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Calif. Legislature passes $96.3B Democratic budget
RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT NAME OF CITY FROM SANTA CLARA TO SANTA CLARITA – As the Assembly debated the state budget, Assemblyman Scott Wilk, R-Santa Clarita, looks over some papers at the Capitol in Friday, June 14, 2013 in Sacramento, Calif. By a 54-25 vote the Assembly approved the $96.3 billion state budget negotiated by Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders that benefits from California's recovering economy and a tax increase approved by voters last fall.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Legislature passed California's massive state spending plan Friday amid sharp divisions over whether the compromise struck by Democrats and Gov. Jerry Brown will further the state's recovery or eventually return it to the multibillion-dollar deficits common during the recession.
Lawmakers had until midnight Saturday to send the governor a balanced budget for the fiscal year that begins in July, but they acted swiftly after the state's top Democrats reached a deal earlier in the week. Both houses approved the main budget bill, AB110, on party-line votes: 28-10 in the Senate and 54-25 in the Assembly.
They will reconvene Saturday to vote on roughly 15 bills that will enact specific parts of the budget.
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I didn't know it would be the last.
A short time later, my parents moved the 950TA into the furnace room and disconnected her pedal board. She sat unplugged and unplayed for months.
I knew my parents didn't want her anymore. They complained she got in the way. They wished aloud that I had a home large enough for her.
I didn't worry they would get rid of her, though, because they had promised to leave her to me in their will. Then they photographed her and listed her for sale on Craigslist.
I panicked. They were going to sell my childhood friend as if she were a mere piece of furniture.
No one answered the ad. My folks grumbled: People want a modern, portable keyboard, not an old-fashioned organ so colossal it has to be disassembled to fit through doorways.
I thought: If people want plastic, undistinguished keyboards, they're welcome to them. If they can't appreciate the Wurlitzer, then they don't deserve her.
I was relieved. My inheritance was safe once again and my friend would stay.
Not for long, alas. Two weeks ago, I found only pieces of her — a pair of speakers, a motor. The smell of cherry wood dust lingered in the air.
But I don't want to remember her that way.
My parents brought her home about the time I started junior high. She was my second Wurlitzer organ, but my first theater organ. She was designed for private homes, so she was less ostentatious than her famous counterparts such as the one at the Fox Theatre in Detroit. But she was still lovely.
She was richly, darkly complexioned. Each of her three perfect ivory keyboards gleamed like a movie star's smile. Her horseshoe-shaped console was like a curvaceous neck.
When I flicked a switch, tiny hidden lights washed her in gold. She glowed like a Christmas tree — her stop tabs shimmered green, red, blue, white and amber. Even her power switch glowed red.
She emitted a staticky "pop" when I turned her on. Then she hummed. When I engaged the vibrato, I could hear her motor start up, like a propeller slowly gaining speed: wuh. Wuh. Wuh, wuh, wuh, wuh. Wuhwuhwuhwuhwuhwuhwuhwuhwuh.
I rested my bum on the cool surface of the stool. I held down the middle C and adjusted the sound until it was just where I wanted it. I flipped a switch here, turned a dial there. My right foot pressed the volume pedal, then joined my left foot resting lightly above the double-octave pedal board. I flipped open a music book and flattened it against the stand. I began to play.
The 950TA sounded as if an orchestra were playing in the living room. Or a symphony. Or a marching band or jazz band.
With the third keyboard, she could add a solo flute, clarinet or sax. She had lots of fun sound effects such as sirens, whistles and car horns. Sometimes I made her meow and bark just to watch the dog go nuts.
I am a slave to pop music. Thus, most of what I played came from pop music songbooks.
I played movie theme songs: "Axel F" from "Beverly Hills Cop," "Theme from 'Ice Castles,'" "Terms of Endearment."
There were themes from TV shows, too, from the era when TV shows had real theme songs with words and melodies you could sing along with. Themes from "Cheers," "St. Elsewhere" and "Greatest American Hero" were among my favorites. They also earned me the most praise from my friends and family.
I played the Beatles, Elton John, Billy Joel, the Carpenters, the Bee Gees and Neil Diamond.
I played classical music, too. Bach and Beethoven rocked.
And there was the church music. My first paying job, besides babysitting, was playing at weddings and church services. Couples walked down the aisle to my music; congregations praised and worshipped God with my musical accompaniment. None of it would have been possible without all I learned at the 950TA.
When friends came over, they always gravitated toward the organ, where they loved to experiment with her awesome sound effects. At Christmas, my extended family gathered 'round her to hear Christmas carols.
But what I will remember most are the times it was just the two of us. Every weekday after school, I unlocked the front door and stepped inside my empty house. The first thing I saw was the 950TA. For the two hours before my parents arrived home from work, the house filled with music.
For auld lang syne, my friend. For auld lang syne.
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I am going to switch from bar end shifters (currently installed) back to the Campy ergo shifters that are currently attached to conventional drop handle bars. I know how to get the habndle bars on, but need some help in re-attaching the cabling.
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Some of the most coveted jobs in the world have historically paid zip.
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Cyprus has the longest summer season in the whole of Europe. The country also has stunning beaches , manyof which have been awarded the Blue Flag status, so those looking for golden sandy beaches, and crystal clear waters, will be rewarded with a visit to this magical island. Then we have the history of the island. Although a small country, Cyprus has an almost overwhelming cultural heritage. Wherever you travel you will find ancient monuments and sites, churches and monasteries... [read more]
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The app is excellent But when I export its data into the SD Card or even try to get it back into phone storage, the photos shared and profile photos never appear. It's kind of lame. Even my profile and header the photos never shows unless I close the app and re-launch it. If it needs an update or a bug fix please figure it out.More
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It's a little unorganized and hard to find out how to do a couple things but for the most part it's enjoyable and fun to use.More
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Overall the app is good but the biggest issue is the app crashes forcing me to uninstall and reinstall. Another issue is with inline tweets that are forced to be viewed in the external browser. Please issue an update that corrects these issues.More
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Ever since downloading the twitter app a few weeks ago, twitter has done nothing but act up, It's incredibly convenient to have, but its convenience is overshadowed occasional crashes during normal usage and a failure to update properly. I'd say with heavy usage, twitter will crash consistently 1-2 times every hour -at a minimum-. If these issues bother you too much, you might be better off using the twitter website until this app is updated and has these bugs fixed.More
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Full of problems that need to be addressed asap. The app is super unstable and will crash even on basic stuff like image selection, barely supports vines, doesn't support GIF or mp4, can't open twitter links within itself & instead sends em to the browser, the DM system is still the old 1 on 1 140 character one! Please work on itMore
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At first I thought the UI was a little 'bland' but now I've grown to love the smoothness and quickness of the app. It's blazing fast, and much more of a joy to use than the web version. Only thing missing is a few settings like ability to mute a user or turn of retweets. Highly recommend.More
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With the recent updates, this app is finally getting there. It is still a little bit unstable (seems to crash often when clicking Notifications) and seems to show repeats of whole sets of tweets in the feed. But with the finally added standard features (such as Quote Tweet) it's my go-to for Twitter on Windows 10. Beats the web.More
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The way the public sees homeschooling seems to be 'improving' (if you're a homeschool advocate). I don't know how institutions, or the people relying on jobs in the industry, will view the shift.
In one instance, homeschooling is included in a range of educational options (hat tip to Tammy).
- Rhea County Online, The Herald News, Dayton, Tennessee, 28 May 2006, Private, college-prep high school studied   Â
Rhea County has a wide variety of educational opportunities for younger students: six public schools, at least four private, Christian schools and homeschooling, but for high school-age, college-bound students, their choices are public school, homeschool or leave the county.
In an article in a motor industry magazine, homeschooling is said to be favorably viewed by respondents to a Harris poll.
- Reliable Plant Magazine, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2 June 2006, Â
Few adults give high marks to quality of U.S. public schools
Home schooling also fares better than public schools in this analysis, but charter schools are perceived as providing a similar quality of education as public schools in general.
These are the results of a nationwide Harris Poll of 2,435 U.S. adults surveyed online by Harris Interactive between March 8 and 14, 2006.
Homeschooling often isn't a matter of doing what is currently in vogue in the public eye, but the optimistic trend (from the homeschool viewpoint) may bring homeschoolers closer to being viewed as 'normal' by everyone else who knows they're normal.


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|Aucoin, Adrian (D)
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|Barnaby, Matthew (RW)
|Ottawa, ON, CAN
|Bassen, Bob (LW)
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|Baumgartner, Nolan (D)
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|Belfour, Ed (G)
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|Campbell, Jim (RW)
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Coming Down to the Wire: What Gets State Funding?
by John Gregory | 04/14/14 11:38 AM
While the legislature stood in recess last week, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear used his veto pen to strike what he considers restrictive language from the state spending plan. Those actions highlighted the discussion on this weekend's edition of Comment on Kentucky.
The Lexington Herald-Leader's John Cheves said Beshear's vetoes to the budget were designed to give him more financial flexibility to run state government for the next two years without micromanaging from legislators. Among the areas where the governor seeks flexibility is letting community colleges pool funds for building projects on campuses around the state. In addition, the governor struck language that would have precluded tolls on the proposed Ohio River bridges.
Cheves said Beshear would continue to fight for funds to renovate Lexington's Rupp Arena. Senate Republicans are standing firm against the $65 million bonding proposal, especially given revenue shortfalls experienced by Louisville's YUM Center. At the same time Senate President Robert Stivers (R-Manchester) is reportedly uncomfortable with secrecy surrounding the University of Kentucky's financial obligations to the renovation.
Linda Blackford, also with the Herald-Leader, said Lexington Mayor Jim Gray is caught between legislators who want more details and UK officials who don't want to divulge them. She explained there's also concern among some at the school who worry that funding for Rupp Arena could be held against UK when it comes time to request money for on-campus building projects in the future.
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The state's universities will take a 1.5 percent cut in the current budget plan. Blackford said that would equate to about $4 million less for UK in this biennium - and the school has already lost some $55 million in state funding since 2008. She speculated that higher tuition will be used to make up the difference. Blackford said in-state tuition has gone up more than 100 percent since 2003, creating a significant hardship for many Kentucky students.
Blackford also reported on her recent examination of the Bluegrass Area Development District. The agency deploys millions of federal dollars for economic and workforce development projects, yet there are questions about accountability and how that money is actually spent.
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Mike Wynn of the Louisville Courier-Journal said several bills have been signed into law this session. Senate Bill 124 will allow UK and University of Louisville hospitals to prescribe cannabis oil to treat juvenile seizures. Wynn said although the product is derived from marijuana, the measure allowing cannabis oil is a far cry from legalizing medicinal marijuana in the commonwealth.
Meanwhile, a measure to address heroin abuse has stalled in the legislature. Senate Bill 5 would have provided treatment for heroin addicts and stiffened penalties for drug dealers. Wynn said the measure hit a snag in the state House after defense attorneys rallied lawmakers to oppose a provision that would charge drug dealers with homicide if a customer died from a heroin overdose.
The Legislative Ethics Commission met this week to hear sexual harassment complaints against former Democratic Rep. John Arnold of Sturgis. John Cheves said the panel voted 4-1 in favor of finding Arnold guilty. However, Arnold escaped any sanctions because there must be at least five votes to actually levy penalties. The ethics commission is mandated to have nine members, but one seat has been vacant for more than a year, and three members did not attend the meeting where the complaint against Arnold was heard.
The plaintiffs in the case have asked for a retrial at a time when all members of the commission can be present. Meanwhile, Cheves said, a lawsuit against Arnold is pending in Franklin Circuit Court, and Linda Blackford said Gov. Beshear signed into law a measure requiring legislators to attend a sexual and workplace harassment training course at the beginning of each session.


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Arson in America: Arsonists work a cruel calendar across the nation
Arsonists in America burn according to a cruel calendar.
They set fire to buildings in alarming numbers on holidays such as Independence Day, Halloween and New Year's Day. But a first-of-its-kind study, conducted by Scripps Howard News Service, indicates that arsonists also favor this week in April.
Scripps studied 71,356 intentionally set building fires reported to the U.S. Fire Administration from 2006 through 2011 and uncovered a surge of arsons committed during the seven days around April 15, the day when most Americans file their federal taxes.
This mid-April incendiary glut blazes to a crescendo on April 19, when 275 building arsons were committed during the six-year period, 40 percent above the average daily rate.
"I can't see this as a coincidence," concluded Special Agent Philip Awe, a 28-year veteran of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and head of its Detroit arson unit. "This is such a jump in the numbers, there must be something behind it."
But Awe and other fire experts were at a loss to explain the increase.
"Some serial offenders set fires on anniversary dates which are specific and known only to them, such as the anniversary of a death in the family or some other significant event," said Detective Ed Nordskog of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's arson squad and author of "Torched Minds," a study of repeat arsonists. "Most serial offenders set fires during periods of emotional stress, such as holidays, or shortly after a setback in their life — loss of job, failed relationship, et cetera.
"I have no explanation whatsoever for the April spike in fires," he said.
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney Sean Carney was surprised when he realized that four of his five high-profile serial-arson cases in the last four years involved fire sprees in mid-April or around New Year's Day. "It's weird," he said.
In one of Carney's bigger cases, Joshua Ethan Thomas pleaded guilty on multiple counts after he was charged with setting 18 fires April 14-16, 2011.
Thomas "felt there was a firefighter who treated him disrespectfully. He lit the fires at night just because he believed that firefighter worked the night shift. He told us he just wanted to keep that guy busy," Carney said.
So-called "Hollywood arsonist" Harry Burkart was convicted after setting 52 fires from Dec. 30, 2011, to Jan. 2, 2012. "He was just on a rampage and kind of hoped people would rise up against the government, sort of to help free his mom," who was being deported to Germany on fraud charges, Carney said.
Deliberately set building fires are a threat to public safety and welfare. Arsons reported to the U.S. government during this six-year period resulted in at least 499 deaths, 5,200 injuries and $1.9 billion in property loss.
According to the Scripps analysis, America's worst arson day is July 5 — with 322 fires — followed closely by July 4 with 315 fires, both 60 percent above average.
Every state has its own arson calendar, but Independence Day and the morning after are the worst days in Arkansas, California, Illinois, Nevada, Indiana and the District of Columbia.
"The Fourth of July? Gunpowder, alcohol and testosterone — a very potent mix," said Adam Brooke Davis, a Truman State University folklorist who has studied the origins of so-called "hell nights," when arsonists take to the streets.
"Everyone who's been awake in the arson business knows and hears about hell night, at least once a year," said Michael Donahue, the top arson specialist at the U.S. Fire Administration.
But some fire officials, like Texas State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy, said they didn't know arsonists become more active on specific holidays, when there often is a spike in fires of all kinds. "We'll make local fire marshals aware of it," he said.
America's most well-known hell night — Detroit's "Devil's Night" — is Oct. 30.
Devil's Night started in 1984, "when the Detroit Tigers won the World Series and the kids started tearing up everything," said Fire Marshal Ralph Martin of the Saginaw, Mich., Fire Department.
Davis grew up in Detroit and watched Devil's Night transform from a relatively innocent night of mischief into "a festival of destruction," as the folklorist put it. Scripps found that, over time, peak arson activity throughout Michigan has shifted a day to Halloween.
Anthropologists say that Halloween, Fourth of July and even New Year's Day — the worst time for arson in Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana — are classic "inversion festivals," when people are allowed to misbehave a little with alcohol and fireworks, Davis said.
"Periodically, there are sort of steam-valve opportunities where the people on the bottom get to remind the people on the top that there are limits to their power," Davis said. "If the people on the top are wise, they cooperate with those inversion festivals."
In some communities, Davis noted, these well-intentioned festivals have become "sort of an arsonist's holiday" for groups of underemployed, unemployed and hopeless inner-city youth who see "no good reason not to burn down their neighborhoods."
Dian Williams, founder of the Philadelphia-based Center for Arson Research, said that hell-night-fire starters are delinquent teenagers and young adults who drink and use drugs in groups. She has interviewed hundreds of arsonists and said juveniles set about half of the nation's intentional fires.
"They use the ambiance of the hell-night event to support one another in really dangerous, really stupid behaviors," Williams said.
But there are no holidays that Americans celebrate during the mid-April arson spike. Speculation by arson investigators understandably focuses on the possibility of tax and business fraud.
"I've investigated numerous fires where tax records were destroyed at businesses and, yes, some of them occurred in this time window," said Awe at the ATF's Detroit office. "If you are trying to avoid tax payments, arson is one way to destroy records."
Some fire experts say they are particularly intrigued by the large number of blazes started on April 19, which is also called Patriots' Day. It marks the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, the battles of Lexington and Concord, Mass.
But it also happens to be the anniversary both of the 1993 assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, by federal agents and of terrorist Timothy McVeigh's 1995 bloody response by bombing Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building and killing 168 men, women and children.
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Originally born and raised in Kallispell, Montana Curtis Workman moved to Fort Worth in 2009 for a change of pace and to find a new life. Curtis has been in the food industry since high school and from his first job working at a pizza shop, he has loved it. He truly enjoys working with food and he is great with people. Thankfully The Samaritan House put two and two together and realized that he would be a perfect fit for working here at Z's Café.
For over two years now Curtis has been working at Z's Café and he is a big part of the catering aspect of our company. His normal duties include delivering, setting up, serving, and cleaning up from catering events. He loves working on the catering side because as he says, "I get to work independently and I am always learning." Plus he has a great eye for visual presentation. Curtis explained that while at the events he learns something new every time from either the new people he meets or from the event itself. He likes to sit back and listen to the events and learn about what programs are going on around Fort Worth. He is constantly broadening his knowledge and loves that aspect of his job.
Not only is he gaining general knowledge while on the job, but he is also learning new things about himself. Delivering and serving catering orders has taught him to think outside the box and realize that one must always expect the unexpected. Sometimes things will go wrong with catering orders and this has allowed him to see that life cannot be regimented. Now he is better able to think on his feet as well as think outside the box, boxed lunch that is!
Growing and learning from the job here at Z's Café is not the only part of his life that is he learning from, he is also attending TCC part time. He is working on obtaining his Associate of Arts Degree. He is in school part time so he will not be able to graduate for a while, but he loves taking classes and of course we think it's awesome that he is taking his education to the next level.
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.- Geraldo Ricardo Miranda, 43, of Port St. Lucie, was indicted today by a federal grand jury for possessing a gun as an illegal alien, making a false statement under penalty of perjury on a U.S. passport application, making false statements, and falsely representing himself as a U.S. citizen.
The case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the FBI.
According to the affidavit in support of a criminal complaint filed on April 2, Miranda is a fugitive from justice in Brazil, where he faces homicide charges.
ICE agents in Miami originally received information that a fugitive living in Port St. Lucie was wanted for a homicide in Brazil. Subsequent investigation revealed that Miranda applied for and received a Florida driver's license by supplying a fraudulent Commonwealth of Puerto Rico birth certificate, a social security card, a U.S. military DD-214 and a Brazilian driver's license. The investigation further revealed that Miranda was born in Brazil and that he provided false documents to obtain his Florida driver's license.
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Zardari's peculiar passivity
Publication Date : 30-10-2012
In a curious turn to the Pakistani militancy tale, the country's president, Asif Ali Zardari, says his country cannot launch any fresh operations against militants operating in (or from) Pakistan. It has become impossible to do so because of the lack of political will on the part of the country's opposition parties that do not wish to be seen as part of the campaign against militancy. He chooses not to mention the army's refusal to perform the task.
Zardari accuses the principal opposition party, the Nawaz Sharif-led Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) of being the main nay-sayer. That Zardari should have openly accused opposition parties of pandering to the country's rightist Islamist gallery owes much to the fact that elections to the National Assembly of Pakistan are due in the next few months.
Zardari ascribes the reluctance of the PML-N to join the drive against terrorists to its obsession with what he calls the "rightist vote". The PML-N and other opposition parties, including the one headed by the cricketing icon, In Khan, find it convenient to overlook militant excesses in the country, even when innocent citizens, including school children, are targeted by armed goons owing allegiance to various militant outfits. And Pakistan can easily boast of at least half a dozen major militant outfits, most of these with well armed and well trained fundamentalist youth.
Whatever the reason for Zardari's attack on the opposition--apart from the upcoming elections--it's a fact that any government would at the very least try to iterate its commitment to uproot the terror machines known to be operating within and from its territory? Zardari is probably doing just that. If only to retain the loyalty of his party's vote bank in the Sindh and Punjab provinces, he must be seen opposing the rise and rise of militancy in his country.
His hands are full even otherwise. There is his old running battle with the judiciary, which after ensuring the ouster of one prime minister is pursuing the successor with the demand for the replacement of the letter presented to the Supreme Court at the last hearing which the court insisted be reworded and sent to the Swiss courts to seek Zardari's arraignment in alleged cases of corruption against him.
With the judiciary at his heels, Zardari obviously cannot open another front by asking army chief General Parvez Kayani to act against the domestic militants. The General has already refused to oblige the government in the campaign against the tribal Pakistani Taliban operating from bases in the north western region of the country's border with Afghanistan.
The opposition parties in the given situation seem to be a tempting target for the President, a target that may find favour with his People's Party constituents in the country. He has cited past occasions when the opposition had joined the People's Party government in evolving a consensus on the fight against militancy as was witnessed, according to him, in the operations in the Swat Valley last year.
The consensus according to the president has disappeared. The opposition obviously does not want to be embroiled with the deeply entrenched militant outfits within the country. Nawaz Sharif, lest you forget, was the chief minister of Punjab who gave away 35 acres of land at Muridke outside Lahore to the Lashkar-e-Taiyyaba, the outfit headed by Hafiz Saeed, who even with a million dollar bounty on his head, moves across the length and breadth of Pakistan carrying the fundamentalist message with him.
The Lashkar headquarters at Muridke is a virtual terror factory producing highly-motivated armed militants, some of whom have over the years found their way in to Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India as well.
Zardari has said he finds it useless to ask the opposition to cooperate with his government. "I know and you know the opposition is banking on rightist vote." For his part, Zardari is convinced, though, that his country has to face the challenge of the militants which may mean greater chances of militant backlash. It's a decision that the people would have to make; they must face the reality. His eyes are set on the upcoming elections and hence his appeal to the "people" directly.
His direct approach, in the face of the opposition's decision to be non-committal on the militant phenomenon, he obviously believes would carry weight with civil society and more importantly, arouse the People's Party activists in Sindh and Punjab.
Ironically, as Zardari bemoans the apathy of the opposition, his own foreign minister, Hina Rabbani Khar was, almost at the same time as Zardari was un-burdening himself of the problems facing him, assuring the visiting US diplomat Marc Grossman of her country's will to counter the militant menace and repeating her country's "resolve" to continue to work together with the USA in efforts to build a strong, stable Afghanistan.
There was nothing about stopping the Pakistani Taliban and their Afghan counterparts from using Pakistan territory to unleash terrorist acts in that war-torn country. General Parvez Kayani, the army chief, did not go beyond assuring Grossman of his country's commitment to help stabilise Afghanistan.
And General Kayani has made it abundantly clear that he does not want Pakistan's army to get involved in the fight against domestic militancy and that he was less than willing to fight the American battle against the Pakistani Taliban in the country's northwestern region bordering Afghanistan.
The Pakistani army spokesman had very little to say after General Kayani's meetings with Grossman. Issues related to peace and stability in Pakistan were discussed. For the record, the Americans, regardless of their wish list, would not have been particularly upset by what General Kayani told their messenger.
Obviously, the Obama administration, its term just about to end, would be content for the present if the status quo is somehow maintained.
Zardari's admission of helplessness in countering domestic terrorism and its growth in his country should alert us to the danger of a fresh adventure in Kashmir and other parts of the country. Even Pakistani politicians may be interested in reviving the Kashmir bogey around the polls in their country.
I remember the Pakistan Prime Minister of the day Nawaz Sharif assuring Prime Minister Narasimha Rao in Davos of his resolve to settle all outstanding disputes bilaterally at the earliest. And the first thing that Sharif did on his return to Islamabad from Davos a day later was to announce the observance of February 5 as a "black day" to express solidarity with Kashmiri Muslims.
One could multiply such instances of double-speak by Pakistani leaders over the years. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto sued for peace at Shimla only to go back on his more significant bilateral commitments. I was in Shimla then and I was also in Islamabad when at a colourful press conference at Aiwan-e-Sadr, Rajiv Gandhi was promised the sun and the moon by Bhutto's daughter, Benazir.
Sadly, nothing came out of the exercise as well apart from a lot of good humour and lively banter.
The writer is a veteran journalist and former resident editor of The Statesman
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Come join us for another laid-back adventure on the Gulf Coast Cowboy Hour! It's time to enjoy some music.
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- Three Day Drunk Looking for a Place to Happen / Jim Morris
- Let It... Slip Away / Jimi Pappas
- Livin' the Life (Jimmy Buffett Only Wrote About) / Brent Burns
- It's Five O'Clock Somewhere / Jimmy Buffett
- Ocean Waves / Jimmy Parrish & the Ocean Waves Band
- Take a Vacation a Day / Thom Shepherd
- Pour Me a Vacation / Pete Harris
- Party Til My Ship Comes In / Rick Steffen
- Hot Sand, Pina Coladas, and Caribbean Beer / Seth Turner
- Fins / Jimmy Buffett
- Something to Beach About / Dennis Davis
- Blame It On the Margaritas / Howard Livingston and the Mile Marker 24 Band
"Life in the Laidback Lane" is always a great song to start any show with. You can find it on Sunny Jim's Life in the Laidback Lane CD.
"Three Day Drunk Looking for a Place to Happen" is from the Jim Morris Looking for a Place to Happen album. Morris has just released a new CD called Cover Your Tracks. We may have to play a few tracks from it in the coming weeks!
"Let It... Slip Away" is from Jimi Pappas, an Orlando based musician that we've only featured once before on the Gulf Coast Cowboy Hour. You can find this song on his 2009 This Trip album.
"Livin' the Life (Jimmy Buffett Only Wrote About)" is a song that fans of our show are likely familiar with now. This great Brent Burns song can be found on his 1999 CD of the same name.
"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" was a #1 country song in America in 2003 and was recorded by Jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson. Although the track was released as a single, it can be found on Jackson's Greatest Hits Volume II.
"Ocean Waves" is the lead track of the Let's Go Fishin' CD. That CD was brought to us by Jimmy Parrish & the Ocean Waves Band!
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"Pour Me a Vacation" is a great song from another Florida based musician, Pete Harris. You can find it on his 2002 Convertible Days album.
"Party Til My Ship Comes In" is another song we've had the pleasure of featuring several times in the past. It is on Rick Steffen's More Palm Trees CD.
"Hot Sand, Pina Coladas, and Caribbean Beer" is a Seth Turner tune that can be found on his 2006 Another Day in my Life album.
"Fins" is another Jimmy Buffett classic from the 1979 Volcano album. And in 1979 it was, in fact, an actual album!
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Early sales of Christmas merchandise in the BRHC gift shop have gone very well. A special Sunrise Sale will be held Dec. 5, 6 to 9 a.m. and a Moonlight Madness Sale will be Dec. 7, 8 to 12 p.m. Come and support the Gift Shop in their support of the hospital.
Carol Ackerman, awards chair, announced 1,276 hours worked by members in October. Sylvia Foster has worked 25 total hours, Charlotte Staton, 100, Janice Williams, 800, Shirley Humphreys, 900, Martha Vollrath, 900, Jim Monroe, 1,000, and Ervene Nothwehr 3,500.
A check for $101 will be given to Foundation for use in the Cancer Cent. This is from the sale of cancer bracelets.
Reports were given from Carol Ackerman, Christine Detherage, Virginia McAllister, Karen Suroff, Betty Sue Viterna and Joyce Monroe of some of the information they received at the MAHA state convention.


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Night bus idea explored for Forest of Dean
Posted: February 07, 2014|
COULD a night bus finally be laid on for Foresters?
It's one of several ideas being explored by Anna-Marie Hitchings as she gets to grips with her role as the district's community transport co-ordinator.
Her post is funded by a five-year £300,000 lottery grant secured last year to get public transport in the Forest better connected.
It means more reliance on community and voluntary transport schemes, like Lydney-Dial-A-Ride and Lydcare, supplementing the existing Stagecoach bus routes.
And it would be those community organisations who would probably have to step in if the late-night service so many in the area crave is to become a reality.
"Bus routes in the Forest can be quite sporadic," said Ms Hitchings. "We're trying to raise awareness of community transport which hopefully attracts more visitors and, in turn, more volunteers.
"One of the organisations I've been working with is the Forest Youth Forum and a big thing they'd like to see is a night bus."
She stressed it was very early days for the night bus idea and is canvassing for opinion.
"We would have to think about how it would work," she said.
"Could we get young people trained to operate it, for example? It also depends on the demand."
One of the big challenges of her role is convincing residents that community transport is for everyone. The perception is that dial-a-ride services are just for the elderly when, in fact, absolutely anyone can take advantage and a major marketing campagin for the initiative is due to be rolled out soon.
The partners in the community transport initiative are Bream Voluntary Car Service, Lydcare, Lydney Dial-A- Ride, Newent Dial-A-Ride, Forest of Dean District Council, Gloucestershire County Council and the Gloucestershire Rural Community Council.
Pippa English-Penfold, manager at Newent Association for the Disabled, which runs Newent Dial-A-Ride, said: "I think there's a lot of misinforation out there about what we do, particularly about costs.
"My message would be 'if you're not sure, call us'. Wherever possible, our drivers also go with you to appointments and you don't get that service anywhere else.
"I think the community transport initiative is going to become critical for the Forest of Dean with all the changes public transport has had."


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Dying Light Review
When there's no more room in hell, Dead Island will get parkour.
Latest news
Second Dying Light mod contest open, nominated mods are available to download on Steam
The second Dying Light Dev Tools contest is now open, and players can download all five entries to see if they agree with the development team's choices.
Efforts include a replica of the Winchester pub from the excellent Shaun of the Dead, a journey through a man's dreams, and a spin on the horror house seen in P.T.
Demo available for Techland's zombie free-runner Dying Light
Still not tried out Techland's entertaining open world zombie game Dying Light? Now's the perfect chance to do so, with the rlease of a
The slice of gameplay features the Slums area, and best of all its co-op ready. Up to four players can join in for a quick tour of the undead-filled city of Harran.
Techland isn't ready to discuss a release date for Dying Light: The Following, says "this thing is massive"
Techland has slowly begun to reveal more about The Following, the ambitious wilderness expansion pack for its open world zombie game Dying Light, but the studio's not ready to start talking about a potential release date just yet.
In a Twitter post addressed to fans, the developer explains that the "massive" size of the expansion means they need a bit more time to get it whipped into shape.
Techland demos first in-game footage of Dying Light: The Following expansion in Twitch stream
Dying Light developer Techland hosted a Twitch livestream session featuring the game's first expansion pack The Following over the weekend, giving us a first in-game glimpse of its new wilderness setting.
And Youtube channel Open World Games has handily gathered up all that juicy gameplay, and packaged it in a half hour video that you can check out below.
Techland producer clarifies comments about returning to Dead Island series
Techland has quickly reversed on those comments we reported on yesterday, about the possibility of the studio returning to the Dead Island series.
Producer Tymon Smektala has qualified his original statement, clarifying that he meant he personally would like to return to the series that made the Polish studio's name, and he was not speaking on the team's behalf.


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Brian Williams Reports on Daughter Allison Williams' Casting as Peter Pan: Watch the Video
That's so meta! Brian Williams reported on NBC Nightly News on Wednesday, July 30, that his daughter, Allison Williams, had been cast as Peter Pan in NBC's upcoming live musical production.
"Just today, NBC announced Allison Williams will play the role of Peter Pan," the esteemed anchor, 55, said. "The actress and singer is currently on the cast of Girls on HBO."
PHOTOS: Brian, Allison, and more celebs who love The Bachelor!
Joking—yet still impressively maintaining a straight face—he added: "Family members confirm she's been rehearsing for this role since the age of 3, and they look forward to seeing her fly." Producers then flashed across the screen a throwback picture of the actress as a child, decked out in green Peter Pan garb.
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The Girls star gushed about the casting announcement earlier that day, saying in a press release: "I have wanted to play Peter Pan since I was about 3 years old, so this is a dream come true." She also joked on Instagram, alongside the same throwback pic of herself: "Thrilled to be playing Peter Pan live on NBC in December. I've been rehearsing for a REALLY long time."
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The 26-year-old star will play Pan opposite Christopher Walken as villain Captain Hook. She's previously showed off her singing chops on Girls as well as in the viral 2010 mash-up of Mad Men's theme song.
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I'm starting to think this spring vegetable series is jinxing spring from actually coming. A week into March and it still feels like January over here. At this rate, the leaves on the trees might come out in June. Thankfully, we're going to Florida in 3 weeks so I can forget about the misery that is NY this time of year for a good 6 days. Let's dive into radishes this week!
A Guide to Spring Vegetables – Radishes
I think radishes are a pretty under-appreciated vegetable. Many people think of them as sliced on top of a salad and that's all they're good for. Not the case as you can see from the recipes below. Here's the scoop on these spring time root veggies.
Peak season: March-June
Varieties: There are a TON of varieties of radishes but the most commonly seen one is the Cherry Belle with it's red round bulb and white interior.
What to look for: The bulbs should be firm, not wrinkled or soft. Look for bunches with the leaves still attached as the greens are edible!
How to store it: Radishes will keep at room temperature for a few days. If refrigerated, they'll usually last up to a month.
How to prepare it: The obvious and most common use is eating them raw after a quick wash. However, roasting them is my absolute favorite. They become almost potato-like and that very distinctive peppery bite diminishes quite a bit. Pickling is another option as well. The radish greens can be treated like any other leafy green and used in a quick saute to take full advantage of the plant.
Nutritional benefits: Radishes have a ton of ascorbic acid, folic acid, potassium and a good dose of vitamin B6.
Radish recipes from Running to the Kitchen
Salted Rosemary Roasted Radishes
Pea & Radish Risotto
Radish recipes from around the web
Blue Corn Blini with Avocado Salad and Fried Radishes – What Jew Wanna Eat
Spring Radish Tart – Noble Pig
Roasted Root Vegetable Fajitas – With Food + Love
Pickled Radishes with Carrots and Green Garlic – Healthy Green Kitchen
Watermelon Radish Carpaccio – Gourmande in the Kitchen
Easy Red Radish Kimchi – Jeanette's Healthy Living
Roasted Black Radish and Grape Quinoa Salad – Brooklyn Supper
Apple Radish Slaw with Honey Lime Jalapeno Vinaigrette – The Lemon Bowl
Warm Mexican Chopped Salad – Bran Appetit
Roasted Brussels Sprouts Slaw – A Healthy Life for Me
Other Spring Vegetable Guides:
A Guide to Spring Vegetables – Asparagus
Next week: A GUIDE TO SPRING VEGETABLES – ARTICHOKES
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Great post Gina! I have only ever had them raw…and I didn't like 'em. But they sound amazing roasted. So i'll give them another go! Pinned
I was just thinking about radishes the other day…can't wait for them to come back in season! Love this series, Gina! Keep the spring produce coming!
So funny I do a door to door organics box subscription and just got radishes this week. They were so good and have me excited for spring!!
I'm loving these posts, Gina! So informative and inspiring. Thank goodness spring is finally coming!
I really do LOVE radishes, especially when roasted. I feel like they're soooo underrated.
This series awesome Gina, looking forward to all the veggie love. And thanks for sharing my Roasted Radishes with Fresh Chives + Roasted Root Vegetable Fajitas!
Radishes are so underrated in my opinion! Thanks for sharing these recipes and including one of mine!
Yes, I can't help feeling the same way. I feel like spring is never going to hit New York (though, it's supposed to be in the 50s and 60s next week, yay!)
Anyway, this post was really helpful! I will have to take it with me the next time I go to the farmer's market.
Ooooh, I have some radishes in the fridge right now, I used a couple as a topping for some flank steak tacos and was wondering what to do with the rest. I have never thought to roast them, I'm definitely doing to give it a try! Thanks!
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The Finnish company Nokia today announced new devices, including Nokia 700 at an event in Hong Kong, which is the smallest smartphone to date, according to the manufacturer. It is also the thinnest smartphone in Nokia's portfolio at the moment. Nokia 700 running the operating system Symbian Belle, will have a size 110×50.7×9.7 mm and weighs 96 grams.
In addition equipped with a 1 GHz processor, a 5 megapixel camera, GPS module, support for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC, as well as 3.2 inch ClearBlack nHD AMOLED display. Nokia 700 will go on sale in the third quarter of this year at a price of 270 euros ($390) before taxes in Cool Grey, Silver/White, Coral Red, Peacock Blue and Purple.
Nokia 700 Brief specifications:
- Extensive use of eco friendly materials, which makes the Nokia 700 Nokia's most environmentally friendly phone with monoblock touch form factor
- Support communications standards: WCDMA 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz; GSM / EDGE 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
- Dimensions: 110×50.7×9.7 mm, 50cc
- Weight: 96 oz.
- Platform: Symbian Belle
- Processor: ARM 11 at 1GHz, RAM: 256MB
- Display: 3.2-inch capacitive AMOLED ClearBlack touchscreen, with Gorilla Glass on top and a small air gap; 640 x 360 pixels resolution (nHD)
- Camera: 5 megapixel with autofocus, LED Flash and support for HD 1280 x 720p (HD – 720p at 30 frames per second) video
- Memory: 2 GB internal, microSD slot for memory cards (supports sizes up to 32GB)
- FM-radio
- NFC (Near Field Communications) with tap and share, and tap and pair
- Battery: BP-5Z Li-Ion 1080mAh with standby time of 19 days and talk time of 7.3 hours (GSM) and 4.7 hours (WCDMA), Up to 47 hours of music playback and 6.9 hours of video playback
- Compass (magnetometer), accelerometer, proximity and ambient light sensors
- Communication:USB (microUSB), WLAN 802.11 b / g, Bluetooth 3.0, A-GPS, 3.5 mm audio jack, electronic compass
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