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LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- For way more than 40 years, the Halasites were adrift in an offensive desert.
And now that Jay Cutler has led them to Mount Trestman and he's received the coach's commandments ("Thou Shalt Read Your Keys Progressively"), now that he's finally getting it, people want to drop Cutler in a reed basket and ship him out on Lake Michigan.
The hot new sports religion in Chicago is Trestmanity, the belief that One Coach can make any quarterback perfect.
With some help, of course. The Bears have the makings of a stout offensive line, they have the big receivers, the pass-catching tight end, the coaches and the quarterback-friendly game plan. All the things Cutler lacked when he was traded here.
So with all that help, anyone can do this, right?
"There are some amazing weapons, but by no means can you throw any quarterback in the mix and expect the same results that Josh is producing," third-string quarterback Jordan Palmer said.
Well, why not? He's Josh McCown, right? The ultimate replacement-level quarterback, a 34-year-old journeyman who was coaching high school football a few years ago. In six quarters and one series of football, McCown has looked as good as Cutler in running Marc Trestman's offense. Maybe not as flashy, but just as efficient.
"Josh is real special," receiver Earl Bennett said. "Being here, we've seen the importance of a backup quarterback and having a guy like Josh."
The Bears are blessed with two good quarterbacks and the presumptive best receiving duo in the league in Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffery. With Trestman calling the plays, the Bears finally have the offense you've always wanted. The offense you thought they could be when they traded for Cutler -- a well-balanced, professional offense.
So why would you want to get rid of Cutler? Is it Chicago's uneasy relationship with success? I'd guess it's the impatience of waiting for Cutler's career to finally blossom. And now that it has, Cutler is injured.
I'm no Cutler defender, but I can't see the sense in making it harder on your team by letting go of Cutler.
If I'm general manager Phil Emery, I work hard to extend his contract for four years in the offseason. It won't be for Peyton Manning money, but Cutler will be expensive. That's life in the big leagues. And I try to keep McCown as insurance policy.
Why mess with what works? There is no question that this is Trestman's team, not Cutler's. But yes, Cutler is his quarterback and he's bought in, so there's little to no friction.
"It's silly," Palmer said. "Jay is unique. I think when you look for franchise quarterbacks, you look for a unique skill set. He definitely has that."
While I believe Trestman made a mistake not pulling Cutler early in the second half Sunday against the Lions, I'll take a mistake born out of trust rather than one out of fear.
While Cutler rehabs his ankle and rests that torn groin, the job of savior falls upon McCown's shoulders this Sunday against Baltimore.
Except it really doesn't. That's the beauty of the system. The quarterback doesn't have to lead by himself.
McCown, one of the more insightful athletes to ever hold a news conference at Halas Hall, accidentally explained the sins of the past here, by noting the success of Trestman's passing game: It's good on purpose.
"A team that is intentional about being good in the passing game and being detailed in the passing game, that's a quarterback-friendly offense to me," McCown said. "A team that's not going to put the attention on that isn't necessarily not quarterback-friendly, it just puts more on the quarterback to be successful."
That's just it. The Bears finally have a potent offense full of athletic, complementary players. Cutler doesn't have to do it all and a backup like McCown has enough weapons that he doesn't have to feel extra pressure coming off the bench.
"There's an ease when you get in the huddle and you look around and see those guys," McCown said. "Certainly one of the more talented groups of guys in the league. I think from that point, they make everybody's job easier, including each other's, because of the coverages they command. You don't have to go out of the system to make a play."
It helps to have a line that keeps you upright, too. Offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer and assistant offensive line coach Pat Meyer have crafted an offensive line that gives quarterbacks time to work.
The symbiotic relationship going on at Halas Hall has the players almost giddy. As one of three offensive starters who have predated and lived through the Cutler era, Bennett has seen what works and what doesn't work.
"I've learned, actually, a lot," Bennett said. "What makes an offense really good is the attention to detail, the minor things. Because at the end of the day it all comes down to fundamentals. Pretty much, if you're doing your job, being where you're supposed to be, and taking care of what you have to do, and just know that you've got the support of the other guys doing the same thing."
While players support each other, they get the same support from the coaches. Even as the Bears teeter on the edge of playoff viability, there is a confidence when you talk to offensive players now.
"I feel like there is an opportunity to be successful in every game," McCown said of the game plan. "And you don't have to step outside the system and press and feel like I need to make this play at this time. If you drop back, and it's not there, you can check down or throw the ball away. That comes from the play calling and the structure of the system."
With every McCown appearance, there are fewer Trestman apostates. But his success, which is now expected, doesn't prove Cutler's fallibility.
All it shows is that the Bears' offense finally works.
As a former Bears coach once said, the pieces are in place. Except this time it's actually true.


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I'm thinking that this question might be more applicable to asking what is having a problem on my PC, not the Blu-ray player, but perhaps someone will be familiar with this problem and be able to help out. I have "Sharing with my Homegroup" turned on in the music, video, and pictures on my Windows 7 PC. I have accessed this content on my Blu-ray player via my wireless network. However, occasionally, when I attempt to access these files on my PC from the player, it will not be able to make a connection. I check the PC shares and they are still intact, but it will not connect. If I restart the PC, the connection can then be made.
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The Absolute Yamaha Piano really exploit the VST plug-in concept by adding specific and innovative possibilities to a very hi-quality sound bank. With its standalone version you can play, learn and record piano midi files to WAV.
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The Absolute Piano really exploit the Virtual Piano concept by adding specific and innovative possibilities. With its filters you can sculpt the piano timber and produce a large number a piano sounds from the same base. Everything is specifically. ...
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Lawmakers Approve Pay Raise By Bente Birkeland • May 6, 2015 clipart A bill to raise the salaries of state lawmakers and other elected officials quietly made its way through the state house in the final days of the legislative session. It passed on the last day of the session clearing the House with the minimum number of required votes. It had virtually no debate in either chamber. "People in my district, whenever I tell them how much we make as lawmakers up here, are astounded. They are kind of appalled," said Senator Kevin Grantham (R-Canon City). He voted for the measure in the Senate where it passed with a wider margin. Felony DUI Bill Heads to the Governor By Bente Birkeland • May 6, 2015 file Colorado will soon have a felony DUI law on the books. On the final day of the legislative session, the Senate passed House Bill 1043 [.pdf] to create a felony DUI for habitual drunk driving offenders. It passed the Senate 34-1. 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what kind of programs you use to do them ?
Where did you get that model?
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Wow! I love how you make him look exactly like he does in the short animations in the games! It looks so awesome!
are you gonna do more CG work with other characters? or maybe Werehog Sonic??
Dude, I had seen these renders on a topic of someone saying how people like you are making better renders than what SEGA uses sometimes. But glad you have deviantart. This particular one.. is SO . MUCH . WIN!!! The model is perfect, I love the glow, the character pose is awesome. I can go on xD keep up the amazing job!
Tooooo awesomeee for words! I add it directly to my favorites!
My Favorite part of this picture is not only sonic's position, But The flame effect around him Great job!
This is AMAZING! This must have taken you FOREVER to do!!!
That is what I call an epic render!
Sonic's backspine is clipping into his head....
xD Just noticed that the spine on his back is cutting through his head...
super sonic is like an entirely different person way beyong sonic. HOW did you make that super glow around his body?
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Truly awesome.
Really like the hair.
Really like the hair.
Holy S***.... That's some amazing rendering work! Great pose to boot. Lovin' your stuff mate!
Except it looks nothing like him
WOW!! This is awesome!!!
I like the Supersonic in the old Sonic the Hedgehog 2 form 1991!
He was awesome in that game!
He was awesome in that game!
Freaking awesome! Effects are great. This is so smooth and full of energy! Keep it up
Wow~ Your renders are just amazing! <3
Whoo man, that is AWESOME! When i first looked it almost appeared like it was drawn. It's a very epic render, I like his pose look and expression. Classic Sonic really. U also looked at more of your other renders, and I'm awestruck. They look so amazing, especially the ones involving different environments and characters. And I REALLY love your "Sonic Vs. Metal" render, it looked absolutely astounding. So yeah, outstanding.
Nice pic!
Your art is amazing
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Sonic is not just ruling. He's the fucking master here !
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Lord Vetinari, on 12 January 2013 - 04:48 PM, said:
While The Armed Might is busy bringing the Democracy elsewhere, Rusty Yaroslav is enough to send the visual message: we can afford to have her sunk if that will cause further trouble.
I have no illusions about Russian motives for supporting Assad. They are not there to protect anyone but their interests, from anchoring in Mediterranean to selling insane amount of weapons.
I wish they evacuated him by now, even if it takes dragging him by his ears off his throne. (I can so vividly imagine that.) Because he made too much damage, people will not forget their dead. Maybe he had a chance before, to rig elections in less distasteful way (one and only presidential candidate?!), but now it's too late for anything else but letting people consolidate new government and how Islamic it will be should have been carefully pondered about years ago, while he was only imprisoning and torturing the possible opposition, not yet bombing whole towns.
Pressure works, but if there's no valve to let the accumulated steam out, the pressure cooker explodes.
It keeps happening, yet the pressure cookers remain favourite part of political kitchens. Because it's just vapour, right? Stands no chance against our steel, right? *boom* wrong.
I hope FSA is talking with Russians away from media attention and I certainly won't blame them if they choose to make some arrangement since no one else is willing to touch Russian spot in Middle East. That too is quite understandable.
I only have no idea what would Russian top figures say to their, Russian population that keeps hearing about bloodthirsty terrorists that are the same as Chechens and so on and on.
"We made a little pact with people who we blackened as terrorists up to yesterday because upon closer look we came to conclusion they are, as from this morning, in fact, freedom fighters."
And to be morbidly honest, they wouldn't be the first to promote freedom fighter into terrorist and vice versa.
I wish it was possible for Syrians to get rid of psycho on their own, I also quite frankly wish they turn to the West, since that's what I wish for my own part of the world, not to re-elaborate why, but pragmatic people are more likely to survive. And first you have to stay alive in order to change sides later
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I am a little confused with the conflicting statements. Most hashis are hypothyroid.
Do any of you take selenium supplements and do you find it helps? Did you talk to your dr about it first?
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I eat 4 Brazil nuts daily and I find that it gives me more energy.
Lilyth Ophelia born July 2013
Baby Athena due April 2016
"Two and through, I always say. I said that once."
Emily - are you positive for both Hashi's and Graves'?
-Amie, mom to my beautiful Jadon (1/05), my Chinese charmer Eli (5/06,) and my Congolese cuties Micah (3/07) and Asher (8/10)
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I started eating 2-3 brazil nuts/day, but then decided to take an actual supplement to make sure I am getting the same thing every day!!
Age 31,Never bfp,Hashi's,AMH (.5)/ DOR,IV endo excised,High cytokines,Antagonist/lupron(with SIRM) and EPP(Braverman) both higher stim havent worked.
Graves: Hmm was that doctor a GP or an endo? Either way...yes, you're correct that once you have graves you have it. How did this doctor determine you "don't have graves anymore" if he wouldn't even test for antibodies...? (Imagine the improvements in medical care if doctors were forced to take communications courses?? )
Selenium: Selenium enzymes are the core to the process of converting T4 into T3 (the "active" thyroid hormone). There IS evidence to suggest that when you have a deficiency of both selenium and iodine at the same time that it can cause further hypothyroid. It's mentioned often that iodine deficiency is unlikely in North America as our soil isn't that depeleted, but I think that fails to take into account areas where it IS depeleted, and also the switch in NA diets to fewer vegetables and more processed foods. (I swear this is a factor in going gluten-free; that people eat more veggies and therefore get more iodine! Sorry, I digress so easily...)
The speculation is that iodine deficiency leads to low T4 levels. Appropriate selenium levels keep your T3 in balance - helping to create more, but also helping to break it down further (take away 1 more iodine) into another inactive form. So, if you have iodine deficiency and lower T4, and your body is still breaking down your existing T3 but is unable to make enough (because of the low T4)....voila, increasing selenium leads to further hypo. There's a lot of speculation and guesswork there, but it does appear to hold true.
This is easily monitored though, through proper free T3 and free T4 testing. You could also get a blood test for iodine levels if you're really hesitant.
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It started when the British Army came to check over the weapons of the colonists. The night they heard the proclamation Paul Revere rode to all the towns within 20 miles of the place the British were going to come and warned them. The British traveled by water during the night. Paul Revere never finished his ride but one of his accompaniments finished for him. In the north tower of Boston there were two lanterns lighted to warn everybody of the raid. They did not call out the British are coming they used the words regular instead because they considered themselves British also.
The next morning when the British attacked they met a fight by a few minutemen and killed a few of them. They continued on to a small bridge, and at the bridge stopped. There Thomas Gage had ordered troops to meet the British. They were up on a hillside overlooking the bridge. When the saw the fire on the ammunitions they thought it was their houses burning and started the battle.
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WordPerfect 8 for Linux is an evolutionary improvement over last year's WordPerfect 7 port to Linux, and so, appropriately, this review is merely a follow-up to my review of WP7 ("Word Perfect 7 for Linux", April 1998).
To summarize that review, I'd found WordPerfect 7 to be a very good port of a solid product. It had all the features I needed, plus many features I didn't, which are necessary for buzzword compliance. It fit handily into what was then a very low-end machine: a Pentium 120 laptop with 16MB of memory and 1GB of disk space, only 600MB of which were allotted to Linux.
My problems with it at the time were few. It was a bit on the slow side, particularly under Xfree86; I found I had to turn off many of the dynamic features, like Spell-as-you-go and the application bar at the bottom of the window. Under AcceleratedX, performance was a bit better, but I still had to turn off the dynamic spell-checking to get good speed. I also found the style system overly complicated, and some crashes in the help system and the HTML conversion code.
How does this next version stack up? Is it worth the download time or the $50US for the shrink-wrapped version? I'd like to be able to say, "Yes, definitely!" Instead, I find myself thinking, "It depends."
If you're already perfectly happy with WordPerfect 7, in that you're not experiencing any problems and not missing any particular feature, you may simply not need this upgrade. I know that's a bit heretical in the modern software industry, but it's true. Most of the features already in place have had only minor improvements.
Some nice new features are present for novices, including an extensive guide system called "PerfectExpert". Grammar-as-you-go is new and useful if you like grammar checkers (I actually do).
The speed is certainly improved. When I was first given access to early betas, I still had the same low-end configuration and found that not only could I leave Spell-as-you-go on, but I could also leave the new Grammar-as-you-go active. The newer version keeps up just fine with my typing. The final release seems to be equally snappy, which made me very happy.
Several features are available only in the purchased version, not in the download. Notably, the ExpressDocs template feature is not available in the download. The number of fonts available is extremely limited. The "Insert->Shape" menu works, but, "Insert->Graphics->Draw A Picture" does not; so you can insert shapes "in-line", but not a complete picture unless you draw it with a different program. Also, the ability to create and insert charts and graphs is disabled.
One of my biggest complaints from WordPerfect 7 remains a complaint with its successor; indeed, it appears that no work whatsoever has been done to improve it. The style-sheet system is still incredibly complex—almost too complex to be useful. It is difficult to define styles that are part of a library of styles rather than part of a specific document, and defining individual styles is a cryptic process.
The interaction of printers and fonts is also a bit strange. In most word processors, the list of fonts available does not reflect the printer selection; instead, fonts are translated or substituted at the print-driver level. In WordPerfect, the list of available fonts is a direct reflection of the way the currently selected printer is set up, and setting up a printer is a less-than-obvious process. This is as much a flaw in UNIX, which has no nice, neat, centralized print model, as it is in WordPerfect.
If you need or want a good commercial word processor for Linux, WordPerfect 8 is definitely a good value. It works, and it works well. It's also inexpensive, which is always good.
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The fifth season of reality show 'India's Got Talent 5' will showcase acrobatics, aquatics, circus and even fire acts besides the usual talent displays and filmmaker Karan Johar says that it won't affect the minds of children of impressionable age as it will come with a disclaimer.
Showing such acts on prime time can impact children in a negative way, but Karan, one of the judges on the show, believes that there are even more detrimental things beamed on TV, which come without any disclaimer.
"Have you seen other shows on prime time that come without a disclaimer? There are some shows on prime time that are even more detrimental to the mind of a child than good old reality television," the 41-year-old said here on Tuesday at a press conference of the show.
Karan will co-judge the show with actresses by Kirron Kher and Malaika Arora Khan.
"There are certain serials whose regressive thoughts are more detrimental to the mind. Here all three of us make it a point to repeat that if children are watching the stunts and acts, please do not try them at home," he said.
Karan added that all kinds of precautions and safety measures are in place to avoid any untoward accident on the sets.
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so im taking a old movie named Robot Jox VARY old and i fill that it needs to be remade, so here are some more concept to that, and ill also have i finel design coming up
love the dynamic feel of it all! and your presentation compositions are awsome...they do alot of justice to your work
woooooooooooooooooooooo RobotJox was an AMAZING film....... just wish someone would either remake it or make a Mechwarrior film already!!!
i love that movie i have it on dvd. if they do remake it they better contact you as a concept designer.
p.s. keep up the awesome art!
p.s. keep up the awesome art!
hehe I use bionicles as well. nice work
i would like to see that movie re-made with todays graphics. and at least a better story. and nice work btw.
That movie isn't too old, 1990 :/


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Cat's Rules of Logic - or Lack Thereof (little bit off topic)
Well, I am a big believer in intuition, gut instinct, knowing whether someone (or something job, school major, etc.) will be compatible in a friendly/professional/romantic sense within a very short time after meeting them and getting to know them. This has been proven to me through many painful judgment errors as well as many wonderful long term relationships that last through any horror that is thrown at them. Even when I was a very small child I could sense almost immediately in some cases whether someone was worth getting to know better or was someone I would rather keep at arms length or simply not know at all.
For example, I distinctly remember an incident when I was about 2 my moms ex-husband had been stalking her, and decided to chase us down El Camino Real in San Jose as we were running errands. My mom is only 5 feet on her tallest days, and she pulled into a parking lot and got out of the car and confronted him with the doors of the car closed. I couldnt hear anything I couldnt even see his face I just remember feeling intense hatred and rage radiating from him, and I thought to myself that this was a very bad man. It wasnt until years later that I finally understood who he actually was, and how much danger we were in that day. But my senses were apparently fine tuned from a very young age.
Of course, as I grew older, it became less socially acceptable to make snap decisions based simply upon instinct. That saying, dont judge a book by its cover, has been a thorn in my side for decades. If I was perfectly happy with a decision I had made, friends or family members would suddenly decide that they needed to become involved because I obviously hadnt thought it through thoroughly, or weighed the evidence correctly, or given the person enough chances. So . . . I became less true to myself during my teen years those lovely years of peace and joy that every girl remembers fondly with affectionate warmth and a far off gaze of pure ecstasy. Wait. No. Teen years mine were definitely NOT the best years of my life, and I am 99% sure my parents would agree with you. I was labeled different because I didnt follow the crowd, and even my good friends didnt quite understand exactly how different I was. This led me to retreat into a sort of stasis where I would attempt to make my gut level decision, only to have it thrown back in my face by a friend as cruel or improper, and I would then uncomfortably go with the flow in order to keep the peace, never fully understanding how this was undermining my own self confidence and self awareness.
My intuition became somewhat stagnated; it morphed into an occasional stomach ache that I attributed to stress rather than realizing that deep down I was failing to listen to a part of myself which had I been more attuned to it would have prevented me from making many of the poor decisions in my life that followed me through my late teens and throughout my 20s. I was deeply bitter about this for a very long time especially after my divorce at 23 from my so-called high school sweetheart. In time, however, I came to realize that going against my nature had helped to shape me just as much as going with my gut instinct had always helped to shape me in the past. I learned to listen to myself again to the nuances of my body, the little nervous twinges of butterflies in my stomach, the pangs of horrible discomfort and to trust myself again.
It has not been an easy or pleasant journey, and has taken therapy and medication (some of which I will probably always need but that is for another post), but I have come full circle and now understand my intuition in ways that I probably never could as a youngster. I base most of my life decisions on my gut feelings after first rationalizing them out in my head, of course and I find that this path that I am on is now the most fulfilling that I have found yet in my life. I have found a job and company that I enjoy tremendously, an area of the country that I can tolerate while I build up my career experience and designations, a boyfriend who has as much stubbornness and passion as I do (in order to both grow together and keep the relationship going when there are head butting arguments), and a few lifelong friends for whom I would drop everything at a phone call if necessary. I have found a renewed confidence in myself, confidence that I don't need the approval or acceptance of anyone in order to feel good about myself; I don't need to feel as if I am a part of a specific group or clique or social status - I can just be me, and I am pretty darn awesome.
I have found that neither my head nor my heart really rule me, though I am a hopeless romantic as well as one of the most logical people you will ever meet a walking contradiction in many ways. Instead I have found that my gut must take all the credit.
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..is a form of compulsory superannuation for employees, with contributions being made by employers as a percentage of (not deducted from) the ordinary time earnings of employees and certain contractors.
Work done outside Australia by non-residents is excluded from the super guarantee earnings base. (ATO ID 2015/24)
The Superannuation Guarantee Act is administered by the Australian Tax Office, which monitors compliance by employers. It also helps employees find their "lost superannuation" contributions, unclaimed super, and can assist employees wanting to transfer their super from one account to another.
Key ATO references:
For Employees -|- For Employers
The compulsory Superannuation Guarantee contributions are required to be made as a specified percentage of an employee's Ordinary Time Earnings before tax.
Super gradually increases from 9% to 12%**
The superannuation guarantee contribution percentage rates are as follows:
|For The Year ending on:
|30 June 2011
|30 June 2012
|30 June 2013
|30 June 2014
|30 June 2015
|30 June 2016
|30 June 2017
|30 June 2018
|30 June 2019
|30 June 2020
|30 June 2021
|30 June 2022
|30 June 2023
|30 June 2024
|30 June 2025
|30 June 2026 and later
** this table reflects the final position after Federal Budget 2014 rate increase proposals were re-phased in order to secure support from parliament. For details of the amending Bill (now law) see MRRT Repeal Measures Bill.
Superannuation Guarantee Scheme
The Definition of Ordinary Time Earnings ("OTE")
Not as simple as you'd think, although it starts with an intuitive notion of "ordinary earnings".
As a generalisation, OTE is understood to refer to ordinarily recurring and unexceptional kinds of wage payments, and therefore doesn't include (for example) ex gratia and redundancy payments.
However it's not always clear cut, and there can be a difficulty in practice, in deciding what is "ordinary" in various contexts and what's not. Overtime earnings, for example, can form part of OTE.
ATO Ruling – Ordinary Time Earnings
The Tax Office has issued rulings on this tricky subject, which includes a fairly long list of what's in and what's out of the OTE definition. See Superannuation Guarantee Ruling SGR 2009/2.
In addition, be aware of the expanded definition of 'employee' for Superannuation Guarantee purposes, which includes contractors if the contract is "wholly or principally" for their labour. The Tax Office has provided detailed guidance of their interpretations on this issue in ruling Superannuation Guarantee Ruling SGR 2005/1.
If you are forming an opinion to exclude certain payments, professional advice is recommended.
Free Online SGC Eligibility Decision Tool
The ATO has an anonymous on-line Super Guarantee decision tool which can help you step through the issues.
The Minimum – Maximum Wage Limits For Compulsory Contributions
Minimum threshold – gross wages of $450 per calendar month
- Maximum: OTE in 2016-17 of $51,620 per quarter ($206,480 for the year)
- Maximum: OTE in 2015-16 of $50,810 per quarter ($203,240 for the year)
- Maximum: OTE in 2014-15 of $49,430 per quarter ($197,720 for the year)
- Maximum: OTE in 2013-14 of $48,040 per quarter ($192,160 for the year)
- Maximum: OTE in 2012-13 of $45,750 per quarter ($183,000 for the year)
- Maximum: OTE in 2011-12 of $43,820 per quarter ($175,280 for the year)
- Maximum: OTE in 2010-11 of $42,220 per quarter ($168,880 for the year)
These thresholds are adjusted annually.
Contributions above these earnings base levels are voluntary. Note also that Superannuation Guarantee contributions count towards an individual's concessional contributions cap.
The Age Limits
- Under 18 part time employees, i.e. working less than 30 hrs per week. (Each week considered separately)
- Employees over age 70 until 30 June 2013
- Effective from 1 July 2013 there is no upper age limit, bringing eligible employees over the age of 70 years back into the SGC net.
Time Limits: When Do The Contributions Need To Be Paid
The ATO time limit for payment of Superannuation Guarantee contributions is 28 days after the end of each quarter. Some employment agreements or awards may provide a greater frequency.
Failure to make a contributions deadline, requires a Superannuation Charge statement to be lodged and paid within a further 28 days. The Superannuation Charge is non tax deductible and made up of:
Update Measures proposed to operate from 1 July 2016 which included using ordinary time earnings to calculate the SGC instead total salary and wages, and the softening of the penalty/interest provisions have been withdrawn from the Bill in parliament (the measures were contained in Schedule 1). See Minister's original media release, the modified Bill and also Tax Bills in The Pipeline.
Employee's Choice of Super Fund
Since 1 July 2005, eligible employees have had the right to choose the super fund for their compulsory superannuation guarantee contributions. The criteria for determining employee eligibility can be reviewed here.
Choice requirements have been simplified by removing the obligation to offer a choice of fund to temporary resident employees, or when superannuation funds merge. The changes take effect from 1 July 2015.
In other recent developments:
- the government intends to simplify product dashboard disclosure requirements (being information of interest to employees exercising their choice of fund) – scheduled for implementation in 2016
- the government intends to extend the availability of choice for employees and contributions covered under enterprise agreements and workplace determinations made from 1 July 2016. See Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Choice of Fund) Bill 2016 and also Tax Bills in The Pipeline.
An employer meets the choice requirements by giving the employee a Standard Choice Form (PDF download) and then acting on the employee's election within 2 months.
If an employee fails to complete a choice nomination and provide the necessary information, the employer has to pay the superannuation guarantee contributions to a complying Employer Nominated Fund which must also (with some exceptions) offer a minimum level of life insurance cover.
An employer is only obliged to respond to one choice nomination within each year.
Small Business Superannuation Clearing House
This is a free government superannuation payments clearing service for small businesses with less than 20 employees.
This enables small businesses to make one payment to the clearing house, which then disburses the money to the required selection of superannuation fund accounts.
See: Small Business Clearing House.
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Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
October 21, 2008 10:00 am ET
Thom Mocarsky − SVP, Press and IR
Steve Morris − Chairman, President & CEO
Sean Creamer − EVP, Finance and Planning & CFO
Alexia Quadrani − JP Morgan
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Thom Mocarsky
Thank you Kashina and good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Arbitron's third quarter 2008 earnings conference call. I'm Thom Mocarsky, I'm the Senior Vice President for Press and Investor Relations at Arbitron and I'll be your moderator for today's call.
Today, I have the pleasure of introducing Steve Morris, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Sean Creamer, our Chief Financial Officer. In today's call, Steve and Sean will review Arbitron's activities, accomplishments, and financial results for the third quarter of 2008. They will also make some comments about our expectations for the full year of 2008. After the presentation, Steve and Sean will be happy to take your questions.
But, before we begin today's presentation, I do want to note that this morning's discussion includes forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on our current expectations about future events. Arbitron has derived these expectations from information currently available to us. Actual results might differ materially from results projected in forward-looking statements, which involve known and unknown risks.
For a discussion of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements, please refer to the Arbitron's 10-K for the period ended December 31, 2007. A copy of that 10-K is on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
At this time, I want to turn the call over to Steve Morris, our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Steve Morris
Thank you, Tom. Good morning everybody. This may not be a long call because of all the legal maneuvering going on that has effected a limit on how much we can say and we certainly act with respect relating on what outcomes might emerge from the many actions underway. So I hope you will forgive us if we are a more bit more reticent than usual.
Before I get to lay out on where we stand on the political, legal and regulatory front, I do want to state the obvious (inaudible) the media business and radio business specifically. There have now been 17 consecutive months of downticks in radio industry revenue.
Some of this is a direct result of the much publicized weakness in the overall economy. But we believe some also comes from the relative weakness of the radio's positioning on the subject of accountability versus other media.
The importance of moving on to a PPM platform has never been stronger and they account from the standing (inaudible) crowds of radio buyers and sellers that we've experienced as we kicked off each new PPM market. At the speed level, we observed that many in the industry are chopping off a bit to move forward and to present a new face for radio to the buyers of media time.
Addressing the impact to the environment on our business, on the one end, our rating services are generally provided under long-term contracts and visibility and future revenue trend is good. However, those services that we provide that are not essential items for our customers such as these software products even Scarborough do feel the effect of fewer discretionary dollars available.
There are also some renewals in non-PPM markets that likely could be affected. As expected, this is having some impact on 2008, and the effect will no doubt carry over into 2009, with perhaps 1% to 2% of growth rate at risk.
With all this as background, we did commercialize PPM in new markets on October 6 and we're currently planning to commercialize four more in December. This has been an enormous effort on the part of people of Arbitron and it's very encouraging to see the quality metrics not only hold up but steadily improve over the last few months when these panels were completed.
Focusing now on our diary-based service, the remaining markets, we recently announced several important enhancements. We planned at households to our sample frame that use only cell phones, a growing group that cannot be reached using our landline-phone frame. This is similar to what we do on the PPM sample. We also plan to accelerate a long-term project to evolve the diary increasingly toward an online approach. So the underlying business continues to move forward.
Let me describe where things stand now from a legal point of view. Most of you are update on this, so if you follow the trades, that gives a quick overview. On October 6, we commenced the civil action in the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against the New York Attorney General. And on October 10, Arbitron brought a civil action in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey seeking a declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against the New Jersey Attorney General. In each case seeking to prevent any attempt by the Attorneys General to restrain our publication of our PPM listing estimates. These proceedings are pending.
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Israel located between Europe, Asia and Africa and it is one of the most famous countries in the world , sometimes because of the holiness for many religions (Judaism , Christianity , Islam and Bahai) , sometimes because of the middle east situation between jews and arabs).
You will find here almost anything you want to see - from religious trips , desert , snow , beaches , the lowest place on earth and many more.
You will find here luxury hotels , great restaurants , combinations of food because it is an immigration country.
And don't forget Israel is one of the world leaders in High Tech companies !
I hope you will enjoy my pages and visit us soon.
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i was born here in 11-11-1978 on a hospital in Petah Tiqwa.
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These photos are so amazing.
Ophiro, your page is great. I am traveling to Israel in May and will take many of your recommendations. Coincidently, I also noticed that today is your birthday. Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great year.
Did you call a 200K people as a boring and primitive? Where are u living?
ophiro, thanks for the tips. i'm excited to see en hab--i'd never before heard of it. i'm new to the entire continent! -stacy
Hello, Ophir! Great pictures and interesting stories you've made here! Thanx!
nice page beautiful pics, and nice tips, maybe but im not sure i will travel to Israel this summer whit my uncle but i not sure.
I think there is a major hotel near the Diamond Center.
an interesting page, Ophir and a lot of great updates again ! ...Humus sounds so funny for me in connection with food, because in german Humus means humous soil ;-))
Very good pictures and tips, the desert can be dangerous, but it's got such a special beauty.
Toda, for the birthday wishes. I had a great day shopping.
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BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Officials investigating a deadly Bellingham marina fire still don't know where or how the March 30 blaze started but say a dozen boats were destroyed.
The Bellingham Herald reports (http://bit.ly/HLKU73 ) that four of the boats have been pulled from the water and will be examined.
Police spokesman Mark Young says private insurance investigators are helping fire officials and police determine the cause of the fire at Squalicum Harbor.
The fire killed 33-year-old Sterling Taylor and 43-year-old James Langei, who were aboard their boat when the fire broke out. Their bodies were recovered in sunken debris about a week after the fire. Autopsies determined they died of smoke inhalation.
Information from: The Bellingham Herald, http://www.bellinghamherald.com