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You must be Billie Joe McAllister.

Dat 4 of ownership - the bike tood under covers all day even though it was sunny and hit 5.5 degrees! Although, my son's jacket and gloves arrived today. He paid hommage to the roo that gave up its life for my son's safety... And he is booked in on Tuesday for the CBT (learners permit).

I had one of each a couple of weeks ago. The results were good, because the cardiologist said "I don't need to see you for another 18 months." I'll have a pacemaker check in 12 months. The sound of the heart in the echo cardiogram. Chock taw, Chock taw, Chock taw.

In April 2022, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman personally overruled objections from advisers to the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia's $620 billion sovereign wealth fund, to approve a $2 billion investment in Jared Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners.

Well Octave, I think your posts are positive so they are not out of place here. Thanks for the input.

Isn't the idea that the value of money drops over time.. So, according to Google AI $100,000 AUD in the year 2000 is worth almost $208,000 today: Assuming no cost of maintenance/works over time nor other allowable deducations, if you don't discount for inflation and simply deduct sale price (let's say $500,000) from the purchase price you will get $400,000 gain you have to pay tax on. However, you are comparing a different dollar today than in the year 2000, where the value of the dollar less than 1/2 of what it was back then. To work out the value of your capital gain as opposed to the amount of the capital gain, you would either have to convert your original purchase price to today's value (almost $208K) oir convert the sale price of $500,000 to the value in year 2000 (c. $240k). If course doing it the latter way will mean you have to convert the difference back to today's dollars to calculate the income in today's numbers to allocate the correct tax; the former method converts to tody's values. If you don't convert the to today's value, you are overstating the value of the capital gain by almost $108,000. The raw difference (in this case $400K) does equal value (in this case, c. $292k). The only way to work out today's value of yesterday's dollar is to apply the inflation rate (or if there is some other price index more reliable indicator of purchasing power/value, than that should be used). The it comes down to the objective. Taxation policies are used to impact behaviour and therefore are not always applied fairly. For example, if you want to take hot air out of the house price market, taxing on values so more tax is being paid is one way to do it. If you want to simply tax fairly, so it is more about revenue generation than market correction, deducting inflation seems fairer as it is on value. But, of course, if like the UK, the country is broke and it needs to maximise revenue, taking out inflation should be dropped.. It will be a progressive tax as the more you make on a captial gain, the more proportionately you will pay. Personal income tax is a problem in this area (I know this is not a capital gain). As the purchasing power of money drops over time, the taxation thresholds at which different rates of tax kick in should be increased to cover the reduction in purchasing power. Famously, as in the UK, they have delayed this well beyind the current thresholds. This means you start paying tax, or paying higher rates of tax on lower values of money. This hurts the lower income earners more, because as the value of money decreases, wages tend to increase pushing say non=payers into paying tax on the same value, not amount of money. [Edit] I think a better option would be to eliminate the capital gains tax relief on property: Funny how this won't happen - just check the assets held my many senior politicians in the country - they have proven very unlikely to vote to eliminate that little deal.

Stress tests, both ECG and Echo, are pretty important for me. They are quite safe, with only 1 in 10000 having a cardiac event (not necessarily a heart attack) If you are going to have an event, it's definitely the place to have it. During my stress echo, there was a cardiac nurse who hooked me up to the ECG and took my blood pressure during the treadmill part. There was also an echocardiographer doing the echo and a cardiologist monitoring the ECG all throughout the test. After the treadmill, they rush you to the table where they do an echo to see what your heart is doing under stress. It is better to find this out with a stress echo in a medical environment than during a stressful drive in city traffic. In my case, my heart was looked at 164bpm, and whilst it is far from normal, there is nothing dangerously abnormal at this stage. During my bush walks, which some of you seem to believe are dangerous, I seldom get above 100BPM. Bush walking is extremely good for bone density. Loss of bone density can be a major factor in fractures from falls, etc. Likewise, older folks tend to lose muscle mass. Anyway, I am not sure how this became the "health report" Perhaps this is not the right forum for this kind of post. I was elated by the whole expedition, and I thought people might be interested.

So tell me true.... Did Donny claim the FBI's $10,000,000 reward for bringing the Crown Prince to USA ? Or, how did The Prince suddenly change from public enemy number one, to 'best buddy'?

Remove the Inflation Part of Capital gain. It's stealing money when it is worth Less but numerically greater. Automatically Index Tax rates in line with inflation. Nev

I think it's terrific Also. The image is produced by Ultrasound. The red and blue are Pressure. It will show leaking valves and the volume of blood pumped and turbulent flow. Nev

Yes, I agree, fascinating seeing it all working

Nothing stopping you from trying. Let's see how many votes you get.

Another policy for winning all the seats would be: A substantial partial refund of CTP insurance would be given to motorists who never make a claim during their whole motoring life and when they hand their license in, or it's taken away from them because of incapacity.

I could win all the seats in Parliament with just three main policies ... 1) A big beautiful medical Super Trouble Shooting team - powerful and nation wide, to stop all the nonsense in hospitals, etc. 2) The biggest and most powerful Consumer Complaints Commission you've ever seen - one phone call will fix your complaint in a day. 3) Establish a Truth Tribunal, to prosecute politicians caught lying and distorting the truth.

Octave, I consider the EchoCardioGraph is a fantastic invention. I was overjoyed to SEE the blood flow and valve operation. It is awesome! Such things are great advances in medical science.

Talk about dealing with the DEVIL. The Bucks and kickbacks are what's behind it. Nev

I specifically said Stress ECG . The type Avmed love is called Bruce's Protocol. To survive is to my way of thinking, a POSITIVE. Nev

In his latest treasonous act, Trump has said he is selling F-35's to Saudi Arabia - a Chinese ally, following his meeting in the Oval Office with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-leaning-toward-backing-sale-f-35s-saudi-arabia-senior-white-house-official-2025-11-17/

It would look very suspicious if the only ones named were Democrats. We already know that Trump is well represented.

OBSTRUCTING the Course of Justice. THAT's a CRIME. Accessories before and after the FACT, and MORE. Nev

Sounds a bit conspiracy theory. I agree that the Republicans would like to protect themselves and their predator-in-chief, but actually destroying all the evidence without leaving gaps, traces, metadata and copies is a hard ask.

Jeez the post was supposed to be joyous. Fir the record I about a year ago an stress echo where you have an echo at rest and you go on the treadmill and when you heart gets above a predetermined maximum safe rate they very quickly do another echo to observe how your heart works under stress. This test has a good rate of detecting blockages. Normally I would post a link but I am on my phone in a park after another highly dangerous walk. It feels like some of these posts are kind of condescending. We use an App called All Trails which gives accurate information about trails and their conditions, elevations etc ass well as currant track and weather. We would average about 3 walks a week although the last few days we have been in the Grampians so multiple walks a day Are usual regime includes a daily short exercise session guided by an app. We alternate between cardio, muscle building and flexibility. So we are not naive idiots wandering off until the bush. We are just sitting in a picnic ground after climbing down and up which if course was a little more arduous to see a magnificent waterfall My heart rate hovered between 90 and 100bpm

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