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Target Says 40 Million Credit And Debit Card Accounts May Be Involved In Data Breach
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Target says about 40 million credit and debit card accounts may be affected by a data breach that occurred just as the holiday shopping season shifted into high gear.
Read: FAQ About Target Theft
The chain said customers who made purchases by swiping their cards at terminals in its U.S. stores between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15 may have had their accounts exposed.
The stolen data includes customer names, credit and debit card numbers, card expiration dates and the three-digit security codes located on the backs of cards.
The data breach did not affect online purchases, the company said.
The stolen information included Target store brand cards and major card brands such as Visa and MasterCard.
Read: Target's Letter To Customers
"Target's first priority is preserving the trust of our guests and we have moved swiftly to address this issue, so guests can shop with confidence. We regret any inconvenience this may cause," Chairman, President and CEO Gregg Steinhafel said in a statement Thursday.
The Minneapolis company said it immediately told authorities and financial institutions once it became aware of the breach and that it is teaming with a third-party forensics firm to investigate and prevent future breaches. The company said it is putting all "appropriate resources" toward the issue.
Target Corp. advised customers to check their statements carefully.
Those who see suspicious charges on the cards should report it to their credit card companies and call Target at 866-852-8680. Cases of identity theft can also be reported to law enforcement or the Federal Trade Commission.
Read: How To Report Identity Theft
Target hasn't disclosed exactly how the data breach occurred, but said it has fixed the problem and credit card holders can continue shopping at its stores.
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The company has 1,797 U.S. stores and 124 in Canada.
Even if Target shoppers haven't noticed suspicious activity on their credit card accounts, a Target spokeswoman said, "we encourage everyone to be vigilant."
In Wednesday morning's trading, Target's stock dipped $1.15, or 1.8 percent, to $62.40.
Target's breach comes at the height of the holiday shopping season and threatens to scare away shoppers worried about the safety of their personal data. The November and December period accounts for 20 percent, on average, of total retail industry sales.
The incident is particularly troublesome for Target because it has used its branded credit and debit cards as a marketing tool to lure shoppers with a 5 percent discount.
The company said during its earnings call in November that as of October some 20 percent of store customers have the Target branded cards. This holiday season, Target added other incentives to use its cards. Two days before Thanksgiving, Target.com ran a special review sale with 25 exclusive offers, from electronics to housewares for those who used the branded card.
As a result of these incentives, households that activate a Target-branded card have increased their spending at the store by about 50 percent on average, the company said.
"This is how Target is getting more customers in the stores," said Brian Sozzi, CEO and Chief Equities Strategist. "It's telling people to use the card. It's been a big win. If they lose that trust, that person goes to Wal-Mart."
Target is just the latest retailer to be hit with a data breach. TJX Cos., which runs stores such as T.J. Maxx and Marshall's, had a breach that began in July 2005 that exposed at least 45.7 million credit and debit cards to possible fraud. The breach wasn't detected until December 2006. In June 2009 TJX agreed to pay $9.75 million in a settlement with multiple states related to the massive data theft but stressed at the time that it firmly believed it did not violate any consumer protection or data security laws.
At TJX, for at least 17 months, one or more intruders had free rein inside TJX's computers. Without anyone noticing, one or more intruders installed code on the discount retailer's systems to methodically unearth, collect and transmit account data from the millions of credit card and debit cards.
An even larger hack hit Sony in 2011. It had to rebuild trust among PlayStation Network gamers after hackers compromised personal information including credit card data on more than 100 million user accounts.
Greg Melich, an analyst at ISI International Strategy & Investment Group, wrote in a note published Thursday that Target's most important goal should be to maintain "customer trust and therefore longer-term loyalty."
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On September 30, we honour the survivors of the residential school system and their families and mourn the children who never returned.
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On March 30, 2022, The Nishîyû Council of Elders (NCOE) had their quarterly meeting in Gatineau, Quebec.
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The Cree Health Board celebrates the hard work of our Occupational Therapists (OTs).
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Law, Chicken Sexing, Torture Memo, and Situation Sense
Posted by The Situationist Staff on May 25, 2008
It's law-school graduation season. Here is one of the best law-school commencement speeches in recent memory, given by Situationist contributor Dan Kahan at Yale Law School two years ago.
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I'm sure we are all moved by the profound and unique signification of commencement exercises at Yale Law School. At other, lesser law schools, commencement marks the successful completion of a program in legal education. But at Yale, commencement means just that – a start, a beginning.
Having earned your Juris Doctorate from Yale, the time has come for you finally to commence learning real law. Well, today I'd like to offer you an apology for the distinctive brand of legal education you received here. Of course I mean apology not as in a contrite acknowledgment of fault, but apology as in a justification of a position of political and moral dispute.
Now in truth, I think our pedagogy at Yale Law School is not nearly so alienated from the practice of law as it is sometimes, comically depicted. But it is, I concede, emphatically opposed to the conventional view that learning law means learning a body of formal rules. So I want to explain why, to my mind at least, a conventional legal education of that sort would almost certainly have made you a bad lawyer – in multiple senses – and why the approach we use instead will, at least hopefully, make you a good one.
Do you know what this is? Yes, it's a baby chick. But do you know its gender? Of course, not. But you would if you were a professional chick sexer. In the poultry industry, it is very important to separate out male and female chicks almost immediately after birth: the males are less valuable – they can't lay eggs and their meat isn't nearly so tender – and they end up competing with the female chicks for food. So you need to pick the males out and get rid of them. This job falls to the professionally trained chick sexer, who turning the chicks over gently in his or her hand is able to sort out male from female at a rate of 1,000 per hour and at an accuracy rate of 99%.
What makes this feat so astonishing, though, is that there just isn't any readily discernable, or at least articulable, difference in the anatomy of newborn chicks. All zoologists agree that this is so. If you ask a professionally trained chick sexer what he is looking for, don't expect a satisfying answer.
Either he'll confabulate, telling you some fantastic and silly story about the inability of the male chick to look him straight in the eye. Or more candidly, he'll just shrug his shoulders.
But while the nature of the chicksexer's skill may be inexplicable, how he acquired it isn't. To become chicksexers, individuals go off for an extended period of study with a chick sexing grandmaster. He doesn't give lectures or assign texts. Instead he exposes his pupils to slides– "male," "female," "male," "male," "female," "female," "male" – continuing on in this way until the students acquire the same special power to intuitively perceive the gender of a newborn chick, even without being able to cogently explain how.
What in the world does this have to do with law, you are asking yourself of a professor's lecture, once again. Well, what I want to suggest is that what's going on in the chick-sexing profession is the very same thing that goes on in the legal profession. The formal doctrines and rules that make up the law – unconscionability, proximate causation, character propensity, unreasonable restraints of trade – are just as fuzzy and indeterminate as the genetalia of dayold chicks. And yet just as the trained chick sexer can accurately distinguish female from male, so the trained lawyer can accurately distinguish good decision from bad, persuasive argument from weak. Ask the lawyer for an explanation, and in his case too you'll get nothing but confabulation – "plain meaning," "congressional intent," "efficiency" – or what have you.
In addition, the lawyer attains her skill – to recognize what she can't cogently explain – in much the same way that the chick sexer does: through exposure to a professional slideshow, this one conducted by law grandmasters, including law professors but also other socialized lawyers, who authoritatively certify what count as good and bad decisions, sound and unsound arguments, thereby inculcating in students and young practitioners the power of intuitive perception distinctive of the legal craft.
Now, by this point in my argument, you'll likely recognize that my analogy between legal reasoning with chick sexing is just a colorful rehearsing of legal realism. As developed at Yale Law School in the 1920s and 1930s, legal realism was less interested to demonstrate that legal rules are formally indeterminate than to explain how lawyers nonetheless form such uniform and predictable understandings of what those rules entail. Llewellyn attributed this ability to what he called "situation sense," an intuitive perceptive faculty born of immersion in professional and cultural norms – the slide show of law.
Contemporary social psychologists use the concepts of pattern recognition and prototypical reasoning to describe the same cognitive processes – which are pervasive in all fields and facets of life, not just law and the poultry industry.
Well, if you accept this central insight of legal realism, as I do, then you will readily understand that effective legal training has very little to do with learning the mass and detail of formal legal rules. Instead, it has everything to do with acquiring situation sense.
You'll also see that being an effective advocate requires an ability to arouse the situation sense of other lawyers, including judges. Those who believe that making convincing arguments consists in knowing formal rules are professionally autistic. They can't make arguments that engage the emotional motivations of those they are trying to persuade. Only those who understand the role of situation sense, who are acquainted with the norms that construct it, are poised to explain, to predict, and through strategic framing and advocacy, to influence legal decisionmakers.
So to make you good lawyers we at Yale impart not "rule knowledge" but situation sense. This is part of my apology for our distinctive pedagogy.
But it is only part. There's another, which is more complicated and which is concerned with making you good rather than bad lawyers in a somewhat different sense.
I'm sure you will all have immediately recognize one difference between the situation sense of chicksexers and situation sense of lawyers. The quality of intuitive perceptions of any individual chicksexer can be externally validated: ultimately we can test whether he is able accurately to distinguish male and female. But we can't externally validate the situation sense of lawyers. The only test of whether some lawyer has reliable situation sense is to see whether other lawyers (including decisionmakers) agree with her perceptions of how
society's rules should be applied.
Now understand, the lack of external validation doesn't mean that good lawyering, as a psychological matter, can't be said to involve the same faculty of tacit reasoning, or intuitive perception, that good chick-sexing does. But it does mean that the content of the lawyers situation sense will be inevitably be more contingent and dynamic: our professional norms – and in turn the law itself – will evolve in response to the evaluations we ourselves make of the decisions and actions of one another.
As a result, there is an element of moral agency in good lawyering that has no analog in good chick sexing. When I as a lawyer exercise professional judgment, when I perform my professional responsibilities, I affirm the authority and extend the vitality of the norms that construct our professional situation sense. Now granted, it would be absurd to assert that every decision a lawyer makes meaningfully influences professional understandings, much less that any individual lawyer always has the power to point those understandings in a either a just or an unjust direction. But it would be equally naïve to deny that the decisions of certain individual lawyers, on certain critical occasions, can have that effect.
A little over a decade ago, a brilliant 25 year-old was standing where you are. Less than a decade later, after serving as a Supreme Court Law Clerk and as professor at an elite law school, he found himself serving as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel. At the behest of White House lawyers who were battling internal opposition from career military officers and lawyers, he wrote a legal memorandum which construed the law to permit the use of interrogation techniques that the U.S. had for decades understood to be banned by the Geneva Convention. Because of the institutional stature and formal authority of the OLC within the Executive Branch; because of the function the memo was intended to play in resolving a debate among other governmental officials of immense authority; and because of the impact of 9-11 in provoking societal reconsideration of the relationship between civil liberties and national security, this Yale-trained lawyer did have every reason to believe that his memo, all on its own, would have a profound
and shaping impact on the professional and cultural understandings that are our law. Yet he pretended this wasn't so. When asked by an appalled career military intelligence officer whether the memo meant the President could order torture, he answered, "Yes, but I'm not talking policy. I'm talking law here."
The analysis reflected in the so-called Torture Memo did not, in fact, become part of our professional and cultural understandings, our situation sense. But I think a large part of the credit for that belongs to another individual lawyer, who as a 20-something also stood where you now are about a decade and a half ago. He too clerked for a Supreme Court Justice and then served on the faculty of a major U.S. law school. In 2003 he took over as head of the Office of Legal Counsel. And to the shock of his patrons, he immediately issued a directive advising the military intelligence services that they couldn't rely on the so-called Torture Memo. This was well before the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal came to light, at a time when high-ranking political appointees in the Justice Department and Pentagon were continuing to place decisive reliance on the Torture Memo. As a result, this lawyer had every reason to believe the Memo's understanding of the law would persist, and that it would pervade and shape the shared professional and cultural understandings of lawyers, unless he as a lawyer took responsibility for repudiating it. So he did.
This lawyer, Jack Goldsmith, was ultimately pushed out of OLC and is now languishing at an obscure law school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When he got there, by the way, a portion of that institution's faculty, unaware of the role he had played in overturning the Torture Memo, and later in temporarily suspending the then still-secret NSA warrantless domestic surveillance policy, refused to even acknowledge him in the halls. Well, some of the lawyers trained at that school also played a sad role in the Torture Memo. Now that Goldsmith is there, I suspect it's much less likely that any of its future graduates will try, in cowardly fashion, to evade moral responsibility for their actions by insisting that law is nothing but a set of formally binding rules. And I have hope that as a result of his actions, it's much less likely any of you ever will either.
This was my last chance to teach you some law, Yale style. These were my final two slides: one bad lawyer, one good. What made the bad one bad wasn't that he knew "less law." It was that he, unlike the good lawyer, refused to take moral responsibility when he found himself in a position where his individual actions as a lawyer were likely to have a decisive role in shaping our profession's situation sense, and thus in shaping the law itself.
Because you today are standing where these two lawyers stood, because you are standing where number members of Congress, Justices of the Supreme Court, and Presidents of the United States have all stood too, I feel petty certain that a number of you too will be in that position some day. If you are, how good a lawyer you are won't be determined by how many rules you've learned; it will turn on how good a person you are. My apology for not teaching you more "law" is that I thought it was much more urgent to try to teach you that.
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For a related Situationist post, see "The Situation of John Yoo and the Torture Memos."
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Traditionally women have slaved away cleaning and cooking for Passover, almost making this season into something akin to an Egyptians' Revenge. While there is no doubt that celebrating the sedorim (aside from the religious reasons) is beautiful, getting there is not easy. While we can't make your cleaning either easier or faster, Lévana – in the video below – shows us how to cook faster, easier and still enjoy a feast!
Lévana regales us with three fast, delicious, wholesome recipes from her new book: The Whole Foods Kosher Kitchen – Glorious Meals Pure and Simple
Chicken and Swiss Chard
- 8 serving pieces chicken (2 pieces per person, for example: 6 thighs, 6 drumsticks, 4 half breasts – 16 pieces, total for 8 people) with skin on.
- 2 teaspoons turmeric
- 2 large bunches of Swiss chard, leaves and ribs sliced thin
- 3 cups water
Place all ingredients in a wide heavy pot. Bring to a boil, then reduce the flame to medium and cook covered for about an hour. Transfer the chicken pieces onto a platter. If the sauce is not thick enough, reduce it on a high flame, uncovered , just a few minutes until it reaches the consistency of maple syrup. Pour the sauce over the chicken. Serve hot. Makes 8 servings.
Salmon in Pomegranate Sweet-&-Sour Sauce
Sweet-and sour combinations work beautifully with salmon. The onions caramelize and contribute a sweet counterpoint to the vinegar. Another quick and delicious dish, just the way it I like it – one pan, one step.
- 1 whole side salmon, no skin, no bones, about 3 1/2 pounds, trimmed
- 1 large red onion, sliced very thin (use the food processor)
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 1 cup pomegranate juice
- 1/4 cup unfiltered apple cider vinegar
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
Preheat the oven to 425 F. Place the salmon in a pan just large enough to accommodate the fish in one layer. Scatter the onions on top and on the sides of the fish. Mix the oil, juice, vinegar, tomato paste, salt, pepper and turmeric in a bowl, and pour over the fish. Cook about 20 minutes, or a tiny bit more until the fish flakes easily and the liquids thicken. Serve hot or at room temperature. Makes 8 main course servings or a dozen or more course servings.
Chocolate Dipped Fruits
- Bananas, orange, strawberries, pinneapple cubes, banana segments
- 2 cups very good quality semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons oil
2 cups very good quality semisweet chocolate chips plus tablespoons vegetable oil. Melt in a small saucepan, on a very low flame, stirring, until just melted. Let cool just a few minutes, then dip only half way the fruit of your choice: strawberries, orange segments, pineapple cubes, banana segments etc… Arrange the dipped fruit on a platter sprayed with vegetable spray (to prevent the chocolate from sticking). Serve at room temperature.
Enjoy, gentle reader, enjoy!


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Lady Dawgs win
Centreville's softball team took a pair from Howardsville-Christian Thursday.
In the opener the Lady Bulldogs picked up an 11-1 win.
Sarah Rice picked up the win inside the circle with four strikeouts.
Katie Logan drove in three runs with a sacrifice fly and a base hit.
Catherine Rigby, Sam Lewis and Faith Morell all had two base hits.
Charity Yeager, Rice, Bailee May, Dezarae Marshall and Emily Anderson all added base hits for the Lady Bulldogs.
The second game saw Centreville pick up a 5-1 win.
Rigby threw all five innings and struck out nine for the win.
Logan, Yeager and Rice all had doubles for Centreville. Rice also singled and drove in a run while Yeager had an RBI as well.
Rigby collected a base hit for Centreville, who is now 5-3 on the season.
Lakeland 3, Central Noble 0
The Lakeland softball team registered another conference win Thursday night, beating Central Noble 3-0.
Sherry Severson's team is now 11-3 overall and 5-0 in the NECC.
Ashlynn Grubb struck out 16 hitters and earned her 26th career shutout for Lakeland.
All three of Lakeland's runs were scored in the third inning.
Jill Mingus had a double, scoring Karissa Troyer and Madison Campbell.
Campbell had two base hits while Grubb had two singles. Troyer and Morgan Meyers both collected base hits as well.
Sturgis drops two
Sturgis' softball team dropped a pair of games to Harper Creek on Thursday.
In the opener, the Lady Trojans were no-hit and lost 1-0.
Dominique Beach took the loss for Sturgis, scattering only five hits. She struck out nine.
The Lady Trojans did have some base runners — six in all. Beach walked twice while Paige Robinson, Larissa Ludwick and Melissa Maestas all walked.
The game saw Sturgis fall 5-3. The teams were tied 2-2 after three innings before Harper plated three runs in the fourth.
Beach allowed seven hits through six innings of work with eight strikeouts.
At the plate Beach doubled and added two singles.
Meg Warner had a base hit while Megan Courtney had two singles. Driving in runs were Warner and Cassie Bart.
Constantine swept
Constantine's softball team was swept by Parchment on Thursday night.
In the opener Parchment won 7-1. The Lady Panthers plated three in the opening inning.
Dylan King took the loss for Constantine, striking out four over seven innings of work.
Kelsey Potter had an RBI single to plate Constantine's lone run, which came in the second.
Megan Rodewald, Bailey Potter, Jaycie Howard and Rachel Corpe all had base hits for the Lady Falcons.
The second game saw Parchment win 6-4.
The Lady Panthers led 6-0 after four innings. Constantine scored all four of their runs in the top of the sixth inning.
Kayla Byers threw all six innings and struck out one.
Kelsey Potter had two base hits and drove in two runs while King had an RBI single.
Cait Burch added an RBI single as well while Howard and Bailey Potter both had base hits.
Sturgis juniors win
The Sturgis junior softball team earned a win in their first game of the season, 16-5 over Vicksburg.
Bird Miller struck out eight hitters in three innings. Baleigh Brazo threw the final four innings with one strikeout.
Brazo, Miller and Dorothy Pant each had two hits. Elizabeth Johnson scored three times.
Scoring two runs each were Brazo, Miller, Lauren Orban, Lauryn Hopkins, Alyssa Lopez, Crystal Miller and Lydia Kirk.
They also beat Centreville 10-7 on Wednesday.
Brazo struck out seven in four innings of work. Miller struck out six in two innings.
Johnson, Miller and Brazo each had two hits.
Orban, Gabbie Gushwa, Kirk, Lexi Yeiter and Hopkins all added base hits.


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Carb needed.
Butter needed.
Chocolate needed.
2 cups (10 oz) all-purpose flour
1/4 cup (1 3/4 oz) granulated sugar
2 1/2 t baking powder
1/4 t salt
1 stick butter (4 oz) (cold, cut into pieces)
1 cup (8 oz) heavy whipping cream (cold)
1/2 - 3/4 c miniature chocolate chips (depending on preference)
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 T sanding sugar or granulated sugar
1. Preheat over to 425 degrees
2. Mix together dry ingredients.
3. Using a pastry cutter, two knives or your fingers (I use my fingers), cut in the butter. (The book uses a food processor, but I like to make scones by hand...less to clean up!)
4. Add whipping cream and chocolate chips. Blend together quickly (I use my hands and/or a spatula). Do not overmix.
5. Shape into a round or square.
6. Brush with egg wash. Sprinkle with sugar.
7. Cut into shapes. Place on parchment or Silpat covered baking sheet.
8. Bake for 14-16 minutes until golden brown and delicious. I cut my smaller and got 16 scones.


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jello desserts, this was way popular in the library.
1 large box Orange Jello (6 ounces) or 2 small boxes (3 ounces each)
½ cup cold water
2 cups Cool Whip (about 75%-80% of a carton of Cool Whip), thawed
8" square pan
1. Place contents of orange Jello packet in a large bowl. Add 2 cups boiling water. Stir until completely dissolved.
2. Add ½ cup cold water.
3. Stir in 2 cups (about 75-80% of the basic Cool Whip carton) of Cool Whip. It will melt and dissolve. The mixture will be opaque. It will separate into a two layer Jello as it chills.
4. Pour into 8" square pan.
5. Chill until firm (preferably overnight).
6. Cut into squares. I cut 6 x 6 for 36 squares.
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SACRAMENTO (AP) — The nation's largest teacher pension fund took the first step Wednesday toward divesting from companies that make guns and high-capacity ammunition magazines that are illegal in California.
State Treasurer Bill Lockyer made a motion to begin the divestment process after pension fund officials determined that the fund invests in the owner of a company that manufactured one of the weapons used in the Connecticut school shooting. The California State Teachers' Retirement System's investment committee unanimously approved the motion.
"CalSTRS' action targets ammunition clips that turn ordinary guns into killing machines, assault weapons and other firearms that pose extreme dangers to public health and safety," Lockyer said.
The pension fund has investments in private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP, which owns the manufacturer of an assault weapon used at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. The pension fund also owns shares of Sturm, Ruger & Co. and Smith & Wesson Holding Corp., two publicly traded gun-makers.
The three investments make up a tiny fraction of the pension system's holdings, about $11.7 million out of the $155 billion fund, according to CalSTRS staff.
Harry Keiley, a high school teacher with the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District and chairman of the board's investment committee, said before Wednesday's vote that the pension board has the power to change its investments.
After the shooting, Keiley said: "I sat there with all of my thoughts and feeling very powerless knowing that I don't sit on the Supreme Court, I don't cast a vote in the United States Congress, I don't sit in the state Legislature. I'm a school teacher and dad. And then it dawned on me ... that I and this board are not powerless."
Staff will meet with the companies and determine the impact divesting would have on the pension system. They'll report back to the board at an unspecified date.
Lockyer also wants the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the nation's largest public pension fund, to divest from companies that make the types of weapons and high-capacity magazines that are illegal in the state. The federal assault weapons ban expired in 2004, but California has its own ban.
The treasurer, who sits on both pension boards, is expected to make a formal motion for CalPERS in February.
CalPERS did not return a call for comment Wednesday.
The teachers' fund invests retirement benefits for more than 850,000 California public school teachers, workers and their families. It invests more than half of its assets in stocks but also has investments in bonds, private equity, real estate and other categories.
Cerberus has said it is attempting to sell its stake in Freedom Group International, which makes the .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle used in the Connecticut shooting.
CalSTRS Chief Investment Officer Chris Ailman said Cerberus' investment in Freedom Group didn't raise flags because the fund's ethics policy was not expanded to include private equity investments until 2008, after the fund invested in Cerberus. Ailman said staff did not look at past purchases.
"At this point in time in 2008, we were very much focused on the external part of the portfolio in the emerging markets, and sadly, not so much on the U.S. equity portfolio," Ailman told the committee Wednesday. "I'd also point out in '08 as we did this, with the financial collapse, our attention very much became focused on mortgages, Wall Street and just the entire financial crisis at the time."
He said companies that manufacture firearms that are illegal in California could violate the fund's policy on human rights and human health.
Since the mid-1970s, the retirement system has factored political, environmental and social conflicts in reviewing potential investments. CalSTRS was one of early funds to divest from companies doing business with South Africa in an effort to end racial apartheid. The fund also avoids oil and energy investments in Iran and removed tobacco companies from its stock holdings years ago.


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49ers clinch spot in Super Bowl
The clutch quarterback. The genius coach. The big-play defense.
The San Francisco 49ers are ready to start a new dynasty with a familiar formula.
Next stop, the Big Easy.
Colin Kaepernick and Frank Gore led San Francisco to a record comeback in the NFC championship game Sunday, overcoming an early 17-0 deficit to beat the Atlanta Falcons 28-24 and send the 49ers to their first Super Bowl since 1995.
Gore scored a pair of touchdowns, including the winner with 8:23 remaining for San Francisco's first lead of the day, and the 49ers defense made it stand up. A fourth-down stop at the 10-yard line denied Atlanta another stirring comeback after blowing a big lead.
''Everybody does a little,'' 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said, ''and it adds up to be a lot.''
San Francisco (13-4-1) moves on to face Baltimore at New Orleans in two weeks, looking to join Pittsburgh as the only franchises with six Super Bowl titles. It'll be a brother-vs.-brother matchup, too, since John Harbaugh coaches the Ravens.
Joe Montana led the 49ers to four Super Bowl wins and Steve Young took them to No. 5. It's up to Kaepernick and Co. to get No. 6.
''He just competes like a maniac all the time,'' said Harbaugh, whose much-debated decision to bench Alex Smith at midseason now looks like the best move of the year.
Harbaugh was hoppin' mad when a disputed call went against the 49ers on Atlanta's potential winning drive. He leaped in the air, screamed at the officials and had to be restrained by his staff from charging the field.
No complaints when it was over.
''We rose up there at the end,'' Harbaugh said.
His second-year quarterback, who runs like a track star, didn't get a chance to show off his touchdown celebration - flexing his right arm and kissing his bicep, a move that quickly became a social media sensation known as Kaepernicking.
But he shredded the Falcons through the air by completing 16 of 21 for 233 yards, including a 4-yard touchdown to Vernon Davis, and had them so worried about his running ability out of the spread option that Gore and LaMichael James had plenty of room.
Gore scored a pair of touchdowns, including the game winner with 8:23 remaining for San Francisco's first lead of the day. Davis scored the first TD for the 49ers on a 15-yard run.
''I take my hat off to Atlanta. They played hard. They've got a great team,'' Gore said. ''But we fought, man. We fought and we deserved it.''
The 49ers pulled off the biggest comeback victory in an NFC championship game, according to STATS. The previous NFC record was 13 points - Atlanta's victory over Minnesota in the 1999 title game, which sent the Falcons to what remains the only Super Bowl in franchise history.
The AFC championship game record is 18 points, when Indianapolis rallied past New England in 2007.
Harbaugh is hardly cool and collected like the 49ers' first Super Bowl-winning coach, Bill Walsh, but has pulled off a similar turnaround in San Francisco. The 49ers had eight straight years without a winning record before their new coach arrived from Stanford in 2011.
He immediately led San Francisco to the cusp of the Super Bowl, losing to the eventual champion New York Giants in overtime in last year's NFC title game, a bitter defeat at home set up by a fumbled return.
This time, the 49ers were the ones winning on the road to set up another celebration in the city by the bay, which is rapidly becoming the new Titletown USA. They'll try to follow the lead of the baseball Giants, who won the World Series in October.
''We've come full circle,'' said Denise DeBartolo York, part of the family that has owned the 49ers since their championship days, ''and the dynasty will prevail.''
Kaepernick guided San Francisco on a pair of second-half scoring drives that wiped out Atlanta's 24-14 lead at the break. Gore scored on a 5-yard run early in the third quarter, then sprinted in from 9 yards out for the winning score with 8:23 remaining after each team made crucial mistakes to ruin potential scoring drives.
On both of Gore's TDs, the Falcons had to worry about Kaepernick running it in himself. They barely even touched the running back on either play, and James scored pretty much the same way.
''I kind of figured that coming in and they showed that on film, so I assumed Frank and LaMichael were going to have a big day,'' Kaepernick said. ''Frank ran hard today, and I can't say enough about him.''
The top-seeded Falcons (14-4), in what appeared to be the final game for Hall of Famer-to-be Tony Gonzalez, tried to pull off another season-extending drive. But, unlike the week before against Seattle, they needed a touchdown this time.
They came up 10 yards short.
On fourth down, Matt Ryan attempted a pass over the middle to Roddy White that would have been enough to keep the drive going. But linebacker NaVorro Bowman stuck a hand in to knock it away with 1:13 remaining.
The 49ers ran off all but the final 6 seconds, not nearly enough time for Ryan to pull off his greatest comeback yet.
In the divisional playoffs, the Falcons blew a 20-point lead in the fourth quarter, the Seahawks scoring the go-ahead touchdown with 31 seconds remaining. But Ryan completed two long passes, setting up Matt Bryant's 49-yard field goal for 30-28 victory.
The Falcons came up short of their second Super Bowl, leaving the 1995 Braves as the city's only major sports champions. This one figures to hurt for a while.
''We didn't make the plays when we had the opportunity,'' Falcons coach Mike Smith said. ''There were five or six plays, like in most hard-fought games, that make a difference. There were ebbs and flows and changes in momentum, and they made more plays than we did.''
Kaepernick, who ran for 181 yards against the Packers the week before to set an NFL playoff record for a quarterback, didn't have much chance to use his legs against the Falcons. He broke off a 23-yard gain, but was thrown for a 2-yard loss the only other time he carried the ball.
But Kaepernick showed he's more than a runner. His favorite receiver was Davis, who hauled in five passes for 106 yards.
Gore carried 21 times for 90 yards, while James added 34 yards on five carries.
Ryan finished 30 of 42 for 396 yards, by far the best performance of his playoff career. But his postseason record dropped to 1-4, done in by two big miscues - an interception and a fumble - in the second half.
Julio Jones was Ryan's leading target most of the day, finishing with 11 catches for 182 yards and a pair of touchdowns. He hauled in a 46-yarder less than 4 minutes into the game, then made a dazzling grab in the left corner of the end zone for a 20-yard score. He got his left foot down, then planted his right foot about an inch inside the line - while cornerback Tarell Brown was all over him.
Ryan threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Gonzalez with 25 seconds remaining in the first half after the 49ers had cut the deficit to 17-14. It seemed the home team had reclaimed the momentum heading to the locker room, but, amazingly, that would be its final score of the day. The 49ers quickly seized control on the opening possession of the second half, driving 82 yards in just seven plays for Gore's first TD.
After a nearly perfect first half, in which Ryan was 18 of 24 for 271 yards and those three TDs, the quarterback known as Matty Ice made a couple of crucial blunders.
First, he tossed a pass that was picked off by Chris Culliver, halting a drive in 49ers territory. Ryan ripped off his chinstrap in disgust.
Then, with the Falcons in scoring range for at least a field goal, Ryan failed to grab a shotgun snap, appearing to take his eyes off the ball before he caught it. The ball squirted away and Aldon Smith recovered for the 49ers at their own 37.
''Against a good team, you can't have those kind of mistakes,'' Ryan said.
San Francisco also squandered some chances. Struggling kicker David Akers clanked a 38-yard field goal try off the upright, and Michael Crabtree fumbled just short of the goal line, the ball stripped away by Dunta Robinson and recovered by Stephen Nicholas. But, after that big defensive stop with 13 1-2 minutes remaining, the Falcons went three-and-out.
The 49ers drove for the winning touchdown.
Atlanta took the ensuing kickoff and used up nearly all the clock while going 70 yards. The Falcons might have reclaimed the lead if Harry Douglas had been able to stay on his feet while hauling in a 22-yard pass.
The defender slipped, and so did Douglas, but he held on to the ball. Harbaugh thought it touched the turf and challenged the call, then launched into his tirade when the officials let it stand. It all worked out, though.
As for the 36-year-old Gonzalez, who said all year he was all but certain this would be his final season, it sure sounded like the end.
''I've had such a great life,'' he said. ''I wish it would've culminated with the Super Bowl, but it didn't.''


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