Sometimes it’s good to look back in order to see where we’ve come from – and to figure out where we’re heading to in the future. Cybercrime is a case in point, although no crystal ball is required to see its continued inexorable rise a couple of years hence. Further than that, who knows where [...]

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Someone successfully posing as a health inspector, police officer or even a Secret Service agent happens every single day. Posing as a water inspector, I once gained access to people’s homes by saying I needed to “check the colorization of their water,” as I demonstrated on The Montel Williams Show here. A fake badge and a [...]

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There is no doubt about it, the art of scamming gets more complex every day. A case in point is FastLoan4Me. As best I can figure out, they are a payday loan company, but don’t actually need to make loans to make money. You can read my first article here. Calling their primary number 775-200-1525 [...]

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A Business Today issue with a cover page showing the famous Indian  Cricketer Mr M.S.Dhoni has attracted legal action in Bangalore. The magazine depicts Dhoni as Lord Vishnu and shows holding several products in his hand  including a shoe. A case has been filed in Bangalore by an advocate  for the reason that the picture [...]

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Voting has commenced for the Karnataka Assembly elections. One of the important issues to observe is the vote percentage and whether there would be any significant increase compare to previous years. The political scenario is very murky with the choice available to voters being limited. There is BJP the ruling party which has been discredited [...]

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Know Your Customer norms are an important element of record keeping in Banks, Companies and several other agencies which manage the identity of people. India is now moving into Aadhar usage which makes the Identity management a very important aspect of Governance. Failure to maintain proper KYC results in frauds and hence security professionals including [...]

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Sara and Gen aren’t getting along too well as the twin sisters aren’t identical in their preferences. The last thing Sara wanted to do was spend the weekend working in their yard. Gen did and thought that planting vegetables and getting the mess cleared up was the way to do things. There is tension between [...]

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Yes it was 30 years ago, and yes, most people are not into yacht racing. I am, so you just have to put up with me.1983 was a pivotal year for the worlds oldest sports trophy. For 131 years the Americas Cup had been bolted down to the floor of the New York Yacht Club. [...]

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This is a review that starts at the end! In my book it is a five star stellar piece of writing. You don’t need to even read my review, just go out and buy it. You will not be disappointed. I have known Dave for a few years, he never fails to astonish me. He [...]

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Montreal-based street photographer Michael Ernest Sweet takes a look at some famous (and not so famous) actors and singers who have taken up photography.

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The Federal Trade Commission offers invaluable tools for restoring your identity if it has already been compromised. The tools can be found at http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/pdf-0009-taking-charge.pdf. On this website, you will find a complaint form, affidavit of your identity, and sample letters. You will also find a log to chart your actions while restoring your identity. It [...]

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By just about any metric you can use, Spain is not doing well right now. Nearly 27% of the country is unemployed, their GDP continued to shrink in the last quarter, they have a credit squeeze that keeps interest rates far above the euro average and keeps new businesses from opening, and there are further [...]

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It’s not unusual for the rich to have weird parties, but in New York those parties are stranger than most.  On Tuesday, artist Julian Schnabel was honored at a party at an abandoned sugar refinery: the Domino Sugar Factory. The factory has lain abandoned under the Brooklyn half of the Williamsburg Bridge for ten years, [...]

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I don’t go around scraping other peoples articles, but I could not resist this one. Paul Scharff  is a good friend and his just published book Murder In McHenry is a wonderful read. You can find my review here. Writing a book is a tough project to take on. Often there are pieces that are [...]

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When getting on a flight that’s three to five hours (or more), many business professionals wrestle in their heads whether to spend the $12.95 on airplane WiFi, take a nap or watch the movie—or, if their company is paying for it, they might do all three. But here’s the thing: If you are connecting to [...]

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The Education of a Pulp Writer is a gritty in your face read by David Cranmer that features ten short stories that predate his work in Westerns. The people in these stories are people living on the edge of, not just society as noted in the introduction, but on the edge of everything. Character desperation [...]

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With the 750,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S., the thousands more unaccounted for, and even the thousands more who’ve never been caught, know that predators live amongst us. The question always arises as to whether or not a sex offender can be rehabilitated. I’m sure that a handful of Level 1s and 2s can [...]

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The voting for the Assembly elections in Karnataka is scheduled for 5th of May 2013. The Campaign will end in the next couple of days. As the campaign approaches the final stages, Voters have not been able to get a clear picture of what they need to do. Media has been unhelpful since they are [...]

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This question revolves around whether or not you want or need to head out into the wild, wild web wilderness exposed. By “exposed” I mean letting anyone within 300-500 feet of your device peek at the wireless data packets floating through the airand seeing all your raw data, or revealing who and where you are, [...]

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Alarm systems used to be clunky and expensive to install, and all they did was set off a siren when a door or window was smashed in. Today, alarms are wireless and can even adjust your thermostat! The Boston Globe reports, “The era of clunky black-and-white video monitors and recording devices crammed here and there, [...]

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Bangalore Political Action Committee an action body of Citizens has been looked upon as an organization that supports clean politics. However the recent release of the names of 14 candidates to be provided with partial funding of election expenses raises many eye brows. The list  of 14 candidates endorsed by the BPAC are: 1.Krishna Byregowda (Congress, Byatarayanpura),  [...]

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OK I am fashionably late with this post, but who is counting? Usually I limit my annual list to books, but this year I am going to expand it to life in general. It was a year of up’s and down’s, humor and horror, education and stupidity. Oh, and as education seems to take such [...]

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I recently had the pleasure of reading Rouge Town, you can read my review here. The book is stunning, it reveals the level of corruption in Stamford, Connecticut in the 1970’s. It was not a pretty sight, organized crime had taken over. As Rogue Town explains, just about every aspect of local government had workers [...]

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Canadian street photographer Michael Ernest Sweet takes a look at the evidence that suggests photography is good for your health. Actually, he enumerates famous photographers and their ages to arrive at this conclusion – that photography is good for your health.

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Basavanagudi is an important constituency in South Bangalore from where the sitting BJP MLA Mr Ravi Subramanyam is contesting. There are 17 other contestants including a strong candidate from Congress in Mr B.K.Chandrashekar. KJP has put up a well known music director Mr Ravi Kiran as its candidate while JDS is also making a  bid [...]

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In chosing a candidate for exercising our votes we are often confronted with manifesto’s of different parties. Unfortunately the integrity of political parties is so low that whatever they state in the manifesto is not considered reliable. Now in Karnataka, almost all parties say they will waive farmer’s loan and provide rice at Rs 1 [...]

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A TOI study in Karnataka has revealed that “Corruption” is one of the major issues in Karnataka. Mr Rahul Gandhi in a speech yesterday, has stated that BJP has created a world record in corruption in Karnataka. Perhaps he was refering to Mr Yeddyurappa’s regime. Presently Mr Yeddyurappa is in KJP and hence his misdeeds [...]

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Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett knew local resident Butch Roberson. At least he thought he did. Joe Pickett knew something was off with him when he encountered Butch Roberson on the Big Stream Ranch in the Bighorn Mountains. The owner of Meadowlark Construction in nearby Saddlestring had a large backpack–far larger than it should have [...]

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I know Denny Griffin quite well, and I have spoken to Vito Colucci on at least one occasion. I know that Denny likes to play with ex-mobsters, I have talked to several of them. I really didn’t know much about Vito. He was an ex cop, and now a Private Investigator. ‘Would you be interested [...]

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According to the results of the opinion poll conducted by CNN-IBN and Week just before the last date for filing of nominations, the following vote and seat shares have been predicted for the major parties. Congress: Vote share to raise by 2%  from 35% to 37% BJP: Vote share to drop by 11% from 34% [...]

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