Ablene Cooper, a 60-year-old woman who has long worked as a maid in Jackson, Mississippi, has filed a lawsuit against Kathryn Stockett, the author of the best-selling novel “The Help,” about black maids working for white families in Jackson in the 1960s. In the complaint, Ms. Cooper argues that one of the book’s principal characters, Aibileen Clark, is an unpermitted appropriation of her name and image, which she finds emotionally distressing. It is more complicated than that. For the past dozen years, Ms. Cooper has worked for Ms. Stockett’s older brother, Robert, and sister-in-law, Carroll, and still does. The lawsuit, filed in Hinds County Circuit Court, contends that Kathryn Stockett was “asked not to use the name and likeness of Ablene” before the book was published, though it does not specify who asked. Ms. Cooper said that Ms. Stockett, for whose daughter she once baby-sat, had never talked to her about the book. Amy Einhorn, whose imprint at Penguin Group USA published the book, declined to discuss the suit in detail. “This is a beautifully written work of fiction, and we don’t think there is any basis to the legal claims,” she said in a statement. “We cannot comment further regarding ongoing litigation.” “The Help” was a breakout hit propelled by book groups and word-of-mouth, and received mostly strong reviews. A movie based on the book is scheduled for release this summer. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/books/18help.html?src=twr

Delaware Chancery Court judge Travis Laster on February 14 found that Barclays Capital “secretly and selfishly manipulated” the sale of Del Monte Foods Co. to a private-equity consortium, and held up the deal for at least 20 days. Many banks play both sides of takeover deals, hoping to earn big fees by simultaneously advising sellers and financing buyers. Laster said Barclays was “aided and abetted” by KKR, a finding that many bankers and lawyers said will also chill buyout firms’ more aggressive tactics in financing and winning deals. Specifically, Laster struck out at “staple financing” arrangements, in which a seller’s bank “staples” potential financing terms on its sales pitch to buyers. Financing arrangements are usually more profitable than fees for investment-banking advice, creating incentive for buy-side bankers to become sell-side underwriters. In general, bankers said much of Barclays’ behavior in typical of what financial advisers with big balance sheets do in a deal. Staple financing provided by Credit Suisse was a part of last year’s $6 billion sale of Pactiv Corp. to Reynolds Group Holding Ltd. Bank of America Merrill Lynch helped provide $1.7 billion for the sale of Michael Foods Inc. to GS Capital Partners. Staple financing can be an attractive proposition for a seller because it can create a floor on the offer price, while provides potential buyers with committed funds, making it easier to participate in an auction. “Everybody does it, but Barclays is the one that got caught with their hand in the cookie jar,” said one banker. “Now everybody has to rethink how we conduct ourselves in financing situations.” http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/02/18/the-current-talk-of-wall-street-lasters-del-monte-opinion/?mod=djemlawblog_h
Del Monte opinion: http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/021411lasterdelmonte.pdf

Elbow room: space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Elbow Room: The Varieties of Free Will Worth Wanting (1984) is a book by the American philosopher Daniel Dennett, which discusses the philosophical issues of free will and determinism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow_Room
The Elbow Room is a traditional nightclub in the Aston area of Birmingham, England. It played a significant part in the formation of the rock band, Traffic, in the late 1960s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elbow_Room
Elbow Room is a 1977 short story collection by American author James Alan McPherson. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1978. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbow_Room_(short_story_collection)
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There are Elbo Rooms (restaurants and bars) in Toledo, Chicago, San Francisco and Fort Lauderdale.

Use these tips from the Federal Trade Commission to tell if a Wi-Fi network is secure:
If a hotspot doesn’t require a password, it’s not secure.
If a hotspot asks for a password through the browser simply to grant access, or asks for a password for WEP (wired equivalent privacy) encryption, it’s best to proceed as if it were unsecured.
A hotspot is secure only if it asks the user to provide a WPA (wifi protected access) password. WPA2 is even more secure than WPA.
When using a Wi-Fi hotspot, only log in or send personal information to websites that you know are fully encrypted. The entire visit to each site should be encrypted – from log in until log out. If you think you’re logged in to an encrypted site but find yourself on an unencrypted page, log out right away.
Don’t stay permanently signed in to accounts. After using an account, log out.
Do not use the same password on different websites. It could give someone who gains access to one account access to many accounts. http://ftc.gov/opa/2011/02/wireless.shtm

Quotes attributed to Aristotle To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies." Variants: Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. A true friend is one soul in two bodies. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle

For people who like detective stories AND nursery rhymes Nursery Crimes Division series by Jasper Fforde with Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary
The Big Over Easy
The Fourth Bear
For people who like mysteries AND humor Lomax and Biggs series by Marshall Karp
The Rabbit Factory
Bloodthirsty
Flipping Out
Cut, Paste, Kill http://www.lomaxandbiggs.com/reviews-rabbitfactory.html