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BYD IS A leading global manufacturer of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules. BYD is one of only 4 manufacturers in China to have the complete production process in house. By controlling the whole process of manufacturing from silicon ingot to solar cell to PV panel they are able to constantly improve efficiencies.
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XIII - Xbox
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No matter what age you are, you always have a soft spot for comic books; the classic storylines, the great graphics and the step away from reality allows us to take a break from the realism that games and life constantly throw our way.
In steps XIII, the latest first person shooter from Ubisoft that has been graphically styled to look and play just like the French comic book series on which the story is based.
The premise is simple. You play a special agent washed up on a beach having lost his memory. The ensuing levels and flashback see you slowly piece your memory back together, the mission you were on and the trouble you were in. Of course this game isn't about you wandering around like a lost puppy and before you can say, "how's your father" the bad guys are shooting at you, people are getting killed and you realise that its all part of a horrible government cover-up with you the final piece of the puzzle that needs to be silenced.
Gameplay is like any other first person shooter and the story unravels in a nice way with the action interlaced nicely with cutscenes that keep the story ticking over. While the storyline is strong and the gameplay pretty standard, this is not the reason you should be buying the game. The reason is to marvel at being in a interactive comic book. Characters are all 2D while the scenery is very much 3D. The little details make for an even nicer experience - throw your knife at someone and a comic strip will show the knife flying towards them before its deadly strike. Likewise, soldiers approaching make tap tap tap noises that are illustrated on screen with the words "tap tap tap". In fact it's these elements that actually make this game seem better than it actually is.
Four screen multiplayer can get a bit manic and our advice is do this only if you have a big television. With "BOOM!" written across the screen every time there is an explosion - and multiple action - the X-Box coped well, it's just our television and eyes didn't.

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Word has it around news sources that Nigerian musician and former Big Brother Africa contestant Goldie is dead.
According to the news sources, Goldie passed on in a Nigerian hospital after flying back to Nigeria from the USA where she had attended this year's Grammys.
An administrator post on Goldie's Facebook page confirmed the rumors today that the former Big Brother Africa contestant had passed on.
"It is with heavy heart that I have to inform you all that Goldie passed this night shortly after arriving Lagos from LA. May her soul rest in the eternal peace of the Lord," Admin.
Goldie's family is yet to release a formal statement about the whole thing if at all it is true that she is indeed dead.
Her boyfriend Prezzo can also not be reached for any comments.
There are people who think there's something fishy about this whole Goldie is dead story... Sirjili Kitala posted "Something does NOT add up because someone updated her Facebook that she isn't dead. What's going on really?"
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@AndyShore There almost wasn't even a set to review. We stood in the hot sun, anxiously awaiting Wale to take the stage. At first we chalked it up to rapper being fashionably late. Then it got to be ridiculous. Security had no idea what was going on. I took turns trading explanations with one security official. My theory was that he was pulling tubes on Jay Z's tour bus and couldn't be bothered. Zack gave up and wandered off. I had nowhere else I wanted to be, so Rob and I hung around. Finally, with about ten minutes to go in his set time, Wale took the stage.
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Bill would create homeless bill of rights
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In another case, the city had been issuing citations to people sleeping on the streets, under a state law. Dreher sued, arguing that if a person had no place to lawfully sleep, they couldn't be ticketed. The city as part of the settlement agreed to stop issuing citations until it could provide the shelter space.
"It gave the city the incentive to help cure the problem and help get people out of homelessness," Dreher said. "The overall effect of passing this law is, it takes that away. Suddenly, it's always legal for anyone to sleep in public whenever he wants."
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Dark Eyes Are Also Beautiful
7.8 01. Audrey Tautou
8.7 02. Audrey Hepburn
7.8 03. Monica Bellucci
7.7 08. Anne Hathaway
8.7 010. Johnny Depp
8.2 014. Natalie Portman
8.1 015. Robert Downey Jr.
8.6 018. Marlon Brando
8.6 027. Al Pacino
7.7 029. Brigitte Bardot
8.1 030. Catherine Deneuve
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Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Oct 20 21:56
I voted for this because these women and men have stunning eyes but also because that Audrey Hepburn picture left me breathless!
Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Oct 20 22:03
You should add Rachel Leigh Cook as well.
Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Oct 20 22:34
I don't know why I've always thought Brando's eyes color is dark-blue.
Good job!
Good job!
Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Oct 21 6:25
Love the list!
Posted: 2 years, 8 months ago at Oct 25 15:11
Many of these people have light to medium brown eyes,and Catherine Deneuve's eyes are green or hazel. Plus in the black and pictures you can't see the dark brown color.
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Nov 4 16:44
Great pics chosen !
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Nov 4 18:52
Beautiful eyes!
You should add Alberto Jorrin, he has mysterious dark eyes.
You should add Alberto Jorrin, he has mysterious dark eyes.
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Nov 4 21:45
Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot and Sharon Tate DO NOT have dark brown eyes! I've examined their work in films and on TV, as well as photographs. Catherine and Brigitte have varying green/hazel eyes depending on which light is projected on their faces; Sharon Tate was green-eyed, even in the black and white image you can see the light pigmentation.
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Nov 5 3:40
sexy list
Posted: 2 years, 7 months ago at Nov 5 10:57
You should add Troian Bellisario she has amazing brown eyes
Posted: 2 years, 5 months ago at Jan 3 15:16
great list! hepburn's eyes dig into your soul...
Posted: 2 years, 2 months ago at Apr 16 22:52
Great list! As a dark-eyed woman I only have to thank you!
Posted: 2 years ago at Jun 18 0:17
I had to vote on your list, because I don't give a damn for blue or green eyes. The most beautiful eyes are always brown in my opinion. I have blue eyes, but, OMG, how I wish I had brown eyes! I'm sick of people telling me: "What beautiful eyes you have!". Bullshit! Why doesn't anyone ever say to a person with brown eyes she has beautiful eyes?
Posted: 2 years ago at Jun 30 2:46
Ben ♥
Posted: 1 year, 11 months ago at Jul 9 22:42
Audrey Hepburn had such beauty in her eyes. Love them and her.
Posted: 1 year, 9 months ago at Sep 12 20:28
I prefer girls who have slanted dark brown eyes (like Lucy Liu's). And even if they're not slanted I prefer them dark brown.
Posted: 1 year, 1 month ago at May 7 22:23
Sharon Tate was said to have big brown eyes,but her eyes were more light brown than dark,and Brigitte is said to have light brown eyes also,and Catherine Denuve has hazel eyes.
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Community Sanitation Overview:
The City of Mekoryuk has a population of about 215 and manages the water treatment plant and washeteria. In the 1970s, the community had an underground piped water system installed that failed due to winter freeze ups. Later, the city received an early version of the Cowater Flush Tank and Haul? water and wastewater systems which is still being used in ninety-six homes and eleven commercial establishments. Homes do not have washers and less than half city residences have working baths or showers. Therefore, the washeteria is used by nearly all city residents. The city has a nine million gallon lined reservoir, a hundred and twenty-five thousand gallon water storage tank, and a 4.2 acre wastewater lagoon. The Lower Kuskokwim School District has its own well but uses the city's wastewater lagoon. The city would like to be considered for funding for a piped water and wastewater system.
RUBA Status & Activities This Qtr:
Bethel RUBA staff visited Mekoryuk from February 19-22, 2013, to work with city staff on non-compliant RUBA indicators. A RUBA assessment for the city's water and wastewater utility was completed on August 7, 2012. Since the assessment, Bethel RUBA staff found that the numbers listed for the budgeted FY13 amounts in the monthly financial report did not match those in the city's FY13 budget ordinance. Also, a one page QuickBooks profit and loss statement was presented to city council as a monthly financial report during a February 2013 council meeting which does not provide budget information to meet the essential indicator standard. Therefore, most of the February visit was devoted to updating budgeted amounts in the monthly financial report to more closely match those of the FY13 budget adopted in June 2012. A mid-year review of ependitures and revenues was completed working with the city administrator and clerk to verify monthly expenditures and revenues for each department, catch double entries, question line-item anomalies, compare year-to-date expenditures to revenues for each department, and do the same for the entire city budget as a whole. The 'mid-year' review resulted in seeing the need to prepare an updated budget for the council to review and consider as an amendment to the FY13 budget. RUBA staff attended a council meeting held at 1 p.m. on February 22. During the meeting, RUBA staff explained the draft amended FY13 budget, and took the opportunity to highlight significant changes prior to a vote on its introduction. The draft amended budget spreadsheet included columns for revenues and expenditures for each month of the year (current through January), as well as year-to-date, and remaining balance amounts. RUBA staff stated that profit and loss statements were not adequate for compliance with RUBA financial indicators, and a detailed report, like they were reviewing, is what they should expect each month from the administrative staff in the future.
RUBA Activities for the Coming Qtr:
Bethel staff will be working with the municipality's administrative staff to bring the city's RUBA essential and sustainable indicators into compliance.
Essential Indicators:
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Sustainable Indicators:
18 of 27
Total Score:
43 of 54
Essential Indicators
All revenues and expenses for the utility are listed in the utility budget.
The utility has adopted a balanced realistic budget.
Monthly financial reports are prepared and submitted to the policy making board.
The utility is current in paying all water/wastewater electric bills.
The utility has on hand a year's adequate fuel supply or it has a financial plan to purchase an adequate supply.
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources) sufficient to cover operating expenses.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources sufficient to cover operating expenses and Repair & Replacement (R) costs.
YTD revenues are at a level equal to or above those budgeted.
YTD expenditures are at a level equal to or below those budgeted.
A monthly manager's report is prepared.
Budget amendments are completed and adopted as necessary.
Finances Comments
A copy of the City of Mekoryuk's FY 2013 Budget Appropriations Ordinance adopted on July 29, 2012 is on file at the Bethel regional office and it appears to be balanced and realistic. A copy of a budget amendment adopted on March 11, 2013 is also on file at the Bethel regional office. Minutes from council meetings held on December 10, January 7, and February 5, 2013 were provided for this report. All three sets of minutes mention monthly financial reports from the previous month being reviewed by city council. On March 22, the Bethel RUBA office received a monthly financial report from the city that was up to date through February 2013. An April 8, 2013, phone conversation with Alaska Village Electric Cooperative (AVEC) indicated that the city current on its electric accounts. On August 13, 2012, the administrator indicated the city received a 20,000 gallon delivery of heating fuel on July 11 and would have enough heating fuel on hand to cover the city's needs for the winter of 2012/2013. The city's FY13 budget does not have a repair and replacement line item for the water and sewer department. Manager reports were included in the meeting minutes.
Accounting Systems
Essential Indicators
The utility has adopted a collection policy and actively follows it.
The utility bills customers on a regular basis.
An accounts receivable system is in place which tracks customers and reports past due accounts and amounts.
An accounts payable system is in place.
The payroll system correctly calculates payroll and keeps records.
A cash receipt system is in place that records incoming money and how it was spent.
The utility has a cash disbursement system that records how money was spent.
Sustainable Indicators
A chart of accounts is used that identifies categories in a reasonable, usable manner.
Monthly bank reconciliations have been completed for all utility accounts.
The utility has a purchasing system that requires approval prior to purchase, and the approval process compares proposed purchases to budgeted amounts.
Accounting Systems Comments
An electronic copy of 'City of Mekoryuk Water and Sewer Utilities Credit and Collection Policy and Procedures' adopted on November 11, 2009 is on file at the Bethel regional office. A more recent ordinance '2012-03 Mekoryuk Washeteria Increase' adopted on June 18, 2012 establishes new rates for washeteria services. According to the administrator the city has established an unwritten policy that if a residential account for water and wastewater services has a balance over $79.30 (the cost of two water or wastewater hauls) the city will not provide the next water or waste haul until the balance is paid down by $39.65 or $32.50 for seniors. However, the accounts aging report provided by the city on March 15, 2013, has significant outstanding balances for 30 and 60 days past due. Therefore, the first essential indicator of this section 'The utility has adopted a collection policy and actively follows it' was marked 'No'. When cash is received for utility payments, the customer receives a receipt and the transaction is entered into QuickBooks. A chart of accounts was provided by the city administrator on July 24, 2012. A check request is required when an employee needs to purchase parts, supplies and equipment. The city provided the Bethel regional office with verification that its general checking account had been reconciled on February 28, 2013. An undated city document titled 'Purchasing Procedures' is on file at the Bethel regional office.
Tax Problems
Essential Indicators
The utility has a system to accurately calculate, track, and report payroll tax liabilities.
The utility is current on filing tax reports.
The utility is current on making tax deposits.
If there are any past due tax liabilities or recorded tax liens, a lien release has been issued or a repayment agreement has been signed and repayments are current.
Tax Problems Comments
An April 1, 2013 fax correspondence from IRS Taxpayer Advocate indicates the city is compliant with federal tax payments and reporting requirements from 2009 through the third quarter of 2012. A March 20, 2013 email correspondence from Alaska Department of Labor's Anchorage office indicates that the City of Mekoryuk is compliant filing its Employment Security Tax payments and reports through September 30, 2012. The city is not listed on the January-February 2013 LIEN WATCH: A Review of Small Community Liens.
Personnel System
Essential Indicators
The utility has a posted workers compensation insurance policy in effect.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted and uses a Personnel Policy, which has been reviewed by an attorney, AML or Commerce for topics and language.
The utility has adequate written job descriptions for all positions.
The utility has adopted and follows a written personnel evaluation process that ties the job description to the evaluation.
The utility has an adequate written hiring process.
The utility has personnel folders on every employee that contain at least: I-9, Job Application and Letter of Acceptance.
The utility has a probationary period for new hires that includes orientation, job training/oversight, and evaluations.
The utility provides training opportunities to staff as needed and available.
Personnel System Comments
On November 30, 2012, the city emailed the Bethel RUBA regional office verification that it has workers' compensation insurance for its employees through October 18, 2013 with Alaska National Insurance Company. A copy of City of Mekoryuk Utility Policies and Procedures (the city's personnel policy) revised on August 10, 2009 is electronically filed at the Bethel regional office. However, RUBA staff has not been provided documentation that the personnel policy has been adopted by city council. On November 29, Bethel staff sent the city's clerk a reminder that the city needed to provide verification that their personnel policy has been adopted. Until Bethel regional office is provided with verification that the city's personnel policy has been adopted by city council most of the sustainable indicators in this section will be marked 'No'. Written job descriptions for the city administrator, bookkeeper, and washeteria supervisor were provided on July 24, 2012. But job descriptions for the maintenance supervisor, assistant and alternate operators and the washeteria attendants were not provided. Therefore, the sustainable indicator of this section which states: 'The utility has adequate written job descriptions for all positions' is marked 'No'. Not including city council members, the city of Mekoryuk has about 12 employees. On June 18, 2012, Bethel RUBA staff reviewed three of the city's employee personnel files. None of the three folders had the employee's application or a letter of acceptance and one of them did not have an I-9. For RUBA compliance all personnel files should contain the employee's application file, letter of acceptance (that includes the wages, benefits, expectations of the employer, classification of job, and date of hire) and a completed federal I-9 form. The city has sent its administrative staff to several RUBA sponsored trainings during the last two years.
Organizational Management
Essential Indicators
The entity that owns the utility is known; the entity that will operate the utility is set.
The policy making body is active in policy making of the utility.
The policy making body enforces utility policy.
The utility has an adequately trained manager.
The utility has an adequately trained bookkeeper.
The utility has an adequately trained operator or operators.
The utility has adopted the necessary ordinances (or rules and regulations) necessary to give it the authority to operate.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted an organizational chart that reflects the current structure.
The policy making body meets as required.
The utility complies with the open meeting act for all meetings.
Organizational Management Comments
The Bethel regional office has an unsigned copy of the City of Mekoryuk's Flush Tank Haul and Water Haul Tank System Ordinance 94.04 on file. The city needs to provide the Bethel regional office verification that the ordinance has been adopted. A more recent ordinance '2012-03 Mekoryuk Washeteria Increase' adopted on June 18, 2012 establishes new rates for washeteria services. According to the administrator the city has established an unwritten policy that if a residential account for water and wastewater services has a balance over $79.30 (the cost of two water or wastewater hauls) the city will not provide the next water or waste haul until the balance is paid down by $39.65 or $32.50 for seniors. However, the accounts aging report provided by the city on March 15, 2013, has significant outstanding balances for 30 and 60 days past due. Therefore, the third essential indicator of this section 'The policy making body enforces utility policy ' was marked 'No'. The city's water treatment plant is classified as a Water Treatment Class I facility. The water plant operator will need to pass the Water Distribution and Water Treatment provisional certificates and accrue on-the-job training hours before his is certified to the level of the city's water plant. On August 30, 2012, city council adopted by resolution an updated organization chart for the municipality which is electronically filed at the Bethel regional office. City council attempts to meet at least monthly pursuant to Alaska Title 29. Public notification of meetings and the manner in which they are conducted are in accordance with Alaska's Open Meeting Act or otherwise stated in local ordinances.
Operation of Utility
Essential Indicators
The utility operator(s) are actively working towards necessary certification.
The utility has a preventative maintenance plan developed for the existing sanitation facilities.
Sustainable Indicators
The manager receives a monthly O&M report from the utility operator and routinely "spot checks" the facilities to see that the maintenance items are being completed.
The utility has a safety manual and holds safety meetings.
Utility facilities have not suffered any major problems/outages due to management issues that are unresolved.
The utility is operating at the level of service that was proposed.
The operator provides status reports to the manager on a routine basis.
The utility has completed and distributed its "Consumer Confidence Report".
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Gwyneth Paltrow debuts 'Country Strong' music video - what do you think?
Actress Gwyneth Paltrow has debuted her "Country Strong" music video. It's the song accompanying the movie of the same name in which Paltrow plays Kelly Canter, a country music singer on her comeback tour who finds her romantic life in upheaval and a young star trying to steal the limelight ("Gossip Girls's" Leighton Meester).


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Federal prosecutors expanded their case against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Thursday in an indictment that drew more of his closest aides into the scandal and adds new schemes to the list of charges against him: Pocketing money funneled through his wife through a phony real estate job. Shaking down a powerful congressman. Running the state as a racket.
Coming nearly four months after federal agents roused a sitting governor out of his Northwest Side home in a predawn arrest -- and weeks after lawmakers dumped him from power -- Thursday's indictment of Blagojevich, his brother and four former top insiders could have been anti-climactic.Instead, prosecutors added a few more chapters to the Blagojevich saga, further pulling his family into the pay-to-play conspiracy, revealing yet more confidants had turned on him and suggesting he was intent on corruption before he was even sworn in. The indictment carries a potentially lengthy prison sentence and possible forfeiture of his family home should Blagojevich be convicted.
After turning Illinois politics into an amusement-park ride, most notably for allegedly trying to sell President Barack Obama's Senate seat, Blagojevich spent the day of his indictment with his family at Disney World.
Blagojevich was indicted on 16 racketeering, fraud and extortion counts. Among the new, damaging allegations were that Blagojevich delayed a $2 million grant to a public charter school while trying to extort campaign cash from now- White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and threatened to withhold future state business from financial institutions that refused to hire his wife.
Blagojevich's effort to profit, both personally and for his Friends of Blagojevich campaign fund, was so pervasive that federal prosecutors labeled the racketeering scheme the "Blagojevich Enterprise."
"The primary purpose of the Blagojevich Enterprise was to exercise and preserve power over the government of the State of Illinois for the financial and political benefit of Rod Blagojevich, both directly and through Friends of Blagojevich, and for the financial benefit of his family members and associates," the indictment alleged.
Prosecutors alleged that Blagojevich and his most trusted confidants conspired to enrich themselves before his election as governor in November 2002, even striking a deal to divide the spoils after he left the state's highest office.
Also indicted were Blagojevich's close friend and fundraiser Christopher Kelly and two former chiefs of staff -- Alonzo "Lon" Monk, a longtime friend who also managed Blagojevich's campaigns for governor and later became a well-heeled lobbyist, and John Harris, who succeeded Monk as chief of staff. Blagojevich's brother, Robert, who headed his campaign fund, also was charged, as was Downstate Republican power broker William Cellini.
Blagojevich's wife, Patricia, was not indicted but was essentially described as a co-conspirator amid efforts to enrich her and the Blagojevich family.
Prosecutors said Harris had agreed to cooperate, and details contained in the indictment indicated that Antoin "Tony" Rezko, once a major fundraiser and adviser to Blagojevich who was convicted in June on corruption charges, also was helping to build the case against the former governor. And in a new twist, sources also said Monk had negotiated to work with federal prosecutors.
In a statement released by the public relations firm representing him, Blagojevich said he was "innocent."
Orlando's WESH-TV posted on its Web site a video of the former governor in sunglasses and shorts sitting beside a pool. As his wife tried to block the camera's view, Blagojevich declined to discuss the charges and said he would talk "at the appropriate time."
It was clear from the indictment that new cooperation from former close associates, such as Rezko, was providing prosecutors with valuable information.
The indictment alleged that Rezko played an integral role in boosting the Blagojevich family's finances, steering little or no-work real estate commissions to Patricia Blagojevich's real estate firm and later hiring her for his own real estate business at $12,000 a month. Rezko also allegedly gave Monk as much as $90,000 to help pay for a car and home improvements.
Among the earliest and biggest plots in the "Blagojevich Enterprise" was a scheme to direct the sale of billions of dollars in bonds to refinance the state's pension debt to a company whose lobbyist secretly agreed to kick back hundreds of thousands of dollars to Rezko. Sources with knowledge of the situation identified that company as Bear Stearns and the lobbyist as Robert Kjellander.
The indictment also alleged that even though it was public knowledge in 2006 that Rezko and Kelly were under federal investigation, Blagojevich continued his effort to benefit from his post. One notable example involved Emanuel, then a Northwest Side congressman, who was supporting a $2 million grant for Chicago Academy and Chicago Academy High School, but Blagojevich allegedly delayed it in an effort to force Emanuel and one of the congressman's brothers to hold a fundraiser for him. No fundraiser was held.
The indictment largely restated the criminal charges leveled against Blagojevich in the December complaint. It contended he sought to profit from the sale of his appointment of a U.S. Senate successor to Obama in forms ranging from an ambassadorship or cabinet post to a job for his wife.
The indictment also restated that Blagojevich allegedly tried to seek the firing of Chicago Tribune editorial writers who were critical of him in exchange for granting state help in the sale of Wrigley Field. The indictment indicates Blagojevich directed Harris to go to Tribune Co. leaders with the proposal but did not allege that Harris followed through with the governor's request.
Prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of more than $188,000 from Blagojevich and threatened to go after his property -- including his Ravenswood Manor home and an apartment in Washington.
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The 19 counts: who was charged with what
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his brother, Rob, were among six people charged Thursday in a 19-count, 75-page indictment. A breakdown of the charges for each defendant:
Rod Blagojevich
Former governor
CHARGE (Counts)
Racketeering conspiracy (1)
Wire fraud (2-12)
Attempted extortion (16)
Extortion conspiracy (17)
Attempted extortion (18)
False statements (19)
Christopher Kelly
CHARGE (Counts)
Racketeering conspiracy (1)
Fraud conspiracy (13)
Extortion conspiracy (14)
Attempted extortion (15)
Alonzo "Lon" Monk
Former chief of staff
CHARGE (Counts)
Wire fraud (11)
William F. Cellini Sr.
Political Insider
CHARGE (Counts)
Fraud conspiracy (13)
Extortion conspiracy (14)
Attempted extortion (15)
John Harris
CHARGE (Counts)
Former chief of staff
Wire fraud (4)
Robert Blagojevich
CHARGE (Counts)
Wire fraud (3,12)
Breaking down the indictment: new allegations and old
The indictment against Rod Blagojevich, his brother and top associates alleges an array of corruption broader than sketched out by prosecutors in December when the then-governor was arrested and first charged in a criminal complaint. -- Bob Sector, Tribune reporter
Financial gain
* Even before Blagojevich's election in 2002, he allegedly plotted to use the governor's office for personal financial gain with top advisers Alonzo Monk, Chris Kelly and Antoin "Tony" Rezko. The four were said to have agreed to divvy up the cash after Blagojevich left office
Unearned commissions
* Blagojevich's wife, Patricia, got a $12,000-a-month salary from Rezko, who also paid her more than $54,000 in real estate commissions for which she did little or no work, according to the indictment. In 2008, Blagojevich also was said to have ordered an aide to arrange a paid state board appointment for Patricia Blagojevich or get state vendors to hire her. When two financial institutions balked at putting her on the payroll, Blagojevich ordered them cut off from further state business. Patricia Blagojevich was not charged.
Charter school grant
* In 2006, Blagojevich allegedly held up release of a $2 million state grant for a Northwest Side charter school in an unsuccessful effort to get the area's then-congressman, identified by a source as current White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, to arrange a fundraiser for the governor.
Lying to FBI
* Blagojevich is charged with lying to FBI agents in a March 2005 interview when he claimed to keep a strict "firewall" between political and government business and said he had no knowledge of who gave him campaign cash and how much.
Campaign contributions
* Blagojevich and others are accused of conspiring to shake down campaign contributions from executives at Children's Memorial Hospital, a road building firm and racetracks as well as firms seeking large capital investments from state pension funds.
Tribune Co. and Wrigley Field
* Blagojevich allegedly tried to pressure Tribune Co. executives into firing members of the Chicago Tribune's editorial board in exchange for state financial help in the sale of Wrigley Field, which Tribune Co. owns along with the Chicago Cubs.
Obama's Senate seat
* Blagojevich allegedly sought to auction off the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama when he was elected president, with the then-governor angling to use his appointment power to gain campaign cash, an ambassadorship, a Cabinet appointment or even a new job outside of government.
SOURCE: U.S. attorney's office
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Beyonce's Super Bowl Halftime Show: Jay-Z Was Supposed to Join, Backed Out at Last Minute — But Why?
Jay-Z may have 99 problems, but upstaging Beyonce ain't one.
Beyonce performed her smash hit "Crazy in Love" during the Super Bowl halftime show on February 3, which husband Jay-Z had decided at the last minute to not perform onstage with her, according to Us Weekly.
Instead, a recorded version of Jay-Z's rap in the song was played during the show.
So why did Jay-Z back out?
"He wanted that to be her moment and didn't want to take away from it," explains a source. "She had been working her ass off." Aww! Is that true love or what?
Instead, the rapper was backstage and watched the performance with their 12-month-old daughter, Blue Ivy. That sounds pretty darn cute to us.
Two people who did join Beyonce during her set were her two former Destiny's Child bandmates, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.
The source reveals that the reunited girl group had been planning to perform "Bills, Bills, Bills" and their new single "Nuclear," but those two tunes were cut at the eleventh hour.
If you ask us, Beyonce killed it, and we wouldn't want her to have changed a thing!
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one day i was bored and wanted to make something and the next best thing lying around were zip ties and with a little try and error i found a way to convert the ties into beautifull flower resembling shapes that can be made into broches and pendants. just like the story of the ugly duckling.
so have fun making your own zip tie jewelry.
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Step 1: Ingredients
- hot glue
- brooch needles
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Step 2: Connecting the ties
connect the cable ties to each other:
slip the second cable tie through the recipient of the first. then the 3rd through the 2nd, the 4th trough the 3rdb, the 5th through the 4th and finally the first through the 5th - you get the drift.
pull the ties as tight as possible.
Love it! I can't wait to try it!
if I ca find some zip ties I will make this
I thought it was going to involve loads of small zip-ties, and was expecting all the fastenings to be hidden at the back or something, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that it was made with only a few :-)


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Who Has Dianna Agron Dated? The Glee Star's Relationship History
In honor of Valentine's Day 2013, we though we'd take a look back over the dating history of some of Glee's most beloved stars. First up, it's Dianna Agron (Quinn). Though the gorgeous Glee starlet doesn't appear to be dating anyone right now, she's certainly been linked to plenty of Hollywood hotties over the years. Here's quick look back over her love life.
Back in May 2012, photographers spotted Glee's attending a rock concert with a hot new guy: 29-year-old Henry Joost, a Hollywood director who's was then working on the horror film Paranormal Activity 4.
Some photographers initially misidentified Henry as Dianna's ex, Sebastian Stan, who she broke up with late last year. So what other hot Hollywood men have been linked to Dianna during her time in the spotlight? Well, there's James Franco's supercute younger brother, Dave Franco, for one. He and Dianna dated back in 2008-2009. Here's a short history of Dianna's relationship past.
Alex Pettyfer: The British Bad Boy
Back in August 2010, Dianna landed a lead role in the sci-fi thriller I Am Number Four, and it soon became clear that she and co-star Alex Pettyfer weren't just lovers on-screen. The sexy Brit raved about how "amazing" his GF was, and even came to visit her on the Glee set.
Dianna gushed that though Alex might "see himself as a bad boy," he's "actually very sweet in real life." Rumors even flew that the two might have gotten engaged, though both Di and Alex denied any such talk.
Unfortunately, that's when things started to go south. The couple split in February 2011, with reports emerging that Alex was a "little controlling" and "really paranoid" Dianna would cheat, even confronting Gossip Girl's Sebastian Stan about a rumor he slept with Dianna.
Dianna promptly moved out of the house she and Alex had been sharing, and checked into a hotel under an assumed name. Reports flew that she was terrified of him, and even feared for her life.
Sebastian Stan: The NYC Heartthrob
About a month before Dianna was first linked to Alex in August 2010, tabloid reports initially paired her with Sebastian Stan, then playing Carter Baizen on Gossip Girl and most recently known for his roles on Kings and Once Upon a Time. Yet when Dianna hooked up with Alex, rumors of a romance between she and Sebastian had seemed like little more than tabloid fodder.
Fast forward to to May 2011: about four months after Dianna's messy breakup with Alex, reports emerged that Di had rekindled her old flame with Sebastian. By July, she was flying to New York City to spend more time with him. (Kissing, partying, sleepovers, that sort of stuff.)
After that summer, Dianna and Sebastian kept the romance pretty low-profile, until it surfaced in December 2011 that the trials of a long-distance had taken their toll, and the two had officially broken up.
However, rumors flew that the duo had rekindled their romance when they were spotted sharing a "steamy" kiss outside of an LA restaurant on Valentine's Day.
Henry Joost: The Cute Hollywood Director
Now, almost five months later, Dianna is stepping out with a new man: 29-year-old Henry Joost, the director behind the 2010 documentary, Catfish, and the horror films Paranormal Activity 3 and 4.
The new couple made their public debut attending a Jack White rock concert on May 23, but the relationship still appears to be in its early stages. A source told JustJared that Dianna and Henry had "been getting to know each other for the past few weeks," and that they were "taking it slowly." In July, he also accompanied her to Italy for the Giffoni Film Festival.
Christian Cooke: The British Charmer
After over four months and no news if anything was still happening with Henry, photographers one day spotted Dianna walking down the streets of New York City, hand-in-hand with British actor Christian Cooke.
Christian, a 25-year-old actor who recently left behind the world of British TV for a role on the Starz series Magic City, will soon be seen in the 2013 movie Romeo and Juliet, where his character, Mercutio, will get killed by Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick's Tybalt.
Howevever, there was never any confirmation that Dianna and Christian were dating, and we have heard absolutley nothing about him since then. That means either Di and Christian are doing a really good job of keeping their relationship a secret... or Di is a single lady once again! (Men of America, we know which one you're hoping it is!_


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Great idea! This is a fun and interactive idea for your baby shower. We all know that most baby showers are typically the same. You eat, you play games and you open gifts. Of course there are some super fun things you can do to make the party a little less typical. This idea is adorable and helps you decorate the nursery! What you do is assign each person who RSVP's a different letter of the alphabet, and you ask them to bring them to the baby shower. Don't tell they why, just say please bring a letter. When they arrive, they will be surprised and you get to tell that their letter will now be apart of your babies nursery! Then you decorate the nursery using all of the letters, how cool is that!?!? They don't have to be handmade but I bet more than a few will break out the craft supplies.
Source: gallery.projectnursery.com via Jess on Pinterest
I've always been a fan of including the guests in baby showers and weddings. I love the idea of the throw away camera at the table at weddings for guests to take photos. So why not have your guests bring a letter and then hang them in the nursery! Cute cute cute.
Now, if you have more than 26 guests, well we may need to revisit that. I do know someone who did this and had to have people bring more than one letter so she assigned a letter to each person in a couple or the kids just for fun.
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This Pompeii Oven is Now Cooking!
It's official. Food has been cooked in the oven, eaten, and declared to be delicious.
The curing fires must be driving out the moisture. I got the dome of the oven up to 950F today. The outer surface of the dome was up to about 275F, indicating that most of the moisture must be out. Once I get a sturdy roof over the oven, all will be well.
I didnt have any dough, so I decided to put tonights dinner into the oven. Since I initially fired it with pallet boards and cedar, I waited until there was no smoke, and only coals remaining. These were pushed to the side, and I threw on three smallish oak logs.
Tonights dinner was oven-roasted chicken, oven-roasted asparagus, and oven-roasted curly fries, with some sweet-potato fries as well. I put the chicken in a cast iron skillet, and put it into the oven when the dome was at about 800F and the floor was 650F. The skin started burning after about a minute, so I covered it up and moved it halfway out the door of the oven.
Here's the chicken:
The asparagus was tossed in a little olive oil, salt, and pepper. Ive never roasted asparagus before, and this is now my favorite recipe! Much better than steamed or boiled.
And the whole spread:
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That makes we want to reach out and eat my computer screen. Excellent. Thanks for oven roast asperagus idea -- very good.
How did you do the fries and how did it work?
Hope you enjoyed the Guinness.
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The fries are just the frozen-in-a-bag type from the grocery store. The instructions say cook at 450 for about 15 minutes. I put them on top of a piece of foil on an aluminum sheet pan, with a little cooking spray on the foil. They took about 10 minutes. By the time I put the asparagus and fries in, the oven was down to 750F-800F on the dome, and 550F-600F on the floor.
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And it makes pizza, too!
Final tally, 12 pizzas cooked to perfection and 1 fumble. The crowd pleasers were a pesto, goat cheese, and prosciutto pizza, and a provolone, olive, artichoke heart, and roasted pepper pizza. I didn't have any bread flour on hand last night, so I tried Peter Reinhart's Neapolitan recipe, with no oil.
The first pizza was just sauce and cheese (and crust). It cooked in about 3 minutes, with a dome temperature of 750F and heart at 550F. I'm sure there's still a little water in the structure, especially in the bottom layer of insulation, as we've had a lot of rain lately, and the enclosure is not weatherproof. A nice wide roof will help a bunch. When the cooking was finished, I could feel the warm, moist air coming up out of the loose perlite.
Here's some pictures of the pizzas, a Four-Cheese, a Sausage-Onion, and a Pepperoni.
And my cooking area. That handsome fellow topping the pizza is me.
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Are those Madrone uprights in your pavilion there? I'm planning something similar. Looks good.
Nice pies too.
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I don't smoke weed anymore, but I certainly look forward to the day this country gets on with life and decriminalizes possession of the stuff, because it's just getting tedious now. DMX – he of the 'Ruff Ryders Anthem' and real name Earl Simmons – was arrested for having a bag of marijuana in the passenger door of his car during a "routine" traffic stop (don't even get me started). (Also, how old is DMX now? Damn!)
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The arrest in Greer, South Carolina, comes four weeks after he was charged with drunken driving in Greenville, just one town away.
DMX — whose real name is Earl Simmons — was a passenger in a Ford F-350 truck stopped by police for allegedly making an improper lane change Tuesday night, according to the police report.
The police report said the officer immediately recognized Simmons, 42, and knew that there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest for failure to appear in court for a previous charge.
The officer reported seeing "a bag of green plant material I knew to be marijuana" on the passenger door where Simmons was sitting. The rapper denied it was his and then told police he "had breathing trouble."
"At this point, Mr. Simmons became very aggressive with his words and was making multiple idle threats," the police report said. "The smell of alcohol coming from his person became very strong."
Simmons was placed under arrest for the warrant and also cited for simple possession of marijuana. He was booked into the Greer jail, but released on bail hours later, a police spokesman said.
The artist's publicist defended DMX in a written statement to CNN Wednesday.
"Although officers pulled them over for a minor traffic violation, DMX was asked to step outside so they can search the vehicle," Domenick Nati said. "Officers then claimed that they found bags of marijuana in the floorboard and arrested X. No drugs were found on DMX or the other passengers and the alleged bags of marijuana were never shown to DMX or the other passengers."
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Kim Smith (Jr., Whitehouse Station, NJ/Hunterdon Central) captured medalist honors, and All-AMC accolades after firing a 79. Smith has earned All-AMC honors for the third straight year. Walsh captured the top four spots and recorded five of the top seven scores.
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Named "the most enjoyable late-night show" by the New York Times in 2011, "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" has become the go-to destination for comedy, music and A-list talent. Comedian Jimmy Fallon brings a fun new energy to the NBC comedy-talk franchise with his personalized interview style, love of audience participation, spot-on impersonations and innovative sketches. The show consistently garners attention for viral videos, audience games and prominent guests such as Tom Cruise, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Gwyneth Paltrow and Justin Timberlake. Fallon's choice of house band, The Roots, has been universally praised.
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- Maintain dual admission and continued enrollment at both A-B Tech and WCU by completing at least one WCU course each semester (Fall / Spring) during years 1 through 3.
- Maintain a minimum of a "C" or higher in all coursework to progress in the RIBN option, with a cumulative GPA of 2.25. A "C-" is not acceptable and will result in dismissal from the program.
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There are 61.9 trillion reasons why college students should have a burning interest in the federal budget deficit and national debt, but how do you get them thinking about the subject in a way that's likely to lead to constructive dialogue and citizen activism on behalf of potential solutions? Andrew Yarrow, director of Public Agenda's Washington office, is one of the authors contributing to a series of articles from professors across the country sharing their thoughts and classroom experiences in this challenge.
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The Society of Friends suffered a series of schisms in the early 19th Century. The first divided " Hicksite" Quakers, who believed the inward light was more important than scriptural authority, from "Orthodox" Quakers, who emphasized Biblical sources. The second divided the Orthodox branch into "Wilburite" or conservative Friends, who preferred a quietist approach and disavowed Biblical inerrancy, from "Gurneyite" Friends, whose approach was deeply influenced by evangelical movements in other Protestant denominations, especially the ideas of John Wesley. These Gurneyite Friends formed Five Years Meeting (renamed Friends United Meeting in 1965) as an association of yearly meetings following the adoption of the Richmond Declaration in 1877.
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