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COLUMBIA — On Tuesday the South Carolina Supreme Court took a swing at the hornet's nest that hangs over the charitable legacy of James Brown.
Former state-appointed trustees Robert Buchanan, Jr. and Adele Pope are appealing a two-year-old settlement that they say thwarts Brown's intentions as laid out in legal documents from 1999 and 2000. The suit pits them against the artist's children and his wife Tomi Rae Brown.
More than a dozen attorneys representing an even larger volume of heirs and trust managers on both sides of the dispute are expected to pack the high courtroom.
The central dispute is whether to throw out a settlement that Judge Jack Early of the 2nd Judicial Circuit Court approved on May 26, 2009, which replaced the charitable trust with "The Legacy Trust," gave control to the S.C. Attorney General, and shuffled trustees.
The 2009 agreement gave half of the legendary entertainer's assets to a James Brown Scholarship Fund, a quarter to Tomi Rae Brown and a quarter to the six adult children named in James Brown's will.
"My clients are very desirous of the Supreme Court approving Judge Early's careful consideration of the settlement and his approval of the settlement," said Atlanta-based attorney, Louis Levenson, who represents Brown's children and spouse.
"I'm hoping the Supreme Court will recognize the importance of the family and the Attorney General and Tomi Rae, bringing peace to what was a contentious estate."
Levenson added: "The appellants don't — according to law in South Carolina — don't get to disagree with that. It's not their right to disagree (with what was agreed upon)."
But a final brief from the appellants say the settlement takes away more than half of what he wanted to give to his private foundation for needy students and instead shifts it to his adult children.
The side consisting of appellants Pope, Buchanan, and former trustees David Cannon, Buddy Dallas and Alfred Bradley and others also suggests the circuit court was wrong to to discard trustees "solely because they opposed the settlement agreement negotiated by the Attorney General."
Brown died at age 73 on Christmas Day of 2006. He left his personal and household effects to named adult children, a maximum of $2 million for a family educational fund, and the James Brown I Feel Good Trust to benefit poor students in Georgia and South Carolina schools, according to the appellants.
Brown's family members challenged the plan, alleging that he had suffered from the "undue influence" of others. The South Carolina Attorney General intervened, said spokesman Mark Plowden, because the office is charged under state law with protecting all charitable trusts.
The trust/estate's original tax counsel had valued Brown's assets at $80-$120 million with at least $20 million already in the 2000 Trust, according to the appellants' final brief. In 2008 Brown's assets were pegged at $100 million with $40-$50 million assigned to publicity rights for his image and likeness, and $36-$45 million to royalties for his more than 800 published and unpublished songs.
The most recent development in the strife over the soul singer's legacy came last week.
A circuit court judge sentenced Cannon to three years of home confinement after being charged with stealing money from James Brown. Cannon did not admit guilt but acknowledged that he could be convicted.
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At an awards recognition program held at the Ohio Statehouse January 17, 2013, 15 organizations were unveiled as Pillar Award winners in five distinct categories and participated in a series of panel discussions with TV-10's Kristyn Hartman about the tie between the for-profit and nonprofit worlds.
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• Tammy Wharton, CEO, Girl Scouts of Ohio's Heartland Council
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• Brooke Billmaier (Victoria's Secret), St. Stephen's Community House
• Michael J. Fiorile (The Columbus Dispatch), Columbus College of Art and Design
• Laura Warren (Limited Brands), Girl Scouts of Ohio's Heartland Council
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• Jane Grote Abell, chairman, Donatos
• Mark Swepston, president & CEO, Atlas Butler Heating and Cooling
"This class of honorees, combined with this year's group of finalists, is truly inspirational," says Dustin S. Klein, publisher of Smart Business. "They give back individually and as organizations. They get involved in causes they care about. And the nonprofit leaders have forged meaningful relationships with the for-profit companies and their executive teams to better deliver upon their missions. All told, the Pillar Award class of 2013 truly understands how to strengthen the regional communities where we all live and work."
The Pillar Award program was founded in 1998 and honors organizations and individuals that best demonstrate a commitment to making a difference. For information on the award winners, along with profiles of the finalists for this year's Pillar Awards, visit www.sbnonline.com. To receive a nomination for the 2014 awards program, or to learn more about the Pillar Awards, contact Smart Business at [email protected] or (440) 250-7026.

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Kyle was 4-0 against the Cardinals in his career, allowing a total of five runs. Last night, he fell behind in the count consistently and the red-hot Cardinals got him, posting five runs in one inning on three home runs.
In case you are wondering the Phillies record for home runs allowed in one inning is four set by Bill Kerksieck in 1939 and tied by Charlie Bicknell in 1948.
Elias Sports Bureau: It was the first time in Kyle's career that he suffered a loss after being staked to a lead of three or mroe runs. His record in such games is 22-1 with seven no-decisions.
Charlie ran out his 55th different lineup in an effort to get the offense going. We out-hit the Cardinals, 13-8, but hits don't count. Eleven of our hits were singles, seven of their eight were extra base hits.
78 days until the first Division Series game. The road doesn't get any easier as the Cardinals next three starters are a combined 32-12 with a 2.50 ERA. Anything worthwhile doesn't come easy. I don't remember who said that, might have been Casey Stengel or Santa Claus.
Bull Schedule
Greg Luzinski will be signing autographs at the Bridgeton (NJ) Invitational Tournament on August 3 and at the Reading Phillies game the next night.
He'll be one of the many Wall of Famers who will be on hand for the pre-game festivities on Friday, August 6, when Darren Daulton is inducted. Ceremonies begin at 7 p.m. with the Phillies-Mets game to follow. All fans will receive a beautiful commemorative print of Darren, compliments of Toyota.


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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Jake Coffman didn't wait too long before he decided he was heading to south Florida for the Orange Bowl.
The former Northern Illinois defensive end made his plans on Dec. 2, right after it was announced the Huskies would be going to their biggest bowl game in school history.
"I booked my hotel [Dec. 3] and booked the flight a little bit later," he said.
Coffman, who played at NIU from 2007-10, was one of many former Huskies players in attendance at a reception Sunday evening at the Fontainebleau Hotel. Former coaches Joe Novak and Jerry Kill also spoke to the media.
Justin McCareins, an NIU wide receiver from 1997-2000 who spent eight years in the NFL with the Tennessee Titans and New York Jets, didn't have to drive too far to get to the reception, although he won't be able to attend the game.
McCareins is a police officer in the Fort Lauderdale area. For at least this week, McCareins isn't the only Huskies fan in south Florida.
"It's crazy. I work with a lot of Florida State guys. It's just been great," said McCareins, who has an auditorium in the Yordon Center named after him. "To see the university get the attention and the recognition they've been getting, It's been a long time coming. It's been really good."
Ken Muszynski played center for the Huskies and graduated in 1970. He called the gathering with all the old Huskies overwhelming.
"Look at all the guys that are here and all the guys you played with," Muszynski said. "It kind of gives you a lump in your throat because it's really cool."
Kill is the coach who recruited most of this team, spending 2008-10 in DeKalb. He just finished his second season at Minnesota with a loss to Texas Tech in the Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas.
He'll attend the Orange Bowl on Tuesday, and it will be a different experience, considering he never gets to attend games as a fan.
"Not since I've been coaching. It's been 30 years," he said. "I always used to tell the kids I'd look forward to tailgating and watching somebody else worry. So, I'll still tailgate, but I'll worry too because I want the Huskies to win."
When talking about the rise of the Huskies program which led to this appearance at the Orange Bowl, Coffman and Kill mentioned how Novak was the one who got everything started.
Novak had some expectations when he took over the NIU program in 1996, but nothing like this.
"We had some dreams when I went in there years ago. We wanted to win some championships and see some facilities built, but I honestly never thought about the Orange Bowl," he said. "That wasn't on the agenda, but we're here and I think it's the greatest thing. It really is."


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Letter, E. Jones to Mr [Hiram] Hill
Author: Jones, Edmund
Date: July 26, 1855
Edmund Jones wrote to Hiram Hill, a resident of Williamsburgh, Massachusetts, to report expenses, update Hill of construction progress, and request money. At this time, S. N. Simpson had returned east, and Jones oversaw the building of Hill's house in Lawrence, Kansas Territory. Jones was in debt, unable to pay workers or buy supplies. Mr. Fuller, who seems to have rented another house owned by Hill (implied in S. N. Simpson's letter to Hill written September 4, 1855), refused to pay rent until the roof was repaired. Jones closed with concern for the security of lots in Lawrence.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Hiram Hill Collection, #382, Box 1, Folder 4
Item Number: 101874 Number of images: 4
Keywords: Construction; Cost and standard of living; Financial statements; Hill, Hiram; Houses; Jones, Edmund; Lawrence buildings; Lawrence, Kansas Territory; Massachusetts; Rent; Town development; Town lots
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Seed-Starting Chart: Getting Ready For The Spring
Categories: Green
Choosing Containers
You can start seeds in almost any kind of container that will hold 1 to 2 inches of starting medium and won't become easily waterlogged. Once seedlings form more roots and develop their true leaves, though, they grow best in containers that provide more space for root growth and have holes for drainage.
You can start seedlings in open flats, in individual sections of a market pack, or in pots. Individual containers are preferable, because the less you disturb tender roots, the better. Some containers, such as peat pots, paper pots, and soil blocks, go right into the garden with the plant during transplanting. Other pots must be slipped off the root ball before planting.
Square or rectangular containers make better use of space and provide more root area than round ones do. However, individual containers dry out faster than open flats. Many gardeners start seeds in open flats and transplant seedlings to individual containers after the first true leaves unfold. Choose flats and containers to match the number and types of plants you wish to grow and the space you have available.
Excellent seed-starting systems are available from garden centers and mail-order suppliers. You can also build your own wooden flats. If you raise large numbers of seedlings, it's useful to have interchangeable, standard-sized flats and inserts.
You can reuse your seedling containers for many years. To prevent problems with dampening off, you may want to sanitize flats at the end of the season by dipping them in a 10 percent solution of household bleach (1 cup of bleach plus 9 cups of water).
You can recycle milk cartons and many types of plastic containers as seed-starting pots. Just be sure to poke a drainage hole in the bottom of each. Cut lengths of clothes hanger as a frame for your flats so you can wrap them in plastic to encourage germination. You can bend the wire to fit into a plastic flat filled with pots or six-packs, or staple the wire to the sides of a wooden flat as shown at right. Use clear plastic wrap or plastic bags (like the ones from the dry cleaner) to enclose the flat.
Two make-at-home seed-starting containers are newspaper pots and soil blocks. To make pots from newspaper, begin by cutting bands of newspaper about twice as wide as the desired height of a pot (about 4 inches wide for a 2-inch-high pot). Wrap a band around the lower half of a jar a few times, and secure it with masking tape. Then form the bottom of the pot by creasing and folding the paper in around the bottom of the jar. You can also put a piece of tape across the pot bottom to hold it more securely in place. Slip the newspaper pot off the jar. Set your pots in high-sided trays with their sides touching. When you fill them with potting mix, they will support one another. There are also commercial molds for making newspaper pots.
Seed-Starting + Potting Mixes
Seeds contain enough nutrients to nourish themselves through sprouting, so a seed-starting mix does not have to contain nutrients. It should be free of weed seeds and toxic substances, hold moisture well, and provide plenty of air spaces. Don't use plain garden soil to start seedlings; it 536hardens into a dense mass that delicate young roots can't penetrate.
Make your own seed-starting mix by combining one part vermiculite or perlite with one part peat moss, milled sphagnum moss, coir, or well-screened compost. Or, buy bagged seed-starting mix. Let your seedlings grow in such a mixture until they develop their first true leaves, and then transplant into a nutrient-rich potting mix (be sure the mix you choose is labeled organic, or check the list of ingredients, and avoid mixes that contain added synthetic fertilizer). To make your own potting mix, combine equal parts compost and vermiculite. For more recipes for mixes, see the Houseplants entry. For safe handling instructions for seed-starting and potting mixes, see the Container Gardening entry.
Some gardeners prefer to plant seeds directly in potting mix and eliminate transplanting. Planting in large individual pots is ideal for plants such as squash and melons that won't grow well if their roots are disturbed.
Moisten the planting mix before you fill your containers, especially if it contains peat moss or milled sphagnum moss. Use warm water, and allow the mix time to absorb it. When you squeeze a handful of mix it should hold together and feel moist, but it shouldn't drip.
If you're sowing directly in flats, first line the bottom with a sheet of newspaper to keep soil from washing out. Scoop premoistened planting medium into the containers or flats, and spread it out. Tap the filled container on your work surface to settle the medium, and smooth the surface with your hand. Don't pack it down tightly.
Soil blocks encourage well-branched roots and produce good seedlings. You can buy molds to make soil blocks, but making them is a messy, labor-intensive process.
Begin by mixing a wheelbarrow-load of potting soil. Use plenty of peat moss and lots of water to make a thick, wet, gummy mass with the texture of peanut butter. Jam the soil-block mold into the block mix. Press the mold hard against the bottom of the wheelbarrow, and then lift and eject the blocks from the mold onto a tray. Then arrange the blocks in flats and plant directly into them. Don't let soil blocks dry out: Because of their high peat content, they don't absorb moisture well once they have become dry. Water from the bottom or mist gently until roots grow. Once roots fill the blocks, they become solid and easy to handle.
Sowing Seeds
Space large seeds at least 1 inch apart, planting 2 or 3 seeds in each pot (snip off the weaker seedlings later). Plant medium-sized seeds ½ to 1 inch apart, and tiny ones about ½ inch apart. If you're sowing only a few seeds, use your fingertips or tweezers to place them precisely. To sprinkle seeds evenly, try one of these methods:
- Take a pinch of seeds between your thumb and forefinger and slowly rotate thumb against finger—try to release the seeds gradually while moving your hand over the container.
- Scatter seeds from a spoon.
- Sow seeds directly from the corner of the packet by tapping the packet gently to make the seeds drop out one by one.
- Mix fine seeds with dry sand, and scatter the mixture from a saltshaker.
To sow seeds in tiny furrows or rows, just make shallow ¼- to ½-inch-deep depressions in the soil with a plant label or an old pencil. Space the seeds along the bottom of the furrow.
Cover the seeds to a depth of three times their thickness by carefully sprinkling them with light, dry potting soil or seed-starting medium. Don't cover seeds that need light to germinate (check the seed packet for special germination requirements). Instead, gently pat the surface of the mix so the seeds and mix have good contact.
Write a label for each kind of seed you plant and put it in the flat or pot as soon as the seeds are planted, before any mix-ups occur.
Set the flats or pots in shallow containers of water and let them soak until the surface of the planting medium looks moist. Or you can gently mist the mix. If you water from the top, use a watering can with a rose nozzle to get a gentle stream that won't wash the seeds out of place.
Cover the container, using clear plastic or a floating row cover for seeds that need light, or black plastic, damp newspaper, or burlap for those that prefer the dark.
Finally, put the containers of planted seeds in a warm place where you can check them daily. Unless the seeds need light to germinate, you can save space the first few days by stacking flats. Just be sure the bottom of a flat doesn't actually rest on the planting mix of the flat below. Check the flats daily; unstack as soon as the seeds start to sprout. Keep the soil moist but not waterlogged. As soon as you notice sprouts nudging above the soil surface, expose the flat to light.
Sowing Timetable
To plan the best time to start seedlings indoors in spring, you need to know the approximate date of the average last spring frost in your area. Count back from that date the number of weeks indicated below to determine the appropriate starting date for various crops. An asterisk (*) indicates a cold-hardy plant that can be set out 4 to 6 weeks before the last frost.
- 12 to 14 weeks: onions*, leeks*, chives*, pansies*, impatiens, and coleus
- 8 to 12 weeks: peppers, lettuce*, cabbage-family crops*, petunias, snapdragons*, alyssum*, and other hardy annual flowers
- 6 to 8 weeks: eggplants, tomatoes
- 5 to 6 weeks: zinnias, cockscombs (Celosia spp.), marigolds, other tender annuals
- 2 to 4 weeks: cucumbers, melons, okra, pumpkins, squash


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Back when it looked like Alexander Ovechkin might not be named to the All-Star Game, he told a reporter he wouldn't be disappointed "because I'm going to go straight up to vacation somewhere." But he did make the roster, and also managed to get himself suspended for three games. So he decided no All-Star Game because he didn't deserve it, he didn't want to be a distraction, blah blah blah he's going to Florida.
That photo up top, of Ovechkin chilling on the beach in Miami, is only half of why Ovie made the right choice. The other half is this screengrab from a live webcam in Ottawa, where freezing rain is coming down all day.


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When the pizza arrived, I approached it as though I was performing an autopsy. I examined all of the physical, coloration and textural characteristics of the pizza, and I smelled and tore apart and tugged and stretched the crust and crumb, and tasted all of the components, isolating them for taste purposes as much as I could. Based on the notes I took, here is my critique. PeterNote: The dough ball information other than cost given above turns out to be incorrect. For details and the correct information, see Reply 42 at http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,3940.msg151482.html#msg151482.
Norma,There is a real advantage to being at a pizza place in person. But my visit also told me that you have to be careful about what employees tell you. I think sometime they try too hard to please you with an answer, especially if you are a customer or prospective customer, and they end up telling you things with sincerity but that are wrong. I had hoped to get more information on the flour but I knew that it would be fruitless to ask the workers at the MM store because the answer is back in the Atlanta commissary. That is the benefit of a commissary business model. The workers in the stores are just pizza assemblers. I remember when my server first asked the workers making the pizzas if they knew the weights of the different dough balls and they just looked at each other and said Huh? Only one worker ventured to answer and he was wrong. Peter
Norma,As I understand it, the Prairie Dancer flour already has the wheat germ in it but not the bran.BTW, I spoke with a technical person from Pendleton Mills today on another matter and, while I had his attention, I asked him how one would normally produce a flour with the wheat germ already in it. He said that in the Pendleton mill both the bran and wheat germ are separated from the fllour and sold separately. He said that the wheat germ would be in flat fragments and one would perhaps want to run it through another mill to make it into more of a powder. When I mentioned the Prairie Dancer flour, he said that their method of milling would also work but might require other steps (which we didn't get into). He also mentioned that flour with wheat germ already in it is prone to spoilage because of the oil going rancid, especially over time and in warm climates. He agreed that keeping the wheat germ separate and refrigerating it would give the end user better control over the final product.Peter
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European Cybercrime Centre - guide28 March 2012
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The European Commission has adopted a Communication on a European Cybercrime Centre, to be established within the EU law enforcement agency, Europol. The Centre is to become the focal point in the fight against cybercrime in the Union.
Why do we need a European Cybercrime Centre?
The benefits of cyberspace have changed our lifestyles and the way business is conducted. Almost three quarters of European households have Internet access, about a third of the citizens in the Union use home banking. The Internet – started just a mere 30 years ago – makes an immense collective knowledge available to those who connect. The digital economy, with innovative business ideas, holds the promise of growth, important in this current period of economic strain.
However, in recent years, the downside of cyberspace has emerged more clearly as well. Both the volume and the damage inflicted by cybercrime have increased considerably. Online criminal activity comprises a vast range of offences, spanning from identity theft and hijacking web accounts to child sexual abuse, to computer fraud and credit card scams and to serious cyber attacks against public and private information systems (IT systems). Organised crime has discovered the potential of cybercrime and is becoming ever more present in cyberspace.
Cybercrime is a global phenomenon and has become a crime committed on a massive scale with a low detection risk. Jurisdictional boundaries and a lack of information sharing present huge obstacles to the swift detection, investigation and prosecution of cyber criminals. Trained investigators, prosecutors and judges are not available in all Member States and investigative and forensic capacities vary across the EU. Cooperation between law enforcement and other players holding valuable information to better tackle cybercrime is patchy.
These developments start to affect citizens' trust in online security and undermine prospects for the legitimate digital economy. It is for these reasons that, in 2010, the Council tasked the Commission with verifying the feasibility of establishing a European Cybercrime Centre that would become Europe's focal point in the fight against cybercrime.
What is the impact of Cybercrime?
Comprehensive data on the true incidence of cybercrime is not readily available. According to leading Internet security firms, the volume of and the damage caused by cybercrime is rising. This data is backed by partial information available from some Member States' police services.
Moreover, the extent of cyber-attacks affecting public and private information systems clearly increased in 2011 and early 2012. New ways of perpetuating online fraud or cyber attacks appear on a regular basis. Regular advances in information technology make it difficult to foresee what techniques cybercriminals will employ in the future. However, it seems safe to believe that both private and commercial IT users will continue to be increasingly targeted. Another important trend is the rising prevalence of smartphone hacking.
Studies and estimations suggest upward criminal trends in many illegal online activities. In 2011 Norton (a cyber-security firm) estimated that the total global cost of cybercrime was between USD 114 and USD 388 billion. In a 2011 study for the UK Home Office, cybercrime was reportedly costing the UK €30 billion a year - €21 billion of which was attributed to UK businesses. According to the Belgian economic and Financial Crime division, recorded computer crime offences and Internet frauds raised from just above 4000 in 2008 to over 7000 in 2010.
According to the German Criminal Police Office statistics, in Germany, the recorded cases of ''phishing" in online banking (online spying activity that makes users reveal passwords or sensitive data) increased from just less than 2000 incidents in 2008 to over 5000 in 2010. In the UK, according to the Garlik UK Cybercrime report, bank account takeovers increased by 207 percent between 2008 and 2009, with total losses reaching €65,9 million. In 2008 there were almost 44 000 phishing websites targeting UK banks and building societies.
There are 150 000 viruses and other types of malicious code in circulation, and, in 2009, 148 000 computers were estimated to be compromised per day (source Europol).
Between 250 000 and 600 000 Facebook accounts are blocked every day, after various types of suspected hacking attempts.
How will the European Cybercrime Centre go beyond what is already being dealt with by Europol?
The Commission has proposed to establish the European Cybercrime Centre within the European Police Agency, Europol. Under its current mandate, Europol already deals with computer crime. However, given the current limited resources, Europol cannot, for example, efficiently gather information from various sources as the new Centre will, nor does Europol have the capacity to respond to queries from law enforcement authorities, the judiciary and the private sector.
The Centre, while to be placed in Europol, will pursue a shared cross-community approach to tackling cybercrime. Via its Programme Board, the know-how of important partners such as Eurojust, CEPOL, ENISA and Member States as represented by the European Cybercrime Task Force, would be brought in. Another novelty key to the Centre's success will be the exchange of information with partners beyond the law enforcement community. Since cyberspace and the Internet's infrastructure are for the most part owned by the private sector, only a shared, cross-community approach will bring enduring results in the fight against cybercrime.
What will the new Centre do?
The main task of the European Cybercrime Centre is to –disrupt the operations of organised crime networks that commit a large share of the serious and organised cybercrimes. Offences include those generating large criminal profits, those causing serious harm to their victims or those affecting our vital infrastructure and IT systems.
The Centre will gather information from a variety of sources – not only law enforcement authorities – to support investigations conducted by Member States' authorities. This will allow the Centre to identify the most dangerous, pressing cybercrime threats and single out key cybercrime networks in the EU. The Centre will also provide an early warning system for national law enforcement on new vulnerabilities criminals have started to exploit or on how to handle new, technically challenging cases.
The Centre will further develop a common standard for cybercrime reporting so that serious cybercrime can be reported to national law enforcement authorities in a uniform way. Information from a citizen in one Member State reporting a compromise of his bank account could easily be linked to other citizens reporting similar incidents affecting the same bank in their respective countries. In such cases, the Centre will be able to immediately alert all other Member States' authorities.
The Centre will also respond to queries from cybercrime investigators, prosecutors and judges as well as the private sector on specific technical and forensic issues, and would bring together the various players in cybercrime training with the aim of increasing the overall offer of training possibilities and expanding such courses to the judiciary.
Finally, the Centre would assume the collective voice of European cybercrime investigators, providing a platform to develop common positions of Union law enforcement authorities on key issues, for example on Internet governance structures or in building trusted networks with the private sector and non-governmental organisations, and providing the natural interface for international initiatives to curb cybercrime, such as Interpol's work in this domain.
What else is being done to combat cybercrime?
Cybercrime has been a key priority for the Commission since at least 2007. Following the adoption of a Framework Decision on attacks against information systems in 2005, extensive consultations at EU-level have taken place, resulting in the 2007 Communication from the Commission entitled "Towards a general policy on the fight against cyber crime". Most recently, a Commission Communication in 2009 on Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, entitled "Protecting Europe from large scale cyber-attacks and disruptions: enhancing preparedness, security and resilience", highlighted the threat posed by cyber attacks, and the need to secure our information systems. 2010 saw a legislative proposal for a Directive to update the aforementioned Framework Decision, the text of which is currently being debated in the European Parliament. In 2011, a Directive on combating the sexual exploitation of children online and child pornography was adopted which is now being implemented.
Later in 2012 the Commission, together with the European External Action Service, intends to present a comprehensive strategy for European cyber-security.
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By Teachers, For Teachers
The popular Hotel Transylvania is out just in time to add some laughs to the Halloween season. Some of your students may have seen the film, while others may not have. Using the trailer, you can get your students excited about Halloween and writing down their thoughts about classic monsters and villains.
Use this video writing prompt to encourage your students to get creative and think outside the traditional Halloween box. For older students, question their beliefs on keeping secrets.
In Hotel Transylvania, we get to see the monsters in a relaxing hotel just for monsters. They're going to make you laugh. Draw a picture of your favorite monster or bad guy, and showing how they can make you laugh, instead of scaring you.
Dracula, Mummy, Skeleton, Frankenstein, Werewolf, and even Witch…are all Halloween Favorites. Which one of the famous characters would make for the scariest Halloween costume? Describe what you would wear in your costume.
What is your favorite spooky story? Can you imagine the main scary character at the Hotel Transylvania? What would his/her/its room look like? How would they relax? What would they do if they saw a human?
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Your baby's progress - Week 28
Your little womb-tenant will be making her presence well and truly obvious by now, and things are starting to get cramped enough in your belly to become annoying (for you, that is!).
Baby is still trying to somersault and wriggle around her watery little home, but she's getting ready to turn into position for her journey down the birth canal in 12 weeks or so time. In the coming weeks, you may feel a pressure 'down there' as your baby drops into the locked-and-loaded pelvis position, where she will launch from on her birthday. Not all babies drop into position at this time, but it could start happening soon.
Baby's lungs are already capable of breathing air as her vascular system can now handle oxygen and carbon exchange. Her brain stem is also developed enough to regulate rhythmic breathing as well as her basal body temperature! In fact, her brain has gone from having just a few cells at conception to being an organ with100 billion neurons capable of firing off 100 trillion connections.
Some babies might jolt you into feeling tiny rhythmic movements which you can put down to a case of baby hiccups. While it may feel odd, these hiccups don't bother baby, so just relax and enjoy feeling her presence in your belly – there's only another 12 weeks of pregnancy to go.
Just like adults, all babies are different and develop at varying rates in the womb. This information gives a general idea of your baby's development and progress.
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Fjords (pronounced fee-YORDS) are typically long, narrow valleys with steep sides that are created by advancing glaciers. The glaciers leave deep channels carved into the earth with a shallow barrier, or narrow sill, near the ocean. When the glaciers retreat, seawater floods the deeply incised valleys, creating estuaries. Fjords tend to have a moderately high input of freshwater. In comparison, very little seawater flows into the fjord because of the sill. In addition, the sill prevents deep waters in the fjord from mixing with deep waters of the sea. This poor water exchange results in stagnant, anoxic (low oxygen) water that builds up on the bottom of the fjord.
Not surprisingly, fjords are found in areas that were once covered with glaciers. Glacier Bay in Alaska and the Georgia Basin region of Puget Sound in Washington State are good examples of fjords. Fjords are also found throughout Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Greenland, Norway, Siberia, and Scotland.
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A great article on "creeping" from Retriever Journal/2014
Sent to me years ago from my friend Janie Hoctel
Force or Correction?
Reconditioning the dog's mind
written by Butch Goodwin
Northern Flight Retrievers
I introduced you to my friend and fellow retriever trainer, Pete Eromenok, in the April/May 2010 issue of The Retriever Journal in an article entitled, "Defusing Bird-Possessive Aggression." While I was talking to Pete about his work - he works with all breeds of dogs displaying various kinds of aggression - he answered a phone call and spent considerable time explaining to one of his clients about the differences between correcting a dog's responses and reconditioning a dog's mind to perform correctly. Later, in a conversation with a successful long-time field trialer - who had never given much thought to the differences between force and correction so that the problem being corrected was less likely to show up again in a field trial - Pete suggested this topic would be a good one for a column.
Over the years, I have almost always heard dog. trainers use the words "force" and "correction" interchangeably. From what I overheard from Pete's conversation, his rather simple explanation of the differences and how reconditioning is accomplished interested me to the point that I sat down with Pete again to have him explain "reconditioning" so that I could pass it along.
"It doesn't matter if you use the terms 'force' and 'correction' interchangeably until you try to explain how to recondition a dog back to running tests or trials after the dog has developed behaviors that prevent it from advancing," Pete said. "For example, we know there are dogs that have not received the benefits of a program rooted in force that do a very reliable job at tests. But there are talented dogs playing the dog games that will not be able to succeed unless a systematic regimen of force has reconditioned them to be reliable performers; eradicating certain behaviors brought on by excitement.
I asked Pete to use the example of steadying a breaking or creeping dog to explain what he was telling me - since everyone has or has had a dog that was difficult to steady.
"Breaking or creeping is a common behavior exhibited by excitable, high-drive dogs. The key word here is excitable. The goal is not to stop the dog from breaking, but to recondition the dog to embed a behavior to be sitting in the heel position," said Pete. "It's not don't break the sit, but the mind-set must be changed to I must be next to my handler's side in order to be released to make the retrieve.
There is a huge difference in the state of mind between the two behaviors. We must make it the dog's responsibility to be at our side. Remember, force increases a behavior and a correction diminishes it.
"So the question in peoples' minds might be, 'Why can't we just correct for sit or heel if we are trying to eradicate breaking or creeping? After all, we are trying to stop the dog from breaking or creeping when prey objects are presented.' This is where the problem lies: There are some dogs that this correction simply won't transfer to tests or trials very well. Once excitability destabilizes a dog, corrections can elevate the dog's excitement and drive and possibly bring on other unstable behaviors, such as whining. This makes it difficult to make the dog understand his own responsibilities.
"A common complaint is: He sometimes creeps or breaks at trials or tests, but he doesn't do it in training. Well, because the dog doesn't receive any corrections at trials or tests, the dog learns quite quickly that corrections cannot be administered at a test, so each time a dog breaks or creeps in a trial or test, this behavior is actually being reinforced. You may be able to stop him from breaking at a test by giving him a verbal correction, but you have not taught him that it is his responsibility to remain at your side until released. In a dog's mind this is a huge difference."
To explain what Pete means by the "dog's responsibility," let me use an example most trainers are quite familiar with: force-fetch. Most trainers of hunting breeds agree that force-fetch is the basic way to proof behaviors dealing with picking up, carrying, and not chewing on birds or bumpers. The force-fetch process later expands into a more complex set of retrieving drills. Proofing refers to the commands given to a dog that are obeyed in most contexts, and also to the dog responding properly, on its own, in those same contexts, without the handler speaking a word. This is what is meant by the "dog's responsibility."
Signals are far more meaningful to a dog than words. Dogs are by nature silent communicators. If an action is a dog's responsibility, then often there is no need to give a command for that action. An example might be that when a dog is released for a bird, he runs out, fetches the bird, comes back, returns to heel, sits, drops the bird when the handler touches it, and remains sitting until the handler turns to leave the line ... all of this without the handler uttering a word. These behaviors have been linked together through the step-by-step training process. The dog actually learns to behave this way when certain cues or actions, conscious or unconscious, are exhibited by the handler.
Pete demonstrates the "reverse heel' with the e-collar and prong collar. A bumper out front helps to keep the dog's eyes straight ahead.
"We have conditioned or trained each of these behaviors in the context in which it's applied applied," Pete said. "There is a simple formula for dog training: Timing plus Motivation plus Consistency equals Trained Response. The better the timing of the motivation, the injection ... of the correct motivation for [a specific] circumstance, and a high standard of consistency will determine the level of a trained response. Low levels of force consistently applied over a period of time will produce a dog that seeks to comply with a specific cue. When under the spell of extreme excitability, the conditioned response now overrides.
"Up to this point, I haven't mentioned focus, which is one of the main ingredients of the rehabilitation process. The dog must focus on the
bird being thrown as well as maintaining a peripheral focus on the handler's movements and cues. After all, if it's the dog's responsibility to be next to the handler, the dog learns that he must also keep an eye on the handler. So, how do we take a dog conditioned to breaking at tests and recondition him to seek the heel position and maintain a quiet steady sitting position? It may sound difficult, but it is really quite easy. The problems that often arise are usually because the handler must also recondition himself to respond in a different manner than he has in the past. The dog's part is simple: All he has to do is respond to what the handler is doing. The handler has to retrain his own motor skills to respond correctly to what the dog is doing."
Later on, the reverse heel can be done with only the e-collar,
Pete decided that it might be best to show me while at the same time describing the basics of the steadying process. He starts by teaching a reverse heel on the leash (using a prong collar might help the dog understand moving backward). This begins by taking a small step backward while using the "heel" command. Your objective is to make the dog move straight back without turning his front end or back end, in or out. A rope around the dog's waist might help to control his back end, if necessary. You can flip a bumper out a few feet to the front, and the dog's focus on the bumper will likely help to keep him moving straight back. Pete suggests working on this drill until you can move the dog straight back for a considerable distance - say, 10 feet or so.
When the heeling backward is relatively solid, introduce low-level, continuous stimulation. Move backward, as you hold the button down and command, "Heel." Discontinue the stimulation immediately when the dog gets to the heel position. Do not try to move the entire 10 feet at one time; use your leash to guide him in short increments. As the dog begins to move backward with you, cease the stimulation.
Continue this drill until you can take five or six steps backward and the dog moves straight back with your not having to use the verbal command. You are now starting to teach the dog to seek the heel position even when he is not paying particular attention to you. The goal is to make him pay attention to your silent cues and your movements. He should start seeking the heel position on his own - without verbal commands from you. You should eventually only have to use the low stimulation immediately when the dog does not move with you. Also, it is a good idea to watch for opportunities when he is distracted and not paying attention so you can further reinforce with the low stimulation. Remember: The level of stimulation must be low enough that the dog can think through the process, but not so low that the excitement of a bird can override the "heel" response.
Remember also, up to this point we are teaching this in the yard, so we're not ready for any serious marks yet. However, a good plan is to have a helper introduce flipped bumpers, guns, duck calls, and maybe even shackled birds into the equation to distract the dog so you can reinforce with low stimulation. Before going to the field, your goal should be to throw a happy bumper and move backward while the bumper is still in the air and without uttering any command. The dog should move backward with you, paying attention to you while he is in drive- mode and excitable.


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Yasin HF necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 252 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
StoneBridge Capital, LLC.
We are a small startup hedge fund targeting sophisticated institutional and private investors. Currently, we don't have a logo (identity) or a business card, and seeking a design that will resonate with our target investor audience and become memorable.
The name of our firm is "StoneBridge Capital, LLC." Our investment strategy involves long equities with option trading strategies to reduce risk and create excess returns. "Stone" signifies strength and safety, while "bridge" signifies a path to investment returns and objectives.
I look forward to working with the talented designers and providing them with daily feedback.
Our target audience includes institutional investors (pension funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds), and high net worth private investors who generally have over $1 million in liquid investment assets. The minimum investment per investor will be $100,000. The typical member of our audience will be over the age 45, conservative, and very sophisticated.
We're looking for a logo and business card that's simple (minimalist), clean and modern, and that communicates strength, trustworthiness, and stability. The logo should bear the name of the firm - StoneBridge Capital, LLC. An image in the logo is optional, but would be nice to see an abstract bridge (made of stone) for example. The colors should be understated, conservative and appropriate for the sophisticated target audience (no cartoonish or loud colors).
We'd like a logo design and color(s) that can be fluidly used across different materials, such as business cards, website, powerpoint presentation, and legal documents.
The logo and business card designs should be sent in separate files. Each should be in a format acceptable by Microsoft Office and most standard web site hosting platforms and templates (we're currently using http://www.justhost.com). The business cards should have room for address, telephone, fax, email and website info.
I'm truly looking forward to all your great designs and creativity.
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Beauty and the beach
Rio de Janeiro hosts the Olympic Games this summer and pays homage to the cult of the body
There's a cylindrical concrete block on each end of the 35-kilo barbel, but Napoleão Gonçalves Filho lifts it as if it were made of styrofoam. He brings it to his chest, holds it there briefly, lowers it again, then repeats the exercise 20 times before taking a break. The muscle man is working out on Rio de Janeiro's most beautiful spot. On the left, Praia do Diabo (Devil's Beach), where a couple of surfers lie in wait for a wave. On the right, glittering through the palm trees, Ipanema Beach. Between them, Arpoador Rock rises from the ocean, a place of pilgrimage for tourists and locals who come to witness the spectacular sunset.
It's early morning, but already there are dozens of joggers down on Ipanema Beach. There's not a cloud in the sky, either, and the bodybuilders training with Filho sweat in the heat of the sun. Filho, a 48-year-old history teacher from Copacabana, prefers the beach to the gym. "I train here every morning," the athlete says, "because the landscape is fantastic. I like hearing the waves and feeling the breeze – it makes strength training more fun." Rio de Janeiro, home to seven million and a veritable sports amphitheater, is hosting the Olympic Games this summer from August 5 to 21.
With the first rays of sun, the wave-patterned walkways and cycle paths along Rio's 91 kilometers of beach fill with joggers, inline skaters and cyclists of all ages. Fit young men do pull-ups and push-ups at the sparkling steel stations that line the boardwalk at regular intervals. Older ones train under the supervision of self-proclaimed fitness trainers, pulling on straps attached to palm trees and tripping through brightly colored plastic rings. The goal: a perfect body to display on the beach.
In Rio, daily life and social life are played out mostly on the city's 23 beaches, where Cariocas, Rio's inhabitants, come to escape things like poverty, crime and political corruption. The beach is a democratic space, it doesn't matter whether you're black or white. It's a sacred site for those who worship the cult of the body, a weight room and a catwalk, too. Every third Carioca exercises regularly, according to a Brazilian health department study, yet for most, attaining a bikini figure remains a dream. Brazilians eat too much, they love meat and fries and drinks lots of beer. According to statistics, 54 percent of men and 46 percent of women are overweight. The upper classes pay much more attention to their weight than the lower classes do. In certain social circles you exercise in order to stay young.
Rio is also home to many surfers, and they ride the waves between Arpoador and Prainha even in the rain and cold. "Surfing in the worst conditions is always better than an excellent day at work," says Thiago Paschoa, a 35-year-old stage actor who came to Rio from São Paulo 15 years ago in search of surf. Today, he makes ends meet with acting jobs – and spends a lot of time on his board. Paschoa is looking forward to the Olympics. "Sure, many of the promised developments will not be completed in time. The concrete is already crumbling off some of the buildings and our awesome cycle path collapsed after only three months, but nevertheless, the city will be better and more beautiful afterwards," he says. Not everyone shares his optimism. Despite their protests, slum dwellers were forcibly moved to make way for Olympic buildings. Critics fear that the investments will mostly benefit the rich and widen the social divide. "The Olympics will give the city a boost," believes Marcelo Silva, Brazilian frescobol champion. Frescobol, or Brazilian paddle ball, is a sport in which you hit a rubber ball back and forth with a wooden paddle. It was invented in Copacabana shortly after World War II.
"It's one of the few games in which the aim is not to force your opponent to miss the ball," Silva explains, "but to keep the ball in the air as long as possible while hitting it hard." Competitions consist of making as many contacts as possible in five minutes. The world record is 544 contacts, 272 for each player. Marcelo has been playing for 20 years. Today, the 34-year-old has a school on the beach, a strip of which is blocked by nets to the left and right so you don't have to constantly run after the balls. Officially, frescobol may not be played by the water between 8 am and 5 pm so as not to disturb the sun worshippers, but on days when the beach is relatively empty, officials look the other way. Rio is proud of the game of frescobol. In 2015, the city elders proclaimed it part of the city's cultural heritage, worth preserving along with samba and carnival parades.
On Sundays, the seafront between Leme and Leblon is partially closed off to cars, and the Avenida Atlântica in Copacabana turns into a fitness trail. Half the city seems to be represented here, either on foot, on bikes or on skateboards. Rio already has over 430 kilometers of cycle paths. Dozens of sports schools on the beach profit from the fitness craze and offer instruction in everything from stand-up paddle boarding to beach volleyball. Many of the schools are run by former athletes who have found a new way to make money after their professional careers ended.
These days, futevôlei is the most popular beach sport. A combination of soccer and volleyball, they play it all over the country, even in places that have no natural beach. Futevôlei is played over a volleyball net, usually in teams of two. Players may not touch the ball with their hands or arms, and you rack up points just like in volleyball, except that a regular sets run to 18 points. In the mid-1960s, when futevôlei was invented, it was played mostly by men. Now, women have increasingly joined the game. "Futevôlei is not just about technique and a feel for the ball," says Aninha Manhaes. "It's a really tough sport. If you're not fit, you'll be right out of breath after a couple of plays in the deep sand." Manhaes is a star of the futevôlei scene: For the last five years, she and her partner Vânia Moraes have remained one of the three top teams in Brazil. Most recently, she won the South American Championship in Paraguay for her club America FC.
Manhaes trains three times a week and plays matches on Sundays on Ipanema Beach. "The technique is different from that of soccer," she explains, saying that soccer stars like Ronaldinho have been known to take a try – and have embarrassed themselves immediately. The Brazilians are trying to get futevôlei accepted as an Olympic sport, like beach volleyball in its day, but so far unsuccessfully. The purse at competitions is comparatively small (the equivalent of 4000-5000 euros), which often isn't enough to cover travel costs, the 28-year-old explains. Because Manhaes is a top athlete, she receives a state sports grant, but it's not very much: the equivalent of 500 euros. So she works as a school gym teacher and is dependent on her sponsors – a local sunglasses producer and a shoe company.
Nevertheless, the city will be better and more beautiful afterwards
Manhaes pushes some sand together with her foot to create a small mound, and places the ball on it. Then she serves it across the net with the inside of her foot. Rodrigo Freitas takes it on his chest and lets it drop to his partner, who sets it with his knee. Freitas heads the ball across the net, scoring a point. The young Brazilian comes from Cantagalo, a favela directly above Ipanema Beach, where he lives with his mother and four siblings in a tiny, red-brick house. Freitas has no formal job training and works sporadically selling beverages on the beach. A common love of sports brings people here together for a couple of hours, and your performance is what earns you respect. It's a little bit like the Olympic motto: "The important thing is taking part," whereas actually, everybody wants to win.
Activities and sports
Mountain biking
Mountain biking Tijuca National Park lies right on Rio's doorstep.
Hang gliding
The perfect way to get a real bird's-eye view of Rio de Janeiro.
Surf Rio is a school in Arpoador, one of the city's best surf spots.
Selarón's staircase
Explore the city via 215 artfully decorated steps.


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1 John 2:1-3 The Voice (VOICE)
The word "sin" has virtually disappeared from modern conversation. Afraid of sounding judgmental, we call sin something else—a mistake, an addiction, a tendency, a bad decision—and ignore it as normal and natural behavior. But John is calling the church to a radical holiness where those in the church will regularly remember their sins and seek God's forgiveness. Each sin, small and large, injures us or someone else; it imprints on our soul, makes us imperfect, and separates us from the perfect God. If we confess our sins to God each day, then He will purify our hearts and draw us closer to Him.
2 You are my little children, so I am writing these things to help you avoid sin. If, however, any believer does sin, we have a high-powered defense lawyer—Jesus the Anointed, the righteous—arguing on our behalf before the Father. 2 It was through His sacrificial death that our sins were atoned. But He did not stop there—He died for the sins of the whole world.
John is affectionately addressing this letter to his "little children," and he is writing to help them avoid sin and the pain and guilt that come with it. The glamour of decadent lifestyles devoid of God is often advertised as the epitome of joy and freedom. But what are often conveniently left out of these portrayals are the agonizing consequences of such destructive lifestyles. Meaningful pleasure comes not when we are enslaved by the empty promises of the world, but when we are living in loving obedience to God.
3 We know we have joined Him in an intimate relationship because we live out His commands.
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View from a coreshed in Finland north of the Arctic Circle. A strange building, as seen through the window of a large warehouse-like building.
Shadows of trees cast against concrete by the rising sun.
The trees. The time was 11:58 am local (Finnish) time, just before lunch, just after sunrise. It was often very cold - doesn't it look cold? - and I considered it warm at 0 degrees F (-17 degrees C).
The coreshed in question was poorly heated, for the most part; that is, it was heated to about 55 degrees F (12 degrees C). I wore long johns, regular pants, insulated ski pants over them, and as many jackets as needed, which varied through the day. Because of the cool indoor temps, it was a bit easier to adapt to going outside than had the place been overheated. One had to go outside - into the dark, into the snow, into the cold - in order to get to the Sea-can that held the brrr-ey cold bathroom, the slightly warmer lunch room, and the exceptionally strong, hot coffee. Coffee breaks were common and, IMO, necessary.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Two Years Ago Today: View from a Coreshed
Posted by Silver Fox at 5:04 AM
2 comments:
- Unknown said...
Wow. I just figured out what IMO stands for. And those are some fabulous pics!
- Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 10:38:00 AM PST
- Silver Fox said...
Thanks, Perry! And then there's imho. I had to google all those things when I started reading blogs - and still have to google stuff like that.
- Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 9:30:00 PM PST
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Patent Matters – Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game
April 17, 2012
The recent acquisition of the Netscape/AOL patent portfolio reminded me that an update on Mozilla's patent strategy is long overdue. This post is about what we've done and what we could/should do in the future.
As you may have seen, there's been a lot of patent litigation activity lately. The Yahoo suit against Facebook is one of the most surprising – at least to me. And the US Supreme Court just recently weighed in to re-affirm a long held axiom of patent jurisprudence that laws of nature are not patentable subject matter, so the judiciary is getting more active as well.
What's driving the increase of patent activity? There are numerous drivers in my view including increased competition in the mobile space, the desire for competitive advantage particularly if a company is struggling in the market, and demands for incremental license revenues. Invariably, patent portfolios become more attractive tools for revenue and market competition when a business is not doing well or threatened.
The traditional strategy has been for each company to develop the largest possible patent portfolio to act as a deterrent against potential plaintiffs. This is known as a defensive approach. Others make no such claim at all, and still others do a bit of both depending on the circumstances. For early stage companies and start-ups, patent rights may also be important. If the business fails in the market, IP rights may turn out to be the most valuable asset for investors.
I personally struggle with the effectiveness of "build a big patent pool" as a one size fits all approach. It may not work if you're way behind in the game or even conflicted about software patents. Also, if done organically, it simply takes too long. In other settings it may however make perfect sense, especially with enough resources and sufficient inventive material that is relevant to your competitors. I got to do this for a few years in my first in-house counsel job working for Mitchell Baker long ago where I was tasked with creating the initial Netscape patent portfolio.
So far Mozilla has not adopted the traditional strategy. A while back we made an exception to file four patent applications on some novel digital audio and video compression codecs co-invented with a contributor at the time. We assigned those applications to xiph.org, a non-profit focused on open video and audio codecs. The assignment included a defensive patent provision which prevents the patent from being used offensively. One of those applications has been published for examination as part of the standard USPTO patent application process. We believe that these applications may help in standards settings so we could achieve a better open standard for audio codecs. For better or worse, in the standards bodies participants use their IP to influence the standards and without some leverage, you're left only with moral and technical arguments. We'll see if our theory plays out in the future.
We haven't filed other applications yet, but I don't think the past should necessarily dictate the future. I can imagine many places where inventive developments are occurring that have strategic value to the industry, and where we want those protocols, techniques, and designs to stay open and royalty-free to the extent they are essential parts of a robust web platform. Ofcourse filing patent applications is one possible technique, but at those strategic intersections, I think we should entertain filing patent applications as one tool in our overall strategy.
In addition to patent filing strategies, there are other things we could do including:
- Adopting techniques to constrain offensive use, like the Inventors Patent Assignment with defensive use terms proposed by Twitter today. (+1 for Ben and Amac at Twitter for this)
- Building out a robust defensive publication program. IBM wrote the book on this, maybe its time to make source code publications work the same way.
- Developing an ongoing working prior art system available for defendants. We worked on a version of this a few years back, but the urgent beat out the important and no progress has been made since then.
- Pooling patents with other like minded groups into safe pro-web entities with defensive protections. The pools need to be relevant to competitive threats for this to have value in my view.
- Creating other disincentives to the offensive use of patents (similar to the MPL defensive patent provision) but relevant to larger parts of the web.
Sometime mid-year, I'd like to have a broader discussion to brainstorm further and prioritize efforts. Nonetheless, I'm pretty confident that given the changing landscape and markets, we'll need to play in this domain more significantly one way or the other.


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Place the potatoes and 2 cups water in a medium saucepan, cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and set aside.
Place 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet and sauté the onions and garlic until translucent, about 7 minutes. Remove and set aside.
Preheat the oven to 375° and prepare the crust by combining all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Combine wet ingredients and add to the dry. form in to a ball of dough. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface until about 1/4 inch thick. Place in a tart pan and crimp the edges. Set aside.
Place the tofu, cooked potatoes, Edensoy, salt, nutmeg and black pepper in a blender or food processor and pulse until creamy. Spread the tofu/potato mixture evenly over the pastry dough in the bottom of the tart pan. Spread the sautéed onions over the tofu/ potato mixture. Place the asparagus spears on top, alternating the tips in opposite directions and press down slightly. Bake 20 to 25 minutes until the crust is slightly golden. If using a metal tart pan, you can place the tart under the broiler at the end of cooking for 2 to 3 minutes to brown. Do not broil if using a glass pan as it will shatter. Let cool and set before slicing.
Per serving - 311 calories, 18 g fat (50% calories from fat), 10 g protein, 31 g carbohydrate, 5 g fiber, 0 mg cholesterol, 416 mg sodium


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Here's a few categories to think about: Portrait, wedding, children/newborn, maternity, commercial, editorial, documentary, fashion, fine art, experimental, landscape, architectural, nature, pets/animals, still life, travel, abstract. Or, maybe you have another type of photography to add?
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Microsoft Imagine Academy Resources Correlation by Task
In this course, the following tasks/competencies reinforce the standards listed beside them. Teachers may identify additional reinforcements in locally developed instructional materials.
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|Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.
Microsoft Imagine Academy Resources: [2.011] Microsoft Digital Literacy: Internet and the World Wide Web


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LOUISVILLE — United Airlines employees used proper protocols when a man was dragged from his seat and off a plane, and the passenger was "disruptive and belligerent," United CEO Oscar Munoz told employees in a letter issued late Monday.
Videos of the incident Sunday in Chicago went viral, bringing social media outrage down on the Chicago-based airline and prompting a public apology from Munoz. But in the letter, obtained by numerous media outlets, Munoz credited employees with following established procedures when the Louisville-bound flight was overbooked.
"This situation was unfortunately compounded when one of the passengers we politely asked to deplane refused and it became necessary to contact Chicago Aviation Security Officers to help," the letter says. "While I deeply regret this situation arose, I also emphatically stand behind all of you, and I want to commend you for continuing to go above and beyond to ensure we fly right."
Chicago aviation officials didn't quite agree, placing a security officer on leave after the incident.
"The incident on United Flight 3411 was not in accordance with our standard operating procedure and the actions of the aviation security officer are obviously not condoned by the Department," the department said in a statement.
The man pulled off the United flight is David Dao, according to a source with direct knowledge of the passenger's identity who asked to remain unnamed because they are not authorized to speak about the incident.
By Monday afternoon, Munoz had issued an apologetic statement about this "upsetting event" and the officer who dragged the man off the plane had been placed on leave.
"I apologize for having to re-accommodate these customers. Our team is moving with a sense of urgency to work with the authorities and conduct our own detailed review of what happened," Munoz said. "We are also reaching out to this passenger to talk directly to him and further address and resolve this situation."
Bridges said United offered passengers on Sunday's overbooked flight up to $800 in compensation if they agreed to take a different plane to Louisville. After they boarded the flight, Bridges said she and her fellow passengers were told that four people would be selected to leave since no one volunteered.
The man in the video was one of the four chosen, Bridges said, but he became "very upset" and said he was a doctor who needed to meet with patients the next morning. When he did not leave willingly, security officers came and he was forcibly removed from the plane.
The man managed to get back on the flight after that, Bridges said. She said his face was bloody and he seemed disoriented. Another video that was shared on social media appeared to show the same man who was dragged off the flight rushing to the back of the plane and repeatedly saying, "I have to go home."
"Everyone was shocked and appalled," Bridges told the The (Louisville) Courier-Journal in a Facebook message. "There were several children on the flight as well that were very upset."
United spokeswoman Erin Benson said four crew members needed seats on the plane so they could catch another flight in Louisville. If they weren't able to get to Louisville, Benson said there could have been a "domino effect" that impacted other customers because another United flight was in danger of being canceled.
Watkins and Aulbach write for the The (Louisville) Courier-Journal; Bacon for USA TODAY


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During another tough Army football season last year, Patrick Laird was a model of consistency.
During another tough Army football season last year, Patrick Laird was a model of consistency.
If coaches wanted to show wide receivers correct blocking technique, they pointed to Laird on tape.
When Laird was called upon to catch a pass, whether it was a little high or in traffic, the 2010 Monroe-Woodbury graduate usually came down with the ball. Laird's one-handed touchdown grab against Kent State was No. 1 on top plays on "Sportscenter."
Laird, who was cited by the coaching staff for perfect effort multiple times as a junior, was hard to get off the field. He started all 12 games and played on a majority of Army's special teams.
This season, Laird's role on the field might change slightly, but the example he has always set won't.
"My role has always been to be a team leader and show the younger guys how to give every effort on every snap of practice and every snap of the game," Laird said. "As a senior, we have to set the example. We can't let our emotions get into it and affect the play of our offense. We have to make sure we are focused on every play so we can reach our potential."
Laird exemplifies most of Army's senior class, a core group of players who weren't sure they would ever see the field upon their arrival at West Point. But Laird just kept working at getting stronger. He kept working on his technique and route running. By his sophomore season, Army had installed a tight-end package made specifically for Laird's blocking prowess.
Laird's 11 catches were second on a team that ran the ball 87 percent of the time last season.
Now, in his final season at Army, where he may lose some snaps to promising freshman Xavier Moss, Laird still has the respect of his peers. He earned the third-most votes for offensive captain. Although Laird will not have a "C" on his jersey, he's the unquestioned leader of his position group.
"Packy Laird is a great asset for us," saiid wide receivers coach Tucker Waugh. "You know what you are going to get with Packy and it's a really good product. He's a great worker."
Laird heads a senior group that has been instrumental in bringing the team closer together after a 2-10 season. A heartbreaking 17-13 season-ending and 11th-straight loss to rival Navy serves as motivation for this year's senior class.
"Our senior class is real close," said Laird, who is 6-foot-3 and 225 pounds. "We have a lot of guys who want it really bad. We want it for each other and that's our main goal — to play for each other and win for each other every game."
Laird was a platoon leader during military training this summer. He hopes to report to 3rd Infantry Division at Fort Stewart, Ga., the same unit his father, Randall, served in, after graduation in May. But there's some unfinished business on the field. When Laird's number is called on pass plays this season, his teammates know he will produce.
"Packy is definitely a big receiver," said starting QB Angel Santiago. "I'm pretty sure that there's no ball that I can throw to him that he will not catch. I have total confidence in Packy that's he's going to catch anything thrown to him."


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I've never made ribs before today. We live in a city known for it's BBQ so if we want to eat ribs we just drive down the road, there are tons of BBQ joints to pick from! Andrew is a rib eating fool and Abbott has recently started liking ribs too so I thought I would give it a try. It wasn't very difficult and they turned out really good!! The meat pulled right off the bone and the sauce made the ribs sticky and delicious! I marinated them overnight and put them in the oven during breakfast, by lunch time we had more ribs than we could eat! Then we had a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon (they said I needed a break from 17 Again), it was a fantastic Sunday!
4 pounds pork ribs (I used pork back ribs)
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon Lawry's seasoning salt
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper
2 cups favorite BBQ sauce (I used Sweet Baby Rays)
You are supposed to peel off the tough membrane that covers the bony side of the ribs, but I couldn't figure it out... so I left it on and all was a-ok (if you're like me and can't figure it out, no worries). Mix together sugar and spices to make the dry rub. Apply the rub and lay the ribs on 2 layers of foil, bony side down. Now squirt a little of the BBQ sauce on top of the ribs (maybe a cup of sauce total). Lay 2 layers of foil on top of ribs and roll and crimp edges tightly, edges facing up and seal. Now put them in the fridge and let them marinade in the rub and sauce for at least 4-6 hours (I marinated them overnight). When their done marinating place the foiled ribs on a baking sheet or baking dish, in case the foil leaks you may want to put a 2nd pan in the rack below your ribs to catch drips (I had a couple drips). Bake at 300 degrees for 3 hours. Take them out of the oven and uncover the top of the ribs. They don't look very appetizing right now. You need to baste on some more BBQ sauce (around a cup of sauce), leave the foil off, and put them back in the oven and set to broil. Broil the sauced ribs for for 5 minutes, the sauce will sizzle and caramelize under the broiler, so it sticks to the ribs!
BBQ Ribs
Sunday, August 30, 2009
I've never made ribs before today. We live in a city known for it's BBQ so if we want to eat ribs we just drive down the road, there are tons of BBQ joints to pick from! Andrew is a rib eating fool and Abbott has recently started liking ribs too so I thought I would give it a try. It wasn't very difficult and they turned out really good!! The meat pulled right off the bone and the sauce made the ribs sticky and delicious! I marinated them overnight and put them in the oven during breakfast, by lunch time we had more ribs than we could eat! Then we had a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon (they said I needed a break from 17 Again), it was a fantastic Sunday!
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Chad's Sesame Ginger Grilled Chicken Salad
Thursday, August 27, 2009
** Remember to click on the pictures for full screen view ;-)
My brother-in-law Chad is a really good chef (for further proof check out Chad's Steak). I am a good cook, I can follow a recipe like it's nobodies business. Chad creates his own recipes though, it's craziness! Justin has similar skills he just isn't allowed to use them... he tries to taste and add ingredients (I discourage this because he makes everything spicy)! So, last week Justin got a text picture from Chad, it was this beautiful salad! Justin actually thought they went out to eat without us and were rubbing it in! I should have known... Chad made the salad, it was just a recipe he thought up! We made it tonight and it was amazing!! It was fairly healthy too, with only a few tablespoons of dressing and cheese! It fed the four of us without any side dishes, I can't wait to make it again!
Corn Pico de Gallo
3/4 can of whole kernel sweet corn
1 1/2 medium size Jalapeño peppers
2 romano tomatoes chopped
2 tablespoons cilantro
1 tablespoon chopped parsley (I didn't have any so I omitted it)
2 tablespoons orange juice
1 1/2 tablespoons red-wine vinegar (I only had white-wine vinegar)
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
Sesame Ginger Grilled Chicken
1 pound boneless chicken breast
Lawry's Sesame Ginger Marinade (I couldn't find this particular marinade so I used Lawry's Baja Chipotle)
Salad Mix
Do Not Use Iceberg Lettuce in bags!!!!
1 head of fresh green lettuce, chopped
1 head of fresh romaine lettuce, chopped
4 tablespoons Kraft Parmesan Romano Dressing (I couldn't find this either so I got Kraft Caesar dressing)
Shredded Colby cheese and Parmesan Cheese
Prepare Pico in a medium bowl; combine the corn, peppers, tomatoes, cilantro, parsley, orange juice, vinegar, cumin, and chili powder. Stir well then chill for 30 min.
Marinade the chicken for 45 min., meanwhile start charcoal in grill. Make sure when you grill you position charcoal to one side of grill so that you have a hot side and a cool side. When top part of coals get white hot put chicken on cool side of grill; cook and flip chicken every 5 min. for about 20 min. (depending on how hot you have your grill.) Make sure chicken is white in the middle, but be careful you don't overcook!
Mix Salad and dressing together, add about 1/2 a cup of Colby cheese, then top with chopped grilled chicken, add 1/2 cup of pico mixture, then top the salad off with shredded Parmesan cheese and enjoy!
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Abbott's Spaghetti Tacos
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Abbott loves the Nickelodeon TV show iCarly and on the TV show Carly's favorite dinner is spaghetti tacos. So Abbott's been asking for them for awhile now, I finally gave in. Justin and I had a lot of trepidation but they were actually pretty good! In fact... Justin's sitting beside me and when he saw the spaghetti taco pictures he went "Mmm... those were good"!
If your serving dinner to an elementary school child who watches Nickelodeon then surprise him/her with spaghetti tacos, you won't be sorry!
Ingredients (is this really necessary?)
Spaghetti Noodles, cooked
Spaghetti Sauce
Taco Shells (I got the white corn shells)
Mix the spaghetti noodles and sauce in a big bowl. With a fork twirl the noodles and put them into the taco shells. We cooked our taco shells but I don't know if it really made a difference. I know photo directions aren't needed for this recipe but watching Abbott eat his spaghetti taco just made me smile. I love him so much it hurts! This is my first animated GIF of Abbott eating his taco (for email readers, I think this will only work on my website).
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Labels: Pasta
Andrew's First Concert Pie
Sunday, August 23, 2009
This pie is a little overdue. We took Andrew to see Green Day at the Sprint Center on August 12th (the day before school started... we are officially the most irresponsible parents ever). Justin and I have been listening to Green Day since we were Andrew's age and Andrew has grown up listening to their new cd's as well as our old cd's. The concert was amazing! I mean really jaw dropping, dancing like a crazy person, singing at the top of your lungs amazing! No one can captivate an audience like Billie Joe Armstrong! I am so glad we got to experience this with Andrew!
I knew we had to make a pie for Andrew. I mean your first concert is almost as eventful as your first kiss! I needed something green, for Green Day... but more importantly I needed something that tastes like a first concert! Something with a little bite, something new and unusual, yet exciting! Key Lime Pie, perfect!
A pre-made (or bought) graham cracker crust
4 large egg yolks
1 (14-ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
1/2 cup Fresh Key (or regular) lime juice (from about 5 regular limes or 10 key limes)
1 teaspoon Lime Zest
Whipped Cream (I dyed my whipped cream green and piped spikes)
Beat the egg yolks and lime zest at high speed until thick and pale. Reduce the mixer speed to low and beat in the condensed milk. Still on low, add half of the lime juice. When it is incorporated, add the remaining juice, again mixing until it is blended. Bake the pie for 12 minutes at 350 degrees. Transfer the pie to a cooling rack and cool for 15 minutes, then freeze the pie for at least 1 hour. Serve with whipped cream and garnish with lime zest or lime wedges.
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Individual Potato Gratins
Friday, August 21, 2009
This has been a long, hard week and our dinners have suffered (it was our first full week of school)! We had frozen pizza and fast food all week except for these beauties with some BBQ chicken! This recipe is from Melissa d'Arabian, winner of The Next Food Network Star. I am a sucker for food based reality TV like The Next Food Network Star and Top Chef! Don't let the picture fool you, this is an awesome recipe!! I forgot to invert the gratins onto the plate so mine don't look very appealing but they were fantastic! Not to mention, you only need two potatoes to make 6 individual gratins! Don't count on each person only eating one though, we each had 2 and the boys came back and devoured the leftovers later that evening!
Vegetable spray
2 large russet potatoes, peeled and thinly sliced
1/2 cup grated Swiss cheese (or a different cheese if you prefer)
2 green onions, finely chopped (I omitted these)
Salt and pepper
3/4 cup heavy cream (I didn't have any cream so I used butter)
Spray 6 muffin tins with vegetable spray. Layer potato slices and cheese into each muffin cup. Season with salt and pepper and top each gratin with 1 or 2 tablespoons of heavy cream (or in my case 1/2 tablespoon butter). Cover with foil and bake for 30 to 40 minutes at 375 degrees, removing the foil halfway through cooking time. Invert gratins onto plate and serve.
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Toasted Tomato, Mozzarella and Basil Sandwich
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
School started last week, here's this year's "first day of school" picture (we weren't able to get a picture of both the boys genuinely smiling)...
The boys were hilarious, getting up at 6am wasn't something they were prepared to handle. They had school 2 days last week but crashed all 3 nights by 7pm. So Justin and I had a couple dinners on our own! We were starving when we made these sandwiches and they were SO good! Justin said he loved how fresh they tasted! We inhaled them while standing over the sink...I laugh because when the boys are gone I think we will abandon our table to eat all our meals over the sink (it's weird how we like to hover there).
** Update- a friend told me this is actually a "Caprese Sandwich", shows you how much I know ;-)
1 loaf French or Italian bread
1 carton of cherry tomatoes
6 fresh basil leaves, chopped
4 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced
2 cloves of garlic, minced
Olive oil
Slice the tomatoes in half and place them cut-side up in a baking dish. Sprinkle with a generous pinch of salt and pepper. Cook for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. The tomatoes will be soft and a little shriveled when they are done. Slice the loaf of bread into two equal portions. Then, slice each portion in half lengthwise and rub the bread with olive oil. Spoon the tomatoes onto one side of the bread and sprinkle with basil and garlic. Lay on the mozzarella slices! Place sandwiches, open faced, into a 350 degree oven for 5-10 minutes, until bread is crispy and cheese is melted. When they come out of the oven, fold the top over and press down - the olive oil will soak into the bread and form a natural "dressing" for the sandwich. Serve warm.
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Blueberry Cobbler
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Blueberries were on sale at the supermarket this week! I excitedly put some in our cart and asked Justin if he wanted blueberry pancakes, blueberry muffins, or blueberry cobbler. With his eyes half-closed and smiling, Justin said "Mmmm, blueberry cobbler…"! I could have made this recipe in a pie plate, but what fun is that?! I love using these individual ramekins that I got on sale at target for a dollar... A DOLLAR!!
Blueberry Filling Ingredients
1 carton of fresh blueberries (around 1 and 1/2 cups of blueberries)
1/2 Cup Sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/3 cup water
Biscuit Ingredients
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup milk
Add all of the ingredients for the blueberry filling into a large skillet. Boil the berries over medium heat for 10-15 minutes until the mixture has thickened a little. Meanwhile, combine all the dry ingredients for the biscuits. Using a pastry cutter or a fork, cut the butter into the dry ingredients. Add the milk to the dry mixture to form a soft biscuit dough. The consistency is pretty forgiving, a slightly too-soft or too-firm dough won't make a difference in the final product. As long as it holds together, but is soft enough to break apart into clumps, you're good to go. You can just break the dough into clumps but I was just standing around waiting on the blueberries so I went ahead and cut mine. For one large cobbler:
Pour the blueberry filling into a pie plate. Break the biscuit dough up into small, bite-sized pieces. Place the pieces on top of the hot berries. Place in the oven to bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes. Serve warm.
For individual cobblers:
Transfer blueberry filling to individual ramekins or gratin dishes, filling only half-full (I was only able to get 3 ramekins out of the filling). Add biscuit mixture on top. Place all the cobblers on a baking sheet (this will help you take them out of the oven with burning yourself). Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes, serve warm.
Here's what my individual cobblers looked like before baking... ... and here it is after baking! These are great just as they are, but you can also serve them with some ice cream if you want. I could barely get a picture snapped before digging in! I wish you could smell this! Oh yeah, it was delicious!
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Cheese Omelet
Monday, August 10, 2009
I work with the spunkiest gal named Samantha, I love her! Way back in December we were talking about food, I had just posted a recipe where I mentioned my inability to make omelets. Sam explained how she makes omelets and convinced me that it isn't difficult. That conversation planted a seed, so I started reading up and watching videos of people making omelets. Well... I've been making omelets for months now. I can't believe we lived without them for so long! I usually just add cheese since that's what my boys like. If you want to add veggies I suggest that you saute them before adding them to the omelet, I add my sauteed veggies at the same time I add my cheese. Before I get to explaining the directions lets talk pans. I have these awesome stainless steel pans but they are useless for omelets, the egg permanently fuses to the pan! You have to use a non-stick pan! My mother-in-law got me a square pan from Walmart for my birthday and it has become my "omelet pan", it works great but a non-stick circle pan would work well too!
1 tablespoon butter
2 large eggs
salt and pepper
Cheese, whatever kind you like!
Set you stove to medium heat, don't go above medium or the eggs will get that yucky brown crust! Melt the butter in your pan and spread it around so that the entire pan (including corners) is greased. Scramble your two eggs together in a bowl. Pour the eggs in the middle of the pan... ...then pick up the pan and roll the eggs around to the corners so that the entire pan is covered. Now leave it alone and let it cook, it will take around 2-5 minutes. You will know it's ready when the eggs shrink away from the sides of the pan and you touch the eggs and can't find any raw liquid. Sprinkle the eggs with salt, pepper, and your cheese. I fold in the sides first. Then, I just start rolling the eggs up like a burrito. It really is easy, I don't know why I spent years cowering at the thought of making an omelet.
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Tuna Pasta Salad
Saturday, August 8, 2009
I love cold tuna pasta salad but it smells up my house. I wish canned tuna didn't smell so bad, it tastes so good! I know this is lame, but I can't wait for fall so our TV shows are back. We've spent the summer watching Friends reruns, which happens to be the best TV show ever by the way!
12 ounces pasta shells or macaroni, cooked and drained
12 ounces canned tuna, drained
1 cup chopped celery
1 cup frozen green peas, cooked
1 1/2 cups Miracle Whip
Salt and pepper
Combine the cooked and drained pasta with the drained tuna, chopped celery, peas, and mayonnaise, using only enough mayonnaise for the salad to be creamy. Chill at least 1- 2 hours before serving.
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Pizza Pockets
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
The Taco Pockets were such a hit I thought I would try making the pockets again but with pizza flavors! The boys all loved the pepperoni and cheese pockets, they dunked them in marinara sauce. The options for filling these pockets are so endless, I love using the thin crust pizza dough! Now, I didn't eat these pizza pockets. I don't like pepperoni, but lets just say it's because I was making good decisions on my diet. So hows the diet going you ask? I've lost zero pounds and Justin's lost 5... I swear he just thinks of losing weight and it falls off him. Don't feel sorry for me though, I spent the last 4 days at the lake eating out every day and gorging myself on omelets and muffins :-)
1 (11-ounce) can refrigerated thin-crust pizza dough
Mozzarella cheese, sliced or shredded
Pepperoni, slided
Optional Ingredients
Sprinkling of Salt, Parmesan cheese, and Italian seasoning
Marinara sauce for dipping
Roll the pizza dough out onto your pan with non-stick foil or cooking spray. With a pizza cutter divide the dough into four sections. Layer the pepperoni and cheese. I did as many layers that I could fit when I folded the dough up in the middle, it turned out to be 3 layers of pepperoni and cheese. Fold the ends of the dough over the pepperoni and cheese. Use a fork to crimp the sides together. When they are all filled, folded, and crimped. Sprinkle with some salt, Parmesan cheese, and Italian seasoning. Bake at 425 degrees for 12 minutes or until browned.
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