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#CalibreOne - Quarterly investment eco-system review

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Worth a read   http://content.yudu.com/A1s37z/IndexQ12011/resources/index.htm

#CalibreOne - Quarterly investment eco-system review

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Worth a read   http://content.yudu.com/A1s37z/IndexQ12011/resources/index.htm

#CalibreOne - Quarterly investment eco-system review

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Worth a read   http://content.yudu.com/A1s37z/IndexQ12011/resources/index.htm

#CalibreOne - Quarterly investment eco-system review

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Worth a read   http://content.yudu.com/A1s37z/IndexQ12011/resources/index.htm

#CalibreOne - Quarterly investment eco-system review

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Worth a read   http://content.yudu.com/A1s37z/IndexQ12011/resources/index.htm

Just discovered Mr Fish (the cartoonist) and his comments on the world.....

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Check out a long list of works at  http://www.harpers.org/subjects/MrFish and here http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/category/mr_fish/  Mr. Fish ( mrfish@clowncrack.com ) lives in Los Angeles, California. He never asked to be born. Occasionally, he laughs his head off. His mother has no idea what he's up to. She cries easily. For more information, date him. Born a fish always a fish!

Even Disney understands that collecting data has value....

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It has been widely reported that Disney has paid more than $3 million to make US regulators go away after it was revealed several sites once operated by its Playdom games division illegally collected and disclosed personal information from thousands of children.  Disney is probably not at fault since they bought Playdom last year and the abuses seem to have been committed prior to the $563 million (August  2010). According to the  LA Times , the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) claimed that several Disney sites, including an online virtual world called Pony Stars, illegally collected and disclosed personal information. More than 821,000 children kiddies registered with Pony Stars from 2006 to 2010 and 403,000 children provided their information to some of the 19 other virtual worlds operated by Playdom, including 2 Moons, 9 Dragons and My Diva Doll. Playdom's sites harvested children's ages and email addresses during the registration process and allowed them to publicly post