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Take charge of your privacy online
By Monty Phan, Gannett News Service
A little Internet advice: Don't accept cookies from strangers.
Sorry if we sound like your parents, but it's for your
own good. Cookies — the small files that Web sites store on your hard drive
to identify you each subsequent time you visit that site —are a common way of
collecting information, just like warranty forms and certain advertisements.
But experts note that you, the Web user, control how much
to reveal; so give out only the information about yourself that you're comfortable
sharing with the rest of the world.
Pending state and federal legislation aims to protect consumers'
online privacy, albeit by different methods.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has introduced a bill that would give visitors to
Web sites the choice to opt out of participating in data collection. America
Online supports the measure, but many critics back a plan that would require
companies to get permission from consumers before gathering information from
Nevertheless, there are a few ways to protect yourself in the meantime:
Always look for a privacy policy, said Dave Steer, a spokesman for TRUSTe,
an independent, non-profit overseer of online privacy. If a site lacks a policy,
or if it hides the policy somewhere in the recesses of its site, don't trust
it, he said. TRUSTe reviews privacy policies and puts a seal on Web sites that
meet its qualifications.
Read the privacy policy. If there's not a seal from a third party such as TRUSTe,
examine the statement to make sure it's not just a disclaimer that says, ''We
can do anything we want with your information.'' If you don't trust it, don't
give out any information.
Manage your cookies. Most Web browsers have settings in the ''Preferences''
or ''Options'' headings that allow users to control the security level, allowing
them to turn off cookies altogether or prompting them before a cookie is placed
on the hard drive.
Steer and other privacy advocates support further enhancement of browsers to
allow for a greater control that ''takes the burden off the Web surfer'' to
examine every potential cookie, he said.
To see what cookies have been placed on your computer, PC users can look for
a file called ''cookies.txt'' for Netscape users and in the directory ''Windows/cookies''
for Internet Explorer users. Macintosh users look for a file called ''magic
Avoid spam e-mail by setting up another account. Go to a free Web-based e-mail
provider such as Hotmail or Yahoo! and set up an account; if you're somehow
forced into giving your e-mail address to a Web site, use the alternate account,
so any spam e-mail is sent to that address instead.
Pay attention to where you're clicking. Deborah Pierce, a staff attorney for
the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which seeks to protect
civil liberties of computer and Internet users, said to be aware that banner
ads often are used to collect information without a person's knowledge.
Also, even though spam e-mails typically have instructions for removing yourself
from bulk e-mail lists, replying to specific messages only tells the sender
that a real person exists at the other end, which could result in even more
Sometimes, the senders of spam have ''return receipts'' that generate automatically,
notifying the sender when you've opened and read the message, so it's a good
idea to delete such e-mail without reading it.
Look for secure sites. PC users can tell whether a site is secure by looking
for a closed lock, located at the bottom of the browser window in both Netscape
and Internet Explorer; for Mac users, the symbol is an unbroken key, found at
the bottom of the window in Netscape and near the top in Explorer.
You can also tell whether a site is secure by looking in the address window;
if it says ''https://'' then it's secure.
And don't rule out the obvious, either. ''People need to use common sense,''
the EFF's Pierce said. ''If it's a company that you wouldn't trust offline,
why would you trust them online?''
Monty Phan writes for The Arizona Republic.


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Barak Obama not only welcomed the endorsement of Colin Powell, but offered to have him serve as an advisor in his administration if he was elected. "He will have a role as one of my advisors. Whether he wants to take a formal role, whether that's a good fit for him, is something we'd have to discuss." The Illinois senator expressed surprise at the endorsement saying he had no prior indication the former Bush secretary of state would switch his allegiance to the Republican party.
Powell expressed his regret at disappointing an old friend, Senator McCain, but made clear his disappointment with the selection of Sara Palin as a running mate. As an old warrior, Colin Powell understands the person who is second-in-command must possess similar abilities to that of the commanding general. Palin's second rate mind and experience would more qualify the Alaska governor for the position of a bird watcher since she spends so much time gazing across the Bering Straits in order to become more knowledgeable concerning Russia.

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Privacy Policy
ResCare Notice of Privacy Practices for Medical Information
ResCare and its subsidiaries and affiliates are is required by law to provide you with this Notice explaining the Company's privacy practices with regard to your medical information and how we may use and disclose your protected health information ("PHI") for treatment, payment and for health care operations, as well as for other purposes that are permitted or required by law. You have certain rights regarding the privacy of your PHI and we also describe those rights in this Notice.
ResCare reserves the right to change the provision of our Notice and make new provisions effective for all PHI we maintain. If ResCare makes a material change to our Notice, we will post the changes promptly on our website at rescare.staging.wpengine.com.
Effective Date of This Notice: April 14, 2003, as amended September 23, 2013
What is PHI?
Protected health information ("PHI") consists of individually identifiable health information, which may include demographic information ResCare collects from you or creates or receives from another health care provider, a health plan, or a health care clearing house and that relates to (1) your past, present or future physical or mental health or condition; (2) the provision of health care to you; or (3) the past, present or future payment for the provision of health care to you.
HITECH Amendments
HITECH Notification Requirements
Under HITECH, ResCare is required to notify its clients whose PHI has been breached. Notification must occur by first class mail within 60 days of the breach incident. A breach occurs when an unauthorized use or disclosure that compromises the privacy or security of PHI poses a significant risk for financial, reputational or other harm to the individual. This notice must (1) contain a brief description of what happened, including the date of the breach and date of discovery; (2) the steps that the individual should take to protect themselves from potential harm resulting from the breach; and (3) a brief description of what ResCare is doing to investigate the breach, mitigate losses, and to protect against further breaches.
Business Associates
Effective February 2010, ResCare's Business Associate Agreements have been amended to provide that all HIPAA security administrative safeguards, physical safeguards, technical safeguards and security policies, procedures, and documentation requirements apply directly to the Business Associate.
Cash Payments
HITECH states that if a client pays in full for their services out of pocket they can demand that the information regarding the service not be disclosed to the client's third party payor since no claim is being made against the third party payor.
Access to E-Health Records
HITECH expands this right, giving individuals the right to access their own e-health record in an electronic format and to direct ResCare to send the e-health record directly to a third party. ResCare may only charge for labor costs under the HITECH rules.
Accounting for E-Health Records for Treatment, Payment and Health
ResCare does not currently have to provide an accounting of disclosures of PHI to carry out treatment, payment and health care operations. Starting January 1, 2014, HITECH will require ResCare to provide an accounting of disclosures through an e-health record to carry out treatment, payment and health care operations. This new accounting requirement is limited to disclosures within the three (3) year period prior to the individual's request.
ResCare must either (1) provide an individual with an accounting of such disclosures it made and its business associate disclosures; or (2) provide an individual with an accounting of the disclosures made by ResCare and a list of business associates, including their contact information, who will be responsible for providing an accounting of such disclosures upon the individual's request.
How ResCare May Use or Disclose Your Health Information
ResCare collects health information about you and stores it in a chart which is your medical record. We need this information to provide you with quality care and to create a record of the care and services you receive at ResCare. ResCare is committed to protecting the privacy of your PHI. The law permits ResCare to use or disclose your PHI for the following purposes:
Treatment. We may use PHI about you to provide you with medical treatment or services. We may disclose PHI about you to doctors, psychologists, pharmacists, nurses, social workers, therapists, technicians, or other personnel involved in providing services to you. Different departments of ResCare may also share PHI about you in order to coordinate the different services you need.
Payment. We may use and disclose PHI about you so that the treatment and services you receive at ResCare or other providers from whom you receive treatment or services, may be billed to, and payment may be collected from, you, an insurance company, a third party, Medicaid or other payor. To the extent possible, our staff and outside contractors or consultants will make reasonable efforts to assure that the use and disclosure of your PHI is conducted in a secure and confidential manner.
Health Care Operations. ResCare may use and disclose PHI about you for agency operations. These uses and disclosures are necessary to manage the operation and to monitor your quality of care. For example, we may use PHI to evaluate our agency's services, including the performance of our staff. We may also use PHI for training purposes or to develop new policies, procedures, or programs that may benefit you or other individuals we support. Your PHI may be shared with survey reviewers and other accreditation bodies in accordance with current and on-going operating procedures.
Information provided directly to you.
Notification and communication with family. We may disclose your PHI to notify or assist in notifying a family member, your personal representative, a friend or another person responsible for your care about your location, your general condition or in the untimely event of your death. If you are able and available to agree or object, we will give you the opportunity to do so prior to making this notification. If you are unable or unavailable to agree or object, our health professionals will use their best judgment in communication with your family and others, but will tell you about it after the emergency and give you the opportunity to object to future disclosures to those persons.
Required by law. As required by law, we may use and disclose your PHI as described below:
Public health. We may disclose your PHI to public health authorities for purposes related to: preventing or controlling disease, injury or disability; reporting child abuse or neglect; reporting domestic violence; reporting to the Food and Drug Administration problems with products and reactions to medications; and reporting disease or infection exposure.
Health oversight activities. We may disclose your PHI to health agencies during the course of audits, investigations, inspections, licensure and other proceedings.
Judicial and administrative proceedings. We may disclose your PHI in the course of any administrative or judicial proceeding as required by a court order or subpoena.
Law enforcement. We may disclose your PHI to a law enforcement official for purposes such as identifying or locating a suspect, fugitive, material witness or missing person, complying with other law enforcement purposes.
Deceased person information. We may disclose your PHI to coroners, medical examiners and funeral directors.
Public safety. We may disclose your PHI to appropriate persons in order to prevent or lessen a serious and imminent threat to the health or safety of a particular person or the general public.
Specialized government functions. We may disclose your PHI for military, national security, and prisoner purposes.
Worker's compensation. We may disclose your PHI as necessary to comply with worker's compensation laws.
Facility Directories. If you do not object, we may include your name, photo or other PHI in a facility directory.
Marketing. We will use and disclose PHI for marketing purposes only with the individual's authorization. We will use and disclose PHI that constitutes the sale of PHI only with the individual's authorization.
Only the minimum necessary PHI will be disclosed to accomplish the above purposes.
When ResCare May Not Use or Disclose Your Health Information
Except as described in this Notice, ResCare will not use or disclose your PHI without your written authorization. If you do authorize ResCare to use or disclose your health information for another purpose, you may revoke your authorization in writing at any time. Disclosures made in reliance on an authorization prior to a revocation are not affected by the revocation.
Your Rights Related to Protected Health Information
1. You have the right to request restrictions on certain uses and disclosures of your health information. ResCare is not required to agree to the restriction that you requested. We ask that such requests be made in writing. We are not required to agree to your request if ResCare believes it is in your best interest to use or disclose that information.
2. You have the right to inspect and copy your health information. Any psychotherapy notes that may be included in records we have or received about you are not available for your full inspection or copying, by law. We may charge you a fee for the costs of copying, mailing or other supplies used to fulfill your request. If you wish to inspect or copy your PHI, you must submit a request in writing to ResCare's Privacy Officer. ResCare has thirty (30) days to respond to your request. If the information is stored off-site, we are allowed up to 60 days to respond, but must inform you of the delay.
3. You have a right to request that ResCare amend your health information that is incorrect or incomplete. ResCare is not required to change your health information and will provide you with information about ResCare's denial and how you request a review. We ask that such requests be made in writing and clearly state what information is incomplete or inaccurate and the reasons for your request.
4. You have a right to receive an accounting of disclosures of your health information made by ResCare, except that ResCare does not have to account for the disclosures related to treatment, payment of health care operations. Your request must be in writing and must state the time period for the requested information. You may not request information for any dates prior to April 14, 2003 or for a period greater than six (6) years, which is the legal obligation to retain that information.
5. You have the right to request how ResCare communicates with you to preserve your privacy. For example, you may request that we call you only at work or by mail at a special address or PO Box. Your request must be in writing and must specify how or where we should contact you. ResCare will accommodate all reasonable requests.
6. You have a right to a paper copy of this Notice of Privacy Practices.
If you would like to have a more detailed explanation of these rights or if you would like to exercise one or more of these rights, please contact:
Privacy Officer
Res-Care, Inc.
9901 Linn Station Road
Louisville, KY 40223
Complaints about this Notice of Privacy Practices or how ResCare's handles your PHI must be in writing within 180 days of the suspected violation and directed to:
Privacy Officer
Res-Care, Inc.
9901 Linn Station Road
Louisville, KY 40223
Complaints must provide as much detail as possible about the suspected violation. We will not retaliate in any way if you choose to file a complaint with us or with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
If you are not satisfied with the manner in which this office handles a complaint, you may submit a formal complaint to:
Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Civil Rights
Hubert H. Humphrey Bldg.
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Room 509F HHH Building
Washington, DC 20201
You may also address your compliant to one of the regional Offices for Civil Rights. A list of these offices can be found online at http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/regmail.html.
ResCare Website Privacy Practices
ResCare respects your privacy and wants you to feel comfortable using our site as a method of communication with us. The purpose of this privacy policy is to explain how we use the information collected on our site and to assure you that any information you submit to us will be used only for its intended purpose.
If you have any questions about this policy please contact us at:
9901 Linn Station Road
Louisville, KY 40223
Information Automatically Collected
When you visit our site, our servers automatically store the following information about your computer in log files:
- Your IP address
- Your browser and version
- Your operating system
- The date and time of your visit
- The site from which you came (If you came from a search engine, the search words you used to find our site are also stored.)
This information cannot be used to identify specific individuals, and is only used for:
- Anonymous user analysis
- Research and development
Our site does NOT use cookies. When you visit our site, we do not send any information to be stored on your computer's hard drive.
Information You Submit
When you send us electronic mail, thereby disclosing your e-mail address, we do not sell or disclose any of this information to third parties.
When you request information through our site, we use your personal and business information only for the purpose it was submitted for. We do not sell or disclose any of this information to third parties.
Policy Updates
As we add new content and functionality to our site, our privacy policy will be revised to include details about the use of any new information being collected. Any revisions to our policy will not reduce the amount of protection accorded to any visitor information collected in the past. Please review our policy frequently to ensure that you have the most current information.


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How to Remove Galileo System Cleaner Virus
Galileo System Cleaner Information:
Galileo System Cleaner is a recently released variant of Great AntiSpy 2012 virus. Although Galileo System Cleaner looks like a legal program, it will try its best to destroy the compromised PC and hook up users' cash. It's an extremely unnecessary suite and it will then present you with diverse alerts about the detected viruses inside. Once Galileo System Cleaner sneaks into the targeted machine, it will perform many malicious tactics to steal your money from your pocket. The unique purpose of Galileo System Cleaner is to lure victims into purchasing its useless products to solve the above hazards. In fact all mentioned hazards and alerts are fictive. Please never believe anything stated by those alerts, for they are completely fake. The most important thing you need to know about Galileo System Cleaner is that it is promoted by Trojan viruses to destroy your PC and fool you to spend your money on its product. Being the same as its predecessors, Galileo System Cleaner has the similar capabilities to destroy the host machine. Please keep in mind that you must neglect all kinds of fabricated warnings from Galileo System Cleaner at once. The only thing you should be aware of is the existence of Galileo System Cleaner in your computer. Now you may have known that Galileo System Cleaner exploits Trojan infections to gain access to the targeted PC.
Therefore, it's a must for you to completely delete Galileo System Cleaner as soon as possible. Please stay away from Galileo System Cleaner and never believe though it may look like a real program.
Galileo System Cleaner Screenshot:
Galileo System Cleaner Manual Removal
Note: If you are not proficient with computer, it's advised that you backup your system before manually removing Galileo System Cleaner virus. And double check the files that you are going to delete, or your computer can't work for missing some files.
Step 1: Delete the following registery files:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Use FormSuggest" = 'Yes'
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings "WarnonBadCertRecving" = '0′
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced "ShowSuperHidden" = '0′
Step 2: Delete the following files:
Please, note that manual removal of Galileo System Cleaner virus is a procedure with high complexity and can not always guarantee a full removal of the virus, due to the fact that some objects can stay hidden or may become reanimated automatically after incomplete removal. What's more, lack of the required skills and even the slightest deviation from the removal guides may result in irreparable system corruption. That's the reason it's strongly adviced automatic removal of Galileo System Cleaner virus, which will save your time and avoid any system corruptions and ensure the desired result.
Automatic Galileo System Cleaner virus Removal:
Step 2: Click & download the trusted Galileo System Cleaner virus Automatic Removal Utility.
Tips: In case you can't install the removal utility, please download this correction script, unzip it and then double click to execute it. It can correct the system settings that the spyware has distorted.
Step 6: Perform a Full Scan of your system to detect Galileo System Cleaner virus or other malware.
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US commander present during abuse: report
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The top US military commander in Iraq may have been present during some interrogations at Abu Ghraib prison when alleged abuses of prisoners occurred, The Washington Post reported on its website today.
Citing a recording of a military hearing, the newspaper said a military lawyer for a soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib abuse case testified that a captain at the Baghdad prison said Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez was present during some "interrogations and/or allegations of the prisoner abuse".
The lawyer said he was told Sanchez and other senior military officers were aware of what was taking place on Tier 1A of Abu Ghraib, according to the report.
The lawyer, Captain Robert Shuck, also said a sergeant at the prison was prepared to testify that intelligence officers told him the abuse of detainees on the cellblock was "the right thing to do", The Post said.
Shuck is defending Staff Sergeant Ivan Frederick of the 372nd Military Police Company, who is facing court-martial in the abuse case.
During an April 2 hearing which was open to the public, Shuck said the company commander, Captain Donald Reese, was prepared to testify in exchange for immunity, according to the report.
According to the recording, Shuck was questioned by a military prosecutor about his statement.
"Are you saying that Captain Reese is going to testify that General Sanchez was there and saw this going on?" The Post quoted Captain John McCabe, the prosecutor, as saying.
"That's what he told me," Shuck is said to have responded.
"I am an officer of the court, sir, and I would not lie. I have got two children at home. I'm not going to risk my career."
A US Defence Department spokesman referred questions about Sanchez to US military officials in the Middle East, cautioning that statements by defence lawyers or their clients should be treated with "appropriate caution", the paper said.
It quoted Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the US military spokesman in Iraq, as saying Sanchez was unavailable for comment but would "enjoy the opportunity" to respond later.
At the April hearing held at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Shuck also said Reese would testify that Captain Carolyn Wood, who supervised the military intelligence operation at Abu Ghraib, was "involved in intensive interrogations of detainees, condoned some of the activities and stressed that that was standard procedure, what the accused was doing", The Post said.
Speaking at a Senate hearing last week, Sanchez said he was taking full responsibility for what happened at Abu Ghraib. But he denied any prior knowledge of the abuses.


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Trade, immigration, religious tolerance and poverty were among the topics raised today during the latest debate of the three-major-party candidates for governor.
DFLer Mark Dayton, Republican Tom Emmer and Independence Party candidate Tom Horner also hit on all the usual issues during the 90 minute event at Mount Zion Temple in St. Paul. The Jewish Community Relations Council and a dozen other groups sponsored the debate, which drew a big audience. One organizer said the crowd was about 1,000.
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Working with a much lighter color palette than we're used to seeing from Riccardo Tisci, we take a look into the Spring/Summer 2012 lineup from Givenchy. Implementing plenty of white and ivory hues along with olive and seafoam greens, the collection pays an unofficial tribute to Tisci's childhood adoration with surf culture while mixing in a solid range of nicely-fitted garments, especially select suits, amongst various relaxed looks spanning shorts, kilts and knits.
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The Boston Red Sox have made their presence known in the Winter Meetings with the aggressive signings of Mike Napoli and Shane Victorino, plugging the team's holes at first base and right field. But the Red Sox still need to fill their biggest need: signing or trading for a starting pitcher.
With several options out in the market, the Red Sox have explored the possibility of trading for R.A. Dickey of the New York Mets. Even though the Red Sox have interest in the Cy Young winner, there are a number of reasons why the Red Sox should pass on Dickey and explore other alternatives.
After winning the Cy Young following a stellar 20-win season, it is reasonable to see why the Mets would want a large haul in return for Dickey. With the Red Sox gauging interest in Dickey, the Mets asked for top prospects Xander Bogaerts and Jackie Bradley, Jr. Since this is the asking price to obtain Dickey, Boston should have backed away instantly. Within the Red Sox farm system, Bogaerts, Bradley, and Barnes are the most promising players for the Sox in the future. To trade away two of the best prospects in the farm system for Dickey isn't worth it. Bogaerts is seen as the shortstop of the future, while Bradley seems destined to replace Jacoby Ellsbury in centerfield in a couple of years. Even if the Mets asked for just one of team's top prospects, the answer should still be "no." Bogaerts, Bradley, and Barnes are the central highlights in the Sox farm system now and will make a major impact once they make it to the big stage.
At the age of 38, the 2012 season was a career year for Dickey. Looking into his past, he has not been as successful. Sporting a career 3.98 ERA, Dickey has struggled in the American League in particular. In the American League from 2001 to 2009, Dickey's lowest ERA was 4.62. With the Mets, meanwhile, his highest ERA was 3.28 (2011). Dickey has found success against the weaker offenses of the National League, but when it comes to the American League, he has been far from dominant. After seeing his American League statistics, the Red Sox should not trust that Dickey could sustain Cy Young type of numbers if he is traded to them.
Even with the Mets asking a lot in return for Dickey, the Red Sox still have plenty of other options to fill the rotation. It is assumed that since the Sox signed Napoli and the less heralded David Ross, Jarrod Saltalamacchia or Ryan Lavarnway will be traded in exchange for pitching. Teams that have shown interest in Saltalamacchia (seemingly the more likely trade candidate of the two) include the White Sox and the Mets. If the Red Sox do decide to pull the trigger on a trade, general manager Ben Cherington could swap Saltalamacchia for Gavin Floyd of the White Sox or Jon Niese of the Mets, a much less costly target than Dickey. Otherwise, there are still plenty of starting pitching options in the free agent market like Shawn Marcum, Francisco Liriano, and Ryan Dempster (if he decides to accept an offer from the Red Sox, that is).
It is critical for the Red Sox to fill out the rotation with a reliable pitcher. But it is just as important for the team to be smart about which starting pitcher would be the best fit for the rotation and the franchise's long term plans. If the Red Sox were to end up trading their two best prospects for Dickey, Cherington and the front office would be in a deep hole, especially if (or when) Dickey fails to live up to expectations in Boston.
Tags: Gavin Floyd, Jackie Bradley Jr., Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Jon Niese, Matt Barnes, Mike Napoli, New York Mets, r.a. dickey, Ryan Dempster, Ryan Lavarnway, Shane Victorino, Shaun Marcum, Xander Bogaerts
True story but the same goes for Ryan Dempster. He will struggle back in the AL.
How come the GM's don't seem to see this? We don't need more Brad Penny type of deals.
Hi Martin,
Thank you for commenting.
It is unfair to say Dempster is bad in the AL. He has only pitched 1/2 a season in the American League. Dickey has pitched a full 8 seasons in the AL.
The reason why R.A. Dickey number was bad vs the AL is because that was before he rediscovered himself as a pitcher. He play for the mets so you can easily look at his inter league stats such as the subway series when he shut out yanks twice, 2 hit the rays etc he basically destroyed the AL since becoming a Met. He just developed his knuckle ball he's basically a new pitcher and a dominate one look at his last three years?
[…] Sports of Boston believes the Red Sox should steer clear of R.A. Dickey. […]
Your logic on American League and National League is totally offbase in this circumstance. He started throwing the knuckleball at Texas and only mastered it in New York. His prior lifetime stats are based on traditional pitching, which was slowing down prior to learning the knuckle ball. That being said, and it appears you do not confuse yourself with facts, he has signed or will sign with Toronto. I doubt the Red Sox with him, were good enough to beat Toronto without him.
Stand in the position of what the Mets WANTED for R.A Dickey. Even though the Jays obtained Dickey, the Mets wanted our future SS Xander Bogaerts and our future OF Jackie Bradley Jr JUST for Dickey. Do you realize how substantial Bogaerts and Bradley mean to this team in the future?Thats the reason why I wanted to stay away. Plus, Dickey is 38 years old wanting a lot of money. His lowest ERA in the AL in a full season is 4.62. Sure he had a few good stints against Yankees and Rays but just because he had 2 good outings, does not mean that he will fully dominate in the AL. It happens all the time with players. For example, Edgar Renteria. In the NL, he was dominate with the Cards/Braves/Giants. With the Tigers/Sox, he was dreadful. Some are even arguing that the Sox signing of Dempster was bad because he pitched bad in the AL. But, he only had 13 full starts in the AL. The big picture though is the Mets asking price for Dickey was way too much in which the Sox could not hand 2 of their best prospects for a 38 year old pitcher.
If I was Boston I would not trade for Dickey the prospects you mentioned because the Team will not be a contender with or without him. Congratulations on signing another left handed DH to platoon in Steven Drew. (Yes he is a butcher at Shortstop).
Your lifetime statstics mean little as he has been under 3 runs per game for the past 600 innings since developing the same pitch that permitted Wakefield to pitch late in his 40s.
Toronto should not have given up Syndraguard, save which year do they want to go for it.
Boston would be a much better team with Epstien GM and Francona manager. Your problem are owners who interfere too much.


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By WALTER DURANTY.Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES ();
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MOSCOW, April 15. -- Since Mme. Caillaux won acquittal on the eve of the great war for the slaying of Joseph Caimette, whom she shot to death in his own office, there has been no public trial to a woman in Europe to compare with that now being held here to judge Anna Egorovna Serebrakova whom the Russians call "the grandmother of the Czar's secret police."
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This all came up for us in mid December when right at the height of the Christmas ecommerce season, a friends European site was banned or penalized by a search engine. After numerous inquiries, it was learned that the surprising reason for it was cloaking. I got asked to take a look at the site and figure out where their was a problem. The site owner didn't even know what cloaking was, let alone practice it.
I determined that his off-the-shelf server language and browser content delivery program was classifying search engines as a text browser and delivering them a text version of the page. In it's default configuration, this 5 figure enterprise level package classified anything that wasn't IE, Opera, or Netscape as a text browser and generated a printer friendly version of the page that was pure text.
We explained to the SE just what the situation was and they agreed agreed and took off the penalty after we said we'd figure out a way around the agent part. Unfortunately, the package had all but compiled in the agent support and they were surprised when we informed them about it. What was even better was looking around some fortune 500 companies that run the same software to find three entire sites that were in effect "cloaked" - they didn't have a clue.
In the end we solved the problem with another piece of software that would exchange the agent that the site delivery program was seeing. Yep, we installed cloaking software.
So lets have a little run down of the current state of cloaking in it's various forms:
We've talked a bit about about agent based cloaking recently [webmasterworld.com].
Search Engines Endorse Web Services Cloaking:
Cloaking has become just varying shades of gray. We now have instances where search engines themselves endorse cloaking (xml feeds) and in some instances are giving out cloaking software to deliver those xml feeds.
That has resulted in pages intended (cloaked) for one search engine being indexed by another search engine. There have been occasions where this endorsed content has been banned or penalized by another search engine.
Geographic IP Delivery:
Language translations have been a hot topic for the last year. Most major sites now geographic deliver content in one form or another. Hardly a month goes by when someone doesn't scream, I can't get to Google.com because they are transparently redirected to a local tld. You will also find those same search engines custom tailoring results for that IP address (eg: personalized content generation). You can see the effect your self by changing your language preferences on a few search engines that offer the feature.
One Browser Web:
The recent history of major browsers is summed up in IE4-6, and Netscape 3-7. There is also a large 2nd tier of browsers: Opera, Lynx, Icab, and Mozilla.
All of these agents support different levels of code and standards. They also have inherent bugs related to page display. If you are a web designer, you could get a degree in the various browser differences of CSS and HTML alone.
Just when we are starting to think in terms a one browser web, along comes a whole new set of browsers to consider: Set Top Boxes, Cell Phones, PDA's, and other Mobile Devices. These all have varying degrees of support for XML, XHTML, CSS2/3, and the web services protocol blizzard (eg: .net, soap...etal).
We've not even begun to talk about IE7 which is rumored to be in final internal beta testing. Then there is Apples new browser and the growing horde of Mozilla based clones. When you put it in those terms, our one browser web seems like a distant dream.
Delivering different content to these devices is a mission critical operation on many sites. Generating content for mobile devices is a vastly different proposition than delivering an xml feed to a search engine, or a css tricked out page for a leading edge browser.
Given that the combination of vistor ip and user agent can run into hundreds of possibilities, the only valid response is agent and ip cloaking.
Off the shelf cloaking goes mainstream.
There many off-the-shelf packages available today that include cloaking in one form or another. The perplexing part is that many sites are cloake in ways you wouldn't even know about. There are several major forum packages that cloak in some form or another.
I was at a forum this morning that was agent cloaking, and other that was language cloaking. In both cases, the webmasters don't even know that it is taking place - let alone have the tech knowledge to correct it.
Welcome to 2003 - Modern Era Of Search Engines.
This isn't the web of 98-99 where people would routinely get whisked away to some irrelevant site unrelated to their query. Todays search engines are vastly improved with most engine algorithms putting Q&A tests on every page they include. Those range from directory inclusion requirements, inbound link count and quality, to contextual sensitivity and even a pages reputation.
In this modern era where search engines now routinely talk about their latest off-the-page criteria algo advancements, it's clear that traditional se cloaking has little effect. It comes down to one simple fact, those that complain about SE cloaking are simply over looking how search engines work. The search engines have done a fantastic job at cleaning up their results programatically and by hand.
The most most fascinating thing about this new main stream cloaking is the situation where a site just classifies a search engine as a graphically challenged browser. In that case, cloaking becomes mostly a agent based proposition. The trouble starts when you throw in language delivery to the equation, or even delivering specific content as part of a search engine program.
All of these wide ranging factors combined to result in about 10 to the 4th power of page generation possibilities. In that situation, it almost becomes a necessity to put spiders into the all text browser category and deliver the same page to the se's that you deliver to cell phones or the Lynx browser.
Thus, we've come full circle on search engine cloaking. We no longer cloak to deliver custom content to search engines, we now cloak for the search engines to keep them from getting at our cloaked content for visitors.
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[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 6:15 am (utc) on Feb. 3, 2003]
customer : "I get so much spam it's unbelievable"
webmaster : "yes white text on a white background"
customer : "no... in my outlook mail box"
It's still cloaking, it's just sloppy cloaking..
Actually, I'd call it sloppy coding. With CSS there's no excuse for these types of redirects. If your market caters to older browsers or handhelds, offer a text version.
What about Flash?
Using Flash is not (and never was) an excuse for cloaking. Offer a text version to your visitors.
The term "cloaking" is used to describe a website that returns altered webpages to search engines crawling the site. In other words, the webserver is programmed to return different content to Google than it returns to regular users, usually in an attempt to distort search engine rankings. This can mislead users about what they'll find when they click on a search result. To preserve the accuracy and quality of our search results, Google may permanently ban from our index any sites or site authors that engage in cloaking to distort their search rankings.
Seems pretty clear to me.
So, checking for the Flash plugin by examining the HTTP request, or doing the equivalent using JavaScript, and serving appropriate content whether the human visitor has Flash or not, is fine. This makes perfect sense in the absence of search engines, so why should search engines be able to dictate whether you can do it or not? This is NOT cloaking.
However, checking that it's a robot by examining the IP or HTTP request, and serving content to the robot that you have no intention of showing to searchers, is cloaking. Search engines classify it as spam - at best unwanted, at worst irrelevant and deceptive.
I heard a discussion the other day about stop words, poison words, and adult words. Their meanings have changed over time and are being used differently. It is the accepted definition that wins out. To refer to what Cloaking means to the majority of web people look at Brett's original post. If you want to have your own definition I suggest you create a new word. I think you should look at georgeek suggestion in message 8.
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Your argument and definition is extremely interesting, if only because it's so outstandingly flawed and uniquely contradictory.
if you need to know a search engine's IP address or some details from its HTTP request (e.g., its user agent name) in order to deliver content, you are *probably* cloaking. If you don't need that information, then you are certainly not cloaking. [or almost certainly, anyway]
By this reasoning if I'm carrying an axe, i'm probably an axe m*rderer right?
Oooohhhh please don't go there. That's outrageous...
Nothing personal intended in picking on your argument here Alan, it's nice to have someone with such an interesting and unique perspective on board ;)
Brett is using the term Cloaking as what it means to the webmaster community. webwhiz you are try to create your own definition and make everyone agree with you.
All Jill was trying to do was clear up some of the confusion around the word "cloaking". She gets lots of letters from her subscribers saying things like "Google says don't cloak, but I read somewhere that Google cloaks." I offered to write an unequivocal article for her. Of course, I didn't expect everyone to agree with it straight off the bat...but it does explain the apparent contradiction between what search engines say and what search engines do.
I use many of the expressions Brett used in his opening post. I don't consider *any* of them cloaking. When search engines say don't cloak, they mean "don't hide stuff from us that we need to see in order to rank this page". In other words, don't have one page for visitors and another page for search engines - because search engines need to see what visitors will see in order to rank it properly.
In my example I wasn't using it in reference to serving pages to older browsers or handhelds. I was using it in reference to serving different optimzed pages to differen SE's.That's cloaking. Jill was arguing the point too finely. Cloaking involves using the IP address or features of the HTTP request (e.g. the User-Agent field) in order to identify and deliver unique content to a search engine spider.
Cloaking involves using the IP address or features of the HTTP request (e.g. the User-Agent field) in order to identify and deliver unique content to a search engine spider.
You're wrong, cloaking involves using the IP address or features of the HTTP request (e.g. the User-Agent field) in order to identify and deliver unique content to a specific IP or User-agent.
Dave and Korkus, I think it's actually SEOs that have taken the word "cloaking" and created their own meaning for it.
I've been told that tech people don't use the word cloaking for any of the stuff you guys call cloaking.
I believe I refered to Google's definition above and Brett's post. Aren't you saying by your second line that it is an SEO term? If a group evolves the usage of a word, the new meaning agreed on by the majority of the group is the definition.
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That's cloaking. Jill was arguing the point too finely
Yes, by my own personal definition and the definition you gave that would be cloaking. But by the defintion Jill gave (which I was responding too) it would not be.
It would be user agent delivery, I believe, not cloaking. Do you need the search engine's IP to do it? If not, then yep, perfectly acceptable.
You're wrong:o
You may think that. How could you possibly be right or wrong? Where's the definitive dictionary of SEO?
All I'm saying is, that isn't what Google or Inktomi means when they say "Don't cloak".
I call the technologies you referred to IP Delivery and User Agent Delivery. They have many applications other than cloaking. Cloaking is the application of one or both of those technologies to identify and deliver unique content to a search engine spider.
1. The people that run those search engines don't have the resources to check millions of sites to see if they are redirecting by IP or UA.
2. Not a single engine has a TOS that says UA- Based redirects are fine but we frown on IP redirects. Notice I didn't even use the word cloaking, just a nice legal IP or UA redirect, or is it?
3. The argument that somehow UA redirects are okay by the engines while IP redirects are not is absurd. People that were using UA redirects ONLY were getting tossed from indices all over the net. The result? UA and IP delivery combined.
4. Both Alan and Jill, you are basing your argument on the intent of the person using the UA delivery. While that is very noble, the search engines don't look at intent.
5. >>and serving content to the robot that you have no intention of showing to searchers
If I have many international visitors and I run a world politics site and I use IP delivery to deliver different yet relevant content to visitors andbots I'm not deceiving anyone. I'm serving up relevant content based on geographic location that is of interest to my site 's surfers. It is still cloaking Alan, but under your UA argument it should be acceptable because it serves a good purpose.
All both of you are really saying is that "cloaking can be a good thing, but please, don't call it cloaking because a whole slew of webmasters are under the impression that all cloaking is evil and if people think we cloak we'll lose clients. Please, use our definition". If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
No disrespect intended Alan and Jill, but it doesn't really matter what you think cloaking is, we're at the mercy of the search engine's definition and your attempt to redefine it is just muddying the waters that Alan's article was supposed to be clearing up.
Not redefine it. Just define it more clearly.
1. The people that run those search engines don't have the resources to check millions of sites to see if they are redirecting by IP or UA.
2. Not a single engine has a TOS that says UA- Based redirects are fine but we frown on IP redirects. Notice I didn't even use the word cloaking, just a nice legal IP or UA redirect, or is it?
If you use the test I gave you, you can tell whether it's legal or not.
3. The argument that somehow UA redirects are okay by the engines while IP redirects are not is absurd.
Agreed, I think? UA or IP makes no odds. Are you cloaking or not?
4. Both Alan and Jill, you are basing your argument on the intent of the person using the UA delivery. While that is very noble, the search engines don't look at intent.
They do as Brett pointed out in the first post. That site wasn't cloaking, on closer inspection it was clear what the intent was, and it was reinstated
If I have many international visitors and I run a world politics site and I use IP delivery to deliver different yet relevant content to visitors andbots I'm not deceiving anyone. I'm serving up relevant content based on geographic location that is of interest to my site 's surfers.
It is still cloaking Alan, but under your UA argument it should be acceptable because it serves a good purpose.
No, the way I define cloaking, that's not cloaking.
All both of you are really saying is that "cloaking can be a good thing, but please, don't call it cloaking because a whole slew of webmasters are under the impression that all cloaking is evil and if people think we cloak we'll lose clients. Please, use our definition". If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...
Nope, cloaking (as I see it) is an application of a technology (IP delivery/agent-based delivery). The technology can be used for good or bad. The application of the technology for cloaking is *not* something I would do or recommend.
Search engines also use the same definition. I really don't know when or why people started applying the word to things like geo-IP delivery but it wasn't a good idea, IMO. It's caused a lot of confusion.
Doesn't matter what your litmus test is. Once again, we're at the mercy of the engines.
>>They do as Brett pointed out in the first post
Actually they had to be told what was up and luckily someone listened. That doesn't happen often.
>>the way I define cloaking, that's not cloaking
Heya! That's the point we're really arguing isn't it? Once again, doesn't matter how you define it. What really matters is what the engines will accept. If I steal a car and get caught and I tell the judge that by my definition I wasn't stealing I was merely "reallocating assets and redestributing the wealth" do you think the judge would buy it?
You see, the search engines happen to be the judge and the jury. Using your definition you could hurt a good number of people that suddenly think that the engines will allow you to use UA and/or IP delivery as long as the intent is not to deceive. Doesn't work that way and you know that so why are we discussing that approach as if it is viable?
>>I really don't know when or why people started applying the word to things like geo-IP delivery
I don't care about when but I know why. SEs were tossing sites that used any form of UA/IP delivery. We agreed that the search engines simply don't have the resources to distinguish intent. What makes you think they will spend the time to see how a site is applying UA/IP delivery?
It's fine that you don't recommend using cloaking technology but you can't just redefine the word to suit your needs.
>>cloaking (as I see it) is an application of a technology (IP delivery/agent-based delivery
Exactly, now explain to me how you are going to use a different technology for geo-IP delivery Technology is certainly the same by your definition, you just assign a different name to it.
Exactly, now explain to me how you are going to use a different technology for geo-IP delivery Technology is certainly the same by your definition, you just assign a different name to it.
No. You don't need to know you're dealing with a search engine in order to do geo-IP delivery Technology. You don't even need to know that search engines exist, although the problems that people have deeplinking to geo-IP-delivered pages are shared by search engines.
For Geo-IP, you don't need to detact that it is a search engine by its IP address or its user agent name or anything like that - if you needed to detect that in order to deliver unique content, you'd probably be cloaking.
When it comes to Geo-IP, you just deliver to a search engine the same as you would to anyone who came from that part of the world. This creates problems, but then Geo-IP creates problems for more than just search engines.
much of this discussion is useless hair-splitting
Very true. However, some people are here (so it seems) to assert that they are right, and ignore that which you just mentioned -> it's useless hair splitting, and time would be best spent learning the art of SEO in more productive fashion.
To the point of the original post by Brett which started this thread, nobody can argue that cloaking isn't main stream. Sure, you can argue the definition -> which confuses lots of people, but you can not deny that cloaking is mainstream.
And I see that my comment about the site search, and MSN.co.uk cloaking was ignored by those that wish to create their own definition. :) Which is just fine by me.
If MSN is doing it, and I don't think anybody would deny that MSN makes $$$, then I, for one, will continue using it as a technique.
True, though I've never seen useful hair-splitting. ;)
However there are still some statement that are at odds.
>>For Geo-IP, you don't need to detact that it is a search engine by its IP address or its user agent name or anything like that
>>When it comes to Geo-IP, you just deliver to a search engine the same as you would to anyone who came from that part of the world[/b] (bold face is mine)
Those statements are contradictory. Mind telling me how you plan on "just deliver to a search engine the same as you would to anyone who came from that part of the world[/b]" without detecting IP? You are talking about IP delivery aren't you? The same IP delivery you said in the first statement that wasn't needed? You realize that bots from different countries have different IPs?
Something about your statements leads me to believe that your experience with IP delivery has been limited to writing about it without actually going through the process of implementing it. Nothing wrong with that but there are some subtle things you can do with IP delivery that I think you're missing.
In the end Alan, you can use your definition and I'll use mine. I've seen the entire world tied up in discussion over the definition of the word "is". :)
We would be far better off discussing which techniques seem to pass muster and which don't, instead of beating semantics to death.
Excellent suggestion, rogerd. I'd like to see a moderator start a thread on this. If it's possible to so without beating semantics to death.
Mind telling me how you plan on "just deliver to a search engine the same as you would to anyone who came from that part of the world[/b]" without detecting IP
You can look at this as hair splitting. IMO the meanings of words in an industry is pretty important. Cloaking is given a very broad meaning by many members here, it seems. Broader than the definition given by many search engines.
I'll leave you with that. :)
Thus, we've come full circle on search engine cloaking. We no longer cloak to deliver custom content to search engines, we now cloak for the search engines to keep them from getting at our cloaked content for visitors.
I find this quite hilarious. Cloaking, as Brett uses it here, is a very rich term and ultimately definable in terms of functionality. That this sort of functionality is going mainstream- to serve more and more qualified content- will probably be better understood several years from now.
In this discussion, I've seen at least 3 distinct groups (no doubt, there are more):
1. Webmasters and techs who don't see the search engines as an embraceable partner- but one whose limitations constrain them (adversely) or require challenging in order to grow. "We have to live together but the search engines can't dictate the choices we make for our sites and our audience."
2. SEOs who prefer a more amicable relationship with the search engines. "We're all in it together; help us to help you and our clients (and we'll follow your preferred guidelines)"
3. Those in either camp who prefer the language be kept morally-neutral and less "loaded" (search engines aren't moral authorities; neither are we), are aware of the risks of some forms of cloaking, try to keep an independent mind on how the changes in technology prompt responses on our part to better solve a problem/satisfy client needs."Ok, the search engines aren't 'friends' but they're an important tool we work with."
I'm all for clarity so the discussion's helped me to better understand where the misunderstandings arise (my own included)- and what assumptions need to be questioned.
I also think that while it's true that the SEs aren't sophisticated enough to take into consideration "intent"; they are more highly sensitive (whether they're slow to catch it or not) to "deception". I've seen sites that use "inviso-text" that are still highly-ranked and I'm guessing it's not simply due to the popularity (which is there) but also because the "inviso-text" is part of the interactivity that goes on (and is kinda fun); leaving it up to the viewer whether or not they want to know what's revealed in the "inviso-text". No intent to deceive. There for users. Not deceiving either users or seach engines.
The better SEs are going to have to develop better algorithms to consider "context" of technology or technique. And if cloaking (in the general, "rich" sense used above) does indeed go mainstream, that seems the better response (were I a search engine). It leaves open to the rest of us who make decisions (or recommendations) about such technology- what the better choices are (for our clients, ourselves, and repercussions with the SEs).
I'm still wondering who appointed you as the anti-cloaking Sheriff of the Web? :)
I guess it get's speaking jobs at the conferences though.
BUT, if you are going to define cloaking, in the terms that Google does, please do it correctly? Their take is simply this: presenting content to Google's spiders, that is different than what the end user views in a browser! It has absolutely ZERO to do w/ IP delivery, though that would be one method of cloaking.
I see so much "hidden text" stuffed into style sheets, and embedded HTML, it makes someone doing IP delivery, look like a Choir Boy! But according to you, that's not cloaking? Sure it is... It's presenting content that the search engine spider crawls, but the end user "never" sees in a browser.
I'll come clean.. I cloak! :)
Have been since 1997. Long before there was even a definition for it, and you were on the soapbox. We like to call it "IP delivery" though, because "cloaking" sounds so back room...
Jill and you like to preach, and I'm sure that goes well for conferences and consulting jobs. But, your position reminds one of University studies. They teach you in college how things should work in a "perfect world", then you graduate, hit the real world, and find out that most everything you learned in college, isn't applicable in the "real world"..
I live in the "real world".. (Hypothetical example): An ad agency calls and says a major pharmaceutical company has an allergy product that has been prescription only for the past 7 years, and the FDC is now going to allow it to be sold "Over the Counter". The Pharmaceutical company spent "5 figures" on their web content, doesn't want us to touch their content, and doesn't have great rankings for general "allergy" terms. But, wants to let the world know that their product now doesn't require a prescription. They want 300,000 visitors in 120 days, and it's not even allergy season! You think we're going to beg the pharmaceutical company to allow us to tweak their web site, and watch their rankings for allergy terms slowly rise to the top over the next six months? HARDLY! We don't have the time, they don't have the time. They want visitors NOW!
We're going to register a mirror domain, do a solid keyword analysis, target keywords that are "RELEVANT" to the client's content, and go to work, fulfilling that goal of 300K visitors before June 1.
This is the way we work. If Google doesn't like the methodology we are employing to deliver targeted traffic to the client's web site, so be it. They can choose to not index our content. But, this rarely happens.
And Google is the only major engine without an inclusion program.
You can say Inktomi takes a major stand against "cloaking", but guess what? We have full control of Titles/Descriptions/Meta content, for every URL we submit through Inktomi's "Index Connect" inclusion program. The body content matches the client's target URL, but I can guarantee you, we tune Titles, descriptions and meta tag content to best match, keyword phrases that are going to deliver quality traffic, in numbers!
Same goes for AV's Trusted Feed, FAST, and Teoma..
Welcome to the Real World, My World! Where waiting for something to happen, equates to "You Lose"! I cloak, I deliver targeted visitors to my client's relevant content, they compensate me, everyone is happy!
This is an international webmaster forum - and I've just read your post. I then looked at the two listed URLS in your profile. I live in the real world too - and I think that the 'motivation as to why' - as explained by Brett in his initial post, and others - is the difference to long term exclusion or not, after a 'human' appeal.
Both your listed URLs are PR Zero. One is gray bar - one is white bar. I don't work for a search engine - what PR were these sites last time you looked?
Which came first - cloaking or PR Zero? Have you tried to have the issue resolved?
Will a cloaked PR zero site beat an uncloaked PR6 site on a competitive keyword search?
I suppose that my answer would then be:
"join me on the dark side Luke..."
"get lost dad!" :)
paraphrased from an old Star Wars movie....
I fulfil none of the duties of a Sheriff.
I've was on one cloaking panel in about 15 SES conferences - as have people like Mikkel, Greg Boser, John Heard, Fantomaster, etc. The cloaking sessions no longer even run.
Google's definition of cloaking involves programming a webserver to return altered content to search engines. The other techniques you talked about return the same content to humans as search engines. Google doesn't define that as cloaking. The techniques you described were spam, but not cloaking.
Actually the one that is "white" is a brand new site... :)
Thank you for informing me, that there were community members from other countries. I had to put on my bi-focals to realize that some posts people used words, I wasn't familiar with.
I know I'm getting slower these days, and I appreciate you pointing that out, with the math question..
My question to you is, how big will my bank account get in the 12 months I delivered traffic to a client, while you are watching PR finally hit the radar? :)
This thread really isn't about whether it is ethically, or morally "correct" to cloak, it is about the definition of cloaking.
I've yawned my way through more than one Alan session at an SES conference, and he still doesn't get the picture?
My coming "out of the cloaking closet" was simply that. I just had to tell somebody...
"Son, A Man's got to know his limitations" :)
Stolen directly from Clint Eastwood


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Illinois-Wisconsin Postgame Quotes
March 3, 2011
Recap | Box Score | Notes | Photo Gallery
THE MODERATOR: Opening statement.
COACH STONE: It's a somber locker room. Very disappointed in our play today. Give Illinois a lot of credit. They came out and were on fire right away. Made pretty much all their shots in the first ten possessions. We couldn't get a stop. And we didn't establish a real good offensive goal in the first half.
Our team responded well in the second half. Got in a little foul trouble, but I thought Lin really started to take care of the paint inside and Alyssa really started to show up. So these two young ladies really did pretty much everything they could in the second half to get us back in the game, and within three. Couple costly turnovers here and there.
But, again, every time we got close enough, Illinois answered. But it's tough right now. It's a tough loss. This is a team that was optimistic about making a deep run in this tournament and given a chance at the bigger dance in a couple of weeks.
It's an awfully special senior class and I'm convinced we're not quite done playing yet. But it's hard to visualize much than what just happened in the game.
It's a tough loss. We were not as sharp as we need to be by any stretch of the imagination.
THE MODERATOR: Questions for the players.
Q. Alyssa and Lin, obviously a loss is never anything pleasant. What does this particular game mean to you as you move into your futures?
ALYSSA KAREL: I think we just weren't ready to come out and play. Came out, they got a big lead on us, and we didn't respond. So it might have something to say about our preparation and our mentality coming into the game. We gotta be ready.
LIN ZASTROW: You never want to end your season like this, but like Coach Stone said in the locker room this doesn't define the season. It didn't go the way we wanted. But hopefully we still have some more games to play and finish out strong there.
Q. Alyssa, how tough is it when you're in the hole to, I guess, stay positive and get back in the game?
ALYSSA KAREL: It's really tough. We've done it before this year where we've gotten ourselves in a hole. And we keep inching back. And it's really tough to get yourself out of that. You start the second half down 12. It's not easy. And we had a few tries and unfortunately couldn't come up with it.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you. Questions for Coach.
Q. Can you talk about what worked for you tonight and what didn't?
COACH STONE: Not a lot worked in the first half. Offensively or defensively. Let's just talk strictly defensively in the first half. Illinois is known to be a team off the bounce and in the inside and a lot of drives. And they came out and we start, we double teamed early. And they found the open person. Moore, Rukavina, and they found some shooters, and they knocked shots down, and that's been something they've not been real successful with in the past but they were this time.
We came out of the double and we went to we call it choking in the down dribble, and that seemed to work better in terms of keeping the ball out of the paint.
But they got some offensive rebound put backs. We lost our vision defensively and Centrese McGee cut in front of us on the front side a number of times. And that affected us on the other on the offensive end. We tried to establish an inside game, and we couldn't pose our will very well in the first half.
Thought we did a better job in the second half. Look at the points in the paint, there's a margin in the second half. But it took us a while to figure that out. Then perimeter shooting from our other guards. We couldn't get Taylor Wurtz going. Jade Davis found one late. I thought Alyssa Karel did pretty much everything possible she could to will this team to win. Ashley Thomas gave us good energy defensively. Cassie Rochel, a freshman, did okay in the first half but got in some foul trouble. And I thought Anya Covington was filling in for Tara Steinbauer, did a nice job, got a little winded down the stretch and in some foul trouble, but did a nice job.
On ball screens with them, too, we were trying to again force them to take outside shots, and they knocked those outside shots down. We had to adjust.
Give Illinois a lot of credit. They came in with knowing that the only way they're going anywhere is to win the game and get to the championship. And they've been in a lot of games. You look at their Iowa game as of recent. They just beat Michigan at home or lost to Michigan, three point shot at the end of the game. Or layup actually and a foul.
So they're a good team. I'll take nothing away from them. They played better. They had a lot more energy. And they jumped on us early and we couldn't respond.
Q. Can you talk about especially late in the second half the team started catching on fire? Did anything in particular lead to that?
COACH STONE: Well, I think once well, first, Ashley Thomas's defensive energy and ability to rotate Lin and Anya off of Penn. When we scored, they answered. They never let us take the lead. We were going mini games for the media [timeouts] and we couldn't get over the hump.
But it wasn't without effort. Our kids, I thought they played really hard in the second half to try to get back. But that first half, that first eight minutes of the game was too much to overcome.
Q. And you controlled Penn basically tonight but some of the other Illinois players stepped it up?
COACH STONE: I think that's what they've been looking for all year long. I think GodBold wasn't playing very well, didn't score a lot, but it's just a tough matchup for us. Lydia McCully had her way in there. She played very well shooting the ball outside. She had her hands full guarding Lin and did a good job in the first half. We couldn't get our post players going in the first half. And Centrese McGee, might have been one of her best games of the year. Really good freshman player. She's very quick. She's a ball getter and is very active on the weak side of the floor, and we kept missing her.
Q. And what's next? Now you have to wait almost two weeks for postseason.
COACH STONE: That's the tough part, it really is. There's a lot of reflection time right now and we'll head home. It's an early out. It's a sour taste in our stomach. There's no question. We're disappointed with today. In many ways we're embarrassed by our defense, but, again, I want to make sure it's clear I take nothing away from Illinois. They played well. We just didn't play with the type of intensity that we needed.
And, you know, it's a woulda coulda shoulda deal, and unfortunately you can't blame it on that. You gotta get it done within the 40 minutes, and we did not.
THE MODERATOR: Thank you, Coach.
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CINCINNATI -- Jeff Conine liked his home run a lot. It put his team ahead and got him back to the heated dugout quickly.
Conine hit a three-run homer and tripled on a frigid Friday night, leading the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-1 victory that ended the Pittsburgh Pirates' unbeaten streak.
The 40-year-old outfielder, acquired in a December trade to platoon at first base, led the Reds to a win for the second day in a row. Conine also had a game-tying, pinch-hit single and scored the go-ahead run against the Cubs on Thursday.
He homered off Pittsburgh's Paul Maholm (0-1) in the third inning for a 4-1 lead on Friday. He also beat out a triple to the wall in center field in the sixth, taking deep gulps of freezing air while he beat the throw to third.
The key on this night was getting out of the cold as quickly as possible.
"We were getting quick innings, so we weren't doing a lot of standing around," said Conine, whose ears and nose were red from the cold after the game.
The Pirates opened the season 3-0 for the first time since 2003, but couldn't keep the winning streak going against right-hander Matt Belisle (1-0), who retired 14 in a row over the middle innings. Pittsburgh managed only four hits -- none after the second inning.
"Belisle was out there pitching in the same conditions, and he was throwing strikes," Pirates manager Jim Tracy said. "He shut us completely down."
It was 36 degrees with a biting wind at the first pitch, and snowflakes occasionally dotted the night sky. The three base umpires wore facemasks and gloves to ward off the cold.
The Reds sold 17,837 tickets for the game. Fans who wore shorts for the season opener on Monday, when temperatures were in the mid-70s, broke out their winter coats and blankets and huddled together for the first game of the weekend series.
Maholm made two bad pitches and got one bad break during his five innings. Brandon Phillips hit a solo homer in the first inning -- right fielder Xavier Nady dug his cleats into the padded outfield wall and reached above it, but couldn't quite come up with the ball.
The Reds then put two runners aboard and got a break in the third. Edwin Encarnacion singled with two outs and Ken Griffey Jr. followed with a slow grounder to the left side of an over-shifted infield. Umpire Jeff Kellogg called Griffey safe at first on a close play that prolonged the inning, and Conine hit his first homer into the seats in left field for a 4-1 lead.
"Early on, I reverted back to what I did last year," Maholm said. "I was jumping at the plate and wasn't smooth. When I went out in the fourth to warm up, I felt it and corrected it. The first three innings were pretty brutal."
Cincinnati added a run in the seventh, when Ryan Freel doubled, stole third and continued home on catcher Ronny Paulino's wild throw for an error. David Ross had a sacrifice fly in the eighth.
The Pirates scored a run in the first on singles by Chris Duffy, Jack Wilson and Paulino, but got nothing more against Belisle, who allowed only four hits and one walk in six innings.
"I've never pitched in snow flurries," Belisle said. "Basically, I just stayed bundled up. They have a heater up in the tunnel (by the dugout) and I go up there sometimes, but the main thing is I make sure to not sit too long."
The main thing was to make sure his fielders didn't have to stand out in the cold for long. Belisle worked fast and threw a pleasing 73 strikes in 105 pitches.
"He's done everything we asked," manager Jerry Narron said. "Tonight, he was trying to get outs as quickly as he could and get guys off the field and back into the dugout."
The Pirates have gotten off to their fast start without NL batting champion Freddy Sanchez, who sprained a knee ligament on March 6. Sanchez is eligible to come off the disabled list on Saturday, but the Pirates haven't decided when he will rejoin the team.
Sanchez played for Triple-A Indianapolis on Thursday night, going 1-for-2. Asked if there is a chance that Sanchez could join the Pirates in Cincinnati over the weekend, Tracy said, "I don't know."
- The Reds changed Saturday's game to an afternoon start because of the cold. The original 7:10 p.m. start was moved to 1:05 p.m. after the Reds consulted with the Pirates, the umpires and Major League Baseball.
- INF Jose Hernandez, who was released by Pittsburgh on March 31, has agreed to a minor league deal and will join Triple-A Indianapolis in the next few days.
- Reds LHP Eric Milton felt fine on Friday and is still expected to come off the DL and start on Sunday in the final game of a series against Pittsburgh. Milton has been sidelined by back spasms.


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By Jim Wyatt, The Tennessean
HOUSTON From his penthouse office, Tennessee Titans owner K.S. "Bud" Adams Jr. can see from one side of this sprawling city to the other.
When the heavy rain stopped and the dark clouds drifted by, he pointed to a rounded roof in the distance — the Astrodome, where his Houston Oilers played for so many years.
But it's inside the office that his story is told, through hundreds of pictures on the mahogany walls. There's Adams as a high school and college football player, his dark hair slicked back. In more black-and-whites he's with friends from the Oilers era or with his wife, Nancy. Other shots show a graying Adams alongside a Tennessee Titans logo, the big smile still there but his face showing age.
"Time marches on, doesn't it?" he said.
So does Adams, who turns 86 in January. He still shows up every day to oversee his massive oil, energy, ranching and farming businesses here and his NFL team 700 miles away in Nashville.
And while he loves to talk about the past, Adams has an eye on the future. For the first time publicly, he said the franchise would remain in the family following his death and he envisions his grandson, Kenneth Adams IV, someday calling the shots.
Most importantly for Titans fans, he said the team's not going anywhere.
"There's no way we'd leave Nashville," Adams said. "There is great support there."
What Adams wants more than anything, however, is a crowning moment after 49 years as owner of the team. His 12-1 Titans, who come here Sunday to face the Houston Texans, are among the favorites to play in Super Bowl XLIII on Feb. 1 in Tampa
Adams flashed his AFC championship ring from the 1999 season, when the Titans lost Super Bowl XXXIV to St. Louis Rams.
"I'd like to wear one that says 'Super Bowl champions,' " he said. "Maybe this is the year. I'll keep my fingers crossed. But at my age I just take it one day, one game at a time. You can't build your hopes up."
'A stable franchise'
While Adams pulls for the Titans to win a Super Bowl, he can take comfort in the fact that the team he purchased for $25,000 in 1959 is a winner financially.
According to Forbes, the Titans are valued at $994 million, placing them 20th in the magazine's rankings of the 32 NFL franchises. That's up from $922 million last year. In 1999, the inaugural season at LP Field, the Titans were valued at $369 million.
"They are not a team that has sacrificed winning for the sake of making money," said Mike Ozanian, Forbes national editor. "They have been able to do both. ... It is a stable franchise."
Adams had had offers for the Titans. Yet the owner, whose friends and associates describe as intensely loyal to family, plans to keep the team under the Adams banner.
As things stand now, his daughters Susie Smith and Amy Strunk will each get a share of the team, Adams said, and the other third will go to the family of his deceased son, Kenneth S. Adams III — his grandsons, Kenneth Adams IV and Barclay Cunningham Adams, and their mother, Susan Lewis.
His daughters aren't interested in running the team, Adams said, and Barclay is just a junior at Mississippi. It's Kenneth who is being groomed to someday run the show.
The 24-year-old University of the South graduate has spent the past two seasons sampling every facet of franchise operations as an administrative assistant to Titans Senior Executive Vice President Steve Underwood.
Adams said he's thinking about elevating his grandson to vice president, perhaps in two years.
"I want him to get a little more age on him because I think he'd be respected a little better," Adams said. "But he might be the one running it after I'm no longer the head guy. First he has to get well acquainted with all the phases of the organization, and he has been working in all those areas to try and do that."
Kenneth Adams declined a request to be interviewed for this story. Underwood, who's worked for the owner for 32 years, said the younger Adams is a model student.
"He is so interested in trying to figure out why our business works the way it does and has learned a tremendous amount just in the last year and a half," Underwood said. "I don't think there is any question that he has the ability some day to have a leadership role in our organization."
Adams also made it clear the Titans will remain in Nashville when he steps aside. Provisions and penalties in their lease, which runs until 2028, make it almost impossible to move the team, he said.
Adams has been asked if he'd sell the team, however. He said as recently as last year a group of California investors offered $1 billion, but "I didn't invite them back for a second visit."
He's not surprised by the interest.
"I get a lot of calls," he said. "People will look and see, 'Well, that guy, he's in his 80s. He'll be wanting to sell here soon.' "
Man of his word
After a controversial exit from Houston — spurred by a dispute with the mayor over Astrodome renovations — and a shaky beginning in Tennessee, Adams has seen mostly good times since the 1997 move.
He smiled while recalling his first call to then-Nashville mayor Phil Bredesen to pitch his plan.
"The first thing he said was, 'Fella, my secretary told me what you told her and I don't believe anyone that owns an NFL franchise in a big city like Houston would move it to Nashville as small as we are,' " Adams said. "And he hung up on me, thinking there was nothing to it."
Adams bet his wife he'd hear back from Bredesen soon.
"Sure enough he called back to apologize. He'd checked on me and realized I really did own the team," Adams said. "We talked and things kind of went from there. It's worked out pretty good I guess. We've had great fans, and great support. Nashville has been great."
Bredesen, now governor, admitted his initial reaction was "Right, sure." He still visits Adams at Titans games and said he's "always genuinely liked him" even if their talks about bringing the Oilers to Nashville weren't always smooth.
"He didn't always do everything I wanted and is a tough negotiator — but his word is as good as gold," Bredesen said. "He'll tell you yes and he'll tell you no, but whatever he tells you is good."
After the 1997 season in Memphis, where fans looked the other way, and a lackluster '98 season at Vanderbilt Stadium, the team changed its name from Tennessee Oilers to Tennessee Titans in '99 and moved into Nashville's new downtown stadium. Every game at the venue now known as LP Field has sold out and the waiting list for season tickets has more than 20,000 names.
"It was very controversial at times, people were trying to impeach me and tried everything to stop it," Bredesen said. "But I have run into innumerable people who have said to me they didn't want the team at first and now they go to every Titans game. I am sure there are still some people who don't like it, but overwhelmingly people have seen what it has done for the city. This year with the success they are having it makes it even better."
Adams was quick to recall that '99 season, when the Titans produced the Music City Miracle — an incredible game-winning play in the postseason opener — and marched to the Super Bowl.
He spoke of great players like Steve McNair and Eddie George, but needed a media guide to recall some particulars and players of other seasons.
"I've seen a whole lot of games," Adams said, sounding almost apologetic.
Golden years
The Oilers/Titans have made the playoffs 15 times since 1970, 59 of their players have been Pro Bowl selections and eight are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
The number Adams is most proud of, however, is 62. He and Nancy celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary in October, but her health has deteriorated to the point that she's now in a wheelchair.
"It makes it tough to get around," Adams said. "We usually make all the games but we've had to miss some."
Adams said he's had some health issues of his own. His appetite isn't what it once was — lunching with a visitor this week he ate half a bowl of clam chowder, but saved the bulk of his fresh strawberries for Nancy — and he's lost some weight in recent months.
"We went to the heart doctor recently, both of us did, and he said 'Everything looks fine, Bud,' " Adams said.
So he doesn't see any reason to quit working at this point.
"I'd like to get to be 100 years old," he said with a smile. "I've had too many friends that when they retired from the business world to go play golf and take it easy they didn't last too long, or they got sick and are in the hospital.
"I think working keeps you occupied and you keep yourself ready to go all the time. So as long as I am feeling good ... "
Adams doesn't make a lot of trips to Nashville, but he remains in contact with Underwood, General Manager Mike Reinfeldt and Coach Jeff Fisher on a regular basis and they said he knows what's going on at the team's facility in MetroCenter.
"The guidance he provides us is invaluable and is a large part of the reason we are enjoying success this year on and off the field," Underwood said. "He still has enormous respect for our fans and understands everything there is to know about operating a professional football team."
Special feeling
In every corner of Adams' office there's some kind of football keepsake or memorabilia.
Perhaps even more impressive is his collection of western art and Native American artifacts, another reminder of his past — Adams is part Cherokee, from his mother's side. An entire room is devoted to his collection.
But his love for football and his desire to win a Super Bowl shines brightest. He wants more stories to tell, and the 2008 Titans seem poised to provide them.
"I think this team is special, I really do," Adams said. "Winning all those games is not easy to do ... If we keep winning, we're going to set ourselves up nicely.
"But if you've been around this game as long as I have, you know anything can happen."
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