text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Pills Diet Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Pills Diet Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Health and Fitness View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message PriyawatJoined: 23 Nov 2010Posts: 2 Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 7:39 am Post subject: Pills Diet Pills that's many sales in the market or on the Internet are many types and property is different. Indeed the pills are many category. Each category will be to act or control systems in the body varies. Can be divided into 8 main groups. And will just an example for 3 group to see the advantages and disadvantages 1. The drug make don't want to eat This group of drugs acting on the brain la Thomas Tha hypochlorite in part of the control center for food. That's make loss of appetite or do not want to eat. 2. Diuretics drug These drug help push water out your of body, cause frequent urine ,help you to lose weight quickly. But if you use for long time your health can lacking minerals and water. 3. Hormone drug The most of are Thyroid hormone. This action makes the body burn more energy. When energy is used to more accumulate weight is decreased, but the very heart trembling and sweating like a disease thyroid gland poisoning. Will be seen that each type of drug actually losing weight, but when used as a time as any to make the disadvantage to the body. Back to top AlyssaMJoined: 22 Nov 2010Posts: 20 Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 11:03 am Post subject: I would avoid most any pill diet because they are so intense. They are focused on crash diets and not eating healthy and exercising. It's very important to do these things, and a pill is NOT a magic cure for fat loss. If you are a new mother like me who is trying to lose baby weight, and you are breastfeeding, please avoid diet pills because it can affect your baby!_________________post pregnancy tummy | belly after pregnancy | losing pregnancy weight Back to top wafflickaJoined: 23 Jun 2011Posts: 1 Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:31 am Post subject: Diet pills Everybody would always choose the easier way,either how to live or how to loose weight. But the pills are not really the right choice,don't you think? You should rather eat healthy food,avoid fastfood, sweet and regular exercise.. I know it's so easy to write such things but hard to do.. I also try to loose weight and although it's really hard I want to achieve it by the more natural way..Good luck _________________wanna chat with somebody about whatever Back to top TofayelJoined: 04 May 2011Posts: 23Location: Bangladesh Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 12:38 am Post subject: Pills Diet We should remember, every medicine has side effect. So without extreme requirement, we should not take medicine. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Health and Fitness All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Prayer in the Office
Edwina Gately
20th Century English-born poet
and lay minister
Where is my solitude now, my God?
Where the peace, the stillness
That I might find You?
Where the silence in which to hear
Your voice, my God?
Is it that I must seek You out
In the constant stream of callers?
That I must hear Your voice
In the telephone calls and
Conversations? Is it that I must look for You
In the endless stream of traffic which
Passes my door?
Where are You, my God,
When I have no solitude
In which to stop,
To turn and look at You
In silent greeting?


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At 68, Wayne Reisberg likes to stay active. A volunteer track and field coach at Century, he walks a lot, throws the discus and enjoys traveling around the country with his wife Pauline.
Reisberg combined sports with travel a few years back and began competing in the Senior Olympics. Last month, he finished ninth in the discus in the 65-69 age group at the national senior games in Houston with a throw of 109 feet, six inches. It was an improvement from his 14th-place finish in the 60-64 age group four years ago in Louisville.
"It's an excuse to travel somewhere else with the wife," Reisberg said. "We had never been to Kentucky, so we went down to Mammoth Cave while we were there. This one, we [went] down to Galveston on the Gulf Coast and to NASA, the [Johnson] Space Center in Houston. We did a trip last August out to the Northwest and we figured there's only about six states I haven't been in and about eight she hasn't. One of them was Texas."
The retired social studies teacher coached the South Carroll track team from 1967 to 1999. Later, while filling in as a substitute teacher at Century, one of his students said the Knights were losing their cross country coaches. He took the job for a few years.
Since 2004, he's helped with the track team, coaching discus and shot put.
"I enjoy the closer contact with the teenagers," said Reisberg, who has three grandchildren. "I guess I'm an encourager. The other thing I probably got the most out of in my life is teaching driver's ed. Just to see kids progress from being scared of driving to being proficient. Same thing in throwing. It needs a lot of skill, and it's rewarding to see kids progressing when they work hard."
Reisberg played soccer and baseball in high school at Milford Mill, but when he got to Catonsville Community College, there was no baseball team, so he joined the track and field team. He started throwing the discus, shot put and javelin.
He now throws the discus 15 to 20 times each day, either at Century or in his back yard, and he still loves coaching.
"My wife sort of said I should stop coaching and then we could travel more, but we have a great bunch of juniors coming back," he said. "She saw my enthusiasm and she said, 'Why don't you just keep coaching? You enjoy it so much.'"
After the senior Olympics, the Reisbergs headed to Lake Placid for a family vacation.
They'll also spend part of this summer working at the Baltimore County Christian Work Camp, improving houses and cleaning up yards for elderly and disabled residents. Then, they'll pack up and head for another work camp based at Frostburg State with fellow members of the Wards Chapel United Methodist Church, including their daughter Wendy Miller and granddaughter Rachael Miller.
Following is a look at what some other local high school coaches are up to this summer:
Herman 'Tree' Harried, Lake Clifton, boys basketball
It wasn't long ago that Herman "Tree" Harried was mentoring a promising young point guard in one of the many summer basketball camps he's helped instruct in the 14 years he's been head coach at Lake Clifton. What impressed Harried the most about this camper, Chris Paul, was his willingness to listen and consistently give it his all.
These days, Paul is playing for the New Orleans Hornets and is regarded as one of the finest point guards in the NBA. Every summer, he gives back with his own CP3 Elite Basketball Camp in Winston-Salem, N.C.
And whom did he choose to be the camp director? Harried.
For Harried, a former Dunbar and Syracuse standout, the opportunity to teach basketball and life lessons to youth from all over the country and the world is his calling. He recently wrapped up Paul's camp and next up is the LeBron James Skills Academy in Akron, Ohio, where Harried is serving as a camp counselor.
He'll close out the summer back home running the Herman "Tree" Harried Basketball Skills Academy. Joining him at all the camps this summer is his son Armon, 10.
"It's great teaching young men at the national level, and I enjoy seeing the different attitudes of players from all over the world," said Harried, who has also traveled abroad as an assistant coach on U.S. youth national teams. "It's a great experience to interact and socialize with players and other coaches throughout the basketball community."
Albert Holley, Milford Mill, boys basketball
For the past eight years, Albert Holley, who has guided the Millers to two straight state championships and three consecutive Baltimore County crowns, has jumped from coaching his high school team to summer league AAU ball.
This summer, Holley is exchanging the hardwood for the woods.
The Millers' fifth-year coach is serving as athletic director at Timber Ridge Camp, located in the heart of the Shenandoah Mountains in West Virginia.
The two-month camp, which has been around for over 50 years, will host more than 250 children ages 6 to 16 from across the world. Holley is in charge of organizing the daily sports activities, which include tennis, volleyball, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, football and, of course, basketball. Joining him will be his oldest daughter, seven-year-old Nyla.
"It's in the middle of nowhere, the air is fresh," Holley said. "It's a good place to clear your mind and recharge the batteries."
Ginny Dauses, St. Mary's, volleyball
Ginny Dauses, who works in campus Ministry at the Annapolis school, is spending her summer helping St. Mary's students learn more about themselves and their faith through working for the less fortunate and interacting with other Catholic youth from around the world.
Last month, Dauses took about 30 students to Catholic Heart Work Camp in Tampa, Fla. She has worked at one of the camps, building houses and doing other chores for the needy, across the country for 20 years and has taken a group from St. Mary's for six years. She said the trip helps her get to know the students on a different level.
"From a coach's perspective, in a lot of ways it teaches kids more about teamwork than what they would learn on the field or on the court in the sense that they're living together for a week, eating together, doing everything together," said Dauses, the Saints' JV volleyball coach. "There's no break time. We didn't have air conditioning at the work camp, so I think it bonds a group more than anything else I've ever experienced."
In mid-August, Dauses will take another group of about 30 to World Youth Day in Madrid, an event held every three years that draws Catholic youth from all over the world and culminates in Mass said by the Pope. She has also been to previous World Youth Days in Canada and Germany.
"It teaches the kids a lot about the Christian atmosphere at a Catholic high school, that sports isn't the end-all, be-all of life," said Dauses, who is joined on both trips by assistant coach Leonie Beck. "It reminds them of what's more important. Sports is there to teach you life lessons, and I think these kids realize that when they experience the poor like they do at work camps or experience, literally, the world through other cultures at World Youth Day."
Lawrence Smith, Dunbar, football and softball
Smith is best known as one of the area's most successful high school football coaches, leading the Poets to their fourth state title in five years last fall. But his summer plans revolve largely around another sport — softball.
Not only does Smith help coach daughter Maya's club softball team, the Parkville Thunder, but the whole family travels to many of her club tournaments. They always fit in a few side trips as mini-vacations, because there's just no time for Smith and his wife Kimika to take a longer vacation with Maya, 14, who will be a sophomore at Mercy in the fall, and her brother Marlon, 8.
"Summer's a great time that we try to balance things out, because once football starts, they know football is an everyday thing," Smith said. "They know that I'm going to be mostly gone during football, so [in the] summer, we use tournaments to get away. [Last month,] when we were in Chambersburg, Pa., for a national tournament, we took a day off and we went to Hershey Park."
Maya's club schedule keeps them moving up and down the East Coast all summer. Marlon plays baseball, but his games are still local. Their dad has commitments to local football camps and clinics as well as making sure the Poets' summer workouts, camps and seven-on-seven competitions are coordinated by his assistant coaches. In addition, he teaches four weeks of in-service classes to other Baltimore City Public Schools police officers.
For Smith — who also coaches the Poets' softball team — the two sports are complementary.
"I love coaching softball as much as I love coaching football," he said. "It's another outlet. I love the girls. They try to accomplish the same things as the boys, get into college. I've been around these girls the past five years at Parkville. These girls are really pushing themselves, and that's what I enjoy. Plus, I love coaching my daughter."
Becky Trumbo, Century, volleyball and girls lacrosse
Since Sept. 2, Becky Trumbo has known exactly what she would be doing this summer. That's the day Tim Groves proposed marriage.
A phys ed teacher at Century, Trumbo wanted a summer wedding, so the couple used the winter months — before the hectic lacrosse season — to find her dress and plan for the church, the reception hall and a honeymoon in the Bahamas.
Still, there's been a lot to do before Trumbo walks down the aisle July 24 in front of 120 guests at Liberty Reform Presbyterian Church.
She had final arrangements to make with the photographer, the DJ and the reception hall. She worked a few volleyball camps, including two with her brother Brian, a groomsman in the wedding. A trip to Ocean City with the family gave her time to tan. She's also moving — from the house she bought the day before she met Groves, an emergency room physician's assistant, into his house.
"There's a million things to do," Trumbo said. "Life is so hectic right now. I would say it's stressful, but exciting. It's one of the best times of my life."
Katherine Dunn reported on Reisberg, Dauses, Smith and Trumbo. Glenn Graham reported on Harried and Holley.


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Friday, November 26, 2010
Stornoway - We are the battery human
So this might get taken down quickly, but hopefully I can share a bit of love for a band that loves Fleet Foxes and the Decemberists in almost equal measure, with extra banjo. A late entry for the best album I've heard released this year (are we doing one this year Beth?), Stornaway's Beachcomber's Windowsill start with a touch of plainsong about zorbing and drifts off into sea shanties and the folkier end of rock and pop, but don't let that put you off.
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Happy elections day
Not bad, not bad at all. I'm happy with the preliminary results, 78-80% to Mubarak, 12% to Nour, and 5-7% to Goma'a. Maybe now, we can start to doubt the Oneness of our president, and start realizing that this is only a characteristic of God. Can you imagine what would've happened if the boycotting parties had joined, and if Kefaya had encouraged people to go vote instead of boycott, and if people had voting cards?
Better yet, can you imagine what a rerun would look like. How many would participate in that one, how many would see Ayman Nour as a viable candidate now after the performance he did in the first run. Could be really something, but its not gonna happen.
Indeed, I am proud of Egyptians. Something was different with Egypt yesterday, and Egyptians made it so, and they can do even better next time. Just keep the heat please. Mubarak's alternatives might be poor and not ready to manage a country like Egypt, especially in its current state. But what's important is to establish people's ownership of their country and of their destiny, and to prove that they can shake an established system that has been too comfortable in power for too long. A tiny shake, but start noticing what a simple act like a simple vote by simple persistant people can do.
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The California Employment Development Department (EDD) has received official notice from the U.S. Department of Labor that California will be losing Tier 4 federal benefits, a cut of up to 10 weeks of unemployment benefits for potential recipients.
The cancellation resulted from current trends in California's unemployment rate. For a state to acquire Tier 4 extensions, it must have a three-month unemployment rate of 9% or higher. California's three-month average posted at below 9%, with June's average coming in at 8.8%.
Without Tier 4 benefits, California will have to reduce its maximum benefits from 73 to 63 weeks. The expiration date for these additional weeks will be Aug. 11.
Patti Roberts, a spokesperson for the EDD's Sacramento office, explained that if a recipient was already on Tier 4 or will be filing for it before Aug. 11, they will still be eligible to take the extension. Meeting the above criteria, recipients may acquire Tier 4 benefits until Dec. 28 or the benefits run out.
When asked how the cuts will influence counties at the local level, Roberts said, "Anyone on unemployment now will potentially be affected," noting it is difficult to say exactly what the impact will be since not all people currently on unemployment will require Tier 4 extensions or be eligible for them.
This is the second time unemployment benefits have been hit in 2013. Earlier in the year, Congress required all states to perform a sequestration cut on the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation, forcing California to reduce maximum benefit pay outs by 17.69% on April 28.
In 2012, the maximum amount of state and federal benefits was up to 99 weeks, but the loss of the Federal-State Extended Duration and cuts to other Tiers reduced it to 73 weeks as of Sept 2, 2012.
Roberts said she urges anyone who believes they may be affected by the changes to follow the EDD's website, Facebook page or Twitter feed, as the department will keep all three up-to-date on current developments.
According to the EDD's website, an estimated "100,000 Californians are currently collecting benefits as part of the Tier 3 federal extension and will be the first to be impacted by the loss of Tier 4 eligibility."
The website also notes that more than 750,000 people are currently certified for benefits in California, with almost half collecting federal extension claims.
With benefits?: Unemployment down as benefits get reduced
The California Employment Development Department (EDD) has received official notice from the U.S. Department of Labor that California will be losing Tier 4 federal benefits, a cut of up to 10 weeks of unemployment benefits for potential recipients.


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It's been a long year, riddled with many deaths. In memory of all the friends and even foes we've watched die in video games, here's a montage (of some, not all) of them put into one video.
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Oh yeah... that sure sounds like a labor of love.
Give it up. As much as you'd like everyone to believe it's none of our business--that it's strictly between Amazon and you, it's our traffic and our browsers. We have an inherent say in the matter whether you recognize it or not.
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Should/shouldn't isn't relevant here.
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Ah but we SHOULD ensure that affiliates are handsomely rewarded for posting links to free books. It's our moral duty.
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Ah now I see where you are coming from. As a business owner your agreement with contractors is confidential to those that use your service. Your agreement with Amazon is emblazoned on the Web for anyone to see. Then there is the cookie issue.... a 'commission' can be either potentially diverted or deleted in the hand of a knowledgeable consumer.
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Although the negative connotations of the term impact me as well, its worth reminding ourselves that few of the things we love about the internet would exist if someone didnt find a way to monetize them. Amazon doesnt provide books because they want you to have something to read; Google doesnt provide a wonderful search engine and a pretty fine email program out of the goodness of their heart; etc.,etc.. Its a nasty term for a fact of lifeif you want something that costs the provider a real cost in terms of direct outlay (bandwidth, site hosting, rights, etc.) and indirect outlay (time), theres got to be a way to pay for it. Even MobileRead has a need to monetize the true cost of providing this forum by placing ads on forum pages. Random acts of kindness may not need to present any way to recoup costs, but they are randomI want something more reliable than that when Im searching for books.
Without a doubt, there are Amazon affiliates that game the system that Amazon has set up to their own profit. Ive seen a number of these sites, and I dont go back to any of them, because Im not looking for random freebiesIm looking for something worth reading. I wish these sites didn't exist, and I'm all for Amazon finding a way to avoid making it profitable for them.
There are also Amazon Affiliates, both large and small, that I visit on a regular basis, and benefit from. Several are ebook blogs, at least 2 of which are run by MR members.
I certainly dont find it objectionable that they get an affiliate percentage. Why not? Im benefiting from the time they spend to ferret out both free and reduced-price bargains, from the fact that theyre frequently more knowledgeable than I am about certain genres and authors, and that they provide some type of sifting process to separate the wheat from the chaff. (If they didnt provide more useful information than I could find on my own in a similar amount of time, I wouldnt be on their site!) Their time and knowledge is worth something to me, and I prefer the method that Amazon pays for it, since Amazon ultimately profits from it. (The alternative would be either a subscription fee or a voluntary payment.) I dont care what the precise formula is for rewarding them, as long as it enables them to continue work that I find beneficial! Amazon has decided that it should be a smaller percentage of everything I buy within a certain period. Id prefer to see the affiliate system restructured. As many have mentioned, I dont particularly see the logic in the ebook blog owner getting a payment from my lawnmower purchaseId rather see the media division isolated somewhat, and the affiliates get a bigger cut for media & media-related purchases. This change alone might get rid of the bulk of the freebie-abuse websites that Amazon is probably trying to target by this change.
The cookie situation is certainly bizarre. Although I have no suggestion for a way to make it work, I actually think a long-term cookie for related purchases would make lots of sense. Recommend a free book to me: if I like it, and eventually go back and buy everything else the author has written, pay the affiliate a cut on all those books. This is exactly the business model that Amazon depends on to monetize (that nasty term again) giving away free ebooks (and authors or publishers depend on) so I dont see any reason to object to the affiliate benefiting from that business model. (As a matter of fact, when I remember to do so, Ill click thru an appreciated-affiliates link when Im going to purchase a standard-price, not-mentioned ebook, as a painless way of saying thanks for pointing me towards interesting freebies that they didnt profit from.) Its also the business model that has been worked out long-term between libraries and publishers. My paper book shelves hold about 1000 titles, with the typical author represented by multiple titles. I cant think of a single author offhand that has managed to occupy significant shelf space that I didnt originally read for free (to me), or at a price reduced to the point that the risk was minimal.
I also benefit greatly from some of the bigger sites like EreaderIQ. I use them to notify me when a book on my wishlist drops in price (not necessarily to free), and I use them to find freebies or reduced-price books that I may be interested in. I know its possible to get all the same information from Amazon directly (except the price drop tracking, as far as I know), but its much more cumbersome. At least in my case, Amazon definitely benefits from this relationship, and so do I. I see no reason that the site operator shouldnt benefit as well-- I'm pretty sure the site operator will find the costs of helping me objectionable if there isn't a way for them to benefit from it. Exactly what the formula is with Amazon to make sure there is a benefit to them doesnt directly matter to me. Whether or not that formula makes it logical for the site owner to keep providing the service that I find beneficial to me does directly matter to me. It also indirectly matters to lots of MR readers who get a benefit when those discoveries by one MR member get shared to the rest of the MR community as a random act of kindness. (And yes, Ive found some of the free books Ive posted about on MR by visiting some of the blogs, and I appreciate being pointed to them, and I hope that you blog owners know that I appreciate it!)
It seems obvious to me (although obviously not so obvious to all here) that the quality blogs and websites are operating to the benefit of the business model that Amazon, publishers, and independent authors have developed. The hammer policy change may get rid of some large abusers of the affiliate system, but it seems destined to damage a lot of the good affiliates as well. If you accept that the business model of Amazon (& publishers & authors) calls for giving away large quantities of free ebooks (and that they have decided that they ultimately profit by doing so), or selling ebooks at reduced prices, it seems apparent to me that the policy changes will do damage to that business model, or imply a shift in their business model. Either way, it seems apparent that it will damage my finding-affordable-quality-reading-material model.
For those who think this doesnt affect them at allIll bet that if you regularly frequent the deals forum here, or use any of the large sites (like EreaderIQ), it will ultimately affect you, because it affects the cost and rewards of generating that information somewhere upstream of your interaction point with it.
I fully agree that each of us has the right to block cookies, remove cookies, or bypass affiliate links in any way you want. I disagree completely with the thought that all affiliate links are somehow taking unfair advantage of the user. The most fair (and ethical) way of avoiding paying any affiliate for providing useful information to you, is to not use the information theyre providing, not by removing the affiliate information from a link. By using the information theyve provided (in this case, a link to a reduced-price or free ebook), youre already acknowledging that their effort was worth something to you-- even if its something you could find eventually without their help, you didntyou benefited from their time and expertise.
The cookie problem adds another bizarre twist. Some here find cookies valuable (as I do in my typical internet use), and don't want to clear them to avoid damage to an affiliate. I don't know a really painfree way to manage this, but I'm going to try to see if I can do so, because I do want to encourage "good affiliates" without hurting them.
Some don't want to accept cookies for any reason. I understand this, too. I think it's possible, though, to use an affiliate link (thereby crediting them for the original sale thru the affiliate tag), and decline cookies at the same time (thereby avoiding crediting them for any tag-on sales if you object to that), but I'm not positive of this. I feel pretty certain that the amount of information you give up to Amazon by accepting those cookies is considerably less than the amount you give up to Amazon during the purchase of anything you actually buy (or accept for free, or by checking a Kindle book out from the library), and that information is much more likely to be used for marketing purposes than the cookie is.
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Another is to keep open two browsers - use one to read the blogs, then cut/paste to other (which never opens affiliate tags) to buy free books. Or, use that one for Amazon only and clear tags regularly (quick and mostly painless if only need to log back into amazon).
For those thinking they are giving the affiliate info - the only info we get is from amazon, via aggregated reporting. They don't share any customer info, order info or specific sales data back to affiliates. Unless the affiliate has practically no sales and tracks you on their website, they'd never be able to correlate visitor to sales or clicks. It does give Amazon some extra info to use an affiliate link (or they would not be able to track back the earnings), but other than the session cookie, there are many cookies amazon places and you must accept them or you can't buy there.
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Thanks for the comments about the cookies, & information that isn't shared with the affiliate. Someone mentioned above the number of cookies placed on their PC via an Amazon purchase-- I'm aware that Amazon is one of the most pervasive of "data collectors" that we can deal with, but it's nice to have your confirmation that the affiliate cookie data doesn't go back to the affiliate (seems like one concern removed for those who oppose cookies on principal).
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As for the stuff about cookies and data passed on, affiliates only get a list of what was sold essentially, not who bought what, etc.
As for all the concern about cookies and "tracking" cookies.....
I really view a lot of the concern over that stuff as way overblown. Like the new anti-gmail campaign by Microsoft to try to bolster their new outlook service, making ads criticizing gmail for their targeted ads based on email content.
Frankly, I would much rather see ads that are more likely to be of interest to me, and I recognize that very little "personal" information goes along with that info that could tie back to my real identity. I don't really see the privacy concerns with this that so many others do.
I find it terribly amusing that some of the ones I see blast on about privacy concerns from advertiser cookies have the least restrictive settings for privacy turned on at social networks like facebook.
As a consumer, I WANT sites I use to be profitable. If being able to show me ads that are more likely to be of interest to me helps them get the revenue they need to keep providing the services I go to them for, or the content I go to them for, I have zero problem with that. The tracking cookies don't track ALL your internet traffic, only ones that share the same ad network. And usually the ad networks do not share much of that info with the sites, except in aggregate, and the sites don't provide the networks with the ability to identify you, provided they even can identify you themselves.
When you really truly do not want to be tracked, Chrome's incognito and Firefox's private browsing options exist. Use them when you are truly concerned about privacy regarding something, I do. I keep a usb stick with me with a portable chrome on it, that I use plugin and browse with when I am using someone else's computer for that very reason, so my browsing isn't a part of their browsing history.
Anyway, back on topic, authors are reporting significant decreases in downloads of their free books on the KDP select free promotions. One author reported a drop from 10k downloads on past free promotions for his book, to under 600 in the promotion they just ended that started after the change.
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This thread has been really interesting. I don't really understand all the affiliate hate. I mean, it's not taking anything away from you if Amazon pays an affiliate a cut of a sale, and the affiliate doesn't have any way of seeing your personal information. They can just see what was purchased and what their cut is. So why do you care? You're spending the money either way, so why worry about it?
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And it's not hate--at least not in my case. Like I said, I have no problem with sites who are clearly dedicated affiliate sites offering some sort of value-added services (although I still think getting credit for everything purchased for a 24 hour period is over-the-top). I take issue with the ones who offer absolutely no additional value and stick affiliate links where I least expect them. Like "review sites" who shoehorn affiliate links (sans review) to bargain ebooks in with their regular reviews (regular reviews that include no link to purchase--affiliate or otherwise).
I don't utilize the first type of site (dedicated affiliates), but harbor them no ill-will. The second type annoys the piss out of me.
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As DiapDealer says, it's not hate. I have a number of sites that attach affiliate codes to Amazon books that I use and am glad to pass on a thank you to (i.e. sfsignal.com). And if Amazon replaces the 24 hour lifetime on their current cookies, I'll reconsider my stance.
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What people really want is to see no ads at all. But they're not willing to pay for the services that are currently free becaus they're ad supported.
Many people have a very flawed view of how the world works.
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After one quarter of play the score was tied at 7-7 and Muskingum led 16-7 at halftime. Baldwin-Wallace led 20-16 after three stanzas. B-W piled up 211 total yards on the ground, including 100-plus yard games from senior running back John McGraw (North Ridgeville) and junior RB Tim Miker (Parma/Senior). The Jacket "Swarm D" sacked Muskingum quarterback Jake Burns seven times including four by senior defensive end Keith Darbut (Miami, Fla./Palmetto Senior).
In the first quarter, B-W opened up the scoring at the 10:36 mark when sophomore quarterback Ryan O'Rourke (Avon) connected with junior wide receiver Troy Van Meter (Gahanna/Westerville North) on a 27-yard pass to cap a six play, 84-yard drive that took 2:04 off the clock. Senior placekicker Brad Pollock (Broadview Heights/Brecksville-Broadview Heights) added the extra point. The key play on the drive was 41-yard completion on third down from O'Rourke to sophomore WR Aaron Manders (Toledo/Cardinal Stritch).
Muskingum answered with an 11 play, 70-yard drive when QB Jake Burns tossed a seven yard swing pass to Antowan Logan for a Muskie TD with 3:39 left in the first. Caleb Carpenter added the PAT. The drive was kept alive when B-W was penalized with a roughing the holder penalty on a Muskingum field goal attempt, giving the Muskies a fresh set of downs.
Following a Muskingum interception, the Fighting Muskies drove 51 yards in eight plays taking 2:52 off the clock as Burns scored on a one yard QB sneak on the first play of the second quarter. However, Carpenter's PAT was no good making the score 13-7 in favor of Muskingum.
After a B-W punt, Muskingum drove into Yellow Jacket territory, but the drive was halted by a sack and forced fumble by junior defensive end Derron Hamilton (Euclid), which was recovered by senior All-OAC middle linebacker Ryan Kish (Amherst/ Steele). However, B-W was forced to punt on the ensuing drive.
To close the half, Muskingum drove 49 yards in five plays taking 1:36 off the clock as Carpenter booted a 24-yard field goal through the uprights as time expired in the first half.
The Yellow Jackets opened the third quarter with a 10 play drive for 65 yards that consumed 3:43 off the clock and ended with a 15-yard pass from O'Rourke to junior tight end Aaron Hurd (Tiffin/Columbian). The drive was powered by the running of Miker and McGraw who accounted for 50 yards rushing combined on the drive. Pollock's PAT was blocked making the score 16-13 Muskingum.
Following a Muskingum punt, B-W took back the lead for good as Miker ran 30 yards into the end zone to cap a nine play, 68-yard drive that took 2:56 off the clock. Pollock's kick was good, putting the Yellow Jackets in front, 20-16.
The Muskies next drive was brought to an end when junior LB John Harasyn (Mentor) intercepted a Burns pass at midfield after the ball was tipped by Darbut. On the ensuing drive, B-W marched 50 yards in eight plays scoring on an eight yard pass from O'Rourke to junior WR Anthony Fairhurst (Ashland/Senior) on the first play of the fourth quarter. Pollock's PAT was good giving the Yellow Jackets a 27-16 lead, which would stand up as the final margin.
Late in the fourth quarter, Muskingum drove to the B-W 35 yard line, but Burns' fourth down pass into the end zone was intercepted by senior safety Ryan Dugan (Mentor) ending the last Muskie threat.
B-W was led offensively by McGraw who carried the ball 19 times for 125 yards. Miker also contributed 110 yards and a TD on 22 carries. Through the air, O'Rourke was nine of 19 passing for 147 yards including three TD passes. Junior WR Dan Turner (Youngstown/Ursuline) had a team high with catches (4) and yards (48). Hurd compiled two catches for 23 yards and a TD.
The Jacket defense was led Darbut who had five tackles including four sacks for 39 lost yards including a tipped pass that led to an interception. Junior safety Corey Hildreth (Massillon/Washington) led the Jackets with eight tackles including one for loss. Dugan had six solo tackles on the day including the late fourth quarter interception to seal the win. Senior defensive end Mitch Tulk (Elyria/Senior) had three tackles for loss totaling 14 yards.
Muskingum was led on offense by Burns who passed for 311 yards through the air, completing 28-of-45 passes and a score against three interceptions. Josh Sams had game-highs with nine receptions and 105 yards. Logan added six catches for 70 yards and a TD. Alex Thomas had 10 tackles for the Fighting Muskie defense and Chad Bajc had eight tackles and two tackles for loss.
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"Yes. Warner Bros. is working with Digital Rights Corp on a test ISP/subscriber notification program to many ISPs that are not participating in the Copyright Alert System," a Warner spokesman told TorrentFreak.This is nefarious on multiple levels, because it actually treats the consumers of alternative ISPs worse than customers of ISPs who agreed to sell out those customers to Hollywood.
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Bringing Great Expectations to desperate children ravaged by revolution, an eccentric teacher becomes a martyr to literature and transforms the prospects of a strong-willed girl.
He's actually "Mr. Watts." But so identified does he become with Dickens' wondrous coming-of-age narrative that he's known as "Mr. Pip." Jones (Paint Your Wife, 2004, etc.) juxtaposes this English exile, married to a native black woman and now the last white man on an unspecified Survivor-style island, with teenaged Matilda, his most eager student. He's a stopgap professor, really, just volunteering to instruct 20 kids, seven to 15 years old, who gather for shelter from the war between the "redskins" and the "rebels." A long-bearded Scheherazade in a white linen suit, Watts draws out the telling of Dickens' classic to the children and soon we have the age-old tale: story as balm, spell, savior. He also invites the island mothers in for show 'n' tell: chances to share their wisdom. They offer fishing tips; rhapsodies of the sea; and one tells of a woman who "once turned a white man into marmalade and spread him onto her toast." That tale spinner is Matilda's mother, and she becomes Watts's rival, her pidgin Bible contrasting his Victorian tale; she is imperiled nature; he's threatening culture. He reminisces about "the smell of fresh-mown grass and lawnmower oil"; she fears the capture of her daughter's soul. And yet in time, for Matilda's sake, the pair negotiate a tremulous peace—one soon savaged by murder, as the redskins descend. As the revolution intensifies, the schoolhouse burns, along with Great Expectations. And Watts's last injunction to his students is that they rebuild the story orally, for themselves, piece by piece.
A little Gauguin, a bit of Lord Jim, the novel's lyricism evokes great beauty and great pain.


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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) is offering a Families Understanding Nature (FUN) camp for fathers and their children over the May 19-21 weekend at Woodworth Outdoor Education Center, just south of Alexandria.
FUN camps offer parents and their children an opportunity to spend the weekend enjoying the outdoors, while learning skills and strengthening their family bonds. Professional instructors will help campers feel more comfortable in the outdoors by teaching them about canoeing, camping, rifle and shotgun shooting, archery and fishing.
All participants will arrive Friday evening and stay through noon Sunday. On Saturday night families will cook their own supper and on Sunday morning cook their own breakfast. Instructors will guide campers in setting up camps, building a campfire, cooking and cleaning up. All tents, cooking, shooting and fishing gear, and safety equipment will be provided.
Children must be between 10 and 13 years old. Applications must be received by May 5 and accompanied with a $50 check for each adult with one child and a $25 check for each additional child made out to Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. The fee includes program activities, materials, meals, lodging and adult and child T-shirts. Applications can be obtained by calling Mike Burns at 318-484-2212, or by downloading it by clicking here [3] or by going to the "Education/Research" drop down menu at the top of the screen.
This popular camp fills quickly, so families interested in participating are encouraged to register soon.
For more information, contact Michael Burns at 318-484-2212 or firstname.lastname@example.com [4].


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Johnny Knoxville and his young co-star Jackson Nicoll share a sweet moment while attending the premiere of their upcoming film Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa held at the TCL Chinese Theatre on Wednesday (October 23) in Hollywood, Calif.
The 42-year-old actor was joined at the event by John Stamos, Bob Saget, Joey Fatone, producer Spike Jonze, and director of the flick Jeff Tremaine.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Johnny Knoxville
Bad Grandpa, which hits theaters Friday (October 25), follows the story of 86-year-old Irving Zisman (Johnny) on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy (Jackson).
10+ pictures inside of Johnny Knoxville and others at the premiere of Bad Grandpa…More Here! »