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...point for Kimberlin came with an idea to attract attention. Before the 2004 presidential election, he contacted the wealthy head of a foundation in Ohio who practiced transcendental meditation with Kimberlin's sister. After the vote, with a pledge from the benefactor, Kimberlin posted on justicethroughmusic.org a $100,000 reward for any evidence that the election had been stolen. And things took off. First, the reward attracted blogger Brad Friedman, who then co-founded the netroots voting-reform website VelvetRevolution.us with Kimberlin and serves as his face man. The reward attracted other donors (including a politically active relative of mine...
...says the blogosphere's war on the company "has had a minimal effect" on its stock price. Diebold is under formal investigation by the SEC, whose spokesman declined to comment, but Varano said the inquiry is focused on accounting practices. Notably, no one has yet successfully claimed Kimberlin's reward, which has now grown...
...year. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) counted 255,000 identity-theft complaints last year, up 3% from 2004, although most occurrences never get reported. The FTC estimates 9 million Americans got hit last year, with losses totaling $56.6 billion. Only 1 in 700 cases ever gets prosecuted, a risk-reward equation that suggests that these kinds of criminals will keep multiplying...
...Getting readers to see, and think about, good films: that's our reward, and award...
...shoes, which she then heats up and modifies to best fit the horse’s hoof.There are also emergency situations, which Cloos says are “never life or death,” but nevertheless can prove problematic for the many competing horses that she treats.The secret reward of the job is the instant gratification at the end of the day, Cloos says.“I show up and get a horse, and two hours later finish the job,” she says.To the surprise of those who might think farriers and blacksmiths belong in past...