|
Navigate DDN
|
Best Payday
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "The Montel Williams Show" will end its run at the end of this season after 17 years on the air.
CBS Television Distribution, the syndicated show's producer and distributor, is offering the compilation series "Best of Montel" for fall, which includes 52 weeks of highlight episodes from the show.
"We have been honored to have Montel as a part of our family for the past 17 years, and we're very excited that Montel will live on through these 'best of' episodes," said John Nogawski, president and COO of CBS TV Distribution.
In a similar move, Sony Pictures TV recently announced that it will cease production on veteran court show "Judge Hatchett" after the end of its current eighth season and cull from the series' library to present 52 themed weeks for fall. |
| |
|
January 31st, 2008 @ 5:57AM |
0 Comments
|
Post a Comment
|
WASHINGTON - The Senate is set to begin voting on dueling economic aid proposals, as senators rush to add jobless benefits and tax rebates for high earners, the elderly, and disabled veterans to a House-passed package.
ADVERTISEMENT
Senate Democrats and some Republicans are teaming up to tack $32 billion onto the House measure with a bill that would send rebates of $500-$1,000 to all but the richest taxpayers. Families also would get $300 for each child. Senators could begin voting as early as Thursday in hopes of completing the package by week's end.
Provided that President Bush quickly signs the legislation, Americans could start receiving rebate checks in May, with the bulk expected to arrive in June.
The measure would make individuals with annual incomes of up to $150,000 and couples with incomes up to $300,000 eligible for the rebates — limits twice as high as the plan the House passed on Tuesday.
It also would expand rebate eligibility to 20 million older Americans on Social Security and to disabled veterans, and provide an unemployment extension for those whose benefits have run out.
"It helps seniors and it helps those hit hardest by the economic downturn," said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., the plan's author.
The Senate Finance Committee approved the measure on a bipartisan vote Wednesday.
But the plan defies entreaties from President Bush, House leaders and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to keep the narrower House bill intact. The Senate measure would pump $193 billion into the economy over the next two years, compared with the $161 billion House measure.
"The Baucus proposal has become yet another Christmas tree and will only grow and slow down when it reaches the Senate floor. We need to act now, and the way to do that is the bipartisan bill that passed the House by an overwhelming, bipartisan margin," McConnell said late Wednesday.
Still, the senior Finance Republican, Sen. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, came out in support of the plan and said he would team with Baucus to resist efforts to add to it.
"This cannot be loaded down or it is likely to sink," Grassley said
Senators already were lining up with more add-ons to the bill, including food stamp and heating assistance for the poor.
The most expensive change, though, was Baucus' larger rebate, which would cost about $18 billion more than the House-passed rebates.
Baucus' measure would extend unemployment payments for 13 weeks for those whose benefits have run out, with 26 more weeks available in states with the highest unemployment rates. The only state that currently meets the trigger is Michigan.
It also goes further than the House package in efforts to bar illegal immigrants from receiving rebates. Under the Senate measure, recipients and their spouses and children would have to have valid Social Security numbers to qualify. The House bill omits that requirement, although it expressly disqualifies nonresident aliens.
The Senate plan would restore a business tax break dropped during the House negotiations that would permit corporations suffering losses now to reclaim taxes previously paid.
Both packages include roughly $50 billion worth of tax incentives for businesses to invest in new plants and equipment. Baucus' measure also adds $5.5 billion in renewable energy tax incentives. |
| |
|
January 31st, 2008 @ 5:54AM |
0 Comments
|
Post a Comment
|
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will endorse John McCain on Thursday, giving a boost to the Republican presidential front-runner six days before California's high-prize primary.
The two will appear at a news conference after touring a Los Angeles-based solar energy company and the governor will make his endorsement official, his senior aides confirmed.
Schwarzenegger's endorsement of McCain is yet another setback for Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who saw Florida slip from his grasp Tuesday after McCain rolled up the support of that state's two top elected Republicans, Gov. Charlie Crist and Sen. Mel Martinez.
His strategy in tatters, Romney plans to offer himself as the conservative alternative to McCain as he pushes ahead in hopes of winning enough delegates to topple the Arizona senator when 21 states vote in the Republican contest on Tuesday.
Schwarzenegger's move comes as McCain plows toward the nomination, the only Republican candidate to have won three hotly contested primaries — New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida — since voting began earlier this month.
"Governor Schwarzenegger is an exceptional governor and we are honored that he has decided to endorse Senator McCain, and look forward to the event tomorrow," said Steve Schmidt, a senior McCain adviser who managed Schwarzenegger's 2006 campaign.
Schwarzenegger sat in the audience here Wednesday as McCain and Romney shared a debate stage with rivals Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
McCain, the four-term senator, is running strongly ahead of all three rivals in California, which offers a whopping 170 delegates to the Republican nominating convention. Candidates secure three delegates for each of the state's 53 congressional districts they win in the primary, in which only Republicans can vote.
The ultimate effect of Schwarzenegger's endorsement is unclear. The celebrity governor and former actor is universally known in the state, and his political network certainly will be helpful to McCain, who has virtually no organized effort in California after his candidacy nearly collapsed last summer. The actor-turned-governor also is a prolific fundraiser.
But Schwarzenegger has a strained relationship with some conservatives in his own party and McCain, himself, is fighting to convince GOP rank-and-file that he's committed to conservative values. Schwarzenegger's nod could exacerbate concerns about McCain among the party establishment.
Schwarzenegger also is taking heat from state Republicans who argue he's been too willing to bend to the wishes of the Democratic-controlled Legislature. At the same time, California faces a $14.5 billion budget deficit over the next year-and-half, and the governor has rankled the state's powerful education lobby with his proposal to cut spending by 10 percent from state agencies to deal with the financial crisis.
McCain and Schwarzenegger have been friends for years, and the two share a bond over their work on global warming issues as well as their similar independent streaks. Aides say Schwarzenegger long has respected McCain's push to eliminate wasteful spending in Washington, protect the environment and fix a broken immigration system.
The governor offered high praise of McCain throughout the campaign, calling him a "great senator" and "very good friend," and the two appeared together at the Port of Los Angeles last year. "We share common philosophy and goals for this country," McCain said at the time.
But Schwarzenegger always has stopped short of endorsing McCain, given that another friend, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, also was in the race.
Earlier this month, Schwarzenegger told reporters he would not make an endorsement in the GOP primary, saying then: "It doesn't help me, and it doesn't help the state of California." But senior advisers say Giuliani's departure from the race Wednesday changed the dynamics of the decision for Schwarzenegger, and he decided to go ahead with the endorsement as it was clear that Giuliani's candidacy was over. |
| |
|
January 31st, 2008 @ 5:53AM |
0 Comments
|
Post a Comment
|
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing Helmand province's deputy governor and five other people, officials said.
The bomber struck while people were praying inside the mosque in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal said.
Helmand's deputy governor, Pir Mohammad, was killed in the blast, said Nisar Ahmad, a provincial health official.
The blast killed five other people and wounded 18 others, seven seriously, Andiwal said.
Andiwal said Mohammad had just arrived from a meeting at the nearby compound of the Helmand governor.
"After finishing his meeting, the deputy governor walked to the mosque for prayer," Andiwal said. "As they were praying, the bomber detonated his explosives."
The mosque's prayer leader was also killed, he said.
Haji Ikramullah, a witness who was on his way to pray at the mosque when the blast shook the ground, said he saw dead bodies inside and wounded people crying in pain.
Taliban regularly attack Afghan officials as part of their attempts to weaken the control of U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai's government.
Helmand, the center of the world's opium and heroin production, is focus of intense clashes between militants and British, American and Afghan government forces.
The mosque blast happened hours after another suicide bomber in a car targeted an Afghan army bus in Kabul, killing one civilian and wounding four other people, officials said.
The blast shattered the bus windows and badly damaged a passing taxi in Kabul's Taimani neighborhood, said police officer Jan Agha. A soldier was among the wounded.
A series of attacks last year targeted buses carrying Afghan security forces, a key element of U.S. efforts to beat back the insurgency gripping the country's south and east.
In September a suicide bomber blew himself up in an army bus in Kabul, killing 28 soldiers and two civilians. In June a bomb ripped through a bus carrying police instructors in Kabul, killing 35 people.
Last year was Afghanistan's most deadly since the ouster of the Taliban in a U.S.-led invasion in 2001. More than 6,500 people — mostly insurgents — died in the violence, according to an Associated Press count of figures provided by local and international officials.
In eastern Nuristan province, militants beheaded four road construction workers and dumped their bodies on the side of the road Wednesday, said deputy provincial police chief Mohammad Daoud Nadim.
The four were kidnapped 10 days ago while working on a road project in Kamdesh district, Nadim said.
In Kabul, hundreds of people demanded the release of an Afghan journalist who was sentenced to death last week after he was found guilty of insulting Islam.
The demonstrators from the small, secular Solidarity Party rallied in front of the United Nations office in support of 23-year old Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh, who was sentenced by a three-judge panel in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for distributing to journalism students a report he had printed off the Internet.
The article asked why Islam permitted men to have four wives but women could not have multiple husbands.
Kaambakhsh has appealed his conviction.
International human rights groups have condemned the sentence but Afghanistan's upper house of parliament welcomed the ruling and criticized "international interference" in the matter.
__
Associated press reporters Amir Shah and Rahim Faiez in Kabul contributed to this report. |
| |
|
January 31st, 2008 @ 5:52AM |
0 Comments
|
Post a Comment
|
Cash Advance
21 - 30 of about 114,000,000 for Cash Advance (About this page) - 0.27 sec.
Also try:
* payday cash advance,
* cash advance s,
* cash advance america,
* More...
WEB RESULTS
21.
Payday - Cash Advance - Check 'n Go
Check 'n Go provides online access to financial services including cash advances, installment s and pre-paid debit cards.
Check 'n Go near you
www.checkngo.com - 17k - Cached
22.
Quick Cash Advance : Apply Advance at CashNetUSA.com
Read about Quick Cash Advance. Apply online today, its fast, easy and 100% secure. CashNetUSA is the trusted brand for online cash advances.
www.cashnetusa.com/cashAdvance/quick_cash_Advance.html - 25k - Cached
23.
Post Comment
Cash advance ... any individual to apply for your Cash advance service, one must be repaid within ... The cost of an Instant Cash Advance company. ...
www.blurty.com/talkpost.bml?journal=finance_6587&itemid=465 - 26k - Cached
24.
CDC-FOIA-Advance of Funds for Travel
CDC/ATSDR FOIA(Freedom of Information Act) Office ... CDC Travel Memorandum No. 89-1, Limiting Travel Advances for Effective Cash Management, 1/30/89 ...
www.cdc.gov/od/foia/policies/advance.htm - 32k - Cached
25.
Advance America
More Than Cash Advances ... Goes Where Cash Can't ... Important information about advances at Advance America © 2008 AARC, Inc. All Rights Reserved. ...
Advance America near you
www.advanceamerica.net - 6k - Cached
26.
Los Angeles Payday
American Cash Market of Los Angeles is your quick payday solution. We offer a fast online payday cash advance service. Get approved in minutes and pick up your cash.
www.americancashmarket.com
27.
The cost of a card cash advance
Frequently asked questions about what to do in your card is stolen. ... Cash advances carry an upfront fee of 2 percent to 4 percent of the amount advanced. ...
www.bankrate.com/brm/news/cc/20020814q.asp - 76k - Cached
28.
Post Comment
... processing of the faxless cash advance can give you the ... Cash advance ... completing the online cash advances are unsecured and short-term s do not ...
www.blurty.com/talkpost.bml?journal=finance_9571&itemid=458 - 25k - Cached
29.
Payday s Cash Advances $1000 Overnight | AmeriCash Advance
Provides same day payday s and cash advances online.
www.americashadvance.com - 9k - Cached
30.
Cash Advances at Payday Select
Offers cash advances and payday s for individuals who qualify. ... Apply now for a discount cash advance from Payday Select. ...
www.paydayselect.com - 15k - Cached
SPONSOR RESULTS
*
Short Term swww.Beyond.info - Short Term s Are Fast Approval Low Rates. Let Us Guide You How.
*
Ace Cash Advancewww.Fast-CashAdvances.com - Buried In Bills? Payday s Up To $1,500. Apply Online Today.
Also try:
* payday cash advance,
* cash advance s,
* cash advance america,
* More...
SPONSOR RESULTS
* Short Term s
Short Term s Are Fast Approval Low Rates. Let Us Guide You How.
www.Beyond.info
* Ace Cash Advance
Buried In Bills? Payday s Up To $1,500. Apply Online Today.
www.Fast-CashAdvances.com
* Cash Advances
Find, compare & buy. Save Now.
www.Dealtime.com
Cash Advance |
| |
|
January 31st, 2008 @ 5:47AM |
0 Comments
|
Post a Comment
|
|
| About Bobby |
| Information not available |
| [ profile ] |
| Bobby's Links |
| No links selected. |
|
| Get the RSS Feed of this blog. XML |
|
