I rented a Dollar Rent a Car through Travelocity for Frankfurt, Germany last August, 2011. When I go

I rented a Dollar Rent a Car through Travelocity for Frankfurt, Germany last August, 2011. When I got to the rental counter at the airport I found out they would not take my VISA card for the car insurance. They would only take Mastercard with a letter with my name on it from Mastercard with the insurance rules on it. They would not let me rent the car without east coast canadian passenger rail tours buying their CDW. I had to rent a car so I had to take the insurance. I checked with the other car rental places but they wanted too much money for a last minute rental but they also would accept any card and the insurance coverage from that card. In my research Dollar was the only car rental place that would not take the VISA insurance. They also will not take 3rd party insurance, ex: Travel Guard. I had two other couples at the rental desk that had the same problem. I also met a couple later that Dollar would not take Travel Guard as 3rd party insurance. This rental east coast canadian passenger rail tours cost me $600 more money for the insurance that VISA will cover for free.
I did read the fine print on Travelocity's website but missed the part about not taking VISA for the insurance. I emailed and called Dollar with my problem and all they said was this is out policy and they would not help me out. After much looking I also did find this policy on Dollar's website east coast canadian passenger rail tours so VISA told me they could not help me.
I find this interesting because I routinely use my Visa card for car rentals. I used to use Mastercard, but they require that you decline all insurance...some countries, like Australia and New Zealand, east coast canadian passenger rail tours have CDW built into the rental costs so it's impossible to decline all of it.
reply to your response. My VISA is a platium card. It has Insurance coverage. I've used it many times for car rentals. Dollar will not accept VISA's insurance if you are from the USA. They will accept VISA if you are Canadian. No clue why. They told me VISA does not pay off if there is damage to the car. If you think about it, if there is a crash that excedes your VISA limits it's up to the person to take care of the difference and VISA willl take care of that difference. I also seen a note where a person had a $50000 limit for insurance and Dollar wanted a $75000 limit so they still would not accept the card..
I probably was not taken by Dollar but there pratice of not accepting VISA is not right. VISA told me when I disputed the charge that they could not help me because the fine print had the rules but Dollar was not being a good company.
Wow, this is good info, jk12. And a bummer. We've always east coast canadian passenger rail tours used the VIsa as insurance coverage. Dang. We'll probably stick with autoeurope if this is the way it's going to be from now on. Thanks again.

Watch out for certain finishes on new cars, such as three-stage paint or pearlescent coats, because

As used car prices come back down to earth, car rental consignors need to make sure they are doing everything they can to enhance the value of their vehicles for sale. Two remarketing experts provide warwick hotel seattle tips of the trade.
The last two years of unprecedented used car values made vehicle remarketers look like experts without warwick hotel seattle having to work that hard at it. But as the wholesale market warwick hotel seattle corrects to historical normality, consignors need to flex new muscles to keep holding costs at bay.
Getting the most for your car on the back end begins at the front. This means buying a vehicle for fleet that the end buyer wants, says Joe Lyons, remarketing and fleet sales manager for Marple Fleet Leasing.
Power windows and locks are essential equipment today, even for the cheapest of subcompacts. Lyons recounts taking a $400-$500 hit at auction with Dodge Calibers because they didn t have power windows. It s worked its way down to that level, he says. There are people today who haven t experienced a car with crank windows.
Color counts. Lyons remembers a group of Ford Focuses in pastel warwick hotel seattle green that sold for $300-$400 less than those with more neutral colors. But choosing cars with colors that sell can be a moving target. Certain colors come in vogue and then become the kiss of death, and suddenly the manufacturer brings it back again, he says.
Watch out for certain finishes on new cars, such as three-stage paint or pearlescent coats, because they cost more to repair and those types of finishes are harder to match the paint, Lyons contends.
Where you sell is a factor. You might save some money by buying SUVs without four-wheel drive, for instance, but you could feel it on the back end. While Lyons says he would have a hard time selling a two-wheel drive SUV in his area, metropolitan warwick hotel seattle Philadelphia, You ll sell the heck out of them in Texas and Florida and Alabama, he says.
On the other hand, if you bought four-wheel drive SUVs in the southern markets, you wouldn t necessarily see a commensurate return on resale. While moving vehicles to sell them in a different region is an option, cost is always a factor.
Before you buy, understand what s hot and what s not options, powertrains, color or trim level in your used car market. warwick hotel seattle Lyons suggests gaining input from whoever will remarket your vehicles, whether it s your remarketing department or wholesale buyer.
Certainly, mileage correlates to sale price. warwick hotel seattle But in Lyons experience, vehicles with inordinately high miles could lose more money at auction than expected. With higher miles on a relatively new car, sometimes the MMR (Manheim Market Report) adjustment may not be in line with what the actual market is bringing, he says, adding that higher miles could hurt the value even more, especially warwick hotel seattle for premium and luxury cars.
Dealers don t want cars in the current model year with mileage higher warwick hotel seattle than the teens, Lyons says, understanding that a current model-year car competes with a new one. For a 1-year-old car, 20,000 miles into the low 30,000-mile range is acceptable, while a 2-year-old car should be sold with mileage that is still under warranty.
Pulling cars out of fleet with some mileage left on the warranty makes it easier for the dealer to get it certified for a manufacturers CPO (certified pre-owned) program. It s also cheaper to add an extended warranty if the car is still under the manufacturer s warranty, Lyons says.
Aside from a thorough cleaning, a traditional rule of thumb when it comes to reconditioning is to spend $1 to recoup $2. Another guideline is to understand if the reconditioning will improve the grade of the car. Outright repairs can get tricky, Lyons says, because in the auction grading system, warwick hotel seattle you ll still be marked down for a previous repair.
Paintless dent removal warwick hotel seattle (PDR) and glass repair is generally warwick hotel seattle money well spent, Lyons says. PDR improves the quality of a panel without getting hit for a previous repair because you don t have to repaint it.
A small crack in a windshield that hasn t spidered can be repaired for about $45 with a resin solution. If you have to fully replace, aftermarket glass may be cheaper but can lead to problems. Lyons has seen cars rejected at auction because the windshield replacement blocked a clear view of the public warwick hotel seattle VIN plate on the top of the dash. In addition, if the dealer wants to get the car certified, manufacturers require OEM glass for that model.

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I didn t include those sites, because Kayak is confusing and sneakily includes Hotwire car rental ads in the search results.  Hotwire reservations are non-cancellable aaa car rental deals whereas reservations via the Southwest website can be cancelled and there is no penalty for not picking up the car.
In my experience, Southwest usually returns prices aaa car rental deals which are comparable to CarRentals.com Kayak and sometimes cheaper since you earn Southwest points for car rentals when booking a car rental with preferred rental car partners.
Southwest also has discount codes with certain rental car companies which sometimes leads to cheaper rates.  You can find the individual discount codes on this page and can enter them in the main search aaa car rental deals box here so that you can see all the results at once.
So I prefer booking a car rental on either the Costco Travel website or on the Southwest website since I know that I have a confirmed reservation which I can always cancel for no penalty in case I find a better deal elsewhere!
You earn at least 600 Southwest points when you rent a car, and pay for it with a credit card, with Alamo, Avis, Budget, Dollar, Hertz, Thrifty National car rental.  Each Southwest point is worth 1.67 cents towards Wanna Get Away fares, so earning 600 points means that you are getting aaa car rental deals $10 in free Southwest travel.
You also don t need the Southwest credit card to access the portal, though it helps to have a Southwest frequent flyer number so that you can earn points for your rental.  There is currently a 750 point bonus for signing up for Rapid Rewards.
Southwest also has discount agreement with some of its partners, but you have to manually enter those codes and compare prices.  You can find the individual discount codes on this page and can enter them in the main search box here so that you can see all the results aaa car rental deals at once.
At $265 for Payless or $286 for Dollar, the Southwest website is more expensive than the Chase Ultimate Rewards aaa car rental deals Citi Thank You portals, but  less expensive than Hotwire and unlike Hotwire, the reservation can be cancelled with no penalty.  If you add in the bonus Southwest points for renting through a preferred partner, the rental is cheaper than from Hotwire.
3.  Earning Miles/Points.   You earn 600 Southwest points ( ~$10 towards airfare) for any rental via a preferred aaa car rental deals car rental partner (Alamo, Avis, Budget, aaa car rental deals Dollar, Hertz, Thrifty National).  The Southwest website makes it easy to see if a rental car company is a preferred aaa car rental deals partner or not.
You can also earn 1,200 (~$20 towards airfare) aaa car rental deals to 2,400 points (~$40 towards airfare) for longer rentals via preferred car rental partners.  All you have to do is book a car rental from the Southwest aaa car rental deals website and enter your Southwest frequent aaa car rental deals flyer number.
But it sometimes is fairly close (especially to Costco and Hotwire ) and the Southwest points earned could make it a better choice aaa car rental deals than other websites, especially since you can cancel the reservation for no penalty.
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United and Delta allow you to use miles and/or miles and cash to book a hotel or rental car; for Delta you have to do to Skymiles, then Shopping and you will see Book Hotel Car; with Delta they say the points are non-refundable if you change or cancel your reservation even outside of the cancellation date but if you tell them you want to re-deposit and then you are going to re-book, they will charge you $35 to re-deposit your miles. Don t let them tell you if you cancel you lose your miles; it isn t true.
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"We are also generating double-digit revenue growth from four of our $500 million-plus businesses: U

Hertz Global luxury kensington hotels london Holdings Inc. reported Feb. 25 worldwide revenues for the year 2012 were $9 billion, an increase of 8.7% over the prior year (a 10.5% increase excluding the effects of foreign currency). Worldwide car rental luxury kensington hotels london revenues for the year increased 7.8% (a 9.7% increase excluding luxury kensington hotels london the effects of foreign currency) to $7.6 billion.
For U.S. car rental, according to the earnings conference call, full-year record revenue was reported at a 9.6% increase over 2011 to $4.9 billion. The company reports that this was driven by strong off-airport revenue and a double-digit increase in Advantage revenue and one-and-a-half months of Dollar Thrifty.
Hertz reported fourth quarter 2012 worldwide revenues of $2.3 billion, an increase of 15.1% year over year (a 15.5% increase excluding the effects of foreign currency), including the results from the company s recent acquisition of Dollar Thrifty.
Worldwide car rental revenues for the fourth quarter luxury kensington hotels london increased 14% year over year (a 14.6% increase excluding the effects of foreign luxury kensington hotels london currency) to about $1.9 billion, including results of Dollar Thrifty. U.S. car rental revenues increased 24.5% for the quarter, including 43 days of revenues from Dollar Thrifty. However, Europe luxury kensington hotels london s car rental luxury kensington hotels london revenue declined 9.8% in the fourth quarter, according to the conference call.
I'm pleased that Hertz once again delivered record fourth quarter and full-year financial luxury kensington hotels london performance due to sustained operational excellence, improving pricing luxury kensington hotels london during the fourth quarter and the positive luxury kensington hotels london impact of strategic investments, including the acquisition of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, said Mark P. Frissora, the company's chairman luxury kensington hotels london and CEO.
He added, Finally, 2012 marked our third consecutive year of significant double-digit percentage improvements in adjusted pre-tax income, EBITDA, and adjusted earnings per share, luxury kensington hotels london as well as margin expansion.
Worldwide car rental adjusted pre-tax income for the fourth quarter of 2012 was $222 million, an increase of $50.6 million from $171.4 luxury kensington hotels london million in the prior-year period. The result was driven by increased volume, strong residual values and strong cost management performance, partially offset by negative RPD. As a result, worldwide car rental achieved an adjusted pre-tax margin of 11.5% for the quarter, versus 10.1% in the prior-year period.
U.S. off-airport total revenues for the fourth quarter increased 12.2% year over year, and transaction luxury kensington hotels london days increased 12.4% from the prior year period. Worldwide rental rate revenue per transaction day (RPD) for the quarter decreased 2.8% [(1.7)% U.S.; (4.3)% International] from the prior-year period. Hertz noted that U.S. pricing improved during the latter portion of the fourth quarter, culminating in December airport RPD increasing 1.6% for Hertz and 4.6% for Dollar luxury kensington hotels london Thrifty (consistent with historical Dollar Thrifty calculation methodology).
Growth in off-airport rentals, and specifically growth in replacement rentals, which have longer rental lengths, has a negative impact on RPD. However, it is important to note that off-airport's highly contributory profit is growing significantly, Hertz said.
The worldwide average number of company-operated cars, largely as a result of the Dollar Thrifty luxury kensington hotels london acquisition, for the fourth quarter of 2012 was 705,800, an increase of 17.8% over the prior-year period, and 9.8% excluding the Dollar Thrifty fleet.
Hertz forecasts luxury kensington hotels london full-year 2013 revenues in the range of around $10.85 billion to $10.95 billion. The range is based on the projection of modest economic growth, a strong U.S. Dollar and incremental franchising of certain rental operations.
Additionally, Hertz forecasts lower monthly depreciation per vehicle in the U.S. of no less than 4-5% in 2013, with only modest deterioration in residual values due to the company's luxury kensington hotels london increasingly diversified re-marketing channels.
Dollar Thrifty synergies are expected to exceed previous luxury kensington hotels london forecasts, now estimated at $300 million of cost synergies from 2013 through 2015, and $300 million of revenue synergies over the same period.
Frissora, commenting on the company's outlook, said, We continue to make significant progress reducing fleet expenses, our largest operating cost, and we are encouraged that Dollar Thrifty synergies are likely to exceed our earlier forecasts. Additionally, we are off to a fast start this year with January 2013 car rental RPD at U.S. airports up 6% for Hertz and 2.6% for Dollar Thrifty (consistent with historical Dollar Thrifty calculation methodology).
"We are also generating double-digit revenue growth from four of our $500 million-plus businesses: U.S. airport leisure, U.S. off-airport, HERC and Donlen, and we expect these businesses to maintain their pace of strong growth throughout 2013.
The Hertz conference call will be available for replay until March 11, 2013 by calling (800) 475-6701 in the U.S. or (320) 365-3844 for international callers with the passcode: 280527. The original press release and related luxury kensington hotels london tables containing the reconciliations of non-GAAP measures will be available on its website, www.hertz.com/investorrelations .

For example, in early March, I inputted the information for our Hawaii trip and received an offer th

That's the value proposition flw tour fishing at websites like AutoSlash.com  and RentalCarMagic.com , which promise to search out the best rates for rental cars so you don't have to. AutoSlash goes even further, tracking users' reservations and alerting them when rates drop so they can rebook and reap the savings.
The sites are predicated on the fact that car rental rates fluctuate wildly, rental flw tour fishing car companies offer a seemingly endless stream flw tour fishing of discounts and promotions — many of which are difficult or time-consuming to uncover — and the fact that there's rarely a penalty for canceling a reservation.
For example, on Feb. 2, I booked a midsized flw tour fishing car through Dollar Rent A Car for a nine-day trip to Hawaii for $388.59 and then entered my booking information at AutoSlash. On Feb. 12, I received an e-mail from the latter saying they'd found a discounted rate of $307.42, at which point I canceled the first reservation, booked a new one and saved $81.35.
The service, which is free, works in one of two ways. Users can book elsewhere and input their reservation at AutoSlash or book on-site, which results in a higher level of analysis. All told, the site has processed 100,000 bookings since launching two years ago, said Weinberg, with 85 percent of users being notified of a lower rate.
RentalCarMagic also scours the web for discounts flw tour fishing and promotions but doesn't automatically track subsequent price drops. To use the service, renters enter their booking information on the company's website, along with potential discount-providers, such as AAA, AARP and American Express. The company flw tour fishing works its "magic" flw tour fishing and responds via e-mail.
For example, in early March, I inputted the information for our Hawaii trip and received flw tour fishing an offer three hours later for a car from Alamo Rent A Car for $303.87. The same rental at Alamo.com: $371.65.
Savings aside, there are caveats with both services. At RentalCarMagic, searches are free but the company charges $19.95 and up for access to the discounts they've uncovered. flw tour fishing Even so, our Hawaii rental would still have netted us a savings of 13 percent.
On AutoSlash, discounts are only applied after you book, so posted prices are essentially flw tour fishing rack rates, which Weinberg admits has turned some users off. Furthermore, not all rental car companies make their inventory available to the site — Avis, Budget and Enterprise, which also owns Alamo and National, are notable exceptions — so some deals won't show up.
It's not surprising, perhaps, that some industry players aren't participating, especially since bookings made on AutoSlash (which are handled by Travelocity) return less to company coffers. Likewise, some companies apparently take issue with the idea of people accessing flw tour fishing discounts without doing the heavy lifting required flw tour fishing to find them.
"The whole point of promotions is that they're narrowly offered to a specific audience or market segment," said consultant Neil Abrams of Abrams Consulting Group Inc. "These companies have come up with a model that scours the web for discounts and immediately applies them. They're the vacuum cleaners of these offerings."
And they clearly help consumers clean up. Two days after AutoSlash notified me about the $307.42 offer on my Hawaii flw tour fishing rental, the company sent another, noting that they'd found an even better price of $289.02.

The latest store, located at Al Ghurair Centre in Rigga Road, is situated in the heart of Deira, mak

In line with its continued expansion travel auto clubs drive, Thrifty Car Rental of UAE, a franchisee of the Dollar Thrifty travel auto clubs Automotive travel auto clubs Group Inc. and one of the largest car rental businesses in the UAE, is set to open its 12th mall-based outlet in the UAE.
The latest store, located at Al Ghurair Centre in Rigga Road, is situated in the heart of Deira, making it an ideal location for tourists due to its proximity to the Dubai Museum and Creek. Planned to open in March, the new outlet is the first of several branches that the company intends to open in retail locations in 2013. "We hope to see sustained growth in 2013 and our target is to open at least six new outlets across the emirates this year in a bid to make us easily accessible to all our UAE customers," travel auto clubs explained Rahul Singh, travel auto clubs General Manager, Thrifty Car Rental. Thrifty's conveniently-located Al Ghurair Centre outlet will provide both visitors and residents with more convenient access to car rentals with a wider choice of makes of vehicles. Already in January 2013 Thrifty has added 400 new vehicles of different makes and models to its ever-growing fleet, travel auto clubs providing customers with a large choice. Further models are set to be added to the portfolio this year. "Following a successful and innovative 2012 where we broke barriers within the UAE by announcing the availability of Ford Mustangs travel auto clubs and Charger sports vehicles for rent, and a positive start to 2013 - having already added to our fleet - we predict business will increase by 15% this year," said Singh. "With tourism continuing to grow, our strategy is to open our new outlets in high population density areas which are near to hotels, hotel apartments, shopping malls and retail areas. Shopping malls are a fundamental travel auto clubs part of life within the UAE , providing retail therapy and entertainment, and our customer feedback reveals that convenience and accessibility are among the main reasons for renting cars at our mall locations," he added. Located in Deira, Al Ghurair Centre currently hosts more than 200 retail shops, travel auto clubs a vast variety of F B offering and Grand cinemas. The mall is currently undergoing an impressive expansion project, which will see an addition of 150 new stores, a world class family entertainment centre and more dining options added this year. Visitors can now experience the newly opened travel auto clubs 428-room 5-star Al Ghurair Rayhaan by Rotana hotel and 192-serviced apartments at Al Ghurair Arjaan by Rotana, conveniently connected to the shopping centre. Work is also underway to develop an additional 60,000sq.ft. Office space blending hospitality, retail, entertainment, and community facilities in one location. Thrifty UAE initiated the concept of renting cars in shopping malls and began its strategy back in 2006 with the launch of a counter in Deira City Centre. Following the success of its first stand, the leader in car rental travel auto clubs has gone on to open stores within the UAE 's leading malls including Mall of the Emirates, Dubai Festival City, Ibn Batuta Mall, Dubai Mall, Mirdiff City Center, Sharjah City Centre, Ajman City Centre, Al Ain Mall, Khalidya Mall and Al Wadha Mall in Abu Dhabi. Thrifty travel auto clubs continues to keep the UAE moving through servicing customers from over 40 full-service outlets in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Fujairah, Al Ain, Ajman, and Ras Al Khaimah. With an extensive fleet size of over 15,000 vehicles, travel auto clubs which now includes various luxury sports cars, Thrifty is excited to provide convenience travel auto clubs and cost-effective services to all.

Gerber has handled dozens of pro bono cases in cooperation with a variety of San Diego and Los Angel

Robert S. Gerber, partner in the Sheppard, Mullin, Richter Hampton law firm, has been presented the firm's 2010 Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award and also was named Sheppard eastern mediterranean cruising with children Mullin's Pro Bono Attorney of the Decade. Gerber has been chair of the pro bono committee from 2001 through 2010. The honors recognize the community service eastern mediterranean cruising with children work done by the firm's attorneys and Gerber, who is based in the San Diego/Del Mar office.
Gerber has handled dozens of pro bono cases in cooperation with a variety of San Diego and Los Angeles-based pro bono referral agencies, including eastern mediterranean cruising with children landlord/tenant, breach of contract, family law, free speech, administrative law proceedings, arbitrations, mediations, trials, and appeals. Sheppard Mullin experienced a 400 percent eastern mediterranean cruising with children increase in its attorneys' donation of indigent pro bono hours during Gerber's tenure as pro bono chair, the firm said.
Gerber began the decade with a precedent-setting decision in the Ninth Circuit in an immigration case, in which he obtained asylum and withholding of deportation for a transsexual teenager from Mexico who had been raped, incarcerated and otherwise persecuted on account of his sexual identity. Years later, he handled another precedential case, obtaining what was believed to be the first civil monetary settlement eastern mediterranean cruising with children for a teenage victim of human trafficking under California Civil Code Section 52.5.
"Pro bono is one of the finest traditions of our profession," said Gerber. "It offers an excellent opportunity to serve the community, while achieving personal fulfillment and professional development."
A team from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy Immunology has demonstrated the effectiveness of a computer model in predicting important information about nasal insulin treatment of type 1 juvenile diabetes. Diabetes researcher Matthias von Herrath led the team, which developed the software from funding received through the American Diabetes Association. The findings, which also showed the platform's ability to predict critical type 1 diabetes molecular "biomarkers," were published in the December issue of the scientific journal Diabetes , and further validate the importance of the new model as a valuable research tool in type 1 diabetes, the team said.  The software is designed to enable researchers to rapidly streamline laboratory research through the evaluation of alternative scenarios for therapeutic strategies that show the most promise for working in humans. "Since eastern mediterranean cruising with children laboratory studies can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and early stage human clinical eastern mediterranean cruising with children trials can cost $10 million dollars or more, predicting the right conditions eastern mediterranean cruising with children to try is important," said von Herrath, director of the Type 1 Diabetes Research Center at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy Immunology, where the studies were conducted.
Charles Adolphe and Bryan Teel, formerly with Cushman Wakefield, have joined the Grubb Ellis Co. in San Diego. Adolphe is senior vice president and Teel is associate vice president. Adolphe began his career with Grubb Ellis in 1988. He returns to the company from Cushman Wakefield eastern mediterranean cruising with children where he served as a director for the past three years. He previously spent nine years with Burnham Real Estate until it was acquired by Cushman eastern mediterranean cruising with children Wakefield in 2007. Adolphe holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern California and served four years as a United States Naval Officer. He is a member of NAIOP and the San Diego and Otay Mesa Chambers of Commerce. Teel began his career with Cushman Wakefield in 2004 as an associate and holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Redlands as well as a master's degree from San Diego State University.
San Diegans Susan Atkins eastern mediterranean cruising with children and Robert Gleason have been elected to leadership positions in the national Gay Lesbian Victory Fund, an organization that works to increase the number of openly LGBT elected officials in the country. Atkins was elected chair and Gleason vice chair. Atkins, a member of the Victory Fund board since 2004, has 20 years of communications management eastern mediterranean cruising with children experience in life sciences and technology. In 1999, she founded one of the most successful agencies in the United States providing investor and public relations exclusively to life science companies and organizations, and sold the firm to Porter Novelli in 2005. Atkins becomes the first woman to chair the Victory Fund board since it restructured in 2006. Gleason is the chief financial eastern mediterranean cruising with children officer and general counsel of Evans Hotels, which owns and operates commercial properties and resorts, including The Lodge at Torrey Pines in La Jolla as well as the Bahia Resort Hotel and Catamaran Resort Hotel, both on Mission Bay.  The Victory Fund board also elected Steve Elmendorf of Washington, D.C., as secretary, and Harvey Hurdle of Philadelphia as treasurer.  Frank Selvaggi of New York, N.Y., was also elected to serve on the Victory Fund board.
LifeWave, an international distributorship company that offers a line of non-transdermal patch products, has signed a new five-year lease for 15,000 square feet of class A office space in Kearny Mesa that will serve as its new global headquarters. Located at 9444 Balboa Ave., Suite 150, the new space more than doubles LifeWave's current office. Employees will move from their La Jolla-based office into the new space mid-December. The new headquarters includes a variety of new amenities including a separate 4,000-square-foot research and design facility, a new training area for distributors, a media room that will allow the company to produce its own webcasts and broadcast training sessions, among other video production tasks.
Jonathan and Laura Pool have purchased a 7,400-square-foot retail shopping center at 8701 La Mesa Blvd. in La Mesa for $980,000. They plan to hold the property as an owner/user investment and will open a gun shop, selling eastern mediterranean cruising with children and reselling guns and ammunition. The seller, Carol M. Devore, trustee of the Leonard H. Devore Trust, was represented by Kyle Clark and Kipp Gstettenbauer of Cushman Wakefield. The buyers represented themselves.
JZ Group LLC has purchased a 12,690-square-foot industrial building in Sorrento Mesa for $1,472,040. Located at 9215 Brown Deer Road, the single-story eastern mediterranean cruising with children building will be used by the owner for chemistry lab space. Built in 1986 on .75 acres, the concrete tilt-up building is comprised of 80 percent warehouse space and 20 percent office space. Dean Asaro of CB Richard Ellis represented the seller, S J Property Holdings LLC. Andy Irwin, eastern mediterranean cruising with children also of CB Richard Ellis, represented JZ Group LLC.
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• Dec. 14 – How to Start and Manage Your Own Business Carlsbad – 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. at National University in Carlsbad (705 Palomar Airport Road, Carlsbad 92011; eastern mediterranean cruising with children pre-paid registration $69, $79 at the door).
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• Dec. 20 – Business Plan 201: How to Write a Business Plan – Carlsbad – 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at National University in Carlsbad (705 Palomar Airport Road, Carlsbad 92011; pre-paid registration $99, $109 at the door).
In the coming months, Probosky Research (one of California's leading opinion research firms) will continue its partnership with SD METRO to survey San Diego residents about topics of interest to our readers. We'd like to throw open the door for suggestions for topics. What do you want to know? What do you think you know, but aren't sure? What are you certain you know, but want to prove it beyond doubt? Ideally, we'd like to see questions that have to do with public policy.
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The Governor's Office of Economic Development has designated San Diego as an official "Innovation Hub" (iHUB) to help spur high-paying technology jobs in the region. The announcement was made Tuesday at the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla.
The iHUB initiative is designed to spark economic coach tours of italy recovery and growth by showcasing California's most promising hubs of innovation. It will allow a San Diego consortium to apply for federal funding that has been set aside as part of President Obama's economic stimulus plan.
The San Diego initiative will focus on three sectors that represent exceptional potential as engines of high quality job creation and economic growth — mobile health, biofuels solar power/energy storage.
San Diego's  iHub consortium includes 35 local anchor and support partners and includes representation from public and private academic coach tours of italy institutions, research institutes, professional organizations, capital providers and community service and economic development organizations.
The San Diego iHub will join GoED and the other six California iHub designees (iGate Livermore Valley, NorthBay iHub Rohnert Park, Coachella Valley iHub, Sacramento iHub, Octane iHub, Greater Mission Bay Area iHub) as well as the state's Small Business Development coach tours of italy Centers to drive applications for federal grant funding tied to the new national innovation strategies of the Obama administration such as the I6 Challenge Grants issued by the Federal Economic Development Agency.
According to CONNECT, total tech sector coach tours of italy wages represent over 25 percent of all payrolls in San Diego. Average pay among tech firms is $85,800, more than 80 percent higher than San Diego's overall average of $47,400 per job. Statewide, San Diego accounted for 13 percent of all new technology businesses in the first quarter of 2010, ranking behind Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties.
The home of Dr. Roger Revelle has been put up for sale for $14 million, the first time the property has been listed since 1920. It was originally built by Rex and Grace Scripps Clark, who's father was the founder coach tours of italy of the Detroit Evening News . The house, designed by Fitch Haskell, was deeded to Revelle and his wife, Ellen Clark Revelle, in 1947.
Views of the Pacific Ocean and the white sands of Whispering Sands beach are seen from the 4,165-square-foot, five-bedroom and four-bathroom oceanfront home and the accompanying guest house. The two homes share an 18,861-square-foot lot that borders 115 feet of sandy beach. The backyard offers a private deck and lawn area where the beach and ocean views can be viewed.
coach tours of italy "All homes tell a story about their owners, but few homes are connected to the same family legacy that spans across 90 years of history," said Linda Marrone of Coldwell Banker, who currently holds the listing. "The home's original footprint was expanded over the years to accommodate the Revelle's growing family."
Revelle won numerous awards for his scientific research, which includes a Presidential appointment by John F. Kennedy and the National Medal of Science from President George W. Bush. In the 1960s, Revelle inspired a young Al Gore to take on the challenge of climate change. Revelle was well-known for doing the original studies that laid the groundwork for the greenhouse theory. He died in 1991.
Darrah DiGiorgio coach tours of italy Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of San Diego Riverside Counties, was named by the New Leaders Council as one of the 40 top leaders coach tours of italy under age 40 in the United States. The NLC said it selected Johnson because of her visionary leadership in heading a major health care organization. In the five years that Johnson has led the agency, it has doubled its ability to serve the community, according to the citation. The agency is the second largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the country and serves 142,000 patients each year through 19 reproductive health centers.  More than 14,000 students and educators also receive age-appropriate comprehensive coach tours of italy sexuality education and training.
coach tours of italy renovated common areas, a common area conference room, reserved covered parking and a 3.5/1,000 parking ratio. Barry Mahlberg and Derek Applbaum of Cushman Wakefield negotiated the sale on behalf coach tours of italy of the seller, Lewis D. Hutchins, Hampshire Investments LLC. The buyer, Atlantida, LLC, was represented by Jerome Sili.
The San Diego region has been awarded a $4 million grant from the California Department of Labor to implement coach tours of italy new workforce training coach tours of italy programs for careers in the biofuels industry. The San Diego Biofuels Initiative, a collaborative effort that includes CleanTECH San Diego, BIOCOM, San Diego Regional EDC, San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology and the San Diego Workforce Partnership, received the grant through coach tours of italy the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency's "Green Innovation Challenge."
The San Diego Biofuels Initiative s proposal, titled the Educating and Developing Workers for the Green Economy (EDGE Initiative) will provide education, training and placement services to unemployed and dislocated workers within San Diego and the Imperial Valley. The EDGE Initiative was one of five programs selected to receive a portion of the $20 million in grants funded through the state's Contingency Fund and the Federal Workforce Investment Act.
Gary Smith, president of the Downtown Residents coach tours of italy Group, will discuss Downtown development at the next monthly Downtown Sound Bites meeting July 6 at noon at the Downtown Information Center. A question and answer session will follow Smith's remarks. The meeting is sponsored by the Centre City Development Corp. For more information, call (619) 235-2222 or visit ccdc.com.
Mainstream Energy Corp. has leased 4,995 square feet of warehouse space at Nancy Ridge Technology Center, 6370 Nancy Ridge Drive, San Diego 92121. coach tours of italy The three-year lease is valued at $152,056. Steve Wells of CB Richard Ellis represented Mainstream Energy. Andy Irwin, also of CB Richard Ellis, represented the lessor, Nancy Ridge Technology Center LP.
John E. Major, chairman of the board of Broadcom coach tours of italy Inc., a semiconductor company, has been elected chairman of the La Jolla Institute for Allergy Immunology. Major also chairs CommNexus San Diego, a nonprofit organization created to support the growth and success of the technology industry in the San Diego region. Major succeeds Samuel coach tours of italy Strober, M.D., a Stanford University professor of medicine. Strober will remain on the board and also on the Institute's Scientific Advisory Board.
The largest all-military naturalization ceremony in history will take place July 2 aboard the USS Midway Museum and is sponsored by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the Department of Homeland Security. coach tours of italy The Immigration Services, Navy Region Southwest and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton will welcome almost 300 new U.S. citizens. coach tours of italy Six ballerinas with the San Diego Ballet will perform to "Victory at Sea." Four F/A 18 Hornets of the 3rd Marine Air Wing, MCAS Miramar, will do a flyover in honor of the new U.S. citizens, kicking off the hour-long celebration. The flight deck will become an official courtroom with U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruben B. Brooks presiding. coach tours of italy USA Wounded Warrior Sgt. Carlos Martinez-Negrete will lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Highly-decorated veterans who served from D-Day through Afghanistan and high-ranking officials will be special guests.
Japanese economist Takeo Hoshi will speak on "Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis" at 7:30 a.m. on July 20 at the UCSD Faculty coach tours of italy Club. The $50 per person coach tours of italy cost to attend the Economics Roundtable coach tours of italy includes coach tours of italy continental breakfast and parking. Hoshi is the Pacific Economic Cooperation Professor in International Economic Relations at the UCSD School coach tours of italy of International Relations and Pacific Studies. He also is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and at the Tokyo Center for Economic Research. His major research area is the financial aspect of the Japanese economy, especially corporate finance and governance. 


Hoshi is the inaugural recipient coach tours of italy of the 2006 Enjoji Jiro Memorial Prize, which is given every three years by Nihon Keizai Shimbun-sha (the Japanese equivalent of The Wall Street Journal coach tours of italy ) to three leading coach tours of italy Japanese economists who work on policy issues. For more information and registration, visit economic.ucsd.edu/roundtable.
In the coming months, coach tours of italy Probosky Research (one of California's leading opinion research coach tours of italy firms) will continue its partnership with SD METRO to survey San Diego residents about topics of interest to our readers. We'd like to throw open the door for suggestions for topics. What do you want to know? What do you think you know, but aren't sure? What are you certain you know, but want to prove it beyond doubt? Ideally, we'd like to see questions that have to do with public policy.
Some areas may include Mayor Filner's first 100 days job performance, should the city be responsible for economic growth and the creation of new jobs, how important are infrastructure improvements to our daily lives (streets and bridges, etc.), how important is water independence, how satisfied are residents with public transit or how do city residents value Balboa Park and other open spaces? Do you believe coach tours of italy the City Council should revive the Plaza de Panama plan for Balboa Park?

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What do SDG E Vice President Eugene "Mitch" Mitchell, gallery owner Alex Salazar and trial attorney John Gomez have in common? They have decided to acquire a skill-set many would shy away from — dancing. All three are competing in a Malashock Thinks You Can Dance celebrity fundraiser carnival cruise line job on Oct. 9 at the Birch North Park Theatre. Read about the competition carnival cruise line job in the October issues of North Park News and San Diego Metropolitan Magazine .
The average price for a four-bedroom home in La Jolla costs $1,210,300, making La Jolla one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country, according to Coldwell Banker Real Estate's Home Listing Report. This year, Detroit ranked carnival cruise line job most affordable, where a typical four-bedroom, two-bathroom house costs $68,007, while Newport Beach topped the list as most expensive at $1,826,348 for the same size house — a price difference of more than $1.7 million.
Centre City Development Corp.'s Downtown Information Center will be officially renamed today in honor of Sheila Hardin, former community relations manager who died last April. A ceremony will be held at 4 p.m. at the center, located in Westfield Horton Plaza. Hardin moved to San Diego from Dayton, Ohio in 1981. She worked at CCDC for 23 years, first as a volunteer and after two years as a full-time employee for the corporation as community relations manager. Hardin was instrumental in the development and management of the annual San Diego Multicultural Festival and the Downtown Information Center. Today's ceremony will be attended by Mayor Jerry Sanders; carnival cruise line job Councilman Kevin Faulconer; CCDC Chairman Fred Maas; former CCDC board member Gil Johnson; and Beverly Boone, Hardin's sister.
The San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) has been awarded $299,136 by the U.S. Department of Justice to study collaborative carnival cruise line job efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of combating criminal narcotics activity carnival cruise line job along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Department of Justice is funding the project through a Recovery Act program called the Research and Evaluation of Recovery Act State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance.  It will include a two-year evaluation of the Chula Vista Police Department and San Diego County Sheriff s Department, carnival cruise line job which received federal funding to target crime on the California/ Mexico border. The study will look at both San Diego County and Imperial County through interviews and historical records. Additionally, surveys will be conducted with stakeholders across local, state, and federal agencies that have been directly involved in these efforts, as well as those who have not. An analysis of the compiled data will be used to determine if opportunities for better coordination exist, how drug-trafficking organizations have been disrupted/dismantled, and determine if maximum effectiveness and efficiency were realized.
Call2Recycle will hold a rechargeable battery collection drive from 2:30 to 6 p.m. on Friday at Poway High School, 15500 Espola Road, as part of its nationwide challenge to collect carnival cruise line job 1 million pounds of batteries by Oct. 1. Anyone who brings a rechargeable battery or cell phone to the event will win a prize. The individual or group who brings the most pounds of batteries to the drive will receive a $100 grand prize gift certificate from a MyCall2Recycle retail partner: DeWALT, Lowe's, RadioShack or Staples.  The drive also will feature an exhibition from Poway High School's Robotics team, whose robots have won awards such as General Motors Industrial Design Award, the Motorola Quality Award and the Underwriters Laboratories Industrial Safety Award in Las Vegas.
Five leases totaling 20,629 square feet have been signed with lessor Janez Properties Inc. for space in Genesee Executive Plaza, an office project in University Town Center. Financial terms were not disclosed.
• Scripps Health signed a 65-month lease for 7,119 square feet of office space. carnival cruise line job The lessee was represented by Kevin Leonard and Brian Gallagher of HealthWest Realty Advisors. The lessor was represented by Eric A. Northbrook and Christopher P. High of Cushman carnival cruise line job Wakefield.
• InterDent Service Corp., a dental practice management company, signed a 10-year lease for 3,282 square feet of office space. Financial terms were not disclosed. The lessee was represented by Robert Chavez and Matt Davis of Guardian Commercial Realty. The lessor was represented by Eric A. Northbrook and Christopher P. High of Cushman Wakefield.
carnival cruise line job • The NPD Group Inc., a market research company, signed carnival cruise line job a 65-month carnival cruise line job lease for 5,826 square feet of office space. Financial terms were not disclosed. The lessee was represented by Andrew Taylor and Jed Stirnkorb of CB Richard Ellis. The lessor was represented by Eric A. Northbrook and Christopher P. High with Cushman Wakefield.
• Physiotherapy carnival cruise line job Associates, an outpatient rehabilitation service provider, signed a 64-month lease for 3,103 square feet of office space. The lessee represented itself. The lessor was represented by Eric A. Northbrook and Christopher P. High of Cushman Wakefield.
Unilab Corporation, dba Quest Diagnostics, signed a 39-month lease for 1,299 square feet of office space. The lessee was represented by Justin Hill and Nick Bonner of CB Richard Ellis. The lessor was represented by Eric A., Northbrook and Christopher P. High of Cushman Wakefield.
An industrial yard at 3757 Bancroft carnival cruise line job Drive in Spring Valley has been sold for $1.1 million to Roger Casper, owner of Casper Co. Inc., which specializes carnival cruise line job in concrete cutting, wrecking, modification and demolition. The seller was the Hurly Family Trust. Ken Ruppert, Kerry Schimpf and Cameron Czubernat of Cassidy Turley BRE Commercial represented the seller. The buyer was represented by John Lanza and Jim Marsh of Voit Commercial.
Highland carnival cruise line job Partners Inc. has sold a 33,846-square-foot parcel at 2100-2120 Highland Ave. in National City for $1,370,000 to Global Building LLC, a commercial real estate developer and investment company based in Encinitas. The company plans to develop the property with an Autozone store. The seller was represented by Timothy Mills of Cushman Wakefield. carnival cruise line job The buyer represented itself.
The Saywitz Co., a commercial real estate brokerage firm, has completed two leases on behalf of the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and Skyline San Diego totaling $1.2 million and more than 18,000 square feet. MDA relocated its San Diego administrative offices from Kearny Mesa to Sorrento Mesa (9990 Mesa Rim Road).  Jeff Saywitz, senior vice president, negotiated the 58-month, 4,4130square-foot sublease totaling $400,000 on behalf of the tenant. The landlord, Shea Homes, was represented by Chris High of Cushman Wakefield. Skyline San Diego, a marketing company offering carnival cruise line job exhibits, designs and trade show support, renewed its 14,272-square-foot office lease at 6455 Weathers Place in San Diego for a five year term valued at $800,000.  Saywitz represented Skyline San Diego and Glen Volk of Voit represented the landlord, Weathers Place LLC.
Halle Properties LLC, dba Discount Tire Co., has signed a 20-year ground lease for a 46,609-square-foot parcel located at 3135 Midway Drive in San Diego. Financial terms were not disclosed. The lessee will use the site for a Discount Tire store that is to be completed in February 2011. The lessor, Faust Trust Kelly Trust, was represented by Kyle Clark and Kipp Gstettenbauer of Cushman Wakefield. The lessee was represented by Robert Brady of Voit Co.
Invetech, a company involved in new product development and custom automation carnival cruise line job for the biomedical and industrial markets, has appointed Jeffrey Baltor as vice president of business development, Paul Koenig as program manager for medical devices and Gaizka Navarro as senior software engineer. Invetech helped develop the world's first commercial 3D bioprinter for printing human tissues. The device, developed for Organovo of San Diego, is successfully printing blood vessels and, with extensive research and experience, may have the potential to create replacement human organs, according to company officials.
Baltor carnival cruise line job has more than two decades of experience in medical devices, clinical diagnostics, remote monitoring, product design/development and contract manufacturing.  Prior to Invetech, he was senior carnival cruise line job strategic marketing manager for Dade-Behring for the Syva EMIT product line, now part of Siemens. While there, Baltor was involved in the design, manufacturing and launching of drugs-of-abuse tests to detect drugs in urine or blood.
Koenig has a lead role in developing and operating projects for the medical device sector in the San Diego office. He began his career developing instrumentation for use in pulmonary physiology and critical care medicine carnival cruise line job research and has held senior positions for top medical device companies including Imed, MiniMed and Alaris.
Navarro has been involved in designing and writing software for more than 20 years. He has developed advanced software systems for a wide-variety of clients in the medical, financial, retail and defense sectors. He designed and developed a real-time mission planning system for the United States Special Operations Command as well as a medical research data acquisition and analysis system for measuring ion-transport over trans-epithelial tissue.
carnival cruise line job Several artists carnival cruise line job have created works of art for the first Memories in the Making Art Auction to be held at 5:30 p.m. on Oct. 4 at Copley Plaza at the Old Globe Theatre in Balboa Park. This first-time auction event has paired a total of 16 professional artists with artists with dementia. All proceeds benefit the Alzheimer's carnival cruise line job Association San Diego/Imperial chapter. "The artwork that we are receiving for auction is wonderful and varied," carnival cruise line job said Barbara Mulligan, chair of the event. "We have watercolor, assemblage, blown glass, jewelry — each artist paired with a painting that inspired him or her — painted by people who can no longer express themselves through words. The palette artists have been particularly creative in their use of the wood

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In full-page ad in the New York Times on Monday, August 20, titled "Why This Fat Cat Likes Obama's Tax Plan," Norman Litz of La Jolla, California tells us that his income has averaged over eight figures annually for the past seven years. He warns that if Obama is re-elected, he expects his total tax bill, including California, to exceed 50 percent, in which case he will shutter his equity persian population in los angeles business, putting his dozen employees out of work and cutting in half his so-far unimplemented plan to provide $50 million persian population in los angeles to charity. Instead, he and his fiancée persian population in los angeles Rachael will indulge in a mutual passion -- world travel.
I suppose private equity companies perform some useful services, but do these fully justify the huge profits they make, not to mention the human suffering that results from all the layoffs that inevitably seem to accompany the restructuring that always takes place when they take over a company?
In his sobering book, The Price of Inequality , Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist of the World Bank, and chairman of the Council of Economic advisors under Bill Clinton, ascribes the number one cause of the gross economic inequality in today's America to what economists call "rent-seeking." This is when, instead of creating new wealth via advanced technologies or greater efficiencies, persian population in los angeles a business or industry, or individual, persian population in los angeles seeks to gain a greater share of already existing wealth, thus contributing nothing to society. Often this involves manipulating the economic environment by buying political advantage and gaining special privileges such as government subsidies and favorable legislation.
Litz made his fortune as a private equity investor, and clearly believes he earned every million with his hard work and business genius. But I have some questions for him. How does all that hard work and genius justify an income hundreds persian population in los angeles of times greater that the equally hardworking farmer, factory worker, persian population in los angeles and schoolteacher who can't afford a full-page ad in the Times to present their cases? As an equity investor, what actual useful service, what tangible product did you provide to improve persian population in los angeles our economy and contribute to society that compares persian population in los angeles with that provided by the great bulk of working men and women in this country? What did you invent? What did you build? How many lives did you make better?
In full-page ad in the New York Times on Monday, August 20, titled Why This Fat Cat Likes Obama's Tax Plan, Norman Litz of La Jolla, California tells us that his income has averaged over eight figur...
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my annual taxes for local, state federal ssi medicare and medicaid already are 50 percent, persian population in los angeles and i am not a millionaire or billionaire and have no deductions, offsets, credits or subsidies persian population in los angeles other than my single "1" for supporting myself. i have no pit for millionaires and billionaires who may have to pay an equal percentage as i do. they should be thankful persian population in los angeles it is not 90 percent as it was in the 1950s, and as it is in many countries already.
This post is a critique of capitalism in favor….of socialism? Private equity firms operate in a variety of manners. Depending on the particular situation an equity firm might be retained in only an advisory persian population in los angeles capacity or as lead investors representing other investors. Many start-up businesses use the services of a private equity firm to raise the necessary equity to start operations. These firms are hired to produce persian population in los angeles specific business related results. They are not hired to lose money or to pursue a political agenda based on wealth distribution. New businesses employ people while business that need to be restructure usually sell off assets and reduce the work force. Even employees who look to take over their companies often turn to private equity firms to raise the necessary funds to buy. This goes on every day. Making lots of money in buying and selling corporations or businesses is nothing new. Actually the amount persian population in los angeles of money paid in relationship to some of the billion dollar transactions is not out-of-line with commission base transaction.
First of all, we are a capitalist society. To ask if huge profits are justified or not is not a question that pertains to a capitalist society. To ask how much to tax these profits is a legit question, but justify persian population in los angeles income? There is nothing immoral about making money. You mention the restructured companies and people losing jobs while the investor/banker gets wealthy. I am not saying this never happens, but if you look at the total number of companies or people involved in this type of biz and flush out the successful ones, I guarantee you there are way more that have failed than have succeeded. This biz is very, very risky. You are a physicist waxing poetic about social persian population in los angeles issues in the guise of an economist. Tax the hell out of the income of equity guys, but to question whether or not the wealth they do make, (and not all of them do, plenty fail at this), shows that you are coming at this topic from a social stance and do not understand the basics persian population in los angeles of our economy.
"In his absence" also means that charities will also have $25 million less. It also means 12 people will now be out of a job. It also means we'll collect WAY less in taxes from him because he's closing his business.
Why would anybody want to work hard if they only get to keep less than half of the money they earn? Why would you want to start a business knowing government will make more than you from your hard work, efforts, and investment?
Who were your parents? They taught you to take money from your neighbor simply because he or she has more than you? They taught you to be envious? To steal? To NOT be satisfied with taking more than half from somebody?
The guy is complaining about the Bush tax cuts expiring, which raises taxes on the rich back to what they were during Clinton's years. It is not going to equal half of his earnings, and he'll still be plenty rich. He'll still be better off than the rest of the country who are less worried about taxes and more worried about making the rent.
If the Bush (Obama) tax cuts expire, his rate will go to 39.6%. CA top rate is 10.3%. That means 49.9% will go to the feds and CA. Add in his RE taxes, sales taxes, etc. and well over HALF of what he earns will go to feed this giant government.
I would gladly hand over half of my million dollar paycheck, I would still be happier than I am now when I hand over 30% of my 50K paycheck. persian population in los angeles The point is that Venture Capitalist make all their wealth of from capital persian population in los angeles gains which is only taxed at 15%, and the get to take all the tax deductions that normal people don't get so the pay even less. We have all seen enough of this on Romney and Bain that you should understand how it works. We have to stop rewarding the Wealthy for being Wealthy. The Idea was that if we make it beneficial with tax breaks to invest in companies persian population in los angeles people would take their savings and invest in growth, but what happened was that we created an industry for the wealthy, where they can make tons of money and pay almost no taxes.
To your comment about taking money from your neighbor because they have more than you, well, the wealthy are stealing from you; they have been for a long time. You don't see it because your eyes are closed. Our taxes are higher, because theirs is lower, only they have the ability to get laws changes because persian population in los angeles of money, where we do not.
You're either lying or ignorant....which persian population in los angeles is it? First, if you make $50k, your MAXIMUM tax rate in this country is 17.4%. You probably take deductions so your tax rate is lower than that. You don't pay anywhere near 30% on $50k.
Second, persian population in los angeles how is someone "stealing" from me by not paying persian population in los angeles a higher tax rate than me? That doesn't make any sense. The money they earn does not belong to me. If they pay a lower rate than me, they're certainly not "stealing" from me.
What they tell you is that, according to the IRS, roughly 50% of our country pays NO federal income taxes. 40% of our country gets a check back from the rich people who pay the vast majority of the taxes. That 40% did nothing to earn that check they received from the rich.
If you don't have a lobbyist, you don't have enough power. If you can't write bills that you would like your representative in Congress to present, then you don't have enough control. persian population in los angeles If you don't have a Super Pac, then you can't get your own puppets elected to Congress. Sadly, we are owned by Corporate America and the working class are just doing the bidding of the powerful few.
For years now we have watched as our election campaigns cost more and more dollars. Every election year campaign contribution$ get higher and higher...and now due to "Citizens United" we are watching big $ from big "Corporations are people too" reach unbelievable numbers. Private Corporations are spending millions and millions of dollars to get the politicians they prefer persian population in los angeles elected to our Government.
Will there come a point in America when Corporations and the wealthiest 1% have to spend SO MANY dollars...which persian population in los angeles have to come out of what would be their profits, on elections...that they will finally reach the point that it will be CHEAPER for them to just pay their dang FAIR SHARE of taxes instead?

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Jeffrey May, 45, went to the northern San Diego beach early Monday morning, telling his wife he planned to meet up with a diving group, city lifeguard Lt. Greg Buchanan said. About an hour later, May called his spouse and said he'd arrived at the Shores and could not find the others he had planned to dive with.
Lifeguards spent several hours Monday night searching from aboard boats and on shore vehicles, aided by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter, before suspending the operation about 11:30 p.m., Buchanan said.
The effort resumed at 6 this morning. Almost three dozen divers from the San Diego Police Department and lifeguard agencies up and down the coast took part, along with the federal maritime agency's airborne personnel and the San Diego Harbor Police. The latter department deployed a vessel with sonar equipment, Buchanan said.
The effort was suspended in the early evening. discount air travel tickets The municipal dive teams planned to continue searching the ocean in the area on Wednesday, starting about 8 a.m., San Diego lifeguard Lt. Andy Lerum said.
May's wife told authorities her husband had been scuba-diving for 25 years. A friend of his, however, said May had not gone on a dive since last summer and had never done one at La Jolla Shores, Buchanan said.
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My husband and I will be in Vienna in June. One of the days we hope to go to take a side trip to Prague and back to Vienna. I see a tour available on Wednesdays and Fridays, but those days won't work. We could go on Saturday or Monday. Any ideas for the best way to make this trip, have a tour in Prague, and get back to Vienna the same day? I was planning to book a trip to Melk on a separate day.
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I know it seems obvious, but when deciding, don't forget what you'll forgo in/around Vienna in an effort to make this high-cost/low-reward day trip. (When facing this kind of question, many people become so focused on the HOW that they forget to question WHETHER to do so.) So be sure to ask yourselves whether thrifty used rental cars you are leaving enough time to enjoy Vienna.
Several years ago I did a day trip from London to Edinburgh. Left early in the morning and came back that night. And many people do day trips from London to Paris. It's not everybody's cup of tea to do such things, but if you are so inclined and really want to see Prague, then I think you should go for it. I certainly have never regretted the times I have done long day trips. And to paraphrase an old saying, "It's the things we didn't do that we most often regret..."
Regarding the night train idea - you can leave at midnight and arrive in Vienna at 6:30. That would give you 11 hours on trains in a 24 hour period. After traveling and sightseeing all day, and perhaps thrifty used rental cars not sleeping well on the train, you'll probably fall into bed and sleep for hours, losing time to experience Vienna.
We have 5 days in Vienna, 4 if we go to Prague. Thanks for the big questions to consider. Lots to ponder--loss of sleep on a night train, places to see, what we will miss in Vienna, and tours to contact.
Prague is worth more than a few hours. You'll have enough time to see one thing, get confused by all the Czech signs, and wonder why you spent so much time getting to Prague for so little time there.
Walkabout, thank you for your tips for the tours. I will probably use Prague Experience for a 3.5 hour tour. I made a reservation at Kornina's to enjoy a meal before the tour. Adrienne, alas, my husband must eat gluten free. I'll sneak a few pastries when he isn't noticing and jealous. So disappointing for him. I have planned 7 road trips in the USA in which we visited 48 states and most major cities. It takes efficient planning. We will pack things in in Vienna and still have evenings for a nice meal or concert. Already booked a mass to hear the choir boys and a show at the Spanish Riding School. I really want to see the lovely old sites of a city that wasn't destroyed in the war. We will see a medieval village or two on this trip as well as Amsterdam and Basel, but Prague will be the one city that is most intact. The cost for the one-day excursion is quite reasonable. Happy travels.
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First time poster. I'm organizing a trip to Europe with a friend this summer. We want to do like 10 days, my friend is Dutch and has family in Amsterdam so the only certainty is we will be visiting there. Maybe something like Paris-Germany-Amsterdam.
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10 days is not a lot of time. You can visit Amsterdam and Paris and perhaps 1 location in Germany if it doesn't take much time to travel to that location. You will not have enough time to see the entire country. Use the German train site to see train times and duration for all European trains. bahn.de
Eurail is a train pass so you do not travel by Eurorail but by train. With 10 days I doubt that the pass will benefit you. It's usually much cheaper to buy tickets in advance (usually discount hotels in las vegas 90 days prior to the trip) and take advantage of discounted fares.
$1,300 will be enough for food and hostels - That's $130 per day and many hostels charge E25 to E30. You can buy cheap food from kiosks and from supermarkets/convenience stores. No need to sit down to eat for every meal.
Check out hostels carefully - many are fine but there are some that are know as party spots - with lots of drugs and everything that goes with it. Be sure you pick one that has sizable lockers you can use to store your things during the day and bring your own lock with you just in case.
There are several places on the 'net where you can read reviews of hostels. Some are certainly better and more enjoyable than others. But millions of young people go to Europe every year and stay in them safely.
Finally, people who live in America seem to have very peculiar ideas about what is costly. There is almost no place in America where you can find safe budget accommodations discount hotels in las vegas in the biggest cities (like you can in Europe), the cost of train fares and museum entrances or other attractions is astronomical with few discounts, and most of the low end priced discount hotels in las vegas food in America is awful.
What you will get for your money in Europe will be of much higher quality and your lodgings will be safer than what you find traveling in America. And unless you plan poorly or choose unwisely, it will be cheaper than traveling in America.
For such a short trip and probably only going on a handful of train trips you will be better off just buying individual tickets rather than a pass - unless you are traveling say a lot in Germany and Netherlands on trains then look at the Benelux-Germany railpass - valid in Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as well as all of Germany.
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IMO you could have a great time [and probably a better one than if you keep moving about] just sticking to one of two places in your 10 days. Holland is a terrific place for getting around on public transport and with bikes you could do so very cheaply. The lonely planet and rough guides have plenty of ideas of how to do this.
And get open-jaw plane tickets (multi-city on the airline web sites), maybe into Amsterdam and out of Paris. That should cost about the same as round-trip tickets and save you the time and money you'd spend backtracking.
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My last trip (May 2012) to Spain with my daughter discount hotels in las vegas cost me about 920 Euros. Car rental, diesel, six night in hotels not hostels, discount hotels in las vegas meals, grocery shopping, attractions tickets. I was not really paying attention to the budget or trying to save.
If you want to cut costs, eat the meal of the day in restaurants normally Euro 13 for 3 courses with wine in France (for example) 5 days the week. If still under price pressure seek out vegetarian meals in ethnic restaurants.
To save on meal money in France and get all you want to eat look for the many FLUNCH restaurants - a chain in most cities and often in Auchan hypermarches along autoroutes - all you can eat veggies and side dishes plus a meat portion - unlimited discount hotels in las vegas beverages but beer and wine small extra.
To save on meal money in France and get all you want to eat look for the many FLUNCH restaurants - a chain in most cities and often in hypermarches along autoroutes - all you can eat veggies and side dishes plus a meat portion - unlimited beverages but beer and wine small extra.
A lot of American routinely drink soft drinks - and are used to gettign 16 oz size, oftne with free refills for $1.50 or so. To find out that a day's worth will cost you $25 or $30 rather than $3 can be quite a surprise.
As for hard liquor/mixed drinks, I really don;t drink these - either abroad or at home, but everything I've seen says the prices are shockingly high versus what you pay in a casual bar outside of 1 or 2 major cities in the US. For someone used to $3 drinks at Happy Hour finding they cost $15 each (never mind $25+ in a more upscale place) can be a shock.
Drink house wine, and tap water , eat a sandwich or street food of some sort everywhere once a day, and one meal out a day. Breakie can be yogurt and some pastries. Some hostels have fridges and mini kitchens to boil water etc.
Point to point train tickets can be cheap if you purchase them well in advance! From Amsterdam to Paris cost us 35 euros last summer , purchased months in advance. Its only 3 hours city center to city center so no need to pay to commute to airports.
Just a thought. The train from Amsterdam to Paris takes you through Belgium. discount hotels in las vegas The Thalys stops in Antwerp and in Brussels. You could stop in either of the two for a couple of hours and a quick look round the city, or even stay overnight, and then continue to Paris. Train tickets must be booked accordingly, of course. That way you'd have a glimpse of a third country and city without losing any time for extra travel. Of course you can't do either city justice in a few hours, but if you take it as a quick stopover just to get a taste, it's worth considering.
Good idea IMO - and if you buy a cheap Thalys ticket to either Brussels or Antwerp and then from there you can always take the flat-fare regular IC train from either to Amsterdam - a bit slower than Thalys but no bother buying the Byzantine-like Thalys tickets - with the IC train just buy your ticket before boarding - seat reservations not even possible.

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