Chase Card Services is making the skies a little more friendly with its latest announcement. The credit card company is partnering with Southwest Airlines for its Ultimate Rewards program, it announced in a press release. The airline is the largest U.S. carrier in terms of the number of originating domestic passengers.

Under the new deal, three Chase cards are affected: Chase Sapphire Preferred, Ink Plus and Ink Bold. Cardholders can now transfer their Ultimate Rewards program points to Southwest’s Rapid Rewards program at full value; one Ultimate Rewards point equals one Southwest Rapid Rewards point. The Ultimate Rewards program gives members at least one point for every dollar spent, and each 100 points is worth $1.

Rapid Rewards points are redeemable for free flights. The number of points required depends on the price of the flight, but is generally between 11,940 and 62,040, according to the Southwest Airlines website.

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Miami County has paid $8,489 in taxes and late payment charges to the IRS over the last two years but these payments were not known to the state councilors. And they may have not been done in compliance with state guidelines. This was revealed by Councilman Jan Kendall, who was dismayed that the council had not been informed of the payment of penalties and interest.

In March, the county paid $5,352.01 and in May another $3,137.14 to the IRS and both payments were approved by the Miami County Commissioners. According to state auditor Jane Lilley, the reasons for the two years’ late payments was a software problem in 2010 and the hiring of a new payroll clerk in 2011. But Lilley admitted that council members were kept in the dark about the payments. “No one has been informed in the past,” Lilley said of the payment of penalties and interest.

Councilman Kendall asked, “Shouldn’t we be informed? This was

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Check out this video. I found it was pretty good and you should enjoy it.

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 Guest Post by Atlanta Bankruptcy Attorney Peter Bricks.

Many people use the tax return system as a pseudo savings account. They count on getting a federal and state refund every year and immediately use all the money to pay for all the necessary home upgrades, car repairs, medical bills, etc.. that they have been waiting to fund all year.

Put those same people as debtors in a Chapter 13 bankruptcy, and they should consider altering that strategy. For starters, depending on your district, your confirmed plan probably requires you to turn over your tax refund to your bankruptcy trustee.  That doesn’t necessarily mean the debtor will not get his/her refund, just that it’s no guarantee and might require a motion for the court’s approval to retain the tax refund. (Note that, in the Eastern District of Michigan, tax refunds ARE required to be turned over to Chapter 13 Trustees for the life of a Chapter 13 Plan. – JMH)<

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On Saturday, this year’s winter boat parades began in South Florida.  The Seminole Hard Rock Winterfest Boat Parade took off from the Fort Lauderdale riverwalk and traveled up the New River to Lake Santa Barbara.

The 40th annual parade featured the theme “Rockin’ Boats & Holiday Floats.”  A variety of different kinds of boats were decorated for the holidays for the event.  A 160-foot Coast Guard boat led the parade.

The following evening, boats in the Pompano Holiday Beach Boat Parade floated from Lake Santa Barbara along the Intracoastal Waterway to the Hillsboro Boulevard Bridge.

This coming Saturday, the Boca Raton Holiday Boat Parade will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the C-15 canal.  The parade will travel 6 miles south to the Hillsboro Boulevard Bridge.

The West Palm Beach bankruptcy attorneys of Eric N. Klein & Associates, P.A. hope everyone enjoys their holidays.

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I spend a few weeks in US every year. There are a few small things that frustrate me.

You never know what a good is going to cost. Sales tax is always added after you buy. This means everything you buy costs something like $4.32. You can never prepare the exact change in advance, so you hand over a bill, and always end up with more change. The interesting thing in the US, is that everyone has jars of pennies lying around the place. People never seem to spend pennies only accumulate them.

I really loved this video, which showed the economic absurdity of a one penny piece. It articulated what so many people think.

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Many American companies have done incredibly well this year. A number posted extraordinary financial results in 2011. Others have launched products that revolutionized markets.

Of course, many big public corporations also did very poorly. Several nearly destroyed their business and dragged down shareholder value with it. 24/7 Wall St. combed through the S&P 500 to find the best and worst managed companies in America for 2011.

Read: The Best Run Companies In America Read: The Worst Run Companies In America 

To make a list of semifinalists, 24/7 Wall St. considered stock price, changes in earnings per share, major shifts in market share and changes in management, among other data. Once the initial screen was complete, we reviewed product launch success, financial results, success of new management and the performance of each company within its industry.

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