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July 31, 2014
October 26, 2007
The Cavalier Men's Soccer Team lost a heart breaker to Duke tonight, 2-1, in double overtime. The loss drops Virginia's record to 9-4-2 overall, and 1-3-2 in the ACC.
Matt Mitchell scored his first career goal for the Cavaliers in the 52nd minute, and Virginia held the lead with under two minutes to play. Joshua Medcalf scored the tying goal for the Blue Devils off a header in the 89th minute to send the game to extra frames. Duke's Mike Grella scored the game winner in the 109th minute, as the Blue Devils snapped a three game losing skid.
Virginia will close out its home schedule on Tuesday night, as it welcomes Mercer to Klockner Stadium. Face off is set for 7:00.

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Mike Myatt, Contributor
I write about leadership myths, and bust them one-by–one.
Have you ever noticed leaders spend a lot of time talking about talent, only to make the same mistakes over and over again? Few things in business are as costly and disruptive as unexpected talent departures. With all the emphasis on leadership development, I always find it interesting so many companies seem to struggle with being able to retain their top talent. In today's column, I'll share some research, observations, and insights on how to stop the talent door from revolving.
Ask any CEO if they have a process for retaining and developing talent and they'll quickly answer in the affirmative. They immediately launch into a series of soundbites about the quality of their talent initiatives, the number of high-potentials in the nine box, blah, blah, blah. As with most things in the corporate world, there is too much process built upon theory and not nearly enough practice built on experience.
When examining the talent at any organization look at the culture, not the rhetoric – look at the results, not the commentary about potential. Despite some of the delusional perspective in the corner office, when we interview their employees, here's what they tell us:
So, for all those employers who have everything under control, you better start re-evaluating. There is an old saying that goes; "Employees don't quit working for companies, they quit working for their bosses." Regardless of tenure, position, title, etc., employees who voluntarily leave, generally do so out of some type of perceived disconnect with leadership.
Here's the thing – employees who are challenged, engaged, valued, and rewarded (emotionally, intellectually & financially) rarely leave, and more importantly, they perform at very high levels. However if you miss any of these critical areas, it's only a matter of time until they head for the elevator. Following are 10 reasons your talent will leave you – smart leaders don't make these mistakes:
1. You Failed To Unleash Their Passions: Smart companies align employee passions with corporate pursuits. Human nature makes it very difficult to walk away from areas of passion. Fail to understand this and you'll unknowingly be encouraging employees to seek their passions elsewhere.
2. You Failed To Challenge Their Intellect: Smart people don't like to live in a dimly lit world of boredom. If you don't challenge people's minds, they'll leave you for someone/someplace that will.
3. You Failed To Engage Their Creativity: Great talent is wired to improve, enhance, and add value. They are built to change and innovate. They NEED to contribute by putting their fingerprints on design. Smart leaders don't place people in boxes – they free them from boxes. What's the use in having a racehorse if you don't let them run?
WATCH: How Billionaire John Paul DeJoria Keeps His Employees Happy
4. You Failed To Develop Their Skills: Leadership isn't a destination – it's a continuum. No matter how smart or talented a person is, there's always room for growth, development, and continued maturation. If you place restrictions on a person's ability to grow, they'll leave you for someone who won't.
5. You Failed To Give Them A Voice: Talented people have good thoughts, ideas, insights, and observations. If you don't listen to them, I can guarantee you someone else will.
6. You Failed To Care: Sure, people come to work for a paycheck, but that's not the only reason. In fact, many studies show it's not even the most important reason. If you fail to care about people at a human level, at an emotional level, they'll eventually leave you regardless of how much you pay them.
7. You Failed to Lead: Businesses don't fail, products don't fail, projects don't fail, and teams don't fail – leaders fail. The best testament to the value of leadership is what happens in its absence – very little. If you fail to lead, your talent will seek leadership elsewhere.
8. You Failed To Recognize Their Contributions: The best leaders don't take credit – they give it. Failing to recognize the contributions of others is not only arrogant and disingenuous, but it's as also just as good as asking them to leave.
9. You Failed To Increase Their Responsibility: You cannot confine talent – try to do so and you'll either devolve into mediocrity, or force your talent seek more fertile ground. People will gladly accept a huge workload as long as an increase in responsibility comes along with the performance and execution of said workload.
10. You Failed To Keep Your Commitments: Promises made are worthless, but promises kept are invaluable. If you break trust with those you lead you will pay a very steep price. Leaders not accountable to their people, will eventually be held accountable by their people.
If these thoughts resonate with you, I'd encourage you to pick up a copy of my upcoming book Hacking Leadership (Wiley) as I unpack several more thoughts about talent, team building, leadership and culture.
Bottom line, if leaders spent less time trying to retain people, and more time trying to understand them, care for them, invest in them, and lead them well, the retention thing would take care of itself. Thoughts?
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Well, the Observation's so well done, i believe. Thanks for sharing.
I think this is very true. I ran track in high school, and although I was a good runner and had 2 school records, I was just over it when I was done. My coaches didn't let me explore other events I wanted to, even though I had proved I was good enough, by literally beating all the other options. They never acted like they cared, always complimented the other runners though, and had cute little "talks" with them but I never got to experience one of those. this ties into to not caring, not recognizing contributions, unleashing/challenging me, and also they never developed my skill; I was a hurdler and they constantly put me in hurdle races and never set aside days to practice hurdles with out special hurdle coach. i would sometimes practice by by myself, without a damn coach, just trying to build some confidence. I told them we have need to set aside special days for hurdle practice, because otherwise they had us doing full blown workouts 5 days a week and then expecting us to get in good hurdle practice after, on our already tired legs/bodies/spent energy, which equaled really shit quality hurdle sessions.
I was filled with to much anger and cynicism when HS ended because I had ran so hard for my school, I had helped take us into state championships (in a state where there are no school-size divisions, AKA very difficult) and we were a small school, and they treated me like shit. I was so mad how they took running; something i loved; and made it a very negative experience for me that I am only motivated by hate and spite now, and was glad to no longer run for that school. I can only hope I let go of this when I get older. as whiny as this sounds, the amount of physical/mental/ energy and pain, as well as time I put into that set me up for mental anguish going through all this, it was by far the most stressful tiring unappreciated part of my life thus far. I wouldn't go through that experience again for a million dollars, not unless I was put with a coach who cared, cared about the athlete not just winning. my coach was /obsessed/ with winning, he even cheated for our XC team by using runners from the soccer team who hadn't came to any practice which is against the state's rules since they technically weren't even on the team. i don't know if he didn't like me because I wasn't one of his runners that wasn't naturally skilled but had to work hard to get there, or what, but he just ignored me and made me ashamed to be running under his name and for people thinking it was for him. runners definitely deserve some kind of recognition, for there hard-work, not their winning-abilities.
omg What an Article….! Awesome!
I'm just wondering if failure to provide is also a common factor in businesses.
The thing is, I work in a (non-US) private university, and our corporate parent is very big on lean operations. As such, with two campuses and about 20,000 students, I am the only Press Officer in my organization.
I cannot even begin to describe the number of newsworthy student activities I've missed to publicize because I'm the only person on the job. Should I even bother mentioning the PR strategy I am not pursuing? Between catching up on the promotional articles, which I also write due to my copywriting background, I also write for the bi-monthly internal bulletin.
20,000 students, 800 staff, 1 PR officer. How does that sound to you? Just wondering.
Would it be possible to get your students to (1) identify PR-worthy activities and (2) write copy for you at either little or no cost? Do you have marketing or PR or language majors who could use the experience and exposure? Part of your job sounds like a good application for crowd-sourcing.
Mr. Myatt,
Your point on high visibility impact opportunities is great advice. I will find a way to do this. Thank you very much.
Actually, I've already tried having the students write the pieces for me. The thing is that none of the students have English as their first language, so most of the time the submitted articles need serious editing, and that takes up my time even more.
And yes, the environment is great for crowd-sourcing. It's just that I'm all over the place. One moment it's advertorials, then advertising copy, then corporate adverts, etc. It's hard to develop any momentum when you're always being yanked around.
Having said that, after reading this article, I've got my wind back, so to speak, and hopefully something good will come off this.


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Mahwah, N.J. - March 30, 2013 - The Springfield College men's track and field team competed in a non-scoring meet to begin its spring portion of the season at the Ramapo Invitational.
Springfield College's John Dayton and Anthony Salvucci led the Pride with individual event wins. Dayton placed first in the hammer throw with a heave of 54.80 meters, while Salvucci took the 3000 meter run with a time of 8:43.22.
The Pride had a strong performance from many other field event participants. In the shot put, Springfield had two finishers in the top five, with Brandon Hammerstrom placing second at 13.88 meters and Brandon Alves taking fifth at 11.14 meters. Peter Andrews would finish third in the hammer throw at 49.35 meters.
Other Pride members who ran well were Sean NunanJoe Geurds. In the 400 meter hurdles, Nunan placed third for Springfield, clocking in at 58.75 seconds, while in the 3000 meter steeplechase, Geurds took fifrth at 10:19.42. Springfield's 4x100 meter relay team of Rocco DiStefanoAdam Swartout, Andrew Bean, and Ken Toal teamed up for a time of 44.56 and third place.
The Pride will host Middlebury and Bowdoin next Saturday.


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Cameron's £1,000 contest win call wasn't a hoax (From Witney Gazette)
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Cameron's £1,000 contest win call wasn't a hoax
7:00am Tuesday 26th February 2013 in News
HOAX phonecalls come in all shapes and sizes, but Clare Parrack and Martin Mulligan were baffled when it turned out one from a David Cameron sound-alike was real.
Despite their initial cynicism, the call from the Prime Minister and Witney MP telling the Eynsham residents they had won £1,000 in B&Q vouchers was not a hoax.
Mr Cameron, their MP, had called them on the afternoon of February 14 and left a message for interior designer Ms Parrack, 53.
But the former Oxford Mail and BBC journalist said initially she didn't believe it was really him.
She said: "It was somebody who sounded remarkably like David Cameron. He said he was ringing to tell me I had won £1,000, but he said I might not believe that and said I could call his office to confirm.
"I rushed upstairs to play the message to Martin, who was also quite cynical, but in the process the message got deleted.
"Then all we had was this mobile number he had called from, so I called it back and this fruity voice answered. "He said 'you must be Clare Parrack' and explained he was visiting the B&Q HQ and had been asked to call a couple of competition winners.
"Then I started to think it might be real."
Ms Parrack eventually got confirmation from the B&Q press office that Mr Cameron had indeed been at their Hampshire base, and she was able to tell her Financial Times journalist husband Martin, 56, and son Matthew that it was all true.
She said the prize money would be spent on the couple's own house in Hanborough Close.
Mr Cameron said: "On a recent visit to B&Q headquarters in Eastleigh, I was delighted to have the opportunity to telephone my constituent, Clare Parrack, to let her know that she was a winner in their prize draw.
"Although I don't think Clare believed me when I told her, it was wonderful to deliver such good news."
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Australian Nerf fans were outraged to learn how Martyn Yang, a Nerf-gun blogger writing for Urban Taggers, was tricked by Hasbro into revealing his home address with an offer of a giveaway for his readers, only to receive a lawsuit threat and takedown demand from Nerf's lawyers at that address. At issue is a review the blogger ran of the N-STRIKE ELITE "RAMPAGE" BLASTER, a product that wasn't officially released yet (though as he points out, there are lots of places you can get them). Nerf's lawyers demanded that Yang turn over the identity, IP address and other personal information on his source, or face legal sanctions.
Things got worse when Yang complied with the takedown demand, but still came home to find "representatives" of Hasbro's law firm, Baker and McKenzie, skulking around his apartment building and freaking out the neighbours, asking nosy questions and demanding to know where he got his information. Meanwhile, there are calls for Hasbro boycotts on Facebook, and Yang says he's reconsidering whether he'll devote his energies to promoting Hasbro's products in the future.
First of all, you're lucky that no one called the police. Secondly, I really do not appreciate being ambushed by lawyers or their representatives on a Sunday afternoon when I haven't done anything wrong, I have taken down the images and it's not my fault that neither you nor Hasbro seem to be able to find out whoever the original source of the guns. It would also have been appropriate to give me forewarning so that I could have a lawyer present.
I've told your friend 'Christine' what I know but it was extremely rude to just show up on my doorstep and scare my neighbours like that. Regarding Nitro and Rayven - I really wish that you'd been up front and mentioned the products in question in your first letter, it could have saved everyone a lot of time and Hasbro a lot of legal fees.
Regarding the "Vortex Nitron" and "Rayven", these products are freely available for purchase online at this website: http://www.taobao.com/index_global.php. I don't have the listing details anymore, but if you search for Nerf stuff there, you should find it. I realise that the products weren't officially released yet but it's not my fault they were on taobao and it's pretty common to find promo stuff on taobao/ebay that the recipients have decided to sell online … I've showed your friend Christine the site but I really can't be expected to teach people how to use an internet search engine. You'll also have to learn how to read Chinese. I don't read Chinese so I can't help you there.
Nerf guns at 10 paces: Hasbro faces boycott after siccing lawyers onto fan site Discuss
76 Responses to "Hasbro tricks fan-blogger into revealing his address so they can send him legal threats over widely available leaked product"
ChicagoD says:
It's going to take me a little while to get past "Nerf-gun blogger." Everything else was a blur.
desperado says:
Not to mention… there's a BLACK MARKET IN NERF GUNS?
And it's big enough that Hasbro involves lawyers?
Vengefultacos says:
There's nothing quite as dangerous as a Nerf gun runner (called a "nerf herder" in the biz).
LaserGnomes says:
Why you guys looking for something
Cause I got what you need *scratches*
StaticSkies says:
Well, its big enough that the government has set up a special taskforce now just to catch nerf gunrunners, called Foam and Furious.
desperado says:
Holy shit, that was good.
Capital_7 says:
The fear here is that some third party might be running Nerf guns to North Korea or Pakistan, or heaven forbid, one of the big kids at Birch Elementary in Broomfield, CO!
There's definitely a Nerf blogosphere. The thing is right now, Hasbro does keep up with it and supporting it quite a bit through it's outreach on social media.
These series on incidents have really really soured the mood of said blogosphere. Especially at a time that Hasbro has said to it's investors that Nerf sales are down and they need all of the Nerf sales they can possibly get right now.
desperado says:
Is it some sort of fetishization of the toys, and their nostalgic ties to one's childhood (like the transformers fandom)?
Or is it mainly a community of parents, playing with their kids?
Or is it just that Nerf put out stuff that is _that_ cool, that adults want to talk about it?
I must admit, I had some Nerf toys as a kid, and they were almost 100% boring to me.
AirPillo says:
People can be ardent fans of any hobby, and shooting stuff with nerf darts is a hobby.
If something is kind of fun, there are definitely going to be adults out there who are really into it.
It's a really a mix. While there's plenty of kids/tweens; you also have parents who play with there kids (like you said), Humans Vs Zombie players, those who play "assassin", people who have office wide Nerf battles (mostly done by tech based companies), folks who repaint blasters to be used as roleplaying or acting props (trivia: most of the prop guns used in the TV show Terra Nova were actually repainted Nerf blasters) and for many other reasons.
There's even a offshoot of the whole steampunk movement called Nerfpunk (pic included)
Ethical Cannibal says:
There is a modding community. New guns mean new modding possibilities. Just google nerf mods and you'll see there is a huge community. They get used for back yard free for alls, all the way up to organized larps.
Whoops, I almost forgot about those folks for a second
Ramone says:
Nerf is like a more affordable and customizable version of laser tag or paint ball and has been huge on college campuses for years. There are entire leagues dedicated to nerf tag and one entire aisle in Target, Walmart, and Toys R Us dedicated to nerf guns, darts, and even melee weapons.
It's pretty much a full-on hobby for those who love it.
traalfaz says:
My son gets involved in some pretty intense indoor Nerf action. During the summer they play airsoft, but in the winter it's all Nerf.
LaserGnomes says:
We prefer the term "blaster"
retepslluerb says:
An inelegant weapon for less civilized times.
TWX says:
What does Hasbro (or any other company that outsources production of inexpensive products for that matter) expect to have happen when they send their product manufacturing overseas? It either gets counterfeited, or due to a combination of poor supervision and middle management who either doesn't care or is complicit, additional product is manufactured and never provided to the customer (in this case Hasbro) and is then sold through the same channels as counterfeit.
It would be really, really hard to demonstrate that a Hasbro-designed and packaged product, made in the same plant as the other Hasbro products, isn't actually a Hasbro product. When you send your production to effectively a third party, you can not control what happens anymore, and if the incentive to break the rules or laws is stronger than the rules or laws, this kind of thing can result.
And to think, Honeywell is sending processes to China that are used for military applications…
digi_owl says:
I recall reading about a electronics company that was made aware of a third shift at a subcontracted factory when they were contacted about a faulty product that did not have its serial number on record. The operation was so professional that the sellers had their own business cards printed and operated distribution networks that looked very legit on the surface.
erissian says:
That was NEC:
lafave says:
yeah – if the Hasbro products complained about are for sale on taobo, it's a good bet that these products walked off the factory floor (or out the back door). I remember reading an article about a Chinese factory girl who has an apartment full of Louis Vuitton bags – she said the guards look the other way sometimes as "gifts"
digi_owl says:
Heh, other places the guy provides the card. In China, they simply look the other way at the gate…
Frederik says:
It always amazes me that companies still do not recognize that this sort of thing ends in bad publicity for them. You cannot win this, the product leaked, people know about it and throwing lawyers around always makes you look like an asshole. And the resulting scandal atracts a way bigger audience then the details of a leaked nerf gun ever would.
Joe F says:
And people wanting to see this new nerf gun/ some of these people are probably nerf heads/ guns will be purchased. = Money for Hasbro
digi_owl says:
One would think this was required reading for all managers these days:
Robert Baruch says:
Perhaps Hasbro is now controlled by the lawyers. And if all you've got are lawyers…
Jer_00 says:
Hasbro has turned themselves into a license/brand management company that still produces toys and games as a "cheap" method of keeping their brands out in the market. That's why they seem more concerned with figuring out how to turn every single product line they have into a Hollywood movie deal instead of figuring out how to innovate new toys and games. (You can make cases for Transformers and GI Joe as movie properties, but when "Battleship" is coming to theaters and people have options of "Monoploy" and "Sorry" for movies, the world has become a sad, sad place).
They're following the path blazed by Marvel Comics, who have also become a brand management company that still publishes comics as a "cheap" way of keeping their brands in the marketplace.
So, basically you're right. Hasbro is now a company controlled by lawyers because "intellectual property" is what they're selling. The physical goods are just a sideline that needs to break even at this point.
Steve Taylor says:
Plus the person they're hassling is someone who likes their product so much he's willing to effectively work as unpaid Hasbro marketer for a fair piece of his free time. Why the hell would you want to alienate someone like that?
stuck411 says:
Hmm, Hasbro's marketing/P.R. arm should have been the ones to handle this one. Not just the lawyers.These strong arm tactics are just going to send waves of geek boys to the nets to find ways to make awesome rubber band guns and to lay off of the Nerf. As a guy who's had to deal with trademarks & copyright issues, I get where Hasbro is coming from and why they do have to push the paperwork for future protections. But really? The backlash will hurt them.
Daniel Beaver says:
Not to mention that Hasbro isn't the only company making these kinds of toys – Buzz Bee competes directly against the Nerf brand with their own Air Zone brand. If Hasbro throws away their marketing edge, they shouldn't be surprised when Air Zone starts selling more toys guns at their expense.
tedrock says:
I am fairly sure the following link is for the item in question – found on the same site as the Nerf Blogger mentions. I think that some one at BoingBoing should buy this and send it to the guys at 'Will It Blend?"
Rajio says:
The guy legally purchased a thing from someone then wrote about it. Hes done absolutely nothing wrong. Hopefully he stands up for that fact.
retepslluerb says:
In most jurisdictions you can't legally buy fresh stolen goods, though.
Bevatron Repairman says:
This is hardly a new pattern, but has anyone ever looked into the internal dynamics of when and whether a company decides to send their high-priced lawyers after a fan blog like this? Sending lawyers from Baker and MacKenzie to go shake down the neighbors seems like a terrible use of Hasbros money, of course, but more than that — how high up the ladder in a corporation do you have to go to authorize that kind of expense?
These sorts of decisions are probably not happening at the CEO/COO/General Counsel level — Hasbro has plenty of actual legal things to worry about — but it would be interesting to learn whether this stuff happens because a PR guy has f'd up a product launch and wants to cover his arse (in, apparently, the worst possible way).My assumptions could be wrong, but when I was big-firm lawyering, I got calls from people way down the chain looking to cover their own ass on the company's nickel.
desperado says:
do tell. Explain this from the other side please.
Ramone says:
I'm gonna guess there's going to be a new opening in PR at Hasbro in 3…2…1…
Angryjim says:
I'm sure Nerf is being mentioned a lot in the news for free. I had kinda forgot about that company. Now look, I'm mentioning it too. CAn you call it a Barbra Streisand effect if they subject matter in question wants to be advertised?
digi_owl says:
I suspect it can, because in the end the effect is all about trying to control the narrative and having the attempt blow up in ones face.
Hey, i've been in contact with that guy. Submitted quite a few things to his site (nothing that Hasbro has been pestering about though).
I included an image of the blaster Hasbro and tried (and failed) to keep off the internet.
Isn't it ironic all this news started to get picked up on Barbra Sreisand's birthday. I guess this would be the perfect time for the folks over at Hasbro to look up the "Streisand Effect" online…
digi_owl says:
odd, i thought that thing was out already. Been seeing it around the web for what feels like ages.
It's basically a re-shelled and upgraded version of the Nerf Raider but with more powerful internals and a smaller capacity drum.
digi_owl says:
joeposts says:
Give it a few years, we'll have cheap 3D printers and can download and print out our own bootleg Nerf gatling guns, that'll teach the bastards.
digi_owl says:
That should make for a interesting (in the chinese sense) development.
Chris McFeely says:
"I haven't done anything wrong", says he. Well, you know, aside from buying merchandise that's not legally available yet via an auction site. Or "stolen goods", as some might call it.
lafave says:
Do you have actual knowledge that the toys in question were stolen? Define the phrase "legally available" . Are you saying that what the blogger did was illegal? And if so, how do you know that what the blogger did was illegal in Australia?
What do you think of the value the blogger adds to the Hasbro brand by giving free and enthusiastic web promotion? Who damaged Hasbro more through their activities herein described: the blogger or Hasbro?
EH says:
As far as I know, outside of contract law, available is available. What concept of "legally available" are you working with here?
Chris McFeely says:
Yeees, let's all pretend the not-yet-available merchandise purchased from a Chinese auction site was totally above-board.
atimoshenko says:
If it is a site of major commerce, it is not the buyer's responsibility to evaluate provenance.
Daniel Beaver says:
Taobao and eBay aren't shady underground markets. You're seeing sinister motives when none are present.
dexitroboper says:
_Someone's_ in the pocket of Big Nerf.
Broccoli022 says:
You act like employees of major companies don't buy things or get things from their employer previous to their launch and dump them straight up on eBay or wherever…
mccrum says:
I find it interesting that you're assuming that he purchased said goods from said auction site when both he and Hasbro are discussing who had sent him the information for the review:
"Yang fired back over email, agreeing to take the images down but, citing recent amendments to the Australian Evidence Act regarding a journalistic obligation to protect his sources, refused to name his informant"
So, by this article, he has done nothing wrong.
dculberson says:
"Reconsidering?" What do they have to do, eat his puppy? I would have every last bit of Hasbro branded stuff out of my house that day and re-work the blog into an anti-Hasbro site that night.
simonbarsinister says:
Here is what to do:
1. Create a site: http://www.BetterThanHasbro.com or http://www.BetterThanNerf.com
2. Fill it with DIY designs for fun easy home pop guns and other toys similar to NERFs.
3. Right on the home page proudly proclaim: "Better Than Hasbro because (1) Its FREE (2) You made it yourself, with love (3) No one will send goons to your home on a Sunday afternoon to scare you with legal threats and intimidate you by harassing your neighbors (link to articles). Also splash THIS IS A PARODY all over it so mitigate the inevitable legal attack on this site.
Please someone do this!!!
Businesses only act by financial decisions. If acting like a bully and an ass COSTS them business they will stop. If it makes money, they will continue. Simple. So let's make it COST them money.
Joe F says:
I wonder if the US is this protective over their future guns!?
SamLL says:
Just an amusing bit of trivia from the blogger's letter to Hasbro and their associated law firm:
"She insisted I must know who the sellers were. I said that I did not remember and even if I did, if you go even to ebay.com.au you will see that vendors call themselves all kinds of odd names like ticklesandbananas and boingboing etc so they might as well be anonymous"
(Emphasis mine)
angusm says:
Timeo Hasbro et dona ferentes.
jowlsey says:
It's a damn shame one of the neighbor's didn't ask the lawyer for their home address so they could drop by unannounced to discuss the issue.
jonathan_v says:
Instead of BoyCotting, why not try to start a shareholder revolt or depress the stock ?
This is a ridiculous and obvious case of bad corporate governance and wasteful spending. If they have an idiot legal team that is wasting funds on this, what else are they wasting money on ?
lee prew says:
They make f**king TOYS! Had this been actual military hardware I could understand. Jeez! Taking the god damn Nerf a little too seriously boys! Over-reaction and grow up springs to mind.
Paul Nicholasi says:
Sounds like the phone call and later countless emails I got from Mattel legal for posting photoshopped images their people made and then handed off to retailers, where I picked them up. The person on the phone said I stole the images, conjuring visions of me sneaking up to my Mattel rep and lifting a flash drive from his pocket marked "The Loot!" These people threaten first and ask questions later..which is funny considering their common target is the web sites covering their items FREE OF CHARGE and more often then not, paying for the privilege out of their own pockets. There is no respect.
Brainspore says:
Things got worse when Yang complied with the takedown demand, but still came home to find "representatives" of Hasbro's law firm, Baker and McKenzie, skulking around his apartment building and freaking out the neighbours…
Eh, those goons don't seem quite as intimidating once you realize that the sidearms in their jackets only shoot foam rubber darts.
Stefan Jones says:
In related news, Hasbro representatives burst into the bedroom of Tiffany Mae Walters and confiscated her My Little Pony collection after word leaked out that she was playing with them wrong.
williambanzai7 says:
This is what big firm lawyers have to do now since Wall Street no longer pays the bills.
bcsizemo says:
Heaven forbid I wouldn't want Nerf to start making a good Super Soaker again…
Thanks for ruining my childhood some more Hasbro.
Grok says:
I thought Nerf only made balls? And they were round.
gtrjnky says:
This is an adult?
Roose_Bolton says:
Who do you mean, Hasbro? No, they are a corporation, but I'll agree, they DO seem to be acting childish.
That_Anonymous_Coward says:
Remember this is Hasbro who has been systematically destroying their own market.
The guy they put in charge of TSR compared D&D to checkers. They were unprepared for the resulting blacklash wave. This was after they changed the game yet again to make it so it played like a video game, to appeal to kids. It did nothing but turn the game into a joke. (Oh and it made the fortune of Pazio's Pathfinder System.)
They have people running WOTC who appear mostly clueless about the game they make. The bean counters decide how much product to print and that is it. When they hit on something good, they shortprint a future set to get more time on the presses for the old set. The waste time putting out premade decks that are filled with the worst possible cards, or they make 1 of 5 decks so good stores are left with just the crap to try and move. This causes issues for players being able to get the product. They had a huge national system of events, they gutted them and are moving everything to the "local" level. Several of the events on this level have resulted in horrible horrible events crammed into Days Inns where people just leave. They are trying to focus on the "casual" gamer, but manage to insult them at every turn.
Even their recent board game offerings have been a freaking joke. Battleship Galaxies? REALLY?
The lawyers are in charge of the place now. Lawyers know how to sue, litigate, intimidate. They do not understand if you go after someone actually promoting your products, they will stop promoting your products. Goodwill is a concept they do not understand. They don't get that sometimes its best to ask in your best human voice to get something, rather than show up and be lawyers.
Lamont Cranston says:
And then you have their ridiculous policies for ordering Star Wars figures – you can only order a box and the mix of figures in the box is heavily weighted towards figures no one really wants – the 2000th iteration of a Stormtrooper etc – and that hang around on pegs at stores forever.
I seriously wonder if the higher-ups at Hasbro actually actively hate their customers!!!
That_Anonymous_Coward says:
They like profits. Stormtrooper 2000 is cheaper to make. By making the figures people want rare, the retailer is eating the costs of warehouses full of Stormtrooper 2000. Of course they will raises prices here and there to make up the losses they have to sell ST2k at.
But Hasbro makes more money, because every retailer has to order more product from them to deliver what they want. Because if retailer A won't play along retailer B will just to get the bodies in the store. So all of them end up with tons of ST2k making higher prices for everyone.
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There is at least some good reasoning behind the way they handle the Star Wars figures.
The figures that collectors want have a lot of crossover with the ones that kids want - so they attempt to give everyone a fair shot at getting Darth Vader and not just Storm Trooper 2K.
If you look through the selection of Star Wars figures at a store, you'll find a bunch of Storm Trooper 2K and droids and aliens that were on screen for two seconds. You won't find the main characters, other than Yoda and maybe prequel Anakin.
They know the collector market is important – if it wasn't, they would make the good figures less rare – but they have to try to balance that with making sure kids can get the figures they want.
They're not doing a very good job, but at least they're trying.
That_Anonymous_Coward says:
As Hasbro isn't getting a cut of the collector market after the initial sale, why care?
You have collectors getting deals with shelf stockers to get their stuff pulled aside and not hitting the floor. Its supposed to be toys for kids.
If Hasbro wanted to embrace the collectors market they would produce a line specifically targeted at them. Better sculpts, better materials, etc.
But most of this is just cashing in on 3 movies made a long time ago, with 3 presequels that crapped on alot of peoples memories and people still buy the crap because of the name.
Keneke says:
Boycott Hasbro? Good luck getting bronies off their kick.
Lee Sweeney says:
Was told when Cosmic Encounters was reprinted it sold 800k units in 2 months, a great sales record for a board game, Hasbro considered it a Fail because it was under 2 mill.
They do not understand the market they have products in.
As for the strong arming Middle Manger syndrome is to blame I would think, hope the
worthless thug gets fired.


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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
The Horizon League announced its baseball awards Tuesday and the Crusaders tied first-place Milwaukee with ten players earning accolades.
Karch Kowalczyk (Peru, Ill./La Salle-Peru HS) was named Relief Pitcher of the Year for his work out of the closer role this season for Valparaiso.
"Karch battled through injuries early on in the year to be a two-way player and he fought through to be the arm that we needed to close out games," head coach Tracy Woodson.
Kowalczyk's nine saves and 0.42 earned run average were both best in the Horizon League. In 21 2/3 innings pitched, the junior surrendered just one run on eleven hits. He walked six and struck out sixteen batters.
Spencer Mahoney (La Grange Park, Ill./Lyons Township HS), Chris Manning (Lake Forest, Calif./El Toro HS), and Andrew Bain (Evansville, Ind./Park Tudor HS) were all named First Team All-League.
Mahoney hit .325 in 23 Horizon League games. A Louisville Slugger Freshmen All-American last season, Mahoney recorded an .801 on-base plus slugging-percentage and stole three bases.
"I'm excited that he's First Team back-to-back years. He started out slow, but really picked it up during conference play," Woodson remarked.
Manning had his best all-around season as a Crusader this spring while batting .318. His 13 extra-base hits were a team high. Manning tallied a .979 fielding percentage while patrolling right field for Valparaiso. He tied teammate Tanner Vavra for the stolen base lead on the club with eleven.
"After his first two years, he's had his best year as a junior. Chris just keeps getting better," Woodson said.
As a utility player selection, Bain hit .301 overall this season for the Crusaders, and .343 in League play. Bain walked more (18) than he struck out (16) and he's the 66th toughest player in Division I baseball to strike out with one K per 13.1 at-bats. His nine doubles were tied for the team lead.
"I'm happy to see Andrew got recognized after four years of hard work to help this program. He's been a constant source of toughness for our club," Woodson said.
In addition to earning Relief Pitcher of the Year recognition, Kowalczyk was named to the Second Team All-League as a pitcher along with Cole Webb (Tulsa, Okla./Coffeyville CC), first baseman John Loeffler (Burnsville, Minn./Des Moines Area CC) and second baseman Tanner Vavra (Menomonie, Wis./Madison CC).
Webb was the ace of the Horizon League-best Crusader pitching staff. He carries a misleading 4-7 win-loss record. His 3.20 earned run average is more indicative of the quality Valpo has received from the junior college transfer. Webb's ERA, innings pitched (84 1/3), opponents' batting average (.275), and strike outs (53) are all in the top 10 in the Horizon League.
Despite a League batting average (.291) higher than counterpart Alex Grunenwald's on-base percentage (.279), Loeffler was named Second Team All-League at first base. Grunenwald had significantly better power numbers than Loeffler, but the Valpo first baseman's on-base percentage of .411 was seventh-best of all Horizon League batters. The senior led the team in RBI with 38 and his 29 walks were also a club best.
A First Team All-League selection last season, Vavra was edged out by Player of the Year Michael Porcaro this season. One of the more complete players in recent memory at Valpo, Vavra led the Crusaders in runs scored (39), hits (66), hit by pitches (17), and on-base percentage (.424) in 2013. His .337 batting average was third in the League, just .001 behind Drew Dosch for second.
Webb, fellow starting pitcher Chris DeBoo (Chula Vista, Calif./Cal State-Northridge), and Bryce Hara (Irvine, Calif./Irvine Valley College) were also named to the All-Newcomer Team.
DeBoo, a fifth-year senior, represented consistency in the weekend rotation for Valpo. His 14 starts are tied for the 14th-most in Division I and his 1.56 walks per nine innings pitched is 65th-lowest in the country. DeBoo has crafted a 2.80 ERA in his last four starts.
Hara provided plus-range in center field for Valpo this spring as well as a .265 batting average and .382 on-base percentage in 24 Horizon League games. The junior college transfer stole seven bases on the season and smacked five sacrifice flies.
"I'm very excited with the number of selections we have coming back. A lot of these guys are going to be back next season," Woodson concluded.
The full awards are listed below:
First Team All-League
Second Team All-League
All-Newcomer Team
Player of the Year: Michael Porcaro, Milwaukee


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---- — MALONE — A 2013 budget hearing turned into a call for Franklin County to seek reimbursement for expenses that involve the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation at Akwesasne.
District Attorney Derek Champagne said the county spends about $1.8 million on prosecutions, defense and supervision of North American Indians in the criminal-justice system. He thinks the state or federal governments should be approached about covering those expenses, and he offered to go to Albany and Washington, D.C., with interested county legislators to lobby for that relief.
He said cases involving reservation residents make up about 18 percent of the Probation Department caseload, 14.25 percent of the jail costs at the Sheriff's Department, 19 percent of his caseload in the DA's office, 19 percent in indigent-defense costs and 19 percent of the Public Defender's Office expenses.
"I'm asking why should taxpayers pick up this bill?" Champagne said. "The state of New York should step up to the plate."
The DA said Franklin County ranks 12th in the state in unemployment and 14th in persons living in poverty, which makes an even tougher burden on stressed property owners here.
County Treasurer Bryon Varin added that there are similar costs accumulating in other departments, such as his.
"I think it's greater than that ($1.8 million)," he said. "There are other tangible costs in the County Manager's Office and the County Clerk with the records."
He offered to sit down with Champagne and go over the numbers to provide even more facts to state and federal leaders.
The DA also lobbied legislators for a pay raise for Public Defender Thomas Soucia and all non-union personnel who, on average, have not had a raise for three years.
County Manager and Budget Officer Thomas Leitz said here is $150,000 earmarked for raises in the proposed plan, but that money could be pulled and used toward something else.
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Numbers are an important part of anyone's life. Phone numbers, Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, all figure into everyday life for all of us. But here is a number that will give you a chance to rescue some children who really need your help: 10837987. That's the number you can use to go Christmas shopping for Lost Voices through the Barnes & Noble Bookfair program.
Lost Voices is a Michigan nonprofit representing a group of songwriters and musicians founded by Erma Bombeck Award-winning humorist and folk singer Mike Ball. These performers have dedicated themselves to changing the lives of incarcerated and at-risk young men and women. "We sit down with children who are in trouble, most of them to the point that they are locked up, and we help them explore their feelings in music," said Ball. "They write individual songs, and they write songs as a group. At the end of each workshop, the kids go on stage with us in a professional concert to perform their work for their peers, their teachers, and their families. The growth and healing we see on that stage, and even in the audience, is incredible!"
Here's how the Bookfair works; when you buy something in Barnes & Noble stores from December 14 through December 20, you simply give that magic number to the cashier, and a percentage of what you spend goes to help the folks at Lost Voices. The Book Fair is also available for online shoppers at BarnesAndNoble.com right through Christmas eve, from December 14 through December 24. When you check out online, you click a link that says "Check if this is a Bookfair Order" and enter the number.
The more people who shop the Bookfair for Lost Voices, the higher the percentage Barnes & Noble will donate, so anyone who wants to really help out can go a step further and spread the word (and the number) to all their friends, family, and strangers on the street.
To kick off the Bookfair, three of the Lost Voices artists will be performing free concerts in the Ann Arbor, Brighton and Northville Barnes & Noble stores on Friday, December 14 from 7 to 9 PM. Folk music legend Josh White, Jr. will be at the Northville store on Haggerty Road; award-winning Celtic singer/songwriter Kitty Donohoe will be in the Ann Arbor store on Washtenaw Avenue; and Mike Ball, along with Scott Clauser, Sharon Tse and John Finan, will be at the Brighton store at Green Oak Village Place.
At each of these concerts you can hear some of the music written by the kids in the Lost Voices program, and Lost Voices volunteers will pass out stickers and coupons for the Bookfair.
"Many of the kids we work with have done bad things," said Ball, "and bad things have happened to them. At the end of the day, they are also children, who are really not all that different from your kids or mine. They deserve whatever help we can give them."
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Here's where you find the best of the best, our top digital cameras across the board.
While it's a perfectly fine camera when you're making the jump from a point-and-shoot, there are better choices than the Canon EOS Rebel T5.
Unless it's got some hidden tricks or deep price cuts in its future, the T5's entry-level dSLR competitors should have little to worry about.
An overall excellent camera, but one that fails to capture the best-in-class prize for image quality.
This basic dSLR doesn't stand out from the competition.
While the Canon EOS Rebel SL1 is a perfectly reasonable entry-level dSLR, you can get the same photo and video quality in a smaller body for the same money (or less) by opting for a mirrorless interchangeable-lens model.
While it provides one of the best touch-screen experiences in its class and the compact body is quite comfortable to shoot with, the Canon EOS M's disappointing performance and blah feature set make it less attractive than competitors.
While the Canon EOS Rebel T5i is -- almost literally -- the same solid camera as its predecessor, it's starting to lag frustratingly behind the competition in some ways.
The photo quality you get from the EOS 6D makes it well worth the upgrade over a consumer APS-C model, but between this and comparable or higher-end models it's a less obvious choice.
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NAUGATUCK -- Two kickball teams played through cold winds, rain, sleet and exhaustion in Naugatuck park to reach a record-setting goal over the weekend.
And, at 12:04 p.m. on Sunday, after 51 hours of play time with a break in between, the kickball enthusiasts cheered after surpassing the previous world record.
The teams played for a grand total of 54 hours. The previous record for longest played kickball game was 51 hours.
Event organizers said a videocamera, as well as two official recorders, were on scene to document the entire three-day game. By the time the fifty-first hour hit, the teams were in their 325th inning and the score was 160-111.
Both teams were named after cancer survivors, Juliana Beloin and Sammy Foran. All of the players garnered donations in the lead up to the game, with all of the proceeds going to CureSearch, an organization that funds doctors as they try to research a cure to child cancer.
A total of $41,000 was raised.
The teammates that brought in the top donations were as follows:
Molly Mendez - $7,625
Jason Pardy - $6,950
Sean Cummings - $2,436
Aaron Hellman - $2,000
Delia Foran - $1,500
Lenny Patterson - $1,035
Here are all the players in the game. Most were from Naugatuck and surrounding towns, while a few came from places as far as West Hartford and even Georgia.Team Juliana (Red) Team Sammy (Green) Player Name Amount Raised Molly Mendez Aaron Hillman Jason Pardy Delia Foran Sean Cummings Lenny Patterson Jassico Raho Phil Pronvencher Stephanie Magill Stacy McPhate Josh Rigney Liz Howley Chris McGrath Kenneth Haas Ali Glenn Michael Mancini Ed Callahan Stephanie Leahy Justin Savarese Kim Brewer Lauren Vassallo Ellen Murray John Costa Kristy Gentile Kyle Settle Jonathan Nyer Megan Resser Todd Marshall Matthew Allan Catherine Nagel Paul Gramolini Jason Blackson Domanique Alston Brad Thomas Tony Cash Jason England Marjorie DeSisto Randy Johnson Francesco Gambiao Sean Choun Debbie Gentile Douglas Giordano Andrew Sabia Cheech Giordano Rena Smoklis David Martin Clark Kathan Matthew DiSorbo
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This 36" long RAP4 Paintball Gun Bag is the soft-sided solution you need for carrying your full-size paintball marker, magazines, sidearm, and other gear with ease! The case is padded on each side, and all around the edges to protect your marker in transit and help maintain the settings on your sights—the case protects you from the "scope bump" that affects the impact point of your paint!
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