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News - I was the featured guest in this week's Chat With The Experts on SBAM's Web site: https://www.sbam.org/chat/chat.html Comment - I chatted about working with the news media. Did not get a lot of questions, but we've found that even if they don't participate, many people still read the transcript of the chats. So, maybe it did some good. Perhaps the people at MSU who are handling the media on the Jeff Smoker case will read my chat and get some good ideas. News - Chinese authors rip off Rowling and publish fake "Harry Potter" books -- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49351-2002Oct31.html Comment - "In one of the fakes, Gandalf, the friendly wizard from J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," pops up. Harry and his classmate Hermione also have a love affair. In another, Harry finds himself passing through places with Chinese names." The Chinese have also copied other books, for example: "Take the case of "Who Moved My Cheese?," the self-help volume by Spencer Johnson and Kenneth H. Blanchard. It was a huge hit here last year, notable for a country where hardly anyone eats cheese. Within months, the market was swamped with titles like "Whose Cheese Can I Move?," "I Don't Want to Move Your Cheese!," "Learn to Make Your Own Cheese," "The Philosophy of the Survival of Cheese" and "52 Sincere Tips on the Management of Cheese." News - A "moo-ving" story: Gateway ditches it's cow motif: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48818-2002Oct31.html Comment: "The company has embarked on an image overhaul that calls on all the powers of research, design, typography and the semi-science of branding to craft a new image that may not include the cow but retains the "essence" of the cow, as the company likes to say." Click here to see current comments and add your own. 1:56:39 PM 
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