Coming to Shumaker charity sale in Toledo
The Bancroft Strategy by Robert Ludlum ™ hardbound 538 pages
“All footsteps were the same, yet all were different; there were variations in weight and gait, variations in the composition of soles . . . to the trained ear, capable of being distinguished like different voices.”
Robert Ludlum, though deceased, left enough work in progress that his creative legacy continues to build even after his death. This is one of his post-mortem books.
http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/0312316739.asp

Flesh and Blood by Jonathan Kellerman hardbound 369 pages
Fifteenth novel featuring Alex Delaware, the crime-solving psychologist
http://www.themysteryreader.com/kellerman-flesh.html

The Innocent Man by John Grisham paperbound 377 pages
Bestseller on murder and injustice
http://bestsellers.about.com/od/nonfictionreviews/gr/innocent_man.htm

Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel paperbound 368 pages
http://mcgoodwin.net/pages/otherbooks/ds_galileodaughter.html

Louis Elzevir , 1540-1617, Dutch printer and bookseller, whose name also appeared as Elsevier or Elzevier
He produced his first book at Leiden in 1583. Under his descendants, the business was continued until 1791. In its best years it was easily the greatest publishing business in the world. The Elzevirs were typically neither printers nor scholars but businessmen. They owned presses and type and employed good editors and printers. Their books were legible and inexpensive. Family owned and operated agencies were established in numerous cities, from Denmark to Italy. The Elzevir types are typically legible and sturdy, rather than elegant, and the books tended to be of small size with narrow margins. Louis's son Bonaventure Elzevir, 1583-1652, and his grandson Abraham Elzevir, 1592-1652, continued and expanded the business. A famous designer of types employed by the Elzevirs was Christopher van Dyck . Roman type such as he designed, known in England and America as "old style" type, is known in Europe as "Elzevir" type.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Elzevir.html
The company’s most dramatic growth at the start of the new millennium was achieved after Harcourt put itself up for sale and most of it was acquired by Reed Elsevier, including an educational publishing group that became a fourth piece in the Reed Elsevier collection (along with Elsevier in science and medicine, LexisNexis in law and Reed Business in trade magazines and exhibitions).
http://www.elsevier.com/framework_aboutus/pdfs/historyofelsevier.pdf

FTC Report Sheds New Light on Food Marketing to Children and Adolescents
News release: The Federal Trade Commission has announced the results of a study on food marketing to children and adolescents. The report, Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation [see also Appendices A-F], finds that 44 major food and beverage marketers spent $1.6 billion to promote their products to children under 12 and adolescents ages 12 to 17 in the United States in 2006. The report finds that the landscape of food advertising to youth is dominated by integrated advertising campaigns that combine traditional media, such as television, with previously unmeasured forms of marketing, such as packaging, in-store advertising, sweepstakes, and Internet. These campaigns often involve cross-promotion with a new movie or popular television program. Analyzing this data, the report calls for all food companies “to adopt and adhere to meaningful, nutrition-based standards for marketing their products to children under 12.”

Whole Foods-Wild Oats Merger
In February, 2007, Whole Foods announced its plan to buy smaller rival, Wild Oats, for $565 million. Five months later, the FTC sued to block the deal, saying it would stifle competition in the market for natural and organic groceries. In August, District Judge Paul Friedman denied the FTC’s request to block the deal, concluding that that it had failed to prove that the merger would hurt competition. On July 29, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia reversed Friedman, ruling that Judge Friedman “underestimated the FTC’s likelihood of success on the merits” when he denied the agency’s request. Here’s the opinion. Here’s a Reuters report.
WSJ Law Blog July 29, 2008

Testing the Waters 2008: A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): "NRDC's annual survey of water quality and public notification at U.S. beaches finds that pollution caused the number of beach closings and advisories to hit their second-highest level in the 18-year history of the report. The number of 2007 closing and advisory days at ocean, bay, and Great Lakes beaches topped 20,000 for the third consecutive year, confirming that our nation's beaches continue to suffer from serious water pollution that puts swimmers at risk.
Aging and poorly designed sewage and stormwater systems hold much of the blame for beachwater pollution. The number of closing and advisory days due to sewage spills and overflows more than tripled to 4,097 from 2006 to 2007, but the largest known source of pollution continues to be contamination from stormwater, which caused more than 10,000 closing and advisory days in 2007. Unknown sources of pollution caused more than 8,000 closing and advisory days."
Summary of findings
Beach Pollution FAQ
Guide to Finding a Clean Beach
Full Report: Testing the Waters - A Guide to Water Quality at Vacation Beaches - Eighteenth Edition, August 2008

Q. What is a Pyrrhic victory?
A. A victory gained at too great a cost--King Pyrrhus of Epirus gained such a victory over the Romans.
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/297150.html

August 1 is the birthday of the man who wrote "Call me Ishmael," one of the most famous first lines in literature: Herman Melville, (books by this author) born in New York City, in 1819. When he was 20, he worked as a cabin boy on a ship that went to Liverpool and back, the first of his many voyages. In 1841, he joined the crew of the whaler Acushnet, which sailed around Cape Horn and through the South Pacific. After his travels, he wrote the novel Typee (1946). It was rejected by a Boston publisher, so Melville published it in London, where it became an immediate best seller. He wrote a sequel called Omoo (1847), which was also a big success. He continued to write and publish, but he was never as popular again.
Melville got married and had four children, and the family bought a farm in Massachusetts, where Melville became friends with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Melville was working on Moby-Dick, his story of Captain Ahab's obsessive hunt for the great white whale, and Hawthorne encouraged him to make the novel an allegory, not just an account of whaling.
He was elated when he finished his novel (published in 1851) and considered it his greatest work yet. He wrote to Hawthorne, "I have written a wicked book and feel as spotless as the lamb." Readers didn't like it. His American publisher only printed 3,000 copies, and most of those never even sold; in 1853, a warehouse fire destroyed the plates and the unsold books, and the publisher refused to reset the book or compensate Melville.
He wrote poetry but couldn't find a publisher, so he had to publish it himself. He moved to New York and got a job as a customs inspector on the New York docks. The manuscript of his final work, Billy Budd, was found in his desk after he died. At the time of his death, Melville had been almost completely forgotten, and The New York Times called him "Henry Melville" in his obituary. Moby-Dick is now considered one of the great American novels. He said, "It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
The Writer’s Almanac