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Friday, July 27, 2012
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Julia deVille's Sarcophagus - Art & Entertainment - Broadsheet ...
5774 Deck the Halls /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/deck-halls /media/cache/b3/52/b35296792cc6c08c4b0db982c76ba048.jpg
5775 Julia deVille?s Sarcophagus /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/julia-devilles-sarcophagus /media/cache/9d/13/9d13de4729600bb8a0d933cc32bd3407.jpg
5750 All the Pretty Lights on Gertrude /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/all-pretty-lights-gertrude /media/cache/50/b4/50b41f90178915e19bdf66a8c57755da.jpg
5751 A Melbourne Soul Revival with Saskwatch /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/melbourne-soul-revival-saskwatch /media/cache/69/f8/69f879809f6814ed1539d8802914ed6e.jpg
5754 Blood Wedding Opens at Malthouse /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/blood-wedding-opens-malthouse /media/cache/a5/9f/a59feda632d79976a2a8dac4b5101369.jpg
5723 I Am Eleven /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/i-am-eleven /media/cache/79/58/795846c27e3224b1c303dc19bdc616ad.jpg
5735 West Space Annual Fundraiser Opens Tonight /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/west-space-annual-fundraiser-opens-tonight /media/cache/1c/b2/1cb242a17fc9bbed34c074ee14b4b1b4.jpg
5718 Pictures of Melbourne in the Winter Time /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/melbourne-winter-time /media/cache/ed/29/ed29973bb6485c3f91d3270da91220c9.jpg
5708 Blow Up Cinema?s Regal Screenings in Northcote /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/blow-cinemas-regal-screenings-northcote /media/cache/43/24/4324cd23783a4137041429dd9d29e9df.jpg
5710 MIFFing Around /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/miffing-around /media/cache/96/c4/96c4ca0ef5fae406cebc98738e25a6a3.jpg
5694 Hysteria /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/hysteria /media/cache/15/8b/158bd2811241d979b823698ac3b20144.jpg
5695 Creative Couples ? Playing Ping Pong with Dumbo Feather /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/creative-couples-berry-liberman-and-danny-almagor /media/cache/a4/c3/a4c34a3da7eca4072e1d784dae4a7e25.jpg
5680 Life on the Screen /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/life-screen /media/cache/43/52/4352a74bd1b659d72110a071b36d6530.jpg
5687 Who Gives a Crap /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/who-gives-crap /media/cache/b8/05/b805e406c62c07c1013d90663a1927dd.jpg
5667 Switched On /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/switched /media/cache/96/6d/966dc873bf493ac20969488c6e61bc1c.jpg
5653 It?s a Small World /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/its-small-world /media/cache/8e/28/8e2857b890d6435fea08f0ca1779ba49.jpg
5636 The Theatre of the World Comes to MONA /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/theatre-world-comes-mona /media/cache/45/ae/45aef19f9062079052bdd5be465265cf.jpg
5638 Nocturnal Transmissions: The Cinema of Guy Maddin /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/nocturnal-transmissions-cinema-guy-maddin /media/cache/3b/2a/3b2ae15838d086d6a38f793260941530.jpg
5625 Hola Cinema! /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/hola-cinema /media/cache/d1/ea/d1ea05d7dae0849c52d8cf6a8e942cb6.jpg
5629 The Family Hour in Australia /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/family-hour-australia /media/cache/b0/ce/b0ceff236e42f4c37e990af0f5d11196.jpg
5612 Spanning the Generations /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/spanning-generations /media/cache/40/d1/40d148f101c1111cf5291db06c768e98.jpg
5613 Scanlan & Theodore x Daan Roosegaard /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/scanlan-theodore-x-daan-roosegaard /media/cache/ea/63/ea635f32e8f26dfabf39d8d2cfcdd460.jpg
5606 Fresh Faced /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/fresh-faced /media/cache/0e/68/0e6894b260ce1624ab238fd40413a886.jpg
5608 A Reflection of Home /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/reflection-home /media/cache/dc/fa/dcfac04d0e6e5ecab353f4f298a224a3.jpg
5598 Jackson Slattery?s Surfaces /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/jackson-slatterys-surfaces /media/cache/fd/69/fd69e5ff971a0c4b399129f5ff32a3c9.jpg
5600 Creative Couples - The Briands /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/creative-couples-briands /media/cache/01/b0/01b0c3db80a0b594f1ff0c3040d53cb8.jpg
5590 Open Sesame /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/open-sesame /media/cache/42/34/423433ee536eb841afed35fd518a5c38.jpg
5592 Masters of the Game /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/masters-game /media/cache/e0/7f/e07f2a36f958d919cb4296e85317f760.jpg
5574 Polisse: the Confronting and Prize-Winning Film Arrives /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/polisse-confronting-and-prize-winning-film-arrives /media/cache/a9/8a/a98a8e409b2cfc0c49d6bed3b05eb304.jpg
5568 Discipline, and Other Sermons /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/discipline-and-other-sermons /media/cache/48/2d/482d3e67d2b3dceb1ec1db249beec8c4.jpg
5557 A Nod to Ned /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/nod-ned /media/cache/3f/5f/3f5f8ecc46cf092476cb1a96834805b8.jpg
5563 Laneway Learning /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/laneway-learning /media/cache/d4/13/d4137378f241095886063a8f5e5b14aa.jpg
5551 Jardan Annual Furniture Sale /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/jardan-annual-furniture-sale /media/cache/03/4c/034c42cf19c32825e85ba1291bf7386c.jpg
5554 For Whom the Bells Toll /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/whom-bells-toll /media/cache/9b/8b/9b8b71c6c1f45c58ab8337cdf748a2f5.jpg
5527 Harvest Festival Line-Up Announced /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/harvest-festival-line-announced /media/cache/76/f8/76f85d17d6238251ebafee28aabbccbe.jpg
5533 Creative Couples ? The Gilmours /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/creative-couples-gilmours /media/cache/7e/f1/7ef11042caedc2c7d02ac8ca9c3a7dac.jpg
5505 The Last Single Screen /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/last-single-screen /media/cache/65/76/65761aed47e3fd1c2ed8812a7079c33e.jpg
5495 The Art of Paper Cording /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/art-paper-cording /media/cache/d7/64/d7643920b975d9d1453d122ba4d39e89.jpg
5488 Getting Sandy with The Hunter /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/getting-sandy-hunter /media/cache/51/0e/510ea7adcb16acf1a841aed21f7e31ec.jpg
5474 Motto Makes a Home in Melbourne /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/motto-makes-home-melbourne /media/cache/25/99/25991d63b5afad979351937a159656c9.jpg
5478 Marc Martin?s Tiny Wonders /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/marc-martins-tiny-wonders /media/cache/90/03/9003f03fda900a63a3d4cbdb4b8f2355.jpg
5457 Not so Terrible Twos /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/not-so-terrible-twos /media/cache/c5/d5/c5d565947479ac291b2b14004e759545.jpg
5463 The Hot Spot /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/hot-spot /media/cache/bb/e9/bbe9114617e35b98889ef6f6c5780fd6.jpg
5448 Little King x Perimeter Books Micro-Library /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/little-king-x-perimeter-books-micro-library /media/cache/3c/95/3c955dc1f6bad18eac69bf1992b4c4ef.jpg
5450 Berlinde De Bruyckere Bares Flesh at ACCA /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/berlinde-de-bruyckere /media/cache/ae/35/ae35d94744dcbd6ccfc093d6e080ec5f.jpg
5437 Nadeah?s Moving Picture /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/nadeahs-moving-picture /media/cache/d5/ea/d5eacab778b01ae071dd126fe81eb534.jpg
5439 Brown & Bunting Bucks the Trend /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/brown-bunting-bucks-trend /media/cache/ab/92/ab920d58a9292ffe7d800482d5f57e5b.jpg
5417 The Art of Snagging /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/art-snagging /media/cache/fd/0c/fd0c499741b25013d043cfa566c2ec00.jpg
5419 Napoleon: Revolution to Empire /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/vive-lempereur /media/cache/8e/df/8edf4aa945e08c51693f9f3dd491396d.jpg
5406 Artists show their True Self /melbourne/arts-and-entertainment/article/artists-show-their-true-self /media/cache/c9/7e/c97e41aef1e15060f879a0ffcbb0b39f.jpg
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Ask a Tax Return Preparer to File Returns - Personal Finance
To help you with filing your income tax returns, the Income Tax department has drafted in TRPs (Tax Return Preparers). The TRPs can come to your home, collect all the relevant documents, prepare the tax return and deposit the at the right place. And this comes at a fee not more than Rs 250 per return.
You can locate the nearest TRP on their website here.
The scheme for TRPs was started in 2006 by a notification by the Ministry of Finance and a fresh batch (Batch-II) of 5000 graduates as Tax Return Preparers (TRPs) is being brought across the country.
The TRPs will be authorized to prepare Income Tax Returns for individual and HUF taxpayers. Graduates who successfully complete the training will be issued a Certificate and a Unique Identification Number which will authorize them under the Income-Tax Act, 1961 to:
- Prepare and file Returns of individual and HUF taxpayers
- Prepare and file quarterly TDS statements
- Register as e-Return Intermediaries
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012
How makers of phones and tablets are faring
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Iraq's bloodiest day of year: More than 100 killed
A wave of seemingly synchronized bomb and gun attacks swept Iraq on Monday. With scores killed throughout the country, the death toll was the highest seen so far in 2012. NBC's Kristy Breetzke reports.
By NBC News wire services
Updated at?9:40 a.m. ET: BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A wave of bombings and an attack on an?Iraqi military base killed more than 100 people on Monday. The death toll made it the bloodiest day of the year in the country, The Associated Press reported.?
In addition to those killed, at least 268 other people were wounded?by bombings and shootings in Shiite areas of Baghdad, the town of Taji to the north, the northern cities of Kirkuk and Mosul and many other places, hospital and police sources told Reuters.
The bloodshed, which coincided with an intensifying of the conflict in neighboring Syria, pointed up the deficiencies of the Iraqi security forces, which failed to prevent insurgents from striking in multiple locations across the country.
No group has claimed responsibility for the wave of assaults but a senior Iraqi security official blamed the local wing of al-Qaida, made up of Sunni Muslim militants bitterly hostile to the Shiite-led government, which is friendly with Iran.
"Recent attacks are a clear message that al-Qaida in Iraq is determined to spark a bloody sectarian war," the official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters.
"With what's going on in Syria, these attacks should be taken seriously as a potential threat to our country. Al-Qaida is trying to push Iraq to the verge of Shiite-Sunni war," he said. "They want things to be as bad as in Syria."
'Innocent people killed'
The last two days of attacks shattered a two-week lull in violence in the run-up to the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, which started in Iraq on Saturday.
Sectarian slaughter peaked in 2006-2007 but deadly attacks have persisted while political tensions among Iraq's main Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish factions have increased since U.S. troops completed their withdrawal in December.
"I ask the government if security forces are capable of keeping control," a man named Ahmed Salim shouted angrily at the scene of a car bomb in Kirkuk. "With all these bloody bombs and innocent people killed, the government should reconsider its security plans," he told Reuters Television.
Trail of destruction
The security forces themselves were often the targets or victims of the assaults perpetrated across Iraq.
Gunmen using assault rifles and hand grenades killed at least 16 soldiers in an attack on an army post near Dhuluiya, 45 miles north of Baghdad, police and army sources said.
In Taji, 12 miles north of Baghdad, six explosions, including a car bombing, occurred near a housing complex. A seventh blast there caused carnage among police who had arrived at the scene of the earlier ones. In all, 32 people were killed, including 14 police, with 48 wounded, 10 of them police.
Two car bombs struck near a government building in Sadr City, a vast, poor Shiite swathe of Baghdad, and in the mainly Shiite area of Hussainiya on the outskirts of the capital, killing a total of 21 people and wounding 73, police said.
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Nine people, including six soldiers, were killed in attacks in the northern city of Mosul, police and army sources told Reuters.
In Kirkuk, five car bombs killed six people and wounded 17, while explosions and gun attacks on security checkpoints around the restive province of Diyala killed six people, including four soldiers and policemen, and wounded 30, police sources told Reuters.
Other deadly attacks occurred in the towns of Khan Bani Saad, Udhaim, Tuz Khurmato, Samarra and Dujail, all north of Baghdad, as well as in the southern city of Diwaniya.
The orchestrated spate of violence followed car bombs on Sunday in two towns south of Baghdad and in the Shiite shrine city of Najaf that?killed a total of 20 people and wounded 80.
Last month was one of the bloodiest since the U.S. withdrawal, with at least 237 people killed and 603 wounded.
Latest news about Iraq from NBCNews.com
Iraq, whose huge desert province of Anbar, a Sunni heartland, borders Syria, is nervous about the impact of the conflict in its neighbor where mainly Sunni rebels are fighting to end President Bashar al-Assad's Alawite-dominated rule.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis took refuge in Syria from bloodshed that lasted for years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. Last week the Iraqi government urged them to return home to escape the violence in Syria.
20 unarmed men executed in Damascus, Syria activists say; battle begins for Aleppo
At least 80 buses laden with returning Iraqi refugees crossed the border last week, a U.N. spokeswoman said.
Iraq's Shiite-led government is also worried about the longer-term implications if Assad falls and Syria's majority Sunnis overthrow the supremacy of the president's Alawite sect, which traces its roots to Shiite Islam.
A sectarian struggle for control in post-Assad Syria could raise tensions across the border and damage Iraq's chances of overcoming its own formidable security and political challenges.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Right Coast: Surprise! Majority of Illegal Immigrant Households ...
Surprise! Majority of Illegal Immigrant Households Collecting Welfare
Surprise, surprise; Census Bureau data reveals that most?U.S.?families headed by illegal immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on behalf of their American-born anchor babies.Even before the recession, immigrant households with children used welfare programs at consistently higher rates than natives, according to the extensive census data collected and analyzed by a nonpartisanWashington?D.C.?group dedicated to researching legal and illegal immigration in the?U.S.?The results, published this month in a lengthy?report, are hardly surprising.Basically, the majority of households across the country benefitting from publicly-funded welfare programs are headed by immigrants, both legal and illegal. States where immigrant households with children have the highest welfare use rates are?Arizona?(62%),?Texas,?California?and?New York?with 61% each and?Pennsylvania(59%).The study focused on eight major welfare programs that cost the government $517 billion the year they were examined. They include Supplemental Security Income (SSI) for the disabled, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), a nutritional program known as Women, Infants and Children (WIC), food stamps, free/reduced school lunch, public housing and health insurance for the poor (Medicaid).Food assistance and Medicaid are the programs most commonly used by illegal immigrants, mainly on behalf of their American-born children who get automatic citizenship. On the other hand, legal immigrant households take advantage of every available welfare program, according to the study, which attributes it to low education level and resulting low income.The highest rate of welfare recipients come from the?Dominican Republic?(82 %),?Mexico?and?Guatemala?(75%) and?Ecuador?(70%), according to the report, which says welfare use tends to be high for both new arrivals and established residents.Judicial Watch
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Sunday, July 1, 2012
Morsi sworn in as Egypt's president
CAIRO (AP) ? Islamist Mohammed Morsi promised a "new Egypt" and unwavering support to the powerful military as he took the oath of office Saturday to become the country's first freely elected president, succeeding Hosni Mubarak who was ousted 16 months ago.
In a solemn inauguration ceremony before the Supreme Constitutional Court, Morsi also became the Arab world's first freely elected Islamist president and Egypt's fifth head of state since the overthrow of the monarchy some 60 years ago.
"We aspire to a better tomorrow, a new Egypt and a second republic," Morsi said before the black-robed judges in the court's Nile-side headquarters built to resemble an ancient Egyptian temple.
"Today, the Egyptian people laid the foundation of a new life ? absolute freedom, a genuine democracy and stability," said Morsi, a 60-year-old U.S.-trained engineer from the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist group that has spent most of the 84 years since its inception as an outlawed organization harshly targeted by successive governments.
He later delivered his inauguration address at a gigantic Cairo University lecture hall packed with several thousands, including many members of the Islamist-dominated parliament dissolved by the military earlier in June.
Morsi repeated his oath of office and lavishly praised the military, which has rushed a series of decrees this month that stripped Morsi of significant powers, gave it legislative power and took control of the process of drafting a permanent constitution. It has also retained its influence on key domestic and foreign policy issues.
"The armed forces are the shield and sword of the nation," he said. "I pledge before God that I will safeguard that institution, soldiers and commanders, raise its prestige and support it with all the powers available to me so it can be stronger."
But Morsi also appeared later in the address to urge the military to hand over all powers to his elected administration.
"The (ruling) Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has honored its promise not to be a substitute for the popular will and the elected institutions will now return to carry out their duties as the glorious Egyptian army returns to being devoted to its mission of defending the nation's borders and security," he said.
Military ruler Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi was in attendance along with other generals from the ruling council. His arrival at the hall was greeted by chants of "the army and the people are one hand." He and Gen. Sami Anan, the powerful chief of staff, wore a blank face throughout Morsi's address, occasionally offering support to Morsi with a polite clap of their hands.
Later at a military ceremony held at a base east of Cairo, Tantawi and Anan saluted Morsi as he arrived and awarded him the "shield of the Armed Forces" ? the Egyptian military's highest honor. Morsi also received a 21-gun salute before he and Tantawi addressed the ceremony.
Morsi used his Cairo University address to send an implicit message of reassurance to Israel, while also pledging support for the "legitimate rights" of the Palestinians.
He said his administration would continue to honor its international treaties ? a thinly veiled reference to the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty.
Relations between the two neighbors have become particularly tense since last year's overthrow of Mubarak, who had forged close ties with the Jewish state during his 29-year rule. The rise to power of Egyptian Islamists has been a source of alarm among many Israelis.
Hundreds of soldiers and policemen guarded the Supreme Constitutional Court building as Morsi arrived shortly after 11 a.m. local time (0900 GMT) in a small motorcade to take the oath of office. Only several hundred supporters gathered outside the court to cheer the new president and, in a departure from the presidential pomp of the Mubarak era, traffic was only briefly halted to allow Morsi's motorcade through on the usually busy road linking the city center with its southern suburbs.
In another sign of the change of style, Morsi began his address at Cairo University with an apology to students whose final exams had to be postponed to allow the ceremony to be held at the main campus. He was given an official welcome at the university with a military band playing the national anthem as he stood at attention.
Saturday's swearing-in also marked a personal triumph for Morsi, who was not the Brotherhood's first choice as president and was only thrown into the race when the group's original candidate, chief strategist and financier Khairat el-Shater, was disqualified over a Mubarak-era criminal conviction.
Derided as the Brotherhood's uncharismatic "spare tire," his personal prestige has surged since his victory, and received another boost Friday after he delivered a speech in Tahrir Square in which he tried to present him as a candidate of not just Islamists but of all those who want to complete the work of the 2011 uprising against the authoritarian Mubarak.
"Egypt today is a civil, national, constitutional and modern state," Morsi, wearing a blue business suit and a red tie, told the judges in the wood-paneled chamber where he took the oath of office. "It is a strong nation because of its people and the beliefs of its sons and its institutions."
Morsi took a symbolic oath Friday in Tahrir Square, the birthplace of the uprising that ended Mubarak's authoritarian rule last year, and vowed to reclaim presidential powers stripped from his office by the military council that took over from the ousted leader.
Morsi's speech Friday in Tahrir Square was filled with dramatic populist gestures. The 60-year-old president-elect staked a claim to the legacy of the uprising and voiced his determination to win back the powers stripped from his office by the generals.
Addressing a crowd that repeatedly shouted, "We love you Morsi!" he began his speech by joining them in chanting, "Revolutionaries and free, we will continue the journey." Later he opened his jacket wide to show that he was not wearing a bullet-proof vest.
"Everybody is hearing me now. The government ... the military and the police. ... No power above this power," he told the crowd. "I reaffirm to you I will not give up any of the president's authorities. I can't afford to do this. I don't have that right."
But by agreeing to take the official oath before the court, rather than before parliament as is customary, he bowed to the military's will in an indication that the contest for power will continue.
The generals dissolved the Islamist-packed legislature after the same Supreme Constitutional Court that swore him in Saturday ruled that a third of its members were elected illegally.
The military has also declared itself the legislative power. It gave itself control over the drafting of a new constitution, sidelining Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, which had sought to influence the process by packing the drafting panel with Islamists.
The generals also created a National Security Council to formulate key domestic and foreign policies. Military officers outnumber civilians sitting on the council by about two-to-one, and decisions are made by a simple majority.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/islamist-morsi-sworn-egypts-president-110500403.html
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