» August 8th, 2009
Disappointed, Paulao closes career in motoring
There is no story that is a big disappointment. Not one of the dinosaurs of motor Brazilian, Paulo de Tarso. After seeing the 20 years devoted to the Stock Car turning powder in fire that destroyed the truck, three cars and the whole apparatus of Power in Action path of São Paulo to Curitiba, the owner of the team winning most of the class decided to retire.
The decision was not easy – and certainly surprised many people, and cause doubt that Paul will carry out the intent. After the event, on July 6, shortly after its pilot, Marcos Gomes, winning the first test of the team last year, the shock was so great that the entrepreneur was “off the air,” as he says. He spent 20 days reflecting in northern Florida, USA. Still had doubts when he returned to paranaense capital at the beginning of the week. Enough into the seat of the team and see the empty office to decide.
Continuity: new team will absorb and pilot fatigue
Paulo de Tarso left but to announce the decision tried to get everything to its main driver, the sponsor and the team continue to toil action. Only in Salvador, Sunday, Marcos Gomes run a car on the RC team, also in Curitiba. Already from the next test, in Rio de Janeiro, the pilot and the team will be outsourced to a team from another class who intends to enter the Stock – the sponsor will be next. Until the new car special for the dispute, made by JL, should be ready.
“I’m hitting this partnership and is in agreement that they accept all our fatigue, the pilot and the sponsor. For me, I do not want to give a return of Schumacher and the first chance. I have to resist to the end, “he said.
Curriculum
Retired, Paul of Tarsus has a rich history as a pilot, chief of staff and preparation of cars.
Pilot
Was paranaense champion (1973) and Rio Grande do Sul (1975) Tourism; paranaense of Stock Car (1990) and the Brazilian Super Stock (1991). Between 80 and 90 was the pilot of Marks and the Brazilian Stock Car. In 2000, he returned to the track to be champion of 12 hours of Curitiba.
Head of team
With the Action Power, disputed in the early 90s the Formula Chevrolet and South American Formula 3, taking his son as a driver Tarso Marques. Between 1988 and 2009 kept the team in the Stock Car, with six titles.
Preparer
In the 70s, held in Paraná Formula 180. More recently, provided cars for the Clio Cup, and Super Megane Trophy Masserati.
“I’m leaving. It is very disappointing. I was 20 days out of the air, including outside of Brazil, to make a decision. Not to Salvador I (the next stage, on Sunday). Not attend. My son will go and I will not. I do not, as yet, not come close. It is traumatic, “says Paulo de Tarso, father of pilots and Tarso Marques Thiago Marques.
Of course the loss of almost U.S. $ 3 million contributed to the decision (the insurance only pays 15% of that amount, the rest was lost), but was not the main reason. Weighed to see all the efforts made over the years turn gray.
Paul of Tarsus is Curitibanos, was born in 1952 into a family that never liked cars. But he, it is there, why, a child dreamed of it. So your first car, bought a Volkswagen Beetle when was 21 years old, was used in the days to work and on weekends, the wall painted with ink, as the bolide that began the pilot paranaense fame, winner of almost all the categories tourism to enter the main competition of Brazilian motor.
When you created the Action Power in 1988 to enter the Stock, also had to build up the function of chief of staff for six years. Still, in just four of them between the first four. Thereafter, for three years has concentrated its activities in their child, Tarso Marques, which was run in Europe and then came to Formula 1. The return to the box was in 2000. In all, there were six team titles in the category – there became pilots as Wilson Fittipaldi, Ingo Hoffman, xandy Negrão, Caca Bueno.
This long story, told in short, may help a little to understand what Paul felt to be alone in the middle of his empty shop.
“It is crying. All that empty room … I am not going there anymore. We worked there for more passion than for money. It is equal to you have a racehorse, he won the Brazilian Grand Prix, a horse that you created for 20 years, and when he returns home is dead. So, you think of creating another horse is almost impossible. I admit only compete at a high level, “says Tarsus, who justified. “Everything is imported and from different countries, accumulated over years. Even if all there in the corner shop, would still be difficult to have someone willing to invest in Brazil. Who will the money for a team to make a race? The bank earns more, “
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» August 6th, 2009
Property Insurance Online: Insurance Company vs. Czech.
Insurance companies and their products is a lot of – securing property, however, are an essential building stones of every financial plan. In our survey, evaluate on-line property insurance from Direct and Czech insurance company. The question thus arises – the insurance company operating in the financial market only two years to compete with the best insurance of 2009?
Property insurance covers the house, apartment or recreational facilities
. In addition to insurance, the outer part of the building, the safety concerns and some internal parts and non-residential premises belonging to the property. Insurance, therefore, protect the roof covering, windows, walls, built furniture, cellar and more. Property insurance does not, however, safe equipment for the house if we want to protect against the dangers of these essential things belonging to home, so must take out insurance household, which covers electronics, sporting goods, jewelry, paintings and other equipment.
From the comfort of home
On-line insurance will certainly appreciate the very people who do not like to visit often overcrowded financial institutions and like them, that the libation of coffee in the living room closed within a few minutes
safety. The man who acts personally prefer face-to-face, this kind of insurance probably will not meet much. If, however, someone thought to completely avoid contact verbálnímu, it would probably a lot of mistaking. Feedback insurance works mainly by telephone, thus entirely without the words on-line about the policy will not be enclosed. And even with all the difficulties since the phone can help much.
The advantage of Direct is a service Callback – just fill in the phone number to call, the date
time and answer a call and hear the operator itself and provide answers to specific questions. Similarly, it is fast and e-mail advice. If you send a question via e-mail the Czech insurance company, within two working days to call back the operator, and therefore you have the option to written questions to discuss together.
What is needed for on-line calculation?
Both insurance companies require the insurance on-line information regarding the address of the insurance, the amount of premiums and co, the underlying land and buildings of the last inspection. The amount of insurance sum is the upper limit for the insurance and should be as close as possible to the real price of insured property in the event of damage to the house to cover all costs of repair or znovupořízení, including his tightly connected part of the building.
Direkt also wants to know the form of property, housing, occupancy rate, but also asks, for example, of whether the property is inhabited by children younger than 7 years.
Czech insurance company asks for things from the structural design house – whether it is equipped with premium features such as wooden floors or parquet, copper roofing, electrical or fire alarm system, heat pump, air-conditioning, Euro or window of hardwood. Last Asked Questions directed to the state, and disability udržovanost the natural forces or other hazards during the last five or ten years. However, if the answer that the property in recent years affected by the floods, and a red text disclosing that the object can not insure on-line and must be addressed to the branch. Similarly, it is also to answer the question whether the house was in the last five years hit harmful events than any other flood. If it was more than twice, again jump refusal red text.
In the final part of the on-line insurance inquiries fill personal data, method of payment or receipt of the documents and other requirements necessary for confirmation of the booking. Then you can confirm the insurance contract – not including your signature, but the payment of premiums.
Negotiation of insurance over the Internet may take quite a while, but in comparison with the time that the client would have to sacrifice when you visit a financial center, it’s negligible. Both insurance companies in addition provide a very helpful information service. The Czech insurance companies will fill in the questionnaire really smoothly and compared with Direct offers a simple input parameters.
Where to take?
Direct Insurance operates on the Czech market from 21 May 2007. Offers its products exclusively through the internet and phone. Not long ago dealt with only fuses vehicles. From 27 April 2009 introduced a new product – insurance of property and over the phone since June and over the Internet. The property insurance for Direct, construction must meet certain criteria. There should be more than one third used for commercial purposes or in reconstruction. Last acceptance must be in a row later in 1950, and of course must be undamaged, and properly maintained over the past ten years nepostižena floods. In the case of vandalism Direct insurance pays only if it is tracing the offender.
Direct Focus
Person interested in the negotiation of property insurance can choose from three programs. These are the packages MINI, MAXI and OPTI, which include various combinations of options to protect property against natural events, theft, vandalism or water damage. Each of these packages contains bonuses in the form of free insurance garden
and assistance services. The insurance covers the garden to protect the furniture, decorations and plant vegetation and the limit of insurance coverage is 20 000 CZK. This gift, however, only clients will appreciate owning a garden. The scope of assistance that the client will use in the event of an accident, they differ in relation to the choice of package. The package provides MAXI Direct and such details as the addition of fuel into garden owers.
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» August 6th, 2009
Insurance discharged nearly half of flood damage
Insurance discharged after the floods which hit the country in recent weeks, 7,750 of damage. Pay them 358 million CZK. Clients report insurers after the flood damage for a total of 16.461 billion 1.78. Insurance companies estimate that the number of claims exceeds 17,800 and the damage exceeds two billion crowns. Due to the statistics on 3 August, which provided the CTK Czech Insurance Association (CAP). Other damage caused by storms, the Sunday they have more than one thousand for a total of tens of millions of CZK.
Of the reported flood damage is more than 14,000 people in the insurance and the rest of the business of insurance. The predominance of civil insurance insurance claim arising from insurance on buildings, followed by claims from household insurance. Reports are also hundreds of damage to motor vehicles. In the insurance business recorded the greatest amount of damage under the property insurance and motor vehicles.
Floods, which at the end of June in parts of Bohemia and Moravia, that third worst in the modern history of the Czech Republic, claimed the 14 victims. Total damage is estimated at approximately six billion crowns. Most of the cost of removal shall be borne by the State of flood damage.
Already more than 900 claims reported in today’s noon Czech insurance clients of the strengths of local storms of the past weekend. Clients again summed damage to property, this time mainly in central and southern Bohemia and southern Moravia, CTK said spokeswoman Dagmar ČP Koutský. Damages so incurred mainly in flooded cellars and partly residential buildings.
Allianz recorded 400 reports of clients to whom the storm of last week poničila property. The damage has already reached almost 50 million crowns. Up to two thirds of damage, according to spokeswoman Pavla Pasekové insurance on real estate, about 15 percent of them concerns the damaged cars. Damage reports also said businesses and industry. Allianz has estimated that the total extent of damage caused by the storm exceeds EUR 60 million, she added.
Kooperativa registers on Sunday for 500 total damage 20 million. Previous reports of the storm is 220 damage for more than 110 million crowns. He was the most north Bohemia, and especially Prague and Central Bohemia region. Almost 16 million crowns Kooperativa paid in this context of mandatory liability. All cars are in compulsory insurance against liability Kooperativa elements, which in this storm is more than 350 damaged cars, insurance spokesman pointed Marek Vích.
ČP of the storm, which ranked 23rd among the to 25 July, roughly 4,800 of damage. Most had been hit Mladoboleslavsko, Jičínský, Nymburské, Semily, Liberec and Jablonec. The vast majority of events are responsible for the storm, but added it hail, lightning strikes and falling trees and other objects, observed Koutský.
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» August 6th, 2009
Staff car for private purposes is no longer profitable for the company
Without the service of passenger cars is now possible only few firm. Employees driving vehicles for business partners and is also often used as well as private trips. Such use, however, is very expensive business.
Issues using a car service for non-business purposes addresses of the Income Tax Act in section 6, paragraph 6 In it we find the following basic rule: If the employer to an employee a motor vehicle to use for business and private purposes, and shall be deemed to be employees of the amount of income of 1% of cost of vehicle for each calendar month.
- The Senate approved the repeal of the journey log for the small and medium-sized businesses
- Staff Car for private use, what is the new law?
This implies a clear-cut rule: The more expensive car, provide for private purposes, the more paid through state taxes and levies. Just for a reminder. Input stock price is the amount for which the vehicle was acquired. Of the Income Tax Act therefore lapsed time, taking into account the cost of vehicle wear and tear, but unfortunately for the employees and the company mentioned the price of entry. It does not limit a limousine for example, 2.5 million will increase revenue by 25 employees of thousand crowns a month, regardless of the period during which the company used.
Provide a vehicle for private purposes, you can also leased vehicles
How to proceed in the case of vehicles which is rented by the employer and make it available to employees for private purposes? In this case, based on the entry price for the original vehicle owner. This is true even if that happens then to buy a vehicle. The top management can not be excluded that the employer provide the employee free of charge during the calendar month in succession more motor vehicles to use for business and private purposes. This is not common, say, tax-friendly option is because the non-cash income considered one percent of the entry price for most cars used for private purposes.
The above rule regarding non-monetary income to the demonštrujú example:
The employer provides the employee for business and private purposes of a passenger car, which made for 500 000 CZK (including value added tax). How will proceed on the employee in settlement of wages?
If the employer agrees with the employee free of charge to the provision of a motor vehicle to use for business and private purposes, so will the amount of non-cash employee income 5 000 CZK. This amount will increase the gross wage employees for the purpose of calculating monthly advance and enter into the basis for social and health insurance.
PRIVATE OPERATION COUNCIL ZAKAZ
The best solution is to prohibit the driving of private cars and used only to economic activities. Definitely not a problem that people arrived to work and his car on the way to customer service took the car. You Save a lot of the wrinkles and worry about the checks of their employees.
Fuel for private trips to give the cost, depreciation has so
Although in this case the vehicle is used partly to purposes unrelated to the employer’s business and the law already imposes the obligation to reduce or further depreciation of others, most operating expenses. The exception is fuel. Employers may recommend that the fuel paid worker. If it is paid for entirely by the employer, it is his duty expenses associated with private trips to exclude from the tax deductible costs. This means that all other expenses (insurance, inspections, oil, etc.) may leave the employer in its taxable costs in full.
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» August 6th, 2009
Even with a valid green card may come complications
The so-called. Green Card (ZK) is an official document used to prove the existence of liability insurance from the operation of a motor vehicle. Automatically apply in all states of the European Economic Area and in the States provided detailed decree the Ministry of Finance. This means that all Czech insurance companies issued a green card valid for the following states:
Albania, Andorra, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Croatia, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, Hungary, Macedonia (FYROM) , Malta, Monaco, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Austria, Romania, Greece, San Marino, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Republic of Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Vatican City.
Green card may allow the entry of Czech drivers to other territories of the countries that are part of “zelenokaretního” system. But if these countries to the Czech green card or not will depend on the decision of each insurance company, it is not obligatory for her. The reason for the absence of some countries in the Czech green card is a higher risk of damage, which is threatened by English driver nezkušeného, because some of the green card insurance in these areas avoid. Also, there are complications, at least when dealing damage. It is the following countries:
Belarus, Iran, Israel, Moldova, Morocco, Russia, Tunisia.
Trip to Kosovo is expensive
Enthusiasts from traveling in the Balkans can make a trip to the Republic of Kosovo. At the border you see a nice uniformed police officers controlling the Kosovo and the former English unrest already recalled only occasionally moving car international peacekeepers. The problem is with the Czech green card. While the Macedonian, Serbian and Albanian vehicle rapidly through the Kosovo border, the Czech driver must buy border insurance. Depending on the type of vehicle is at least 50 euros (about 1300 CZK) and is valid for 14 days.
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» August 1st, 2009
The driver of the truck was still warm at the time of the discovery
The driver of the truck and another of a particular truck left abandoned vehicles to be discovered.
“When we got the truck engine was still hot, then you just left the vehicle,” the commissioner told Telefutura intervener.
He said that the foreman of the property, José Giménez, said that one Lucio Escobar, contacted him to enter the property where the crime was committed.
The representative of the Public Ministry, Silvia Fretes, ordered the arrest of Giménez, being in charge of the property where the transfer of oil from the barge to the tanker.
“We are working with people of criminalistics to see if we can find traces in the vehicle and documents leading to the owner or persons who were working here this morning,” he said.
Fretes said that the foreman was arrested because they are virtually certain that manages the names of the perpetrators of the act.
During the procedure, the mobile phone were seized from the arrested.
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» August 1st, 2009
The accident occurred at 60 North Street 11-A
Shock range between a bus and a trailer semi trailer on the street 60 north for 11-A of the North division, as the balance left 11 people injured in the face of the coup against the railing pipes of public transport vehicles.
The incident was not ostentatious, left with injuries to his face to the 11 passengers aboard the unity of urban passenger transport.
The incident occurred at about 11 am when the unit of the company Minis Two thousand plates 800,700 and Mercedes-Benz, passing on that street 60 north and found the height above the confluence, the driver does not kept their distance regulatory box and collided with the truck load that preceded it, a tract of a trailer.
After impact, the truck’s front passenger presented some problems, but the passengers aboard were the worst since the shock, resulting from the collision caught off guard and several were beaten against the face of the railing pipes rear seat .
Later came elements of the Secretariat of Public Security, who verify the situation and the presence of injured persons, requested help from paramedics, who arrived in the ambulance 21-H.
Among the injured was a girl of five years of age who is struck with the face of a pipe railing.
Those injured in the accident were Borqueño Erick Armando Borges, Magali Guadeloupe Cancha Yah, Yah Nayeli Chuc of 5 years of age, Maria del Carmen Chuc Yah, Yah Mary Chambers among others.
The driver of the unit Victor Mex Xiu, remained at the scene and the truckers to notice that his unit was not damaged, chose to withdraw and not to raise charges for damage to property.
The injuries do not warrant removal and remained in place pending the representative of the insurance company will spend an extended care in a private hospital.
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» August 1st, 2009
Chile looks for security in conflict zone indigenous
The government of Chile and cargo carriers leaders today discussed measures to ensure safety on the roads of the south, where violent protests are indigenous.
To address the insecurity that affects the routes of the area affected by demonstrations, on Friday settled a workbench public-private partnership between the government and the National Confederation of Truck Owners.
The meeting came amid an escalating conflict between Mapuche communities and farmers of the south, which has been expressed in occupations of land, attacks on vehicles and violent clashes between Indians and the security forces.
As part of the protests that have left dozens of policemen to arrest and injuries, several trucks and even an inter-provincial bus passengers have been attacked in recent weeks by armed groups mapuches.
The work table should be created this Friday approaches and measures to address the security situation in the country’s roads, particularly in the area of the Mapuche conflict in the southern region of Araucanía.
Undersecretary of the Interior, Patricio Rosende said the department “will allow us to have a series of agreements, decisions and public input from various private operators to secure better work truck.”
For its part, the president of the National Confederation of Truck Owners, Juan Araya, expressed opposition to the caveat that some drivers gathered to begin arming themselves to protect themselves from future attacks.
“We have never raised this as a confederation, because that is not the solution,” said Araya, to advocate for other measures such as safe places to enable the rest of the carriers, “not on the road.”
“What was achieved is that our people can rest in the holdings of road (the Carabinieri military police) where there is space,” he said.
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» August 1st, 2009
Spain’s leadership in the aquaculture production in the EU
ABC said that two days after the beginning of the fire in Avila, the landscape in the Barranco de las Cinco Villas and El Arenal, in the Valley Tietar is bleak, and Iberdrola in Spain opened the first plant biomass forest.
“Five Days” says that Ebro Puleva earns 25 per cent and consumer prices accentuated the drop in July to 1.4 percent.
“The World” which warns of an oil spill threatens beaches Huelva and that the fire in the Valley continues to move unchecked Tietar and has burned 5,000 hectares.
It also explains Europe is “the tail” of sustainable fisheries.
El País notes that fishing is not a “lost cause”, according to a report from the University of Dalhousei Canada.
“Expansion” that Ebro Puleva last published a new plan to 2013 and the Mediterranean Capital Fund buys 49 percent of Agrolita to expand its plantations on the coast of Tunisia.
“La Gaceta de los Negocios” in its supplement “Agrogaceta of Business indicates that the abandonment of urban areas and solar gives wings to landfills, pests and fires, the marks of white workers earn 40 percent less, which consolidates Spain leadership in the aquaculture production in the EU and the European Commission again delayed the agreement on agriculture by the “disinterestedness Moroccan.”
Examines the agricultural sector and stressed that the French farmers blocked the border 17 months later and there is a threat of “greening” on Mexicans and lemons interviews Jorge Garcia Ballester, president of Intercitrus.
“The Reason” reports that the Environment Ministry acknowledged that “we need to improve fire prevention and to become self-employed between 580 and 1,300 euros for closure.
“Public” indicates that the self-employed earn between 580 and 1,300 euros for unemployment, French farmers blocked trucks from leaving Spain and the raging fire of Avila 5000 hectares.
He added that the Florida authorities seek to eradicate the snakes more than 100,000 Asian Americans who have invaded the swamp, and several studies support the effectiveness of measures for sustainable fisheries ecosystems to recover.
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» July 31st, 2009
Eurotunnel should be firm offer on Friday-Veolia CEO
The operator of the Channel Tunnel Eurotunnel Group (GET.FR) is expected Friday in the day a firm offer on the activities of Veolia Cargo France, said its chairman and CEO Jacques Gounon at A conference call Friday morning.
Selon un porte-parole du groupe, J.Gounon n’a pas souhaité s’exprimer sur le montant proposé par Eurotunnel pour la reprise de ces actifs, et a souligné que l’acquisition répondait à la volonté de l’opérateur du tunnel sous Channel to develop the rail freight market, as it considers the potential.
Veolia Cargo is a subsidiary of Veolia Environment (VIE.FR)
This development will be gradual, however, stressed the CEO, which justifies the decision to make a joint bid with SNCF, candidate for the resumption of German subsidiaries, Dutch and Italian Veolia Cargo.
“This transaction is the first external growth operation carried out by Eurotunnel, made possible by the financial restructuring in 2007,” says the group in a statement.
J. Gounon said that any acquisition would be financed by equity. At the end of the first half, Eurotunnel had a cash reserve of 257 million euros.
The operator of the Channel Tunnel has shown a net loss of 8 million euros in the first half of 2009, compared with net income of 22 million euros a year earlier, due to the fire that struck the tunnel in September 2008 and which has particularly affected the truck traffic. Thus, heavy vehicle traffic fell by 53% over the first six months of the year, Eurotunnel believes that it should not return to full capacity on this segment before the end of the year, “said J. Gounon during the conference call.
The number of cars transported navetttes in Eurotunnel fell by 18% in the first half, while the number of Eurostar passengers fell 6%. The group states that the rate of decline on these two segments slowed in the second quarter compared to the first.
Accordingly, the turnover of the first semester enrolled in sharp decline of 28% at constant exchange rates over the same period last year to 266 million euros.
Eurotunnel said to have received 141 million euros of its insurers since the September 2008 fire. A deposit of 36 million was recorded in the first half of the amount of insurance indemnities paid in the period in respect of operating losses.
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