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WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales confronted a fresh Republican call for his resignation Thursday as he struggled to survive a withering, bipartisan Senate attack on his credibility in the case of eight fired prosecutors.
"The best way to put this behind us is your resignation," Sen. Tom Coburn bluntly told Gonzales - one GOP conservative to another - at a daylong Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Gonzales disagreed and told the Oklahoma senator he didn't know that his departure would put the controversy to rest. "I am committed to working with you in trying to restore the faith and confidence you need to work with me," he said.
The exchange punctuated a long day in the witness chair for the attorney general, who doggedly advanced a careful, lawyerly defense of the dismissals of the federal prosecutors. He readily admitted mistakes, yet told lawmakers he had "never sought to deceive them," and added he would make the same firings decision again.
"At the end of the day I know I did not do anything improper," he said.
Gonzales sat alone at the witness table in a crowded room for the widely anticipated hearing. There was no doubt about the stakes for a member of President Bush's inner circle, and support from fellow Republicans was critical to his attempt to hold his job.
"The moment I believe I can no longer be effective I will resign as attorney general," Gonzales said after making it clear he did not believe it had come to that.
The hearing was drawing to a close on Capitol Hill when Bush spokesman Tony Fratto told reporters at the White House, "The attorney general has the confidence of the president. ... The attorney general acted to replace the U.S. attorneys and there was nothing improper."
Struggling to save his credibility and perhaps his job, Gonzales testified scores of times that he could not recall events he was asked about.
After a long morning in the witness chair, he returned to face fresh Republican challenges to his credibility. "Why is your story changing?" asked Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, noting that the attorney general was now accepting responsibility for the firings after initially saying he had played only a minor role.
Democrats, too, bored in.
"For the good of the country, resign," said Sen. Charles Schumer, the New York Democrat who has emerged as one of Gonzales' most persistent critics. The attorney general replied that the burden of proof was on those alleging wrongdoing.
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When Steve Finn '02 MBA, was digging up potatoes and plucking tomatoes from their vines last summer, he conjured memories of time spent on his Uncle Buddy's farm in Pennsylvania during his teens.
Manager of Sodexo Dining Services at St. Ambrose, Finn's boyhood memories were sparked while he worked a small plot of land at the St. Vincent's Center, along with members of GreenLife, the environmental club at SAU.
The garden project is part of a contract Sodexo has had since the mid-1990s with Des Moines-based Loffredo Fresh Produce Co., to provide the St. Ambrose community with locally-grown food.
The produce distributor, with a building in Moline, has contracts with Midwest-only farmers. "There's a big difference between getting your produce out of California or locally," Finn said.
Summers, Finn also gets vegetables from the GreenLife plot. Last year, GreenLife harvested 162 pounds of tomatoes, 30 pounds of zucchini and 28 pounds of carrots.
Sodexo also is helping the farmers. "It's not hit or miss like at a farmer's market," Finn explained. "Every week, the farmer knows he will be selling 10 bushels of a product."
Finn actually has a bigger dream. "My vision," he said, "is that we have a farmer that can pull up to the dock here, and I'll say, 'We'll take it all."
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At some point early on during every Phillies radio broadcast, Larry Andersen and Scott Franzke promote the home run payoff inning.
Last week when they were explaining how to participate, Andersen said something along the lines of, "Entering is easier than getting offense from the Phillies."
My first inclination was to chuckle. It was pretty comical, especially since Andersen said it so matter-of-factly.


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As they celebrate their 93rd annual meeting, the Muskingum Valley Red Cross also takes time to acknowledge the time and effort of the man who has led the organization for the past 15 years.
As Dan Hartman prepares for his final days as executive director of the local chapter of the Red Cross, he would like to thank those who have helped make his time there special as well as a success.
"It's our 93rd annual meeting for our Muskingum Valley chapter. Every year we bring all of our donors, our friends, our supporters, community together just to say thank you for everything we've done and this year the thank you also goes along with my retirement and i get to thank them in a special way," says Dan Hartman.
Dan says it's the community, and those who have continued to support the Red Cross that make the difference.
"Just a thank you for letting us grow, letting us grow, letting us do things that are important to the families we serve," says Hartman.
Dan retires at the end of this month.


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Bob and a couple of friends from Mountain Grove came and put wood on the porch and in my wood box. Susie sent me a loaf of homemade bread.
Bob, Linda and I met Bob and Susie in Mountain Grove recently and went out to eat.
I visited by phone with Violet and Nora and they're both feeling better.
There are still a lot of finch and red birds at the feeder every day and I think a few buzzards are confused about the weather.
Linda brought me some of Bob's homemade chicken and noodles for my lunch Sunday.
Barb was going to bring my lunch, but I was already full.
I enjoyed a call from great-grandson, Justyn, of Lubbock, Texas. We had a long visit.
Hello to all my friends and family out west. Until next week, God bless.


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TALLAHASSEE — The Florida Public Service Commission named an interim executive director Tuesday after accepting the resignation of Timothy Devlin, saying his forced departure was a "private matter."
Curt Kiser, the agency's general counsel and a former senator from Pinellas County, will serve as the executive director until the commission finds a new director. Commissioner Julie Brown will lead a nominating committee for a permanent replacement.
PSC Chairman Art Graham, who earlier this month asked for Devlin's resignation, offered no explanation for why he sought Devlin's departure after 35 years at the utility regulatory board.
"I had a private conversation with the executive director, and if he wanted to go public with it we would have,'' Graham told reporters during a break in the daylong PSC meeting. "I think with his wishes we'll just keep it private. He tendered his resignation, and I think that's enough said."
Devlin did not attend the meeting and did not respond to requests for comment.
Graham is among four new commissioners named to the PSC after legislators last year purged the board of four consumer-friendly appointees named by Gov. Charlie Crist.
Devlin was appointed by the Crist-appointed commissioners in January 2010.
During his short 16-month tenure, he made the unusual request of asking utility companies to report how many PSC employees they had hired and how much they were paying them. He was also at the agency, as head of the Division of Economic Regulation, when Florida Power & Light requested, but did not get a $1 billion rate increase.
FPL is expected to request another rate increase in January.
Graham also announced Tuesday that because of budget cuts imposed by the Legislature, 27 people will be laid off by the end of June, including six in the public information office.
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'The Price is Right' Gives Away Biggest Prize Ever
On Monday, The Price is Right gave away it's largest prize ever — at least during the normal daytime hours — to Sheree L. Heil from Tacoma, Washington.
Heil won an Audi R8 Spyder Quattro S Tronic worth $157,300, making her the biggest winner in the CBS game show's long daytime history.
The Price is Right began all the way back in 1956 with original host Bill Cullen. Longtime host Bob Barker took over in 1972.
Now, there has been several primetime specials of the show that have offered larger prizes, including $1 million.
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A team of field service representatives from Dallas Airmotive's F1rst Support global field service organization completed its first removal of a Rolls-Royce BR710 engine. The work was completed at the Bombardier Service Center in Dallas.
The MRO recently signed a service agreement with Rolls-Royce to provide mobile repair support (MRS) services for the BR710 line of engines. The engine powers Bombardier's Global Express, Global Express XRS, Global 5000 and Global 6000 as well as the Gulfstream V, G500 and G550. The MRS agreement with Rolls-Royce CorporateCare provides Dallas Airmotive approval to support Bombardier and Gulfstream aircraft that are on the program as well as operators who are not. Dallas Airmotive says it is the only independent engine service company to have that approval.
Dallas Airmotive offers a variety of field-service capabilities for the BR710, including on-site engine borescoping, troubleshooting, accessory replacement and engine removal and reinstallation. The company currently has a team of five trained BR710 technicians and two sets of tooling available to service the engines anywhere in the world.


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Rand Paul Schools Ms. Hogan
Rand Paul on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee - Finally a voice for choice and the free market.
It's about time that these agency heads get a dose of this type of push back. Consumers are sick to death of them promoting items that do not work and items we do not want. I'll wager it's to payback people who either run those companies, or hold stock in those companies, that produce the stuff they want us all to buy.
We need to get abolish the Department of Energy, then move on to the Department of Education. Shrink government and fire these useless tyrannical bureaucrats and Eco-Nazis that tell us how to live our lives.
Finally... please... someone... get Senator Rand Paul and the rest of America a toilet that works!
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Half of the departments of federal government could be eliminated along with all their expensive employees. The remaining bureacratic departments (not the FBI or border patrol) should have an immediate 10% staff cut followed by a serious examination of what they do that is both necessary and constitutional with the intent of making further cuts. Additionally all our legislation/laws should be sunsetted in five years. That is all laws should be reviewed and rewritten if necessary and voted on again. One of our major problems is the huge volume of laws and amendments and sneaky sentences that make the red tape so insidious.
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I love love love this video. It's really weird to hear ANY politician using common sense or talking about freedom instead of "safety" or "protection".
Oh, and I'm desperately in need of a toilet that works too. We should start a toilet company deregulation petition. (Somehow, I don't think a boycott of all toilets will work out.)
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Although in the last one month the hope of favourable election results have pushed up the stock prices of CPSE constituents, the index has underperformed the 30-share benchmark Sensex both in the last one year and over three years.
The CPSE index is based on the free-float market cap of the constituents and assigns a weightage of close to 59% to the energy sector. This in itself could be a disadvantage given the earnings potential of companies like ONGC is dependent on the governments subsidy-sharing formula; ONGC on average picks up roughly 40% of the annual under-recoveries of oil marketing companies and this has hurt its ability to invest. While ONGC will no doubt benefit from the higher price of gas from April 1nearly double the current $4.2 per barrelthe impact on GAIL, another big constituent of the
CPSE index, will be marginally negative.
As for Coal India, the third biggest stock in the index, while the stock has done well, there are question marks on how much it can ramp up production going ahead. Given the run-up in the markets is based on expectations that the BJP- led NDA alliance might come to power resulting in faster project clearances and some roll-back in social welfare spending, stocks like BHEL and NTPC might end up rallying more. These stocks, however, are not in the index.


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WHITTIER >> St. Paul High's softball team didn't have too much trouble collecting hits off La Serna pitcher Jamie Wren on Thursday. It struggled mightily, however, when there were runners in scoring position.
Wren pitched out of jam after jam in the Lancers' 2-0 nonleague victory at York Field. The junior left-hander allowed eight hits, including a pair of triples, and the Swordsmen put a runner at third base three times. But they were 0 for 13 against Wren with runners at second or third and left the bases loaded in the fifth inning.
"I just tried to keep myself calm and take it a pitch at a time," said Wren, who struck out three batters. "I threw lots of curves, and the off-speed was working really well today."
St. Paul's best chance came in the fifth, when a leadoff single, a walk and a one-out error loaded the bases. Dani Munoz then lifted a fly ball to short right field, but Swordsmen coach Jim Maier didn't send Sydney Kreimann to the plate. Wren ended the frame by inducing a ground ball to third base by Campos.
"(Stranded runners) was the story," said Maier, whose team fell to 12-5 and is now 1-2 against the Lancers. La Serna improved to 11-1 and is ranked No. 1 in the CIF-SS Division 3 poll. "They're on quite a roll right now. Whatever they hit falls (for a hit), and whatever we hit doesn't."
The Lancers only collected five hits off St. Paul starter Koreen Orozco, but took advantage of a walk and a sacrifice to score in the second. Molly Bourne led off with a walk, moved to second on Dominique Mejia's bunt and took third when Mel Madrigal grounded out to the right side. With two outs, Erika Esprio lined a clean hit to left field to score the first run of the game.
In the fourth, Dana De La Torre led off with a triple and Bourne followed with a single.
St. Paul, ranked No. 3 in Division 3, will host La Salle on Tuesday at York Field. La Serna will visit Sonora on Thursday.


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Partial revocation of anti-Semitic legislation in Italy is foreseen as a possibility in 1940 by Mme. Genevieve Tabouis, noted French journalist.
Writing in the newspaper L'Oeuvre, Mme. Tabouis points out that a marked change has been observed recently in Premier Mussolini's anti-Jewish policy and that anti-Semitic propaganda has virtually disappeared from the Italian press. The absence of anti-Jewish agitation, Mme. Tabouis states, is partially traceable to the removal of Dino Alfieri as Propaganda Minister and his assignment as Il Duce's representative to the Vatican.


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The all-Michael-Jackson, all-the-time TV programming mandate continues. ABC already upstaged NBC's upcoming "Dateline" special on Jackson with its airing of the two-hour "Living With Michael Jackson" last week. Now, even though "Living" will be rebroadcast three times this weekend on VH1, ABC has arranged to air it again on Monday, Feb. 17, opposite the "Dateline" special, called "Unmasking Michael Jackson." Variety reports that NBC is responding by expanding "Unmasking" to two hours. "We've always had 90 minutes of material that we were condensing into an hour; it's just as easy to go the other way," NBC Entertainment president Jeff Zucker said.
In any case, Zucker said, the scheduling of the dueling Jackson documentaries has less to do with NBC-ABC rivalry than the desire to counter Fox's show about another bachelor with a shocking secret: Evan Marriott, who will purportedly open his heart (and his empty wallet) to one of the two remaining bachelorettes on the "Joe Millionaire" finale.."Both these [specials] are going to get killed [by 'Joe Millionaire']," Zucker told Variety. "I'd be totally wasting a 'Third Watch,' so the choice was a 'Fear Factor' repeat or to expand this Michael Jackson ridiculousness." He added, "This is clearly one of the most ridiculous sweeps in modern American TV history."
Fox, of course, has its own Jackson show, featuring the singer's rebuttal to "Living," airing on Feb. 20. CBS is the only one of the big four without any Jackson programming, though "60 Minutes" is still reportedly angling to reschedule last weekend's aborted sit-down between the King of Pop and correspondent Ed Bradley.


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The Summer Engineering Teaching Institute will assist California community college engineering faculty in developing a Tablet-PC-enhanced interactive model of engineering instruction, and increase their involvement in developing and implementing online courses using CCC Confer—a videoconferencing platform that is available free of charge to all faculty and staff of the California Community College system. For the first year of the program, 30 California engineering faculty will be selected to participate, 10 from Southern California, and 20 from Northern California.
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created in Procreate on iPad here is my latest elephant painting, "elephant jumble"… if you look closely you will see that these little patchwork elephants are working together to form a pyramid with some pretty fancy balancing. You might also notice that upon their brightly coloured patchwork bodies, is some text (love, hugs, smiles, happiness, courage, peace, etc) that is both uplifting and encouraging and I hope affirming. A sweet gift or card to welcome little newborns, new baby boy or baby girl arrivals, christenings or naming days, or something sweet and special for the nursery or rumpus or a childrens bedrooms. The background was created from a photograph I took of the beach and blurred.
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Man claims he was deceived by remodeling company
Thu, 13 Jun 2013 02:55:31 GMT —
Dennis Pisapia paid more than $24,000 to have an addition built at his home on Beck Street in Harlingen.
"We just didn't have any more room so we needed to expand," Pisapia said.
The work was done by Remodelers Incorporated, a business recommended to him by a home improvement store, but Pisapia says the work was shoddy.
"The doors don't close. The room is not square," he said.
He claims Salvatore Monteleone of Remodelers Inc. also did a bad job on siding for the home.
The home improvement store corrected the siding issue, but since the additional room was a separate job, it must be settled with Monteleone.
"I call him and it goes to voicemail and it says the voicemail is full so I can't even leave a message," Pisapia said.
The plot thickens as Pisapia said he has records showing he paid Monteleone an additional $4,500 to install a central air condition.
Clearly the home is still being cooled by wall units, and there is no central air installed.
"He never came back to do the work and according to our contract, if I cancel the order, he can come back and sue me even though he hasn't done anything in months, Pisapia said.
Pisapia has an option to take Remodelers, Inc. and Monteleone to arbitration but fears that may end up costing him more than what he is owed.
He is stuck between a rock and a hard place and is disappointed in himself after he put his trust and money into Remodelers Incorporated.
He used money he inherited from his father into a person he claims scammed him.
"We got that money from my father's house. We have nothing left in savings now," Pisapia said.
Action 4 News called the number on a business card from Remodelers, Inc., but have not heard back from Monteleone.


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A former teacher at chancellor George Osborne's old school has been charged with child porn offences.
Sutton man Anthony Fuggle, 57, was has been charged with 11 offences of making indecent images of children and six of possessing indecent images of children.
Mr Fuggle, of Sandy Lane, was arrested last year and charged yesterday after attending a police station to answer bail.
He is due to appear in front of Wimbledon magistrates on Friday, June 20.
Mr Fuggle is understood to have taught classics at St Paul's School in Barnes, which counts Mr Osborne, Mumford and Sons banjo player Winston Marshall and TV presenter Dan Snow among its alumni.
He was at St Paul's for 20 years and was on the board of Independent Schools Adventure Cruises, which runs overseas holidays for children.
Mr Fuggle was arrested as part of Operation Winthorpe.


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2013 ACM Awards Performances Heat Up, Willie Nelson Goes Heavy Metal + More: Country Music News Roundup
The Boot rounds up today's country music news from around the web.
Hunter Hayes will premiere his new single, "I Want Crazy" on the ACM Awards this Sunday, April 7 on CBS. It's the first taste of the country sensation's upcoming deluxe album, Hunter Hayes (Encore), due in stores June 18. "I Want Crazy" is one of seven new and re-recorded tracks on the project. Hunter will also perform with music legend Stevie Wonder on the live ACM broadcast, along with an ACM Fan Jam collaboration with Brad Paisley and Dierks Bentley.
More special ACM Awards performances announced today include a Tim McGraw/Taylor Swift/Keith Urban collaboration on Tim's new single, "Highway Don't Care." Jewel will perform her hit, "Hands," along with "Fill a Heart," an original song written by Tori Kelly, on the ACM Lifting Lives segment. Luke Bryan will debut his new single "Crash My Party," and Kelly Clarkson will perform her country hit, "Don't Rush."
"The Talk" has recruited the ACM Awards' co-hosts to get viewers pumped for Sunday's show. This Wednesday (April 3), Blake Shelton will perform and join the ladies at the table to talk about the awards. Luke Bryan will visit the chat fest's set on Thursday. "The Talk" airs at 2:00 PM ET on CBS.
Willie Nelson has surprised fans with some unlikely duet partners through the years, from Julio Iglesias to Snoop Dogg. But if Megadeth's Dave Mustaine gets his way, an upcoming collaboration will be the Redheaded Stranger's strangest yet! The heavy metal band's frontman tweeted a photo of himself with Willie, saying, "I'm talking to Willie about a guest appearance on 'The Blackest Crow.'" [ultimate-guitar.com]
Craig Morgan has been honored as a distinguished citizen of the state of Tennessee. The country star joined members of the 108th General Assembly at the State Capitol late last week for a reading of House Joint Resolution No. 540, written in recognition of Craig's military service, charity work and musical influences.
Miranda Lambert's antique and gift store, The Pink Pistol, has been named New Business of the Year in Johnson County, Okla. To add to her eclectic inventory, the singer is launching her own jewelry line named after her hit song, "Mama's Broken Heart." Click here to check out photos of a silver and leather cuff and pendant. [The Country Vibe]
Riverfest 2013 boasts a superstar lineup, with Dierks Bentley, Peter Frampton, Jana Kramer, Darius Rucker, Daughtry, Florida Georgia Line, Rodney Atkins, Drive By Truckers and more. The Little Rock, Ark. music festival runs May 24-26. Click here for tickets and more information.
Brantley Gilbert has leaked a new song, "One Hell of an Amen" on his Facebook page. Inspired by his recent USO tour, the heartfelt ballad will be on the Georgia native's next album. Listen here.
Gloriana will perform "Can't Shake You" on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" this Wednesday. The trio will depart the next day for the Live in the Vineyard music festival in Napa Valley, Calif.
The Band Perry will perform on the "Late Show With David Letterman" tonight (April 1), the eve of their sophomore album release. Pioneer hits stores tomorrow, featuring the big hits "Better Dig Two" and "Done."


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Long have we dreamed of pouring our black and tans through the back of a turtle. Now, we can live that dream with the Brutul Lagerhead. It's got a clever name, it's cuter than a bent-up spoon if you're trying to get your special lady into black and tans, and it has an included bottle opener. Not too shabby for ten bucks.
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There seems to be some kind of attrition rule for beer and wine glasses in our house - we can never have more than a few of each. That's probably because the more people drink, the more likely they are to drop or knock over their glass. That's why we like the idea of these sturdy-looking beer and wine glasses made from recycled auto windshields. The bonus is they're thick and strong and made from safety glass; we just hope they washed all the bugs off 'em before they turned them into drinking vessels.
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A while back, we posted a story about the resurrection of Naragansett Beer - it was going back to its old formula and presumably, its old glory days. This was welcome news to fans of the original brew, which was inextricably linked for many in the Rhode Island and Boston areas with good times. It looks like Schlitz (y'know - the beer that made Milwaukee famous?) will be getting the same "how's your father" in coming months.
Schlitz's owner, Pabst Brewing Co., is re-creating the old formula, using notes and interviews with old brew masters. The maker of another nostalgic favorite, Pabst Blue Ribbon, it hopes baby boomers will reach for the drink of their youth, otherwise known as "The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous." They also want to create a following among younger drinkers who want to know what Grandma and Grandpa drank.
Yep, you read that right - American beer juggernaut Anheuser Busch is being bought out by a foreign company. We should've read the writing on the wall back when AB started mucking around making horrible-tasting hard liquor, but we really didn't think about it much. We have two questions - A) will they still be able to go with red state marketing campaigns if they're not owned by 'Mericans, and B) will they be able to create a Budweiser beer that doesn't taste vaguely of Clydesdale piss?
InBev is the world's second largest beer maker, with brands that include Stella Artois and Becks.
The deal must be approved by shareholders and European and U.S. antitrust regulators. The merger will produce the fourth-largest consumer product company worldwide.
The deal must be approved by shareholders and European and U.S. antitrust regulators. The merger will produce the fourth-largest consumer product company worldwide.
Ahhhh, flip cup, the sport of kings. For too long, this game has been the overlooked drinking game, or what you play when you have cups for Beirut but no ping pong balls. We just got an email from some folks, appropriately named "The Flip Cup Guys," looking to change that by organizing the world's largest Flip Cup Tournament. We're hoping they can do for FC what the World Series did for beer pong.
Keep reading for more information.
We've been noticing a disturbing trend lately, in the fact that a lot of restaurants are starting to serve their beer in smaller glasses. Yeah, there's still the chance to get the 30 ounce monstrosity at Applebee's or something, but we've been noticing "Lady Pints" (glasses closer to a half pint than a full one) popping up all over the place. For some reason in our area, it's most prevalent when you order Smithwick's. Apparently, we're not the only ones noticing it, and there's something even more insidious than truly smaller glasses - the use of "falsies."
Beer prices at bars and restaurants have risen over the past few months, as prices of hops and barley have skyrocketed and retail business has slowed alongside the economy.
Some restaurants have replaced 16-ounce pint glasses with 14 ouncers -- a type of glassware one bartender called a "falsie."
And customers are complaining that bartenders are increasingly putting less than 16 ounces of beer in a pint glass, filling up the extra space with foam.
Some restaurants have replaced 16-ounce pint glasses with 14 ouncers -- a type of glassware one bartender called a "falsie."
And customers are complaining that bartenders are increasingly putting less than 16 ounces of beer in a pint glass, filling up the extra space with foam.
Let's face it - we're heading into some eco-conscious times here. It's not just hippies that are paying attention how to lessen their carbon footprints and reduce, reuse, recycle. One way to conserve is to reuse your beer pong cups instead of tearing through 30 or 40 of those red plastic keg cups every weekend night.
That's where the ReRack cups come in - they're heavier duty cups designed for beer pong, and you can use them over and over with no waste. You don't seem to be sacrificing anything for the environment, either - the cups have four different levels of fill lines which allow for the perfect amount of liquid in every cup, and they have a wider base than keg cups so there's less chance of knocking them over with an errant throw.
Each set of ReRack cups comes with 10 red cups and 10 black, as well as a rinse cup for each side. What more can you ask for to salve your eco-conscience?
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Last week, we took the Web by storm with our story about the Bierstick, a mammoth syringe for getting up to two cans of beer into your system in two seconds or less. This week, we have one in our grubby paws. We can't wait to check it out, though we are a little bit concerned we'll hit our gag button with our first attempt. That's why we're planning to make one of the interns take the first swing and see what happens. Expect a review ASAP.
Bierstick [read our original bierstick coverage]
It seems everyone's trying to build the better beer-drinking mousetrap these days, and they're getting inventive doing so. Some of our favorites have so far have been the Flabongo and the Giant Jellyfish, but a new contender has entered the fray.
The Bierstick is a device shaped like a giant hypodermic, but no, we're not suggesting you inject booze like Motley Crue did - this hypo has a mouthpiece instead of a needle. According to the instructions, you just fill it up with beer and press the plunger to ingest it at your own speed. Seems like an interesting rapid-beer-consumption alternative to the beer bong, but of course that remains to be seen.
The Bierstick costs about $20; find out more at Bierstick.com, and we'll get a review 'stick ASAP.
Here's exactly what we need for our barbecues this summer - a keg tap we don't have to pump. We've experimented with all kinds of taps over the years, and one that we don't have to worry about some jackass overpumping sounds damned sweet. This one comes with a US sankey good for most domestic kegs, and needs to be plugged in to operate, but you can buy a battery pack that will let it run for four hours without charging or plugging.
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text: Show Hide image Politics 12 March 2013 Republican Party to unveil conservative fiscal package The $4.6tn spending cuts to impact social programmes. Sign up for our weekly email * The Republican Party in the US will unveil a conservative fiscal package today that they claim would cut government spending by $4.6tn over the next 10 years and balance the budget within a decade without increasing taxes. The spending cuts, which exclude defence, will impact social programmes in the country. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, will present the budget today. He wrote in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal: "We're offering a credible plan for all the country to see. We're outlining how to solve the greatest problems facing America today. Now we invite the president and Senate Democrats to join in the effort." The US President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are likely to dismiss the House Republican budget that impacts spending for the poor and the elderly, while senate Democrats will unveil their own competing budget today that is expected to include a mix of spending reductions and tax rises. Obama, however, will follow with his own fiscal blueprint later this month or in April, according to the Financial Times. In his previous two budgets, Ryan proposed a massive restructuring of Medicare health plan to convert it into a premium support system. In 2011 and 2012, Ryan's plans were unable to reach balance over a decade. However, this year it was possible because of the additional revenues generated in the January deal to avert the fiscal cliff as well as a slowdown in healthcare spending projections, both of which helped America's long-term budgetary outlook, reported FT. Republicans had a goal of achieving balance at around 19.1 per cent of GDP to restrict the size and scope of government. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), federal spending this year is expected to be roughly 22.2 per cent of the economy, while revenues are 16.9 per cent of output. Over the next 10 years, revenues are forecasted to increase to 19.1 per cent of the economy, while spending is expected to increase to 22.9 per cent of GDP, according to the CBO. The 2010 bipartisan fiscal commission, co-chaired by Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, eventually balanced its books at around 21 per cent of GDP. Neither the forthcoming budget from Senate Democrats nor that of Mr Obama is expected to come close to balance, highlighting the wide gap on fiscal policy worrying Washington, reported FT. Usually, the House Republican and Senate Democratic budgets would be reconciled into one compromise document, however, such possibility is not likely to happen. In the recent times, Obama made efforts to reach out more aggressively to congressional Republicans to find a way out of the impasse without achieving a breakthrough. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More


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White House spokesman George Christian, rejected today charges by the Republican Congressional Committee that President Johnson had exerted pressure on Prime Minister Levi Eshkol of Israel to urge American Jewish political support of the President's Vietnam policy and re-election as a condition for the sale of Phantom jet bombers.
Mr. Christian told the JTA: "Yesterday I called it ridiculous. Today I will call it buncombe."
Rep. Edward J. Derwinsky, Illinois Rep., a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called today in a speech in the House for immediate sale of the P-4 Phantom jet fighter-bombers to Israel. He warned that "our failure to act indicates to the Russians that they may brazenly fill the vacuum created by the Administration's foreign policy ineptness."
Despite denials from the White House and official Israeli sources that President Johnson had made sale of the planes contingent on American Jewish support of his policies, the Republican spokesman repeated the charges in his speech today and warned that "President Johnson may be playing politics with free world security" by holding the aircraft "in ransom for the votes of Americans of Jewish faith."


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R5010W 100 Litre Under Counter Fridge with Freezer Compartment
This R5010W fridge is ideal as extra storage space for families who get through lots of chilled goods or for holding the fresh and dairy produce of one individual or a couple in a new flat.
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At less than 85cm tall it can easily slot underneath most kitchen worktop surfaces to provide that additional space you need. The R5010W is a practical appliance that unobtrusively fits into your kitchen without getting in the way.
This is one fridge that won't let you down; it can keep food chilled for up to 5 hours after a power outage. It's also very energy efficient which is great for the environment and even better for your electricity bills. It runs at an impressively quiet level so you won't even notice it's there until you need it.
Most chilled storage units of this kind don't offer a freezer shelf, but this one does. Located at the top of the refrigerator, it's big enough to fit in a few pizzas, some ice cream or a bag of oven chips. Best of all is the performance rating of this section; as a 4 star freezer it reaches optimum temperature quickly and can store frozen items for months on end.
In addition to the freezer, this fridge has two good sized glass shelves (which can be repositioned as required) and a salad crisper at the base of the product. This section, which is great for keeping items like lettuce and peppers crunchy and full of flavour, is see-through to help you find things quickly.
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Construction is under way to build a larger south east-west parallel runway at Fort Lauderdale International Airport (FLL). The $791 million project is slated for completion in 2014 and will allow the airport to increase flight operations capacity by 50 percent, to more than 480,000 a year. The FAA's Airport Improvement Program is providing $250 million, and the remainder is coming from the Florida Department of Transportation and passenger facility charges. The overall plan includes modernizing the airport's four airline terminals, slated for completion in 2016, according to Broward County airports director Kent George, and raising the airport's capacity to 32 million passengers per year.
The new and elevated 8,000- by 150-foot Runway 10R/28L is clearly the most complicated and ambitious part of the project. (George expects the existing east-west runway and the new one to be relabeled closer to their true magnetic alignments sometime this fall.) It will require the movement of seven million cubic yards of dirt, laying 535,000 square yards of concrete and 90,000 tons of asphalt, and the installation of 1,200 lights and 90 miles of cable. Additional requirements include 520,000 sq ft of turf, 350,000 sq ft of retaining wall, several miles of drainage pipe and roadways and the relocation of 600 big trees.
The expansion also includes the construction of more taxiways and holding areas and under-runway tunnels for 13 lanes of highway, perimeter road, service, rail and future light rail traffic. George defended the elaborate tunneling plan, saying, "It is what is needed and we are planning for the future." He noted that drilling more tunnels once the runway is completed and operational would be cost prohibitive.
Most of the earth moving is to build up the new runway to facilitate these tunnels. The runway at its steepest point will have a slope of 1.3 degrees, well below the FAA maximum standard of 1.5 degrees, George said.
George said the project includes measures to substantially improve run off drainage on the airport, including new impervious runway surfaces and better capacity to pump water off the airport from areas adjacent to the new crossfield taxiways and the west and north holding areas. "Drainage is important and we have [designed] various areas along the sides of the runway and the middle of the runway. We are also consolidating water and pumping it across I-95 to some land that we own with retention ponds." FLL tenants, especially on the airport's north side, have long complained of flooding after seasonal deluges.
Improvements to FLL's airline terminals are already under way thanks to a more than $100 million program for new concessions, restrooms and upgraded baggage areas. The Transportation Security Administration is contributing $59 million for passenger and baggage security upgrades at the airport, including an in-line baggage system. The airport master plan calls for eventually establishing a security central processing unit. The existing 14 gates at Terminal 4 are being torn down and will be replaced by 10 modern "swing gates" that can be converted easily between national and international flights. While George does expect a modest increase in international traffic in direct flights from Europe, Mexico, and Central and South America, he said FLL has no plans to build infrastructure to accommodate aircraft larger than an Airbus A330.
George said planning for the new runway began in 1988 and went through three environmental impact statements before construction could begin this year. "It has been a monumental effort by a lot of people," he concluded.


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Good Morning America contributor Tory Johnson is joining the Huggies® MomInspired™ program which provides hardworking mompreneurs $15,000 grants for their unique baby or child care idea.
Once a mompreneur herself, Tory opens up to Celebrity Baby Scoop about founding Spark & Hustle and Women for Hire, her 15-year-old twins who are following in mom's footsteps, and her passion for empowering women to "turn their dreams into reality."
CBS: Tell us about partnering with the Huggies MomInspired Grant Program. What's it all about? Why did you want to get involved in this project?
TJ: "Huggies is committed to supporting moms who are launching innovative products that appeal to parents with babies and kids. In talking to moms, Huggies learned that access to capital is the single biggest barrier to launching and growing a small business. So over the last three years, the Huggies MomInspired Grant Program has awarded grant money to women with great ideas. To date, Huggies MomInspired has given away nearly $500,000 directly to the hands of mompreneurs.
I'm so proud to support this effort because I started my business 13 years ago with $5,000, so I know what $15,000 can do for each winner. Plus, even more valuable is the boost that comes when a global brand like Huggies validates your business idea. This grant is like winning the mompreneur lottery!
Best of all, everyone and anyone can be inspired by their successes, which will encourage others to turn their dreams into reality. You can check out all of the inspired women that the Huggies MomInspired Grant Program has recognized at huggiesmominspired.com."
CBS: Please tell us about your New York Times bestselling book. What's it all about? What inspired you to write the book?
TJ: "I've written six books on career advancement for women. The most recent one is Spark & Hustle, which focuses on launching and growing a small business right now."
CBS: You're the founder of Spark & Hustle and Women for Hire. Please tell us all about both.
TJ: "Women for Hire produces career expos for women seeking employment. Spark & Hustle hosts conferences to teach women how to turn passion and purpose into profit as a small business owner.
It's so rewarding to travel the country to meet thousands of amazing women who are making great things happen for themselves and their loved ones."
CBS: Tell us about your kids. What are their names and ages? What are they into?
TJ: "Jake and Emma are my 15-year-old twins. They're amazing students and truly exceptional people — smart, kind, gracious. More perfect than I could have ever imagined. They're very involved in my business – from talking about every detail over dinner, to attending many of my events. Having their support is essential to what I do."
CBS: Tell us about your appearances on Good Morning America. When can viewers see you? What are your topics?
TJ: "I do a segment each week on Good Morning America where I feature exclusive deals for our viewers. It's a ton of fun and viewers love saving money and being introduced to new things. You can see all of them at gma.yahoo.com/deals."
CBS: What's up next for you?
TJ: "We are finalizing plans now for the 2013 Spark & Hustle tour where we will host two-day events in 15 cities. Learn more at www.sparkandhustle.com. You can also talk to me at Facebook.com/tory and @toryjohnson on Twitter."


text: The Kickstarters Gascoyne Dash is on again! I had a fantastic time there last year, and am lining up to do it again in 2013. Discounted Entry for 2013 Event - Registration Open Now! I notice that the organisers have the $100 discounted entry extended until 31st of August, and also if you are a past competitor you get an additional $100 off - so there's plenty incentive to give this iconic race a go. You'll get some great riding in and really feel part of a 'proper' race. Even if you just trail ride it like I did in 2012 - it's awesome fun! Date for the event is 31st October to 3rd November 2013. I must give credit to the photographers that provided images for this report, snapping away whilst I was out racing! Thanks to Andrew Kilburn at Kilaphotos http://www.kilaphotos.com and Anton Blume at http://www.simply-designed.com . So let the story begin….. I'd never really considered myself a Desert Racer, but a chance meeting in Gascoyne Junction whilst covering the Australasian Safari recently changed all that. Paul Kelly, the Event Director of the Kickstarters Gascoyne Dash, is an enthusiastic advocate of motorsport and he clearly loves the Gascoyne Region in which he lives and works. It didn't take too much convincing on his part for me to register for this year's event as a bike competitor in which was to be my first race ever! A nervous racer at scrutineering I'd always thought of desert racing as way beyond my abilities and was at first unsure as to what exactly I had let myself in for! Every year the organisers create an excellent DVD of the event and I'd watched a few of these previously. The racing would obviously be fast and furious and the course as rough and rugged as they come. Thrown into the mix would be Buggies, 4wds, Quads and Bikes. I'd had visions of being mowed down by a Buggy or pelted with rocks as one flew past and then choked in its dust trail all whilst trying to hang onto a bucking bike on a rock strewn wooped-out track. Call me over cautious but I reckon I just have a healthy respect for danger! It's kept me free from injury or worse thus far in my riding career. I'm pleased to say my fears were unfounded as this event is one of the most professionally run on the calendar. The cars start before the bikes, ensuring all but the very fastest on two wheels remain behind them. The other challenges are still there to contend with (and then some) but these are what make this event unique. I don't know of another event in Australia where you get to ride flat out in a dry riverbed for 125km! Bike Line-up in the street The Gassy Dash (as it is affectionately known) is the ultimate challenge across some of the harshest and remote country in Western Australia, situated between the seaside town of Carnarvon and the town of Gascoyne Junction further inland. This year 462 kilometres of forever changing natural desert terrain would feature, from rocky traverses to sandy riverbed, steep hills to fast station track, sand dunes to tough unforgiving moonscapes. Day 1 was a 201km circuit of variable terrain on Bidgemia Station just north of Gascoyne Junction and Day 2 was 261 kilometre dash down the Lyons and Gascoyne dry riverbeds into the coastal town of Carnarvon. The Dash pits car against car and bike against bike and then the quickest of each against each other to determine who will be crowned the 'King of the River'. 2012 would see huge prize money including a $2000 grin to the winner of every division which kept the racing at the pointy end of the field intense. The Dash attracts all kinds of competitors from the professional rally riders to weekend warriors like myself. There's a myriad of different classes of vehicles but special mention has to go to the humble Suzuki Sierras which hotly contest the Suzuki Cup. I canvassed a few riding buddies in Perth to see who was game to join me in the event and Jon stuck his hand up. He was even more apprehensive than I such is the reputation of this event. It didn't help that we were aware of another mate of ours that had come a cropper in The Dash a couple of years ago. We calmed our nerves and justified our lack of physical preparation during the 9 hour drive from Perth to Carnarvon. Jon's classic one liners like 'training just wears out the body' weren't providing me with much comfort though! We arrived at the Carnarvon Civic Centre and got stuck into the registration process and the scrutineering of our bikes. Once these tasks were completed we hung around the town centre, which was a hub of activity, for the competitors briefing. It's an exciting time for Carnarvon when the Dash is in town with lots of the locals out enjoying the fanfare. Later that afternoon all the competitors fired their bikes and cars up and did a few laps of the city streets in the official parade much to the appreciation of the crowd. The local school kids loved high-fiving the riders as we rode past and I must admit it made me feel like a bit of a hero! Jon at registration Scrutineering My bike through – just needed to put a pad on the Steering Damper Cars parked up outside the event HQ Race Briefing Street Parade The next day saw us rock up to the Carnarvon Racecourse at 8am for the running of the Prologue event, where we would be seeded into our start order based on our time over a 20km loop cut into the racecourse outfield. It gave everyone a chance to get used to the course markings too, with special attention being paid to the 'cautions' by yours truly. I still had one moment going too hard over a bit of a step where I nearly ended up over the bars after the rear of the bike kicked skyward! Me in the Prologue I thought I had been riding pretty quickly but was disappointed when my time came back as 75th out of 86 entries! Jon fared a little better and was seeded 62nd. At least I wasn't last but I knew I had to step up the pace a little to stay with the 'young guns' on their Motocross bikes. We would see later in the event that the Prologue results were no indication of finishing place. Jon made the observation that the guys at the finish with him and I were all 'old blokes enjoying a beer with hardly a kid to be seen.' Age and experience beats youth and exuberance again! A good indication that this event is one in which you have to pace yourself if you are to finish strongly. After the Prologue we headed out to Gascoyne Junction to the Coonantha Race Complex. Here the organisers have created a great base for the race, with a huge shade cloth undercover area, tables and seats, amenities including toilets and showers and the essential catering and bar facilities. We camped in the scrub a short walking distance away but were hardly roughing it with great food and coldies on offer all weekend! After seeing the set up I wouldn't hesitate to bring my wife and kids out next year as I know they'd be comfortable whilst I was out riding. The racing complex before the arrival of the competitors and supporters Competitors chilling out at their camps on the day before the race started Our Camp for a couple of nights I was now itching to get on the course and onto my new and hardly ridden KTM 500EXC that I had just picked up the week before from Dave at Causeway KTM in Perth. When I had confirmed my entry with Paul I knew I would need a new bike to take as my tired 2009 KTM may not have made the distance. The guys at Causeway KTM did a fantastic job getting my new 500 organised at short notice and did a great deal for me to boot! I'd had my eye on a 500 for a while and I reckon there is no better mount for the Dash than the mighty big bore KTM as it gives you the power to rip through the river sand and the suspension to tackle even the snottiest hill climb with ease - straight out of the box! A new bike whoo hoo! Ready to Race! Racing kicked off on the Saturday with a 201 kilometre loop around Bidgemia Station and North East to the McDonald Ranges. The Cars were off first, 2 hours ahead of the bikes to provide some separation. As I lined up on the start line I suddenly transformed from a mild mannered trail rider to a Desert Racer as the red mist descended! I got a clean start and when I realised I was staying with the other three bikes in my group I rolled on the throttle and shot to the lead using all the power of the 500 to give them a taste of my dust! The Road Kill kitchen – great food was served up all weekend The Ambos were always there in case of emergency Buggies roaring off the start line – fantastic! I settled into a comfortable race pace and was soon on my own. I passed a couple of competitors stopped on the side of the track and caught and overtook a couple of others. As I came down towards the river section just before the finish a guy on a Yamaha blew past me but I was determined to not give up my place at this late stage! The 500 answered my call and we reeled him in just as we hit the sandy river bed. I was up on the pegs hammering down the river with the spectators lined up snapping action shots. The fact that I was in 62nd position didn't matter, I still felt like a champion! Spectators out on the course cheering everyone on Day 2 of the racing was the big one - the ride down the mighty Lyons and Gascoyne Rivers back towards Carnarvon. After a lacklustre start and eating dust for the first 15kilometres I was soon in the river and coming to grips with it. The Lyons River is relatively narrow but soon opens out into the massive expanses of the Gascoyne which can be hundreds of metres across. I thought it would be sandy and high speed flats all the way but drop offs, rocky crab hole sections, high banks, trees, twists and turns are all there to catch you out and make for the most interesting riding I've done in recent memory. It was awesome! Riders Briefing Bike Racers pre-race The Suzuki Sierras line up This guy blew past me on the 990 (the one with the low suspension no less!) at about 150, and I thought I was motoring along nicely! Unbelievable to be able to ride a bike like this down the river bed at 100kmh plus! Generally the course was well marked, but for some reason there was one 2metre drop off on an open section that didn't have a caution on it. I remember flying up to it at about 100 clicks, seeing the drop and thinking I've got to land this one! As I came down the suspension on the KTM fully compressed sending my foot pegs deep into the sand. My feet were now airborne and I was up over the bars and rolling off the throttle. This sent the front wheel ploughing into the sand and me sailing through the air, clipping the bars with my groin as I fell. I stood up seeing stars and felt the intense pain only a bloke knows! On course refuelling I took a few seconds to get my breath and climbed back on the bike, determined to carry on as there was no way this get off was going to stop me finishing! I rode on at first gingerly but the pain soon eased up and I was back to my normal consistent pace. Soon after I was out of the river and at the last refuel point for the day at Rocky Pool. Here we had a compulsory 15minute rest stop and after downing some Powerade and a couple of muesli bars I was feeling re-energised. The volunteers do a great job and are not to be missed all in their pink shirts The run into the finish was a fast section of sandy fence lines through low scrub as we neared the coast and the finish at Carnarvon Racecourse. I kept the pace up as there were challengers snapping at my heels the whole way home. I felt a huge sense of achievement and as I jumped over the finish line sheer exhilaration! I had made it, and in a not too shabby 42nd position. As the organisers say 'Winning is something, Finishing is EVERYTHING!' My mate Jon was happy with his performance in 32nd position and 3rd Veteran which earned him a $300 prize, bonus! This racer (me) with a wide grin – what a ride! The general comment from regular Gascoyne Dash competitors was that this year was the roughest and toughest event ever. 'We've raced in places today where not even a goat has been before' shouted auto division victor Brad Cooper in a post-race interview. The spectators also loved this unique adventure as Tarnya one of the friends Jon and I made from the camp ground remarked 'This was my first time at The Dash, a friend and I ran away from our husbands and families for a week. We had the best time ever!' The ladies enjoyed the weekend as much as the blokes! The after race entertainment was certainly eye opening – she had amazing flexibility! As the dust settled and sun set on the Carnarvon Racecourse competitors, crews, officials, volunteers and race fans partied the night away with the world class entertainment provided by the Gascoyne Off Road Racing committee. Jon and I had enjoyed a great adventure are already planning our return next year! Event organiser Paul Kelly, MC at the awards ceremony My mate Jon gets third in the veterens and wins back half his entry fee! Rod Fagotter wins the Dash outright and accepts his trophy


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German party vote to cap months of political limbo
Germany's top parties hope to end nearly three months of political limbo at the weekend by giving final approval to a coalition deal under Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The Social Democrats (SPD) are on Saturday to reveal the results of a binding members' postal ballot on a pact for a new "grand coalition" government including, for the first time, a national minimum wage.
Merkel is keen to end the longest coalition wrangling in German post-war history and put into action the accord hammered out with the SPD late last month.
"We needed three months to form this government," Merkel told members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union Monday before they rubber-stamped the coalition deal.
"Now it is finally time to get to work."
Approval by the SPD is expected, while rejection would likely trigger new elections, topple the party's leadership and produce more months of political uncertainty.
If the party members give their blessing, the members of Merkel's next cabinet are expected to be unveiled Sunday.
Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, one of the main architects of Germany's tough-love response to the eurozone crisis, is widely expected to stay in place, as is Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere, a close Merkel confidant.
Fellow veteran politician Frank-Walter Steinmeier of the SPD is tipped to return to the foreign ministry, where he served during Merkel's first term from 2005-2009.
These finishing touches would clear the way to Merkel's swearing-in before the Bundestag lower house of parliament on Tuesday for a third term.
'To form a coalition with such a person is extremely dangerous'
Merkel and her CDU triumphed in September elections, winning 41.5 percent of the vote on the back of a strong economy, falling just short of what would have been an extraordinary absolute majority.
The Social Democrats, a 150-year-old force in German politics, limped to second place with 25.7 percent in their second worst result since World War II.
However they were able to drive a hard bargain in the coalition negotiations, in part due to the threat that its 475,000 members could torpedo the deal if they were not satisfied.
SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel is set to become Merkel's vice chancellor and possibly head up a super-ministry in charge of the economy as well as Germany's ambitious energy transformation away from nuclear power and toward renewables.
He said he was pleased with the brisk turnout for the unprecedented members' vote to determine the fate of the coalition, calling it a "major boost for the SPD" on his Facebook page.
Political scientist Jens Walther of the University of Duesseldorf said he expected a solid majority to vote "yes" but that the coalition was fraught with risk for the SPD, noting that their last tie-up proved disastrous for the party at the polls because Merkel claimed credit for successes and co-opted centre-left ideas.
"She can lean to the left or the right, whatever the voter wants. To form a coalition with such a person is extremely dangerous. They have to develop a strategy to deal with Merkel," he said.
Gabriel and his negotiating team managed to force Merkel's conservatives to make a number of concessions including creating a national minimum wage of 8.50 euros ($11.70) per hour and allowing dual citizenship for the children of immigrants.
Three months of German politics in suspended animation, not to mention the length of the election campaign, have created a surreal atmosphere in Berlin, with official visits grinding to a near halt and key decisions shelved.
A stop-gap committee in parliament and a cabinet of outgoing "zombie" ministers have prevented total paralysis, allowing for example diplomacy in response to political turmoil in Ukraine and negotiations on a European banking union to progress.
But weekly newspaper Die Zeit noted that many politicians were aware that "when the public sees rows of empty seats the impression is conveyed of an absentee or even lazy political elite".
Walther predicted a stable "grand coalition" government that would serve out its term.
"Germans like compromise and harmony so it will be very popular," he said.


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If there's been one constant in the long and winding career of Turkish virtuoso Omar Faruk Tekbilek, it's his music, emphasis on his. From the nightclubs of Adana and Istanbul; to the production line of a Rochester, New York, clothing factory; to a string of albums and recognition as one of the top Turkish musicians in the West, the multi-instrumentalist Faruk has steadfastly held to the simple joy of playing. "I play for presidents, I play for one person -- my motivation is the same, because I play for myself," Faruk says.
He considers his performing to be one and the same with his practice of Sufism, a mystical offshoot of Islam. "That's my motivation since the beginning. I always approach music appreciating my breath, with His name in my breath; this is a very important thing for my life," says Faruk through a thick Turkish accent. "One day I was home, I remember very clearly; I was playing my baglama and suddenly I realized the state of mind I was in. It is the same when I pray. My mother was working and I didn't even hear her. I said, Wow, this is the same thing.' I am blocking out but I am with myself. So playing is praying; it's that attitude I always feel.
"[When] I played for belly dancers for so many years, my attitude was always: I'm with me, I am creating something beautiful in me and developing and radiating out to people, to let them experience what I feel, instead of judging outside what's going on."
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Perhaps it's no coincidence then that Faruk's pursuit of music paralleled his study of Sufism: He attended a religious school in his hometown of Adana in southern Turkey with the idea of becoming an imam. After seven years he left the school to pursue music, at age fifteen, but the learning continues.
"I am still studying; it's endless," says Faruk. "Music and Sufism are intertwined for me."
It's a devotion that can be heard in each plaintive and heartfelt note of his nay (a wooden flute), in the plangent wail of his vocals, in the intricate strumming of his baglama, in the powerful precision of his darbuka drumming, and even in the sweetness he's able to coax out of a zurna -- the piercing wind instrument that, in lesser hands, can sound like a cross between a bagpipe and a flock of hysterical geese. It comes through in all his work, whether it's pure Turkish folk or the Westernized new-age variety, or even the loungy remixes by worldbeat DJs.
And his devotion was on display that fortuitous night fifteen years ago when producer/composer Brian Keane was in the audience, in search of Turkish musicians for his soundtrack to the TV documentary Suleyman the Magnificent. "I went for five nights and suffered through really bad belly-dance music," Keane said about his search at Fazil's International Club in Manhattan, suggested by the legendary Turkish producer Arif Mardin. "Then one night after driving seven hours from Rochester, Faruk shows up looking like he was right off the boat. You could tell immediately that he was different. His playing was so emotional; he really stood out."
Faruk and Keane collaborated on several projects before Faruk launched his solo career with the 1994 release of Whirling. But the two continued to work together, and Faruk credits Keane with much of his success as a professional recording artist.
"He discovered me and from the beginning, I was always admiring him," says Faruk. "He was like a master for me, trying to make something out of me that I respected very much."
But before his first solo album and the success that followed, Faruk would punch the factory clock on Friday and drive from his home in Rochester to New York City to perform in the Middle Eastern clubs there, a seventeen-year ritual that belied his prodigy status as a boy in Adana and early success in the Istanbul music scene. That began with an older brother who taught him the nay, and an uncle with a music store who gave him baglama lessons in exchange for work. Faruk was good enough to play professionally by the time he was twelve and was smuggled into nightclubs by fellow musicians for short sets before club owners inevitably chased away the underage wonder.
At sixteen he moved with his brother to Istanbul and the two quickly established themselves as sought-after session players in the city's active music scene. Then in 1971, at age twenty, he toured the United States with a Turkish classical/folk ensemble and met the girl in Rochester who would become his wife in 1976, when Faruk returned to the U.S. for good after fulfilling his compulsory military service.
Throughout his life and career, Faruk has absorbed the influences of various musical traditions and teachers, from the head Neyzen (nay player) of the Mevlevi Dervishes -- the famous whirling dervishes -- to the partially paralyzed drummer Burhan Tonguch. "He was a jazz drummer and told me whatever instrument you play, everybody's a percussionist," Faruk says of Tonguch, his first drum teacher. "So he put that in my head. And because he also saw I had a very good rhythm knowledge from my town that I come from, he was like, Oh, you're ready.' So he gives me his tapes and I start to practice Gene Krupa."
Faruk would get together with fellow musicians and practice what they called Turkish jazz -- a style using traditional Turkish melodies. "A sense of the jazz was really similar to our traditional way, which they play the melody and then they always take the improvisation," says Faruk, who has since worked with the likes of Don Cherry, Ginger Baker, and John McLaughlin. "In Turkish music we do this in the middle. We play the melody, somebody takes the solo."
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Even though Faruk hopes to one day incorporate the melodies of Charlie Parker or Miles Davis into his music, he stayed with a decidedly less adventurous approach for his latest album, Alif -- taking elements from various musical traditions in the areas surrounding Turkey and blending them with his own sound. "It's a Mediterranean concept in my mind that I was dreaming since my childhood," says Faruk. "Mediterranean cultures are really a common culture ... from Spain to Greece, Turkey, Persia, Arabia. People always interacted in these civilizations, cultures are very interwoven. So through music I wanted to celebrate it."
To achieve this, Faruk brought together singers like Greece's Glykeria, Persia's Mamak Khadem, and Israel's Zehava Ben, along with flamenco guitarist Jose Antonio Rodriguez Muñoz and multi-instrumentalist and world-music producer Steve Shehan. The result is a mélange of influences wrapped around the Turkish core of Faruk's masterful playing.
But through all the gyrations of his fluctuating career, and for all his recent success, Faruk never wavers on the point of his calling. "The music is a universal language; through music we become universally bonded to each other. It's a beautiful thing that we can experience each other without seeing differences," says Faruk enthusiastically. "People always come and talk to me, and even though they don't understand what I say, they say they feel what I do when I perform. So this is a beautiful thing. Music is our ultimate salvation to celebrate our humanity, our brotherhood."


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TAMPA, Fla. — With fire in their bellies, the Winnipeg Jets played a game unlike any other this season.
And in the eventual 6-5 shootout loss to the reeling Tampa Bay Lighting, the Jets claimed it might have been their best point of the season.
Rallying from down 3-0 at the end of the first period, the Jets surged back to actually take a 5-4 lead late in the third period.
In the five-minute overtime, they had four point-blank chances to win the game but couldn't get it to go against Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy, and then Steven Stamkos ended a five-round shootout with the winning goal on a wild night.
The Jets played aggressively in the first but some colossal errors paved the way for three Tampa Bay goals in the final five minutes of the frame.
At 3-1 late in the second, the game nearly boiled over after a couple of checks by Tampa Bay's Anton Stralman.
First he clipped Winnipeg's Nikolaj Ehlers with his leg on what appeared to be a late check. Seconds later, after Jets centre Bryan Little was knocked off balance by Lightning defenceman Victor Hedman in the neutral zone, Stralman stepped up and drilled Little in the head, causing an eruption on the already upset Winnipeg bench.
The ensuing vitriol from the visitors cost them an extra bench minor, then Jets coach Paul Maurice came to the bench for the third period with a tirade on the officials, at which point referee Francois St. Laurent seemed quite happy to throw him out of the game.
They rallied on the ejection with four straight third-period goals.
"It was huge the point after the way that game went," said Jets goalie Ondrej Pavelec. "Kind of a wild game. Offensive game. Both teams had skills, and it wasn't easy to play that game. It was really hot in there. And huge point for us."
Still standing
Little didn't return to the game after Stralman's predatory hit, but he was seen after the contest in his street clothes outside the Jets locker-room.
There was no immediate word as to his health or availability for Saturday's game in Sunrise, Fla., against the Florida Panthers.
A clean hit?
Referees St. Laurent and Dan O'Rourke ruled Stralman's two hits legal. Stralman was penalized just two minutes after Blake Wheeler challenged him and got four minutes for roughing.
Maurice launched into a tirade after the incidents and received a minor penalty for his criticisms.
"It's because you work with these guys every day, and you care about them," he said after the game. "You care about their wives and their families, and Bryan Little's getting his neck X-rayed, and I seem to be considerably more concerned about the result of that hit than anyone else."
Asked for a reaction to St. Laurent chuckling/smiling about the ejection, Maurice added this: "You're not doing me any favours here. I understand you've got a job to do, but I think that would then have been consistent with their overall demeanour regarding the whole incident. That's fair."
Proud, yes
The coach made a point to say how pumped he was about how his team came back after a dull effort Tuesday in Carolina.
"I liked all 60 minutes," he said. "We played like men, played hard, played for their teammates, played disciplined in a time where you worry it might not be, that it might get right off the rails. I think we showed a tremendous amount of discipline. I think we're a lot more disciplined team than we get credit for.
"We outplayed them and out-chanced them, and I pushed them hard yesterday and challenged them and they responded, and I'm really, really proud of the way they played. They played like men, and now you've got a belief and a hope with a young team that they'll just keep getting better if they play like that."
The bad news
The bad news for the Jets on this night was in the result.
Their overtime point and Nashville's 2-0 win over Boston left Winnipeg a full 10 points off the playoff line in the Western conference.


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AVON -- Saturday's doubleheader at All Pro Freight Stadium was a rough afternoon for the Avon Eagles, as their offense struggled in a 4-1 loss to Warren Howland, the Eagles' second loss of the day after losing the opener, 3-1, to Massillon Jackson.
The Eagles mustered just five hits and gave up three extra base hits against the Tigers as they fell behind and didn't have enough firepower to catch up in the second game.
"It's more of the same, pretty much what we've been going through the last couple of weeks," Avon coach Frank DeSmit said. "We're not doing all the little things we need to do to win, and that's why we're not winning."
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