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Celton Manx is extending its support of the Senior Men’s National Football Team for the 2012/13 season. Celton Manx is the locally based operator of SBOBET.com and it is SBOBET that the senior men’s kit has been branded with for the past two years.

Executive Director Bill Mummery and Head of Business Development Mike Stanton, attended the quarter final of the FA Inter League against Liverpool County last weekend at the Bowl to see their team in action. The FA Inter League Cup is run by the Football Association to provide an English representative in the UEFA Regions’ Cup. The Isle of Man national team won the competition in 2006 and went on to represent England in the Regions’ Cup.

A record 1,300-strong crowd were there to cheer on the Manx team, in the most remarkable weather conditions, to a 5-3 victory. The Manx team looked to be out of the competition at half-time trailing 0-3 but made an amazing comeback to reach the semi-finals of the cup.

Executive Director of Celton Manx, Bill Mummery said: ‘Despite the torrid weather conditions on Saturday it was great to see so many people out supporting our Manx National Team. We are very proud to be able to sponsor our talented local team and the quality shown on the pitch was fantastic. Both teams played with a level of sportsmanship that is often sadly lacking in modern football, it was a pleasure to watch.  I am looking forward to the semi-finals and hopefully seeing our team go all the way and lift the cup!’

Frank Stennett, Chief Executive Officer of the Isle of Man Football Association said: ‘We were delighted that Celton Manx and SBOBET has agreed to continue its sponsorship of the Senior Men’s Representative Team for this season. It really is tremendous news and is very much appreciated by all the squad players and indeed the directors on the board here at the IOMFA.

‘Saturday’s match showed the amount of support we have in the Island and the quality of our team. I am very excited for the semi-finals and the other competitions the team will be involved in this year.’

The semi-final tie will be played against Southern Amateur League on Saturday 24th March at the Bowl, Douglas with a 3-00pm kick-off . 

To get your tickets please contact Ann Garrett at the IOMFA on 615576.
 
-ENDS-

Saturday’s match showed the amount of support we have in the Island and the quality of our team.

Frank Stennett, Chief Executive Officer of the Isle of Man Football Association

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GRAND CAYMAN, CAYMAN ISLANDS--(Marketwire -02/23/12)- Golden Frog, the premier global software developer, announces today the update of their VyprVPN App for Giganews to 1.0. The update to VyprVPN App for Giganews 1.0 includes numerous improvements to the user interface and functionality.

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First Lady Michelle Obama made a quick trip to Cincinnati on Thursday, preaching her husband?s record to the choir and stopping briefly at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

She collected some big money - about 300 people paid anywhere from $250 to $10,000 to hear her speak and to meet her.

She delivered a vigorous defense of her husband?s administration to the crowd at the downtown Westin hotel, saying President Obama?s work ?is not done.?

?If any family in this country is struggling,? the First Lady said, ?we can not be satisfied with our own families? good fortune.?

Obama spoke for nearly half an hour. Before that, she appeared at a private reception with big donors where attendees had an opportunity to have their picture taken with the First Lady.

Wearing a sleeveless black dress, Obama largely recited the accomplishments of the Obama administration. She told crowd that her husband ? raised by a single parent, with the help of his grandmother ? understands the problems of struggling families ?because he has lived them.?

?Who do we want to be??? she asked. ?Will we be a country where success is limited to a few at the top? This country is strongest when we are all better off.?

Her husband came to office three years ago, she said, to bring about change; and said change ?does not come easy.?

It was her first visit to Cincinnati since Sept. 2008, when her husband was running for president. Then, she spoke at a National Baptist Convention at the Duke Energy Center.

Her comments drew criticism from Christopher Maloney, spokesman for the Ohio Republican Party.

?The time has come and gone for empty rhetoric and broken promises. Ohioans simply cannot afford another four years of job loss, higher taxes and increased debt under Barack Obama,? he said.

The First Lady praised the passage of health care reform legislation that she said has already ?saved millions of seniors in this country an average of $600 a year for prescription drugs.?

?Now, there are some folks talking about repealing that reform,?? she said. ?Are we going to let that happen? Are we going to allow children to be denied health care coverage who have cancer or other serious diseases? We can?t do that.?

Shot back Maloney: ?The ?folks? Mrs. Obama dismisses represent 2.3 million Ohioans and a majority of voters in all 88 Ohio counties who demanded the repeal of Obamacare?s job-killing mandate in November.?

She also praised her husband for getting rid of the ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell? policy toward gays in the military.

?Never again will our young people have to lie about who they are,?? she said.

Among those at the mid-day event were State Sen. Eric Kearney, D-North Avondale, and his wife, Jan-Michelle Kearney, both personal friends of the Obamas. Jan-Michelle Kearney attended Harvard Law School with Mrs. Obama.

After the fundraiser, the First Lady changed into a navy blue dress and took a private tour of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. She spent just over a half hour in the facility, walking through with Dina Bailey, director of exhibitions and collections. Walking with them was Mayor Mark Mallory and Verna Williams, of Pleasant Ridge, and Williams? 12-year-old daughter, Allison. Williams has been a friend of Obama?s since college.

It was a personal tour and a photo opportunity, but reporters weren?t close enough to hear Obama?s questions or comments. She?d never been to the museum center before and wanted to see it, said Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory.

?I don?t think people in Cincinnati are clear on the significance of the freedom center,? he said. ?The First Lady was very interested in seeing it.?

He said she also asked about the economy in Cincinnati, which he told her was looking up. Bailey explained, he said, that the museum would soon merge with the Cincinnati Museum Center. Without that change, the Freedom Center would have had to close next year.

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CHENNAI: Congress chief Sonia Gandhi has declined to disclose details of her income tax returns under the RTI Act, citing personal freedom and security risk. In her reply to the I-T department, she also said there was no public interest involved in disclosing such information.

Chennai-based RTI activist V Gopalakrishnan had sought details of her I-T returns from the year 2000-2001 to 2010-2011. The assistant commissioner of income tax, New Delhi, who is also the chief public information officer (CPIO), wrote to the UPA chairperson on January 23 as per Section 11 of the RTI Act, 2005, seeking her response to the application. In her reply, Sonia said disclosure of such private information to third parties in guise of transparency in public life would amount to unwarranted invasion of the individual's privacy. The information submitted to the I-T department by an individual was confidential and private in nature and cannot be disclosed as per Section 138 of the Income Tax Act, 1961, she said.

This is the second time that the CPIO has rejected the petition. The application was first rejected without even seeking objection from Sonia. After the appellate authority's intervention last month on Gopalakrishnan's plea, the CPIO sought a response from Sonia. "By not calling for an objection, the CPIO has ignored the possibility of the third party expressing willingness for disclosure of personal I-T information," the authority had said.

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Tax changes sought by big telecommunications companies suddenly stalled in the Senate on Thursday amid questions about the long-term impact to state and local government finances.

The Senate’s Finance and Tax committee completely rewrote the legislation (SB 1060), which companies such as Verizon, Comcast and AT&T have been pushing in order to ensure communications services taxes can’t be collected on certain products, such as downloaded games or home-alarm monitoring service.

The legislation included a controversial provision that would have given the companies freedom to bundle both taxable and non-taxable items into one package with a single price and yet calculate their taxes based only on the hidden prices of the taxable parts. Critics said that could allow companies to deflate their tax bills, by minimizing the internal price of anything that is taxable and maximizing the price of anything that isn’t.

State economists have warned that state and local governments would lose, at a minimum, $35 million a year as companies took advantage of the bundling provision. And one of their analyses showed the savings for the companies and potentially their customers — and the hit to governments — could potentially reach enormous proportions of more than $400 million a year.

With so much uncertainty, the tax committee decided to take all of the tax changes out of the bill and replace them with an 11-member working group that would study the communications services tax and recommend ways to modernize it. The working group’s report would be due before the start of the 2013 legislative session.

“The problem is we just simply don’t know how this is going to impact the tax structure,” said bill sponsor Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, who offered the amendment. “There’s no question that the telecommunications companies actually dispute those numbers. But because of the time frame, what I’ve explained to them is I just need more time to address it.”

A few hours later, the Florida House of Representatives passed its own version of the bill (HB 809), which includes both the tax changes sought by the telecom companies and the proposed working group.

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