Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Two sentenced in bingo conspiracy case
Two sentenced in bingo conspiracy case Two men who operated a Garden City bingo game have been sentenced for conspiracy to defraud the IRS. Each sentenced to six months in prison and fined $30,000 and also ordered to spend nine months on home detention. Idaho law says that certain charities can run bingo and raffle games. But at least 20% of the gross profits must go to charity.
Monday, July 30, 2007
Bingo parlor robbed at gunpoint
Bingo parlor robbed at gunpoint Employees of Shamrock Bingo parlor reported they were confronted at the door by two men wearing ski masks, gloves and dressed in dark clothing as the last customers were leaving the business early Saturday morning. The gunmen forced two employees and three customers back inside the business, bound their hands and proceeded to take an undetermined amount of money from the business and from the individuals.
Friday, July 27, 2007
Expert Advice on How Colors Can Be Comforting in Time of Stress
The Dewey Color System: Choose Your Colors, Change Your Life
Among the many things that offer comfort in time of great stress are the colors that surround you, according to noted personality expert Dewey Sadka.
Sadka, who has researched the influence of color on personality for over 20 years, says browns are comfort colors that create a down-to-earth perspective that encourage you to be more aware, authentic, and compassionate.
"North Americans" are accustomed to comfort words and phases, like 'freedom' and 'love you' and even fond of comfort foods like mashed potatoes and hot apple pie," says Sadka. "But comfort colors, as described in my book, are subliminally recognized, and are equally as healing."
Thursday, July 26, 2007
'Double Taxation'
'Double Taxation' The UK's bingo companies have been lobbying government over its current 'double taxation' policy, in which they are charged VAT on the price players pay for each bingo game, while gross profit is also taxed. Operators are arguing that, while being inherently unfair, it puts the industry at a major disadvantage when competing with other forms of gaming.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Bingo is back.
Bingo is back. After a three-month scramble to obtain permits from the state, Edison Township's five senior citizens clubs have received permission to resume their weekly bingo games and 50/50 raffles. The Bonhamtown seniors didn't waste any time. They immediately started exchanging quarters for bingo cards, playing again for $2 prizes. "We hand out maybe $30 in $5 increments for our 50/50, so what are we taking in? Maybe $30 a week?" Eileen Davis, president of the Stelton club, complained about the need for permits.
Monday, July 16, 2007
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Win a Home Theater Makeover:
Win a Home Theater Makeover: The "Makeshifters" Contest – What is it? The ranks of the Home Theater deprived have a chance to win a complete home theater makeover and other incredible prizes including home theater gear and furniture in the "Makeshifters" Contest. One Grand Prize, One Runner Up, and four Third Prize winners will be chosen by voters and an expert panel of judges. As an added bonus, everyone who submits a video or photo entry receives one $10 Circuit City gift card! July 20th deadline.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | What women talk about
Forty-six words women might say, men probably wouldn't:
- Book club: A female dominated affair, perhaps because women read more fiction, or perhaps because men aren't very good at talking about it
- Accessorise: If men were ever to use this word it would only be in the context of cars
- Body image
- Empowering: Men never use this word, perhaps because for the 200,000 years humans have been on the planet, men have had all the power
- Burlesque: Something involving strip-tease that can apparently involve the above
- Size zero
- Home birth
- Pilates: Men in the UK, particularly, seem to have no interest in building up their core strength
- Pomegranate: Men seem ill-equipped to understand the significance and full range of superfoods
- Cellulite
- Absolutely beautiful: The words women often use to describe friends who are not
- Conventionally attractive: Preceded by "well I suppose she is...", a phrase women often use to describe those who actually are
- Jesse Metcalfe: A walking Athena poster, see above
- Footless tights: Strange idea, strangely popular
- Breastfeeding
- Emotional intelligence: Something that men usually do not possess, instead preferring the kind of intelligence that involves dates of battles
- Kitten heels: Or indeed heels of any other kind
- What are you thinking?: The classic female condition check
- Feminism: If even veteran feminists can't agree on what this means then it's probably best avoided by men
- Afghanistan: A place where the debate is rather starker
- Agony aunt: When men seek answers to life-changing problems in magazines, it tends to be under the headline "plasma or LCD?"
- Airbrushing: The process by which magazine picture editors oppress women in an underhand way
- Flexible working
- Handbagging: As in new Commons leader Harriet Harman's request to Theresa May not to savage her every Thursday
- Beefeater: The first female one made her debut this year
- Babies
- Superwoman
- Ms: Extraordinarily, the battle continues for women to be allowed to avoid definition by their marital status
- Middleton: As in Kate. Style icon or harassed paparazzo target?
- Concealer
- Why: As in "why do you never call?"
