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ALLEGAN, Mich., Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Perrigo Company (Nasdaq: PRGO; TASE) today announced that it has entered into Cooperation and License agreements with Brilite Nutritionals (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. ("Brilite"), a Shanghai based infant nutrition company. Under these agreements, Perrigo will supply its Bright Beginnings™ infant formula brand to Brilite, which will exclusively source all its infant formula requirements from Perrigo's U.S. manufacturing facilities, for sale and distribution in Greater China. Shipping begins immediately.
Perrigo Chairman and CEO Joseph C. Papa stated, "This is the second agreement for premium infant formula distribution in China that Perrigo has signed in the last few weeks with more agreements to come soon. Infant formula is a new category for Brilite and we are proud to be their exclusive supplier. Brilite's proven executive team, innovative marketing, and retail distribution capabilities, will enhance the growth of our established brand."
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Graduating Senior Technology Checklist
Congratulations, Graduates!
Below you will find a list that covers technology "housekeeping" items to think about before you leave Hartwick. But first:
You will soon be alumni. There is a Web site dedicated to supporting the Hartwick alumni community which you can use to keep in touch with classmates, network with other graduates for job opportunities, etc.
What Happens after Graduation:
- Your E-mail Account
Your Hartwick e-mail account will remain enabled for one year after your graduation, at which time the account will be closed. If you wish to keep a Hartwick e-mail account permanently, you may request an alumni account by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. There is no charge to have an alumni account.
If you do request an alumni e-mail account, your current e-mail address will be changed one year following your graduation to the format firstname.lastname@example.com. You will be notified of the new address before it is changed. Your existing messages will still be there, and your password will be unchanged. Your old e-mail address will be retained as an alias to your alumni account, so that messages to that address will be received at your alumni address.
Whether you request an alumni account or allow your Hartwick e-mail account to close, it is your responsibility to notify any individuals of your new e-mail address and to edit any accounts such as Facebook, Netflix, Xbox, listservs, etc. that may be using your original Hartwick e-mail address.
- WebAdvisor Access
WebAdvisor access will end approximately one week after graduation. After that time, you may order transcripts through http://www.getmytranscript.com, using a credit card.
- Network Storage (M: Drive) and Web pages
Network storage (your M: drive) and Web pages will be deleted one year after your graduation.
- Desire2Learn (D2L) Access
D2L courses you were enrolled in will become unavailable after the last day of classes, unless an individual faculty member extends a course end date.
- WICKit Card
Any balance of $10 or more on your WICKit card will be credited to your student account once the office is notified of your graduate status. WICKit balances under $10 will be forfeited. Any resulting credit balance on your student account will be refunded. For seniors, WICKit card access to doors will be removed after graduation.
- Listservs and Mailing Lists
If you do not plan to keep your Hartwick e-mail account, please be sure to unsubscribe from any non-Hartwick mailing lists or listservs that you belong to.
- Warranty and Repairs on Hartwick-recommended laptops
The manufacturer's warranty for any Lenovo T520 or HP 6460b laptops purchased through the Hartwick recommended laptop program during summer 2011 will expire this summer. The exact date will depend on your date of purchase. You can call Lenovo at 1-800-426-3391 or HP at 1-800-474-6836 for warranty work. After your warranty expires, if you have any problems or need repairs, you can still call the Technology Resource Center (607-431-4357 or send e-mail to email@example.com). If parts for your machine are available, we will try to assist you. There will be a service charge, and you will be responsible for any shipping costs, but the charge will generally be less than having the work done by commercial vendors.
- Your Voice Mail Account
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For many parents, Lacrosse isn't easy to understand. For boys especially, the sport can be physical, resulting in bumps and bruises during the course of a match. In the girl's version, injury is less of a concern, but as with any sport, the possibility is always there.
Because of the various levels of understanding, and the highly competitive nature of the sport, U.S. Lacrosse has indicated some guidelines that parents should follow as they support their child's participation.
Learn the Rules
One of the most important things that parents of lacrosse players need to understand is study the rules of the game. Without this knowledge, it is difficult to discern between a legal hit and a non-legal hit. Parents who don't have this knowledge of the rules often attend lacrosse matches where they believe a foul is being committed against their child. Other times, a parent might yell out and suggest that their child hit another player illegally. Parents don't necessarily want anyone to get hurt, they just don't understand the parameters of the game.
Don't Obsess About Competition
While lacrosse can be very competitive, the most important element is the child having fun. There are children who naturally possess talent for the sport, and those who are destined to be a mediocre player regardless of how much they practice. Either scenario is just fine. Whether your child has special talent or not, it's important not to put all your eggs in the lacrosse players head, and let your child find his/her own goals and dreams where the sport is concerned. Athletic scholarships are increasingly becoming more rare, and pressuring a child to be good enough to achieve one just brings unnecessary stress.
Be There and Ask Questions
Part of being a lacrosse parent includes taking an active interest in the game. This means attending matches whenever possible, and asking your child questions about their experience. Avoid emphasizing on winning, and focus more on what your child is learning from and enjoying during practices and games.
Also, take time to ask the coaches and officials questions, preferably not during an actual match. These questions should be presented in a respectful manner, for example, if you are confused about a hit you believed to be foul, it's a good idea to get an explanation. Maintaining communication with everyone involved creates a social experience for everyone.
Respect Coaches, Officials, Other Parents, and Players
One of the cornerstones of lacrosse values is to respect the game. This means controlling impulses, especially aggressive ones, when attending matches. Yelling things like, "Nice job," or, "Great Block!" are appropriate and encouraged. Making specific suggestions on how your child should play is not. Coaches need to be able to coach without contradicting information from parents. The same goes for officials and the other players on the field.


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Google Rejects Skyhook's Allegations Over Phone-Location Service
Google Inc. rejected allegations that it undermined plans by Samsung Electronics Co. and the former Motorola Inc. to use a competing location-finding service on Android-based mobile phones.
Skyhook Wireless Inc., a closely held software company in Boston, claimed in a September lawsuit that Motorola and Samsung were willing to pay for its service until Google threatened to cut off the phonemakers' access to third-party applications in the Android Market. Motorola and Samsung rely on Google's Android operating system for some of their devices.
Google said it did nothing improper with regard to any contracts Skyhook had with the phonemakers, according to a May 13 filing in response to the lawsuit in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Superior Court in Boston. The service, a software system that uses Wi-Fi positions, GPS and cell-tower triangulation to pinpoint a phone's location, is used by advertisers and businesses to target potential customers.
"To the extent Google took any action that affected Skyhook, those actions were the lawful exercise of legitimate rights of Google and therefore are not actionable," Mountain View, California-based Google said in the filing. "If Skyhook suffered any damages, which is denied, then any such damages resulted solely from its own acts or omissions."
Skyhook and Google in 2005 talked about licensing the Skyhook XPS service and decided not to enter into an agreement. Google said Skyhook refused to provide information needed to verify claims about how well the service worked.
Rubin, Jha Conversation
Android creator Andy Rubin contacted then-Motorola Co-Chief Executive Officer Sanjay Jha to prevent Motorola from shipping Android phones with Skyhook's XPS software, Skyhook said in its complaint. Google called that allegation "so incomplete and misleading as to be false." It said that Rubin did call Jha "about Skyhook's failure and refusal at the time to comply with Android compatibility standards."
Jha now heads Libertyville, Illinois-based Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., the mobile-phone business spun off from Motorola in January. The remaining portions of the original company, which sell emergency-communication devices such as two-way radios and scanners, was renamed Motorola Solutions Inc.
In a separate complaint in federal court in Boston, Skyhook has claimed that Google infringed four of its patents related to ways to establish the precise location of a smartphone. Google has denied infringing the patents, and said in court filings that the patents are invalid.
The state case is Skyhook Wireless Inc. v. Google Inc., 2010-3652, Massachusetts Superior Court, Suffolk County (Boston). The patent case is Skyhook Wireless v. Google Inc., 10cv11571, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Boston).


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Oven-Roasted Asparagus with Browned Sage-Butter
- Active Time 10m
- Total Time 20m
8 Servings
Make this easy side dish in the spring, when asparagus is at its peak.
- 1 1/2 pounds thin asparagus, trimmed
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh sage
Preheat oven to 475 degrees F.
Place asparagus on rimmed large baking sheet. Drizzle oil over asparagus; toss to coat. Arrange asparagus evenly over baking sheet. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast in the oven until asparagus is crisp-tender and beginning to brown in spots, turning halfway through baking, about 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, cook butter in a small saucepan over medium heat until butter simmers and is pale golden brown, about 6 minutes. Add sage and simmer 1 minute longer. Remove from heat.
Drizzle sage butter over roasted asparagus. Toss to coat. Arrange asparagus on serving platter and serve.
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2012's Top 'New Security Beat' PostsJan 03, 2013
If 2011 was the year of political demography, then 2012 was perhaps when the full intersection of natural resource management, population dynamics, development, and security came into focus.
Global Warming Experts Should Think More About the Cold WarDec 22, 2012
Every year the United Nations convenes diplomats from more than 190 nations to negotiate a climate change treaty, and in many years negotiators go home with little more than the promise of another annual meeting. They might find at least three lessons from the history of arms control, writes Public Policy Scholar Ruth Greenspan Bell and Barry Blechman of the Stimson Center.
Can Mexico's Oil and Gas Production Keep Pace With the Nation's Energy Needs?Dec 20, 2012
During his campaign, recently elected Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto spoke of energy sector reform as a national priority. So is the time ripe for significant change? And is there agreement on the nature of the problems and preferred solutions? To gain perspective on the current situation and the potential for reform, we spoke with Mexican energy policy expert and Wilson Center Mexico Institute Director, Duncan Wood.
Linking the Environment and Women's Health at the World Conservation CongressNov 30, 2012
People don't often think of gender issues when they think of the environment, but in fact sustainable development in many of the world's most bio-diverse regions has a lot to do with women's health and well-being.
Petro Politics: Mixing Oil and WarOct 23, 2012
In many countries, oil tends to fuel civil and international conflicts. Wilson Center Fellow Jeff Colgan talks about the case studies to be featured in his forthcoming book due out in February 2013.
Regulating the Resource CurseOct 15, 2012
This summer, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new regulations requiring oil, gas, and mineral companies listed on U.S. stock exchanges to report payments to foreign governments. The aim of the effort is to reduce the kind of corruption and insecurity seen in places like Angola, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo – sometimes called the "resource curse." But, argues Wilson Center scholar Jeff Colgan, it may also help reduce international conflict between more developed countries as well.
Best of Both Worlds: Moving On, But Staying With ECSPAug 20, 2012
I have a bit of news to share. After 15 years at the Wilson Center, I will be moving back to my home town of Athens, Ohio, this fall to become a professor at Ohio University's Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs where I will serve as director of environmental studies and work in their campus-wide Consortium on Energy, Economics, and the Environment.
Wilson Center Announces New Program on Global Sustainability & ResilienceAug 17, 2012
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars today announced the creation of a new program to study the impact of global changes—such as population growth, resource scarcity, urbanization, migration, and economic development—on people's lives, from their environment and health to their security and economic wellbeing.
U.S. Drought, Climate Change Could Lead to More Food CrisesAug 16, 2012
As the world's largest exporter of corn, soybeans, and wheat, the United States is vital to the global food market. But this summer has seen the country's worst drought since 1956, and several other key grain-producing regions have been affected by abnormal weather this year as well.
Sizzling Summer: Is This What Climate Change Feels Like?Jul 25, 2012
In the wake of triple-digit heat and the sixth worst drought on record, many are wondering if this is what climate change feels like. With predictions suggesting this may be the new normal, we are also left to wonder about how prepared we are for increasingly extreme weather. Geoff Dabelko, Director of the Wilson Center's Environmental Change and Security Program, provides some perspective.


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Actually both, but mostly I was refering to the desire not to change "formats" from 35 to 38 unless necessary. Way things have been going with PC here in the US, one may have to get a conceal carry permit for both soon.
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This morning I had to do something on my blog and I couldn't login nor would my password arrive so instead I had to reset my password manually via phpMyAdmin. Once in there I noticed that the admin email had been changed to firstname.lastname@example.com, so I did a google search and found the same email email@example.com has been responsible for alot of internet site hacking.
How can I prevent this from happening on my blog again, as far as I can see nothing has been changed but the fact remains that if its been done once it could be done again and again. Is there some kind of firewall or some kind of way I can check I.P's of people who logged into my blog via admin and the password he created?


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Financial Trust Index: Faith in U.S. banks slides
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Jan 26, 2012 According to the Financial Trust Index, Americans have little faith in their investment options.
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Jan 9, 2012 In the face of the euro crisis, so many investors are desperate for a safe place to park money, they're paying the German government to hold onto their cash.
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Jan 3, 2012 The number of bank failures in 2011 fell from the previous year, but banks are far from being out of the woods just yet.
Bank of America stock tumbles below $5 a share
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Dec 16, 2011 U.S. banks are getting a harsh reception from ratings firms, regulators and even investors. Do they deserve the abuse?
Fitch downgrades major banks
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Jan 11, 2012 Ratings agency Fitch has downgraded major banks like Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, but the credibility of such agencies is also waning.
Banks are lending again
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Dec 12, 2011 Between July to September of this year, bank credit lending was up 10 percent -- the highest rate since before the Lehman Brothers collapse in 2008.
Banks are part of the solution
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Dec 9, 2011 Banks' reputations have taken a beating since the financial crisis. But one bank CEO says the banking industry can help turn the economy around -- just not all by itself.


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The Semiotics of Conflict
Catchwords may wield as much influence as Kalashnikovs.
As air strikes and rocket fire rained down on the Gaza Strip and southern Israel last December, a different kind of battle was set off on this side of the Atlantic. These combatants, armed with words in the place of weapons, wield rhetoric fraught with political baggage to burnish their arguments and discredit those of their rivals.
Likening Israeli control over Palestinian territory to the conditions found in South Africa under apartheid has become increasingly widespread, and student campaigns calling for divestment from companies that supply and support Israel are popping up at academic institutions. And last month, over 40 cities worldwide reportedly held events commemorating the fifth annual "Israeli Apartheid Week."
Using the word "apartheid" is controversial, but that's the point. Jimmy Carter used it in his 2006 book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has long compared the plight of Palestinians to that of black South Africans under the notorious regime.
"Language can be used in a political context just as it can in a marketing context," says Burt Alper, strategy director of Catchword Branding in Oakland, CA. Political branding, with its use (and misuse) of language and spin - once the purview of advertising - has now migrated to activism.
The goal of both advocates and critics of Israeli policy is to "get people out of the fog," Alper says. "When you use a loaded term, you are encouraging people who are in the middle to not just take a stance but take a stance against conventional wisdom, which tells us in this case in the US that Israel is the victim."
Comparisons, however, are seldom clear-cut: Arabs in Israel, for example, can vote and hold seats in parliament – unthinkable achievements for blacks living under South Africa's apartheid regime. Yet just as '70s-era laws in the US mandating police officers to meet certain height and weight requirements were not overtly sexist but excluded women in practice, realities on the ground reflect stark distinctions between Jewish and Arab counterparts.
If it is technically inaccurate, employing the word "apartheid" could be self-defeating, warns Johan D. van der Vyver, a South African-born professor of International Law and Human Rights at Emory University in Atlanta. "There is a political stigma attached to this word comfortably recognized in international law as a crime against humanity," he says, and it could turn people off instead of luring them to join the cause. Carter's use of the word may have even been detrimental to his message, as attention focused more on his terminology rather than the book's content.
The rhetorical battle has also manifested into action. A student group at Hampshire College in Massachusetts made headlines in February when it claimed victory in getting the school's board of trustees to change its investment policy in companies – such as Caterpillar, Motorola and General Electric – that the group identified to directly or indirectly "contribute and support Israel's military occupation."
While school officials quickly fired back that the divestment decision "was not made in reference to Israel," the students received a flood of requests from other universities across the country to help launch similar campaigns. In 1977, Hampshire College became the first institution of higher education in the US to divest from South Africa, and the group hopes its actions – or at least the publicity it produced – will set forth such a precedent again.
Comparing the Israeli government to the South African apartheid regime is "one sided anti-Israel propaganda," says Roz Rothstein, International Director of StandWithUs, a pro-Israel organization based in California. Others argue that it is unfair to single out one country when atrocities are committed everyday by a multitude of governments.
Divestment, the extraction of investments from one entity in order to pursue profits elsewhere, is at its core a neutral business term. Apartheid literally means separateness in Afrikaans. While these words may have signified little to the American public before 1948, they now hark back to the legally sanctioned and deliberate institutionalized racism that ruled South Africa for decades.
Divestment campaigns may end up doing little to change policy anyway; "If you boil it down, divestment campaigns occur because they make people feel good," says Usha C.V. Haley, a divestment expert and Asia Programs Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Though they are widely praised as dismantling the South African apartheid regime, Haley's survey of 322 American companies operating in South Africa over seven years found that most companies left the country because of a direct hit to their earnings – not political pressure. "Sanctions and boycotts unfortunately take a shot-gun approach to influencing multinationals," she says. "But it takes the ability to wield a scalpel to affect [their] profits directly." Economic tactics will not likely have an effect of influencing operations in Israel, she contends. "They will instead deflect the opposition to some symbolic measures and continue as before."
Whether the situation on the ground in Israel and Palestine reflects that of South Africa under apartheid will likely remain a point of contention for years to come. Ultimately, to what degree the divestment campaigns economically impact Israel and the companies that support it may be less important than what the labels of this conflict are able to produce in the minds of the American public and international community. If the rebranding attempts are successful, half the battle may already have been won.
Esmé E. Deprez is a New York-based journalist with a passion for covering foreign policy, business and politics, www.esmedeprez.com.


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George W. Bush first met Ariel Sharon in 1998 on a fact-finding trip to Israel when he was governor of Texas and contemplating a run for the White House. From the memorable helicopter tour he gave the future president on that visit until he was incapacitated by a stroke seven years later, Sharon tried to enlist Bush in his dual strategies of quelling a Palestinian uprising and fixing the Jewish state's permanent borders. Bush met him part way but had his own bold ideas: a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a Middle East where democracy replaced tyranny. Neither leader grasped the essential first step toward achieving his vision: a process of tedious negotiation and mutual compromise between Israel and its longtime enemies. Lost Years describes how two risk-taking leaders worsened the Middle East situation by pursuing parallel preemptive wars that destabilized the region. Mark Matthews documents how a series of opportunities to stem the bitter conflict were allowed to lapse due to a combination of inattention, deliberate evasion, political pressure, and sheer blindness.
"'Matthews, who covered the Middle East for the Baltimore Sun, documents the changes that the rise of George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon brought to the American-Israeli relationship in this ambitious journalistic effort. As earlier prospects for negotiations with Palestinians receded into the background, the two leaders pursued ambitious, sometimes conflicting and ultimately ill-fated plans to advance their interests unilaterally, a development which, in Matthews's analysis, reduced the chances for peace. Quoting extensively from politicians, military personnel and others in the U.S., Israel, the Palestinian territories and international organizations, Matthews offers a balanced, if opinionated, view of the conflict and of the major personalities that have shaped it. While the author paints relatively sympathetic portraits of Bush and Sharon, he is far less sanguine about the causes they have chosen to endorse, deploring missed opportunities to implement a two-state solution. He particularly faults Bush's grandiose visions of regime change and democracy promotion for weakening America's hand. Though numerous details and anecdotes provide more padding than relevance, Matthews's account remains readable and offers much of interest to the student of Israeli or American politics. (Sept.)' Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
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Mark Matthews, 55, is one of the most experienced and insightful journalists reporting on American policy in the Middle East today. He has covered the Arab-Israeli conflict for The Baltimore Sun for the past fifteen years and has earned a reputation for balanced, tough articles. During that period, he covered all the landmark events in Mideast diplomacy: the Madrid conference of 1991, the Yitzhak Rabin-Yasser Arafat handshake, the aftermath of Rabin's assassination, and the rise of the Intifada in 2000.
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Title: Beginning Strings Specialist
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Reports to: El Sistema Lehigh Valley Program Director
Hours: Approximately 16 hours per week – 90 day probation period
Start Date: August 2015
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El Sistema Lehigh Valley, a program of the Allentown Symphony Association, brings underserved and special needs youth a free opportunity to develop life skills learned by participating in high-quality daily music instruction, large ensemble experience and performances, and academic tutoring within a safe and nurturing environment. Participants will develop discipline, the ability to set and achieve long-term goals, and a sense of social responsibility inside a community that cherishes creativity, imagination, and music. This will empower the Lehigh Valley community when their young artists, respective families, and community members come together to celebrate the achievement of their youths.
El Sistema Lehigh Valley (ESLV) is an initiative of the Allentown Symphony Association (ASA), supported by the Allentown School District, to provide access to exceptional instrumental and orchestral education in order to promote youth development. Central to ESLV is the ASA's plan to build, with community partners, youth orchestras in underserved communities throughout the Lehigh Valley.
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Whoever put me on the Proactiv emailing list needs to know that my facial imperfections are the result of nature and the ravages of time. I do not need a three-month order of stuff to remedy adolescent blemishes.
If anything, I need a face peel. Maybe a skin graft.
Yet I am routinely getting e-mailed pitches from Proactiv. Okay, this is not funny either. I am not interested in a low-cost health plan from Blue Cross-Blue Shield unless it covers face peels without a co-pay. Besides, I already am covered by Blue Cross-Blue Shield, so the health insurer should not keep soliciting my business. And if I wanted a lower-cost health plan, I might respond to the pitch from Anthem Blue Cross, which promised me a lower-cost health plan via e-mail a day before Blue Cross-Blue Shield did.
Wait a minute. Aren't they essentially the same company?
Well, if not, they at least share the same e-mail prospective customer list.
And, by the way, although I'm fond of some animals, I do not wish to make a donation of 60 cents a day to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to get animals out of shelters and into homes. I don't even give that "homeless" guy panhandling on the corner 60 cents a day to get him out of a shelter and into a home.
I also do not need e-mailed pitches for free oil changes.
I also have no desire to use the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP), yet I get e-mails that keep harping on how I could pay off my mortgage in half the time if I used it. If I want to pay off my mortgage in half the time, I would double the payment. I don't need a government program to help me figure that out. Or an e-mail to remind me it's available.
I also don't want deals on cell service from BasicTalk, pitches from the University of Phoenix (it doesn't even have sports teams, for crying out loud), or invites to enter a Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes (do they even sell magazines anymore, or do they just publish sweepstakes entry forms?). Yet I continue to get e-mails from these outfits.
And another thing. If I get another emailed reminder from Facebook to check my site about how much has happened since I last logged in to Facebook, I will start forwarding all my junk e-mails to Mark Zuckerberg.
Yes, it has come to this.
Just when I thought I had limited junk mail in my mailbox by the road to only 3,000 credit card solicitations a day, my e-mail box is beginning to fill up with junk mail.
The thing is, I kind of closely guard my personal e-mail. But in the information age, my personal information seems to be leaking out all over the place.
I guess I might have expected this. After all, I signed up my phones on the DO NOT CALL list and still manage to get calls from people in Nigeria who have fortunes to share with me and from robots who want to clean my ductwork.
Of course, if I wanted to personally meet with the Nigerian who inherited a fortune and wants to share it with me, I probably could do this cheaply because the American Airlines rewards program I signed up for now e-mails me at least once a day offering cheap airfares to places I never would want to visit — such as Nigeria.
So I propose that federal legislators get on the ball and actually pass some meaningful legislation, such as a DO NOT E-MAIL registry. It would be a list of personal email addresses of people who do not want their e-mail inboxes cluttered with useless advertising pitches.
If they hired that company that made the Affordable Health Care Web site to maintain the list, I'm sure no one would be able to hack into it.
But there's more trouble on the unwanted advertising horizon. Companies now are embracing "gamification."
Because firms know we're suckers for mindless button-pressing, more and more e-mail pitches will invite recipients to play games linked to their products and services.
We play the games, we earn points or rewards that can be redeemed for coupons for products or services.
Gamifaction has been used by a few retailers (who don't need me to advertise for them) to attract and engage customers.
This is a welcome spin on gamification, which in some places has been used to measure employee on-the-job performance.
If you didn't score enough points, it was "game over" and you were out the door.
The problem with the new trend in gamification is that it will give companies even more incentive to send out even more unwanted e-mails, laden with gamification gimmicks.
But if you click through, chances are other advertisers will consider you fair game, and then it will be "game over" for your e-mail inbox.


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lol Swedish Boxing Fan, you again? why am i not surprised. Oscar outboxed Sturm? lol you need help buddy you really need help. That hatred is eating away at your senses.Posted February 22, 2013 6:51 am
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"I will be back!" to relative obscurity? help yourself.Posted February 21, 2013 12:30 pm
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Sturm's stock plummeted after he got beat-up by Macklin, but gifted by his hometown German judges. Then after losing to Geale and ducking Triple G, his career was swirling around the toilet bowl. Losing to that nobody Soliman in the IBF Title Eliminator was the final straw. Stick a fork in him because he's done and his career is over. Time to hang 'em up and get a desk job, Felix.Posted February 21, 2013 7:56 am
nobody wants to fight GGG,we know that.. personally i would like to see a round robin where Martinez/Geale/GGG/Quillan fight each other and then we will find out who really is the Middleweight kingPosted February 21, 2013 7:19 am
there called GUM trees you idiot ……!Posted February 21, 2013 6:15 am
Sturms only chance to win against an Australian is to play Possum, then jump like a Kangaroo and knock him out, he should stick to that theory, like a Koala up a Eucalyptus tree, he might win then.Posted February 20, 2013 9:59 pm
SOUR GRAPES? MUCH!!Posted February 20, 2013 6:32 pm
Im sure next time you will do better Felix, just buy your way to another title and avoid ggg, Germans should be ashamed that your there bestPosted February 20, 2013 6:27 pm
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Hey I have an better Idea :-) Just retire Felix Sturm and go away from boxing becouse no one outside Germany wants to see you in a world title fight again. You don't fight the best ones possible and never done it either accept the Oscar De La Hoya you was unanimus decision outboxed and got some somehow got sympathy that you won (?). Please retire becouse you have NEVER brought any ring excitment in your entire PRO career accept the 1st fight with former 2-time WBC light middleweight champ Javier Castillejo and yeah you got knocked out that time. Again retire and leave the ring.Posted February 20, 2013 5:58 pm
no mention of Triple G ?Posted February 20, 2013 1:17 pm
"I'll be back in Germany and I'll ONLY fight in Germany with my German judges too"Posted February 20, 2013 12:45 pm
Hallo Felix,
The El Paso Fight Prophet
How bout this ass clown fight GGG.Posted February 20, 2013 11:59 am


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OK guys and gals, it's been WAY too long since we had a TriJVM Hack Night. That's mostly my fault, but anyway... it's time to get together and hack again! So, if you're doing Java, Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Android, Beanshell, JRuby, Jython, Nice, Fantom, Yeti or what-have-you, bring a laptop, smartphone, or tablet (or a mainframe, whatever floats your boat) to Panera Bread @ Southpoint on Wed. Sept 21, 2011 around 6:00 - until... and let's hack.
I'll probably be focusing on Android stuff that night, now that I have a rooted Nook Color to play with, so cross-posting this to the TriDroid group as well.
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I know wolves are devasating the our deer and elk herds but you have to admit they the ulimate predator....just wish they would eat what they kill. With that said I think the western states need to do all they can to get the wolves under control or we will lose out great elk and deer herds!!


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Never trust a stranger with a flat tire. Never park more than six spaces from your destination. Never be stranded. In Koethi Zan's debut thriller The Never List, Sarah and her best friend Jennifer became obsessed with creating what they called the Never List after they were in a car accident when they were 12. The list was their own guide to avoiding anything that might lead them into danger. Throughout their teen years, they studied statistics and filled notebooks with rules to help them avoid situations that might make them vulnerable. Even though the girls were vigilant about following their rules, the unthinkable happened, and they were abducted. Sarah never saw Jennifer again.
Ten years later, Sarah has a new identity. She rarely leaves her New York City apartment, choosing to remain in her safe haven whenever possible. When she learns that her sadistic captor is up for parole, she becomes obsessed with understanding the clues that she thinks he has hidden in his recent letters. This sends Sarah on a journey to try to find evidence that will keep him in jail. The Never List is a gripping psychological thriller. Sarah's terror is palpable in the first-person narrative. Zan slowly doles out the details of the kidnapping as the book progresses, leaving the reader breathlessly awaiting the next piece of the puzzle.
Although it was written over two years ago, this novel contains eerie similarities to the Ariel Castro case, in which he kidnapped and held his victims for more than a decade. Zan was shocked by the parallels. She addressed the astonishing coincidence in this recent interview.
"Is Samantha Shannon the next J.K. Rowling?" That's the question asked in the July 15th edition of Forbes magazine. Shannon's debut novel, The Bone Season, is the first in what's expected to be a seven-part series. The novel begins in an alternate universe in the year 2059, about 200 years after a plague covered the planet causing some of the population to become clairvoyant. In the world Shannon has created, there are guards who protect the Scion city of London from clairvoyants because the general population has been told that clairvoyants are dangerous. This futuristic world is a totalitarian society where clairvoyants have to hide their abilities and are treated as criminals.
Paige Mahoney is the 19-year-old protagonist of this science fiction thriller. She is called the "Pale Dreamer" because she's a dream walker, a rare form of clairvoyant. All clairvoyants have a specialty, an area of the sixth sense at which they excel, and Paige's spirit is able to leave her body and travel into the aether to visit the thoughts and dreams of others. She uses her gift for an underground crime syndicate that employs clairvoyants in a variety of ways depending on their abilities. The lifestyle allows Paige to be around others like her and not feel ashamed of her gifts.
The Pale Dreamer's world is thrown into chaos when underguards discover that she is clairvoyant. She is taken captive and detained with others who have similar abilities. She must learn about herself and her gift in order to regain her freedom, but the task is greater than it seems and failing isn't an option.
This is an incredibly unique book by a debut author. According to The Bone Season's website, the book's movie rights have already been claimed by The Imaginarium studios.
Anguish over the loss of a child is life altering and permanent. Just suppose, years later, a stranger tells you that your child may still be alive. That unimaginable scenario greets Geniver (Gen) Loxley in Sophie McKenzie's tightly wound new thriller Close My Eyes, where the still grieving mother's encounter with an unexpected visitor leads to an unthinkable possibility.
After eight long years, life is standing still for the childless Gen. Despite a comfortable, albeit boring, life with her ambitious and devoted husband Art, the former writer and part-time teacher can't seem to move past the death of her stillborn daughter, Beth. When Gen's husband suggests they keep trying for another child his sullen wife resists. Then one day out of the blue, a woman appears at their door with an incredible accusation: the Loxley baby was born alive and healthy. For the fragile Gen, it is about as cruel a joke as possible. Her emotional unraveling worries her husband and her best friend, both of whom dismiss outright the stranger's claims. When one coincidence too many does not add up, Gen plummets into a wave of confusion and doubt. What really did happen in the operating room years earlier? It is true; she never saw her dead daughter. As she sets out to revisit the past she discovers an equally devastating reality may await her.
The London-born McKenzie, whose previous works included children and teen novels published in the United Kingdom, has crafted a roller coaster plot with flawed characters and a disturbing narrative. Fans of last summer's mega-hit Gone Girl will be hooked by another enticing and twisty psychological thriller that visits a dark place with unsettling consequences. It is not likely to disappoint.
Love learning new things while also reading a page-turning historical thriller? Check out David Morrell's Murder as a Fine Art. Set in Victorian England, Morrell's "hero" is the essayist Thomas De Quincey, author of Confessions of an Opium Eater.
A heinous crime is committed in 1854, England. The gruesome methods of the crime are lifted directly from a De Quincey essay, "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts." As it happens, De Quincey and his daughter Emily were in England at the time of the murder. He suddenly becomes a prime suspect. With the help of a couple of Scotland Yard detectives, it will be up to De Quincey and Emily to prove his innocence and find the killer.
De Quincey is a fascinating historical figure. He wrote about the inner psyche decades before Sigmund Freud and was surrounded by artistic friends such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Murder as a Fine Art is one part novel and one part history lesson. Scotland Yard was still relatively new, and investigative techniques were still rather primitive. Morrell gives his readers a real sense of Victorian England, with its straight-laced exterior hiding a dark underbelly of vice.
For additional historical thrillers set in the Victorian era, check out The Alienist by Caleb Carr and Alex Grecian's The Yard. For an excellent nonfiction treatment of crime in the Victorian era, see Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective.
Charlie Davis is a political reporter for the Los Angeles Times, but becomes an investigator in search of his wife when she goes missing. Out of Range by Hank Steinberg is an action-packed adventure that leads Charlie and readers to Uzbekistan, the country where Charlie and his wife Julie fell in love. Six years ago, the young couple lived happily in Uzbekistan where he worked as a reporter and they were awaiting the birth of their first child. But tragedy soon struck as they were caught up in a massacre which wounded them both and took the life of their friends' young son. Following that brush with death, Charlie resolved to keep his family safe. They returned to the security of the States and Charlie began his staid job at the Times.
Fast forward six years and the danger has resurfaced. While on a trip to Disneyland with their two children, Julie is forced from her car and vanishes. Following Julie's kidnapping, Charlie becomes the police's primary focus. Since the cops aren't on the right trail, Charlie is determined to find out who took his wife. While investigating Julie's days leading up to the disappearance, he finds clues indicating that perhaps Julie wasn't the happy stay-at-home mom he thought she was. She's been hiding secrets which now threaten her entire family. All roads lead Charlie back to Uzbekistan, and while attempting to rescue his wife, he must thwart a terrorist plot, outsmart his own kidnappers, and deal with MI6.
This debut thriller is from the creator of the television series Without a Trace. Steinberg illustrates the dangerous world of international espionage in a fast-paced tale that is full of twists and turns with an intriguing cast of characters.
Elizabeth L. Silver's debut novel The Execution of Noa P. Singleton is the kind of book that leaves the reader thinking about it long after finishing the last page. As the story begins, Noa is on death row awaiting X-Day, the day of her execution, when Marlene Dixon, the mother of her victim Sarah, approaches her. Marlene is a prominent Philadelphia attorney who tells Noa that she has changed her stance on the death penalty. Marlene says that she has formed a new nonprofit organization called Mothers Against Death, and she offers to petition for clemency on Noa's behalf. What she really wants is for Noa to explain why she shot Sarah. During her trial and sentencing, Noa did not speak to defend herself. She did not offer any explanation for Sarah's death.
The story is told through narratives written by Noa as X-Day approaches and letters that Marlene writes to Sarah at the same time. The truth is a murky thing that Silver slowly reveals over the course of the novel. The idea that both guilt and innocence exist on a spectrum is at the heart of the story. Neither of the women is what she seems to be in the beginning, and both share the burden of guilt to some degree. As Noa's execution draws near, the reader realizes the complexity of the situation and must consider the difference between moral guilt and legal guilt. The Execution of Noa P. Singleton is a complex, character-driven psychological thriller that will yield heated discussions at your next book club meeting.
What happens when a girl who shouldn't have survived a violent attack hunts a killer who shouldn't be able to exist? This is the story at the center of the hypnotic web that South African author Lauren Beukes creates in her new thriller The Shining Girls. In the 1930s, serial killer Harper Curtis found something magical that has made his murders almost unsolvable. The front door of his house opens onto different times, allowing him to travel back and forth through time to find his girls. He finds himself drawn to some girls because they shine; their lives are full of promise. He murders the girls, leaving trophies from his kills in other times at the grisly murder scenes. He is confident that he'll never be found, so he begins to go back to visit his girls when they are children, years before he kills them.
Kirby Mazrachi is a survivor. In 1989, she was attacked by a serial killer and left for dead. She is determined to find answers. She becomes an intern at the Chicago Sun-Times and works with Dan Velasquez, a former homicide reporter who wrote about her attack. She begins to find answers, but Kirby quickly realizes that the more she learns, the more impossible it all seems. Tension builds as readers realize that Kirby and Harper are on a collision course to meet again. Beukes has created a chilling, genre-bending thriller that may ruin the childhood toy My Little Pony for you forever. For a sneak peak at the novel, watch this book trailer that will make you sleep with the lights on tonight!
Bestselling political thriller author Vince Flynn passed away today at age 47, a victim of prostate cancer. Flynn was known as the creator of the popular character Mitch Rapp, a counter-terrorism operative who works for the CIA.
A native of Minnesota, Flynn began his career working for Kraft Foods, as a sales and marketing specialist. He aspired to be an aviator with the Marines, but was medically disqualified from officer candidate school. A self-imposed extreme program of reading everything he could get his hands on and writing daily helped him to overcome some of his difficulties with dyslexia. His love of espionage thrillers led him to try his hand at writing them.
He has published fourteen such books, creating a loyal fan following and becoming a fixture on The New York Times Bestsellers List. His conservative political views also made him a popular guest on the Glenn Beck program on Fox News. Flynn also served as a consultant on the fifth season of the television series 24. You can follow Mitch Rapp from the beginning in his first appearance on the page in Transfer of Power. His latest adventure unfolds in The Last Man, where Rapp must head to Afghanistan to track down a CIA agent who has gone missing. Readers can look forward to yet another Rapp thriller this fall; Flynn's The Survivor is set to be released on October 8.
The literary world has never lacked for crime-solving heroines who cleverly and genteelly solve all manner of conundrum. There is, however, a new breed of women in town and they are also cracking cases but in a decidedly angry, messy, and bloody way. Meet Vanessa Michael Munroe in The Doll by Taylor Stevens, and Frieda Klein in Tuesday's Gone by Nicci French.
Raised in Africa by her American missionary parents, Munroe is tough. She likes to go on missions disguised as a man, has an amazing facility for languages, relishes physical combat, and harbors a rage which drives her to tackle the seamy international underworld of human trafficking. In The Doll, she is working for the independent security firm Capstone when she is abducted by minions of the creepy Doll Man. She must match wits with him in order to save herself and the next "doll." Author Stevens was raised in the Children of God cult, infamous for its alleged sexual practices involving the children in the group's care. This is her third book in the fast-paced Munroe series.
British psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds herself working with the police once again in Tuesday's Gone. Called in to analyze both a bizarre crime scene and the nearly catatonic probable perpetrator of the murder, Klein believes the solution isn't as easy and obvious as the chief of police would like it to be and is drawn into the investigation. French (actually a husband/wife writing duo) is skilled at creating complex psychological thrillers, and as Klein works to untangle the clues and prove one suspect innocent, she can't shake the feeling that she is being watched and manipulated. Look for Klein to make repeat appearances in this days-of-the-week series which began with Blue Monday.
Take one American working as the head of security at the Paris embassy, add one psychologically disturbed killer suffering from a traumatic past life and throw in a murder in the historic Père Lachaise cemetery, close to the final resting spot of Jim Morrison, and you will find yourself in the middle of The Crypt Thief by Mark Pryor, a cracking good thriller featuring Hugo Marston. Hugo is an accomplished profiler, so when an American tourist is shot while apparently sightseeing in the cemetery, he is immediately notified. The victim turns out to be the son of a United States senator. When the woman he was with is identified as a Pakistani traveling on a false passport, red flags are raised and the embassy begins to fear the work of terrorists. Hugo is not convinced. The crime itself does not strike him as being the work of a professional assassin. The type of weapon, the location of the wounds on the body, and the apparent removal of a tattoo on the woman's arm all point to someone with a more personal interest in the victims. The senator doesn't hold with this theory and wants to not only release information to the press that may cause a city wide panic, but also begin a manhunt for the female victim's traveling companion who may have links to terrorist groups. Hugo must work quickly to solve the crime before all hell breaks loose.
The Crypt Thief is the second in the Hugo Marston series that started with The Bookseller. Pryor creates an interesting thriller featuring a demented killer with added elements of investigation that will appeal to mystery lovers. He also includes interesting tidbits about the city of Paris, so readers who appreciate good detail about the locale will find plenty to enjoy.
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