Tents and Marquees
Event Tents, such as wedding tents are used when you want to make a spectacular outdoor scene. They are generally structures installed at a location for a period of time.
Why A Tent?
Commercial Tents are used as protection from the sun, rain or a gathering place. They can make a stunning and creative atmosphere for any event.
Tent Rentals
Tents can be rented or leased for a day, a weekend, weeks, months, etc. For one or two day events, the Tents are usually installed a few days before the event, depending on scheduling and weather, and remain until a few days after the event. Many rentals are quoted for the entire week, allowing for time to set up and design the interior and exterior. Some Tents are built for exceedingly long-term events and have been installed and remain installed for years.
What Kind of Tent Should I Rent?
Tent rental companies come in all sizes - from small-sized companies with just a few Tents to exceedingly large-sized companies - carrying dozens of several sizes and styles of Tents. Some general rental companies rent from tent rental companies to accommodate their client’s needs.
You may know you want to use a standard Tent for your event, or your event planner may already have in mind to use a Tent. You have options! There are lots of other spectacular
structures and Tent styles out there. Some are unique and make a statement of their own. Ask the rental company you’re working with for a list of the type styles they have on hand.
Usually, the different types of Tents available in most companies are (the names vary depending of the company):
Folding Tents Easy and fast to use and always in demand. Very popular, because usually is the less expensive tent. Fast, flexible, cost effective and long lasting.
They are used by:
- Corporate brands across most industries
- Government & Council buyers
- SME business marketers
- Franchisees
- Agricultural exhibitors
- Emergency services & community groups
- Folding Tents create brand exposure opportunities.
- You can reach your audience at the right time, in the right place with the right message.
Inflatable Tents An exciting and lively alternative Tent. Easy & fast to set up. Be sure they have removable printed roof because in that way you can share the investment with other licences.
What Size Tent Will I Need?
The size of Tent depends on a few factors:
1. The number of guests you expect
2. Layout or seating arrangements or the style of event:
* Reception with what type of tables?
* Speaker engagement with what type of seating?
* Will you need a dance floor?
* Will you need display areas for your products?
If you are interested in a Tent, you can expect to need about 2,000 - 2,500 square feet for 200-seated guests. That could mean a 40 x 60 size Tent (Always ask the Tent rental vendor directly and they’ll give you the best informationabout the size of Tent you’ll need).
Therefore, the key rule is; know what you are going to use your tent for. The choice of tents is incredible, almost on par with the choice of cars that you can buy.
So if you need a tent for the family BBQ, for example, your needs are fairly fundamental
and your budget may be tight. Look for cheap tents that offers a waterproof Polyester roof and a good warranty for under $600.
If you need a tent for a school or sports club you will need a range of sizes, and colours. Most plain colour Tents s range between $995- $2900. If you are keen to advertise yourself, you can have your names printed for around $150-$300. Printing logos usually be a little more expensive.
In the last 5 years, portable Tents have become important to businesses for their marketing. The key need for these buyers is a prominent and exact reproduction of their logo. Sign written or printed Tents can be as boring as a website address or they can be a design extravaganza.
Remember, if it is for commercial purposes, the aim is to build recognition of your company with your printed Tent. Printed corporate Tents range in price from $1500- $4000. Good ones will really catch your eye.
Once you have decided on what sort of buyer you are and how you are going to use your Tents, a good Tents company will offer you a choice of frames, a warranty of between 3-5 years and help with formulating the printing-if you need it.
For more information about tents, contact Extreme Marquees. We have a range of cheap tents, for all sorts of home and business applications.
Sphere: Related ContentNew Zealand’s Top Holiday Cities
New Zealand has a majestic array of astounding landscapes. Like huge mountain ranges, sweeping coastlines, breathtaking rainforests, deep fiords, snow capped mountains and steaming volcanoes. These scenic wonders have all made New Zealand an inspired destination for all kinds of holidays.
Awesome travel packages and holiday specials are available on quality accommodation in modern city hotels and luxurious wilderness lodges at slashed prices. Among the top holiday destinations in New Zealand, Queenstown, Christchurch and Auckland would definitely be there. Travel Online is a outstanding online specialist travel operator and provides fantastic tourist services for New Zealand. Travel Online provides an instant quote and booking service for accommodation in cities right across the country.
Queenstown
The international resort town of Queenstown is situated on the shoreline of Wakatipu Lake. This beautiful region is among the most picturesque locations on the globe. Throughout the year adventurous and thrilling sports like jet boating, bungy jumping, and white water rafting take place. This town is the epicentre of the entire world’s bungy jumping activities too. With the advent of winter, the town gets transformed to an alpine wonderland with snowboarders and skiers from all corners of the world assembling at the annual Winter Festival.
There is constant request for Queenstown Accommodation all round the year and Travel Online offers a select group of hotels best suited for New Zealand holidays. 1, 2, 3 or 4 bedroom apartments, with cutting-edge facilities, gyms, spas and fantastic views are available at various holiday retreats across the city. Bigger apartments with more bedrooms, tennis courts, private jetties and fitness centres are also available at a higher price. Luxury complexes with studio rooms in the vicinity of cafes, bars, and restaurants are also found in Travel Online’ Queenstown Accommodation selection.
Christchurch
When choosing a place to stay in Christchurch look for hotels that give views over the wonderful Victoria Square, across the transfixing Avon River or towards the historic Anglican Cathedral. Situated on New Zealand’s South Island, this cosmopolitan city is always abuzz with fantastic festivals, shopping spots, theaters and art galleries. Hotels overlooking Victoria Square provide visitors with an insight in to the city’s English history.
Individuals staying in the vicinity of the Christchurch Cathedral will find hotel rooms with a Manhattan-style feel. Tradition and elegance are everywhere in these hotels along with a keen eye on service excellence. Spacious bedrooms with full-fledged kitchen facilities are common, along with hi-tech conference facilities, resort-like leisure features like spas, saunas, gyms, and swimming pools. Many of these hotels provided by Travel Online are located in the vicinity of the Technology Park, the International Antarctic Centre, and the airport. Travelers who want to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the cosmopolitan life will find suitable accommodation in the wonderfulcountryside surrounding the city.
Auckland
Auckland, also known as the City of Sails, is located in between 2 harbors and has more boats per person than anywhere on the planet. Within minutes a person has the chance of sailing away on yachts to isolated nearby islands, living the high life in the casino, surfing at endless beaches or tasting the exotic wines at local vineyards. Hotels come in stylish and comfortable studios, and luxurious executive / marina suites. Travel Online caters to the tastes of corporate and business tourists and can beat any price seen on Auckland accommodation advertised. Auckland harbor is breathtaking, and is seen perfectly from atop Sky City and the surrounding accommodation.
Affordable and comfortable apartments are available for casual tourists, equipped with kitchens, laundries, and balconies to provide a fantastic holidaying experience. Visitors to Auckland adore visiting the Antarctic Encounter, which showcases the only penguins present in the sub-Antarctic region. More encounters include cage-bereft shark dives, scuba expeditions and snorkel safaris. New Zealand is waiting.
Travel Online has a wide range of Queenstown accommodation close to all the snow action and cosmopolitan Christchurch accommodation surrounded by all that theatre and art. For holidays in and around the water, Auckland accommodation is as good as anywhere in the world.
Sphere: Related ContentRepairing Flooded Carpet: A cheap job is a good job right? Wrong….
Don’t let a novice 24 hour carpet cleaner attempt to repair your water damaged carpets. These are the worries you have to be wary of:
Overcharging. An unprofessional water restoration cleaner may load the job up with superfluous inclusions. E.g. using dehumidification for drying the damaged carpets when it is not needed.
Correct equipment. They may use equipment from hire places for drying the carpet. This is acceptable, but an experienced water damage technician will possess all their equipment to enable a quicker response and hopefully a better value job.
Proper moisture metre. If they don’t have the choice moisture meter, they will not be able to see whether the carpet is dry enough. This increases the danger of mould growth in the future. Removal of the mould in future may be required.
If they aren’t specialised. There are a lot of “Carpet Cleaners” in this industry who do water damage restoration jobs on the “side.” i.e. they don’t deal with this type of task each day. Be careful of them. Drying water damage to carpets is an art. Taking carpet off the gripper strips then reinstalling them is best to be taken on by a professional, otherwise they can be damaged incontrovertibly.
You may be asking, how do I decide on a good Flood Restoration Business? Below I have selected some signifiers to check for when hunting around for a carpet flood damage business:
How big is their Yellow Pages ad: This can be an indication as to how much repair work they get already. A full-size Yellow Pages advertisement can cost upwards of $50 000. If they have invested in a large ad, you have some promise that they are established.
Where do they show in Google? The higher they are in Google, the more webpage views there are for that business.
What Qualifications do they have? The fundamental qualification needed is a IICRC qualification of Applied Structural Drying and Water Damage Restoration.
Do Insurance companies source them for their carpet damage jobs? This is a very good indicator. If insurance companies use them, the business is very likely to be good at their work. Insurance companies tend to use the businesses that provide them the best value for the fee.
What kind of Equipment do they have? They should own about 100 Air movers. If they own this many, this indicates they have been in the game for some time. It took our business 8 years to accumulate that many wet carpet drying air movers.
What sort of commitment can you get out of them by calling them? Ask if you can pin them down to a rate for water extraction, water removal and initial inspection. If they don’t give you a fee for this in the least, you know they are not going to serve you, so go with someone else.
Response Time – Our Water Damage Brisbane business is premised to a 59 minute response time to water damage emergency. The restoration needs to be attended to ASAP. Mould can grow inside a 24 hour period.
If you follow these tips you are sure to come up with a Flood Damage Restoration professional who can do the job right.
If you have carpet water damage Brisbane, call us for flooded wet carpet drying. Brisbane storm season is approaching and you may need storm damage carpet cleaning. Brisbane and surrounding areas serviced.
Sphere: Related ContentPodiatry as a Career in Australia
As a practicing podiatrist in Brisbane, Australia, I am often asked by clients if podiatry would be a good career for a school leaver to contemplate . There are many things to recommend a career in podiatry including:
- You can be self employed: This is a prospect that is increasingly being denied to other health care providers such as optometrists and even Family Doctors. Big Business controls a lot of health practices. Consider how often you see an independent optometrist these days – can they compete on price with the multinational chains?
- Legal Issues: In Australia (unlike the USA where things are very different), podiatrists very, very rarely face litigation . The nature of podiatry practice does not lend itself to accidentally harming one’s patients. Also, you never have to give your clients the bad news that their condition will be terminal.
- Working Hours: Emergency call outs are very unlikely. This is great news for those among us who like their sleep uninterrupted.
- Financial Reward: Whilst it is true that podiatry doesn’t pay as well as being a dentist or medical practitioner, the remuneration is generally commensurate with other allied health providers.
- Instant Gratification: One of the best aspects of a career as a podiatrist is the instant gratification! People come in with pain and leave happy. You will see a plethora of bite-sized jobs each day, many with a cure you can provide immediately. From someone that has worked with unanimously grumpy customers in a past career, believe me when I tell you, it makes the day much less stressful when people leave you smiling.
- Philanthropy: Podiatry will provide you a great deal of opportunity to help relieve the suffering of your fellow human beings.
- Self – Determination: Podiatry gives a professional the power to determine their own course of action for the benefit of their patients. This is unlike a career in nursing for example where one acts under the instruction of a doctor.
- Clear Job roles: The only people who can hold themselves out to be a podiatrist are those with a podiatry qualification. The clear roles that this defines relieves the requirement to find your ‘niche’ after university - as someone with a more generic Bachelor of Science degree might need to do.
- Like to travel? There are many places around the world that do not qualify their own podiatrists including Tasmania, the Northern Territory, all of Asia and all of the Middle East. If you want to travel the world, Australian podiatrists can be registered in any Commonwealth country and are especially in demand in Singapore, Egypt, United Arab Emirates and other far flung fields.
- Variety: In any given day, a podiatrist will see a large range of complaints. There may be an ingrown toenail or two, a debilitating corn, a sports injury, some back pain and at least a couple of painful arches . The primary skill required in being a good podiatrist is to be an effective problem solver. Each patient is an individual with a unique complaint requiring a well considered solution.
How do you qualify as a podiatrist ?
To qualify as a podiatrist means six Australian Universities:
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Curtin University
- La Trobe University
- Charles Sturt University
- Queensland University of Technology
- University of South Australia
- University of Western Sydney.
Last year, the entry score for the QUT was OP 8.
Stephanie Cosgrove graduated as a podiatrist from QUT in 1990 and with a Master’s degree in Applied Science (Podiatry) in 1996. Since 1991, she has worked in private practice as a Podiatrist Brisbane. She received three university prizes during her studies, including the award for excellence in design and manufacture of orthotics. Brisbane has been the site of her private practice since 1991 which has grown to four locations and eleven staff. If you want to Walk Without Pain consider a visit to Brisbane’s most innovative podiatry practice today. Call for an appointment now on 1300 A1 Feet.
Sphere: Related ContentEight Steps to Great Web Design
Take control of getting your site conceived by a developer and understand the process it will save you money and gain you a site that actually works the intended purpose!
1. Knowing your business and how you are currently positioned in your market.
In order to formulate a site that truly meets your requirements; you first need to have a full understanding of your business including your products, and/or services and more importantly their market position. You then have to examine how you want to explain your business and what it offers in 7 seconds or less. Sounds impossible? Well that is the average time that a user will consider the point “is this site I searched for?”.
2. Budget and estimation
Have a budget in mind and don’t be afraid to let the developers know what it is. In saying this: BE REALISTIC, $500 will never see a great web site created, nor will they be anything left in the bank to market it.
3. The creative process
Be armed with example sites and more importantly the elements of the site you like so they can achieve an understanding of what you would like to see on your site and also what you find frustrating about other sites. This will construct a good profile and identify not only what type of site to construct for you but your tolerance to colours, animations, layouts etc. for your requirements which will allow for effective development. The more interaction and information you allow them in the beginning the more time you will save everybody in the long run by becoming what you want 1st time round. Check with the designers on how many rounds of changes come with the contract, most will allow for a total conceptual redesign only once and 2 rounds of changes after that.
4. Production and Content
After the home page design is made, the developers will more than likely collect the general layout of this concept and then construct the inner page template. It is this template that will be replicated for most of your pages for your site.
Provide your content in a pre-proofed word processed document; don’t get too creative with the document fonts etc. as these will not be preserved when the content is copied into the code of the site. It is preferred that you do use bolding, underlining, headings and sub heading though ,as these highlights are transferred into the site and are crucial later on in not only interacting with the reader but for Search Engine Optimisation.
One last tip for content; present a decent amount of content but provide it in a way that a reader may get a summary of what you are trying to present across in the 1st couple of paragraphs and an image or to. The rest of the paragraphs that get into finer details ARE FOR GOOGLE !
5. Development Programming and CMS
If your website contains Content Managed Areas (CMS) or has any other dynamic sections the developers will wrap your design around a content management program such as Joomla or Drupal or they may have a custom built system. Make sure that you get to see how the CMS system operate on another site they have developed or an example site they may have. You need to know that you can use and comprehend the system when your site is complete.
6. Testing and training
We work closely with the developers to test your site especially if there are any CMS or special programs that have been made for you. You can guarantee if it is has just been written for you then it will not operate 100% first time round. This is a where things can get ugly in the process you must understand the way the program operates and test it as if you were normal website user. If it doesn’t make sense to you, chances are it won’t make sense to your audience. Make sure you test your website on more than just your browser, try to test it on Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. All of these browsers are avialable on the internet for free!
7. Launch – going live
When the developers are ready to make your site onlive make sure you have completed the above testing step until you are content that this website is the best representation of your business / product it can be. Remember even though you can change things after going live it is still a poor reflection on your business if there are spelling mistakes or broken images when you launch.
8. Marketing
There is little point in having a website if nobody visits it, make sure as part of you contract you have considered search engine optimisation and or search engine marketing as part of your website build. This is the absolute most important factor of the whole process. If you are the only one looking at your site then you are in trouble.
Remember Search Engine Optimisation is about 30% Onsite (getting your site correct for Search Engine to index correctly) and 70% Promotion. Any developer who tells you otherwise hasn’t been in the industry too long.
For more information about web design Brisbane, contact Web Site Blue. Our web designers understand marketing as well as design.
Sphere: Related ContentTips to Creating a New Business Logo
A logo is a central step to forming a business. It is the face of your business. And like your face conveys the tone of your business, indicates the service and demonstrates the professionalism or lack there of.
People spend a lot of money on the creation of their logo and walk away with no artwork files. Then a couple months down the track when they need to put signage on their new building they cannot track the design studio down that created the original logo for them and so incur costs to have it recreated. This is needless and may cause obstacles when trying to recreate the logo exactly as created originally.
We have created some basic tips you for to think about when creating a logo. Hopefully these will help you from experiencing any future obstacles.
Tip 1
First things first - you need to decide if you would like your logo to have an accompanying icon. It is desired that if your service or product name is not in your business name then perhaps an icon will help in portraying a clear message across to your target audience.
An icon can add an extra element to your branding in that you could use the icon on its own on collateral where perhaps you are searching for a more illustrative finish without losing recognition.
A good example of this is the well-known and executed Nike logo.
Tip 2
Colour can be an crucial decision as it not only could affect the output costs but can also margin your output use. Think about the end result and what you will be commiting your branding onto in the future. Make sure your designer is aware of this as they should design accordingly.
Tip 3
Make certain you get a back up disk of your logo as a master file and assure that it includes all the files required for the different printing formats.
Creative software updates frequently and some programmes become obsolete. Make certain you have a copy of your logo as a PDF - with the text converted to curves.
Tip 4
Using images in your logo is not very easy to accomplish. For example it is difficult to reverse into black and white. Images also have limitations when it comes to size - they can only be reproduced to a certain size before they start pixilation.
Tip 5
Using gradients in your logo is not recommended. This too can have limitations when it comes to output for ie: gradients are hard to reproduce when embroidering fabrics.
Tip 6
Make certain sure the font is legible. Some logos need to be reproduced on small pieces of collateral ie: post stamps. It is important that in this case the text is
legible.
Tip 7
Make sure that you receive a copy of your logo in CMYK high resolution 300 dpi (for printing use) and RGB 72 dpi(for web use).
Tip 8
It is important to have a style guide of your logo. It will clearly show you how to use your logo so it looks exactly the same every time it is reproduced. This allows you to keep your corporate image consistent.
Tip 9
Make sure that you get a letter from the design studio declaring that you own the copyright to your logo.
If you follow these tips then not only will you collect a well-designed logo but you will also own the artwork. And when it comes to reproducing your collateral you will be doing it the most cost effective way.
For logo design Brisbane and web design Brisbane, contact Bydaughters today for a free two hour consultation.
Sphere: Related ContentHow to Create a Style Guide
How many times have you mailed business cards to print and received yet another version of your corporate colour? Ever been frantic to see your advert in the latest newspaper and then spotted that the crucial tag line is nowhere to be found or your logo has been squashed.
There is only one way to thwart this from happening and that is to use a style guide. Not only will a style guide help you steer the reproduction of your logo - it will also help you sustain your brand recognition – which many argue is one of the strongest selling tools.
We have placed the below steps together for you as a starting point.
Step 1 : Outline the audience for your Style Guide. Is this for staff to use in-house or is this for suppliers and contractors to refer to?
Step 2 : Outline what your output uses are. This is important because you will want different logos and file formats for example, black and white publication adverts in comparison to vehicle graphics.
Step 3 : Define the tone for the copy and content required. For example you may needcopy rules for printed content and then copy rules for website content.
Content rules cover all punctuation rules and how to refer to the business and team.
Step 4 : Make certain you layout all the design templates so it is clear how and where the logo and branding lies on all the different pieces of collateral that may be repeated.
Step 5 : Make sure to accommodate any contributing logos or logos of business that are correlated with you. It’s also important that you mail a copy of the layout to these companies to insure they agree with the layout of their logo as they too may have their own Style Guide and hierarchy layout rules.
Step 6 : Make sure that grammar, spelling and contact details are correct.
Step 7 : Insure that when suppliers are using the Style Guide they understand~know~discern~apprehend} that a proof needs to be dispatched~sent~mailed~commissioned}to you to be validated as correct.
Have your Style Guide finished and as tight as possible. Then have it saved in an email friendly file format and have a couple printed. Once this is done we strongly advise a training session – whereby your design studio arrives and trains your staff on how to use the Style Guide and most importantly your brand.
For graphic design Brisbane, logo design Brisbane and web design Brisbane, contact Bydaughters today. We help your brand build business.
Sphere: Related ContentProjectors: LCD Verses DLP (The downfall of DLP technology)
The common question customers ask when purchasing a new projector for the home, office, or classroom is: do I purchase an LCD projector or a DLP projector? LCD, an acronym for ‘liquid crystal device’ and DLP, standing for ‘digital light processing’ are the two most popular projector imaging technologies. With so many brands and models available, it can be difficult for customers to pick between those technologies. It comes down to the fact that LCD projectors offer far superior image quality and colour accuracy. The article below explains why DLP projectors struggle with reproducing the same level of image quality.
It’s like a set of blinds in your household on your bedroom window. With the twist of a rod you can make the shutters open or closed, according to if you want to let light in or not. Such is exactly how an LCD projector functions. Each pixel functions like a unique shutter on a set of blinds to either allow light through or to block it. DLP on the other hand is created of millions of microscopic mirrors or ‘pixel elements’ as experts like to call them. Each pixel element works to either reflect light or block it.
How the light source is processed from the time the projector is turned on to when the picture reaches your screen is ultimately important to image quality, brightness and colour accuracy. LCD projectors project white light from the lamp by separating it into red, blue and green components, by three mirrors which transfer the coloured light to 3 individual LCD panels. The 3 LCD panels form the elements of the image by switching each pixel on and off. The pixels are then projected in a glass prism to deliver the projector image. Something important to realise about LCD projectors is that all three colours are projected onto your wall all at once. The way a DLP projector operates is widely different and even how an image looks is not the same. With DLP, white light from the lamp is sent through a spinning colour wheel with transparent red, blue and green segments, at speeds up to 11,000 rpm/s. This method of making an image casts a sequence of red, blue and green light. The millions of micro mirrors mentioned above reflect the coloured light on the pixels to create the image elements. The elements of the image are cast in sequence on the screen, one colour at a time. The viewer’s eye will then pull together each coloured element of the image into a single total image. Using LCD projectors, all colours are available all the time to form high brightness and superb colour accuracy. In DLP, only one colour is available at a time, and so resulting in lower colour brightness and accuracy. Some DLP manufacturers have included a white segment in the colour wheel to improve brightness generally, but this further degrades colour accuracy.
I read in forums all the time that DLP offers a higher contrast ratio and thus must be superior. For those who don’t know, the contrast ratio is a measure of a display system defined as the ratio of the luminance of the brightest white to that of the darkest black that the projector is able to produce. DLP projectors do provide high contrast specifications when compared to a majority of LCD projectors. At one glance, this can seem to be a plus, however, in real life, the true black level is determined by the ambient light in the room in which the projector is in use. Do not be fooled by contrast specifications on websites and in brochures.
When the content you wish to bring to life includes moving images, DLP projection technology also creates image imperfections, or ‘artifacts’. The most often seen artifact that a DLP projector forms with moving images is colour break up. Colour break up is unavoidable in DLP systems because moving images change up between the time red, blue and green colours are displayed. LCD projectors do not have this characteristic because every colour is processed at once. DLP developers have developed 3DLP solutions using 3 chips to solve the colour break up issue, but the expense of these projectors make them impractical for the large part of businesses and consumers.
Another difference between LCD and DLP is how they make up for the refractive qualities of light. Take yourself back to high school science, and remember how various colours of light refract varied amounts when passing through the same lens. The downside with DLP projectors is that they use the one same panel and the same lens to project Red, Blue and Green. All 3 colours are not the same and refract light in different ways. Often with a DLP projector, a superfluous yellow colour will appear above and some extra blue will be projected below an image containing something as simple as a lone black line. In manufacturing LCD projectors can be set to remove these effects on the projected image, as each colour is refracted on isolated LCD panels.
The isolated real advantage (excluding price) with going with a DLP projector is its smaller total size and weight. However, this is only relevant in regard to portability and cannot be traded off against the image superiority of LCD projectors. If overall picture quality is crucial to you, then the choice is no-brainer. Go for an LCD projector! LCD projectors will definitely show bright, colourful images with fewer image imperfections. If you need to find out more about LCD technology in more detail, have a gander at this spectacular resource website: Explore 3LCD. If you have any further questions, go to Projector Central and send me an email.
Jonathan King is the sales and marketing manager of Projector Central, Australia’s leading online store for projectors. Brisbane based, Projector Central has been serving Australia for 15 years. For data projectors in Brisbane and Interactive Whiteboards, contact Projector Central today.
Sphere: Related ContentYachting and Yacht Clubs
As the Dutch came to preeminence in sea power during the 17th century, the initial yacht had been a pleasure craft used first by royalty and secondly by the burghers on the canals and then in the protected and unprotected waters of the Low Countries. Yacht racing was incidental, borne from private challenges. English yachting began with King Charles II of England during his exile in the Low Countries. On his restoration to the English royalty in 1660, the city of Amsterdam gave him a 20-metre (66-foot) leisure boat with a beam (maximum width) of 5.6 m (18 feet), which he then named Mary. Charles and his brother James, the duke of York (James II, reigned 1685–88), ordered for additional yachts and in 1662 raced two of them from the Thames, from Greenwich, to Gravesend, and returning, on a £100 wager. Yachting rose as fashionable among the affluent and aristocracy, but after that time the trend did not last.
The first yacht club in the British Isles, the Water Club, was formed in about 1720 at Cork, Ire., as a cruising and unofficial coast guard association, and held great naval panoply and rigour. The closest thing to racing boats was the “chase,” for which the “fleet” pursued an imagined enemy. The club endured, for the large part as a social club, until 1765, and in 1828, after conglomerating with other organisations, it was known as the Cork Yacht Club (later the Royal Cork Yacht Club).
Yacht racing was seen in some ordered method on the Thames around the mid-18th century. The duke of Cumberland funded the Cumberland Fleet for Thames racing in 1775. When George IV came to sovereignty in 1820, it was called the Fleet to His Majesty’s Coronation Sailing Society. The Thames Yacht Club seceded after a racing dispute, to become the Royal Thames Yacht Club in 1830. The first English yacht society had been formed at Cowes on the Isle of Wight in 1815, and royal sponsorship made the Solent - the strait between the mainland and the Isle of Wight - the continued location of British yachting. The association at Cowes became the Royal Yachting Club, likewise at the ascension of George IV. All members were required to possess boats of at least 20 tons (20,321 kg). Sailing tests for large stakes were held, and the club life was superlative. Eventually Royal Yachting Club boats grew in size to over 350 tons.
In North America, yachting began with the Dutch in New York in the 17th century and continued when the English gained dominance. Sailing was largely for pleasure and rose to its high point in George Crowinshield’s Cleopatra’s Barge (1815), which sailed on the Mediterranean Sea and established a standard of luxury and elegance for the later yachts in those waters from the late 19th century. The first persisting American yacht organisation, the Detroit Boat Club, was formed in 1839. In 1844, John C. Stevens began the New York Yacht Club while aboard his schooner Gimcrack.
Kinds of sailboats
Early sailing yachts took the style of such naval craft as brigantines, schooners, and cutters from the 17th century until the second half of the 19th century. The design of bigger yachts was first heavily impacted by the victory of America, which was designed by George Steers for a association started by John C. Stevens, and it was the boat for which the America’s Cup (q.v.) had its namesake after its win at Cowes in 1851. Earlier yachts were not designed and crafted in a contemporary sense, with just a model for an outline. Not until the later half of the 19th century did what was called naval architecture come about. Not until the 1920s did the application of the study of aerodynamics do for the craft of sails and rigging what science had earlier done for hulls.
Because almost all sailboats had to be individually manufactured, there came a need for handicapping boats as this was previous to the one-design class boats were designed. Therefore, a rating rule was created, which resulted in the International Rule, adopted in 1906 and edited in 1919. In the present day, one of the rapidly flourishing areas in sailing is that of one-design class boats. All boats in a one-design class are manufactured to standard dimensions in length, beam, sail area, and other elements (for an example of a two-person sailboat, see illustration). Racing those boats can be done on an even keel with no handicapping necessary. A perfect example is the uniform International America’s Cup Class taken on for racers in the 1992 America’s Cup race.
So long as yachting was an activity mostly for the nobility and the rich, expense was no object, and the size of boats developed, in both length and weight. The ascendancy and preference of smaller craft occurred in the later half of the 19th century out of the sailing of the Englishmen R.T. McMullen, a stockbroker, and E.F. Knight, a barrister and journalist. A journey around the world (1895–98) led single-handedly by the naturalized American captain Joshua Slocum in the 11.3-metre Spray made plain the seaworthiness of small yachts. Thereafter in the 20th century, notably after World War II, smaller racing and leisure craft became more common, down to the dinghy, a popular training boat, of 3.7 m. In the late 20th century, boats of less than 3 m were sailed single-handedly across the Atlantic Ocean.
Kinds of power yachts
Post the decade 1840–50, when steam was set to take the place of sail power in public boats, the steam engine, and later the internal-combustion engine, were employed more and more in leisure vessels. Sizeable power yachts were furthered to a high standard, and long-distance sailing was a favoured pastime of the rich. The first power yachts were paddle-wheel boats; those then gave way to boats powered by the completely submerged screw or propeller kind of propulsion. Like naval and merchant yachts, auxiliaries with both sail and power were the yacht standard for several years. By the second half of the 20th century, several yachts were still auxiliaries, but the large part were only power yachts with gasoline or diesel engines.
During the last decade of the 19th century there was a rise in the construction of bigger steam yachts. In particular of these was the Mayflower (1897) of 2,690 tons, that had triple-expansion engines, twin screws, and a compartmented iron hull, and was manned by a crew of at least 150. The Mayflower, commissioned by the United States Navy in 1898, was the official yacht of the president of the United States until 1929 and was used in active service during World War II.
As more sizeable and more dependable internal-combustion engines were created, many large boats started using them for power. The establishment of the diesel engine, with heavy oil for fuel, progressed for World War I. From the decade that followed, large power-yacht creation grew, reaching a climax in the Orion (1930) at 3,097 tons. During that time the biggest auxiliary yacht constructed was the four-masted, steel, barque-rigged Sea Cloud (1931) of 2,323 tons.
The construction of larger power craft fell away from 1932, and the fashion from then was in preference of smaller, less costly yachts. Following World War II, many small naval vessels were bought by private owners for conversion to yachts. By the late 20th century, yachting had become a globally popular activity enjoyed by thousands of yachtsmen who are actually manning and maintaining their own small leisure craft. The amount of yachts and sailors increased steadily, not only in the traditional places on the seacoasts but also on inland waterways and lakes.
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Sphere: Related ContentProportional, Progressive, and Regressive taxes
Taxes are categorized by the impact they have on the placement of income and wealth. A proportional tax is a kind that places the same relative liability on all the taxpayers—i.e., where tax liability and income move in relative proportion. A progressive tax is recognised by a larger than proportional increase in the tax burden relative to the increase in income, and a regressive tax is characterizable by a less than proportional increase in the relative burden. Ergo, progressive taxes are viewed as reducing a lack of equality in income distribution, whereas regressive taxes are seen to cause an increase in these inequalities.
The taxes that are normally thought to be progressive include individual income taxes and estate taxes. Income taxes that are declarably progressive, however, may become less so for the upper-income demographic—especially if a taxpayer is able to lessen his tax base by nominating deductions or by excluding some certain income components from his taxable income. Proportional tax rates when applied to lower-income categories can also be more progressive if such personal exemptions are claimed.
Income measured over the period of a year may not absolutely give the most appropriate measure of taxpaying status. For example, transitory growth in income could be saved, and in temporary declines in income a taxpayer might decide to provide for consumption by decreasing savings. So, if taxation is held in comparison alongside “permanent income,” it should be less regressive (or more progressive) than when made comparable with annual income.
Sales taxes and excises (save luxuries) are generally regressive, because the spread of personal income consumed or spent on specific goods lowers as the level of personal income increases. Poll taxes (aka head taxes), nominated as a flat amount per capita, obviously are regressive.
It is hard to determine corporate income taxes and taxes on business as progressive, regressive, or proportionate, because of uncertainty around the ability of businesses to shift their tax expenses (see below Shifting and incidence). This difficulty of determining who bears the tax burden rests for the most part on whether a national or a subnational (that is, provincial or state) tax is being determined.
In considering the economic purposes of taxation, it is essential to differentiate between differing concepts of tax rates. The statutory rates include those dictated in the legislation; generally speaking these are marginal rates, but for some cases they are average rates. Marginal income tax rates signify the fraction of incremental income that is taken by taxation when income increases by one dollar. So, if tax onus increases by 45 cents when income rises by one dollar, the marginal tax rate is 45 percent. Income tax regulations generally contain graduated marginal rates—i.e., rates that rise as income grows. Careful analysis of marginal tax rates should review provisions in addition to the formal statutory rate structure. If, for example, a particular tax credit (reduction in tax) falls by 20 cents for each one-dollar rise in income, the marginal rate is 20 percentage points more than nominated within the statutory rates. Since marginal rates indicate how after-tax income is changed in response to changes in before-tax income, they are the necessary ones for assessing incentive effects of taxation. It is even more complicated to understand the marginal effective tax rate to apply to income from business and capital, since it may be dependant on such considerations as the structure of depreciation allowances, the deductibility of interest, and the provisions for inflation adjustment. A basic economic theorem shows that the marginal effective tax rate in income from capital is zero under a consumption-based tax.
Average income tax rates signify the portion of total income that is taken in taxation. The pattern of average rates is the one that is necessary for assessing the distributional equity of taxation. Under a progressive income tax the average income tax rate increases with income. Average income tax rates commonly grow with income, both because personal allowances are permitted for the taxpayer and dependents and also because marginal tax rates are graduated; conversely, preferential treatment of income received for the most part by high-income households might swamp these effects, producing regressivity, as displayed by average tax rates that lessen as income increases.
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