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SANTA CRUZ -- A 28-year-old Santa Cruz man and his 58-year-old mother suspected of killing their property manager were arraigned on murder charges Friday. Neither entered a plea.
Daniel Xane Cohen and Diana Lynn Cohen, who are each charged with murder, stood quietly in court during their first appearance after the Saturday slaying.
Daniel Cohen spoke twice in court: once to accept the assignment for a public defender and once to ask Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge John Salazar for a pencil.
The two are accused in the shooting of their 63-year-old property manager Jonathan Gordon Smith, who was found dead Saturday morning at a 41st Avenue office complex where he worked in Capitola.
Smith, of Santa Cruz, was in the process of evicting the two from a two-bedroom, two-story apartment at 1775 Kinsley St. in Live Oak. It was the second such eviction in just five months as they were removed from a Button Street apartment in June for failure to pay rent.
Prosecutor Celia Rowland said the eviction was a factor in the case but declined to say if it was the motivation for the shooting.
"As you can imagine, it's always difficult to get into a defendant's head," she said. "It does appear that that was relevant. But as far as what the motive was for killing him, it would be speculation at this point."
Rowland declined to say who investigators believe the shooter was.
"It depends on the evidence," Rowland said. "Obviously it's something we're looking into. It's something we're very interested in, but it's unclear what the extent of the evidence is going to be, forensic evidence or eyewitness testimony."
Capitola police said Smith had been shot several times and that there was no sign of a struggle.
Police from several agencies were led to the Cohens after speaking with many people Smith knew.
The two were arrested early Wednesday morning at their Live Oak home.
Defense attorneys for both defendants declined to comment about the case, citing the need for further facts.
Diana Cohen described her occupation as a model in court documents. Her son said his occupation was laborer. Both remain in Santa Cruz County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail and are scheduled for further arraignment Nov. 26.
Smith owned Shearwater Property Management, which oversaw apartments in Santa Cruz, Capitola, Watsonville and Aptos.
Family and friends remembered Smith as a former skipper of a Long Marine Laboratory research vessel and an active member of High Street Community Church in Santa Cruz. He was married and had a 27-year-old daughter.
A public memorial service for Smith will be held at 11 a.m. Nov. 21 at Twin Lakes Church, 2701 Cabrillo College Drive in Aptos.
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Remember Melanie McCabe from last year's X Factor? She was from Ireland, 17 years old, and she went all the way to Miami for judges houses - and in tonight's show, she came back - and totally wowed the panel. And us.
She was in Kelly Rowland's group last year - the girls - but Kelly and Jennifer Hudson sent her home after judges houses, putting Amelia Lily, Sophie Habibas, Mischa B and Janet Devlin through to the live finals.
And she auditioned before too.
The re-vamped Melanie has swapped her style and dyed her blonde hair brown,and it looks like her image changed worked as got three yeses and sailed through to Bootcamp. She sang Simon and Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water and got a standing ovation from the audience.
Melanie, now 18, said she was really upset about Kelly eliminating her. "I was so devastated when I didn't get through, I cried the whole way home from Miami. I think in the past year I've just kind of said to myself no I'm going to come back this year, I'm going to do better," she tells the judges tonight. "I was so excited last year getting to Miami, I'm from a little town. When I was told that I was going home, I was devastated. I couldn't even talk to anyone, I came home and my mum just cuddled me and she told me it was going to be ok. I still can't watch that Judges Houses episode, it just brings back so many memories."
There certainly weren't any tears for Melanie tonight as she impressed all four judges - yes, even the notoriously hard to please Mel B. Maybe she only has sympathy for people who share her name...
"My mum's just been a complete rock in my life, she's the only person who stood by me and said it's ok, I know you're going to make it," Melanie said. "When you've got a knock back it really pushes you and it makes you stronger. I don't think I've ever wanted anything so much in my whole life as I do now."
Interestingly, Melanie's not the only one of Kelly Rowland's judges houses group to return to the show this year. It's been rumoured that Jade Richards will also be back performing for the panel in 2012, so maybe Kelly will be sitting at home kicking herself this series. Or, y'know, maybe not.
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"One broad theory is that restaurant owners were able to better manage their restaurants in 2013, as reflected in increasing net profit margins," Abbas noted, "this year, owners are likely to be keeping an eye on the current minimum wage debate, as increases in labor costs would impact efforts to maintain and grow the bottom line." According to Pew Research Center, nearly 44 percent of minimum-wage workers are in food-preparation and serving-related occupations.
Compared to other industries, restaurants fared relatively well during the recession. Whereas most saw a dramatic decrease in sales during 2009, restaurants were able to generate growth albeit at a rate below the historical average for the industry. Following 2009, sales growth remains healthy at around 5 percent each year. There are two main drivers of sales growth for a restaurant: more visits or increased spending per visit. Based on a survey of research focused on restaurant traffic, it seems likely a large part of growth for restaurants is driven by growth in average spending per visit, as research has indicated restaurant traffic has remained flat.
When analyzing sales growth by region, restaurants in the northeast saw a dramatic slowdown in 2013 compared to the other regions. Looking at net profit margins by region, restaurants located in the south saw much higher margins compared to restaurants located in other regions in 2013 (6.7 percent versus approximately 4.0 percent, respectively).
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Julie and Tim Goodner and Dave Girtz, all of Sauk Rapids, announce the engagement of their daughter, Jill, to Treg Swanson, son of LeRoy and Diane Swanson of Pierz.
Jill is a 2005 graduate of Sartell High School and a graduate of Calvin College in Grand Rapids. She is employed at St. Cloud Hospital.
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DemandTec Inc., the leading provider of Consumer Demand Management (CDM) enterprise software solutions, today announced SignalDemand, a new provider of Demand-Driven Supply Network software (DDSN), has joined the DemandTec Global Partner Program. The companies will provide retailers and manufacturers the capability to optimize their replenishment and supply chain processes based on an unparalleled understanding of and ability to forecast consumer demand.
DemandTec's Global Partner Program includes industry leaders such as IBM, Accenture, Deloitte Consulting, SAP, and Siebel, and specialist software and services firms such as Kurt Salmon Associates, Galleria, Connect 3, and QRS. DemandTec has architected its DT Openlink platform in order to facilitate the integration of best-in-class solutions such as SignalDemand with DemandTec's industry-leading CDM technology.
DemandTec's relationship with SignalDemand will help retailers and manufacturers in the Consumer Goods industry use Consumer Demand Management technology to drive decisions into manufacturing and distribution and thereby truly integrate their supply chains, said Dan Fishback, President and CEO of DemandTec, Inc. The combined solution is built on a robust technical platform and will extend the benefits of our CDM technology further upstream into the supply chain.
One of the limitations of Supply Chain Management solutions has been their inability to accurately forecast consumer demand and use that information to optimize the supply network. In a recent survey of the concerns of supply chain managers by AMR Research, 94% of respondents said demand visibility is extremely relevant or very relevant. This compares to 33% for the business case for RFID or 44% for Six Sigma initiatives (for details refer to Demand Visibility is Supply Chain Manager's Top Problem, AMR Research, July 9, 2004).
SignalDemand was founded in 2004 by Mike Neal and Dr. Hau Lee of Stanford University, the same team that founded DemandTec in 1999. SignalDemand is building enterprise-class, scalable technology which will help manufacturers of consumer goods and their suppliers to accurately quantify customer preferences and use that information to drive strategic and tactical supply chain decisions said Mike Neal, President and CEO of SignalDemand Inc. DemandTec and SignalDemand are working together to deliver best-in-class DDSN solutions, the next logical evolutionary step in Supply and Demand optimization and one which is highly anticipated by the Consumer Goods and Retail industries, said Neal.
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This paper reports on a qualitative study that examined the lived experiences of a selected group of Muslim Iranian immigrants in Canadian institutions of higher education. Guided by the theoretical underpinnings of phenomenology and critical ethnography and through a series of open-ended, in-depth interviews, the findings of the study show that the participants' lifeworlds were strongly connected to their perceived social status in their host country. The study suggests that the voices of these men and women were linked to the issues of literacy, belonging, and citizenship. Highlighting the significance of individual narratives and lived experiences of first-generation immigrant men and women, this study may contribute to broadening our understandings of diverse issues faced by Muslim immigrants in institutions of higher education and their communities across the globe.
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National Starch Food Innovation has extended its Novation range of functional native starches with the launch of two new products that are instant, clean-label and said to stand up to the stresses of intense formulation processes.
The products, called Novation 4300 and Novation 5300, are cold water thickening starches from waxy maize.
The ingredients company said that they were developed for intensive processes, as they offer heat, acid and shear stability - shear being a mixing process used by many food processors.
This high process tolerance makes them particularly suitable for mayonnaise, dressings, dips, gravies, pizza toppings and fruit pie fillings.
At the same time, the instant starches are pre-cooked, which means that manufacturers can "eliminate the heating step of traditional cook-up starches and help to reduce production times".
National Starch boasts of having a strong focus on meeting market and consumer trends in clean label products.
Its Novation starches are classified in the EU as ingredients not additives, which it said meant that manufacturers can differentiate their brands with a "no additives positioning".
This is because functional native starches offer similar food processing characteristics to modified starches, but unlike the modified variety, they are not described by E numbers on product packaging,
Functional native starches can simply be called 'starch' so they are in line with 'clean label' trends, as consumers are veering away from E numbers.
Laura Goodbrand, European marketing manager, wholesome, National Starch Food Innovation, said: "By expanding our range of instant Novation starches we can offer greater choice and versatility to food developers, whatever their processing needs.
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Church Point Manor is so many things all at once: historic, beautifully restored, European in flavor and very inviting. It is quiet and private enough to feel refreshed after your visit. It is close enough to get to many points of interest in the area but away from the hustle and bustle of the boardwalk. The location is off the beaten track in a private development but the surprise of finding this little gem of a Bed and Breakfast is well worth discovering; both for its splendor and for its warm Innkeepers. The best part for us as Innkeepers is that we are doing something we love and are challenged by and rewarded for daily. Who would think they would find an 1860's restored farmhouse in a private development? It is all at once inviting, spacious (10,000 s.f. in the main house, set on 3 acres), and luxurious with enthusiastic Innkeepers who welcome their guests yet respect their privacy. Our hopes are for our guests to feel refreshed and relaxed when they leave.
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Wow. This is a fabulous property. It's got everything you might want - some real historic value, gorgeous rooms, and lots of neat common space, and even a nature trail and a dock by the river. I got the chance to see some of the property and it just seems like the perfect location for a wedding or outdoor event. I didn't get a chance to eat in the restaurant, but the menu looked wonderful. You drive through a neighborhood of beautiful homes to get to Church Point Manor, all the while wondering where the B&B might be. Then you come upon it, and it's just as beautiful and historic as the many other gorgeous homes surrounding it. It's somewhat removed from the beach scene, which is an advantage for some who are not into the boardwalk and beach. Yet all of that is only about 7 miles away, so for those who want to visit the beach, it's totally doable.
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We stayed 3 days and truly had a wonderful get away. We found this by a recommendation from another B & B. The Inn was outstanding! The Innkeeper was great and helped letting us know the VA Beach area. Went to their Cellar's Restaurant had a delicious dinner. Also visited their bar; the had great wines. I'd highly recommend!
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The Sherwood City Council Tuesday voted to adopt an ordinance to increase the curbside recycling fee by 1.9 percent.
Alderman Tim McMinn said the increase amounts to a five-cent monthly increase.
�We passed on the increase that Waste Management passed on to us,� said McMinn.
The council adopted Ordinance 1835 which will raise monthly residential collection fees to $14.81 plus applicable taxes.
�This increased fee represents the increased cost of collection based upon the added collection tasks as a result of the curbside recycling agreement,� states the ordinance.
The increase was made possible when the city council two years ago adopted Resolution 24-2011 that allowed Waste Management to increase monthly fees in accord with the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
In other business, the city council adopted a resolution to enter into an agreement with Sherwood Land Company regarding the construction of a sidewalk on Johnson Avenue. The resolution will reimburse the city for the cost of building the sidewalks.
�Pursuant to Ordinance Number 1657, the city can construct infrastructure and seek reimbursement from developers for the costs of construction,� states the resolution.
According to the resolution, there is an immediate need for the construction of sidewalks along the north side of Johnson adjacent to Sylvan Hills Middle School.
�It is necessary to construct these sidewalks for safer pedestrian access to the school from the neighboring subdivisions,� according to the resolution.
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text: Culture 19 March 2007 A question of honour Shame Jasvinder Sanghera Hodder & Stoughton, 304pp, £12.99 Sign up for our weekly email * A little over two years ago, when I was in Pakistan reporting for the New Statesman, I stopped off in Jacobabad, a large town in the province of Sindh, where the ramshackle buildings and corrugated-iron huts are forever caked in the light-brown dust of the surrounding desert. It was there, sitting in a crowd beside a night-time campfire that I met San Dino, a local man of 35 or maybe 40. (He didn't know his exact age because, he said, no one had recorded it.) Dino told me that, until a year ago, he was a very unhappy man. His female cousin had been accused of flirting with another man and his honour had been severely stained. But, after shooting her dead, he had finally regained his honour and for this he was very relieved. When I asked him if he had any regrets, Dino replied that it was unfortunate that her brothers and her mother had stood in the way - they had also been murdered in the shoot-out - but, he said confidently, "I don't regret anything." Dino had never been convicted of his crime. I imagine the only reason he could admit, to me and my Dictaphone, to having murdered four people in cold blood was that most of the 20 other men gathered around us had also killed for the sake of honour. This goes some way to explaining why Pakistan has the highest number of honour killings in the world. As one guy at the back so eloquently put it: "We cannot sleep until we kill the girl." Jasvinder Sanghera's autobiography, Shame, is remarkable for its description of the way in which this oppressive cultural system and all its manifestations - physical and mental abuse, imprisonment, abduction, social stigmatisation and murder - migrated to Britain, where it has operated with impunity for decades. What is, perhaps, more remarkable is that a victim of this system has finally gathered the strength to put pen to paper and publish her story. Sanghera offers a measured account of her life as a young Sikh girl growing up in Derby in the 1970s. After having watched her six sisters being sent off to marry foreign men they had never met, Sanghera describes how, at 15, she watched as her own wedding trunk was packed and she was handed a photo of her future husband. To this day, she still doesn't know his name. When she finally decided to assert herself and escape with her lower-caste sweetheart from up the road, Sanghera was cut off from her family for ever. As her tyrant of a mother explained to her on the phone: "Thanks to you I can't walk the streets of Derby any more . . . people spit at me . . . in our eyes, you're dead." Sanghera eventually rebuilt her life - she went on to marry and divorce twice, raise three children and get a first-class degree from Derby University - but, despite all her success (she fails to mention her numerous national achievement awards that adorn her mantelpiece), her family and the wider Derby community have continued to stigmatise her. Almost 30 years later, her older sisters still look straight through her on the streets of Derby. When, in the late 1990s, Sanghera set up Karma Nirvana, Britain's foremost charity for aiding and campaigning on Asian women's issues, she started receiving death threats. By writing this book, she will probably receive many more. Perhaps death threats are just part of the deal when you're a women who stands up to the forces of murderous misogyny. But in Pakistan and India, when people of Sanghera's principle and mettle stand up to their fellow countrymen, they are supported by liberals. In Britain, where multiculturalism has long made criticism of culturally specific behaviour a taboo, Sanghera has for many years had to campaign against the honour system alone. When people with white skin, such as the former Met Police officer Andy Baker and the Labour MP Ann Cryer, have stood alongside Sanghera, they have regularly been called racist and subsequently sidelined, removed or ignored. At a time when the ideal of multicultural Britain is in a state of turmoil, this victim's story, told without a trace of victimhood, is a burning example of what happens when the free expression of culture - food, clothes, language, literature - is not distinguished from the free expression of different value systems. And at the end of the book, when Sanghera draws upon a dozen stories of contemporary abuse and makes the point that, while she was writing, two honour killings had come to light, it is clear that for anyone who cares about women's rights, there is no better time to read this book. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 19 March 2007 issue of the New Statesman, Trident: Why Brown went to war with Labour More


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A billion in options here...
2. Loose ChangeUnitedHealth ( UNH) is getting sick and tired of all this executive pay chatter.
The Minnesota-based health insurer and some other big companies have been under the gun for possibly giving execs sweetheart deals on stock options. The Wall Street Journal reports that top UnitedHealth execs repeatedly got options priced at or near the bottom of their stock's trading range, making the options more valuable and raising accounting and disclosure questions.
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UnitedHealth says its board is investigating options grant practices and that it believes it acted appropriately. That doesn't mean the company is happy about the attention, though.
"It is extraordinarily difficult and frustrating not to respond to media reports," CEO William McGuire said on UnitedHealth's earnings conference call, The Wall Street Journal reports. Making things stickier for UnitedHealth is the sheer size of McGuire's haul. UnitedHealth has been a strong performer, quadrupling its bottom line since 2001 and tripling its stock price over three years. But the Journal's report that McGuire is sitting on $1.6 billion worth of stock options had some observers questioning the board's independence. So McGuire fired back this week by suggesting that the company will suspend options grants to well-off top execs. "It was my recommendation that we consider terminating or slowing down or stopping at least for the foreseeable future stock options for the most senior employees," he told CNBC. That sounds like a good idea. And as for his personal fortune? "I've never made it a practice of looking for money," McGuire said Tuesday. Having $1.6 billion in options sitting around makes that less of a priority. Dumb-o-Meter score: 90. Now McGuire & Co. can look forward to defending a shareholder civil suit on the options grants, too.


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Forums > Digital Art and Retouching > Change black skirt to white but keep texture
Najan wrote:
Sure ... rock on.
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Robert Randall wrote:
This is why I love the forums. Someone steps up, and says "you're wrong", and then I learn. THANK YOU ROBERT, I WAS WRONG.
Nov 05 13 11:59 am Link
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Robert Randall wrote:
Jakov Markovic wrote:
Well said Jakov!
Nov 05 13 12:06 pm Link
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Peano wrote:
Honestly, it's difficult to say which one is a conversion or not. Or, if there is any. Although, from all three pictures there's one detail that attract my eyes and makes me wonder.
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Nov 05 13 01:42 pm Link
The fact that it's difficult to tell makes my point (and Robert's), that you don't have to sacrifice detail when converting black to white. Here's the original:
Nov 05 13 02:34 pm Link
Peano wrote:
I was guessing the left one but wasn't certain at all (and if someone hadn't told me to look I wouldn't have given them a second thought)
Nov 05 13 02:37 pm Link
Wye wrote:
But that isn't a feature (or bug) of converting from black to white. It's a simple curves adjustment that I didn't make initially.
Nov 05 13 03:41 pm Link
Peano wrote:
Well.. yes and no.. there's a certain "nature" to the shadows in a white material that is a bit different than that in a dark material. It's not *just* that the shadows aren't dark enough. There's the darkness in those shadows that, yes, is an overall thing (though I would say the adjustment needed should be only applied in the shadows) but there is also some bounce light that happens as well as the effects of the translucency that a white material will have that a black one won't.
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Jakov Markovic wrote:
Earlier in this thread, I believe that Robert mentioned Dan Margulis along with channels. One of Margulis's friends Giuliana Abbiati created Channel Power Tools. CPT costs twenty Euros. Abbiati has provided installation and instructions videos at the previous link.
Nov 05 13 04:34 pm Link
Wye wrote:
Well, trick or treat, my friend. 'Tis the season. I just knew some pixel-peeper would come along and say "yes, but, yada yada yada." Here's the actual original image:
Nov 05 13 05:36 pm Link
Peano wrote:
I don't believe you, sorry.
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Peano wrote:
You executed your point perfectly. Also, your point applies to many aspects of retouching. I've shown photos to friends that I've retouched, and they'd say things like "It looks like you made her arms too thin" when I had never even touched the liquify tool. Our eyes play nasty tricks.
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I wonder if a black or red skirt in this mixed warm and cool lighting would produce a skirt that produces these subtle blues and yellowy oranges when turned white. It looks like colorizing tends to make everything single-hued.
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Fracking success hits biofuels investment
Petrol retailer Z Energy says world oil prices could plunge by almost half in the next five years, as United States oil and gas production booms because of "fracking".
Fracking is the hydraulic fracturing of underground formations of shale rock to release the gas trapped within them.
Z Energy called on the Government to support the country's fledgling biofuels industry if it is serious about climate change, especially as oil prices are predicted to plummet in the next five years.
Speaking at the National Energy Research Institute in Wellington yesterday, Z Energy chief executive Mike Bennetts said the link between climate change and greenhouse gases was stronger than ever, but the incentives to invest in carbon neutral fuels were shrinking.
That was chiefly because the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) dried up much of the private funding for biofuel research, with the investment case further weakened by the sudden spike in shale gas production, through "fracking".
He said large-scale fracking in the US had seen oil volumes explode over recent years to the extent that the country could overtake Saudi Arabia as the world's single biggest oil producer by 2017, and become a net exporter by 2020.
"There is a lot more oil available than there was three or four years ago, and shale oil and gas is part of that," Bennetts said. "As a result of that extra supply, prices are likely to be lower than people thought back in 2008."
Brent Crude recently traded at US$118 a barrel, up from US$110 at the beginning of the year, but Bennetts said that could drop as low as US$60 in five years' time, particularly as other countries started exploiting shale reserves.
John Loughhead, an executive director at the UK Energy Research Centre who also delivered a keynote address, revealed that 45 per cent of Britain's land mass was suitable for shale production.
It was potentially bigger than gas deposits in the North Sea before they started being tapped in the 1960s, and represented a massive hurdle for plans to shift the UK economy to non-fossil energy sources.
Bennetts said from Z Energy's perspective, the Government was the only player at the table that could step in to fill the biofuel incentive gap.
"I do not know of any country outside of Brazil that has a biofuels industry, at a scale that makes a difference, that has developed and successfully operated without government support, through either incentives or mandates," he said.
Z Energy, which does not own oil-producing or upstream assets, is looking to replace portions of its fossil energy supply with biodiesel sourced from a tallow plant and a timber mill waste joint venture with Norske Skog.
The tallow project aims to produce 20 million barrels of pure biodiesel a year from inedible animal fat normally used to make candles and soap.
Bennetts said that could easily be ramped up by 40 million barrels, but even at today's prices, computer modelling showed there was a 42 per cent chance of the project making a loss.
The joint venture plans a biofuel test plant on the east coast of the North Island using less-proven wood-waste conversion technology, the "stump-to-pump" strategy.
It has been funded by seed capital from the partners, but Bennetts said it would need to win $50m under the Government's Primary Growth Partnership.
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Briggs & Stratton Enters Into New $500 Million Senior Unsecured Credit Facility; Financial Flexibility Supports Growth Strategy
Briggs & Stratton Corporation (NYSE: BGG) today announced the closing of a new five-year $500 Million Senior Unsecured Revolving Credit Facility with a syndicate of financial institutions. The multicurrency credit agreement also includes an optional increase in aggregate commitment amount of up to $250 million, subject to certain conditions. This agreement replaces the company's existing credit agreement maturing in July 2012. As of the end of the company's most recent fiscal year ended July 3, 2011, no amounts were outstanding under the existing agreement.
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A Home Away From Home
By Raffat Binte Rashid
Dhaka, 13 May 2013: The bantering, cries and laughter of children at the Day Care Centre in the Mirpur area of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka are not much different from any other child care facility found throughout the world.
But this facility is significantly different from similar centres elsewhere in the city. The working parents who drop off their children here are not office goers. Instead, they are garment workers, day labourers or house helps.
Nothing fancy but useful
The scene inside is truly heart-warming. Children in torn and dirty clothes jostle for space amid babies who are still to reach their first birthday.
Some toddlers try to take a nap, some are crying while some are fizzing with energy and in full gear. Although it is just like any other day care centre, a key difference is that this one is a little short of equipment. It has nothing fancy inside, with few decent toys.
The tiny space inside is sunlit and decorated with only the bare necessities - little wall paintings of ducks and fishes, a plastic rack to keep the brightly coloured but broken toys and a half-broken chest of drawers.
But despite these deprivations the place is clean, with two floor mattresses and a few pillows neatly laid down on purple coloured floral bedspread with a handful of brightly coloured plastic toys scattered around. Although the furniture may have seen better days, the cheerful noise of children at play soon dispels any sense of neglect.
The room's occupants are mostly toddlers aged between 12 months to a maximum of four years old.
Shifat, clearly a favourite, is a cherubic child aged 18 months.
"My mother works over there," he says pointing to the door in the direction of a garments factory while playing with his toy car.
The sole caretaker of the day centre, Lalmoti, explains that both of Shifat's parents work - his father at a construction site and his mother in the garments factory.
"Shifat is their first-born and they have no-one to look after him. It is easier for them to drop him off here at the day care," says Lalmoti.
The centre is housed inside a three-storied narrow building with a steep staircase and dark corridors.
Mothers keep food for children on a wooden table placed in a corner to have during lunch or their mid-day break.
The food is often simple - boiled rice and lentils or a small portion of an egg or fish curry. It is hardly the kind of sustenance that you expect for a one-year-old, but life for them does not revolve around what they are given to eat.
The reality for them is hard boiled rice that their working mother cooks at six in the morning before going to work.
Lalmoti: A caring granny
Lalmoti is called 'Granny' by the children. She is a kind-hearted woman with a loving face and all of them are attached to her.
She patiently addresses all their needs and demands throughout the day from 7:00am to 8:30pm.
"There are days when some mothers come in very late from work - around 10pm and they pay me a tip if they come way past closing time," she says while busying herself with a quiet two-year-old child of latecomers.
Sakina, mother of a child, says that she wants her daughter to continue attending the centre even though she is currently without work.
"I had an accident and injured my hand, but I hope that I will resume work soon.
"I want my child to come here because I don't want to disrupt her routine. I can vouch that I work with a lot less worries when I know my baby is in good care and not alone at home or roaming on the streets. It's easier for me to concentrate at work if I know my child is secure and being taken care of," says Sakina.
Shohan is the eldest among the 15 enrolled at the day care centre. He is four. "My mother used to work in a garments factory but now she works as a domestic help in people's houses.
"I like coming here and playing with the toys. I don't want to go to school now. But I think when I grow up I will go - but not now. I don't like school now," he says innocently.
His parents are from the low earning segment of the population and live in the slums where conditions are far from satisfactory.
A new hope
With the support of UNICEF, partner organizations run the day care centre to provide support to working parents and ensure the safety of their children while they are at work.
The centre itself began operating in April. There are five similar centres in Mirpur, mostly catering for the children of garment workers near the densely populated slums where many reside. The centre operates six days a week except Friday.
Tamanna stands quietly and obediently by the day care centre's door, her innocence and unassuming personality could win over even the most hardened of hearts.
Visitors to the centre find that it is almost impossible to ignore the engaging personality of Tamanna or the other children. Their right to a better life also cannot be ignored.


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By Kate Kelland ,Reuters Saturday, December 31, 2011, 12:17 am TWN
LONDON -- Heart health campaigners urged the British government Thursday to follow Australia's lead and ban all eye-catching designs and branding from cigarette packs to stop young people being lured into smoking.
Australia is preparing to become the first nation to introduce so-called "plain" packaging on tobacco products by the end of 2012. The packs will show graphic health warnings about smoking but banish attractive colors and logos.
A survey by the British Heart Foundation charity released on Thursday found that more than a quarter of young people make assumptions about the relative harm of cigarettes based on the packaging alone.
The survey, which collated responses from more than 2,700 16 to 25-year-old smokers and non-smokers, found that three quarters of those who responded thought selling cigarettes in packs with no colorful brands or logos, and larger health warnings, would make it easier for people to smoke less or quit.
One in six, or 16 percent, said they would consider the pack design when deciding which cigarettes to buy, and 12 percent said they would choose a brand because it was considered "cool."
Experts say half of all smokers will eventually die of a tobacco-related disease and the World Health Organization (WHO) describes tobacco as "one of the biggest public health threats the world has ever faced." Smoking causes lung cancer, which is often fatal, and other chronic respiratory diseases. It is also a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, the world's number one killer.
The BHF is calling for the introduction of plain packaging which has no eye-catching colors or brands but is mostly covered with graphic warnings about the health dangers of smoking. An example of the sort of packs they would like to see is here: http://bit.ly/sqTlRg
The British government is due to start a public consultation early in 2012 on whether the nation should switch to plain packaging for tobacco.
"As informed adults we know that smoking is a deadly addiction," said Betty McBride, BHF's director of policy and communications. "But young people are not always fully aware of the risks, and the power of branding holds more sway."
Australia is planning to complete the introduction of its tough and world-first legislation by the end of 2012. The proposed law was cleared by parliament in November and is being closely watched by governments considering similar moves in Europe, Canada and New Zealand.
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The survivor in the Shakti Mills gang rape incident fainted in court during trial on Thursday. Principal judge Shalini Phansalkar Joshi called in medical help and adjourned the hearing for Friday.
Special public prosecutor Ujwal Nikam told the press that the victim, a 22-year-old photojournalist, stuck to her statement. Mr. Nikam described her as "confident, articulate and narrative" but added that she was "tense" during the deposition and at times requested for small breaks during the in camera proceedings. The victim will continue her deposition on Friday.
On August 22, the victim and her male colleague had visited the ruined mills as a part of their assignment. Finding them alone, the accused initially offered to help them navigate the mill compound but later threatened to book them for trespass. The accused then tied the male friend with his belt and raped her. During the ghastly incident the girl received calls from her mother and her boss. Both mother and boss have deposed before the court and have stuck to their statements.
Meanwhile, the police filed draft charges in the second rape case reported by them in the Shakti Mills compound. Three of the accused — Qasim Bengali, Vijay Jadhav and Salim Ansari were involved in both cases.


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|Chuck Bowen
When I installed irrigation systems, we would keep track of everything by hand. The passenger seat, wheel wells and glove box of every repair van were littered with crumpled and torn job sheets of chicken scratch.
And every week Lynne, our long-suffering office manager, would harangue us about our poor penmanship and inability to keep anything clean.
At any successful landscape company, the books, trucks, supplies and people are tracked and allocated by computer, little invisible ones and zeros keeping tabs on everything from spray rigs to lunch breaks.
But when it comes to choosing a program, many landscapers are stuck. It's one of the questions I get from readers most often. "What should I use? What works best?"
Unfortunately, there's no good answer. It all depends on your management style, company size and how you organize things.
But whatever type or brand of software an owner chooses, the end result is the same. If you can't keep tabs on how many hours your crews work, or where they drive once they leave the yard, or who has paid their bills this month, how can you ever hope to get out from under it all to plan for higher-level projects or markets?
Having tools in place to track – and then manage – the key parts of your business is one of the most basic ways to grow. This strategy of the small stuff – what Seth Godin calls "the thankless work of lower-leverage detail" – is so important for small companies, but it's something the big guys have to do, too.
On page 50, in an exclusive interview with L&L, the new CEO of TruGreen LandCare, explained a similar focus for his firm for this year. "Our 2012 focus is resetting the foundation, getting back to the basics, making sure we do them right every day," says Vidu Kulkarni. "Ours is a relatively straightforward business. We're not building rocketships. Longer term, our focus is on profitable growth, not being the biggest dog on the block. I want to be the best dog on the block."
When it comes to those small things, Godin writes: "An organization with feet on the street and alert and regular attention to detail can build more trust and develop better relationships than one that hits and runs."
So this month, sit down and take a look at how you and your team handle the small things in your day-to-day work – everything from your time sheets to your job tickets to your order forms. Every company has a Lynne, and she has a point.
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That's why you have to get past the mainstream media and actually look at the candidate's speeches to figure out who he is and what he means for America. Now that Romney is the presumptive Republican candidate we can get a glimpse of how he proposes to run for president rather than run for the Republican nomination. Our first look at his general election campaign came on Tuesday night, April 24, 2012, at Romney's victory speech in Manchester, New Hampshire, after he won primaries in five eastern states.
What I want to see is for Romney to step up to who he is. Democrats have made a big deal about his years leading Bain Capital, as if it is shameful to be a capitalist creating new companies and trying to resurrect failing companies. Republicans cannot continue to shy away from support of capitalism. And I want Romney to take on the "fairness" issue. So long as Democrats can go on about fairness and not get push-back so long will the unaffordable welfare state get bigger and bigger until it collapses. Then the real "unfairness" will start.
In Romney's Manchester speech he made a start on both these themes. Said he, about his business experience:
Only in America could a man like my dad become governor of the state in which he once sold paint from the trunk of his car.OK. I'd call that a start. Here's what I'd like him to say next. I'd like him to say that his business centered around two things. First, he helped create new start-up companies, based on new ideas, with new money. Then he helped try to turn around and rescue companies in trouble, by reorganizing and recapitalizing.
I'd say that you might have heard that I was successful in business. And that rumor is true. But you might not have heard that I became successful by helping start a business that grew from 10 people to hundreds of people. You might not have heard that our business helped start other businesses, like Staples and Sports Authority and a new steel mill and a learning center called Bright Horizons. And I'd tell you that not every business made it and there were good days and bad days, but every day was a lesson. And after 25 years, I know how to lead us out of this stagnant Obama economy and into a job-creating recovery!
When you do that, you are putting yourself on the line, because there are going to be failures to balance the successes. But if you don't do something, risk something, then you can't get to success. Here in America, we need someone like that, someone with experience in turning around failing companies. Because the United States is not in a good place. In fact it is in a turn-around situation; we have to change now or we risk losing it. We need not a community-organizer-in-chief but a reorganizer-in-chief.
Then there is Romney on "fairness."
This America is fundamentally fair. We will stop the unfairness of urban children being denied access to the good schools of their choice; we will stop the unfairness of politicians giving taxpayer money to their friends' businesses; we will stop the unfairness of requiring union workers to contribute to politicians not of their choosing; we will stop the unfairness of government workers getting better pay and benefits than the taxpayers they serve; and we will stop the unfairness of one generation passing larger and larger debts on to the next.Now we are talking. The basic fact of the big-government welfare state is that it is unfair. It is a system of looting. You get in power and then you hand out the loot to your supporters. So the more we limit the looting, the better for all Americans. Right now, the biggest chunk of government loot is going out to baby-boomer seniors like me. But why? Seniors are the richest kind. We shouldn't be looting the younger generation for our Social Security and Medicare. Romney doesn't mention that, of course, because he dare not. But he does hit the Obamis where they are most vulnerable. On lousy urban schools, run by Democrats. On crony capitalism, giving out money to campaign contributors. On the gigantic disaster of government employees looting the state treasuries with their unfunded pensions and retiree health care.
Jonah Goldberg is out with a new book this week on The Tyranny of Clichés. He argues that liberals use clichés to shut down political speech. There are two problems with this liberal habit. First of all it stops the other guys from talking to the American people. That's a pity. But then it puts liberals into an idea-free cocoon. They never get to defend their ideas in an open forum. They are always sneaking around looking for the chance to lead with a rabbit punch. That's a shame. Because one day conservatives will break through to the American people with some new idea and liberals won't know how to counter it, because they have never had to honestly defend their ideas. Maybe that is happening right now.
Mitt Romney has started out the general election campaign with some good themes. Things can only get better from here. Is that possible. One of the campaign consultants working against Romney in 2008 said this. He said that the Romney campaign in 2008 learned so fast it was scary.
What's so remarkable about that? That is how capitalism and business works. That is how you get to be successful in business. You learn and adapt every day or you go out of business. Or, as Mitt Romney said in his speech: "there were good days and bad days, but every day was a lesson."


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Adams Golf is best known for its Tight Lies fairway wood. A club that was introduced in 1997 that was revolutionary in the way fairway woods would be designed for years to come.
The original Tight Lies featured an upside down head and low profile giving it an extremely low center of gravity. Golfers around the world fell in love with the odd looking club because of its easy to hit design. With the Ovation fairway wood Adams has gone back to this proven design with some modifications and modernizations.
Like the original Tight Lies the new Ovation is a low profile wood. It also uses the same upside down head design as the original. Both of these design features are used for the same purpose; to lower the center of gravity. In fact, the Ovation has the lowest center of gravity of any fairway wood on the market. The club is made more forgiving by placing a tungsten weight in both the heel and toe of the club to increase the moment of inertia. The result is a club that produces a high ball flight with low spin rates for great forgiveness and distance. The shaft that Adams uses is made by Aldila and is actually a spin-off of the NV shaft. This one is designed to be more forgiving though with a softer tip section and lower kick-point. The head is available in standard, offset, seniors, and women's models.
Despite the similarities to the original Tight Lies, the Ovation has been revamped and looks 100 times better. It is a clean looking golf club with a nice gray finish. It sets up very square with three alignment dots on the top crown. Although some stronger players my stay away from the Ovation it really can be used by anyone. It is extremely forgiving and produces the desired high trajectory. The knock on it from some better players is that it hits the ball too high and is difficult to shape shots with. For most players though this is a great golf club at a great price.


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We joined the flood club this weekend. I've heard rumors about this group of people before. The ones with carpet rolled up at the curb, couches that became sponges, and boxes of keepsakes no longer to be kept. The folks for whom words like mildew and mold send shivers and nasty smells all about the house.
I confess that for the first 37 years of my little life we never experienced a flood. From my childhood home to a condo in Denver nothing we owned ever floated unless it was designed to do so. Then came this past Saturday morning when 7 inches of rain came down in less than 24 hours; when sewers backed up into my basement; when the local pool overflowed, all the major intersections in my community were submerged; and when I opened up the basement door to see my dear husband in his hip waders trying to get a pump to work. He was up to his knees in water, surrounded by a swirling mess of toys, art supplies, light sabers, and hockey gear. I was still half asleep.
At that moment I had grossly underestimated how much work it would be to clean off and remove all our stuff from the basement -- 75 percent of my children's toys, dress up costumes, all our camping gear, tools, skis, ski boots, snowboards, carpet, couches -- all of it soaking wet with sewer water. Honestly, the first moment I saw it all, it looked sort of cool.
My kids asked if this meant we could go swimming, and they tried to determine if the water would be over their heads. It got even better as later that day the traffic diverted from places all over town ended up on our block. Semi-trucks to view all day long. I ushered my kids back upstairs and began to take stock of what my weekend would become.
My back aches, my voice is hoarse, and it smells like rainwater and cat pee in my house. But the upside, once again, is a reminder about my stuff and how much of it I have and how much I don't want or need. Part of me just wanted to throw it all away, but that would mean I would have to become highly creative as a parent and make up games and all sorts of cool things like that rather than just tell my kids to play with their toys ... and as I fought back a few tears when I tore open the sagging box of Christmas ornaments, and the bin that held the gloves I wore at my wedding (to which my husband shrugged and paused with a blank look, as if to say "you wore gloves that day?"), I was reminded of how ridiculous all my fretting can be.
There was a better moment, when my 4-year-old told me how cool this whole flood was because it meant Darth Vader could now go swimming. All our Star Wars toys were in the basement. The Dark Side was taking a dip. Optimism at its finest. So I smiled at him with my tired face and aching back and thought indeed, Darth Vader could now go swimming. All was right in the world. My kids by my side, the hubby on the driveway sopping up water, our toys floating all around. Who cares, right? Darth Vader is on holiday. May the Force be with you.
Tracey Bianchi blogs about finding a saner, greener life from the heart of the Chicago suburbs. She wrote Green Mama: The Guilt-Free Guide to Helping You and Your Kids Save the Planet (Zondervan 2009) and blogs at traceybianchi.com.
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Runners use Rim Rock Marathon as an escape from everyday life
Running gives Zachary Martin a much-needed brain break.
The 23-year-old law student at the University of Colorado was the first runner to reach Cold Shivers Point and the first individual runner across the finish line Saturday in the Rim Rock Marathon, finishing in 2 hours, 55 minutes, 27 seconds.
"I think I would be a much less happy person if I couldn't do this," he said. He has 1½ years left of law school, and honestly, he's in no hurry to finish. "There are no jobs out there," he said.
He was running in his first Rim Rock, his sixth marathon overall, and was a little apprehensive about the weather before the event began.
"I think it was what we could expect for November," he said "I was just glad it wasn't raining. A friend of mine ran it a couple of years ago and said it snowed a lot, so that was probably rough."
Only a handful of runners opted not to show with gloomy skies, but no precipitation, with 205 of the 215 registered runners starting the race, in its third year as a marathon and 19th year of running over Colorado National Monument. In all, 147 individual runners and 22 relay teams finished.
Nikki Arcieri grew up in Grand Junction and couldn't believe people actually ran over the monument.
"I never ran the Rim Rock Run and now I wish I would have for the nostalgia, the history," the women's overall winner said. "Growing up, I thought the people who ran that were crazy. I told people, 'You'll never see me run that.' ''
Not only did she run the marathon, she had enough left to sprint down the final stretch.
The 27-year-old caught and passed Karah Levely-Rinaldi just before the finish line, crossing 17th overall in 3:37.57. Levely-Rinaldi was only three seconds behind, in 3:38.00.
"She was ahead at mile 26 and I thought, 'Do I have enough to pass her?' '' said Arcieri, who works for the town of Breckenridge and is a freelance graphic artist. In her spare time, she runs up in the mountains, and in the winter, skis down them.
The first runner to actually cross the finish line was Bob Woerne, part of relay team "Half Calf."
Woerne and teammate Brian Johnson covered the course in 2:52.26, and actually helped the men's overall winner.
"It really helped to have the relay folks around," Martin said. "That was really nice; they kept me motivated."
The men's overall runner-up caused a few double-takes, running in only shorts, socks and shoes despite morning temperatures in the low 30s, even colder on the monument.
Tripp Hipple of Denver, 24, was running in only his second marathon and finished in 3:06.52 wearing the bare minimum. He finally pulled on a sweatshirt about a half-hour after finishing.
"I used to be a springboard diver and did gymnastics for a long time," he said. "I'm not built like a runner, I'm not tall and skinny. I really enjoy (running), you can explore so much at one time, go wherever you want to go."
He laughed at his athletic background of wearing minimal uniforms, and said running was pretty much the same thing.
"It takes pretty much the bare essentials," he said. "Maybe that's why I'm used to it."
He marveled at the scenery of the monument as the runners made their way across the top.
"There are certain spots where it's sheer cliff, which is amazing," he said. "I like climbing more than going down, so it's kind of a love-hate race. I love going up, but not going down.
"My favorite spot was toward the top. The scenery is amazing and it's so peaceful up there."
Martin and Hipple are novices in the world of marathon running.
Bryan Baroffio of Grand Junction is just the opposite. The 53-year-old veteran was running in his 75th marathon, but, ironically, his first Rim Rock Marathon.
Baroffio has run a marathon in all 50 states, so he figured it was time to run his hometown race. Baroffio won the master's title in 3:22.00, fifth overall.
The fastest runner from the Grand Valley was Fruita's Jef Friedman, who was fourth in 3:17.49.
Baroffio ran the Rim Rock Run three times, but has been out of town during the monument marathon the past two years. Training on the monument helped him master the ups and downs.
"You've got to consider the course," he said. "An ideal course you do your pace, but you can't do that here. You go uphill and downhill and it rolls in between.
"You have to have some kind of goal. I wanted to be somewhere around 3:20, that's a 7:38 pace (per mile; his final pace was just off his goal, 7:43). You know coming downhill you're going to get a 7-minute pace, on the uphill you're going to add a good 30 seconds.
"Take your time, do 8:30, 9 minutes on the way up and fly down in 7 minutes and it averages out. I was a couple of minutes off, but I'll take it."


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Despite 12 points from the boot of Bedford Blues skipper Jame Pritchard, Canada fell to a 32-19 defeat against the Maori All Blacks in Oxford on Friday night as the Canucks autumn internationals came to an end.
A last-minute try took the game out of reach off the Canucks as the All Blacks claimed another scalp on a highly successful tour.
Head coach Kieran Crowley knew that his side were in the game all the way, as he explained: "We were only 10 points behind at half time. In the first half we just gave away points through our kicking game, we put a few in the air in the wrong position, and we put ourselves under pressure.
"We talked about that at half time, and straight away we saw some gains, and the guys really took it to them.
"It was disappointing that they scored that try at the end, but our boys performed pretty well."
Talking about being so close to keeping the Maori side without a try in the second half, Crowley added: "We were pleased in one way, but also disappointed.
"We were so close, and we have got to learn to be able to win these games against the better teams, because they would beat most countries, as that is a pretty good Maori team.
"We know we can match them now, and go with them. I thought our scrum and our lineout were outstanding tonight, and we fronted up. But we just have to get a little bit smarter in the attack side of things."
The Maori side started strongest, and with penalties conceded, Willie Ripia made Canada pay with three well taken kicks in the first 15 minutes.
Romana Graham saw yellow only six minutes in, but even with 14 men, the All Black side held firm, and kept the pressure on Canada.
But it wasn't all a one-way street and, with Canada working their way into the game, Pritchard pegged three points back on 27 minutes, just before Andre Taylor ripped through the red defensive line on the half-hour mark.
Pritchard's kicking boots stayed true as he struck two more penalties before half time to keep the Canucks in the game, as they trailed 19-9 at the break.
The gap was reduced further three minutes into the second half with a fourth Pritchard goal, but Canada didn't just threaten with the boot.
The team gained in confidence the longer the game went on and, with great running lines from Jeff Hassler and Connor Braid in particular, the team knew they were able to break the Maori line.
Taylor Paris was able to do so, reaching a grubber kick, but the referee decided that he didn't touch down in time as he was chased to the line.
But it wasn't long until the score came. Ray Barkwill was the man who carried over from a great drive over the line with seven minutes to play and, with Connor Braid converting, the gap was down to six points.
Ripia missed the chance to put the game out of reach with a penalty taken from the halfway line, but it was only moments later that his team-mate Charlie Ngatai confirmed the result with a last man overlap try out wide.
Canada: 1 Hubert Buydens, 2 Ryan Hamilton (Ray Barkwill 43), 3 Andrew Tiedemann (Doug Wooldridge 63), 4 Jebb Sinclair, 5 Tyler Hotson (Brett Beukeboom 58), 6 Tyler Ardron, 7 Chauncey O'Toole (John Moonlight 58), 8 Aaron Carpenter (C), 9 Phil Mack, 10 Connor Braid, 11 Taylor Paris, 12 Phil Mackenzie, 13 Ciaran Hearn (Sean Duke 80), 14 Jeff Hassler, 15 James Pritchard (Nathan Hirayama 63). Replacements not used: Jason Marshall, Eric Wilson. T: Barkwill. C: Braid. P: Pritchard 4.


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Edward A. Evans2
This publication is part of a series on tax exemptions for agricultural producers in Florida. The publications in this series are online at the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/TOPIC_SERIES_Tax_Exemption_for_Agricultural_Producers.
The current downturn in the economy, rising energy and labor costs, and lagging specialty crop prices have growers looking more closely at ways to reduce both capital and operating costs. One way for growers to do this is by taking advantage of all eligible tax exemptions. A recent survey of South Florida growers revealed that many were unaware of all the tax exemptions to which they are entitled. One of the tax exemptions for Florida agricultural producers is related to power-driven farm equipment.
This law passed during the 2005 session of the Florida Legislature and became effective on July 1, 2005. The law expands existing provisions that only offered partial tax exemptions (3%) for farm equipment. The new law exempts agricultural producers from any taxes and discretionary surtaxes associated with the sale, purchase, lease, or rental of certain new and used power-driven farm equipment (Florida Administrative Tax Code 12A-1.087 Sections 1 and 2, Chapter 2005-197).
The law covers all power-driven farm equipment used exclusively on a farm or in a forest for undertaking activities such as plowing, planting, cultivating, and harvesting of agricultural crops, or for fire prevention and suppression work with respect to such agricultural products. It includes both moving and stationary equipment; that is, equipment that is able to move by its own propulsion or power, and stationary equipment such as irrigation systems that require an external source to perform their functions. In the latter case, the law also applies to external power sources such as generators or other types of power units. Specific examples of power equipment covered under the statute include augers, combines, conveyors, disks, dozers, feeding systems, harrows, hay balers, irrigation motors, mowers, plows, pumps, skidders, and tractors (Florida Department of Revenue 2005). The key point is that the exemption only applies if the equipment will be used exclusively for agricultural purposes, or an agricultural-related purpose for fire prevention and suppression work with respect to agricultural commodities.
To secure the exemption, the purchaser, renter, or lessee of the equipment needs to provide the seller (owner) with a signed written statement certifying that the equipment purchased will only be used "on a farm or in a forest in plowing, planting, cultivating, or harvesting crops or products as produced by agricultural industries, or for fire prevention and suppression work with respect to such crops or products" (Florida Department of Revenue 2005). Appendix A at the end of this publication provides a sample statement that was prepared by the Florida State Department of Revenue.
Agricultural producers, particularly those producing non-grain commodities, are feeling the effects of a slowing economy amidst the rise in input costs. The expansion of the farm equipment tax exemption law in 2005 to provide full, rather than partial, tax relief for selected farm equipment, as well as expanding the range of equipment covered, was intended to provide agricultural producers with added incentives, given the enormous risks involved in agricultural production. When agricultural producers are unaware of such provisions, they pay unnecessary taxes that otherwise would contribute to the profitability of their farming enterprises. Examples of this would be paying an extra U.S. $700 for a piece of equipment that costs U.S. $10,000 or an extra U.S. $3,500 if it costs U.S. $50,000. Hence the purpose of the article is to increase agricultural producers awareness of such laws so that they are in a better position to take advantage of tax exemptions to which they are entitled.
For further information, contact the State of Florida Department of Revenue at http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/, or call Florida Taxpayer Services at 1 (800) 367-8331.
Florida Department of Revenue. 2005. HB 0643: Expansion of the exemption for certain farm equipment. Tax Information Publication No. 05A01-03, Florida Department of Revenue, Tallahassee, FL (June 15). http://dor.myflorida.com/dor/tips/tip05a01-03.html
This is certify that the power farm equipment identified below, purchased on or after ____________________ (date) from ____________________________ (Selling Dealer's Business Name) is purchased, leased, licensed, or rented for the following purpose:
( ) Power farm equipment for exclusive use in the agricultural production of crops or products, as produced by those agricultural industries included in § 570.02(1), F.S., or
( ) Power farm equipment for exclusive use in fire prevention and suppression work for such crops or products, as produced by those agricultural industries included in § 570.02(1), F.S.
I understand that if I use the equipment for any purpose other than the one stated, then I must pay tax on the purchase or lease price of the taxable item directly to the Department of Revenue. I understand that if I fraudulently issue this certificate to evade the payment of sales tax I will be liable for payment of the sales tax plus a penalty of 200% of the tax and may be subject to conviction of a third degree felony.
The exemption specified by the purchaser may be verified by calling 1(800) 352-3671.
Purchaser's Name:
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This document is FE715, one of a series of the Food and Resource Economics Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date June 2008. Reviewed August 2014. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
Edward A. Evans, assistant professor, Food and Resource Economics Department, Tropical Research and Education Center, Homestead, FL, UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.
The Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) is an Equal Opportunity Institution authorized to provide research, educational information and other services only to individuals and institutions that function with non-discrimination with respect to race, creed, color, religion, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, political opinions or affiliations. For more information on obtaining other UF/IFAS Extension publications, contact your county's UF/IFAS Extension office.
U.S. Department of Agriculture, UF/IFAS Extension Service, University of Florida, IFAS, Florida A & M University Cooperative Extension Program, and Boards of County Commissioners Cooperating. Nick T. Place, dean for UF/IFAS Extension.