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NOTE TO READERS: Incomplete and unreliable schedule information has been supplied by the SABC.
YO TV STARTS
0630 Kids News & Current Affairs
0730 YO TV Land
0800 The Bold and The Beautiful
YO TV STARTS
1500 Science For Life
1630 Courage The Cowardly Dog
1700 Boy Meets Grill
1800 The Bold and The Beautiful: See Soap Box
1830 Youth Expression: Current Affairs
1900 B4 Da Fame: Reality show
2000 Generations: See Soap Box
2030 Shakespeare Inzingane Zo Baba (King Lear): The final confrontation takes place between Nkosi, Lucky, Kholekile and the men sent to kill them – and not everyone leaves the forest alive. Meanwhile, Eddie confronts his father with the evidence of his innocence. At the company headquarters, the conspirators’ alliance breaks apart – with fatal consequences
2100 Africa Her Majesty Speaks
2200 Sokhulu & Partners: Drama series
0000 Music Lounge: Soul, rap and kwaito music videos
0830 Parliament: A View From The House
0930 In The Night Garden
1200 Dr Phil: Advice show. Parent alert: If you have a teenager, watch this show . Dr Phil takes a close look at the harsh reality of young girls and
boys having a baby while they’re still just babies themselves. It doesn’t just happen to the bad girl down street; your child can become pregnant while under your roof
1300 Days of Our Lives
1700 Yu Gi Oh! GX
1800 Ngula ya Vutivi/Zwa Maramani: Lifestyle magazine
1830 7de Laan: See Soap Box
1930 Song Vir Katryn: Miniseries. The story behind Katryn’s mother’s jail sentence eventually comes out, and it’s clear why she does not want the parole board to know.

dispatch.co.za

Though the number of working Californians increased by 53,000 last month, that was not enough to budge the state’s unemployment rate from its March level and four-year high of 6.2 percent. EDD’s payroll survey registered a net loss of 800 positions in April, with 11,200 jobs gained in government, leisure & hospitality, and educational & health services. Job losses totaling 12,000 jobs hit hardest in construction, manufacturing, information, and professional & business services. Governor Schwarzenegger’s revised budget numbers now anticipate a loss of 30,000 jobs this year, a reversal from his January prediction that 106,000 jobs would be added in 2008.
California solar companies currently employ about 17,000 workers, and an additional 5000 workers could be needed over the next year. A new statewide survey of solar companies found that three-quarters of respondents plan to hire within the next year, and four in five are having difficulty finding experienced workers. Many of the opportunities will be in the Bay Area, where researchers expect 1900 solar positions could be added over the next year. Many of the jobs are for installers, but the industry also needs designers and salespeople. "You don’t need a PhD or BA to get into this industry," said survey co-author John Carrese. "It’s an opportunity to rebuild the working-class jobs that have been lost."
NATIONWIDE – Macy’s has partnered with FAO Schwartz to open 275 of the specialty toy stores within Macy’s by this fall, with an expected 685 to open within 2 years. FAO Schwartz will also market merchandise on Macy’s website.
STATEWIDE – In July, the US Forest Service plans to fill 363 supervisory and management vacancies in California.
BAY AREA – Take-and-bake pizzeria Papa Murphy’s is looking for franchisees to open 67 new locations here by 2011. Each store typically hires 15 to 18 employees.

jobjournal.com

Hollywood is about to shower us with a treasure trove of movies, and it’s about time.
After panning through nearly four months of the single worst creative drought of the past two decades, we stand to strike it rich with a variety of films that have something to offer beyond common-denominated plots, regurgitated dialogue and superficial special effects.
Even the sequels look sterling. Sequels? Yep. Many already appear to shine at least as brilliantly as their originals:
“The X-Files: I Want to Believe,” “Hellboy II: The Golden Army,” “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor,” “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,” “The Incredible Hulk,” and lest we forget the granddaddy of the group, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.”
Although “The Dark Knight” is Warner Bros.’ sixth Caped Crusader adventure since 1989, it qualifies as the sequel to Chris Nolan’s series reboot “Batman Begins.” Besides, it’s a far better title than “Batman Continues.”
So, here are the movies scheduled for release through August. Keep in mind that dates are subject to change at the whim of often-whimsical studio executives.
If we’re lucky, this summer season will render us some memorable movie moments we can truly treasure.
10 summer movies worth anticipating
1. “The Dark Knight” –Heath Ledger’s Joker, a frightening, twisted nightmare version of Jack Nicholson’s villain in 1988, already made Chris Nolan’s sequel to “Batman Begins” gotta-see material. Following Ledger’s apparent accidental drug overdose in January, this is the most anxiously awaited movie of the summer. Reportedly, Warner Bros. executives thought about editing a few of Ledger’s scenes but wisely begged off. July 18.
2. “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” — After a 19-year hiatus, can Harrison Ford, now 65, avoid “Raiders of the Lost AARP” jokes? Sure he can, if he’s directed by Steven Spielberg and his movie is produced by George Lucas. The intrepid archaeologist returns in his fourth adventure, which premieres May 18 at the Cannes Film Festival in France. Cate Blanchett and Shia LaBeouf star. May 22.

dailyherald.com

At 17, Becker was the youngest man ever to win Wimbledon. Now 40, he runs Boris Becker & Co, has a TV show and plays poker. He lives alone in Zug, near Zurich, and has three children: Noah, 14, Elias, 9, Anna, 8
I’m usually awake by 8.30 and the first thing I do is make a double espresso. Without it I can’t function. I don’t tend to eat breakfast but occasionally I’ll have fresh fruit and yoghurt. If it’s a nice morning I’ll sit on the terrace, because it overlooks Lake Zug. I have a penthouse in a three-storey loft conversion and I’ve been living here for five years, so it very much feels like home. I also have places in Miami, where my two sons live with their mother [Barbara Feltus], and a place in London, where my daughter lives with her mother [Angela Ermakova].
I travel a lot, but if I’m at home I head out to my office a short drive away and touch base with the small team of people who look after me. I have several cars, all Mercedes, because I’ve got a sponsorship deal with them, and I’ll often take the C-class coupé. Driving fast in Switzerland is a bit of a problem. There’s a strict 120km speed limit and speed cameras everywhere, so if you’re a bit on the fast side you end up paying a fortune in tickets. Luckily, the German border’s just over an hour away, and once I’m on the autobahn I can put my foot down.
When I retired from tennis in 1999 I was still only 31, and I needed to find a second career. I’m quite driven, easily bored, and I want to be doing things all the time. It’s only during the last five years that I’ve created the right balance and found a way to do the things I enjoy. My main thing now is the licensing of my name to different companies. In that sense, my name’s become a brand. As well as the Mercedes deal, I have a range of rackets and sports clothes, and then there are advertising campaigns with brands like Polo Ralph Lauren.

timesonline.co.uk

Bill Miller is kicking himself this morning. The second-largest shareholder in Yahoo, he wanted $35 to sell out to Microsoft, and so he held on to his shares rather than hand them over to arbitrageurs at $29 or so. But now that Microsoft has picked up its ball and gone home, Miller has decided that if Ballmer isn’t going to start buying Yahoo shares shares then maybe Yang should. He spoke to the NYT’s Miguel Helft:
Mr. Miller appeared to be applying some pressure of his own, saying that he expected Yahoo to use a good portion of its approximately $2.3 billion in cash to buy back shares.
“It would be almost incoherent not to do so,” Mr. Miller said. “You can’t maintain that $33 undervalues your company, have your stock trade below that, and not buy back stock.” Analysts say that Yahoo’s shares, which closed at $28.67 on Friday, are likely to drop below $25 and perhaps as low as $20 on Monday.
I don’t see the logic here. If Yahoo does start buying back its own stock, it will do so in the low $20s, where Miller seems to have shown that he has no interest in selling: he could have sold in the very high $20s at any point in the last few months, and passed up that opportunity.
As a major shareholder in Yahoo, Miller presumably has faith in the company’s long-term value: if he wanted a quick exit, he had ample opportunity to take it. So why does he think that the best use for Yahoo’s cash is to dole it out to shareholders who do want a quick exit?
Bill Miller, in case you’ve forgotten, runs something called the Legg Mason Value Trust, and does not run something called the Legg Mason Financial Engineering and Capital Structure Arbitrage Trust. Companies create lasting shareholder value by running a good business, not by running down their cash by shelling it out to exiting merger arbs.

portfolio.com

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anniversary, the paper says for those Palestinians n the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, there is little to celebrate. Israel itself, the paper judges, resembles a society slowly coming apart at the seams.   
Christian Science Monitor
In an editorial on Zimbabwe, the paper says that the opposition Movement for Democratic Change should take part in a run-off to decide the presidential election.
Jerry Lanson, who teaches journalism at Emerson College, tells Hillary Clinton in an open letter that it’s time to bow out.
Columnist Con Coughlin’s column is entitled "Why the West Moves Closer to Bombing Iran."
In an editorial on the political succession in Russia, the paper says the indications so far are that power has shifted from the Kremlin to parliament, where Vladimir Putin’s party, United Russia, has a majority of over two thirds.
In an editorial the Economist says Barack Obama deserves the Democratic nomination, but it is not yet clear whether he deserves the presidency.
In a further editorial, on Myanmar’s misery, the paper says superstitious generals and civilians alike will have seen the cyclone as a sign of divine impatience hinting at the looming downfall of a tyrannical government.
In an editorial on Israel’s 60
anniversary, the paper says the Palestinians can help themselves by putting history behind them and coming to terms with reality, as the Israelis say they already have. A peaceful future is possible only with two states, not just the one.
Also in an editorial, the paper welcomes a plan to stem foreclosures and stabilize house prices in the U.S. by allowing the government to reinsure up to $300 billion of problem loans through the Federal Housing Administration.

cfr.org

Food prices are going up. But here are lots of ways — 101 of them — to shave off pennies, dimes and dollars from your food costs.
Not every tip fits every situation. A vat-size container of salad dressing is cheaper per ounce, but not if it sits in a single person’s fridge for months on end. Remember, the most expensive food you can buy is the food that goes to waste.
Before you go
1. For a week, track what your family actually spends on food. Don’t forget to include work lunches, restaurant meals, vending-machine snacks and convenience store stops. These add up quickly.
2. Have a plan. Jot down simple dinner menus for the week, using the weekly grocery store ads so you can take advantage of what’s on sale that week. Having a plan ends the 5 p.m. “what’s for dinner?” plight.
3. Make a shopping list from your menu. Having the ingredients you need for the week eliminates extra trips to the supermarket, where more incidental items can end up in your grocery cart.
4. To save time, compile a basic shopping list of things you usually buy on a weekly basis, such as milk, lettuce, etc. Organize the list by the store layout and make lots of copies. Then each week it’s just a matter of penciling in the extra ingredients from your menu.
5. Get out of the dinner rut. Check out cookbooks or magazines from the library or attend local cooking classes for new ideas.
6. For low-cost, nutritious recipe ideas, check the Food Stamp Nutrition Connection at recipefinder.nal.usda.gov. The recipes have cost-per-serving and nutrition data.
7. Consider making from scratch many of the things you usually buy in prepared form, such as brownies or salad dressing.
8. Time is a valuable resource. It’s usually not worth the time (or gasoline) to hopscotch from store to store to save a few dollars.

deseretnews.com

Food prices are going up. But here are lots of ways — 101 of them — to shave off pennies, dimes and dollars from your food costs.
Not every tip fits every situation. A vat-size container of salad dressing is cheaper per ounce, but not if it sits in a single person’s fridge for months on end. Remember, the most expensive food you can buy is the food that goes to waste.
Before you go
1. For a week, track what your family actually spends on food. Don’t forget to include work lunches, restaurant meals, vending-machine snacks and convenience store stops. These add up quickly.
2. Have a plan. Jot down simple dinner menus for the week, using the weekly grocery store ads so you can take advantage of what’s on sale that week. Having a plan ends the 5 p.m. “what’s for dinner?” plight.
3. Make a shopping list from your menu. Having the ingredients you need for the week eliminates extra trips to the supermarket, where more incidental items can end up in your grocery cart.
4. To save time, compile a basic shopping list of things you usually buy on a weekly basis, such as milk, lettuce, etc. Organize the list by the store layout and make lots of copies. Then each week it’s just a matter of penciling in the extra ingredients from your menu.
5. Get out of the dinner rut. Check out cookbooks or magazines from the library or attend local cooking classes for new ideas.
6. For low-cost, nutritious recipe ideas, check the Food Stamp Nutrition Connection at recipefinder.nal.usda.gov. The recipes have cost-per-serving and nutrition data.
7. Consider making from scratch many of the things you usually buy in prepared form, such as brownies or salad dressing.
8. Time is a valuable resource. It’s usually not worth the time (or gasoline) to hopscotch from store to store to save a few dollars.

deseretnews.com

The check is in the mail.
It’s the Incumbent Insurance Check, otherwise known as an Economic Stimulus Check from Uncle Sam, courtesy of your friends in Congress who happen to want to get re-elected. Can’t call it a tax rebate check — although some have — since even those who didn’t pay taxes received them.
Perhaps you’ve received the email: “How to Use Your Rebate Check.” Two different friends have forwarded it this past week.
“If you spend it at Walmart,” it begins, “all the money will go to China.” (Whatever happened to those commercials they used to run about “buying American?”)
“If you spend it on gas, it will go to the Arabs.” … or the Venezualians or to Mexico … or even worse, (at least in politician’s eyes) to Exxon stockholders!
Spending your Economic Stimulus check on a computer will send your money to India; buy a car and it will go to Japan or Korea, the message continues.
“We need to keep that money in America,” the message concludes. “So spend it at yard sales since those are they only businesses still in the US!”
Like many jokes, particularly those floating around the internet, there is some truth involved but they do exaggerate a bit.
But fear not, Blufftonites are ahead of the curve once again, as evidenced by last weekend’s city-wide garage sales. It’s grown to be quite an annual event with more than a few parking complaints on the police log, and this entry from Saturday morning:
Saturday, 10:31 a.m., officer requested at Willowbrook Addition for heavy traffic congestion. The officer that arrived reported that there was so much congestion in the addition due to the town-wide garage sale, that there was nothing he could do about it.
Now, my diabolical mind thought, perhaps these good people in Willowbrook know what it’s like for downtown businesses during Street Fair Week. But our traffic jam lasts a full week though, not just a day or so.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (March 25, 2008) – After nearly two months away from the track, the drivers and teams of the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16 are itching to get back into action at Saturday’s GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead-Miami Speedway (3 p.m. ET).
At the top of the Daytona Prototype standings following the season-opening Rolex 24 At Daytona are some familiar faces, beginning with 2004 Rolex Series co-Champ Scott Pruett and his season-long teammate Memo Rojas in the No. 01 TELMEX/Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates Lexus Riley. Rojas and Pruett lead the championship standings after their win at Daytona, Pruett’s third overall win in the endurance classic.
Hot on their heels entering round two of the season are the defending champions, Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty, in the No. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Pontiac Riley. Homestead-Miami Speedway was one of the few black marks on the 2007 season for the team after an 11th-place finish, with a top finish in front of the team’s key sponsor a priority at this year’s GAINSCO Grand Prix of Miami.
The two-car effort from Michael Shank Racing figures to be in the mix this weekend, including Oswaldo Negri and Mark Patterson in the No. 6 Ford Riley and Ian James and John Pew in the No. 60 Ford Riley machine. The team swept the front row at the Rolex 24 At Daytona and led throughout the race before mechanical difficulties and bad luck dropped each car back in the pack. Negri has since topped the time charts at February’s test at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Defending race champions Sigalsport return to the scene of its lone Rolex Series victory with an entirely new look for the No. 7 Rum Bum BMW Riley. Matt Plumb and Gene Sigal replace Bill Auberlen and Matt Alhadeff behind the wheel of the No. 7 machine to defend the team title around the 2.3-mile infield road course. Auberlen, with co-driver Joey Hand, will try to repeat behind the wheel of the No. 23 Alex Job Racing Ruby Tuesday Championship Racing Porsche Crawford in Saturday’s matinee.

theautochannel.com