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Most versatile, highest quality Silver Umbrella on the market.
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Photoflex® adjustable reflective Umbrellas were already the most versatile photographic umbrellas available today; and now they're even better. The new and improved umbrella line includes ribs and strut pivots that are now made from a fiberglass composite, which is not only stronger, but also offers better resiliency and durability than steel or aluminum.
This new design feature allows for almost carefree handling, all but eliminating damage caused from over bending delicate steel tube ribs. All umbrella center poles are extruded and closed off at the base (vs. folded, hollow tubes, like many other umbrellas, that are easily bent and dented) adding to the durability of the Photoflex® umbrella model.
Silver interior for maximum light reflection. Four moveable ribs make this umbrella adjustable to alter the shape of the umbrella.
Can be used for strobe or hot lights. Also available in 30" (UM-ADH30). Shaft diameter is 8mm.
Warranty 3 Years
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- Adjustable shape: circular, square, oblong allows you to alter the shape of the catchlight and to fit small spaces
- Triple-laminated - 190 thread count, tightly woven, and triple laminated fabric eliminates light leak making this umbrella highly efficient
- Folds down like a traditional umbrella which makes it easily portable
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Arc Length 49" (124.46cm), Tip to Tip Width 43" (109.22cm), Shaft Length 27.25" (69.22cm)
Folded Length 28" (71.12cm)
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Breaking Bread is located in the heritage district of Stratford, two blocks from downtown, fine shopping and restaurants. Enjoy peace and hospitality with a retreat from the fast lane. Discover the unique shops, take a walk along the beautiful Avon River (Lake Victoria) and enjoy world class theatre at one of four venues.
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Horsham CC is a thriving club with 3 Men's Saturday League XIs, a Saturday Development XI, a Sunday XI, two Womens XIs, Thursday XI and a Junior Section for boys and girls from U9 to U16. The club also runs mini cricket for 5- 8yr olds.
The club is situated at the picturesque Cricketfield Road site overlooking Denne Hill yet only a five minute walk from the town centre. There are two cricket pitches at the club - the main square and the John Dew Ground. In addition there are grass practice nets and the recently refurbished artificial net complex which was opened in April 2011. There is a large pavilion with bar, function rooms and changing facilities.
For more information about Horsham Cricket Club (apart from fixtures and results which you will find on this site) please visit www.horshamsportsclub.com
The ECB continues to work with Sport England on the pioneering club accreditation scheme 'Clubmark' to develop a vibrant and healthy club cricket infrastructure.
Cricket clubs can play a key role in the successful delivery of Building Partnerships – cricket's strategic plan for 2006-2009 - by supporting the delivery and implementation of the following programmes:
The ECB Clubmark and community cricket clubs play a central role in all of these programmes and Clubmark will provide the standards that clubs involved in these programmes will aspire to.
In addition, it is expected that clubs who achieve the ECB Clubmark will be recognised and rewarded for their hard work and commitment to club cricket in England and Wales.
By registering to work towards ECB Clubmark, clubs join a growing number of cricket clubs across England and Wales that are prioritising junior development, creating a benchmark for high quality community club cricket.
County Cricket Development Managers can help clubs through the process of achieving ECB Clubmark Accreditation.
ECB Clubmark gives clubs an opportunity to write and implement new procedures as well as acknowledge existing practices. Cricket clubs are required to present evidence and demonstrate implementation across four different themes, culminating in the production of a Club Development Plan.
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CBH staff provides service coordination to both seniors and families; helping individuals address their individual needs. On-site staff will work with residents and their families to address a wide variety of needs including health referrals, community action and social services. CBH has forged lasting relationships with both public and private agencies to provide a range of opportunities including: financial assistance, clothing, food, educational training and mentoring to name a few.
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Kagame readied himself with the 'two tools', the genocide and 'genocide ideology', weapons he knew he would unleash against all who would want to expose the dark side of things about Rwanda and his regime, prominent among them the former President Pastuer Bizumungu and until recently, Victoire Umuhoza Ingabire.
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Bosco Ntaganda and Rwandan Security Agents Accused of Assassinations
Ntaganda should be arrested and made to answer for his crimes, rather than being allowed to walk freely in Goma," said Anneke Van Woudenberg, senior researcher at Human Rights Watch. "He is a threat to the people of eastern Congo and is making a mockery of the Congolese government's policy of zero tolerance for human rights abuses
No Two Acts of Genocide Are Dealt With the Same Way by the UN
There seems to be no precise standard procedures on how to recognize and deal with acts of genocide. Since the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide, there have been crimes that were officially characterized as genocides. In places like Rwanda, Yugoslavia or Sudan, conclusions were formally reached by different entities.
U.N. Mapping Report: US Must Come Clean
Since year 1990, the United States provided financial support and military training to the army that today stands accused, in the UN mapping report, of mass killing of hundreds of thousands of refugees while engaging in illegal mining and looting of Congo natural resources.
U.N. Report confirms Victoire Ingabire's position
Months before the UN report was published, she was the first female Rwandan to publicly defy Kagame's regime, on Rwandan soil, by mentioning war crimes committed to Hutu people during RPF military campaigns. Arriving Rwanda since 16 years, besides acknowledging the Genocide against Tutsi, she equally mentioned crimes against humanity committed to Hutu people in history of Rwanda.
DRC "Genocide" Report: U.N. Investigative Team Deputy Chief Testifies
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is publishing a vitally important report cataloguing the atrocities committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 1993 and 2003. Those who go through its 500-plus pages cannot fail to be touched by reading of the horrors the Congolese people have suffered and continue to suffer.
Video: The Leaked UN Report in Images – The contradictions of Kagame
The Rwandan government's virulent reaction against the Leaked UN report, are in total contradiction with the hate speeches of President Paul Kagame, who has often praised the actions of the Rwandan army in the DRC.
Mot « génocide » retiré de la version finale du rapport du HCDH
Comme le Rwanda participe à une importante mission de maintien de la paix au Darfour, il aurait obtenu que certains crimes commis par les ex-miliciens du FPR ne soient pas qualifiés d'actes de génocide.


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The body size and flat floor are inherited from the current model due to their high marks for ease of handling in urban areas. In addition, our ingenuity is at work in each and every portion of the frame to secure a large-capacity storage space for a full-face helmet, while the 16-inch tires, one of the SH's appeals, are also adopted.
For brakes, ABS is set for some types for Europe and a combined brake system is standard for Vietnam, in order to provide customers with a greater sense of security. The development team is confident that the 2013 model with its enhanced utility plus the high dependability that already exists for the current 125i/150i model will offer customers the greatest joy by meeting a variety of needs on a high level.
The newly designed frame body has a simple structure thanks to the wide use of high-tensile steel pipes to strike a balance between the flexibility of steel pipes and the required strength of a utility vehicle. This frame contributes to the realization of firm and steady handling performance.
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Definition of tody in English:
noun (plural todies)
A small insectivorous Caribbean bird related to the motmots, with a large head, long bill, bright green upper parts, and a red throat.
- Family Todidae and genus Todus: five species.
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- Like motmots and todies, kingfishers often have brilliant plumage, are largely insectivorous, and nest in cavities that are often excavated in earthen banks.
- Oligocene fossils of todies and motmots from Wyoming and France, for example, indicate that the current ranges of these two groups are relictual.
- When compared with the BMR of other very small birds, the tody's energetic demands appear unremarkable.
Late 18th century: from French todier, from Latin todus, the name of a small bird.
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My works are diaries and visual documents. They speak of the tragedy of war, the threat of ecological disasters and of past and current concerns.
I create heavily encrusted surfaces in my paintings and books that contain residues of nature, such as sand, ashes, and plants in an attempt to generate a strong sense of physical presence.
Ilse Schreiber-Noll was born in Germany and attended the University of Marburg before moving to the United States to study woodcut and the art of the book with the Uruguayan-American artist, Antonio Frasconi. In 1989 she received her MFA from SUNY Purchase, NY and later taught The Art of the Book with Frasconi whose politically-driven subjects combined with her own lifelong reading of the German poets and authors, especially Bertolt Brecht, inspired her strong sense of social justice. She worked with Eric Bentley, the playwright, translator and preeminent authority on Brecht and collaborated with him in producing over ten books with her woodblock prints, pen-and-ink drawings, aquarelles and collages. Collaborations with other luminaries include Joseph Brodsky, Dennis Brutus, Galway Kinnell, Octavio Paz and John Cage. Some of her most lyrical, elegiac work – in any medium – can be found among these limited edition and unique books. Many are in public and private collections worldwide.


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De Facto Loss of Sovereignty: Cyprus Makes Big Concessions for Bailout
Cyprus wants help from the European Union's bailout fund. But the price for the billions in emergency aid money is high. The country will effectively lose its sovereignty.
Dimitris Christofias had a serious look on his face as he turned to the cameras and spoke of what a "gut-wrenching" decision it was, but added that it was also a "necessary evil." The Cypriot president was not giving his people good news.
His staff realized how bad it would be when Christofias, in his televised address last Tuesday, reminded viewers of his country's darkest hour, the Turkish invasion of northern Cyprus in 1974.
Although Cyprus is not about to suffer the same fate, it is already clear that in return for billions of euros for the debt-ridden country from the European bailout fund, the "troika," made up of the European Commission, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will essentialy take control of the Mediterranean island.
The Cypriot government and representatives of the troika negotiated for almost five months over the terms of a bailout package, worth at least 17.5 billion ($22.8 billion). The negotiations produced the draft version of a 30-page Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), in which the troika dictates to Cyprus what steps it will have to take in the coming years, down to the smallest detail.
Under the deal, civil servants and politicians, including cabinet ministers, will have to fly in economy class when traveling within Europe in the future. Exceptions apply to the president of the country and the president of the parliament. Spending on foreign trips will be trimmed. The privilege senior bureaucrats have to buy cars duty-free will be eliminated. And the salaries of civil servants and lawmakers will be frozen until 2016.
Blaming the Banks
When representatives of the troika get down to the nitty-gritty of imposing rules, no detail is too small for them. For instance, they have prescribed new hours of operation for government offices. In the future, public offices will open punctually at 8 a.m. Starting Sept. 1, 2013, public servants and other government employees will work within a regulated flextime program. According to the MoU draft document, this will be "37 1/2 hours per week, 7 1/2 hours per day."
The euro rescuers also addressed government revenues. The tax on fine-cut tobacco will go up drastically from 60 to 150 per kilogram, while the beer tax will increase to 6 per degree of alcohol and hectoliter. The troika also believes that a tax increase of 7 cents per liter is appropriate for diesel fuel and gasoline.
Citizens will be especially hard-hit by the planned 2-percent increase in the value-added tax, bringing it up to 19 percent. The troika is also calling for cuts in the healthcare sector, as well as reduced pensions.
Christofias left no doubt as to who he blames for the disaster, saying: "It's true that the decisions of bank executives and the miserable control by the Cypriot central bank have cost Cyprus billions of euros." The amount of the aid package corresponds almost to the country's entire economic output in a year. According to the troika's plan, by 2016 Cyprus's national budget will be cleaned up enough that the country can hopefully make do without new debt.
Creditors to Take Losses First
Cypriot banks are also expected to make a contribution. Crisis-ridden institutions will no longer be supported solely by injections of cash from the European bailout fund. This time, the banks' creditors are also expected to pay up. "With the goal of minimizing the cost to taxpayers, bank shareholders and junior debt holders will take losses before state-aid measures are granted," the MoU draft reads. This means that creditors of Cypriot banks won't just be able to withdraw their money. Instead, their claims will be converted into bank shares.
In taking this step, the troika is avoiding a potential embarrassment. Substantial sums of Russian capital are deposited into Cypriot banks, and some of it is probably of dubious origin. It would be difficult to explain to the European public why its taxes are being used to rescue wealthy oligarchs. Now, people who had previously invested their wealth into yachts, cars and football clubs will be forcibly turned into bank owners.
At the same time, Cyprus will have to rebuild its financial sector in the coming years, along with drastically improving regulations and intensifying the fight against money laundering and tax evasion.
But on Tuesday, the president wasn't willing to end his address without giving his fellow Cypriots at least some words of comfort and hope. After the Turkish invasion, he said, the country was rebuilt. And today, he added, Cyprus can hope for a new "economic miracle."
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vertical file
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An alphabetized file for pamphlets and other small publications that do not merit a call number in a library system.
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- All of her files were in perfect order in three vertical files, and there was an extra desk in the corner, lit by an attractive pole lamp.
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Full Name: Samuel Harold Patrick Spurway
Born: March 13 1987 , Taunton. Somerset
Batting Style: Left-hand bat
Spurway came into the Somerset side late in 2006 and soon made an impression with 83 against Northants when he took over from Carl Gazzard. He has played regularly in the Somerset second XI since 2003 and made his first team debut in late 2005 in a Twenty20 when he deputised for the injured Gazzard. The form of Craig Kieswetter, with Gazzard as his deputy, saw Spurway fail to make an appearance in 2008.


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SAN ANDREAS - The San Andreas Rumble, a classic car show and swap meet, will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 19, at the Calaveras Government Center, 891 Mountain Ranch Road.
Cars are limited to those from 1976 and older, and space is limited to 100 cars.
Admission is free.
Pre-registration, which closes July 11, is $20 per car and includes guaranteed dash plaque and space.
Drive-up entry fee is $30 per car with no guarantee of a plaque or space.
Swap meet booth fees are $25 and $35, and food booth fees are $25.
The show is sponsored by the San Andreas Merchants Association. The 49ers Lions Club will serve breakfast to all who come early.
Trophies will be presented for Best of Show, Best Original, Best Truck, Best Interior, Best Paint, Best Street Rod, Best Mopar, Best Chevy, Best Ford and Best Rad Rod.
For more information, forms and booth applications, call (209) 754-0127 or go to SanAndreasMerchants.com.
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Study of A Combination Pill With GS-7977 and GS-5885 for Hepatitis C in People With HIV
|Tracking Information
|First Received Date ICMJE
|June 14, 2013
|Last Updated Date
|September 24, 2015
|Start Date ICMJE
|June 2013
|Primary Completion Date
|September 2014 (final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|To assess the safety, tolerability and efficacy of a fixed dose combination (FDC) of GS-7977/GS-5885 tablets for 12 weeks in HIV/HCV GT-1 coinfected subjects who are IFN-treatment na(SqrRoot) ve. [ Time Frame: Day 0, Day 1, Day 3, Day 5, Day 7, Day 10,Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 6, Week 8, Week 12, Week 14, Week 16, Week 20, Week 24, Week 36, Week 48, Week 60 ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Change History
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|Brief Title ICMJE
|Study of A Combination Pill With GS-7977 and GS-5885 for Hepatitis C in People With HIV
|Official Title ICMJE
|An Open Label Trial to Assess Safety, Tolerability, and Efficacy of the Fixed Dose Combination of GS-7977 and GS-5885 in HCV Genotype 1 Subjects Coinfected With HIV
|Brief Summary
- Present treatment for hepatitis C includes the use of a weekly injection and two different pills. This treatment is associated with serious side effects. Drugs that can be taken by mouth and cure HCV infection without serious side effects would be a great help to the large number of people infected with HCV. GS-7977 and GS-5885 are new medications being developed to treat the hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. They are still being researched and are not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. They are being developed as treatment for hepatitis C as a single pill taken once a day.
- To determine whether a combination of the two study drugs can safely and effectively treat HCV infection in people with HIV infection and who do not have cirrhosis of the liver.
- Individuals who have HIV infection and have liver disease caused by infection with HCV.
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Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is a major public health problem with an estimated 180 million people infected worldwide. In the US an estimated 4.1 million people are infected with HCV which is the principal cause of death from liver disease and leading indication for liver transplantation. Significant advances have been made with the approval of directly acting antivirals (DAA) namely the protease inhibitors, telaprevir (TVR) and boceprevir (BOC) which have been shown to significantly improve rates of sustained virologic response (SVR). Response rates to these new combinations in HIV/HCV are also very promising, however treatment has been characterized with high rates of toxicities.
Recently several trials have confirmed the efficacy of potent DAA therapy without concomitant IFN in the treatment of HCV monoinfected individuals. Given the improved response rates achieved with a combination of DAAs with fast HCV suppression and improved side-effect profiles; and the need for better therapy for HIV/HCV co-infected subjects, we propose a study to determine the safety, tolerability and efficacy of 12 weeks of treatment with a fixed dose combination of GS-7977 and GS-5885 in HIV/HCV Genotype 1 (GT-1) subjects. We hypothesize that anti-HCV therapy that does not rely on the host immune system will provide an enhanced rate of SVR among HIV/HCV GT-1 coinfected subjects. The findings from this study will aid in our understanding of determinants of response to an IFN-free regimen in HIV/HCV coinfected individuals.
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Masking: Open Label
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The GS-7977/GS-5885 FDC product combines a potent HCV nucleotide inhibitor and a potent HCV NS5A inhibitor and will be given for 12 weeks.
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Subjects with HIV and HCV
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BMW Recalling 1.3 Million Cars To Fix Electrical Flaw
FRANKFURT—German luxury-car maker BMW AG said on Monday that it is recalling about 1.3 million vehicles world-wide for repair due to potential problems with a battery-cable cover, one of the German luxury car maker's largest recalls in recent years.
"In some remote cases, the battery cable cover inside the boot [trunk] of these vehicles may be incorrectly mounted," BMW said. "This can result in the electrical system malfunctioning, the vehicle failing to start and, in some cases, to charring or fire."
The recall covers all BMW 5 and 6 Series models built between 2003 and 2010. The company said it isn't aware of any accident or injury that was triggered through the technical fault.
Vehicle owners will be notified in writing. Repairs will take approximately 30 minutes and will be free of charge to the customer. BMW didn't elaborate on the anticipated costs it will face related to the recall.
A BMW spokesman said the recall is a precautionary safety measure as no accidents have been reported so far. Nine cases of related defects have been reported. BMW has filed a notification to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The recall comes a month after the auto maker agreed with U.S. safety regulators to pay $3 million in civil penalties for failing to report safety defects soon enough.
A review of 16 BMW recalls issued in 2010 found "a number of instances" in which the auto maker didn't comply with U.S. law, the NHTSA said last month.
BMW denied that it violated federal law, but agreed to make internal changes to its recall decision-making process in order to "ensure timely reporting to consumers and the federal government in the future."
The U.S. requires auto makers to report defects within five days and promptly issue a recall to correct the problem.
Many global auto makers have reported large-scale recalls in recent months and years, highlighting the potential risks of sharing certain components and technology through a wide range of different vehicles to reap economies of scale.
In 2009 and 2010, Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. was hit by a huge global recall affecting roughly 9 million vehicles world-wide that dented its reputation for producing top-quality cars. NHTSA, however, didn't find evidence of electronic defects in the Toyota vehicles.
The BMW recall disclosed on Monday is almost equivalent to the annual sales volume of the company's namesake brand in 2011. The BMW brand achieved a new sales record last year with a 13% rise year-on-year to 1.38 million cars. The BMW 5- and 6-series accounted for 332,501 and 9,396 vehicle sales, respectively.
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I usually have just cheese bread and a salad, but I am having in-laws over and my MIL is bringing the lasagna so I have more time to put into the side dishes. Anyone have any wow recipes?
I usually have just cheese bread and a salad, but I am having in-laws over and my MIL is bringing the lasagna so I have more time to put into the side dishes. Anyone have any wow recipes?
I think zucchini would go great with lasagna. You could do a grilled zucchini .....
I am thinking asparagus..............
You could roast it in the oven while lasagna sits to firm.
No "wow" sides, but I always serve saut�ed or roasted vegetables with lasagne or other casseroles. For anything Italian-inspired I'll saut� thick slices (cut on the bias) of zucchini (green and/or yellow) with whole, crushed cloves of garlic and quartered button mushrooms or slices of red onion and add oregano. Or saut�ed spinach or chard or, as Jodi suggested, asparagus.
Is it a traditional red meat sauce in the lasagne?
ETA: Again, not "wow" but if you wanted a sense of abundance, you could do two different sides, such as roasted asparagus and saut�ed yellow squash, or saut�ed chard and steamed yellow beans. Just a thought.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a byproduct. - Eleanor Roosevelt
If it's a cheese lasagna with red sauce, I usually have a side of meatballs and/or sausages in sauce for the meat lovers. Helps people fill up without the heaviness of a huge lasagna slice.
She usually makes one vegetarian lasagna with spinach and I think the other one has a combination of sausage and ground beef. I made asperagus the last time they were here, but the roasted veggies sound like a very good idea. Lasagna, sauce, cheese bread and roasted veggies. Does that sound like enough? Can anyone think of one more side dish that would work?
I was going to mention sauteed spinach w/nutmeg, but if she is making a veggie one w/spinach that is out.
Lasagna is a heavy meal, your menu sounds great. No need to over do it. Just one veggie side and bread AND WINE sounds just right.
We're roasting asparagus for our Christmas dinner and I can't wait. So yummy!
Merry Christmas!
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Belying its name, not much happiness surrounds the Proyecto Alegría dual-immersion program these days.
The "happy project" that opened in 1996 to teach elementary children in both English and Spanish will be phased out after June. Mount Pleasant School District Superintendent George Perez cited a budget crisis as he recommended scaling back the program and closing its host school, Ida Jew Elementary in East San Jose.
By some measures, Proyecto Alegría has been highly successful. On Thursday, Maria Solorio's first-grade class was reading aloud a story about a sad starfish and discussing what makes a paragraph — all in Spanish. In dual immersion, students begin in kindergarten learning 90 percent in Spanish and 10 percent in English. The proportion shifts with each grade, until it reaches 50-50 by fourth or fifth grade.
Parents and teachers love it. It draws one-quarter of its 240 students as transfers from surrounding districts. Many are from middle-class families, who have infused volunteer hours and energy into the low-income school.
"It's a fantastic program," said Lisa Vanbuhler, who lives in the Evergreen School District but drives her second grader to Proyecto Alegría and placed her younger daughter on the waiting list when she was 1 to ensure a place. Parents are drawn by the prospect of their children becoming bilingual and biliterate at an early age.
So when the Mount Pleasant board voted 4-1 last month to accept Perez's recommendation to close the school, children and adults from Proyecto Alegría wept.
"It's very frustrating for me," said Luz Vázquez, a Spanish-only speaker who credits the program and its teachers with getting her struggling son back on track when he first moved into the district last year. "It's been a huge support for me. It's like family."
However, Perez says the program costs an additional $80,000 annually, an unaffordable expense during a time of budget cutting. Additionally, he said, teaching Spanish cannot be a priority for a public school. He added it makes sense to close Ida Jew, which has the smallest neighborhood attendance and is centrally located.
The district must cut $2.8 million over the next two years, and closing the school would close the gap significantly.
Perez has proposed shrinking Proyecto Alegría from its current K-6 configuration to just primary grades at two different schools next year, then shedding an additional grade in subsequent years.
Additionally, Perez said he will not allow out-of-district students back next year. "Our obligation is to the children of my district, not to the 61 children who don't belong in this district. They are here as guests."
For the moment, Perez is also refusing to grant requests from Mount Pleasant parents who want to enroll their children next school year in nearby Spanish immersion programs such as the Adelante program in Alum Rock.
He said he will consider granting such transfers only after figuring out districtwide enrollment in June. However, that's not in accordance with the state education code, which allows parents to appeal to the county board of education if they're not granted a transfer within 30 days of asking.
Parents said they're furious and anxious.
"He doesn't want to let go of our kids," said Rocio Martinez, who purchased a home in the Mount Pleasant School District so her children, now in the fourth and first grades, could attend Proyecto Alegría. "I speak Spanish but I don't speak it correctly," she said. "I want them to learn something I can't teach them."
While Perez acknowledged that dual immersion is an effective way to teach a second language, "That's not our purpose." A former bilingual teacher, Perez notes, "A law was passed that we teach in English." In order to enroll their children in dual immersion, parents must sign a waiver to the English-only requirements that voters imposed in passing Proposition 227 in 1998.
For now, he said he is focused on keeping the district afloat amid an unprecedented budget crisis. He's trying to preserve 20-to-1 student-teacher ratios — favored by parents and teacher unions — at primary levels, and teacher and support-staff jobs. The district has issued 73 preliminary pink slips, including to many of the Proyecto Alegría teachers.
However, trustee Betty Martinez, the sole vote opposing the closure of Ida Jew school and Proyecto Alegría, said that it's not a done deal, and that a budget committee is investigating alternatives.
Parents are angry that the board voted to end the program with only a few days' advance notice, without considering other options and without consulting the community.
And they say they've been given inconsistent answers and have been treated rudely by Perez.
"Every day it's a different story from him," said parent Vanessa Rios, who transports her two children from the Evergreen school district to the program. She said out-of-district parents heard only this week that they wouldn't be allowed back next year, and are now scrambling for alternatives.
Perez answers that the board doesn't need to hold a public hearing to close a school. "They're arguing about a program? I'm not even going to engage in that."
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Australian retirees are being dudded
Piers Akerman
–, Tuesday, February, 12, 2013, (4:08am)
AUSTRALIAN retirees are being slugged compared to those in six of eight of the more advanced nations, a new study has found.
No-one should be surprised.
What was a good idea has been rorted and corrupted by Labor (even though Labor introduced compulsory super) as it tries to find money to meet its burgeoning deficit.
The international consultants, Mercer, found Canada, Chile, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the US and the UK all had more generous tax treatment of retirees while Denmark and Sweden provided lower benefits – but spent more on pensions than Australia.
According to a report in The Australian, Mercer found Australia is the only country of all nine to charge a tax rate on employer contributions, at 15 per cent, and the only one not to offer employee tax deductible contributions. It's also one of three to have a tax rate on investment income.
It found that the net retirement benefit of an average British worker was 16.4 per cent - or $43,534 - higher than their Australian counterpart.
Australia has the lowest contribution cap - at $25,000 per annum - which is significantly short of other countries when expressed as a percentage of average earnings.
"We believe increasing concessional caps, particularly for those aged over 45 should be a priority for government, rather than reducing super tax concessions," Mercer managing director David Anderson said.
"Higher superannuation benefits due to increased contributions, improved investment returns or lower taxation will lead to less pressure from the ageing population in future budgets."
Labor plays the politics of envy and has systematically reduced the amount of money that can put aside even though self-funded retirees reduce the burden on the state and the cost of administering super regulations is greater than the revenue the government receives.
.The government claims there is a cost of $32 billion in so-called "tax concessions" given to taxpayers but that ignores the benefit of removing the burden from government of retirees who fund their own retirement.
Super is ripe for reform. Even taking it back to the model former Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating installed would be better than the current corrupted system.
But Prime Minister Gillard's failed Treasurer Wayne Swan and his henchman, Bill Shorten, are circling Australian super savings like Eddie Obeid over a coal field.
Watch your wallets and watch your super when this gang is on the move.
Have Your Say
But Piers Wayne Swan is the worlds greatest treasurer! Hes got a certificate to prove it.
While he can break a glass with his bare hand he cannot produce a promised surplus. Although he produces pamphlets paid for by taxpayers to say he did.
Its a mad world.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (04:21am)
Tue 12 Feb 13 (07:42am)
Yet in the meantime read and weep as Gillard/Swan/Labor Party spend your Super Money on themselves
Mates at the feeding trough
Old habits die hard. Bob Carr, unexpectedly revived from his lucrative retirement jobs last year to become Australian foreign minister, had scarcely warmed his new seat before he was talking about exercising his powers of patronage to give jobs to old cronies. On his personal staff or otherwise, so long as the public was paying the bill. Even before nightfall, the rumour mills were talking of Carr's canvassing a purely patronage appointment of John McCarthy, QC (erstwhile legal adviser to NSW Labor and close Carr mate).
McCarthy (who is not the retired professional diplomat) is no doubt a splendid and able chap, but would not have appeared on a Department of Foreign Affairs shortlist for diplomatic appointment had it contained 10,000 names. He's a mate. He may have the capacity to do a job, but, in the tribal world of political appointments, the fit is only a secondary consideration.
Likewise another mate, former (and slightly shopsoiled) NSW minister Craig Knowles, was made chairman of the Murray-Darling Authority by Environment Minister Tony Burke. Former Queensland premier Peter Beattie was named as Australia's first resources sector supplier envoy by Julia Gillard.
There are lots of others. Even Trish Crossin, recognising her fight to hold her Senate seat is lost, has been said to be asking for a diplomatic job so she can continue her service to Australia. Had Robert McClelland kept his sense of perpetual and dynastic entitlement in order, and his mouth shut, he might be sitting on a federal court by now, or as Australia's representative to some European bushfire committee.
Carr got out of NSW politics, on an enormous but, as it turned out, inadequate pension, while the going was good.
Many of these were now being subcontracted out to public-private partnerships, if at ruinous cost to taxpayers. Indeed, Carr became so expert on this form of public-private financing that, in well-earned retirement, his services as a consultant were promptly, if expensively and unexpectedly, snapped up by a leading merchant bank and venturer.
and sums up
in NSW Labor, the joke goes:
? Nothing on the level;
? Everything is a deal;
? No deal is too small.
? Pay to play
? Strictly cash and carry;
? No reasonable offer refused.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (08:47am)
" A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
The Queensland electoral wipe-out of Brand imbecile will be nothing compared to what happens to Brand Immobilize travellers at all levels of Government if they attempt to steal the efforts of those who have been prudent in saving for their retirement.
The politics of envy & average fail miserably when it is exposed that some consider themselves betterer than those they profess to work for.
Labor values are being exposed daily in various venues & many many many are less than impressed to say the least.
" The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. "
Marcus Aurelius
Previously mentioned investigations into Brand Bollocks are quite possibly the tip of the ice berg. The more that is exposed the more that is shown to be needing to be exposed.
The hit is going to fit the shan then well & truly causing the pucker factor to rise faster than the national debt for those involved. Practice saying Sir to Bubba in the big house.
" Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it. "
George Santayana
It would seem that Gen Y (me me me) have lost faith in the 24hr thought bubblets that pose as adults on the Government Benches.
Obviously a 'Focus Group' has told McDckwit they are no longer the bestest thing since Facebook hence the need for pencil cases for primary school children to feel the 'luv' & being their indoctrinations into how good some think they are.
Makes me puke!
Tue 12 Feb 13 (09:13am)
Australia is being dudded Piers.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (01:59pm)
Wayne Swan was the worlds greatest treasurer AT THAT POINT IN TIME… if selected out of all treasurers in the past 50 years he would not even come close. Unlike his counterparts when the GFC hit we entered the GFC with money in the bank and zero debt thanks to Peter Costello. All Swan did was spend every cent and then continued to borrow even more, he is incompetant to the extreme.
Unlike Labor Howard and Costello did give handouts but only when they paid off Labor last debt… Labor just keep handin g money to everyone that wants it and are borrowing to do it...Liberals unlike Labor live within their means…
Tue 12 Feb 13 (03:09pm)
Mr Swan has managed to win Mr Keating's wooden spoon I wonder how many future Labor Treasurers names will be engraved on it,they say confession is good for the soul,then wuy the hell did he and she not "fess up" sooner?? they might have gained a little bit of credibility.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (05:42pm)
Absolutely right, OldOzzie.
And this super contribution cap is one of Labor's super traps.
The reduction of the cap from $300000 { I think it was] to $25000 was just another tax grab from middle-income earners, if I read correctly yesterday's debate on the subject, with most of the information given by Paul Fletcher [ Bradfield].
It's 'taxing through trickery', according to Fletcher and the other Coalition speakers---Rudd and Gillard having reduced the cap so that every year more Australians are caught out by it , as they exceed the cap inadvertently, mostly due to the timing of inputs that's out of their hands.
Labor knows how easily and unavoidably it can happen, , but they don't give a damn about the workers---not when there's money in it for them---to try to tart up own ugly bottom line.
They've raised $176million from ordinary Australians so far by tricking them into exceeding the cap and thereafter having to pay tax at a rate of 93% on the excess contributions.
If caught in the trap, Australian workers can't rectify their situation---they just have to pay up!
The Coalition will legislate to allow rectification, where the cap was exceeded inadvertently, to put an end to Labor's money grab, and I think they're trying to get a private members' bill to that effect up now, as well as raising the cap.
They'll probably be stymied by the Greens and the dependents.
I think the whole super scheme was really all about getting workers' money into the grubby hands of union bosses and ex union bosses and other Labor cronies---nothing to do with looking after the workers.
It's controlled by the union comrades and it's they who are enriched by it.
The union bosses' remuneration goes up even when their investment incompetence causes members' super to go down.
But now, the real purpose of super emerges, as they use their enormous power to invest ideologically.
First Super sold out of News Corp shares, because , as they stated, they don't approve of News Corp's management practices----and they object to the salaries paid to the executives----never mind about what workers whose funds they are think.
Couldn't have anything to do with the fact that News Corp publications are the only ones telling the truth about Labor's scams---about Julia Gillard's connection to the alleged fraud and money-laundering operation run by her former lover----or about all of the alleged fraud and theft from low-paid workers, perpetrated by their union boss comrades---or the manipulation and corruption of every institution they deem necessary, in order to keep a lid on the cover-ups of their widespread corruption, so they can stay one or two steps ahead of law enforcement---could it??? Perish the thought!!
Super funds are also threatening to target Grollo in support of the CFMEU.
We're probably going to see them target fossil fuel industries soon if they can do it without shooting themselves in the foot.
Fri 15 Feb 13 (02:20pm)
This begs the question on the recently revealed massive pay rise (45 pcent?) to Jules which will give her a very nice pension and benefits for the rest of her life.
"You are about to witness a crime...."
Where's Karl Malden when you need him?
Tue 12 Feb 13 (04:23am)
Tue 12 Feb 13 (08:20am)
One day, OU Dave, I think we will see this sad piece of political history made into a mini-series.
I'm predicting it will be called "The Incompetents" and will be promoted with the tag -
"There was no end to their need for a buck....no policy they didn't ....."
Tue 12 Feb 13 (12:00pm)
Well, @Jacket - we've got the movie. And Dave, it's got Karl's nose.
Alcoholics become more and more desperate for money.
Treasurers who are not real world enough to handle money .. the same.
Beware those with Super.
John Jay.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (04:46am)
Tue 12 Feb 13 (06:44am)
Beware all Australians John.
Every citizen in our great country is at risk, morally, ethically and economically.
There is no part of our lives these morons have not compromised or undermined.
My belief we are a considerably weaker nation than we were 6 short years ago and we most certainly are lesser people.
We have lost our way.
It disturbs me that we can allow this to happen in a democracy such as this because we the people do have the power to exact change but not the integrity or intelligence.
Every Australian, every Australian, not just conservatives, ought to stamp out this destructive woman and this party with their vote comes election time, whenever that may be, and force real change with a massive victory the likes of which we've never seen before.
Nothing short of complete annihilation will suffice - total unity by concerned citizens is required to put the sword to the unions, the corruption, the insane migration policies, the foreign affairs catastrophe, the economic mismanagement, the contempt for our parliamentary system and the abuse of our legal system to name but a few.
C'mon Aussies, c'mon!
Tue 12 Feb 13 (10:19am)
To Proud Aussie Migrant -
My belief we are a considerably weaker nation than we were 6 short years ago and we most certainly are lesser people.
John Jay.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (11:26am)
Well said Proud Aussie Migrant. In Labor's mind, they think they are doing what's best for Australia. The reality is far different. Swan is driven to get a surplus anyway he can and if that means raiding the super of hard working Australians so be it. In their mind, corruption is a way to further your interests and bugger the rest of us. But alas, there will be forty percent of people voting for these cretins.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (11:42am)
Once govt regulated superannuation it meant that they had put their mark on it and the money was now theirs to use/take/steal whenever the need arose.
Make no bones about it IT ISN'T YOUR MONEY according to govt.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (01:19pm)
Proud aussie migrant, as John Jay says you have said this very well, let it come to pass, we can only hope.
Swan, Shorten, Gillard and that freak from the western suburbs, David Bradbury, who will soon be unemplyed, fail to understnd economics. Pensioners, whether on social security or superannuation benefits, are at the mercy of financil markets.
Centrelink deems pensioners to earn a set rate, even though they don't. They have a deeming rate:
Currently a deeming rate of 3 per cent applies to the first:
$45,400 of a single customer's total financial investments
$75,600 of a pensioner couple's total financial investments
Most baks wont offer this rate, but Swan et al couldn't give a stuff. Swan constantly tells us that the GFC has affected government receipts. What does he think it has done to super funds you friggen moron. Lower values, lower income.
Yet this ignorant cretin prances around mentioning fiscal consolidation, two speed economy, lower interest rates which only helps 30% of the population, has increased the number of unemployed by 161,000 etc etc.
You are a total failure Swan - take your friggen pension and get out of our lives. Put an indigenous gay blind quadriplegic hearing-impared person in your place. Get better resilts out of them.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (04:46am)
Tue 12 Feb 13 (08:24am)
Village - I don't know what Swan would do if he didn't have his famous GFC to point the finger of blame at whenever he has to explain some financial disaster of his own making.
In truth, Australia was cushioned from the effects of the GFC because we had not invested in the economic disaster that felled the US and many countries in the Northern Hemisphere. So in fact, the scandalous sub-prime lending scandal that led to the collapse of a large part of the US banking system had little impact on our economy.
Yet it has provided Swan with a very convenient scapegoat as he tries to explain away the many blunders he has made as this country's Treasurer. Unfortunately, he gets away with it thanks to a fawning Media and of course 30% of gullible voters.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (09:57am)
Village.....Stop stalking that dope Emerson on twitter and get back to blogging!
Why have you stopped giving a shout out to Caz now that you have a regular spot on the Steve Price show?
Tue 12 Feb 13 (01:27pm)
I just saw Kevin Rudd on Sky say that the original mining tax was Swan's design, which was agreed upon by Rudd and his key caucus members. It was changed by Gillard after she washed the blood off her knife. My take on this is that Gillard's chest beating and self proclaiming "master negotiator" status was unfounded. Swan is all over the place like a break dancer on peptides. He is looking like a real wind sock.
Bank's commercial lending rates are still up around 8-9%, so there are not a lot of people who benefit from the low rates.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (01:27pm)
hey there I am heairng impaired these days to quite a severe degree due to oto sclerosis, a right pain in the bum I can tell you but I am not stupid. Hope that is not what you mean by your list. You would be amazed how many people think just that, hearing impaired is retarded, my dog is smarter than a lot of people and the alarming thing to me is not that we have to vote, it is that some dopes are allowed to vote. I will finsih off by saying a friend of mine would say be careful what you think in front of her , she will know.
Piers, the idiot goose has been chomping at the bit for a while now impatiently waiting for his union boss to tell him how to thieve some of the nation's superannuation, because its all very well to splash it around buying brainless voters yes ticks but since Keating gave the unions the role of super management ( or most of it) great care needs to be exercised to ensure the most damage is done to those not under direct union management. The bonus of course is that if the coming election is a dud, the treasury is now so very seriously damaged that the next government will be on the nose within the first six months.That's without even the free assistance of brainless idiots like Woodforth that Newman so far hasn't run over with a very large truck! Woodforth? that's the self interested dope head who quite gladly would insist that several generations of children have teeth similar to those of third world countries, but that doesn't matter because he has learned from Labor that self interest is the aim of becoming an MP. He simply has not the slightest interest in the Qld government.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (04:49am)
Tue 12 Feb 13 (10:09am)
Labor philosophy requires that the greedy and the envious must steal from future generations (our children) to satify the basic instincts of their supporters. How anyone supports these criminals defies all understanding.
We should be surprised ?
I think not.
A disgraceful performance government with
7 months till to run exploiting those they were
elected to serve.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (05:04am)
Tue 12 Feb 13 (09:33am)
Further to this Farce, the more I read, listen to, and think about the sports scandal launched the other day by two Labor ministers the more I am of the opinion it is another McTiernan diversion.
Sanctioned, of course, by Julia in the interests of retaining power no matter the cost to our national reputation so hard fought for by our now tarnished sporting heroes!.
What manner of people are these that would damage the nation and our elite citizens thus?
Simply the scum of our society.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (10:22am)
Re; p,a,migrant
Yes..exactly another diversion..
But what about the refugee boats..??? they are still arriving and the Gillard friendly media now does not report them..
Why ? you should ask…
Aaah yes..it's an election year....
Tue 12 Feb 13 (11:28am)
What manner of people, proud aussie, you may well ask.
What Labor is has been know for a very very long time.
Trueblue Australians warned of the dangers of rejecting
Howard and the coaltion in favour of Rudd Labor -
Australians were warned time after time that to opt for
Labor was to opt to go riding with the four horse men of the
I was one of those people who in letters to editors and political
blogs - Piers, Bolt etc. predicted the coming disaster which
was clear enough to any political tragic.
Unfortunately for Australia the voters, for reasons unknown to
this patriot, decided Labor , political correctness, Marxism
warm fuzzies and sheer idiocy was just what they and the country needed.
My rage despair at what Labor and its other arm the Greens
have done to my country knows no bounds.
Oakeshott and Windsor have a lot of "hate" questions to
answer as well as the ugly ugliness switches to full on as
the day of reckoning draws ever nearer.
Pity Tony Abbott and coalition who once again will have to
set to and try to repair the damage Labor will leave in its
wake as it smirks its way out the exit door staggering under
the weight of taxpayers money for life.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (01:33pm)
Farce Observer, I remember reading an article in the Herald Sun by former National Senator, John Stone saying if people think they have got it hard now it is nothing to what it will be under Labor and that was from a former Labor,he was right too but I thought the same.
If you are very wealthy when you retire, then you are okay.
If you are very poor when you retire, then you are okay because you will receive a pension and all the entitlements that go with it.
If you are somewhere in the middle when you retire, then heaven help you because the government won't.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (05:13am)
I have my hands on my super now. So I will watch how those political allsorts like the Treasurer Wayne Swan and his team players. Those same politicians who always ask for our votes to be given to them in the trust they will exercise their influence in our best interest. Continue as political team players to dismantle and sell off infrastructure and often the natural resources which support it, which we the taxpayers paid to put in place. What we witness at NSW ICAC is a microcosm of those political sins being committed, and accommodated in camera by the political parties and their supporters. Edward James
Tue 12 Feb 13 (05:34am)
Labor has never been a supporter of superannuants. Labor and the Greens blocked the Howard/Costello initiative of tax free super after age 60 in the Senate until Barnaby Joyce was elected allowing this bill to be passed as the coalion took control of the senate. Labor saw this as a move that pandered to the wealthy. This is a classic example of what Mr Akerman describes as the "Politics of envy".
It also clearly demonstrates that Labor has no idea about the concept of a cost/benefit analysis.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (05:38am)
Tue 12 Feb 13 (11:32am)
It also clearly demonstrates that Labor has no idea about the concept of a cost/benefit analysis.
Indeed Mandrake. NBN, rolling out computers to every student in Australia, BER. Wouldn't mind knowing the cost/benefit analysis wash-up in giving the ABC 10 million extra. In giving 10 billion to the Clean Energy Fund.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (12:53pm)
Mandrake - Labor doesn't like people who have money - except themselves of course, and then the sky's the limit.
Labor ideology dicates that wealth should be shared, Robin Hood-like. Our welfare system - introduced by Whitlam - is a perfect example, taxpayers supporting those who can't (or won't) work.
Labor believes that government should have full control of the Nation's wealth, and that includes private savings.
They want their minions to be dependent on them, to pay homage and give thanks for the largesse of their government's esteemed leadership.
This Labor government is perhaps the most arrogant and self-seeking of them all. Whitlam and Keating weren't exactly shrinking violets, but when you look at the line-up on the Labor front bench in Parliament, it would be hard to argue that this lot don't surpass all others. Their whole demeanor reeks of arrogance. They revel at being able to perform for the cameras, and the louder the better. Amazing, because the more they indulge themselves the more they antagonise the voters.
So I say to them go your hardest because come September most (I hope all) of those faces will be gone. - a clean sweep. Any bids for a green leather chair ..........anyone?
Compulsory superannuation is a cruel con, and has been so ever since Paul Keating devised the scheme to provide a stream of endless funds for the unions.
They are expensive to administer, low on real returns and totally tie up a person's life savings so they can do you no earthly good until you reach the magical retirement age and are allowed to limited access your own money.
It has been suggested elsewhere that these schemes are far too rigid and are in urgent need of reform.
While few choose to believe it, superannuation is a tax.
As Brent Fleeton pointed out in a recent article for Menzies House: "The money you contribute is reduced by entry fees and tax (and then ongoing fees), then what's left is invested into an 'expertly chosen' range of poor performing managed funds. These are the funds which exist to assist in growing a nest egg that can be converted into a pension stream to fund your retirement; however a majority of these funds are struggling to meet or beat the relevant benchmark, regardless of the excess performance fees charged."
Why, for example are we prohibited from investing our hard earned super contribution of 9% (soon to be 12% in real estate?
Most people accumulate a balance in their super fund for a sizeable deposit. Real estate is historically the vehicle of choice for Australians to accumulate wealth. Those who is fund their own retirement will tell you that property and direct shares outside of super are the answer, not industry super.
Fleeton points out that "The millions of dollars in compulsory contributions of the current scheme goes towards feathering the bed-lining of super fund managers, cushions the share price of listed super funds, and forces government to legislatively guarantee a minimum income for an industry that was established to build wealth for clients."
Australia is top heavy with regulation and government interference, to appease those scared of true free markets.
Open up superannuation to individual choice and flexibility - it is OUR money.
Remember, compulsory superannuation was set up by PM Paul Keating to benefit the unions, and by flow-through, the Australian Labor Party.
Time for another party of a different colour to cut the connection with the unions and allow Australians access to their own savings, for property investment and less straight-jacketed management of self-managed funds designed to truly provide independence from government in our retirement,
Tue 12 Feb 13 (05:56am)
Tue 12 Feb 13 (12:00pm)
Well said Jim.
As I recall Keating and ALP set up the Industry funds as union membership had fallen drastically.
And Bernie Fraser - Ex Treasury Secretary (1984 to 1989), Ex Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (1989 to 1996) now director of several industry superannuation funds and director of Members Equity Bank. Also Chairman of the Board of the Climate Change Authority.
Still a spruiker for union superannuation funds with the catchphrase; "it's the super of the future" .
It appals me that this govt and in particular, Wayne Turkey is even contemplating touching our super fund to help defray the massive deficit created by downright stupidity. No way should those who have prudently (a word turkey wouldn't understand) put away their retirement savings including salary sacrifice, be plundered by this pathetic excuse for a govt. Leave our super alone!
Tue 12 Feb 13 (06:08am)
Labor was harping on, all last week, that the Libs were going to punish people, by slugging their super with a higher tax rate
And that they are the party, that not only raised super contributions, they always look after retirees
Dont tell me they lied? Oh My God how shocking
Tue 12 Feb 13 (06:25am)
Judith Sloan, writing in the Australian today comments:
"It is easy to get the impression that the underlying view of Treasury is that 100 per cent of all income should belong to the government and any residual that taxpayers are allowed to keep should be regarded as a concession."
This seems to be the premise that Gillard Labor operates under.
Income tax was introduced as a temporary war time measure to fund the war. Since then successive governments have dreamed up new ways to tax and regulate us, all in the name of the public good.
What a country Australia could become if only we could get the burden of taxation and regulation off our backs.
It starts by demanding LESS from government and LESS government interference in our lives, in our pay packets and in our savings provisions.
Governments should get out of our back pockets and allow us to spend our money where WE see fit, not some nannying government bureaucrat who thinks he or she knows better than we do.
We should agitate for LESS government, LESS government intrusion in our lives and LESS government bureaucrats, whose sole purpose it seems is to dream up new ways to make life more difficult and expensive for the rest of us.
If Tony Abbott creates his mooted tax-reduced zone in Northern Australia, I will be the first in line to move up their with my own small business.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (06:36am)
The whole of Australia is being dudded.
I can't see this lot making it to September.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (06:38am)
Maybe Juliea should make Eddie Obeid a senator as she has done before with another failed NSW polie Obeid has made more money out of mining than Swan has out of his mining tax she could get him to assist our world's greatest treasurer
Tue 12 Feb 13 (06:39am)
It is not only Superannuation that needs attention, the entire Taxation System has to be simplified full stop.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (06:44am)
Off Topic Piers. Pope Benedict XV1 shall resign at the end of this month. He states that his failing health, is making it impossible to carry out his duties
I would like to say this . Thank you emminance, for your service to God , Your service as Pope , Your service to the Church and for your service to all followers, and may God grant you grace, and help you through the tough times you are now facing
Now wait for the anti catholic bigots and haters, to come in and attack such a fine individual
Tue 12 Feb 13 (06:50am)
Let's just tell our kids
'You've got 2 options, join Labor, get in on the rorts and your future is assured or don't try, just bludge and survive on taxpayer handouts'
Tue 12 Feb 13 (06:50am)
Tue 12 Feb 13 (02:23pm)
To Country Liberal -
You have touched on a very important point.
The Left want weak, dependent, cowering, wet lettuce citizens.
The Right want strong, independent, brave, upright citizens.
John Jay.
Piers, thank you very much, and translating into simple language the Mercer report in the Australian. This is indeed a very timely warning, and I will take heed of your advice as your remarks
"But Prime Minister Gillard's failed Treasurer Wayne Swan and his henchman, Bill Shorten, are circling Australian super savings like Eddie Obeid over a coal field.
Watch your wallets and watch your super when this gang is on the move" couldn't better describe the behaviour of this Government.
Swan is an absolute dope and a joke and a danger to us all.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (06:51am)
In 2045 a New Labor Party will be sworn in, and in 2050 - 55 the budget will achieve a small surplus - in 10 years time in 2065.
" These changes are expected to increase Australia's pool of retirement savings by $500 billion by 2035. We all know Australia's resources boom won't last forever. The MRRT will help lock in the gains for generations to come. "
One of the worlds greatest living treasurers - Wayne Swan.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (07:07am)
Tue 12 Feb 13 (04:23pm)
How easily the gullible are fooled by Green Union Labor Oaktoad, minerals and energy under the ground are owned by the state and territory governments on behalf of their citizens and miners are charged a resources tax for the right to extract. The miners are also liable for a raft of other taxes like any other company and including federal government company tax.
To claim that a so called super profits tax is recovering monies for us from our minerals and energy resources is a nonsense as is the concept of super profit. Why should a mining company pay more than other companies pay in company tax?
And for the government to claim that the opposition is wrong about the adverse impact of MRRT when the estimated tax revenue is way below estimate is another nonsense. The fact that a new tax was imposed concerns foreign investors who ask themselves what will the government impose next, and accordingly they invest their money into mining in the countries Australia competes with for market share.
Typical socialist thinking, how to turn off the economic lights.
Tue 12 Feb 13 (04:23pm)
How easily the gullible are fooled by Green Union Labor Oaktoad, minerals and energy under the ground are owned by the state and territory governments on behalf of their citizens and miners are charged a resources tax for the right to extract. The miners are also liable for a raft of other taxes like any other company and including federal government company tax.
To claim that a so called super profits tax is recovering monies for us from our minerals and energy resources is a nonsense as is the concept of super profit. Why should a mining company pay more than other companies pay in company tax?
And for the government to claim that the opposition is wrong about the adverse impact of MRRT when the estimated tax revenue is way below estimate is another nonsense. The fact that a new tax was imposed concerns foreign investors who ask themselves what will the government impose next, and accordingly they invest their money into mining in the countries Australia competes with for market share.
Typical socialist thinking, how to turn off the economic lights.
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