FCC Sets Rules for Broadcasters for Remainder of Digital TV Transition
(PDF; 139 KB) Source: Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission has set the rules of the road for the final stage of the digital television transition, adopting policies meant to protect and prepare consumers while ensuring broadcasters have the flexibility granted by Congress to switch to digital before the final June 12 deadline. In this order adopted to implement a law signed bythe President last month that extended the final transition deadline from February 17 to June 12, the Commission takes further steps to provide an analog lifeline of vital news, public affairs and emergency broadcasts to consumers who need more time for the switch. Prompted by lessons learned after February 17, when about one-third of the nation’s full power broadcasters terminated analog programming, the Commission also requires broadcasters who have yet to make the transition to educate consumers about a range of digital television reception problems that have arisen.

List Of Expiring Federal Tax Provisions 2008-2020
Joint Committee on Taxation: JCX-20-09 (March 09, 2009) List Of Expiring Federal Tax Provisions 2008-2020

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Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith hardbound 227 pages
#7 in the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Series
Alexander McCall Smith was born in Zimbabwe and educated both there and in Scotland. He worked as a Professor in Law in Scotland after graduating, also returning to the University of Botswana to work for several years in the Law Faculty he helped to set up there. He retired from his post as Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh in 2005, in order to concentrate on his writing career. He has been a visiting Professor at various other universities including in Italy and the USA. He is an international authority on genetics and advisor to UNESCO and to the British government on bioethics. His books include many specialist titles, for example, The Criminal Law of Botswana (1992), the only book on the subject, and Forensic Aspects of Sleep (1997), again the definitive title on this area of knowledge. He has written many popular children's novels and picture books, as well as collections of short stories such as The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales From Africa (2004), based on African stories handed down to him. http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authc2d9c28a16ae81fe9egtv3d0860f
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riddles, intrigues and violence in 15th century religious and political life
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winner of the 2001 National Book Award for fiction

The Corrections is a satire about a dysfunctional family. A list of books about dysfunctional families is here: http://www.jocolibrary.org/upload/library/docs/pdf/booklists/DysfunctionalFamiliesAudiobooks.pdf

dermatoglyphics (duhr-mat-uh-GLIF-iks, -muh-tuh-)
noun:
1. The ridge patterns of skin on the inner surface of the hands and feet.
2. The scientific study of these skin patterns.
The term was coined in 1926 by Dr Harold Cummins (1893-1976), from Greek dermato- (skin) + glyphein (to carve). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gleubh- (to tear apart) that is also the source of cleve, glyph, clever, and clove (garlic). And that's also where we get cleavage, cleft palate, and cloven hooves.
USAGE:
"What makes dermatoglyphics important as markers for disease and traits is the fact that they develop at specific times in the foetus. Fingerprints, for example, begin to form at around the 13th week and are completed around week 18 - the same time that critical growth in the brain is taking place." Roger Dobson; Scientists Say Palm-reading is True Guide to Intelligence; The Sunday Times (London, UK); Dec 9, 2001.
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Filkins, Bolaño Among 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
March 13, 2009
The National Book Critics Circle gave out its annual awards at a well-attended ceremony at The New School in New York City on March 12. List of award winners from Publishers Weekly and more, particularly on the posthumous award winner Roberto Bolano from Guardian UK.

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Combine raw turnip and baby asparagus, sliced small with salt and pepper and a little oil.
If desired, add seasoning, seeds or nuts.

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