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NEW YORK (CNN) -- A man accused of playing a role in the 1968 hijacking of a Pan Am flight from New York to Puerto Rico was arrested Sunday, federal officials said.
Luis Armando Pena Soltren surrendered to federal authorities at New York's JFK International Airport.
Luis Armando Pena Soltren, 66, surrendered to federal authorities at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after exiting a flight from Havana, Cuba, officials said. It's the same airport from which Pan Am Flight 281 took off more than 40 years ago.
He flew to New York under the custody of State Department diplomatic security personnel, said a law enforcement source and a senior State Department official.
Authorities did not offer additional details about Soltren's arrest.
Soltren "will finally face the American justice system that he has been evading for more than four decades," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.
According to a December 1968 indictment, Soltren and three others -- Jose Rafael Rios Cruz, Miguel Castro and Alejandro Figueroa -- conspired to hijack Flight 281 on November 24 of that year.
They were accused of bringing concealed guns and knives aboard and using them to take over the flight. Crew members told authorities at the time that the armed suspects forced their way into the plane's cabin and ordered the crew to fly to Havana, according to court documents.
Cruz and Castro were sentenced in the 1970s after pleading guilty in U.S. District Court in New York. They received 15-year and 12-year sentences, respectively. Their current whereabouts were not immediately known.
Figueroa was acquitted in 1969.
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AP reports 349 military suicides in 2012, up from 301 in 2011.
Military suicides sharply increased in 2012 and exceeded the number of combat deaths in Afghanistan, according to a report from the Associated Press.
The military had 349 suicides among active duty forces in 2012, up from 301 deaths in 2011, AP reported. The Army had the highest number of suicides in 2012 with 182 deaths, followed by the Navy with 60, the Air Force with 59 and the Marine Corps with 48, AP said, adding that the numbers have not been finalized. The number of suicides exceeded the 295 American combat deaths in Afghanistan last year, according to AP's count..
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Chapter Six - The Magic of a Yookoohoo
Woot had seen very little of magic during his wanderings, while the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman had seen a great deal of many sorts in their lives, yet all three were greatly impressed by Mrs. Yoop's powers. She did not affect any mysterious airs or indulge in chants or mystic rites, as most witches do, nor was the Giantess old and ugly or disagreeable in face or manner. Nevertheless, she frightened her prisoners more than any witch could have done.
"Please be seated," she said to them, as she sat herself down in a great arm-chair and spread her beautiful embroidered skirts for them to admire. But all the chairs in the room were so high that our friends could not climb to the seats of them. Mrs. Yoop observed this and waved her hand, when instantly a golden ladder appeared leaning against a chair opposite her own.
"Climb up," said she, and they obeyed, the Tin Man and the boy assisting the more clumsy Scarecrow. When they were all seated in a row on the cushion of the chair, the Giantess continued: "Now tell me how you happened to travel in this direction, and where you came from and what your errand is."
So the Tin Woodman told her all about Nimmie Amee, and how he had decided to find her and marry her, although he had no Loving Heart. The story seemed to amuse the big woman, who then began to ask the Scarecrow questions and for the first time in her life heard of Ozma of Oz, and of Dorothy and Jack Pumpkinhead and Dr. Pipt and Tik-tok and many other Oz people who are well known in the Emerald City. Also Woot had to tell his story, which. was very simple and did not take long. The Giantess laughed heartily when the boy related their adventure at Loonville, but said she knew nothing of the Loons because she never left her Valley.
"There are wicked people who would like to capture me, as they did my giant husband, Mr. Yoop," said she; "so I stay at home and mind my own business."
"If Ozma knew that you dared to work magic without her consent, she would punish you severely," declared the Scarecrow, "for this castle is in the Land of Oz, and no persons in the Land of Oz are permitted to work magic except Glinda the Good and the little Wizard who lives with Ozma in the Emerald City."
"That for your Ozma!" exclaimed the Giantess, snapping her fingers in derision. "What do I care for a girl whom I have never seen and who has never seen me?"
"But Ozma is a fairy," said the Tin Woodman, and therefore she is very powerful. Also, we are under Ozma's protection, and to injure us in any way would make her extremely angry."
"What I do here, in my own private castle in this secluded Valley - where no one comes but fools like you - can never be known to your fairy Ozma," returned the Giantess. "Do not seek to frighten me from my purpose, and do not allow yourselves to be frightened, for it is best to meet bravely what cannot be avoided. I am now going to bed, and in the morning I will give you all new forms, such as will be more interesting to me than the ones you now wear. Good night, and pleasant dreams."
Saying this, Mrs. Yoop rose from her chair and walked through a doorway into another room. So heavy was the tread of the Giantess that even the walls of the big stone castle trembled as she stepped. She closed the door of her bedroom behind her, and then suddenly the light went out and the three prisoners found themselves in total darkness.
The Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow didn't mind the dark at all, but Woot the Wanderer felt worried to be left in this strange place in this strange manner, without being able to see any danger that might threaten.
"The big woman might have given me a bed, anyhow," he said to his companions, and scarcely had he spoken when he felt something press against his legs, which were then dangling from the seat of the chair. Leaning down, he put out his hand and found that a bedstead had appeared, with mattress, sheets and covers, all complete. He lost no time in slipping down upon the bed and was soon fast asleep.
During the night the Scarecrow and the Emperor talked in low tones together, and they got out of the chair and moved all about the room, feeling for some hidden spring that might open a door or window and permit them to escape.
Morning found them still unsuccessful in the quest and as soon as it was daylight Woot's bed suddenly disappeared, and he dropped to the floor with a thump that quickly wakened him. And after a time the Giantess came from her bedroom, wearing another dress that was quite as elaborate as the one in which she had been attired the evening before, and also wearing the pretty lace apron. Having seated herself in a chair, she said:
"I'm hungry; so I'll have breakfast at once."
She clapped her hands together and instantly the table appeared before her, spread with snowy linen and laden with golden dishes. But there was no food upon the table, nor anything else except a pitcher of water, a bundle of weeds and a handful of pebbles. But the Giantess poured some water into her coffee-pot, patted it once or twice with her hand, and then poured out a cupful of steaming hot coffee.
"Would you like some?" she asked Woot.
He was suspicious of magic coffee, but it smelled so good that he could not resist it; so he answered: "If you please, Madam."
The Giantess poured out another cup and set it on the floor for Woot. It was as big as a tub, and the golden spoon in the saucer beside the cup was so heavy the boy could scarcely lift it. But Woot managed to get a sip of the coffee and found it delicious.
Mrs. Yoop next transformed the weeds into a dish of oatmeal, which she ate with good appetite.
"Now, then," said she, picking up the pebbles. "I'm wondering whether I shall have fish-balls or lamb-chops to complete my meal. Which would you prefer, Woot the Wanderer?"
"If you please, I'll eat the food in my knapsack," answered the boy. "Your magic food might taste good, but I'm afraid of it."
The woman laughed at his fears and transformed the pebbles into fish-balls.
"I suppose you think that after you had eaten this food it would turn to stones again and make you sick," she remarked; "but that would be impossible. Nothing I transform ever gets back to its former shape again, so these fish-balls can never more be pebbles. That is why I have to be careful of my transformations," she added, busily eating while she talked, "for while I can change forms at will I can never change them back again -which proves that even the powers of a clever Yookoohoo are limited. When I have transformed you three people, you must always wear the shapes that I have given you."
"Then please don't transform us," begged Woot, "for we are quite satisfied to remain as we are."
"I am not expecting to satisfy you, but intend to please myself," she declared, "and my pleasure is to give you new shapes. For, if by chance your friends came in search of you, not one of them would be able to recognize you."
Her tone was so positive that they knew it would be useless to protest. The woman was not unpleasant to look at; her face was not cruel; her voice was big but gracious in tone; but her words showed that she possessed a merciless heart and no pleadings would alter her wicked purpose.
Mrs. Yoop took ample time to finish her breakfast and the prisoners had no desire to hurry her, but finally the meal was concluded and she folded her napkin and made the table disappear by clapping her hands together. Then she turned to her captives and said:
"The next thing on the programme is to change your forms."
"Have you decided what forms to give us?" asked the Scarecrow, uneasily.
"Yes; I dreamed it all out while I was asleep. This Tin Man seems a very solemn person " - indeed, the Tin Woodman was looking solemn, just then, for he was greatly disturbed - "so I shall change him into an Owl."
All she did was to point one finger at him as she spoke, but immediately the form of the Tin Woodman began to change and in a few seconds Nick Chopper, the Emperor of the Winkies, had been transformed into an Owl, with eyes as big as saucers and a hooked beak and strong claws. But he was still tin. He was a Tin Owl, with tin legs and beak and eyes and feathers. When he flew to the back of a chair and perched upon it, his tin feathers rattled against one another with a tinny clatter. The Giantess seemed much amused by the Tin Owl's appearance, for her laugh was big and jolly.
"You're not liable to get lost," said she, "for your wings and feathers will make a racket wherever you go. And, on my word, a Tin Owl is so rare and pretty that it is an improvement on the ordinary bird. I did not intend to make you tin, but I forgot to wish you to be meat. However, tin you were, and tin you are, and as it's too late to change you, that settles it."
Until now the Scarecrow had rather doubted the possibility of Mrs. Yoop's being able to transform him, or his friend the Tin Woodman, for they were not made as ordinary people are. He had worried more over what might happen to Woot than to himself, but now he began to worry about himself.
"Madam," he said hastily, "I consider this action very impolite. It may even be called rude, considering we are your guests."
"You are not guests, for I did not invite you here," she replied.
"Perhaps not; but we craved hospitality. We threw ourselves upon your mercy, so to speak, and we now find you have no mercy. Therefore, if you will excuse the expression, I must say it is downright wicked to take our proper forms away from us and give us others that we do not care for."
"Are you trying to make me angry?" she asked, frowning.
"By no means," said the Scarecrow; "I'm just trying to make you act more ladylike."
"Oh, indeed! In my opinion, Mr. Scarecrow, you are now acting like a bear - so a Bear you shall be!"
Again the dreadful finger pointed, this time in the Scarecrow's direction, and at once his form began to change. In a few seconds he had become a small Brown Bear, but he was stuffed with straw as he had been before, and when the little Brown Bear shuffled across the floor he was just as wobbly as the Scarecrow had been and moved just as awkwardly.
Woot was amazed, but he was also thoroughly frightened.
"Did it hurt?" he asked the little Brown Bear.
"No, of course not," growled the Scarecrow in the Bear's form; "but I don't like walking on four legs; it's undignified."
"Consider my humiliation!" chirped the Tin Owl, trying to settle its tin feathers smoothly with its tin beak. "And I can't see very well, either. The light seems to hurt my eyes."
"That's because you are an Owl," said Woot. "I think you will see better in the dark."
"Well," remarked the Giantess, "I'm very well pleased with these new forms, for my part, and I'm sure you will like them better when you get used to them. So now," she added, turning to the boy, "it is your turn."
"Don't you think you'd better leave me as I am?" asked Woot in a trembling voice.
"No," she replied, "I'm going to make a Monkey of you. I love monkeys - they're so cute! - and I think a Green Monkey will be lots of fun and amuse me when I am sad."
Woot shivered, for again the terrible magic finger pointed, and pointed directly his way. He felt himself changing; not so very much, however, and it didn't hurt him a bit. He looked down at his limbs and body and found that his clothes were gone and his skin covered with a fine, silk-like green fur. His hands and feet were now those of a monkey. He realized he really was a monkey, and his first feeling was one of anger. He began to chatter as monkeys do. He bounded to the seat of a giant chair, and then to its back and with a wild leap sprang upon the laughing Giantess. His idea was to seize her hair and pull it out by the roots, and so have revenge for her wicked transformations. But she raised her hand and said:
"Gently, my dear Monkey - gently! You're not angry; you're happy as can be!"
Woot stopped short. No; he wasn't a bit angry now; he felt as good-humored and gay as ever he did when a boy. Instead of pulling Mrs. Yoop's hair, he perched on her shoulder and smoothed her soft cheek with his hairy paw. In return, she smiled at the funny green animal and patted his head.
"Very good," said the Giantess. "Let us all become friends and be happy together. How is my Tin Owl feeling?"
"Quite comfortable," said the Owl. "I don't like it, to be sure, but I'm not going to allow my new form to make me unhappy. But, tell me, please: what is a Tin Owl good for?"
"You are only good to make me laugh," replied the Giantess.
"Will a stuffed Bear also make you laugh?" inquired the Scarecrow, sitting back on his haunches to look up at her.
"Of course," declared the Giantess; "and I have added a little magic to your transformations to make you all contented with wearing your new forms. I'm sorry I didn't think to do that when I transformed Polychrome into a Canary-Bird. But perhaps, when she sees how cheerful you are, she will cease to be silent and sullen and take to singing. I will go get the bird and let you see her."
With this, Mrs. Yoop went into the next room and soon returned bearing a golden cage in which sat upon a swinging perch a lovely yellow Canary. "Polychrome," said the Giantess, "permit me to introduce to you a Green Monkey, which used to be a boy called Woot the Wanderer, and a Tin Owl, which used to be a Tin Woodman named Nick Chopper, and a straw-stuffed little Brown Bear which used to be a live Scarecrow."
"We already know one another," declared the Scarecrow. "The bird is Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter, and she and I used to be good friends."
"Are you really my old friend, the Scarecrow?" asked; the bird, in a sweet, low voice.
"There!" cried Mrs. Yoop; "that's the first time she has spoken since she was transformed."
"I am really your old friend," answered the Scarecrow; "but you must pardon me for appearing just now in this brutal form."
"I am a bird, as you are, dear Poly," said the Tin Woodman; "but, alas! a Tin Owl is not as beautiful as a Canary-Bird."
"How dreadful it all is!" sighed the Canary. "Couldn't you manage to escape from this terrible Yookoohoo?"
No," answered the Scarecrow, "we tried to escape, but failed. She first made us her prisoners and then transformed us. But how did she manage to get you, Polychrome?"'
"I was asleep, and she took unfair advantage of me," answered the bird sadly. "Had I been awake, I could easily have protected myself."
"Tell me," said the Green Monkey earnestly, as he came close to the cage, "what must we do, Daughter of the Rainbow, to escape from these transformations? Can't you help us, being a Fairy?" "At present I am powerless to help even myself," replied the Canary.
"That's the exact truth!" exclaimed the Giantess, who seemed pleased to hear the bird talk, even though it complained; "you are all helpless and in my power, so you may as well make up your minds to accept your fate and be content. Remember that you are transformed for good, since no magic on earth can break your enchantments. I am now going out for my morning walk, for each day after breakfast I walk sixteen times around my castle for exercise. Amuse yourselves while I am gone, and when I return I hope to find you all reconciled and happy."
So the Giantess walked to the door by which our friends had entered the great hall and spoke one word: "Open!" Then the door swung open and after Mrs. Yoop had passed out it closed again with a snap as its powerful bolts shot into place. The Green Monkey had rushed toward the opening, hoping to escape, but he was too late and only got a bump on his nose as the door slammed shut.
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"The significance of this find is that we can now hope to use our fireball trajectory to trace this type of meteorite back to its origins in the asteroid belt," said Jenniskens in the CAMS project blog. "We propose the name Novato meteorite, pending approval by the Meteorite Nomenclature Committee."
"I came home from work Wednesday night and didn't know there was a meteor shower," said Lisa Webber. "I was sitting in my kitchen and I heard this boom-badda-boom. Something hit my house. I looked in the garage and there didn't seem to be anything amiss."
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There is a "big chance" of Rio Ferdinand leaving Manchester United in the summer when his current contract ends, with the 34-year-old seriously considering a move from Old Trafford.
The defender has told friends he has no intention of retiring and is weighing up his future at United, who he joined from Leeds in 2002 for a then record £30m fee, with a move abroad the most likely option should he depart. One choice could be a lucrative deal to play in China, though nothing is being ruled in or out.
Sir Alex Ferguson recently stated that he believes Ferdinand can continue at United for a few more seasons. "I think Rio can play for two or three more years," the manager said. "He is not as quick as he was but that is not a big issue for me. His experience is important and there is no reason he can't stay on. I didn't even realise his contract was up."
But Ferdinand has since told Inside United: "The best thing I can do is to look at it at Christmas, and then again in the summer, to see how I'm feeling and go from there. But hearing the manager say things like that definitely puts the spring back in your step.
"I'll have a better idea of that in December or January time, when the games start coming thick and fast. That is when it really hits you and you know the hard work really has to start. I'll probably get a better gauge of where I'm at fitness-wise and the benefit of having the summer off then."
Despite a long-standing back condition that means Ferdinand has to manage his fitness, the centre-back does not consider it a big issue and is intent on playing for as long as possible. He was heartened by the 38 appearances he managed in all competitions last season and this term he has missed only two of United's 12 league games, forming a partnership with Jonny Evans.
While the defender's stance may be a negotiating move, his current deliberations could potentially hang on whether he is tempted by a fresh challenge at the close of his career.
There has been at least one recent offer from China for Ferdinand to consider. Currently earning around £130,000 a week, a move there would prove to be highly lucrative for the 81-times capped former England defender.
Nicolas Anelka left Chelsea for Shanghai Shenhua in January for around £175,000 a week, and Didier Drogba joined him in the summer on a two-and-a-half year deal worth a reported $310,000 (£195,000) a week.
Regarding Ferdinand's comments on his future at United, Ferguson said last Friday: "It will sort itself out, I am sure."


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Sgt.WinterMk.2 wrote:Who knew those quest giver icons could be detached? O.o I shall have to copy Marmalade's advanced technique.
Lanthroviel wrote:Errr, I am the only one to not fully grasp this one?
Is the punchline the fact that he could ask whatever he wants, and Keydar and co will do it because it's a quest?
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Response and Apology for Sexist Jokes
13 Jun 2014 12:07:21
Some Notepad++ users pointed out several links in reddit to me, these threads were talking about some sexist jokes included as easter eggs in Notepad++:
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I don't consider myself as a sexist person, and believe me, I hate sexist people. But after reading it again, I can see there are indeed some jokes of poor taste, I have to admit that they are sexist. I am sorry for including such inappropriate content in Notepad++. All the sexist jokes will be removed from the next release and such jokes will never be in Notepad++ binary.


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House GOP, Obama Meet Face To Face But Still Don't See Eye To Eye
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama entered the conference room in the Capitol basement to a standing ovation, but after nearly an hour and a half of discussion with House Republicans, there was little evidence that the meeting — part of the White House's "charm offensive" on Capitol Hill — did much to change the partisan gulf between the president and his chief adversaries.
At a news conference after the meeting, House Speaker John Boehner thanked the president for coming but also noted the challenges remaining on a host of issues, especially ones related to reducing the deficit.
"We know how there are some very real differences between our two parties (on issues like) jobs, balancing the budget and what do we do to get economy moving again," Boehner said. "Republicans want to balance the budget. The President doesn't. Republicans want to solve our long term debt problem. The President doesn't. We want to unlock our energy resources to put more Americans back to work. The President doesn't."
The speaker added, "But having said that, today was a good start and I hope that these kinds of discussions can continue."
Republicans' top priority — tackling federal spending and reining in record deficits — came up early in the Republican conference meeting. Oklahoma Rep. Jim Lankford asked the first question, pressing the president to explain why he wouldn't join House Republicans in their effort to balance the budget in a decade.
Obama, according to several Republicans, explained that he didn't share that priority, an answer that many emphasized as they left the meeting.
Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, a conservative who is running for the Senate, mentioned that exchange as he left, telling reporters, "basically his whole talk was just a bunch of platitudes and no substance to it."
"He thought what was more important was that deficits fall below growth as a percentage of GDP — certainly a laudable goal, but I think the federal government, like any business or any family, needs to work towards a balanced budget," Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, said afterward.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor gave a blunt assessment about the divide on fiscal issues, suggesting it could carry over to other issues.
"If the president wants to let our unwillingness to raise taxes get in the way, then we're not gonna be able to set differences aside and focus on what we agree on," Cantor told reporters at the GOP leaders' news conference.
When Lankford raised fiscal issues during the meeting, he also pointed out that the president's other meeting on Wednesday was with his political arm, Organizing for Action. Word of that meeting rankled many GOP members who suggested Obama was more concerned with political goals than working across the aisle.
"We know the president is going to speak before Organizing for Action tonight," Rep. Greg Walden, R-Oregon, who leads the House Republicans' campaign arm, told reporters as he left the meeting. "We know he's made it clear that taking out the House is his big priority, and we know he's been on the never-ending campaign tour up to this point, so there's a trust factor."
Mindful of the House GOP undercurrent that Obama is chiefly focused on scoring political points, one source inside the meeting said the president addressed those concerns directly at the end of the meeting.
This source told CNN that the president told GOP members that if he were only focused on the midterms, he would not be pushing immigration reform because that's not necessarily helpful for some members of his party. He said he would not push for entitlement reform because a lot of Democrats don't agree and are nervous about tackling such a politically explosive issue.
He told them that he runs the country, that he wants it to succeed and that he looks around the room and sees other people who love their country. Obama said they have a moment and should seize it, according to this source.
But Walden did say the session helped build some trust, and it was a good opportunity to raise a wide spectrum of issues. He mentioned Israel as one area where both parties found some common ground.
Exiting the conference, House Budget Committee Chairman and former Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) said of the president: "He did himself some good."
Several members in the meeting said it helped open a dialogue but lamented that the session was only the second time the president had traveled up Pennsylvania Avenue to talk to House Republicans since he was elected.
"The president doesn't spend a lot of time working with members of Congress. He doesn't have to — he's president of the United States — but I think it's made his job a lot more difficult, and it's made our task a lot more difficult because there's very little communication," Florida Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart said after the meeting.
Cotton described the president's demeanor in the meeting as "affable" and said the various members who asked questions were "very cordial and respectful."
According to multiple GOP sources, conference Chairwoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington screened questions in advance and called on members after the president made opening remarks.
Rep. Michael Grimm of New York said the event had been peppered with occasional lighter moments such as speculation after word got around the room that the new pope was about to be announced.
"Anyone who thinks this president is anything but affable and pleasant when he's speaking with group is just simply wrong. They haven't met him," said Grimm. But he added he was waiting to see if the president would follow up his outreach with some bipartisan action.
Obama fielded some tense questions during the meeting. Michigan Rep. Candice Miller told reporters she was not satisfied with the president's response to her complaint that the White House had suspended public tours after forced spending cuts went into effect. Republicans have charged that the closures were politically motivated, but Obama said Wednesday the decision had been made by the Secret Service.


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ISLAMABAD (CNN) -- The Election Commission of Pakistan will delay parliamentary elections for at least a month, sources in the commission told CNN Tuesday.
The delay comes amid unrest following the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
The government plans to make a formal announcement Wednesday, the sources in the commission said Tuesday. The elections, originally scheduled for January 8, will take place some time in February, they said.
Bhutto's party and another major opposition party had urged the government not to delay the elections.
But various provincial government representatives had suggested that the government hold elections after the Muslim holy month of Muharram, Commission Secretary General Kanwar Dilshad said at a press conference Tuesday. The holiday, which follows a lunar calendar, will begin around January 9 and end about February 6. Watch more on the crisis in Pakistan »
Before news broke of the delay, Bhutto's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he is confident the Pakistan People's Party -- which he has taken control of since Bhutto's death -- will be victorious in the parliamentary vote. His party urged that the government go ahead with elections on January 8.
Nawaz Sharif, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-N party, told reporters that he believed Musharraf intended to delay the vote because his party would not garner enough seats in parliament to rule.
The United States had kept its distance from the issue, saying it was up to the Pakistanis to decide the timing of the elections.
A U.S. Embassy official based in Pakistan, speaking on the condition of anonymity, had said the United States "wants to see the election held," but that "we would not object to" a postponement.
"Our greater concern would be if the elections are postponed indefinitely," he said.
The commission has said it was looking at reports from provincial governments about the prevailing law and order situation while making its determination, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.
Election offices in 13 districts of Sindh province were destroyed after Bhutto's assassination, Dilshad said. Sindh is Bhutto's home province and was the main base of her support.
Bhutto, 54, was killed Thursday in an attack that involved a gunman and an explosion in Rawalpindi, outside of the capital Islamabad. Her party and the Pakistani government dispute the cause of her death.
The ensuing violence caused more than $200 million (12 billion Pakistani rupees) in damages and claimed at least 44 lives.
Pakistan's government described colossal devastation to the country's infrastructure after looters burned more than 150 train cars and wiped out telecommunications lines along the north-south railways, preventing goods and services from getting to all parts of Pakistan. Rampaging demonstrators ransacked banks, police stations, and factories. E-mail to a friend
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Finally the Knicks have hired a defensive assistant to coach along side Mike D'Antoni. Today the Knicks announced the hiring of former Atlanta Hawks head coach Mike Woodson as the defensive assistant coach. Woodson was Larry Brown's top assistant when the Pistons won the championship in 2004. He was actually drafted in the first round by the Knicks in 1980 so he has some familiarity with the franchise. Woodson is said to be a strong defensive mind learning from Larry Brown in Detroit and Bobby Knight when he played college ball at Indiana.
There are also rumors being stirred up by the east coast media that Woodson, who has strong ties to Isiah Thomas, will take over the head coaching job should things go south next season. I completely disagree. If the Knicks struggle next season or get swept in the playoffs again and Mike D'Antoni is fired, I believe the Knicks will bring in a marquee name a la Phil Jackson not a guy like Mike Woodson. Mike Woodson is a great guy but I do not believe he would be the big name splash the Knicks would be looking bring in. Regardless, I think this is an excellent hire and it will be interesting to see how Woodson can change the defensive culture around the Knicks.Follow @tarmosino


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Neal Denton hosts a discussion during one of his recent visits to Ohio University
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From staff reports
Ohio University University College alumnus Neal Denton was recently named senior vice president, chief government affairs officer of the YMCA of the USA (Y-USA) effective Oct. 15.
Y-USA is the national resource office for the 2,700 YMCAs in the United States.
In his new role, he will lead Y-USA's Washington, D.C.-based Government Relations and Policy Office, which directs the Y's federal, state and local advocacy.
For the past four years, Denton has served as senior vice president, government relations and strategic partnerships for the American National Red Cross, which federal policymakers rank as one of the nation's most successful nonprofit organizations at influencing policy decisions, according to a recent Independent Sector survey.
A highly respected nonprofit executive, Denton has been named to the NonProfit Times' "Power and Influence Top 50" nine times. Among his many accomplishments with the Red Cross, Denton led efforts to secure hundreds of millions of dollars in appropriations from Congress for Red Cross Disaster Services and Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces.
"I am thrilled to join the Y, an organization that is at the forefront of our nation's response to so many pressing social issues," Denton said. "YMCAs understand that partnering with policymakers can
magnify the impact of solutions and help bring about tangible, positive change in people's lives. I look forward to representing the Y and all of the communities nationwide that it works to strengthen."
Before his current job with the Red Cross, Denton served as the organization's senior vice president of service to the armed forces and chief of staff to the president. Prior to the Red Cross, he spent 20 years at the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, serving as executive director from 1993 to 2006. During his tenure he obtained passage of landmark postal legislation to preserve nonprofit mailing rates despite a near-total loss of $1 billion in annual legislative appropriations.
Denton began his career in Washington, D.C. in 1985 as a staff assistant for Ohio U.S. Rep. Dennis Eckart. He is a U.S. Army veteran and earned a bachelor's of specialized studies degree in political advocacy management from Ohio University's University College. In 2012, he was named a University College Outstanding Alumnus.


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text: John Allan LeVay, Jr., 85, Richmond, Virginia, died peacefully surrounded by loved ones, after a long illness on January 10, 2013 at the Windsor Senior Living Nursing Home. John is survived by his wife, Alice Darhanian LeVay; his brother, James LeVay, and sister-in-law, Caroline LeVay; daughters, Anne Webb and Elizabeth Ashworth; grandsons, Patrick Kane and John Webb; and granddaughters Grace Ashworth and Ting Ashworth; and a host of other relatives and friends. John's first wife, Joanne Anderson LeVay, preceded John in death in September 1990 and granddaughter Hannah Ashworth preceded John in death in January 1998. John was born on January 13, 1927 in the city of Annapolis, Md to Esther Evelyn LeVay and John Allan LeVay, Sr. He lived in Annapolis with his mother, father and younger brother, surrounded by aunts and uncles, until he entered the U.S. Army in 1944 (just shy of his 18th birthday). John served in the Philippines until the end of the war and returned to the U.S. to attend (more than one) college on the GI Bill. After stints at the University of Denver and University of Texas, he landed at the American University in Washington D.C. During his time at AU, he liked to think of himself as a socialist—taking on professors in class discussions—but also showed a great interest and talent for drama. He worked for the University's radio station where he met his first wife, Joanne. The two married in 1952 in Philadelphia – and with the encouragement of his father-in-law, Robert "Doc" Anderson, John attended Temple Law School, receiving his degree in 1959. John and Joanne had two children, Anne and Elizabeth, in 1957 and 1962. John began his career with the department of Housing and Urban Development upon graduating from law school. He had a life-long interest in city planning, and one of his first HUD projects involved working on the gentrification of the Society Hill section of Philadelphia.John's interests were varied. He loved the Boston Red Sox, the Redskins and reading the newspaper cover to cover. He was an actor at heart and performed in local theater productions in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia-including leads in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Waiting for Godot, The Lady is Not for Burning and The Innocents. John became an avid tennis player in the early thirties and served on the board of the Germantown Cricket Club. He was a USTA sanctioned umpire and remained active in the tennis world when he and his family relocated to Richmond, Virginia in 1970. Throughout the 1970's and 1980's, John and Joanne managed or participated in a number of Virginia State, MALTA and USTA tennis tournaments. John was a long-time member of the Westwood Club. After the death of his first wife, John was blessed with meeting and falling in love with Alice Darhanian. Alice and John met at Westwood and immediately clicked. The two shared the same sense of humor, an interest for traveling and a love for tennis. They were beloved grandparents. Throughout their marriage, John suffered several setbacks with his health and Alice was a patient and loving caretaker. In 2009 he was diagnosed with congestive heart failure and was in and out of home care, hospitals, rehabilitation centers and ultimately the Windsor. John's family would like to thank all of the many aides, nurses, social workers and doctors who gave him such good care over these many years. He spent time at St. Mary's Hospital, Glen Burnie Rehabilitation Center, West Port Nursing Center, and the Windsor, as well as under the loving care of Horizons' Hospice. We send particular love and gratitude to Jayne A. Christian, who was able to bring the brightest of light into the darkest of places while she cared for dad.


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Today, GMA reported on the trend of overtly sexual ad campaigns in the fast food industry. Chains like Burger King and Hardees — the latter creatively promotes its Biscuit Holes — responded to inquiries, saying basically, sex sells.
Burger King responded to complaints over its ad in Singapore — for the BK Super Seven Incher depicting a woman about to orally receive all seven inches of the sandwich with the text "It'll blow your mind away" — by saying it:
…did not run in the U.S. or any other markets…and generated positive consumer sales.
While Hardees defended its "Name Our Holes" campaign by reinforcing our initial hunch that these holes are intended for the mouths of gay men by saying:
…intended to communicate the core message of our premium quality food to our target audience of Young, Hungry Guys.
Earlier: Blow Job Jokes Abound With Gross New BK Ad
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April 7 (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday rolled back some of the more controversial cuts proposed for privately managed Medicare health plans used by the elderly following pressure from insurance companies and lawmakers.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said that on average, reimbursement for such Medicare Advantage plans in 2015 would rise 0.4 percent, reversing what is said was a 1.9 percent average reduction proposed in February.
Analysts were still parsing the numbers, but said that the final decision appeared to be a win for insurers, who along with a broad swath of Republicans and Democrats in Congress had lobbied the government to keep payments level. The proposed cuts had also figured into Republicans' criticism of President Barack Obama's healthcare law.
"They were asking for flat (reimbursement) but no one ever thought they would get close to it," said Ipsita Smolinski, managing director of Capitol Street, a healthcare consulting firm based in Washington, D.C.
Shares in health insurers with large Medicare Advantage businesses, like Humana and UnitedHealth Group Inc , were trading slightly higher after the announcement. Their trading has historically been volatile around the annual government announcement as investors assess its impact.
Some in Congress were quick to comment on the shift.
"In many parts of the country, including New York, Medicare Advantage works very well. They've shouldered their share already and this proposed cut would have been disproportionate, hurting seniors who would lose doctors or pay more. We're glad the administration heeded our call and reversed the policy," Democratic Senator Charles Schumer said in a statement. New York has the most Medicare Advantage members in the country.
But Republican Senator Orrin Hatch said that the move is not enough for seniors whose benefits were already hit by cuts this year.
"Although CMS has scaled back some of the new proposed cuts, much more work needs to be done to protect our seniors," Hatch said.
Private insurers manage Medicare benefits for about 15 million of the 50 million elderly or disabled Americans eligible for the program. Humana said it was studying the announcement, while other insurance industry officials had no immediate comment.
CMS, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said on Monday that it had adjusted several of the factors that had made up the proposed cut for 2015. Insurers' analysis of the proposed reimbursement rates had estimated the reduction at 4 percent to 7 percent.
"They urged us to use whatever means we could to keep the rates close to parity to where they are today," Jonathan Blum, CMS principal deputy administrator, said at a press briefing.
"When you put all these pieces together, we estimate that the average change for a plan will be 0.4 percentage points, a little higher than what the industry had recommended to us," Blum said.
The agency said that costs for Medicare health services have continued to drop, and that it now expected a decline in spending per member of 3.4 percent versus the 1.9 percent on which it initially based its 2015 payments.
Other changes to the payment formula included removing a requirement that insurers perform a costly overhaul of the way they assess the risk from their sickest members. It also made changes to other risk adjustment parameters to account for relatively better health among U.S. baby boomers, a move that will benefit insurers, although some will be helped more than others based on the regions they serve.
The proposed payment rates are a key factor in how insurance companies plan their business for the coming year, including in which markets they will offer health plans, what their medical and administrative costs will be, and at what level to set premiums and doctor visit co-payments.
CMS is mandated by Obama's Affordable Care Act and by other laws to cut Medicare Advantage spending rates to the level of government administered fee-for-service Medicare.
"My impression is that CMS would like to implement these cuts faster than they are ... but they are phasing them in due to political pressure," said Kim Monk, managing director at Capital Alpha Partners, a public policy research firm. (Reporting by Caroline Humer and David Morgan in Washington D.C.; Editing by Michele Gershberg, Jonathan Oatis and Eric Walsh)


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Daughter of Count Stanislaus and Countess Anna of Prandata-Odrowaz; related to Saint Hyacinth and Blessed Czeslaw. Premonstratensian nun. Hermitess. When Saint Hyacinth died, Bronislava had a vision of Mary welcoming him to heaven.
- 29 August 1259 at Zwierzyniec, Lubelskie, Poland of natural causes
- re-interred in her convent church in 1261
- the church was later destroyed and her relics lost during a Swedish invasion
- relics re-discovered in the 17th century
- "Blessed Bronislava of Poland". CatholicSaints.Info. 19 January 2018. Web. 18 August 2019. <>


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Two dresses worn by Princess Diana are expected to sell for $60,000 each when they go up for sale at an auction in Los Angeles. The two Diana dresses offered for sale, each with an estimate of $40,000-$60,000, were both designed by Catherine Walker but were worn for very different purposes.
The first was created for a 1992 state visit to India with the intricate embroidered detail on the top half of the black gown getting its inspiration from Indian art.
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