Britney Spears spends 17 times more on going out than she does on her two children.
The troubled singer - who lost custody of the two boys to her ex-husband Kevin Federline last month - spends only $6,000 of her $737,868 monthly earnings on child care, according to papers filed in her divorce battle, which were kept sealed until yesterday.
Britney spends $102,000 a month on entertainment - going out, gifts and vacations - $16,000 on her wardrobe, almost $50,000 on her mortgage and $10,000 on utility bills.
When you get six musicians together who all happen to have had not nearly enough sleep in the past week, it could turn into a recipe for disaster. Or it could turn into a lot of giggling and silliness.
It all started when we were getting ready to play “Lord I Lift Your Name on High” at Generations today and the drummer (who had just driven back from California this morning) made a comment about liking the song that the riff came from (”The Joker” by the Steve Miller Band). And started singing it - “I really like your peaches, wanna shake your tree” - on. the. microphone. Yeah. Marlene and I turned around and gave him the look and I said, “Do you even know what that MEANS????” And at that point I think he realized what he had just sung. On the microphone. Loopy.
And then there was the power point presentation in the adult class, which, for many reasons, too many to mention, just kept making us giggly. Loopy.
And the book that is going to be presented to the preK - 5th graders in January in order to be up to snuff with the diocese’s Called to Protect mandate - all about how our bodies belong to us and sharing our bodies with good touches (kisses from daddy, sitting in Grandma’s lap) or not sharing our bodies with bad touches that make us feel uncomfortable. And how good touches make us feel warm inside. (Those were the actual words in the book. I am totally not kidding.) And somehow the subject of the book came up at choir rehearsal for 6 pm mass later in the evening, and we got giggly again. Loopy.
Sabias que uno de los anuncios publicados por Apple sobre el iPod Touch en realidad lo elaboró un adolescente de 18 años?
Nick Haley, de Inglaterra es tan fanatico del iPod Touch que creó su propio commercial que subió a Youtube. La gente de Apple lo vió y no dudó contactar con el. Les gusto tanto que le compraron los derechos. Aquí van las dos versiones del anuncio, la de Nick y la actual producida por Apple.
La Versión de Nick
La Versión de Apple
Rotterdam nearly landed Cabela’s, the sporting goods retailer that makes economic development promoters drool.
Speaking Thursday at a chamber breakfast, Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority Chairman Ray Gillen said officials of Cabela’s had almost agreed to bring a store to a site near where Interstates 88 and 90 meet.
But before the deal was completed, Gillen said, the CEO of the Nebraska-based company flew over the site and decided it was too far west. Cabela’s, he said, would prefer to be along
Interstate 87. (We’re not sure if that means the Northway between Albany and Montreal or the Thruway between metro New York and Albany.)
Spirit DSP is a bootstrap company now employing 140 and with an established global brand.
Read this news release at Real Time Community about the company's latest accomplishments:
Fall VON Show, Boston, MA- October 29, 2007 - SPIRIT DSP, the world's leading provider of embedded voice and video software products, announced today that Reigncom, one of the largest manufacturers of portable CD and MP3 players and the parent company of mp3 player manufacturer iRiver, has licensed TeamSpirit® 3.0 Voice&Video Engine Mobile to guarantee the brilliant voice and video performance in the new iRiver Unit2 portable media player…
Asset backed commercial paper is Corporations’ equivalent of mortgage. As individual home owner, we get a mortgage and pay monthly coupon to the bank which loan its money to us. In order to do business, corporations will need to do exactly the same thing. They must issue asset backed corporate bonds to investors to borrow the money at a lower interest. Now, with recent credit crunch, investors are getting reluctant to buy these bonds, even with higher spread. Increasing spread means that credit risks for these bonds are rising. Now, the credit premium (risk) is as high as that in the pre-bubble bust 2001 level. Investors now require bigger asset guarantee as collateral to take their bonds. Just like home buyers may not be able to get the mortgage, corporations may not be able to sell their bonds. Therefore, currently, the risk to the general economy is very high. We hope that a healthy global markets can save US economy in time to avoid a recession, but no guarantee.
Back in my life as a stockbroker I often received questions about equity options that just looked too good to be true. (Five-second primer: one option contract represents 100 shares of stock.” />
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Head of Maine Warden Service Resigns After Maine Marine Resources Cites Him For Undersize Lobsters
04 Nov
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Col. Thomas Santaguida of the Maine Warden Service resigned Friday after being charged by Maine Department of Marine Resources for being in possession of 9 undersize lobsters the day before. Santaguida owns a commercial fishing boat and has 35 years experience in the lobstering business said that inattention lead to him keeping the undersize lobsters and it was not intentional act.
Although the Maine Warden Service has no jurisdiction over enforcing saltwater fishing laws the similarities between the jobs would make it difficult for him to enforce the laws he is responsible for. Maine Warden Service aggressively enforce the laws including limits and size restrictions. I don’t know enough about lobstering to know how easy it is to make such a mistake but if it’s a simple mistake then why fall on your sword? If a cop is on vacation and gets a ticket for speeding should he lose his job? I don’t necessarily think so. Embarrassing for sure and maybe that is why he resigned, I got to believe there is more to this story then what is being reported.
Col. Thomas Santaguida, Lobster fishing, Maine Department of Marine Resources, Maine Warden Service, Undersize Lobsters
HR 3915 is referred to as the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007. It was introduced by Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts. I explored some libertarian thought about the bill here. I spent the last few days, perusing supporting messages, to discover if I might be mistaken. This is what I found:
The Center for Responsible Lending encourages support of this bill. Here is the letter they want you to write to your Congresspeople:
I am deeply concerned about the plight of 2.2 million families who have lost their homes to abusive subprime loans, or who will lose their home in the near future. Without stronger protections against predatory lending, the same conditions that led to this disaster will inevitably come up again. The Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007 (H.R. 3915), which is based in part on existing state laws that have been effective, would help prevent another subprime disaster in the future.
Hmmm, well they fired a biased shot across the bow by referring to subprime loans (in general) as abusive. It lets you know that they despise any loan that isn’t an “agency” loan. The CRL also predicts that (a) more people will lose their homes (b) the disaster, left unchecked, will happen again. What they don’t tell you is that the innovative lending products added some ten million NEW homeowners to the ranks this decade. While 2 million foreclosures suck, a net gain of 8 million homeowners is nothing short of astounding.
NRG and Powerspan announce large-scale demonstration of carbon capture and sequestration
03 Nov
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NRG and Powerspan announce large-scale demonstration of carbon capture and sequestration
NRG Energy, Inc. and Powerspan Corp. have announced a memorandum of understanding to demonstrate at commercial scale one of the most promising technologies for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture from conventional coal-fueled, electric power plants - Powerspan’s ECO2 technology. The post-combustion, regenerative process uses an ammonia-based solution to capture CO2 from the flue gas of a power plant and release it in a form that is ready for safe transportation and permanent geological storage.
Biopact tracks developments in CCS because the technique can be applied to bioenergy systems, in which case they would yield carbon-negative energy and fuels (earlier post).
To date, CO2 capture demonstrations on coal-fueled power plants have been conducted only at pilot scale, or one to five megawatts (MW) of electricity. This CCS demonstration, which will be conducted at NRG’s WA Parish plant near Sugar Land, Texas, on flue gas equal in quantity to that from a 125 MW unit, is expected to capture and sequester about one million tons of CO2 annually - ranking it among the world’s largest CCS projects and potentially the first to achieve commercial scale capture and sequestration from an existing coal-fueled power plant.
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