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If you enjoyed this post -- and a remarkable number of your did -- you will likely be as fascinated by Helvetica as I was.Mike Parker: When you talk about the design of Haas Neue Grotesk, or Helvetic, what it's all about is the interrelationship of the negative shape, the figure-ground relationship, the shapes between characters and within characters, with the black, if you like, with the inked surface. And the Swiss pay more attention to the background, so that the counters and the space between characters just hold the letters. I mean you can't imagine anything moving; it is so firm. It not a letter that bent to shape; it's a letter that lives in a powerful matrix of surrounding space. It's... oh, it's brilliant when it's done well.

If, by some odd chance, I am not the last person in the world to see -- and love -- this movie, then let me heartily recommend it to you.Rollo: Well, well... If it isn't MacGuff the crime dog! Back for another test?Juno MacGuff: I think the last one was defective. The plus sign looked more like a division sign. I remain unconvinced.

Armageddon in Retrospect (Kurt Vonnegut)Released on the anniversary of his death, this collection of previously unpublished essays by Kurt Vonnegut is introduced by his son, Mark Vonnegut, and punctuated with his sketches and doodles.I received an uncorrected proof a couple of days before the release, swallowed it whole... and stewed on it for a week._________________________In his introduction, the writer's son suggests how "radical" and "audacious" it may be to think that working hard, thinking hard, reading hard, writing hard, and trying to be of service might have some point. This observation, as much as any of the essays that followed, moved me. It does, after all, describe what Vonnegut was doing: working, thinking, reading, writing -- hard -- and trying to be of service. "Disgust wi

Four Things to Consider When Giving Your Kids an Allowance - So you're warming up to the idea (maybe at your child's pleading) of giving your child an allowance. Here are some tips on giving kids an allowance, including how much, how often, and how involved parents should be in the allowance spending. More: continued here Other Review: Elmo's Tub-Time Rhyme (Bath Book) (Bath Book)

Slings & Arrows, Season ThreeTwo Saturdays ago, Mr. M-mv and I, well, we... [lowering voice to a whisper] we watched all six episodes of the season between 6 and 11 p.m. Yes, all two hundred eighty-five minutes.Perfect and brilliant and perfectly brilliant.Related posts here and here.What follows is a scene from the second episode of the third season, "Vex Not His Ghost," in which the rehearsals for Lear and the musical are juxtaposed:(Lear rehearsal.)CHARLES: Once, there was an old king. Who, after many years of reign, realized he was at the end of his life.(East Hastings rehearsal.)NIGEL: This is the story of a junkie hooker named LuLu, and her fight to kick the horse.(Lear rehearsal.)CHARLES: The King announced that he was going to divide up the kingdom amongst his daughters: Regan,

A judge ruled that Britney Spears is getting an allowance.Even though she earns over $700,000 month, she’s only getting $1,500 a week. Her dad will give her a debit card each week. By the way, he currently makes $2,500 a week for being in charge of all her finances.Del.Icio.Us Tags: Britney gets an allowanceTechnorati Tags: Britney gets an allowance

A court commissioner on Monday approved a $1,500 weekly allowance for the beleaguered pop princess, whose financial affairs have been under the temporary control of her father and his attorneys for a month and a half.The “Toxic” singer, whose estate is reportedly worth an estimated $100 million, will have access to the cash via debit card to “enjoy herself, have some freedom of choice,” Geraldine Wyle, an attorney with Luce Forward, the firm overseeing Jamie Spears’ conservatorship, told E! News.Jamie Spears is getting $2,500 a week from his daughter’s estate, plus funds to lease a car, in exchange for temporarily managing her affairsTechnorati Tags: Britney Spears to Receive an Allowance of $1,500Del.Icio.Us Tags: Britney Spears to Receive an Allowance of $1,500

Britney Spears is to be granted a $1,500 (£743) weekly allowance, it has been confirmed. The Toxic star, whose fortune is believed to exceed $100 million (£49 million), will be given a debit or credit card for her weekly spending, Los Angeles superior court commissioner Reva Goetz ruled on Monday. According to Geraldine Wyle, who represents [...]

In a court hearing yesterday (March 10), the judge in Britney Spears‘ case just ruled that her father Jamie can give Britney a debit/credit card to use that has a $1,500 per week limit on it. Jamie’s lawyer, Geraldine Wyle, said it was “so she can spend money, have her freedom, and make choices about how [...]

I never received an allowance while growing up. My parents believed that you got paid after you did some work. I agree with that idea. They probably also did not pay allowances, because it would have been too expensive to cover me and my three brothers. My wife and I do pay our son an allowance. [...]

That barely covers her Starbucks bill.A judge has declared that Brit Brit will receive $1,500 a week via debit card as an allowance. I’m not sure why this would be? Why are her finances getting taken over as well? Did she have a problem spending too much? And what is considered “too much” when you make millions a year? Jamie’s lawyer, Geraldine Wyle, said it was “so she can spend money, have her freedom, and make choices about how she wants to enjoy her life.”Who cares about the money? Let’s talk about Britney Spears’ new hair!! How fantastic does she look?

Originally posted Monday March 10, 2008 06:25 PM EDTBritney Spears is getting an allowance.The pop star, who is worth an estimated $100 million, has been approved for a $1,500-a-week allowance on a debit card, Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Reva Goetz ruled Monday.In addition, Goetz approved the hiring of two specialist attorneys to help the singer and her lawyers sort out her affairs while Spears is under a temporary co-conservatorship.One, Jorge Hernandez, will get a $25,000 retainer to be an around-the-clock consultant on all questions pertaining to the co-conservatorship. The other, lawyer Tom Hansen, will receive $15,000 a month for his services as an entertainment lawyer consulting on Spears's entertainment deals and contracts.The ruling comes the same day as a separate hear

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Slings & Arrows, Season TwoOn 2.26.2008, I wrote, Mr. M-mv and I both adored the first season. Here's hoping the second is as wonderful.Well, it was even more wonderful. Perfect and brilliant and perfectly brilliant.From the Amazon review:It’s amazing what can happen in the theatre. Dramas unfold, epic stories and indelible characters are formed, battles are fought, lovers wooed and spurned, and every once in a while, a play is actually performed. And so Geoffrey Tennant (Paul Gross) is back as the Artistic Director of the New Burbage Theatre Festival for a second season of the backstage machinations and on stage drama that is Slings and Arrows. After a triumphant first season that revolved around the staging of Hamlet, season two uses Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s most difficult a

Slings & Arrows, Season OneWhen you watch a show this good, this brilliant and perfect and perfectly brilliant, you are reminded all over again that television isn't bad for you. It's just that bad television programs give the medium a, well, bad name.I hooked a slew of you on Jeeves & Wooster in 2006. Let's see how many of you I can hook on Slings & Arrows.Here's a little taste.Mr. M-mv and I both adored the first season. Here's hoping the second is as wonderful.

PAYjr (payjr.com) is an innovative way for parents to pay out allowances online based on chores/tasks accomplished. It also teaches children how to responsibly use a “charge card” when shopping and also update their managers (parents) on their job accomplishments. Parents can create an account and set up a list of chores on a Chore Chart. Each chore is assigned a payment and frequency amount. As their kids complete each chore, they log in and update their tasks. They will also receive email reminders to complete their chores. I’m sure mom and dad will remind them as well. Target Gift Cards are available to children 12 & under. For those 13 and up, they also have an option of a Visa Buxx card. When my son gets older, this may be a viable option for him— but I also may stick to the idea that chores pay off room and board Sponsored by payjr.com

If you have kids, there is a great program that will teach your kids 12 and under how to manage money. PAYjr is an online allowance and chore program has partnered with Target. Now parents can load directly or electronically and automatically their kids’ allowances to a free and re-loadable Target Gift card. PAYjr Chore and Allowance System allows parents to assign chores, set up allowances, print free chore charts, set up reminders without the hassle of writing a new chore chart each week. At an early age children should learn to take how to manage money and how to take responsibility doing house Chore.

When we consider that the word allowance means, �allowing for,� it puts that �A� word into better perspective.Children will need access to their own stash of cash when they reach a certain age. Kids develop this need around age 8 or 9 and it grows into the monster it will become by about age 15 or 16 ... they do get more expensive with age, don't they? At age 8, we began giving our older daughter money for each A on her report card and for each 100% on tests. We receive flack from other parents about it to this day. Mainly, their argument is that children should do well in school because they �want to.� Is this the same as �just because?� Sounds like it to me. I think parents are afraid to reward their kids for good grades simply because they feel this will set a bad exampl

It looks like both "High School Musical" stars Ashley Tisdale and Vanessa Hudgens will be returning for the next installment of the franchise and Us Weekly is making it sound like Hudgens will be enjoying a smile-inducing raise--a "substantial increase," to be exact. The HSM movie in question will be the first to hit theaters,...

Stress is the curse of living in modern times. Everyone suffers from stress. And the stress we suffer takes a heavy toll on our bodies, emotions and minds. Feeling stressed out, worn out by fatigue or just simply having a miserable day, the best thing to do is relax. Watching television may be a form of relaxation for some, but is not a recommended method by experts. When we watch TV we are bombarded with commercials, ads, sounds and images. So how do we achieve relaxation? If there are thousands of ways we can get stressed, one of them is not meeting deadlines, there are also many ways we can relax.In recent studies, experts have determined that heart disease is linked to anger and irritability is linked to mental stress. Too much stress brings about ischemia that can lead to or cause a heart attack. Relaxation takes on added importance in light of this matter. Managing your anger and attitude is significant to heart health, and relaxation can help you manage stress. One way of relaxa

Housing Benefit is going to change for people who are living in private rented accommodation.  From April 2008 the housing benefit payment will be known as the Local Housing Allowance (LSA). So what is the Change? The calculation will be based not on the rent amount, but will be calculated on the number of other key values.  These are listed below :- The area that you are going to be living in Who will be living with you How much money you have coming into the family home Any savings that you may have This will be only affecting people who are going to be renting by a private landlord.

I found the greatest idea for my 11 year old called Payjr. It's a prepaid debit card and allowance system that tracks her spending and even sends her an email to remind her to do her chores. She can design her own card online by uploading a photo. Here is more info:PAYjr Visa Buxx Card is the industry's #1 teen prepaid card and the ONLY Design-Your-Own card feature. The PAYjr Visa Buxx card is a reloadable prepaid card designed just for teens giving them flexibility and spending independence while also providing parents with a peace of mind, complete parental supervision and the convenience of paying allowances electronically. FREE Registration for Pay Jr. Allowance System & Visa Buxx Prepaid Debit Card

What do good schools and well thought out allowances have in common? Both teach your child a vitally important life skill: reflective thinking. Kids are naturally impulsive. Learning how to reflect before making a decision – learning to think in terms of choices, alternatives and consequences -- is a great life skill for kids to learn. Stanley Greenspan, M.D., one of the country's leading child psychiatrists, says that children who develop the ability to think in terms of choices and consequences are likely to grow into teenagers and adults who “can solve problems and assess and evaluate their own impulses and desires.” Teens and adults who never develop this skill are “limited to their immediate and often impulsive reactions to events.”What do we mean by a “well th

Do not forget to give yourself an allowance for things you enjoy. Even if on a tight budget, buy something that you enjoy, which could be as simple as buying a new shirt or grabbing lunch at your favorite café. If you do not allow yourself this small “splurge”, you could find yourself in the same position as if dieting. Total deprivation leads to overindulgence.

I am a pastor and I'm looking into buying a home. I want to make sure the home I purchase does not have a fair rental value greater than what I'm receiving as a housing allowance. How do I know what this amount is? My reply: Your housing allowance is determined by negotiating that amount with your religious organization. You are allowed to exclude from Federal income tax the LESSER of the

Walter: The Story of a Ratby Barbara WersbaHe would never forget the day he learned to read -- or rather, the day when reading happened to him. It was not a question of learning, it was a matter of instant comprehension. One moment he had been dozing in his nest beneath the laundromat -- pressed up against his siblings, feeling warm and contented -- and the next moment his eyes had fastened upon some torn pages his mother had used for the nest lining. The markings on one page slowly formed themselves into letters -- letters into words -- amd suddenly these words had meaning. Walter still remembered the exact words, because he found them beautiful.And as I sat there, brooding on the old unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that

From Where the Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie (John Madson):Of all of the relict prairies I've known, none was as poignant as the scrap I found years ago in the center of an intensely farmed Iowa land section. It was a small, lost graveyard, all that remained of a tiny settlement that had been almost wiped out by diptheria. About a dozen weathered stone markers leaned and lay in a patch of original bluestem. Among the graves were those of a young mother and her children, and when I found the place in late summer their graves were set about with a few tall magenta torches of blazing-star, stateliest of prairie flowers. It was part of an original place and time, and held fitting memorials. There were flowers of gayfeather to lift the spirits of beauty-starved women. There was bluestem for the men, for their wild hay and prairie-chicken hunting. For the children, there was compass-plant, with its wonderful chewing gum, and wild strawberries hidden in the grass.That patch of tal

How to Earn Points As AllowanceA points chart is a system of allowance where you work to earn an item, and the points you get are boxes (one for each dollar) that get filled in as you go along. Gone is the temptation to spend the money on a little bit of candy as soon as you get it. 1. Get your parent's approval. Explain to them why it would be easier, and that you still earn the same amount of money, and instead of searching for cash and change each week, after a few months all they have to do is buy something with a credit card or write a check. Point them to this wikiHow. 2. Decide how hard you have to work to earn a point. You can do it with either however long you spend doing something, or for certain activities; * If for time, between 10 and 30 minutes would be good for earning a point. * If for activities, make a list of all of the activities and how many points they earn. 3. Start earning! Have them X out or initial each box as you earn it. You can lea

1 Before you ask for anything, it's important that you show your parents that you are a responsible, perfect little angel son or daughter (even if you aren't). You have the upper hand because everyone thinks their kids are perfect! So make your bed, get all your homework done, get good grades, etc.2Negotiate with your parents. Explain to them exactly what you want to buy and why you don't have enough right now.3.If you are looking for long term savings, suggest a bank account and tell your parents this will save you money and teach you to be responsible for later in life (they love to hear that kind of stuff). Tell them it is for college. They will literally cry at how responsible that is.4.Offer to do more chores. If you already do a lot, tell them you will complete them more thoroughly and without them having to ask all the time (and then actually do it). Some suggestions for easy chores to do: wash the dishes, set the table, take out the trash, sweep, vacuum, dust and so much mor

Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?From the Amazon review:Ex-60 Minutes producer Harry Moses made Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock?, a favorite documentary film at festivals in 2006. Like an extended 60 Minutes segment, the film presents all aspects of the drama surrounding San Bernadino resident Teri Horton's ten year crusade to certify that her thrift store art purchase is an authentic Jackson Pollock painting worth $60 million. The story, hilarious because of Horton's vibrant, spitfire personality, and because of the absurd lengths she has gone to prove skeptical Pollock experts wrong, extends into a larger sociological discussion of art historical fraud. Gathering forensic evidence to battle art critics and collectors, Horton's attempt to buck the system, which requires provenance and a paper trail to qualify artwork, seems lame. Early on, for example, she claims that the painting was made in a bar at ski resort Mt. Baldy, where several movie stars were snowed in and forced to make

The last time I saw such a mesmerizingly perfect family film was The Whale Rider. Inspired by events in the life of David Marenger, The Blue Butterfly features Marc Donato as Pete Carlton, a terminally ill ten-year-old with more than a passing interest in entomology. His mother (Pascale Bussieres) persuades Alan Osborne (William Hurt, reminding us -- again -- how brilliant he is), a popular entomologist her son idolizes, to bring Pete to the tropical rain forest to pursue the Blue Morpho -- Mariposa Azul. Doctors have given Pete only a few months to live; catching the rare butterfly represents his dream.If you think you know how this will end, you're wrong.Brilliant. Thought-provoking. Emotional. Interesting. All we could possibly ask of a ninety-six-minute film -- and more.Don't miss this one.By the way, I saw a Blue Morpho when Master and I went to New York. Here is one of my favorite images. (Click to enlarge.)

Malaysian Trade Union Congress would lead a nationwide picket demanding the ruling government of Malaysia to consider setting up a minimum wage policy of Malaysian Ringgit $900.00 and a standard COLA (Cost of Living Allowance) of a minimum of Malaysian Ringgit $300.00 for employees in the private sector. The picket is scheduled to take place in every major cities such as Kuala Lumpur (Jalan Raja Laut), Bangsar, Petaling Jaya, Bangi, Shah Alam, Klang, Johore, Kuching and Penang. Thousands of employees in the private sector are expected to throng these locations after signing off from work at 1700 hours this coming Monday 25th of June.Malaysian Malay women with high paying salaries and sitting inside nice comfortable office chairs may not be interested in joining the scheduled picket but I sincerely hope that they would somehow realize that a lot of Malaysians are suffering at the moment due to the ever rising costs of living. The ruling government has never been kind towards those worki

Is FBT is applicable to employer on reimbursement of medical bills upto Rs.15000 to their employees?radhi68@.........comYes.FAQ no 69 of CBDT's Circular 8 of 2005 clarified regarding the issue of taxing medical allowance under Fringe Benefit Tax as under:Whether medical reimbursement up to Rs. 15,000 (exempt in the hands of the employees) and medical reimbursement over Rs. 15,000 (taxed as perquisite in the hands of the employee) is liable to FBT?If any sum is paid by the employer for expenditure actually incurred by the employee for medical treatment in an unapproved hospital and it exceeds Rs. 15,000 during the year, such sum is salary as defined in clause (1) of section 17 of the Act and liable to income-tax in the hands of the employee. There is no change in this position. Since such sum is taxable in the hands of the employee, the same is not liable to FBT.However, if any sum is paid by the employer for expenditure actually incurred by the employee for medical treatment in an

Our company has joint Venture with Japanese company. Sometimes, we go to Japan for short durations. We get the Salary in India, as well as 40 USD per day. The allowance is partly paid in India in USD ( for time less than 3 months stay ), and paid through transfer in Japanese Bank.We are obliged to pay the taxes on the Salary Portion. However, if we get some saving of the daily allowances, and get that money to India. Will this saving will be taxable in India or not. Please fy ? anoop74@........comSection 10(14) deals with exemption of allowance received for office jobs.Daily allowance or maintenance allowance falls under this category. However, if you read the section 10(14) of the I T Act, the word used is "to the extent". It means the saving portion is taxable in India , if you are paid salary by an Indian company even if you are Non resident.Section 10(14) is given below(14) (i) any such special allowance or benefit, not being in the nature of a perquisite within the meaning of clau

When I was a kid my dad would give us an allowance every month. It was in the form of cash. Todays kids are definitely in the 21st century with the ways they can get allowance. It’s called PAYjr Visa Buxx and it’s like a credit card for kids 13 and up. They even have a new system called design your own card. It’s a great system which teaches the kids about financial responsibility and even lets the parents control what they spend it on. It’s great with sites like amazon and ebay out there that the kids can use their cards to spend stuff on. I think this is a much better system than the cash we got when I was a kid. Technorati Tags: visa buxx, visa, pay jr, allowance, ebay, amazon

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No, for claiming deduction u/s 80C for principal amounts out of borrowed home loan , there is no need of completion of construction. The house completion condition(within 3 years) is only for deduction u/s 24 of the I T Act. However,this question came to the forefront out of a question asked by a gentleman sometime back. He sent me a mail stating that the employer is not ready to allow him deduction u/s 80C of the principal amount payment on the ground that the construction of the house is not completed. In support of such argument , a letter dt 1.12.1989 was quoted where it had been provided that the deduction u/s 80C is not allowed in case construction is not completed.Later , an answer given by a tax firm on an Indian website which is not specialised on taxation law was also quoted. I have gone through the subject and the answer given on the Indian site.Therefore this answer is being discussed from following perspectivesWhether any such condition was there u/s 80C /88 of the I T Ac

Presented chapbook-style: The Best Poems of the English Language from Chaucer through Frost (selected and with commentary by Harold Bloom).p. 1Poetry is essentially a figurative language, concentrated so that its form is both expressive and evocative.p. 3One of the secrets of poetic rhetoric in English is to romance the etonym (as it were), to renew what Walter Pater called the "finer edges" of words.p. 5Greatness in poetry depends upon splendor of figurative language and on cognitive power, or what Emerson termed "meter-making argument." Shakespeare is first among poets at representing thought, which pragmatically does not differ from thinking in poetry, a process not yet fully adumbrated. Angus Fletcher's Colors of the Mind can be recommended for its "conjectures on thinking in literature," which is the book's subtitle.p. 13What makes one poem better than another? The question, always central to the art of reading poetry, is more crucial today than ever before, since extrapoetic co

(Yes, this RDA was dragged up from the archives.)I'm going out on a bit of a limb with this recommendation, but, well, it's my site, so I'll recommend whatever I want, right? Today's RDA, then: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.From the editorial review over at Amazon.com:While the Bible may be the word of God, transcribed by divinely inspired men, it does not provide a full (or even partial) account of the life of Jesus Christ. Lucky for us that Christopher Moore presents a funny, lighthearted satire of the life of Christ — from his childhood days up to his crucifixion — in Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. This clever novel is surely blasphemy to some, but to others it's a coming-of-age story of the highest order.That last bit bears repeating:This clever novel is surely blasphemy to some, but to others it's a coming-of-age story of the highest order.The some to whom such a novel is blasphemy should si

This past week has been crazy busy with barely enough time to get necessary things done, much less to post, so here's a quick update before I'm off running the rest of the day.I added an update to our Passbook Allowance System post you may want to check out. It tells how we now let our kids bill their siblings for doing their brother's or sister's chore.We're down to three llamas, but one has been dangerous to my husband and the other llamas so we've been looking for another home for it. Jim wanted to eat it because it wasn't fit for anyone (hey, it's considered a clean animal, biblically). I did not want to deal with that. One deer a season to cut and clean and package is more than enough. And llamas are bigger! The llama injured our stallion's eye (fortunately the white eye is regaining color--answered prayer) and just doesn't know how to be a llama because a former owner was lovey dovey with it.After a lot of searching and prayer, an area llama rescue farm found a home for

At its upcoming meeting (April 6, SEATAC Marriott, Seattle Washington) the Pacific Fishery Management Council will make a recommendation on the request for an Exempted Fishing Permit that would allow a single vessel to use longline gear to target bluefin tuna, yellowfin tuna, bigeye tuna, albacore and swordfish in the waters of the coastal Pacific from California north to Washington.Although this permit now includes a provision that would prohibit fishing in the Southern California Bight that includes the primary range of striped marlin in U.S. Pacific waters, The Billfish Foundation is opposing the issuance of this permit on the grounds that three of the target species (bigeye, albacore and yellowfin tuna) are either currently overfished or approaching the overfished condition. We do not believe that it is wise management to begin to explore the possibility of a new longline fishery on species that are currently subject to excess fishing mortality. Click here to see ou

Welcome to Works for Me Wednesday, sponsored by Rocks In My Dryer.In my last post, I mentioned how I billed my kids for my three hours work to clean their room. I got the idea from another Works for Me Wednesday participant,It's Always a Production. When I first saw this, I knew it would be great to implement, but it wouldn't work with our current system because my kids don't earn a lot of money: we don't have a lot of money to give and they have troubles staying on seven on the privilege ladder where they get allowance.A few weeks ago I realized our rules might be too tough. For our kids get allowance, they have to stay on seven four out of seven days of the week in addition to being on seven on payday, Sunday. It was easier on my pocket book because they earned little, but they had no real incentive.This past week I thought of a modified system that would be both easy on our finances as well as teach our kids the basics of accounting. Each child age three and up has a passbook wi

From Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences (Kitty Burns Florey):As I started to say a couple of digressions ago, although diagramming a sentence can sometimes expose its structural problems, it doesn't touch the deeper issues. A diagram can't ferret out a lie, correct a lapse in logic, or explain a foray into sheer lunacy. And, for all its tail-wagging cuteness, it can't expose the pitiful state of the speaker's education -- or the problems with an educational system that cuts funding instead of providing our schools with smaller classes, enough textbooks, and well-stocked libraries.If you enjoyed this, you'll like Barking Dog. A lot.

Because if I still got my $5 every Friday, I would start saving those five dollars every week for 14,500* weeks and the day I turned ripe young age of 305, I'd run, nay... Rascal, my way right out to the nearest dealership and buy myself one of these puppies: The Porsche Cayman (with newly released Aero Kit, for those of you who care to know these kinds of things)Oh, and before you go and say... whew, that's a nice looking Porsche. Make sure and correct yourself by saying "por-sha" (two syllables and rhyming with Tasha).* about $70k optioned the way I'd want it.

BA is changing baggage check in rules from 13 February, most passengers will only be allowed to check in one bag wieghing up to 23 kgs, previously this was 32 kgs. There is standardisation of excess baggage charges; £30 for domestic flights, £60 for short haul and £120 for long haul. However to allow passengers to become familiar with the new policy you will be able to check in one bag weighing up to 32kgs until 30/9/07. I am not sure how many passengers this will affect. My luggage is usually under 20 kgs. However I would have thought that BA would be pulling out all the stops to woo back passengers after recent troubles.

Presented chapbook-style: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard).p. 51ROS: To sum up: your father, whom you love, dies, you are his heir, you come back to find that hardly was the corpse cold before his young brother popped onto his throne and into his sheets, thereby offending both legal and natural practice. Now why exactly are you behaving in this extraordinary manner?GUIL: I can't imagine! (Pause.) But all that is well known, common property. Yet he sent for us. And we did come.p. 57ROS: Half of what he said meant something else, and the other half didn't mean anything at all.GUIL: Thwarted ambition—a sense of grievance, that's my diagnosis.ROS: Six rhetorical and two repetition, leaving nineteen, of which we answered fifteen. And what did we get in return? He's depressed! Denmark's a prison and he'd rather live in a nutshell' some shadow-play about the nature of ambition, which never got down to cases, and finally one direct question which might have led som

Presented chapbook-style: Long Day's Journey into Night (Eugene O'Neill).p. 11The astonishing thing about these sets is that all the volumes have the look of having been read and reread.p. 13He has never really been sick a day in his life. He has no nerves. There is a lot of stolid, earthy peasant in him, mixed with streaks of sentimental melancholy and rare flashes of intuitive sensibility.p. 135TYRONE: Thickly humorous. I wouldn't worry about the virtue part of it, if I were you. Then disgustedly. Pah! It's morbid nonsense! What little truth is in it you'll find nobly said in Shakespeare. Then appreciatively. But you recited it well, lad. Who wrote it?p. 137TYRONE: Where you get your taste in authors— That damned library of yours! He indicates the small bookcase in the rear. Voltaire, Rosseau, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Ibsen! Atheists, fools, and madmen! And your poets! This Dowson, and this Baudelaire, and Swinburne and Oscar Wilde, and Whitman and Poe! Whore-mongers and degen

Presented chapbook-style: The Chosen (Chaim Potok).p. 31My father had told me he didn't mind their beliefs. What annoyed him was their fanatic sense of righteousness, their absolute certainty that they and they alone had God's ear, and every other Jew was wrong, totally wrong, a sinner, a hypocrite, an apikoros, and doomed, therefore, to burn in hell.p. 71"Whenever I do or see something I don't understand, I like to think about it until I understand it." He talked very rapidly, and I could see he was tense. "I've thought about it a lot, but I still don't understand it. I want to talk to you about it. Okay?"p. 78No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate," my father said quietly. "That is the way the world is."p. 79"Ah," my father murmured. He was silent for a moment. Then he said quietly, "Reuven, listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other?""Choose a friend," I said."Yes. You k

The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within(Stephen Fry; yes, that Stephen Fry).From the foreword, in which Fry confesses that he writes poetry:Britain is a nation of hobbyists -- eccentric amateurs, talented part-timers, Pooterish potterers and dedicated autodidacts in every field of human endeavour. But poetry?[...]I believe poetry is a primal impulse within us all. I believe we are all capable of it and furthermore that a small, often ignored corner of us positively yearns to try it. I believe our poetic impulse is blocked by the false belief that poetry might on one hand be academic and technical and on the other formless and random.___________________________Master M-mv and I borrowed this from the library this fall and enjoyed it so much that I added it to the Amazon wishlist. Well, I received another gift card to the bookstore that must not be named, and with that and a 30%-off coupon, I added Ode to the nightstand last night.Speaking of gifts, do you need to purchase any

Last week I finally received my notice of allowance for my heat retentive plates (It is actually a patent for a "Integrated Microwaveable Heat Storage Device"), which means, I just have to pay my issuance and publication fees ($700 and $300) and I will get my patent deed. The patent will be published in the official gazette of the USPTO. Now the real marketing for my invention starts.Some companies have already shown interest, other are probably having their Engineers working on some way to engineer around my design. My bet is (As any inventor's): They won't be able to do it without infringing my patent.One company is even making prototypes but they have not signed a license agreement with me. I told them to take their time (Time is working in my favor).This will be no longer a "patent pending", but a patented invention, the luxury of eating in hot plates is now available to every household in the world that has a microwave oven."ZAP AND SERVE" (Just "zap" in the microwave for on

Morris Berman's Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire is on my to-be-read pile for this evening, so I dragged this, way up from the early archives (10.31.2003).We cannot expect... to make a mythological allusion anymore, or use a foreign phrase, or refer to a famous historical event or literary character, and still be understood by more than a tiny handful of people. (Try this in virtually any group setting, and note the reaction. This is an excellent wake-up call as to what this culture is about, and how totally alien to it you are.)Oooh, and this gem:Our entire consciousness, our intellectual mental life, is being Starbuckized, condensed into a prefabricated designer look in a way that is reminiscent of that brilliant, terrible film, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (a great metaphor for our time.)Interested?Check out Morris Berman's The Twilight of American Culture. Like Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death and Daniel Boorstein's The Image, Twilight is a book that

Narrator: And though every single human in the stands or in the commentary boxes was at a complete loss for words, the man who in his life had uttered fewer words than any of them knew exactly what to say. Farmer Hoggett: That'll do, pig. That'll do.One the most perfect family films ever.I love this bit from Ebert's review:Something passed between them: the faintest hint of a common destiny.I quote this line because you do not expect such language in a movie about a clever little pig. One of the chief delights of "Babe," indeed, is that it is such a clever little pig movie. It is rated G, and yet all of the people and most of the animals in "Babe" are smarter and more articulate than the characters in most of the R-rated movies I see.

From chiranjivsodhi@yahoo.comI seek your expert comment on the following situation.A person is employed in India by an Indian Company. Company sent him for foreign assignment. He lives there for more than 182 days. During his stay in foreign country, his salary was deposited in his Indian bank account by his employer company. He also got some Maintenance Allowance in foreign currency there. He spent some amount out of the maintenance allowance and saved the balance.Now the question is : "Is the unspent or saved amount out of maintenance allowance to an NRI employee in foreign country exempt from Income Tax?"If yes, then under what section. If no, then why?Please reply. CA Chiranjiv S. SodhiIn my view , the unspent amount of Maintenance Allowance [nature of receipt is not described by you] shall be taxable . The reason is that wordings in Section 10[14] is very clear in this regard.Detailed is as followsSince Indian company has sent the employee on foreign assignment, his salary is TAXA

Do you know what tomorrow is? Then you already know my recommendation.Groundhog Day.Phil: Well, it's Groundhog Day. Again. Phil: What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered? Ralph: That about sums it up for me. Phil: Do you know what today is? Rita: No, what? Phil: Today is tomorrow. It happened. Phil: I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster and drank pina coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. That was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over?

George Bush's Washington is not threatening, as Washington was under Nixon. Nor is it dangerously ludicrous, as it was under Reagan. Instead, it's like half-cooked candy before it reaches the "soft ball" stage -- you can get it together, but it's just mush; it has no form, no shape, no coherence. Since Bush is not venal, mean, nor nearly as daffy as Reagan, the American people, notoriously tolerant when it comes to their presidents, may be ready to cut the guy slack. "Well, he doesn't look great so far, but let's give him a chance" is the common line. "Wait until we see him face a real crisis," they say in D.C. But as Chekhov once observed, "Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out." We have just graduated from an eight-year course in the inadvisability of doing nothing while social problems fester. We're about to discover that inaction in the face of unraveling disaster is just as bad when it's the result of indecision as it is when it's the

From chiranjivsodhi@yahoo.comI seek your expert comment on the following situation.A person is employed in India by an Indian Company. Company sent him for foreign assignment. He lives there for more than 182 days. During his stay in foreign country, his salary was deposited in his Indian bank account by his employer company. He also got some Maintenance Allowance in foreign currency there. He spent some amount out of the maintenance allowance and saved the balance.Now the question is : "Is the unspent or saved amount out of maintenance allowance to an NRI employee in foreign country exempt from Income Tax?"If yes, then under what section. If no, then why?Please reply. CA Chiranjiv S. SodhiGood News First! The circular 8/2005 contains answer 79 which is regarding the FBT on Employers for allowing Per Diem . The extract of the question and answer is given below:"On some occasions, employers prefer to give a per diem allowance for meeting the expenditure on lodging and boarding rather th

I'm ready to go! Photo by Mikenan1. I carried the duffle bag into the bathroom and set it down on the floor. I pulled open the top drawer in the chest of drawers next to Alleke's changing table. With hands spread wide like salad tongs, I picked up handfuls of baby clothes and dropped them in the duffle bag. I emptied all the drawers. I zipped up the duffle bag and carried it into the living room. I drug a hamper into the bathroom and filled it with Alleke's dirty clothes. I drug it back into the living room. I grabbed one of our backpacks from the couch. I walked back into the bathroom. I unzipped the backpack and set it on the changing table. I pulled the wicker basket full of cloth diapers out from under the table. I lifted it over the backpack, turned it up-side-down, and shook all the diapers out. I zipped up the backpack and brought it to the living room. All of Alleke's things were out of the bathroom, so I walked into the bedroom. A pile of half-sorted

I'm currently making a skirt (I think it's Simplicity 4186 but I don't have the pattern w/ me right now). It's very simple- pleated front piece, pleated back piece (identical to front) and waistband piece. In the directions it says to use 5/8" seam unless stated otherwise. On the skirt front/back pattern piece it says to use a 3/8" seam. Does that apply for all seams on that piece or just the edge that the note is printed on? Silly question. Thanks so much! First time sewing a zipper as well. I'm scared.Last post by tlmck3 at Thu 09 Aug 2007 11:50:15 PM Total posts: 3 Visit PatternReview.com to read this entire topic.Research Viking Sewing Machines at PatternReview.com.

It was back to court on Monday for all parties involved in the custody/ Conservatorship case of Britney Spears. The recovering pop singer herself was a no show however, despite the urging of her court appointed attorney, Sam Ingham. "I have spoken to my client and she's been inconsistent with her ...