Brown stepping down as Labour leader
May 10, 2010 by Trend PK
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Monday he intended to stand down as Labour leader and his party would hold formal talks on a possible power-sharing deal with the Liberal Democrats.
Brown said he intended to “ask the Labour party to set in train the processes needed for its own leadership contest” but he would “play no part”.
In the same statement, Brown said Labour was to hold formal talks with the Liberal Democrats — who are already talking to the Conservatives — on forming a government after Thursday”s general election ended in stalemate.
British Conservatives seek power deal after poll deadlock
May 7, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
LONDON: Opposition Conservatives on Friday sought a “comprehensive” power-sharing deal with the small Liberal Democrat party after a knife-edge election left Britain in political limbo.
Conservative chief David Cameron made the offer after his party won most seats from Thursday”s general election, but fell short of the overall majority needed to definitively end 13 years of Labour rule.
“I want to make a big, open and comprehensive offer to the Liberal Democrats. I want us to work together in tackling our country”s big and urgent problems,” Cameron told a press conference.
“I hope we can reach agreement quickly,” he added.
With 638 of the 650 House of Commons seats declared, the Conservatives had 301 lawmakers compared to 255 for Labour, making it impossible for the Conservatives to win the 326 seats they need to govern alone.
Under Britain”s election rules, Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown has the right to attempt to form a coalition first, but he accepted Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg”s decision to talk with Cameron first.
Cameron and Clegg would be “entitled to take as much time as they feel necessary,” Brown said, while offering to talk to the Lib Dems if they failed.
“Clearly should the discussions between Mr. Cameron and Mr. Clegg come to nothing then I would of course be prepared to discuss with Mr. Clegg the areas where there may be some measure of agreement between our two parties,” he said.
Britain was forced into a hung parliament for the first time since 1974 after the Conservatives finished short of an absolute majority. Cameron still insisted that Brown had lost his mandate to govern.
Until Brown and Cameron”s statements, the centre-left prime minister”s key allies said Labour, which has ruled since 1997, would try to cling to power through a deal with the centrist Lib Dems.
But Clegg said the Conservatives, as the largest party in the new parliament, had the “first right to seek to govern”.
“It seems this morning that it is the Conservative Party that has more votes and more seats though not an absolute majority,” he said.
“That is why I think it is now for the Conservative Party to prove that it is capable of seeking to govern in the national interest.”
It was the first indication that the Lib Dems would be prepared to strike a deal with the Conservatives.
Exit poll shows no party winning majority
May 7, 2010 by Trend PK
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LONDON: The U.K. opposition Conservative Party looks likely to win the most seats in Thursday”s general election but fall short of a parliamentary majority, an exit poll by Britain”s leading broadcasters showed Thursday.
Voting finished at 2100 GMT Thursday and the results of most seats will be declared by 0400 GMT Friday.
The exit poll was based on interviews of some 17,607 voters at 130 polling stations around the country, indicating David Cameron”s Conservative Party would win 307 seats, falling short of the 326 seats that would give it an overall majority.
The poll indicated Prime Minister Gordon Brown”s Labour Party would win 255 seats and the opposition Liberal Democrats 59. A coalition between the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats would also fall short of a majority of seats.
But with opinion polls indicating the election would be a tight three-way race between the main parties, small margins of error in the exit poll could produce very different final outcomes.
The pound fell after the exit poll came out but quickly regained lost ground against the dollar. It was at $1.4843 at 2232 GMT from $1.4840 before the exit poll. The euro rose to GBP0.810 from GBP0.8494.
Gilts rose as the market opened at 0000 GMT, with the June gilt future hitting a new contract high at 118.00, up from Thursday”s 117.28 close, while the 10-year benchmark gilt traded up 87 basis points at 100.95, yielding 3.628%. But volumes were very light as the market awaited a clearer indication of the election results.
Speaking after the exit poll results were declared but before any actual results had come in, U.K. Business Secretary Peter Mandelson signaled Labour would still try and form a government as part of a coalition with the Liberal Democrats.
“It”s not the party which has the largest number of seats that has first go, it”s the sitting government,” Mandelson told the BBC. “I have no problem in principle with trying to supply this country with strong and stable government.”
George Osborne, Conservative treasury spokesman said it is unthinkable that Labour could form a government if they fall far behind the Conservatives in numbers of seats.
“I think they need to get real. They have been rejected by the British people and Britain needs a change of government,” he told the BBC.
The U.K. Electoral Commission, the body responsible for the running of national elections, issued a statement late Thursday that it is “undertaking a thorough review” of instances where voters have been unable to cast their ballots.
That statement came in response to reports that voters in a number of constituencies were turned away from polling stations after the 2100 GMT deadline without being able to cast their ballot. The police was called to diffuse tensions outside at least one polling station, while other stations reportedly ran out of ballot papers.
Peter Robinson, first minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, lost his East Belfast seat in one of the biggest shocks of the night. His defeat follows revelations earlier this year that his wife–at the time also a DUP member of parliament–had had an affair, and allegations of financial impropriety.
The seat was won by Naomi Long, deputy leader of the Alliance Party, which has never before won a seat in the U.K. parliament. The party has traditionally rejected identification with either the nationalist or unionist causes in Northern Ireland. In the last general election, Long came third in East Belfast with 12.2% of the vote.
Cameron set to win most seats
May 7, 2010 by Trend PK
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LONDON: In the first election since 1974 with no party gaining a majority, Cameron’s Conservatives were forecast to have won 305 seats in the 650-seat House of Commons, the national exit poll showed. Labour was forecast to take 255 and Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats 61, the poll showed.
The projection, if confirmed by actual results, may initiate a period of maneuvering as Brown seeks to remain in power through a coalition with other parties while Cameron asserts his right to form the next government.
“The outcome of this country’s vote isn’t yet known,” Brown said in his home district of Kirkcaldy after his re-election to Parliament was announced. “My duty to the country coming out of this election is to play my part in Britain having a strong, stable and principled government.”
Cameron’s margin was probably enough to force Brown to resign, even though passing his program of spending cuts to tackle a record budget deficit and folding the U.K. financial regulator into the Bank of England would require the support of other parties, said Mark Wickham-Jones, a professor of politics at Bristol University.
“If this exit poll is correct, Gordon Brown is out,” said Wickham-Jones. “Cameron is going to try and govern, but it’s going to be a very difficult time, very stormy.”
The pound rose 0.3 percent against the dollar, reversing a decline, to $1.4873 at 1:55 a.m. in London. Gilt futures expiring in June, which began trading at 1 a.m., opened higher, rising 0.4 percent to 117.70.
A minority government “seems likely to lead to some volatility in asset prices unless and until the ability of the new government to operate effectively is established,” said Simon Hayes, chief U.K. economist at Barclays Capital, in a note.
The minority government produced by the February 1974 election lasted eight months before another vote in October.
If the exit polls are borne out, Labour would have their lowest number of seats since 1987, prompting speculation Brown, 59, who took over from Tony Blair in June 2007 after spending 10 years as chancellor of the exchequer, may quit as leader.
“Gordon will know whether he should stay on or not,” Home Secretary Alan Johnson told media. “Gordon deserves the dignity to actually look at these things and make up his mind.”
Business Secretary Peter Mandelson signalled the prospect of forging a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, saying that Brown retained the first shot at forming a government if the opposition failed to gain majority.
“The rules are, if it’s a hung parliament, it’s not the party with the largest number of seats that has the first go, it’s the sitting government,” he said.
Brown appealed to the Liberal Democrats, one of whose top priorities is reforming the voting system. In Kirkcaldy, he said a coalition would “implement our commitments to far-reaching political reform, for which there is a growing consensus.”
A Brown spokesman said it was too soon to comment on a possible coalition, saying discussions would depend on final results.
Even without their own majority, Conservative leaders said Brown shouldn’t hesitate to relinquish control. Based on the exit polls, a coalition between Labour and the Liberal Democrats still wouldn’t have a majority.
“It’s pretty clear that Labour cannot continue in government,” said George Osborne, the Conservatives’ Treasury spokesman. Labour politicians “need to get real, they’ve been rejected by the British people.”
Going into the vote, Labour had 345 seats and the Conservatives had 193.
In a sign of the breadth of the Conservative gains, the opposition took the Kingswood district in Gloucestershire from Labour. Its 9.4 percentage-point swing from Labour would give them a majority in Parliament if repeated across the country.
Voting was marred because long lines prevented some from casting their ballots before doors closed. Polling stations in Leeds, Ealing, Lewisham and Hackney were among those with such difficulties, the media reported.
In Sheffield, the local election official, John Mothersole, wrote an apology to residents who were unable to vote.
“We got this wrong and I would like to apologize,” he said in a statement on the city council’s website. “We were faced with a difficult situation with the numbers of people and a large amount of students turning up to vote without polling cards.”
Cameron, 43, who would be the youngest prime minister since the Earl of Liverpool in 1812, led his party to the biggest net gain of seats in 79 years. Osborne, 38, would be the youngest chancellor since Randolph Churchill in 1886.
They argued during the campaign that a record budget deficit, build-up of public debt and slumping economy demanded Brown’s ejection by voters. The parties clashed on the pace of spending reductions, with Brown saying Cameron’s pledge to enact cuts this year risked a double-dip recession.
While Cameron won’t have enough seats to push through his legislative agenda, he may not seek a formal partnership with Clegg, according to Philip Norton, professor of government at Hull University and a Conservative member of the House of Lords.
“If you’re a few short, you can still govern as a minority,” said Norton. “You could probably survive quite a while as a government without doing any deals.”
The exit poll was generated from surveys by GfKNOP and Ipsos-MORI at 130 polling stations across the country. While the poll accurately predicted Labour’s majority in 2005, it underestimated by nine the number of seats the Liberal Democrats won.
Bobby Brown Died | Fake of Bobby Brown Death Rumor
Bobby Brown was born 5 February 1969, is an American R & B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper and dancer.
It looks like another celebrity death gossip started on the Internet. This time the Internet buzzing that Bobby Brown died. The Bobby Brown died rumor may have started over a current report on the Australian singer Peter Andre. Other freshly reported death pressure against him, which made him check into a behavior clinic. The UK Sun article provides a review of Peter Other support Bobby Brown in Sydney in 1994. Some web surfers may have caught wind of Peter Andre’s death threat times gone by of Bobby Brown’s name in it and become confused.
After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had more than a few Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a mix of hip hop and R & B.
His second album, Do not Be Cruel, incorporated popular songs such as “My rights”. Brown’s former husband, R & B living legend singer Whitney Houston and participated in the reality shows Being Bobby Brown.
In all ways, the singer Bobby Brown is not dead. Brown purportedly had a mild heart attack back in late 2007, according to TMZ.com, which his lawyer said was due to “stress and diet.”
Brown, who is 41, the ex-husband Whitney Houston. The two had starred in his own reality show “Being Bobby Brown.” Brown has been in the news so as not to appear in a Massachusetts court because of a dislike complaint. There were also reports that Brown did not do as much as $ 45 000 in child support. Other reports suggest Brown is concerned in the use of crack cocaine, and he has also been reported to be a heavy cannabis user due to bipolar confusion.
Bobby Brown Died | Fake of Bobby Brown Death Rumor
Bobby Brown was born 5 February 1969, is an American R & B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper and dancer.
It looks like another celebrity death gossip started on the Internet. This time the Internet buzzing that Bobby Brown died. The Bobby Brown died rumor may have started over a current report on the Australian singer Peter Andre. Other freshly reported death pressure against him, which made him check into a behavior clinic. The UK Sun article provides a review of Peter Other support Bobby Brown in Sydney in 1994. Some web surfers may have caught wind of Peter Andre’s death threat times gone by of Bobby Brown’s name in it and become confused.
After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had more than a few Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a mix of hip hop and R & B.
His second album, Do not Be Cruel, incorporated popular songs such as “My rights”. Brown’s former husband, R & B living legend singer Whitney Houston and participated in the reality shows Being Bobby Brown.
In all ways, the singer Bobby Brown is not dead. Brown purportedly had a mild heart attack back in late 2007, according to TMZ.com, which his lawyer said was due to “stress and diet.”
Brown, who is 41, the ex-husband Whitney Houston. The two had starred in his own reality show “Being Bobby Brown.” Brown has been in the news so as not to appear in a Massachusetts court because of a dislike complaint. There were also reports that Brown did not do as much as $ 45 000 in child support. Other reports suggest Brown is concerned in the use of crack cocaine, and he has also been reported to be a heavy cannabis user due to bipolar confusion.
big sur marathon
April 25, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
FELTON — How would you feel if you were outraced by a 73-year-old lady while jogging at your best? This is an oddity Big Sur marathoners may want to prepare themselves for, as Khartoon Brown enters the coastal race for the 25th year in a row today.
“To me, age doesn’t matter,” Brown said. “I just don’t buy that.”
Brown has not missed a single iteration of the 26-mile-race since its creation in 1986, making her the only woman to have run every Big Sur marathon, she said. This year, a group of about 20 people will support and run with her to celebrate the record. Friends and family will be wearing purple T-shirts made for the occasion, proudly wearing Brown’s typical greeting on their chest: “Good morning sunshine.”
A 5-foot tall running phenomenon, Brown doesn’t know the loneliness sometimes related to aging. She is constantly surrounded by younger runner friends. On Saturdays, Brown meets her “children,” ranging from the mid-20s to the mid-50s, for a run at the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park in Aptos.
“We probably wouldn’t have been friends if it wasn’t for the running,” said Felton resident Filomena Milburn, stressing how sportsmanship brought women with such different personalities and lives together.
After running with Brown for 15 years, 56-year-old Milburn still admires her strength.
“Mentally, she can do anything,” Milburn said. “There are things that she does that I know I could never do.”
Beyond performance or energy, the little running family shines with unity.
“I usually call Khartoon Mom,’ except when she passes me,” said Robin Stevens.
A former beauty salon owner, Brown began running at age 45 for health reasons.
“I needed to exercise,” Brown said. “A lot of women take medications. I took running.”
The Mount Hermon resident really committed to running after taking part into her first marathon in Hawaii during the early 1980s. After her first New York Marathon, she was attracted to the Big Sur course in 1986 by its beauty, she said. Brown completed the California race each year within the six-hour time limit.
Brown doesn’t follow any particular diet or training. She said she just take short runs throughout the year and trains on longer distances during the two months before the big race.
Last November, Brown completed the New York Marathon one more time.
“I know what I need to do to get there,” Brown said.
Lala Brown
February 21, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under Entertainment
Lala Brown, Funeral services were detained for Yolanda “LaLa” Brown Thursday. Services were detained on the Mason Temple Church of God inside Christ Child on 6090 N. 35th Street in Milwaukee.
Various websites are available to see videos as of LaLa Brown’s funeral.Hundreds moved out in Milwaukee Wednesday evening to state farewell to songster Yolanda “LaLa” Brown. The wake for the 21-year-old, arising star in the R & B world, was apprehended at the Pitts Funeral Home on 20th as well as Capitol Wednesday.
An uncertain twice kill in 2007 in Milwaukee is listed for Saturday, U.S’s Most Wanted.
flourishing R & B songster Yolanda “La La” Brown, 21, as well as his friend also creator JeTannue Clayborn, 22, were on the west surface studio, where she exists, Loud Enuff Productionz lifeless record 5500 W. Avenida de Lisboa.
Almost a week former, somebody had gone into the studio with tools, counting keyboards, a microphone, speakers, a computer as well as a mixer.
Brown’s family did not recognize whether the earlier crime was obtained in relation among the loss other than held in 2007 that were out as of the lines as well as accessories used for tools taken subsequent to the shooting.
A fine determine of “America’s Most Wanted” Role Yolanda as well as their buddy the sad kill of his show. Lala Brown has been full of activity with his foot in the door (or we can say she was to emerge on “sex” the initial single through Lyfe Jennings 2 of his album “The Phoenix) when she as well as her boyfriend moreover JeTannue Clayborn were set up in a modify of recording in ‘07 lifeless.
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Leon Russell With Zac Brown Band At Grammy Awards
February 1, 2010 by Trend PK
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TrendPK.com Leon Russell With Zac Brown Band At Grammy Awards:Leon Russell, the wispy keyboardist who guested with the Zac Brown Band at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night (January 31), brought decades of experience and legendary performances to the stage.
Born Claude Russell Bridges in Oklahoma in 1942, the keyboardist [...]
Scott Brown Acceptance Speech
Scott Brown Acceptance Speech, Republican Scott Brown pulled off a stunning victory over Democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday in the race to fill the former Senate seat of Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts.
After Coakley called to concede the race, Brown addressed his supporters, thanked those involved, and even had some fun at the expense of his thoroughly embarrassed .
