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Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 11-15-12
To view the previous Privacy Policy, click here.
dealsaver.com ("dealsaver.com", "we", "our") has a firm commitment to privacy. We take your privacy concerns seriously and want to make reasonable efforts to address them as we strive to offer our Site visitors a high quality, interactive and personalized experience. This Privacy Policy explains our position on information gathering and how we intend to use and share any information we collect. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by dealsaver.com and does not apply to information obtained or used by The McClatchy Company's individual newspapers or its affiliates through other means. Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy shall have the meanings set forth in the Terms of Service.
You understand and agree that, by visiting dealsaver.com and its affiliated sites ("Sites"), you are accepting, without modification, this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any portion of this Privacy Policy, then your only option is to not use dealsaver.com.
dealsaver.com collects and stores personally identifiable information such as your name, address, and e-mail address. The information that we collect and store about you depends on the page you visit and the services in which you elect to participate. We use this information to operate our services, improve the quality of our services, offer you opportunities we think will interest you, and better tailor the merchant deals and advertising you see from us to suit you. This information is not shared with anyone outside of The McClatchy Company's individual newspapers and dealsaver.com except as provided for in this Privacy Policy or as explained at the time the information is collected. More specifics on the information we collect and how we use it are outlined within this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is subject to change from time to time by dealsaver.com and your continued use of dealsaver.com and any of its Sites means you agree to, without modification, the revisions. If you are a registered member of dealsaver.com, you will be notified of material revisions to this Privacy Policy via an e-mail message to the e-mail address that you provided at registration. If you are not a registered member of dealsaver.com, you may view revisions to this Privacy Policy on this page. Material changes to this Privacy Policy will be indicated by a revised effective date at the top left hand corner of this page. Whether or not you are a registered member of dealsaver.com, it is your responsibility to check back and review this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with the most current terms. Should you object to any such modifications to this Privacy Policy or become dissatisfied with dealsaver.com in any way, your only option is to immediately terminate your membership and discontinue use of dealsaver.com and any of its affiliated Sites. You can terminate your membership by sending your request via dealsaver.com's Contact Us page. If you have registered for dealsaver.com in more than one city, please list any or all cities to which your termination of membership is to apply in your request. Otherwise, continuing to use the dealsaver.com Sites and services after the effective date means that you agree to be bound by the changes, without modification.
1. Information We Collect
Access to certain special content, services and features on the dealsaver.com Sites may require users to become registered members at dealsaver.com. Member registration may require you to provide certain personally identifiable information, such as your name, e-mail address, street address, zip code, telephone number, gender, and date of birth. If you choose to purchase a daily deal or other offer, we also require credit card and billing information. For more information about how we use your credit card and billing information, see the Section below titled "Electronic commerce". You will be asked to select a member name and password so that you have access to this information and can revise it in the future. At registration you will have the opportunity to opt out of subscribing to e-mail newsletters and alerts sent to you on behalf of dealsaver.com and its advertisers.
Some features and services of dealsaver.com may require additional personally identifiable information or other demographic information. We may collect other personally identifiable information when you provide feedback, comments, engage in chat, message boards, interactive forums, social networking areas of our Sites or participate in surveys, or if you contact us offline at dealsaver.com or any of The McClatchy Company's individual newspapers, their websites and social networking sites. For example, when you enter contests you will be asked to also provide your phone number so that we can reach you in the event you have won a prize. All users may decline to share such information with us, by choosing not to register on dealsaver.com or not to use our services. Only registered members, however, may access certain content, services and features.
You may also be asked to create a separate registration account with some of the services provided by partners and other third-party providers on dealsaver.com. Be aware that the information collected by a third-party provider will be subject to that provider's privacy policy and terms of service, rather than this Privacy Policy. We, therefore, recommend you review the privacy policy of each third-party service provider with whom you interact and each Web site you visit prior to submitting information in connection therewith.
If you wish to forward a deal offer, Certificate, article or other dealsaver.com content to a friend, we will ask that you provide your friend's name and e-mail address. While we may collect statistics on which deals are forwarded, we do not sell, rent, or market your friend's personal information, and retain the information only as long as necessary to provide this service. We also collect information that you provide us about other people when you purchase dealsaver Certificates as gifts, including those persons' contact information you share at time of purchase. We will also create a transaction record of your gift to those persons.
If you use a social media platform or your mobile device (or other method of communication) to interact with dealsaver.com or any of The McClatchy Company's individual newspapers, their websites and their social networking areas, the application may have a specific privacy statement that governs the use of personal information related to that application. For example, if you use a dealsaver.com mobile application and your mobile device's settings allow it, we may collect mobile location information from your device. Our application may be designed to collect information even if you are not logged into the dealsaver.com application or the sites. If you have questions about the security and privacy settings of your mobile device, please refer to instructions from your mobile service provider or the manufacturer of your device to learn how to adjust your settings.
We may also collect information about you and your friends who use dealsaver.com from any social network you may have connected from, in order to provide you with a more personalized experience. For instance, we may collect your user name or profile information that you have permitted to be displayed through dealsaver.com in order to display you as a friend or in association with your profile and connections.
We may receive personal information about you from other sources with which you have registered, companies who we have partnered with (collectively, "Partners") or other third parties. We may associate this information with the other personal information we have collected about you, for example linking your deal redemption information received from a merchant to your account.
2. Passive Data Collection and Use
Like most Web sites, dealsaver.com also collects and logs information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that may be transparent to you, such as your IP address, the name and location of your Internet Service Provider, the type and version of your browser, the length of time that you stay on dealsaver.com, search queries, your click-stream data, the location that referred you to dealsaver.com and the average number of pages viewed. If you visit another Web site prior to browsing dealsaver.com, that Web site might place personally identifiable information within a URL, which may be logged by us. Your IP address is the identifier assigned to your particular computer when you access the Internet. Depending on how you connect to the Internet, your IP address may always be the same, or it may change each time you access the Internet. Note that logging your IP address does not in and of itself provide us with your name, e-mail address or home or work address. We use this log information for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes and may also use it to gather general demographic information about you such as your general location and your Internet Service Provider. To better provide our services to you and to develop member profiles that enable us to tailor dealsaver.com's deals. Services and its advertisements to your interests, we may correlate this log information with other information about you, such as your registration information, purchase history or newspaper subscription records. We may provide to third parties anonymous aggregated (non-personally identifiable) general information about our Sites and their users.
We also use certain "tracking codes" when you are engaged in a transaction on the dealsaver.com Sites. The codes enable us to track your activities during and help you complete and effectuate the transaction process.
You may also manage the sharing of certain personal information with us when you connect with us through a social media platform or application, such as through Facebook Connect. Please refer to the privacy settings of the social media website or application to determine how you may adjust our permissions and manage the interactivity between dealsaver.com and your social media account or your mobile device.
3. Use of Cookies
Most standard Web browsers contain a feature called "cookies," which allow a Web site to place information about a user's visit to that Web site in a small data text file that is stored on the user's computer We use both "session" cookies and "persistent" cookies. "Session" cookies are temporary cookies used for various reasons, such as to manage page views. Your browser usually erases session cookies once you exit your browser. "Persistent" cookies are more permanent cookies that are stored on your computers or mobile devices even beyond when you exit your browser. Our use of cookie technology will likely be transparent to you and is used to recognize you and hold information from one visit to the next in an effort to increase your ease of use of dealsaver.com and to allow us to better understand how people use dealsaver.com through click-stream analysis. For example, we use "persistent" cookies to store information such as your member name and password, sparing you from having to re-enter that information each time you visit. Another example is that we may use cookie technology to control the number of times you see a particular advertisement while visiting dealsaver.com. You can turn the cookies feature off by using your browser preference options, but doing so will severely limit your access to dealsaver.com and may prevent you from using certain functions.
Some of dealsaver.com's third-party content and service providers also may place a cookie on your computer. If you choose to monitor or restrict cookies that are placed on this computer, you can determine the Web site that is attempting to place a cookie. Those cookies are controlled by the content or service provider, and you should refer to that provider's privacy policy for further information regarding its use of cookies and about your options not to accept them.
Pages on dealsaver.com may contain tiny electronic images known as web beacons. We use web beacons to assist us in delivering cookies on dealsaver.com and to allow us to count users who have visited those pages. We may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. Many of our web beacons are provided by Omniture, which uses the domain 2o7.net. Please refer to Omniture's privacy policy at http://www.omniture.com/en/privacy for more information concerning the use of web beacons. Users may elect to opt out of Omniture cookie tracking by following this link http://www.omniture.com/en/privacy/2o7 and clicking on the "Click Here To Opt-Out of 2o7.net Cookie Tracking Now" link at the bottom of the page.
4. Use of Personally Identifiable Information
Personally identifiable information may be accessed by the user who entered it, by individual local McClatchy newspapers and dealsaver.com personnel, and by certain third parties, such as those who provide technical support, hosting, transaction, payment or credit card processing or content services to dealsaver.com. For example, your billing and credit card information will be shared with third parties who perform tasks required to process and complete the purchase transaction.
We require these third parties to keep any personal information supplied by us confidential and to if they are provide credit card or other payment processing services, to comply with applicable Payment Card Industry (PCI) standards. Except for disclosures to Merchants as noted below, we also endeavor to keep your personally identifiable information inaccessible to other users or advertisers of dealsaver.com. Note that your first name may be displayed on dealsaver.com when you visit dealsaver.com as a logged in member. We will also display your e-mail address and contact information in your Member Center. While no Web site is completely secure, we make reasonable efforts to secure the Member Center, such that; it can only be accessed by logging in with your member name and password.
We may also disclose personally identifiable information when deemed necessary or appropriate:
- to comply with a subpoena or other service of process, court order, or other legal proceeding, or if otherwise requested by a legitimate law enforcement body to cooperate in their investigations;
- to otherwise comply with applicable law;
- to prevent, investigate, or to take some other action against illegal activities, potential fraud, potential physical threats to any person, or as required by law;
- to a successor or acquirer in connection with the sale or transfer of business assets, if we sell all or a part of our business;
- to protect the rights, property, or safety of dealsaver.com, The McClatchy Company individual newspapers, its affiliates or others.
- to Merchants providing a Certificate's products and services to validate the dealsaver Certificates that will be presented to them for redemption, to aid and troubleshoot redemption, and to combat fraud.
5. Use of Aggregated Information
To describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and others, we may use your personally identifiable information to create a compiled, aggregate and anonymous view of the dealsaver.com audience and their usage patterns ("Aggregated Information"). We use Aggregated Information to operate our services and to better understand our audience as we develop new content and services. Aggregated Information may also be shared with third parties with whom we contract to provide content and services on dealsaver.com as well as advertisers so that they can better understand our audience. For example, we might disclose that a certain percentage of our users are female or within a certain age range or live within a cluster of ZIP codes.
6. Children's Privacy
dealsaver.com is particularly concerned with providing a safe online environment for children. Children under the age 18 will not be allowed to register and become a member of dealsaver.com. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from or about children under 18 except as permitted by law. If we discover we have received any information from a child under 18 in violation of this Privacy Policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe we have any information from or about anyone under 18, please contact us at dealsaver.com, 111 West Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC 27601, or 1-877-223-7355, or email@example.com.
We market families-related products or services for purchase by adults. By using dealsaver.com, you are representing that you are at least 18 years old and that you have the legal capacity to enter into contracts.
7. Member Mail and E-mail Offers
dealsaver.com does not rent, sell, barter or give away its user or member lists or its users' or members' names, e-mail addresses or mailing addresses for use by advertisers and other third parties for the purpose of solicitations, unless the user has previously given his or her consent at the time of general registration or registration for a specific contest, transaction or service, except that we share with the Merchant whose Certificates you purchase your name and zip code and the recipient's name. For example, you will be asked when you register on dealsaver.com or when you make a purchase, participate in a contest or sweepstakes, or other transaction on dealsaver.com whether you wish to receive solicitations from Merchants or other third parties, in which case we will share your name, e-mail or mailing address to such Merchants for these purposes. If a user granted permission to receive solicitations (referred to on dealsaver.com as e-mail Offers) at the time of registration but subsequently wishes to opt out from receiving such solicitations, the user may visit the Member Center, if applicable, and change their permissions related to receiving e-mail from the McClatchy Company individual newspapers and dealsaver.com advertisers. Alternatively, the user may opt-out by following the opt-out instructions provided at the bottom of each email newsletter.
All registered users will receive periodic Member Mail e-mail related to their membership account or various features and services on the dealsaver.com or the individual McClatchy local newspaper web sites to which their membership entitles them access. Because Member Mail is an integral part of our service to you, users cannot opt-out of receiving Member Mail. If you do not want to receive Member Mail, your only option is to terminate your membership by sending your request via dealsaver.com's Contact Us page. If you have registered for dealsaver.com in more than one city, please list any or all cities to which your termination of membership is to apply in your request.
Separate from dealsaver.com Member Mail, a McClatchy Company individual local newspaper may send you information via e-mail about various products or services that we believe may be of interest to you, including e-mails that may contain content provided by third-party advertisers. If you do not want to receive this information, you can opt out by following the opt-out instructions provided at the bottom of each email newsletter.
When a user specifically authorizes e-mail solicitations we make available the user names and other personally identifiable information in accordance with the applicable license.
Our HTML-encoded e-mail messages may include graphic files, which we use to gather information about e-mails sent our members. When such a message is opened in an HTML-capable e-mail program, the recipient's computer accesses our server to retrieve the graphic file, and allows us to record and store the date and time, the recipient's e-mail address, and other standard logging information. These HTML-encoded e-mail messages may also read cookies.
8. Affiliated Sites, Linked Sites and Advertisements
dealsaver.com expects its partners, providers of content and services and advertisers to respect the privacy of its users. Be aware, however, that third parties, including our partners, providers of content and services, advertisers and others accessible through our Site may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to dealsaver.com you may link to, or view as part of a frame on a dealsaver.com page, certain content that is actually created or hosted by a third party. Also through dealsaver.com you may be introduced to, or be able to access information, services, Web sites, features, contest or sweepstakes offered by other parties. The McClatchy Company individual newspapers and dealsaver.com are not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should use common sense when you navigate the Web and be aware of when you travel outside of dealsaver.com. In addition, you should carefully review the applicable privacy policies of each Web site you visit and each Web service you use.
9. Electronic Commerce
For certain electronic commerce services on dealsaver.com, such as purchasing deal certificates electronically, we require additional information. To complete these transactions, we or third parties we engage may collect information from you such as your name, credit card number and other financial or personally identifiable information. We endeavor to protect the security of your payment information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, which encrypts information you submit. dealsaver.com uses the credit card and shipping information for the purpose of completing the transaction and does not provide this information to third parties except for the providers of the transaction processing and the issuers of credit cards in order to process the transaction, or as otherwise set forth in this policy.
10. Referring Friends to dealsaver.com
dealsaver.com enables you to refer friends to dealsaver.com. You may be eligible to receive rewards in the form of a credit available for use toward future dealsaver.com deal purchases or to earn other benefits for referring friends (subject to any applicable rules for referring a friend and details available on our Sites). If you wish to refer friends to dealsaver.com, we provide you a unique referral link, which you can share directly with others via email, social media websites, or other communications methods. If someone clicks your link and takes a qualifying action, we may attribute that referral to you for purposes such as awarding reward credit. dealsaver.com does not collect personal information about the persons with whom you share your link until the persons click the link and engage directly with dealsaver.com.
11. Changing Your Personal Information and Deleting Your Account
In general, if you are a registered member, you may return to your account information page in the Member Center to update the information you previously provided to us. To prevent minors from improperly entering contests for which they are not eligible, we may require additional proof from people asking to change information regarding their date of birth. dealsaver.com may retain personal information for an indefinite amount of time.
You can delete your dealsaver.com membership account by sending your request via dealsaver.com's Contact Us page. If you have registered for dealsaver.com in more than one city, please list any or all cities to which your termination of membership is to apply in your request By doing so, all but a transactional record of your membership account will be removed from our databases, though some records may remain on back-up media. Note that by deleting your account, you will cancel your membership and may no longer be able to access those parts of dealsaver.com for which membership is required.
12. Remember the Risks When You Use the Internet/Security
You should know that when you voluntarily disclose personal information in a public location on the dealsaver.com Site (for example, in deal comment forums or related social networking areas), that information may be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people. While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot be responsible for information that you choose to publicly disclose. Further, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information.
dealsaver.com has implemented an information security program that contains administrative, technical and physical controls that are designed to reasonably safeguard personal information supplied by users of our Sites. For example, we use industry-standard encryption technology to secure credit card and other payment and billing information when it is being transmitted over the Internet. However, although we make good faith efforts to store the information we collect in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public and to work with responsible third parties, we cannot guarantee complete security for your information.
You may choose to log in or access dealsaver.com using the Facebook Connect feature. By doing this, you are asking Facebook to send us certain information from your Facebook profile, and you authorize us to collect, store and use in accordance with this Privacy Policy any and all information available to us through the Facebook interface.
In addition, our advertisers, content providers, partners and other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through dealsaver.com have separate data and privacy practices that are independent of us, and we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Please contact those sites directly if you have questions about their privacy policies.
13. Notice to California Residents - Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you have the right to receive: a) information identifying any third-party company(ies) to whom dealsaver.com may have disclosed, within the past year, personal information pertaining to you and your family for that company's direct marketing purposes; and b) a description of the categories of personal information disclosed. To obtain such information, please e-mail your request to email@example.com.
14. International Users
If you are an international user, by using dealsaver.com or by registering for any of its services, you agree that dealsaver.com may collect, use and transfer your personal information as described in this privacy policy, including transfers outside the country where you live. Please note that dealsaver.com is headquartered in the United States of America and that by providing personal information to us, you agree that your personal information may be accessed by us or transferred to us in the United States or to our affiliates, business partners, merchants, or service providers elsewhere in the world. If you reside in a country in the European Union or other jurisdiction that provides access rights under law, you may access your personal information or have it corrected or updated by going to your account information page in the Member Center and personally updating the information in accordance with applicable law or by contacting us at the address or e-mail set forth below. In some jurisdictions, you may be charged a reasonable fee for access to information.
15. Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about our policies, we may be reached at dealsaver.com, c/o McClatchy Interactive, 111 West Hargett Street, Raleigh, NC 27601 or 1-877-223-7355 or at email@example.com.


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It's not surprising that according to Gallup "Well-Being is the single most powerful thing you can do to improve organizational and individual performance and lower costs". Among Gallup's Top 10 U.S. Well-Being discoveries in 2013 are examples such as:
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- Workers who smoke cost the U.S. economy $278 billion annually
- Engaged employees have a healthier lifestyle
- Among U.S. workers, lack of exercise is linked more to obesity than eating habits
We know that many, if not all, of these U.S. discoveries are also true in both Asia and Europe presenting significant opportunities for organizations today. As leaders in the field of Well-Being and Healthcare management, we play a critical role by making well-being a core business strategy that ultimately saves lives, reduces health care costs, enhances productivity and inspires higher levels of engagement. Topics will include:
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The Baseball Tomorrow Fund (BTF) and the New York Mets Foundation will donate up to $1 million through a relief grant program for youth baseball and softball organizations that were directly affected by Superstorm Sandy. The grant program, which will be administered by the Baseball Tomorrow Fund, is intended to provide support to organizations to maintain or re-establish youth baseball and softball programs and/or facilities affected by the storm. Grant applications are currently being accepted through May 31. Application instructions and evaluation criteria are available at BaseballTomorrowFund.com.
"Immediately after the storm, we made a pledge to help our hometown recover from Sandy. This grant program, in partnership with the Baseball Tomorrow Fund, to restore fields damaged by Sandy is another opportunity for us to lend a hand in this ongoing process," said Fred Wilpon, Chairman & CEO, New York Mets. "The recovery effort has been and will continue to be a priority for all of us at the Mets in the weeks and months ahead."
"The aftermath of Superstorm Sandy is still being felt throughout many communities in the United States, and the national pastime is honored to continue our support of the efforts to rebuild," said Baseball Commissioner Allan H. (Bud) Selig. "Major League Baseball is proud that the joint commitment of the Baseball Tomorrow Fund and the New York Mets Foundation will help local baseball and softball organizations recover from the storm, and all of us throughout the game hope that the donation will ease one aspect of the significant burdens on these communities."
"The players are pleased to join with the Commissioner's Office and the Clubs, including the New York Mets Foundation, in supporting the Baseball Tomorrow Fund's efforts to offer financial assistance to youth baseball and softball organizations based in areas hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy," said MLBPA Executive Director Michael Weiner. "The storm's destruction was devastating, and many children living in its path have suffered through challenging disruptions to their daily lives and surroundings. With that in mind, we look forward to doing our part to help communities get their baseball and softball programs up and running as soon as possible."
BTF, which is a joint initiative between Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), is designed to promote the growth of youth baseball and softball throughout the world. Since its formation by MLB and the MLBPA in 1999, BTF has awarded more than $23 million, benefiting approximately 325,000 young people in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Driven by Mets ownership, the Mets Foundation follows the top-down philosophy of "Doing Well While Doing Good" to give back to the community through multiple platforms and initiatives throughout the year in and around New York.


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Animal research debate set
9/13/2007 11:14 am
Should animals be used by UW-Madison researchers? Are they a reliable predictor of diseases and their cures for human beings?
Two highly respected experts on the subject will tackle that issue in a debate sponsored by The Capital Times at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, in the auditorium of the Wisconsin Historical Society building on the UW's Library Mall.
Ray Greek, a retired anesthesiologist, author of three books on the use of animals in human disease and drug research and president of Americans for Medical Advancement, insists that animal research is useless to predict human results.
He will square off with UW-Madison Prof. Eric Sandgren, an animal researcher and chair of two animal research oversight committees on campus, who argues that human medical advances have been made as a result of research using animals.
The debate is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Dave Zweifel, editor of The Capital Times, will moderate the debate. After presentations by the debaters, they will answer written questions from the audience.
Friday, September 14, 2007
Animal research debate set
From the September 13, 2007 Capital Times
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Bipolar Disorder and African Americans
Every person, regardless of race or ethnicity, should seek help if they have a mental health problem or symptoms of a mental disorder.
-- David Satcher, M.D., Former U.S. Surgeon General
Every person, regardless of race or ethnicity, should seek help if they have a mental health problem or symptoms of a mental disorder.
-- David Satcher, M.D., Former U.S. Surgeon General
Every annoying adult will tell a teenager that adolescence can be a troubling time. Hormones drive moods and the struggle to find both identity and your place with friends can be a touch and go experience. Observing friends' moods can help you gauge whether your own fall outside the typical range or not.
When your feelings seem more intense—either when you're happy or when you're sad— than those of your friends, it's worth exploring the signs and contours of a mood disorder.
I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder eleven years ago. Over the years, I have become familiar with my symptoms and I'm actually good at recognizing them for what they are (which is a good thing) and addressing them. One of the main issues I have always had are my thoughts. Racing thoughts, obsessive thoughts and grandiose thoughts (although I don't struggle with the last one since I've been medicated properly and stable).
I don't like running. To be honest, I began running out of vanity. My ten year high school reunion was coming up and I refused to look as if I'd just bore two children when I walked through that ballroom door so I started running. Walking just took too long. Since then, ten years have passed and I'm still running. I don't run fast and I don't run far, but I do run. There have been waves of time that I've run nearly every day, up to six miles at a time. And there have been spans of time that I only run a couple of days a week for only twenty minutes a pop. But I do run.
I can always tell when I am dealing with renovation construction while in a hypomanic mood. It costs money, lots of it. My landscaping job started at $5000+-. Add a walkway and entrance pad of hand laid stone on a whim. $12,000+- total. Add an irrigation system $14,500+- total. Finish off with a driveway tearing apart and repaving with stone liners $19000+- total.
Those of us who have battled Bipolar II long enough know the signs of hypomania. And since a hypomanic episode happens so rarely compared with depression, when one does occur, it feels like receiving a beautifully gift-wrapped present. We unwrap it with frenzied anticipation, knowing the gift comes with an expiration date. Just what we've hoped for, just what we've wanted, but it may not be exactly what we need, like a sweater ordered from a catalog that doesn't fit quite right.
When I saw Britney Spears on the news on a gurney with paramedics, sirens blaring, a team of policemen, two helicopters, chaos, and a lot of paparazzi and she was placed on a 5150 my heart was breaking and tears filled my eyes. I said to myself, "Oh my God! Even a pop princess can have a mental breakdown." Suddenly, I started having flashbacks of all the times I was strapped down on a gurney being taken to a mental hospital.
For extra fun these last three days--I've been experiencing symptoms of a mixed episode. I am wildly rosy and ready to take charge...and simultaneously weeping uncontrollably. And unable to sleep.
I wept while I cleaned and alphabetized the pantry.
Fought back guttural sobs as I made chicken stock and spice cake.
Last Tuesday, I was telling my friend Anna that generally speaking, I am quite self-aware when it comes to my bipolar moods. I have never been able to understand it when people say things like, "I was depressed, but I didn't even know it", because I am so acutely aware of my descents into low mood. I have tried my best with mood monitoring systems, but I tend to find that they just tell me what I already know (usually that I am mildly hypomanic, since that seems to be my default state these days).


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This is a cool and interesting set of songs this young Canadian singer has chosen to perform on her debut solo album Backing her is the phenomenal fellow Canadian Steve Dawson on guitar and a host of other exceptional musicians. Mixing country, folk and blues, it's an outstanding sampler of what Ms.Rennison can do.
"All La Glory" starts us off and Rennison shows us real emotion and feeling in her vo- cals. "White Freightliner" takes us to the hills with some great fiddle an mandolin by Tim O'Brien and Dawson does a great job on dobro and his National guitar. "Whiskey, Whiskey" stats with some mean slide and then Rennison gets all sultry and sexy in her delivery. Darryl Hayes on organ adds a nice di- mension here as does a well-arranged horn section. "Oleander" is pure, old school country and the McCrary sisters help out in backing Colleen. The brushes on the drums are like the wind whipping through heavy reeds in a marsh and Dawson continues to impress on guitar. "Why Don't You Try" has some banjo by Dawson and convincing vocals by Renni- son as she delivers poignant lyrics. "Fancy" is an old Bobby Gentry cut and it was really interesting and well done.
"Blue Wing" is an emotionally delivered ballad while "Stage Fright" is a familiar cut done in a new and original way with nice horns and an assortment of guitars. Rennison is convincing on her vocals. Joni Mitchell's "Coyote" gets a sweet treatment. Dawson opens "The Fool is the Last One to Know" on full Nashville glory and Colleen struts her country stuff well here. "My Crew" is a Booker T. Jones cut where Rennison bares here soul as the McCrary's return to back her. She closes with Neil Young's "See the Sky About To Rain." Another cool selection and she and the band deliver it well.
More country than anything else, still there is a lot of great music and talent here to appreciate. If you like to be taken to the country, then Ms. Rennison's debut will tickle your fancy!


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The Samsung ATIV S was the first Windows Phone 8 smartphone to be announced, and was unveiled earlier this year at IFA 2012 in Berlin, Germany. Unfortunately it seems the device is set to be the last Windows Phone to arrive, even after the Nokia Lumia 820 and HTC 8S. So what's going on with Samsung's latest Windows Phone?
We've already learnt that retailers in the UK will be expecting delivery of the device mid-December, but now MobileSyrup reports that Canada will also be looking at a December release. This is a real bummer for those who are eagerly awaiting the Windows Phone. Sporting impressive specifications and a sleek form factor, it's a powerful choice for any consumer.
There's still hope that the ATIV S will be available for the festive holidays that are quickly approaching. Some news websites have been looking at an early 2013 launch, but Samsung Canada has responded to enquiries about the status of the ATIV S shipment to the market, confirming a December launch.
"We are committed to launch the ATIV S nationally, on Rogers, Bell and TELUS, as well as Sasktel. We are planning to ship to carriers in early December, and should have supply at stores by mid month."
It's reassuring the company is working hard to get the Windows Phone to consumers in a timely fashion, but to jump the gun and announce the handset so far in advance only to have competition launching hardware first is leaving those who are indeed waiting for the ATIV S with some serious questions as to what's holding the production / marketing up.
Rogers has already unveiled its pricing for the ATIV S, starting at just $149.99 on a 3-year plan, while also being listed at $599.99 month-to-month. The question is - where is the Samsung device? We could be looking at a production delay or software issues. We can only expect Samsung will attempt to make up for lost time once the handset has been released to supported markets.
Source: MobileSyrup; thanks, Dave, for the heads up!


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I have recently revised this view; going to the public pool with three overactive and feral children has to be equally undignified, if not more. Our town's public pool is my family's Nirvana. We spend quite a bit of time there throughout the summer, and it's the one place all three of my kids enjoy equally. When we're there, the kids are typically happy; they rarely squabble with each other and they're worn out when we get home, which means they sleep late, which means I get some time alone.
It's a total win, in my book.
So even though getting all the kids slathered in sunscreen and packing up a week's worth of snacks, drinks, and towels makes me want a nap, and even though the idea of spending an afternoon squeezed into my ill-fitting and unfashionable bathing suit makes me want an antidepressant, we venture out to the pool on a regular basis.
I then spend the next several hours trying to maintain some level of decorum.
And fail miserably.
Whenever Tommy is not in the water, he is running around, causing a stir. Running at the pool is strictly verboten, so every time he leaves the water, several lifesavers blow their whistles and yell frantically, "No running! No running!"
Surprisingly, their entreaties do nothing to stop my preschooler from galloping around, occasionally looking back at me to see if I am in pursuit, laughing the entire time. Between my plantar fasciitis and the piping hot pavement, I have great difficulty catching up with him; I must look like I'm 70 as I lumber around the pool in pursuit of my
Later, when he starts screaming because I won't let him eat the entire can of Pringles in one sitting, I have to bend over, pick up his flailing body and lug him to some corner so he can melt down in relative peace. I'm really sorry to all the people I have unconsciously flashed while bending over. I try to keep myself covered, but that stupid little bathing suit skirt is not up to the challenge of covering my ample derriere.
When Tommy's not screaming or throwing a fit, we enjoy playing in the pool with Charlotte and Danny. The kids all love to splash each other and wrestle with me. The problem with this is I am wearing a bathing suit. Charlotte and Danny both have almost pantsed me in front of half the town after grabbing my suit while swimming. And Tom has nearly pulled off my top a number of times. No one deserves to be exposed to that sort of thing, especially at a family pool.
And just when I think that everything has calmed down, I get whacked in the head with a foam ball. When I locate Danny, he is laughing and gesturing to Charlotte. After the dozenth time of getting smacked in the face with a soaking ball, I hear Danny yell triumphantly, "I got her, Charlotte! The pig is down!"
Apparently, the kids are playing Angry Birds, and I am the pig.
All this to wear the kids out, so they'll sleep late.
The indignity is worth it.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration activists on Friday rejected the idea of granting legal status short of citizenship to illegal immigrants in emerging legislation. The activists said that only citizenship would be acceptable for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants and that the compromise idea floated by some House Republicans, offering legalization but not citizenship, won't work.
Frank Sharry, executive director of America's Voice, said allowing illegal immigrants to legalize their status without the prospect of citizenship would "create an institutionalized group of second-class non-citizens."
"When we've said to a whole group of people, 'You're good enough to work here but not good enough to be one of us,' it hasn't worked out well," Sharry said on a conference call with other activists to urge swift action on comprehensive immigration legislation.
A framework for a bipartisan bill in the Senate includes a path to citizenship, which President Barack Obama also supports. But some House Republicans uncomfortable with letting illegal immigrants become citizens — labeled amnesty by critics — have suggested finding another way of dealing with them.
At a hearing earlier this week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., raised the question, "Are there options we should consider between the extremes of mass deportation and a pathway to citizenship for those not lawfully present in the United States?"
Activists on Friday's call noted citizens have rights, including voting, that non-citizens don't have. "Those rights cannot be negated to a whole population, so that's what we're fighting for," said Angelica Salas with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles
Even if illegal immigrants are given the right to become citizens, it's likely many would not pursue the opportunity, for various reasons. A Pew Hispanic Center study this week said that of 5.4 million immigrants from Mexico who are eligible to become U.S. citizens, only 36 percent had taken the step. Across all immigrant groups, 61 percent of those eligible have achieved citizenship.
The study cited various factors, including people who said they don't know English, a requirement for citizenship, and the cost of filing a citizenship request, which is $680. As for why Mexicans were less likely than other groups to pursue citizenship, the study said that Mexicans are more likely than others to maintain close ties with their home country because of its close proximity to the U.S.


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A sweet Chocolate cookie enhanced with crunchy almonds. These crunchy, twice baked cookies are great for dunking in your favorite beverage or eating all by themselves. They're made with the finest all natural ingredients for a delicious taste. Wheat-free and gluten-free.
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In 1941, Pamela Giusto-Sorrells' grandparents owned one of the first health food stores in San Francisco, the Golden Crescent. It was a small neighborhood natural food bakery and store offering "brick-like" rice, soy, and potato/lima bean breads, as well as rice and soy cookies. These were some of the first available gluten-free foods. In her youth, she had one of the few "female" jobs in the bakery as a cookie packer. Even as a child, and then as a bakery employee, "I was continually amazed that dedicated customers were so thankful to find our gluten-free foods. I personally thought these products looked and tasted awful and wondered why people ate them. The typical reply was, 'Let them be happy there is something on the market for them to eat,'" she says.
Always the dessert baker at home, and after all those hours on the cookie line in the family business, she started experimenting with wheat-free baking. The challenge was to make products that tasted so good that no one would be able to tell that they were wheat-free. "My career was born," she says. "In 1988, I left the family business taking one small pallet of my belongings with my first forklift and moved two blocks away." On April Fool's Day, Pamela's Products became an independent business featuring wheat-free and gluten-free foods, each bite prompting the incredulous food lover to ask: "Are you sure these are wheat-free?"
Pamela's, based in Ukiah, Calif., continues to maintain its indulgent reputation by using the finest natural ingredients, and always striving to delight the customer with delicious, decadent wheat-free and gluten-free cookies, biscotti, and baking mixes. Its products can be found throughout North America.
Why Wheat-Free & Gluten-Free? People who have a wheat allergy or gluten sensitivity suffer a range of physical symptoms (for example: abdominal bloating, diarrhea, gas and low energy) as a result of eating certain grains. Gluten Intolerance, also known as Celiac Sprue, irritates the intestinal lining preventing the absorption of nutrients into the body through the small intestine. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, barley, possibly oats, and other grains.
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I was searching online for a event checklist for holding a fundraising run/walk. Much to my suprise my searches were not that successful. Most of the checklists for planning a run/walk event were only available through signing up for a fundraising help website.
Needless to say I spent a couple of hours putting this together. This checklist should only be used as a starting point for your planning your own fundraising run/walk, not the bible for how to do it.
If I forgot any important steps, please let me know by leaving a comment.
Planning a Fundraising Run/Walk Event Checklist:
Pre-Event Planning
- Determine Date & Location
i. Get the necessary permits from the city.
- Map out exact race route.
- Create volunteer committee
i. Set committee meetings
ii. Determine volunteers needed
- Determine Registration Logistics
i. How will people pre-register?
ii. What information do we need to gather?
iii. Signed Liability Waiver Approval
- Determine Race day set-up.
i. Determine timeline for Set-up
ii. Where will people park?
iii. Where should we place the registration table?
1. Determine sign-in process and numbering.
2. Hand out timing buttons.
iv. Where should we place the medical tent?
v. Where should we have water stops?
vi. Where should we have the award ceremony?
1. Obtain race medals
2. Determine ceremony host.
3. Determine A/V needs.
4. Write ceremony script.
vii. Determine where we need signage.
1. Design Signage
2. Print Signage
viii. Set-up place and time for sponsors to drop of bag filling cache keys.
1. Gather volunteers and have bag filling get together.
ix. Find a volunteer photographer or videographer.
- Confirm Naming
- Create & Approve Logo
- Create the "why" story
i. What challenges are faced that drive fundraising?
ii. Contact poeple who have or will benefit from fundraising and tell their story.
- Create Brochure & Registration Form for Runners/Walkers
i. Distribute brochures to running stores or places of interest
- Create Brochure & Registration Form for Sponsors
i. Determine Sponsorship Levels & Incentives
- Create Posters/Flyers for Distribution
- Create Website
i. Allow people to register online
- Additional Marketing Online
i. Create YouTube Video Channel
1. Make video promoting event
2. Shoot video at event to promote next year
3. Gather stories of people who have benefited.
ii.Create a Flickr Account
1. Post pictures online.
2. Create social networking profiles
3. Create Events
4. Make Friends
- Design & print volunteer & racer t-shirts. Add to racer bags.
- Gather list of potential donors
i. Send Brochure
ii. Hand brochures to every forseeable participant or sponsor
iii. Make follow-up phone calls
- Determine how money will be collected.
Race Day Operations
- Set-up
i. Registration
1. Hand out numbers & timing censors & goodie bags
2. Coat check, bag check?
ii. Signage
iii. Watering Stations
1. Water must be pre-purchased
2. Volunteers in place
iv. A/V, Award Ceremony
1. Electricity must be available, figure how much you need.
v. Handout radios for on-site communication
vi. Medical tent
1. Find volunteer medical staff
2. Gather ice & supplies
- Run the Race
- Post results for serious runners.
- Tear down the event
Follow-up & Evaluation
- Match goals with actual results
- Follow-up communication with racers and volunteers
i. Send out report on how money was used.
ii. Promote next year's race
A couple final notes: When planning a 5K or 10K remember that you are going to need plenty of water. Take the amount of water you think you'll need and double it.
Additionally, it is very smart to hire a company or person to administer the timing of the race.


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This report was written by Tom Fowler of FuelFix.com.
In May the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed charges against some U.K./Australia oil traders saying they schemed to drive up oil prices in early 2008.
The charges grabbed a lot of attention for several reasons:
- the alleged activity happened during the run-up to record-breaking oil prices in 2008
- the CFTC had said previously that it could find no signs of manipulation
- and the charges were announced as U.S. gasoline prices were threatening to break the $4 per gallon mark.
It gave many people a reason to shout "I told you so!" and prompted Democrats on the House Natural Resources Committee to post a video that uses scenes from the Eddie Murphy movie "Trading Places" to help explain the CFTC charges against the trader. (see it below)
It is also part of the reason Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) filed a bill this week calling on the CFTC to immediately put limits on how many oil futures contracts traders could hold. (Never mind that they've been trying to write the rules to do just that to comply with Dodd-Frank for several months now).
But Craig Pirrong, a University of Houston finance professor who specializes in commodity markets, says the CFTC has a very tough case to prove.
Pirrong notes that the CFTC does not allege the companies tried to "corner" the market, but rather engaged in deceptive conduct:
"[The traders allegedly] bought cash WTI forward contracts it did not need, then sold those contracts in the last three trading days of the WTI 'cash window."' The CFTC alleges that the buying deceived the market by suggesting buying interest that was not there, creating a false perception of market tightness. This perception of increased tightness caused backwardation to increase."
But after some lengthy analysis, Pirrong concludes that the prices and trading patterns seen in early 2008 are not consistent with the CFTC allegations.
"Prices fell throughout, even after Arcadia allegedly fooled the market into believing that conditions were tight. Prices and backwardation did not rise when Arcadia was buying. Backwardation was rising when Arcadia was actually selling the spread. The spread collapse during the cash window that the CFTC apparently believes is its "Gotcha" piece of evidence was mirrored by collapses as large or larger in other types of oil."
Pirrong says he's all for going after rule breakers (and not a big fan of efforts to rein in the market with convoluted structures and restrictions, as some argue the Dodd-Frank rules are doing with energy markets). But he concludes "This will be a very difficult case for the agency to win."
One might expect the evidence in the case, such as emails where the traders seem to be discussing illegal actitivity, to make this an open-shut case for a jury.
But earlier this year the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held up a lower court decision that a group of BP propane traders didn't break the law as alleged in the original complaint, despite discussions about "controlling the market at will."
Just this week, the case against Dennis Abbott, the trader who was cooperating with the government, was dismissed. So even convincing a jury of wrongdoing may not be enough when it comes to claims of energy price manipulation.


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Thursday, April 3, 2014
Gold-Making News from the Warlords of Draenor Alpha
Still, we got the first big WoW news in a while today, and I wanted to make a quick post about it before bed. Warlords of Draenor has officially entered the alpha phase of testing. While this testing is obviously very limited, Blizzard chose to share with us a wealth of information today in the form of patch notes, which you can read here.
Unfortunately, while we know there are likely plenty of changes coming to professions, there isn't much that's been shared with us at this point. Given Blizzard's history, this is hardly surprising. Profession changes are usually one of the last things tested. In fact, we've even seen changes in the past that didn't make it onto beta or PTR at all, but were in a patch at release.
Still, what we do know is interesting, if brief. The first thing that immediately caught my attention is the removal of any sort of combat-based perks for professions. In the past, things like Jewelcrafter-only gems or a Blacksmith's extra sockets meant that any raider who wanted to be considered anywhere close to "hardcore" had two maxed professions, and usually crafting professions at that.
The removal of these bonuses may mean that we see fewer people, particularly among raiders, bothering with leveling their professions at all. A reduction in the amount of people who are competition, or who are at least partially self-sufficient instead of being buyers, seems likely to be a positive change overall, for those of us still willing to put in the work.
Secondly, Blizzard apparently felt that certain major glyphs were too expensive for leveling characters, while presumably also being essential parts of the class and/or spec. To that end, certain major glyphs will be learned automatically at levels 25, 50, and 75. The list of those glyphs can be found here.
It's hard to say what effect these changes will have on the glyph market. On the one hand, it flat out reduces the number of glyphs available to sell. On the other hand, these certainly aren't always going to be the exact glyphs someone wants, and it may be that getting these certain glyphs automatically will cause a new player, or someone leveling an alt, to start thinking about glyphs earlier than they might otherwise.
One thing's for sure, though. You don't want to be caught with a large stock of those glyphs when patch 6.0 launches. Now, assuming the patch launches about a month before the expansion, we've still got a good 5 months at even the most hopeful estimates, so you certainly shouldn't go out and have a fire sale right away. If you're someone that's making a stack or more of every glyph, though, you may want to consider gradually cutting back on your restock quantity for those particular glyphs.
Lastly, we'll be seeing a slight change to the way Herbalism and Mining work. You can read the official notes here, but the long and short of it seems to indicate the catch-up systems implemented in Pandaria for those professions were successful. Currently, no matter what your Herbalism and Mining skill, as long as you have those professions, you can gather in Pandaria. Below 525, you'll see a reduced output, generally in the form of "fragments" of the ore or herb in question. In 6.0, Blizzard will be adapting this mechanism to work for Mining and Herbalism all over the world. Any herb or ore in the game will be able to be gathered at any skill level, with a reduced output if your skill level is less than what would have previously been required.
It's a good system, in my opinion. With the increased speed of leveling, trying to keep pace on a profession as you leveled was a daunting task, and often a waste of time. The Pandaria changes were good, but often meant that if one wanted gathering professions, the best thing to do was just ignore them until Pandaria. This probably wasn't what Blizzard wanted, and may have reduced the already unpredictable supply of old world ore and herbs. Ideally, this change will help keep those supplies from dwindling too much.
Hopefully, there will be much more in profession news to come, as we progress through alpha and into beta. I'm particularly interested to see how they interact with Garrisons (another feature with very little news, as it isn't yet being tested). For now, though, all we can do (again) is wait.
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It's a big shake up to the market. Whether it's good or bad doesn't even matter with changes of this degree, and I appreciate that your post didn't go into qualifying the patch notes and instead focused on what we can do to prep for things. Luckily, my lil ole low pop realm doesn't have enough traffic to require massive stock, but I appreciate the heads up. Good advice. I'll slow down on any market resetting closer to patch day so I'm not left holding the bag. On a different note, I'm really curious to see which profession will "come out on top" with the reduced need for Jewelcrafters, Inscriptionists, and Armor Crafters (Garrisons). What do you think, huge influx of Alchemists come WoD?ReplyDelete
Btw, fine choice in a backround image. Great minds... :P
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BIND Therapeutics, Roche Team Up On Discovery Of Novel Nanomedicines
BIND Therapeutics and Roche Collaborate on Discovery of Novel Nanomedicines
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BIND Therapeutics, Inc. (BIND), a clinical-stage nanomedicine platform company developing targeted and programmable therapeutics called AccurinsTM, today announced that it has entered into a research agreement with Roche to discover novel nanomedicines using Accurins for the treatment of diseases in therapeutic areas outside of oncology. The collaboration will focus on combining BIND's Accurin technology with Roche's proprietary therapeutic payloads and targeting ligands.
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BIND has announced collaborations with Amgen Inc., Pfizer Inc. and AstraZeneca AB to develop Accurins based on therapeutic payloads from their product pipelines. BIND's platform originated from the pioneering nanotechnology research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School of BIND's scientific founders and directors Dr. Robert Langer and Dr. Omid Farokhzad. For more information, please visit the company's web site at www.bindtherapeutics.com.
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For a country technologically advanced enough to clog my inbox with offers of untold wealth as long as I reply with my Social Security number, a surprising number of Nigerians actually think that they can receive a demonic phone call that will kill them instantly upon answering.
According to the BBC, a series of widely-circulating viral text messages warned that between seven and ten several people had already died when they picked up calls from ID 09141. The outcries have gotten to the point that Nigerian officials have had to reassure the public, that no, in fact, simply answering a phone call will not kill you dead—a la The Ring.
"Technically, it is not possible for such a thing to happen. It is therefore unimaginable that somebody will die while receiving a call," Nigerian Communications Commission spokesman Reuben Muoka said. "It is only very gullible people that will believe such a rumour."
So who's to blame exacerbating this situation? The country's low education rate? Its people's deeply-held superstitions? Internet Scammers? No matter the culprit, the Nigerian people would do well to screen their calls, just in case.
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Louis C.K. gave Jimmy Fallon parenting advice peppered with his wry sense of humor, and dished on the new season of his FX show during his appearance on Monday's episode of "The Tonight Show."
First, Fallon apologized to C.K. for bumping him from an episode of "Late Night." The talk show host cancelled the taping because his daughter, Winnie Rose Fallon, was coming into the world.
The 46-year-old explained that a producer called him and mysteriously said, "There's something going on with Jimmy and we can't tell you about it."
"I was convinced that you had disappeared," C.K. said. He eventually figured out that, "Another life began instead of one ending."
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Inside MobileMe: Apple's Push vs Exchange, BlackBerry, GoogleApple's MobileMe provides mobile device push and an innovative Wide-Area Bonjour push sync mechanism for securely updating desktop clients over the Internet. There's currently nothing identical to the service on other platforms, but there is some feature overlap with Microsoft's Exchange Server in corporate settings, RIM's BlackBerry mobile push messaging, and web-based service offerings from Google and others. Here's a look at how MobileMe compares in price and features.
Inside MobileMe series segments
Inside MobileMe: Secrets of the Cloud and Mobile Push (Friday)
Inside MobileMe: Mac and PC cloud sync and mobile push (Saturday)
Inside MobileMe: Apple's Push vs Exchange, BlackBerry, Google (Today)
The push for push messaging
Push messaging was brought into the mainstream by Research In Motion, which got started selling two way pagers. RIM gradually advanced its network with a bolt-on system that interfaces with corporate messaging servers (such as Exchange Server or IBM's Lotus Notes Domino server), grabs any updates from the server, and sends them to RIM's own servers at its Network Operations Center, which then relays the messages over the mobile network to BlackBerry devices. This works out well for RIM, as it gets to sell the BlackBerry devices, the BlackBerry Enterprise Servers that connect to each company's mail server, rather expensive client access licenses (CALs) for each user served by the BES, and then on top of that charge steep monthly messaging fees for every user served by its relay system.
In response to RIM's success, Microsoft advanced its own competing push messaging component to Exchange Server (somewhat confusingly called Exchange ActiveSync or EAS, although it bears little in common with the desktop ActiveSync tool), which pushes out updates to mobile devices directly. Microsoft is currently still in a distant runner up position behind BES, so it does not yet charge for CALs for using EAS, and does not bill companies per-user service fees to relay messages to their own employees. Of course, Microsoft does still require per-mailbox CALs for every user on Exchange, which results in making it an expensive solution once you start adding users.
Apple touted Microsoft's EAS direct messaging architecture as a security and reliability feature when it announced that it had licensed Exchange ActiveSync for use on the iPhone. When using EAS to send Exchange messages to the iPhone, companies push messages directly to their employees rather than paying RIM to forward these through its BES and NOC (below, as illustrated by Phil Schiller in the iPhone 2.0 announcement). RIM's BES has exposed users to a variety of serious critical security vulnerabilities, while RIM's NOC has experienced high profile blackouts this spring that left millions of subscribers unable to receive new messages for hours.
For MobileMe, Apple hosts the messaging servers itself and similarly pushes updates directly to any configured mobiles. However, it also pushes messages to subscribers' desktop email, as well as to Address Book and iCal on the Mac OS X desktop. This is still quite a unique feature for any service provider to offer, particularly to consumers. Microsoft's Hotmail, Google Gmail, and Yahoo Mail all offer push email-only services for mobile users, but nobody currently offers low cost push email, contacts, calendar, and bookmark support as MobileMe does, let alone matching the integrated iDisk file share, web hosting, photo and video gallery, and PC sync features that are also bundled into MobileMe.
The high cost of push services
Just to match the push messaging features in MobileMe, you'd have to pay steep fees for a hosted Exchange Server account. The cost for a 10GB, hosted Exchange plan is $24.95 per month, per mailbox from Microsoft-certified partner DNAMail, plus a $2 monthly fee for Windows Mobile or BlackBerry mobile push service, or $324 annually (the BlackBerry plan does not get mobile push calendar and contacts and incurs an additional $20 fee, for a grand annual total of $344). Despite being more than three times the retail price of MobileMe, DNAMail only offers half the storage; Apple gives MobileMe subscribers 20GB to allocate between email and iDisk use.
DNAMail offers cheaper plans with even less storage, while Apple offers a $49 upgrade to 40GB, and a $99 upgrade to 60GB or storage. So Apple's most expensive option is just shy of $200 at full retail, but provides six times the storage of DNAMail. Apple also offers a $149 family plan, which supplies 20GB of storage for a primary account, plus four family member accounts, each with its own email address and 5GB of storage.
In some cases, hosted Exchange Server accounts are only available to businesses buying multiple accounts for their employees. Many of the features of a hosted Exchange account are also only useful in a shared office setting. Microsoft itself does not currently offer individuals any type of hosted Exchange account, nor has it yet released its Live Mesh service, which would sync files and settings between computers as MobileMe also does (and as .Mac has been doing for years now). Further, Exchange is really designed to be used over a high speed local network, not over the Internet.
On page 2 of 2: MobileMe's industry standard protocols vs. Exchange proprietary RPC; Google and Yahoo's web services and RIM's mobile push; Other features missing in MobileMe vs BlackBerry and Exchange.