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DAVIE, Fla. -- First, wide receiver Mike Wallace ripped the top off a depressed free-agent market.
Now, Wallace is ripping what he considers is a misperception in Pittsburgh — that Wallace, one of the game's most dangerous deep threats — only cared about the money when he landed a five-year, $60-million deal with the Miami Dolphins.
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The contract for the former Steelers speedster includes $30 million guaranteed and surpassed the five-year deals for Dwayne Bowe of the Kansas City Chiefs ($56 million) and Greg Jennings of the Minnesota Vikings ($45 million). Wallace received five times more than the Denver Broncos gave Wes Welker in a two-year deal.
"In free agency, with so many great guys, when you get the prize deal, it's always a good feeling,'' Wallace told USA TODAY Sports after Wednesday's minicamp practice. "I just wanted to be happy. Money isn't everything. A lot of people last year, when I held out in Pittsburgh, took it the wrong way, felt like I was just being greedy."
Thing is, Wallace turned down a $76 million offer dangled by the Minnesota Vikings, his father, Mike Wallace III, told USA TODAY Sports. The Vikings later signed Jennings, the former Green Bay Packers star.
"I know this: He's going to give Miami their money's worth,'' Wallace's father said. "Dolphins fans are going to love him. He worked hard and deserved everything he got. So don't call him selfish.''
The younger Wallace said he chose the up-and-coming Dolphins for the chance to win a Super Bowl ring sooner.
"I performed so well for so long, I just wanted to be well compensated," he said. "I feel I got a bad rep. Free agency paid off for me. But it was bittersweet. The money is not all I'm in it for. I want to be a great player — win Super Bowls, go to Pro Bowls continuously.''
Wallace, 26, seems far from selfish, given how he shared his newfound wealth with his family. He bought his mom, Sanjia, a new home in Houston, and his dad received a new Cadillac SUV. His three sisters received new cars. And older brother, Reggie, who nicknamed little Mike "Rock'' as a young toddler because he never cried when he fell, gets Mike's Range Rover.
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Mike Wallace said Reggie Wallace, 37, will be released from Louisiana state prison this week after serving a five-year sentence for selling drugs in the West Bank section of New Orleans that Mike Wallace overcame.
"I haven't seen Reggie in a while, and he's coming home at the right time. He's really changed, ready to do positive things,'' Wallace said. "Everything is going really well right now.''
What did Wallace splurge on? A new home near the club's facility for himself, girlfriend Vanessa and 3-year-old daughter, Malihh.
"Mike is all about family,'' said his father, who owns a New Orleans air conditioning business. "We're looking forward to watching all his games this season.''
General manager Jeff Ireland and coach Joe Philbin were willing to dig deep to rediscover the deep threat the franchise has lacked since the Marks Brothers — Duper and Clayton -- ended their Dolphins careers in 1992.
"I don't want to be Mark Duper and those guys,'' Wallace said. "I want to be a great player for the 2013 Dolphins.''
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Wallace, a 2011 Pro Bowler, ranks fifth among the league's most productive receivers from 2009-2012 with 32 touchdowns — after New England tight end Rob Gronkowski and Detroit Lions receiver Calvin Johnson (38 each), Atlanta Falcons receiver Roddy White (36) and receiver Marques Colston of the New Orleans Saints (34). Wallace caught just 8 touchdowns last season when the home-run connection with quarterback Ben Roethlisberger was disrupted by Wallace's holdout and a steep learning curve on new offensive coordinator Todd Haley's system.
"I definitely want double-digit touchdowns this year,'' Wallace said. "But whether it's clearing out for others, blocking, whatever it takes to win. (But) it won't come overnight.''
Chemistry is still coming, as quarterback Ryan Tannehill proved on an end-zone pass for Wallace that was intercepted by cornerback Brent Grimes in practice. Wallace immediately ran to Tannehill to correct the "miscommunication'' on the spot.
"Hines Ward and Ben (Roethlisberger) were my big brothers,'' Wallace said. "I've always been the young guy. And now I'm older than Ryan. I'm embracing the leadership role here. We'll be fine. We've got a lot of big plays to make.''


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Remember my last post, when I talked about fried eggs with oyster sauce over rice, the best umami-laden breakfast that takes almost no time to make? Well, I forgot to mention an even quicker one - a fried egg topped with furikake. Or for that matter, plain rice topped with furikake.
Furikake, if you're not familiar with it, is an amazing Japanese seasoning that's made up of dried seaweed flakes, sesame seeds, sugar, and salt. Sometimes there's also bonito flakes, chili flakes, dried salmon, miso powder, or egg powder, depending on the brand and its varieties. It's like having all the flavors of the sea (and then some) in one convenient little glass jar.
So it goes without saying that furikake is also great over fried rice. Yesterday, to take a break from all the recipes I've been fine-tuning for my cookbook, I made a variation of my standard fried rice with edamame instead of green peas. Doing so made me wonder why I don't always make fried rice with edamame. Don't get me wrong. Regular ol' peas are great, but edamame somehow felt more substantial, and I didn't feel the need to add anything else for flavoring except scallions, eggs, and salt and pepper.
The finished rice was great on its own, but then I saw the furikake on my shelf and thought, why not? Oh, heaven. If you secretly love the smell of sushi restaurants, repeatedly order seaweed salad appetizers, or snack on nori chips like there's no tomorrow, you'll probably want to give this a try.
Also, remember that a little bit of furikake goes a long way, taste-wise. Sprinkle a little on first, then add more if needed (or use the serving suggestions below).
Edamame Fried Rice
Serves 4
- 2 cups shelled frozen edamame (or 4 cups frozen edamame in pods)
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 3 scallions, white and green parts finely chopped
- 3 cups leftover white rice (straight from the fridge is best)
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 2 to 3 tablespoons furikake
- Bring a medium pot of water to boil. Cook the edamame according to package instructions. Drain, rinse under cool water, and drain again. If you're not using already-shelled edamame, remove the edamame from their pods. Set aside.
- Break up the cold cooked rice into smaller clumps as much as possible.
- Heat a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat until a bead of water sizzles and evaporates on contact. Add 1 tablespoon of the oil and swirl to coat the base and sides. Add the egg, spread it as thinly as possible, and cook undisturbed for 2 minutes, until cooked through. Transfer to a cutting board and chop into bite-sized pieces.
- Add the remaining 1 tablespoon of the oil and swirl to coat the base and sides. Add the scallions and stir-fry briefly until aromatic, about 20 seconds. Stir in the rice, breaking apart any remaining clumps with a spatula. Add the edamame and chopped egg. Stir-fry for another 1 to 2 minutes, until the rice starts to turn golden and the edamame and eggs have heated through. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer to a plate and serve.

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A Visit to the Living Earth Café
Imagine this. You walk into the Living Earth Café, a new coffeehouse that just opened in your city. The décor is simple, and in places clashes with itself. A funky old couch dominates a corner, a few well-worn arm chairs sit to one side, occupied by two patrons engaged in a passionate debate. A mix of eclectic tables and chairs is spread around the space. At the front of the store, a prominent sign explains that all furniture is used, acquired locally from Freecycle, Craig's List, or secondhand stores. The same sign announces that all electricity comes from renewable sources and that about half the hot water is generated from rooftop solar hot water collectors.
Over by the windows you see dozens of herbs and vegetable plants sprouting from the sills. In the corner, there's a strange box labeled "vermicomposter" and another sign stating that "1% of our organic waste is recycled here by our worms, the other 99% in composters at our local urban garden, which produces 100% of our herbal teas and a portion of our food."
You get in line to order a cup of the locally grown herbal tea. In front of you a customer orders a latte to go and is shocked to hear there are no to-go cups. "You can either enjoy your coffee here, sir, or you can borrow one of our travel mugs," explains the barista. "There's a $4 deposit, which you'll get back if you return it."A bit surprisingly, the guy agrees and borrows one of the mugs and goes on his way.


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Do you know why it is important to strengthen and develop your ab (spiritual heart)? Many don't know or understand the concept of free will and the soul because Westerners are afraid of death and see it as being the end. In Afrospiritual traditions, death is not the end. Death is the start of something new, but in order to make this transformation we have to have a strong ab (spiritual heart).
It is the ab that makes the entire Kamitic theology clear, because our ab is tied to the whole Kamitic spiritual hierarchy and the concept of life after death. This is a pretty interesting yet complex concept to understand because it doesn't correlate to Western thinking exactly. Like I said, Western thinking in linear and sees death as being the end, whereas African (and non-Western) thought is circular and holistic. So, below is how my aakhu (ancestral spirits) explained this concept to me through a shamanic meditation and divination session. This is what seems to make the most sense to me so, I will try to make this as simple as possible for you all.
We are all spiritual beings that have been infused into a physical body. Our spirit is composed of nine parts (incorrectly called souls) and they are : the khab, khabit, ka, sahu, ab, ren, shekhem, khu and ba. These parts of our spirit are more like consciousness and they can be grouped into three divisions called the ba, sahu and ab.
The first division of the spirit that we are given is our ba (divine conscious), which is said to be the divine spark from God. Our ba provides us with khu (divine wisdom), shekhem (divine power) and ren (our divine name, hence destiny). The purpose of the ba is to help us to spiritually survive. The ba was symbolized as a human headed falcon to indicate that it like a trained bird of prey will return back to its original owner or God. So we have it the ba is closely assoicated with our breath. When body expires its last breath, the ba will return back to God. Besides providing our being with life, the ba draws all of its inspiration from the spiritual realm of the universe. When we sleep, it is the ba that provides us with our dreams by flying wherever it needs to go and communicating the message from the spirit world to the other parts of our being. The ba corresponds to the unconscious. All living beings have a ba. The ba does not reincarnate but is new so that every living being has a fresh start or new and unique experience.
When we are born, we are also given a second divisions called a sahu (physical-body conscious) that governs our khab (physical body), khabit (emotions/animal instincts), and ka (personality), because the purpose of the sahu is to help us to physically survive. To accomplish this feat, our sahu, which is also contains our genetic memories, draws all of what we need to know from the external environment. Our sahu corresponds to the subconscious mind. All living beings have a sahu. The sahu (and its associated parts) reincarnates but only biologically by following one's lineage in order to provide every living being with the genetic memory to survive. This is how animals through evolution acquire a certain distinctive pattern. In human beings this is how we acquire the physical features, behaviors, etc. of our foreparents.
We are also given an ab (spiritual heart or human conscious), which corresponds to our conscious mind but when we are born, our ab is not strong. This is the reason we have to learn right from wrong, how to be courageous and ethical in the face of fear. We have to strengthen it, which occurs over a course of time. For most, we do not come into the understanding of our ab until we are teenagers. It is then that we learn that our ab is responsible for providing us with free will. It is through our ab we are able to make choices and decisions, but our choices and decisions are influenced by the maa (divine law). As a result, our ab grows and becomes stronger based upon the consequences of our actions and behaviors. It is through the maa that we develop a conscience or strong ab. Only man and woman has been given ab and this is what makes us unique amongst all of the other beings and connects us to God. It is this uniqueness that intimately connects our ab to our ba. It is because of the connection between the ab and the ba that we all feel like we have a higher calling. It is our ab that is the eternal part of our being and the surviving conscious that is reborn.
When an individual physically dies, the ba, which was given to us to help us to spiritually survive, returns to the spiritual aspect of the Universe from whence it came from. The sahu, which was given to us to help us to physically survive returns to the physical aspect of the Universe from whence it came from. The ab, which is the eternal part of our being is the division of the spirit that survives the physical death experience.
So after death, the newly deceased remains with their body until they are able to pass into the otherworld or KAMTA with a clear conscience or strong ab. (Please note that this entire experience has been fictionized as the Kamitic Weighing of the Heart). If the living remembers the deceased as being a purely evil individual. It will cause their ab to be so heavy, that their guilt (depicted as the Aummit monster) would totally consume their ab and prevent them from ever returning to the land of the living – TASETT to wreak havoc upon humankind. Although this is rare, this usually is what happens to individuals who in life encouraged a lot of chaos and confusion like Hitler and other beast men and women. Most of the time, Aummit will be sent to fetch these individuals, which is why usually these individuals (like Hitler) commit suicide.
If the living remembers the deceased as being a troublemaker that attracted trouble in life usually due to ignorance, misguidance, wrong choices and decisions, etc., which resulted in the deceased dying a violent death or through suicide. It will cause the deceased to have a heavy ab, thus preventing them from passing into other world because now they have grave concerns that are on their mind. Since the choices these individuals made in life caused them to be shunned. In death they are shunned (not spoken of), which makes them visit the places they frequented in life. It is at these places (their homes, bars, clubs, alleyways, etc.) they influence the living with their negative and destructive ways. These deceased are called aapepu (snakes or worms) because they were parasites when they were alive and the maa causes them to be parasites in death. We encounter these negative spirits or ghost whenever we are walking and all of sudden for no apparent reason get an eerie chill up our spine, or for no reason at all have sudden thoughts of anxiety, depression, etc. Other times we know that we may have encountered an aapepu whenever we have an eerie hot and cold sensation, which is proof that these spirits are stuck in TASETT since the desert can become both extremely hot and cold temperature-wise.
If the living remembers the deceased as being an ethical and honorable individual in life. Then the deceased is able to pass into KAMTA with a light ab (clear conscience) where they will become an aakhu (ancestral spirit and spirit guide). God allows the aakhu to be honored and venerated like the Christian martyrs and saints because in life these individuals chose to live a righteous life even in the face of death. It is through their courageous acts of bravery that these individals were tranformed and became emissaries for the Divine. This explains how biological, cultural, historical and mythical individuals even after dying tragically became aakhu like the Preto Velhos (Old Slaves in Brazil), known as Uncle Joe and Auntie (or Papa Joe and Big Momma in the US), El Negro Jose and La Madama in Afro-Cuban spiritual traditions. It is because their ab has been made strong and pure. Since, the aakhu can only address issues that they were familiar with in life. Many aakhu choose to return to the land of the living where they are born through their descendants to master more skills. Others choose to return to the land of the living to assist their descendants by acting as spirit guides and speaking to us through our visions and dreams.
If the deceased after returning to the land of the living and dying with a light heart, numerous times, passes to KAMTA multiple times. The aakhu amongst the aakhu becomes a netcharu (netjaru, neteru, guardian spirit or principle of nature) because they have transformed beyond the organic birth-life-death-rebirth cycle. The netcharu are the masters of all technology and the guardians of God's mysteries. They are the ones an individual must appeal to in order to master a particular skill and talent from God. The netcharu speak to us through quick flashes of insight. When they make themselves known, it renders us speechless temporarily because it is hard to literally explain what had just occurred. When we encounter the netcharu it is because our awareness had slipped into KAMTA – the underworld – and upon realizing what had occurred returned to the land of the living.
The netcharu exist as a clan of unique spirits and I believe the first and older netcharu are the original founders and leaders of people. It is this connection that ties the netcharu to everyone regardless if one believes in them or not. The older the netcharu the more it was associated with a particular aspect of nature and the more permanent it has become. Fortunately, new netcharu are being created everyday and these younger netcharu are more easy accessible and act as representatives of their clans. For instance, the original Osar is associated with agriculture, morality and stability, which caused him to be connected to the ground and pillars, hence foundation. Osar manifests himself in the mountains, but his representatives or spiritual children can be found in white stones like limestone. The legendary Mother of all mothers, Oset (Aset, Auset, Isis) is associated with the life giving waters and is identified with the sea. She as the ocean is permanent, but her representatives or spiritual child (essence) can be found in certain seashells.
Because death is not the final resting place and the maa mirrors the spiritual and physical world. Lower spirits can advance to the next level, just like human beings. They just have to work hard to do it because this is part of the maa. It is because of the maa, spirits can be offered prayers, light, water, money, the recitation of the psalms, rituals like the novena, and so on, which can elevate the ab of the spirit.
This is why it is best to work on developing and strengthening your ab now, so that upon death. You will have a light ab and be well received by the ancestors that have preceded you.
Excerpts for this post are from Kamta: A Practical Kamitic Path for Obtaining Power by Derric "Rau Khu" Moore, 2011.
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Kerry Declares Assad Used Chemical Weapons
Secretary of State John Kerry said the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons against civilians was a "moral obscenity," delivering the clearest indication yet that the Obama administration is preparing to attack President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Jerry Seib reports. Photo: AP.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... the the ... the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians ... the killing of women and children and innocent bystanders ... by chemical weapons use of moral obscenity ... by any standard ... it is inexcusable ... that despite ... the excuses and equivocation is that some of manufacture ... it is undeniable ... read State John Kerry ... just ... when bears Last news cycle I leave this afternoon ... in my case fat ... out of Syria has been using chemical into against his people ... will discuss what it means the millet re action in Syria ... all and mall right here right now on the New Saab good afternoon and welcome I'm Simon Constable and joining us with even slight Jerry sign ... Washington bureau chief of The will Street don't thanks obeying the carrot ... happy be with some ... so aam ... John Kerry making a very passionate speech ... remember when many ways sign gas ... chemical weapons have been big news ... what does that leave Vestas I mean the US now ... pass to intervene ... or is it less with my ... well look I the the the he said a statement a striking is because of the strength of the word snow ... he said that the loaves in a serious issue shock the conscience of the world ... it's a moral obscenity is inexcusable ... in the present Obama believes there must be accountability ... the thing is that you can as a superpower see those kinds of things with that kind of passion and then not do something to back it up so I think this was a statement that lays the groundwork ... for some kind of action and I think ... in the next few days will see what Daddy is ... I suspect the conventional wisdom that says cruise missile strikes at some selected targets in Syria ... that's a pretty good gas now mom understanding of the four US warships had it down back end of the Mediterranean ... on right now I'm getting getting into place what has ... happened domestically media ... for the US to launch a strike aam it's in you know that that must be ... approved procedures which the ... which the White House needs to go through and Congress is not in session so what's going on yet ... well look I don't think there's a nice to be a whole lot to be totally one of theirs Bilby consultation with congressional leaders ... I don't think that's gonna be a problem I think most people in Congress who saw this on this um the Sunday talk shows yesterday ... I think it's time to do something in Syria ... I don't think they missed ration will view this as a kind of an action ... that is going to require some acts by Congress or some authorization by Congress ... specifically because I think if the administration moves ... it's going to try to do the limited why it's that tried to make some military move if it does something ... that is designed ... merely to show that there's a price to be paid for using chemical weapons not a prelude to some deeper involvement in the war I think the president ... if he does something is going to try to make it very clear distinction between those two possibilities one being ... Iron Ltd surgical strike to make a point about the use of chemical weapons ... and the other that the path that I don't think it missed ration is getting more interest in taking out than it did before which was to serve a move steadily ... into the conflict itself ... okay not what we now that's some European ... powers including might might my homeland beating the UK pretty upset with asset to ... them as said they would be involved how important is an international coalition if anything is taken any action is that ... yet that is important and I don't think the US will do this ... acting unilaterally there will be an attempt and I suspect this is what's going on right now behind the scenes ... to knit together some kind of a coalition media said NATO context ... maybe it's a stay at a friends of Cyr of the Syrian opposition context ... but something that is this an international flavor what it will almost certainly not be ... the something authorized by the United Nations Security Council because Russia stands there ready ... to stop anything that happens the Russians have made abundantly clear they're not offer authorized any action in Syria they point ... out consistently back ... to authorizing action in Libya couple years ago ... an authorization that was followed ... not with an attempt to stop a humanitarian Proms in Libya but to move on and the Russians view to regime change in the dissident activity down that path ... so the US has to find some other national context ... but it certainly will want to have some international overlaid anything that happens now


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"Piracy is the new radio"
this makes sense...Neil nailed it
The US govt wants the legit evidence to be destroyed so it can show megaupload had no legit usefulness
MPAA and RIAA didn't give all that much money to lawmakers, the tech community can easily out donate them
Megaupload legal counsel will tear the US attorneys to shreds
Dodd on Hollywoods payroll may be short lived if SOPA doesn't pass soon. I think Obama will be ousted and a republican president will veto anything SOPA
it will get shoved through attached to some other bill...congress owes Hollywood
Don't buy into the propaganda the state department is shoving down our throat about Megaupload. It all sounds big on paper. I think things will play out very differently in court
This action confirms what everyone has been saying, SOPA isn't needed the US Govt can already deal with foreign websites.
war has been declared - I don't think the US govt will win in the end
THE RIAA and MPAA can take over the internet and control everything but they will never make me buy music or movies. I'll keep streaming free legal music, check out movies from the library or find legal free stuff online. I won't spend a dime
Obama earning back some love by taking down Megaupload..probably Rapidshare next. Hollywood will love him again
US Chamber Of Commerce is a bunch of over paid people sitting around in offices all day trying to think up ways to be relevant
This would be much more impressive had Microsoft had made this announcement via the Twitter Choir
I think its very good...the fight is stronger when people from all segments of society participate.
lol like you positively knew they were pirates
"So we've decided that we will immediately cease identifying and contacting pirates."
Even with this I say don't let up, keep reaching out to lawmakers and tell why SOPA/PIPA is horrible
Lawmakers will weasel this bill through somehow, that's what they are being paid (by Hollywood) to do. Later on after the country turns ballistic and the law is overturned, the lawmakers can say well we tried, thanks for the money anyway
Thank you Japan for showing some common sense, now if you end whaling I could fully love you again.
is Google doing anything to fight this? seems like little to nothing. They have tons of money...can't they pay higher bribes to the congress members than the RIAA is?!?
HAHAHA that reads like a grade school report card, complete with whiny teacher complaining about your bratty kid


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The Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) is based in Athens, Greece. Below is a break down of key Athens Stock Exchange figures.
The MIC code for the Athens Stock Exchange is asex (operating MIC asex).
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Ranked 44th in Market Capitalization ($51710.15 Trillion)
Market Cap over Greece GDP ratio is 21253657.17%
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Ranked 44th in Gross Domestic Product ($243.3 Billion)
Ranked 75th in Population (11 Million People)
Athens Stock Exchange is the 44th largest exchange out of the 144 stock exchanges we track. The Athens Stock Exchange's Market Capitalization is $51710.15 Trillion adjusted US Dollars as of March 2019. Although the primary currency used by the Athens Stock Exchange is the Euro (€).
The population in Greece is approximately 11 Million people and the country has a GDP of $243.3 Billion adjusted US Dollars. Greece ranks 75th in terms of population and 44th in terms of GDP out of 240 countries and country equivalents.
Market Capitalization to GDP ratio, which when compared to the historic ratio is an indicator that a market is over or under valued, is 21253657.17%.
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A lawyer working for the court-appointed administrator to review claims as part of the multibillion-dollar settlement over BP's Gulf oil spill has been accused of receiving payments from a law firm representing a claimant, allegations that were discussed in a closed-door meeting Thursday with a federal judge overseeing the case, a BP official with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.
The BP official, who has reviewed a report outlining the allegations, said claims administrator Patrick Juneau delivered a copy of the report to U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier during a meeting in his chambers. Lawyers for BP and the team of private attorneys who brokered the settlement also attended the meeting. The BP official spoke on condition of anonymity because the report hasn't been made public.
The company official who spoke with the AP did not disclose the name of the individual accused of misconduct but described the person's position and role in the administrator's office.
The report indicates that Juneau's security head also notified the FBI's New Orleans division about the lawyer's alleged conduct.
An FBI spokeswoman in New Orleans declined to comment Thursday.
The BP official said Juneau told the judge that he has suspended the attorney and is weighing further disciplinary action. Neither Juneau nor his spokesman responded to calls and emails on Thursday night.
The report says the head of security for Juneau's office received a complaint that the staff attorney had referred claims to a New Orleans law firm in exchange for portions of subsequent settlement payments. The lawyer allegedly filed those claims before he went to work for Juneau.
The BP official said the claims at issue were filed on behalf of a single claimant and involve hundreds of thousands of dollars.
BP has sued to block what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses over the spill. The London-based oil giant has accused Juneau of trying to rewrite the terms of the deal, claiming he violated the settlement in the way he used a complex formula to determine the payments to businesses.
Barbier appointed Juneau last year and has upheld his decisions for calculating payments. BP has appealed, and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear the case in July.
The spill began in April 2010 after the BP-leased drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded off the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers. More than 200 million gallons of crude oil were released from the Macondo well a mile under the Gulf surface. Marshes, fisheries and beaches from Louisiana to Florida were fouled by the oil until a cap was placed over the blown-out well in July.
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It's lonely, being a hot Jupiter.
But that seems to be the lot for Jupiter-scale extrasolar planets orbiting within a whisker of sun-like stars, according to a new study. It shows that such planets are likely to be the only surviving children of their host star.
The work not only sheds light on how such systems form, it also gives humans one more reason to appreciate their own Jupiter. Had the solar system's largest planet followed the same developmental process that hot Jupiters apparently have, Earth would have been either pulverized or sent hurtling into interstellar space.
"That would be bad for us," observes Jason Steffen, a researcher at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Center for Particle Astrophysics in Batavia, Ill.
While finding an Earth-mass planet in a star's so-called habitable zone remains the holy grail of efforts to detect extrasolar planets, studying oddballs such as hot Jupiters provides insights into the processes that create the wide range of solar-system configurations researchers have so far uncovered.
The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, aimed to answer a question astronomers and astrophysicists have been asking since the first hot Jupiter was discovered in 1995: How do such systems wind up with that configuration?
Gas giants orbiting other stars at distances that would fall well inside of Mercury's orbit were the first extrasolar planets discovered. Because of their mass and their close-in orbit, hot Jupiters' effects on their parent stars are more pronounced than in other systems. Once researchers had identified these planets as gas giants, the chin-scratching began.
In our solar system, Jupiter and the other outer gas planets formed beyond what researchers have dubbed the solar system's frost line: a region in the early sun's disk of dust and gas where water, ammonia, methane, and other hydrogen-bearing compounds freeze into ice grains. Inside the frost line, the rocky planets formed.
Two competing scenarios emerged to explain how Jupiter-like gas giants migrated inward. The new report has led one team member to come to a definitive conclusion in the debate.
The earliest explanation suggested that a hot Jupiter forms beyond the frost line, but gravity from a passing star, or perhaps another massive companion planet, kicks the Jupiter into a highly elliptical orbit around its star. Each time the planet passes close to the star, its orbit is gradually reshaped until the orbit is far less elliptical orbit and so close that its "year" can be as fast as 19 hours.
According this explanation, the hot Jupiter would have destroyed or ejected any planetary munchkins within its orbit as the orbit evolved.
More recently, scientists have posited that Jupiter-class planets could simply migrate inward through the disk of dust and gas surrounding a young star. Under one scenario, it would get so close that it would induce tides on its star, similar to the tides the moon sets up on Earth's seas. In effect, that stellar "high tide" would transfer enough energy back to the planet's orbit to stabilize it and keep the planet from falling into the star.
According to this explanation, lower-mass planets could survive in the hot Jupiter's general region.
When the team hunted for evidence of additional planets in the 63 hot-Jupiter systems it studied, it found none.
"I was a bit surprised there were none in the sample," says Steffen, who was the lead author of the PNAS paper reporting the results.
Throughout much of the 2000s, the migrate-through-the-disk explanation dominated, suggesting that with the right data, additional planets could be found. The results of this study provide a fairly definitive case that the earlier explanation is the right one, Steffen says.
But the team found that companion planets did survive in cousins of the hot-Jupiter system. For example, it studied 224 systems with so-called hot Neptunes – lower-mass gas giants with orbits comparable to those of the hot Jupiters. In addition, they studied 31 systems with so-called warm Jupiters – Jupiter-mass gas giants with orbital periods that signaled wider orbits that those traveled by the hot Jupiters.
In those systems, the team in some cases found evidence for companion planets, including some that appeared tightly bunched.
One-third of the hot Neptunes showed evidence of companions, suggesting that hot Neptunes may not have been massive enough to disrupt the formation of other, smaller planets, says Alan Boss, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism who focuses on extrasolar planets and took part in the study.
With warm Jupiters "a few lower-mass planets can still form and survive, though the exact reason why this differs from the hot Jupiter case is unclear," he writes in an e-mail exchange.
The work raises an overarching question for our solar system, Steffen concludes: "Why didn't our Jupiter become one of these hot Jupiters?" The clear indication is that at some stage a hot Jupiter gets kicked into a highly elliptical orbit. But the details of how it got there? No one has the definitive answer for that yet, he says.


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Yasser Arafat's Body to Be Exhumed
(NEW YORK) -- Palestinian leaders agreed today to exhume the body of Yasser Arafat after a television documentary suggested that he had been assassinated while being treated in a Paris hospital.
Arafat was 75 and had long been ill when he slipped into a coma and died on Nov. 11, 2004. He had been suffering from a mysterious illness. The cause of the death was never determined and French medical officials would not release details of his illness because of privacy laws. The medical report was given to his family.
The television network al Jazeera broadcast a documentary this week in which a Swiss institute examined clothing provided by Arafat's widow Suha and determined there were high levels of polonium-210, the same substance found to have killed a former Russian spy in London in 2006.
Suha Arafat has since called for her husband's body to be exhumed from its mausoleum in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Presidential adviser Nabil Abu Rdeineh said today that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has given instructions to launch an investigation with international experts to look into the findings of the al Jazeera report.
The Abbas regime will agree to exhume the body, and senior PA official Saab Erakaat demanded that it be conducted by an international committee.
The al Jazeera report was the subject in every shop and street corner throughout the Palestinian territory. In East Jerusalem's main commercial street Saleh al Din, it replaced conversations about the Arab Spring and the Syrian crisis.
People were critical of the PA for not doing anything to advance an investigation of Arafat's death instead of al Jazeera.
And most people said the reports confirmed their own suspicions.
Ahmed Batta, a barber shop owner in East Jerusalem, told ABC News, "We knew for a long time that Arafat was poisoned. What we need to know now is who is behind the killing?"
Batta, 45, had prime suspects in mind.
"The Israeli Mossa and the American CIA," he said.
Arafat's body must be exhumed "so we will know the truth and also we might find who was behind it," Batta said.
Bookstore owner Iyad Muna, 42, told ABC News, "Arafat was killed and we knew that. And we know more than that. We knew that Israel killed him, but there was a lack in evidence. Yesterday we got the evidence."
"Arafat was the symbol of the Palestinian struggle and fight for freedom, but the PA will stay silent because they are interested in keeping the so called peace talks" with Israel, Muna said.
Iyad Dajani, a travel agent, praised al Jazeera's findings and wants them followed up. "It was always on our mind (that Arafat was killed)," he said.
Dajani, 47, however, does not want Arafat's body to be disturbed.
"The truth is there with the military hospital in Paris, and it will be disrespectful for such a great leader like Arafat to have his body exhumed," he said.
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WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - Chinese plans to buy America's Smithfield Foods - the world's biggest pork producer - will face intense scrutiny on Wednesday when U.S. senators question Smithfield's chief executive about food safety and foreign ownership.
The proposed $4.7 billion purchase by Shuanghui International would be the largest acquisition ever of a U.S. company by a Chinese concern. Experts on the U.S. review process expect the deal to be approved despite opposition from farmers, food-safety groups and rural communities.
Smithfield chief executive Larry Pope has vigorously defended the deal since it was announced in May and said it would not harm U.S. security or food safety.
"Shuanghui recognizes Smithfield's best-in-class operations, outstanding food safety practices and 46,000 hard working employees," Pope said in May. "There will be no impact on how we do business operationally in America and around the world as a result of this transaction."
Approval ultimately lies with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the interagency panel headed by the U.S. Treasury that reviews foreign investments for national security threats.
Senators have raised questions about the company's future compliance with food safety and biosecurity standards and safeguarding of intellectual property if the deal goes ahead. Concerns have also been raised about foreign ownership of the U.S. food supply.
CFIUS experts largely believe the deal will be approved. Smithfield would still be subject to U.S. food safety requirements, and the company has said the merger is driven by growing pork demand in China, not a strategy to export pork to the United States.
"Investors should view (the committee hearing) as a political exercise that is not likely to have a substantive impact on the transaction itself," Mark McMinimy, an analyst at Guggenheim Securities, wrote in a research note. "Congressional hearings have not derailed these kinds of transactions in the past."
Recent scandals in China have fueled food safety concerns. Among the problems have been thousands of pig carcasses found floating down a river and milk tainted with the industrial chemical melamine that killed six and sickened thousands. In June, a fire at a chicken-processing plant in northeast China killed 120 people.
Usha Haley, a professor at West Virginia University who has researched business in China, opposes the deal and will be one of the witnesses at Wednesday's hearing.
She wrote in USA Today that Shuanghui has had "outrageous food-safety violations and a history of food adulteration." She also said that Shuanghui is highly subsidized by the Chinese government and the deal would have negative implications for the stock market and valuations of other food producers.
On Tuesday, a coalition of 17 organizations representing farmers, rural communities and food safety groups, urged rejection of the Smithfield deal in a 12-page letter to members of CFIUS and others, including USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack.
They fear Shuanghui will seek to export pork to the United States and said the deal "facilitates risky meat exports from China." Shuanghui has not expressed an interest in exporting to the United States.
Smithfield Foods closed at $32.86 on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday, up 0.2 percent.


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I-295 exit now open after tractor-trailer crash
No one injured; Weather played factor in collisions
Part of Interstate 295 in South Portland was closed late Monday night after a crash involving two tractor-trailers and another vehicle.
Police said the Exit 1 northbound offramp remained closed until about 4 a.m. Tuesday morning. The crash happened about 6:49 p.m. Monday night.
Officers said the incident happened when a tractor-trailer hit a broken-down vehicle on an offramp and went off the embankment.
The broken-down vehicle was unoccupied at the time and was also sent down the embankment from the force of the impact.
A second tractor-trailer tried to avoid the crash but went off the road behind the first two vehicles.
Investigators said freezing rain and fog contributed to the crash.
No one was injured in either crash. The ramp was closed to allow wreckers to pull the vehicles up the embankment.


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For IT, that means some fundamental restructuring and re-skilling; for the business it means transformative improvements in the speed, flexibility, efficiency, competitiveness and innovative potential of organizations of all types – from large corporations and government departments to start-ups and SMEs.
Cloud has the potential to remove many of the constraints associated with traditional IT. Instead of new initiatives being dependent on systems and software that take months or even years to build-up, cloud computing services can simply be provisioned to support the business need — when and in the quantity required.
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WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama has admitted to having a fake ID when he was underage!
Last night, President Barack Obama attended a reception that honored five of the nation's top artists. The chosen few were Bruce Springsteen, Robert De Niro, Mel Brookes, composer Dave Bruceck and opera singer Grace Bumbry.
Obama got up to speak of his admiration of the artists, and let it slip that he had a fake ID as a boy! He used it to get into a theater to see Brooks' Blazing Saddles at the tender age of 10.
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This invaluable book provides detailed advice and activities to promote communication skills of secondary school aged children Secondary Language Builders provides detailed advice and activities to encourage the communication skills of 11-16 year olds. It has been written to be accessible to teachers, teaching assistants and parents and, with help, the students themselves. Many aspects of communication are covered including: Understanding memory and learning Using visual strategies and considering independent learning Helping students to understand spoken language Using strategies to improve vocabulary learning Using strategies to improve sentence structure and grammar Finding ideas to structure written work Supporting preparation for tests and exams Coping with social communication and social situations Understanding what is involved in speaking clearly and helping students with their speech. The book is illustrated. Secondary Language Builders forms the core reading material for the accredited course 'Speech and Language Support for 11-16s'. As with all Elklan materials having purchased the book you are free to photocopy any relevant pages so equipping others who work within your school or health provision.
This excellent resource makes this complex area of language development accessible to non-specialist staff. fAll those working in the field will appreciate the clear explanations and practical support and advice for those working and living with children at the pre-intentional and intentional stages of communication as far as beginning to use first words. The book explores a wide range of issues concerning children who have little or no means of expressing themselves verbally. Language Builders for Complex Needs provides ideas for assessment and recording progress as well as detailed advice and practical activities. It is written for speech and language therapists, teachers, teaching assistants, pre-school practitioners and parents. The book examines the characteristic communication skills, the interaction required and the thinking and play skills that need nurturing at each of the following stages: Pre-Intentional Communication. Being able to anticipate events. Intentional Communication. It also considers: The link between play and language. Total Communication – signs, symbols, Communication Passports, and briefly, Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Using first words, ideas and phrases.
This invaluable book provides information about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and gives detailed advice and activities to promote the communication and interaction skills of all verbal children with ASD. It covers a wealth of knowledge and is beautifully illustrated to provide many practical strategies and ideas suitable for children at primary school as well as those in specialist provisions. It has been written to be accessible to parents, learning support assistants, teachers and other professionals who work in this field. It is the training material for those completing the Elklan ASD specilaist course but is also a stand alone publication and is useful for all practitioners. Amongst the topics covered are: What is autism? Using structure with children with ASD. Developing communication. Working with Information Carrying Words to develop the length of sentences a child can understand. Developing verbal reasoning in children with ASD. Using vocabulary maps and Mind Maps, the latter devised by Tony Buzan. Developing interaction through using Comic Strip Conversations as devised by Carol Gray. Helping children learn how to speak in a social context. Understanding that children with ASD often communicate most effectively through their behaviour. As with all Elklan materials having purchased the book you are free to photocopy any relevant pages so equipping others who work within your school or health provision.


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As police continue to investigate online activity that may have led to the suicide of a 14-year-old girl, officials are holding a suicide prevention training for youths 15 and older in the coming weeks.
TAUNTON – As police continue to investigate whether online activity led to the suicide of a 14-year-old girl, officials are planning a suicide prevention training for youths 15 and older.
The Aug. 21 training is open to the public and aims to make the public "suicide alert," said Annemarie Matulis, director of the Bristol County Regional Coalition for Suicide Prevention.
"If you become more suicide alert, you just might see it coming," Matulis said Tuesday.
The training will be held in the library of the Benjamin A. Friedman Middle School, 500 Norton Ave., from 6 to 9 p.m. and is limited to 30 youths and adults who must pre-register by Aug. 16. To pre-register, call 508-922-7278.
The training aims to help people identify persons with thoughts of suicide and to connect them to suicide prevention resources, Matulis said.
"It's to recognize that something is wrong, to help that person to be safe, talk to them, be positive," Matulis said. "And if needed, refer them or bring them to someone who is intervention trained."
Matulis said the August training had been planned before the death of 14-year-old Kacie Palm, who committed suicide on July 17.
The training is co-sponsored by the Bristol County Regional Coalition for Suicide Prevention, Taunton Public Schools and the Taunton Opiate Task Force, Matulis said. Additional trainings may be scheduled in Bristol and Plymouth counties, she said.
Meanwhile, Taunton Police Chief Ed Walsh said Tuesday that police continue to investigate the death of Palm, who was about to enter her freshman year at Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical School in September.
Her family and friends say they believe Kacie may have been a victim of cyber-bullying. Several youths have been tweeting messages with #JusticeforKacie on Twitter since Kacie died.
Detectives "are still following up and they're still looking at stuff on the Internet," Walsh said. "We have nothing at this point."
Walsh said anyone with information is urged to contact Taunton police at 508-824-7522.
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I'm getting to that age now, that age where my skin starts to noticeably change. Partly it's age, partly years of sleep deprivation and yo yo dieting. The wrinkles that I get from sleeping solely on one side have started to take longer to flatten out in the morning, and my forehead betrays my tendency to worry.
So it was with interest that I recently watched an episode of the BBC "documentary" series Horizon which was about aging and the research behind anti aging. The episode appeared to be sponsored by Unilever, with umpteen experts from Unilever's research institute. The presenter of this episode was Dr Rozine Ali, a surgeon. While it was great to see an intelligent, professional woman on our screens, it was a shame that she was delivering this misogynistic clap trap, but then aging and anti aging is a woman's game isn't it? I'll have more to say about that later.
Dr Ali explored (with the help of the Unilever experts) different ways in which scientists are looking to reduce the speed and signs of aging. The primary causes of aging were found to be UVA rays from the sun, free radicals from the oxygen around us, and high glucose which attaches to collagen and makes it more brittle. Solutions included a chemical found in coral and other sea creatures which protect them from the sun's rays near the surface of the water, which may in the future be able to be extracted or synthesised to protect us from harmful UVA rays; a pill with all of our dietary needs to help combat free radicals (it's that or eat half a kilo of broccoli a day to get the equivalent from food; and advances in glycobiology which looks at the affects of glucose, which might one day come up with an age reversal treatment.
What struck me most about this documentary was that at no point did it ever question why we should care about aging, and have billions of pounds being spent on research into it. You could argue that with increasing life spans anti aging is important. What is the point of increased life spans and better medical interventions just increasing the years spent with decreasing mobility and mental faculties? I completely agree, but this documentary wasn't about an aging body, it was about an aging skin. I welcome research into how to make our bodies healthier for longer, how to keep our joints working and keep our brains active, so that we can be independent and valuable members of society for longer. But I resent this emphasis on removing all visible signs of getting old, and the more we do it the more we feed into the myth that younger is better. The less we see of real aging the more we revile it and see it as odd. If the media ever celebrates old age, it is only those who look young for their age or who are indulging in youthful activities, staving off old age with botox and belly dancing instead of bridge and biscuits.
Why do we want to avoid looking old so much? There are many reasons, so interrelated that it is hard to tease them apart. The most obvious one is the influence of the media and the beauty industry. With so much of our culture based on visual media, and with the development of HD screens, our screen idols are under increasing pressure to keep the signs of aging at bay. This filters down into those of us in the humdrum world of real life, who forget that the likes of Michelle Pfifer and and Heidi Klum are part of the privileged elite blessed with beauty outside of the ordinary realm, and that we can't possibly emulate them without excellent genes and a entourage at our disposal.
But that doesn't explain why we find an aging body so aesthetically displeasing. The beauty industry is a convenient scape goat. Cosmetic companies make their bread and butter from convincing us that we are haggard old slatterns who should hate our bodies. It's in their interest to point out that not only do we look old, but looking old is Bad. The US anti-aging skin are market is worth $2.3 billion, so they are certainly doing a very good job of it. But as much as I would like to demonise the beauty industry, I don't think they are the only culprits. Ultimately it is down to our feelings about the elderly and our fear of growing old. In capitalist societies people are valued for their productivity. People who are unproductive are cast into the shadows, placed into homes where they are subject to abuse, or left to die in hospital corridors. Our feelings about the elderly are tied up in our own fears about becoming unproductive, and ultimately our fear of death. East Asian cultures that tend to value calmness and serenity as emotional states, have less negative feelings towards aging, and view their elderly as keepers of tradition and sources of wisdom. Interestingly this corresponds with use of anti aging skin care products. According to Mintel's Global New Products Database, 46% of total skincare product launches in the UK carried an anti-aging claim from 2009-2011 with France and the US at 47%. China and Japan followed with much lower numbers-27% and 19%, respectively.
With a world of information just a Google search away, the elderly will become even less valuable, losing their status as the guardians of information, waiting to be passed down through generations. You don't need to ask your grandparents about your family history any longer, it's all available on various ancestry websites. And I expect you barely speak to your grandparents any more unless they've figured out how to use text or Skype.
Funny how the current trend for vintage can be found in every craft and lifestyle magazine or blog, but few pay homage to the people from whom the 40's tea dress or Bakelite homewards came. Pin your hair into victory rolls, but don't dare betray a sign that you remember VE day.
The casual use of cosmetic surgery nowadays is moving the goal posts for everyone. People are congratulated for not looking their age; the chance occurrence of being born with youthful genes conferring them honorary membership of the Bright Young Things, but in every other advert in women's magazines is the reminder that it can all be taken away should their youthful façade begin to crumble. And this is predominately a women's issue. There is no female equivalent to the Silver Fox. And while men's use of cosmetic surgery to combat the aging process is increasing, there isn't same pressure to defy nature that there is for women.
Anyway, this fractured ramble is essentially a plea to people to stop worrying about visible signs of aging. If we can all stick two fingers up at the beauty industry's demonisation of old age, we can all just look the way nature intended and stop wasting our money on creams with ridiculous additives like pentapeptides and retinol-A and spend it on better things like yarn, and biscuits, or enormous stag cushions.


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In 2007, Russian underwater photographer Alexander Semenov graduated from Lomonosov's Moscow State University in the department of Zoology. He specialized in the study of invertebrate animals, with an emphasis on squid brains. Soon after, he began working at the White Sea Biological Station (WSBS) as a senior laborer. After four years of working at the WSBS dive station, he became chief of the diving team. He now organizes all WSBS projects, and dives by himself, always with a camera.
Of his sea life photography, he writes: 'When I first began to experiment with sea life photography, I tried shooting small invertebrates for fun with my own old camera and without any professional lights or lenses. I collected the invertebrates underwater and then I shot them in the lab. After two or three months of failure after failure, I ended up with a few good pictures, which inspired me to buy a semi-professional camera complete with underwater housing and strobes. I've spent the following field season trying to shoot the same creatures, but this time in their environment. It was much more difficult, and I spent another two months without any significant results. But when you're working at something every day, you inevitably get a lot of experience. Now after four years of practice, I get a few good shots almost every time I dive'.


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Kiwi Musician Says Public Domain Only Exists So You Can 'Rip Off Dead People's Works'
from the someone-send-him-a-copy-of-james-boyle's-book deptHere's a brief article from New Zealand, which suggests that part of the US's proposal for the TPP agreement is to extend copyrights across the various participating countries to life plus 70 years -- what it already is in the US, but 20 years longer than it is in many countries. That's not too surprising. However, what struck me was a quote from New Zealand musician Ray Columbus who appears to be in favor not just of extending copyright, but of wiping out the public domain entirely:
"Some people believe in public domain. Why? Just so you can rip off dead people's works? That's pathetic."No, Ray, what's pathetic is not knowing how culture works, and the importance of building on those who came before. Having never heard of Ray Colombus, I decided to look around -- and lo and behold, it appears that in his younger days Columbus recognized this. An interesting bio of Columbus reveals that his band, Ray Columbus and the Invaders, was originally a cover band who copied their dance moves (and, yes, as crazy as it seems, dance moves can be covered by copyright) from American servicemen on leave in New Zealand. Oops.
Other bios note how strongly he was influenced by other artists, such as Elvis, Cliff Richard and the Beatles. His one big hit, She's a Mod, is a cover song. Yes, it was licensed, but apparently the changes they made to the song were basically to copy things from the Beatles. And that's fine, because the fact is, people build on culture. It's not just about "ripping off" others. So it's rather hypocritical of Columbus to decry others for the same practice.
What it comes down to is that poor Ray Columbus seems to think copyright is a welfare system because he apparently failed to invest wisely or plan for retirement:
When 60s pop star Columbus suffered a stroke nearly four years ago, he was able to pay the bills because every time a song he has performed gets played, he still collects a fee.How is that fair compared to most other professions? The bricklayer who has a stroke isn't able to pay the bills because by collecting a fee every time someone uses a building he built. No, the bricklayer and pretty much everyone else in every other profession has to actually save money and plan for their future. What makes Columbus so special that he gets to skip over that part?
"The performing fees I get give a dribbling of an income that's so important to artists."
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Angelita Chacon Martinez passed away on February 11, 2012 with her family by her side. Angelita was born 4/4/1915 in Tucson, Arizona where she met the love of her life Pedro Martinez. They moved to California and settled in Alameda and they were married for 66 wonderful years. Angelita is survived by her Daughter, Diana Jean and her Son In-Law Robert Schwerin, her three Grandchildren Tony, Richy and Danielle and her Great- Grandchildren Nicole Danner and Preston Peel and many nieces and nephews. Angelita is preceded in death by her husband Pete Martinez, her sisters Eva Hynson & Cassie Rueda and her mother whom she always spoke about. Angie enjoyed bowling in a senior league once she had retired and traveled with her husband and daughter to many different places around the world. Angie recently resided at the Parkview, Memory Care in Pleasanton where she participated in many activities the last three years.


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Friday, August 27, 2010
fed up with lunch - Mrs. Q asks, I answer!
Mrs. Q over at the Fed Up with School Lunch blog has posted some interesting discussion questions all about school lunch as part of a lunch revolution "blog party" and "twitter party". Fun stuff! Right up my little lunch-nerd alley. :)
•How is "Back to School" going for your family?
If I could describe it in one word it would be "phew!". It's been crazy town!
The logistics of juggling four kids, three in school, two different schools, three different schedules is a little overwhelming. We were rezoned to a brand new elementary school this year which my two older boys attend, so there are a lot of new teachers to meet and procedures to learn. In the two weeks and two days since we've been back in school there has been a heaping amount of school drama involving a lot of unexpected upheaval and tears. I think we are in for some smooth sailing ahead, but we still have some waves to get over first.
Oh, and in the midst of all this we've had over two dozen lunches packed! ;-)
•Is school lunch important part of your child's day?
Hmm. Let me ask him....
Okay, his response was, and I quote: "yes, lunch is a very important part of my day because if I didn't have lunch I'd have a tummy ache and feel tired and get a headache."
•What is school lunch like at your school or your child's school?It's pretty typical school fare. Nothing to write home about. If the kids don't like the entree they can choose to get a packaged PB&J (you know THE ONES...sort of goes along with "Detestables") and icee instead. At least that's how it was at their last elementary school, which is in the same district. I suspect something may be different this year because we have some major nut-allergic kids in school his year and we are supposed to be nut-free.
One thing I am totally stoked about is our new school is a GREEN school and the cafeteria is stocked with reusable lunch trays! (YAY!!!)
•Do you pack lunch for your kids and what do you pack?
LOL - Um, yes, I pack lunch for my kids. Maybe you have seen my blog? anotherlunch.com ? ;-)
•Do you write notes in your kid's lunches and what do you write?
Yes! So fun! I write jokes, riddles, fun facts, and little love notes of various degrees of mushiness. I'm so happy to even have my own collection of free down-loadable lunch notes that were custom illustrated to match my blog! :)
•What are some of your favorite lunch recipes (kid-friendly or adult-friendly)?
It really depends on who I am packing my lunch for. A unanimous favorite for the whole family are our homemade granola bars and granola bites.
•What are some products that you use when you pack lunch?
Just take a look around. :) Reusable lunch containers, bento boxes, silicone cups to contain foods within the bento boxes, little food picks to hold small pieces of food, etc.! My goal in packing lunches is to make it waste-free and to create a pleasant presentation to make it appealing for my little lunch eaters. :)
Now, how about YOU? I'd love to hear about what all of you have to say! If you take Mrs. Q's interview, please post a link to your answers here in the comments so I can check it out! :)
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- Tina Peterson said... [Reply to comment]
Hi - I love you blog - the colors, design and content too! I added this post onto my blog with a link to your blog so hopefully you will get some new readers. I'm having a giveaway with Easy Lunchboxes and I think YOU are a great tie-in.
Thanks! I'm following you now...
- August 27, 2010 at 8:48 PM
- Mrs. Q said... [Reply to comment]
Thanks so much for participating! I love the look of your blog. Very cute. I'm going to get on the bento wagon too I think. It just makes sense.
- August 27, 2010 at 10:00 PM
- Micah said... [Reply to comment]
Hi Melissa!
I recently decided to start a cooking blog for myself just to get down the recipes that I've tried and loved. I found some stuff about Bento boxes online and when I mentioned how much I loved the idea, my sweet friend, Meghann, sent me the link to your blog and since then I have read every single post! I can't begin to tell you have much you have inspired me to make these healthy and creative meals and snacks! It's the end of the month and we are running low on our "good" foods until next pay check but last night I made what I refer to as, "A Ghetto Beginners Bento" I used a cup with a large lip to cut my 15 month old son's sandwhich in to a circle, and arranged it with with some crackers and small pickles into the only tupperware I have with divided sections. He ate it better than any meal he has eaten to date. Just with that small amount of effort. I'm really looking forward to making more of these, not only for my son but also for myself and my husband. Thank you so much for posting all of your hard work on your blog. It really is going to make a great difference in the eating habits of my household.
- August 28, 2010 at 2:27 AM
- frosty said... [Reply to comment]
What do you do for breakfasts??
- August 28, 2010 at 6:33 PM
- amee said... [Reply to comment]
i am so impressed with your blog! Would you like to guest blog with me?
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Andris Piebalgs was born on 17 September 1957 in Valmiera, Latvia. Piebalgs is a graduate in Physics from the University of Latvia. Andris Piebalgs is an experienced Latvian politician who occupied key positions in both national and European political fields. Earlier in his career, while Latvia was still part of the Soviet Union, Andris Piebalgs worked as a teacher and was the Headmaster of the 1st Secondary School of Valmiera (1980-1990). He also served as Director of the Department in the Ministry of Education in Latvia. He was a member of Communist Party of Soviet Union from 1979.
In 1988, Latvian People's Front, an organisation that united more than 200 000 people, was established. Supporters of Latvian self-determination gained victory in the elections of the Latvian Parliament on 18 March 1990. It was the first time since the Soviet occupation that candidates from various political parties were allowed to take part. On 7 May 1990, Andris Piebalgs was appointed as Minister of Education in the new Government, and one year later, in August 1991, Latvia regained full independence. Andris Piebalgs' main task was then to put in place the first independent education system in Latvia.


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