-day police custody
Apr 18, 9:24 am
New Delhi, Apr. 18 (ANI): Separatist leader Masarat Alam has been remanded to seven-day police custody by a court in Jammu and Kashmir's Budgam district.
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DTC gets its first woman driver
Apr 18, 9:17 am
New Delhi, Apr. 18 (ANI): The Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) has appointed V. Saritha as its first woman bus driver.
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