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NEW YORK (AP) – The NBA will play a shortened season — if it plays at all — after labor negotiations broke down for the second time in a week.

NBA Commissioner David Stern canceled all November games on Friday, the 120th day of the lockout.

“It’s not practical, possible or prudent to have a full season now,” said Stern, who previously canceled the first two weeks of the season.

Just a day earlier, Stern had said he would consider it a failure if the two sides didn’t reach a deal in the next few days and vowed they would take “one heck of a shot” to get it done.

Owners are insistent on a 50-50 split of revenues, while players last formally proposed they get 52.5 percent, leaving them about $100 million apart annually. Pla

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New tax rules could result in serious penalties for contractors in the construction industry who file their contractors’ monthly Returns late. The new rules impose penalties that increase with time and could result in loss of a contractors’ gross payment statement. These changes to the Construction Industry Scheme come into force this month (October 2011)

HM Revenue and Customs require all employers to pay PAYE monthly and impose fines for anyone not paying on time. Previously, contractors could file their monthly Return of payments to subcontractors late without being fined. The new rules impose a £100 fine for the first occasion a Return is filed late, and this doubles if the Return is more than two months late.

Tax based penalties come into force for filing Returns more than six months late. As w

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A coalition of major motor companies has announced an agreement to standardise the charging points they use for their electric vehicles across two continents.

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Buying a business requires that you, the buyer, make an informed decision before closing the deal.  Researching about the business starts the moment you are thinking about buying a business.  Start making inquiries from your friends and entrepreneurs in the same industry.  You should read trade and industry publications, and search the Internet.  If you like the preliminary information you heard or read from your initial meeting with the seller, make an offer.  If the seller accepts this, he or she will grant you a period of time, usually a month to several months, to access the companys records and books.  Take this time to know everything about the company you intend to buy. Get a Read more…

If man were a bird, then certainly the potential he possesses would be the wings. So, obviously, the best and the quickest would be the one with the best wing span. This would have been the most obvious deduction, but it must be remembered that this particular theory is certainly flawed. For the possession of the wing span is just half of the deal, the knowledge and training of flutter and flight are the ultimate necessities for a great flight. Similarly, talent and genius without the adequate guidance and training are just futile and would lead man nowhere. Bringing home the best techniques for training alongside the confidence of self belief is the Phoenix. Bringing into harmony, the various loose ends of talent and potential is the world of Phoenix Training and Development. Read more…

Many furniture designing firms have cropped up of late. This makes every established firm and new one, slash prices and offer more services and perks. Design advice services, or interior designing service, there are firms that offer them at affordable prices. Searching extensively is important, to get the best deal and firm. An example of best deal can be one that offers free perks, when one orders furniture with a firm.

Finding these firms online, calls for prudent research. Say, free advice furniture design search results, will get website list that offer free advices. Some of them may have included this keyword to attract traffic, but other websites offer genuine free advice. This free consultancy service may not be completely free, with many online firms. Read more…

Luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton and Rolls Royce are symbols of wealth and success. But new mobile digital technologies could prove to be a double-edged sword for some of the world’s most exclusive labels.

A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researcher is examining the impact of iPhone applications on the image and identity of luxury brands.

PhD researcher Parisa Mahyari, from QUT’s School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, will analyse how luxury fashion, automobile and hotel brands use mobile phones to take advantage of the growing digital market.

Ms Mahyari said new technologies offered luxury brands the chance to provide a digital service which reached a wider audience and could be shared with friends via social media.

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One of the key criticisms lobbed in the direction of corporations is that theyre essentially a mechanism for avoiding personal responsibility.

But this property is hardly unique to corporations. And its certainly not always a bad thing.

The notion that corporations shield individuals from responsibility actual has two components: one about moral and legal culpability for wrongdoing, and another about financial responsibility.

On the financial side, the lack of individual responsibility goes by the legal name of limited liability. Limited liability applies most famously to shareholders, who generally cannot lose more than whatever they have invested in corporate shares. When corporations do well, shareholders may be paid dividends; but no matter what happens, shareholders are never expected to pay the corporations debts.

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A BUSINESSMAN says he is fulfilling his dream of owning a country pub after buying The Barn restaurant in Chester.

Mark Jarvis, former co-owner of the award-winning Upstairs at The Grill in Chester city centre, will run the Bridge Trafford premises which has lain empty for about a year under the new name The Chester Fields.

Its due to open its doors on Monday, November 21, and Mark, who has lived in Chester for ten years, says hes very excited about his latest venture.

He explained: Ive always had this vision of a country pub. Its always been close to my heart.

Ive always wanted a country pub and to make it different and unique.

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