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The couple, who met at Sherman College in Spartanburg, S.C., always planned to have a practice in Florida, but they never imagined one on an island.
"We really hadn't heard of Sanibel until we saw the practice for sale," said Greg. "We fell in love with the area and everything fell into place."
For the past three years, Greg and Jaclyn helped run the chiropractic business of Jaclyn's uncle in Paduca, Ky. It was there they learned things not taught in a classroom through her uncle, who they consider an excellent mentor with more than 20 years experience in the chiropractic business.
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Dr. Greg Walsh and Dr. Jacyln Walsh recently purchased Sanibel Chiropractic business of Dr. Tolisano and are already serving patients.
"Leaving our regular patients in Kentucky was hard," said Jaclyn, who comes from a family of chiropractors. "But my uncle had the type of practice we want patients who look forward to seeing us even if they are in pain. He taught us the human side of the business, too."
On July 1, they took over Sanibel Chiropractic from Dr. Tolisano and have been happily serving patients. Since they opened, the knowledgeable doctors have introduced a new, lower price list and added a few features to their services, such as HydroMassage.
The HydroMassage is an unattended water massage system that gives patients the opportunity to get a 10-minute massage every day. It has a unique, open design for comfort and an "all-sides-of-the-body" massage with water-thru-air technology to deliver maximum massage pressure.
"The HydroMassage is already becoming a favorite among our patients," said Greg, who added that it is also available to non-patients.
Sanibel Chiropractic will focus on delivering specific, gentle treatment through instrument adjusting. This FDA registered device was specifically created to deliver gentle and precise chiropractic adjustments to the joints of the spine and extremities to relieve pain and restore function. There is no popping or cracking sound with these adjustments, but rather precise adjustments that are effective for patients of all ages.
"It's about getting out of pain, helping to prevent problems and keeping your body working and healthy," said Greg about their wellness model.
Sanibel Chiropractic, located at 1456 Periwinkle Way, Suite C, is open Monday through Saturday and Sunday by appointment. For more information or to make an appointment, call the office at 239-472-0900 or visit www.sanibelchiropractic.com.


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While I don't wish to burden legitimate users, I do want to prevent most piracy. How much copy protection is appropriate?
This may not be what you want to hear but any copy-protection will burden legitimate users. Pirates will remove the copy protection from your software and the unprotected version they create will be more usable than the version you offer.
It doesn't just hurt your customers, it hurts you too. The time you waste trying to create some copy-protection and losing the arms race with the pirates (which you will lose) is time you could have spent making your product better.
The way to beat the pirates is to provide a better service to your customers than they do. The commonly advocated business model is to provide support on the software to paying users - and since your target is business customers this makes a lot of sense.
Businesses, by the way, tend not to pirate on the scale of the private user. Piracy is a big risk to business because businesses have very deep pockets.
In short, the answer is to have no copy protection at all and trust your customers. Trusting the customer is hard but they'll appreciate it.
You obviously have no clue what you are blabbering about. There is no reason whatsoever why you can't have multiple independent products protected by the same third party mechanism without linking said products together. I know, because I've done it.
In short: Nobody interested in anti-pirating wants the licensing to be in a dedicated dll, since those are easy to locate, break, and replace. Licensing code should always be fully merged into a key component of the product you're protecting and as such be "invisible". That automatically means that you can have multiple copies of it that are not aware of each other and that are automatically uninstalled together with the product they protect.
I'm not familiar with ELicense but this sounds similar to what we used at a shop I worked at before.
Basically the user entered a "product key" and then the system generated a "unique" install ID and contacted the web server for an activation number. What was cool with the one we used was if your product key was 1234-5678-0123-7890 then the first 5 (or 6 I don't recall) characters of the activation request was based on that product key was the same. the last half of the activation request was all hardware
Activation sucks--Broderbund ripped off a paying customer.
A good idea would be to add "soft activation". This means customer have to activate your software, and the number of currently active machines counted. Deactivating machines should be running a simple tool that removes the software and decrements the activation count on the server. Activation should never fail (even if the activation server is unreachable), but the customer should be reminded if he is running unlicensed software. This way, you can make sure that users don't mistakenly use to many licenses.
Good points, but I can not completely agree with you. I personally never found it much of a burden to enter a license key. Even a one-time online activation is OK IMHO as long as it's painless. And I can understand why software companies put these measures in, not to stop pirating at all, but to keep the honest people honest.
I know that piracy is not so much of a problem when it comes to businesses, but consider the following: A company purchased 50 user licenses of a product, but the product has no copy protection whatsoever. Probably the people in charge won't even notice if more than 50 employees install the software - at least not in the companies I have worked so far. OTOH, if this software would have told the 51st user "Your company has no more licenses for you to install the software. You can use this program for another 30 days, but please contact your system admistrators to buy a license for you", the company probably will buy another 20 licenses.
So, IMHO, one-time activation is OK if it doesn't get too much in my way, but phoning home at every start or some annoying procedure like the Vista phone activation (I went through that once - took me more than 1.5 hours to activate a copy of Vista) is not OK.
I personally never found it much of a burden to enter a license key.
In short, the answer is to have no copy protection at all and trust your customers.
It depends on how the product is distributed. If it's downloadable then I think a one off registration key is probably a requirement - it doesn't have to be very complex, just a step so that people won't download the product and not get around to paying you.
I'm all for trusting people not to be intentionally dishonest, but I think you'd go broke trusting people not to be slack.
s/they believeIt's all they need and they believe they get better performance and more security without it.
You don't need to go this far: I spent the last 3 weeks on the road with my laptop: Matlab ceased to function as soon as the license key manager got out of touch of the license server. I hate that macromedia shit.
How much copy protection is appropriate?
Define 'appropriate', and you will have your answer immediately.
If you want to maximize immediate profits at all costs, use the most powerful copy-protection you can - phoning home, disabling suspect keys even at the cost of inconveniencing paying users, etc. etc.
If you believe the project has long-term possibilities, then you need to start worrying about pissing people off. Don't phone home. Minimal product activation once at installation.
If you believe th
1. Install keys are a pain, but we're all used to them now and we accept them. Very few users send the software back or refuse to upgrade just because of install keys.
2. Phone home activation is a bigger pain. It gives you some control but can cause headaches for the customers IT dept. It can also make cracked versions more appealing, and makes non-internet connected computers impossible to activate. In general though, it is acceptable if its a once only affair. However, regular phone-home checks are more than enough to sway the purchasing decision against your product.
3. Locally installed license servers can be a pain, but they offer both you and the end user complete control over whats going on. They do represent an initial setup hurdle, but after that they offer considerable flexibility in that the end user can install your software on all the computers on their system and then there is a limit applied on how many clients can run at any one time. Your customer can then buy a small number of licenses and upgrade to more if necessary. Obviously this still needs the customer to have a decent internal network, but not necessarily internet connected, which is an issue in some places.
4. Hardware dongles are just a menace and a guaranteed way to drive your customers away.
At the end of the day i think you need to evaluate how important your software is to your customer. If its critical, and they have no alternative, then you have the option of going the Microsoft route and pissing them off as much as you like cos they need you more than you need them. This may come back to bite you in the arse.
If your software has little or no value to the home user (i.e. they have no use for or it or wouldn't pay for it anyway) then you can probably get away with just a license key activation cos business customers tend to be a little more honest by nature. This also makes your product appealing to small companies cos they can buy one license (so they feel honest) and use it on 3 or 4 computers. This *is* technically "stealing", but you've still sold one more copy than you might have done.
If you really want to have total control, and you think your customers will accept it, then the license server is a good choice. Your sales people should be able to dress it up as a convenient way for the IT staff to manage their licenses and if some sort of phone home is needed then only one hole needs to be drilled through the firewall. In future revisions you could also expand its role into an update server or something.
It is possible to do some mix and match. For instance, Intel distribute the free versions of their C++ and Fortran compilers with both a phone home activation code AND a license key file. I find this to be quite convenient (though admittedly it doesn't stop the software being replicated across several machines). You could for instance sell single or double licenses to small companies (in the expectation that they will use it on more than one or two computers) and sell license servers to larger companies (who might be more strict about license accounting). This sort of flexibility (not adopting a one size fits all approach) would reduce the chances alienating whole segments of potential customers.
So in summary, you are selling a product and that product has to be acceptable to your potential customers. If its not, they won't buy. Consider your target market and implement your controls accordingly. And if you can afford it, don't be afraid to offer flexibility in the licensing systems.
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This book is a great read. I encourage all of you to pick it up. It discusses politics, punishment, voting, responsibility, and is entertaining for the action/adventure alone.
It is nothing like the movie. Actually imagine your favorite book, then take all the awesome out. Thats how they made the movie.
Colonel Lake wrote:
The movie was made by liberal communist bed-wetting pussies.
He was my Marine ROTC instructor. He introduced me to Troopers. He also had many more great sayings.
This books is actually on the Marine recomended reading list, or was, or will be, or somthing.
If you've ever read it you know what I mean. If you haven't it only takes a day or two because it is so short.
Heinlein is a very prolific writter and I'd recomend his other books. I've read Space Cadets, Double Star, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, and several others I can't remember right now. Most are short and quick. Suprisingly good.
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Elsewhere, Manchester City lost 2-3 to Aston Villa as they failed stop the fightback from Villa as they came back from a goal down to clinch victory.
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You gargle with salt water or salty water?
It is hard to think of a way that "salty water" would be used. I believe it would mostly be used to describe water whose saltiness was unexpected or unusual.
"He sipped from the canteen and was surprised to find that the water was salty. He quickly spit out the salty water and rinsed his mouth with fresh water."
"Have two pots boiling on the stove. Add 2 Tbs salt to one pot and 2 Tbs sugar to the other. Drop the lemon rind into the salty water and let boil for 3 minutes. Drain and drop the rind into the sugar water."
Thanks a bundle for your elaborate replies and explaining the concept to its details. I also appreciate the fact that you ve been pointing out my mistakes, it helps and makes me more concious and aware while posting a thread.
A quick one from this reply..
What is a lemon rind?
"Lemon rind" is the peel of lemons. Sometimes lemon rind ( not "a lemon rind") is cut into shreds and boiled in many changes of water, then finally boiled in sugar syrup to glaze it. The shreds are then eaten (one by one, with the fingers) as a confection. This is almost more a pastime to entertain children when a blizzard is keeping them indoors than it is a significant food item.
Lemon and orange rind is also made into a jelly-like spread (for toast, crackers, or bread) called "marmalade."
That's what the chick said when he spied a citrus fruit in his nest:
"Oh! Look at the orange Mama laid (orange marmalade)."
This pun was considered a knee-slapper amongst my third-grade acquaintance.
Well I am gonna keep you busy now and I cannot be blammed.. LOL
I have heard of orange marmalade, though never tasted it, we have our own Indian name for it.
What is glaze (boiled in sugar syrup to glaze it)?
What is a confection (as a confection)? Has it to do with confectionary?
What is blizzard (entertain children when a blizzard is keeping them)?
What is spied (spied a citrus fruit in his nest)? Is it the act of spying?
What is a knee-slapper?
What do you mean by third-grade acquaintance?
Thanks a ton
[QUOTE=anupumh;513534]Well I am gonna keep you busy now and I cannot be blammed.. LOL
I have heard of orange marmalade, though never tasted it, we have our own Indian name for it.
What is the Indian name for it?
What is glaze (boiled in sugar syrup to glaze it)?
In this context, "to glaze" means "to coat thickly with sugar."
(It also has a meaning connected to the installation of window glass.)
What is a confection (as a confection)? Has it to do with confectionary?
Yes. In this context, the word "confection" refers to any sweetmeat that does not really have its own name. This little treat is not a pastry, for example. It is more like home-made "candy," which in British English would be called a "sweet," I understand.
What is blizzard (entertain children when a blizzard is keeping them)?
A blizzard is a severe winter snowstorm. School is canceled because the roads are dangerous and slow, so children find themselves with time on their hands. At first they rejoice and go out to play winter games (sledding, building snowmen, and so on.) But soon they become too cold, and their mittens get soaked from melted snow, so they come right back home again. Then there is a crisis, because they are idle. But cooking is always fun on a cold day.
Here is an American child in snow gear outdoors after a blizzard
What is spied (spied a citrus fruit in his nest)? Is it the act of spying?
No, not in this context. Here it means "to espy" -- to spot, to see, to catch sight of.
What is a knee-slapper?
This is a colloquialism for "such a grand and funny joke that you slap your own knee because you're laughing so hard." The expression "a real knee-slapper" means "a really funny joke." But nowadays this expression is so old-fashioned that it is not ever used without ironic or comic intent -- as I meant it to be understood. To call that silly pun a "knee-slapper" is to make fun of it as a joke, to say it was highly funny only in a sarcastic sense.
What do you mean by third-grade acquaintance?
This also is meant in a comical sense. It literally means all the other kids I knew when we were in the third grade (the third year of school, around age 8.) It is a stuffy way to refer to a bunch of silly little kids, so the intent was to be funny by ironic contrast.
On the other hand, my "UsingEnglish acquaintance" actually is enjoyable -- no irony involved.
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Surely energy policies are about creating a feel-good aspect to the brand. Plus if you learn something along the way by trying perhaps you can commercialize it and it takes you off on another wild ride, like the iPhone did.
Just because they don't understand it, doesn't mean they can run the company better.
Even if his policies are bad, 97.5% of stockholders voted to do it his way. The owners want to be green, so green it is.
Surely energy policies are about creating a feel-good aspect to the brand. Plus if you learn something along the way by trying perhaps you can commercialize it and it takes you off on another wild ride, like the iPhone did.
Directors and officers of a corporation have a fiduciary duty to the stockholders to run the company in their interest.
This USUALLY means trying to maximize return on investment. But the sotckholders may want other things, in addition to or in place of, financial gain. When this is the case, the duty requires them to set their own target appropriately.
This is not uncommon: Think "green energy company" or "church" for two examples. The Bell Telephone company, started by Alexander G. out of his research into hearing aids, has always done work on assisting the hearing impaired. Hershey's, at the direction of its founder, is owned by a trust and 30% of its profits go to support a school for orphans.
One typical strategy is to "satisfice", rather than maximize, financial gain, while pursuing other interests. This produces a sound financial base for pursuing those interests. (i.e. Hershey's, churches, "green companies"...) Another is to do things that are win-win with respect to the business (i.e. Bell Telephone, doing things like designing phones to work well with hearing aids, make ringing sounds that are auddible to the partially deaf and light-flashing ringer devices, and otherwise making the phone system accessable to hearing impaired.)
As you point out, these approaches may also lead to financial benefits that typical businesses and business-school graduate executives miss in their pursuit of the short-term bottom line. Good will, new inventions, synergies, etc.
Another example: Hershey's, not constrained or incentivized by short-term bottom-line, doesn't use typical industrial-food ingredients such as corn syrup, or follow other food-processing fads. It sticks with basic, high quality, time-proven, ingredients and recipies. This produces a consistent product (which also forms the base for consumer recipies) and a loyal customer base. (No "New Coke" debacle or gradual deterioration of product quality over decades with this company.)
So far there aren't many comments here, but all of them are sitting here flaming Tim Cook. No where in the articles linked did it say that shareholders (as a group) wanted this. In fact, if you RTA (the last linked one), you'll see that it received less than 3% of the vote. But people who are too afraid to post under a user name are also apparently all too happy to post that Cook is doing a disservice to his shareholders, even though the overwhelming majority of said shareholders agree with him.
So what should those that don't do? Buy something else. I don't get why people who are seemingly for the free market are up in arms about a company doing something their way and telling people that if they don't like it, they can go somewhere else. Just because the ROI in one company might not be as high as possible (according to a think tank, not a court of public opinion by any stretch, which is where Apple exceeds), doesn't mean that the company is doing a disservice to its shareholders, unless those shareholders are in it for the shortest term possible.
That's what is so funny. Ever since Jobs came back, every quarter, so-called "analysts" keep announcing that Apple must stop doing what they are doing and do what the competition is.
-make netbooks
-make cheap computers
-make cheap phones
-make cheap tablets [extra ridiculous when the rumors before it was announced were that it would be around $1000 for the cheapest, and the analysts said it would be dead unless it was in the $500 range, then when it was released for $500, they said it was dead unless it was prices $300-$350]
-give in to carrier demands, so more carriers will sell the iPhone
-zillions more
They also announce products are a failure, like the iPhone 5C, which was only the 3rd best selling phone between when it was released and the beginning of Dec [which I could readily find numbers]. So only 1 model [out of hundreds] from a competitor sold better than the 5c in the US and it's a failure.
I prefer the lack of diplomacy, personally. It stands in stark contrast to most of the public statements Tim Cook makes about the company, which are usually run through the PR/Marketing polisher within an inch of their lives.
Of course, the skeptical part of me wonders if this response was planned, to some extent. Not necessarily word-for-word, but the result of some foresight: "What's a good response if somebody says this isn't helping our profitability?" The line about ROI for accessibility struck me as a bit too pat.
Sweet reason, or even simple politeness, doesn't work with the kind of self-righteous ideological nutballs who make up NCPPR. "Fuck off" is the only kind of response that will get through to them.
I will likely never buy an Apple product, I would like to shake Cook's hand for the way he pushed back against the NCPPR. It's about time these "Profits Uber Alles!" twits got their behinds handed to them.
Of course, who wants to bet on how long it is before the NCPPR begins pushing for a shareholder proposal to have Cook removed as CEO? "How dare he waste money that we could be squirreling away in our offshore accounts on that dirty, hippie stuff like Green Initiatives?"
The National Center for Public Policy Research are right-wing activist assholes, who's opinions have previously been rejected by the overwhelming majority of Apple shareholders. They are trying to use an Apple shareholder meeting, not for the benefit of the company or it's shareholders, but to expound their political beliefs.
Why should Tim Cook treat them with a respect they don't deserve?
The problem is the Think Tank guys have left the reservation. Conservatives used to believe that most people were basically good and when given choices they will do the right thing. They also used to believe it was wrong to force people to do things and because of that first belief it was also unnecessary to force people to do things. Let the market work, let people become more affluent, which leads to more choices and they will make good choices. They also at one point thought people rational.
Rational people understand money is not the only form of wealth. Its also good to have clean air to breath, safe water to drink, and quality food to eat. In that sense environmentalism is actually a conservative issue. These things are of course a matter of degree. Its much easier to decide to spend more on the same amount of energy because its at least ostensibly "greener" when you are having most of your other needs thoroughly satisfied. Affluence should make us better people; something I still believe. Which is why as a conservative or libertarian or whatever you want to call me I am thrilled to see companies like Apple doing this stuff of there own will.
It validates my beliefs. They are making choices freely that can benefit not just their future but potentially the future of others. They are doing so against a back drop of wild success, in one of the least regulated industries (tech).
In an economy where market failures such as negative externalities are corrected, Apple is already doing the sort of thing that any company would do to maximize ROI. The problem is that conservative organizations such as the NCPPR tend not to believe in externalities [blogspot.com], probably because it conflicts with their ideology that the Earth is not warming or that humans are not the cause of it.
It's ironic that the NCPPR bring up ROI when they bash [juneauempire.com] a $68.4 billion train project that would provide the same transportat
This is all about raising money for the think tank. They get to tell their supporters that they stood up to the hated Al Gore, who is on Apple's board. Watch the donations flow in over this.
You best believe that if Apple was limping along financially then they wouldn't have splurged on such green energy ventures. Don't misunderstand me. Apple has the cash and they can spend it as they wish. But Cook is making a moral argument and it's only the success of the iPhone/iPad that allows him to do so.
Heaven forbid that companies should act morally.
this is a, if not the major problem that ROI = $'s ** x is the only measure how things are followed, the more the better, and not what would be adequate on a global scale. That's where currently all systems fail flat.
I am not really an Apple fan but this is a good one!
Funny how the good folks at the NCPPR didn't demand that Apple stop their philanthropic activities, which by NCPPR logic would also hurt shareholder value. For some reason, they only objected to Apple's "green" initiatives...I wonder why?
Either way, those "think tank" guys should go back to school and learn how capital assets are actually priced. [wikipedia.org] If the NCPPR had gotten their way, it's likely that Apple's stock price would have gone down, not up.
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The CEO of a company - whether public or not - is expected to make certain decisions completely on his or her own.
Like the captain of a ship. Consider that all the captains of the US missile submarine fleet have the authority to nuke President Putin back to the stone ages should the sub ever lose communications with their commanders in the Pentagon.
Like the captain of a ship, the CEO of a company can be relieved of command, should - NOT the stockholders but THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS - feel he or she is doing a bad job.
Like say, when the Apple board tossed Steve Jobs out on his ear, put Woz out to pasture, scouted around for a more multinational kinda brand-oriented guy, brought in John Scully, who proceeded to lay off four thousand of my coworkers back when I was doing MacTCP QA for Apple, because he'd never actually used a computer in his entire life before hiring on at the Cupertino Fruit Company.
Rly. I still have my Apple Employee Loan-to-Own PowerMac 8500. That tradition got started specifically because of Scully not knowing how to use a computer. That was actually a common problem back in the day. Actually it still is; I know of some guy whose computer was running real slow, because he hide NINE Internet Explorer toolbars. But I digress.
Now suppose Timmy-baby really wasn't doing his job, but the board backed him. Then the job of the shareholders would be to elect a new board. That's one of the things they often do at these shareholder meetings. It would be up to a vote of the board to replace the CEO.
As for those who object to Apple's green policies. Consider how many citizens of the People's Republic of China work for Apple, or for one of Apple's suppliers such as FoxConn. I expect that - indirectly - far more people work for Apple in the PRC than do in the whole rest of the world put together.
The air in China used to be pretty clean because the people lived in a very simple manner, they didn't own many consumer products, they all dressed in olive drab and rode bicycles to work and school. Even Ambassador George Herbert Walker Bush rode his bike to the embassy in Peking!
While nominally still Communist, actually it is quite likely the closest to unfettered capitalism of anywhere on the planet. Without the slightest thought towards urban planning, there are factories everywhere, everyone who has a good job has a nice car, and a nice place to live. Thus they had that one hundred mile long traffic jam that lasted a week.
China gets most of its energy from coal. It is plentiful there. They import coal as well; there is a controversial proposal to build a coal terminal where I now live in Vancouver, Washington, so coal mined in Montana can be loaded onto cargo ships then transported to China.
This had the eventual result that I recently saw the most amazing photograph. I don't have a link but maybe I can dig it up then post it in a reply.
The smog is so thick in many Chinese cities that one cannot see the sky, certainly not the sunrise.
So along the busy streets, in the early mornings, they have installed very large video screens that show the rising Sun.
The photo I saw, the video on that screen was so beautiful, but the smog was so thick that the people couldn't see more than maybe thirty feet. That's why the life expectancy in Beijing has gone down by fifteen years.
I don't know that Tim Cook is worrying about his Chinese employees, or those of his Chinese vendors, but if he wants FoxConn to keep assembling iDevices, they can't all be dropping dead of emphysema can they? Grandpa Crawford died of that, he spent his last five years on a portable oxygen tank. It's a nasty way to go.
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Many ancient texts survive only as copies of copies of copies of the original text. Each time the text is copied, changes occur: some are the equivalent of minor typos, others are more striking. In ancient Greek geometry texts, though, we must also consider the diagrams. I will show examples where diagrams were not simply direct copies of the same manuscript from which the text was copied, and others where the copying was much more faithful to the source.
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Jail has only one volunteer for Orange Patrol duties
BROOKVILLE — It may be fall and closing upon Halloween, but don't expect to see much orange — orange jumpsuits, that is.
During Monday's meeting of the Jefferson County Jail Inspection/Intermediate Punishment Board, Sheriff Carl Gotwald reported that the Orange Patrol will not be up-and-running until he receives more participation from the inmates.
Currently, he is down to one volunteer.
The sheriff's office and jail oversee the Inmate Work Release Program, and its Orange Patrol performs jobs throughout the county, including snow removal, painting, clean-up and maintenance.
Furthermore, the Orange Patrol also maintains six cemeteries that are no longer maintained or are unclaimed and mows and trims county-owned property, including the jail, the 911 center and the fairgrounds.
According to Gotwald, the Orange Patrol normally averages six to eight workers, and it's not "cost-effective" to have only one inmate performing work.
"This summer, we averaged six to eight people a day, all summer," he said. "We got a lot of work done ... they are well-accepted everywhere they go."
The Orange Patrol is available to perform services for local townships or municipalities, but work must be approved by the sheriff and county commissioners.
All hours worked by the deputies are reimbursed to the county.
For more information, call Gotwald at 814-849-1615.
Also Monday:
• Warden Tom Elbel reported that the jail population is "way down." The jail had been averaging 120 inmates a day, but Monday morning, there were only 97 inmates housed in the jail.
The jail population report for September:
• Total Jefferson County — 103 inmates (81 male, 22 female).
• Total housed out-of-county — 23 inmates (21 male, two female).
• Total population — 126 inmates.
• The county provided housing for eight out-of-county inmates. The cost for housing out-of-county inmates is $55 per day.
• The regular meeting of the jail board was not held Monday, Sept. 26, due to the lack of a quorum.
• The jail recently held a major fire drill evacuation that was the first in its history.
The drill involved the Pinecreek Volunteer Fire Company, the Brookville Volunteer Fire Company and the Warsaw Township Volunteer Fire Company.
Elbel said the drill "went better than expected for the very first one."
• Elbel formally welcomed Brian Sneeringer, the jail's new deputy warden, Monday.
Sneeringer was in the Marine Corps for four years, then performed high-risk security for the Department of State in Iraq for four-and-a-half years.
Sneeringer said he hopes to bring discipline and leadership to the jail.
• The next meeting of the jail board will take place at noon Wednesday, Nov. 23.


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Skip to comments.Stock Market Falls Over Fiscal Cliff (Down 312 Yesterday - Down 121 Today)
Posted on 11/08/2012 3:18:30 PM PST by blam
Stock Market Falls Over Fiscal Cliff
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2012
Nov 08, 2012 - 01:37 PM
By: PhilStockWorld
Down 312 points yesterday. (121 again today)
That's a hefty sell-off and we'll see if we get some follow-through but we pretty much hit our downside targets on the head in a single day as I said to Members in yesterday's Morning Alert:
About 13,000 on the Dow. 1,400 on S&P, 2,980 on the Nas, 7,950 on NYSE and 800 on the RUT are about the lows we have to hold all seem like good spots to go long to me with tight stops if we break below but let's look at this as a head fake except with a bit more conviction as 50% of the population sincerely believes they have to flee the markets before 4 more years of Socialism take us up another 100%.
As I mentioned in the morning post, this is mainly sour grapes selling by Romney fans but there are also legitimate reasons to take some of this year's massive stock profits off the table ahead of possible large increases in capital gains and dividend taxes. Still, we knew this was coming on Tuesday, when the market rallied massively on thoughts of QInfinity and ZIRP as far as the eye could see.
We didn't quite hold our targets so we couldn't get too bullish at the lows but we remain hopeful that there was a bit of over-reaction in yesterday's sell-off and that the truth will lie somewhere in between Tuesday's ephoria and yesterday's panic let's call it 13,100 on the Dow and 1,410 on the S&P as our goals for Friday and then we can all take a deep breath and think about things over the weekend.
Despite once-again rising bond yeilds, Draghi says whether or not Spain gets an OMT bail-out is entirely up to them and the ECB cannot/will not force them to do so. That's keeping the Euro depressed ($1.274) and the Dollar strong (80.94) and that's keeping a lot of downward pressure on stocks and commodities.
As we expected, oil had a huge build yesterday but we played it long in the futures (/CL) off the $84 line and we're sitting back at $85 this morning after a brief visit to $85.75. Clearly the build in petroleum products was due to the storm but now we have another storm in the Northeast grounding planes and slowing traffic so not too much immediate improvement in oil's
Barrackanomics at work.
This is painful.
Smith and Wesson up 0.24 or 2.32%. There is another gunmaker on the DJIA that was up yesterday, too.
I was surprised to see that seven or so of the big ones like Remington are privately owned.
There are always good buys even when the market is tanking. Problem is how to find them.
It is only going to get worse.
No worries! Obama said we are in a recover and things are great! Just a bump in the road. It will be better real soon.
and Obama voters don't care. they think the big white corporate white guys deserve it. they hate wall street remember? they have no clue what this means.
We sold all of our stocks and stock funds back at the end of April 2008. The Dow was sitting at around 13,000 when I sold most of it, a bit higher than it sits at COB today. I'll let the government and market players screw the other little guys.
Not to worry; Mr. Fixit's in charge now.
Ultimately it's about earning expectations, set by current reality.
The magic is gone from Apple, the storms have cut into economic activity, some major miss of expectations and zero implements strangulation of the energy industry.
We're going down from here, more than likely. Earning multiples are way above historical averages.
Obama's United States of Socialist America at work
This is intelligent action by those who think. Those able are not only getting out of the market, they are converting their "money" (which is rapidly losing value) into real assets they can use to weather the coming world financial storm.
and Obama voters dont care. they think the big white corporate white guys deserve it. they hate wall street remember? they have no clue what this means.
Until they see their 401k tank, without any blame bush to fall back on.
Only those who have jobs (or had jobs) have 401's. The takers don't give a hoot.
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Son of a King
When women begin showing up dead all across Toronto with distinctive puncture wounds on their necks, Vicki Nelson, PI, is on the job – along with her 450-year-old vampire partner. But if he's not behind the attacks – who is? A strange, young couple new to the city could hold the key to discovering the truth. Handling two kinds of vampires was hard enough. Just how many different sorts were there? Second story in the "Different Sorts" series FINAL CHAPTER -- NOW POSTED!
ATTENTION READERS: DO NOT STEAL MY STORIES. Someone has stolen some of my stories from this website and posted them as their own on fanfiction.net. It is plaigarism, it is stealing and it is illegal. Read, enjoy -- but don't steal. Second story in the "Different Sorts" series -- takes place after "Different Sorts." Crossover with Buffy and the new "Blood Ties" series on Lifetime. Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable characters, settings, etc. are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot are the property of the author. The author is in no way associated with the owners, creators, or producers of any media franchise. No copyright infringement is intended.
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Sometimes, being friends with a vampire sucked. No pun intended.
For Vicki Nelson, PI, it didn't help that he was kinda, sorta in love with her. Or, at least, drawn to her in some way romantically. He'd tasted her blood and he wanted more.
And it didn't help that her ex, who she was still kinda, sorta seeing, was incredibly jealous.
Henry was jealous, too; kind of in the way that he felt he'd been offended. He carried on as if he were entitled to whatever he desired – including Vicki. He may have been more than 400 years old, but sometimes Henry still acted like the spoiled son of a king.
Which, technically, was true – even though the history books said that Henry Fitzroy – the bastard son of Henry VIII – was long dead. Vicki now knew better.
So when Detective Mike Celucci knocked on her door that night, Vicki inwardly cringed. She glanced over at Henry, sprawled on her chair. He raised an eyebrow and smirked. He knew who was at the door just as well as she did.
"Come in," she hollered – and braced herself for another fight between Mike and Henry. She was getting tired of breaking up their arguments.
Mike walked carefully into her office, each step falling heavily on the wooden floors. He didn't seem surprised to see Henry there – but his lips tightened into a thin grimace.
"Detective," Henry said, teasing.
Mike shook his head. "I'm glad you're here, Henry," he said. He tossed a police file folder onto Vicki's desk. "This probably concerns you."
Henry's smirk fell as he straightened in the chair.
Vicki was wary as she opened the folder, glancing between both men. Her eyes fell to the black and white crime scene photos. It was unmistakable. The young woman – dead – with two puncture wounds on her neck, a small trickle of blood dried onto her skin.
"What is this, Mike?"
"You know what it is – it's a vampire attack."
Vicki sighed and shook her head. It didn't take long with Mike these days … ever since he'd found out she was working with a vampire, he'd gone to extreme lengths to prove what a bad influence Henry was. To prove that Henry was evil – was dangerous – was deadly. So far, he'd only pushed Vicki farther away from him – and closer to Henry.
"Do you have any leads?" Vicki asked.
Mike scoffed and looked pointedly at Henry. "I've got a few ideas."
"I didn't do this," Henry said, standing up. "If that's what you're implying."
"Well, sorry," Mike replied. "But you're the only vampire I know of hanging around Toronto."
"Then perhaps," Henry said, "you'd be interested to know about some new arrivals."
"New arrivals?" Vicki raised her eyebrows. "I thought vampires couldn't live together in the same city?"
"Like I said," Henry continued, "new arrivals. I sensed them come in two nights ago. At least, I think they're vampires. I'm not sure. They seem different …"
"Wait, you sensed them?" Mike asked.
"It's a vampire thing," Henry replied. "We can sense another vampire's presence – when they are close enough."
"Like within city limits?" Vicki asked.
"Maybe we should go meet them, then," she said. "Ask a few questions – Mike?"
"Sure," he said. "I've got a new weapon for just such an occasion." He pulled aside his coat, where Vicki and Henry could see a carefully crafted wooden stake in a holster next to his gun.
Vicki rolled her eyes. "God Mike, get over yourself." She turned to Henry. "Come on, let's get going. Sunrise is in a couple hours."
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The neighborhood Henry took them to was relatively upscale, considering that most of these creature cases took them into the seedier parts of Toronto. Not that Vicki was complaining – she much preferred looking for potential suspects in a swanky condominium complex than wading through sewers or poking around corners in the red light district.
The elevator dinged as they reached the fourteenth floor. Henry paused for a moment outside the doors, then turned right and proceeded down the hall. His head was cocked to the side, as if he were listening for something human ears couldn't sense. Finally, he stopped outside a door.
"This is it," he said. He cocked his head again, pausing. "Yes, this is definitely it."
"Okay," Vicki said, glancing at Henry, then at Mike. She stepped forward and rapped on the door. She braced herself – preparing to come face-to-face with killer vampires.
So she was surprised when a young man – probably no older than 18 – opened the door. He was startlingly beautiful – much like Henry. He had copper-colored hair and topaz eyes. His skin was incredibly pale – perhaps even paler than Henry's – and he had deep purple bruises bellow his eyes, as if he had not slept in many days.
"Oh," he said. "You're the ones Alice told me about. Better come on inside." He stepped to the side and held out his arm – welcoming them inside. He glanced at Mike as he passed. "Your stake won't do much good here."
That stopped them all. The three of them stared at the boy as he shut the door.
"My name is Edward Cullen," he said. "And I am a vampire – but I'm not your murder suspect – and I'm not like him." His eyes fell on Henry.
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The BEACON Afterschool Program and Moab Teen Center: Club Red are teaming up to host the annual fundraiser, which has a Willy Wonka theme for 2014.
Local sweets-makers are invited to register to compete in the Chocolate Creations contest. There is no charge for entering the competition, said Amy Stocks, director of Club Red.
"We usually have between six and 12 entries," she said. "The winning entry is selected by a panel of judges, but people who attend also get to vote for the 'People's Choice' entry."
Prizes will also be awarded to the chocolate creations that are deemed "best tasting" and "best in theme."
Those who attend also have the opportunity to indulge their love of chocolate by tasting all the entries.
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Wonka-themed competitions will include the donut on a string, turn violet into a blueberry, a golden egg relay and the fizzy lifting drink burping contest, according to information provided by the organizers.
The evening will also include a silent auction, which helps raise money for both BEACON and the Moab Teen Center. The auction features a variety of items, including hotel stays, massages and other pampering items, gift certificates from several local businesses and $150 worth of paint, Stocks said.
BEACON is helping put on the event for the first time, and the organization's director, Stephanie Dahlstrom said she is excited about working with Club Red.
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ODU Defeats UNCW, 84-61 As Five Score In Double Figures
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Feb. 20, 2013
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NORFOLK, VA--Old Dominion shot a blistering .589 from the field as five players scored in double figures to lead the Monarchs over the Seahawks of UNC Wilmington, 84-61 in a Colonial Athletic Association contest.
ODU is now 4-23 overall and 2-13 in the CAA, while UNCW is 10-17 overall and 5-10 in the CAA.
The six Monarchs scoring in double figures were led by senior forward DeShawn Painter with 18, red-shirt sophomore Dimitri Batten with 15 while forward Richard Ross and freshmen guards Aaron Bacote and Keenan Palmore chipped in with 12 points each.
The 84 points for the Monarchs was the most this season as was the .589 field goal percentage along with the 23 assists. Bacote, Palmore and junior guard Donte Hill each dished out six assists on the evening.
The victory gave ODU Its first home win since Nov. 10th against Morgan State, and gave interim head coach Jim Corrigan his second collegiate win of the season.
UNCW led 16-15 with 10:15 left in the first half, then ODU's DeShawn Painter sank free throws to Put the Monarchs ahead, 17-16 and they would never trail again. The Monarchs would outscore UNCW, 20-10 for an 11-point halftime lead of 37-26.
In the second half UNCW would get no closer than nine as the Monarchs led by as many as 24 (71-47 With 6:48 left). ODU shot .621 (18-29) from the floor in the second half and finished the game shooting .589 (33-56).
ODU took care of the basketball, committing only eight turnovers while forcing the Seahawks into 15. ODU had 15 steals as Aaron Bacote led with four and Dimitri Batten had three which helped lead to ODU's 16 fastbreak points.
UNCW had four players in double figures led by Craig Ponder with 16, and Keith Rendleman with 15 points and 11 rebounds, and is now the Seahawks all-time rebound leader 1022 career recoveries.
Red-shirt sophomore Richard Ross led the Monarchs with seven rebounds along with three blocked shots. Ross ranks fourth in the CAA in blocked shots at 1.7 per game. He has blocked 30 shots in ODU's last 10 games.
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Whining, greedy A(T&T)-Holes
If Hansmeier doesn't end up in jail, I can totally picture him and Steele go 100% criminal and become used cars salesmen.
Well, if you put "NSA" instead of "phonograph" in the first article it actually becomes pretty accurate.
Maybe they should send a Deceased So Desist letter to the DMCA Tolkien Estate.
Never trust anybody who says stuff like "put something in a computer"
"The pilot couldn't get back into the cockpit to control the plane because of the jihadi-proof door"
The terrorists have effectively won again.
And the story is on Reddit frontpage, and god only knows what 4chan will do with the pics..
In the fantastic game Borderlands 2 there's a robot called Censor-bot, who has a dream: "If only DRM could shoot people in the face.."
It began in the 13th century when RIAA (Record Industry Association-of-the-Ancient) sneaked the phrase "as long as we don't feel like it" into the Magna Carta "no "freeman" could be punished except through the law of the land"
Or maybe it was just their view of the "free man" that made this whole mess possible..
Back in 1973 I sold some copies of a drawing I made, and today some little fucker tried to sell one of them on e-bay. I haven't sold many drawings since then so give me my fucking money you thieves.
I also want my ring back.
Cause of bankrupcy:
Pure, uncut stupidity.
If the fee is for compensation for, in most cases imaginary, economic loss du to piracy, isn't that pretty damn close to fraud? And while their at it, why not throw in a fee for bags, boxes etc. Because, you know, it is possible to carry all sorts of stolen things in them
Let's say that I own a bar for instance. I have bought tables, chairs, kitchenware etc. and maybe some art for decoration. If the stuff that I bought meets or (even better) exceeds my expectations, chances are that I will be a returning customer and even recommend their products to others. Hopefully I can deliver good service and then I get returning customers. The economy keeps spinning.
But wait, something is missing.. Oh yes, I want to play music in my bar, that would be nice! So I head out and BUY some CDs (oldschool style) or purchase it from iTunes and everybody is happy!
Well, not everybody it turns out.. Here comes legacy, soon-to-be-exctingt music industry knocking on the door crying "So you want to play the music you just paid for, we have a fee for that" (somehow I come to think of Gollum here) But I just paid for the music!!! "Well, you have to pay again. And again. Forever" But.. "No but, just pay"
Where's the freaking logic behind that?
That's right, there is none. And since they're going to make me pay for giving free promotion to their products I already paid for I say fuck you very much and hello Pirate bay!
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NYRA will also increase purses for each non-graded stakes race that day by $10,000.
"We have always felt that better purses attract top horses," said NYRA Vice President and Director of Racing Paul "PJ" Campo. "We have raised purses on big days before – most recently on Gotham Stakes Day (March 7) – and we felt it helped us to present our fans with a quality race card."
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Dogwood Stable's Lime Rickey, graded stakes-placed on the turf, will take a serious step onto the Kentucky Derby trail when he tries the dirt for the first time in the Wood Memorial , announced Dogwood President W. Cothran "Cot" Campbell.
"We don't know how he will take to dirt in a race, but now is the time to find out, and the mile and an eighth Wood Memorial is a spot that will test him pretty keenly," explained Campbell.
Lime Rickey ships to Belmont Park by air on April 1, accompanied by a large number of other Florida horses, including some that he will likely run against on April 4.
"We're trying to get (jockey) Javier Castellano or Cornelio Velasquez to ride our colt," Campbell said.
"If Jupiter aligns with Mars in a precise manner we could get to the Derby this year," Campbell continued. "Lime Rickey is a solid grass specialist, but he has a dirt pedigree and is a game colt – and if he moves up big time he might get to Churchill Downs."
Lime Rickey has $131,107 in purse earnings, with a win, four seconds, and three thirds from nine career starts. The colt's last three races were in turf stakes at Gulfstream Park – the Dania Beach, the Hallandale Beach, and most recently the Grade 3 Palm Beach Stakes – and he finished second each time.
Lime Rickey is trained by Frank Alexander.
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True Quality, prepping for the Carter, worked five furlongs in 58.78 this morning over Aqueduct's fast inner dirt track. Owned by Paraneck Stable and trained by John Campo Jr., the 4-year-old Elusive Quality colt has won three of his last four starts and, most recently, won the Grade 2 Gen. George Handicap at Laurel on February 16. He is unbeaten in two starts on Aqueduct's main track.
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Tri-Bone Stable's What a Pear, put in a work at Aqueduct this morning, going five furlongs in 1:01.41. Clockers caught her last quarter of a mile in 23 3/5.
The E Dubai filly, 4-for-4 with her victory here in the Busher on February 22, is pointed for the Grade 1, $400,000 Ashland for three-year-old fillies at a mile and a sixteenth at Keeneland on April 4.
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The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation has announced that the New York Racing Association and James Kettlewell, Skidmore professor emeritus of art history, will receive Spirit of Preservation Awards at the foundation's seventh annual awards presentation on May 8.
Each year, the Preservation Foundation recognizes individuals or organizations that have contributed to the overall quality of life in Saratoga Springs through their hard work and dedication to the ideals of historic preservation.
The New York Racing Association is being recognized for its stewardship of the Saratoga Race Course. Said the Preservation Foundation in a news release, "Since 1955, NYRA has retained the historic integrity of the track through maintenance of over 200 structures and landscapes, as well as honored the character of the race course when making upgrades and changes."
The May 8 awards presentation will take place at the Saratoga Automobile Museum, beginning at 6 p.m.
For more information contact Marjorie King Martin, programs director, Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation, 518-587-5030, , or visit the foundation's web site at http://www.saratogapreservation.org.


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Then the bottom panel was pretty loose, but after further investigation I discovered it was pretty rotten, so that needed to be replaced as well. The top was rough and needed to be puttied and sanded too.
But after the repairs were made and the piece was primed twice, it was ready to be painted. I hadn't done a real full blown girly piece in awhile, so I was excited to get started. As always, I started on the bottom and worked my way up. I'd recently seen on other blogs that people were incorporating numbers into their pieces, and although they were "shabby chic" pieces, I liked the idea of adding numbers (as well as words) to my project. I decided to go with the number 67. Why, you ask? Ummm…best year EVER!
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arrange for appropriate use of methane-fueled vehicles at the earliest practicable date.
(Pub. L. 96–512, § 8, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2832.)
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Dismayed Windows App developers needed some assurances from Microsoft after news of the following incident got round. They got it.
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I will probably regret allowing myself to be goaded into a reply - but here goes.
PreEmptive does indeed have a patent on its renaming algorithm termed "overload induction" which extends typical renaming algorithms based on scope to leverage OO overloading patterns so that methods that have different signatures can be renamed to the same name.
As for obfuscation being "stupid" - i think that's kind of funny since we are using it on smartphones. In fact i just wrote a blog on the "dumbphone" as the first anthropomorphic retronym here - http://apps-are-people-too.blogspot.com/2010/11/phone-by-any-other-...
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Facebook is famous for its constant changes and new features, which can make tackling your privacy settings a daunting task. From figuring out photo album privacy settings to understanding the information users can surface about you through Graph Search, here are solutions to the most common Facebook hang-ups.
1. Not all photos adhere to your privacy settings. While you may choose to share your photos or albums with only your friends, it's possible that some of your photos are set to public. These include former cover photos and profile pictures. By default, your current profile photo and cover photo are public; you can't change this. But unless you've changed the individual settings on your old profile and cover photos, it's likely these are still set to public.
To check the privacy settings of your profile and cover photos, navigate to your Albums page and open the related albums. Review these photos one-by-one and change the individual settings by clicking the drop-down menu beside them.
[ Want to trim your news feed? Read 5 Ways To Customize Your Facebook News Feed. ]
2. Your comments are searchable. Graph Search indexes all of your comments, whether you've made them on your own profile or a friend's profile. Your comments on others' photos, for example, may be public, depending on your friends' privacy settings. To review your comments, navigate to your Activity Log. You'll find this next to the "Update Info" button below your cover photo. Your Activity Log displays all your actions on Facebook, from pages you've liked to comments you've made. Sort it by Comments, found on the left-side navigation.
Combing through all your comments will be tedious. You can see whether a comment was shared publicly based on the icon that appears next to it: The globe icon means it was shared publicly and can be searched and surfaced by any Facebook user. An icon with two silhouettes means it is shared with that user's friends; an icon with three means it's shared with that person's friends of friends.
You can't change the privacy setting of your comment if it was posted on a friend's account, but you can remove it: Just click the pencil icon next to the comment and choose "Delete."
3. Your profile will appear in Facebook searches. Until recently, you could decide whether or not you wanted your profile to appear in Facebook searches when someone typed in your name. Not anymore. Facebook announced it is removing this setting, making every profile searchable. This means you should check your privacy settings to see who can see what.
To adjust your privacy settings now, start by using the "View As" feature to see what information is visible to the public, your friends, and your various friend lists. If you find information you want to remove, visit your Activity Log. Use the timeline slider on the right and the menu on the left to find the post you want to edit, then click the pencil icon or the privacy setting drop-down list to make changes.
Another option is using a blanket privacy setting that will control the privacy of all past posts. If you use this setting, all posts that were previously shared with friends of friends or publicly will be changed to friends only. To find this setting, navigate to your privacy page. Under the first option -- Who can see my stuff? -- you'll see "Limit the audience for posts you've shared with friends of friends or Public?" Click "Limit Past Posts" to enable this option.
4. You can prevent unwanted friend requests. While you may no longer be able to remain hidden from Facebook searches, you can still control who can send you friend requests. Find this setting by navigating to your Privacy page.
Under "Who can contact me?" is the setting "Who can send you friend requests?" You have only two options: "Everyone" and "Friends of friends." To rein in who can send you friend requests, change this setting to "Friends of friends."
5. Your hidden photos appear in searches. Facebook users are most sensitive about the privacy of their photos. Because Graph Search makes it easier for others to surface old pictures, it's important to revisit the privacy settings of photos you're tagged in as well as albums you've published and captions you've written.
Photos you have hidden from your timeline are still searchable. To review these photos, visit your Activity Log and click the drop-down menu next to "On timeline" at the top to switch to a hidden-only view.
To review photos you have shared or have been tagged in, click the Photos tab on the left-side navigation of your Activity Log and select "Photos of You." Combing through the photos can be painstaking, depending on how many you have been tagged in. Click the drop-down menu to the right of each picture to change the privacy setting if necessary.


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You have to believe everyone who pledges allegiance to the Bruins will welcome Boston's Boys of Winter back with open arms once the puck finally drops for the long awaited season-opener against the New York Rangers Saturday night at the TD Garden.
With the lockout now behind us, the NHL will leave the board rooms behind and players will go over the boards and hit the ice for an abbreviated 48-game regular season skate through the Eastern Conference that runs through late April.
The last time the Black & Gold played a game that mattered they lost in stunning fashion to the Washington Capitals in overtime in Game 7 of their first round playoff series last April. The Bruins, who entered the postseason as the second seed in the East with an impressive 49-29-4 (102 points) record, weren't even able to make it out of the opening round in defense of the Stanley Cup they won in 2011.
This edition of the Bruins will look very similar to the last year's club. The biggest difference will be in goal where Tim Thomas, who had the bulk of the workload the past two seasons, and was spectacular during the 2011 playoff run to the Cup, is taking this season off to spend time with his family.
That means it will be Tuukka Time between the pipes, as Tuukka Rask enters the season as Bruins' No. 1 goalie. After going 22-12 with a 1.97 goals against-average during the 2009-2010 season, Rask, 25, has patiently played in the shadows of Thomas the past couple years.
As Thomas proved during the 2011 playoffs, when he was 16-9 with a 1.98 GAA and 4 shutouts in the postseason, Cup winning teams are built from the goal on out. So how well Rask holds up in net, especially in a season that promises be an all-out sprint from start to the finish, will determine whether the Bruins will emerge as the team to beat in the Eastern Conference.
Anton Khudobin is slated to be the backup goalie. Khudobin, 26, spent the bulk of last season in Providence, posting a 21-19-3 record with a 2.61 GAA. He was 1-0 with the Bruins, and has a 5-1 NHL career record.
The Bruins have gained a reputation as one of the top defensive teams in the league under head coach Claude Julien and this year will be no exception with a blue line corps that features Zdeno Chara, Dennis Seidenberg, Andrew Ference, Adam McQuaid, Johnny Boychuk and highly-regarded rookie Dougie Hamilton.
Upfront, look for Tyler Seguin to take the next step and join the NHL's elite forwards. Seguin, 20, led the Bruins in points (67) and goals (29) last season.
Center Patrice Bergeron won the Selke Trophy, given annually to the NHL's best defensive forward, but he generates plenty in the way of offense, too. Bergeron finished last season with 64 points, a team-high 42 assists and a plus/minus of +36.
David Krejci (62 points, 23 goals), Milan Lucic (61 points, 26 goals), Brad Marchand (55 points, 28 goals), Rich Peverley (42 points, 11 goals), Chris Kelly (39 points, 20 goals), Gregory Campbell (16 points, 8 goals), Shawn Thornton (13 points, 5 goals) and Daniel Paille (15 points, 9 goals) provide the Bruins with depth and production on all lines.
The return of Nathan Horton, who had 32 points and 17 goals in 46 games last year before missing the remainder of the season because of recurring post-concussion symptoms, will only add to the Bruins' firepower.
A healthy Horton on the forward line, with the addition of perhaps, Hamilton, manning the point, would be a major boost to a power-play that sputtered much of last winter. The Bruins were a woeful 2 for 23 on the power-play against the Capitals in the playoffs.
Forwards Chris Bourque, son of Bruins' legendary defenseman, Ray Bourque, is expected to make the team. Bourque led the AHL in scoring last season with 93 points playing for the Hershey Bears.
Veteran forward Jay Pandolfo of Burlington is also attempting to land a roster spot.
Provided Rask fills the void left by Thomas' departure, the Bruins will be a legitimate Cup contender come playoff time.
But for now, we'll rejoice in the NHL's return. The Bruins have been in hibernation for way too long. Drop the puck and let the games begin!
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The Indianapolis Colts and top draft pick Bjoern Werner have agreed in principle on a contract.
The 24th overall selection in April, Werner was a defensive end at Florida State, but will switch to outside linebacker in Indianapolis. He was the ACC's Defensive Player of the Year in 2012, then skipped his senior season to enter the draft.
Werner finished 13th in the nation last season with 13 sacks, while ranking second in the ACC with 18 tackles for loss. He had 42 tackles (30 solo), eight passes defensed, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery.
The Colts opened training camp for rookies on Tuesday and the agreement was announced by the team Wednesday.


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Weekly Release Spotlight: Spiritualized
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Jason Pierce, principal member of Spiritualized returns after a four-year hiatus with Sweet Heart Sweet Light recently released on Fat Possum Records. Spiritualized was born in 1990 in the United Kingdom after Pierce split from his former band, Spacemen 3. Over the past twenty years, Spiritualized has evolved with an ever-changing membership; Pierce being the only constant member. Spiritualized is usually characterized as having a predominate space-rock sound as heard in significant albums such Lazer Guided Melodies (1992), Ladies and Gentlemen, We are Floating in Space (1997), and Let it Come Down (2001). Their sixth full-length album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light takes a step back from Spiritualized's space-aged days, landing them on a earthier, raw sound.
Spiritualized has formulated a tradition where he initiates his albums off with a small overture. He begins Sweet Heart Sweet Light with the simply titled, "Huh?". You may scratch your head at such a curious title leaving your mind to wander through a fairy-tale swell of violins, synthesized twinkles, and faint whistles to ease your ears. Then, an unexpected swarm of accentuated musical layers reverberate through your speakers with a heavy guitar strumming explosion sprinkled with Pierce's jagged edged voice similar to that of Liam Gallagher of Oasis of the lengthy, nine minute "Hey Jane." The album slows down to "Get What You Deserve" echoing a white-noise static that filters through a slow swelling string orchestra. The track seems to drag on with its mellow drive and repetitive lyrics for a while. But then you're in for a surprise when all of the sudden, the ending blasts you awake with its rapid additions of rattles and drum beats haphazardly falling through each incoming arc and trough of string orchestration. The pinnacle song, "I Am What I Am" grabs you by the shirt collar with its clattering tambourines and rolling piano rumbling underneath. Back-up singers vocalize in gospel fashion to amp up the attitude behind the song title's statement.
Spiritualized took a great risk turning away from their infamous space rock synth but came out successful taking you on a journey littered with detailed melodic tiers accentuated with a gentle swelling string orchestra, white noise buzz, and gospel vocalizations. Spiritualized's sixth album, Sweet Heart Sweet Light is currently out on Fat Possum Records.
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What is the harm in somoene waiting for months for their world to fill? They have the option to move at any time. If they're comfortable doing nothing, let them do it.
By taking away a world you like, for whatever reason, they're telling their customer base "This product is unstable. It might not be here in a week. Or a month." Is that a way to sell your product?
Posted by EasyE7273 on 9/24/2013 12:08:00 PM (view original):How is that stopping you from making a decision? If you know the world will not fill, you leave. It is simple.
I've sat waiting for Joey Belle for months. Nothing has changed. Public, private, marketing, etc. Nothing is working. If I was running WIS, I would advise the owners it will be closing the world and they have the ability to find another world of their choice.
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