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But the 70-something L.A. mah-jongg instructor, who has taught the game for Holland American Cruise Lines and recently at American Jewish University, is hoping to help mah-jongg crack age and racial barriers. As the game has grown in popularity over the past decade, Sandberg is seeking to broaden its appeal with her book, "A Beginner's Guide to American Mah Jongg: How to Play the Game and Win" (Tuttle, $14.95).
While some people might be more familiar with mah-jongg from the solitaire version found on computers and the Internet, it's the classic American game that attracted Sandberg. She played for the first time 15 years ago with the Brandeis National Woman's Club, shortly after moving to Rancho Park from Brooklyn.
"They offered a class, and I wanted to learn," said Sandberg, an avid bridge player who turned to the club to make friends.
After that first game, she became a mah-jongg addict and spent months playing to develop her competitive skills. Now a tournament player, Sandberg started teaching the game about five years ago.
She said that until recently little had been written on the American version of the game, and she didn't feel comfortable giving the titles to her students.
"If it was ever going to take off, there had to be some better learning materials," Sandberg said.
Mah-jongg is a four-player gambling game similar to gin rummy. It originated in China in the mid- to late 1800s and has several national variants, including Vietnamese, Filipino, Taiwanese, Malaysian and Japanese versions. The original classic Chinese game has regional variants like Hong Kongese or Cantonese and Sichuan.
Joseph Park Babcock is credited with introducing a Westernized version of mah-jongg to the United States in the 1920s with his book, "Rules of Mah-Jongg," which helped kick-start a short-lived nationwide craze that included Eddie Cantor singing "Since Ma Is Playing Mah Jong." The fad faded by the 1930s, but a group of mostly Jewish women formed the National Mah Jongg League (NMJL) in 1937 and published the rule book, "Maajh: The American Version of the Ancient Chinese Game," which helped standardize the game into the American mah-jongg played today.
While the 1920s mah-jongg fad was accepted by nearly every segment of the American population, it became increasingly known as a game that Jewish women played in the decades that followed.
Sandberg's interest in mah-jongg came at a time when American enthusiasm for the game was starting to pick up again in the 1990s. No longer relegated to Hadassah gatherings and bubbe's living room, "maajh" has been in the midst of a revival since before the turn of the millennium.
In 1999, Lois Madow founded the American Mah-Jongg Association as a challenge to the dominance of the national league. The group, which bills itself as the "mah-jongg association for the new millennium," organizes several tournaments throughout the year for cash prizes.
Today even the stereotype of the typical American mah-jongg player is being challenged. It's no longer an "old-lady's game," Sandberg writes.
In her book, Sandberg mentions one student who told her, "My mom used to play mah jongg two or three times a week. She played for 30 years with the same friends, and I could never understand why."
Nostalgia can play an important part for Jews wanting to learn. But it doesn't account for its spread to other segments of the American population.
NMJL says it has experienced a 20 percent growth in recent years; it currently has about 275,000 members. The organization's president, Ruth Unger, links the game's growing popularity within larger segments of the American public to more Jews retiring in ethnically diverse communities.
"We're moving to more inclusive places," she said, referring to retirement villages and planned communities, where Jews are spreading their love for the game.
During a recent fall class in mah-jongg at American Jewish University, Sandberg explained the basics of the game to several continuing-education students in their 50s and 60s.
She said a common misconception is that mah-jongg is boring. But once you play it, Sandberg said, "it's thrilling; there's nothing more exciting than when, with your heart racing, your adrenaline pumping and your palms sweating, you call 'Mah-jongg.'"
The game can be played with tiles or cards. Like gin, you're trying to combine the faces to make a specific hand.
The basic tiles contain three suits -- dots, bams (short for bamboos) and craks (numbered one through nine in Chinese characters) -- as well as other tiles like dragons, winds, flowers and jokers. In total, there are 152 tiles, and 14 of them are needed to win the game.
By picking and discarding, you make specific combinations, which correspond to certain hands. The hands are printed on a card every player must own, but to keep things interesting, the associations change the hands annually, so you're not playing the same games from year to year.
With Sandberg's guide in hand, this 20-something reporter took a seat at a table with three students from her class. Players laughed and joked as they picked tiles and played. Sandberg floated around the table, ensuring none of the players made any rookie mistakes.
Sandberg's book supplied easy-to-understand hints and tips for beating opponents. A "wall game," one in which there was no clear winner (like a cat's game in tic-tac-toe), became the only viable -- and successful -- strategy.
The game requires the right combination of skill, luck and brains. In order to learn and play effectively, Sandberg said, "learn the game and play the game. Only then will you become a mah-jongg winner."
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Boston Blackie is a fictional character created by author Jack Boyle (October 19, 1881 – October 1928). Blackie, a jewel thief and safecracker in Boyle's stories, became a detective in adaptations for films, radio and television—an "enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend."
Actor Chester Morris was the best-known Blackie, playing the character in movies and on radio in the 1940s. Boston Blackie is the role for which Morris is best remembered.
Jack Boyle's stories first appeared in the early 20th century. "The Price of Principle" was a short story in the July 1914 issue of The American Magazine. Boyle's character also turned up in Cosmopolitan. In 1917, Redbook published the novelette "Boston Blackie's Mary", and the magazine brought the character back with "The Heart of the Lily" (February 1921). Boyle's stories were collected in the book Boston Blackie (1919), which was reprinted in 1979 by Gregg Press.
The earliest film adaptations were silent, dating from 1918 to 1927. Columbia Pictures revived the property in 1941 with Meet Boston Blackie, a fast, 58-minute "B" feature starring Chester Morris. Although the running time was brief, Columbia gave the picture good production values and an imaginative director (Robert Florey). The film was successful, and a series followed.
In the Columbia features, Boston Blackie is a reformed jewel thief who is always suspected when a daring crime is committed. In order to clear himself, he investigates personally and brings the actual culprit to justice, sometimes using disguises. An undercurrent of comedy runs throughout the action/detective series.
In one of these films, "After Midnight with Boston Blackie," the character's real name was revealed to be Horatio Black.
Chester Morris gave the Blackie character his own personal charm: he could be light and flippant or stern and dangerous, as the situation demanded. His sidekick, "The Runt," was always on hand to help his old friend. George E. Stone played Runt in all but the first and last films. Charles Wagenheim and Sid Tomack, respectively, substituted for Stone when he was not available.
Blackie's friendly adversaries were Inspector Farraday of the police (played in all the films and the radio series by Richard Lane) and his assistant, Sergeant Matthews. Matthews was originally played as a hapless victim of circumstance by Walter Sande; he was replaced by Lyle Latell, who played it dumber, and then by comedian Frank Sully, who played it even dumber.
Blackie and Runt were often assisted in their endeavors by their friends: the cheerful but easily flustered millionaire Arthur Manleder (almost always played by Lloyd Corrigan; Harry Hayden and Harrison Greene each played the role once), and the streetwise pawnbroker Jumbo Madigan (played by Cy Kendall or Joseph Crehan). A variety of actresses (including Rochelle Hudson, Harriet Hilliard (Nelson), Adele Mara and Ann Savage) took turns playing various gal-Friday characters.
The films are highly typical of Columbia's B movies of the 1940s, with an assortment of veteran character actors (including Clarence Muse, Marvin Miller, George Lloyd, Byron Foulger), new faces on the way up (Larry Parks, Dorothy Malone, Nina Foch, Forrest Tucker, Lloyd Bridges) and stock-company players familiar from Columbia's features, serials, and short subjects (Kenneth MacDonald, George McKay, Eddie Laughton, John Tyrrell). The series was also a useful training ground for promising directors, including Edward Dmytryk, Oscar Boetticher, William Castle, and finally Seymour Friedman (who went on to work prolifically in Columbia's television department). The Boston Blackie series ran until 1949.
The Boston Blackie radio series, also starring Morris, began June 23, 1944, on NBC as a summer replacement for Amos 'n' Andy. Sponsored by Rinso, the series continued until September 15 of that year. Unlike the concurrent films, Blackie had a steady romantic interest in the radio show: Lesley Woods appeared as Blackie's girlfriend Mary Wesley. Richard Lane played Inspector Faraday. Harlow Wilcox was the show's announcer.[1]
On April 11, 1945, a new version of the radio show premiered. Richard Kollmar portrayed Blackie in a radio series syndicated by Frederick Ziv[2] to Mutual and other network outlets. Over 200 episodes of this series were produced between 1944 and October 25, 1950. Other sponsors included Lifebuoy Soap, Champagne Velvet beer and R&H beer. While investigating mysteries, Blackie invariably encountered harebrained Police Inspector Farraday (Maurice Tarplin) and always solved the mystery to Farraday's amazement. Initially, friction surfaced in the relationship between Blackie and Farraday, but as the series continued, Farraday recognized Blackie's talents and requested assistance. Blackie dated Mary Wesley (Jan Miner), and for the first half of the series, his best pal Shorty was always on hand. The humorless Farraday was on the receiving end of Blackie's bad puns and word play.
Kent Taylor starred in the Ziv-produced half-hour TV series The Adventures of Boston Blackie. Syndicated in 1951, it ran for 58 episodes, continuing in repeats over the following decade. Lois Collier appeared as the inevitable love interest and Frank Orth as the perpetually exasperated Lt. Farraday.[3] This time, Blackie was set in Los Angeles, and the character enjoyed the use of several exotic sports cars as he battled on behalf of those who have no friends. Whitey was the precocious dog. Among the guest stars were veteran actors Roscoe Ates, Russ Conway, and John M. Pickard.
Graphic novels[edit]
Scripter Stefan Petrucha and artist Kirk Van Wormer created the graphic novel Boston Blackie (Moonstone Books, 2002) with a cover by Tim Seelig. A jewel heist at a costume ball goes horribly wrong, and the five-year-old son of the wealthy Greene family disappears and is presumed dead; the body is never found. The main suspect is Boston Blackie, who is still haunted seven years later by what happened that night. Drawn back into the case, he finds that the truth of what happened that night is awash in a watery grave. A sequel to the graphic novel was published years later.
In popular culture[edit]
- A 1957 Daffy Duck cartoon, Boston Quackie, is a direct parody of the serial, with Daffy as the detective - who needs everyone else's help to solve his case.
- Jimmy Buffett's song "Pencil Thin Mustache" references Boston Blackie, as does The Coasters' song "Searchin'" and some versions of "The Wabash Cannonball".
- Boston Blackie's Restaurant,[4] a bar and grill with locations in Chicago and Deerfield, Illinois.
- In a 1966 episode of Bewitched ("Samantha's Thanksgiving to Remember", Season 4, Episode 12), "Boston Blackie" is mentioned in fond remembrance by Aunt Clara (Marion Lorne), who confuses him as attending the First Thanksgiving with famous Pilgrims.
- In Errol Morris' 1988 documentary "The Thin Blue Line", interview subject Emily Miller cites Boston Blackie as an inspiration for wanting to become a "detective, or the wife of a detective." The film's score by Philip Glass also has a cue titled "Boston Blackie."
- In Chuck E. Weiss's 2014 release, Red Beans and Weiss, track 3 is entitled "Boston Blackie" and comprises four verses, sandwiching three repetitions of the chorus; the chorus lyrics include
- "I'm just like Boston Blackie, Yes I am, Yes I am"
- and, derived from the original stories, the wording
- "Friends to those who have no friends"[5]
In a 2007 television episode of "Mad Men," when talking about John F. Kennedy as a potential opponent for 1960 presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon, character Bert Cooper says, "It's going to be Kennedy. "Boston Blackie" won West Virginia."
- ^ Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. P. 110.
- ^ "Ziv ad" (PDF). Broadcasting. May 17, 1948. p. 15. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
- ^ Dinan, John (Spring 2015). "Boston Illegal". Nostalgia Digest. 41 (2): 50–52.
- ^ "Boston Blackie's Restaurant".
- ^ Anti-, "Chuck E. Weiss - Red Beans and Weiss "Boston Blackie"
- Pitts, Michael R. Famous Movie Detectives. Scarecrow Press, 1979. ISBN 0-8108-1236-3.
- Judge, Dick. "Chronological listing": Boston Blackie
External links[edit]
- "Boston Blackie"
- Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs: Boston Blackie
- Boston Blackie TV series titles and airdates
- Thrilling Detective
- Boston Blackie at the Internet Movie Database
- Boston Blackie public domain audiobook at LibriVox
- Radio shows
- Boston Blackie collection 1 (June 1944 through April 1947) in The Internet Archive's Old-Time Radio Collection
- Boston Blackie collection 2 (April 1947 through June 1949) in The Internet Archive's Old-Time Radio Collection
- Higher-quality copies of some Boston Blackie shows (June 1944 through July 1945) in The Internet Archive's Old-Time Radio Collection
- Zoot Radio, free 'Boston Blackie' old time radio show downloads, over 390 episodes.
- Boston Blackie is playing at Outlaws Old Time Radio Corner.

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How much software does it take to land a spacecraft safely on Mars, and how do you make all that code reliable? This column describes such a software development process. The first Web extra at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/movies/miam20121218/miam20121218-1280.mov is a 60-second video from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that shows how NASA's Mars rover drivers operate the vehicles from millions of miles away. The second Web extra at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/movies/msl20120827_curiositycommunicates/msl20120827_curiositycommunicates-1280.mov is an animated video showing how NASA's Curiosity rover communicates with Earth via two of NASA's Mars orbiters, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Odyssey, and the European Space Agency's Mars Express. The third Web extra at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/videos/movies/CoM20121207/CoM20121207-1280.mov is a video discussing the scientific study by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover at Rocknest.
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Farah"s husband Shirish Kunder had announced three films with Farah – Tees Mar Khan, Alien Sahib and Joker. The script of Joker was written keeping Shahrukh in mind. Shahrukh has now refused to do the film and Shirish had offered it to John Abraham who loved the role and has given his consent. Interestingly, Shahrukh's Red Chillies Entertainment was to produce the movie.
Farah and Shahrukh had fallen apart because of Farah's hubby Shirish. Shahrukh had dumped her husband Shirish from his home production Zoya Factor over creative difference. Farah hit back dropping him from Tees Maar Khan. Shahrukh refusing Joker is the latest episode in fight. It will be interesting to see the chemistry between Shahrukh and Farah in their next movie Happy New Year.


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MONTGOMERY — The Valley Central School District will be conducting kindergarten registration for the 2013-14 school year in March and April.
Specific dates and times will vary according to building. Only those children who will be 5 years old on or before Dec. 1, 2013, will be enrolled for the upcoming school year.
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I don't mean to sound harsh, or unsympathetic to your situation - but something feels very very odd and wrong about this request.
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Mike Conway drove the No. 14 ABC Supply Honda to its first top-10 finish in two months and four races when he placed ninth in the Chevrolet Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix Sunday evening.
Pole winner Scott Dixon won the race and was followed by teammate Dario Franchitti and Simon Pagenaud, giving Honda all three podium finishes in the Chevrolet-sponsored event. Chevy powered the fourth through seventh place finishers: Will Power, Oriol Servia, Tony Kanaan and Ryan Hunter-Reay. They were followed by the Hondas of Charlie Kimball, Conway and Alex Tagliani.
Starting 14th, Conway was able to avoid mistakes, soldier on with a car that didn't have the speed that it's had in previous races, and score some valuable points.
"The first part of the race was pretty tough and we were just seeing what we could do with tire wear and fuel strategies," Conway said. "The circuit breaking up made things a little more interesting for the last 15 laps. We weren't sure we were going to make it on fuel but the extra yellows helped us out and we could race for it at the end. I'm happy we got a p-9 out of this. It was a tough day but we got some points so we can hold our heads up high and go on to the next one."


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Yeah, I'm the one who is careful after she uses a public bathroom to wash her hands without touching the knobs on the sink to turn off the water. I'll use the back of my hand to negotiate that move, no matter how ungainly it looks.
Vine Grove resident and five-year cancer survivor Lea Bramblett enjoys riding her motorcycle so much she has to share her enthusiasm.
The result is Ladies Motorcycle Club, a group she founded in an effort to promote sisterhood, socialization and philanthropy. While the name of the club might indicate otherwise, Bramblett said the group is open to women who ride as passengers with their husbands, too.
"I just want them to feel like they are a part of something, giving back," she said.
I will admit I am a hopeless romantic in so many ways. I love putting meaning to love songs and I still cry over movies such as "Endless Love" and "Love Story" because love always will find a way.
My parents have been married for 54 years as of last month. I know there have been many trials and tribulations through the years, but they made a commitment to God, their families and themselves so long ago to have and to hold in sickness and in health.
Thelma Banks takes football seriously.
She's always watched and known about football. Her dad coached football. Her brother played football for the University of Cincinnati.
And since 2004, the Radcliff woman has played the game. On the field, she's known as Thelma "Bonecrusher" Banks.
At 40, she's the owner and a player for Louisville's Derby City Dynamite semi-pro women's football team.
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Just to let all you cataclysmic comic fans out there know that I'm currently
having computer and scanner problems, so posts might be a bit thin on the
ground over the next few days - if not completely non-existent. Responses
to comments may also be a bit slow. Normal service will be resumed as
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Earlier this week Lori and I unexpectedly found ourselves at an L.A. lesbian karaoke bar
But Bridget put the audience in stitches with an over-the-top rendition of
Then someone else took the stage, and one bad version of a Pat Benatar song
I've only done karaoke once myself, and then only because the bar was empty,
Which brings me to my next question: for those
I'll admit I'm tempted by Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats" — before you scoff, have you seen the music video? It rocks!
Seriously, how can you hear that song and not want to sing along? But don't tell anyone I said that, or I'll dig my key into the side of your pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive…


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Europe, Rating Agencies Continue War of Words, Ratings
Moody's just fired another shot in the growing war of words between rating agencies and Europe, this time downgrading several Portugese government-related debt issuers.
ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet, meanwhile, joined in the chorus of European officials whining about rating agencies, saying there was an "element of procyclicality" in the actions of the rating agencies, meaning generally that they're making a bad situation worse with their belated statements of the obvious. Okee-doke.
He also said there was "no easy solution" on the influence of rating agencies. One fairly easy solution he's already proposed is to just ignore them and keep accepting debt as collateral even if it's junk-rated. Mr. Trichet has also been one of the officials floating the idea of forming a European rating agency to presumably be fairer to European sovereigns, meaning it would immediately lack credibility.
Moody's, meanwhile keeps on junk-rating, hitting Portugese companies Comboios de Portugal, Parpublica-Participacoes Publicas, Rede Ferroviaria Nacional and Radio e Televisao de Portugal with downgrades to reflect Moody's downgrade of Portugese sovereign debt to junk yesterday. All of the companies enjoy some level of government support.


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News 12 at 6 o' clock/ January 24, 2014
WAYNESBORO, Ga.--Worms are causing a big headache in Waynesboro. Fishermen in Burke County have come to a little ditch on Fulcher Street for years to find a healthy supply of night crawlers for bait.
Unfortunately, the tradition has started to eat away the dirt underneath the road and is causing it to crumble away.
James Braswell was born on Fulcher Street back in 1940. "You're standing where the house was at. I was born right here beside this ditch," he said.
But back then, Fulcher Street, and pretty much every road around it, was made of dirt. Even though the road is paved now, and a lot has changed, one thing certainly has not: the worms.
Clarence Davis lives near Fulcher Street, and he says, "Everyday there's people over here digging worms. 2 or 3 times a day."
It doesn't take very long to dig to find dozens of night crawlers along the wet bank--descendants of a very long line of 'Waynesboro worms.'
"They've been here longer than I have," Braswell said.
Braswell remembers digging for worms in this very spot 60 years ago, but over the years, the constant digging has caused the pavement to crumble. The road has been paved before, but the digging never stopped. City workers have piled large stones to keep what dirt is left in place. City council has asked people in search of bait to dig on the side of the bank away from the road, but Braswell doesn't think that is going to happen.
"They're going to dig where the worms is at, and half of them is on the other side over there," he said.
Council members are weighing the options. They are tossing around the idea of a concrete ditch bank. Of course, if they do that, people will be forced to dig for those famous Waynesboro worms somewhere else.


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WAREHAM — The Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will hold a collection of unwanted prescription drugs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
This event gives the public the chance to prevent pill abuse and theft by getting rid of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs, a news release said.
Medication can be brought to the Police Department, 2515 Cranberry Highway, for disposal. Only pills and patches can be accepted; no liquids, needles or sharps are allowed. The service is free and anonymous, with no questions asked, officials stressed.
Last October, Americans turned in 324 tons (more than 647,000 pounds) of prescription drugs at more than 4,100 sites operated by the DEA and its thousands of state and local law enforcement partners.
Combined with what was collected in seven previous Take Back events, DEA and its partners have taken in over 3.4 million pounds — more than 1,700 tons — of pills, the release said.
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Manny Pacquiao has fired longtime business advisor Michael Koncz, RingTV.com has confirmed through a source in Pacquiao's camp.
PhilBoxing.com, which broke the story, said "boxing icon Manny Pacquiao has finally dismissed Michael Koncz as his business advisor and manager of MP Promotions for a litany of missteps and blunders that has affected the boxing icon and his boxing promotional outfit."
The author of the article, Manny Piñol, also wrote, "Lately, Koncz has been making his own pronouncements and declarations apparently without the clearance of his boss, the Pacman, in relation to the dreamed fight with Floyd Mayweather."


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One of the original retail kings in the United States has been experiencing difficulties recently, and things got worse on Jan. 15, when it announced it would close 33 stores and cut about 2,000 jobs.
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Richard Revesz: End 'Dinosaur Approaches' to Regulation
Are current gasoline taxes–both state and federal–the best way to pay for needed transportation expansion and improvements? If not, what should replace them?
We need to pay to repair our roads and bridges; but there is no reason, in principle, for funding to be linked to gas taxes. The government can use income taxes, tolls and other revenue-raising mechanisms to cover the costs.
One advantage of using gas taxes to pay for our roadways is that gas taxes help "internalize" the price of pollution into a gallon of gas. Without some kind of price signal, gas is cheaper than it should be because no one is paying for the harm caused by emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants.
But there is a downside to raising revenue for roads at the pump: Gas taxes can be regressive and disproportionately affect low-income Americans. So while the system has certain economic advantages, it can exacerbate economic inequality.
An alternative climate policy would be based on a cap-and-dividend model, which can cut emissions without regressive effects. The idea is to institute a cap to control greenhouse gases emissions from fuels used in vehicles. The cap would target refineries and importers and allowances would be auctioned with proceeds returned to the public as a rebate. This "dividend" would compensate American families for any price hikes. This can all be done under existing authority EPA has under the Clean Air Act. This is exactly what was proposed by the Institute for Policy Integrity (which I direct) to EPA in 2009.
This policy would correct market failures and achieve significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Command and control policies, such as recent steps to improve fuel efficiency, are better than nothing if that's all that can be had. But they are small steps forward and they cost more, pound for pound, to reduce emissions.
Alone or even collectively, these dinosaur approaches to regulation cannot set the fossil fuel market on the path toward fully incorporating their externalities.
Richard L. Revesz is dean and Lawrence King professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He has published over 50 articles and books on environmental and administrative law.
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Adoor Bhavani was ignored by AMMA
This has been a blessing in disguise for filmmaker Vinayan, general secretary of the Malayalam Cine Technicians Association (MACTA), who has been waiting for a golden opportunity to seek revenge. He made most of the situation by criticizing, "The state saw huge presence of AMMA members when actors like Murali, Lohithadas and Rajan P Dev passed away recently. Amma should have made adequate arrangements for at least some members to be at the site of last rites, which could have eased the grief of the family".
However Edavela Babu, secretary of AMMA replied that the fraternity was aptly represented by former secretary T P Madhavan, actress Kaviyoor Ponnamma, executive member Manian Pillai Raju and himself on the occasion. The embers have been cast and the flames are yet to burn brightly.


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I see where another TBTJ bank has been fined. Thirteen billion, I hear, bringing the total since the 2008 financial crisis to about 95 billion dollars. I mention no names, to protect the guilty.
So what? Corporations don't pay fines. They don't pay taxes, either. The customers of the corporations pay the fines, and the taxes. Fines and taxes are a cost of doing business, and passed right down the line to…who?…anyone?
I'll believe that the DOJ is serious when someone goes to jail. Not until. And that ain't gonna happen, 'cause someone's campaign contribution might get sidetracked.
So far, they're not serious.


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San Jose man dies after fainting in police custody
SAN JOSE, Calif. A 26-year-old San Jose man is dead after fainting while being booked at police headquarters, according to San Jose police.
The man was arrested on Friday on suspicion of driving a stolen car, San Jose police said. They said no force was used during his arrest.
While being processed at police headquarters, the man fainted, police say. He was taken to a local hospital and was pronounced dead.
Both the police and the Santa Clara Medical Examiner's Office are investigating the cause of death.
The medical examiner did not release the dead man's name Monday pending notification of his relatives.,
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The Daily Start-Up: Fisker Automotive Again Turns to Equity Investors
Top stories in today's VentureWire:
Fisker Automotive is tapping equity investors yet again in its effort to feed its capital-hungry business plan. Plan A was a government loan, but the Department of Energy stopped advancing payments more than a year ago. The electric-car maker then turned to private lenders in hopes of replacing the DOE funding, but the terms were too onerous. Fisker is now asking equity investors to provide Series E funding on top of more than $1 billion they've already put in, VentureWire has learned.
YottaMark, a company tracking produce from the farm to the supermarket, has turned to new and existing investors for a $24 million Series D round to hire sales staff to keep up with spiking demand. New investor Westbury Partners led the round, joined by newcomers General Mills Ventures and Fairhaven Capital.
Also in today's VentureWire, Pure Storage is the latest flash storage company to raise funding with a $40 million Series D round. Building storage systems with flash disks, instead of just hard-disk drives, can significantly improve the performance of storage, and VCs are pouring money into the space, one that's accelerating faster than expected…Mobile gaming franchise "Battle Bears" has more than 18 million downloads across five action shooter games on iOS and Android. Now Chicago venture firm Lightbank has made its first bet in the mobile gaming space by investing in the company behind the growing franchise, SkyVu Entertainment…and Relypsa has raised an $80 million Series C round designed to propel a drug for elevated potassium levels through Phase III clinical trials that are set to begin later this year. The company, which raised a $70 million Series B in late 2010, has now raised nearly $200 million in venture capital.
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Duquesne Falls to Temple 3-1
Oct. 4, 2002
The Dukes' volleyball team dropped a 3-1 Atlantic 10 decision to visiting Temple Friday evening at the Palumbo Center. Duquesne took game one 30-27 before the Owls won three straight (30-24, 30-27, 30-18) for the victory.
Duquesne (10-8, 0-3 Atlantic 10) were led by senior Jacqui Gerlach (St. Henry, Ohio / St. Henry) with 12 kills while freshman Diana Wuebker (St. Henry, Ohio / St. Henry), junior Sarah Morrow (Baytown, Texas / Robert E. Lee) and sophomore Ashley Macko (Pittsburgh, Pa. / South Park) each added 11 kills. Macko led the match with 16 digs followed by Morrow with 15. Temple (13-5, 4-0) was paced by Xu Yun and Liu Shu with 16 kills each.
The Dukes (10-8, 0-3) continue their Homecoming Weekend activity when they host La Salle (8-11, 0-4) Saturday in a 7:00 pm match at the Palumbo Center.


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Rick Sammon's Exploring the Light
I'm hear playing catch up with the mail, before I hit the road again and which is why I have to play catch up, from the last road trip. My good drinkin bud Rick Sammon sent me a copy of his new book (Sept '08) after a comment I made on Twitter. Rick has quite a following and it doesn't take turning many pages of his book to understand why.
The one thing that struck me when I started reading it is a question I've often asked, "Is there a person out there who talks Canon like you talk Nikon?" While Rick talks the universal photographic language of light in his book, he is a Canon shooter and the book has a Canon slant. For those Canon folks out there, I would think this a great resource for you. See for youself right here. One thing is for sure, Rick's humor more than comes out in his writing. But where are the red tennis shoes?


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Definition of impulse buying in English:
impulse buying
noun[mass noun]
The buying of goods without planning to do so in advance, as a result of a sudden whim or impulse.
Example sentences
- Is that something like impulse buying at the supermarket?
- Big savings can be made by curtailing impulse buying and tracking every expense and interest rate charge, creating a budget plan and sticking to it.
- When sales shopping, Sally advises against impulse buying - that's how mistakes are made.
impulse buy noun
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- Get more for less by learning to control your ' impulse buying '.
- At the shops earlier I suffered an impulse buy.
- In the, impulse areas near the register, where grocery stores put chewing gum, place items for gun-related impulse buys.
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My brother was helping tend my garden. Searching the leaf shapes for clues, he asked, "Which ones are the weeds?" I replied with a wink, "The ones you don't want, of course."
Merriam-Webster defines a weed more precisely as "a form of vegetable life of exuberant growth and injurious effect." The definition can be subjective—what one person sees as a weed, another might add to the salad bowl (see "Weed Eaters," page 82). Yet identification is easy when compared to removal. Anyone who's battled the tenacious, sunny yellow flower-tops called dandelions knows it. Exuberant, indeed!
You could take the easy, chemical attack, but it's not the best approach. Common herbicides damage more than weeds; they poison your yard's balanced ecosystem—and possibly that of your regional watershed—by killing beneficial plant diversity.
The long-term risks of human exposure to weed killers are still unclear, although there's evidence linking them to some forms of cancer; damage to the kidney, liver, and nervous system; and fetal growth retardation and genital deformities. Do you really want your kids and dog to play on a lawn sprayed with synthetic chemicals? Thankfully, there are eco-friendly alternatives that control weeds and promote a healthy yard.
Prevention is the Best Medicine
The first step to keeping weeds down is to keep your landscape health up. A sick or weak yard is open to infection with weeds. "Immunize" your garden with these simple steps.
• Plant the right plants. Choose species that best fit the microcosms around your house. For example, don't put thirsty bluegrass in the hot-as-heck strip next to the curb. And whenever possible, choose native varieties that already have built-in tolerance to your local, natural environment.
• Feed your landscape well. Give your plants the water and nutrients they need. Nourish them naturally with organic compost and natural fertilizers on a regular basis.
• Don't mow the grass too short. Grass needs its leaves for photosynthesis, and chopping it down will cut off its food supply. Adjust your mower to a high level, taking off less than one-third of the blade. Leave those clippings on the lawn (unless they form a heavy or wet mat); contrary to popular lore, they decompose quickly and won't cause thatch, advises the Ohio State University Extension.
• Mulch, mulch, mulch. Regular additions of organic material around your flowers and trees adds to soil and plant health and locks in moisture. Best of all, mulch reduces trespassing seeds and seedlings by cutting off sunlight to them (see "Much Ado about Mulch," page 81).
Don't Let Them Get Comfortable
When weeds do rear their ugly little sprouts, follow the regimen below—the sooner the better. Like unwanted guests, if you allow them to settle in, it's hard to make them leave!
• PULL. Don't just yank off the tops; dig up that root system too. Don't throw weeds on the ground; some varieties easily resprout.
• MOW. Sometimes simply cutting the weeds to the ground will stunt their growth. It's a good place to start when the patch is large. Follow up with pulling, hoeing, or weed-control treatments.
• HOE. This tried-and-true method chops up those stalks and roots. The more elbow grease, the better. Poison ivy and other menacing plants should never be pulled, chopped, burned, or mowed because then their irritating substances can spread through the air and on clothes. To remove hazardous plants, rely on a defoliating spray or a professional service.
Home Remedies
Homemade weed killers fall into the category of post-emergence controls, which means they kill the weed after it's broken through the soil and is visible. You've probably heard claims of super-duper solutions using everything from rock salt to gin. While the effectiveness of many is inconsistent, a few have proven results.
• BOILING WATER: It sounds too simple: Boiling water kills weeds. Unfortunately, it also kills the plants you love, so use caution. This is a terrific way to clean up large weed patches. A teakettle is a handy applicator, providing a steady and fairly small stream. While the grass around them might initially die off, eventually the spot will disappear.
• VINEGAR: In 2002, the USDA Agricultural Research Service announced it had proven household vinegar to be an effective weed killer, supporting popular theory. The pickling condiment's high acidity proved particularly lethal to Canada thistle but also worked well on young weeds. For older weeds, a higher concentration of vinegar worked best; it isn't available for public purchase because of its use as an ingredient in commercial-only sprays. Reapplications of fruit- or grain-based vinegar (never use petroleum-based) may increase your success rate.
Over-the-Counter Solutions
Take a wait-and-see stance when using store-bought controls—the results aren't instantaneous like many chemical solutions.
• CORN GLUTEN MEAL: Although it has yet to take off in the marketplace, corn gluten meal is so effective as a pre-emergence weed control that it has been patented. When wetted, it inhibits root growth of undesirables such as crabgrass, dandelions, smart weed, barnyard grass, redroot pigweed, common purslane, lamb's quarters, and foxtail. You may not see results for a few seasons, and it requires reapplication twice a year, but the wait will be worth it. Commercial products come in an unprocessed powdery form, granulated, or in pellets.
• SPRAYS: Look for those that advertise "food-grade" ingredients or that are certified for use by organic growers. Most contain potassium salts of fatty acids, but a few new ones on the market use acetic acid (vinegar). These too are non-selective and post-emergent, meaning they kill all plant growth, not just weeds. The greatest benefit of a spray is the precise aim. In addition, there are organic products specially developed to defoliate poison ivy or eliminate moss growth.
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LEBANON, Maine — A boy was struck by lightning Sunday night as powerful thunderstorms swept through the region.
The Lebanon Rescue Department responded to a report of a young teenage male patient who had been struck by lightning after it was reported at 8:38 p.m. in East Lebanon.
When crews arrived on scene, the boy was conscious and alert.
He was at home with his family when a bolt of lightning was seen in the house by the whole family, as well as a very loud bang. The bolt of lightning went across the room and struck the boy.
The child was suffering from effects of the lightning strike and was transported by Lebanon Rescue 2 to Goodall Hospital.
There had been two severe thunderstorms in the area with hail, frequent lightning and heavy rain.
The boy's condition was not known as of late Sunday night.
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University of Vermont
Building Capacity
Developing Volunteers
Recruit the right volunteers for the job and retain their active participation with your organization. These are key elements to the success of non-profits. We'll look at 11 characteristics of organizations that are highly effective engaging volunteers with their Mission and Vision. Retention of quality volunteers is cost effective, saving both time and dollars. Well cared for volunteers are happy and created a strong campaign for bringing in new volunteers. Baby Boomers are a group deserving special attention, as the largest generation in history they provide a nearly unlimited potential for volunteer service. Knowing about them, how to recruit and retain them with the organization may be important information for you do know.
This module presents ideas, strategies, and skills to assist in you in developing effective involvement of volunteers for your organization through webinars, interactive asynchronous learning activities, and suggested resources for further study. Learning objectives for the module include:
- Learning how a positive vision of the role of volunteers in your organization can enhance involvement of volunteers.
- Understanding how to involve volunteers at all levels in the organization.
- Identifying potential barriers to volunteer involvement and ways to deal with these barriers forthrightly.
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Synonyms of linger in English:
1 the crowd lingered for a long time, until it was almost dark
wait around, stay, remain, stay put, wait;
loiter, dawdle, dally, take one's time, lag behind, straggle, dither, potter about/around/round, pause;
procrastinate, stall, delay
informal dilly-dally, stick around, hang around/round, hang on, hang back
archaic or literary tarry
[Antonyms] leave
2 the infection can linger for many years ten years later, the memory lingers on
be protracted, endure, carry on, last, keep on/up, hold;
informal hang around/round
[Antonyms] vanish, disappear
Choose the right word
linger, loiter, dawdle
The idea common to these words is that of prolonging an activity or staying longer than necessary.A person may linger somewhere because they are enjoying being there, not merely because they are wasting time ( just linger over your coffee and liqueurs). If something such as a person's fingers, eyes, or look linger, they stay in one place for a long time ( her fingers linger on his | Merrill's gaze lingered on his mouth). Linger is also used of something, typically an abstract noun, that lasts longer than normal or expected ( the memory lingered on); the adjectival form lingering is often used in this sense ( a lingering death).Loiter is always used in a spatial sense: it is to stay somewhere too long and typically be up to no good ( teenagers loitering in front of a newsagent's, drinking shandy and smoking).Dawdling is normally used of slow, idle movement ( a handful of people crossed the square, dawdling on their way home) and often implies that someone is wasting time ( don't dawdle over your breakfast).
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Nemo: Heart of Ice
Written by Alan Moore
Art by Kevin O'Neill
Published by Top Shelf/Knockabout
It's 1925 and Captain Nemo is Janni Dakar, the original's daughter. The world is changing beneath her, the sweep of industrialization and invention engulfing the planet and not just the science heroes of her childhood. She passes the time, robbing Charles Foster and Queen Ayesha (Citizen Kane and H. Rider Haggard's She respectively) but the thrill has gone. Janni, uneasy and wanting to prove herself, orders her crew to the Antarctic, to complete a voyage that almost killed her father. Meanwhile, Kane dispatches Frank Reade Jr, Tom Swyfte and Jack Wright, three of the geniuses of the modern age (And fictional inventor adventurers who's stories appeared in this time period) to bring Janni and her crew down.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as an idea is not only all about evolution but is evolving in its own right. We've had the closely connected first two volumes, the troubled Black Dossier and the three episodes of Century and each has been different and each has played with the same ideas; stories change, stories are themselves about change. Fiction is always in motion and fiction is always the best possible tool to understand the world around us.
Heart of Ice is no exception to this but approaches it in a slightly different way. This is arguably the most subdued League title in years, lacking both the maniacal flamboyance and bitter aftertaste of Century but operating on a far smaller scale than the three original volumes. It's not a weakness either, in fact there's a case for saying this is the best League story in years, for several reasons.
The first and most obvious of these is Janni. Nemo was always one of the best elements of the early books and Janni is a fascinating successor to her father. She has the regal bearing, the clear genius but she's uncomfortable in her position, not through lack of talent or will but because she inherited it. Janni is every inch the leader her father was but she hasn't been tested like her father was and it's starting to bother her. There's a lovely moment in the opening scenes, having held up Kane and Ayesha where, having made their escape, Janni takes her father's jacket off and mutters 'It's just so big and heavy sometimes.' She isn't playing dress up but she feels like she is and that's what leads to the Antarctic expedition. In the hands of a lesser writer, this Quixotic desire to test herself and her (wonderfully aged at this point) crew would be desperately unsympathetic but Moore has a talent for emotional honesty that shines through here. Janni knows what she's doing, knows what the cost is and her crew know too and pay it gladly. By the end of the book she's learned some hard lessons but also passed a couple of major tests and that coat isn't as heavy anymore. I look forward to seeing her in future stories and, frankly, feel sorry for Kane. Janni Dakar enters the book frustrated but she leaves it a warrior, and one not even the most powerful man in America should bet against.
The second reason the book shines is in the exact position on the fictional evolutionary scale it sits. This is a story about the end of one fictional age and the start of another. Nemo's outsider status, something his daughter very much maintains, is drawn not only from his nationality but from the foundation of the stories he sprung from. Nemo was a science pirate, an outsider in a League of outsiders. Janni inherits that position but inherits it in a world where the fantastic is coated in steel, fitted with electrical lights and mass produced. Industry is the new magic, invention is the new science and the only place, it seems, for people like her is on the outskirts of society. The conflict between Janni and the 'science heroes', as well as the confliuct between Janni and herself, makes for a surprisingly deep, and very personal foundation to the story. There's none of the cold to ill-tempered distance of the previous volumes, rather a detailed look at one woman's struggle to make her place in a world changing so fast almost no one can keep up. The fact that Swyft in particular is monstrous, a collection of 'boy howdy!' aphorisms wrapped up in racism and brutality makes the conflict all the more compelling.
Then there's the third reason, one which isn't strictly apparent until you get about halfway through the book but which is tipped off fairly heavily on the front cover. There's a particular story, a very famous horror story in fact, set in the Antarctic. Heart of Ice runs headlong into the middle of it, and the end result is frankly some of the most bravura, innovative and downright unsettling comics you'll read this year. There's a sequence in the middle of the book that opens with a splash page of the characters running away from something and then jumps to a different part of the conversation and a different time. Then it does it again. And again.
And again.
What at first seems to be a printing error is in fact a fantastically effective way of exploring what happens when humans meet something so resolutely non-human it damages their perception of time. It's a chilling sequence, both in execution and design and I can honestly say the pages dealing with this are amongst the finest art I've ever seen Kevin O'Neill. Additionally, the way Janni and the survivors weaponizes the environment to, if not win, then at least escape, is very smart writing. This whole sequence is extraordinary and whilst I wish I could talk about it in more detail trust me it's worth leaving you slightly in the dark. Janni and her crew certainly wish that's where they were left by the end of it.
Heart of Ice is the next stage not only in the evolution of the League but the evolution of the League's exploration of the history of fiction. Which sounds incredibly dry, right? It really isn't, this is one of the smartest, and most human, books you'll read this month. Janni is a great protagonist and the story of her battles with her enemies, her father and herself is given exactly the right amount of room to breathe. By the end it's clear that Moore has plans for these characters further down the line but has still crafted a complete story, one about the perils of walking in the footsteps of giants and what happens when they wake. Beautiful, jagged, smart and dark this isn't just an evolution of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, it's a new high water mark. If you were burnt by the end of Century, as I know some were, come back, this is absolutely worth your time.
As is, as ever, the magnificent Jess Nevins and friends' work in catching all the references. Check the annotations here, and feel ensmartenated.
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DREC will increase some of the germplasm accessions from the Cotton Germplasm Collection, and process seed for Cotton Leaf Curl Virus (CLCuV) screening. Putative resistant lines will be used as parents in crosses to transfer resistance to cotton lines adapted to U.S. cotton growing regions. Markers for resistance will be tracked in progeny of crosses involving parents resistant to CLCuV to confirm transfer of the resistance genes, and progeny will be evaluated under field and greenhouse conditions for suitable agronomic properties and fiber quality.


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Posted by Jane Janeczko on December 26, 2013
There's something so cozy about a flannel shirt when it's rainy outside and you don't really feel like going anywhere or running those last minute Christmas errands.
I decided to wear the IGIGI Virginia Plus-Size Dress in Cobalt Blue with my favorite flannel top for the cool weather. I added my chocolate brown suede riding boots to round out the look for a casual day of weekday shopping and lunch out with a few friends. Plus, whenever I wear flannel, it always kind of makes me feel like it's 1996 and I'm headed to a Hole concert to hang out with Courtney Love.


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Happy Friday! Hope you had a great week, and a great St. Patrick's Day. Ironically, my son had an American Hero event in his class on St. Patrick's Day. Each student was asked to bring in a type of food that originated in America. My son signed up to bring dessert (I've trained him well!). Being that it was St. Patrick's Day, we wanted to make a dessert that would celebrate both occasions ~ and that's where the whoopie pie comes in.
I posted awhile back about Epicurious' prediction that cupcakes would take a backseat to whoopie pies this year. I have not strayed from my opinion. There is no dessert that will surpass my beloved cupcake, but I will say that these whoopie pies were a fun change.
Whoopie pies originated from the Amish community in Pennsylvania. The chocolate top and bottom are somewhere in between a cake and a cookie. Whoopie pies are usually filled with a marshmallow frosting or a buttercream frosting. We decided we wanted the filling to be green, which is why we opted for a mint buttercream filling. I used a popular recipe for the cookie/cake part that comes from Gourmet's January 2003 issue. The mint flavored buttercream recipe I found from Chockylit who used it to frost some amazing chocolate cupcakes.
Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes (love these!) If I made these again, I would use the chocolate cake recipe that I posted yesterday for Cupcake Hero.
Thin Mint Martini ~ This dessert cocktail tastes like liquid thin mint girl scout cookies. The chocolate drizzled in the bottom of the glass makes a delicious garnish.
Chocolate Mint Whoopie Pies
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup well-shaken buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 large egg
Preheat oven to 350°F. Whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt in a bowl until combined. Stir together buttermilk and vanilla in a small bowl.
Beat together butter and brown sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes in a standing mixer or 5 minutes with a handheld, then add egg, beating until combined well. Reduce speed to low and alternately mix in flour mixture and buttermilk in batches, beginning and ending with flour, scraping down side of bowl occasionally, and mixing until smooth.
Spoon mounds of batter (I used one rounded tablespoon) about 2 inches apart onto 2 buttered large baking sheets. Bake 11 to 13 minutes. Cookies will be done when they spring back when gently touched. Be careful not to over-cook. Transfer with a metal spatula to a rack to cool completely.
Mint Flavored Buttercream Frosting (Chockylit)
1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
4-5 cups powdered sugar, sifted
1/4 cup milk
1/4 tsp all natural peppermint extract (You may use more or less depending on your taste preference.)
Beat butter until creamy, scrape bowl. Add 4 cups of sifted powdered sugar, milk, and peppermint extract, beat until combined.Add more powdered sugar as needed to get piping consistency.
To Assemble
Fill a pastry cone or plastic bag with the icing and attach your desired pastry tip. Pipe generously onto a cake round, covering the entire surface, and top with another cake round. Alternately, you can pile on the frosting with a spoon and smooth out with a knife. Continuing this process until all the pies are assembled.


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NEW DELHI: A tax authority has ruled that consortium members, which do not share profits or losses as a group and execute tasks requiring skills different from others, will be treated as separate entities.
Experts said the verdict is likely to help foreign firms avail of benefits under the double taxation avoidance agreement (DTAA). "Merely coming together and acting in cooperation with each other for the purpose of executing the work while each member carries on its own scope of work independently does not reasonably lead to the conclusion that an Association of Persons (AOP) has been formed," Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) said.


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This credit union used to be known as Lockheed Federal Credit Union. On July 9th of this year the name changed to Logix Federal Credit Union. It's now offering a pretty sweet checking account promotion in which you can earn up to $150. Details of the offer are listed in this Logix checking bonus page. To qualify for the full $150 requires the following:
- $50 when you open a Checking Account with a $250 initial deposit or more
- $50 when you sign up for monthly direct deposit of $250 or more
- $50 when you make three or more electronic payments of $50 or more (per payment) through Web BillPay
Some additional important details from the small print are listed below:
Direct Deposit and Bill Pay activity must occur within your first 60 days after Checking Account open date to earn bonus. Bonus will be deposited to your checking account within 30 days of required activity. Bonus amounts are taxable. Limit one per household. Current Logix checking accounts are excluded from this offer.
If you apply online, remember to enter promo code "50″ when prompted.
There are potential monthly fees with the 3 checking accounts that are available. You can compare them in this checking page. The Advantage Checking seems to be the best one since you can have the monthly fee waived with e-statements. The credit union is partnered with the CO-OP ATM Network which gives members access to free ATMs throughout the nation.
Logix Federal Credit Union Membership and Application
According to the credit union's FAQ document, membership is open to members of the American Consumer Council.
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"I invite you to live with love the messages I give and to transmit them
to the whole world, so that a river of love flows to people who are
full of hatred and without peace. I invite you become peace where there is no peace and light where there is darkness,
so that each heart accepts the light and the way of salvation"
"Dear children! Also today I call you to come closer to my heart. Only in this way, will you comprehend the gift of my presence here among you. I desire, little children, to lead you to the heart of my Son Jesus; but you resist and do not desire to open your hearts to prayer. Again, little children, I call you not to be deaf but to comprehend my call, which is salvation for you. Thank you for having responded to my call.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's golf team started off their final tournament of the fall on Monday at the MSU/Payne Stewart Invitational. Play was stopped in the second round due to darkness.
After one round of play, the Islanders were ninth overall as a team at the Highland Springs Country Club. Nikki Dunn shot an opening round 77 and was tied for 13th.
Ryann White and Katie Belser were tied for 38th after shooting matching 81's. Cecilia Jeon carded an 83 putting her in a tie for 46th.
Rounding out the first round scores for the Islanders was Christina Reynoso with a score of 91.
Tomorrow the tournament will start with the conclusion of the second round then play continues with the final 18 holes at the Highland Springs Country Club.
Team scores after first round:
T2. UALR, Oral Roberts 307
T4. Central Arkansas, host Missouri State, Bradley 313
7. Southern Illinois 320
9. Texas A&M - Corpus Christi 322
10. Drury 325
11. Northern Iowa 322
12. Indianapolis 335
13. Creighton 336
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Women in finance: 'Don't assume we're all warm and caring'
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News that FTSE 100 companies failed to meet government recommendations that women make up at least a quarter of their boards has come as little surprise to campaigners.
Despite a "huge leap" in the number of women appointed to non-executive posts this year, the latest report from Cranfield School of Management shows that the proportion of women on FTSE 100 boards has moved up only slightly, from 12.5% in December 2010 to 14.2%.
Although some companies, such as Burberry, have a high level of female representation at senior levels, others, such as International Power, have none. Half of all companies in the FTSE 250 have no female directors at all.
In the US, the story is much the same. Despite accounting for more than half of all jobs at financial companies, women fill a very small number of leadership positions in the corporate world, and the recession might be exacerbating this situation.
Female employees appear to be losing their jobs more easily than their male counterparts. Between 2007 and 2010 12.5% of women working in the UK financial sector lost their jobs, compared to 8.8% of men, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
New research has tried to address the disparity between the high level of education and early success of women, and their lack of representation further up the corporate hierarchy.
Rather than focus blame on inherently "male" cultures in the workplace, academics have attempted to look at issues that might be more immediately addressed, such as a lack of mentoring for female candidates and lack of imagination from chairmen about the professions which proffer suitable board members.
One area that many researchers seem keen to get away from is a conversation about the merits of employing women because of the perceived benefits that their gender might bring.
Stereotypes that pigeonhole women as more caring and emotionally intelligent are barriers - cliches that paint women as inherently less aggressive and more scared of risk, says Michelle Ryan, professor of social and organisational psychology at the University of Exeter. She believes that women continue to be under-represented at the top because changes in policy are not necessarily directly followed by changes in attitudes.
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Here it is, the final no-holds-barred death match of the WCIA Sweet 16! To finish off this round, we've got two companies that — until very recently — shared a death grip on the U.S. iPhone market.
Worst Company In America Sweet 16: Apple Vs. AT&T
Worst Company In America Round One: AT&T Vs. Verizon
Telecom's two biggest bruisers are finally set to duke it out in the ring. And don't expect this pair of pugilists to just phone it in.
AT&T Will Cap Internet Use, Charge Overage Fees Starting In May
Heavy AT&T internet users will have to keep an eye on the amount of data they've downloaded, because come May they'll be subject to overages after a preset amount of gigabytes gobbled.
AT&T Demands UVerse Upgrade To Remove Dead Father's Name From Account
It can be very useful to be grandfathered into an old plan that isn't available anymore. What one Reddit poster and his mother have discovered, though, is that it creates some problems. Like when someone dies, and AT&T insists that they can't make any changes to your DSL and landline account unless you upgrade to UVerse.
Food Network, HGTV Back On AT&T U-Verse
Food voyeurs can rest easy, the the Scripps channels are back on U-Verse after a short blackout.
AT&T U-Verse Axes Food Network, HGTV, Others In Latest Cable Cockfight
2.7 million AT&T U-Verse customers are now without their Alton Brown or Iron Chef after the cable company was unable to come to an agreement with Scripps Networks about fees and other issues regarding their channels like the Food Network, HGTV, DIY Network, Cooking Channel and Great American Country.
Xbox 360s Will Become AT&T U-Verse Receivers
Starting Friday, Xbox 360 owners who watch TV through AT&T U-Verse will be able to consolidate their "set-top boxes" into one, because the Xbox 360 will act as a TV receiver and DVR.
My House Is In The Tiniest Broadband Dead Zone In Texas
Cliff and his wife recently purchased a house–hooray for them! Strangely, Cliff tells Consumerist, this house exists in a tiny pocket of space and time that their broadband provider of choice, AT&T Uverse, cannot reach. Well, that, or they live in a newly constructed area that doesn't have the infrastructure for it…even though it should.
AT&T U-Verse Points Finger At Cablevision In Flap Over AMC Fees
Midnight tonight is the deadline for AT&T U-Verse to come to terms with Cablevision's Rainbow Media over carriage fees for several channels, including AMC, which is about to debut its new season of its biggest show, Mad Men, next week. Now AT&T is pointing the finger squarely at its opponent in this showdown.
Cable Companies Could Save Money By Flagging Certain Customers "Not An Idiot"
Cable companies could be saving lots of money and pissing off fewer people if they implemented special "this guy is not an idiot" flags on their tech savvy customer's accounts, argues the NeedCoffee blog.
AT&T U-Verse Customers Could Miss New Season Of Mad Men
In just over two weeks, Emmy-winning AMC drama Mad Men is slated to begin its fourth season on the basic cable channel. But with negotiations between its parent company and AT&T U-Verse over carriage fees, the cable and internet provider might force subscribers to relocate their premiere parties to the apartment of someone with Comcast.
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by Andrew Kirell
10:14 am, January 8th, 2013
Sure, we all did some seriously strange stuff in college. Especially when alcohol and sports are involved.
But most of us have never crashed a live TV report, right?
Last Friday at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Tex., CBS reporter Jeff Jamison
tried to report on hometown Texas A&M's chances in that evening's
AT&T Cotton Bowl game before getting interrupted by a pair of
severely inebriated co-eds who just wanted to talk about how much they
love "Johnny Football," a.k.a. Aggies' quarterback Johnny Manziel.
The pair mugged for the camera and raved about how they "know"
Manziel, all while Jamison handled their drunkenness with coolness and
"These are high-minded fans, for sure," he joked, as one of the girls
stumbled her way through explaining why Manziel is a great quarterback.
When the other girl asked multiple times, "Where's the weed?" her
friend tried to shush her, but Jamison couldn't resist letting out an
"Oh my!" while the in-studio reporters audibly gasped.
After some more mugging for the camera while Jamison tried to segue
into SEC talk, the girls departed with some handshakes, and the
correspondent quipped: "I think that was perfectly fine. I think they're
in their right mind. Nothing wrong with that at all."
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