Uninterruptible Power Supplies , or UPS, are devices that maintain a constant supply of power to any equipment connected to it. Uninterruptible Power Supplies do this by supplying power from a separate source when the original source of utility power is unavailable, giving a host of benefits against disruptions. The UPS systems basically sit between a power source, like a wall outlet, and a device, like a computer. In the event of a power failure, the uninterruptible power supply will provide the necessary power to the device as a back-up. A UPS can be anything from a battery to a back-up power generator: it is typically anything that helps a device remain temporarily operational when power is interrupted. Uninterruptible power supply generators are also anything that protects the device from undesired aspects of the power source, like surges, outages, or sags. There are two major types of uninterruptible power supplies 'off-line which is called 'line interactive' and on-line for all your power-solution needs. The off-line type will switch from the original power source to its own power source instantly should a power failure occur. By this method it keeps the device temporarily powered until the original power source is available again, or its own power source runs out. The on-line type continuously draws energy and stores it into reserves, such as batteries, and will convert it into AC power for use by the device when the original power source has failed. Typically either system would also be backuped by a standby generator . Uninterruptible power supplies should not be confused with standby generators . Standby generators do not protect the devices they are connected to from the undesirable features of power failure: the surges, sags, or any other momentary interruption. However, standby generators can assist a UPS in the event of lengthy power failures. In fact the two systems are often incorporated in the design of emergency power systems , larger systems of back-up power designed for crises that include lighting, generators, and refrigeration that are utilized in such places as hospitals and laboratories and ideal for medical and mobility applications. A UPS system is the perfect device to guard against power disturbances such as faults on the electric delivery system, power line poles or lightning surges that can cause blackouts. To prevent loss of data while working on a computer, install an uninterruptible power supply. The slightest drop in power or a power surge may cause your computer to freeze or automatically shut down, both resulting in lost work, data and valuable time. Yet crisis situations aren't the only power failures to be prepared for. One should always protect the power that is used on a continuous basis: computers are a good example of this. To determine what size of power supply equipment you will need, consider how much energy you would need should power fail. Also do you need disaster prevention as well A UPS has a VA rating, voltsamps. The rating is the maximum amount of voltamps it can deliver in a power failure . If you choose a UPS with too small a VA rating, you will not be able to power your equipment; however if you choose one with a larger VA rating than what you need, this will be fine. You will just be able to power your equipment for longer periods of time should it be necessary. Overall, it is better to error on the side of a larger VA rating. You will want uninterruptible power supplies with ratings that are large enough to deliver power to all your necessary or vital equipment and allow for future growth of additional equipment. Power Continuity Means Business Continuity.
Wednesday
Wedding Ring And Engagement Ring: Similarities And Differences
Bands have been well acknowledged in betrothals and marriages since ancient times. In fact, it would be difficult to imagine completing engagement and wedding ceremonies without any band to attest that such events really happened. Due to their enduring presence, the use and purpose of wedding ring and engagement ring are often confounded with each other. However, it should be understood that while both these jewelry pieces are worn by women, they greatly differ from each other in many aspects.
In order to understand the difference between the wedding ring and engagement ring, let's start to look at their individual purposes. To simply put it, an engagement ring is given by the man to the woman prior to their marriage in order to signify that they are bound to be married. Wedding bands on the other hand, are exchanged by the couple on their wedding day to seal their wedding vows and signify that the wearers are united as husband and wife. After the ceremony and the years of their marriage, both the bands are worn by the woman on her left finger, while the man only wears the wedding ring since men are not accustomed to wear an engagement band.
Between wedding and engagement bands, many couples prefer investing on engagement bands. As a matter of fact, an engagement ring is probably the ring that captures more attention than the wedding ring, which is appropriate as it symbolizes the silent announcement of the engaged status of the couple. Traditionally, betrothal bands have prominent center stones, most of which are made from fine diamond jewelry. At the moment however, couples need not to buy engagement bands that are accentuated with diamond stones, rather as a less expensive option they could use other precious stones such as ruby, sapphire, opal, etc., as the center stone of the engagement ring.
Meanwhile, wedding ring is far from the grandiosity that engagement ring usually exemplify as it is often plain in finish and does not have any accents, or sometimes it is designed after the engagement ring but is a simpler version of the first. However, the design of the wedding bands is always dependent on the couple's choice; there are couples who also use fine diamond jewelry for their wedding bands, though this is not always the case as the plain finish of such band represents the sanctity of marriage. Traditionally, both wedding and engagement bands are worn on the left finger between the index and pinkie fingers because according to belief the said finger on the left hand has the vein that is directly connected to the heart which is called as vena amori. But, this is not always the case as there are cultures that place their wedding and engagement bands on the right hand.
Usually, wedding and engagement bands are purchased separately. It is also possible that they can be bought as a set, which is why some wedding bands are equally grandiose to their engagement counterparts. If you would be purchasing these bands separately, always try to consider that you would be using them on a daily basis, so when you are to pick each piece select the shape of the gemstone that would complement your lifestyle. A diamond may be hard in nature, but it can chip off or break overtime especially if it has pointed edges; in this case it would be more preferable to choose a round brilliant cut as it could last longer.
In general, wedding ring and engagement ring are two important jewelry pieces that symbolizes two of the most important stages in the relationship of couples""engagement and marriage. They have profound differences when it comes to function and design. Setting aside their differences though, what is apparent is that they share the same concept of undying love and commitment, apparently shown from their round shape that has no beginning and no end as well as the materials used to develop them. They also function as material seals that strengthen their vows and the symbolic meaning and sentimentality of the couple's devotion for each other.
Wedding ring and engagement ring are important fixtures in the relationship of couples. An engagement ring is an indication of the engaged status of couple. It is usually more expensive than the wedding ring as it is commonly made from fine diamond jewelry with round brilliant cut and side gemstones. Wedding bands on the other hand are exchanged by couples during the wedding ceremony to seal their marital vows and are simple in design and finish.
Monday
Tax Saving Ideas for Employees
Allowable expenditure
The rule for deducting expenses has been described as notoriously strict. Only those expenses that are incurred wholly, exclusively and necessarily in the performance of the duties of your employment can be deducted (Nolder v Walters 15 TC 380).
In addition you can deduct the cost of traveling in the performance of your duties. You are not allowed the cost of ordinary commuting. That is the journey from your home to your normal workplace.
The word necessarily has been defined to mean that it is an expense that must be incurred by each and every holder of the office or employment. That is the need is determined by the employer and not because you felt it necessary to incur the expenditure.
Use of your home for the purpose of your employment
You will need to work hard to convince HMRC but if you use your home for the duties of your employment, usually because you live and work some distance from your head office, e.g. sales manager living in Leicester for a firm with a head office in Reading, you can claim the additional cost of working from home.
You must be able to show that it would be unreasonable for the employer to expect you to travel on a daily basis.
Also you will need to show that the duties performed are "substantive duties". That is they must be the core duties of the employment.
Your claim need not be restricted to circumstances where one room is specifically set aside and used only for the duties of your employment.
If you work from home you use extra lighting, heating etc., you could also have extra insurance cover e.g. for computers etc. You may even wash the company car using metered water!
I would review the expenditure and make a claim say, £5 per week. Remember to claim for all years in date!
Employers may contribute to your costs as an employee working from home, wholly or for part of the time. This contribution will be tax and national insurance free and payments of up to £2 per week will not need supporting evidence.
Larger amounts will need to be evidenced to show the payment is wholly for the additional expense incurred in carrying out the duties at your house. (Section 316A ITEPA2003).
Subsistence
The full cost of meals and accommodation while travelling or staying away on business is allowable as part of the cost of travel.
Make sure that when you obtain a dispensation you include amounts payable as subsistence to include inter alia an amount per night for non receptive accommodation.
Also include a non receptive day subsistence allowance in addition to the personal incidental expense allowance.
HMRC has now introduced an advisory system to aid employers who make subsistence payments to employees who incur allowable business travel expenses free of tax and national insurance.
The rule for deducting expenses has been described as notoriously strict. Only those expenses that are incurred wholly, exclusively and necessarily in the performance of the duties of your employment can be deducted (Nolder v Walters 15 TC 380).
In addition you can deduct the cost of traveling in the performance of your duties. You are not allowed the cost of ordinary commuting. That is the journey from your home to your normal workplace.
The word necessarily has been defined to mean that it is an expense that must be incurred by each and every holder of the office or employment. That is the need is determined by the employer and not because you felt it necessary to incur the expenditure.
Use of your home for the purpose of your employment
You will need to work hard to convince HMRC but if you use your home for the duties of your employment, usually because you live and work some distance from your head office, e.g. sales manager living in Leicester for a firm with a head office in Reading, you can claim the additional cost of working from home.
You must be able to show that it would be unreasonable for the employer to expect you to travel on a daily basis.
Also you will need to show that the duties performed are "substantive duties". That is they must be the core duties of the employment.
Your claim need not be restricted to circumstances where one room is specifically set aside and used only for the duties of your employment.
If you work from home you use extra lighting, heating etc., you could also have extra insurance cover e.g. for computers etc. You may even wash the company car using metered water!
I would review the expenditure and make a claim say, £5 per week. Remember to claim for all years in date!
Employers may contribute to your costs as an employee working from home, wholly or for part of the time. This contribution will be tax and national insurance free and payments of up to £2 per week will not need supporting evidence.
Larger amounts will need to be evidenced to show the payment is wholly for the additional expense incurred in carrying out the duties at your house. (Section 316A ITEPA2003).
Subsistence
The full cost of meals and accommodation while travelling or staying away on business is allowable as part of the cost of travel.
Make sure that when you obtain a dispensation you include amounts payable as subsistence to include inter alia an amount per night for non receptive accommodation.
Also include a non receptive day subsistence allowance in addition to the personal incidental expense allowance.
HMRC has now introduced an advisory system to aid employers who make subsistence payments to employees who incur allowable business travel expenses free of tax and national insurance.
- Breakfast rate: Up to £5 for irregular starters where you leave home before 6am.
- One meal rate: Up to £5 where you are away for at least 5 hours and have incurred the cost of a meal.
- Two meal rate: Up to £10 can be paid where away for at least 10 hours and you have incurred the cost of two meals.
- £15 rate: where you finish after 8.00pm following a normal day of work and you replace your usual meal at home with a purchased one.
Peter Clare
The Poacher turned Gamekeeper
http://www.mrtax.co.uk
This information has been honesty written with a view to helping you: I am, like most people, not perfect and I apologise for any in corrections. I cannot be held responsible for any consequences of you using the information unless I have been made aware of the full facts of the matter and have expressed an opinion thereon.
Thursday
Great Corporate Gift Ideas
If you want to build good relations with the people you are doing business with you can use chocolate gifts to promote your business.
Those gifts can be given to employees, clients, partners, customers and vendors on all kinds of occasions and for different reasons, such as; holidays like Christmas gift and Easter, to show appreciation or to give support in difficult times like sickness or grief.
What better gift can there be than a corporate chocolate gift?
Chocolate will in most cases be well received since it is a treat that almost everyone loves dearly. In those times, when everyone has everything they need, corporate gifts is the perfect choice to show the people you're doing business with your appreciation.
To give Christmas corporate gifts with your company's logo on the wrapper really gives a great impression. A great idea as a Christmas gift for you employees is to create a chocolate gift basket and to put all sorts of chocolate in it that has your specially designed wrapper. Or give it as an extra addition to other gifts to bring about a bit of extra flavor. For corporate events it's a great idea to have your chocolate with your own design and give to the people attaining the event, in this way you make a lasting positive impression on customers and clients. You ensure that your business will be remembered when its logo is connected to a decadent treat.
If you have a special client that you want to give an extra treat, a designed truffle box with your logo on and some gourmet truffles inside really is the perfect gift. Chocolate has the property to be well received by all and after all, we all love to receive a gift and it can never be wrong or inappropriate.
The wrappers can be designed with any message you want to bring forth to the person that's to receive the corporate chocolate gift. If you have closed a deal you can send a gift that has a few words of appreciation on the wrapper. This can really be of great aid when you want to maintain good relations with clients and partners.
It is an easy process to have your own corporate chocolate gift designed and you ensure that you bring in good-will in your work environment and relations. It is loved by all of us and this is why it never can go wrong.
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Wednesday
National Candy Cane Day
Today, December 26th is National Candy Cane Day. It's a celebration of the popular holiday candy traditionally eaten during the Christmas season. Much more than a candy, these peppermint red and white canes are symbolic and are used as decorations. But just because the holiday season is over, it doesn't mean that candy canes can't be used during promotions. Christmas in July promotions, or comedic Santa in the Spring events can be enhanced using promotional candy canes. Imprinted with custom messages, they can be included in mailings, or combined with other gifts to drive the theme.
Tuesday
Benefits Of Yoga For Meditation
Connection between yoga and mediation is as old as the concept of yoga. Yoga that marks its birth at someplace in India was inevitably focused on the practice of meditation in the ancient times. That was a time when by the term yoga, people understood meditation mainly. More importantly, yoga for meditation was not commonplace and the practice of yoga had been limited to different religious monks or yog gurus at that time. However, time passes on its own pace. With the changing time, the concept of yoga has been highly molded and modified numbers of times.
Overlapping its correlation with the spirituality, yoga started spelling the body of the followers. Soon after, the impacts of yoga were much felt on the body of the practitioner. Nowadays yoga poses are internationally acknowledged for their curative significance. In reality, yoga can drive away several ailments of body and mind from the roots. Mere medicines may cure you momentarily; practicing yoga would help you eradicating the trouble for good. Meditation is an important part of yoga. Without meditation, yoga does not complete. One may create a perfect liaison between the body and the mind by meditating. More interestingly, the effects of meditation on the body are equally impressive.
Now after learning how yoga for meditation can benefit you in many ways, you must feel keen to know some of the major advantages of performing mediation in a regular course. In general, all yoga classes stresses on the pursuance of meditation. It is said that meditating helps to accomplish and complement the benefits of other yoga postures. The first benefit that meditation may offer to you is by contributing body luster and overall general health. By centralizing all your senses to your brain, you allow all your body cells receiving more oxygen and other nutrients. If you want to know a secret for natural glamour, it is again meditation.
Do you know why many of the sport stars and athletes stick by the yoga poses including meditation on a regular course? Researchers have brought forward the direct relations between concentration or meditation exercises and the performance levels of the sports personalities. Meditation helps you bringing your mind under control and teaches you to focus minutely. Naturally, the productivity level is enhanced by this process. Hence, meditation is a powerful and proved method for increasing concentration and mental strength.
In addition to the above two benefits that yoga for meditation can offer someone, numbers of health benefits can also be enjoyed with yoga. Nowadays even doctors prescribe for yoga for life threatening disorders and ailments. Common yet serious ailments like arthritis, spondylitis, joint pain, irregular menstrual problems, pre menstrual problems, indigestion and many more similar health problems. Benefit of yoga in curing indigestion is known to all. Yoga also works well on chronic pain ailments. Yoga helps to increase production of serotonin hormone that regulates human mood and behavior. Low levels of serotonin are marked with disorder such as insomnia, obesity, and headache. More importantly, yoga helps to improve the immune system of a person considerably.
Sunday
GPS Tracking Systems: Trackers for Vans and Moving Vehicles
Are you looking for your lost van? Are you running a fleet of vans and unable to control the fuelling cost of your organization? If answer of both the questions is yes, then install tracking system to track location of moving vehicles. These tracking systems act as trackers for vans and being considered as one of the most effective ways of retrieving a lost car.
How GPS technology works?
A tracking system is installed in vehicles. With the help of GPS (Global Positioning System) technology, the coordinates of moving vehicles can be easily located. The GPS obtains signals from the satellites which are then downloaded to a computer. These signals or coordinates help in locating the vehicles easily. These tracking devices are small in size and installed in vehicles in clandestine manner. Tracking of vans can be carried out either by passive tracking system or by real time tracking system.
How GPS technology works?
A tracking system is installed in vehicles. With the help of GPS (Global Positioning System) technology, the coordinates of moving vehicles can be easily located. The GPS obtains signals from the satellites which are then downloaded to a computer. These signals or coordinates help in locating the vehicles easily. These tracking devices are small in size and installed in vehicles in clandestine manner. Tracking of vans can be carried out either by passive tracking system or by real time tracking system.
Kinds of Tracking System
Passive tracking system also acts as trackers for vans but do not provide instant information. These types of tracking system record data in tracking chip, which is further downloaded to a computer with the help of short-range radio link. The data transfer can only happen when a vehicle returns to its base area. This kind of tracking system is beneficial to gather information about travel activities, destination covered by vehicles, speed, mileage, etc. Active or real time tracking system makes use of internet system to provide information about vehicle's location. This kind of tracking system is helpful for finding out the lost vehicles, etc. Because transmission of information takes place in real-time, this kind of tracking system is more expensive than passive tracking.
With the growing popularity of tracking system, fleet owners are purchasing these kinds of trackers for vans in an increasing number. Some of the benefits provided by these tracking systems are:
.Protects van from theft
.Prevents unauthorized usage of the vehicle
.Increases customer service tremendously by reducing customer complaint
.Reduce fuel cost considerably
These kinds of tracking systems can be obtained either online or offline.
Buy Tracking System Online
Interested people can easily buy trackers for vans, cars, trucks, etc from a number of online sources. Several companies are offering tracking devices at inexpensive price range. Besides, offering the device, the company also provides installation services at affordable price range. However, it is advised to purchase the devices from reputed service providers only. For finding more information about them, browse the web.
With the growing popularity of tracking system, fleet owners are purchasing these kinds of trackers for vans in an increasing number. Some of the benefits provided by these tracking systems are:
.Protects van from theft
.Prevents unauthorized usage of the vehicle
.Increases customer service tremendously by reducing customer complaint
.Reduce fuel cost considerably
These kinds of tracking systems can be obtained either online or offline.
Buy Tracking System Online
Interested people can easily buy trackers for vans, cars, trucks, etc from a number of online sources. Several companies are offering tracking devices at inexpensive price range. Besides, offering the device, the company also provides installation services at affordable price range. However, it is advised to purchase the devices from reputed service providers only. For finding more information about them, browse the web.
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