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This week, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) will hold long-awaited hearings in the House Homeland Security Committee on Muslim cooperation with law enforcement in terror investigations. King pretty much has his mind made up before entering the hearing room – he believes that Muslim-Americans haven't aided enough in investigations against extremism, despite a long record to the contrary. The point seems to be to treat Muslims as somehow disloyal to the United States and effectively collaborating with those who would do the country harm. It hearkens back to an era of McCarthyism, and represents a break with the perspective of even George W. Bush, who was more careful not to publicly scapegoat Muslim-Americans after 9/11.
About 500 people from interfaith and community groups held a rally in New York City yesterday to protest the King hearings. And now the Obama Administration has jumped into this debate as well.
Muslim Americans are not part of the terrorism problem facing the U.S. — they are part of the solution, a top White House official said Sunday at a Washington-area mosque […]
(Deputy National Security Adviser Denis) McDonough said that instead of condemning whole communities, the U.S. needs to protect them from intimidation.
McDonough spoke to an interfaith forum at a Northern Virginia mosque known for its longtime relationship and cooperation with the FBI. The executive director of the center, Imam Mohamed Magid, also spoke, as did speakers from a local synagogue and a Presbyterian church.
King, who has been backtracking for weeks after the negative fallout from his hearings, tried to almost take credit for McDonough's speech, saying it reflected his views. That's a very generous interpretation of the two viewpoints.
It's good that the White House wants to ensure the Muslim-American community that they will not be singled out or stigmatized by their government. And King's backpedaling has led to Rep. Keith Ellison, a Muslim, becoming a witness at the hearings, along with other members of the Muslim community. So there will be a balance there.
But let's not let King, who has been beating this drum for months now, off the hook so easily. [cont'd.] I believe you can draw a direct line between King's inferences of Muslim collaboration with terrorist activity and incidents like this one in Sacramento just a few days ago:
Police said Saturday that they don't know why someone gunned down two men – frail from heart attacks and advancing years – as they slowly ambled through a quiet Elk Grove neighborhood during their daily afternoon walk.
Surinder Singh, 67, died Friday afternoon on the sidewalk along East Stockton Boulevard near Geneva Pointe Drive. Gurmej Atwal, his 78-year-old friend, was shot twice in the chest. His family said he was in critical but stable condition.
In a statement released late Saturday, Elk Grove Police Chief Robert Lehner called on witnesses to come forward and said, "We have no evidence to indicate there was a hate or bias motivation for this crime; however, the obvious Sikh appearance of the men, including the traditional Dastar headwear and lack of any other apparent motive, increasingly raise that possibility."
Like it or not, these fear tactics can have a impact on those who are impressionable and easily stirred to anger. That's not to say that Peter King pulled a trigger in Sacramento on Friday. It means that years of needless demonizing doesn't just go into the ether. So if the White House wants to use their position to argue against this kind of scapegoating, that can only be positive.
However, while they're at it, they can explain why their support for tolerance and the rule of law when it comes to Muslims ends when it comes to a private first class who hasn't even been convicted of a crime or tried in court. The Bush Administration could never get the Muslim community past the shame of Abu Ghraib; it works no better when the victim is white and sitting naked in his cell in a military brig at Quantico. Human dignity and human rights are universal values, and rather than just talk about protecting people from intimidation and scapegoating, this Administration needs to act on it.


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Hey, I'm a long time fan of all of your work. I've saved all your images under folders with your names. I'm curious which of you painted these here. Is each artist posting his own personal contributions? Are these paintings all group collabs? What's the process?
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Wow these last few are on an entirely different level than the others. The atmosphere they are creating is stunning. Also, the color is fabulous. I'm really excited to see more. Thanks so much for posting it. If the art is any reflection of the game (which the last one was), it will stand alone for sure!
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Here's a couple pieces I did for GW2 that are on the cover of the most recent Imagine FX... The cover is a fold out of the ring architecture piece and the flip side is the spherical building piece. If you have a subscription you'll see the image on the cover a lot better as the news stand version is covered top to bottom in headlines.
the third piece is a straggler from the last GW2 media dump, called "No-Man Band."
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Here's the cover to the art book, and it's quite neat! Daniel (Tinfoil) composed it. It's made up of a ton of cool line art and sketches by a lot of the guys and gals here... maybe they'll post some for ya!!! (Matt, Levi, Jaime, Rich...) The text stuff as well as the entire book layout was done by the super talented Mr. Andrio Abero! The book really does look fantastic and Andrio took the art direction and ran with it keeping the layout both stylish and clean. We'll post a couple of product shots soon as we get a release date!
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Featuring Plantronics' AudioIQ technology for clear calls, their VFrame structure, and an overall design more reminiscent of a piece of jewelry than that of a Bluetooth headset, this thing looks amazing. Even better yet, the little case that comes with it, isn't just a case.
Plantronics have realised that not only do you have two ears but you like to use them; how else could you explain their latest Bluetooth hands-free headset, the Voyager 855, which ostensibly looks like a normal cellphone accessory but confuses things by adding a second earpiece on a detachable cord sprouting from the ear hook. Thanks to good old A2DP wireless stereo and some nifty design you can be enjoying your music and easily segue to an incoming call without juggling handsets or fumbling buttons.
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Your choices for positioning the Bluetooth receiver were a) use the attached [but removable] belt clip or, b) use the included lanyard and hang it around your neck. Pairing the receiver was apparently easy and the headphones offered up superb sound.
Today, Plantronics announced the availability of its third-generation professional headset solution, the CS70N Wireless Headset System.
The CS70N is the perfect combination of premium audio performance, style and comfort. It has been optimized for both traditional and IP telephony phones and provides office professionals with excellent hands-free mobility for increased accessibility and efficiency at work.
Last year Krunker reviewed a jacket that used Eleksen's fabric-keyboard technology to put iPod controls on your sleeve. Now they came to the conclusion that it was a great thing (if you often listen to your iPod while outside), but perhaps Plantronics latest endeavour with Quiksilver and Roxy to put Bluetooth-enabled headsets and headphones into a range of jackets and helmets.
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The new Discovery 665 Bluetooth headset featuring AudioIQ – the industry's first DSP technology to optimize audio levels for you and the person you're talking to. The AudioIQ clarifies incoming speech and reduces outgoing background noise by up to 50%. Another cool features include Plantronics' new QuickPair technology, which simplifies the Bluetooth setup process for consumer by automatically initiating pairing mode (when powered) if no other device history is present. The headset is ready to go once it's paired successfully; otherwise it shuts off after 10 minutes if the paring was unsuccessful.
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Kodak has started to make an entry into the mobile phone market. Earlier this month they announced the Printer Dock Plus, which has been adapted to allow mobile phones to print directly to it. Today, as part of its Mobile Services Kodak has announced that it will offer a premium-content sport images service that will be able to be downloaded and saved as wallpaper on to mobile phones.
Taken by high profile photographers the library includes artistic sport images, illustrating popular sport categories such as football, rugby and tennis, surfing and skateboarding pictures.
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Between shopping for school clothes and squeezing in one last trip to the beach, you might want to make time for a back-to-school eye exam. Bad eyesight can cause problems with reading, writing, and even playing, and children don't always notice changes in their own vision.
"Children come back after picking up their glasses and tell me they did not realize trees had separated, individual leaves," says Colleen Schubach, O.D., an optometrist at the University of Utah's John A. Moran Eye Center. "Most often they are doing better in school and sports."
Vision changes quickly throughout childhood, and as a result it is important to have your child's eyes checked at least every two years. Schubach recommends yearly exams for children who already wear glasses or who have other eye issues.
Don't rely on a school vision screening—they often only test for distance visual acuity, missing common visual skills like hand-eye coordination and the ability to "track," or follow an object with both eyes together, she adds. A trip to a health care provider can offer more in-depth information.
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Behaviors like hyperactivity and distractibility are often labeled as "Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" (ADHD), but undetected and untreated vision problems cause many of the same symptoms.
"Lots of times kids are smart in everything but school until they get their glasses," says Schubach. "They are able to focus better and not be a distraction."
Nearsightedness (close objects are seen clearly, but objects farther away appear blurred) is the most common vision problem. However, farsightedness (distant objects are usually seen clearly, but close ones do not come into proper focus) and astigmatism (blurry vision due to an irregularly shaped cornea) also occur in children.
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I get many calls from people who prepared their own returns with two or more states and they all say something pretty similar, "I did the return, the federal is okay but the state just doesn't seem right." Then I ask, "Do you owe way more than you think you should?" "Yes, how did you know?" I do this for a living. The quick answer is to check to see if you took a "credit for taxes paid to another state", that's usually where the problem is.
Normally, I would have put that at the end of the blog post, but it's such a common problem that I figured it needed to go first. Quick answer and you're done. If you need more information, I'll start from the beginning.
Two states can usually be handled by most of the major tax software companies with no problem. Remember the credit for taxes paid to another state and you should be good. On the other hand, three or more states can send your software into a tizzy. Even with my professional grade software, I still have to compute numbers by hand and manually input them into the program. If you're dealing with three or more states, spend the money on a professional. It's a good idea to ask, "Have you ever done a California return before?" (Or Ohio, or North Carolina, or whatever.) Experience helps.
Back to the two states: There are two situations where you could have two state returns. One would be you moved from one state to another, for example moving from Indianapolis to Chicago for a job. The other would be where you live in one state but work in a different state, for example living in St. Louis, Missouri but working across the river in Alton, Illinois. These two types of situations use different forms.
Moving: When you move from one state to another, you'll be filing your two state returns as a "part-year resident". You'll be completing paperwork that says how long you lived in the state, what your earnings were for the state, etc. You should only be taxed on the income that you earned while you lived and work in the state. If you withheld properly, your taxes should come out normal, no big refunds, nor big balance dues. Most of the time in a case like this, you won't be filing a "credit for taxes paid to another state" because the "part year resident" return will handle you income allocations. (Most of the time—there's 50 states and they all have different rules, so in some cases you'll still be doing the credit for taxes paid to another state.)
Living in one state and working in another: this situation is a little different. You will be a "resident" of the state you live in and a "non-resident" of the state you work in. The state you work in is the state your company is going to withhold taxes from. But the state you live in is going to tax your income too. This is where it's really important to remember the credit for taxes paid to another state, because if you miss taking that credit your tax bill could be enormous. Sometimes, the tax bill is still pretty large even when you've done everything right. For example, here in Missouri our state income tax rate is 6%. Next door in Illinois it's 3% (although it's moving up to 5% this year.) If you live in Missouri and work in Illinois, you're going to get hit with a pretty harsh state tax bill unless you had Missouri taxes withheld or paid estimated taxes.
Here's some other tips that will help you with your multi-state return:
- Always do the federal return first. Don't start the state returns until the federal is done and you feel that it's correct. If you have to go back and make changes to the federal, your state numbers will be off.
- Non-resident income: that's wages that you were paid in a state you didn't live in. It also includes self-employment performed in the state.
- Resident income: the state you live in will tax everything, in addition to your wages, it will tax your pension, interest, investment income, everything.
- Moving expense deduction-always goes to the state that you moved to, not the state that you moved from.
This is a pretty quick and dirty summary of multistate tax returns. If these tips don't solve your problem, do call and get some help. They're not always easy to handle.
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Injured Spouse Relief
Filed under: Family, Uncategorized
So you filed your tax return expecting a nice refund and then nothing comes back. You go to the IRS "Where's my Refund?" website and find a note that says your refund was held because of a prior tax debt—but you don't have one. Turns out your beloved spouse owed back taxes from before you were married. Is there anything you can do?
Yes, there is. You may be able to file for Injured Spouse Relief.
How do you know if you qualify as an injured spouse? First, you must have made and reported tax payments. That means you either had income tax withheld from wages or you made estimated tax payments, or you claimed a refundable tax credit like the Earned Income Tax credit. Second, you must not be legally obligated to pay the past-due amount. For example, you weren't married to your spouse when he or she incurred the debt.
Are there any kinds of debt besides federal income tax that can cause my refund to be taken? Your refund can be taken for state income tax, child or spousal support, or federal student loans.
Note: if you live in a community property state, there are special rules. If you're in one of those states, you'll need to see IRS Pub 55.
If you filed a joint return and you are not responsible for your spouse's debt, you may request your portion of the refund by filing the Injured Spouse Allocation form, Form 8379.
If you haven't filed yet, you can submit form 8379 along with your tax return. If you've already filed and received a federal offset notification, you can submit a form 8379 by itself. You can e-file the 8379 when it's submitted with a return. If you're sending in a paper tax return (okay, you know you should be e-filing whenever possible) then you need to write "INJURED SPOUSE" at the top left corner of your 1040.
If you're filing the 8379 by itself; make sure that you list both spouses' social security numbers in the same order as they appeared on your income tax return. I know this sounds kind of silly but it's really important to put the social security numbers in the right order. You might be thinking that the spouse that's injured should have his/her name on the top, but put your names in the same order as on the tax return.
How Come the Injured Spouse Allocation Form doesn't tell you how much you'll get back? Good question, but it doesn't. The IRS will determine how much of your refund you will receive. Part of the issue is that allocation for couples from the community property states will be different from couples who aren't in community property states.
How long will it take me to get my refund after I file an injured spouse claim? It's going to be slower than a regular refund. If you e-file a form 8379 along with your federal return, it will take about 11 weeks to process. If you mail your return in your refund will take around 14 weeks. If your tax return was already file and you're sending in an Injured Spouse Allocation by itself, expect the IRS to take about 8 weeks to process it.
Am I better off just filing separately? Sometimes, yes. But if you qualify for any of the tax credits that aren't allowed to couples who file separately then the Injured Spouse Allocation is your best choice despite the delay to your refund.
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Why You Don't Want to File Your Taxes on April 15th (Or the 14th for that matter)
Filed under: Last Minute Tax Tips
Does this sound like you? You're pretty sure that you owe taxes this year so you've had no motivation to get them done. You know you have until April 15th so all through February and March you're not even thinking about it. April 1st rolls around and now it's like, "Oh yeah, I've got to get that done." But life gets in the way and the next thing you know, it's April 14th and you're starting to panic. You go online to do your return and realize that you've got some funky tax issue that you can't handle by yourself so you need professional help. You head down to the big box tax store and wait in line with 20 other folks who are in the same boat as you.
Don't do that!
Don't do your taxes on April 14th. (Okay, for 2011 the tax deadline is April 18th, but everybody knows the 15th is tax day even if the IRS likes to mess with us about that.) But that's just another good reason not to file your taxes on the 14th because you have until the 18th this year.
But it's more than that. More mistakes get made on tax returns on April 14th than any other day of the year. This isn't a statistical fact, it's just my observation. I do audit work helping people who have tax trouble. I notice that tax returns done on April 14th have more mistakes. Not necessarily big mistakes, but missed deductions and credits.
If you're going into the big box tax store on April 14, those preparers are busting their behinds trying to make sure that everybody gets taken care of. They're probably exhausted from the long hours already. If you go in at night, most of those folks have already put in eight hours at their day job already. If there's a line of people in the chairs, the office manager is probably cracking the whip, "Let's keep it moving people!" This is not the day that they're going to ask you all of the questions they need to ask to give you the best service possible. They have the built in questions in their software that they're required to ask you, but don't expect anything above and beyond the minimum if you go in during rush time.
If you go into a big box store on April 14th (or 15th or one of those late days) and there's a big line and it looks crazy, the best thing for you to do is just file an extension. If you think you owe, make a best guess as to how much you owe and pay it (keeps you from paying late payment penalties.) An extension is an extension of time to file, it does not give you an extension of time to pay. The penalty for filing late is much higher than the penalty for paying late though so even if you don't pay, you're still better off filing the extension than filing your return late.
If you're at the big box store, they're going to pressure you to file your return now instead of doing the extension. Here's why: they get paid a commission for the tax returns they prepare during the tax season. Most of them get laid off after the last filing date. The few preparers who work during the summer get paid an hourly wage for the off season work and it's not anywhere near the rate they get for their seasonal work. Filing your extension doesn't pay them much if anything so that's why they don't want to do it.
Now if you go someplace and it's not a mad house and you find someone there that makes you feel confident, by all means go ahead and file. Do it and be done with it. Sometimes, while the 14th may be a madhouse, the 15th will be quite calm and a good time to file. Use your good judgment. Don't file a tax return while feeling panic. Fixing a bad return costs more than doing it right the first time.
Rental Income Basics
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Are you a landlord? Are you renting property out to someone? Maybe you were trying to sell a house but the market was too tough so you rented it out to someone. If so, that makes you a landlord and you'll need to report your rental income on your tax return. Here's some basic information you need to know.
First, the form you need to fill out is called a Schedule E. You file it with your regular 1040 form. If you look at the form you'll see columns A, B, and C. That's for people who own more than one property. If you just own one place that you're renting out, put everything in column A. If you own a duplex or a multi unit apartment building, you still put everything in column A. If you own three separate houses that you're renting out, then you use a separate column for each property. If you own 20 properties, you're going to use 7 of these forms. (If you own 20 properties, you're hiring a professional anyway.) The totals will go in the column on the far right.
Do not do this by hand. You're going to be depreciating the property and unless you really know what you're doing you'll mess it up. Tax software will talk you through it and handle the depreciation and everything. Do not buy the cheap software. If you're buying Turbo Tax, get the Premier package. If you're buying H&R Block At Home, you need the Premium Edition. The cheaper packages are not designed to handle rental real estate issues so don't even try.
Now that you've got the proper software and you've got all your information ready, what all do you need to be reporting anyway?
Income: basically, you're going to report the income you receive from rents the year in which you receive it. That means, if someone paid you rent six months in advance, you report all of the rent that you received, even though some of the rent is meant for next year.
Security deposits: security deposits are not rent. You don't report that as income unless you're going to keep it. It's not income when you get it, and it's not an expense when you refund it to your tenant.
Property or services in lieu of rent: that's a little trickier. Let's say that you have a tenant in an apartment that rents for $1,000 a month. You have a tenant who's particularly handy and she painted the house for you in July in exchange for a month of free rent. On your Schedule E, you would record the $1000 as rent received, but you would also record the $1000 as an expense to the property. Generally, whatever price you and your tenant come up with will be considered to be the fair market value of the labor (or property.)
Expenses paid by tenant: If your tenant pays a bill that normally would be considered your bill, then you have to count that as income as well. Say for example that a water main broke and you couldn't be there to meet the plumber and pay him. Your tenant (bless her heart) not only met the plumber but also paid the bill. Because the bill was yours (and not the tenant's) you must also include that amount as income. And of course, you'll be writing off the bill as an expense also.
Men Divorcing: Tax Issues
Filed under: Family, Uncategorized
When you're going through a divorce you have a million things to think about, and probably the last thing you want to spend time on is taxes. But it's important to think about them early, rather than later—here's why.
As an enrolled agent, I usually don't get to talk to men going through a divorce unless they're already a client. Instead, I see is what happens to divorced men at tax time after it's too late for me to fix things. Here's the basic problem: a guy is going through a divorce. He goes to his attorney and hands over his pay stubs so that a fair and reasonable amount can be determined for child support.
The child support is based upon the breadwinner's take home pay. This is where the problem is. Up until the divorce, the man generally has been filing his tax returns as "married filing jointly"; which has a lower tax rate than "single." If he has children there are the exemptions for the kids which reduced his tax. Of course the exemption for the wife will be eliminated with the divorce too. If he owned a home then there were itemized deductions and tax advantages that he'll lose as well. Bottom line: getting a divorce will increase a breadwinner's income taxes.
For example: Let's say John is going through a divorce. He makes $4,000 a month and brings his pay stubs to his attorney to determine the child support payment. Currently, John's withholding is based on 4 exemptions; one for him, two for his kids, and an extra one because of his deductions. In this case, his federal withholding would be $248 per month. But the reality of the situation is that after the divorce, John will be single and filing as single with probably no exemptions on his tax return. He should be withholding $561 per month instead, that's a difference of over $300.
This creates a double whammy. First, the child support is set based upon John's take home pay which right now looks like it's $300 a month more than it really should be – so John winds up paying more in child support then he can really afford. Then, when tax time comes around, John wasn't withholding enough and now he has a tax debt of $3600 that he never expected and can't afford to pay because all of his extra money is going to his child support.
Remember, paying child support does not count as a tax deduction.
So what does John do next? He goes to his attorney and pays the attorney to renegotiate the child support payment. This costs him even more money and ticks off the ex-wife (who wasn't too pleasant to begin with-that's why she's the "ex" wife.) So now he's got a tax debt, attorney fees, an angry ex-wife, and in the meantime, he's racking up another IRS bill because he can't afford to change his withholding if he wants to make those child support payments.
Now a really good attorney recognizes this problem and would have John change his withholding before he ever went to court. But from my end, I've seen too many cases where this wasn't done. So if you're going through a divorce, you need to be the one to make sure that you're protected. Plan out what your tax situation will be as a single man and prepare for it up front. Hire help if you need it, it will be money wisely spent.
Leaving Your Estate to Your Dog
Filed under: Estate Tax
I don't often get requests for what to post in my blog, but I was actually asked to write this one.
You can leave all of your money to your dog when you die. Now I don't recommend it, but it's possible. Maybe you heard about Leona Helmsley, the wealthy hotel maven who left her money to her dog in her will. Yes it's true. And, it's actually more common than you might expect.
But is leaving your money to your dog the right thing for you? Probably not, and here's why. First, a dog doesn't have a social security number. (I'm reading this back to myself and it sounds like an episode of Mr Roger's Neighborhood; "Dogs don't have social security numbers!" But it's true.) Without a social security number, dogs can't file a regular tax return. And you're not getting a social security number for your dog– so don't even try to go there.
If you want to leave your money to your dog, you have to set up a trust. My dog's name is Lady so if I wanted to set up a trust for her I'd probably call it the "Lady Browser Inheritance Trust." Two points about naming the trust: first, it should properly identify the trust. If you just call it "dog trust" there could be dozens of other dog trusts out there and there could be some confusion. It will have an identification number, of course, but a unique name is helpful to the people who will be working on it after you're gone. Second: don't give it a terribly stupid name. Remember that someone is going to have to manage your trust after you're dead. You might have no problem calling your dog "Kitchikookoo-picky-poo-poo" but the person managing the estate might.
You will fund the trust by making it the beneficiary of your estate. For example: Let's say that you name the trust, "Duke Dog Trust." Then, you would make "Duke Dog Trust" the beneficiary of your bank and financial accounts. If you're really serious about doing this, you need to think which accounts should go to your dog versus which accounts go elsewhere. You also need to think through who your secondary beneficiary will be should your dog die before you do.
Setting up the trust and funding it isn't all that hard. Really you just have the legal expense of setting up the trust. What's more difficult is figuring out the care program for your dog. Anyone who's serious about leaving their estate to their dog is really more concerned that their pet is well cared for than anything else. You'll have to include specific care instructions outlining feeding, grooming, exercise, veterinary care, etc. and who is going to be responsible for that care and how it's paid for.
Once again, that brings me back to my original observation—you probably don't want to leave your money to your dog. Why? The taxes! Dogs can't really inherit money, everything goes into the trust. Trusts are usually set up as "pass through" entities. Usually a trust is set up so that people get money from it. For example: Grandparents setting up a trust for a grandchild. The money in the trust earns interest, the interest is "passed through" to the grandchild and the grandchild pays taxes on the interest at his income tax rate. (10, 15, 25, 28 or 33 percent) Income in a trust is taxed at 35%. You don't get a deduction for the expense of caring for the dog. About the only deduction you get is paying your attorney and accountant fees, the rest is all taxable. Leaving your money to humans is much more tax effective. First, if you have less than $5 million dollars, your heirs can inherit the money tax free. And your estate can be settled within about year. Income from your estate can be passed through to your heirs at their personal income tax rate instead of the estate tax rate. People you love will get more of your money instead of it going to lawyers, accountants, and taxes. Leaving money to a trust for a dog is the worst possible tax strategy for your estate. Now if it's the only option available to you, then so be it. But if you can arrange to have your pet cared for after your death and leave your money to a human, that's that best situation from a tax standpoint.
Enter our NCAA Basketball Picks Contest
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The Alternative Minimum Tax for Dummies
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Okay, first, if you're paying Alternative Minimum Tax, you're probably not a dummy. Most people who have to pay the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) are highly paid employees. If you were really a dummy, you wouldn't have a job that makes you pay AMT. That said, AMT taxes are really confusing and can make you feel like an idiot. I'll try to make some sense of it here.
Why do we even have the AMT? Good question! Our tax laws have benefits for certain kinds of income and special deductions and credits for certain expenses. For example, you don't pay tax on the interest from a munincipal bond and you get a tax deduction for paying mortgage interest on a house. If a person plays his cards right, he could drastically reduce his tax by taking advantage of these deductions. Congress created the AMT in 1969 so that high income taxpayers who claim lots of deductions still wind up paying income tax. That was the intention of the law—to make things fair.
Why is AMT such a pain in the behind now? For one thing, the AMT wasn't indexed for inflation. What was considered to be wealthy in 1969 is fairly middle-class in 2011. People who were never originally targeted for the AMT are now subject to AMT taxes. Congress passed legislation last December for an "AMT patch" to adjust for inflation. The patch will be good for 2010 and 2011, but if they don't make some type of permanent adjustment, we'll be dealing with this over and over again starting in 2012.
Who has to pay AMT? Using the IRS definition: You may have to pay the AMT if your taxable income for regular tax purposes plus any adjustments and preference items that apply to you are more than the AMT exemption amount.
How's that in plain English? For most people, if you don't itemize your deductions, you probably won't have to pay AMT. If you do itemize, one big deduction people lose has to do with employee business expenses—like when sales people take a deduction for their mileage, those people get hit with AMT. If you're a salesperson who claims employee business expense deductions on your tax return, you're much more likely to be hit with AMT than a person who doesn't.
Other AMT hot spot issues are your state income taxes that you paid, and mortgage interest expense. With your mortgage, you can deduct the interest on the money that you used to purchase your home or improve your home. But if you refinanced your home to pay off a credit card, that part of your interest payment won't be a deduction for you on the AMT form. Also, if you had enough medical expenses to claim a deduction on your regular return, it will be reduced or eliminated when calculating the AMT.
There are lots of items that affect the AMT, but those are ones that I see regularly when I'm doing tax returns with AMT. There are things like mining costs, intangible drilling costs, and research and experimental costs. I'm sticking with the issues that are fairly common.
If you're using tax software, it will calculate the AMT for you automatically. You'll notice that if your AMT is lower than your regular tax, you don't get your taxes lowered. You only get to see the AMT tax if you owe more. (Doesn't seem quite fair does it?)
If you're still doing your return by hand, or just want to estimate of you will have to pay AMT for next year, you can use the AMT assistant on the IRS website. http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=150703,00.html
Claiming Your Dog on Your Tax Return: Part 2
Filed under: Small Business
The first thing you need to know is that you can't claim your dog as a dependent on your tax return. Never! Don't even think about it. There are no special rules for St. Bernard's or Great Danes. It doesn't matter how much your dog depends on you or that he's a regular member of the family. A dog can never be claimed as a dependent on your U.S. income tax return.
There are two places you can claim a dog on a tax return, as a medical expense, such as a service dog, or as a business expense. This post is about claiming your dog as a business expense. If you're looking for information on dogs as a medical expense, then you need to check my other post http://robergtaxsolutions.com/2011/03/claiming-your-dog-on-your-tax-return-part-1/
If you intend to claim your dog as a business expense, you have to remember the two most important words for business expenses: regular and necessary. Is the dog a regular and necessary expense for your business? For example: my dog likes to help me when I work from my home office. She guards my door and prevents my college age children from coming into the room to bother me (i.e. ask for money.) Her favorite part of her job is barking at the IRS agents whenever I'm on the phone. How she can tell I'm talking to an IRS agent instead of a client amazes me. As you might have guessed, I cannot claim my dog as a business expense. Her service to my company is neither regular, nor necessary. (No matter how much I get a kick out her barking at IRS agents.)
Real working dogs, on the other hand, are a legitimate business expense. Sheep herders, guard dogs, bomb sniffers and rescue dogs all are legitimate working dogs. My dog neighbor used to star in the dog program at Busch Gardens—once again, a legitimate working dog, although now he's retired.
Breeding dogs can be a little trickier. A real dog breeder is a legitimate business. Where it gets a little tricky is that fine line between dog breeding as a hobby versus breeding as a business. For example, if you're treating your dogs as "livestock" they have a depreciation rate of 7 years. If you buy a full grown bitch with the intent to breed her, you may claim the purchase price as a section 179 deduction (that means you can write off the whole purchase price.) If you purchase a puppy—with the intent of breeding it when it grows up, you can't write off the whole cost immediately. The best you'll be able to do is to claim depreciation.
I once was consulted on a "dog breeder" case. The woman had purchased two "designer puppies" for $2,000 each with the purpose of mating them together and selling the puppies. She wanted to write off the entire $4,000. The woman had no experience with breeding dogs, no experience running any type of a business before, and didn't seem to have a clue about raising dogs in general. First, the IRS is clear about not completely writing off "immature" animals so a total write off was out of the question. Additionally, because there was no income and the client just wasn't meeting any of the business qualifications, claiming any kind of deduction would be problematic. I recommended holding off on claiming any deduction. If the business truly panned out, she could depreciate the dogs when (and if) they were put into service. Just because the puppies you buy are expensive, they don't necessarily qualify as a business expense.
Once again, you have to make sure that if you are claiming a dog as a business expense, you really need to make sure you're on the up and up. A dog on your return is going to be a red flag so you start out with the assumption that you will be audited. Document everything. Have receipts for your expenses, and proof that your dog is a necessary and regular expense for your business. Dot your i's and cross your t's and you'll be okay.
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Claiming Your Dog on Your Tax Return: Part 1
Filed under: Tax Deductions
The first thing you need to know is that you can't claim your dog as a dependent on your tax return. Never! Don't even think about it. There are no special rules for St. Bernard's or Great Danes. It doesn't matter how much your dog depends on you or that he's a regular member of the family. A dog can never be claimed as a dependent on your U.S. income tax return.
There are only two places where you could claim a dog on your tax return; the first is as a medical expense and the second is as a business expense. Most importantly, it has to be a legitimate expense. Dog expenses claimed on a tax return are likely to get audited. You'll want plenty of documentation.
Let's look at medical expenses today. I'll post about dogs as a business expense later this week. According to the IRS medical expense publication: You can include in medical expenses the costs of buying, training, and maintain a guide dog or other service animal to assist a visually-impaired or hearing impaired person, or a person with other physical disabilities.
If you have a seeing eye dog or a hearing assist dog, then you've got an easily proved legitimate expense. Note that the IRS definition discusses "physical" disabilities, mental disabilities are conspicuously absent from this category.
If your service dog is meant to help with a mental disability, you may be able to claim the animal under "impairment-related work expenses." This might actually work out to be an even better deduction than as a medical expense, if you qualify.
In order to be considered as disabled to claim an impairment-related work expense, you must have a physical or mental disability that functionally limits your being employed, or a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of your major life activities such as performing manual tasks, walking, speaking, breathing, learning, or working.
I cannot stress enough the importance of legitimacy here. You can't just go online and purchase a "service dog" vest for your pooch and take him to work with you. The service your dog provides must be necessary for you to do your work in a satisfactory manner.
Here's a question to ask yourself—if you were to be audited for your dog expense, could you obtain written letters from your doctor and your employer that your dog is necessary for you to work? This is important. I assisted an audit once where the man had claimed his dog as a medical expense. The auditor was willing to allow the expense if the man obtained a letter from his psychiatrist that yes, the dog was part of the man's treatment. Although the psychiatrist admitted that he had recommended that the man get a dog, he would not issue a letter stating the dog was part of the man's treatment and the case was lost. If you intend to claim a dog as a medical expense (other than a seeing eye or hearing assist dog), it is absolutely essential that you have the support of your doctor.


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...Or maybe that should be "moron, gardening...":rolleyes:
In any case, now that spring is here, we've pulled out most of what was left of the winter garden and started seeds for the summer. Rather encouragingly, they are doing quite well. Previously, most of my gardening experience had been growing from started plants, so growing a wide variety of vegetables from seed is interesting.
Happily, the San Marzanos are doing exceptionally well. Where the other varieties of tomato have a few sprouts, the SMs have sent up 30something plants, which seem quite healthy so far. We will definitely be sharing them with our gardening friends. I guess they don't call Sacramento "the Big Tomato" for nothing! :cool:
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Moron gardening, here, here! That definitely applies to me!
I have a big flat of San Marzano seedlings going, plus about four other heirloom varieties, and a bunch of peppers, too. I'm planning other stuff too, but it's still fairly early here in MN. We generally don't put anything other than lettuces in the ground until May.
I'm hoping to have a big enough tomato crop to get me through the year and avoid having to buy ANY canned stuff. We'll see. This is my first season gardening at this home so I've already worked my butt off just putting in beds and trying to get our ridiculously hard, heavy clay soil amended to the point that it might actually grow something besides weeds.
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Here in the tropics we grow vegetables in our winter. I have just planted my lettuce and tomatoes.
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Calling for progress updates here...
My tomato crop is looking great! Huge, happy plants with lots of fruit set. I ended up with about two and a half 4'x6' beds of tomato plants. One full bed is San Marzanos, so about 24 plants and they're looking the best of all of the varieties I planted. I'm excited to start seeing red!
Pepper plants and green beans are starting to set fruit, the Egyptian "walking onions" (a perennial) are going crazy and the cucurbits are trying to take over everything. It's been a pretty easy gardening year with good regular rains.
The deer are my biggest concern. They are so tame they actually come TOWARDS people instead of running away. They got to my two apple tree saplings but so far the fence is working to keep them out of the veg. Fingers crossed it stays that way.
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Something's been eating the tops off my fennel and it also ate my alpine strawberries almost to the ground. I don't think it's the groundhog of doom, but I suspect it might be a deer. NOT cool.
On the other hand, I picked my first eggplant today, the first of the yellow pole beans, and three cherry tomatoes!
It's been soo dry here I am having to use the soaker hoses a lot more this year. Every single time I use them I have to go around and tighten up the connections, too. Why can't the stupid things just stay tight?!
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Way to go splatg!
I have lots of tomatoes but not GREAT tomatoes so I am jealoous! I have to pick them to early to beat the critters.
And I lost my strawberries in the drought last year, Elizbeth so I am jealous of that too.
OTOH, I picked over 400 peaches. We gave away about 200 and froze about 120 and made peach jam and I am going to have to make a peach pizza! So life isn't ALL bad!
Here in Texas it is just about time to dig up the garden and begin for fall.
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I suppose it has been a while since I posted...
The garden is coming pretty well. It's such a small space that we don't have room for too much, so we ended up giving away many of those San Marzano seedlings we sprouted; we kept a few, though, and they are about to start producing in a big way. We had such a long cool spring here that they got a slow start, but now that temperatures have come up they are exploding. They only real tomatoes yet have been the early girls, but the rest are catching up quick. Our eggplant, squash, cucumber and peppers are also coming along nicely. We got our hops going, too... they won't produce too much this year, but next year we expect that a good many batches of homebrew will be made with our own hops.
We've also planted a row of bamboo along the outside of the back fence to for a privacy screen; it will take a year or two before it really fills in, but it will make a huge difference in the quality of our lives. Our neighbors across the alley are fine people, but it's hard to relax with that kind of overlook. We put in three types: the thin-stalked, broad leafed arrow bamboo, and the larger, fine-leafed black and leopard bamboo. It should be pretty and decorative when it fills out. And before anyone reminds me, yes, we know it's invasive as all hell... that's why we took the precaution of installing a 2-foot deep rhizome barrier of 60-mil polyethylene, overlapped and through-bolted with a steel clamp at the join, to prevent it's spread. Bamboo rhizomes only really travel within the first 8 inches of soil, so they will try to go over the top rather than down the 2 feet and back up; then we'll be able to see them and cut them off before they spread. That's the theory, anyway... but from what I've read, it works pretty well when, as we did, you completely encircle the area before planting.
I wish we had room for that kind of garden, Splatgirl! Our beds are fairly crowded with with 8 tomato vines and a half dozen squashes. Ah, well... the tradeoff for the convenience of city life I guess...
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Please forgive me for the post that I have now removed, the one where I am overly tragic in public. I appreciate every sweet comment and all the kind words but I should not burden others with my grief.
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- My husband and I , with our dog, Tate, moved to Buenos Aires, 8 years ago. Life has never been the same since ~ Back in the USA ... life is still not the same !
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Please forgive me for the post that I have now removed, the one where I am overly tragic in public. I appreciate every sweet comment and all the kind words but I should not burden others with my grief.
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- Mandy_Fish said...
I must have missed the post but I don't think we burden anyone with our grief. It is human to grieve and we should all grieve together.
- July 13, 2011 at 3:46 PM
- fourdinners said...
Never apologise babe.....especially when a post comes from the heart and is made of love for who and what you love.
These are the 'thoughts' of Chairman Dinners...he doesn't have many so treat them gently eh?
4D x
- July 13, 2011 at 4:01 PM
- aBroad said...
Thank you Mandy_Fish..
4D .. I always treat your thoughts kindly .. besitos.
- July 13, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- Just Words On A Page said...
never ever apologize for feeling sad. We love you to pieces and you can lean on us any time.
- July 13, 2011 at 7:29 PM
- P.K said...
I also missed the post. It is sometimes necessary to unburden emotions, and that is why we are here to give support. Take care.
- July 13, 2011 at 8:20 PM
I was just wondering about Pup and checked in to your blog. You are all on my mind with love in my heart as you remain on my mind.
- July 13, 2011 at 10:13 PM
I have been out of touch - and I do not know what you were grieving. I assume that it was a set-back with Pup's health ? or something else ?
But I wish you all well - physically and spiritually.
- July 14, 2011 at 12:36 PM
Nothing is so sad that it shouldn't be shared. Best wishes to you and Pup for strength and health. MtV
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Ray Kurzweil's 'Blio' e-reader: Is it really all that?
June 21, 2010 | 9:15 am
By Chris Meadows
Ashlee Vance at the New York Times "Bits" technology blog has a brief article about Ray Kurzweil's new "Blio" e-book system. It apparently will consist of downloadable software for most desktop and handheld devices, that will enable them to read e-books sold through Kurzweil's Blio store.
Mr. Kurzweil argued that the existing e-readers and tablets had limitations in the text formats they support and the way they handle the original images and layouts in printed texts. Blio preserves the original formatting, making it particularly attractive to publishers of things like cookbooks, how-to guides, schoolbooks, travel guides and children's books.
"The publishers will not give things with complex formats to these e-reader makers," Mr. Kurzweil said. "They destroy the format."
The article notes Kurzweil has a long history of working with e-book technology, including creating the first scanning text-to-speech systems for the blind. It is probably not an exaggeration to say that he has come out with so many innovations that he is regarded as something of a technology visionary.
The Blio website presents Blio as the greatest thing since sliced bread, talking about staying "true to the book's original form", allowing books to be read aloud, scaling well to small screens, and so on. The FAQ says that "For 2010, Blio will run on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile and iPhone operating systems," and it will support XPS, PDF, and EPUB formats.
Still, I'm a little skeptical. There are lots of competing e-book reader systems that can be read on a variety of devices. Just because Kurzweil has made it big in other technology fields doesn't mean that he will necessarily be successful in this one—if he wants Blio to be able to compete, it had really better be something special.
Related: Previous TeleRead coverage of Blio.
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More importantly, Kurzweil needs to be straightforward as to the timing of availability. Blio was supposed to be out in January of this year, then February. Then it was postponed to April, supposedly to be introduced the week following the availability of the iPad to users. It is now very nearly the end of June. The reader continues to be vaporware, even as announcements are made about publishers signing agreements to include Blio. Why is no one holding Kurzweil's toes to the flame regarding a firm availability date? Why so many postponements?
Looks like Quark is part of KNFB's joint e-publishing venture. QuarkXPress will be used to generate XPS files for Blio (XPS is Microsoft's PDF alternative, and it supports multimedia extensions such as embedded video).
I would hazard a guess that support for interactive fixed layout material with embedded multimedia will be Blio's main business focus, or at least its unique selling point. This would set is apart from reading devices that only support reflowable text and basic PDF layout.
From a business perspective, typesetting is still very much relevant in the market place, especially for visually-rich publications like magazines.
I just wonder how good/bad the Blio reading experience will be…I am a bit concerned about performance issues, like startup times and general memory bloat (Blio is a Microsoft-only WPF application that runs on .NET).
See the announcement below:
Jill, no need to use such an accusatory tone about Kurzweil & Blio. Being late is a normal & sometimes necessary part of product development. I say, let him work on it until he gets it right.
Save your ire instead for journalists eager to write about vaporware before there is anything to see. Yes, even at Teleread, people suffer from that affliction
I am not sure why we need a new ebook software platform, though of course I'd like to see Blio's annotation functionality to become a standard feature.
Having an XPS feature wouldn't be a tragedy, especially if it continues to support PDF and epub. Basically that would allow people with copies of MS Office to publish ebooks easily. That can only be good. (I will still rely on Calibre though).
Basically I am waiting for a epub reader that can act as a standard and this looks like the best candidate. Layout control (read real CSS support) is critical for non-fiction, if Blio lives up to its promise this should be a treat.
However, the most persuasive aspect is that from the premium PC/tablet version, less elaborate software versions for small devices strongly suggest a rational discarding of CSS features, which if achieved should produce predictable layout degradation — which again is essential for designing many forms of non-fiction works.
The fact that the text-to-speech sounds way superior, especially as it promises speed control and text tracking for enhanced speed reading — well that should be standard.
That kiddies books and magazines follow some other format seems a good compromise until epub fully matures (real CSS 3).
What actually happens is speculative — but at least we have the promise of what, in my books, we should expect by way of a new standard for software.
Whether Blio makes it in time or not, you gotta give the team credit for their multi-device approach. Delivering to online platforms these days is a complex matter with so many OSs, screen sizes and functionality layers to look out for.
At Zmags we have a similar approach and we just released a mobile viewer to address the multi-device approach. On top of 98% of all desktop browsers the new mobile enhancement support app. 80% of the mobile data traffic.
The key thing in order to stay competitive as an ePublishing software provider is to build software that supports content creators in expanding reach.
Well, now we know how their business model will run:
Looks like they're going to license it as an iBooks alternative to hardware vendors. Toshiba (they of the dual-LCD netbook) are setting up *their* ebookstore, Tobshiba Book Place, based on Blio.
Promo video is up and viewable.
It is clearly luddite-friendly. 😉
A little too faux paper for my tastes but if you can ditch the training wheels of flipping 3d pages for a content-centric display it might be useful. At a minimum it should give the Amazon and the ePub backers a kick in the pants to get them looking at the need to *cleanly* support rich content.
Also, their iPhone/iPad app has been spoted in the wild:
Looking quite real.
Still questionable but quite real.
There's an interview with Blio's Sr. Product Marketing Manager here:
The same site has a load of information on Blio and Quark, and we shouldn't forget about the partnership between Quark and K-NFB on the one side and Baker & Taylor on the other. Baker & Taylor are worldwide the largest book distributors.
As always the end product will need to live up to its promises (and no internal flaws that require you to "hold" it a certain way to make-up for design issues–aka new iPhone (no slam intended).
When users are limited by specific and sometimes rigid platforms or proprietary equipment unless these are so ubiquitous as to not be an issue (a current web browser, HDTV, digital radio) adoption and integration drags and lags. Current eBook readers with proprietary designs like the Kindle and similar single-purpose hardware devices are great for single-purpose clear font/e-ink books like novels. These fall very short of the *expectations* the multimedia public wants and needs.
The iPad is a good example of many plans for rapid adoption of this device–in spite of being brand new, in a 1.0 version cycle because it delivers what the multimedia public has grown accustomed to with the web, multimedia & multi-format data and functionality given by PDAs and iPhone-like hand held devices.
It is moving so quickly for adoption (such as universities setting up or currently in trials as a means to augment or replace their ink and paper books as well as an education resource medium). Not because of the current number of units sold so far but the paradigm shift that they realize is unstoppable.
It is one of the few places that true divergence and convergence are happening almost at once.
In 1993 my experience with the Internet in a UNIX menu and textual environment was as dry and uninviting as eating sand. When Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark went on to develop and market an enhanced version of NCSA Mosaic and begin by giving the software away free it did two things: It gave the PC & Television viewing public something they were already used to full-color graphic media and it was exceptionally easy to adopt and use with their current PCs (with a modem and ISP) because it was free. It also was not fixed-formatted and it didn't take long before not only easily readable text and font, but it allowed for pictures even action…the hyper-link! Who knew where that link might take you? (unless, it was a server error 404!). And 10 years of Microsoft Windows, Graphical Print and Media had already conditioned the public for the next step or shift.
(Of course, one of the better opportunist of this model was Bill Gates was pretty smart when he released as graphical GUI to get around that DOS-based PC with a Free copy of Windows 3.0 for this new start-up company Micro Soft).
Is giving away free software that fits most all platforms the answer for Blio? We'll see…but it's always first-mover's advantage. It's Blio's ball to score or drop but *someone* will take this ball forward.


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GPS Coordinates: N13.80602 E100.61698
Phone: 02-790-3999 website: http://www.aphonda.co.th/hondabigwing/
If anything is a barometer to the way Thai motorcycling is trending then Honda Thailands remarkable flagship bike store is the nexus where boutique meets biking.
Design is to the fore where one would almost expect Armani clothing to be on sale rather than motorcycles.
But the placement of their iconic oval pistoned NR shows that Honda is not doing this on a whim.
I remember riding up to the NEC in blizzard to see this when it was launched in 1992.
Inside there is certainly space for adding further models to Hondas rather limited big bike offering.
Lurking at the back is Moby the big white Goldwing
with more cockpit buttons than an Airbus
*Note: Red Baron are selling 2012 Glodwings [sic] for 1,280,000THB
In a corner hidden from sight is the CRF250R 310,000THB
In addition to HJC helmets Honda Clothing Accessories have not been overlooked
But the sizes are definitely for the svelte Thai market.
SWMBO was definitely attracted to X-Tourer
the NC700X 451,000THB in black with boxes and bars looked the business,
but at 230kgs weighs almost as much as my Bavarian barge.
Its bstard scooter brother the Integra 487,000THB
weighs in at 238kgs
Almost making a mockery with Hondas origins, this mint Model A
and venerable Cub
The beast , CX650 Turbo
the back office business department
Downstairs a good coffee shop,
Gloria Jeans, awaits those in need of refreshment even for Ducati piloti
but with what some may consider a modest biker breakfast on offer
This will be a great venue for Honda to start and finish rides from but the solitary [one!] loo,
will mean delayed or anguished departures for many
Signage promising of services to come
We were told the test fleet was already out at another location in Bangkok.
Allegedly the full range was available to test ride but would suggest you call to confirm.
Hondas Pricing & Payment plans.
Those with an interest in this extraordinary building's architecture can read more here.
A 100 metres or so before Honda along Praditmanutham Road is a collection of three shops.
Dianese ph: 02 539 4102
Stadium Accessories ph: 02-539-4011
with a neighbouring Nankai & Arai helmet shop no details yet
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Zimbabwe is ready to welcome two additional members of the Sadc technical team deployed to boost President Jacob Zuma's facilitation. The two will be seized with Jomic matters.
President Zuma's backroom facilitation team was in Harare on Wednesday and met separately with negotiators to parties in the Inclusive Government.
Zanu-PF negotiator and Justice and Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said the Zuma team wanted to know when the technical team could be introduced to Jomic.
"They wanted us to arrange when the two additional members of the facilitation team could be introduced to the full Jomic," he said.
"We agreed that when they are ready they can come. It is not a problem from our side."
Minister Chinamasa said the team that comprises Ambassador David Katye from Tanzania and Mrs Colly Muunyu, a diplomat from Zambia was going to work with the facilitation team and not Jomic.
"They will be part of the facilitation team working with Jomic. They won't be members of Jomic, they will not sit in the Jomic meetings the same way the facilitation team doesn't sit in the Jomic meetings. If they have any concerns they will be able to talk with the Jomic co-chairpersons," said Minister Chinamasa.
He said the facilitation team composed of Mac Maharaj and Charles Ngcakula also wanted to be updated on the constitution making process.
Minister Chinamasa said together with Cde Nicholas Goche they updated president Zuma's team of the process up to the principals' last meeting on Monday. He said they informed the team about the leaner committee that was approved by the principals.
The team also met negotiators of the MDC-T, Ministers Tendai Biti (Finance) and Elton Mangoma (Energy and Power Development) before meeting MDC negotiator and Regional Integration and International Co-operation Minister Priscilla Misihairabwi Mushonga.
MDC leader Professor Welshman Ncube said Ms Misihairabwi told him that the team wanted to know how far the Sadc Maputo resolutions with regards to the constitution making process had been addressed.
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