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The worth of a Facebook picture hinges on what it says. For a Phillipsburg man, one picture spoke volumes.

It was worth six months in the Warren County jail.

A picture of Brian Slack, 31, holding a beer on the other side of the Delaware River revealed that he broke three rules of his parole: no Facebook, no leaving the state without permission and no alcohol. Slack was sentenced in June for violating the conditions of a community supervision for a life sentence imposed for a 2001 sexual assault conviction, according to court documents.

Social network requirements in New Jersey, for the most part, stop there, but some lawmakers are seeking to expand restrictions to other offenders. Assemblywoman Donna Simon, D-Hunterdon, announced earlier this month plans to propose an identical version of Louisiana's recently passed law that requires Megan's Law offenders to identify themselves as such in their social networking profiles. Simon said the law would serve as an additional protection against offenders veiling their identity to prey on children.

"Anybody who's ever watched, 'To Catch a Predator' knows they don't come to the door anymore," she said.

The question of a sex offender's right to social networking sites has saturated national discussion in the past few months. The Supreme Court recently upheld an Indiana law banning registered offenders from the sites entirely, and Louisiana's law went live Aug.1. State laws tread in varying degrees of prohibition, which is changing as lawmakers address social networks as tools of supervision.

In New Jersey, lifelong parole is imposed on offenders convicted of aggravated sexual assault, endangering the welfare of a child and kidnapping. A ban on social networks or the Internet as a whole is sometimes a condition of probation but is rarely applied in Warren County, said Assistant Chief Probation Officer Brenda Beacham. It's a special condition considered in cases where a computer was used to commit the crime, she said.

The sites can also be useful tools for probation officers to monitor those in their care.

"There are times when it is helpful because you can see something that you can talk to them about," she said.

However, checking sites like Facebook and Twitter isn't, at this point, a major component of an officer's job, she said.

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4SC AG further strengthens Supervisory Board with experienced managers from the pharmaceutical industry

Planegg-Martinsried, Germany, 6 August, 2012 - 4SC AG (Frankfurt, Prime Standard: VSC), a discovery and development company of targeted small molecule drugs for autoimmune and cancer diseases, today announced the appointment of Dr Irina Antonijevic and Mr Klaus Khn to the companys Supervisory Board.

In a by-election at todays Annual General Meeting of 4SC AG, Dr Antonijevic and Mr Khn were elected to the Supervisory Board for the remaining term of Dr Jrg Neermann and Mr Gnter Frankenne, who have stepped down from the Supervisory Board. The terms of office will run until the end of the Annual General Meeting that resolves on formally approving the actions of the Supervisory Board for financial year 2012.

Dr Antonijevic, Director Clinical Research at US pharmaceutical company Sanofi, has many years of international experience in clinical drug development and extensive expertise gained in executive positions both in the pharmaceutical industry and in medical research in a university environment.

Klaus Khn, former Chief Financial Officer of Bayer AG (2002 to 2010), has more than 30 years of experience in executive positions primarily in the chemical and pharmaceutical industry with a focus on finance and accounting.

The shareholders of 4SC AG also approved all of the resolutions proposed to the Annual General Meeting by the Management Board and the Supervisory Board with the required majority, including the following items:

- Resolution on the approval of the remuneration system for members of the Management Board;

- Approval of a control and profit transfer agreement between 4SC AG and 4SC Discovery GmbH;

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As the social networking companies try to make more money, they may become less friendly to outside developers.

Hundreds of thousands of developers know that building apps that rely on the Facebook or Twitter platforms comes at a riskat any time, the companies can change their access rules or launch a competing feature.

The risk is often worth the built-in audience and data from millions of users. Just look at how Zynga grew. Lately, though, as both Twitter and Facebook strain to bring in more revenue and threaten to tighten their platform rules or alter their features to this end, the perennial uncertainty is worsening. For some startups, the situation is even stalling investments or delaying product plans while they wait to see how the future will shake out.

Twitter, which attracted millions of users in part by throwing open its data to outside developers and spawning more than a million third-party apps, has given developers reason to think it may be changing course.

As a business plan for Twitter emerged, the third-party software that many people still use to access the service or interact with it offsite may threaten its ambitions. This is because it cannot guarantee that those using outside apps will see sponsored tweets or the new expanded news and multimedia posts on its site. In a June blog post, Twitter said it would seek a more "consistent" user experience going forward, leading to speculation that it would soon issue more constraining developer guidelines for many kinds of apps. "Consistent" is the same word Twitter used when it began to make it more difficult for developers to maintain applications that closely replicated the mainstream Twitter experience last year.

This time, Twitter has not yet given additional details, leaving startups and investors wondering about how it might restrict access to its platform. Speculation worsened when Twitter stopped allowing tweets to be posted on LinkedIn and also shut off "friend finding" access to Instagram's photo-sharing app in recent weeks. The CEO of Flipboard, a company that makes an app that curates social news by integrating with Twitter and other sites, stepped down from Twitter's board this week, fueling further speculation about a brewing conflict between Twitter and the companies that depend on it.

The uncertainty is already translating into economic damages, says longtime Internet entrepreneur Nova Spivack. His current startup, Bottlenose, is building a way to find popular news by measuring activity on different social networks, including Twitter. "There are a lot of companies that have ground to a halt as people wonder. It's irresponsible," he says.

After getting no clarification from Twitter about its plans for developers and hearing the other startups cite this as a reason they are struggling to raise money from investors, Spivack launched a petition yesterday calling on Twitter to "uphold [its] promise of being an open platform," or, at minimum, make its intentions clear.

A less open Twitter may not bode well for innovation in social networking. "If you can't pull the data out that you want, it makes the kind of stuff you can do less and less interesting," says Ed Finkler, a developer who built an open-source Twitter client in 2007 but has stopped work on it, partly because Twitter's rule change last year made developing the app more difficult for him.

Facebook also seems on course for increased friction with third-party developers and startups, especially as its stock price tumbles and pressure to make money mounts.

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Social networking websites, like LinkedIn, are linking professional photographers to new business.

"It's allowed a lot of people into the profession that probably wouldn't be here today if they had to go back to a film camera. So, you've got a lot of photographers in the profession today and they're saying, 'okay, I've got to change my model,'" said Dalton.

The new business model includes headshots for a new clientele.

Ed Seaborn will graduate college in the fall. To land that first job, he's putting his best face forward.

"I'm going to put it on my LinkedIn account. It's a way you network with other professionals, and you want to look good," said Seaborn.

"It just says a lot more about that individual being a professional than something they pulled from their iPhone or something like that," said Katie-Rose Watson, Director of PR and Social Media at Anchor Marketing & Design.

More and more professionals are getting professional photos for their online resumes.

The photos can range in price, depending on the photographer. Many in the metroplex offer LinkedIn headshots from $100 - $500. Watson says that investment is an investment in your future.

"So, I think when you're out there looking for a job, it's extremely important to make that investment. I mean, what is 100 or 200 dollars in the long run if it lands you a job?" she said.

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Last week, word came down that the hotly contested 17th Congressional District would feature at least one televised debate between the candidates, incumbent Rep. Bobby Schilling and challenger Cheri Bustos.

Of course, it would air only in the Quad Cities - home base for Schilling, a Colona Republican, and Bustos, an East Moline Democrat.

Back when the two camps began to discuss debates in the press, we had pressed them over whether they were looking at holding other face-offs throughout the sprawling district that runs from central Illinois to the Wisconsin border north of Rockford. After all, there's a whole lot of new territory there that has never been in the 17th - including the southern half of Peoria, roughly below War Memorial Drive, and almost all of the Tazewell County communities bordering the Illinois River.

They'd indicated a willingness to consider debating on TV in the Peoria media market at the time. But when the campaigns met to discuss debates, they came away agreeing - at least initially - on only the one.

That led us to ask again: What about Peoria?

Bustos' campaign manager, Allison Jaslow, was involved in the debate negotiations for her side and reiterated her interest in holding debates around the district. So, too, did Schilling's campaign manager and son, Terry - who added that only the Quad Cities showdown was on the books because they hadn't gotten other offers yet from stations elsewhere.

Except it turns out that at least one local broadcaster is interested. WTVP Channel 47 extended an offer last month to both campaigns to meet up here.

"There's been some expression of interest, but no commitment yet," station manager Chet Tomczyk said of the debate that would be set for late October or very early November. He does have commitments, though, from their sister public television station in the Quad Cities, as well as from WCBU and the public radio station in the Quad Cities to simulcast any debate here.

That would make the debate similar to the one WTVP hosted in the Democratic primary and give more people a chance to evaluate the candidates - something particularly important around here because, as Tomczyk says, "We've got candidates who aren't from around the area, who aren't familiar with this area, and this area isn't familiar with them."

Here's hoping we get to see the candidates debate in one of the larger communities the victor will end up representing. (C.K.)

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