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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An ecologist and state wildlife officials are recommending that deer hunting be allowed in the park along Eagle Creek Reservoir in Indianapolis.
A study by Purdue University ecologist Michael Jenkins found that plants in the city-owned Eagle Creek Park showed severe damage caused by deer. Deer hunts have been conducted in state parks over the past 20 years to control their populations, but hunting is prohibited in all Indianapolis parks.
City spokesman Scott Manning tells The Indianapolis Star that a decision to allow hunting in the 3,900-acre park would follow significant discussions with park users and nearby residents.
Indiana Animal Rights Alliance director Joel Kerr says he's skeptical about the study's findings of deer overpopulation since it didn't count the number of deer in the park.
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Hi, I have an Opel Tigra, 1995, 1.4L 16v. Recently I had problem with ignition so I changed cables and spark plugs. Car worked normally for a few weeks and now it's almost dead. When I start it, he won't pass more than 500 rpm, and doesn't respond to gas pedal. When I hit gas car starts choking and stops working.I measured the pressure in fuel pump it's around 3 bar. Please if u have any answer I would be more than welcome!
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Editware Allies With Omneon, Ross Video
Editware has formed strategic alliances with Omneon and Ross Video to increase the flexibility of all three manufacturers' systems. The alliance with Omneon will allow source material stored on Omneon's multichannel video servers to be edited with Editware's new Fastrack media controller through a customized control protocol. The alliance with Ross Video will extend the interface between Editware's editor product line and Ross' Synergy production switchers, guaranteeing interoperability between the two company's product lines, sharing of protocol information, and cooperation on development of protocol extensions.


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Can I Put A Shower Curtain in the Washing Machine?
You CAN put a shower curtain in the washing machine.
More Info: It does not matter if your shower curtain is vinyl, plastic or fabric, you can wash it in the washing machine. The best plan is to add a 1/2 cup baking soda to your regular detergent in the wash and one or two towels to provide some friction. During the rinse cycle, add a 1/2 cup of vinegar. Once the shower curtain finishes washing, you can hang it right back up to dry. Of course, before washing, you should check your particular shower curtain for any tags that may have specific instructions. A high quality shower curtain will be the easiest to wash.
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Remember to always close the shower curtain after using the shower. This allows the shower curtain to spread out and dry quickly and consistently. A wet shower curtain leads to mold and mildew. Another quick way to avoid mold and mildew is to give a quick wipe down to both the shower and the curtain after each use. A squeegee left in the shower is great for this. There are also a number of sprays on the market that you can use to help keep your shower curtain clean.
Extension, University of Missouri. "GH5928 How to Prevent and Remove Mildew — Home Methods | University of Missouri Extension." University of Missouri Extension Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Mar. 2011. http://extension.missouri.edu/publications/displaypub.aspx?p=gh5928.
"Green Cleaning." KSC Recycling. Keene State College, n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2011. www.keene.edu/sustain/greenclean.pdf.
"How to Remove Mold and Mildew." University of Illinois Extension. University of Illinois, n.d. Web. 25 Mar. 2011. <urbanext.illinois.edu/thriftyliving/tl-removemildew.html>.


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Two internationally acclaimed professional storytellers walk into a tavern. What could possibly happen?
An evening of heartwarming and FUN stories, that's what. Join us for this special WORD show at Habitat Tavern.
Doors open at 6pm for best seating. Show begins at 7pm. Parking in rear of building in the Moog lot after 5:30pm
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Your Turn: Aug. 3
Updated 2:51 pm, Friday, August 1, 2014
Thoughtful columns
Re: "The immigration crisis: The faces of hate: Guns, invective against refugees; is this Lady Liberty's America?" July 20; and "What will Central American children be sent back to?" July 27, O. Ricardo Pimentel:
Unlike many readers, I found O. Ricardo Pimentel's two columns thoughtful and right-on. The accompanying photo July 20 said it all. It showed a female protester screaming at a Hispanic-looking man.
The woman's face was filled with as much hate as the iconic picture 60 years ago of a white woman shouting the "N" word at a black teenager entering a Montgomery, Alabama, high school.
We have nothing to fear from these children. The birth- rate among whites is down and immigration is apparently the only way to keep our economy strong. I have a feeling if these children were fair-skinned and coming from, say, Canada, the story would be different.
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Re: "Picking up the tab," Your Turn, July 27:
Regarding David Lovitt's response to a column by O. Ricardo Pimentel ("The immigration crisis: The faces of hate: Guns, invective against refugees; is this Lady Liberty's America?" July 20): He has probably taken in as many immigrants as the "pro-lifers" have taken in unwanted or foster children.
Nancy Powlas
Nancy Powlas
Needy kids
Re: "Immigrant kids' camp proposed near El Paso; Clint shelter would be largest in Texas," State, July 27:
It's interesting that a small town named Clint is willing to help solve the humanitarian problem for immigrant children by housing them. Clint Mayor Dale Reinhardt thinks everybody needs to be treated fairly and given a break, especially kids and the elderly.
According to the story, an elderly resident named Maria Trujillo was having steak with her husband at a restaurant and said, "I can't believe any parent would allow their child to go alone to the U.S."
Apparently this lady is not aware of all the crime, rapes and murders in Central America. When desperate, what do parents do? Then she suggested we "give them a good meal, bed and send them back where they came from."
It's sad and an inhumane attitude from this elderly person. Hopefully the majority of Americans don't have the same attitude.
Damaged reps
Re: "Waste everywhere, except in the mirror," Josh Brodesky, Other Views, July 26:
The column hit a bull's-eye, showing why union membership in the U.S. has deservingly slumped to 11 percent from its high of 35 percent in 1954.
No one should doubt that San Antonio's police and firefighters do us proud every day. But their intransigent public safety associations aren't doing them any favor, failing to meet in the middle on fair health care premiums and deductibles in step with other Texas municipalities.
The front-line troops shouldn't let their proud reputations suffer, dragged down by union reps who blindly ignore a clear fact. Only earnest labor-management partnerships, reasonably dealing with economic reality, can restore the place of healthy unions in the workplace. To the San Antonio city manager, council and new mayor, stick to your guns.
Brian Clearman
Brian Clearman
Problem solved
Concerning the benefit package provided for our police officers and our firefighters, the solution is simple.
All who were hired under the present provisions can keep those provisions. Any change would affect only "new hires," who would know the contract provisions under which they were hired.
Aging together
Re: "75 Years of Batman; Dark Knight's biggest fans; Counselor, others inspired by character," mySA, July 22:
Batman turned 75 this year.
The poor guy has A-fib, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
No ... wait ...
That's not Batman. That's me!
Al Koppen, Fair Oaks Ranch
Al Koppen, Fair Oaks Ranch
Patriotic games
Re: "'World' Series isn't," Your Turn, July 25:
I enjoyed so much this letter from Roy Arellano.
Give me a break. World Cup has been around for almost 90 years; perhaps readers are just now trying to understanding the game.
U.S. players did a marvelous job, competing so hard.
They deserve Americans who know more about the World Cup.
Please, World Cup is not just a soccer game; World Cup is "patriotism."
Grace Hall
Grace Hall
Goals? What goals?
Roy Arellano writes in defense of soccer against recent soccer bashings ("World Series isn't," Your Turn, July 25).
I played soccer back in Maryland in the '50s, a bit before it became popular in Texas. I am so impressed with today's world class soccer players. I think the skills they have are amazing.
But, Ray, you hit upon the problem in your letter without even knowing it! You said you watched your relatives play and "fight for every goal."
What goals, Ray? That's the problem. I tried to watch the World Cup, but I'm just not going to sit through 90 minutes of up and down the field, with fake injuries, and a 0-0 or maybe a 1-0 score.
If soccer pundits want people to come on board to their game, they need to eliminate off sides and increase the size of the goal.
Then, perhaps we'd have something to stay glued to our chairs to watch a 6-5 or 9-8 game.
Fred Martin, Fair Oaks Ranch
Fred Martin, Fair Oaks Ranch
Slithering reptiles
Re: "Keep an eye out for ssssssnakesssss," mySA, July 26:
Thank you for the article on snakes in Saturday's paper.
Wayne Haymes, Leon Valley
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Prepaid Debit Cards Threaten Checking Accounts: New Research
Prepaid debit cards represent a competitive threat to banks' checking account relationships, according to a new report from Aite Group, Boston. But the research firm suggests ways banks may take advantage of the trend towards prepaid debit cards.
For years, banks in the United States have viewed unbanked and under-banked consumers as a promising segment they could address through traditional checking account relationships. Few banks have realized that new technology and financial products may actually render the checking account relationship less attractive to this customer segment. In fact, at least 14 percent of checking account holders would be better off switching to a prepaid debit card.
"This is not just doom and gloom for banks," says Gwenn Bzard, research director with Aite Group and author of this report. "The most sophisticated among them could profit on the appeal of prepaid debit cards. For example, banks could rapidly gain market share by striking co-brand deals with leading prepaid debit card marketers that have a head-start in this race."


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- a famed Castilian warrior of the 11th century, born at Burgos; much celebrated in Spanish romance; being banished from Castile, in the interest of which he had fought valiantly, he became a free-lance, fighting now with the Christians and now with the Moors, till he made himself master of Valencia, where he set up his throne and reigned, with his faithful wife Ximena by his side, till the news of a defeat by the Moors took all spirit out of him, and he died of grief. Faithful after death, his wife had his body embalmed and carried to his native place, on the high altar of which it lay enthroned for 10 years; his real name was Don Rodrigo Diaz of Bivar, and the story of his love for Ximena is the subject of Corneille's masterpiece, "The Cid."
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For all the talk about tightening the postseason, Major League Baseball made only one slight change this year and held off on major revisions.
The awkward off-day between Games 4 and 5 of the league championship series, among those Angels manager Mike Scioscia griped about last October, will be eliminated. Instead, there will be yet another off-day between the division series and the start of the LCS, the commissioner's office said yesterday.
The overall length of the postseason will not be shortened and the first round will remain best-of-five at least through 2011.
Barring rainouts, this year's switch will make it more difficult for a team to get through the best-of-seven LCS with only three starting pitchers, as the Yankees did last year en route to the World Series title.
"At our executive board meeting in Scottsdale, a number of players, both players who participated in the postseason and those who didn't, said it's no longer like baseball. There's just too many off-days," new union head Michael Weiner said.
The change was the first made at the recommendation of the special committee for on-field matters appointed in December by commissioner Bud Selig and was subject to negotiation with the union.
The off-day was among four baseball added because FOX wanted the World Series to open on a Wednesday rather than a Saturday, usually the lowest-rated night of the week. Other off-days were inserted in 2007 between the regular season and the postseason openers, between Games 4 and 5 of the division series and between the LCS and World Series.


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Everyone seems to be communicating via instant messaging, but does the idea of responding to short conversation bursts (or reading Twitter posts) make you want to crawl into a small room and lock the door? Joe Kissell looks at how his introversion feeds his aversion to instant messaging (and how he uses that to his advantage). This week also brings news from Adobe, as the company releases a beta of Lightroom 2 (disclosing that the next version of Photoshop on the Mac will not be 64-bit capable) and updates the Photoshop Express terms of service concerning Adobe's usage of users' photos. In other news, Adam explains how to fix corrupt Eudora mailboxes (from recent first-hand experience, of course), AT&T lowers its cancellation fee for new subscribers, Glenn and Joe talk Time Capsule and backups on the MacVoices podcast, Glenn gets confirmation from Apple that Time Machine backups to AirPort Disk aren't supported, and we (finally) reinstate the printer-friendly mode for viewing TidBITS articles on the Web. Lastly, in the TidBITS Watchlist, we note updates to Daylite, MacSpeech Dictate, YummySoup, NetworkLocation, Default Folder X, and Things. Apple joins in the fun with updates to QuickTime, iTunes, Front Row, Keynote, and the AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow AirPort base stations.
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Time Machine via AirPort Disk Is Unsupported, Apple Says
Using Time Machine with drives attached via USB to an 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station is an unsupported option, Apple has confirmed.Show full article
Apple confirmed for me last week that a feature for using Leopard's Time Machine backup with hard drives attached via USB to an AirPort Extreme Base Station is unsupported. The company declined to provide further information. This particular networked backup option was available in the betas of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, as has been widely reported, but was removed from the public Leopard feature list and from the shipping version of the operating system. Apple had been working on providing me a definitive statement since my review of Time Capsule for Macworld was published on 21-Mar-08. (Normal file sharing is a fully supported feature, however, as it has been since the AirPort Extreme with 802.11n was released in early 2007.)
What a "lack of support" means is that if you attempt to use an 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station for Time Machine backup, you won't get any help from Apple's technical support, something that readers have already told me. I've been receiving reports that USB-attached drives work erratically with an AirPort Extreme. TidBITS editor Joe Kissell and I have been discussing the strange array of scenarios in which you find an Apple Filing Protocol (AFP) volume that's shared by the AirPort Extreme server not appearing automatically for Time Machine. (See "MacVoices Podcast Covers Time Capsule Ins and Outs," 2008-04-03, for links to the podcasts. I also talked about Time Capsule and this problem in a podcast on 26-Mar-08 with Jason Snell, editorial director for Macworld.)
This option to choose an AirPort Extreme-connected drive first appeared with the release of several related firmware, driver, and operating system updates on 19-Mar-08 (see "AirPort Update Extends Time Capsule, Adds AirDisk Support," 2008-03-19). I speculated at the time that this addition was an error on Apple's part, perhaps due to a debugging feature left turned on that wasn't properly turned off before the updates shipped. This was buttressed in part by the way in which Time Capsule drives - whether an internal drive or ones connected externally via USB - appear via Bonjour in a list of selectable volumes when setting up Time Machine, but AirPort Extreme disks do not.
For more background on this situation, see the original response I had back on 2008-01-17, "Time Capsule and Its Associated Rage Factor," and details on Time Capsule's USB drive support in "Time Capsule Ships with Support for USB Drive Backups," 2008-02-29.
Somewhere along the line, Apple changed the name of this concept of sharing drives from USB over the network from AirDisks to AirPort Disks.
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AT&T Lowers Cancellation Fee
Starting with new contracts as of 25-May-08, the $175 early-termination penalty that AT&T charges will turn into more of a prorated fee that's reduced by $5 per month.Show full article
Exclusive U.S. iPhone carrier AT&T will reduce its cancellation fee for ending a cell-phone contract before its term, starting with new contracts on 25-May-08. On that date, 1- or 2-year contracts will have an initial $175 cancellation fee that will be reduced by $5 each month during the contract term - $60 per year. This is part of a trend among carriers to remove fixed cancellation fees.
Existing contracts won't see a change in their penalties. But based on previous offers made to me by managers at cellular company mall kiosks and freestanding stores, it's pretty easy either to get the fee paid by a company that wants you as a customer, or to have the fee waived if you have multiple lines, one or more of which has already gone free agent with the expiration of a contract.
AT&T has tried to provide the semblance of openness, a new meme for the cell phone industry prodded by several efforts on the part of Google, and notes in their press release that customers can also choose month-by-month plans, bring their own phones or devices and rent a SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) a month at a time, or use AT&T's GoPhone prepaid service which requires no contract commitment.
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Printer-Friendly Mode Returns to TidBITS
Want to see this article without images, interface, or color? Click the Print link!Show full article
Fans of the plain-vanilla method of displaying Web pages suitable for printing (or even simplified on-screen reading and PDF making) will be happy to know that we have restored our printer-friendly article formatting mode.
As regular readers know, over the last two years, we've overhauled nearly every aspect of how TidBITS is written, edited, staged, published, and composed into email issues. Somewhere along the line, we stuck a to-do note on the virtual wall saying, "Remember to bring back printer-friendly articles." (See, for instance, "Designing a Modern Web Site for TidBITS," 2007-09-10.)
At the top of every article you'll now see a Print link with a page icon next to it. Click that, and you're taken to a nearly color-free - to paraphrase Dr. Hibbert from The Simpsons, "Black is not a color" - page in which the links are referenced by number and listed neatly at the bottom. Images are also removed. As an example, try viewing this article in printer-friendly mode.
We hope we've saved a tree or two by restoring this mode for those who prefer to print articles from the Web.
[Update 13-Apr-08: We have added a control that lets readers toggle whether or not embedded images show in print mode. -Adam]
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MacVoices Podcast Covers Time Capsule Ins and Outs
by Tonya Engst
Listen in as Glenn and Joe chat about Time Capsule: how it works, what's going on behind the scenes, what type of user it's meant for, and more.Show full article
If you want to know more about Apple's new Time Capsule or about how using Time Capsule compares to making backups with the newly available option of using Time Machine with a drive attached to an AirPort Extreme Base Station, tune into a recent pair of MacVoices podcasts, which bring together the networking perspective offered by Glenn Fleishman and the backups expertise brought by Joe Kissell.
In MacVoices #873 they talk about the pros and cons of Time Capsule, plus how it works under the hood. In MacVoices #874 the pair continues the conversation, looking at who Time Capsule is well-suited to, how backing up to Time Capsule compares to backing up to a drive attached to a regular AirPort Extreme Base Station, unexpected differences between the two Time Capsule models, and recommendations for which of Apple's hardware-based backup solutions to use.
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64-bit Controversy Accompanies Lightroom 2 Beta
by Jeff Carlson
Adobe announced the Lightroom 2 beta last week, which features multiple-monitor support, the capability to apply edits to select portions of an image, and smart collections. However, news that Lightroom 2 is 64-bit capable on the Mac brought up the news that the next version of Photoshop would not be.Show full article
Adobe announced the availability of the Photoshop Lightroom 2 public beta last week, but a post on an Adobe blog generated almost as much attention. In addition to adding new features, the Lightroom beta is capable of taking full advantage of the 64-bit processors found in Mac Pro models. (64-bit support is also included with Lightroom 2 under Windows Vista.)
The rub is that Photoshop, Adobe's image editing powerhouse, won't gain 64-bit compatibility on the Mac for at least two revisions. In a blog post, Adobe's John Nack explained that the discrepancy between Photoshop and Lightroom is due to Photoshop's Carbon code base:
"At the WWDC show last June [2007], however, Adobe & other developers learned that Apple had decided to stop their Carbon 64 efforts. This means that 64-bit Mac apps need to be written to use Cocoa (as Lightroom is) instead of Carbon. This means that we'll need to rewrite large parts of Photoshop and its plug-ins (potentially affecting over a million lines of code) to move it from Carbon to Cocoa."
As Nack elaborated, the lack of a 64-bit version of Photoshop isn't a crippling blow to the Mac. In fact, most of the blog post is devoted to heading off wild speculation about Adobe's or Apple's intentions (and pointing out that Final Cut Pro, iTunes, and the Mac OS X Finder are all built in Carbon). A 32-bit Photoshop CS4 will no doubt run just fine. It will just not have the capability to handle very large amounts of data (more than 4 GB) at once.
As for the actual software released last week, Lightroom 2 adds a number of new features such as multiple-monitor support, smart collections (the capability to group photos automatically according to metadata), and a clever method of suggesting related keywords as you tag your photos.
Lightroom 2 can also apply edits to select portions of an image instead of just to the entire image. (Aperture 2.1, released the previous week, added this capability through a new plug-in system; see "Aperture 2.1 Adds Plug-in Capability to Edit Photos," 2007-09-07.)
Existing Lightroom owners can participate in the beta until version 2.0 is released by entering their serial numbers. They can also invite friends to try the beta for the entirety of the program. For everyone else, a 30-day evaluation period is available. The software is a 24.7 MB download. The Lightroom 2.0 beta is installed independently of earlier Lightroom versions, so photographers can evaluate it without putting existing libraries and workflows at risk.
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Adobe Adjusts Photoshop Express Terms of Service
by Jeff Carlson
Adobe has updated the terms of service for the online photo-editing service Photoshop Express, after users complained that the original wording gave the company overreaching ownership of shared images.Show full article
Shortly after Adobe opened the public beta of its Photoshop Express online photo-editing service, several early users who actually read the site's terms of service noticed language that, in effect, gave Adobe almost free rein with images that people uploaded and publicly shared in galleries (see "Photoshop Express Offers Free Photo Editing on the Web," 2007-09-07). Adobe has now posted revised terms that clarify the company's usage.
The new wording goes into effect on 10-Apr-08, and is marked in red on the Web page listing the terms. Section 8a now reads (additional language in italics here):
"Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, and unless otherwise specifically agreed in any Additional Terms that might accompany individual services (such as Photoshop.com/Express), you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed."
To my surprise, the offending language (everything after "... you grant Adobe...") remains. However, the new clause's pointer to the Additional Terms of Use document reveals limitations to Adobe's usage that were present at the beginning; Adobe has clarified the link between the two documents. None of this language is new:
"Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, we do need certain rights from you, with respect to Your Content, in order to operate the Service and in order to enable you to do all the things this Service affords you the ability to do. Therefore, with respect to Your Content, you grant Adobe a worldwide (because the internet is global), royalty-free (meaning we do not owe you any money), nonexclusive (meaning you are free to license Your Content to others) fully sublicensable (so that we can permit our affiliates, subcontractors and agents to deliver the Service on our behalf) license to use, reproduce and modify Your Content solely for the purposes of operating the Service and enabling your use of the Service. With respect to Your Shared Content, you additionally grant Adobe the rights to distribute, publicly perform and publicly display Your Shared Content (in whole or in part) for the sole purposes of operating the Service and enabling your use of the Service and to sublicense Your Shared Content to Other Users subject to the limitations of Section 7 below. These limited licenses do not grant Adobe the right to sell or otherwise license Your Content or Your Shared Content on a stand alone basis. Further, you may terminate Adobe's right to distribute, publicly perform and publicly display Your Shared Content by making it no longer shared. You may terminate the remainder of Adobe's rights by removing Your Content from the Service."
Adobe also clarified its stance on being able to claim revenue from ads and other initiatives that appear on the same page as a user's content, by editing section 10a:
"You agree that Adobe may derive revenue and or other remuneration from the Services including from portions of the Services that include Your Content. For example, Adobe may display Adobe and/or third party paid advertisements and other information adjacent to or included with the Services and adjacent to or in connection with Your Content, and you agree that you are not entitled to any compensation for any such advertisements. The manner, mode and extent of advertising or other revenue generating models by Adobe on or in conjunction with the Services are subject to change without specific notice to you."
The 10-Apr-08 implementation date is there to give any existing users time to review the new terms. Comments from people at Adobe indicate that the company wasn't attempting to grab rights it shouldn't have, and it's good to see that their lawyers clarified the language.
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How to Fix Corrupt Eudora Mailboxes
If you've run into a corrupt Eudora mailbox, fear not, because it's easily fixed with common household materials.Show full article
Although Eudora 6.2.4 has taken some body blows from Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the email program largely keeps on ticking. That's not to say that it's as stable as it used to be, and I'm experiencing more crashes and oddities than in the past. Most recently, I was doing something with an in-progress message in the Out box and Eudora got confused, started chewing CPU time, and wouldn't respond to the keyboard or mouse. After a while I gave up and force quit the program by Option-clicking Eudora's Dock icon and choosing Force Quit.
Unfortunately, when I relaunched Eudora, all the messages in my Out mailbox since 14-Feb-08 showed a recovered status (a ?) instead of the correct status, and all of Eudora's automatically saved versions over the few days were visible. (When you use Eudora's auto-save functionality, it saves copies of your message as you type, but doesn't erase interim versions until you compact the mailbox, which happens automatically at various times and can be invoked manually by clicking the mailbox size box in the lower left corner of a mailbox window. To turn on auto-save on 2 minute intervals, click this x-eudora-setting:11520=120 URL within Eudora.)
But when I started checking out some of the interim versions of messages, it became clear that the problem went deeper, since message summaries for the recovered messages no longer matched their contents, and message contents no longer even filled in the appropriate fields in a message window. Clearly the mailbox's table of contents had become corrupted. In other programs, such a problem might require relying on a special database utility. But this is Eudora, which was developed when text files and resource forks ruled the Earth.
Long ago, Eudora creator Steve Dorner had told me how to fix a corrupted mailbox, and it's something that anyone can do by following these steps:
- Quit Eudora.
- Duplicate the Out box file, which is stored in ~/Documents/Eudora Folder/Mail Folder by default, so you have a backup copy. If you're nervous, make another copy on the Desktop. You can throw these out when you're done if everything goes well.
- Open the Out box file using a plain text editor like the free TextWrangler from Bare Bones. It may be a bit slow to work with a very large mailbox (mine was over 30 MB), but it should be able to handle the file.
- Copy the first line of the file, which should look something like the line below, and paste it on a line by itself at the very end of the file.
- Save the file, being absolutely certain to save as plain text with Mac line breaks (likely the default in a plain text editor like TextWrangler).
- Launch Eudora again, and open the Out mailbox.
From ???@??? Fri Jun 16 22:52:45 2006
In theory, that should cause Eudora to realize that the table of contents, usually stored in the file's resource fork, is corrupt and to rebuild it by looking at the mailbox data itself. You may lose Eudora-specific data such as status and label, since that information exists only in the table of contents, but that's much less of a worry than not being able to access the messages at all. If it works for you, great, and you're done.
However, in my case, although this fix solved the problem of the messages not matching their message summaries, all the dates on the problematic messages were set to the same date. That wouldn't have been the end of the world, but I was unhappy about it, since I like to know when I sent a message. Referring to some more advice from Steve Dorner, I followed these steps (I used Tiger, and I expect they'd work in Leopard, but I'm less sure of Panther):
- Option-click the ? status for one of the messed-up messages to select all of them (insert obligatory "I can't believe other programs lack this insanely useful shortcut!" comment).
- Transfer the selected messages to a new temporary mailbox by choosing Transfer > New. Call the new mailbox tempBox.
- Quit Eudora.
- Now you need to delete the resource fork from the tempBox mailbox. Run Terminal and navigate to the folder containing the tempBox mailbox. (The easiest way to do this is to type "cd" and a space, drag the Mail Folder containing tempBox to the Terminal window, and then press Return.) Now enter this command:
- Launch Eudora again, open the tempBox mailbox to rebuild the table of contents, and verify that the dates have been fixed.
- Select all the messages and transfer them back to the Out box. Once they're back (Eudora may warn about losing headers or images that can't be found - don't worry about it), Option-click the unsent status (a hyphen) for the transferred messages to select all of them, click the status for one of them, and choose Sent from the pop-up menu to reset them all to the Sent status (a checkmark). (If you were performing this task on a mailbox other than Out, they'd all come in with an unread status (a bullet), and you could change that to read or replied or whatever). You can delete the empty tempBox mailbox.
- Lastly, go through and manually delete any interim versions of auto-saved messages. If you see four messages with the same Subject line, delete the first three, since the last one is the final version.
cp /dev/null tempBox/rsrc
Some users have reported troubles with Eudora's tables of contents when running under Leopard, and they've worked around the problem by switching from Eudora's default method of storing the table of contents in the resource fork of each mailbox file to storing it in an old-style .toc file. You can toggle that setting in Eudora's Miscellaneous settings panel; there doesn't seem to be any harm in trying it, although Eudora will complain if you have any mailboxes with names longer than 27 characters, since the old-style .toc files date from the time when filenames couldn't be more than 31 characters. Just rename those mailboxes in the Finder when Eudora isn't running.
I tried this workaround but almost immediately ran into a problem where reading messages in certain mailboxes wouldn't update the status of those messages. It's possible I needed to delete the resource forks in those mailboxes manually, but unless I start having a lot more troubles, I'm going to stick with the normal resource fork approach to storing tables of contents.
For those of you who aren't happy with the workflow changes required by other email programs and are sticking with Eudora 6.2.4 as long as possible, I hope these instructions will keep your mailboxes healthy. But remember, there's no substitute for frequent backups, and if you're running Leopard, you should be backing up via at least Time Machine as well.
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Instant Messaging for Introverts
by Joe Kissell
Can your personality type affect your willingness to use certain modes of communication? In particular, do introverts have a harder time with technologies like instant messaging and Twitter than extroverts?Show full article
From time to time, someone I know asks me an ordinary and reasonable question: "What's your iChat (or Skype) ID?" My usual reply is to give them the information along with a big disclaimer: I'm almost never logged in. In fact, let me be completely honest and say I thoroughly dislike instant messaging (IM) except in a few specific situations. For months, I've been thinking about why this is - both the technological and psychological aspects - along with whether it somehow exposes a fundamental character flaw, and whether it's something I should attempt to change. Having experimented with a variety of approaches to instant messaging (as well as its close relative Twitter) and having done a considerable amount of introspection, I'm inclined to think that my personality type is fundamentally ill-suited to instant messaging. Specifically, I'd like to advance the thesis that - for some people at least - an aversion to instant messaging is a natural consequence of one's temperament, and that this is neither good nor bad in and of itself, though it does of course have consequences.
This notion has been difficult for me to come to grips with, because I'm a self-professed computer geek since way back when, someone who lives and breathes technology. For me not to be excited about a common modern mode of communication seems contradictory in some way. In addition, my dislike for IM has caused - well, continues to cause - practical communication difficulties. So I wanted to explore what's underneath this, partly for my own benefit, but also as a courtesy to others out there who may find themselves in a similar situation and would like to commiserate, share their experiences, or simply know they are not alone. And I want to offer suggestions from my personal experience that may help others to make peace with instant messaging, to one extent or another - or to better understand those who seem to have the same trouble with it that I do. Ultimately, I can't offer a solution that will magically and perfectly bridge the gap between IM lovers and IM haters, but I hope I can at least shed some light on what the situation looks like from both sides.
I Is for Introvert -- Let me begin by stating that, like 25 to 50 percent of the world's population (depending on who's counting), I'm an introvert. A common misconception about the word "introvert" is that it means someone who's shy, withdrawn, afraid of crowds, or lacking in social skills. If you've ever seen me give a presentation to a large Mac user group, you'll surely know that description doesn't fit me at all! I will happily stand in front of hundreds or thousands of people, give a speech, answer questions, make jokes, and generally take charge of keeping the group interested and involved. If anything, I have a reputation for being long-winded in social situations, telling stories that go off on one tangent after another - and for being among the last to leave. I like people, and I think I'm reasonably competent and comfortable in a crowd of any size.
However, given the choice, I do generally prefer to be alone. If you asked me which would be more fun - going to a lively party where I'd be socializing with a couple dozen other people or sitting in a quiet corner reading a book - I wouldn't even have to think about it: I'd much rather sit alone and read. All things being equal, I prefer smaller gatherings to larger ones, and I prefer solitude to company. To put it differently, being around other people seems to drain my energy, whereas being alone (or with smaller, quieter groups) gives me more energy. When I've spent hours around other people, I need to be alone to recharge, whereas for an extrovert, it's typically the opposite: being alone saps energy, and being around other people restores it.
Psychologist Carl Jung (himself an introvert) first developed the notion of the introvert/extrovert distinction as a way of describing whether a person's focus tends to be more inward or outward. The categories don't represent simple binary states; there's a long continuum between wholly introverted and wholly extroverted, and everyone falls somewhere in between. In addition, a person may exhibit introverted characteristics sometimes and extroverted characteristics at other times. A variety of personality tests reveal where on the continuum a person's tendencies lie - whether you're strongly or weakly introverted or extroverted. One such test is the popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, which employs the idiosyncratic spelling "extravert" rather than "extrovert," and which uses the terms primarily to indicate one's manner of spending and drawing energy. Another good example is the Kiersey Temperament Sorter.
Introversion and extroversion are often referred to as "preferences" or "attitudes," but such terms misleadingly suggest that either characteristic is merely a matter of choice. In fact, being an introvert is much like being left-handed: even though you may have another fully functional hand that you could use, you didn't choose for your left hand to be dominant and therefore the one you can use more naturally, comfortably, and effectively. Although the influence of nature versus nurture in the development of introversion or extroversion has been much debated, research strongly suggests that introversion is in some sense "hard-wired" in the brain. Once a person has developed one tendency or the other, it's as difficult to conceive of changing it as changing one's dominant hand.
In decades past, left-handed people (like my grandfather) were forced, sometimes violently, to write with their right hands, based on the belief that right was right and left was abnormal and therefore wrong. Today, even though lefties are still very much in the minority, most people think such attitudes are ridiculous and even offensive. But comparable enlightenment about introverts is dawning more slowly. I routinely hear people talk about introversion as a problem that needs fixing or as a trait that one should actively try to suppress and change. True enough, extroverts tend to be the movers and shakers, the squeaky wheels, and the stars. On the other hand, many introverts have famously risen to positions of wealth, influence, and authority - both in the real world (Warren Buffett, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Julia Roberts, Barbara Walters) and in fiction (Batman, Jane Eyre, Dr. Jean Gray, Harry Potter, Mr. Spock). The point is: there's nothing wrong with being an introvert, and this characteristic need not keep anyone from success or happiness. Introverts can learn to work with this trait rather than against it, while extroverts would benefit from understanding introverts better and in some cases making accommodations to interact with them more effectively.
I learned about introversion and extroversion the same way I learned about Macs: by experience and by reading. If you'd like to learn more, I suggest (in addition to the links already given) reading the book "The Introvert Advantage" by Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D., as well as "Caring for Your Introvert" by Jonathan Rauch in The Atlantic; "Introverts of the World, Unite!," an interview with Rauch by Sage Stossel; Extraversion/Introversion by Susan A. Santo, Ph.D., of the University of South Dakota; and Spectatrix, a blog my wife runs about life as an introvert. (And, no, that's not a contradiction!) And if you'd like an easy way to find out where you fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum, try Quick Quiz: Extraverted or Introverted? at Your Office Coach.
From considerable reading and from personal experience, I've learned that introverts have a number of other tendencies. And taken together, these traits may shed some light on why I (and numerous other introverts I know) have a hard time with IM, Twitter, and the like. For example, introverts typically need to concentrate on just one thing at a time, and are often particularly sensitive to interruptions and distractions. Now, I happen to think "multitasking" is a concept that should never, ever be applied to human beings (regardless of personality type), but be that as it may, I can certainly say that I'm easily distracted, and having more than one thing to think about actively at any given time is sure to make me both ineffective and grumpy. Chatting online while also working on another task, therefore, is unthinkable. (For additional perspective on what multitasking might mean to an introvert, read Personality Types and Multitasking by Carol Kallendorf, Ph.D., at BizWatch Online. Note that I'm not only an "I" ("introverted") in Myers-Briggs terminology, but also a "J" ("judging"), which apparently makes me the personality type least amenable to multitasking!)
Another typical introvert trait is wanting to compose one's thoughts carefully before sharing them (either verbally or in writing). Once again, while this doesn't prevent me from carrying on verbal conversations at a normal speed, it makes rapid-fire online textual conversations rather unnerving. For me, interacting with other people in real time online is just as draining as interacting with other people in person. So my feelings about participating in, say, a lively multi-person chat are about the same whether we're talking about iChat or a party. I can hold my own in the conversation and it's generally fine, but because it takes a lot of energy I prefer not to do it very often.
Although I can't speak for every introvert in the world, I can say that I genuinely enjoy connecting with other people. I like to know what my friends are up to and I like for them to know what's going on in my life. But when modes of communication like IM and Twitter become the default way of sharing this information, that leaves us introverts in a pickle. If we're never logged in to iChat or rarely post on Twitter, our friends and colleagues may assume we're avoiding them, or that we aren't interested in their lives. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. The disconnect manifests itself by way of technology, but the reasons behind it are much deeper.
Quiet - I'm Thinking -- The introvert trait of not dealing well with interruptions comes into play in a couple of different ways with IM. First, naturally, is the whole notion of something popping up on one's screen demanding an immediate conversation. Let me give you a personal perspective on this. Unlike many people, when I'm in front of my computer, I'm working, which means I'm concentrating on something. I'm writing an article, or a book, or an email message, trying to come up with exactly the right way to phrase some sentence or express a certain point. Or I'm programming, trying to solve some logic problem. Or I'm reading an article. Whatever the activity, it's something to which I am predisposed to devote my entire attention. If the phone rings, or my wife asks me a question, or an iCal alarm goes off, it breaks my concentration in a way that's frustrating to recover from. I lose my mental place, and it takes me a long time to get back into that same train of thought and finish whatever I was working on. I'm not saying I need to write an entire book without any interruptions, but when my mind is actively juggling information, I need to complete that particular thought (or block of code, or paragraph) before moving on to something else.
This is why I love email as a mode of communication. I get many dozens of messages every day, but I can answer them whenever I want. I don't have to look at them right in the middle of this paragraph; I can wait five or ten minutes - it doesn't matter (though in practice, I usually answer email very quickly). Voicemail can make handling phone calls similarly convenient. But instant messaging isn't like that. If my status shows that I'm online, then people expect an immediate response, and even though I could choose not to respond, I'd still have the blinking, bouncing, or beeping notification interrupting my train of thought - it isn't an improvement for me.
So in terms of IM status, I never consider myself "available" in the sense of "interruptible." Ever. There is no time of any day, under any circumstances, when I think to myself, "I really don't mind being interrupted now." If I'm not at my computer, then most likely a phone call or a knock at the door won't seem like an interruption. But if I am at my computer, I'm concentrating, which means I'm not "available" - I do mind being interrupted. And if my status shows that I'm unavailable, as it invariably does when I'm logged in to iChat, most people will refrain from trying to start a conversation - meaning I might as well be entirely offline. (Of course, an "unavailable" status does convey some information, but I'll return to this in a few moments.)
(As an aside, if you guessed from the foregoing that I'm also not the kind of person who is constantly making and receiving cell phone calls, you're exactly right. I do own a cell phone, but I spend maybe 10 minutes a month talking on it. I don't follow the typical mobile urban lifestyle - I don't have a commute and dislike being considered "on call" when I'm not in my home office. Sure, I'd love to have an iPhone for the remote Web browsing, email, and all the rest, but I've come to accept the twin sad facts that I can't justify the cost of an iPhone given the amount of calling I do, and that I'm unwilling to carry around both a cell phone and an iPod touch. Oh well.)
Can I IM You Now? However, even though I'd theoretically prefer never to be interrupted, there are certainly urgent situations in which interruptions are not only acceptable but absolutely necessary, and IM may be the handiest way to get someone's attention in a hurry. Being perpetually unreachable can irritate your coworkers and lead to misunderstandings. Unfortunately, current IM software - and iChat in particular - hinders me from making myself provisionally available for "just in case of emergency" interruptions. Let me explain.
I've tried using iChat's security features to grant or deny access to certain people - for example, letting only important colleagues see when I'm online. That prevents interruptions from random people who just want to make small talk, but it forces me to keep iChat updated with my status, and that's a real problem. Some people manually change their iChat status constantly - you can be sure that it always reflects not only their availability but the exact task they're working on at the moment. I've tried doing this myself, but invariably I either forget to change my status after a few hours or simply get fed up with having to keep telling my computer what I'm doing. I can't be bothered to inform iChat of my current mood or activity over and over throughout the day.
Of course, iChat can automatically change my status from "Available" to "Away" when my computer is untouched for a certain period of time. But I never want to advertise myself as being "available," so that doesn't help. iChat can also indicate that I'm "idle" after a period of inactivity, but only if my status was previously "Available" - so that's no help either. I could create a custom "Away" message (say, "Busy") and stay logged in all the time with that status. But because "Busy" never changes to "Idle," my status then provides no clue as to whether I'm at my computer - it only says that my computer is turned on and iChat is logged in, which could be the case 24 hours a day. If I always logged out or put my computer to sleep when I stepped away, a "Busy" status would provide more information, but once again, that forces me to do extra tasks that I wouldn't ordinarily do and will in all likelihood forget.
Apple (or perhaps an enterprising third-party developer) could solve this problem for me by making the "Away" setting behave the same way as "Available" - automatically switching to "idle" after a few minutes without input. That way, I could stay logged in all the time - with my red-badged "Don't Disturb Unless Absolutely Necessary" status - but colleagues would still be able to tell whether I'm actually at my computer without my having to update iChat manually every time I get up.
(Adam Engst also addressed part of this issue in his article "iChat Status Report" (2004-03-29) - namely, the fact that iChat offers too few options for setting one's status. Alas, Leopard's iChat is in no way improved in this regard.)
A Little Birdie Told Me -- So far I've been talking about status in the simplistic sense of "Am I interruptible?" But even though many people use their iChat status to indicate things like their mood or what they just ate for lunch, that isn't the best tool for the job. Enter Twitter, which makes it very easy to supply your friends with exactly those sorts of brief "what I'm up to" updates. Other TidBITS staffers have voiced varying opinions about the service. Adam Engst didn't like Twitter at first ("Visions of the Sublime and the Inane," 2007-06-18) but, after seeing how it was used at the C4 conference, he came around to thinking it was useful after all, as he explained in "Confessions of a Twitter Convert," 2007-10-07). Tonya quickly followed suit, though she uses it somewhat differently ("Twitter Turns Out to be Fun and Useful," 2007-08-24). Glenn Fleishman liked it but then decided it was too overwhelming ("Conversions of a Twitter Revert, 2008-01-02) - and then got sucked in yet again, as a way of maintaining some social interaction after officemate Jeff Carlson started spending more time at home with his new daughter.
Twitter is a way of learning what other people are thinking and doing (and telling them the same about yourself) with a minimum of effort. Unlike IM, receiving a tweet in Twitter doesn't obligate you to carry on a conversation, so even if, say, Twitterrific is running in the background and pops up every time someone I'm following has something to say, I find it much less intrusive and bothersome than IM. I don't always read the tweets, but I often do, and I learn some interesting things that way.
However, when it comes to the flip side - posting my own stuff on Twitter - my introverted nature causes problems again. For one thing, being the inward-focused type that I am, the very thought of constantly telling the world what I'm thinking or doing makes me tired and gives me the vague sense of not having enough solitude and privacy. I like feeling as though I'm snug in my comfy cave, minding my own business and getting my work done. Having to (virtually) poke my head out at regular intervals to announce what I'm up to requires too much energy. It also feels like a self-imposed interruption, and like all interruptions, it breaks my train of thought. Needless to say, no one has to post every hour or even every day, and in practice I generally lurk with quite infrequent posts, but then that defeats the purpose of the system by not letting the people who are following me know anything useful on a regular basis.
I realize, of course, that Twitter's 140 character limit strikes most people as being so brief that it requires essentially no thought or effort at all to post a tweet. How can that be an interruption? For me, it's not the number of characters that's the problem, it's the need to mentally shift gears and add another task to my list - "Decide what to say." You'll recall that introverts like to choose their words carefully and deliberately, and so for me, even a one- or two-sentence tweet requires thought and consideration. That ends up being another task on my already full schedule, so it happens infrequently.
Two years ago, none of my friends or coworkers would have expected these sorts of frequent glimpses into my mental state throughout the day, because Twitter didn't exist. But now its use as a networking and community-building tool has become so common that some people have worried that I don't like them if I don't interact with them regularly on Twitter! This troubles me - of course I still like you! - but it's tricky to solve the problem in a way that respects the needs of both "innies" and "outies."
The View from the Other Side -- To this point, I've been saying that introversion is a normal, healthy state for a great many people, and that it could help to explain why some of us find otherwise useful technologies - IM and Twitter - uncomfortable or even distasteful. The implication is that all the introverts of the world should (quietly) stand up (in a corner) for their rights and insist (in a carefully and kindly worded letter) that the other half cut us a break and lay off all the beepy flashy instant messages. (Or, to put it less kindly, "Hey, we don't need to change - you change!") Well, it's not necessarily that simple.
Several people I discussed this issue with expressed dismay at having had relationships deteriorate due to an unwillingness on another person's part to adapt to changing technology. For example, people who don't use email don't get evites, and so they end up being excluded from parties. Once someone has adapted to a new mode of communication, it becomes harder to communicate with people who use the previous standard, so more often than not, we won't make the effort. (How many personal letters did you write on paper and send in the mail last year?) For better or worse, the wave of technology sweeps us all forward, so if you avoid assimilation - no cell phone, or no IM, or no whatever-the-next-thing-is, you'll find yourself left out, and perhaps misunderstood. And for certain tasks, regardless of your issues with a particular technology, there just isn't another suitable way to get the job done. (Try getting a pizza delivered to your home without using a telephone or a Web browser.)
Without a doubt, there will be times when even the most introverted among us has to just suck it up and deal with the unpleasantness for a higher good - say, maintaining a relationship or keeping a job. And almost certainly today's versions of IM and Twitter will be greatly improved, or replaced by entirely new paradigms, within a few years, so perhaps the problem will improve on its own. But in the meantime, I'd like to suggest that the decision is not merely "you do it my way or I'll do it your way." Introverts and extroverts (or let's say, more broadly, those who think IM is icky and those who think it's great) can meet in the middle.
Suggestions -- Despite my complaints about instant messaging from my viewpoint as an introvert, I don't refuse ever to use iChat. In fact, I find it a wonderful tool for doing certain tasks, not the least of which is giving remote presentations (see "Using iChat Theater for Remote Presentations," 2008-02-20). But for my own sanity and well-being, I can't be logged in whenever I'm using my computer, and I can't keep my status constantly updated. Similarly, I do use Twitter, just not in the way that some people expect. If you're an introvert struggling with IM, here are some things I've tried that you might try as well.
Get It Out in the Open: If someone is expecting you to communicate via IM or Twitter and you're struggling with it, talk the problem over. If you feel that the reason you're uncomfortable derives from introversion, say so. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and you can help to educate your extroverted friends about what communication feels like to a large segment of the population. Point them to this article, or to one of the books or Web sites mentioned above.
Ping Then IM: Speaking only for myself - not for introverts as a whole! - I don't consider email messages interruptions, because I can put off looking at them until my brain is ready to switch gears. In practice, I'm usually very speedy about replying to email. (I believe in keeping an empty Inbox, so I can virtually guarantee that messages won't go hours or days without being read, assuming I'm awake and in physical proximity to my computer.) Chances are I'll come to a convenient stopping point in whatever I'm working on within a few minutes and look at any email that has recently arrived. So for me, one way of addressing the IM problem is simply to say to those who might wish to use iChat with me: if you need to discuss something with me in a hurry, send me an email message asking me to go online and chat with you or give you a call. In real life, this will probably result in a delay of a few minutes beyond the instant reaction you'd expect with IM, but only a few - and you'll be doing an introvert a tremendous favor. If I don't respond quickly, that most likely means I'm genuinely unavailable. And if even that brief delay is unacceptable given the urgency of what you have to discuss with me, call my cell phone. I have plenty of minutes left! (Obviously, the person on the other end can't know for sure how quickly I'll respond if they can't see my status - and this would not be a good suggestion at all for someone who's slow answering email - but this is at least a step toward compromise.)
Schedule Chats: If I've scheduled a chat with someone in advance (whether "advance" means minutes or months ahead of time), then I'll be happy to be online at the designated time and devote my full attention to the conversation. See if your friends and coworkers will extend you the courtesy of scheduling chats, or at least of setting aside certain times of the day during which you can be safely offline without incurring anyone's wrath.
Keep Chats Self-Contained: I've participated in chats involving half a dozen TidBITS staffers that have gone on, in fits and spurts, for hours. That means every time anyone posts something, I hear a sound or see a visual alert of some kind, and I have to redirect my attention to the iChat window to see what was said. This may happen hundreds of times over the course of a few hours. If I ignore the messages for a while, I have to scroll back to see what I missed - invariably including several questions directed at me. So practically speaking, if a chat is open, that has to be the only thing I'm doing. Switching back and forth doesn't work for me. The moral of the story: if I participate in a chat, I need to be clear that I'm going to have a conversation and then leave. Open-ended chats, especially with multiple people, are a recipe for unhappiness.
Use Twitter to Announce Blog Posts: On those infrequent occasions when I post a tweet, it's usually with a link to a post I've just written on one of my blogs - killing two birds with one tiny stone. (I happen to know that lots of people who follow me on Twitter don't subscribe to the RSS feeds of all the blogs where I post.) If you prefer the slightly more ponderous schedule of blogging, use Twitter to bridge the gap with people who like more instant updates.
Think Local, Act Mobile: My lifestyle doesn't involve texting or chatting on the go, and it's possible that if I spent more time away from my computer, I'd feel differently about IM and Twitter - and use them in a different manner. Having an iPhone, BlackBerry, or other always-online gadget in one's pocket can be convenient, and can enable some people to spend their time more efficiently by, for example, taking care of correspondence on the bus or train. But it can also be extremely tiring for introverts to feel as though they're perpetually involved in a conversation. Unless your profession requires you to be reachable by anyone at any time, make the Off button your friend - take deliberate breaks from being connected to gather your thoughts and recharge.
The discussions I've had with other TidBITS staffers while working on this article have made it clear to me that the question of how personality types affect the ways one communicates is a complex one; it's a topic that tends to produce strong but mixed feelings. I don't pretend to have all the answers, or even an entirely satisfactory solution for myself. And, of course, I can't prove that my theories about why I feel and behave the way I do are correct. But what I hope to have done is shed at least some light on an increasingly common source of grief. If you have opinions or experiences of your own you'd like to share, I invite you to discuss this topic on TidBITS Talk. Just remember: introverts may be in the minority, but then, so are Mac users. There's no reason we can't all get along!
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TidBITS Watchlist: Notable Software Updates for 07-Apr-08
Notable software releases this week include Daylite 3.7.2, MacSpeech Dictate 1.0.1, YummySoup 1.6.7, NetworkLocation 2.3, Default Folder X 4.03, and Things 0.9.1. Apple joins in the fun with QuickTime 7.4.5, iTunes 7.6.2, Front Row 2.0.3, Keynote 4.0.3, and the AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow AirPort base stations.Show full article
- QuickTime 7.4.5 offers fixes that plug numerous security vulnerabilities, improve compatibility with third-party applications, and enhance reliability. Different versions are available for Leopard, Tiger, Panther, and Windows. (Free, ~50 MB)
- Keynote 4.0.3 improves the performance and stability of the application when working with large documents. Keynote 4.0.2 must be installed to install version 4.0.3. (Free, 20.5 MB)
- AirPort Admin Utility for Graphite and Snow 4.2.5 brings compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to the administration utility for Graphite and Snow (Dual Ethernet) AirPort base stations. (Free, 6 MB)
- iTunes 7.6.2 "provides bug fixes to improve stability and performance." (Free, 45 MB)
- Front Row 2.1.3 provides improved iTunes 7.6.2 compatibility. (Free, 20.5 MB)
- Things 0.9.1.1 from Cultured Code adds enhanced printing capabilities to the Getting Things Done-inspired task manager. This release also fixes some bugs with repeating items and quitting Things before closing an edited item. (Free while in preview, 2.2 MB)
- Default Folder X 4.0.3 from St. Clair Software brings to the Open and Save dialog enhancement utility a new contextual menu that enables you to rename, compress, and delete files and folders directly from within Open and Save dialogs. Also improved is compatibility with Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, QuarkXPress, and other Carbon-based applications. The utility also now uses significantly less processor time when idle. ($34.95 new, free upgrade for recent purchases, $14.95 upgrade for purchases before 01-Jun-07, 9.2 MB)
- NetworkLocation 2.3 from Centrix.ca adds new features and MacBook Air support to the network automation utility for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. NetworkLocation senses changes in network configuration (such as when moving from home to work networks) and based on particular locations can change numerous settings, such as the desktop picture and desired screen saver, the iChat status message, the time zone, the system volume, what iTunes playlist is selected, AirPort and Bluetooth availability, whether or not the keychain is locked, the default printer, and more. Version 2.3 adds the capability to run shell commands in Terminal, can check that network connectivity is available before running other tasks, and more. ($25 new, free upgrade, 2.7 MB)
- YummySoup 1.6.7 from HungrySeacow Software adds support for importing recipes from more sites to the recipe management software (Andy Affleck's second-favorite contender in "Cook from Your Mac: 10 Recipe Tools Compared," 2007-09-21). Drag-and-drop recipe import is now supported from BBCGoodFood.com, KraftFoods.com, and Williams-Sonoma.com, in addition to AllRecipes.com, Epicurious.com, FoodAndWine.com, FoodNetwork.com, MarthaStewart.com, MyRecipies.com, MachaelRayMag.com, VegetarianTimes.com, and Yum-O.org. ($20 new, free upgrade, 5.5 MB)
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Here's a look at Andrew Weissman's latest venture, an outdoor restaurant on the banks of the Museum Reach with the working name The Luxury. These are some of drawings submitted to the city's Historic and Design Review Commission by the project's architect, Douglas Architects. According to the Express-News, Weissman would like to open in November. The concept is the serving of the same high-quality cuisine, but from a set of Airstream food trailers in a family-friendly, outdoor setting.
Weissman also owns Il Sogno and The Sandbar, both located at The Pearl.
Combine this project with adjacent 1221 Broadway, the mixed-use development finally back on its feet, and we're starting to see the manifestation of River North.
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Previously published
Front Burner: Weissman driving new project
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New wave of mobile food trend parks in San Antonio
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Posted by John O'Neill on 5/15/2009, 12:22 pm, in reply to "Are bikinis, boob jobs & pageants un-Christian?"
Jesus is with us and soon, everyone will see Him, and some others who like Him, are known as Masters of Wisdom. They will work publicly from the world stage inspiring mankind to see itself as one family and to rebuild the world based upon the principles of sharing, justice, brotherhood and love. "The Kingdom will come, God's Will will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven". No kidding.
The consciousness of the Masters is far more advanced than ours. We are capable of grasping much of what is taking place at one place and point in time. They can grasp everything that is taking place in millions of places at a time simultaneously and perfectly.
Two words best characterize Their attitudes towards all people - "loving understanding".
According to their leader, the world's most pressing problem is that 25,000 people die every day of the week of hunger, while tons of food rots in warehouses. All of that needless suffering has an very negative impact on all of us, since we are all connected. We are all one.
Jesus will reform Christianity, but He won't tell people that is the best religion. Other Masters and Disciples will reform the other major world religions too, and they won't be in competition with each other. Jesus was probably a Hindu and a Buddhist in previous incarnations. Christianity is the only religion that features a devil and an "anti-Christ". So, have faith in Jesus, and no fear of anything or anyone else. The collapse of our corrupt economic system is a major step towards the reappearance of Christ.
An economic system that works for everyone will replace the old one.
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Alana Evans
|Alana Evans
Alana Evans in 2013
|Dawn Vanguard
July 6, 1976
Fort Campbell, Kentucky, U.S.[1]
|Other names
|Alana[2] Jenna Talia Superpinkninja[3]
|5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
|140 lb (64 kg; 10 st)
|Chris Evans (m. 1999)[4]
Alana Evans (born July 6, 1976) is an American pornographic actress. She is sometimes credited as Jenna Talia (a pun on the word genitalia—she hated the alias so much that she changed back to "Alana Evans" after two films). In 2015, Evans was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. She appeared on Megyn Kelly Today on January 16, 2018, in which Megyn Kelly addressed her by her real name as Dawn Vanguard.
Early life[edit]
Evans was born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky and raised in San Jose, California.[1] She has also lived in Sacramento and Los Angeles.[1] Her first job was at a Round Table Pizza parlor.[2] Evans had an appendectomy at age 14.[2]
Evans and her husband became part owners of their favorite club, which is where she says she lost her remaining inhibitions. She became a stripper and pole dancer and began considering modelling work. Due to a scar from an appendectomy she thought that she would not get magazine work, and therefore went into the porn industry at age 21.[5] She entered the adult film industry on March 24, 1998, and did her first scene with Mr. Marcus in the film Real Sex Magazine 11.[2] She initially used the mononym Alana, which was derived from her former husband's name, Alan.[2] She added the last name Evans to her stage name a few years after debuting in porn.[2] Her agent at the time was Reb Sawitz of Pretty Girl International.[1] She signed with agent Shy Love on May 7, 2012.[1]
To date Evans has starred in over 450 films, including numerous Playboy TV projects and 30 softcore movies. She also hosted a segment on KSEX radio called All in the Porn Family until June 2005 as well as hosting a show for Playboy Radio called Private Calls, which airs on the Sirius Satellite Radio Network. She is also the host of the Spice Radio program All Wives Cheat on Sirius XM 103.[1]
Never fully satisfied with her bust size, Evans vacillated between the idea of surgical enhancement and accepting her image as a natural starlet. At one point she declared "they are going to stay real... I don't want plastic in my body."[6] In late 2007, Evans had her breasts enlarged to DD.[7]
Other ventures[edit]
Production companies[edit]
In September 2006, Alana and Chris Evans created a porn production company called CreamWorks Films. The studio's first film, Pick 'Em Young, featured Alana performing with 18-21 year old new male performers that were recruited through Myspace. Alana focused on producing and casting while Chris focused on directing and editing.[8]
In November 2008, Alana and Chris Evans launched another production company, Royalty X Films. The company's first film was Super Pink Holes.[9]
On September 20, 2011, Evans and pornographic actress Misti Dawn launched an interactive video gaming website called PwnedByGirls.com, which allows subscribers to play video games with porn stars via Xbox Live or on the PlayStation Network.[3]
In 2012, Evans made her professional singing debut with the song "Pop That Tooshie," which is the lead single from the Lords of Acid album Deep Chills.[10][11] In June 2014, she released a song titled "Make You Love Me."[12][13]
In February 2014, Evans began writing a column titled "The Stoned Gamer" for High Times magazine.[14][15]
Personal life[edit]
Evans had a biracial son shortly before her eighteenth birthday. She married pornographic actor Chris Evans in November 1999.[4] On January 16, 2018, she stated on the Today Show that she supported Bernie Sanders during the 2016 election.
- 2002 XRCO Award – Unsung Siren[16]
- 2007 AVN Award – Best Solo Sex Scene – Corruption[17]
- 2015 AVN Hall of Fame[18]
- ^ a b c d e f Adam Wilcox (May 7, 2012). "XXX Wasteland Exclusive Interview: Alana Evans". XXX Wasteland. Archived from the original on May 13, 2012. Retrieved August 25, 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f Peter (November 7, 2013). "Alana Evans Interview For Barelist". Barelist. Retrieved August 25, 2014.
- ^ a b Winda Benedetti (September 19, 2011). "Hardcore porn stars plan to pwn hardcore gamers". Today. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
- ^ a b Sincere (October 31, 2014). "Chatterboxxx Presents Alana Evans". Chatterboxxx. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
- ^ Rog (October 1999). "Alana Evans Interview". rogreviews.com. Archived from the original on 2 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-12.
- ^ Rog (January 2002). "Alana Evans Interview 2". rogreviews.com. Archived from the original on 2 May 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-12.
- ^ Alana Evans at the Internet Adult Film Database
- ^ Steve Javors (2006-09-10). "Alana Evans Forms CreamWorks". XBIZ. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
- ^ Todd Lewis (2008-11-17). "Alana and Chris Evans Create Royalty X Films". AVN. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
- ^ Dan Miller (2012-02-27). "Alana Evans Sings Vocals on New Lords of Acid Single". XBIZ. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
- ^ Dan Miller (2012-03-20). "Alana Evans' Lords of Acid Song Released". XBIZ. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
- ^ Lila Gray (2014-05-09). "Alana Evans Tackles the Music Biz With New Single". XBIZ. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
- ^ Lila Gray (2014-06-25). "Alana Evans Releases New Single 'Make You Love Me'". XBIZ. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
- ^ Peter Warren (2014-03-10). "Alana Evans Scores Gaming Column for 'High Times'". AVN. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
- ^ Lila Gray (2014-03-10). "Alana Evans Lands Column in High Times Magazine". XBIZ. Retrieved 2014-09-18.
- ^ Steve Nelson (2002-04-13). "The 18th Annual Awards of the X-Rated Critics Organization". Adult Industry News. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ^ "2007 AVN Award Winners Announced". AVN. 2007-01-14. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
- ^ AVN Staff (2014-12-24). "Class of 2015: Meet the AVN Hall of Fame Inductees". AVN. Retrieved 2014-12-24.
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Category Archives: Censorship
We talked about sex… Impressions from the Ladybeard Magazine fundraiser panel
I am on the train heading back from the Ladybeard launch in London last night and am still buzzing. Can't wipe the smile off my face.
I had a bit of a nightmare journey heading up to London from the south coast in a 4 hour odyssey but all was quickly forgotten and is was so worth it as the night turned out to be one of the best events I have ever attended.
Ladybeard is a new magazine and their first issue is dedicated to "sexuality". The launch was a fundraiser to get this fab magazine printed. There was a panel featuring some of the magazine's first issue interviewees, discussing myths and taboos surrounding sex.
Censored by the porn industry?!
I have recently been sent information from an Adult Pay TV channel regarding their programming criteria. It is a fascinating read that makes clear just how sexist the porn industry still is and how reluctant it is to embrace innovative content.
The Nightmare Before Christmas – Why the new UK online porn censorship affects us all
I have spent the last couple of years investing a lot of time and money into building my own streaming service of porn by women. There have been many technical obstacles and "Cinema Joy" was supposed to finally launch by the end of this year. The site was meant to featuring my own erotica as well as porn by other female directors such as Shine Louise Houston and Maria Beatty – directors who shoot different female fantasies than I do. However, on the 1st December, new regulations relating to online porn content came into full force in the UK. Now my dream of finally making my films available to anybody who wanted to pay to view it, no matter where they are in the world, whenever they want it, has become impossible. The dream has become a nightmare.
The Age Of Unreason – Ageism in porn and beyond
I recently came across an online post with the title "9 Adult Entertainers Who Should Have Left The Industry Ages Ago". The article slagged off mainly female performers in their fifties, amongst them such icons as Nina Hartley with the words "Its time for her to go; her breast-implants are older than many actresses in the industry" Ha ha.
The cult around "perfect", young and surgically enhanced bodies is everywhere – from reality TV to porn – the media world is terrified by ageing and maturity, especially in women. If older women are featured at all in the media and porn, then it is usually in a derogatory manner. Hence, if women in porn are dirty slags and fucking cunts then women over 50 are dirty OLD slags and Fucking OLD cunts. They are the lowest of the low, not even worth to be looked at, doormats to be ridiculed and jizzed on.
It is as if women over fifty are meant to be invisible and asexual. Whereas mature men are considered to be attractive and desirable and stay in their TV presenter jobs, mature women are replaced with younger models.
I was once in a town where women and men just wore loin clothes and walked around topless, even in the supermarket to do their shopping. Everybody went about their business and no-one stared – apart from male tourists who were quick to point their fingers or cameras. This place was not a nudist resort but an island called Yap in Micronesia. It might not come as a surprise that this is not a patriarchal society.
Here in the Western world, I am confused and annoyed by the censorship of the female nipple on one hand, and the objectification and sexualisation of it on the other.
The Great Firewall of China
It's been all over the papers that David Cameron wants to pass a law ensuring that porn has to be blocked by internet providers unless the individual deliberately unblocks it and opts in to viewing porn. I've spoken extensively about censorship in the past: I just don't believe it's the right way forward. It's a dangerous and slippery slope, particularly under the frequently abused guise of 'protecting children'. By letting the government meddle in our personal lives and pass a value judgement on everything "pornographic", we leave ourselves open to all forms of censorship. The internet is a very new medium and one that currently operates almost entirely without censorship in Britain. Ironically and worryingly, Cameron is planning to use the same system that China uses to block sites that are unauthorised by the state, which should be setting off alarms bells for anybody with even slightly liberal inclinations.


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RE[5]: My complain about unity
by Soulbender on Tue 17th Jul 2012 16:47 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: My complain about unity"
Respectfully, it is a terrible excuse to justify anything.
Yes, that's why I said it's a bit harsh but as I also said that it was no secret what direction that they intended to take with GNOME3 (replace gnome-shell with unity).
There was plenty of time to educate yourself about alternatives.
This is a lot like a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation. On one hand people complain that OSS does not invent and change but on the other hand when they do people complain that things aren't the way they used to.


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Cardinal Bertone: media exaggerates turmoil in Vatican
June 18, 2012
"We are facing difficult times," admits the Vatican's Secretary of State.
Speaking at length about the "Vatileaks" scandal, in an interview with the Italian journal Famiglia Cristiana, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone said: "None of us intends to hid the shadows and defects of the Church." Yet he claimed--despite the many documents that have been leaked to the press in an apparent attempt to undermine Vatican officials—"There is no sign of any cardinals being involved or of disputes between clerics."
Cardinal Bertone said that the release of confidential papal documents is "an immoral act of unprecedented gravity." But he said that the Church would overcome the crisis, reflecting:
The church is a rock that resists storms. It's an unequivocal point of reference for countless persons and institutions throughout the world and for this reason there's an effort to destabilize it.
The Secretary of State—who is generally believed to be the ultimate target of the "Vatileaks" campaign—said that the media have exaggerated the problems within the Vatican. He argued that reporters enjoy conspiracy theories, and "many journalists play at the imitation of Dan Brown, inventing fables and legends."
"There is a relentless and repeated attempt to separate and create rifts between the Holy Father and his collaborators," the cardinal added.
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Sadda Haq 31st July 2014 Written Episode Update
Sadda Haq 31st July 2014 Written Episode, Written Update on TellyUpdates.com
Scene 1
Randhir comes closer to Sanyu. Sanyu says speak up, speak up. He says just shgut up we're so drunk. sanyu gets up and laughs and says I am drunk and you are acting so weird. but you look so cute while complaining. He says look at you are drunk. you look so stupid, look at your hair, you lips everything. She says hey why are you looking at my lips and my hair and my eyes. He comes closer.
She says stay away don't come closer you kissed me last time this way. He says that was by mistake I used to brush 4 times a day after that. SAnyu says you robot.
They go in.
he says I told you that engineering is not your cup of tea. She says what you mean by that. I will beat you in results of third year.
he says remember you solved the question of 2 minutes in 15 minutes
Vidushi walk pasts the juice and says parth made me fool. What did I give him that did not effect him. She drinks it.
Sanyu says you walk so slow. he says you are seeing everything slow. They sit, sanyu says why are we here Randhir. He says to check who is more intelligent. are you afraid ? Sanyu says not really. Lets play a game w will ask questions to each other and who answers all the question will win. He says okay. SAnyu asks okay tell me which is the room you can't enter. She says Radnhri can't think of it. He says I don't know it. Sanyu says so you lose. He says yeah okay whatever. He says there are a lot of things. This question is invalid. She says no its not. Ask yours now. he says I don't wanna ask. SAnyu looks at the board and says we came to solve the question here. Randhir says yeah we always forget in your talks. they go to the board and say there is no question here. Randhir says it must me and order of maya. SAnyu says how mean, dayan dean.
parth says they should have come by now. Kaustuki says sanyu isn't receiving her phone. SAhil says are they in some trouble ? Parth says is it something by vidushi. I must go and check.
Vidushi is drunk and sit on the bench. /she says where are you parth you have to save me, SHe is reapeting his name again. SAnyu says she came and didssolved our team. This is not fair. Randhir says everything is fair in war. I know what do with her. He says I will pee in her room. SAnyu says how can you say that in front of a girl. Randhir says where is the girl ? you consider yourself a girl. he laughs. Sanyu says she is a woman and we have tokeep the basic respect. Randhir says yeeah lets think something else.
Vidushi looks at a plant and says here you are parth. Whenever I am upset I look up to you. you look at me like I am the only bad girl in the world but what can I do. Maya will suspend me. Tell me what am I supposed to do. You should go to your room.Some guys come and laugh at her and start making video. Don't stay here. Parth comes there. The guys says why don 't you go to her parth. Vidushi says parth don't make me angry go to your room. Parth comes at her back and says vidushi. He says what are you saying. She laughs and says you have a twin brother too. He says what did you mix in this drink. She says why would I give you some drink am I a bartender. he says shut up and lets go. She says wait at least say by to your brother he is so patient. he didn't even said a word.
Randhir and sanyu paint on wall we hate you maya. Sanyu says you are so bad at it. He says yeh you are girls are good at it you mark the whole book with different colors. ANd when the exams come you forget everything, SAnyu says I am not like that. he says yeah whatever. She says If I was like I wouldn't have been in third year with you I would have been home with my fiancé. he says I am sorry to say but he is a joker. Sanyu laughs and says lets go. He asks where? Sanyu says I don't know but lets go. He asks where ? SAnyu says anywhere.
Parth take vidushi to the girls' hostel attendant. He says the vapour of patrol was too much. I guess she is not well. Please take her to the room. Vidushi is still speaking rubbish. The lady takes her to the room.
Scene 3
Sahil and kaustuki come in a room. Sahil says are they palnning to get us stuck with maya ? She says shut up sahil, SAnyu and randhir see sahil and kaustuki and say what are they doing here ? Randhir says lets go to the lecture. They go in the empty class. SAnyu says is there going to be a lecture here ? He says aren't you feeling weird ? She says I guess we are in second years class. He says not that silly. I am talking about
She says I saved you and got all the balme on me. He says I have done so much for you. I saved you from those thugs that night. He says I saved you from falling in techfest. Sanyu says yeah. He says If I didn't save you would have fallen on floor and would have gone by a poof. She say yeah you were so arrogant by then but you cared about me. You are not that bad from inside. He says you said no more history why are you talking all this now. SAnyu says remember in livbrary.. She goes and stands on the table and says lets exercise trust one more time. You saved me once from falling. She says I trust you sanyu falls, randhir comes running and catches her in his arms. She says look I told you I trust you. Randhir says I love you sanyu. I love you. Sanyu laughs and says I love you too randhir.
parth meets sahil and kasutuki and asks what are you both doing here ? Sahil says we were working first they were gone and now you. Are they in trap of vidushi and maya. Parth says vidushi is drunk she is unable to control herself. Kaustuki ays where are they ? Parth says lets go to work.
Randhir and sanyu are in class. Sanyu says where is my phone. he says lets do it with mine. They take a selfie. SAnyu aks to turn the video mode on. He say I love you sanyu. Sanyu says I love you too. he keeps repeating I love you sanyu. She says lets go sir must be coming anytime.
Precap- Randhir asks sanyu how did you engagement get canclled ? Sanyu says don't talk about the past. Sameer calls sanyu. Radnhir asks why is he calling you now ? I am asking you something sanyu.
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Yes, I agree ...Originally Posted by sweetpea;3630905;
Jill already knows everything and "maybe" she has been helping to try to keep this Ex out of the public to protect her privacy from all the bashers and
rumor mongors. Maybe She doesn't want to see anyone else get hurt by the public scrutiny.She seems like a very caring person...
Her and Ed have already dealt with it all, and worked through it. This is old"news" to them, just not to the "general" public not on the boards . So if it comes out publically more , that's the only" new "news, not the "actual " information or story itself.There may be more negativity / questions by the
general public, maybe.. But nothing new to the people on the boards really.
It's the friends fault, not the Ex , for taking this to RS ..
They are playing with sharks and the Ex will be the one to get eaten.