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For the second time under interim manager Vic Aure, the Springfield Sliders have won back-to-back games.
At Lorain County, Springfield third baseman Taylor Carlson went 3-for-3 with a home run, a double and two runs scored as the Sliders skipped to a 3-1 victory.
Chris Powell (2-4) put together a brilliant outing on the mound, striking out six and allowing just four hits over seven innings. Sawyer Howard worked a scoreless eighth and Alex Siddle nailed down his fourth save of the summer, striking out two in the ninth inning after Ironmen (18-34) had loaded the bases.
The hosts had a 1-0 lead after the first inning, but Carlson tied the game with his solo blast in the top of the second inning. Springfield took the lead in the top of the third on an RBI single by Will Schneider, scoring Zach Schira, who had led off with a double.
Schira went 3-for-4 in the game and Schneider was 2-for-4.
In the eight, the Sliders got the important insurance run when Carlson led off with a double and eventually came round to score on a misplayed ball in right field.
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Sure, we've seen bartending robots before, but isn't anything that makes a drink for you worth a mention? The guys at NYC Resistor built the Barbot out of old recycled Barbot parts, Arduino controllers, and blood pumps.
Check out the video for a run-through of the machine, and a demonstration of the robot making the only drink it knows.
Hopefully the Barbot becomes self aware soon and decides to expand the selection. [Bre Pettis via IEEE Spectrum]


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The Ruinous Hordes Thunder into Battle
The Fifth Battle Pack of the Eternal War Cycle Is Now Available
"The numberless hordes that live under the shadow of Chaos are stirred from their continual raiding and infighting, their differences put aside as their gods call them to war […] It is at these times that the world is in its greatest danger, for the united tribes are a force unparalleled in strength and ferocity by any civilized nation." –Warhammer: Storm of Chaos
Prepare for the fight of your lives! The gods of Chaos have called their minions to war, and the united tribes are now poised to strike. The Ruinous Hordes, the fifth Battle Pack in the Eternal War cycle for Warhammer: Invasion The Card Game, is now available at local retailers and online through our website!
Will the other races be prepared for the next surge of Chaos? Whether or not they will prove sufficient, each of the races gains new units and tactics to control the flow of combat within the sixty new cards (three copies each of twenty individual cards) of The Ruinous Hordes. The new tactics, Knights, War Machines, and Nobles arriving in the Battle Pack allow the forces of Order to mount a renewed defense against the forces of Destruction. Still, the forces of Destruction crash forward in waves of their own. The Orcs can afford their sacrifices, but the Dark Elves prefer to make their foes sacrifice their own.
Meanwhile, The Ruinous Hordes stirs the forces of Chaos into a frenzy. From the waste lands of the north, they prepare to sweep across the Old World, bathing it in blood, with their new units, new legend, and new mission.
Chaos and Corruption
Over the course of the Eternal War cycle, each of the game's six races gains a number of new types of cards that are bound to see play at all levels, from casual play to top-tier competitions. In The Ruinous Hordes, the disciples of Chaos blast into the evolving battlefield with four of these new card types:
The new Chaos legend, Sigvald the Magnificent (The Ruinous Hordes, 81), shares the same Forced ability as the cycle's other legends: "When this legend enters play, you must burn 3 zones instead of 2 in order to win for the rest of the game." As with each of the cycle's other legends, though, Sigvald's low cost and powerful secondary ability go a long way toward offsetting the penalty to the victory condition. When Sigvald attacks, his controller can discard the top card of his deck to increase the damage Sigvald deals in combat by +X where X equals the discarded card's cost. A blind, random boost suits the nature of the forces of Chaos, but you can also "cheat" the blind boost by peeking with the Lord of Change (March of the Damned, 21), stacking your deck with expensive Spells or Epic Spells with P'tarix (Vessel of the Winds, 73), or by using other deck manipulation effects.
The forces of Chaos receive the cheap support and power the cycle promised them with Northern Wastes (The Ruinous Hordes, 83). With the recent erratum applied to Warpstone Excavation (Core Set, 116), limiting it to one per deck, the game's races have more incentive than ever to look to their own units and supports for early acceleration, and supports like Northern Wastes may prove to be the key to victory on the game's newest and bloodiest battlefields.
While the other races focus on setting traps with the cycle's new Ambush keyword, the forces of Chaos focus, instead, on tearing down all that the others have created. The battlefield tactics that others build up, the forces of Chaos tear down. The Empire wants to create an Ambush? The Norse Charger (The Ruinous Hordes, 84) can examine its developments and rip its Ambush card out of the zone before the Empire ever gets the chance. Brute strength and devious cunning – it's the Chaos way!
Finally, the minions of Chaos may be a fractious and quarrelsome lot, but when united by their gods, they are a nearly unstoppable force, advancing their dark gods agendas on multiple fronts at once. While some disciples spread pestilence, blister the battlefield with magic, and swing their blades to give blood to the blood god, others are more insidious, working within the realms of their enemies to sow corruption. They are every bit as likely to bring ruin to the other races as their more violent allies, and if left unchecked on their mission, their efforts may lead to the Dominion of Chaos (The Ruinous Hordes, 82).
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The new cards from the Eternal War cycle have made the battlefield a truly frenzied and tumultuous place. Ferocious warriors on all sides vie for survival and control of the Old World. Now, with the release of The Ruinous Hordes, the forces of Chaos launch a powerful surge, and the other races scramble to prepare their defenses.
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Motorcyclist killed in Comal County crashBy Jessica Kwong - Express-News
A motorcyclist who was not wearing her helmet and took a curve too fast, crashed and died in Comal County on Sunday afternoon.
Canyon Lake resident Sharon Glynn, 61, was heading northbound on Summit Drive and, "unable to safely make the curve because of speed," veered off the roadway and struck a steel gate in the 2900 block, said Louann Presas, police communications operator for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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See I am still here!
Karch has been doing a great job answering his readers questions (why don't I get questions? Oh yeah, I had one about whether you should stay Fire spec back in TBC. Apart from that they are just questions about help getting $millions out of Nigeria)
Anyway he had one the other day about how to fix low DPS, which prompted me to respond asking when do you know if your DPS is too low and does it really matter.
Now admittedly if you are only doing 1,000 DPS and you aren't doing burning crusade content at level 70, then your DPS is too low.
I have seen on various forums that numbers such as 1,200 – 1,400 is acceptable for starting heroics and 1,400 to 1,600 is acceptable for starting Naxx.
So beyond that, how low is too low?
I saw one forum post where the Mage was excluded from guild raids until he hit 3,000 DPS. The problem was that as FFB spec in a mix of heroic and 10 man gear he was so reliant on crits to hit 3k, that he wasn't in a position to get up to get 3k more reliably.
Using myself as an example, FFB, mix of quest, heroic, 10 & 25 man gear, I am only averaging 2k DPS in a Naxx run. Sure some fights I am notching up. 2.5 or 3k, but then on other fights 1.5 or 1.8!
It probably doesn't help the the 1st & 2nd meter place winners are pulling 3-4k DPS. There isn't much left for me to kill when they wind up. Hell sometimes I am at best equal with our Pally tank (though that maybe because he is dual specing Ret and letting our Warrior tank take a few hits).
Maybe it doesn't help that I am pretty casual. I haven't even started on Hodir rep for the shoulder enchants, and I am often running to catch up during trash, or just can't be bothered popping cooldowns.
- How/against who do you measure it?
- What fights are acceptable measuring posts.
- What can you do about it?
How/against who do you measure it?
Do you compare yourself against other Mages?
I am usually the only Mage in our raids, so unlike Pugnacious Priest, I am not in a position to have a meter war with a Magely colleague.
Same Spec?
Even if I do find myself with another Mage, they are often another Spec, so what do I make of the comparison then?
Same gear?
Assuming I have a Mage, that is the same spec, will they be the same gear "level"? If not, how do I compare?
Note: I do wish that tools like WWS allowed you to put in rating for yourself as a search criteria for other raids/toons with same level of gear. So much better than just randomly searching through WWS reports in the hope of finding someone to compare against.
Against other classes?
Back in Kara days, I used to compare myself to our Rogue. He was my benchmark. Just before the great nerfs of TBC, it was 50/50 which of us would be on the top of the meters.
Around that time a shaman mate, with a lot more time than me, leveled and badged out his toon and was either up there or beating both of us.
These days, the only time I come close to either of the is if the rogue forgets his poisons, or they both go AFK (or die… I pray for them to die every fight… Just kidding)
How do you take gear into account?
I have already touched on this, but can you compare a toon in heroic gear with one in 10 man gear?
Compare 10 man gear with 25?
Compare Naxx with Ulduar (or anything in between)?
How would you baseline each of these gear levels?
What fights are acceptable measuring posts?
Some fights are AoE, others tank & spank, others high movement, others your role is utility.
Then there is the difference in fights.
Which fights do you baseline yourself against?
When you quote or compare your DPS, do you pick the one where you hit 3k through AoE, or 2.5k via tank and spank, or 2k in high movement, or 1.6k because your other utility is more important than your DPS (and should be acknowledged as well)?
Trash or boss, whole run or specific fights?
Do you look at whole run, Trash fights, individual Boss fights, all Boss fights or only Boss kills (WWS will give you all these breakdowns)
I know some trash fights the Rogue has cleared up the trash before I can find my ISHOUlDWIN! button. I read somewhere that in a 20-30 second AoE fight, the Rogue with his AoE daggers will slaughter casters. After the 30 seconds Mages will overtake, because we aren't dependent on energy.
Some boss fights I am running for my little squishy life, or sucking mana out of the ether while the Rogue just chop chops away. The reverse is also true of course, sometimes the Rogue is bolting from Boss AoE, while I look on and laugh, my biggest concern being whether I can get my hand out of the chip packet in 2.5 seconds.
What can you do?
I figure that there are some old standards to improving performance, as well as some new options. At one point in my playing career I would have said that the first two of the following were the cornerstones to DPS improvement, but now I wonder if a sloppy option 3 is better than a perfect option 1 or 2.
1. Stay alive
In fact from a DPS standpoint, in some fights, your best option maybe to dump your load and die. Big damage over a short period of time = high DPS.
But let's face it, your real objective isn't high DPS, it's high damage.
3,000 dps for 1 second is only 3,000 damage contributed to a fight. 2,000 DPS for 10 seconds is 20,000 damage, over 3 minutes 3,600,000.
So DPS is great if that's the only number that counts, but longevity will always be better in the long run.
Of course if you can combine DPS with longevity, you have nothing to worry about.
2. Use cooldowns
Use them like you got 'em!
If you are 10 minutes away from a boss fight, you could be blowing your cooldowns 5 times on trash, the overall numbers for the run will look much better.
On a boss fight, you need to know how long that fight is going to last. You need to blow your cooldowns as many times as you can while ensuring they are ready for that last 35% of the bosses life.
When the boss hits 35%, you want to pop those cooldowns and drop that boss while raising your numbers.
3. Dual Spec
This is Karch's solution to low DPS numbers. If your usual spec isn't cutting it, change spec to rock the numbers.
If my FFB Spec will unreliably give me 2 – 2.5 – 3k DPS, then, if nothing else, change to Arcane for the 3-4 minute fights to reliably get 3-4k DPS. Of course longer fights (or different style fights) if your mana management and gear is good enough.
Others are considering moving from Arcane to Fire+TTW specs for the same reason.
But is it want you want to do… Does it really matter?
The dilemma is, if you are a diehard "spec" player (I'm Fire, Krizz is Frost, Larisa is Arcane), do you change your spec just to squeeze that last ounce of DPS out of your toon?
I'm not talking RolePlaying here… I can't Roleplay my way out of Gnomeragan, I have grown up fire, and base a lot of my identity as a Mage on being Fire (It was hard enough to go *cough* Frost *cough* Fire Bolt.
Am I too old school in loving my Fire, and hesitating to go Arcane just to rock the damage meters?
Should I stay true to my great balls of fire, or consider Dual Spec just another cooldown?
A Mage helping a Tank to Tank?
Completely urelated, but I thought worth giving a plug.
If you are a Mage doing the Hodir encounter, help your tank out by doing insane DPS and going way past their aggro…Just coordinate it with them 1st!
Check out the the tactic at Tanking Tips
Gnomer and Out!
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Dangerously Irrelevant has posted a link to the 2008 Education Blogosphere Survey. The hope is to double the number of educators who took the survey last year. I just finished taking the survey and it was absolutely painless. Go on…..don't procrastinate. The survey deadline is January 26th.
The newest edition of the Education Carnival is up over at Eduwonkette. It's short and to the point…..something I need to remember the next time I'm given the opportunity to host. Is it just me or have there been some postings that really don't belong? I've not been brave enough to cut a submitted post, but it needs to be done. The last time I hosted I did have some really crazy submissions that simply did not have anything to do with education.
Did you know there is a new carnival for K-12 teachers? It's called A Teacher's Life Blog Carnival. The Blog Carnival page states its purpose is to provide a place for teachers to practice collegiality-which is the sharing of best practices and lesson plans. All lesson plans are welcome, hopefully standards-based with objectives and links to resources.
Also if you have been a regular reader of this blog for some time you are familiar with the comments from Californiateacherguy. Having gone down this road myself my heart goes out to him regarding the loss of his father this week. If you would like to pay your respects the link is here.


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Sexual assault information paper: ABS efforts to close gap in data
A comprehensive examination of information needs and currently available data on sexual assault was released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today.
The publication, Information Paper: Sexual Assault Information Development Framework (cat. no. 4518.0), presents a conceptual framework for sexual assault, for research and analysis of data in this area of community concern.
Information about a number of currently available sexual assault data sources are also brought together in this paper. Some of these sources are existing ABS collections and approximately 60 non-ABS sources are included.
The publication aims to help users of statistics improve their understanding of the data and related issues in the area of sexual assault.
The information development framework provides a benchmark from which to move forward. It will be used as a tool for the development and management of information needed for research, policy development and service delivery in relation to sexual assault. A number of conclusions about addressing priority information development needs are included in the publication.
The development of this information development framework has been funded by the Office of the Status of Women as part of the 'National Initiative to Combat Sexual Assault'.
Further information is in Information Paper: Sexual Assault Information Development Framework (cat. no. 4518.0).
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text: A week ago Homer was simply enjoying the low-hanging fruits of his new CTS-lookalike, but now he's also learning about all of the gadgets that are included in a luxury sedan. Sure, keyless entry, sunroof, automatic seat control and satellite radio is pretty standard. But Homer also gets an alcohol dispenser, auto-pilot and more. [Orbitcast]


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"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe." … Frederic Bastiat
Evil talks about tolerance only when it's weak. When it gains the upper hand, its vanity always requires the destruction of the good and the innocent, because the example of good and innocent lives is an ongoing witness against it. So it always has been. So it always will be. And America has no special immunity to becoming an enemy of its own founding beliefs about human freedom, human dignity, the limited power of the state, and the sovereignty of God. – Archbishop Chaput
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Dan, Just like to say that I really appreciate all of the work that you and JSMineset does. I have been following you guys for the past 3 years religiously. When I first started reading you guys I felt pretty dumbstruck because you guys speak at a pretty sophisticated level. I am only a year out of college so you can imagine what that was like. At any rate I have 2 questions. Do you see a potential C wave blow off in our near future followed by a D-wave correction? Question 2 I want to be a better investor trader, where/who are some good places to learn from, any advice ?ReplyDelete
Matthew, check out the Blog, All Along The Watchtower, good trading tips on the PM sector. http://tfmetalsreport.blogspot.com/.ReplyDelete
It may sound simplistic, but the only way to learn how to trade, is to trade.
You will learn through the experience of trading, especially when you screw up. Hence, you should start very small and take any profits while you have them, unless you are going to hold a position for a long time which is becoming hard to do unless you are able to buy in on an intermediate low. Otherwise, you will most likely fall victim to panic if the market goes against you as you tell yourself "I should'a taken it while I had it", or "what if this gets worse?" and you take a loss, which chews up your account, but then goes back up to make money as you originally thought it would.
There is NO TRADER out there worth a damn that can tell you how to trade profitably, not me or Dan. I'm sure Dan has lots of stories about how he got screwed (like in the Yen). We all just learn what we did wrong and try not to do it again.
Trading these markets ULTIMATELY is a ZERO SUM GAME, which means you will lose everything you make in trading OR make back everything you lost (if you have enough trading funds). Either way, if you trade long enough you will just break even, unless you QUIT WHILE YOU ARE AHEAD.
The absolute WORST thing you can ever do is THINK YOU HAVE THESE MARKETS FIGURED OUT. That's the way 'the gods' twist your mind just before they destroy you.
I would suggest trading spot gold on the FOREX MARKET that requires only about $500 to trade gold with enough margin to be safe if you trade 0.10 unit of gold.
Learn how to draw trend lines and use Fibonaccis which are available on most FREE trading programs provided by FOREX Brokers like METATRADER.
DO NOT expect any constructive help or advise from ANYONE in the financial field.
USE YOUR OWN BRAINS analyze what you see happening.
If you watch the market trade EVERY TICK for months or years like Dan and I do, you will start to see the patterns.
Also, learn to BUY THE DIPS (weakness) and SELL THE RALLIES (strength). It will take you awhile to learn to feel good about seeing these markets drop until you recognize these dips as buying gold or silver ON SALE!
One day it will click that whenever you are the most scared about buying in is EXACTLY when you should be buying in. Same with selling out with a profit, except GREED is the thing you have to CONTROL. Just take your profits while you have them AND BE THANKFUL YOU HAVE A PROFIT, and are not either realizing a loss, or waiting for your position to get back to even.
You ONLY LEARN BY DOING (BY EXPERIENCE). ALL ELSE IS BULLSHIT!
One more thought:
Just Google any term you want to know about and you will eventually find all the sources of info you need. All you have to do is find it.
Some of it is true and some is not.
Turn on your CRAP DETECTOR and you will be okay.
Any idea when the next attempted attack will come on gold? ie. when's options expiration?ReplyDelete


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The Monoglobe
The Monoglobe is a giant sculpture of the world in Meadows Park, Dukes, Liberty City, in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. It is based on the Unisphere sculpture in Queens' Flushing Meadows Park in New York City. The Monoglobe was built for the Liberty City World Fair and was not taken down since.
During the last cut scene of "Departure Time," Gay Tony mentioned that he used to play near the Monoglobe when he was young. The last cut scene of The Ballad of Gay Tony takes place here and focuses on the globe during the beginning of the Credits.
In GTA Chinatown Wars, Huang Lee destroyed the Monoglobe during "Double Trouble" on orders from Lester Leroc in with the intention of eliminating members of the Lost. The Monoglobe spun off of its stand and crashed into a nearby building, destroying it.


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Unlike Amazon.com, which is both ugly and hard to use, the iTunes Store is only the latter. Behind all that Apple sheen is a hellish shopping labyrinth—but a makeover might be coming soon.
9to5Mac claims—yeah, anonymous sources and whatnot—that the iTunes Store is getting a total redo. While details are extremely vague ("The new design is said to be even simpler and more user-friendly than the current design"), it should be safe to assume the new look will be a better one. Please, no more throwing everything apps, movies, books, and TV into one big bin for us to sift through—the store's wares have clearly outgrown the shelves.
Whatever the case, 9to5 says a summer release packaged with OS X Mountain Lion is a definite possibility. [9to5Mac]


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NEW YORK — If it was only about tenacity and skill and sticking to the game plan, then the Kings might have completed a sweep of the New York Rangers and raised the Stanley Cup in victory Wednesday at Madison Square Garden.
There was lots more involved in the Kings' 2-1 loss in Game 4, however. They skated with a sense of purpose when it mattered most and the clock ticked down and a sellout crowd of 18,006 fans tried to will the Rangers across finish line with their voices.
Call it puck luck.
Call it dumb luck.
Call it whatever you want.
The Kings simply couldn't complete a comeback from a two-goal deficit and couldn't prevent the Rangers from forcing the best-of-7 series to Game 5 on Friday at Staples Center. Game 6, if necessary, would be Monday at Madison Square Garden.
Benoit Pouliot, in the first period, and Martin St. Louis, in the second, scored for the Rangers. New York goaltender Henrik Lundqvist made 40 saves, winning his eighth consecutive home elimination game, dating to a first-round series against the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2008.
Dustin Brown scored the Kings' only goal, on a breakaway at 8:46 of the second period after New York defenseman Dan Girardi's stick broke. The Kings outshot the Rangers by 40-19 overall, including 15-1 in a lopsided third period, when it seemed they were skating downhill.
"The team game was good," Kings defenseman Drew Doughty said. "We had a lot of good opportunities. We didn't really give up too much. Both goals were pretty bad bounces. But the bottom line is that we didn't score goals when we needed to and that's why we lost the game."
Not once but twice, the Kings put the puck on the goal line and each time it stopped short of its intended destination in the snowy buildup left by Lundqvist, the last with a little more than one minute remaining and New York clinging to a 2-1 lead.
Rangers defenseman Derek Stepan nudged the puck beneath Lundqvist before the Kings' Tanner Pearson could get to his own rebound. On the television replay, it appeared Stepan covered the puck with his glove while it was in the crease, which should have resulted in a penalty shot.
"I just don't want it to go in the net," Stepan said. "I was just trying to do whatever I can to stop it. After I pushed it back under him, I just don't know where it's going or what's going to happen, so it was kind of a lucky play. …
"I knew I couldn't put my hand on it, so I just used the side of my glove. (Referee) Wes (McCauley) was right there. He did a great job of being on top of it and being able to see it."
In the first period, Kings defenseman Alec Martinez's shot also skidded to a stop at the goal line, with Jeff Carter unable to beat the Rangers' Anton Stralman to it as the crowd gasped in anticipation. Stralman cleared the puck off the line and out of harm's way.
New York led 1-0 by then, with Pouliot deflecting John Moore's perimeter shot behind Kings goalie Jonathan Quick at 7:25 of the first period, only seconds after a Rangers power play expired. It was the first goal Quick gave up since the second period of Game 2, a span of 123:01.
St. Louis made it 2-0 by charging to the net, pouncing on a rebound of Chris Kreider's shot off the rush. Quick had zero chance to make the save as St. Louis chipped home the loose puck from near the left goal post at 6:27 of the second period.
Brown got the Kings close later in the middle period, but they couldn't complete their rally despite relentless pressure in front of Lundqvist.
"We could have been better, especially in the hard areas," Kings winger Marian Gaborik said. "We got a lot of shots, but we could have generated more in front of Lundqvist. We're going to bounce back. Everybody's going to be better. We're going to be in front of our home crowd."


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California Giant Berry Farms has teamed up with the local D-League Basketball Team for the Golden State Warriors this season and launched a kids club to promote health and fitness to fans.
The partnership with the Santa Cruz Warriors D-League team resulted in significant recruitment in less than a month before it was even publicized, and California Giant berries were quickly named the official fruit of the SC Warriors.
This health- and fitness-based sponsorship program along with a local junior chefs program being launched this summer serves as the foundation for a national messaging program focused on helping kids enjoy a health and fitness based lifestyle.
"Making exercise and eating healthy fun for kids is the key to really building healthy habits on a long-term basis," Cindy Jewell, director of marketing for Watsonville, CA-based California Giant, said in a press release. "We are using our own community to develop pilot programs for kids that we can ultimately launch across the country."
New pages are being developed on the website, as well as social media connections and national contests.
Each month during basketball season, players spend court time with local kids aged 5-12 teaching basketball skills, but more importantly mentoring the young fans on how to enjoy exercise and the importance of being active. They all sit down at the end of each skills clinic and enjoy California Giant berries as a replenishing snack.
"Moms have approached me each time to thank us for being part of a positive influence in the community and for providing kids their favorite berry snacks as a reward for the workout on the court," Jewell added in the press release.
The company created a video using footage from kids clinics, which is shown on the big screen at the arena before each home game to encourage membership in the kids club:
Once basketball season is over, California Giant will continue to work with the Warriors staff to keep kids engaged during the summer with clinics and games on the court, trips to California Giant berry fields, and other activities to keep the California Giant brand top of mind with kids and their families as well as keeping them active.
Each of the local activities developed promoting kids' health and fitness will be the foundation for refining and developing a national messaging campaign to continue to build brand trust and loyalty for "California Giant" brand berries.


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A friend wrote to me during the week – ironically, via Facebook – to get some advice about her tween daughter and the social networking site. She said:
Hi Rach, I'm wondering if you could get some feedback for me or any advice as to what age is deemed suitable for Facebook.
We allowed our son after he turned 12, and thankfully have had no issues over the past two years. He is actually "over" it and thinking of deleting his account – or so he says, lol.
My issue is our 11-year-old daughter who has been begging me for the past few months. I have told her that she will have to wait till she is 12 (next January) like her brother and adhere to the same rules ie be my friend, and I must know passwords etc which she is agreeing on (of course).
Sometimes I feel like I'm the "baddie" as she says she is missing out. It seems most of her friends now have it and they are interacting via social media. I just know how girls can be and I guess I'm trying to protect her for as long as I can. But at the same time I don't want her to feel outcast from her group of friends. Any advice is so greatly appreciated. Thanks, Trish.
This was my reply:
Hi Trish, they are VERY persistent aren't they!? In my (humble) opinion, I say hold off. For a start, the Facebook rules are for 13 years and over anyway, so you can say to your daughter you are already breaking the rules for her by allowing her to go on a year early, and you are doing that to be fair because you let your son go on at 12.
I think you are absolutely right to want to protect her as long as you can. Let's face it, she's really not missing out on anything much and another six months is not going to kill her. In fact, it's a good message that you set the rules and you can't be nagged into submission. Because believe me, they will work you a lot over the next few years and you have to be very strong to stick to your guns. I let my daughter on at 12 too, when she started high school (so she was probably at the tail-end of 11). And I seem to remember I endured a year of nagging before too. A good friend of mine stuck to the Facebook rules and didn't let her girl go on till 13 – so year 8, and she was seriously the very last of her friends to get it, by a long shot. And a year on, of course, those 12 months are ancient history.
I know it's hard when they feel like you are making them an outcast, but if I had a dollar for every time I heard "but everyone else is doing it mum", and then learning later that it is only a handful of kids who are allowed to, I'd be very rich. They are very good at manipulating (bless them) and you have to learn to be tough.
At her age, she is unlikely to be the only one without it, and she is unlikely to lose social standing because she doesn't have it.
One final point – the painful thing I've found about social media is monitoring all the time they spend on it, and getting them off it to do homework etc. The minute you allow her on it is when that painfulness will start for you too – the nagging to get Facebook will be replaced by nagging to go on it. So you're buying yourself some time too!
If you do end up letting her on earlier, it's great that you've already set up those rules around passwords etc, especially in the early days (they will probably renegotiate that at some point).
Now, I know there will be some people who won't agree with me allowing my daughter on a year early. And I know there are some parents who say they will never let their kids have Facebook. The fact is, 38 percent of all children on Facebook are under 13. So no, not all your kid's friends have Facebook, but it seems a lot of them probably do. And it is unrealistic to think that we are not affected when our children are the only ones swimming against the tide. Even if we have strong feelings about an issue, it can be useful to consider "what everybody else is doing" when examining all angles of a topic. So you balance that with when you think your child is ready, when you are ready as a parent, with the age you feel in your gut is appropriate, and so on. That process will probably apply to a lot of things in my life over the coming years!
It may all be a moot point if Facebook follows through with plans to open its site to children, with some stricter privacy rules in place.
Some commentators feels this would make it safer for children, as expressed in this Huffington Post piece by Technology Writer Larry Magid:
"We could all ignore the reality that children 12 and under want to be on Facebook too, but the smarter and safer approach would be to acknowledge it and embrace it by creating a service optimized for them."
However Common Sense Media CEO James Steyer believes the idea is just a money grab to impress shareholders:
"What Facebook is proposing is similar to the strategies used by Big Tobacco in appealing to young people – try to hook kids early, build your brand, and you have a customer for life. What's next? Facebook for toddlers?"
I'd love to know what you think. If you have younger children, are they asking yet for Facebook? Would you allow them on before 13? If you have teenagers, what age did you allow them to have Facebook?


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Liberty News
Liberty Online forms corporate partnerships to boost growth
Liberty University Online enrollment has been booming, more than doubling to over 70,000 students in less than three years. As the program continues to expand, the staff has been working to build corporate partnerships, offering Christian online education to local and national employers.
Initiatives like the Liberty Advantage Program, which offers employees of corporate partners a tuition discount, benefits both the employer and employees.
Recently, Liberty forged a relationship locally with The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), a leading international provider of energy products and services that employs more than 2,700 in the Lynchburg area alone. Because of this arrangement, the Liberty Advantage Program will be available to B&W employees via the company's corporate discount website.
Other corporate partnerships include Wells Fargo, AT&T, Sodexo, Centra Health and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
"Not only are we building relationships, we are fostering and maintaining them, with the goal of a long-term partnership," said Kevin Hartless, director of recruitment for Liberty University Online. "We try to help the company that we work with meet the educational goals of their employees."
Liberty not only offers a quality online education with a Christian worldview, it boasts one of the lowest tuition rates in the country. Many decide to earn a distance learning degree because of the flexibility it provides for a working lifestyle.
"(Liberty Online) goes with them. If (students) travel overseas, they have the freedom, whether they are in the airport, in a hotel room or in a café' somewhere in France, to access their courses and do their coursework," Hartless said. "The employee can then do the work on their own time, continuing with their regular work environment or spending time with their family."
In addition to direct corporate partnerships, Liberty is working to finalize partnerships with three educational consulting services, EDLink, EdCor and LifeCare that will offer the Liberty Advantage program to companies all across the nation and the globe.
"Once contracts are finalized, Liberty Online will be listed on hundreds of company websites accessed by tens of thousands of employees worldwide," Hartless said. "It helps us to continue our mission of training champions for Christ as we are able to connect with these companies that would be impossible to (reach) without these services."
Hartless said that while Liberty will continue to work with businesses directly, using these educational consulting firms brings companies to them.
"It is basically the difference between trying to educate tens of thousands of people individually or educating tens of thousands of people all at once," he said.


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Before it broke I believe this rabbit statue was over three feet tall when standing. Over time it broke and was repaired and then rather than throw it away it was given a home with a potted plant. I don't know who the maker or artist was. To me it has a ghostly appearance.


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As it happens (or as it happens we hear about it)...
The Sedins re-sign with Vancouver for 5/$30.5M apiece.
Caps impact (1 being a gnat landing on Don Cherry's ass, 10 being Sidney Crosby traded to Washington): 1.5
- Oh, please, like they were going anywhere. This crap happens every year somewhere. Will so-and-so pillar of the franchise, who grew up in it, take off for greener pastures? This year, in stereo (you remember that, don't you?).
Dwayne Roloson is "testing the market."
Now, wouldn't Jose Theodore look great in blue and orange?
Mattias Ohlund to Tampa for 7/$26.25M
Caps impact: 4
Makes Tampa Bay marginally more difficult to play against, but the Lightning need a lot of help in a lot of places, and the term will kill them. Seven years? For a guy who will be 33 years old on opening night? Even if the contract is heavily front loaded (as Darren Dreger is blogging at TSN), it seems a bit much.
Radek Dvorak re-signs with Florida for 2/$3.4M
Caps impact: 2
$1.7 a year for what amounts to a 35-point-a-year player seems a bit much, but maybe Florida had to do something after moving Bouwmeester, and all in all the term and dollars seem manageable. We're guessing they'll have to do a lot more, though.
Colton Orr to Toronto for 4/$4M
Caps impact: 1
Brian Burke signs tough guy... call CNN. Maybe Ottawa can sign Donald Brashear so he can beat the snot out of Orr six times a year. Not seeing where this is worth almost a doubling of pay (he was a $537,000 cap hit last season).
Florida re-signs David Booth for 6/$25.5M
Caps impact: 4
Booth is a nice player, even for $4.25 million a year. His points scored progression has gone 10-40-60 in his three seasons. He might not be a "core" player in the same way a Backstrom or a Green is in Washington, but he is a "foundation" player that a team can build with. Better to sign a home-grown for this money than import talent.
Craig Anderson to Colorado for 2/$3.6M
Caps impact: 4
Tomas Vokoun has been the man in Florida for the past two years, but Anderson gave the Panthers 48 games of solid goaltending -- he might have been every bit as good as Vokoun. Certainly he was as efficient over his fewer appearances. Moving him out of the Conference raises the question of who backs up Vokoun. We can't imagine he'll provide as much solid relief as did Anderson.
Matt Walker to Tampa Bay for 4/$6.8M
Caps impact: 5
The "impact" here might be on any arbitration for Shaone Morrisonn. Last year, with Chicago, he was 1-13-14, +7 in 65 games, 0-2-2, -4 in 17 playoff games. Morrisonn was 3-10-13, +4 in 72 games, 0-1-1, +1 in 14 playoff games.
Ty Conklin to St. Louis for 2/$2.6M
Caps effect: 1
Nothing to see here as far as the Caps are concerned. But Jimmy Howard had better be ready; he'll be backing up a 37-year old in Detroit (Chris Osgood) who didn't have the best of regular seasons.
Marian Hossa to Chicago for 12/$62.8 million
Caps effect: 4
Hossa has an odd way about him in terms of follow-up. First, he bolts Pittsburgh to join the team he lost to the Cup finals, then he loses with his new team to the team he left. Now, he leaves Detroit for the up-and-coming division rival. He will be 41 when this deal is over, if it lasts that long. And, the deal is very heavily front loaded -- $59.3 million of it paid in the first eight years ($7.41M/year) according to TSN (updated for new numbers). But Chicago had cap space aplenty, too. It's risky paying this kind of money and term for a talented player, but one who just happens to have seen his points drop from 100 a couple of years ago in Atlanta to 66 and 71 the last two years. Then again, it might just guarantee Chicago a spot in the Cup finals (where Hossa has appeared in the past two seasons... and lost). He's the big prize in this free agent class -- the other blocks should start to fall into place.
Dwayne Roloson to the Islanders for 2/$5.0 million
Caps effect: 3
Guess they weren't bringing Joey MacDonald back. Guess they're thinking Rick DiPietro won't be back (for opening night, at least). He's an upgrade to any goalie who played more than one game with the Islanders last year. But he's a patch. Besides, everyone will be watching Tavares, anyway.
Mike Knuble to Washington for 2/$5.6M
Caps impact: 7
A right winger who can score. According to NHL.com, the Caps had 37 goals in 250 man-games out of the right wing position last season. Knuble had 27 in 82 games. He's had at least 20 goals in each of the last six seasons (62 of his 165 goals in that span scored on the power play). And, he is the only top-six forward the Caps have who can reliably plant himself at the doorstep to collect rebounds. Is he the best forward in this class? Not by a long-shot. But this is about something the Caps don't address first in a draft, where they go (or so they say) for the best available player. This signing is need, pure and simple. The money is a bit higher than expected, but it is still a value signing.
Donald Brashear to New York Rangers for 2/$2.8M
Caps impact: 5
Oh, the irony. Brashear joins the team he done wrong in the playoffs (twice) to earn a six-game suspension. He replaces one of the guys he wronged -- Colton Orr (with whom Brashear was involved in a pre-game altercation). And, he gets a raise and a two-year deal on top of it. Will it matter? Well, it will be interesting to see Brashear playing the Caps four times (if he dresses for all of them). His toughness will endear him to coach John Tortorella. His production on the fourth line won't. You'd have to think this is his last big payday (he'll be 37 on opening night). It's a big one, given his job description.
Scott Niedermayer re-signs with Anaheim for 1/$6.0M
Caps impact: 1
Major yawn. It was Anaheim or nowhere, but losing Chris Pronger attached some more urgency to this signing, even with Ryan Whitney starting the year there and a decent prospect in Luca Sbisa coming in on defense.
Joel Ward re-signs with Nashville for 2/$3.0M
Caps impact: 1
Not bad for an late blooming (28 years old) undrafted free agent to grabbed the first rung of the ladder with the Houston Aeros in the AHL, then went to Minnesota as a free agent, then to Nashville... as a free agent. He had a nice year with the Predators last year (17-18-35, +1 in 79 games). Is it a bit much for a player with only one full NHL season? Maybe, but it's also rewarding one's own.
Brian Boucher to Philadelphia for 2/$1.85M
Caps impact: 3
A low-risk signing. He's familiar (103 career games for the Flyers from 1999-2002), he's competent (12-6-3, 2.18, .917 in San Jose last year). Given Philly's goaltending situation, he might get at least that many decisions next season. Alex Ovechkin might start practicing trick shots.
Jaroslav Spacek to Montreal for 3/$11.5M
Caps impact: 3
Montreal -- on paper -- should never have finished eighth in the East last year. But they did, and they were likely to lose defenseman Mike Komisarek (they did, later, to Toronto). They needed something to plug a hole. Spacek is certainly a competent defenseman playing in 205 games with the Sabres over the last three years (22-76-98, +29 in that span). But he's not going to have the physical edge Komisarek had.
Nikolai Khabibulin to Edmonton for 4/$15M
Caps effect: 2
Well, $3.75 million a year for four years for a goalie who was an unmitigated bust in his first two years of a big contract in Chicago is a bit surprising, but Edmonton didn't have a lot of choices. With Dwayne Roloson gone to Long Island and Jeff Deslauriers looking like the last man standing between the pipes, well... enter The Bulin Wall. He might end up being this coming season's Jose Theodore, even after a big year in Chicago... in the walk year of his big deal with the Blackhawks (convenient how that works out).
Erik Cole re-signs with Carolina for 2/$5.8M
Caps effect: 5
Cole was 16-11-27, minus-3 in 63 games with Edmonton last year (three of the goals came in a hat trick against the Caps on January 13th). Then he was sent back to Carolina, for whom he played 418 games before heading to the Canadian prairie. He finished 2-13-15, plus-3 in 17 games. You'd have to think (or like to think, if you're a Hurricane fan) that Cole knew where "home" was and signed on the dotted line. The Caps aren't going to like seeing him six times next year.
Scott Clemmensen to Florida for 3/$3.6M
Caps effect: 5
A little surprising he'd land here, given the job he did as an emergency number one replacement for Martin Brodeur in New Jersey last year (25-13-1, 2.39, .917). He comes in behind an established goalie in Tomas Vokoun, but might even be an upgrade to the departed Craig Anderson in a backup role (if his 2008-2009 season wasn't a fluke). Last year was the first in six seasons that he appeared in more than 13 games. He'll get more than 13 games in Florida, but he wouldn't seem likely to be the number one there, either.
Ian Laperriere to Philadelphia for 3/$3.5M
Caps effect: 6
It's as much that Laperriere didn't come to Washington as it is he ended up on a team the Caps are likely to battle for a playoff spot. The Caps needed a physical edge, and Laperriere might have provided it. He will do it for Philly for the seemingly cheap price of $1.17 million/year.
Michael Rupp to Pittsburgh for 2/$1.65M
Caps effect: 3
This looks like the sort of "under-the-radar" sort of acquisition that is making a reputation for Ray Shero. He will not contribute much by way of offense, but he will be a physical presence in the lower half of the forward lines.
Hal Gill to Montreal for 2/$4.5M
Caps effect: 4
The Canadiens needed to fill a physical hole with the departure of Mike Komisarek. The question will be whether Hal Gill is going to be that guy. Gill has -- or perhaps more accurately, had -- an ability to use his size to stifle more offensively skilled players such as Jaromir Jagr -- when he was with the Caps, for instance -- or even Alex Ovechkin, to a degree. But Gill is getting some age on him, too. Still, he stays in the conference, and the Caps will have to deal with him four times a year for the next two years.
Kent Huskins re-signs with San Jose for 2/$3.4M
Caps effect: 1
Another of those "do right by your own" sorts of deal, one supposes. It might be a little surprising -- $1.7 million a year -- for a guy who didn't play last year after December 31st (33 games altogether). He did have a fine 2007-2008 year for the Ducks, so they've seen close-up what he can do.
Mike Cammalleri to Montreal for 5/$30.0M
Caps effect: 4
Not that the Caps were likely to splurge on a big name FA center, but Cammalleri was one that some fans might have envisioned in a red sweater. But now he gets to skate in Verizon Center twice a year, anyway. Montreal sure isn't being shy about signings. But they seem to be shrinking in the process.
Greg Zanon to Minnesota for 3/$5.8M
Caps effect: 4
Could be another of those that has a market-setting effect for a guy like Shaone Morrisonn for the Caps. More of a stay-at-home type who would be a pretty solid addition wherever he ended up.
Mike Komisarek to Toronto for 5/$22.5M
Caps effect: 3
Now Toronto gets even more difficult to play against. Pavel Kubina was the only defenseman the Maple Leafs had last year passing for a defenseman with an edge, and that wasn't going to work for Brian Burke (in fact, Kubina wasn't going to work for Burke -- he was shipped to Atlanta in a deal that had another edgy defenseman -- Garnet Exelby -- going to Toronto). If you discount Jay Bouwmeester as a defenseman moved in a trade, Komisarek might have been the top defenseman who was likely to change teams (that is, not including Scott Niedermayer).
Steve Sullivan re-signs with Nashville for 2/$7.5M
Caps effect: 1
Maybe a bit of a surprise that he's staying in Nashville, but it seemed fitting for one of the better stories carrying over from last year when Sullivan returned from almost two years lost to injury to play well in 41 games and win the Masterton Trophy. And he remains one of the great steals in trade. The two picks Nashville gave up to get him from Chicago -- Ryan Garlock and Mike Blunden -- have played a total of ten NHL games (all by Blunden, none since playing one in 2007-2008).
Samuel Pahlsson to Columbus for 3/$7.9M
Caps effect: 2
Another one of those guys that some Caps fans might have thought would look good skating on F Street. Pahlsson seems like a very good fit for the Blue Jackets -- the sort of defensive forward who will do well in a Ken Hitchcock system.
Mathieu Garon to Columbus for 2/$2.4M
Caps effect: 2
Perhaps might influence the market for backup goaltenders in terms of the sort of compensation a Brent Johnson might get. Garon has fallen quite far since posting a 31-26-3 record for Los Angeles in 2005-2006. Since then, he's played in 32, 47, and 19 games a season.
Marian Gaborik to New York Rangers for 5/$37.5M
Caps effect: 5
If a healthy Gaborik skated for the Rangers in the first round of the playoffs, the Caps wouldn't have advanced. But the operative word there is "healthy." Gaborik is coming off of hip surgery (he's had surgery on each hip in each of the past two seasons). And, he goes from skating on the nice ice of Minnesota to the parking lot that is the Madison Square Garden surface. Good luck with that. Over/under on the number of games Gaborik plays -- 40. Odds on being healthy for the playoffs -- even. In the end, this is going to look like the typical Ranger checkbook signing... a lot of hoopla in the beginning and a lot of disappointment in the end.
Brian Gionta to Montreal for 5/$25M
Caps effect: 3
Montreal goes smaller still, and to more skill again with the addition of Gionta. Gomez, Cammalleri, Gionta -- they'll fly around the ice, and probably won't get pushed around as much as one might expect for players of such diminuitive stature. They're all pretty sturdy on their skates, or at least elusive. For Montreal, the calculus is now simple... Gomez + Cammalleri + Gionta > Kovalev + Koivu + Tanguay? On paper, it looks that way. But when you factor in the liability in contract dollars and term, it's still a risk. If any of these guys stumble, it's the wrong town for that sort of misstep.
Chris Neil re-signs with Ottawa for 4/$8.0M
Caps effect: 3
The sort of forward with an edge that the Caps might have needed stays in Ottawa, but at that price and term? Too many years (Neil is only 30, but plays a style that might result in breakdowns -- he missed 22 games last year) and too much money. Would he have been worth, say, four years and $9.0 million here? Don't think so.
John Madden to Chicago for 1/$2.75M
Caps effect: 3
It gets him out of the conference, at least. This is likely to affect the Devils more than the Blackhawks, where Madden was a mainstay as the embodiment of the Selke-class defensive-forward. His numbers might have suffered some as the NHL changed its style coming out of the lockout (he is minus-20 in four seasons since the lockout, compared to plus-50 in the four seasons preceding it), but he is still a guy who can match up against the other team's best offensive player effectively. He is perhaps not as consistently able to do it, though.
Martin Havlat to Minnesota for 6/$30.0M
Caps effect: 1
Huh? OK... last year he played in 81 games for Chicago and put up 77 points. He might be the most gifted offensive player in this free agent class (with apologies to Hossa and Gaborik). But his injury report reads like an episode of "House." Since the lockout alone... hamstring, shoulder, ankle, groin, shoulder, groin, shoulder, "lower body." Before last year, Havlat played in 109 of a possible 246 games over three seasons coming out of the lockout.
And there endeth the first day. There are a lot of names still out there, and while the Caps seem unlikely to add any of them to their roster, it should still be entertaining. We're going to be busy the next few days with other commitments, but we'll try to sign on and babble about this stuff some more as time allows.
Happy shopping all you junior GMs.
It's once and always Stanley Cup Champion Washington Capitals hockey, all day, all night, all the time . . . or when I get around to it
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Oh Yeah, and NHL Free Agency, Too
If you tire and grow weary of the non-stop NHL feeding frenzy that today's opening of the unrestricted free agency signing period promises, just remember that other things happened on this date. For instance...
-- It is the birthdate of Samuel D. Riddle, in 1861. He was the owner of the famous race horse, Man o' War.
-- Charles Laughton was born on this date in 1899.
-- Cosmetics founder Estee Lauder was born on this date in 1908.
-- Famous shoe collector Imelda Marcos was born on this date in 1930.
-- Speaking of fashion, famous television cross-dresser Jamie Farr was born on this date in 1934.
-- Dan Aykroyd was born in Ottawa (this being a hockey sort of day) on this date in 1952.
-- Lady Diane Spencer was born on this date in 1961.
-- And guys...Pamela Anderson -- another Canadian -- was born on this date in 1967.
Some other things that happened on this date...
-- The first intercollegiate baseball game was held in 1859. Amherst defeated Williams, 66-32. Guess they hadn't gotten around to that "mercy rule" thing just yet.
-- In 1898, Teddy Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" charged up San Juan Hill.
-- In 1899, the Gideons were founded by three traveling businesmen. The first Bibles were placed at the Superior Hotel in Iron Mountain, Montana, in 1908.
-- Walter Johnson no-hit the Boston Red Sox, 1-0, in 1920. Seems Washington did have pitching once upon a time.
-- Bulova Watch Co. was the first customer for a paid network television commercial, in 1941. The price?... nine bucks.
-- In 1943, withholding from pay checks was initiated.
-- In 1963, The Beatles recorded "She Loves You."
-- In that same year, the U.S. Postal Service introduced its "Zone Improvement Plan." You know it as the "zip code."
-- In 1972, "Ms." magazine began publishing.
-- In 1987, WFAN (New York City) became the first 24-hour all-sports radio station.
Just a few of the things July 1st is famous for, other than NHL free agency. And to all you folks north of the border....
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Neiman Marcus Group said data from more than a million of its customers' credit and debit cards may have been nabbed by hackers who breached the upscale retailer's system last year.
The company said malicious software was surreptitiously installed to collect, or "scrape," payment card information from July 16 to Oct. 30, leaving 1.1 million cards "potentially visible" to hackers.
Though the investigation is ongoing, Neiman Marcus said it has been informed by Visa, MasterCard and Discover that 2,400 cards have since been used fraudulently.
The high-end department store chain said patrons' Social Security numbers, PIN numbers and birth dates weren't compromised and that online shoppers seem to be in the clear. And so far, the company hasn't seen any suspicious activity involving its Neiman Marcus cards.
Neiman Marcus is offering free credit monitoring and identity theft protection for all customers who bought from the store from January 2013 through this month.
The company has said it is unaware of any connection to the much larger holiday-season breach at Target. Cyber-thieves stole information from as many as 110 million Target customers — or more than a third of the U.S. population.
Up to 40 million customers' credit and debit card accounts were illegally accessed from Nov. 27 to Dec. 15, while as many as 70 million shoppers may have had their names and home and email addresses stolen over an indeterminate amount of time.
On Sunday, authorities in McAllen, Texas, said they had arrested two Mexicans entering the U.S. with scores of fraudulent credit cards allegedly linked to the Target breach.


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When it comes to human reproduction, men have it easy. They enjoy all of the fun of procreation, but don't have to carry the baby or deliver it. When it comes to preventing pregnancy, however, the advantage lies clearly with the fairer sex. The one egg released every month by a woman makes an easy target for a variety of contraceptive interventions. As a result, women have numerous choices for contraception.
Men, on the other hand, present a greater challenge. Driven by eons of evolution involving complex processes of the endocrine and reproductive systems, men produce tens of millions of sperm per day. To prevent pregnancy, every one of those specialized cells -- think of them as DNA-packed Olympic swimmers -- must be blocked, hamstrung or killed. It's a daunting task, especially when you consider the timelines involved. It takes 75 days for sperm fashioned in the testes to mature in a tightly coiled companion structure known as the epididymis. That means an intervention that blocks sperm production won't become fully protective for two and a half months. And men who go off such an intervention would have to wait the same length of time before their fertility returns.
Because of these challenges, the search for the perfect male contraceptive -- one that's 100 percent effective, easy to use, reversible and free of side effects -- has been elusive. Condoms can fail; vasectomies are permanent and the male birth control pill hasn't materialized into a viable solution. Hope, however, may soon arrive in the form of a clear gel that's injected into the vas deferens, one of the body's main highways for sperm. The gel will be marketed in the U.S. under the name Vasalgel, but the technique is known as reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance, or RISUG. Don't bug your urologist just yet, though -- the gel still has miles to go before it receives approval from the U.S. Drug and Food Administration. Even in India, where a biomedical engineer invented the technique and has studied it for decades, RISUG still languished in phase III clinical trials as of spring 2012.
What exactly is RISUG, how does it work and how much does it cost? Is the gel safe in men who use it for years? And is it truly reversible, as its name suggests? We'll answer those questions on the following pages, but we'll begin -- in a bit of editorial foreplay -- with a story about water purification.


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What is a committer?
Technically, a committer is someone who has write access to the Chromium src Git repository. A committer can submit their own patches or patches from others.
This privilege is granted with some expectation of responsibility: committers are people who care about the Chromium projects and want to help them meet their goals. A committer is not just someone who can make changes, but someone who has demonstrated their ability to collaborate with the team, get the most knowledgeable people to review code, contribute high-quality code, and follow through to fix issues (in code or tests).
A committer is a contributor to the Chromium projects' success and a citizen helping the projects succeed. See Committer's responsibility.
What is written below applies to the main Chromium source repos; see the note at the bottom for ChromiumOS, which has different policies. For some other Chromium repos (e.g., the infra repos), we follow the same policies as the main Chromium repos, but have different lists of actual committers. Certain other repos may have different policies altogether. When in doubt, ask one of the OWNERS of the repo in question.
Becoming a committer
In a nutshell, contribute 10-20 non-trivial patches in the Chromium src Git repository, and get at least three different people to review them (you'll need three people to support you). Then ask someone to nominate you. You're basically demonstrating your
A current committer nominates you by sending email to firstname.lastname@example.com containing the following information. Please do not CC the nominee on the nomination email.
That's it! There is no further action you need to take on your part. The committers will get back to you once they make a decision.
In the worst case, this can drag out for two weeks. Keep writing patches! Even in the rare cases where a nomination fails, the objection is usually something easy to address like "more patches" or "not enough people are familiar with this person's work."
Once you get approval from the existing committers, we'll send you instructions for write access to Git. You'll also be added to firstname.lastname@example.com. If you work for Google, you are expected to become a sheriff at this point as well (see the internal instructions for how to add yourself to the rotations).
Historically, most committers have worked at least partially on the Chromium core product and thus demonstrated C++ coding ability in their CLs, but this is not required. It is possible to be a committer if you only work on other parts of the code base (e.g., build and test scripts in Python), but you still have to demonstrate that you understand the processes of the project with a list of CLs that you've landed. Committership is primarily a mark of trust, and we expect committers to only submit or approve changes that they are qualified to review. Failure to do so may result in your committership being revoked.
Other statuses
If you just want to edit bugs, see: Get Bug-Editing Privileges.
Try job access
If you are contributing patches but not (yet) a committer, you may wish to be able to run jobs on the try servers directly rather than asking a committer or reviewer to do so for you. There are two potential scenarios:
You have an @chromium.org email address and wish to use it for your account:
You do not have an @chromium.org email address, or wish to use a different email address. If this is your situation, the process to obtain try job access is the following:
If no one objects within two (U.S.) working days, you will be approved for access. It may take an additional few days for the grant to propagate to all of the systems (e.g., Rietveld) and for you to be notified that you're all set.
Googlers can look up the committers list here.
Maintaining committer status
You don't really need to do much to maintain committer status: just keep being awesome and helping the Chromium projects!
A community of committers working together to move the Chromium projects forward is essential to creating successful projects that are rewarding to work on. If there are problems or disagreements within the community, they can usually be solved through open discussion and debate.
In the unhappy event that a committer continues to disregard good citizenship (or actively disrupts the project), we may need to revoke that person's status. The process is the same as for nominating a new committer: someone suggests the revocation with a good reason, two people second the motion, and a vote may be called if consensus cannot be reached. I hope that's simple enough, and that we never have to test it in practice.
Also see Using your @chromium.org email address.
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Access to Code-Review +2 bits in Chromium OS repos is gated by being in a Chromium OS sheriff rotation. See go/ChromeOS-Sheriff-Schedule for details for how to get into the rotation. Only Googlers can become sheriffs and so only Googlers can grant +2.
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Slain Yale graduate student Annie Le, whose body was found crammed into a duct in the basement of a university lab, died of "traumatic asphyxia due to neck compression," the coroner said Wednesday.
"Traumatic asphyxia due to neck compression" is a form of strangulation, according to a doctor at St. Francis Hospital, but it is not clear whether she was strangled by the killer's hands or by an object.
The medical examiner ruled Le's death a homicide but delayed releasing the results of the autopsy report until this afternoon at the request of the state attorney.
Le's body was found stuffed into a cable duct of the university building on Sunday, the same day she was supposed to be married.
At a Wednesday afternoon briefing, the Chief of Police in New Haven said they are looking at a number of people in the case, but have only served search warrants on one.
Police detained Raymond Clark III, 24, a Yale lab tech as "a person of interest" in the slaying but later released him from their custody. His attorney, David Dworski, told the Associated Press that the lab tech was "committed to proceeding appropriately with the authorities."
Clark was led out of his Middletown, Conn., apartment in handcuffs by cops late Tuesday night as cops rummaged through items on a card table, towed away a red Ford Mustang and took DNA samples.
"We are looking for DNA and physical evidence," New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said Tuesday night. "This is not an arrest warrant, this is a search warrant."
Additionally, access "swipe" records at the lab where Clark and Le worked show that Clark may have been the last to see Le alive, a police source told the Hartford Courant.
Late Wednesday night, police in Cromwell, Conn., were keeping a close eye on the motel in town where Clark was staying.
A scheduled night news briefing was moved to 7 a.m. on Thursday.
Clark shares his apartment with girlfriend Jennifer Hromadka, who he is set to marry in December 2011, the couple's wedding Web site said. Neighbors said the couple also lives with three cats.
Hromadka's father Bud, told the New York Post that Clark was a "quality man, a wonderful guy," who had been shadowed by about 15 FBI agents at a fair last weekend.
"The cops are pressuring the wrong guy," he said. "He was there that day, he saw her, and the polygraph said he didn't pass. That's all there is to it."
Clark and Hromadka reportedly share a MySpace page. In May 2008, Hromadka defended her man online against rumors that was cheating on her with a woman at the Yale lab where both work, the New York Daily News reported.
"My boyfriend, Ray, if you don't know him, has no interest in any of the other girls at YARC as anything more than friends," she wrote in a blog post, according to the News.
"He is a bit naive, doesn't always use the best judgment, definitely is not the best judge of character but he is a good guy. He has a big heart and tries to see the best in people ALL THE TIME! even when everyone else is telling him that the person is a psycho or that the person can't be trusted. He thinks everyone deserves a second chance and has a hard time hurting people's feelings and it takes him getting burned to learn."
On Friday, Hromadka wrote in her most recent post: "Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect and I don't live to be, but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean!!"
Bloody clothes and other evidence of a crime were found in a ceiling inside that building, police sources confirmed Saturday. Le's ID, money, credit cards and purse were found in her office in a different building.
Officials also said they spoke with as many as 150 people throughout the course of the investigation, reviewed 700 hours of video and scanned 150 pieces of evidence.
Chief Lewis said he believes there will be an arrest in this case.
Le, 24, who worked for a Yale laboratory that conducted experiments on mice, went missing from the Ivy League campus last Tuesday and her body was discovered in the laboratory building five days later on what was supposed to be her wedding day.
The New Haven Independent reported that Clark, the technician visited by cops, allegedly had an unrequited love interest in Le, citing a source, but the publication was not able to verify that information on its own.
Le, of Placerville, Calif., was to be married to Widawsky, a Columbia University graduate student, last Sunday in Syosset, N.Y., on Long Island's north shore. Next week, they were supposed to be in Greece on honeymoon, the New York Daily News reported.


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What's the over-under for Sunday's Bears-Giants game at Soldier Field? Not the total-points line at Vegas casinos, silly. The total turnovers by Rex Grossman and Eli Manning.
What's the over-under for Sunday's Bears-Giants game at Soldier Field? Not the total-points line at Vegas casinos, silly. The total turnovers by Rex Grossman and Eli Manning. Rex and Eli are upstanding young men from fine football families. Far too often, however, the one-time quarterback saviors treat the football as if it were radioactive. I don't want it! You take it! Grossman is getting accolades for his role in the Bears' come-from-behind victory over Denver last week. Of course, the Bears might not have had to come from behind had Rex not lost two fumbles and thrown an interception. Manning, meanwhile, is coming off a four-interception performance in his team's home loss to Minnesota. Is the Giants' annual second-half-of-the-season collapse already under way? Eli leads the NFL with 15 interceptions, more than twice as many as Rex's seven. But let's be fair: Grossman was benched for five-plus games while Brian Griese assumed the Bears' important giving-away-the-football responsibilities. I'm confident that had Grossman started every game, he'd be challenging Manning for pick-off supremacy. And with Rex, there's always the bonus fumble feature! The Giants lead the league with 38 sacks and the Bears are third with 32, so expect both QBs to be in panic mode throughout. Especially Grossman, whose offensive line is holier than Jerusalem. And neither lumbering Eli nor rambling Rex will be confused with John Elway in the mobility department. Bears offensive coordinator Ron Turner should be fired for having Grossman attempt a quarterback draw on third-and-7 last week. While at least a dozen NFL QBs would have waltzed into the end zone untouched, Grossman was clobbered and - surprise, surprise - fumbled away the football. Manning, who orchestrated a trade resulting in him being drafted first overall by the Giants in 2004, regularly gets booed by his home crowd. Grossman can empathize. Despite helping his team get to the Super Bowl last season, the Bears' top choice of '03 has been getting the business at Soldier Field for two years. "He's definitely in a tough market," Grossman said Wednesday when asked about Manning. "From what I hear, New York is pretty critical. People are passionate about the Giants, as they are (in Chicago) about the Bears. "And the quarterback is usually the first place people look. I understand that criticism, I've been through it and I'm going through it now. From a quarterback's perspective, you just try to block it out and play the best you can." We'll see how good their best is Sunday. For now, let's put the Rex & Eli Show turnover over-under at six. Mystery Man The worst part of Cedric Benson's season-ending leg injury is that the Bears might say they haven't completely evaluated their backfield situation. Here's a recommendation: Get a new tailback. For a guy drafted fourth-overall in 2005, Benson has shown a surprising lack of quickness, elusiveness and instinctive running. If he doesn't get a big hole and a head of steam, he struggles to gain even 2 yards. He's a lousy receiver and a poor blocker, too. Oh, and he's about as popular in the locker room as a paternity suit. Yes, kids, today's word is "bust." New starter Adrian Peterson has been mostly a special-teams player for six years; unless Bears coaches are really stupid - always a possibility - he's not the answer. All we know about 5-foot-7 rookie Garrett Wolfe is that he could be posted up by most WNBA guards. For a team that fancies itself as smash-mouth and run-oriented, the Bears have a funny way of showing it: with ineffective linemen leading the way for inadequate backs. The Bears need a major running-game overhaul or 2008 will be no better (and perhaps worse) than 2007. Prediction At 5-6, the Bears probably can lose one of their final five games and still make the playoffs. This would be a bad one to lose, however, because their conference record already stinks and the Giants (7-4) are ahead of them in the wild-card standings. With a victory, though, the Bears would enter the season's final quarter in decent position. The way the Giants get after QBs, I worry about Grossman's health. Manning's numbers are significantly better in road games, probably because he need not worry about messing up in front of abusive, demanding New York fans. Plus, the Giants run the ball so much better than the Bears do. Giants 27, Bears 23. Thanks for Nothing I don't know about you, but I sure would like to watch tonight's Packers-Cowboys game. Thanks, NFL, for putting the NFC Game of the Year on your own network, limiting the audience to about 23 people. And thanks, major cable companies, for doing everything possible to deprive regular working stiffs of an opportunity to see an entertaining matchup of 10-1 teams. I'm rooting for a 2-0 game and 0.02 rating. (But I'm picking Cowboys 24, Packers 17.) NFL Pick Six 1. Patriots (11-0). Tom Brady: 127.9 rating. Eli Manning: 75.0. Rex Grossman: 63.3. This just in: Brady's better. 2. Colts (9-2). Defense so good, it's overshadowing Eli's brother. 3. Cowboys (10-1). Romo to T.O. That's lots of O. 4. Packers (10-1). Brett Favre leads race for MVPNNB (MVP Not Named Brady). 5. Jaguars (8-3). Victory Sunday at Indy would prove legitimacy. 6. Browns (7-4). Browns are contenders, just as everyone predicted. NFL Deep Six 32. Dolphins (0-11). Best darn 0-11 team in NFL history! 31. Jets (2-9). How bad are Jets? They're underdogs this week at Miami. 30. Rams (2-9). Awful enough even when Marc Bulger's healthy. 29. Falcons (3-8). Turkeys weren't only dead birds on Thanksgiving. 28. Panthers (4-7). Even Steve Smith needs a QB. 27. Raiders (3-8). Good news: Bill Callahan's available to coach again. Mike Nadel (email@example.com) is the Chicago sports columnist for GateHouse News Service. Read his blog, The Baldest Truth, at www.thebaldesttruth.com.