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Possibly the first in a series of "Top 5″ posts. This one is about my top 5 rated online stores. These are sites I've found useful or regularly visit to purchase items (usually electronics).
- www.digitalrev.com – DigitalRev is an online store selling photographic equipment. I buy most of my camera equipment there – they sell cameras, lenses, filters and accessories both at their online store, and also via eBay. I've found the eBay store is usually cheaper, but doesn't always have the items I want. Packing, shipping, price and service are all top notch (though repairs can take a while compared to a local store), and they actually have a couple of points of presence in Hong Kong I'd love to visit.
- www.betterworld.com – Better World Books is another online store, selling… you guessed it – books! They collect and sell both new and used books, with part of the money used to fund literacy incentives worldwide. The price and range is a million times better than even the biggest book shops here in Brisbane, and you can use coupons to save even more! Not only do I love a bargain, but it's good to know that it's also contributing to a good cause (they also offer carbon-neutral shipping for 10 cents!).
- www.ozbargain.com.au – Not strictly an "online store", OzBargain is an online community where users post up great deals and coupons in Australia. Great for pizza vouchers and electronics amongst other things
- www.ebay.com.au – Yes, that's right, eBay! I find eBay quite useful for purchasing items, just make sure you check the seller's rating and feedback before making the decision to purchase. Use Paypal for added buyer protection.
- www.catchoftheday.com.au – This website offers a new deal at 12pm each day. The items are usually quite crappy, useless things but occasionally a great bargain will pop up when manufacturers are trying to clear stock.
Other worthwhile shopping-related websites that didn't make it into the top 5…
- www.staticice.com.au
- www.1-day.com.au
- www.dominos.com.au
- www.umart.com.au
- www.msy.com.au
- www.dell.com.au
- www.dealextreme.com


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I'm not usually driven to comment on articles in my Feed Reader, but the typos and poor writing of this story required special attention. Dude, cut down on the exclamation points and read your "work" a couple times before posting.
Mplayit for Facebook and iPhone
When TiPb posted on Mplayit, being a huge iPhone and Facebook fan, I decided to take a closer look and here's what I found -- Mplayit takes browsing and buying iPhone apps to a whole new level. Mplayit is an application on facebook, or a website on your iPhone, that allows you to find apps, read a description, rating and an iTunes link to download them. Sound familiar? There's more, Mplayit not only does these things well, but also gives you YouTube videos of apps and ways to share the app. In facebook you can share on your wall or send a message. There are also links to share via Twitter or email. On the iPhone, you can share via the mail app.
Apps can also be added to Mplayit's "collections" feature. Simply click the add to my collection link on your favorite app. Mplayit will also "learn" over time what apps to recommend to you based on what you add to your collection. You can search for apps by typing the name in the search box, or you can choose to look at apps based on category.
I am very excited about this new way to browse apps for your iPhone. The added value of video and wide array of sharing options along with collections make this one compelling alternative to the iTunes app store.
Have friends that don't have an iPhone? That's ok, word on the street says that Mplayit will be launching soon on BlackBerry and Android platforms. Check out the screenshots below for examples of the desktop app and iPhone webpage. You can read more about Mplayit on their corporate site, or on Twitter.
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Chad your the best bro. Love the look when I see u on tipb live. Bffe.
@typos galore dude read my name and leave tipb's man candy alone.
Dude the typos in this post are ridiculous come on...
Yet another review I have to decipher rather than read.
Looks good. Hopefully Mplayit will help me in the never ending sear for the killer App.
"work on the street says..." lol
"never ending sear for the killer App."
First remove the mote from thine own eye...
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iPhone 4S faces off against Samsung Galaxy S3 in drop test
Is your inner gadget sadist just dying to see an iPhone 4S pitted against the brand new Samsung Galaxy S3 in a drop test? If so, you're in luck -- and the two phones, decidedly, are not. SquareTrade, a third-party electronics warranty provider, did the deed and here are the results.
The display on the Android phone cracked after the first drop from ear height. Round two of having kids toss the phones into the air resulted only in the rear of the iPhone shattering, though the Samsung Galaxy S 3 didn't get too banged up. The third test took place with fresh phones being left on the top of a car as it sped away, and again, the Samsung Galaxy S3's screen shattered while the iPhone 4S looked nearly untouched.
While this might all just seem like wanton destruction of expensive high-end gadgets, SquareTrade was simply illustrating some of the more common situations where phones get busted. According to their data, one in two phones fail due to drops of some kind, while one in four smartphones owned by parents were busted by their children. One in 15 people have damaged their phones in and around a car.
The iPhone 4 got a lot of flak early on for having a a screen that shattered so easily, and though that's to be expected in such a compact frame, it's interesting to see how the next major smartphone manufacturer fares in these kinds of tests (as inconclusive and unscientific as they may be). I would be really curious to see how many of Samsung's other phones fare under the same conditions.
Maybe it's just dumb luck that the iPhone fared so well in this case, but personally, I've been pretty happy with the iPhone 4's build quality. Even without a case or a screen protector, I haven't had any lasting. noticeable damage on my handset. How has your iPhone handled getting banged up? Have you had a better or worse time with other phones? Would you prefer investing in a case or a protection plan to keep your iPhone safe?
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These tests weren't consistent between the drops. As you can see in the video is that the two phones laid entirely different in the tests. Have you seen their other tests against the iPhone? It almost always shatters against the competition.
Watch this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elKxgsrJFhw
I've drop by BlackBerry a few dozen times without issue. The Berry before that, same deal. About 1 in 5 iPhone users I know have dropped their phone and cracked the screen. One Berry owner I know dropped his Bold the first day he got it and cracked the screen. It's luck of the draw, really, every user should buy a case and use a screen protector if they want to protect their phone. At least the all-glass ones need it IMHO.
That's a different phone you jackass. The iPhone even goes up higher in the video when the kids throw and falls faster when it comes off the car. We have a forum on this in the verge I've seen 3 videos and in each one the gs3 failed.http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K7e9ebi41Wc
This has to be just about the dumbest thing I have ever seen. :/
I can honestly report that I have dropped my phone from various REASONABLE heights and have nothing to show for it except a hair-line notch on the metal that is only noticeable if you know where it is. I have no covers or protectors of any sort. Isn't the thing wrapped in Gorilla Glass, anyway?
I bought Lifeproof cases when I bought our iPhone 4S's. My lady really needs full protection. I WAS going to use that all the time but then I took some pictures where the lens cover diffused the light in an odd way. I'm a big picture taker (and I think I can be pretty careful with it) so that was a deal-breaker for me.
Besides, we have protection plans.
That said, I DO put my case back on whenever we're going to be exposed to water. It was GREAT at the pool. I got shots I'd never have had the balls to take otherwise.
One day, I'll have the guts to dunk it under the water and take shots there. I plan to do that on our next cruise excursion.
What does the screen size have to do with it? That's the phone you would be dropping. It's top selling phone vs top selling phone not inch for inch glass vs plastic.
Why do you keep posting google links?
That was the first thing I noticed in the kid test. It landed almost 3 seconds later cause the kid threw it as hard as he could.
Had Samsung Galaxy s2 Dropped from shoulder height with Incipio feather case and Screen protector. Screen shattered. Now have I phone 4s with Vapor Pro Case two drops from car no issues. Most phones are too frail to not have decent protection. Even though I have apple care I want my phone to look clean and not hassle with deductible and claims.
I have dropped my iPhone, 3G, 3GS, 4S numerous times from about chest height. Some phones were in cases and some were not. None were damaged in the least until the 4S in a case with a screen protector fell out of my pocket getting out of the car (a distance of about 14 inches) onto pavement and shattered the front glass! You just never know what combination of events will result in a failure.
Anyway, $80 and a couple of hours of surgery later, my iPhone has a new screen and is working fine. No biggie!
No matter the case, it mostly matters how and where you drop it. I've seen iPhones, Droids and Berry's in otterbox cases with shattered screens because they were dropped on rocks, bigger stones, tree stumps, anywhere that isn't a level, flat surface. You aren't always going to drop your phone on a flat, level surface, which is why cases I think are overrated, screen protectors most definitely are.
I've dropped my iPhone 4 4 times in about a year from about chest high or ear high and no damage at all besides a couple scuffed up ends.. It all depends on how it lands.
I would think the Samsungs would be a bit more likely to break because they are more flexible. My HTC has a aluminum chassis that makes for a very stiff frame. Combined with the plastic back, it has proven to be durable. Still, the large glass screen means it wouldn't be that difficult to break, and to brag about how durable it is would seem ridiculous.
At some point people aren't going to put up with these easily shattered devices. They are too integral to our lives and too expensive to have to deal with that. My old Palm Centro with the plastic screen was far more durable than pretty much any smartphone out today. Sure, when it dropped the battery cover and battery would pop off and try to skitter away, but it took some real abuse and came through just fine.


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GALION, Ohio — Delbert Moore, 90, of Galion, Ohio, passed away Thursday, January 3, 2013 at Galion Community Hospital after a lengthy illness.
Born March 13, 1922, in Mud Fork, he was a son of the late Zeffie and Norma Lee Queen Moore. He was preceded in death on February 28, 2009, by his wife, Jean Huff Moore, whom he married on August 31, 1946. Also preceding him in death was one great-grandchild, Brittney Hornikle; three sisters, Arville Moore, Ruby Brogan and Verda Goodall, and one brother, Curtis Moore.
Delbert was a Staff Sargent during World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps and was a Prisoner of War in Japan for three and a half years and survived the Bataan Death March in the Philippines. After his discharge he returned to West Virginia eventually relocating to Ohio where he worked for General Motors and then Republic Steel both in Cleveland. He later owned a Sunoco filling station in Chesapeake, Ohio, then moved to Galion in 1970 and worked for the former Fleetwood Mobile Homes in Crestline and former North Electric in Galion where he was a painter, taking an early retirement.
Delbert was a life member of the V.F.W. Post 4329, American Legion Scarbrough Post 243, AMVETS Post 1979 and the Army-Navy Garrison 987 all in Galion.
Survivors include three sons and two daughters-in-law, Charles D. Moore and his companion, Nadine Lozier of Mansfield, Ohio, Daniel E. and Sara Michelle Moore of Bucyrus, Ohio, and William Dean and Lisa Moore of Galion; one daughter, Debra "Debi" Moore of Galion; six grandchildren, Charles Moore, Denise (Scott) Hornikle, Erin Grammer, Jaclyn Danielle Moore, Darcie Moore and William Derek Moore and fiancée Tera Knopsnider; 13 great-grandchildren, Bryan Moore, Claudia Moore, Tiffany Hornikle, Ashley Hornikle, Jarod Grammer, Reba Grammer, Nora Grammer, Gavin Meizer, Zane Kincaid, Holden Davis, Austin Woodard, Donavan Moore and Brooklyn Blaising, and one sister, Lassa Hughes of Huntington.
Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. Wednesday, January 9, at Richardson-Davis Funeral Home in Galion where services will be held at 11 a.m. with Rev. Joe Stafford officiating. Interment will be in Highland Memory Gardens at Godby.
Full military honors will be held by the U.S. Air Force and the Galion/Crestline area veterans organizations during the funeral service.
Memorial contributions may be made to HomeCare Matters Hospice, P.O. Box 327, Galion, Ohio 44833.
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When Jennifer Turpin takes over June 1 as provost for the University of San Francisco, she'll begin her position with 10 strategic objectives already laid out. On the top of that list? Achieving national and international recognition for USF.
"I want a student or a parent who is trying to decide where to send their student to make USF their very first choice because they know they will experience a rigorous academically excellent education that is also characterized by the cura personalis (care for the entire person) that we talk about in our mission," said Turpin, who has served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences since 2003.
Some of Turpin's other goals include creating a campus environment that supports and promotes diversity, strengthening USF's financial base, and preserving the university's Jesuit history and mission while making it more well known to students. She also wants to work on making sure universities are not judged solely on the economic earnings of their graduates. That, she said, shortchanges everyone—current students, faculty, and alumni.
"For that to be the only measure of a successful education is a terrible, terrible thing," said Turpin.
As part of her new role, Turpin would like to devise measurements that take into consideration a range of other criteria: What academic distance does a student travel while at a university? How much does a student learn? How capable are students of thinking critically, acting creatively, and finding leadership capacity in the name of a just cause? What impact on society do students have?
Having USF lead academically—while charting new directions in how higher education is assessed—is just part of her ambitious plan. Turpin, who replaces James L. Wiser (see sidebar), already has her first 100 days laid out, right down to meetings she plans to hold in the first week and beyond. Marcelo Camperi, currently associate dean of sciences, has been named interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
"Jennifer Turpin brings to this demanding position at this challenging moment a highly successful tenure as dean of Arts and Sciences, a longstanding commitment to the Jesuit Catholic tradition of humanizing education, and a familiarity with USF that will make her more effective pushing us forward and not at all complacent about where we are now," said USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J. "Those of us who have worked with Jenny know that she is energetic, articulate, imaginative, gracious, and very hardworking."
Turpin plans to expand the role of USF's regional campuses, launch new, expanded programs in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., develop three-year bachelor of arts and bachelor of science options, and initiate the creation of a USF Center for Teaching Excellence, and a USF Center for Research Excellence.
She also wants to be a visible presence on campus while educating the campus community on the role of a provost. She freely acknowledges that many have only a vague notion of what a provost does.
USF's provost is the chief academic officer of the university and counts among his/her duties overseeing the recruitment and retention of faculty, curriculum development, instilling USF's values characterized by a faith that does justice, directing the academic programs of the university through the deans and colleges, overseeing admissions and transfer policies, as well as student academic services, and budget planning.
When James L. Wiser steps down on May 31 as provost, he'll leave behind a legacy of accomplishments. Wiser, who has served as vice president of academic affairs since 1998 and provost since 1999, has provided leadership for a range of projects, including:
• A significant increase in the number of budgeted full-time faculty positions.
• Curricular reform and development, including a new core curriculum and a large number of new undergraduate majors and minors, and graduate programs.
• Increased support for faculty research, including the creation of the Office of Sponsored Projects and the initiation of 75 percent salary support for full-year sabbaticals.
• A marked increase in applications for undergraduate admissions and a noticeably improved selectivity rate for acceptances.
• Improvement in USF's academic facilities, including the Dorraine Zief Library and the renovation of the School of Law, renovation of Kalmanovitz Hall and Malloy Hall, and the renovation of Lone Mountain classrooms.
"Perhaps most importantly, I am very proud of the faculty, staff, and administrators I have hired for USF," Wiser said. "These are men and women for others and we all benefit from their hard work and commitment."
Following a sabbatical, Wiser plans to remain at USF as a faculty member in the politics department.
"Provosts are sometimes imagined as remote and removed, imagined as someone up in an ivory tower making administrative decisions that are not necessarily that connected to the student experience," said Turpin. "My hope is to be very connected to the student experience." Turpin has already conducted an interview for USF-TV, streamed into residence halls, to convey that message.
She also wants to expand USF's connection to alumni and the greater San Francisco community. USF, she said, has not fully realized the potential of its location, both in terms of opportunities the city can offer students as well as what USF can provide to San Francisco. Turpin wants to systematically examine opportunities across the curriculum, for example, she said, "If I'm a student studying creative writing at USF, what does San Francisco offer me as my extended classroom?"
Still, Turpin said, USF already has a lot going on—whenever she mentions USF's accomplishments to people outside the university, they are both surprised and extremely impressed. Part of her job, Turpin said, is to not only get the word out about those accomplishments, but also to further build upon USF's strengths.
Turpin first joined USF's sociology faculty in 1991, after receiving her doctorate from the University of Texas, Austin. During her years as a faculty member at USF, she received USF's Distinguished Teaching Award and the College Service Award. Turpin founded USF's women's studies program, and was chair of the sociology department from 1995-97.
She then served as associate dean for the College of Arts and Sciences, overseeing the arts, humanities, and social sciences, before being named dean in 2003 and initiating new courses and programming during her tenure. Turpin, chosen for the provost position after a nationwide search that brought four finalists from across the country to campus, impressed the search committee with her insider-knowledge and her drive to preside over continued improvements and innovations at USF.
"USF really is a unique institution," Turpin said. "I believe completely in the mission of the university and I know USF can stand out as a leader among institutions of higher education."


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The concert begins at 2 p.m. in the KSUA auditorium. "This is an open invitation for tuba players from throughout the region to get together, sight-read music they have never seen before and in a couple of hours, put on a Christmas concert, Sherman said. "It's a really cool event."
All of the county's high school bands will be involved in the concert.
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Ralph Lewis Cooper Jr., 49, a Berkeley County resident, was arrested April 22 income tax charges.
S.C. Department of Revenue investigators charged Cooper with four counts of attempting to evade or defeat taxes, according to a statement released Wednesday.
He was being held at the Hill-Finklea Detention Center in Moncks Corner pending a bond hearing.
For tax years 2008 through 2011, the DOR investigation showed Cooper falsified the earning statements of another person to indicate that the individual was exempt from withholding taxes.
As a result of Coopers actions, there was little or no withholding taxes withheld from the other persons pay during tax years 2008 through 2011.
The total outstanding liability for 2008 through 2011 is $16,430.
Cooper faces a fine of $40,000 or 20 years of imprisonment, or both, according to SCDOR.
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Nantes, who were relegated from Ligue 1, have lost their best players, but are still predicted to be close to the top of Ligue 2 this season. 0-2 defeat against Guingamp in their last friendly.
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Nova Uniao head trainer Andre Pederneiras said most of his fighters come from the favela, and they're literally fighting to put food on their tables.
One star pupil, UFC interim bantamweight champion Renan Barao (31-1 MMA, 6-0 UFC), grew up poor, but no longer needs to live hand to mouth. Pederneiras, however, said the fighter isn't maximizing opportunity while he's very near the top of the 135-pound class.
Just this past weekend at UFC 165, Barao became the first fighter in UFC history to twice defend an interim belt when he stopped Eddie Wineland. The performance won Barao a $50,000 bonus for "Knockout of the Night" as well as his show and win purses.
Barao is making more money as he continues to dominate the competition in the UFC, but according to Pederneiras, he could be making far more from other sources.
"He's very frustrated because he needs to make money," Pederneiras told MMAjunkie.com Radio. "So many sponsors here in Brazil are not sponsoring him because he's not the real champion from the UFC. He's the interim champion. He's losing money every day.
"The sponsors here want a real champion. A linear champion."
At the moment, circumstances don't allow for that possibility, but change appears to be on the horizon. Undisputed champ Dominick Cruz (19-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) estimates he'll be able to return to defend his title in January, and UFC President Dana White has said the promotion will strip him of the belt if he's unable to meet that deadline.
For Pederneiras and Barao, the time can't come soon enough.
"I don't want another opponent," Pederneiras said. "I want to make the fight happen by February, or I need to talk to Dana to take his belt, because more than two-and-a-half years, I don't understand. But he said he was probably going to be fighting in February.
"I've been waiting for that and praying every day for it to happen. Renan wants to fight Dominick."
Meanwhile, Pederneiras' other UFC champion, featherweight kingpin Jose Aldo (23-1 MMA, 5-0 UFC), is gunning for a previously booked match. He said Aldo is still set on fighting recently minted lightweight champion Anthony Pettis, whom he was scheduled to fight before Pettis withdrew with a knee injury.
Pettis, of course, was able to recover in time to make a lightweight title fight with now-former champ Benson Henderson, whom he submitted inside one round at this past month's UFC 164.
"Aldo wants to fight Pettis, but I don't know if the UFC wants to put Ricardo Lamas first," said Pederneiras.


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Jose Aldo vs Frankie Edgar staredown pic from UFC 156 media day in Las Vegas and more - MMAmania.com
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) held its first-ever "media day" this afternoon (Jan. 31, 2013) at Mandalay Bay Events Center Concourse, which is in the same building it will stage is "super" pay-per-view (PPV) mixed martial arts (MMA) event this weekend (Sat., Feb. 2, 2013), UFC 156: "Aldo vs. Edgar."
It wasn't the traditional press conference on a dais, but rather the main card fighters sat in individual booths as reporters roamed the floor, asking questions and snapping photographs. At the conclusion of the event, however, UFC President Dana White arrived to square uf the combatants for official UFC 156 staredown photos.
UFC 156 will feature a "super" 145-pound title bout between Featherweight champion Jose Aldo and former Lightweight kingpin, Frankie Edgar, cutting 10 pounds and attempting to join Randy Couture and B.J. Penn as a two-division winner. Former Light Heavyweight Champion Rashad Evans was also in attendance, going nose-to-nose with Antonio Rogerio Nogueira prior to their pivotal 205-pound clash.
Heavyweight monsters Alistair Overeem and Antonio Silva got a little too close for comfort, needing to be separated before fireworks sparked prematurely.


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The Zohar
The most influential work of Jewish mysticism was, for centuries, shrouded in mystery.
By George Robinson
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That Moses de Leon authored the Zohar was academic dogma for many decades. Recently however, scholars—particularly Yehuda Liebes—have proposed that the Zohar is actually a compilation, written by a group of mystics that included de Leon. The author of the following article makes passing reference to this academic development, but its significance is worth emphasizing. The following is reprinted with permission from
Essential Judaism
, published by Pocket Books.
How important is Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Splendor)? Rabbi Pinkhas of Koretz, a major figure in the first generation of the Hasidic movement (not to be confused with the medieval Hasidei Ashkenaz), wrote, "I thank God every day that I was not born before the Zohar was revealed, for it was the Zohar that sustained me in my faith as a Jew." Many other Orthodox Jews would agree with Pinkhas, even today. Michael Fishbane, a contemporary scholar, has written that the Zohar "pulses with the desire for God on every page," pinpointing part of its appeal. The Zohar has become one of the indispensable texts of traditional Judaism, alongside and nearly equal in stature to Mishnah and Gemara (the Talmud).
That Moses de Leon did not receive credit for authoring the Zohar was in large part the result of his own design. When he began showing pieces of the manuscript to fellow kabbalists in the 1290s, he passed them off as ancient texts authored by the second century talmudic sage Simeon bar Yokhai. Rabbi Simeon is best remembered for the thirteen years that he and his son spent living in a cave in Palestine, under threat of death from its Roman rulers. During that period of internal exile, the two men supposedly studied Torah and lived on next to nothing. But Simeon was rumored to have marvelous powers as well as a lightning intellect, and if you were going to pick a sage to claim as the author of a mysterious manuscript, he was a good choice.
Why did de Leon pass off his own writing (or that of a circle of kabbalists with him at the center, as some recent scholars claim) as the work of a second-century sage? Undoubtedly, the simplest answer is the correct one: having a distinguished provenance for the book would give it an authority that de Leon himself lacked. It also gave him an imaginative freedom that he might not otherwise have had, and the book soars with that sense of liberation.
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Alumni group to discuss establishing Libbey HS museumWritten by John P. McCartney | | firstname.lastname@example.com
Two weeks after more than 20 Libbey High School alumni and supporters documented 370 pieces of memorabilia stored by Toledo Public Schools (TPS), the Libbey High School Alumni Association will host a public meeting at 6:30 p.m. April 9. The group plans to discuss possible placement of the school's trophies, medals, paintings, photos, portraits, plaques, newspapers, yearbooks and other assorted memorabilia.
The meeting will take place in the Believe Center inside the Aurora Gonzalez Community Center, 1205 Broadway St.
In response to Libbey preservation project spokesperson Sue Terrill's comments to the Board of Education (BOE) at its March 26 meeting, board member Larry Sykes expressed his support of the alumni association's mission.
"I am sympathetic to the people of Libbey," Sykes said. "We can work with them as they attempt to find a home for those artifacts. And I don't want to see [Terrill] back here because she is complaining that she needs something in the Libbey High School alumni project."
Speaking directly to the superintendent Jerome Pecko, Sykes said, "Whatever she needs, let's make sure she gets it."
'Too little, too late'
Preservation project volunteers said that although they appreciated Sykes' vocal support, it is simply too little, too late. They said they needed that support from all board members in 2012 when the BOE voted to demolish the South End high school, leaving the 1200 block of Western Avenue bare.
"It's just a great big hole, a bare space," said 1963 graduate Sharon Barton Hamilton. "It will probably grow over in weeds in a couple of years if they don't find another purpose for it. It will become just another empty lot with weeds."
Sierra Hines, a 2010 graduate, said she is offended by the BOE's previous lack of support.
"They already got rid of our school," Hines said. "It's adding insult to injury when you just dump the trophies into a storage room and not do anything with them. It's like all my memories have been taken from me."
Larry Farren, a 1966 graduate, questioned where the BOE's support was during the first two years of the preservation project committee's efforts.
"We've tried to save as much of the legacy as we could," Farren said. "We tried to take as many photographs as we could. The exterior was easy. It was still up. But we had a hard time getting inside Libbey to take pictures."
Farren said he has "no idea" why committee members were required to wait more than a year before being allowed access to the shuttered building.
"Maybe they were worried about insurance, maybe that we'd get hurt," Farren suggested. "Or maybe they thought if the documentation got out there, their decision would be reversed. That is a possibility."
Jean Murphy, a 1966 graduate, called it a "disgrace" that Libbey was demolished within two years of being closed while DeVilbiss and Macomber high schools have stood for 22 years since closing.
Fred Crabtree, a 1963 graduate, agreed with Murphy.
"It bugs the hell out of me that after going through all that information we went through, I couldn't find a single reason why when they closed DeVilbiss and Macomber [in 1991], they didn't tear them down. All these years later, both are still standing. But with Libbey, they closed it [in 2010] and they tore it down to the ground in less than two years."
Bill Albert, a 1966 graduate, was harsher in his assessment of the BOE, calling its actions immoral.
"Now the South End is totally, absolutely deficient in education and everything else," Albert said. "What they've done to those kids' education down there is criminal."
A public display
Volunteers universally agreed that their work documenting the memorabilia should lead to the establishment of a facility where the items would be on public display.
Hamilton said she would like to see a museum for all closed TPS schools "so that everything could be under one roof to make it feasible." She suggested the South branch of the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library at 1736 Broadway St. as a possible location.
Larry Noyes, a 1963 graduate, also supports the establishment of a museum.
"Those items are already recorded," Noyes said. "We have documentation. I would like to see that put into some kind of museum to where somebody can go there and say, 'Oh, yeah. My grandfather — he was part of that team.' It would be nice.
"I think that for the amount of effort that went into earning those trophies and awards, we owe something to those people that worked very hard to bring that honor to the school — not so much for themselves, but for the sake of Libbey High School. There were a lot of them over all the years, and I think that should be preserved."
Jean Murphy, a 1966 graduate, suggested that the memorabilia could be displayed in several buildings, including the Area Office on Aging on Arlington Avenue and the Lyman W. Liggins Senior Center and the Veterans Outpatient Clinic, both on South Detroit Avenue.
"The people of South Toledo could go and see, or take their grandchildren to see, the World War II memorial for the teachers and students lost in World War II," Murphy said. "They could take their families to see some of the important things in their lives."
Eddie Auerbach, a 1950 graduate, said he'd like to see the City of Toledo establish and maintain a citywide Sports Hall of Fame to honor athletes from area high schools as well as The University of Toledo.
"It's just too bad that they had to do what they did to Libbey," Auerbach said. "It's gone now. It's just too bad."
Public auction
James Hines, a 1984 graduate, said he'd like to see TPS sell the memorabilia to interested citizens.
"I wish there was some kind of way to auction them off," Hines said. "I know people who they are valuable to would go after them. People would pay a lot of money just to have them. There's a lot of people that fought with sweat and blood over trophies.
"Auction them off. Give them away. Put them online for people to see them. Do something. To leave them packed up in a warehouse somewhere — and later on probably trash them — is a crime."
'Give people pause … '
Farren said it's important to save as much of Libbey's legacy as possible.
"Maybe we're being pie-in-the-sky, but this is part of the history of Toledo," Farren said. "We're hoping that by saving as much as we can, we can give people pause to think about what Toledo once was and can be again."
Farren said even citizens with no connection to Libbey should take notice of TPS's demolition of its unused buildings.
"In a way, this goes to the heart of Toledo," Farren said. "We did not maintain Libbey the way it should have been maintained. Now we have these new schools. We've been to the OSFC (Ohio School Facilities Commission) Building Committee meetings, and we've heard about problems with the new schools.
"And you have to wonder, are the people of Toledo going to repeat the mistakes of the past? Are they going to maintain these new buildings? Or in 40 years, or 50 if we're lucky, are these buildings going to have to be replaced and millions of dollars will have to go into the process again?"
'A piece of history that's gone'
Noyes said the demolition was, "kind of like they're tearing down a part of your life. It's a piece of history that's gone. It's just like a lot of other things that are gone. Eventually, it loses its impact. Time has erased a lot of that memory.
"I don't think you have to save everything. I just don't understand why Libbey had to be the school to be gobbled up in a steam shovel. There's a lot of feeling involved. I look at that piece of property now, and I just don't know what to say about it. They have a big rock out there, almost like a tombstone. When I first saw it, it was kind of like a gravestone for Libbey."
Albert refuses to even drive by the site of the former high school.
"That's one part of Western Avenue. I will never go down," Albert said. "I saw Libbey as it was, and I didn't see it being torn down. I refused to see it, and I refuse to go onto that section of Western Avenue.
"When I went that way to get to the Frederick Douglass Building for a couple of meetings, I had my left hand over the left side of my face so I wouldn't even approach Libbey, seeing it. That's how I am with that. I have my memory and my sight of Libbey, and that's how I'll look at it."
Tags: Area Office on Aging, Aurora Gonzalez Community Center, Jerome Pecko, Larry Sykes, Libbey High School, Libbey High School Alumni Association, Lyman W. Liggins Senior Center, Sue Terrill, Toledo Public Schools, University of Toledo, Veterans Outpatient Clinic


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Hey all,
I'm here to answer your questions about WvW in Guild Wars 2. I'm the coordinator of the team, as well as a designer on the team. There are a bunch of exciting things happening in WvW, some coming soon and others being worked on right now. I'm happy to answer as many questions as I can about WvW. If you could keep your questions to WvW topics, you will be more likely to get a response. I can't make comments about things that are far off in development, but otherwise, it's open season. I'm putting this up a little in advance so you can start posting some questions. I'll start answering questions around 5PM ET, but feel free to put some up now. I'll get to as many of them as I can until 6 PM ET. Fire away!
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Hey Devon - thanks for taking the time to answer a few questions. Here's a few things I'd appreciate hearing your thoughts on.
The Tyria Herald
The Camelot Herald was an amazing website in the DAoC days that allowed you to see a vast amount of information for each realm (faction), guilds and individual players. You could track their total/weekly amount of kills, the Realm Points they earned and a variety of other things on a constantly-updated website. It ranked guilds, it ranked players, it ranked everything and was a wonderful out-of-game tool for people to use.
Camelot Herald did a very good job of keeping the community engaged, fostered healthy competition (among both enemies and friendlies) and kept people playing in general. MMO's are very much about numbers and PvP in MMO's is very much about competition. If you give playes the ability to compete by comparing their numbers with other players they will love you for it. The more you give people the ability to check how they've done, challenge their guild to beat another and allow them to compete among themselves, the more active and happy they will be.
Almost all of the stats required for this are already there to be picked from our Achievements/World XP tabs. With all of this information freely available (if the player allows it to be) people could make some truly astonishing websitse! It would do so much good for the WvW community to be able to track these things.
I suppose my question is; is there any chance of this happening? What would the hurdles be for it to not happen quite soon?
Examples of Camelot Herald: Top Guilds - Weekly Champions - Guild example - Wizard rank
The map change was amazing for the Borderlands. It's a really varied and fun area which your team did a great job on. You mentioned that the Bloodlust buff will see some changes before the Season starts, which is great news.
The issue here is that, in my view, the Ruins have as of late seen less activity than since they were introduced. They will be captured for the purpose of the buff by medium-sized groups fairly often, but solo players cannot capture the buff alone and without other solo players in the area there they have little incentive to go there (even less so on the maps where the Sentries don't appear).
A large majority of "small scale" WvW happens with solo players clashing randomly and others adding into it. I may engage one person, that person gets backup, I start kiting and I encounter a friendly and the two of us try to take them on again. Fights escalate in a natural way. Without attracting solo players, the Ruins are not creating opportunities for small scale to happen.
You've obviously touched on the fact that you cannot give rewards for something that has no challenge in capping it (and no "cooldown" in doing so, ala camps/sentries). How do you intend to deal with the diminishing activity in the area?
You've mentioned previously that WvW Achievements are something you intend to address in the future. You've delayed the issue somewhat with the introduction of Seasons and Season-specific Achievements, but it's still an issue out there for 2014 or so.
The thing is, Achievements are the only way we have to track progress right now. If you rework them so it's easier to reach the maximum, that will make it impossible for us to track how many kills we have in total or how many Camps/Keeps we've capped. Numbers are fun. Comparing them to friends and guildies is enjoyable. Working towards the 250k has been a driving force for many people. And those that have reached 250k no longer even know how many total kills they have! It makes no sense to have a system that tracks our totals suddenly stop simply because we hit an arbitrary "maximum."
When/if you end up reworking the Achievements (which is sorely needed to put them in line points-wise with other gametypes), will you be looking towards an infinite system (with appropiate tiers, so the 250k and similar goals remain) of some sorts or perhaps letting us see our totals in another way not connected to Achievements? The last point would allow you to set the Achievement cutoff anywhere you like as long as we can keep tracking our totals.
Breaking up the Blob
With the impending Season start upon us, the Worlds are gearing up and most likely organizing themselves for a massive push come October 18th. With this, the massive groups and the skill lag that we are all acquainted with will also follow.
You've done some work in fostering small scale fighting with the introduction of the Ruins, but it has done nothing to lessen the massive zergs that most higher tier servers run now. It ruins a large part of the enjoyment of WvW when the skill that follows happens which I am sure you have experienced.
Something needs to be done to work towards breaking up the zergs somewhat. Can we expect anything on this front? And if so, what are your thoughts/ideas on it?
(I saw the recent post on skill lag - my post is not about fixing that, but rather what you are doing to try and bring people towards less full-zone fighting)
There, now you've got something to work with!
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Well hopefully I can ask a few.
Thanks again for your time in answering these if you do!
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I came up with a few questions and hopefully you can answer a few of them ^^
1) With the current state of masteries and power creep that seems to be going on, are there any plans to allow tier 4 upgrades at keeps? Especially the reinforced gates melt within a minute these days.
2) The loot in WvW is lackluster compared to PvE at the moment. On the official forums you talked about improving these, can we expect any improvents before the end of this year?
3) Escorting dolyaks used to be a full event, meaning you got karma and silver aswell. This got changed due to the mass amount of bots going on at that moment. Currently I don't find any bots anywhere anymore so my compliments for that, however does this mean we will see the old rewards back? As a commander it's nearly impossible to convince people to escort dolyaks as the reward is very lackluster at the moment.
4) Can we expect commander system improvents before the end of this year? Maybe the first quarter of 2014? It's very hard for anyone not on TS to keep track of what every commander is doing on a single map during peak times.
5) You shared some of your vision with us when the leagues got announced. Personally I think you want to turn WvW into more than a "practice zone" for sPvP so that is something that excites me, could you maybe share more details on how you envision the future of WvW?
6) This is a more personal question but as lead designer of something major as WvW, how do you deal with the huge amounts of stress and pressure that the community throws at you?
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In my opinion GW2 has gone from very alt-friendly like GW1, to the exact opposite of that with the additions of ascended gear and WvW ranks. Will we be seeing real improvements to this (like account-based WvW ranks) anytime soon?
*wvw xp drops aren't cutting it, nor is spending laurels*
Originally posted by Intigo
Wow, that's a post. I'll try and hit these in order:
Tyria Herald: It's not something we've really explored up to this point, so I can't really comment on the feasbilty of it, although it sounds really amazing. Something we are hoping to do more of is making an effort to create that type of information base, whether it be in this format, on the leaderboards, or via forum posts I don't know.
Ruins: That's a good question. One thing is we will fix the bug with the sentry points in the other maps, which should help somewhat. We'll also be adding daily/season achievements that relate to the ruins. We aren't totally against providing rewards for the events themselves, it's just a difficult balance, as you noted. It's also generally the case that we want to increase rewards in WvW, especially in the rank up chests.
Achievements; The first crack at this should be out by the end of the year. It's going to be a process of adjusting the achievements to fit reasonable goals. We still want them to be long term, just more like 1-2 years, rather than say 10 years. We also would like to make more use of the leaderboard system to provide some of that tracking. Letting people look up who has the most kills, the most dolyak kills, etc. I think that's a little easier to use and more flexible than the achievement system at the moment. I don't have a timeline for that, however, as we have other tasks that we are focusing on right now.
Breaking up the Blob: We have some ideas here that are likely to come out next year, in the earlier portion of the year. It's a complicated problem because of the principles of our game, namely that we don't want to punish you for playing with more people. So it comes down to ways to incentivize and/or empower small groups more so than punishing large ones. That creates the problem of finding solutions that don't help even larger groups. We have some ideas for changes to siege weapons that I think might help, but it is a major concern for us. To be clear, we are concerned about the value of skill over simple manpower. If you get together 50 skilled players operating in unison, we don't want to hamper that. But we do think a smaller, more coordinated group should have the advantage over a larger, uncoordinated group.
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Q1: Are there any plans to disincentivize the coverage wars/off hours PvD to scoring?
Q2: Under the current scoring metric why leagues?
Q3: If there are no plans to change scoring how is Anet going to help lower ranked servers be more competitive given the participation gap between tiers?
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Does anet have any plans to look at the way the current transfer pricing is worked ? As is, it does not really help the low ranked server's thay are considered high/very high due to over all population. PvE has Guesting and SPvP is server wide so the only aspect of the game that is truly effected by Transfer's is WvW. Would it not be better to base pricing off server Rank instead of Over all population ?
Also a poster on the official forums asked that we provide this link for the WvW team http://youtu.be/qHcO6Xo8eJ8 many believe this system would be a step in the right direction for your new Leagues. Is this something the team would be willing to look at implementing ?
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Is there any possibility of merging the smaller servers together for the purposes of WvW? T1 WvW is SO MUCH FUN because of the constant action no matter where you are. Going into empty borderlands on even T2 servers is really disappointing by comparison. If not merging servers in some way, do you have any plans to address the low turn-out on some servers without having WvW interested players transfer upwards?
My idea of merging servers would something like an "XYZ Accord" where you would use internal metrics to combine servers into having the most coverage possible, and reduce the total number of competitiors in WvW from the current 24 to like 9 or so.
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New maps?
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Hey Devon. A few things;
1) When can we expect new commander stuff (maybe tag is only visible to guildiees?)
2) Can Communal Bonfires get a WXP option?
3) Will server transfer costs be changing according to sever WvW performance (as PvEers can guest)?
4) When will bloodlust be changed?
5) Will there be a WXP booster guild banner?
6) Can we get a EMP trap to stop golems (causing them to depower) for 40 seconds? Make it cost 15 supply so you can't spam them down, and once a golem hits one it can't be hit by another for 2 minutes.
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2) We should be doing something about being able to acquire ascended back items in WvW in the next month or two. I want to stress that it will be something that makes it easier to acquire them, not necessarily adding unique WvW pieces. We do want to get unique WvW pieces in, but that process takes longer and so it won't happen right away.
3) We are working on fixes to many of the sigil problems but have no estimate of when we will fix it.
5) Yes, absolutely. In fact you'll see some of those improvements in the game on October 15th, when the chests get the first round of improvements. We are not saying that is the end either, so you should expect additional improvements. Ideally, I'd like those chests to be a big deal and where a lot of the rewards from WvW come from. That puts us in a position to improve the ways you get WXP generally, so everyone has better access to the chests, whether they are capturing SM or defending Durios.
1) Not anytime soon and really just for technical reasons. The way that system is put together makes it very difficult to change. We have some plans for revision of the upgrades generally, but there is no timeline on when or true design as to how that would work.
3) This is really just a side effect of the way our event system works and, unfortunately, it's not really fixable without major changes to things. That being said, I'd like for us to make those changes so that players who are doing the dirty work of escorting dolyaks are appropriately rewarded for it. But until we have a solution that doesn't reintroduce the bot problem, we will leave it as it currently is.
4) We have some ideas for commander system improvements but none of them are at a point that we have a release timeframe. We absolutely want to provide more ways for commanders to impact the battlefield because we know they are straining against the limits of our current system.
5) The biggest thing for me, is I want WvW to be the place that people go when they want to experience tactics at a large scale, take territory, hold it, and show who is boss. I'd like it to be the place that rewards large coordinated groups with in-game rewards and out of game fame and I hope it is the place that most players spend their time once they hit 80, as I do.
6) I've found it takes a few things. 1: Remember that the passion people show is a comment on how much they care. 2: Take breaks from reading the forums to recharge the batteries. and 3: Play WvW whenever I can, because it reminds me how awesome the game is and how much I want to keep improving it.
This is something we have been discussing very seriously recently and we agree with this assessment. It's important to us to maintain a sense of individual character progression while still encouraging alt play in WvW. We have some plans for this as it relates to WvW that I hope to be able to talk more about soon. In the mean time, all I can say is that we agree and we'll do more to make WvW alt-friendly in the coming months.
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1) Are there any plans to add new skins through the introduction of WvW Seasons?
2) Will there be ways to earn Ascended items through WvW that are more progression oriented then RNG oriented?
3) Any plans to make WvW progression account wide? I know you guys have been against this in the past, but this system does not correspond with pretty much the rest of the game. All the currency based progression in the game is account wide as well as sPvP.
1) While there are no concrete plans at the moment, we feel like this is essentially the biggest issue with WvW right now and we are working on various solutions to address it. I don't think there is a silver bullet, unfortunately, and I don't know when we'll be able to start releasing some of those changes.
This is not something we are considering as all our servers have robust populations. Server structure has more implications that just WvW, which means any changes of these sorts would have to take all aspects of the player base into account. In addition, with the queues as they currently exist on those top tier servers, I think it's more important for us to solve the underlying scoring issues which would let more people play than if we were to cut the number of possible players at any time in half.
New maps are something we are very much looking forward to doing at some point, however the amount of time and development resources required is large and as such it will not be anytime soon that any new maps arrive in WvW.
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Thank you for answering my questions ^^
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1. Are there any plans to remove the stats from bloodlust buff & change it to something like mf/wxp/exp/karma gain instead so that the server with higher population doesn't get stronger?
2. Are there any plans to change the league system on US servers to Diamond (T1 US) /Gold (Next 6) /Silver (Next 9) /Bronze(Next 6) because of the population/coverage difference between T1 US servers and T2 servers?
3. Are there any plans to change the cost of transfer to servers with high PvE population with little to no WvW population? Currently it costs 1800 gems to transfer to T1 servers & T3-4 servers with 5times less WvW population.
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Hi Devon,
Glad to have you here and I am glad as a community we are having this exchange. I just have couple questions:
1. One of the perceived problem with WvW is that losing servers with significantly less coverage than their opponents have no incentive to keep fighting. The recent league announcement has made a lot of players worry that the problem will be magnified, especially in NA gold league where servers in Tier 2 are expecting to get dominated by servers in Tier 1 due to the large gap between the two tiers. Is the dev team planning anything to encourage the loosing server to keep fighting in the new league system?
2. The new area in the center of the borderland map is very well designed, good job the dev team. However, we do know that there is significant controversial around the bloodlust stat buff. Can you share with us what is dev team doing to try to change it?
3. On a related point, many players are worried about what they perceived as power creep in WvW, with the wvw rank guard ability lines and the recent addition of bloodlust stat buff, and many would prefer to have a more leveling playing field regarding to stat (as it is also easier for playing alts). Can you share with us what is the Dev's team's view on this and how are you planning to address it?
Thank you for your time.
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"The Obsidian Sanctum. Eb jumping puzzle will have a new area added to the left of it down a hall it will lead to a big open arena/colosseum area. Dingy lit/moss etc kinda like the environment of jumping puzzle, war dogs statues around few braziers on big pillars. looking good. They are working on the art its not final there is water but probably will be removed. Vendors/Repair guy hopefully. The bloodlust buff will be disabled in sanctum.
We are going to make it so that you can access this map via a portal in LA and via the dropdown menu in the WvW panel. I assume that will be enough."
Coming sometime Oct/ Nov.
You made a post yourself regarding this on reddit, all but confirming it. Is it safe to say this is true?.
Also why is this Q&A session not taking place on twitch gw2 stream like all other parts of the game PVE/SPvP/ART are usually hosted on?.
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1. Why are arenanet so against WvW ranks being account bound? Character bound ranks do nothing but limit a players experience in WvW which will lead to burnout and players leaving sooner rather than later. Especially when combined with the ascended weapon system which only serves to limit our experimentation with builds.
2. Is a GvG battleground in the works, perhaps in the obsidian sanctum?
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There have been comments on the forum about how bloodlust is changing. What do you have instore for us and why are you unhappy with the way bloodlust turned out?
In past discussions there was talk of possibly removing the waypoints in various BL's because they make the world feel smaller and the WvW experience too fast. Is this still an agenda item?
Class balance is not strictly a WvW issue, but several classes have remarkably low value to the current WvW. These would be the engineer, thief, and ranger taking up the 6th, 7th, and 8th class spot in overall value to WvW. Is anything going to be done to improve the group utility so these classes have more value?


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Unifi is celebrating the correction of language used in a trade agreement between the United States, Central America and the Dominican Republic. Officials say the language once led to the loss of business and jobs for the past eight years, but now it's been fixed.
The changes took effect on Oct. 13, and officials say this could eventually mean that Unifi will have more jobs to offer.
The Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) was signed into law in 2003. Some outdated language used in the agreement allowed the use of non-originating sewing thread in the assembly of textiles and apparel. This led to manufacturers using lesser quality threads from Asia.
Franciso Sanchez, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, was on hand at a press conference held atUnifi on Oct. 9 to announce these changes. Sanchez tried to explain the CAFTA-DR agreement and the changes being made in layman's terms.
"We entered into a trade agreement with countries in Central America and the Dominican Republic several years ago," Sanchez said. "It was an effort to try to increase two way trade; more American goods could get sold to those countries and more goods from there could come to our country and by doing so the hope was to create more jobs.
"As part of that deal there is a provision called yarn forward; what that meant was that if you were going to make a garment in any one of these countries you could continue to enjoy duty free entry into our market or any of the other markets as long as you used yarn from one of these countries that formed the agreement," Sanchez continued.
Sanchez said that a loophole was discovered and it became an increasing threat to U.S. manufacturers and basically undermined the original purpose of the agreement. Sanchez said that President Obama directed his trade negotiators to make the necessary amendments to the agreement to protect American jobs.
"Anytime you amend a treaty you then have to go back to congress because congress voted on the original treaty," Sanchez said. "So now we've changed what the congress voted on and we not only have to negotiate with our partners in Central America and the Dominican Republic but we had to take this new, amended treaty and get it approved by the congress. It was kind of a two-step process. We got the first part done about a year ago and the second part we just got done this summer."
Sanchez said that Unifi played an instrumental role in bringing the loophole to the government's attention and making sure that it was amended.
"Bill Jasper and Jane Johnson from Unifi were frequent callers to the Office of US Trade Representative, Capitol Hill and of course to my office," Sanchez said. "I was delighted to get those calls, and I'm delighted that you were all such a vocal advocate to Capitol Hill and my colleagues in sister agencies. I knew that you were fighting for American business, for American workers and for American jobs. That is our fight as well."
Bill Jasper, chairman and CEO of Unifi, said that he is very happy to see this correction made and that he anticipates new jobs being created once the company is able to bounce back from the losses it suffered from the mistake.
"I think what this change does is it basically brings the law back to what was originally intended, which was to promote growth in manufacturing in this region and not growth of subsidized cheap yarns coming out of Asia," Jasper said. "That's the most important change here. We're going to be able to grow our sewing trade business because CAFTA is growing as a region. Production in textiles is actually growing in CAFTA which means that we have the opportunity to grow and when we grow we add jobs."
Sanchez said that this change shows a glimmer of hope for the American economy. He says that this change is one of many that Americans will begin to notice as the economy starts to pick back up.
"These fixes to this agreement are very good for business and they're very good for jobs," Sanchez said. "They are also very, very good for our overall national economy which is already gaining momentum under the work that the Obama administration has done."
After the press conference Sanchez was taken on a tour through Unifi's Yadkinville T-5 plant so he could see the manufacturer's work first hand.
"I'm like a kid in a candy store," Sanchez said. "I love manufacturing, so to be able to walk through a plant, particularly a plant that is so innovative, it is really exciting and it gives me great optimism for our country when I see a company like Unifi that is not only following sustainable manufacturing processes but developing sustainable products. The whole recycling products and using recycling products to make their Repreve thread line is just very exciting. It makes me very proud."
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Wando boys and girls track both placed first overall at the 11th annual Father Kelly Classic Saturday at Bishop England High School.
Wando girls tallied 88 points to finish six ahead of second-place Spring Valley, while the boys racked up 92.5 to take first by 23.5 points over Fort Dorchester.
Kenny Waring led Wando with first-place finishes in the 100-meter (10.93) and long jump (22-03). Waring teamed up with Kevin Brown, Montez Frost and Peter Pinkney to take first (43.72) in the 100-relay.
Wando's Gauge Wood placed first (13-00) and Evan Bailey took third (12-00) in boys pole vault. Junior Kato placed first (57.07) in the 400 hurdles and Chance Price second (43-02.75) in the triple jump.
Zeniyah Lawrence, Monea Akinjobi, Sarah Lee and Cierra Smalls combined to set a new meet record (49.06) with a first-place finish in the girls 100-relay. Lawrence, Lee, Smalls and Angelica Collins finished second (4:15.28) in the 400-relay. Collins also took third (12.41) in the 100, while Lawrence finished third (26.22) in the 200.
Kendall Mercer won second (11-00) in girls pole vault and second (J5-00) in the high jump. Rose Marie Compton placed second in the 1600 (5:23.21) and 3200 (11:42.79).
Bishop England finished fourth in the girls standings with 54 points and 13th in the boys standings with 22.
Adele Blalock led the Bishops with third-place finishes in the 100-hurdles (15.08) and pole vault (9-06) and a fourth-place finish in the 200 (26.23).
Michele Boykin won first in the 800 (2:22.51) and joined Bea DiBona, Jo Jo Tompkins and Hannah Corbett to take second in the 800-relay.
Cristian Widenhouse placed fourth (4:31.04) in the 1600 and Christian Furmanchik took third (154) in the discus throw. Albert Lang and Lawton Fosberry were part of a three-way tie for sixth (5-10) in boys high jump.
With fewer athletes participating, Palmetto Christian Academy didn't have a huge impact in the overall team points and standings.
Mackenzie Patrick picked up the Lady Eagles' only points with a seventh-place finish (1:04.08) in the 400.
Annie Pascutti finished ninth in the long jump (15-06), high jump (J4-10) and triple jump (32-02).
The Father Kelly Classic included 29 teams from across the state this year. Fort Dorchester senior Jasmine Quinn ran the nation's fastest time in the 100-hurdles this year at 13.33 seconds. Quinn also took first in the 100 (11.93), 200 (24.93) and the long jump (18-11). Burke's Raven Saunders tossed the nation's second longest shot put mark (51-9.05) and fourth longest discus throw (153-03).
Spring Valley (65.5), Hanahan (62), and Goose Creek (61) rounded out the boys top five. Summerville (56) finished third in the girls standings and Fort Dorchester (51.5) fifth.
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A hearing has been requested to consider an order to sell the Compass Academy property on Toolebeck Road for a "buy-it-now" price of $1.5 million, which receiver Sherri Lydon has determined is the most efficient means of selling the property.
Attorney Wesley Few on Aug. 7 filed the motion on behalf of Lydon, requesting a hearing before Judge Jeanette McBride.
"The motion really is a procedural matter," Few said. "Quite frankly, the (South Carolina) Attorney General instituted that action and seized the assets, and appointed Sherri as a receiver because there was such an interest."
Lydon, an attorney based in Columbia, was selected as the receiver of all frozen assets belonging to Compass Academy, Jonathan "Jay" Brooks, Tracy Brooks and related companies.
Brooks, his wife Tracy and his companies, J. Brooks Financial and Brooks Real Estate Holdings, have previously been accused by the Attorney General's office of illegally selling unregistered securities to fund the establishment of Compass Academy.
The Brookses have also been accused by the Securities Division of the Attorney General's office of using those funds to buy groceries, their home, vacations and jewelry, rather than investing them.
Brooks also faces multiple civil lawsuits.
According to Few's motion, once Brooks and his attorney Stan Jackson knew Brooks was under investigation by the S.C. Attorney General's Office, and, after a lis pendens was filed on the real property in March, Brooks devised a mortgage.
Brooks said he was advised by Jackson to record the mortgage to support a defense against "securities" act violations that the monies provided were a loan, therefore, not a security, according to the motion.
"On information and belief, none of the alleged mortgagees (i.e., presumably investors with J. Brooks or J. Brooks Financial) even knew this mortgage was recorded or expected it to be recorded, nor are there any notes or obligations for which the mortgage could stand as collateral," the motion states.
There have been discussions of investors forming a Limited Liability Corporation to purchase the school. At the moment, there has not been any action to make the move of purchasing the institute.
"Actually, some of the people who invested or dealt with Jay and his wife, they want to see that school option because they bought into that notion because who doesn't want to see a good quality school go up," Few said.
According to Few, insurance on the building is expensive.
"Receivers pay all that stuff," he said. "There's not much money left; a situation like this is a mess. For these situations, a motion like this would be typical. We see ourselves as looking out for investors who are not parties to the lawsuit."
The felony charge of securities fraud carries a punishment possibly up to 10 years in prison and/or a fine of up to $500,000.
Maayan Schechter is the City beat reporter with Aiken Standard and started in July. She has a degree in mass communications-journalism from the University of North Carolina Asheville.
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This video demonstrates using a Kinect sensor (typically used with an X-Box 360 video gaming platform) to control 3-D rendered CT images using TeraRecon at the Center for Biomolecular Imaging. We take stacks of 2-D images from a CT scan and render them in 3-D using software by TeraRecon, Inc. Typically, we use a mouse to control the 3-D rendering system to rotate and view the images. Using the Kinect sensor, a surgeon can manipulate the 3-D visualization in midair without having to move the mouse.
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