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Christian Benteke's early opener was cancelled out by Victor Anichebe, only for Gabriel Agbonlahor to put Villa back in front in a thrilling first half.
Benteke grabbed his second of the game to give Villa a 3-1 lead, but his fellow Belgian Fellaini had the last laugh with two goals, his second three minutes into injury time, to salvage a point for David Moyes' men.
Aston Villa dropped into the relegation zone following a midweek loss to Newcastle but there were positives in their second-half performance and Paul Lambert's side made the perfect start at Goodison Park as Benteke latched on to a Charles N'Zogbia pass and shrugged off the challenge of John Heitinga to open the scoring with a neat finish after just two minutes.
Fellaini missed a chance to equalise moments later as he curled a shot narrowly wide from the edge of the area, while Darron Gibson had an effort deflected off target and Leighton Baines blazed over with an ambitious free-kick from 30 yards as Everton continued to press.
Their efforts were rewarded in the 21st minute as Anichebe showed good strength to spin Ciaran Clark after collecting a ball from Kevin Mirallas, before firing low past Brad Guzan.
Villa restored their advantage almost immediately thanks to a firm header by Agbonlahor from Ashley Westwood's right-wing cross, but were then pinned back inside their own half for the remainder of the first half as Everton again tried to hit back.
Mirallas was brought down by Joe Bennett inches outside the area, while Leon Osman went close with a shot that flew just outside of Guzan's post via a deflection.
Everton kept up the intensity at the start of the second period but it was Villa who carved out an early chance as Andreas Weimann beat the offside trap to run on to a pass from Agbonlahor. However, he lacked composure with a wild shot high into the stands.
Benteke made no such mistake just after the hour mark as Matthew Lowton delivered an inviting cross from the right and the powerful striker again got the better of Heitinga to head home.
Fellaini reduced Everton's arrears in the 69th minute when he poked the ball into the bottom corner following a clever lay-off by Anichebe, setting up an exciting climax.
It looked like Aston Villa would hold on for an important victory to boost their survival hopes, but Fellaini struck again in the dying seconds as he headed home a Baines corner.
Fellaini could have won it even later but shot straight at the goalkeeper, as Everton drew level with fourth-placed Tottenham Hotspur and Villa were left two points from safety.


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Hilton Garden Inn
So what hotel is everyone staying at this year? I will be at the O'Hare Sheridan via priceline.
Hilton Garden Inn
RFR, Virgil and Screamline i know are at the Wyndam.
Hyatt Regency O'Hare is where we'll be hangin. I have a feeling we'll be found at the Crowne Plaza bar area a good deal of the time though. :P
Hyatt Regency for us also, just a walk through the hallways of fiery death to the show floor!
The Tremont Hotel for us! See you there! -Tyler
BodyBag Entertainment will be bedding at the WESTON, Join us on the roof for some good old fashion POO Slinging!!!!!
lol IN A VAN< DOWN BY THE RIVER!!!! Actually, I will be sleeping at the Super 8, I will be spending all my other time at the convention or at the Crowne bar
I'll be looking for you at the Crown Bar... or should we call it the Clown Bar, because that's where I'll be tending to make a clown out of myself! :P
..and what is everyone's room number? Where do you hide your valuables in the room?
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The site was down (fully) for 45-60 minutes. In addition we had about 5,000 messages in queue awaiting delivery to the feed servers. Based on our analysis, no data was lost in the process.
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The Telugu actor-turned-politician turns a year older
Tollywood megastar Chiranjeevi was born on August 22, 1965. The actor-politician's recent change in stance on the Telangana issue has earned him more than a few opponents and is even threatening to derail son Ram Charan Teja's Bollywood debut Zanjeer.
The Congressman and Minister of State for Tourism has, in recent years, eased out of Tollywood and concentrated on his political career. He can, however, look back at a career filled with achievements. It earned him the title of megastar and a huge fan following.
Starting in the late eighties, Chiranjeevi starred in such acclaimed films as Rudraveena and Muta Mesthri. He has had a few misses, but has always come back with good films. In early 2000 he had the super hit Annayya and then went on to act in films like Tagore and Shankardada MBBS. In 2009, he made a guest appearance in son Ram Charan's mega hit Magadheera. In 2011, Chiru won the lifetime achievement award.
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I'll Call Before I Come Lyrics
Artist: Outkast
Album: Stankonia
[Andre 3000]
Nigga quit being so got damn selfish
Put it in ya pelvis
Let it work, gyrate, motivate
I'll call before I come
I won't just pop over, out the blue
I hope that you do too
I'll call before I come
I won't just won't pop up over, out the blue
No after you
[Andre 3000]
Oh, thank you Lord for throwing some shy
Bones in my body let me tell you why
If not so, I'd be too, too bad
When it comes to pink polka dots and plaids
Glad to meet you, my name is Dre
But you can call me Possum Allawishes Jenkins
Andre 3000 for short
And naaw I don't want to see your thongs
I kinda dig them old school cute regular draws
And I will pause for your cause
[Big Boi]
I'm a gentleman, I'm a satisfy your soul
And then I'm a get mine
Like Wimbledon we back and forth across the court
Until we give out, do you take it all or spit it
Are you faking the funk and living a lie
Do you really know what it feels like
to have no control over the G spot?
It's like a brand new pair of Reeboks or a junkie freshly detoxed
You feel the tingling all over like convulsions or the rooster pox
I used to not give a damn
But now I make it a point just to please you
So you can go back and tell all your buddies, I Pretty D'd you
[Gangsta Boo]
Let's see what you wanna do with the Gangsta Boo
Let's cut, nigga, nigga what, I'll cut you too
Coming through in a Escalade limo, tint with shade
Purple haze in the ashtray ready to get a blaze
What the biz nigga jump on in relax wit a lady
Wit a reputation known for sexing niggas till they crazy
Whatcha mean dog, telling a play like Boo to call before I come
You a game I'm fucking you for fun
Join the bandwagon nigga it's a Gangsta Boo party
Everybody wanna join come and freak wit somebody
Riding Jaguars, riding Prowlers all sports cars
Hitting strip bars wit the top down, fuck y'all
Groupie you need to be glad you even knew me
Do me and tell all my friends my truly blew me
Nigga you better dial 404-584 well bump all that
But shit you'd better call before you get here and that's a fact
Before you get your feelings hurt
Because you caught me playing nurse
Wit a stethoscope running around in one of those cut shot white skirts
I tried to tell you, but you wouldn't respond to idle wishes
Peeped in the window saw me cooking shrimp
In high heels and washing dishes
For Daddy Fat Sax and it's something I couldn't explain
I know it's a dirty, dirty game, but you should called before you came
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text: The LP To Sword & Sworcery's EP Comes To Vinyl Next WeekMichael McWhertor3/31/11 9:00pmFiled to: MusiciPhoneipadiTunesSuperbrothers sword & sworcery epJim guthrieSword & sworceryCapyCapybara games52EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink The recently released iPad sensation Superbrothers Sword & Sworcery EP is more than just a pretty face. If you've played the stylish adventure game, you know it's got a soothing soundtrack to boot. Next week, you can get your hands on it. Superbrothers will release Jim Guthrie's companion album, Sword & Sworcery LP - The Ballad of the Space Babies, on honest-to-goodness, limited edition vinyl. Of course, there will also be newfangled digital versions, available via Bandcamp and iTunes, should you find yourself without a record player. Advertisement Advertisement But be aware that buying the 12" LP will also include a fancy limited edition print by artiste Cory Schmitz and a download code for the digital release of Guthrie's album. So, yeah, buy the vinyl, people.Details on all these little bonus goodies, including the what, where, when and how much, at the game's official site.Reply52 repliesLeave a reply


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There are a few stories circulating about Senator Barack Obama, and you've probably heard at least one of them. Perhaps you've received a few via email.
There's the malicious lie-filled story that claims he's an America-hating Muslim, but that is completely untrue, and I'm tired of seeing it in my email inbox.
More interesting is the story that he's a new kind of politician, a consummate outsider who upsets all the rules and will bridge every divide. I would love for this one to be true, but it's difficult to find any evidence for this other than a fervent desire to make it so. It may be difficult to remember, but in 2000, another candidate declared the same desire. He claimed that he would be a "uniter, not a divider" as President. That pledge didn't survive the day George W. Bush was sworn in, since it seems to have been based on nothing other than a fond hope that everybody would like him in Washington just like they liked him in Texas. Unfortunately, Washington isn't like Illinois any more than it is like Texas.
Is Senator Obama a new kind of politician, delivering change we can believe in, or is he just yet another partisan politician, delivering politics as usual? Is he the new Kennedy? The new Reagan? The new Carter? The new Bush?
Nine out of thirteen members of Senator Obama's national security team were formerly officials in the Clinton administration. Does that seem like a sound basis for change we can believe in, or more like politics as usual?
On June 18, 2008, Patrick Gaspard joined the Obama campaign as Political Director. Gaspard was the Field Director for Americans Coming Together (ACT), a 527 group that hired criminals convicted of sex offenses, assault and burglary to collect personal information for voter registration, and was fined $775,000 by the federal government for misusing campaign funds. ACT were accused of other electoral shenanigans as well. Does the hiring of Patrick Gaspard sound like "a new kind of politics," or politics as usual?
You can't tell everything about someone by the company they keep, but you may be able to tell something. Someone who wants to move beyond party politics might have at least one person on his team from the other party, for example, but between Gaspard and the Clinton officials, the Obama campaign staff roster looks a bit like politics as usual.
Voting Record
Obama became a Senator in January 2005, so he has had a few years of being on the record at the federal level. His voting record seems to follow the Democratic party line quite closely. Good news if you're looking for a reliable liberal Democrat, but unfortunate for his image as an outsider or a post-political candidate.
In a 2007 YouTube debate during the Democratic Primary race, Senator Obama criticized the Bush administration's energy bill, saying "you can take a look at how Dick Cheney did his energy policy. He met with environmental groups once. He met with renewable energy folks once. And then he met with oil and gas companies 40 times. And that's how they put together our energy policy." The record shows that Senator Obama voted for that very bill in 2005. Is this change we can believe in, or politics as usual?
Here's one very specific example of what seems like a pattern of campaign trail pandering: On June 21, 2008, Senator Obama said, "just the other day, Senator McCain traveled to Iowa to express his sympathies for the victims of the recent flooding. I'm sure they appreciated the sentiment, but they probably would have appreciated it more if he hadn't voted against funding for levees and flood control programs, which he seems to consider pork." In fact, there was a proposed amendment to the 2007 Water Resources Planning and Modernization Act that prioritized work on those very levees: Senator McCain introduced the bipartisan amendment and voted for it with Democrat Russ Feingold, while Senator Obama voted against it!
Falsely accusing your opponent of something you've done yourself: is that change we can believe in, or politics as usual?
Reverend Wright
On March 18, 2008, Senator Obama gave a beautiful speech in response to reports that were circulating about his former pastor, Reverend Wright. Wright, it turns out, had made a number of statements that many people considered inflammatory, and some questioned whether Obama shared those views. I thought Obama's speech was excellent, and it summed up quite well the tensions many of us face with our friends and family. I thought – I hoped – the issue was settled.
Then, on April 28, Reverend Wright spoke to the National Press Club, and in response to a question about the March 18 speech, he said, "He had to distance himself, because he's a politician."
The next day, April 29, Senator Obama called a press conference to strongly denounce Wright, stating "if Reverend Wright thinks that that's political posturing, as he put it, then he doesn't know me very well. And based on his remarks yesterday, well, I may not know him as well as I thought either."
Senator Obama was willing to stand by his friend and mentor through thick and thin at great cost – until Reverend Wright suggested that he was just playing politics, and then, immediately, the relationship was over! Somehow this is intended to show us that Senator Obama is not playing politics as usual?
There was also some interesting wordplay during this kerfuffle: During that April 29 press conference, Senator Obama said of Wright that "He was never my quote-unquote spiritual advisor," though after the videos of Reverend Wright's sermons first surfaced, the Obama campaign announced back in March that Wright had left the campaign's "spiritual advisory" committee. Pundits can parse the words "spiritual advisory" and "spiritual advisor" for a week, but either way, it doesn't sound like plain talk to me; it sounds like politics as usual.
Please note that I'm not accusing Senator Obama of flip-flopping here. I think that it is good and right that people, even Presidential candidates, change their minds based on new information. Flip-flopping is when candidates change their minds with no new information at hand in order to appeal to particular groups of voters. Reverend Wright's April 28 speech provided the trigger for Senator Obama to change his mind on Wright without flip-flopping; it's just unfortunate that the trigger turned out to be politics as usual.
Flip-flopping is a time-honored political tradition, and Senator Obama is as guilty of it as anybody. Again, I'm not talking about changing your view based on new information. We can all understand a shift in priorities after an event like 9/11, or when gas prices rapidly rise to record levels. When conditions on the ground change, a good strategy takes that into account. Flip-flopping is different. It isn't related to conditions on the ground, but to political expediency, or to the audience.
In 2004, when running for the U.S. Senate in Illinois, candidate Obama declared that it was "time for us to end the embargo with Cuba," adding, "It's time for us to acknowledge that that particular policy has failed." As recently as August 2007, Senator Obama suggested the embargo should be curtailed. Now, in 2008, addressing the Cuban-American National Foundation, candidate Obama declared, "I will maintain the embargo. It provides us with the leverage to present the regime with a clear choice: if you take significant steps toward democracy, beginning with the freeing of all political prisoners, we will take steps to begin normalizing relations."
Whether it is better to end or maintain the embargo isn't the issue that concerns me, it's why Obama's view changed. The key seems to be simply his audience. Addressing voters in Illinois is different from addressing the Cuban-American National Foundation in Miami. Does that sound like change we can believe in, or politics as usual?
Senator Obama has attacked Senator McCain for supporting, as he puts it, "tax breaks to corporations." Yet when speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Senator Obama said that he was considering corporate tax cuts. The difference appears, again, to be the audience: his attacks on Senator McCain are broadcast far and wide, while most readers of The Wall Street Journal will look favorably on corporate tax cuts. Is this change we can believe in, or politics as usual?
In a debate during the Democratic primaries on February 26, 2008, Senator Obama agreed with Senator Clinton that the U.S. "should use the hammer of a potential opt-out as leverage" to force renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. In a June 18, 2008, report from Fortune magazine, Obama "backed off his harshest attacks on the free trade agreement and indicated he didn't want to unilaterally reopen negotiations on NAFTA." Because the conditions on the ground changed, or because he was speaking to Fortune magazine, whose readership largely favors NAFTA? Change we can believe in, or politics as usual?
"Anywhere, Anytime"
On May 16, 2008, Senator Obama pledged to meet Senator McCain to talk about foreign policy. He said, "If John McCain wants to meet me anywhere, anytime, to have a debate about our respective policies in Iraq, Iran, the Middle East or around the world, that is a conversation I am happy to have." Senator McCain offered to travel to Iraq with Senator Obama, but Senator Obama declined. (Anywhere?) Senator McCain proposed ten town hall meetings, free-form unscripted events with questions from voters rather than reporters, but Senator Obama declined, counter-proposing a single town hall meeting limited to the economy and held on July 4th, plus a single Lincoln-Douglas debate on foreign policy in August.
It's no secret that Senator Obama is strongest when giving speeches and rhetorically weakest when answering unscripted questions, and it's no secret that Senator McCain is very nearly the opposite. Of course, that's why Senator McCain prefers unscripted town hall meetings and Senator Obama prefers Lincoln-Douglas speeches. Both candidates obviously favor their own strengths, but is it really change we can believe in to say "anywhere, anytime" and then quietly negotiate as much as possible, or is it just politics as usual?
Campaign Financing
On June 19, Senator Obama announced that he would not be participating in the federal campaign finance program, becoming the first candidate to do so, breaking a previous pledge to use the public funds if his opponent would do the same.
Obama stated his support for public financing on June 29, 2006, and pledged in writing to accept public financing on November 27, 2007.
What would cause Senator Obama to break his promise? The public financing system hasn't changed since Obama first made his promise. Senator Obama claimed to be concerned about "so-called 527 groups, who will spend millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations," but the only 527 groups that have been active so far are Obama allies like MoveOn.org, who have spent millions attacking Senator McCain. Those 527 groups have existed since before Obama first made his promise, too.
So what changed? One thing: Obama has been able to raise a lot of money on his own. Accepting public campaign financing would mean new spending limits. Obama doesn't want to be limited, and he'll break his promise to ensure he isn't. Is that change we can believe in, or politics as usual?
Accusing his political opponent of "smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups" when in fact it has been his own allies who have been running 527 groups and attack ads — is that change we can believe in, or politics as usual?
Senator Obama has made many claims about his fund-raising that ring slightly false, as well as accusations that don't stand up to scrutiny.
Senator Obama has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from oil and gas company employees while criticizing his opponents for doing the same; he has held fundraisers at Washington lobbyist law firms while decrying Washington lobbyists; he accepts money from the spouses of lobbyists and people who have very recently de-registered as lobbyists, or are state (but not federal) lobbyists; he has taken more than half a million dollars from pharmaceutical employees after saying "I don't take pharma money."
Is this change we can believe in, or politics as usual?
I'll stop here, but the story doesn't end here. The worst stories circulating about candidates are rarely true, but the best stories circulating about them usually aren't true either. Senator Obama claims to be new and different, but the facts suggest he's a partisan politician playing politics as usual. Our choice in November isn't between an insider and an outsider, or between old and new. It's the same old choice it has always been: between left and right, between Democrat and Republican, between two politicians.
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From the Liverpool FC Signature Collection is this Black Wallet and Cardholder.
The collection represents a new direction for LFC Retail - a group of subtly branded quality garments and luxury leather accessories that are perfect for work, travel or everyday use. Influenced by the best in British luxury fashion - the collection contains products of the highest quality that have been manufactured by experts in their respective fields.
The accessories in the collection are produced by leather goods experts Lloyd Baker, who produce similar products for some of the best brands in fashion.
This Leather Wallet and Card Holder has been developed in a full grained supple calf leather with a tonal Liverpool FC brand marking. The lining is made from black 100% polydrill cotton.
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Won't be online regularly for a week or so now.. at least till I settle there down. Only thing I'm worried about: non-stop 16 hours journey at a stretch :(
So Mac4Lin, MS Guide and other work would be temporarily under suspension. Will get back soon.
So long folks, see ya soon.....
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Announcement is made of the engagement of Erika Barna and Clayton Wyne of Waynesburg.
Her parents are John Barna Jr. of Waynesburg and Helen Koontz of Moundsville, W.Va.
His parents are Phillip and Emily Wyne of Monongahela.
The future bride is a 1998 graduate of Waynesburg Central High School and is a floral designer at Magic Moments in Carmichaels.
Her fiance is a 1990 graduate of Ringgold High School and a 1994 graduate of Waynesburg College. He is employed by Pennsylvania Department of Corrections.
Wedding plans are being made for June 1.
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Raima Sen isn't dating anyone
Beautiful Bengali babe Raima Sen says she is very much single. Raima is one of the eligible single girls of Bollywood. The gorgeous looking actress has had her share of romantic experiences in the past. Just one-and-a-half year ago she was believed to be dating actor Kunal Kapoor . Although neither of the two acknowledged [...]


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Register a Tea tree for Earth Day with Adagio Teas
Check it: You register with your name and email, and you get ownership of the tree. Once it reaches maturity (three years) you will receive tea from your very own tree. No purchase necessary so if you don't do it you're really just missing out.
awesome, thank you for sharing. I am avoiding all sales threads and any other temptations to buy, so I didn't see it in the other place. :-)
Thank you! I planted mine in India, Assam :) I am hoping it will grow up to be like Thomas Sampson!!
Yeah, this is really cool… You'll only have to pay shipping when they ship your tea to you after it matures and everything… which isn't bad at all…
There isn't a whole bunch of info about it on the site, I'd just like to learn a lot more about this promotion. So I think this thread is nice if anyone has info about this particular promotion.
There was something after you plant the seed that says you will be notified and then "if you continue to nurture it" which I suppose means give money to help the tea plantation (are they plantations? I really don't know), then it would grow to be a great tree. But that's just my take on it. Maybe it really is free!
It says "we'll invite you to cultivate it virtually" so I'm hoping it's like one of those (in my opinion) dumb FB apps and they don't mean "virtually… er we mean financially and you'lll need to pay us more money to get your tea". I definitely don't care for such games, but I'd do anything (short of paying them money) for tea. :)
I personally don't have the time to do it today, but someone could ask via live chat or email.
It says "no purchase necessary" which should mean no money for the tree or the tea, though they do reference standard shipping charges for the 4 oz of tea you're supposed to get if your tree matures.
I went on the site, asked a few ppl, it's only going to be shipping, no other costs besides that…
Cool, thanks Garrett for asking around! Hope I remember the tree was planted in three years time.
@Meghann M that's what the 'continue to nurture' i think is for…if every x months they remind you you have a tree you'll remember in year 3 and/or have opted out by then


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Rumors are extensive that Jennifer Lawrence has split with her boyfriend Nicholas Hoult.
The two actors have supposedly ended their relationship of two years and have agreed to stay buddies. A source said that they had grown apart.
They had started dating while on the sets of X-Men: First Class in 2011 and had promised that they won't become just another celebrity couple.
She said that she feels a relationship should be kept personal. But the more you try to cover it up, the harder the media work to break it open. That's why it's better to just admit it and move on with life.
She also said that girls everywhere were envious because of how handsome her boyfriend was. Guess they have nothing to be jealous about anymore.


text: This new book by Silberman (The Hidden Scrolls, 1994) founders on the distinction it fails to keep between history and myth, description and celebration. Ever since Gershom Scholem initiated the academic study of Jewish mysticism, books on Kabbalah have divided up between the scholarly and the devotional. Silberman tries to unite the two in this popularly written social history of Jewish mystical ideas, from the fiery chariot the ancient prophet Ezekiel beheld in a vision, to the ultranationalism of modern Israeli Kabbalists, for whom the Arab world holds the place of evil in a harsh dualism inherited from the 16th-century mystic Isaac Luria. Taking Kabbalah loosely to subsume the whole of Jewish mysticism (and so endorsing Kabbalah's own self-image), Silberman sketches correspondences between key Kabbalistic themes and the social conditions of the Jewish communities that espoused them. For example, he suggests that the famous crown-capped picture of the ten sefirot, or emanations from God, found in the Zohar, the premier text of Kabbalistic mysticism, opposes and undermines the imperialistic ideology of the 13th-century Castilian king, Alfonso X, under whose increasingly oppressive reign the Zohar was most likely composed. Although some of Silberman's analogies are stimulating and evocative, they hardly qualify as social history. Sometimes his claims are grandiose (e.g., that Isaac Newton's science, predicated as it is on unseen forces, owes a debt to Kabbalistic theory) or naively expressed: the story that Elijah the prophet served at Luria's circumcision is, says Silberman, "surely mythmaking" (could there be any doubt?). In his zeal to ground mysticism in historical and social conditions, Silberman appears to adduce the Kabbalah itself as evidence, as though its teaching that earthly states mirror heavenly ones inversely confirmed its own source in the worldly exigencies of the Jewish people. Despite the occasional spark of connection, this epigonous work, so admittedly indebted to Scholem, adds little to what can be found more eloquently expressed in the master's Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism.


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After four NCAA tournaments, Martin takes South Carolina job
Frank Martin is the new head coach of South Carolina, a move that became official today. Martin's contract is a six-year deal worth $12.3 million in all.
The former Kansas State head coach said he hadn't spoken to anyone about a potential job as of last Friday, and told ESPN.com on Monday that the talks began on Saturday while Martin was on the set of CBS' NCAA-tournament coverage.
However, K-State athletic director John Currie said that South Carolina athletic director Eric Hyman asked K-State on Friday for permission to speak to the Wildcats' head coach. And on that same day, Martin informed Currie that if South Carolina offered him the job, he was going to accept it.
When Martin called to inform Currie Monday afternoon of his decision to leave, the K-State athletic director said he asked if he could persuade him to stay.
"I asked him if there's anything we could do?" Currie said Tuesday. "He really felt that it was a time to make a change. He and his family needed to make a change and this was the appropriate time to do so."
Numerous sources have told The Mercury that Currie's and Martin's relationship was not on good terms, though Currie denied that, saying the pair had "a strong relationship."
K-State president Kirk Schulz said Currie and Martin's working relationship has been inaccurately portrayed by the media.
"I don't think that's a fair characterization," he said. "It's unfortunate that's been the way it's been portrayed over the last three or four days."
In fact, Currie said that eight weeks ago he informed Martin he'd like to talk to him about a contract extension that included a significant pay increase.
"We had budgeted a significant enhancement to his contract," Currie said. "He asked that we wait till the end of the season to discuss it in earnest. He wanted to focus on our team."
Martin leaves K-State with the second-highest winning percentage since Hall of Fame coach Tex Winter, and leaves the Wildcats' administration with the tall task of replacing the face of the program who brought national attention to K-State. But Schulz and Currie wanted to make it clear that K-State is a good job that coaches should want.
"I want to ask the K-State faithful to rally around whoever our new coach is," Schulz said. "I certainly understand the anger with us losing a very popular coach. But we have an $18 million state-of-the-art facility that opens this summer. We have a very competitive salary, and a passionate and dedicated fan base.
"Folks, this is a great situation for a new coach to come into. Now is the time to help John and support K-State athletics as we bring in a great person to lead our men's basketball program."


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Sterling Komiks Week 2
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New artists making their debut in Sterling\'s new komiks line include Thor Infante (wasn\'t he simply TOR back in the day?) who is responsible for the cover of Gwapo Komiks above as well as illustrating Lumaban Ka, Totoy Bato, written by Carlo J. Caparas. Dell Barras also makes his debut in Super Funny Komix, illustrating […]
Official Whilce Portacio Website
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Whilce Portacio has a new official site! WHILCE PORTACIO http://www.whilceportacio.net/ I remember Whilce\'s first official site, Whilce.com, which was active during the time of Stone. I wonder what happened to it. You could download a Whilce Portacio Stone desktop theme and other cool stuff. Actually, I still have that Stone desktop theme somewhere in my […]
Mauro Malang Santos Blog
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From the Malang Blog: \"Cartoons and Illustration strips Malang made from 1947 to 1967, including: "Labuyo," a serial published in Sinagtala 1947; Established a \"Pilipino Komiks,\" (Bughouse) with Gat; Created "Kosme the Cop," the adventures of a city policeman; "Kosme the Cop [Retired]," about the henpecked husband who gets into all sorts of scrapes; "Chain […]
Hanna, I Hate You
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I\'m not really looking forward to going to Manila today. Normally I would, but after that really miserable day last week when we had to go to Manila on a rainy day, amidst traffic and flood, it almost made me swore off going to Manila at all. I wish I had that luxury. Today we […]
TRUE LOVE Bloopers!
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What with all that went on recently, I forgot to post this follow up vid to my True Love short film. Yes, it\'s the bloopers/outtake reel! Watch This Video At YouTube And if you didn\'t catch the full short film itself, click here. All involved really had a great time doing it. All in all […]
A Great Time for Philippine Comics
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Allright Johnny, I\'m doing this only because you\'re one of my good pals. he.he. I remember doing things like this when I was in elementary. Who would have thought it would make a great comeback in the Internet age? But it\'s fun, in a strange sort of way. It keeps you from growing up a […]
Solar Catastrophe (This is IT, We\'re Doomed)
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The Harrowing Trip Back Home
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Calling All Independent Comic Book Creators
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In Search of Steve Ditko
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September 25 Update: Video Links Updated In Search of Steve Ditko Part 1 of 7 http://youtube.com/watch?v=0qbfopT7T88 This is a BBC documentary by Jonathan Ross about one of the most influential and yet most elusive comic book artist that\'s ever been. He co-created many characters including Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. The Documentary comes in 7 parts, […]
Saturday in Manila, Caparas Komiks
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Why It\'s Hard To Shut Up
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Old pal Ferres left a comment a while back: \"But Gerry looks cute. You kinda want to pet him… until he starts ranting that is. ;P\" He.he. I actually laughed at that. Thanks man! I actually know Ferres from waaaay back. He\'s one of the very first people I met in comics, long before I […]
Timawa + New Komiks!, UST Talk
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TOPAK Humor Magazine #1 is a new title I have some work in which has just been launched at the recent Book Fair. It\'s contributors will have a book signing on Saturday, September 22, 2007 from 5-7pm at Powerbooks, Greenbelt, Makati. Hey, here\'s another poster for you guys to dissect! What do you think? :) […]
And Now For Something Completely Shallow…
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Had myself a laugh when this suddenly appeared on our TV. I was amused, but a little bothered as well. \"Telkomvision\"? I\'ve long been dissatisfied with our cable service. I used to watch CSI regularly, but now I can\'t. Because our AXN\'s signal is terrible. Halfway through the show, the signal would pixelate and would […]


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- Community mental health programs for adults
- Women's shelter
- Community services for senior citizens
BU's Office of Alumni and Professional Engagement has a list of where interns have been placed, in psychology and other disciplines. If you would like to get involved, read the course information for Psychology Practicum and read Securing Your Practicum.


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March 29, 2010
Let Loose, Get Braid
It's time for another Not A Model photo shoot! This time it's all about the coif with a spotlight on braids and soft waves.
It seems that braids have been
weaving their way onto the heads of even the most stylish of
women. A braid can be practical if you find yourself with little time to
get ready. Yet, they can get quite intricate like a fishtail or
french braid. Side braids have also been popping up all over the runways. Think farmer's daughter meets I don't shower hipster.
[photocredit left: Harper's Bazaar Alexander Wang]
On another note, when it comes to the art of seduction nothing
says romance and "run your hands through my hair" like soft waves. Touchable, bouncy and voluminous are the only adjectives that should be uttered around a truly swoonworthy mane. Think messy, not prom queen.
[photocredit Harper's Bazaar Chloe]
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Grant funding available to the scientific, inventor and small business R&D community
Everyone is always looking for free money. We constantly get calls from individuals looking for grants. The general feeling out there is that the government is giving away free money for small businesses. Trust me, if there was free money for small business I would be first in line.
Having said that I do want to point out what I will call a niche category for business grants. It is called SBIR which stands for Small Business Innovative Research. It is funding available to encourage innovation and the commercialization of that innovation.


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Richard The Tailor Of Langattock Crickhowell
The town of Crickhowell and the village of Langattock face each other over the River Usk. Wirt Sykes in his 'British Goblins' (1881) recounts the following story of a gentleman called Walter Jones being taught a lesson by a local inn keeper thought to dabble in witchcraft. Read More »


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A barrister who lost a £33 million race discrimination claim broke down in tears today as a court was told her abusive emails to a former boyfriend should never have led to criminal charges.
Dr Aisha Bijlani, 43, was comforted by her father as her defence barrister Jeannie Mackie argued the emails should be seen in the context of a stormy relationship with a former boyfriend and, while offensive, did not amount to harassment.
Bijlani bombarded her ex-boyfriend with abusive emails and was hell-bent on destroying his life after he left her for a German model, Blackfriars Crown Court in London was told.
But Judge Peter Clarke QC dismissed the application there was no case to answer without even hearing arguments from prosecutors.
Bijlani described marketing executive Atul Sehgal as a "pathetic lap dog", "arsehole", "loser" and an "impotent gay man" who was a "failure in every way" in a series of emails.
She also sent five abusive emails in four days to model Nicola Koenig, 28, telling her she was a "cheap hooker", a "working class trollop" and a "flat-chested asexual freak" with sweaty feet who should lick toilet bowls for a living.
But, referring to Mr Sehgal, Ms Mackie said: "Look at the arrangements between them, look at the relationship between them, look at the conduct of them both.
"It's not a matter for the criminal courts."
Ms Mackie said there may have been a "certain amount of grandstanding" on the part of Mr Sehgal who appeared to describe "with relish" his reaction to the abusive emails.
"I do not seek to state these emails were not offensive," she said.
"But they do not constitute within the law a course of conduct that amounts to criminal conduct."
Bijlani, of Ponsonby Terrace, Belgravia, London, is appealing against a 2007 conviction for two counts of sending malicious and insulting emails and making abusive phone calls between June and August 2007.
She was given a conditional discharge after being convicted by City of Westminster magistrates and told the tribunal last October the incidents happened "in a period of acute distress".
Bijlani said she plunged into depression as a result of her treatment at the legal chamber Four New Square.
But Mr Sehgal, 41, who had a four-month relationship with Bijlani in 2004, told the court earlier this week: "In fact, it was evil behaviour from her."
He said Bijlani asked what his dead mother would think of him for abandoning her and going out with someone who "takes her clothes off for a living".
Bijlani was "consumed with jealousy" over his relationship with Ms Koenig, who she erroneously thought was a German prostitute, Mr Sehgal said.
Speaking rapidly, he told the court Bijlani was sending the emails "just to provoke me, just to humiliate me, just to upset me, just to make me feel really small".
He described "falling in love" with the advertising model, who has returned to Germany since the trouble with Bijlani, but Ms Koenig told the court she "never had a sexual relationship" with Mr Sehgal.
Mr Sehgal denied playing the two women off against each other, but conceded he may have sent Bijlani an internet link to Ms Koenig's modelling website.
Bijlani's race discrimination claims against three consecutive heads of chambers at her firm - John Powell QC, Justin Fenwick QC and Roger Stewart QC, plus senior clerk Lizzy Wiseman - were dismissed by the tribunal judge earlier this year.
The barrister, who regularly broke down in tears during the Central London Employment Tribunal hearing, claimed the firm's clerks subjected her to a racist regime, failed to get her work and did not collect her fees, costing her millions in lost income.
Ms Wiseman also used her romantic relationships with Mr Fenwick and Mr Stewart to avoid being held accountable at work, Bijlani claimed.
Bijlani - who qualified as a doctor and had a short career in medicine at Guy's Hospital in London before switching to a career in law - claimed she was never given the opportunity to reach her full potential at the chambers she joined in 1994 because of racist attitudes.
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Marleau Ousts Detroit Again
by San Jose Sharks Staff / San Jose SharksSan Jose Sharks right wing Devin Setoguchi (16) celebrates after he assisted center Patrick Marleau (12) on a score against the Detroit Red Wings during the third period of Game 7 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference semifinal playoff series Thursday, May 12, 2011, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) |
"He was a difference maker tonight," Sharks Head Coach Todd McLellan began. "The way we played him in the series and the amount of minutes he got, we obviously believed in him immensely. For him to end up with the winning goal it pretty special for our team and for him. I think the monkey will be off his back and he'll be that much better the next series."
It was an example of a top tier player coming up in a top tier way.
"When you look at the third one that ended up being the winner, we were on our heels," McLellan said. "Your top end players have to go out and settle the game down . . . for Patty to score there, I thought we settled down after that a little bit."
Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard watches the replay after the San Jose Sharks center Patrick Marleau during the third period of Game 7 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference semifinal playoff series Thursday, May 12, 2011, in San Jose, Calif. San Jose won 3-2, and advances to the conference final. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) |
"It's right up there," Marleau said of where the goal ranks. "All playoff goals are fun. It felt really good, I won't lie."
The players were excited to see one of their clubhouse leaders come up when they needed him.
"The one guy who has been taking heat all series long comes out with the game winner, that's a script," Dan Boyle said.
"It was great to see him score the winner," Logan Couture said. "We were happy for him and I'm sure it was a little bit of weight off his shoulders."
While Marleau wouldn't address it, his teammates were happy that some outside commentators were silenced. Marleau is more than just a goal scorer for the Sharks, he a leader and a friend and many of the Sharks took assaults personally.
"We're all happy, now you guys can stop getting on him," Devin Setoguchi said. "He's been doing a great job for us off the scoresheet. We believed in him and he got the game-winner for us and clinched the series which is the main thing."
"We see what Patty does every day and not everyone in the outside world sees that," Couture said. "We see how hard he works and how much he cares. He's a great role model for the young guys on the team like myself. I look up to him a lot. It was tough to hear the stuff people were saying about him, but it doesn't affect him. "
"He took some heat, but he showed what type of person he is and what he means to our team," Joe Pavelski said.
San Jose Sharks center Patrick Marleau, left, celebrates as Detroit Red Wings defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom, right, skates past at the end of Game 7 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference semifinal playoff series Thursday, May 12, 2011, in San Jose, Calif. San Jose won 3-2 to take the series and advance to the conference finals. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) |
"He was there when we needed him to be," Boyle said.
"Why wouldn't we have him out there," McLellan asked. "He's a world class player. He's won in a lot of pressure situations and we believe in him that much."
Within moments of winning, the Sharks players were already thinking about the Vancouver Canucks.
"We have an even more intense series waiting for us," Couture said.
San Jose does have the experience they gained in the conference final last year to draw upon and that could be a benefit.
"We learned it wasn't as easy as we thought it was going to be," Setoguchi said. "We lost four games straight. I think being in that position, we'll be a little more ready and a little more focused on the start. We don't have home ice advantage, so we've got to go in there and play a really good hockey club and we need to make sure we're focused to play the way we can."
San Jose Sharks right wing Ryane Clowe, center, runs into Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard (35) during the first period of Game 7 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference semifinal playoff series Thursday, May 12, 2011, in San Jose, Calif. At right is Brian Rafalski, and in front is Tomas Holmstrom. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) |
"I felt good," Clowe said. "I was finishing my hits, or tried to, and going into corners."
His linemate Couture was very grateful for his return.
"He just makes smart plays," Couture said. "He fed me the puck that I hit the post on. He's a leader. I can't say enough great things about him. It's just great to have him back."
Clowe's teammates were aware of his return the morning of the game.
"This morning after the skate I talked to him and asked him if he was good to go," Couture said. "That guy doesn't like to miss games and he looked at me and said (yes). I was as happy as anyone was. We knew after the skate, after we talked to all you guys. He wanted to keep it a secret."
This marked the first series in NHL history in which six games were decided by one goal.
Setoguchi scored a goal and an assist, giving him five goals in his last five games. (5-2=6)
LUCKY 11's
Boyle added two assists and leads all defensemen in postseason points with eleven (2-9=11).
San Jose Sharks right wing Dany Heatley (15) celebrates after the San Jose Sharks defeated the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in Game 7 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup Western Conference semifinal playoff series Thursday, May 12, 2011, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) |
The Sharks advanced to their third Western Conference Final. They previously accomplished the feat in 2004 and 2010.
"The difference was our penalty kill and our power play goal."
"In games and the series that I have been involved in the NHL, your heart gets going and revved up. I felt that this round. I told the players that we are going to need a little more poise and little more composure moving ahead because those feelings are going to come back a lot quicker."
"It was a good game, I thought they skated better in the first than we did and yet I looked up with ten minutes had gone by and I thought we were doing a real good job. "
"We gave up the power play goal and I thought they took over for the rest of the first. We pushed the issue though and got back in it. I thought the goaltending was outstanding. We had 40 shots on net and they blocked another twenty five."
"We've got to give them credit, they're a good team. It was a good series, it was entertaining, it was fast, it was hard for any team to lead the other team. It was just one of those series, it was good."
Game One of the Western Conference Finals against the Vancouver Canucks will be on Sunday, May 15 at 5:00 p.m. The game can be found on Versus and 98.5/102.1 KFOX and the Sharks Radio Network.


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Question: | A long time ago I secured for my sociology courses a videotape featuring a sociolinguist. The speaker was an older lady who sat in a rocking chair and dispensed valuable information. One of the things she said is that words have a leak-back effect. So, if warriors say, for example, ''A number of people in Iraq were killed in the theater,'' then a listener hears ''theater'' and it ''leaks back'' to ''kill'' and the horror of killing lightens and is made more palatable. Googling, I don't see anything about this ''leak-back'' effect. Maybe it's called something else now? I need to have this information for a book I am writing where it is oh-so-relevant! Also, I have read that words (maybe it's ''sound''?) lasts for six seconds before dissipating. That's why we listen to someone and a short time afterward (before the elapse of six seconds), it dawns on us what the person really said: ''Huh? Did I hear you say what I think I heard you say . . . ?'' Can you provide me with links where these two phenomena are briefly discussed? ASAP, please? Thank you. Lee Campbell, PhD. 941,457-6785 |
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The Maya-Quiché (see Quiché) inhabited Guatemala long before the arrival of the Spanish. They were defeated (1523–24) by the Spaniard Pedro de Alvarado, who became captain general of Guatemala. The conquerors found little of the gold they sought, but cocoa and indigo were raised with forced labor. The first colonial capital, Santiago de Guatemala (Tecpán), was replaced in 1527 by Ciudad Vieja. A volcanic mud and debris flow destroyed the capital in 1541, and Antigua Guatemala was founded to replace it. After a series of earthquakes destroyed Antigua Guatemala in 1773, the capital was moved to its current location at Guatemala City. Central America became independent from Spain in 1821. Guatemala was first a part of the Mexican Empire of Agustín de Iturbide and then became a nucleus of the Central American Federation. After the federation collapsed, Guatemala became a separate nation (1839).
Guatemalan interference in the affairs of other Central American republics during the 19th and early 20th cent., under the conservative dictatorships of Rafael Carrera and Manuel Estrada Cabrera and under the liberal, Justo Ruffino Barrios, caused intense hostility and finally led to the Washington Conference of 1907, which established the Central American Court of Justice. Jorge Ubico became president in 1931, and his tenure was marked by repressive rule and an improvement in the nation's finances.
After Guatemala declared war on the Axis powers in 1941, the large German-owned coffee holdings were expropriated. Popular discontent led to Ubico's overthrow in 1944 and his replacement by Juan José Arévalo. Arévalo launched a series of labor and agrarian reforms that were continued by Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, who succeeded him in 1951. A law expropriating large estates angered foreign plantation owners, particularly the United Fruit Company. As Communist influence in the Arbenz government increased, relations with the United States deteriorated. In 1954 the United States aided the anti-Arbenz military force that placed Col. Carlos Castillo Armas in power. When Castillo Armas was assassinated three years later, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes became president. Guatemalan bases were used to train anti-Castro guerrillas in the early 1960s; around the same time, dissident leftist military officers and students combined to form a guerrilla movement.
In 1963 the prospect of the return to power of Arévalo led to a military coup under the defense minister, Enrique Peralta Azurdia. However, leftist guerrilla activity and terrorism mounted, in turn provoking rightist repression. In 1966 the moderate leftist Julio César Méndez Montenegro was elected president; he allowed the army to conduct a major anti-insurgency campaign against the guerrillas in which thousands were killed. In Aug., 1968, in the continuing violence, the U.S. ambassador was assassinated.
In the 1970 election, Col. Carlos Arana Osorio, an extreme conservative, was chosen president. He imposed a one-year state of siege in an attempt to end the violence. In the early 1970s many labor and political leaders were killed and several foreign diplomats were kidnapped. When no candidate received an absolute majority in the presidential election of 1974, the legislature declared Gen. Kjell Laugerud García the winner, even though Gen. José Efraín Ríos Montt, the antigovernment candidate, had allegedly won a plurality.
Violence continued in the 1970s and 1980s, with reports that anti-insurgency campaigns were destroying Indian villages and killing tens of thousands. In 1977 the United States cut off military aid to Guatemala. After three elections widely regarded as fraudulent, Gen. Ríos Montt took power in a 1982 coup and ruled by decree; he was deposed the next year by another strongman, Gen. Óscar Mejía Victores. During the early 1980s leftist guerrillas formed what became known as the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union (URNG) and began an insurgency against the government.
A civilian reformist, Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arévalo, became president in 1985, after elections held under a new constitution, but his government did not seem to pose a substantial challenge to the power of the military. He was succeeded in 1990 by Jorge Serrano Elías, a right-wing businessman; Serrano adopted unpopular austerity measures, and in 1993, when he attempted to institute rule by decree, he was forced by the army to resign. Ramiro de León Carpio, the attorney general for human rights, was elected by the congress to succeed Serrano and won passage of anticorruption reforms.
In 1996, Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen, a former mayor of Guatemala City and foreign minister, won the presidency. He conducted a purge of top military officers and, in Dec., 1996, his government signed a UN-supervised peace accord with the URNG guerrillas, who subsequently regrouped as a political party. An estimated 200,000 persons died during the 36-year conflict. The 1999 presidential elections were won by Alfonso Portillo Cabrera, a lawyer and rightist associated with former dictator Ríos Montt and backed by the Guatemalan Republican Front. A draft settlement reached in 2002 with Belize concerning their disputed border contained maritime, but not land, concessions by Belize; the agreement must be approved by national referendums in both nations. In July, 2003, the government established a national compensation program to pay victims of human-rights violations that occurred during the civil war.
Óscar Berger Perdomo, a conservative former mayor of Guatemala City and the leader of the Grand National Alliance, won the presidency in Dec., 2003, after a runoff election. In the first round of voting in November, Ríos Montt made a bid for the presidency despite a ban on candidates who had overthrown a government. He came in third, and the November vote was marred by violence and intimidation that was largely blamed on his supporters.
In early 2004 former President Portillo was implicated in a corruption scandal, and he fled to Mexico; he was ultimately extradited to Guatemala in 2008. Some 10,000 soldiers were demobilized in May–June, 2004. UN supervision of the peace process ended in Dec., 2004.
Rains from Tropical Storm Stan caused flooding and mudslides in Oct., 2005, that resulted in hundreds of deaths in Guatemala. In 2006, the United Nations and Guatemala agreed to create the independent International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) to investigate and prosecute illegal groups responsible for corruption, organized crime, and political violence. Established in 2007, CICIG was designed to handle cases that might avoid prosecution due to the pervasiveness of organized crime and its ability to intimidate and corrupt law enforcement; it subsequently was responsible for prosecuting former President Portillo, two former national police chiefs, and other high ranking former officials. The case against Portillo and two of his ministers was dismissed in 2011, but in 2013 he was extradited to the United States on money-laundering charges.
In Nov., 2007, Álvaro Colom, a center-left business executive running as the National Union for Hope (UNE) candidate, won the presidency after a runoff. The presidential campaign was again marred by violence. In May, 2009, the murder of a lawyer, Rodrigo Rosenberg, created a political crisis when it was revealed he had made a video recording in which he accused the Colom administration of money-laundering drug money and said that if he was killed the president was to blame. The opposition called for Colom to resign; Colom denied the charges and suggested the recording was a right-wing attempt to destabilize his government. Both opponents and supporters of Colom mounted large demonstrations in the capital. Colom was cleared in Jan., 2010, by a CICIG investigation that determined that the lawyer surreptitiously contracted his own murder in an attempt to bring the government down.
In Dec., 2010, the government declared a state of siege in Alta Verapaz dept., in the N central part of the country, in order to regain control over the area's cities from a Mexican drug gang that had been operating there since 2008. A state of siege later (May, 2011) was declared in Petén dept. to the north after a drug-trafficking-related massacre there. President Colom and his wife, Sandra Torres, were divorced in May, 2011, in an attempt to circumvent the country's constitutional prohibition on the election of the president or a close relative to consecutive terms. Torres, who supervised the government's antipoverty efforts under her husband, was expected to be the UNE presidential candidate, but the courts rejected her candidacy. In the election, Otto Pérez Molina, a retired general running as the conservative Patriotic party candidate, won (November) after a runoff.
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The Perrysburg Board of Education has set some new fees for the coming school year, but not without some debate.
Two board members said they don't like charging fees for required classes and asked why the issue hadn't been discussed after the subject was brought up last year.
"Our core courses should not have additional fees," Gretchen Downs said.
Mrs. Downs and Walter Edinger voted against approving the fees.
Val Hovland, Mark Schoenlein, and Barry Van Hoozen voted for them.
The elementary school fees will be the same as this year: $16 for kindergarten, $33 for first, second, and third grades, and $38 for fourth and fifth grades.
At the junior high, students will be charged a flat fee of $55, with an additional $15 for eighth-grade foreign languages.
Treasurer Matt Feasel said some students pay $67 to $97 because of electives.
"It's going to be a savings to a lot of families," he said.
Mr. Edinger argued that the change means families save money on electives but are charged more for core courses.
Fees for high school courses vary from $5 to more than $50.
Mr. Edinger said he asks the district every year to look at ways to phase out fees for required courses.
Those fees aren't for textbooks, but for required consumable materials.
"For a public education, the requirements for that public education ... ought to be covered out of the general fund," Mr. Edinger said.
He asked why the finance committee had not studied the issue.
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"We felt we needed to make that up somewhere," he said.
Ms. Hovland said that if the district charged high school students more for parking passes, they would find the extra money so they could still drive to school. The parking fee is $20 a year.
A general extracurricular fee would help offset some of the loss, Mrs. Downs suggested.
Mr. Feasel said he had estimated that at the junior high, each student in an extracurricular activity would have to pay $85 to offset the loss of income from fees for required courses. At the high school, that amount would be $64.
At the elementary level, fees for required courses bring in $56,000.
At the junior high, they bring in $32,000, and at the high school, $50,650, Mr. Feasel said.
Mr. Edinger said he doesn't think charging fees for extracurriculars would accomplish anything.
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Superintendent Michael Cline said fees could be considered when textbooks are up for adoption, as the board considers whether to purchase supplemental materials with the books.
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He suggested the finance committee could consider the issue before the board has to set fees again next spring.
"This is exactly where we were a year ago," Mrs. Downs said.
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The Department of Defense announced today the death of two soldiers who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. They died Aug. 16 of injuries suffered from a non-combat related incident. They were assigned to the 401st Military Police Company, 720th Military Police Battalion, 89th Military Police Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas.
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Recently there is a rise of popularity on the Panasonic current in ear flagship, the RP-HJE900 with Zirconia housing, after the price has been dropped to a considerable low point (from the initial MSRP US$190 to the current US$90). Unfortunately for most places outside of U.S., the price remains pretty high. I must confess that I used to be a big Panasonic fans back when they still one of three brands under Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and dedicated to high end audio gears (that is where the 'sonic' part of the brand comes from). But after the 90's, the companies ,which had lost a lot of ground against Sony, decided to depart from high end audio gears and instead focus on mass market products. With Panasonics slowly becomes a brand for household electronic, it also loses whatever meaning the brand used to carry. In recent years however, the company begins to show a new interest in headphones market as portable audio becomes a dominant consumer market. The RP-HJE70 under current review is Panasonic previous flagship before the HJE900. No Zirconia housing it may be, at least HJE70 is more widely available oversea compared to HJE900 and at a sturdier US$55 price tag over eBay. Let finds out more.
Trasducer: 8.5mm Closed Dynamic
Impedance: 16Ω
Sensitivity: 102dB/mW
Maximum Input: 100mW
Frequency Response: 10~23,000Hz
Cord Length: J-cord, 0.5m + 0.75m
Packaging, Build Quality and Accessories
Paper box packaging is similar to the previously reviewed Sherwood SE777 (or more properly: the SE77 is similar to HJE70). A small transparent windows show off the beautiful aluminum earpieces as well as the equal beautiful aluminum hard case. Beside the hard case, the only other accessories are the three pair of different sized single flange eartips (S, M, L).
HJE70 comes with a J-cord, two cable design. While the plug on the earpieces side of the cable has an aluminum shell, somehow Panasonic decides to deduct that from the extension cable. The cable itself is the typical black rubberized type but just a little thin, which begs the question of whether it will be durable in the long run. However, the thin cable does feel fairly light (even with the 3.5mm plug and jack) and generally doesn't get into the way, which is good news since it doesn't weight down the earpieces (that already have some weight to themselves). Also note, the total length (135cm) is a bit on the long side.
The earpieces in comparison look and feel fairly impressive due to the aluminum construction. The 'stems' under the transducer housing have rubber protrusion and groove that fits into each other and hold them both together when placed into the hard case. The joins between the stems and the transducer housing are moveable to around 15 degree which allows for better fit. The included hard case looks very well and functions decently - though putting the two pieces cable in is not really a very easy job. The real downside about the hard case is that it can get scratch fairly easy.
Isolation is average, while microphonics is decent. However, due to the earpieces' design, wearing it over-the-ear is almost impossible.
Sound Quality
As usual, a minimum of 50 hours burn in was administrated before the review. To be honest, I wasn't really having much faith in HJE70 before trying. I was in a store looking for HJE900 when I spotted both HJE70 and HJE700 in display. I demoed both and ended up getting the HJE70 in the end.
If you have heard and like Hippo VB sound (on 2 dots / mid bass plate), then you will love HJE70. Both IEM share a lively, energetic and warm sound that is balanced with a very slight V-shaped frequency response. Treble extends very far, still bright but not quite as harsh as VB. Mid is a little more recessed in comparison, but not to a point where the sense of sweetness is totally lost. Bass goes big and very deep, full of texture and rumble yet remains controlled. It is a very good mix of quality and quantity that any basshead will love, and almost make VB's bass sounds dull in comparison. Soundstage is decent, okay in depth but limited in width. Basically it is nothing spectacular to speak of.
While no doubt that HJE70 is over 4 years old now, it still remains a very likeable IEM and certainly doesn't disappoint as an ex-flagship. I do wish that I could have picked it up earlier and it makes me really look forward to listen to HJE900 someday. Hopefully we will continue to see ever better IEM model from Panasonic in the future as well. Please refer to the list for a complete list of numeric rating.
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Obama Goes Supervillain: Proposes Global Minimum Tax!
President Obama is completing his transformation into a literary super-villain by proposing a global minimum tax, wait, not proposing a global minimum tax, okay, proposing a global minimum tax that looks to net his world communist pals, sorry, the friends of global progress one hundred trillion dollars!
The news comes on the day that sitting Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton looks to work her way up the globalist food chain by moving to the World Bank. If she beats out such gems as Treasury Sec extraordinaire and Turbo Tax flunky (maybe we didn't know how to use Quicken?) Timothy Geithner, Hillary would finally find a government role worthy of her own Bond villain mojo (for Hillary's post-Maoist fashion see here). She would succeed the Bush team's neoconservative mastermind and all-around good guy Paul Wolfowitz in the position.
This is actually not hard to figure out. The green socialist environmental justice movement is going down the giant low-flow crapper faster than enviroguru Al Gore can say "the planet's gaht a fevah" (despite murmurs of "denialist" spokesman Lord Monckton meeting with mining industry heads who don't want to get crushed by eco-statists and actually conspiring to "capture the high ground" in the mainstream media… not capture the high ground!). The entire rationale for the green movement, gouging the world for at least $72 trillion through a "carbon tax," is probably not going to fly with people who have discovered MMGW is a lie (thanks to Climategate leaks, among other things). A new strategy was needed.
So what was the logical move? Going all in-your-face bankster about jacking producers while tapping into memes favorable to the fabricated Occucrier movement, such as making companies pay "their fair share" (recall the "Robin Hood Tax"? What's next, the anti-dog-eat-dog rule?). Here's what the Weekly Standard reported:
"[N]o American company should be able to avoid paying its fair share of taxes by moving jobs and profits overseas," Obama said, according to his remarks as prepared for deliver. "From now on, every multinational company should have to pay a basic minimum tax. And every penny should go towards lowering taxes for companies that choose to stay and hire in the United States of America."
So while President Obama calls it "a basic minimum tax," his adviser, Sperling, calls it a "global minimum tax." Either way, it's the same thing regardless of how the White House wants to message it.
Witness Barack Obama the Shakedown-Artist-in-Chief is in full flower. It's time to rip this president and radical leftist weeds of his ilk up by their hairy roots this November, before they spread and choke our economy for good.
Other conservative blogs reporting on this:
The Party of Know, Dark Politricks, Saving the Republic, Gator Country, Free Independent Nation, Above Top Secret, Prison Planet, and Weasel Zippers.


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Lunchtime Live!
Brian Golden
Not that I'm all that surprised, but I have to say I had a great time at today's Lunchtime Live! performance. I must admit, however, it seemed strange to zip out of the office at 11:30 a.m., set-up and play guitar in the park for an hour or so, run home for a quick clean-up (it was hot out there today) and then shoot back to the office for an typical afternoon in the life of an Evening Sun reporter, spent writing this blog.
I guess I'm just not used to mixing my two professional personalities – musician and journalist. Which isn't all that strange when I think about it, as it's fairly rare that one intrudes on the other. I will say this, though, it was tougher than I'd anticipated to "switch hats," so to speak. Simply put, it took me a song or two this afternoon to get the voice and guitar in sync. And once I'd made my way back to the office, an half-an-hour or so to flex those writing muscles back into shape. What can I say? The musician in me probably isn't all that great a journalist and vice versa. Not that I'm suffering from any sort of multiple personality syndrome or anything (let's hope not, at least).
That's not to say my fledgling journalism career has in no way effected my musical pursuits. In fact, it's had an tremendously positive impact. Something about the responsibility involved with a full-time, professional occupation seems to have made its way into my guitar playing along the way, which is a good thing, I think. And it's obvious to me – especially this time of year with Blues Fest right around the corner – that any stories I happen to write which focus on music definitely benefit from my 20 years playing the guitar. So I guess it's possible the two are more closely related than I originally thought.
Regardless, today ended up being a lot of fun. Granted, any time I get a chance to perform it's typically a good time. It was also nice to see my fellow Evening Sun office-mates come over to cheer me on. Thanks, guys and gals, I hope you enjoyed it!
And for those of you who didn't make it down to today's little performance, it's cool. Next week, Joe Lombardi will "take to the stage" from noon to 1 p.m. in West Park. If nothing else, it's a great opportunity to get some sunshine, enjoy some lunch and support local live music. A big thanks to Pegi and the BID for having me this year, I had a blast.