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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>herbal health books</title> <atom:link href="http://ihsbamj.info/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://ihsbamj.info</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 05:05:51 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3</generator> <item> <title>Major Shift In Cable News Coverage After 2012 Election Cycle</title> <link>https://ihsbamj.info/major-shift-in-cable-news-coverage-after-2012-election-cycle/</link> <comments>https://ihsbamj.info/major-shift-in-cable-news-coverage-after-2012-election-cycle/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 27 May 2023 08:13:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[atiq news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bbc news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bd news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[big news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bjp news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cbc news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cbn news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cbs news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cnews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ctv news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[db news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dw news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[faith news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fast news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fox news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[geo news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gma news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gnn news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[live news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[news break]]></category> <category><![CDATA[news live]]></category> <category><![CDATA[news ph]]></category> <category><![CDATA[news rtv]]></category> <category><![CDATA[news today]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nine news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[quick news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[rtv news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[today news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[top news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[u.s. news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[untv news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[up news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[us news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[why news]]></category> <category><![CDATA[world news]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ihsbamj.info/?p=118</guid> <description><![CDATA[The Cable TV Industry has gotten far too many gifts from government. It has lobbied to create barriers to entry for its business model for far too many years. Because of this these companies are soaking the American people for huge amounts of money every single day. Television used to be free, and it was [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="article-content"><p>The Cable TV Industry has gotten far too many gifts from government. It has lobbied to create barriers to entry for its business model for far too many years. Because of this these companies are soaking the American people for huge amounts of money every single day. Television used to be free, and it was paid for by the advertising. Today, you still have the advertising, but now you have to pay exorbitant amounts of money, and most of the shows and content are reruns.</p><p>Many people believe they need cable TV to stay up on at least the news. Nevertheless, I would submit to you that the news on cable TV has done nothing more than dummied down the American people, and they are not delivering on the promise. The news just isn’t that good. Okay so let’s talk about this shall we?</p><p>During the 3-day weekend, the following weekend in fact after the November 6 election, we had the news media missing much of the global news and playing re-runs, and special programming, the same clips, interviews, and specials over and over again, nearly every hour, but no mention of Middle East issues, major Earthquakes, or other events.</p><p>Indeed, I thought it was rather interesting one late Saturday night when Hamas was firing rockets and industrial grade missiles into Israel, and I received several news alerts by e-mail and yet there was nothing on TV. All the cable TV news stations had a bunch of junk on, it’s as if no one was working, and there were no foreign correspondence whatsoever. How can this be I thought? Was there a blackout of our media by the government, was the media told to not cover the story?</p><p>Or is the cable TV news media down to bare-bones, and without all that advertising being paid in for the presidential elections, they can’t afford to keep all the news reporters all over the world gainfully employed reporting the news. That’s a scary thought, and I realized that after the election there are fewer reporters in Washington DC following up on the stories. The only stories they follow up on seem to be whatever is the most popular with the paparazzi driven mindset of the American people.</p><p>Worst, all the cable TV news stations all follow the same news events and a skip everything else. It seems to me that the news is and has become fairly worthless. They just tell us what we think we want to hear, put up nice graphics, show us a few arguments, and then cut everyone off in the middle of their sentences and go to a hard break; another commercial. Meanwhile the cable TV companies raise the volume of the commercials so you can’t even hear yourself think. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but there something going on here; this just isn’t right.</p><p>If the cable TV stations cannot do better than this with their news, I don’t think the American people need them anymore. We should let competition come in to the scene, and let the free market decide, which could also allow the prices to come down – because for what they are giving us, it’s is totally outrageous in my view – and that’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it. Indeed I hope you will please consider all this and think on it.</p></p></div><div class="mads-block"></div>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://ihsbamj.info/major-shift-in-cable-news-coverage-after-2012-election-cycle/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Are You Really Self Employed?</title> <link>https://ihsbamj.info/are-you-really-self-employed/</link> <comments>https://ihsbamj.info/are-you-really-self-employed/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 16:58:26 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Employment Work]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ihsbamj.info/?p=116</guid> <description><![CDATA[Benefits of self employment There are benefits to the employer. The ease of sacking and the financial benefits of no employer’s national insurance, no pension contributions, no sickness and holiday pay etc.The main advantage to the worker is the reduction in national insurance and the ability to claim expenses such as, wages to family members, [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Benefits of self employment<br />There are benefits to the employer. The ease of sacking and the financial benefits of no employer’s national insurance, no pension contributions, no sickness and holiday pay etc.The main advantage to the worker is the reduction in national insurance and the ability to claim expenses such as, wages to family members, use of home, travel costs etc.This is from the different wording of the act. Allowable expenses for the self employed need to be “wholly and exclusively for the purposes of earning the profits of the trade”.For employees they must be “incurred wholly, exclusively and necessarily in the performance of the duties of the employment”.There is also the cash flow advantage. The self-employed do not suffer deduction of tax at source. As with all planning it is necessary to commit all the figures to paper to completely understand the financial implications and result.The statutory position<br />Neither employee nor employer is defined in the Taxes Acts.Common law differentiates on the basis that an employee has a contract of employment whereas a self employed person works to a contract for service.The difference can be explained by the example of your house being painted. Who does the work? Is it the person who quoted or someone on his behalf?The person who quoted is clearly self-employed but is his worker an employee? Is he under the control of the man who quoted or has he sub contracted his services?To resolve this question you must review many aspects of how that person carries out his duties. You cannot just run through the check list on the HMR&C web site but you must paint a picture from the information gathered from that review. Then review the picture and make a decision.The indicia<br />Opportunity to profit<br />An employee is paid a set sum under his contract whereas a self-employed person can profit from his actions. He may also lose money; an employee cannot.Employees are remunerated for the hours they work whereas a self-employed person is usually paid for the job or task he has performed so the profit is in his own hands. He can adjust overheads and time; also he can take on help to complete the contract.Employees cannot and cannot influence their return and they take no risk.Mutuality of obligations<br />The length of a contract is not conclusive one way or the other. Employees often enter short term employment contracts.What is important is that the self-employed can decline work and in effect select the work they want to do. Employees would be sacked if they declined work. Make sure the contract is per job or for a fixed term.This assumed importance in the case (Sp C 599 Parade Park Hotel) which is useful in determining the meaning of mutual obligations.It means that so long as the contractor is not obliged to offer a new contract and as long as you can decline work, then mutuality of obligation does not exist.This was confirmed in the case of Bridges and others v Industrial Rubber plc where the contractual absence of a promise to provide work and the counter promise to do it was inconsistent with a contract of employment regardless of the other conditions of the working relationship.Tax<br />Make it clear in the contract that the sub contractor is responsible for his own tax and national insurance and receives no benefits e g. no sick pay; no holiday pay and no pension contributions are paid on his behalf. It would be wise for the sub-contractor to register for VAT.Tools<br />A self-employed worker usually provides the tools necessary to do the job.Employees such as tradesmen usually supply the necessary hand tools. Larger items of equipment would be provided by the employer, the self-employed sub-contractor would provide them himself even if leased.Work standard<br />For any engager the standard of work performed is important. An employer will require the employee to correct any unsatisfactory work but it is done in the employer’s time.A self-employed person must perform the contract to an acceptable standard according to the terms of the contract. Any unsatisfactory work is put right in his own time and at his own expense.Organisation<br />It is important as to how workers are viewed by the neutral. An explanation of this item is outlined by the following example taken from the HMR&C web site.”Someone taken on to manage a client’s staff will normally be seen as an integral part of the client’s organisation and this may be seen as a strong indicator of employment.”One “employer”<br />Most people explain that if you work for only one engager or contractor you cannot be self-employed.I agree that the more firms worked for the more likely a person is to be self-employed. Only one engager is not conclusive of employment.You could have three concurrent employments. A good example of one engager not preventing self-employment would be lorry drivers. If you look at the driver’s door of a lorry you will see an indication of what I mean.It is clear that if you supply the major equipment you are more likely to be self-employed.Nothing can be deduced from part time work as both an employee and a self-employed person can work part time. A person can work for more than one engager.He can have more than one employment; more than one engager but within the self-employed status. An employee under a contract of employment can also be self-employed at the same time.Materials<br />If a subcontractor does not want to meet the cost of materials get the contractor to allow the sub-contractor to use his suppliers’ accounts and enjoy the same discounts. He will, of course, meet the cost from the recharge in the contract price.Employment contract<br />If a contract requires a worker to provide personal services and requires the person who engages that person to remunerate him for those services that is likely to be a contract of service and thus an “employment” contract.Such a contract will go on to specify all the other conditions and requirements of the engager i.e. working hours, holidays, sickness, discipline, grievances etc. So avoid reference to specific days or hours to be worked.Substitution<br />A clause that specifies that a worker can send a substitute in his place or engage other workers to help him fulfill his obligations under the contract is very important in considering the overall balance of the factors and must be in every self-employed contract.This is one of the strongest single indicia of self-employment. Dr Avery Jones in the case Talentcore Ltd v Commissioners for HMR&C found that the substitution issue was more important than the control factor.Again I must stress that the actions of the parties must mirror the contract so it would be wise to ensure that substitution takes place during the life of the contract or that help is engaged. The point is that under a contract of employment it is the worker that is employed and it is his labour that is pledged. The labour of someone else must mean a contract for rather than of service.HMR&C acknowledges that it is the right of substitution that is important. The fact that the substitution has not occurred during a contract is not necessarily relevant. However, a contractual right will be ignored if in reality the worker must undertake the work personally. Dragonfly Consultancy Limited v HMRC (2008)Payment<br />Most employees are paid by the hour, week, month or are on an annual salary.The self-employed are usually paid by the job.I find no difficulty in turning a day rate to payment per job. Take a bricklayer; he knows from the plans how long the job will take. Let us say four days and assume his rate two hundred pounds per day. He simply quotes eight hundred pounds for the contract.Like all the indicia no one item is crucial. It is the balance between them all. HMR&C place considerable reliance on the method of payment but as I have said it is only one item.Make sure, for example, that he hires the necessary scaffolding!!Financial risk<br />There is virtually no financial risk to an employee. The self-employed risk their money. HMR&C indicate that “The risk of making a loss is a very strong indicator of self-employment and can be decisive on its own”.Make sure you take out all the necessary insurances to include public liability and professional indemnity.If you undertake work at home make sure with your broker that your home insurance covers any risk.Control<br />An employee is usually subject to a large degree of control although not always exercised in practice. He is also told how to do the job, although an expert such as a brain surgeon would be free of that control.Also an employee’s hours of work, the place where he carries out the contracted work and other practical items are controlled by the employer.In the case of Market Investigations Ltd. v The Minister of Social Security the Judge said “The most that can be said is that control will no doubt always have to be considered, although it can no longer be regarded as the sole determining factor”The self employed are free of this control. See J and C Littlewood (T/a J L Window and Door Services) and Anor v R & C Commrs. January 2009 for the importance of this subject.The more people that know you are self-employed the better your case will be on any challenge. </p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://ihsbamj.info/are-you-really-self-employed/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Attitudes About Health and Fitness Are Specific As Well As General</title> <link>https://ihsbamj.info/attitudes-about-health-and-fitness-are-specific-as-well-as-general/</link> <comments>https://ihsbamj.info/attitudes-about-health-and-fitness-are-specific-as-well-as-general/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 20:50:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>admin</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Health and Fitness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Acne]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Anti Aging]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cosmetic Surgery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Diabetes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Drug Abuse]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Massage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Meditation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nutrition]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Personal Training]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Popular Diets]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Skin Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spa and Wellness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Speech Pathology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Weight Loss]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Yoga]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://ihsbamj.info/?p=113</guid> <description><![CDATA[Trainers, fat loss coaches and fitness writers spend a great deal of time trying to change people’s attitudes about fitness or health related activities.More often than not they fail to affect any permanent change in these attitudes. Many times it is because of a basic misunderstanding of how attitudes are formed. “Strength training is good [...]]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p> Trainers, fat loss coaches and fitness writers spend a great deal of time trying to change people’s attitudes about fitness or health related activities.More often than not they fail to affect any permanent change in these attitudes. Many times it is because of a basic misunderstanding of how attitudes are formed. “Strength training is good for you,” is not a statement that is bound to motivate a nonphysical person to become a fit one. Likewise, a list of generic exercise benefits will not cause many to rush to their local gym. Trying to change a person’s attitudes with general all-encompassing statements about exercise is a well-meant mistake.How can it be a mistake to want to change people’s feelings and beliefs about fitness?The mistake is not in the desire. It’s in the execution. You see, many people already have positive attitudes about fitness and health. In fact the widespread assumption that out of shape and even obese people are lazy and lackadaisical compared to the enlightened fit among us is largely a false one. They can believe that fitness and health are desirable things and still be unhealthy and unfit. Their general attitude about “fitness and health” as a concept may be very favorable. But that does not reflect their behaviors.People have general attitudes but their particular behaviors can reflect their attitude about that particular activity. If a person never jogs or runs this need not reflect their attitude toward fitness, only toward jogging.When you have an overweight friend spending countless hours on the treadmill parked in front of the television like some kind of obsessed hamster then telling him he needs to get on with the fitness is probably not going to help. As far as he is concerned he is getting on with the fitness. His choice of activity reflects his feelings and beliefs about the convenience and effectiveness of the treadmill. You may think that is lazy but that reflects your particular attitudes. “Lazy” is a value judgment.So the lesson is to deal in specifics. Work on people’s beliefs and feelings about particular activities as opposed to others that you feel are unhealthy or ineffective. This lesson goes not only for trainers but for anyone who would like to see a friend or family member improve his or her health.As a strength trainer I spend much of my time talking about very specific things such as deadlifts. That is because I have found that discussing specific activities generates more interest than vague testimonials about strength training. </p>]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://ihsbamj.info/attitudes-about-health-and-fitness-are-specific-as-well-as-general/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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