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If you can’t beat them, then tax them, is what Oakland California is saying. Other local governments in California and other Western states want to clamp down or stop medical marijuana, but not Oakland.

After becoming the first U.S. city to impose a special tax on medical marijuana dispensaries, Oakland soon could become the first to sanction and tax commercial pot growing operations. Selling and growing marijuana remain illegal under federal law.

Two City Council members are preparing legislation, expected to be introduced next month, which would allow at least three industrial-scale growing operations.

One of the authors, Councilman Larry Reid, said the proposal is more of an effort to bring in money than an endorsement of legalizing marijuana use — although the council has unanimously supported that, too.

The city is facing a $42 million budget shortfall. The tax voters approved last summer on the four medical marijuana clubs allowed under Oakland law is expected to contribute $1 million to its coffers in the first year, Reid said. A tax on growers’ sales to the clubs could bring in substantially more, he said.

“Looking at the economic analysis, we will generate a considerable amount of additional revenues, and that will certainly help us weather the hard economic times that all urban areas are having to deal with,” Reid said.

How much money is at stake isn’t clear because the tax rate and the number of facilities the law would allow haven’t been decided. A report prepared for AgraMed Inc., one of the companies planning to seek a grower’s license, said its proposed 100,000-square-foot-project near the Oakland Coliseum would produce more than $2 million in city taxes each year.

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Given their likely locations in empty warehouses in industrial neighborhoods, the marijuana nurseries under consideration would have more in common with factories than rural pot farms.

Dhar Mann, the founder of an Oakland hydroponics equipment store called iGrow, and Derek Peterson, a former stock broker who now sells luxury trailers outfitted for growing pot as a co-founder of GrowOp Enterprises, have hired an architect to draft plans for two warehouses where marijuana would be grown and processed year-round.

Their vision includes using lights, trays and other equipment manufactured by iGrow and creating an online system that would allow medical marijuana dispensaries to see what pot strains are in stock, place orders and track deliveries.

“We are emulating the wine industry, but instead of ‘from grape to bottle,’ it’s ‘from plant to pipe,’” Mann said.

“Or seed to sack,” offered Peterson.

The pair say they intend to operate the pot-growing business they have dubbed GROPECH — Grass Roots of Oakland Philanthropic and Economic Coalition for Humanity — as a not-for-profit. They anticipate gross sales reaching $70 million a year. After paying their expenses, they’d funnel the money to local charities and non-profits through a competitive grant process.

The discussion in Oakland comes amid a statewide campaign to make California the first state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana and to authorize cities to sell and tax sales to adults. Another Oakland pot entrepreneur, Richard Lee, is sponsoring a ballot measure voters will consider in November.

Lee, who owns two of Oakland’s four dispensaries as well as Oaksterdam University, a trade school for the medical marijuana industry, hopes to secure one of the cultivation permits, but he thinks the city should opt for having more, smaller sites instead of a handful of large ones.

“We need to legalize and tax and regulate the production side as well as the retail side,” Lee said. “It’s a natural step.”

Other supporters say licensed growers would create hundreds of well-paying jobs. The local branch of the United Food and Commercial Workers union already has signed up about 100 medical marijuana workers, and the growers are expected to have union shops as well, said Dan Rush, special operations director of UFCW Local 5.

“I think Oakland’s intention is to make Oakland the leader and the trendsetter in how this industry can be effective in all of California,” Rush said.

Allowing medical marijuana to be grown openly also could give patients a better idea of where their pot is coming from. Now, many growers hide their identities to avoid federal prosecution.

Oakland has already developed a reputation as one of the nation’s most pot-friendly cities. Legislation on the city’s books includes a declaration of a public health emergency after federal crackdowns on marijuana clubs and a ballot measure instructing police to make marijuana their lowest enforcement priority.

“The whole population of Oakland is just very progressive,” Rosenthal said. “It’s the radicals who couldn’t afford Berkeley or San Francisco who all moved to Oakland.”

Ed Rosenthal, the self-described “guru of ganja”, is a popular writer of pot growing how-to books who has lived in Oakland 25 years. The activists who have flocked to Oakland since the 1970s are who gave the city a positive attitude towards marijuana according to Rosenthal.

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My Take: I think they have the right idea! They made medical marijuana legal, why not tax it and make money for the city or state. A very good friend of mine used to buy her stash and local cannabis club in San Diego. She had terminal cervical cancer. She would tell me the stories of when she would go to get her stash. I think she liked to flirt with the CA unarmed security guard they had at the shop.

I remember one time she came home mad complaining about security guard services in Rockville. It turned out that the regular guard was working in Rockville that day. I just started laughing. She got a little bit mad at me but she got over it. It seems they were shorthanded in Rockville so they sent the regular club guard down there.

I remember another time she came home and told me about someone who came in with a letter from their doctor, which in California is the only legal way to do it, who was a California liposuction surgeon. The clerk behind the window had to go check with her supervisor on this one. Usually, the people who get these letters are usually HIV or cancer patients because of all the drugs they take.

It turned out that the lady had just had laser skin treatment California and didn’t want to take all that medication because it was bad for you. She had talked to the doctor into writing a letter so she could get something “natural” for the pain. They didn’t give it to her. What some people will do just to get high is weird!

I guess what I’m really trying to say is that I see no reason why they shouldn’t make marijuana legal. The only bad thing I know about marijuana is that it slows production of sperm for men who smoke it. By making it legal, cities, counties, states and the federal government could have increased income by charging taxes on it.

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Most people have the common sense that when they see a volcano start erupting, they run the opposite direction. However, there is a small and somewhat obsessed band of photographers who run towards a new lava-spewing volcano anywhere in the world.

In early April, Martin Rietze spent three sleepless nights huddled next to a large boulder about 1,600 feet from the mouth of Iceland’s recently reawakened Eyjafjallajökull volcano, having the time of his life.

Sleepless because when a volcano is throwing car-sized pieces of rock into the air, you can’t close your eyes for a second. “It’s too dangerous to sleep, so you have to stay up,” he says from his home in Eichenau, Germany.

Rietze, an engineer who builds delicate electronics for planetariums, is part of a very small group of mostly men worldwide who spend vacations racing to be as near as possible to molten magma, choking ash clouds and poisonous gases, not to mention a rain of smoking-hot boulders.

Volcanophiles exist all over the world, though there are at best only a couple hundred of them, they estimate. There are groups and individuals in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, France, the USA and Japan.

They seem to include a high percentage of engineers, computer, electrical, chemical and mechanical. Though it once was a solitary pursuit, the Internet has allowed them to share their work — and tips.

It’s a labor of love, because they all know they can’t make a living at it, says Richard Roscoe, an Englishman who works as a patent examiner in the European Patent Office. He’s spending this week in Vanuatu to shoot the Yasur volcano.

“One always hopes that one will get the really big shot and get that contract with National Geographic, but the likelihood is very minimal,” he says.

But professionals urge a large dose of caution. Volcanoes are astoundingly alluring; far too many people take far too many chances around them, say Donna and Steve O’Meara, a husband-and-wife team who shoot for National Geographic. “They put fire in people’s eyes and their brain is left behind,” Donna says.

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Even the most experienced can lose their lives. Volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft from France and Harry Glicken from the USA died in an eruption on Mount Unzen in Japan on June 3, 1991, along with 41 journalists.

Seeing an eruption in progress is “very humbling to experience, frightening and awe-inspiring,” says Jim Stimac. A geothermal engineer, he lives in Jakarta, Indonesia, and belongs to Java Lava, a local group that hikes to volcanoes. But he says they strive to be as cautious as possible.

Professional geologists and volcanologists “think we’re mad, basically,” Roscoe says.

Though not all in the academic community disdain them. Richard Wunderman, who edits the Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., says he often relies on amateurs for reports and photos of eruptions that would otherwise go unrecorded. “They’re an amazing resource,” he says.

The hardest part about capturing the raw power of a volcano in a photo isn’t getting close enough, but getting a clear view, says Arnold Binas, a computer scientist in Sydney. Clouds, fog and steam often block the view, he says. “Patience is the key.”

Safety gear is also critical, says Patrick Koster, 41, of Spijkenisse in the Netherlands. A chemical engineer, he wears a climbing helmet, goggles, a gas mask to filter ash and neutralize chemicals in the gases emitted by the volcanoes and gloves. They’re “very important because fresh lava can be razor-sharp, so if you put your hand down, you can get cut badly,” he says.

Eyjafjallajökull was “awesome” because it was accessible without being overrun with tourists, says Sean Stiegemeier, 26, a Los Angeles cinematographer.

“The one good day of weather we were there, there were probably 10 cars out next to the volcano, most of them photographers with gigantic lenses,” he says. “It was so loud, every now and again it felt like it was rumbling its stomach at us and then it would spit out lava.”

There are many volcanoes around the world and most volcanoes erupt in distant, difficult-to-access places.

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My Take: They have more guts than I do! No matter how fascinating it would be to watch a volcano erupt, I would be running in the opposite direction as fast as I could. I would grab the nearest wagon or rolling tool cart and start loading it up with my personalized water bottles and wall decals and anything else I could grab.

Of course, if I thought a safety cabinet would keep me safe from the lava, I would just jump in it. I would definitely try to save all my personalized custom gifts because they are one-of-a-kind. Then again, custom wall words are not the most of important thing my life, but I would try to save them. However, if I was near a volcano that blew, I probably would not have time to save anything but my own rear end.

I do admit that photographers to get beautiful pictures of erupting volcanoes. But risking your life to get a beautiful picture doesn’t seem right to me. I can understand risking my life to save a life, but not just to get a picture.

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Memories may fade with time, and photographs may lose their luster, but designer Vanessa Villagrana has created a stylish new way to relive every joyous family occasion in brilliant color and dynamic design. From the first birth announcements cards that she started from to preserve those first precious moments in the lives of her wee ones she has expanded to offer more. She assembled a first-rate design team and soon the trio of stay-at-home “mompreneurs” had included in their line of products baptism, baby shower, christening, marriage, engagement and first birthday invitations. They even offer bilingual services for Spanish-speaking families.

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The Atlantic hurricane season began on June 1 and it may be a busy one with more than 23 named tropical storms predicted, including up to 7 major hurricanes, according to the US government.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicted that eight to 14 storms would strengthen into hurricanes, with top winds of 74 mph (119 kph) or higher. Three to seven of those could become major storms that reach Category 3 or higher — meaning they bring sustained winds of at least 111 mph (179 kph).

“If this outlook holds true, this season could be one of the more active on record,” NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco said in a statement. “The greater likelihood of storms brings an increased risk of a landfall. In short, we urge everyone to be prepared.”

A hurricane might help break up the oil spill staining the Gulf of Mexico, but the oil won’t affect significantly how tropical storms develop, forecasters said. They don’t know what kind of environmental hazards to expect, though there are fears that winds and waves could push the oil deeper into estuaries and wetlands — possibly destroying the coastal marshes that act as a buffer against catastrophic storm surges.

Government scientists said Thursday that anywhere from 500,000 gallons to 1 million gallons a day has been leaking from the site where an oil rig exploded April 20, killing 11 people. BP PLC, which leased the rig and is responsible for the cleanup and the Coast Guard previously had estimated the flow was about 210,000 gallons per day.

The expanding slick already has coated wildlife and marshes in Louisiana, but Lubchenco said the spill is still small relative to hurricanes — which sometimes can span the entire Gulf.

‘Don’t take anything for granted’

Although some oil could be pushed inland by a storm as it makes landfall, it could be difficult to determine whether it leaked from flooded cars or factories, Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Craig Fugate said.

The 2010 government forecast is based on the weakening of El Nino. The Pacific Ocean phenomenon created strong wind shear that helped suppress storm development in the Atlantic last season. Record warm water temperatures also will feed storms crossing the Atlantic this year.

Three hurricanes developed out of nine tropical storms in 2009. None of the hurricanes came ashore in the United States. Hurricane Ida hit Nicaragua as a Category 1 storm in November.

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist urged coastal residents to remember the destruction left in the wake of hurricanes in 2004 and 2005.

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“Don’t take anything for granted,” Crist said at the annual Florida Governor’s Hurricane Conference in Fort Lauderdale. “We don’t need to suffer from hurricane amnesia.”

‘Hell of a year’ for hurricanes, experts warn.

National Hurricane Center Director Bill Read said Wednesday that his biggest concern for the season is a storm striking Haiti, where hundreds of thousands of people have been living in makeshift camps since the Jan. 12 earthquake. Heavy rains can trigger serious flooding and mudslides in the mountainous Caribbean country, but no evacuation plans exist for displaced communities.

Tropical storms are named when their sustained winds reach 39 mph. The first named storm of the 2010 season will be Alex.

In April, Colorado State University researchers predicted 15 named storms would form this season, with four developing into major hurricanes.

From June 1 to November 30, the Atlantic hurricane season will reign over the seas.

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My Take: I am glad that I do not live on the East Coast. It seems the people that live on the East Coast during the hurricane season have a lot to worry about. If they happen to get hit by a hurricane, they have to do a lot of repairs. Right now, I live in a mobile home and that would probably mean replacing it if I lived in East Coast.

I have seen news reports of the aftermath of hurricane and it does not look like fun. A lot of those people have to do Littleton CO basement remodeling because it’s flooded. I would love to have a house with a basement, out West where you really don’t have hurricanes. At least out West, basement remodeling Colorado would not entail repairing water damage, unless a water pipe broke.

I can just imagine what the insurance rates are for homes and cars in hurricane alley. I would definitely want to get several car insurance quote online just to get the cheapest. Then again, cheap auto insurance is hard to come by if you have a lot of tickets, which I do not have. You probably could not get cheap home insurance either. At least after the storm is over the wrecked cars can be towed away. A damaged house stays put. Car disposal is so much easier than house disposal, with a house you have to rebuild.

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The US government investigation into the work of lawyers representing detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba has begun and defense attorney Clive Stafford Smith is no stranger to them. Smith has been investigated 4 additional times for allegations ranging from rule violations on classified information to smuggling contraband that included Under Armor underwear and a Speedo bathing suit to one of his clients.

He says the allegations — which he takes very seriously — have gone nowhere, and he believes they are attempts by the government to intimidate him and other lawyers.

“Doing these Guantanamo cases has been intimidating enough as it is,” said Stafford Smith, who received anonymous death threats early on in his work. “On top of that, to have the government making these kind of threats is over the top.”

But some lawmakers and administration officials see the closer examination of the work of defense lawyers at Guantanamo Bay as necessary, despite the perception of it being “intimidating.”

n ongoing Justice Department investigation, for example, is looking into allegations that military lawyers — who have no connection to Stafford Smith — may have given their clients pictures of their CIA interrogators, a prospect that has many lawmakers alarmed.

By a unanimous vote earlier this week, the House Armed Services Committee approved a defense appropriations bill that includes a measure to expand the power of the Defense Department to investigate the “conduct and practices of lawyers” at Guantanamo.

The measure specifically instructs the DOD inspector general to examine the work of attorneys representing clients at Guantanamo Bay who may have “interfered with operations of the Department of Defense” and report back to Congress.

The measure’s sponsor, Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., proposed the language to the bill because he was outraged by the allegations behind the Department of Justice investigation that is being led by U. S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.

Miller said it’s important to subject detainee defense lawyers to greater scrutiny in order to “identify any policy violations,” that, he said, could compromise national security. “If an attorney was involved in trying to identify a covert CIA officer or their families, the attorney should be held accountable,” Miller told ABC News. “If they were not [involved], the attorney should not have anything to be concerned about.”

The measure is expected to be up for a vote before the full House today.

Lawyer Groups Bristle at Investigations of Detainee Lawyers

But many defense lawyers say the measure is too broad and risks infringing on constitutional freedoms.

The ACLU , which was working with the military lawyers alleged to have provided pictures of CIA officers to detainees, said the statute, if enacted “will prevent civilian and military defense attorneys from doing their jobs.”

Stephen Vladeck, an American University law professor who also defended a Guantanamo detainee, called Rep. Miller’s proposal “the latest salvo in the war on lawyers.”

The proposal to investigate any lawyer who “interferes” with detainee operations could ensnare “virtually every lawyer that has represented a detainee,” he wrote on his blog.

“From the government’s perspective, the representation itself has caused substantial interference, since lawyers have, among other things, informed detainees of their rights; petitioned the federal courts for the detainees release; obstructed the government’s ability to interrogate the detainees and so on,” he said.

The American Bar Association also opposes the provision in the defense bill.

“If passed, this legislation will have a severe chilling effect on the ability of lawyers to provide zealous advocacy and effective assistance of counsel to their clients at Guantanamo,” said Carol Lamm, president of the ABA.

Still, Rep. Miller believes expanded authority for the DOD to investigate lawyers working at Guantanamo holds them to “the same standard of any other individual.”

“Attorney-client privilege doesn’t give them the ability to break the law and compromise national security,” he said.

The Senate Armed Services will get the legislation after the full House votes on it and the debate is expected to continue.

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My Take: This is the type of situation that is very touchy for everyone. In our country, every criminal deserves a criminal lawyer Colorado. However, these criminals are suspected of killing hundreds or thousands of Americans. They may need Freehold NJ criminal attorneys, but Americans would rather just take them out and shoot them.

But what I do not understand is why the government is using lawyers, who are Americans, of helping these criminals in any other way than a legal one. Just because a Monmouth County NJ criminal defense lawyer is representing a Guantánamo Bay detainee, does not mean that they are going to give them information they should not have or get them contraband.

I could see it being a problem if these detainees represented by a Denver alimony attorney or NJ expungement lawyer, but they need criminal attorneys. Even a NJ DUI lawyer might raise eyebrows. I’m just so confused as to why they are investigating lawyers. I could see an investigation of these lawyers are taking these jobs are connected with drug lords or crime bosses. But if they’re just US citizens providing legal services, they should be left alone to do their jobs.

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Imagine, a college graduate lecturing his or her parents about privacy online. That may not seem, but according to Pew Internet & American Life Project who in a report stated that young people are fast becoming the gurus of online reputation management, especially were social networking sites are concerned.

Among other things, the study found that they are most likely to limit personal information online — and the least likely to trust free online services ranging from Facebook to LinkedIn and MySpace.

Marlene McManus, 21, is among those young adults. On the job hunt since graduating from Clark University in Massachusetts, she’s been “scouring” her Facebook page, removing photos that contain beer cups and any other signs of college exploits. She’s also dropped Twitter altogether.

“I have to present a public face that doesn’t have the potential to hurt my image,” McManus says.

She has seen otherwise upstanding adults, well past their 20s, sharing compromising photos and questionable rants with too many people online. “I get embarrassed for these people and sometimes just want to shake them,” she says.

In this instance, adults over the age of 30 might do well to listen. The Pew study and a mounting body of new research is showing that the very generation accused of sharing too much information online is actually leading the pack in online privacy.

The Pew study found, for instance, that social networkers ages 18 to 29 were the most likely to change the privacy settings on their profiles to limit what they share with others online. The percentage who did so was 71 percent, compared with just 55 percent of the 50- to 64-year-old bracket. Meanwhile, about two-thirds of all social networkers who were surveyed said they’ve tightened security settings.

The survey also determined that:

— about half of young people in that 18-29 bracket have deleted comments that others have made on their profile, compared with just 29 percent of those ages 30 to 49 and 26 percent of 50- to 64-year-olds. The numbers were similar when it came to social networkers who removed their names from photos that were tagged to identify them.

— When asked how much they can trust social networking sites, 28 percent of the youngest adults surveyed said “never.” A fifth in the 30-49 bracket said that and just 14 percent of those ages 50 to 64 agreed.

The Pew report, which was released Thursday, was compiled from telephone interviews conducted by Princeton Survey Research International between Aug. 18 and Sept. 14, 2009, among a sample of 2,253 adults. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.3 percentage points.

Mary Madden, the Pew researcher who was the study’s lead author, says the findings partly reflect the fact that young people have been using social networking longer than their elders, thus making them more experienced in dealing with its intricacies.

But she says young people also are at a point in their lives where, like McManus, they’re looking for work and just starting to develop a name for themselves.

Consider also that the study found that a quarter of online adults said their employers now have policies about how they portray themselves online.

“Young adults have, in many ways, been forced to become experts in their own form of social revision,” Madden says.

They’re also an extremely “brand conscious” generation, says Fred Stutzman, a doctoral candidate at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina who co-founded ClaimID.com, a free online identity management service that he now uses as a research project.

“Increasingly, it’s the advice that young people get from counselors and elsewhere: `You need to have your own brand and you have to watch that brand,’” Stutzman says.

He jokes that older people don’t care as much because “if you’ve got a pension, you can pretty much say what you want.”

There might be more truth than poetry in that statement because the older you get, the less you’re going to worry about applying to college or moving up the career ladder. A 28-year-old, Stephanie Juell of Westchester County, New York, has become more increasingly aware of it. She has opened an extra Facebook account after her supervisor and friends began to make her a “friend” on her personal account.

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My Take: This is nothing new to me. I have told my mother many times about something that she does, but that doesn’t mean she’s going to stop doing it. Then again, she doesn’t use a computer either. My mother is more into organic vitamins and staying healthy. That could have something to do with the fact that she is 91 years old. She did get interested in sports supplements at one point and I told her that she didn’t need them because she wasn’t into sports.

To me, social networking is something a lonely person does. It allows a lonely person to meet people from the safety of their home. They should go out and get folk tickets and go to a concert. Or maybe they should go get theater tickets and see a play. Anything to get them out of the house and away from the computer!

They do not have to wear sexy jeans when they go to get their tickets or to see the play. Just wear a pair of regular old pair of jeans will do. They don’t need to impress anybody, just be comfortable and have a house and away from the computer.

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The other side of 50 is not a bad place to be these days. There are so many places in things for “seniors” that it is hard choose just one. One website even has a section for senior financial planning. That same website also offers senior websites so that the grandparents can communicate with their families. Even if you’re not quite over 50 yet, the site has a retirement calculator for your convenience.

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Falcon Lake in the Zapata, Texas has become the scene out of a pirate movie thanks to the Mexican drug cartel pirates. Armed boatman had been reported by Texans on the lake, which hosts some of the largest bass fishing tournaments in the US. Falcon Lake also shares a border with the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas. However, pirates on this lake have reportedly wielded high-powered rifles and automatic weapons that are nothing like the infamous Somali pirates the Gulf of Aden.

After several incidents in the past month, including armed robbery and attempted armed robbery, the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Zapata County Sheriff’s Department are urging all boaters to stay out of Mexican waters. (The international border is in the middle of the lake.)

“It’s piracy,” said Zapata County Sheriff Sigifredo Gonzalez. “It may not be on the high seas, but they are taking advantage of people on this lake by threatening and robbing them.”

On April 30, five U.S. men on two separate boats ventured into the area of Old Guerrero, a colonial town that’s now a ghost town, on the Mexican side of Falcon Lake, according to a press release from the Texas Department of Public safety (TDPS).

Tom Bendele, owner of Falcon Lake Tackle, in Texas, said he knew the victims involved in the incident.

Bendele said while his friends were taking photos of an old church during a fishing trip on the Mexican side of the lake, four heavily tattooed gunmen in an old bass boat approached them.

“They boarded the boat at gunpoint,” Bendele recounted. “They were all wearing black and [my friends] told me one had Z’s tattooed around his neck — the others had Z’s tattooed on their wrists.”

The men had reportedly identified themselves as “Federales” (Mexican Federal Police), but they were not wearing uniforms. According to the TDPS, they demanded cash, asking, “Where are the drugs?”

The U.S. fishermen told them that they were just fishing and taking photos. They ended up giving the men $200 in cash before leaving the area.

Gonzalez said he believes the pirates may be working for the paramilitary drug cartel organization, the Zetas.

“They need money right now, they are broke,” said Gonzalez. “They are not paying salary to them right now, so this is the only way they know how to get money. They don’t know how to do anything else anymore.”

According to Bendele, the confrontation lasted about a half hour.

“The [pirates] also told them, ‘Tell all your men to stay away. We’ll be checking everyone who comes this way,’” Bendele said.

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After hearing about his friends’ ordeal, Bendele posted a warning to his Web site, alerting fisherman of the possible dangers on the lake: “I am not trying to alarm anybody here. But you need to know that there is a gang war going on just across the border. And until one side wins there is a possibility that you could end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you do fish Mexican waters, it is probably best to stay near the main lake, and if you see anything that makes you uncomfortable, leave.”

TDPS also reported a May 6 incident involving three men who were fishing about a quarter-mile north of Saledo Island on the Mexican side of the lake. While fishing, a boat with two men quickly approached them and pointed AR-15’s at the three fishermen. One of the men boarded the boat — he was reportedly searching for drugs, cash and guns. During the incident, a gunman chambered a round into the rifle and told the fishermen he would shoot them if they did not give him money. The fishermen gave the gunmen all the money in their wallets. U.S. authorities were also informed that five armed men had approached a boat on the U.S. side of the lake on May 16. Officials were unable to contact those boaters to determine whether any cash had been taken.

“It worries me,” said Gonzalez. “There are fishermen out there that are coming face to face with pirates. Even if they resist a little, they may get shot and killed. When this happens on the Mexican side, we have no jurisdiction — we can’t even go get the bodies.”

Outside their line of jurisdiction, Gonzalez and his deputies cannot protect fisherman who make the decision to cross into Mexican waters. He is urging all boaters to stay on the U.S. side of the lake.

“We’ve been fishing here for 30 years. We fish that area all the time” said Bendele. “I fish in Mexico more than I fish on the Texas side of the lake.”

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Falcon Lake is known as having the largest amount of bass in the nation. There are currently seven to eight fishing tournaments scheduled for the rest of the year.

“This is the top lake in the nation for black bass. This lake holds all the records for the Bassmaster’s tournaments,” said Bendele. “I’ve been fishing here for 30 years and never had any problems. I haven’t even been stopped and checked for a license.”

Dan Shoonveld, a fishing guide on Falcon Lake with more than 15 years of experience, worries that word of piracy on the lake may affect his business; since the Department of Public Safety released its reports, far fewer fishermen are venturing out.

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“It’s strange because just a month ago, there would be 30 to 40 boats out in the [Mexican] creek,” said Shoonveld.

Shoonveld believes that the lake isn’t dangerous if you fish smart. He said he often ventures into Mexican waters and has never been confronted.

“I was fishing in Mexican waters just three days ago. Nothing happened, but I wasn’t seven miles into the river or five miles into the Mexican creek,” said Shoonveld. “I only go about 100 to 200 yards into Mexico — mainly because that’s where the fish are.”

“Some who go six or seven miles into the Mexican river area are just asking for it,” he added.

Staying Safe on Falcon Lake

Bendele and Shoonveld, who consider themselves experts on the lake, know that there is danger, but believe it’s relatively simple to avoid.

“You have to use your head,” Shoonveld said. “If someone waves you down, just don’t go over there. Be aware of what boats are Mexican boats. They are very recognizable because they are small, white and usually have a small outboard motor on them.”

Two drug trafficking organizations, the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas, are currently engaged in a bloody turf war to supply Americans with illegal drugs. Residents who fish the lake believe this piracy may become a trend.

“The Zetas are pressing the local community. Once I hear through authorities that things are calming down over there, I’ll start fishing back in Mexico,” said Shoonveld.

“We are trying to get the Mexican military to fly helicopters over the area and patrol,” said Gonzalez.

“It makes me nervous that these things are happening. It irritates me because we can try and do more if the federal government would provide more funding,” said Gonzalez. “I dread having to even think of having a fisherman resisting, shot in the head, and we can’t even go retrieve the body.”

Gonzalez can only warn visitors and locals in his county to stay away from that side of the lake because they were out of his jurisdiction.

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My Take: I love to go fishing. Unfortunately, I don’t get the chance very often anymore. I would think that the Coast Guard could put a show of support to the fishermen by being near the border. That might discourage these pirates. Fishermen in the area should just make sure they don’t get a yacht charter, because that would really attract pirates.

In fact, it might be better to get yacht charter vacations in a completely different area that has fishing. They could get a Florida fishing charter; of course they would not get black bass. However, they would enjoy fishing Key West. That is unless they really wanted to get away from it all and went to Australia. They could come back with all kinds of Australian souvenirs. One they would bring back would be Australian T-shirts.

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On May 29th, the Vatican prosecutor, Rev. Charles Scicluna, gave a warning to the pedophile priests. In essence, he told them they would suffer damnation in hell and it was worse than any death penalty. The Maltese priest who is a top official at the Vatican’s morality office a led a special “make amends” prayer service in St. Peter’s Basilica. The service grew out of a desire by some seminarians in Rome for a day of prayers for the victims of clergy abuse and for the healing of the church’s wounds from the scandal over its concealment of abuse.

“It would be really better” for priests who sexually abuse minors that their crimes “cause them death” because for them, “damnation will be more terrible” in hell, Il Sole 24 Ore online news reported.

The Vatican said it didn’t immediately have the text of the meditation Scicluna delivered for the two-hour prayer service attended by seminarians and other students of religion.

Scicluna has been leading the Vatican’s drive to rid the church of pedophile priests. Many victims’ groups say the Vatican must admit responsibility for a decades-old culture of secrecy and systematic cover-ups.

Participants at the ceremony asked for prayers “for the victims of abuses perpetrated by men and women of the Church, so that they can heal their wounds and experience true peace,” ANSA reported. Prayers were also offered for clerics and other religious who committed abuses “so that, in the light of day, they can honestly face up to the consequences of their guilt and embrace the needs of justice,” it said.

Scicluna, who could not immediately be reached for comment, began with a meditation from St. Mark’s Gospel saying those who harm children would be better off tying a millstone to their neck and throwing themselves into the sea.

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Earlier in the week, the Catholic news agency Zenit reported that several seminary students, including from Britain and the United States, decided to have the prayer service in response to Pope Benedict XVI’s harsh letter to Irish bishops in March.

In that letter, Benedict chastised bishops in that predominantly Catholic nation for making grave errors of judgment about the abuse. But he didn’t blame Vatican policies that kept the abuse secret for making the situation worse and he issued no punishment for the bishops.

The Vatican considers any scandal in the Italian church to be delicate. Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, the head of the Italian Bishops Conference, stated it may be possible that sex abuse by clergy may have been covered up in Italy when speaking to his churchmen. He also stated that the bishops should follow the guidelines set down by the Vatican in dealing with abuse allegations.

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My Take: Vatican prosecutor? Well, I guess since their considered an independent country that they would have their own prosecutor. But if they had their own prosecutor, why have they not been prosecuting their priestly pedophiles? Are they waiting for the Wellington FL family attorneys to show up or what? If that’s the case, and I was a West Palm Beach FL family lawyer, I would be on your doorstep in a snap!

Priests never seem to have a need for Manhattan employment lawyers. But they do seem to have a need for criminal lawyers! You never hear about a New York employment discrimination lawyer been hired by a priest, do you? But it seems in recent decades, priests have had need for criminal lawyers a lot. That is, if the church doesn’t I need the accusations or crimes.

In fact, I think I have heard more about priests having problems with online casino gambling than anything else. It seems with the technology age it is much easier to play blackjack online than to go to a real casino.

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The owners of a family pizzeria in Connecticut are fighting back after the state’s Department of Labor began investigating them for allegedly violating child labor laws because there children help out on weekends.

Michael and his wife Migdalia Nuzzo filed a complaint in federal court on May 20 claiming that the Department of Labor was violating their civil rights.

“[The Department of Labor] is attacking my culture, my heritage and my tradition. This is the way we were raised,” Nuzzo told ABCNews.com. “I’ve learned more working for my father than I did at a four-year college where I got a degree in financial accounting.”

In his complaint, Nuzzo denied he did anything wrong by trying to teach their children the family business, a 55-year-old pizzeria named Grand Apizza in Clinton, Conn.

“Michael helps me make pizza, and he’s an excellent pizzaman just like I was when I was his age,” said Michael Nuzzo of his 13-year-old son with the same name.

According to the Nuzzo’s complaint, on May 12, a special investigator from the state’s Department of Labor came to the restaurant to inform the Nuzzo family that, under child labor laws, their children “could not be seen assisting their parents” in the restaurant.

Connecticut Department of Labor spokeswoman Nancy Steffens confirmed to ABCNews.com that they went to the Nuzzo restaurant after receiving a tip. She declined to go into more detail about who may have sparked the investigation.

“The investigation is still underway and we were basically just providing outreach and education, to notify the family that children under the age of 14 are not allowed to work in a commercial establishment,” said Steffens. “You can fine a restaurant but nothing like that was done. We were just letting them know the law.”

The case has been turned over to the state’s Attorney General’s office, who said in a statement that they are “carefully reviewing the allegations and facts surrounding the case,” but that there has been no enforcement action taken against the Nuzzos.

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Nuzzo Family Says Kids Learn Family Business in Pizzeria

The Nuzzos meanwhile say their children are devastated that they are barred from helping at the restaurant.

“Michael is very, very upset and doesn’t understand why people would do this,” said Nuzzo. “We’re not paying him. He just loves it. He’s learning the family trade.”

According to the complaint, the Nuzzos say their children “do not operate dangerous equipment, are not paid wages,” and “regularly attend public school.”

Asked whether his kids are ever allowed to skip school if they’re needed at the restaurant, Nuzzo said no, “Never during school. School is very important and I hope all three of them go to college.”

Nuzzo also said that Michael, while he does make pizza, never goes near the pizza ovens.

The family’s three children, Michael, 13, Brittany, 11, and Christopher, 8, only come to the restaurant on Friday nights and Saturday, when their grandfather – and the restaurant’s founder – is there as well, said Nuzzo.

“My father is 84 years old and when he sees his grandson helping him, it puts a twinkle in his eye. He’s so proud of his grandson,” he said.

“I hope the Department of Labor leaves me alone and lets my family live our life of tradition,” said Ruzzo.

Connecticut’s Child Labor Laws Don’t Allow Kids Under 14 to Work

It may not be that easy, according to Daniel Schwartz, a Hartford-based lawyer who is also the author of the Connecticut Employment Law Blog.

“The law is pretty clear that children, particularly under the age of 14, aren’t allowed to work,” said Schwartz. “Many many years ago the state said that they wanted kids to be in school, not at work.”

“There isn’t a family business loophole, which I think is certainly something that responsible parents could make a good argument for,” he said. “But the way the law is set up is to prevent the unscrupulous parents from taking advantage of their kids.”

“There has to be a balance for parents who are really trying to provide an education and real world experience versus parents who are taking advantage of free labor.”

Schwartz said that the states definition of the law is fairly circular, a child doing anything that “ads by you to a business” could very well be considered as such.

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My Take: It sounds to me that some customer is sticking their nose in where it doesn’t belong. They probably came in on a day that the young boy did something wrong and dad, mom or grandpa was chewing him out and didn’t like it. It happens when you take things out of context. I think it is a good thing that the young boy wants to be part of his family’s business and is willing to learn it. The state should leave them alone.

It might be different if he was paying his son and sending information to his payroll services. The state would have evidence that the boy is an employee. That would violate labor laws in my opinion. But, it doesn’t sound to me that the author even needs payroll solutions. If anything, he might need small business funding to expand his business.

In fact, a small business loan might help him increase his profits so that his kids could go to college in the future. I think it is great that he wants to send his kids to college. It sounds to me that at least one of his children wants to carry on the business when they grow up. Right now the boy is learning the business from the ground up. When he gets older he’ll probably learn how to use the credit card machines to take payments for pizza orders.

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On May 28, Arizona Attorney General and aides to the government that the federal government had serious reservations about the new immigration law by the Justice Department. Their response was a lawsuit wasn’t the answer.

“I told them we need solutions from Washington, not more lawsuits,” said Attorney General Terry Goddard, a Democrat.

The Justice Department initiated separate meetings by phone and face-to-face in Phoenix with Goddard and aides to Republican Gov. Jan Brewer to reach out to Arizona’s leaders and elicit information from state officials regarding the Obama administration’s concerns about the new law.

The strong message that the Justice Department representatives delivered at the private meetings — first with Goddard, then with Brewer’s staff — left little doubt that the Obama administration is prepared to go to court if necessary in a bid to block the new law, which takes effect July 29.

Five private lawsuits already filed

Goddard said he noted that five privately filed lawsuits already are pending in federal court to challenge the law.

“Every possible argument is being briefed,” said Goddard, who is running unopposed for his party’s nomination for the governor’s race.

Brewer, who is seeking re-election, later said in a statement that her legal team told the Justice Department officials that the law would be “vigorously defended all the way to the United States Supreme Court if necessary.”

The department officials, Brewer said, “Were advised that I believe the federal government should use its legal resources to fight illegal immigration, not the state of Arizona.”

“Key provisions of the sweeping law include a requirement that police enforcing any other law question people about their immigration status if there is “reasonable suspicion” that the people are in the country illegally. It also makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally.

Arizona has an estimated 460,000 illegal immigrants, and the law’s supporters contend it will save taxpayer money and reduce crime by pressuring illegal immigrants to “self-deport.”

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Racial profiling potential at issue

Federal officials and other critics fear the state law could lead to widespread racial profiling.

Goddard said it would be wrong to assume that Arizona law enforcement officers would not act in a fair and highly professional manner.”

Brewer, who has hired private attorneys to represent her in the pending cases, expressed unease with Goddard’s willingness to defend the law.

Goddard earlier vowed to defend it.

“While Senate Bill 1070 is far from perfect, it is a response to a very serious problem,” Goddard said. “I told the lawyers that it would be just plain wrong for the federal government to sue to stop Arizona from dealing with something that the federal government has ignored for so many years.”

Issue goes nationwide

The federal officials’ trip to Phoenix also was an effort to see if the two sides can find common ground in the debate, which has reignited immigration as a major political issue nationwide.

A number of other states are considering laws similar to Arizona’s.

Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller noted that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with a number of police chiefs Wednesday in Washington “to hear their concerns about the impact of the Arizona law on their ability to keep communities safe.

“We continue to have concerns that the law drives a wedge between law enforcement and the communities they serve and are examining it to see what options are available to the federal government,” Miller said.

Even though several Arizona associations that represent rank-and-file police officers support the law, numerous police chiefs have criticized the new immigration law

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My Take: Maybe Governor Jan Brewer should be wearing flame resistant clothing since she’s come under fire so much recently. I am one of those Arizonans who is tired of the Mexican-Americans complaining that they are not getting treated fairly. Considering that there are so many illegal Mexicans in the state, I wonder why they’re not treated fairly. These illegals are wearing their Carhartt clothing and driving new cars that our tax dollars pay for. Somebody had to do something!

What happens when a Mexican is working a construction site and is injured because of a defect in equipment or materials? His boss also claimed and the San Diego construction defect lawyer has not injured person as evidence of the defect because the person injured has disappeared. Why did they disappear, because they weren’t legally in the country?

That same San Diego CA construction lawyer would then advise the site boss to double-check his employees otherwise he will get fined for hiring illegals. Then you have the other Mexicans are working their legally hiring harassment attorneys because every time they turn around there getting checked to make sure their legal. But, FCRA lawyers are different. They work for the person who purchased the defective equipment and not the employee was injured.

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Drug Enforcement Administrative Air Wing pilots and planes had been put on standby alert by US law enforcement officials as they await the outcome of discussions between alleged Jamaican drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke and the US government. They are waiting to see whether Coke will be brought out of hiding in handcuffs or in a body bag.

US Marshals, DEA agents and federal prosecutors are working hand in hand with senior Jamaican military and police officials in an effort to effect a surrender and extradition of Coke, who is wanted on federal drug and firearms charges, to the United States.

At least 60 Jamaicans, including both civilians and security officers, have died since Jamaican authorities began moving in on Coke’s barricaded West Kingston neighborhood in an attempt to capture him Monday. The U.S. has wanted to extradite Coke since 2009, but the Jamaican government had resisted until this month.

The violence shows no signs of abating and has spread to adjoining neighborhoods. The police and military effort to curb it now has by some estimates “thousands” of troops on the streets. Jamaican authorities allege that Coke brought in gunmen from other parts of Jamaica and other Caribbean islands to help prevent his capture.

The 2009 U.S. indictment of Coke charges that he shipped firearms back to Jamaica from the U.S. The island nation has one of the highest murder rates in the Western Hemisphere. Nearly 1700 people were slain in 2009, out of a population of about three million, and as 2010 approaches the halfway mark about 1300 have already been killed.

On Tuesday, U.S. authorities said they believed Coke had escaped through a ring of hundreds of cops and soldiers who had surrounded the West Kingston neighborhood of Tivoli Gardens. Jamaican and U.S. authorities report that Coke may have slipped through police lines and escaped into one of two adjoining areas, either Denham Town or Jones Town.

Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding had resisted U.S. efforts to extradite Coke, citing doubts about the use of wiretaps to gather evidence against Coke. Golding dropped his resistance to Coke’s extradition during the week of May 10, 2010, under intense pressure from Jamaica’s main political parties, the ruling Jamaica Labour Parties (JLP) and the opposition People’s National Party, or PNP. On May 17th Golding announced that he would direct his Attorney General to sign an order that would allow Coke’s arrest.

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Following that announcement, the West Kingston communities allied to Coke began non-violent protests. But even then it was apparent to authorities that Coke’s supporters were gearing up for an armed confrontation. They fortified their neighborhood with sandbags, threw up road blocks, installed improvised explosive devices and electrified fencing, all in an effort to block Coke’s arrest.

Coke’s forces are heavily armed with an arsenal that includes automatic rifles and hand grenades. Authorities are attempting to confirm reports that the drug gang also has rocket launchers.

According to the indictment issued in New York in 2009, Coke is alleged to head an international criminal posse known as “The Shower Posse” that operates in Jamaica and the United States. He has been charged by U.S. authorities with conspiracy to distribute marijuana and cocaine and conspiracy to traffic in firearms.

Coke is alleged to have sold crack cocaine and marijuana in the New York area since the 1990s and to equip his gang members with illegally procured weapons.

Coke, aka “Presi,” “President,” “Dudus,” and “Shortman,” according to the indictment, is alleged to have sold more than 1000 pounds of pot and at least five kilos of cocaine during the period of the indictment, 1994 through 2007.

Coke’s posse allegedly operated out of the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood in West Kingston, which the indictment described as a garrison community, “a barricaded neighborhood guarded by a group of armed gunmen.” The indictment also alleged, however, that the Shower Posse had a presence in “other areas of Jamaica, and in other countries, including the United States.” At Coke’s direction, Shower Posse members allegedly sent firearms back to Jamaica, which has one of the highest murder rates in the Western Hemisphere.

Coke’s “power and influence” the indictment charged, enabled him to protect his posse as it shipped dope to New York and weapons to Jamaica. Coke’s alleged ties to Jamaica’s prime minister and ruling party have been a major factor influencing the US inability to extradite him in the past. Now plug ugly is going on inside now have

In March, the political opposition criticized Prime Minister Golding for allegedly hiring a lobbying firm in the US to fight the extradition of Coke. The Jamaican government did hire a firm to lobby the US over the treaty dispute according to lobbying documents. Golding said the effort was on behalf of his political party and not the government when he later admitted that he approved the hiring of the firm.

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My Take: I know this is costing millions of dollars, but is it worth it? This country is so far in debt now; do we really need to go further in debt over a drug lord? He is probably going to hire a Bucks County criminal lawyer and get off. At least, that’s what it seems to go for these crime lords.

I am sure that even a assault lawyer Philadelphia would defend this drug lord to his best ability. But sometimes, I wish lawyers would allow their morality or conscience to interfere in their work. I recently got a movie download where a lawyer did just that. Of course, he was reprimanded severely for doing it, but he did. Actually it was my mother’s choice of movie, it was a good movie but I prefer to download horror movies.

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