Tampa, FL – Oct 30, 2020 – United Plumbing & Drain has been proven to be the trusted plumbing experts in the community of Tampa and the surrounding areas for over 30 years.
Being one of the most trusted plumbers in Tampa, United Plumbing & Drain was established in 2007 by Jonathan Capestany who has been working in the industry for 30 years. The company focuses on delivering professional, transparent and exceptional plumbing services to residents and commercial owners in Tampa at no hidden cost. Jonathan and the rest of the company’s Tampa plumbers are certified and insured with decades of experience. The reason why they receive a lot of repeat customers and referrals is due to their reliable and quick resolutions for any plumbing issues.
From general plumbing services such as leak detection and repair to sewer services like hydro-jetting, and sewer repair, United Plumbing & Drain can do it all!
Tampa residents can always count on United Plumbing & Drain for their residential plumbing. The company has a team of residential plumbers who are always available to all homeowners in need of repair and installation services. They respond promptly and every customer can rest assured that all of the company’s contractors are respectful and professional throughout the entire process.
United Plumbing & Drain extends their services to business owners as well. Whether it’s a restaurant, a convenient store or any other commercial space, the company has commercial plumbers to install, repair or replace any pipe.
Aside from general plumbing and sewer services, the company is also known to provide services involving water heaters and sump pumps. They give their customers expert advice and explain all available options.
The customers of United Plumbing & Drain can feel comfort and safety all the time since it’s a 24-hour plumbing company in Tampa. Their office has on-call plumbing contractors who are available between 6am and 9pm, and 8am-6pm on Saturday, as well as 6am-5pm on Sundays, with appoints that can be scheduled 24/7.
Everyone is welcome to set an appointment with United Plumbing & Drain since they give exact quotes and details about the project with an affordable service fee. However, service fees are waived for customers who’ll hire them for their service.
Tucson, AZ – For over 42 years,Heatwave Air Conditioning and Heating have been providing HVAC solutions in Tucson, AZ. Founded by Dan Barrios, a U.S Air Force veteran and the sole proprietor of the company, he is known as one of the most knowledgeable and transparent HVAC technicians in Tucson. The company was officially incorporated in 1981 and since then it has been providing excellent services in HVAC repair, installation and maintenance for both Tucson residents and commercial owners. Heatwave Air Conditioning and Heating embark on a mission to eliminate a nonsense approach to the heating and cooling industry.
Heatwave Air Conditioning and Heating is a recognized company having reliable Tucson HVAC contractors. They have a team of experts who are committed to constantly providing honest and transparent heating and cooling services. Customers will have no doubt in feeling secured and confident since all of the company’s HVAC technicians are licensed, insured and went through background checking. It is for this reason that they are the trusted HVAC company of the whole community in Tucson.
Since the company has reliable HVAC technicians, it’s a go-to company when it comes to furnace repair in Tucson. Heatwave Air Conditioning and Heating has been repairing natural gas, electric and propane furnaces for over 40 years with absolute transparency. The company provides every customer upfront pricing with no tacky sales techniques. A customer is ensured that they’re dealing with a true professional.
Heatwave Air Conditioning and Heating values their customers’ time, therefore the company can always be trusted for emergency AC repair anywhere in Tucson, even on a hot summer day. They have HVAC technicians who work on different shifts to provide service to customers in need of immediate help. The company also offers 24-hour emergency furnace and heat pump repairs.
Interestingly, Heatwave Air Conditioning and Heating have a unique Comfort First Service offered to customers who enjoy peace of mind. The service includes priority assistance, discounts, bi-annual HVAC inspections and a full year labor warranty. An extended manufacturer’s part warranty is also included in this service.
If anyone has questions or are interested to know more about their services, Heatwave Air Conditioning and Heating will accommodate any query. For more information, please visit https://heatwaveair.com/
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On Oct. 20, 2020, the Department of Justice and 11 state Attorney Generals took the historic move in filing a civil antitrust lawsuit against Google. According to the DOJ, this suit comes as an attempt to stop Google from “unlawfully maintaining monopolies through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices in the search and search advertising markets and to remedy the competitive harms.”1
With this move, the DOJ and its accompanying attorney generals are invoking the Sherman Act of 1890 in an attempt to restore the ability for competitors to rise up in the search engine game. The DOJ calls Google the “gatekeepr to the internet,” citing a market value of $1 trillion – making it one of the wealthiest companies in the world.1
As this story unfolds, it brings to light an important aspect of capitalism that more and more corporate giants may see coming their way in this potentially new era of Antitrust suits.
Below we’ll discuss what exactly antitrust laws are and the effect they can have on the practices of large corporations in America.
What Are Antitrust Laws?
Antitrust laws originated in the late 1800s as a response to the growth of big businesses in the United States. Just as America was founded on the idea of independence, citizens were worried about the amount of king-like power big businesses could gain if gone unregulated.
Antitrust laws are a set of federal and state regulatory acts designed to keep businesses fair and honest in the marketplace. Their main purpose is to stop large companies and corporations from developing monopolies in certain market segments or geographic regions through the use of unfair tactics or practices. While the earliest antitrust laws have been in effect for more than 100 years, the sentiments have always stayed the same. These laws are designed to protect consumers and incentivize healthy, honest competition amongst corporations.
Today, there are three main federal antitrust laws governing businesses and large corporations: The Sherman Act of 1890, the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Clayton Act.2
What Defines an Antitrust Law Violation?
What counts as a violation when it comes to antitrust laws isn’t always cut and dry. Typically, there are two ways in which the court determine whether or not a large corporation has violated antitrust laws.
The Per Se Rule
The Per Se violation was originally defined under the Sherman Act, but its perimeters have been redefined since to better accommodate the marketplace today. If a court is judging that something is per se illegal, they’re only looking at the act that took place itself – not the effects it has on competitors or the marketplace. These types of violations include most horizontal agreements amongst competitors, especially if these agreements are used to create fixed marketplace prices or group boycotts of suppliers.3
Rule of Reason
Unlike the Per Se rule, the rule of reason requires a deeper look into the effects that certain offending actions have had on the marketplace. In today’s business world, this is the most common way a court of law will look at antitrust violations. A judge will have to analyze multiple factors to determine whether a violation was made. These factors include the original intents and purposes of the action, the business’s standings before and after the act took place, the marketplace conditions and the reason for objection.3
Common Antitrust Law Violations
While most companies will know if an action they are taking blatantly violates antitrust laws, some may still be unclear on what these violations look like. According to the Department of Justice, these are the most common ways in which corporations cheat the consumer through antitrust violations.4
Price Fixing
Price fixing refers to the act of two or more competing companies agreeing to set their prices at a certain level. In agreeing on what to charge, these companies can raise or lower their prices together, however they see fit.5
Bid Rigging
Typically referring to bids on local, state or federal contracts, this practice usually involves two or more firms agreeing ahead of time on who will place the winning bid on a contract. This type of coordination voids the bidding process of its merit and deceives the consumer.6
Customer Allocation
This type of violation can be summed up as a type of “stay out of my way and I’ll stay out of yours” agreement amongst competitors. These businesses come to an (in most cases) illegal agreement to not sell to a particular geographic region or market segment. For example, one company agrees not to sell their products in California while the other company says they won’t sell in Washington. This type of agreement puts the consumer at a disadvantage, as certain consumers aren’t provided the same choice in brands that others close by may have.7
Why Understanding Antitrust Laws Is Important
Antitrust laws are an important part of maintaining equal opportunity for all businesses in the marketplace. While it’s only natural that some will thrive more than others, it’s important that this success is earned fairly, not by unfair tactics or consumer deceit. As a large corporation, you should take these laws seriously in your everyday business practices and decisions. Because the laws may not provide total clarity, it is recommended that you take a look at previous court decisions to determine whether or not your actions are both ethical and legal.
Antitrust laws were designed to protect consumers and their rights to choose products based on fair practices and ethical actions. Thanks to these laws, we’re able to have a choice in what we pay and who we support with our dollars. As we continue to watch the DOJ’s suit against Google play out, we may catch a glimpse as to what other large corporations could be up against in the future.
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The IRS has noted that the 2017 TCJA generally eliminated the deduction for any expenses related to activities typically considered entertainment, amusement or recreation. However, taxpayers may still deduct business expenses related to food and beverages if certain requirements are met. And that distinction has led to a lot of misunderstandings.
The IRS resolves much of the confusion with the final regulations published in September 2020, which are briefly summarized in a news release. They address the disallowance of the deduction for expenditures related to entertainment, amusement or recreation activities, including the applicability of certain exceptions to this disallowance. They also provide guidance to determine whether an activity is considered entertainment. The final regulations also address the limitation on the deduction for food and beverage expenses.
The guidance runs over 50 technical pages, but multiple examples help clarify the limits of deductibility.
In one example, taxpayer A invites B, a business associate, to a baseball game to discuss a proposed business deal. A purchases tickets for A and B to attend the game. The baseball game is entertainment as defined and thus is not deductible by A. However, A also buys hot dogs and drinks from a concession stand. Since the food is purchased separately from the game tickets, it is not an entertainment expenditure and is not subject to the disallowance. Therefore, A generally may deduct 50% of the food expenses.
Now switch the scenario described above to a stadium luxury box where food is provided as part of the ticket cost. The cost of the food and beverages, which are not purchased separately from the game tickets, is not stated separately on the invoice. Thus, the cost of the food and beverages is an entertainment expenditure. The purchaser may not deduct the cost of the tickets or the food and beverages associated with the game tickets.
However, if the venue breaks out the cost of the food and beverages and states this cost separately on the invoice, and if this cost reflects the venue’s usual selling price for the food and beverages if purchased separately, the food and beverage cost is not an entertainment expenditure and thus may be deducted at the 50% rate.
These examples illustrate just a couple of the issues addressed in the final regulations, and there are more topics with their own examples. Business owners should consult tax professionals to make sure they are not inadvertently violating any rules — or leaving money on the table.
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While the majority of the companies are aiming to solve convenience based issues which is also what the trend in the investors’ interest is showing, People might be overlooking a company that might potentially be one of the first trillion dollar unicorns if not the first, here is why.
PISIQ is a research and development company that specializes in autonomous systems, while this might sound like exciting trivial information that could excite the investors, PISIQ does not follow the most sought after business model of Saas (Software as a Service) which is the path that most startups take, but falls under the traditional business category. While traditional might be the term to use for PISIQ’s category currently because they do not fit in any other category, they are everything but traditional in the things they do, which is what will make them the next trillion dollar business investors might wanna watch.
Usually startups follow one single business model which allows them to essentially be linked to that particular activity but this actually does not act as a pivot point for them to expand their activities without seeing a distortion in their valuation as the vision starts to fade, this is where PISIQ’s approach shines, PISIQ is strategically establishing themselves as a market leader in autonomous systems while their main business activity has to do with research and development, which allows PISIQ to act like a holding company. Due to this strategic advantage, PISIQ’s teams work on multiple projects that act like standalone startups, all targeting their specific audiences while contributing to PISIQ’s research and development.
A little bit of history
PISIQ was founded by Mudar Muhissen, Nihal Mohammad Shaikh and Arman Salah who are ex-employees of Fortune 500 companies such as Google, Sony etc. Having such brains behind this company is of a great significance in the strategy of the company. PISIQ came together as an alliance between 3 companies from India, UAE and Lebanon to work on research programs to benefit the technology and trade between these companies, eventually PISIQ became an independent entity and Arman Salah was made the CEO. Since its inception, PISIQ has applied for and acquired 12 patents mainly related to Autonomous Systems and mass production methods of a smart material called Graphene.
Apart from the patents, PISIQ has launched a lot of initiatives to help companies and individuals in terms of development and advancements in operations and education. PISIQ’s vision was made public in September in 2020 as the operations were also made accessible by the general public due to an agreement made between PISIQ and their investors.
Why would PISIQ be a trillion dollar unicorn?
The patents PISIQ owns are very valuable as Graphene will be highly required in the future as well as many companies are looking to turn to autonomous solutions to achieve high levels of efficiency. Although PISIQ’s CTO Mudar Muhissen has announced that PISIQ’s patents are bought to protect the technology or the idea being capitalized on by capitalistic companies, he has said that once the patents are approved, majority of them will be released as open source projects that will enable companies and individuals to work with and contribute to the advancement of the society collectively.
Not just the patents part but the overall vision of PISIQ might actually contribute to the change that would be experienced by the society in the future, according to the CIO of PISIQ Nihal Mohammad Shaikh, PISIQ’s vision is to help people be more happy with their lives, they will be able to make a living doing what they enjoy doing, with the help of technology PISIQ aims to end world hunger and change the economies from skill based to creativity based.
PISIQ is working on Brain Interface Technology to work with their autonomous systems that will implement smart systems making everything around interactive. PISIQ’s aim is to bring this technology to every household, even 1% of the claims PISIQ is making is achieved which is very likely, PISIQ’s valuation would exceed the 1 trillion mark.
For everyone interested in learning more about PISIQ, visit PISIQ’s official website https://pisiq.com.
Do you want enhanced mental and physical health naturally? Get up and join sports. Sports are an amazing way to support your health and fitness level. Sports not only ensures your good health but also gives you an interesting routine. They bring discipline, positive energy, and improves the quality of your life. Being indulged in physical activities like sports reduces the risks of several diseases such as obesity, diabetes, arthritis, cardiovascular diseases, and stroke. Sports give you several fitness and health benefits. Some of them are.
Strong immune system:
Yes! It’s true. Exercise builds up your immunity. Sports enhances the flow of white blood cells in your body, which helps make you immune to several diseases. While doing exercise or playing sports you sweat more, which removes harmful and toxic substances from your body and increases body temperature which lowers bacterial growth.
Stronger muscles and bones:
Sports are the perfect way to have strong muscles and bones. When you play sports there is more burning of fats, which increases your lean muscle mass. During playing you put stress on your bones, and this enhances bone density and reduces risks of fractures. Sports give you better stamina, muscle strength, and flexibility.
Better mental health:
Sports and fitness routines give you an optimistic approach in your life. They give your mind strength and sharpness, as sports are fun and refresh your brain. A good performance in sports boosts your confidence level, self-esteem, and better decision-making power. It is also a good way to reduce anxiety and stress, which also improves your coordination and body posture.
Weight management:
Are you suffering from overweight or obesity? Don’t worry! Just be physically active and take part in sports or fitness. A sedentary lifestyle can give you extra fat and increases the risk of obesity, which is the leading cause of multiple ailments. So, have a proper diet and take part in a consistent fitness routine to maintain your ideal body weight.
Social and psychological benefits of sports:
While playing sports, you meet several people of interest. You get a chance to make new friends, this gives you a healthy social life. You learn teamwork, respect for others, dedication, patience, and how to control your emotions when you lose. Hence, a good sportsperson happily welcomes criticism and improves his weak points.
Bottom line:
Sports & Fitness play a promising role in improving your health and fitness level. So, be physically active and eat a healthy diet to enjoy a more happy life.
Disclaimer: This information is provided as an educational service only, and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice. Anyone seeking specific medical advice or assistance should consult his or her doctor or orthopedic surgeon.
Sports medicine is designed to improve athletic performance, treat, and prevent injuries. If you are athletic, you have to rely on medicine to maintain your health and fitness. Injuries always seem to part of an athlete’s life. Orthopedic surgery is a significant part of sports medicine. These surgeries especially deal to treat musculoskeletal problems such as acute injuries, acquired or congenital disorders, and chronic arthritis. These are also involved in treating the overuse condition of joints and their related soft tissues (such as muscles, nerves, ligaments) and bones.
Hence, commonly practiced orthopedic surgeries in sports medicine are as following:
Knee and shoulder arthroscopy:
Before performing surgery, a complete examination is done. In these methods a small incision is made on your shoulder or knee, then a tiny camera is inserted inside through an incision attached with an instrument. The image is then projected on the screen to help with proper diagnosis.
Knee replacement surgery:
While playing sports, the knee is the most commonly injured part of your body. According to the intensity of your injury, you may get a total or partial knee replacement. This therapy is recommended when the cartilage of your knee joint is damaged and movement becomes painful and restricted. This may be caused by repetitive movements and bursitis (inflammation in the fluid-filled cushioning sacs of your knee joint). In this surgery your knee is replaced with a metal component or just the damaged part is replaced.
Shoulder replacement surgery:
This surgery replaces the upper portion of your humerus (upper bone of your arm) with a metal ball. While the damaged part of the socket is exchanged with a plastic prosthesis. Your rotator cuff (ligament and tendon in your shoulder) holds things in place.
Trigger finger release:
Your fingers contain tendons, which allows your fingers to bend or move. These tendons are protected with sheath, and when they become injured it leads to inflammation. This condition is very painful and does not allow you to extend fingers, commonly named trigger finger. Hence, In this surgery damaged sheath is removed, local anesthesia is given and you recover ususally within a few days.
ACL reconstruction surgery:
When your major knee ligament ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) is damaged, this surgery may be performed. The doctor may take a tendon from other body parts and us it to graft the damaged part of the ACL in your knee.
Takeaway:
So, these orthopedic surgeries are playing a promising role in sports medicine to treat acute sports injuries.
Disclaimer: This information is provided as an educational service only, and is not intended as a substitute for medical advice. Anyone seeking specific medical advice or assistance should consult his or her doctor or orthopedic surgeon.
In 7 years of activity, the restaurant website has hit the threshold of 1.150.000 digitalized and published menus of restaurants: now Sluurpy claims to have the largest collection of original menus on the Web.
For people who want to eat out or order at home choosing a good restaurant is hard and time-consuming? The platform dedicated to restaurants of Sluurpy can help people in finding the perfect restaurant suiting their taste, by giving people objective and transparent information on the food they are willing to eat, all in one single portal. And it does so through the constant publication of official and updated digital menus of restaurants.
With this activity, this October, Sluurpy has reached an outstanding number of 1 million published menus among the 4 million restaurants contained in the portal.
Since 2013, Sluurpy has differentiated itself as regards an unusual activity, namely calling personally restaurateurs and asking them for their menus. Simone Giovannini, CEO and founder of Sluurpy, recalls the idea behind it, at the time of its conceptualization: “Sluurpy was born almost by chance when meantime I was ordering a pizza takeaway, I noticed the absence of the pizzeria original menu in my personal agenda. Imagining that the need to have the restaurant’s flyer at hand was much more common than one might imagine, I designed the ambitious plan to digitize and make the menus of all restaurants available online, free of charge”.
And after 7 years of activity and efforts of the company, the founder has announced reaching a record claiming Sluurpy of being the website that globally owns the largest collection of menus worldwide!
“This is a revolution for digital foodies and web users in general – continues Giovannini – who were used to browse several websites before finding the real dishes and prices. Sluurpy’s service prevents digital users from switching to several websites and matching the information in order to know briefly and effectively the restaurants’ offers.” Indeed, now foodies can simply go on a single online portal that is specialized in collecting menus from the web and restaurateurs themselves. In this way, users can save time by just clicking one global website: Sluurpy.
Only Menus?
Sluurpy does not provide only the official Menus, but its activity involves also showing the other information users want to look at before choosing the restaurant. Indeed, it is an online meta-engine specific to the restaurant industry that focuses on the collection of useful data about restaurants and makes them digitally available for everyone, on any device, and at any moment: photos, contact info, business hours, and reviews are just a click away. Restaurateurs are stimulated to help Slurpy in collecting trustful information since the services of Sluurpy are totally free of charge: this can be considered as a breakthrough in a digital environment where most of the portals dedicated to food ask a monthly fee in order to maintain a restaurant page on their website.
“Thanks to this and other features, Sluurpy works to become globally the reference point for restaurant choice,” says Giovannini. “The commitment of the company is to provide the users with objective and transparent tools in order to make them aware and well informed about their delicious daily choices.”
YK also knowed as Young Khalifa is a talented rapper from Singapore. YK real name is Muhammad Iskandar Roswira. YK have started rap since young. YK loved to do freestyle to release his emotions.
His career started during the making of his Live BIGO video. His rap caught the attention around the world with audience. YK’s talent was spotted by Singapore producer Amyr Abadawn from Voz Management.
YK was invited to collaborate a song entitled Hatiku Panas (https://youtu.be/5NjkDY41_-k) with Eriy Ryzale. The song was published by Map Music from Malaysia and receive a lot of good feedback and support by the listeners.
YK was offered to sign as an artist under a Malaysian record label Map Music. YK did his first single under Map Music entitled Me Gusta (https://youtu.be/2mLOZ6HzVCk).
The song became number 1 in Singapore in Carta Singa Maksima in Ria Fm. YK did some interviews in radios and TV. YK also managed to make his music video in Malaysia and Singapore.
YK second single entitled Balut (https://youtu.be/2SHR7Dzps7c). It was also published by Map Music. All music was recorded in Malaysia. Music video was recorded in Singapore.
YK also own a business. His business called Young Kulture. He sell T-shirt and some accessories online. YK have his own team to support his business. Currently it have been positive.
YK first English debut single entitled Gerek. It mean Cool in Malay language. This is YK’s first English song under Map Music. All the vocal and video was done in Singapore due to Covid19. YK managed to pull it thru despite all obstacles. He also managed to get dancers for his music video. It will be released on 30 October 2020. The song was composed by Syko G and lyric by YK. It will be out in all media platform.
Starting an online business is becoming popular nowadays. Ecomphox provides comprehensive information and guides to start an online business, particularly eCommerce.
Washington, PA – In 2019 and beyond, worldwide online shopping will become one of the world’s most popular online activities. Based on a study, retail e-commerce sales worldwide amounted to 3.53 trillion US dollars in 2019, and online retail revenues are predicted to grow to 6.54 trillion US dollars in 2022. Making money online from an eCommerce business is a way to increase income and is no longer difficult nowadays. With help from an instant website builder, people can promptly build their online shop without spending too much time learning website coding. The instant website builder such as Shopify allows users to design a new website with pre-installed themes without hassle.
Ecomphox, an information blog discussing online business and its potential, explains that there are many ways to generate profit through online business. Among them are dropshipping and print on demand business. Dropshipping business allows people without products to sell others’ products. In this case, Ecomphox explains how to start a business by selling yoga mats. The yoga mats are one of the demanded products sought after during the pandemic, as many people are staying at home, and doing yoga exercise. Utilizing print on demand suppliers, people can start their dropping business immediately. They don’t need to build a website to sell the products. With print on demand guides, Ecomphox aims to provide step-by-step information selling print on demand products with the best dropping suppliers such as Gooten. It starts by searching reliable drop shippers to sell the products through an online marketplace such as Etsy or Society6. The benefit of using print on demand products is, they are customizable. This means people can design yoga mats with their own designs. The better the product designs, it could generate more sales.
Besides selling dropshipping products on the marketplace, people can also start their business by making their website through the Shopify dropshipping platform. They can showcase their product through the Shopify website. Anyone can set up an ecommerce business easily with the Shopify platform.
About Ecomphox
Ecomphox is a new website that provides information associated with e-commerce and dropshipping business. The founder aims to encourage people to start their own business without large capital and the ability to create a website. Ecomphox also provides ready-made Shopify dropshipping sites to ease the readers to start their online business without hassle.
