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Ted Simons: The state legislature made big changes to Arizona's sales tax collection system last session. Changes that will impact Arizona municipalities. I recently talked about it with Ken Strobeck, of the Arizona league of cities and towns. Thank you for joining us.
Ken Strobeck: You bet.
Ted Simons: Biggest issue to cities and towns this session.
Ken Strobeck: Well, it was by far the issue regarding tax simplification. That's so important to cities and towns because the sales taxis our primary source of revenue. Over % of the typical city's revenue comes from local sales tax and there were some major changes proposed to that whole system.
Ted Simons: What were the original concerns and how were those concerns addressed and were they addressed to your satisfaction?
Ken Strobeck: Well, very good question. There was a task force Governor Brewer appointed about a year ago. It met for about six months and came out in 2012 with some recommendations. The original bill had some fundamental changes to the system including elimination of self-collecting cities, 19 of the largest cities collecting their own sales tax. It eliminated the city auditing of businesses and also eliminated the prime construction tax in favor of a tax on materials at the retail sale. Those would have made huge changes in the way cities operate and the revenue streams that come in. We negotiated during the entire course of the session appeared we got some compromise language at the end that I would say will make it work for us but it wasn't the ideal as far as we're concerned.
Ted Simons: The contracting issue seems like the big sticking point. It is complicated. If you build a home in Maricopa or Fountain Hills, explain how those sales taxes are collected now and how they either will change or would have changed.
Ken Strobeck: The way it was done before is a contract on a home was taxed at 65% of the total value of the contract. The presumption was that 35% of what you're doing is labor and that's not taxed. Then 65% is materials, overhead, profit, et cetera, and that was taxed. It's taxed at the point where you're actually building the house. So the city would get a portion of that tax and the state would get a portion of that tax because the filing would happen where you're actually doing the construction. The proposal was eliminate that entirely and only tax materials, which is far less than 65%, and then only tax materials where you buy the materials. So you may buy them out of state, you may buy them in Phoenix, somewhere and then build somewhere else. The way the bill finally came down is the prime contracting tax stays exactly the same for homebuilders but it changes for what's called service contractors. Basically we call it the handyman rule. If somebody is coming to do a replacement or something that is simply repairing something that's broken, they will go to this sales tax at the point of sale system and will not have to file taxes with the city where they are actually doing the work anymore.
Ted Simons: I think representative less company said it changes where service contractors would help cities.
Ken Strobeck: We don't believe it will. In fact the JOBC estimate shows cities will still lose revenue off this system because remember we were talking about taxing at 65% of the total value of those contracts, now it's estimated that materials are about 21% of what the service contractors do. That's a pretty big tax cut and we're not going to recoup that through retail sales.
Ted Simons: Prime contractors return how much to cities? Isn't there a general pool where the 20% comes from?
Ken Strobeck: No, you're talking about the share revenue. That's the state part of it. I'm talking about the local part.
Ted Simons: Talk about the state part of it. I think some people say the cities will not be quite as bad off as maybe some of the cities had said.
Ken Strobeck: The 21% that will be taxed now approximately 21% on materials will go into the shared revenue system with the state shares with cities and towns. That's shared at a rate that's higher than the prime contracting shared revenue. So I don't want to get too far off into the weeds. A bigger percentage but a smaller piece of the pie to begin with, so we don't think it's going to make up all of the lost revenue.
Ted Simons: With the change to service contractors how does it backed things like city planning?
Ken Strobeck: The sense we are able to retain the prime contracting on new home construction and on major remodel and those kinds of things, we don't think it's going to be nearly as impacting as it would have been had we had to go to the entire system where everything was changed to just a point of sale retail. So the estimate of JOBC is from one to $15 million impact statewide initially. We'll see how that shakes out. There's a lot of assumptions that are built into that projection, so we'll have to see how it actually works.
Ted Simons: There will be a fight among municipalities to build a Home Depot or Lowes in every town. A little cleanup action on this?
Ken Strobeck: Last year there was a bill passed that said all city elections have to move if they are in the spring cycle they have to move to the fall cycle of even numbered years. Over cities and towns held their municipal elections in the spring cycle. They had the primary in March and the general election in May. That's when mayors and council members were elected. That's being changed to the fall of even numbered years. So we had some issues that had to be cleaned up as a result of that legislation passing. One had to do with length of term. You were elected in the spring, your two or four years is up in the spring. We had the legislature give us permission through statute that says we can extend those terms until the next election comes up for those people. They could be extended from six months to a year and a half. Then the other issue was home rule.
Ted Simons: I want to get to that in a second but why is it important to cities to have these elections in off times? Why was it not good to consolidate these?
Ken Strobeck: We opposed that bill because there's a bit of a attention given to city elections we are worried it will get lost in the shuffle. You'll competing against Congress, against state legislators, judges, school boards. Those will all be on one ballot in the fall. Instead of being able to focus a little more on the city elections in the spring cycle we're concerned they are going to get lost in the shuffle.
Ted Simons: Proponents say it saves money. Valid?
Ken Strobeck: Perhaps. The counties usually run those elections and there was usually a fee that went with those to cities but the total number of dollars was rather small when you look at the cost of a city budget. We think the value was there to be able to have some focus on those local elections.
Ted Simons: I think those who are supporting this bill also said that because you would have them you would have more turnout so more eyes on the ballots.
Ken Strobeck: Perhaps, but again you'll be having so many issues including propositions, all the candidates at all levels, schools, judges as I mentioned, at the tail ends of the ballot you're going to have a lot of drop-off. People will vote the top part of the ballot and drop them in the mail there are 14 cities and towns that would have lost the authority to spend revenue they have been collecting because they have to go out every four years for home rule option. That would have expired. The constitution says you have to hold these home rule elections at the same time you elect candidates. Those would have expired in the spring. They would have had that period of time between the spring and the fall cycle when they couldn't have spend the money even that they have collected already. So the legislature did finally the very last bill that passed out of the Senate has waived the penalties for those 14 cities and towns if they exceed their home rule expenditure provided they put that on the ballot next election.
Ted Simons: Highway user fund and lottery funds. Are they still swept?
Ken Strobeck: Still swept. It's at the same level of last year. The impact is about $36 million to cities and towns, money we think should be put back into streets and roads. People have the expectation when they buy gas that that's where their money is going to go.
Ted Simons: That will probably be addressed next session.
Ken Strobeck: That's on our agenda. Thanks.


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Hi everyone, I so hope someone out there can help us!
Since a few days after birth, our daughter has been sleeping in the fisher priceĀ Rock 'N Play sleeper, next to our bed (we discovered she hated her crib pretty fast, and hated to sleep flat)Ā She has slept wonderfully for the past 5 months...sleeping 4 to 5 hours, waking to eat, then back to sleep for 2 or 3, and sometimes longer.
now heres the problem...She recently has started waking every hour or 2, fighting to get herself positioned on her side in the cradle.Ā we can help her and she will sleep a little longer (30 to 60 minutes) and then wakes fighting again.Ā it seems like she is struggling due to how her legs are bunched up due to the design of the cradle(please google it so you can see what i mean).Ā So we thought we would try to move her into the crib to let her stretch out.Ā seems like an easy fix right...well, she can roll onto her side easily, and occasionally rolls onto her stomach, so I am afraid to put her in her crib swaddled(even though when on her stomach, swaddled, she can lift her head and move it easily).Ā We attempted to put her to sleep in her crib, unswaddled, but she moves so much, she woke herself up after 20 minutes.Ā And anytime we try to let her sleep unswaddled, she wakes herself up moving, after 20 or so minutes.Ā
I feel doomed to no sleep no matter what we do.Ā Any advice would be very much appreciated!!!

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Those of you w/ no church...(unless you go to the church of satan harhar) what do you do to find community?
What do atheist and agnostic families do to find community?
Living as a closeted atheist in the bible belt is difficult. I have yet to come out to anyone but my husband, and I can't fathom doing so in the forseeable future. The only way I have been able to reach out is through facebook. I have a few friends on there who seem to post atheist/agnostic things occassionally, so I have contacted them and talked to them in private messages. It's nice to have a connection to someone I know who shares the same thoughts. One of my husband's cousins is a reformed wiccan, and she and I kind of rally around each other at family functions and the like. It's been somewhat comforting to have someone else in the family "in the know," but for the most part being an atheist here is lonely. There are days where I wish I was still blind to it all, still following a faith. Sometimes I feel like I am living in "The Matrix," and that I could go back and take the blue pill instead of the red pill! Then something happens (like seeing a religious quote defending homophobia) and I realize that I would rather be lonely and awake than blindly following a faith and faking it just to have a few friends. For the most part, though, it's a lonely road.
For community - I volunteer with an atheist group that gives stuff away to homeless people (clothes, blankets, books). Also, there are groups on meetup that you can join. My group meets monthly but I haven't been good about going with the pregnancy kicking my butt :-)
I found the group on meetup and it has been a lot of fun. Atheist groups rarely call themselves atheists groups so as not to scare away the newbies. Look for free thinkers, skeptics, humanists, etc. If there aren't any groups in your area, you could always start one.
Raising Freethinkers and Parenting Beyond Belief have suggestions on finding or creating community as well.
Some people go to a UU Church for the community but personally I found it too church-like for my tastes.
Kristin - Proud mommy to Evann Lorne June '09
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I'm UU, but there are a lot of groups that meet on Sunday morning to be more or less church-like. We used to have one in my city called The Church of Beethoven that would be a concert of some type (I think it was Mexican folk music when we went?) that tied together with someone giving a talk that tied together with it (so it was about a service project the guy had done in rural Mexico).
There's also Meetups, and I met a lot of my non-UU friends here by joining a restaurant review community online and we would go out and meet up at new restaurants. So there's that sort of thing.
Me (37) & DH (37) - m. 7/04 - DS b. 9/12
And no, not everyone has to think like me. But it's a bit nice not to feel like I've got to hide, like I've got a target painted on me, or like I'm totally alone. Rural areas get... freaky and isolating when you're the only non-religious you know.
Forever missing our three babies. Arthur, Bronwyn, and Charlie, our babies, endlessly waiting on adoption, losing hope.
Thanks for the suggestions! UU sounds like a good bet, as do the Meetup groups. It does get really isolating in a rural area...not many open "non-believers". Christian church gives you a lots of bad ideas, but community is really powerfully wonderful...u flounder without that. I would be interested to hear where all of you are located...urban vs rural, coasts vs bible belts?
I agree---you can find comfort w/ religious people, you just have to take everything w/ a grain of salt when you get evangelized.
I am a scientist, too, so my peers are usually open minded as well, even if they are religious.
Hobbies. We meet people through hobbies. Currently, our social group is the Society for Creative Anachronism, where we persue our interest in medieval history. The people we've met are a mix of Christians, pagans, and atheists. Before the SCA our social group was our former roleplaying group that we gathered with weekly to play tabletop RPGs. We don't have the time or interest to meet with a group solely based on our lack of beliefs.
I live in Northern VA, it's a mix of liberal and conservative, all kinds of religions, and most people have the sense to not assume everyone believes what they do.
"Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things." - Frank A. Clark
UU here too. l really like the sense of community, and hearing the stories of various religions and mythologies.


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Sand track walk (north)
Seven Mile Beach National Park
Take the Sand track walk through the forest and admire the birdlife at Seven Mile Beach National Park, near Nowra, then wander back along the sweeping beach on this easy walk.
- Where
- Seven Mile Beach National Park
- Distance
- 2.5km one-way
- Time suggested
- 1hr 30min
- Grade
- Easy
- Price
- Free
- Please note
- It's a good idea to put sunscreen on before you set out and remember to take a hat and drinking water
- Remember to take your binoculars if you want to birdwatch
- Strong rips and currents may be present at Seven Mile Beach, so take care in the water and please supervise children at all times.
- A current NSW recreational fishing licence is required when fishing in all waters
This short walk allows you to experience both the unique forests and stunning golden stretch of beach that make up Seven Mile Beach National Park.
Starting at the Beach Road picnic area, this walk meanders north towards Gerroa picnic area through dune blackbutt, bangalay forests and littoral rainforest. Take a moment in the forest to enjoy the birdwatching opportunities along the walk. Look out for thornbills, wrens, honeyeaters and the brown cuckoo dove.
Relax and enjoy the intimate bush setting at Gerroa picnic area. Retrace your steps back or kick off your shoes, get the sand between your toes and wander back along the golden beach as it stretches out into the distance.
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Park info
- in Seven Mile Beach National Park in the South Coast region
Seven Mile Beach National Park is always open but may have to close at times due to poor weather or fire danger.
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(By Mani) Raptor Pharmaceutical Corp. (NASDAQ: RPTP) said the FDA delayed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date by three months from January 30 to April 30 for Procysbi. Although the delay is a near-term negative event, it would not impact the FDA's ultimate decision about Procysbi.
On the news, shares of Raptor fell as much as 11 percent to $5.11 on Monday. They were trading between $4.35 and $7.90 during the past 52-weeks. However, the potential near-term weakness may provide an attractive buying opportunity given the FDA's delay is unlikely to impact the probability of approval or future commercial potential of Procysbi.
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Moreover, Raptor noted that the FDA has not requested any additional studies while continuing to expect a decision from European Medicines Agency on its Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) in the first half of 2013.
"In our view, delays in the FDA review are not uncommon and have no implications on the agency's decision. It could be due to staff turnover/vacations, additional analyses, etc," Oppenheimer analyst Boris Peaker wrote in a note to clients.
However, the key outstanding uncertainty for the stock is pricing. DR Cysteamine will be one of the higher priced drugs on the US market. There is a risk of pricing pressure from insurance companies and/or the government.
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The drug is estimated to be priced at about $350,000/patient/year based on the pricing of orphan drugs targeting similar population sizes. The pricing will likely remain unresolved until the drug is launched.
On the positive side, the company has sufficient cash to bring the drug into the market. Raptor ended the fourth quarter with total cash of $38.9 million and recently signed a $50 million loan agreement with Healthcare Royalty Partners, which should provide enough capital to launch Procysbi.
"As such, in our view a delay of three months does not significantly alter the commercial value of Procysbi post approval," Peaker noted.
Raptor Pharmaceutical is a development-stage company with a late-stage orphan drug which completed a successful pivotal program, as well as several earlier stage assets. Raptor's leading drug, DR Cysteamine is in development for cystinosis, a condition with an estimated 500 patients in the US.
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The continuing development of watchmaking since its first stirrings has contributed in a significant way to the contemporary success of the Glashütte Original brand. Equipped with a loan from the Saxon government, in 1845 Ferdinand Adolph Lange founded the first watch firm in Glashütte – a location that for almost four centuries had been marked principally by its silver mining. The goal of the new undertaking was to create an independent Saxon watch industry.
In the fifties the arrival of such masters of their craft such as Adolph Schneider, Moritz Großmann and Julius Assmann as well generated a great deal of enthusiasm. Over the course of several decades, many timepieces from Assmann's "German Ancre Watch Factory" won prizes around the world. Their proven accuracy was reason enough for the Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen to purchase an Assmann observation watch in 1910; one year later he was the first person to reach the geographic South Pole.
The plan called first for a "simple, but mechanically complete pocket watch". The "workshop system" in place at the time allowed the manufactories to make use of components produced in a division of labour by local suppliers. By around 1865 the characteristic features of the Glashütte precision pocket watch had matured: the Glashütte three-quarter plate, gold lever wheel and gold chatons as well as the decorative sunburst finish. This watch was produced with only minimal changes for 80 years.
Glashütte pendulum clocks also represent extraordinary precision, particularly those from the "Strasser & Rohde Mechanical Workshops", founded by Ludwig Strasser and Gustav Rohde. Precision pendulum clocks were used in observatories, institutes and watch companies in order to regulate pocket watches and marine chronometers. In addition, Strasser achieved a great deal of influence as a result of his activity as a teacher and director of the German School of Watchmaking in Glashütte.
Great demand for precision watches from Glashütte required growing numbers of qualified craftsmen. Acting in the name of the Central Association of German Watchmakers, on May 1st 1878 Moritz Grossmann opened the "German School of Watchmaking Glashütte". The school quickly earned a formidable reputation through exceptional graduates and teachers such as Alfred Helwig. Glashütte Original has honoured this heritage since 2002 with its own school of watchmaking, named after Helwig.
As early as 1916 Karl W. Höhnel marked one of his pendulum clocks, for the first time, with the phrase "Original Glashütte". The "German Precision Watch Factory Glashütte (Sa.) e. G.m.b.H.", entered on the 9th of November 1918 in the trade registry, also used this proof of origin in its trademark, and beginning in 1921 on its pocket watches as well, in order to distinguish Glashütte quality products from imitations made abroad (e.g. "System Glashütte").
With the development of the Flying Tourbillon a teacher at the watchmaking school won renown: Alfred Helwig. He anchored his tourbillon on one side only; two bearings guided the wheel staff. The tourbillon and escapement could be mounted without a top cock. As a result the view of the tourbillon was clear, it appeared to fly. The tourbillon was also relieved of pressure and could be executed with great delicacy. The construction achieved the best rate precision of portable precision watches.
Two new companies were formed in Glashütte: to meet growing demand wristwatch movement blanks were produced for the first time in Glashütte by UROFA, which emerged from the Glashütte Precision Watch Factory. The UFAG factory completed and distributed the watches. The large "G" and the name of the town Glashütte formed UFAG's impressive logo.
In 1927, for the first time in the history of Glashütte, a ladies watch appeared with a dial bearing the imprint »Glashütte Original«.
On July 1st the publically owned company Glashütte Watch Factories was formed through the merger of the following local firms: UROFA, UFAG, VEB Lange (formerly A. Lange & Söhne), VEB Feintechnik, VEB Messtechnik (formerly R. Mühle & Sohn), VEB Estler, VEB Präzision Glashütte and the Makarenko trade school. The impossibility to import goods from abroad made considerable autonomy of production necessary. Among the first constructions were the chronograph movement 64, based on the UROFA calibre 59.
In the sixties a broad range of ladies and mens wrist watches was produced featuring timeless design and robust construction for daily use. Central (sweep) seconds hand, date display, shock resistance, automatic winding and improved accuracy were among the more important features.
The calibre 70 series was developed at the outset of the 1960s. Among these were the Calibre 70.1 and the Calibre 70.3, which featured a gilded balance rim and was supplied with a chronometer test certificate.
In the mid sixties two largely identical men's watch movements were presented, Calibres 74 (automatic) and 75 (automatic and date). The movement of the so-called "Spezimatic" proved convincing with its very low build height of only 4.4 milimetres and diameter of 28 mm.
In 1978 the "Spezichron" model appeared, for the first time with a weekday and date display and ball bearing mounted rotor. These models were produced until the middle of the eighties.
Classic mechanical marine chronometers have a long tradition in Glashütte. Many of them were exported to destinations all over the world. By 1978 around 13,000 mechanical marine chronometers had been made in the Saxon watch city.
Despite the great demand for quartz models the Glashütte watchmakers did not convert their entire production to such watches – in contrast to many companies abroad. From the mid-seventies on the first quartz-controlled marine chronometers were produced. In 1978 the Calibre 31 ushered in a new era in the production of wristwatches, the manufacture of quartz watches. Several generations of ladies watches followed and, in the eighties, men's watches as well with a two-hand / analogue-digital movement.
With the reunification of Germany in 1990 came the transformation of VEB Glashütter Uhrenbetriebe into the Glashütter Uhrenbetrieb GmbH. The company is the official legal heir to all formerly independent watch companies extant in Glashütte up to 1951. Since 1994 the brand name "Glashütte Original" has stood for fine German watchmaking with the highest degree of production depth.
In 2000 Glashütte Original was honoured for the first time with the much sought-after title of "Watch of the Year": Readers of the trade publication "Armbanduhren" and the "Welt am Sonntag" newspaper put the classic Senator "Perpetual Calendar" in first place. In October the Manufactory joined the Swatch Group Ltd., an important step for the growth of the locally renowned brand into a global luxury brand.
Following the successful start of watchmaker training in 2001, on 12 September 2002 the new "Glashütte Original Alfred Helwig School of Watchmaking" was opened. These highly qualified watchmakers were needed to assure the survival of the traditional watchmaker's craft in Glashütte. On completion of his or her studies, every successful graduate was to be guaranteed a job in a Swatch Group Ltd. company.
The restructured Manufactory building was opened on September 8, 2003. In 13 months a modern production facility was built, a clear sign of an innovative spirit and orientation toward the future. In this transparent world of experience visitors embarked on an exciting path of learning that took them to all areas of production and offered direct insight into the fascinating work of the Manufactory.
In 2004 the Manufactory awarded the first Glashütte Original Music Festival Award, to the renowned conductor Kurt Masur. The award recognizes the exceptional life's work of an artist who has dedicated himself to the musical arts and developed his gifts over several decades. Since 2009 the award has been presented to an artist who has devoted a great deal of time and energy to the support of emerging artists.
In the course of an elaborate celebration the German Watch Museum Glashütte was opened on May 22nd, 2008. In conformance with the objectives of the "German Watch Museum Glashütte – Nicolas G. Hayek" foundation, Glashütte Original developed an exhibition itinerary illustrating the changes in fortune in the history of Glashütte along with various aspects of the sense and measurement of time. Only five months later the museum welcomed its 25,000th visitor.
On the occasion of the 61st Berlinale Glashütte Orginal became a co-partner of the Berlin International Film Festival for the first time. As the heir to more than 165 years of watchmaking tradition the Saxon watchmaker actively supports Berlin's largest cultural event as well as the art of filmmaking. The "Made in Germany – Perspective Fellowship" created in 2012 was funded by Glashütte Original to the tune of 15,000 Euros, destined to support emerging directors from Germany with their future projects.
In 2012 the Manufactory presented the Grande Cosmopolite Tourbillon, the most extraordinary and sophisticated masterpiece in the history of the company. A manufactory-owned boutique was opened in Dresden and in Glashütte a new production facility was inaugurated in the Frühlingsweg.


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- ParaguayRetailFunding via Fundación Paraguaya
Kuña Katupy...ParaguayRetailFunding via Fundación Paraguaya
8 De Diciem...ParaguayServicesFunding via Fundación Paraguaya
Mujeres Unidas De Encarnación Group
After having the required meetings the group "Mujeres Unidas de Encarnación" is formed. Nowadays they work with the loans in a responsible and punctual manner.
Currently the committee is formed by 17 hard working women. They work in different areas such as small general stores, dressmaking, hair salons, clothings sales, merchandise sales, food sales, among others. Each member receives an average of Gs. 800.000. The loans will be used to expand their businesses, in other words, to purchase more merchandise and materials such as: fabric, thread, buttons, elastics, zippers, flour, breads, canned goods, drinks, clothing, haircare products, cosmetics, etc.
Translated from Spanish by Libertad Leal, Kiva volunteer.
Este comité del Barrio San Miguel Centro del distrito de Cambyreta ha surgido por contacto de otro grupo formado en un barrio cercano, donde una de las mujeres invito a una de las señoras a contactar con la Fundación Paraguaya y formar su propio comité.
Luego de realizar las reuniones requeridas de presentación surge el grupo "Mujeres Unidas de Encarnación" que hoy día ya trabajan con el crédito solidario de forma responsable y puntual.
Actualmente el comité esta integrado por 17 mujeres trabajadoras. Las actividades de estas señoras consisten en: despensas, costura de prendas, peluquería, venta de ropas, venta de mercaderías, venta de comestibles, y otros. Cada integrante recibe en promedio la suma de Gs. 800.000. El destino de estos créditos será para la expansión de sus negocios, es decir para la compra de mas mercaderías e insumos como ser: telas, hilos, botones, elásticos, cierres, harinas, panificados, productos enlatados, bebidas, prendas de vestir, artículos para el cabello, productos cosméticos, etc.
Additional Information
About Fundación ParaguayaFundación Paraguaya is a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurship in urban and rural areas through microfinance, education programs, and more. Its focus on agriculture has helped many farmers boost their crop yields. And a number of other borrowers have taken out loans to start and grow social businesses that have helped deliver eyeglasses, medicines and other helpful services in their local communities.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 5 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Disbursed:
- May 23, 2008
- Listed
- May 8, 2008
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Steven Friel, Davies Arnold Cooper 24 April 2008 at 15:48
Bank charges
The decision in the bank charges case has been hailed as a victory by consumer organisations, and to a large extent it is. Although the judge held that the bank charges are not penalties and are therefore not to be struck down under the common law (some small comfort!), he did find that the charges are governed by the fairness requirements of the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999.
It remains possible, therefore, that the charges will eventually be held to be unfair and therefore prohibited by the Regulations. If that were to happen, it would lead to a fundamental change in what we pay for personal banking services.
But the fight is not over. Will the banks appeal? Most probably. This one is likely to go the whole way to the House of Lords, possibly more than once, as there is so much at stake. Indeed, it will be interesting to see how the banks' share prices react in the meantime."
Ingrid Gubbay, Cohen Milstein 24 April 2008 at 15:51
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The OFT has won a significant point because it has been affirmed as having the power to regulate banks charges under the Unfair Terms in Contracts Regulations.
If the OFT had lost today the regulations would have proved to have been worthless to protect consumers against market abuse and bank customers would have been left vulnerable'.
We hope that the court will shortly decide that the unauthorised overdraft charges are disproportionate and unfair to bank customers.
Martin Rands 24 April 2008 at 16:50
Bank Charges
I imagine that the banks' liability to compensate is already discounted in their share prices. In any event this is chicken feed compared to their mortgage backed securities liabilities.
I haven't read the judgement yet but I am interested in why the judge ruled that the charges are not penalties. When they were introduced they represented the actual cost of processing (a typist had to be employed!) Over the years the damages claim morphed into a penalty charge in my opinion. Isn't there a chance that a higher court will decide that the charge is a penalty – re-opening the door for business customers to claim, or can't that point be raised again?
However I am sure that the banks will appeal because they need to postpone for as long as possible their ultimate liabilities because of more pressing 'credit crunch' matters.
Ralph Lovesy, Denton Wilde Sapte 24 April 2008 at 17:32
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This is an important decision, but is only one stage in the process and does not have any immediate implications for consumers.
The judge has given the banks until May 22 to decide whether to appeal. If they do appeal, as seems likely, this case could go all the way to the House of Lords and even the European Court of Justice.
The FSA has issued a waiver from its complaints handling rules that apply to unauthorised overdraft charges complaints. This means that any court claims or claims to the Financial Ombudsman Service relating to unauthorised overdraft charges are likely to remain on hold for quite some time.
It is also important to remember that this ruling mainly concerns whether overdraft charges are capable of being assessed for unfairness. The Court did not decide whether such charges are in fact unfair; that question may well involve a separate test case, which would further delay a resolution to the general issue of whether unauthorised overdraft charges are unfair.
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IBrian Doctor QC of Fountain Court victorious against an array of silk! Justice for the consumer, indeed. Already Angela Knight of the BBA making noises of introducing bank 'fees' we must remember her previous incarnation as a Treasury Minister under a Conservative Government.
Court of Appeal Judjment 8 February 2008 No A3/2007/0805 NWB v Trustee in Bankruptcy, Babai (Michael Driscoll QC) similarly vindicated in the consumer interest '1980 Statute of Limitation' required reading.
CincinnatiPete 25 April 2008 at 13:54
OFT v Banks
Does it not seem strange that the judge has decided that the charges are not penalties at common law? I agree entirely with Martin Rand's point
It seems if a business incurs difficulties with overcharging then it will have no recourse (as the UTCCR's only apply to consumers) which seems totally unfair. Does this mean people will try to run personal accounts for business purposes?
This point must be appealed
Martin Rands 28 April 2008 at 16:00
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I still haven't read the judgement (and probably never will!) as it is 200 pages plus. My understanding is that the judge decided that the charges were not penalties. The consumer can rely on the UTCCR but business is not afforded this protection.
Does anyone know (in a few sentences) why the judge dismissed the penalty arguments? I do not see how a disproportionate charge of £38 can be anything but penal. Although as I said in the earlier post, large charges comprised the actual cost of returning cheques 30 years ago as secretarial and clerk services were employed, unlike today.
I hope the OFT can and do appeal this point or small businesses will have to pass on this unfair penalty.
CincinnatiPete 28 April 2008 at 16:22
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Adrian, I think as things stand you will struggle to claim back business charges. However the banks are bound to appeal the judgment so we must hope that the OFT cross appeal on the common law penalty charge issue.
Martin I understand that the judge said the charges were not charges at all but payments for a service and therefore the common law did not apply. Quite how he squared that with the UTCCR applying to personal accounts I have no idea
Martin Rands 28 April 2008 at 17:39
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Thanks Pete
I am almost tempted to have a look at the judgement!
I thought the banks were on a wing and a prayer with the service charge argument, but true to form they got away with it.
I guess the decision must have been that the 'service charge' COULD be at an unfair level on consumers?
Sounds like an appeal could be the best result for bank customers!
stuart gibbons-halstead 17 November 2009 at 14:47
I am certainly all in favour of the high courts decision so far,maybe very angry people like myself,who has been caught out by these charges a thousand times before,may actually see some light at the end of the tunnel.
Poor income families are the worst hit,and have no defense against these beaurocrats with already enough money in their back pockets,lined by the poor people like me.
I have two bank accounts,several hundred pound overdrawn,and every penny is their charges…JUSTIFIED?


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Beck relied heavily on his producer as he built the album. "That's probably a good way of doing it, if you've got the patience not to go in with the songs squared off, all done, dusted," he said.
Beck, who in 2009 was inducted as a solo artist into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, has long been viewed as one of rock's premier guitarists. He's built a loyal audience that has consistently allowed him to headline theaters and large clubs. But he's never had a major hit single or album. Beck said that has some artistic advantages.
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Here are some numbers: Ninety-five percent of the 629 participants in the Center for Work Education and Employment programs last year were women. Over half were under 25 years old. Almost nine out of 10 were single parents. Eighty-one participants attained a GED, usually within about 3 months. One hundred seventy-one were placed in full- or part-time jobs.
But the numbers can't convey what matters most to Lois Britton, a GED tutor who has been with CWEE for just over a year. The former teacher, joined CWEE — a past recipient of funding through the Denver Post Charities' Season to Share campaign — because she knows the program changes the lives of its participants.
"This is such a big deal to them," Britton says. "It's such a boost to their sense of self."
CWEE provides a full suite of job-placement services, from job preparation (including GED tutoring, computer training and more) and locating employment openings to helping recently placed participants keep their jobs. There's even a boutique where prospective applicants can browse the racks for free interview clothes.
Participants, who are referred to CWEE from Denver, Adams and Arapahoe counties, come to the program with different levels of competency. They are each assigned a case manager, who helps assess what they need and who shepherds them through the various stages of the program.
"Decision-making skills, communication skills, job skills, these are just part of the story," says Laurie Harvey, CWEE's executive director, who has been with the agency 29 years. "We help with whatever comes up. Housing, transportation, child care. If we can shore up those support services, that goes a long way to help people stay motivated."
Participants who need a GED receive rigorous tutoring, usually about six to eight weeks. "Most get hung up on math," Britton says. "So I teach a lot of math. But I would challenge a lot of adults, even those with a degree and in the workforce today, to pass that test."
One particular challenge for CWEE: staying on top of technological literacy, a must in the changing job market. "We early on developed a computer lab. Originally, way back, we were helped by IBM," Harvey says. She invested years of time and effort in expanding the computer program. "We have a 30-workstation computer lab now. We've developed relationships with IT professionals who build our computers to spec. We're constantly improving. We have Outlook 2010, Windows 7. We were fortunate to receive that software from Microsoft."
Heartbreaks happen, and some participants inevitably fall off track. "For some participants, the chaos in their lives is so deep," Harvey says. "We have individuals that can't continue in the program, maybe because of their own health, or the health of their kids, or because they've lost their home. When they have to drop out, that's the ultimate disappointment. For those individuals, we always leave the door open."
Next year, CWEE will mark its 30th year in operation.
For Britton, counting GED certificates is only one way to measure CWEE's success. What matters more are the intangibles — the personal connections, the building of an essential sense of confidence. "I look them in the eye and say, 'Yes, you can do this. You're ready.' "
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Address: 1175 Osage St., Suite 300
In operation since: 1982
Number served last year: 629 (95 percent women)
Staff: 27 employees, 30 volunteers
Yearly budget: $1,818,412
Percentage of funds given directly to clients and services: 88 percent


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That was me last night, getting jiggy while working out. I have no idea where it came from..but I did 70 mins of Your Shape Fitness Evolved 2012 and burned a bit over 1000 calories! YEA BABY!!
And I wasn't even sore this morning. I'm going to do one every other night..so next up will be Wed night.
Not a lot happening today. I changed our Vonage plan (we had 800 mins a month on it..I dropped it to 400..we only use maybe 50 mins a month). It'll will save us like $10-12 a month. It may seem like small change but it adds up over the year.
Last night for dinner we had Stouffer's Creamed Chipped Beef. I LOVE that stuff! If I could make it from scratch I would so try it. But the packaged kind is just so convenient. I don't buy it often but when I do...MMMMMM. I had mine over a toasted hamburger bun with 2 slices of ultra thin cheese on it. Hubby had his over rice. So no dessert for either of last night.
And then of course I did the great workout. Well..after hubby went to bed..just bit after 9 last night. I worked out until 10:10 or so, then did the dinner dishes (loaded them into the dishwasher), took the trash out, cleaned the kitties litter boxes (yep..we have two boxes..one for each kitty). By that time it was a little after 11. I logged my workout and went to bed. Boy...makes me tried just remembering it all!
Tonight is spaghetti night. I always make a big batch of sauce so all I have to do is boil noodles and defrost the sauce. There's even a few meatballs in it. This week I'm cleaning out all the frozen left overs we have. So one night will end up mixed plate night (a little of this...a bit of that
). Add some rice...maybe a bit of gravy and you have dinner!
Eating today has been good. Some chocolate but not a lot. I made it to the gym for an hour but had to use my phone to read my book (talk about small print!) and listen to music as my tablet didn't charge last night (reminder to self..check that the tablet's charger is plugged in). I did use my little portable charger on it but it wasn't ready when I went down to the gym.
Speaking of books..the e kind of course...there was some kind of class action lawsuit against the big publishing houses. I got my share of the settlement..in the form of credit on Amazon for Kindle books. I got a whopping $3.99 credit!
Yeah I know..it's not much but hey..that's at least one eBook..if not 4 (if I get the $0.99 cent ones).
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Happy Monday, food truck followers! Just a friendly reminder that the DC Government is requiring that all food trucks charge a 10 percent sales tax starting today, so you may find a small increase in prices.
Farragut Square (17th and I sts., NW), where you'll find What the Pho?,DC Crepes, Far East Taco Grill, and Sol Mexican Grill; Kababji Truck (nearby at 20th and L).
Franklin Square (13th and K sts., NW), where you'll find Burritos on the Run, Ooh Dat Chicken, Pepe, Pho Junkies, Dangerously Delicious Pies, Red Hook Lobster, Sol Mexican Grill, and Rolling Ficelle.
L'Enfant (Sixth St. and Maryland Ave., SW), where you'll find Basil Thyme, Cathy's Bistro, Best Burritos, Captain Cookie, Tapas Truck, DC Ballers, target="blank"Mayur Kabob House, and Souvlaki Stop.
Metro Center (12th and G sts., NW), where you'll find DC Ballers, Tasty Kabob, Chick-Fil-A Truck, Wassub, and Stella's PopKern.
Montgomery County, where you'll find Cole's Palette (Silver Spring).
Navy Yard (First and M sts., SE), where you'll find Fire & Rice.
NoMa (First and M sts., NE), where you'll find Stix.
Northern Virginia, where you'll find Ducky's Grub, Atip (Tysons), Lemongrass Truck, and District Taco (Ballston).
State Department (around 21st St. and Virginia Ave., NW), where you'll find Hot Wheels.
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Hello, SAHMs. I'm feeling wrung out and frustrated and teetering over to depressed. I think I'd be better if I could have some time to myself everyday. My Mom says my Dad used to take over after dinner so she could relax before the bedtime routines began. My DH has never said, but it is implied, that his job is to work and my job is to do everything here. I have to use a stern voice to even get a shower. It makes him sound mean-he's not! I promise! This was how I thought we would do it, too. But I realize now that I simply cannot function day in and day out without some kind of relief. Our parents don't live close enough to pop in regularly, and all I really want is one half hour, maybe 45 minutes, every single day to myself. Do your DHs give you a break everyday? Or is it sporadic, like when you have plans with friends or whatever?
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Mcdougall's cup noodles are the best choice for vegan that travels a lot, convenient, cheap and taste good!
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Hello and welcome to my User Tip.
This user tip is designed for experienced users who want Snow Leopard (10.6) Mac's to run at their absolute fastest possible.
It's a series of easy hacks, browser preferences and rebuild, hardware advice for maximizing your Snow Leopard Mac's performance.
This is NOT designed for OS X 10.7 or later operating systems, sorry. Upgrading OS X from 10.6.8 to 10.7/10.8 will not make it faster.
This is not designed as a repair system, although software fixes will obviously result when everything is replaced with new stuff.
For software fixes on a existing system, see this: ..Step by Step to fix your Mac However if your going to erase everything and install 10.6.8, then you can use this tip.
This is for Early 2011 and earlier Mac's that originally came with Snow Leopard from the factory or 10.4/10.5 Intel processor ones that were upgraded or are going to be upgraded to 10.6.8 and remain there for maximum performance (not going to the slower 10.7 or later versions)
Those who "shoehorned" Snow Leopard onto their later OS X 10.7 issued machines know how to go about doing that again But can apply the advice given here.
If you upgraded to a later version of OS X (like 10.7+) and want to downgrade to 10.6.8, or your present Snow Leopard Mac is acting slow, and your capable of doing the steps here, then you will have a very fast machine again. But you need to read this first for file preparation before downgrading to Snow Leopard.
How to revert your Mac to Snow Leopard
Be sure you understand the above and are clear about what your going to do, data destruction is going to occur.
1: Backup your user files off the machine to a regular external storage drive
Make sure to write down all your account names, passwords, email addresses, export bookmarks, programs and their activation keys. Because everything is going bye bye. We are not going to restore from TimeMachine or Migration Assistant, only user files will be returned manually to a brand new install.
If your downgrading from a later OS X version make sure the versions of programs on the older OS X 10.6 will run your presently altered files. You may have to export the neutral data (like jpg, mp3, .txt, and so forth) out of those proprietary file formats so they can be reimported into older versions of those software's support files.
iTunes and right click on iPhoto Library to "show package contents" to grab a copy of the Originals or Masters folder containing your original files. It's because 10.6 programs may not be able to read the newer programs changed file formats.
As a extra precaution, I highly advise you to download Carbon Copy Cloner, then format a blank powered (no port powered!) external drive in Disk Utility to be 1 partition, Option: GUID with OS X Extended Journaled and click Erase and Security > Zero All Data. (or move the slider one spot to the right in 10.7+). Then when that is complete use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the existing boot drive to the external drive. This will also take some time, but it's a bootable backup and you can access it in case you forget something.
Do NOT use TimeMachine for this backup procedure, leave that in case you need to restore the older system for some reason, disconnect the TM drive.
TimeMachine will not work "backwards" it's all forward type backup and restore system.
Most commonly used backup methods
2: Evaluate your current hardware and see if you can upgrade
Download the free MacTracker and look under Apple Menu > About This Mac > More Info for details like the model and find your machine on MacTracker.
The purpose with this is to evaluate if you can put more RAM memory and or a faster boot drive into the machine and it's specifications
For boot drives you need to look at the SATA your machine has. I advise a 7,200 RPM drive for SATA I and II, or a SSD for SATA II and III connections.
If you can't upgrade the boot drive to a faster one, it's no bother you can proceed here even with a stock 5,400 RPM drive as it will be quite fast regardless.
However RAM does play a big part in a machines speed so you should maximize that, you can do it yourself if it's not a sealed box.
Install/upgrade RAM or storage drive in Mac's
3: Erase and install OS X 10.6
How to erase and install Snow Leopard 10.6
Erase the ENTIRE boot hard drive with the Security > Zero Erase All Data option (SSD's no need, just Erase or format) and then come back here for the speed tweaks.
The Zero Erase procedure/software hack will attempt to map off as many bad sectors as possible, thus your reads speeds will be more reliable and fast. It takes some time but it's worth it and it flags a bad or failing area of the hard drive in advance, so you can have it immediately replaced.
Install order for software as follows:
OS X, first login and setup with user name, software update to 10.6.8 and repeat until clear.
Do NOT enable Filevault, it's a CPU hog. Do NOT install always on anti-virus.
In 10.6.8 Apple included OS X anti-malware for OS X malware, if you need more for Windows filth cleaning, then I advise the free ClamXav as it run as you need it and not eating CPU cycles or causing issues in the background, freezes, delays etc.
Install any and all possible programs from original sources making sure they are compatible and updated for 10.6.8,
Install iLife from the disk or 10.5 disk using Pacifist from CharlesSoft. Software Update for that too. Tweak the OS the way you want.
Last and only last, restore user files and accounts from the files on the storage drive you made earlier.
Do not go over 50% of the boot hard drive filled (use Activity Monitor) for maximum performance, never more that 90% filled. OS X needs room on the drive for swap space and downloads.
The more your OS X boot partition is over 50% of the hard drive filed, any data on the second 50% of the drive is going to be slower and even more slower as the hard drive fills up further after that. So frequently used programs and OS X should remain at close to be being first on the drive as possible. With user data allowed to expand and contract into the slower parts of the drive if necessary as it's accessed less often.
You can partition the boot drive 50/50, this way you will always keep OS X and your data fast on the first 50% partition. The second 50% can be a clone of the first for portable backup needs (software protection and undelete ability only, for hardware protection use external clones too) or for those times you have files you don't care if it reads slow (or for BootCamp or whatever)
SSD 's are equally fast on all parts of their hardware so you can fill them to about 90%, however if it gets too near full it can slow down a little supposedly.
If for some freaky reason you did something wrong in the install order or later have slow performance on your hard drive, then do this: How to safely defrag a Mac's hard drive
If visiting a web page and your machine is slow, try resetting Safari caches and or do #12 OnyX cache cleaning routine here: ..Step by Step to fix your Mac
Installing Rosetta
Rosetta is a compatibility for older PPC based software, even though you may have 10.6, a lot for software was written for PPC and thus allowed to run on 10.6, but won't do so unless Rosetta is installed.
Apple would download this to your machine via the Internet if it was required and not installed, but you might have to use the 10.6 method now.
Have a portable Mac and using TimeMachine?
You might have noticed some substantial drive space going to "Backups" on your boot drive. This is so you can use TimeMachine to restore deleted files while not physically connected to the external TimeMachine drive.
This can cause a slowdown problem on boot hard drives (only, not for SSD's) because hard drives get slower the more they are filled up past 50%, so with TimeMachine local backups taking space it's forcing your new files to be written and read from the slower parts of the drive.
If you don't want this taking up extra space on your boot drive and not prone to accidentally deleting files, or for more security reasons you want you delete stays deleted.
Then enter this into Terminal program: sudo tmutil disablelocal press return and entering your Admin password. Turn off TimeMachine in System Preferences and back on again after a few minutes to see if your drive space is reclaimed.
To re-enable it: sudo tmutil enablelocal
Advised to turn off local backups BEFORE connecting a new TimeMachine to your speedy Snow Leopard machine. In fact consider bootable clones instead as this way you can keep a pristine 10.6.8 boot copy on a external drive to restore/boot with.
Most commonly used backup methods
5: OS X 10.6 tweaks for speed
These will speed up the general user interface speed of OS X
Open Terminal and paste each line and press return/enter
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime .001
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool true
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-swoosh-animation-off -bool YES
defaults write com.apple.finder DisableAllAnimations -bool true
defaults write com.apple.finder IKImageFlowShowFrameRate 1
defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0
Reboot the machine for the changes to take effect.
Source and restore commands, other tweaks: http://www.defaults-write.com/
You may also want to explore the options the free TinkerTool also has. (some may be duplicates of the above)
6: Browser tweaks for speed
Your Wifi router if your using one, should be Wireless N and configured with a WPA2(AES) encrypted non-hidden network.
Use the 5Ghz channel if your Mac can handle it, some have dual bands and one band will adjust for slower Wifi computers.
You'll have to see what the Airport specifications for your machine are. It might not be able to handle strictly 5Ghz. Then a Ethernet cable would be faster, but if it's a laptop then that's a hassle and your stuck on the slower Wifi bands.
Even though WPA(AES) is CPU hog, I find it's better to be secure than have a someone lunching on my bandwidth or hacking it.
WiFi security issues, at home and WiFi hotspots
Obviously the speed of your Internet Service Provider will make a serious impact, so opt for the fastest, most reliable one, for most users 20+ mb per second download is very decent for most everything for a single user for Internet use only.
Fastest browser
Download the free Firefox web browser here: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Install Ad Block Plus and enable the automatic updates. You can whitelist your favorite sites so they make advertising revenue.
It speeds up the browsing display and keeps malvertising) down to a minimal.
Turn off Java in all browsers preferences as it's a security nightmare, and try not to install Flash (but likely can't avoid it) so disable it in Add-ons when your not using them and keep them updated for security fixes.
Also if your finding that your zooming the web pages a lot, you can install NoSquint (and even Theme Font & Size Changer) and set a default zoom level for all webpages (images and everything), this way they always appear at the size your require. A wireless two button smooth scroll wheel mouse works great. Also Firefox has some hardware acceleration and smooth scrolling features in the Preferences > Advanced.
Web browsing for hard of seeing users
This is for if and only if you have a broadband connection from your ISP.
Once Firefox is installed follow these instructions:
Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit enter. Scroll down and/or search for the following entries:
Alter the entries as follows:
network.http.pipelining to "true" (click on "false" to set to true.)
network.http.proxy.pipelining to "true"
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.
plugins.click_to_play and set to "true" (this will not run Flash/other plugins unless clicked)
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server and set (from 6) to 8
browser.tabs.animate: "false"
Right click anywhere on the page then click on new -->string then a window pops up enter content.notify.delay then ok, then put its value: 0
Right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it nglayout.initialpaint.delay and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
What this will do is instead of your browser making only having one download pipe to a website, it opens 30, thus downloads the page elements simultaneously instead of one after another as stock browsers often have to do for those on slower Internet connections. The benefit for you is increased page rendering speed and for the server it gets your request filled faster so they can tend to all those on closed devices like tablets and smartphones who have to one slow pipe because their processors and graphics are weak compared to normal computers. There is not any increased performance past 30.
Although Safari is the faster stock browser on Mac's, a tweaked Firefox is faster on broadband connections. Pages just snap on the screen when Safari is still showing a loading bar.
Despite everything you can do, there is still the problem of older processors and graphics which on Mac's almost nothing can be done to improve it.
10.6 is the ideal performance OS X version for all Intel machines Early 2011 and earlier. It's faster than 10.5 (graphics) and faster than 10.7 and 10.8 with less of a memory footprint.
Apple is issuing updates to Snow Leopard as of this date of this User Tip update, July 1, 2013 and it's presently a good portion of OS X version market share.
See the chart here of OS X version market share according to Net Applications data.
OS X 10.4/10.5 need to upgrade, 10.6.8 ok still
If you want to continue running Snow Leopard until the hardware dies and should Apple ignore security updates, I suggest eventually installing Deep Freeze Mac and then reducing your online risks (banking, stocks etc) just in case.
Apple did issue a retroactive 10.5 (Intel) update because of Flashback, so now they are paying a bit more attention to older OS X versions now than before.
Thanks for reading and enjoy the sweet performance.


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The SWI Group is a thriving family owned and operated business that has developed into an award winning innovator in the watch industry.
With over thirty years experience, the SWI Group is one of the biggest distributors in North America. Through sheer determination and a strong work ethic, the company has grown exponentially. In what has been a challenging environment for most companies in the watch industry, the SWI Group has expanded and focused its efforts more than ever in delivering excellent quality and value for money in their products.
Among its growing list of achievements, SWI has been named in Inc. Magazine's prestigious Inc 500 list of America's 500 fastest growing, privately held companies for three consecutive years, joining such past honorees as Microsoft, Oracle, Timberland and dozens more of the most respected companies in the world. SWI was also named by the South Florida Business Journal as the 2003 Business of the Year, and was among 11 finalists for the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Cutting Edge Award
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