Protect Family Members From Online Dangers And Keep Digital Information Safe

 

Studio One Launches 'Your Security Resource' Worldwide in Multiple Langauges

Symantec Exclusive Sponsor of Global Editorial Program Online

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 30, 2007 -- Studio One Networks announced the first international distribution of its new Internet program, Your Security Resource, which will deliver valuable information on how to protect family members from online dangers, and keep digital information safe and secure. The target audience for Your Security Resource is parents, grandparents and new home computer users.
       
Your Security Resource will be available to more than one billion Internet users worldwide (source: eMarketer). The program will be presented in Traditional Chinese (您的安全資源), Simplified Chinese (您的安全资源), Dutch (Uw Beveiligingshulp), English (International and American), French (Vos Ressources De Securite), German (Ihre Informationsquelle Zum Thema Sicherheit), Italian (La Tua Risorsa Sulla Sicurezza), Japanese (セキュリティリソース), Korean (사용자를 위한 보안 리소스), Portuguese (Seu Recurso De Segurança) and Spanish (Su Recurso De Seguridad).
       
Your Security Resource will include topical features such as "Seniors on the Internet," "Easy Ways to Stop Identity Thieves," "Instant Messaging the Safe Way" and "The Ten Golden Rules for Computer Safety." Other informative content will also be available in the program including "Expert Q&A," "Tech Tips," "Security Polls" and an interactive reader quiz called "The Security Quiz."

Andrew Susman, CEO of Studio One Networks said, "It's appropriate that Symantec, the global leader in information security, is the exclusive presenter of what may be the first consumer-oriented, valuable content to such a vast audience."

"We strongly believe that education is an important compliment to security software to help consumers protect their PCs," said Marian Merritt, Internet Safety Advocate for Symantec. "Now we can utilize Studio One's global footprint to reach out to the billion of online users and provide them with the information they need to have a safe and secure Internet experience."

About Studio One Networks
   
Studio One Networks, Inc. is the leader in digital program syndication for major corporate sponsors and media partners. Studio One Networks' diversified stable of programs and exclusive sponsors include Your Baby Today (Nestlé Infant Nutrition), CIO Strategy Center (Symantec) and Driving Today (Bridgestone), with over 350 media partners ranging from AOL to Wal-Mart. Visit us at www.studioone.net.

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Solution to Stop Smoking: Get to the Root Cause

 

Simple-7 Solution to Stop Smoking -- Free Help with the Root Cause

Truth for Healthy Living announces giving free on-line its "Simple-7" stop-smoking program. The website's sponsor hopes this will begin making up for the "nearly total and entirely tragic absence" of clinical specialists who provide appropriate help with dependence on nicotine: America's most often disabling and deadly addicting drug.

Winston-Salem, NC (PRWEB) April 30, 2007 -- Today, Truth for Healthy Living and its website's sponsor, Richard Terry Lovelace, are giving free access to the "Simple-7" stop-smoking program. It takes the unique and addiction-appropriate approach of reducing health risk denial to release motivation by countering a recently uncovered cluster of "nicotine notions." Visit truthforhealthyliving.org and gain unrestricted access by clicking on the link to "articles."

Appropriate Assistance Needed
Free access is being given as a public health service and to encourage "appropriate help" for cigarette smokers. "Appropriate help deals with the root cause," says Dr. Lovelace. "To date, America's non smokers have provided essentially nothing that helps with the all-important cause of chronic cigarette smoking. Little wonder the relapse rate of trying-to-quit smokers is nearly 100-percent. And many of the relative few who do quit suffer from 'addiction transfer' . . . tragically substitute one health-threatening and costly dependence for another."

Root Cause of the Root Cause
Convinced that the lives and financial futures of a great many of our children are at stake, Lovelace is outspoken. "If you Web-search for the root cause of chronic smoking," this licensed clinical social worker asserts, "instead of what you need to know to help protect children you'll be told that the root cause of several major illnesses is cigarette smoking. But the truth is that no one smokes enough cigarettes to do serious injury unless he or she is dependent on the drug, nicotine. Substance addiction is the root cause of chronic smoking and those major illnesses."

"In addition to and much more than physical need and withdrawal, a group of nine nicotine notions is the pivotal part of nicotine addiction," believes Dr. Lovelace. "Nicotine notions do worse than block the sufficiently powerful will, motivation, of smokers to stop ingesting nicotine and for good. Those hidden 'butt-attitudes' take away from non smokers the degree of compassion required to be truly helpful."

Non Smokers in More Deadly Denial Than Smokers
The untrue and unknown cluster of ideas Lovelace discovered and named "nicotine notions" also hurts non smokers. He explains, "When I tell obviously bright and generally knowledgeable people that nicotine addiction is by far the most serious; it causes four times more U.S. preventable deaths than alcohol and illicit drugs combined, non smokers deny that it's serious enough. They begin to tell me, for example, the false notion called 'Smoking only hurts me (smokers).' That denial of reality does more harm because it contributes to there being practically nil addiction-appropriate help for current smokers and our children who will become addicted to nicotine."

Non smokers can take a test to see if they might have this "deadly denial." Go to Truth for Healthy Living's website, truthforhealthyliving.org, and click on the link to "tests." Like the articles, all of the tests are free.

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Garden & Gun Magazine

Garden & Gun

by Fern Siegel, Wednesday, April 18, 2007
ADMITTEDLY, THE TITLE GRABS you. It's not one you'll usually find on my nightstand. I'm more of a New Yorker devotee. And for my money, the best way to catch up on current events is The Week, a slick digest that keeps me, as my college-application promised, well-rounded. Alas, in an age of cheap sensationalism and raving DJs, we look for escape.

Do we find it in Garden & Gun? If you're a lover of Southern gentility -- or Scarlett O'Hara -- the answer, unequivocally, is yes.

Now, my knowledge of the South is largely confined to its literature, which is exceptional, its bourbon, which is single-barrel, and its civil-rights protests, which were bloody. However, this is the 21st century, and much has changed in the land of Dixie. According to its Web site, at the mag's heart is "a love for the outdoors -- upland bird hunting, gardening, fishing, sailing, equestrian sports and conservation." Throw in a nod to Southern art and music, architecture and food, and readers get what's billed as "the best" of the contemporary South.

In short, the edit/ad targets are skeet-shooting, well-heeled Southerners. The demo is 55% men, 45% women, with an average household income of $100K and a median age of 42. If G&G were around in, say 1860, it would grace the drawing room of Tara. Though whether Ashley Wilkes or John Grisham would consider the South, per the editor's note, running from the Mississippi River east to the Atlantic and from the Virginias to Venezuela is anybody's guess. Hugo Chavez doesn't spell bluegrass and cotillion charm to me.

Based in Charleston, the pub, named for a 1970s city dance club, is the brainchild of John Wilson, editor-in-chief, one of the founders of Charleston magazine, and Rebecca Darwin, a former publisher of The New Yorker. Most of the premiere issue's writers and photogs are Southern, too, including Clyde Edgerton, whose first novel, Raney, was a winner.

I'm a fan of celebrating cultural traditions and roots, which is why G&G is an education for Northerners and a soon-to-be hit with upper-crust Southerners. Where else can you find an 11-page article on Thomas Jefferson's Monticello? This Renaissance man's talents -- architect, vintner, writer of the Declaration of Independence and founder of the University of Virginia -- put current politicians to shame. The story opens prior to his future triumphs; in shaping Monticello, we see, at heart, the shaping of a man.

Also, it's the first time a Table of Contents sports an image of a cute blonde aiming a bow and arrow in my face. She could put my eye out! Happily, the photo on page 23 favors the theatrical, rather than the confrontational. A woman bathed in lilac garb is held aloft -- one-handed, no less -- by a man in a tight-fitting gray suit. The story concerns the Kentucky Derby, but the pose is pure "La Cage Aux Folles."

On the funky side, there is Asheville, N.C., slugged a "New Age city as welcoming to high rollers as it is to hippies." It boasts everything from vegan bars to the Lord's Gym, where a mural of Jesus presides over the treadmills. Apparently, the answer to the question -- What would Jesus do? -- is pump it! Now that sounds like the New South to me. One quibble: The piece lists Asheville as the birthplace of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Not! The Great Gatsby author was born in St. Paul, Minn., in 1896; his wife, Zelda, hailed from Montgomery, Ala. While she is one of the more colorful Southerners of the early 20th century, F. Scott is a Yankee through and through. However, Thomas Wolfe was an Asheville son; though judging from the oversight, you can't go home again.

A second quibble is the cover. Pat Conroy, of Prince of Tides fame, is a gifted author. He writes beautiful prose. But as the cover subject, the 21st-century South looks suspiciously like the antebellum period -- with Dockers. Still, this is an elegantly art-directed magazine, and the outdoors coverage -- be it fly-fishing or turkey hunting -- hits its readership where they live. Lowcountry or Upcountry, city or small town, Garden & Gun fulfills its edict: leisurely profiling the sporting life, while celebrating the artists in its midst. Pass the bourbon and branch.


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Frequency: 10 issues/year
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Success Magazine

Success

by Larry Dobrow, Tuesday, April 17, 2007
PRIOR TO A PAL'S bachelor party last weekend, my elite college clique of halfwits and beverage enthusiasts hadn't hung out en masse in a few years. Jobs, kids, flu pandemics... life gets complicated, y'know? Happily, after taking care of the basics -- leaving the bachelor's cell-phone number on the answering machines of Mr. Patches and every other Syracuse-area family clown, locating the emergency exits in the event that the exotic athletes looked as game-worn as they did on their Web site, etc. --we fell back into our old rhythms quite easily.

At some point during the weekend, it dawned on me: we're all reasonably happy and successful guys, and we've managed to notch our personal and professional achievements without mistreating others or selling out (wow, I just shredded a rotator cuff patting myself on the back. Did I mention that I'm short and gassy?). So a magazine like Success, which is one part motivational tract and one part Billy's-first-business primer, doesn't have a ton of appeal to my crew or, in all likelihood, to the Fortune/Forbes set. The mag's stories concentrate more on mindset than methodology, prioritizing feel-good affirmation (you can do it! go, you!) over actionable business information.

For fledgling sales-focused entrepreneurs, however, Success delivers one thing that most other titles don't: a plan of attack. By sitting down with a range of successful biz folks and asking them what works and what doesn't, Success outlines a career-development/sustenance trajectory in a way that's both intelligent and replicable. It doesn't traffic in fancy terminology or obscure theories, nor does it propose grandiose solutions to simple problems. Rather, it lays out what has worked for others in comparable situations and tells readers to make of it what they will.

Tonally, with its platitudes and randomly interspersed quotes from many a Bob (Hope and Dylan, natch), Success gives me the type of headache that usually follows massive sugar intake. The March/April issue serves up section titles that could have been poached from a Denise Austin video ("Motivate!") and rarely dwells on the negative. I'm curious: Have any of the mag's "Can This Business Succeed?" evaluations arrived at the conclusion of "hell, no"?

I also question whether its two "coaches" should be in the business of dishing out advice. Maybe I caught them during an off month, but Michael Shevak's response to a reader question decompensates into New-age prattle ("Everyone puts the work-life conflict in their [sic] own way: Hinduism speaks of 'working with detachment from fruits of your labor'"), while Ruben Gonzalez's spiel veers towards the comically obvious ("Focus on whether you are getting results. If not, change approaches. Be open to new ideas and information").

Still, I think the touchy-feely tone and power-o'-positive-thinkin' approach is appropriate for the material at hand. After all, the title isn't Succeed Unless You Encounter An Unexpected Obstacle, Like An Ill-Tempered Panda; it's Succeed, with the unspoken subtext of "unequivocally and on your own damn terms."

Keeping that in mind, the "Your Money & Your Life" series of stories that headline the March/April issue tackle a range of oft-discussed topics (efficiency, planning for the future) with how-to gusto, rather than anecdotal monotony. Equally didactic are the profiles of sports legends Larry Bird and Roger Staubach, both of whom know a thing or two about teamwork and sportsmanship and those other find-your-winner-within things. The Q&A with supposed "Bad Boy of Banking" and ING Direct prexy Arkadi Kuhlmann loses credibility owing to its "portions of this interview were reprinted" disclaimer (uh, OK -- which portions?), but it still relates more useful information about customer service than anything Entrepreneur has run in recent months.

I have a few other quibbles, like the overabundance of generic suited-guy-in-work-environment photos, but mostly Success succeeds successily, or something. Not that it faces particularly daunting competition, but it's the best magazine of its kind.

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Frequency: Bimonthly (frequency increases to 10 issues in 2008 and 12 in 2009)
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Next Generation of Threats and Solutions At Spam Summit

FTC To Host "Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions"

The Federal Trade Commission will host a two-day public event, "Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions," in Washington, DC on July 11 and 12, 2007. The summit will bring together experts from the business, government, and technology sectors, consumer advocates, and academics to explore consumer protection issues surrounding spam, phishing, and malware.

(PressZoom) - The Federal Trade Commission will host a two-day public event, "Spam Summit: The Next Generation of Threats and Solutions," in Washington, DC on July 11 and 12, 2007. The summit will bring together experts from the business, government, and technology sectors, consumer advocates, and academics to explore consumer protection issues surrounding spam, phishing, and malware.

Some e-mail filtering companies have reported that the amount of unsolicited e-mails they process has been rising. According to the reports, the increased volume of spam is coming primarily from botnets, which are networks of hijacked personal computers that spammers use to conceal their identities and send spam and viruses.

In addition, the Commission's recent investigations suggest that spam is being used increasingly as a vehicle for launching harmful downloads, such as phishing and malware. This type of malicious spam goes beyond mere annoyance to consumers - it can result in significant harm by shutting down consumers' computers, enabling keystroke loggers to steal identities, and undermining the stability of the Internet.

As a follow-on to the Commission's 2003 Spam Forum, the two-day public summit will analyze malicious spam, shifts in spamming incentives and tactics, strategies for protecting consumers and businesses, and countermeasures for stopping malicious spammers and cybercriminals.

Topics are expected to include:

Defining the Problem: Earlier findings indicated that most spam was fraudulent, deceptive, and offensive. How has the nature of spam shifted? Is spam now being used for malicious and criminal purposes? Is this spam reaching consumers' inboxes or being filtered by internet service providers' filtering software?

New Methods for Sending Spam: To what extent, if any, have email address harvesting, dictionary attacks, and open proxys been replaced by botnets, zombies, and spam that uses images instead of text as the primary methods of spam distribution?

The Covert Economy: What are the financial incentives for malicious spammers? To what extent does stolen information, such as government-issued identity numbers, credit cards, bank cards and personal identification numbers, user accounts, and email addresses, play a role? What is the cost along the email chain to consumers, businesses, internet service providers, and networks?

Deterring Malicious Spammers and Cybercriminals: What are the investigatory challenges faced by law enforcement as spammers mask their identities and use obfuscatory techniques? What are effective countermeasures?

Emerging Threats: What emerging threats are occurring in media other than email including spam over instant messaging - SPIM - systems, spam over internet telephony - SPIT, and spam to mobile devices?

Putting Consumers Back in Control: How can we empower consumers and businesses in the fight against spam and malware?

Technological Tools for Keeping it Out of the Inbox: During the FTC's 2004 E-mail Authentication Summit, co-hosted with the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology, the FTC initiated efforts to spur the development and wide- scale adoption of domain level e-mail authentication. Where does the implementation of e-mail authentication stand? What are other key spam-reducing tools?

Stakeholder Best Practices: What best practices should stakeholders adopt to reduce malicious spam and minimize its impact?

The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at the FTC's satellite building conference center, located at 601 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC Members of the public and press who wish to participate but who cannot attend can view a live Webcast of the summit on the FTC's Web site. Pre-registration is not required.

The Commission invites interested parties to submit requests to be panelists. The requests should be submitted electronically to SpamSummit@ftc.gov on or before May 18, 2007. The Commission asks interested parties to include a statement detailing their expertise on the issues to be addressed at the summit and complete contact information. Panelists selected to participate will be notified by June 1, 2007.

Any person also may submit written comments on the topics to be addressed at the summit. Comments must be received on or before May 18, 2007. For further information about the Summit and for specific information on sending comments, participating as a panelist, the Summit agenda, and contact information, please consult the FTC Web site at http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/workshops/spamsummit/index.shtml.

The FTC works for the consumer to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices in the marketplace and to provide information to help consumers spot, stop, and avoid them. To file a complaint in English or Spanish or to get free information on any of 150 consumer topics, call toll-free, 1-877-FTC-HELP ( 1-877-382-4357 ), or use the complaint form at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm. The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft, and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel, a secure, online database available to more than 1,600 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

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Natto Quartet: Headlands

Natto Quartet: Headlands

Recorded live at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA, August 12, 2002

The debut recording by the San Francisco Bay Area's Natto Quartet, Headlands features seven freely improvised works created by the group's unique instrumentation of shakuhachi, koto, piano, and live electronics.

By collectively leaving the traditional and cultural roles of their acoustic instruments behind, shakuhachi player Philip Gelb, koto player Shoko Hikage and pianist/electronic musician Chris Brown, join live electronics pioneer Tim Perkis in finding common ground in the extended and experimental technique associated with improvised music. The ability of manipulated electronics to create otherwise unavailable musical sounds meshes with the acoustic musicians' desire to reinvent the possibilities of timbre and instrumental interaction in a collectively improvising ensemble. The result is a beautiful and elastic music that creatively juxtaposes old and new, acoustic and electric, and tradition and innovation.

The members of the Natto Quartet have performed together in various configurations for years, finally solidifying as a quartet in 2002 to perform both composed works and freely improvised music. Gelb has studied the shakuhachi, an ancient Japanese bamboo flute, since 1988, and is one of the only performers in the United States to use the instrument in the new improvised music context. Hikage grew up studying the koto, traditionally a 13-string chamber music instrument taught to women in Japan, and uses her extensive classical training on her instrument in both traditional and new music applications. A founding member of the influential interactive computer network ensemble The Hub, Perkis performs regularly on the improvised music scene where he utilizes customized software and hardware to create his unique and sensitive electronic approach. Brown, who frequently collaborated with Trio Natto before it officially became a quartet, is the Co-Director of Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, an epicenter of live electronics performance. He is a composer, electronic musician, and pianist whose mobile preparations and inside-the-piano technique help redefine the instrument's role.

Musicians: Philip Gelb (shakuhachi), Shoko Hikage (koto), Tim Perkis (electronics), Chris Brown (piano)

"...each sound has the self-contained integrity of a stroke of masterful calligraphy... each musician seems to have a perfect bead on the other's next steps... the resulting anticipation is as rewarding as the music's frequently surreal hues." - The Wire

"...exotic, exquisitely crafted and eye-opening." - Signal to Noise

"...truly new music unlike anything I've ever heard, a strong candidate for best avant project of 2003, and sure to turn many a global thinking, progressive minded ear inside out." - Michael G. Nastos

Found at http://www.482music.com/albums/482-1018.html

What exactly is "Natto" anyway?

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Company To Take Minneapolis Travel Aloft

Aloft Brings a New Twist in Travel to Minneapolis

aloft Minneapolis Scheduled to Break Ground in 2007

April 16, 2007 - WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. & MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--aloha! Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE:HOT) and its much-anticipated new lifestyle brand, aloft hotels, announced today it has signed a deal with 900 Washington Hotel, LLC, an affiliate of Sherman Associates, Inc., to develop an aloft hotel in Minneapolis, MN.

The 155-room aloft Minneapolis, located along Washington Avenue South in the trendy Mill District of downtown, will be aloft hotel's first property in Minnesota. The property is situated along the city's beautiful riverbluffs, just steps away some of the city's main attractions, including the Guthrie Theater, Gold Medal Park, the Metrodome and the Mill City Museum. As a main component of Sherman Associates, Inc. redevelopment of the entire block, the hotel will share an avant-garde interior landscape plaza with the stylish new Zenith condominiums project currently under development.

"In a typical year, over 12 million visitors come to the great metropolis of Minneapolis to enjoy its landmarks, history and culture," said Ross Klein, President of Starwood Luxury Brand Group and aloft hotels. "With aloft, now they can visit in style. We are excited to bring a fun new way to play and stay to the City of Lakes!"

"We are thrilled to bring the aloft brand to Minneapolis," stated George Sherman, President of Sherman Associates, Inc. "aloft is a forward-thinking concept; this state-of-the-art facility with a contemporary feel is a great fit for the city. The design vision of Starwood's W brand holds great prestige, and we are delighted to have it as an integral part of this development." Sherman added, "I'm confident that aloft Minneapolis will quickly become a landmark destination for area visitors and residents alike."

As a Vision of W Hotels, aloft is shaking up the lodging industry with urban-influenced design, accessible technology, style and a social atmosphere. aloft offers a total sensory experience, with guest lofts featuring loft-like nine-foot ceilings and oversized windows to create a bright, airy environment. The centerpiece of the loft room is the ultra-comfortable signature bed, and large stylish bathrooms complement the guest experience with oversized walk-in showers and amenities created by Bliss® spa. Each guest loft is also a combination high-tech office and entertainment center, featuring wireless internet access and plug & play, a one-stop connectivity solution for multiple electronic gadgetry such as PDAs, cell phones, mp3 players and laptops - all linked to a large flat panel HDTV ready television for optimal sound and viewing.

Designed in conjunction with world renowned David Rockwell and the Rockwell group, aloft stays true to W's heritage, offering atmospheric public spaces designed to draw guests from their rooms to socialize and make friends. Guests can read the paper, work on their laptops via hotel-wide wireless internet access, play a game of pool or grab a drink with friends at the re:mix communal lobby area and bar w xyz. The re:charge fitness center and splash, the indoor or outdoor pool, give travelers options to de-stress and re-energize; while re:fuel by aloft, a one-stop food and beverage area, offers sweet, savory and healthy food, snacks and beverages to grab & go, 24-hours a day.

The first aloft hotels are targeted to open in first quarter, 2008, with locations expected to be anytown/anywhere. For more information on aloft, please visit www.alofthotels.com.

About aloft

Infused with the DNA of W Hotels, aloft is a new destination sensation featuring loft-inspired design, accessible technology and a stylish urban attitude. Starwood anticipates the first aloft hotels to open in early 2008, with 500 properties worldwide expected by 2012.

About Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Worldwide

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with approximately 850 properties in more than 95 countries and 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood® Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, Sheraton®, Westin®, Four Points® by Sheraton, W®, Le Méridien and the recently announced AloftSM and ElementSM Hotels. Starwood Hotels also own Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com.

ABOUT SHERMAN ASSOCIATES

Founded in 1979, Sherman Associates, Inc. is an award-winning real estate development firm specializing in the design, construction and financing of quality housing and commercial properties in Minnesota, the upper Midwest and other regions nationwide. aloft Minneapolis is Sherman Associates second of three Starwood branded hotels currently under development. For more information please visit www.sherman-associates.com.

(Note: This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities regulations. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance or events and involve risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results or events to differ materially from those anticipated at the time the forward-looking statements are made. These risks and uncertainties are presented in detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although we believe the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give no assurance that our expectations will be attained or that results and events will not materially differ. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.)

Copyright © 2007 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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At A Glance
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc
Source: via Business Wire
Updated  04/04/2007  by company
Headquarters:   White Plains, New York
Website:        http://www.starwood.com
CEO:    Bruce Duncan (Interim)
Employees:      110,000
Ticker:         HOT  (NYSE)
Revenues:       n/a (2006)
Net Income:     n/a (2006)
 

Commemorative Boston Celtics Postage Collection

Boston Celtics and Pitney Bowes Announce the Launch of the Commemorative Boston Celtics Postage Collection

Special collection to feature a Celtics logo as well as individual players

April 02, 2007 - BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Boston Celtics and Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) announced today the launch of a commemorative Boston Celtics Postage Collection. The new postage will feature a Celtics logo designed sheet, as well as sheets for individual players. The Boston Celtics Postage Collection can be purchased exclusively on www.celtics.com.

"The Boston Celtics are excited to team up with Pitney Bowes for this unique postage collection," Rich Gotham, Chief Operations Officer of the Celtics said. "The Boston Celtics postage collection is another exclusive Celtics commemorative that we can offer to our fans. We are hopeful that the collection will not only be a useful product, but also a collector's item."

This premium postage collection will be available for purchase on April 2, 2007. Individual players who will be featured on the postage include team captain Paul Pierce, forwards Al Jefferson and Ryan Gomes and guards Delonte West and Gerald Green.

Each featured design in the Boston Celtics Postage Collection will be offered in sheets of 20. In addition, a framed collection of the entire limited edition collection will be available for purchase.

"Pitney Bowes is delighted to be collaborating with the Boston Celtics on its custom postage program," Ian Siveyer said, Vice President of Global Internet and Postal Solutions for Pitney Bowes. "The collection will provide the Celtics and its fans with an opportunity to personalize their communications in the mailstream."

About Pitney Bowes

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Dealmaker Magazine

Dealmaker

by Larry Dobrow, Thursday, April 12, 2007
I'M SUPPOSED TO REGARD the type of folks featured in Dealmaker with a mixture of contempt and jealousy, simply because they make lotsa cash. I'm supposed to scoff at their striped-suit rigidity and tut-tut their work-first mentality, all the while affirming my low-living cred by subsisting on Ramen Noodles and powdered milk.

Screw that. I count many such people as friends and find that they engage in considerably less self-deification than members of the media mafia -- and, I might add, are much quicker to buy the first round. Since I'm the kind of fella who likes to give back, I'm treating them to subscriptions to Dealmaker, one of the fastest-out-of-the-gate biz-pub launches in recent memory and one of the best.

Maybe it's best to start with what the publication doesn't do: namely, glorify its subjects. Sure, the March/April issue includes a few smudgy photos from the mag's launch party and once or twice tags profilees as "rainmakers." For the most part, though, Dealmaker concerns itself more with process than personality. Nearly every item answers the question "why does this matter?" within its first few sentences. The mag doesn't dawdle.

The "Players" section ought to be required reading for any editor of a profile-intensive title. In it, Dealmaker occupies itself with any number of personas (the up-and-comer, the fixer) and, in short and colorful spurts, outlines what the reader can learn from them. None of the section's eight or nine features is linear: there's a first-person recollection from a Midwestern industrialist, a three-way dialogue between shoe mogul Stuart Weitzman and his Bear Stearns investors, and tips from a Dutch lawyer poised to pounce on business opportunities in Cuba. Taken together, they convey a wealth of information without lapsing into irrelevancies (the "what makes Billy Banker tick?" jive that usually worms its way into such profiles).

Which isn't to say that Dealmaker lacks a personality or a sense of humor. "Initial Offering" kicks off with a panoramic shot of Opa-locka Executive Airport on Super Bowl weekend, with Gulfstream Jets lined up like cars at a mall. From there, it darts easily from the sober (high-end-collectible and wine gurus list their "Buy/Hold/Sell" items) to the absurd (a quickie "Elevator Pitch" of an investment idea, the wildly entertaining "My Deal From Hell" tale) and back (a brief mentor/mentee conversation). The section works owing to both its balance and its brevity.

Dealmaker falls a little flat when it steps outside its immediate realm of expertise. The lifestyle-y items in the back-of-the-book "Closing" section -- cars, booze, watches, blah blah blah -- come across as generic, possibly because their mild boosterism contrasts starkly with the authority of the issue's on-point business features. On the other hand, the "Road Warrior" compilation of travel gadgets and tips, which includes everything from a three-hour Beijing tour for the time-pressed to a review of a new Singapore Airlines first-class seat, reads like it was written by somebody who logs 200 days on the road every year.

As for Dealmaker's look, it goes the clean-and-modern route without OD'ing on graphically superfluous flourishes. The mag eschews posed-within-an-inch-of-his-life exec shots in favor of more informal ones, like the black-and-white pix that, strung together across the top of a two-page spread, do a wonderful job of illustrating the personalities in the story that accompanies them. "Players" goes with a split-column format, offering a "Scorecard" of biographical info down the center of the page. Dealmaker even finds a novel way to present a selection of high-high-high end briefcases, "posing" them in various locations around New York's Grand Central Terminal.

As a rule, I prefer to wait an issue or three before reviewing any new publication. The mag deserves a few months to work out the kinks; I deserve a few months to judge whether the mag has enough bullets in its arsenal o' ideas to make it worth my while. Two issues in, however, Dealmaker goes about its business like a veteran. Presenting useful, timely information for an audience that traffics in it... wow, what a novel concept. Really, this whole magazine thing ain't so hard; Dealmaker makes it look easy.


MAG STATS
Published by: Doubledown Media
Frequency: Five issues in 2007, TBD beyond that
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Desert Living Magazine

Desert Living

by Fern Siegel, Wednesday, April 11, 2007
WHEN YOU THINK BERLIN cabaret during the Weimar, do you think Desert Living? Me, too! That's why the cover clicked. For most New Yorkers, nature is the gentle breeze from the passing subway, so having a pseudo-decadent cover shot of a pseudo Sally Bowles in the Kit Kat Club makes perfect sense. She stands astride cover lines for "Smokin' Hot Kitchens" and "5 Killer Home Remodels." Face it: Cabaret is smokin' and killer. And apparently, so are those who call the desert home.

At least, according to the mag's advertisers, which target upscale readers in the Southwest. The tagline -- modern luxury for the desert -- serves up food, fashion, design and travel. This 10-year-old lifestyle pub has a clean, crisp look and a commitment to affluence. How do we know? The price tag is attached to all front-of-book items, as well as the designer-bag spread.

Such detail would please my mother. She hates to look through shelter books, discover the perfect item, then wonder what it costs. Mom, you can stop wondering. The brown Hermes bag is $7,000, the pasta pot is $238 and the bottle of Leyenda tequila you'll need to revive yourself is $250.

Readers, however, will like the easy, upbeat tone.

Desert Living goal is to tout the region's lifestyle plusses -- and by and large, that means interiors. Take real-estate agents Shawn and Tiffany Danley. The subjects of the story "Finders Keepers," they don't look old enough to drive, let alone dabble in Donald Trump's favorite pastime. They've carved out a market for themselves -- matching buyers with unique properties. That's code for houses that retain original design and charm, without the "improvements" slapped on over the decades. Translation: most people don't want to live in an architectural nightmare. Could the previous homeowners be as dysfunctional as their design choices? Maybe you can judge a book by its cover.

Next up is "Get Plastered." It notes a popular trend among the green crowd: American Clay Plaster. In my co-op, we don't so much plaster as watch the building splatter paint on the walls, which, in New York real estate, equals major capital improvements. However, DL's Home section, which is sizeable, highlights a sleek, uncluttered look. Whatever desert living is, it isn't messy. Admittedly, we only see snippets of a kitchen or living room. In real life, you chuck your stuff in, and Frank Lloyd Wright's linear genius is buried beneath an avalanche of fashion mistakes.

So it came as some surprise to learn in the travel section that Ian Schrager's newest hotel, New York's Gramercy Park, is billed as hip in an unconventional way. Complete with creations from Julian Schnabel and Maarten Baas, it includes "mismatching furniture, clashing colors and textural overload." The rest of us just call this home. On the plus side, many stories boast clever headlines, including "Cool Down" for a fridge and "Stud Muffin" for that healthy, gluten-free breakfast treat. I paused, though, at "Pimp Your Bathroom." Since when did "pimp" become a word fit for civilized company? Do Wall Streeters "ho" a stock? Prediction: it will be the next big thing in action verbs.

Speaking of action, where does our "Cabaret" motif appear? In the "Go Figure" fashion spread. I'm not sure a $2, 400 Gucci burgundy dress with poppy-piped flute sleeves is what Christopher Isherwood had in mind when he wrote "The Berlin Stories," but I know he'd approve the poses. And most of us would be happy to experience the low-key Horizon Hotel in Palm Springs, a renovated series of 1952 bungalows originally designed by famed architect William Cody. Starting at $159 a night, it's just blocks from downtown. While the desert has witnessed many transcendent wonders, like the Exodus story, DL chronicles more earthbound pleasures. If the serenity in these pages is anything to go by, heaven can wait.

MAG STATS
Published by: City Publishing
Frequency: 8 times a year
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Electronic House Magazine

Electronic House

by Larry Dobrow, Tuesday, April 10, 2007
EVERYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH HIGH-END home audio and video kicks more than a thimbleful of tush. Our wall-sized televisions, for instance, grandly affirm the righteous indignation of a fat-suited Tyra Banks, while our supersonic stereos deliver the mellifluous trills of Coldplay in all their girly glory. So why don't most home-theater magazines occasionally acknowledge that this stuff is, you know, fun?

Electronic House may be the worst offender that I've encountered. Never mind the March/April issue's typos (a story on page 15 is listed on the contents page as running on page 115; the seller of a featured item is billed as "Staple's") or the press releases masquerading as stories (from a piece on Windows Vista: "[It] includes a special HotStart mode that instantly starts movie, TV or music playback without requiring the full operating system to boot up. This allows you to enjoy the feature-rich benefits of a computer in the entertainment room without paying the penalty of waiting for the computer to fire up"). No, the real issue here is that the magazine fails to convey a modicum of excitement about the subject at hand. It's the Bataan Death March of enthusiast publications.

The piece on a pimped-up Lexus sound system joylessly notes its features, while the six featured home-theater spreads do little beyond provide laundry lists of components. The mag, in fact, accomplishes the near-impossible by somehow draining all vitality and cool factor from a piece on an indoor pool converted into a home theater (some big ol' pix next time around, maybe?). Even the editor's note, that reliable bastion of we-are-fabulous boosterism, doesn't get any more involved or engaged than "I can't wait to receive much more HD content." Separately, rumor has it that the editor of Astronomy Today can't wait to buy more telescopes.

I also don't have the slightest idea who Electronic House is written for. Anybody with more than a cursory interest in home theater will dismiss the mag's shallow, detail-light content without a second look, and anybody who doesn't care about home theater won't pick up a title like this in the first place. Who's left? "Home theater for retards" isn't an especially compelling editorial hook.

That's neither politically correct nor particularly articulate, I realize, but I don't know how better to characterize the March/April issue's hodgepodge of dim and dimmer items. The cover feature on "The New HD" rehashes information long ago covered in Home Theater and Sound & Vision, supplementing it with a next-generation-audio sidebar so in-depth that it only fills 65% of a page (the rest is left blank). The how-to on selecting a home-theater designer stresses that readers should "expect top-notch professionalism from each and every one" -- like Home Smart Home's marketing director Chris Stanfa, who inexplicably finds his way into a photo accompanying the story.

Not that anybody expects eloquence from an electronics mag, but the stories are alternately filled with big-picture pronouncements that have been beaten to death elsewhere ("like it or not, TVs are becoming PCs, and PCs are becoming TVs") and ones that practically beg to be taken out of context ("racks come in all shapes, sizes and prices"). Don't look for help from the mag's two columnists; one wastes his 500-word allotment on a dry discussion of "Batman Begins," "The Constant Gardener" and other mega-timely content he enjoyed during the past year.

I think I've made my point, if a bit more humorlessly than usual. Do not read, peruse, advertise in, make eye contact with, or otherwise engage Electronic House. OK?


MAG STATS
Published by: EH Publishing
Frequency: 10 issues per year
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March 29, 2007 - STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), the mailstream technology company, has launched a website to guide mail operators and marketers through the newly-announced US Postal Service rate changes. Located at www.pbpostalinfo.com and at www.PitneyBowes.com, Pitney Bowes offers the tools, terms and tips that reduce costs and maximize opportunities in the new postal rate environment.

The 2007 USPS rate change focuses on the shape and size of mail pieces. This is especially important for firms that send high volumes of transactional mail such as financial and insurance statements, and for direct mailers of postcard offers, catalogues and credit card offers. Nuances in how mail operators and marketers optimize their mailstream can mean millions of dollars in both savings and revenue.

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The Pitney Bowes website features a custom rate change interactive tool that helps mailers and marketers determine areas of impact so they may adapt their mail operations according to the new USPS rates. In addition to direct links to the USPS official site, Pitney Bowes adds ongoing news, facts and educational information that quickly and clearly outline tips and advice for mailers and marketers.

"Due to the changing postal environment, U.S. firms have an immediate opportunity to reduce costs and increase revenues by optimizing the mailstream," said Mike Monahan, Executive Vice President and President, Global Mailing Solutions and Services. "This enterprise-wide endeavor will quickly become a C-suite priority with the 2007 USPS rate change."

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Pitney Bowes provides the world's most comprehensive suite of mailstream software, hardware, services and solutions to help companies manage their flow of mail, documents and packages to improve communication. Pitney Bowes, with $5.7 billion in annual revenue, takes an all-inclusive view of its customers' operations, helping organizations of all sizes enjoy the competitive advantage that comes from an optimized mailstream. The company's 87 years of technological leadership have produced many major mailstream innovations, and it is consistently on the Intellectual Property Owners Association's list of top U.S. patent holders. With approximately 35,000 employees worldwide, Pitney Bowes serves more than 2 million businesses through direct and dealer operations. More information about the company can be found at http://www.pb.com.
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