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Want to do something for the victims of the Haiti earthquake but worried that your money might get used on 4x4s to escort journalists around Port-au-Prince?
A group in Miami is organising fundraising on behalf of Batay Ourviye, one of few groups to have fought for and won union recognition in Haiti's "free trade zones".
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A natural disaster has descended upon Haiti whose scope we only are seeing the surface of at this time.
Right now we can have the deepest impact by committing ourselves to act in solidarity with the autonomous social movements of Haiti directly. They present the best possible option for the Haitian people, and are in the greatest need.
Our act of solidarity should, in no shape or form, be solely an act of humanitarian aid. It should not be an apolitical act, and we shouldn't give the green light to those that wish to capitalize on the suffering of others. Click here for a statement on solidarity with the Haitian people.
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KEVIN KEEGAN believes Chelsea will book a place in the Capital One Cup final —
if Demba Ba starts ahead of Fernando Torres tonight.
The Blues head to Swansea for the second leg of their semi-final clash
trailing 2-0 after two Branislav Ivanovic mistakes handed the Welsh side a
crucial advantage.
But Keegan is confident the European champions can turn things around at the
Liberty Stadium, with in-form Ba leading the charge.
He told SunSport: "Providing Rafa Benitez doesn't mess around with the side
too much, I think they've got the quality to win.
"He's got to play his best players in a tournament which could, if we're
honest, represent their best chance of winning something this season. They
can't win the league now as they're too far behind.
"If you asked the Chelsea fans, I think they'd definitely prefer to see Ba
start up front.
"And for me, Ba seems to have a little more life and threat in him than
"Chelsea are incredibly good away at the moment and Swansea have maybe
struggled a little bit at home to get wins this season.
"We're getting a new brand of football now where some teams are actually
enjoying playing away from home more.
"Whether it's less pressure or it just suits their way of playing, I don't
"The tie is definitely in the balance but I see Chelsea just coming through."
Torres drew another blank on Sunday as Chelsea beat Arsenal 2-1 at Stamford
The Spaniard has not found the net since the 8-0 Premier League demolition of
Aston Villa on December 23, unlike Ba who has netted three times since
joining from Newcastle earlier this month.
And Keegan believes the former Toon man is already proving a real bargain
after Chelsea paid just £7.5million to secure his services.
He added: "Ba's hungry to play and Chelsea have absolutely stolen him. They
could play him until the end of the season, sell him in the summer and make
money — good money, in fact.
"It's a good business deal for Chelsea — and you can't always say that about
"He's just got the edge on Torres at the moment because his confidence is
high. He's a player who's in form and scoring goals — and has been for a
"You get little glimpses of the old Torres, but unfortunately that's all
they've been.
"Torres has had a lot of chances this season and hasn't really grasped it with
both hands. In fact, you could argue he's not even grabbed it with one."
While even the most loyal Chelsea fans now claim it is time for 28-year-old
Torres to go, Keegan is not convinced that Roman Abramovich can afford to
cut his losses on the £50million flop.
The former England manager said: "His last six months at Liverpool weren't any
different and I just think the injuries have caught up with him.
"He's never got back that pace he had, which you wouldn't lose naturally at
his age.
"If Torres was 33, I'd say that was to blame, but he isn't 33. I'd say that
injuries, combined with trying so hard to pick it up and get back to where
he was three years ago, have hit him hard.
"When he was in his peak at Liverpool, Torres was the best centre forward
playing in England by a mile.
"Only the owner will know what happens next, but Torres will still have two or
three years of a very big contract left.
"If he goes back to Spain to rejoin Atletico Madrid, there's no way they're
going to pay him what he's getting at Chelsea.
"They don't pay those sorts of wages there, so I believe, plus lots of things
have got to happen for Torres to move.
"I would have thought that Chelsea would have to part-finance a move to most
clubs willing to take him, purely because I don't see him going up from
"His form over the last two years won't make clubs say 'we've got to get him'.
"There may be a club with the belief they can get him back to his old self —
and they'll have a real bargain on their hands if that does happen.
"Don't forget, he was pretty much the perfect striker and could have fitted
into any team in the world a few years ago."
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James Fortune Hits No. 1 on Gospel Radio Chart With Single 'Live Through It'
Award-winning Gospel star, songwriter, producer and nationally-syndicated radio host James Fortune continues to inspire listeners everywhere with the triumphant anthem "Live Through It," as the hit single tops the Gospel Radio chart at #1, scoring his fifth #1 hit single.
Empowering listeners with a powerful message of achieving strength and prevailing through life struggles, to keep faith and healing with God's love, the chart-topping single marks another #1 hit from acclaimed Gospel superstar Fortune, whose dynamic songwriting and powerful messages of faith have also made his latest album release Live Through It (FIYA World Music/Entertainment One Music), a #1 Gospel hit.
Carrying his signature style that have made him a driving force in Gospel since the start of his career, James Fortune & FIYA bring the live power of their spirited performances to fans worldwide, on their first-ever live-recorded new album. The 20-track, two-disc new album has been an immediate hit, with additional "must-hear" tracks that are all powerful performances in a diverse mix of rousing choruses and quiet melodies, from "Best Praise" and "Forever" to "We Give You Glory" (feat. Tasha Cobbs), "Light Your Way" (feat. Israel Houghton), "Let Your Power Fall" (feat. Zacardi Cortez), "Just Smile" and more.
On-air nightly hosting his nationally-syndicated radio show, "The James Fortune Show," airing 6-10 pm CST, James Fortune & FIYA are also on the road continuing an ongoing slate of appearances this summer, with upcoming stops scheduled in Alexandria, VA, Baltimore, MD, Detroit, MI, Raleigh, NC, Los Angeles, CA, New Orleans at the Essence Festival, Atlanta at the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship Conference, among other cities.
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James Fortune upcoming dates include:
May 9th - Alexandria, VA - Milly's Inner City Foundation
May 11th - Baltimore, MD - A Mother's Love-The Show
May 15th-18th - Detroit, MI - Triumph Church
May 30th - Raleigh, NC performance
June 1st - Atlanta, GA performance
June 7th - Rock Hill, SC performance
June 13th - Orlando, FL - Tasha Cobbs Conference
June 26th - Los Angeles, CA - ASCAP
June 27th - Jacksonville, FL performance
July 5th - New Orleans, LA - Essence Festival
July 10th - Atlanta, GA - 21st Annual Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship International Conference
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People in the neighborhood know him as Herman. He knows which of their children are in college, who doesn't mind if you walk on the lawn, who might be a prowler and who just moved in next door.
He has been with them for seven years. And even though he lives in Tampa, Herman A. Edwards refers to his mail route in the Old Southeast as his home.
"I just sleep in Tampa," said Herman, 54, while making his rounds one recent afternoon. "This is where I live, right on the ground."
These days, Herman's ground is shifting. Along with nearly 300,000 other mail carriers across the nation, Herman's route is being restructured to save money. In a neighborhood where shuttered homes do not go unnoticed and crime patterns are closely watched, the news that Herman might be gone spread swiftly.
In their online discussion group, Old Southeast residents railed against the possibility of Herman's removal. Someone noted that he is a fellow Steelers fan, another that their mail more than once got lost on his day off. One writer suggested starting a collection for their departing mailman. David Shafer, a neighborhood association board member, called for a Save Our Mailman campaign.
"Our neighborhood is a little different than many in these days of rapidly shifting jobs and loyalties in that we really look out for each other," Shafer wrote to the postal service. "Herman is considered a very important part of the Old Southeast because he knows us and looks out for us. He has built up many positive relationships because we know he cares. This is, of course, a rare attitude. Please do not take Herman away from us."
Their letters and phone calls poured into the Midtown post office, but little could be done.
It turns out, Herman isn't going so far after all. Beginning Saturday, his route will shed several streets while gaining nearly twice as many in surrounding neighborhoods to the south and west. What streets he may lose — Bay Street SE, Beach Street SE, and 18th Avenue S are likely — will be picked up by a mail carrier on an adjacent route.
Postal officials say the changes are brought about by dwindling first class mail, including fewer mailings of glossy catalogues and credit card offers, and increasing use of the Internet for bill paying and commerce. First class mail volume has not been this low since 1964. This year, there are expected to be 30 billion fewer pieces of first class mail than in 2006, said Gary Sawtelle, a spokesman for the postal service. The rising cost of fuel is another factor.
The changes come with the blessing of the National Association of Letter Carriers. Through retirements, reassignments and closed vacancies, the postal service will slash 24 of its 480 letter carrier positions in Pinellas county without costing anyone their job, said Joe Henschen, executive vice president of the west coast Florida branch of the union.
Even Herman agrees that the changes wrought by this economy are inevitable. "I call this collateral damage," he said. "Changes have to be made."
Luckily, Herman is used to change. Some on his route know that he's an Air Force veteran who was stationed for years in Anchorage, Alaska. "When you been in about 50 to 60 below zero, it can't get hot enough," he joked recently.
Herman will miss his old streets, where the dogs don't bark as loudly anymore and he knows to peek in on home-bound elderly residents.
"It was very rewarding for me to know that they cared that much," Herman said of the campaign to keep him. "I think the things I'll miss the most is the kids I saw seven years ago. Now, they're about my height."
This week, along with the mail delivery, there will be good-byes.
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"It's all happened before. It will certainly happen again," David Frum admits over at thedailybeast.com. "And after the recall vote in Colorado on September 10, it seems more certain than ever that nothing will be done to prevent it." Will be or can be? Interesting . . . Frum goes on to assume that the NRA's stance on mass shootings—wait until everything settles down before issuing a statement—is the way of the People of the Gun. "Gun enthusiasts say it is inappropriate to talk about gun violence at the time it occurs. Better to wait … and wait … and wait … until time has passed, and the weeping next of kin have vanished from TV, and it's safe to return to business as usual. The idea of the gun enthusiasts is that the way to show respect for the victims of gun violence is to do everything possible to multiply their number." Whoa David, that's a bit extreme. Maybe you should cool off a bit. Still, that particular piece of hyperbole isn't as bad as the next 'graph . . .
Yet the gun enthusiasts do have one point on their side: for all the horror of these massacres, they are only a small part of the story of gun violence in America. Most casualties of gun violence will not die at the hands of a mentally disturbed killer seeking random victims. Most gun casualties occur in the course of quarrels and accidents between people who would be described as "law-abiding, responsible gun owners" up until the moment that they lost their temper or left a weapon where a four-year-old could find it and kill himself or his sister.
Well see that's just wrong. Most gun casualties are suicides. After that, it's gang bangers. After that, well, statistically, you can round down all other firearms-related deaths to zero, 'cause statistically they're irrelevant. Painful. Tragic. But in terms of public safety, irrelevant. Firearms-related death—accidental or intentional—doesn't even make the top 15 causes of death.
What needs doing to curb "gun violence"? Other than ending the War on Drugs and enforcing existing laws against criminal use of a firearm (making sure that persistent offenders are incarcerated early, often and for a long while), nothing. Not a damn thing.
How's that for not waiting to talk about gun control? But when it comes to gun rights—as in the natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms—Frum blows the dust off his collection of anti-gun agit-prop and plays Baby You Can Drive My Car.
As David Hemenway notes in his study Private Guns, Public Health, Americans have experienced similar debates in the recent past. "Cars don't kill people; bad drivers kill people," could have been the slogan of the auto industry when it resisted safety regulation in the 1960s. The garment industry could have argued: "Flammable pajamas don't kill children; careless smokers kill children." And so on. Every accident has many causes, of course, and public safety progresses by addressing each one. To reduce car fatalities, we both installed seat belts and cracked down on drunk driving. Child deaths by fire have been reduced both because pajamas are safer and because adults smoke less.
Likewise, better mental-health provision would contribute to the reduction of gun massacres. But America's uniquely grisly record of gun death cannot be addressed without addressing guns.
Flammable pajamas. That's a new one. And a good one. You know, for the gun rights crowd.
Anyway, here's something about guns we can address about gun control right now: it failed. If some of the workers at the Navy Yard had been armed, one of them could have taken out the shooter before the cops arrived. If not, they sure as Hell would have slowed him down. Maybe even made him choose another target. Am I wrong?
25 Responses to David Frum: "Let's Not Wait to Talk About Gun Control"
You're certainly not wrong… Not that they'll ever admit that.
Let's Not Wait to Talk About Gun Control? Ok, shove more gun control where the sun doesn't shine. Satisfied?
"Conversation about gun ownership" = them taking, taking, and taking away more of our rights.
Yep, and "compromise" means "just accept these additional restrictions"
Why were there no armed guards at a US military facility at a time when we are engaged in armed conflict with terrorists around the world?
The lack of security evident at the Navy Yard facility boggles my mind.
But they had Gun Free Zones signs posted everywhere. What more security do you need?
Update to my previous comment: allegedly there was a single armed guard, whom the perp shot and used as a one-stop arms upgrade shop.
If one guy with a shotgun could defeat building security to the point that he could take down 11+ more unarmed personnel, then I'm still going to go with the position that the facility was insufficiently protected against armed threats.
Having seen the quality of the Keystone Cops (aka HS/Fed PD) at the Fed site where I work as a contractor, I tend to agree. There, all that stands (sits) between a walk-on shooter and our office-lined killing floor is one pistol-packing 300lb Krispy Kreme connoisseur. On the bright side, my life-insurance policy payment is auto-deducted early each month.
Armed guards at military facilities are not needed, because under the current administration terrorist attacks do not happen…here or anywhere else.
See, he's counting gang-bangers as "responsible gun owners". SEE? 🙁 Why can't you just be reasona… I mean, "reasonable" and go along with this sorry charade? ADMIT you've be safer without a gun around! After all, David Frum thinks so… and he's a "reasonable person"!!
He's right about one thing: he admits mass shootings are a tiny fragment of shootings nationwide: about 60-65 per annum, on average, and easily half of those are gang shootings.
So, about thirty a year, while bee stings alone kill about seven times that number. "Bee control", anyone? "Stairway control"? "Pool control"?
Death is a way of life everywhere; you can't legislate longevity (not with Obamacare, you can't) and you can't keep everybody safe, and the idea that these people want to keep you safe in the first place is laughable. LIARS. DECEIVERS. MURDERERS.
Talk about gun control all you want, David. Just keep your grubby little hands off my fvcking guns and we'll get along fine.
I'm sorry but David Frum is so irrelevant, I just ignore EVERYTHING he says/writes.
Frum-hole just feels he has to give his input on everything and well, most people don't really give a crap what he thinks. Still though, the comments on the Daily Beast really bring out the kooks. Reading some of the boiler plate crap over there, you'd think that the NRA is 10 guys in a dark room lighting cigars with $100 bills and they all look like the cigarette-smoking man from the X Files.
Oh well, funny thing is I had exercised my rights this morning before I had heard anything about this to order a Seekins Precision lower for a long-term build.
He probably wouldn't have even tried to go there.Wonder if they are gonna find that this guy had a screw lose?This one won't garner the same attention as Sandy Hook,due to the MSM will calm it down due to him being black,Some white folks must have done him wrong,I can see it coming.Be prepared and ready.Keep your powder dry.
So, at what point does Obama begin parading the survivors around to push his anti-gun agenda? Remember, he is their boss and they must follow orders.
I don't know for certain, Alex, but I would not be surprised if many civilian employees didn't work at the Navy Yard, also.
Let's talk about it, Frum. How people like you would make every decent person fish in a barrel for terrorists, the deranged, tyrants, and the just plain evil. Let's talk about how your reflex to solve every problem is to rob good people of their constitutionally protected freedoms and blame them for what wicked people do. What is wrong with you? Let people defend themselves, yes even at work, and this crap will stop.
Regarding flammable pajamas: it was decided that cotton, which burns to ash, was not suitable for full-cut pajamas because these kinds of pajamas were likely to catch on fire when the wearer brushes past open flame. So cotton got treated with flame retardants, which turned out to have negative health consequences. Now pajamas have to be made of either 100% static cling synthetic material, which doesn't burn so much as it melts onto the child's skin, or it has to be so tight that you can't even put it on, prompting parents to buy the next size up, which makes the pajamas baggy again. Thus we see, and can bow before, the utter effectiveness of laws about flammable pajamas.
David Frum needs to look up "obsessed." And then seek psychological treatment.
One thing on the War on Drugs, but that might also have actually helped the gun rights cause, because by reducing drug violence from use of hard drugs, it has thus reduced a lot of gun violence. We have seen a reduction in gun violence alongside the war on drugs since it began. So is the WoD really a bad thing?
Frum goes on to assume that the NRA's stance on mass shootings—wait until everything settles down before issuing a statement—is the way of the People of the Gun. "Gun enthusiasts say it is inappropriate to talk about gun violence at the time it occurs. Better to wait … and wait … and wait … until time has passed, and the weeping next of kin have vanished from TV, and it's safe to return to business as usual."
It seems Frum has read "Preventing gun violence through effective messaging." He is clearly playing the emotional card instead of the logic card:
"Cars don't kill people; bad drivers kill people," could have been the slogan of the auto industry when it resisted safety regulation in the 1960s. The garment industry could have argued: "Flammable pajamas don't kill children; careless smokers kill children." And so on. Every accident has many causes, of course, and public safety progresses by addressing each one. To reduce car fatalities, we both installed seat belts and cracked down on drunk driving. Child deaths by fire have been reduced both because pajamas are safer and because adults smoke less."
Wow. What a crock of garbage. If it wasn't so ludicrous I might have managed a sly giggle and some minor furtive flatulence, alas no. I was disappointed and left unsatisfied, bereft of any meaningful substance. Lets look at it:
So to reduce car fatalities they installed seatbelts in cars… ok. Child deaths by fire have been reduced because pajamas are safer… ok. So they made their products safer. Guns have safeties also. In fact guns are safe if you follow some simple common sense rules. Did the auto industry make cars safer by taking cars away from people? Making legislation that required that all cars are to be registered even if they are on private property never to be driven on public roads? Did they require background checks for people selling those cars? Did they take the pajamas from the children? Registration and background checks for pajamas? No. So what is Frum's solution… wait for it…Background checks, registration, various gun and accessory bans for the owners of the guns.
What is the point of a written constitution if it is ignored by Politicians who have sworn to uphold and comply with it?
I don't have talks with traitorous sub-humans about giving away my natural rights. I speak when there's a purpose, so why waste breath on him?


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San Diego County GOP chairman/apparatchik Tony Krvaric is making noise in the blogosphere today for getting himself booted from Twitter. Krvaric registered the unused names of several of his Democratic opponents on Twitter–and used those accounts to tweet ridiculous things. Included among his targets was his Democratic chairman counterpart Jess Durfee.
Twitter made Krvaric ditch his fake accounts, and erased his personal feed. Krvaric was unapologetic about his actions.
From the San Diego Union-Tribune:
"Basically, they are pissed off that they didn't register them first," Krvaric said. "For them not to register their own … It just shows how far behind they are …
"There's nothing illegal about it and I don't think I did anything wrong. What sucks is I have to redo my whole account. All my followers and everything. In some way, although I want my full name back, I was following too many people so this will be like a cleansing."
We're all snarked out for the day, so here's some from Wonkette if you're interested.


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Weekly Market Report - simple week: everything drops
Wilhem Klink
Short report: Everything drops.
Long report: Everything drops in price.
Weapon raw materials soften over the week, losing .03cc. Food raw materials gain a cent and the Raw Material Index drops 2.23 to 53.33, a 16-day low.
Food prices continue their flailing, spastic fall as Q1-Q4 endures a fifth straight week of 20%+ declines, shedding 44% for the week. Of course, large percentage drops are easier to come by when Q1 food sells for $0.08. A one cent decline is 12.5%. Good news: we've not much more room to fall. Bad news: there's not much more room to fall. The Food Index settles in at 14.76, an all time low. Food is less than 15% of the cost on Day 1600.
Weapon prices go on a week-long price chopping spree. Q1-Q4 once again halve their value, averaging a 51% decline for the week. 14 straight days where the price of a Q1-Q4 was less than the day before. And it undoubtedly will continue as world-wide prices on Q1-Q4 are lower than in the eUSA (more on that latter). Q5-Q7 also continue to throw off prices, just not as much as the lower-end. The Weapon Index slumps 1.7 to an all-time low of 27.83
Wages catch their breath with the 44% upgrade sale mid-week. More employers enter the labor market even as prices slide. Wages hold at 90 (give or take 1) for the week.The Wage Index is up slightly to 30.85.
Gold continues its downward death spiral, pushing past $800, then $700 to land in the upper 600s at week's end. The Gold Index slides 12 to 41.08.
The Big Graph:
And a closer look at the last two weeks
The weapon line is on a rapid decent, wages are holding and raw materials looks to have turned to a downward trend.
The 1600 AU Index
Based off of the amount of gold a player could earn in a year by working at market wage, selling 20 weapons, 200 food (both Q6) and 1750 raw materials (split 50/50 food/weapons) the 1600 AU Index strengthens midweek and then tumbles as the 44% upgrade lowers Q6 prices. Still the 1600 AU Index hit 446 midweek, a level not seen since Day 1601, meaning even with the reduced pricing, a player can make nearly as much gold as they were able to on Day 1600.
The Graph
A quick peek into the past: the following is a look at prices of items on Day 1600 (07 April) and on Day 1748 (Sunday 02 Sept). A player working at market wage, selling 20 Q6 weapons, 200 Q6 food and 875 food and 875 weapon raw materials at market prices could buy (roughly) 440 gold over the course of a year (at the prices in effect on that day), both with Day 1600's prices as well as Day 1748's. So while everything is cheaper, so is gold. Would you rather have Day 1600's or Day 1748's pricing?
Self-employment profits
The weekly look at how much a player can expect to make working their own facilities.
Welcome Q4 weapons to the "Don't Bother" category. Q5 weapon, your invite is in the mail. With the slumping market prices for Q1-Q4 weapons, each can not cover the raw material value it takes to make them. Q3 is particularly egregious: a player can sell 600 raw materials for $120. Or they can take the 600 raw materials, turn them into 20 Q3s and then sell the 20 Q3s for a net (after VAT) of $56.43. Amazingly, we still have players doing this.
Q5 weapons barely turn a profit, as do Q1-Q3 food. Its not until one gets to Q5 food where a decent profit can be had.
Graphs of the last few weeks
followed by Q3
Then Q4
If self-employment is barely making money, then what happens if you pay someone.
Weapons, first
Profits are drying up. Q7 gets a bounce with the decline in raw materials on Day 1747 & 1748. One can see how much a one cent reduction in raw prices effects the profitability of a 4000-raw material based unit.
And food
Well, that's that. Unless one has a Q7, No Profits For You! Raw material upticks one cent, but the real culprit is the dropping market price.
And Raw materials
Not much there.
Its interesting to note that since anyone can buy from the market in any country in the eWorld they happen to be in, the market has become more global. One still needs a market license to sell in a country, but buying is open to anyone willing to pay the $20-80 for the move. Often times the eUSA market is pricey on low-end weapons, but cheap on high-end. For example, on Day 1748 at 3:00 eRep time here's the average prices of 50 Q1 weapons:
eUSa 1.13
eHungary 1.00
ePoland 1.09
eRomania 1.00
an eUSA citizen who happend to be in eRomania could buy 100 Q1 for $100 and sell them in the eUSA for 111.87 (after tax), a nice 11.87% profit. Of course, this drives all prices world-wide to the same level (adjusted for tax).
Q2 weapons were similar, but not all countries were cheaper:
eUSa 1.39
eHungary 1.24
ePoland 1.15
eRomania 1.48
At Q5, its roughly even
eUSa 10.20
eHungary 10.35
ePoland 10.10
eRomania 12.32
Certainly not enough to make much of a profit on
World-wide markets are usually a good indicator where prices will head. There are certainly enough players who buy cheap foreign and sell locally at a profit that no one country can have an ecomomy that is not interconnected to others regardless of trade bans.
5-Day moving average
For those unfamiliar with a "moving average", in the following charts, the blue line represents the market price at 3:00 eRep time. The red line in the 5-day moving average (average of the last 5-days) of market prices. What that tells us is whether prices are trending downward (the market price is below the moving average) or trending higher (the market price is above the moving average).
Gold's decline
Bonus Gold graph. Just because the 1600 Index has it. Overlaid with events
Wages holding steady.
Some Q2s. First weapons
The steep drop after the recent rocket mission is stark.
Food, then
Q2 food has been in a sharp decline for 5 weeks.
Food raw materials
Holding steady
And lastly, weapon raw materials
Giving some ground as of late.
Note: prices are reflective of a percentage of Day 1600's price (Hence the "1600 Index"). In other words if an index is quoted at 88, that days price is 88% of the price on Day 1600. Except the 1600 AU Index which represents an amount of gold one can buy given market conditions as noted in that section.
Methodology on prices: prices are taken at 3:00 eRep time. The price is the average price of buying 1,000 Raw materials, 500 Food, 100 weapons (at each quality level), and 8 gold, plus the market wage less any fraction of cc (so 240, rather than 240.1). All qualities are standardized to Q1 (per hit or per health).
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Thanks on the addition of RM employer profit. With this and the self-employement data the message is clear: dissolve Q1-Q4 weapon companies and build rubber plantations if you don't want to be affected by low gold value since you would exchanging gold for gold.
However if admins keep on introducing sales to encourage rocket production then you would miss out on profit by not being able to sale Q1-Q4 weapons. This is want bugs me: not being able to plan long-term strategically. Too many changes.
What I find interesting is that it is not just a small number of players operating their factories at a loss, but rather it is hundreds of players. For Q1 – Q4 weapons, I counted 297 offers below profit level. Anyone have any thoughts on why this is the case? Some of the selling may be the arbitrage that you mention, but I think that only explain some of it. Another possibility is that weapons are being given away via different forums and so selling them is not a direct loss.
I honestly think there are a number of players who don't realize they are selling at a loss. The Q1 seller who has 200 listed is probably an arbitrage seller. The player with 20 Q1s - they just don't realize it.
@ Mihai Hilly - if you want to take advantage of the rocket factory missions, buy 1000 Q1s at 1.10 plus the storage to hold them ($1,100 plus $1750 for the storage) and hold them until the next rocket mission. Then sell them for $5.50 on the first day (income is 5,500 less the 2,850 invested = $2,650 profit). High prices from missions only last 2-3 days and unless you have lots of Q1 factories, you'll miss out.
Great article! Voted as usual. 😃
About Q1~Q4 players that sells weapons below cost price, I think it's because they produce their own weapon raw materials and somehow they believe that it doesn't have to account as expenditure. In Brazil, we have the same problem, it's worldwide.
It's an excellent idea Wilhem, but is still a bet. Hoping for the next missions to involve rockets.
I also agree with you Anderson somehow some users can't realize they are better of by just selling their WRM and not working their weapon company. Nice newspaper of yours as well. I subscribed and can practice my portuguese.
It depends on how you define loss, if you produce the raws yourself you are missing profit, but you still earn money, although not as much as you can.
If everyone is paying attention, prices will rise, since nobody will sell at a loss, and there will be a demand
I define loss as in economic loss. You can have accounting profit if you produce raws yourself but currently you have economic loss in all Q1~Q4 weapon factories.
People don't usually understand the idea of opportunity cost.
@Mihai Hilly, thanks! If you need any help in understading my newspaper, feel free to send me a pm. 🙂
We are in full deflation.
In RL the massive overproduction would bring to defaults and farms going broke, equilibrating the offer. Here this offer destruction isn't implemented. The admin supplied with an increased demand, via buyer bots.
The economy will drown in overproduction without buyer bots, it revive a little when special offers and missions, but very fast it collapses again.
So here is the definitive bubble, the "admin bubble": rampaging special offers until all blows up
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TAMPA — A 15-year-old boy hacked into several Google e-mail accounts. One caught his eye.
A teenage girl had sent a partly naked photo of herself to her boyfriend. Now, Karl Edwin Belledent had it too, authorities say.
Belledent ran the girl's name through Facebook and sent her a message. Send me more photos, authorities say he told her, or I'll release this one to the world.
So she did.
State authorities on Thursday released details of this case — the first its kind they've seen.
Hacking crimes are not new, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said. And for several years, people have victimized others by releasing sexual photographs, said FDLE Special Agent in Charge Mark Perez. It's all part of the "sexting" craze, he said.
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Belledent of Miami was charged with extortion because authorities say he didn't quit after getting the additional photos in October.
Soon after, he demanded the girl perform sexual acts on a webcam, according to the FDLE. She declined, but he hacked into her Facebook account and posted the photos.
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The teen, who didn't know Belledent, eventually told her parents, who called authorities. The girl's name is being withheld due to the nature of the crime.
Investigators continued to chat with Belledent using the girl's account and set up a meeting in Miami.
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They looked for people with child pornography, as well as those using chat rooms, Craigslist, Facebook and Twitter to meet children, said FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey.
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State officials give presentations at middle schools and high schools, warning children about dangers lurking online. They also warn about sexting and tell teens that once a photo is sent, they can't take it back, Perez said.
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John G. Morris, Letter of 21 November 2002
Subject: Comment on the John Mraz article
My attention has just been called to the article in Zone Zero by John Mraz, "What's documentary about photography? From directed to digital photojournalism." Perhaps without intending to, for there is ample evidence that he knows not of what he writes, Mr. Mraz has maligned many of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. Since most of them are friends and/or former colleagues of mine -- many long gone -- I should like to reply, in their defense.
John G. Morris, Paris
John Mraz, Reply of 22 November 2003
Dear John Morris,
I am honored to make the acquaintance of someone of your stature, even if only by email and despite the tone of your missive. Of course I know your fine and important book, GET THE PICTURE: A Personal History of Photojournalism (NY, 1998). While your book is a fundamental reference for anyone working on modern photojournalism, I am not sure I see the relevance to the immediate discussion at hand, since you dedicate little attention to the issue of directed photography other than the admonitions of Cliff Edom on p. 125 against "setups" (who you indicate was not a photojournalist, but rather a professor of journalism), and your observations on the Capa image of the "Dying Republican" (p. 155-156, with which I do not agree, see below).
Unfortunately, for the essay published on Zonezero, I removed much of the scholarly appartus from the original text that will appear as part of my book, Nacho López, Mexican Photographer, to be published soon by the University of Minnesota Press. López was a photojournalist in the Eugene Smith mold, committed to denouncing social injustice and exploring the esthetics of the documentary form. He worked for the Mexican illustrated magazines, and one of his strategies was that of directing images, a tactic he described as "previsualization". My interest in examining the history of directed photojournalism was in constructing some sort of a backdrop against which to measure the work of López.
Let me say at the outset that it was never my intention to malign anyone, nor to put into question the courage required to be a photojournalist. The men and women who haved lost their lives in search of ways to show us the news are testimony enough to their bravery. The essay published on Zonezero is part of a larger analysis of documentary form, the credibility that is its bedrock, and the realist esthetic utilized to take advantage of its believability as well as the fact that it is, as an index, something very different than other kinds of images or symbols. I want to test the notion that digitalization is the "death of documentary/photojournalism" by showing how many of the famous icons have to some degree, or in some way, been a result of the "previsualization" that Nacho López described as one of his methods. As my work is essentially on Mexican photography, and I live in Mexico, the essay published on Zonezero reflects my own constraints, both in terms of my particular interests as well as the research that it is possible to carry out. In the case of US photography, I have had to rely on secondary sources, both because my focus is on Mexican photography, and because of the limited library resources here. However, I do believe that my assertions are defendible, as I will argue case-by-case below.
I believe that we have a fundamental misunderstanding, constructed in spite of the fact that we are really in agreement. Thus, Morris argues: "What concerns me is that Mr. Mraz implies that the above photographers were not truly concerned with reality. That they "directed" history. And that digital photography, where reality can be tinkered with, is pretty much the same thing. I personally don't think it's that different. Photojournalists are fast adjusting to digital, using it as a very effective tool. Good picture editors can tell whether their work is 'real' or not."
I do believe that these photographers were concerned, in the main, with "reality". That's what makes their work interesting. I too am concerned with reality, and for that reason I closed my essay by arguing that we need documentary photography to break out of our solipsism, to see the world beyond our bellybuttons. I quote my last paragraph:
"In sum, digitalization seems to be as unavoidable as globalization. However, as important as acknowledging the victory of computer over chemical photography is the examination of its implications. Does digitalization necessarily include alteration? Will the documentary esthetic of discovery, of research, of receptiveness to chance disappear with the chemical process? I would argue that -- despite the many instances of direction, alteration, or manipulation in chemical photography -- the medium invented in 1839 made available to the world a new form of communication and a new way of preserving the traces of the past: technical images. This medium led to the development of a new esthetic, which we have come to call "documentary," that is somehow bound up with the real world in a way different from that of other forms of representation. If we make the mistake of throwing this baby out with the bathwater I fear we will all be the poorer for it."
I believe that Mr. Morris and I are on the same side in this battle. So, where's the beef?
Saludos, John Mraz
John G. Morris, Reply of 23 November 2003
Dear John Mraz:
Thanks for your courteous reply. I'm sorry, but I find that like many scholars, you fail to see the forest for the trees. I did not realize your primary objective was a biography of Lopez, whose work I unfortunately do not know, but the word "previsualization" makes me suspicious. I'm glad you admire my book but I'm sorry that you didn't find it useful, preferring secondary sources -- those who knew neither the photographers nor the events they covered. To reply to your reply:
Finally, maybe we're not so far apart after all. I didn't like your emphasis on the down side of direction, and I thought you were unfair to several photographers. Digital should be the least of our problems, in fact it has great advantages, but one of them is NOT its ability to falsify. That is what has caused very justified alarm in the community of photojournalism. Even worse is the way photographers are used by newsmakers, through photo ops, and such.
I applaud your seriousness. Perhaps we'll meet some time. Regards to Pedro and Trish.
John G. Morris, Paris
John Mraz, Reply of 26 January 2003
Dear John Morris,
Thank you for your courteous reply, and for taking the time to wrestle around with these issues, which seem to me to be fundamental in the contemporary world. It is clear that we don't agree about everything, and perhaps there is a big difference between this essay coming out on its own, and being part of a larger study on documentary. In another message, I have sent you the revised version of the Rosenthal paragraph, as well as notes to preface the essay.
Let me begin by stating that I am absolutely convinced that the photos of which we are herein speaking are the "classics" of the documentary genre. They are wonderful, moving, and biting slices of time embalmed by the artistic-technical capacities of these photographers/artists. It is precisely because of their aesthetic power, without doubt the result of the photographers themselves being committed to the very movements -- and moments-- they document, that we continue to talk about them.
I understand your suspician of Nacho López's concept of "previsualization". But isn't he searching for some kind of an theoretical-esthetic justification (perhaps like Jean Rouch) for something that seems to have been a not-unusual practice, above all in features? Doesn't he bring out in the open what we know to have been a practice? For example, Bert Hardy, certainly one of the leading British combat photojournalists, was described by Harold Evans as having "recalled scores of 'news' photographs he had staged." What are we to do with this information? What I am attempting to interrogate is precisely that disjuncture between what we might describe as a "common-sense" view of photojournalism, in which non-intervention is assumed, and what seems to have occurred in variance with that vision.
The Mexican photojournalist I would consider to be the most sophisticated, and a great photographer who was the first Mexican to win the Mother Jones Award, Francisco Mata Rosas, addressed the issue of direction in an interesting way:
I live in Mexico, where library facilities are essentially non-existent. For obvious reasons, research for the Zonezero essay on directed photojournalism was largely confined to secondary sources, which I discovered while carrying out research as a visiting professor at Oxford, Duke, Dartmouth, and other universities. I cannot, for reasons of both interest and lack of access, carry out further research on non-Mexican photojournalism.
Let me address your comments point-by-point:
In sum, I'm sorry if you feel I haven't appreciated these photographers. I assume that these are great photographers, but I am less interested in praising them (or exploiting their private lives as celebrities, which offers a much wider market than critical analysis) than in exploring the place of the documentary genre within modern visual culture.
I much appreciate the time and energy you have invested in this dialogue. Pedro Meyer has expressed an interest in publishing our "conversation" on Zonezero, stating, "The exchange of your correspondence is fantastic. I harbor no doubt as to it's benefit in making it public." I am not sure how you feel about this, but we might consider doing that.
Saludos, John Mraz
John G. Morris, Reply of 7 March 2003
Dear John Mraz,
I do appreciate your serious consideration of my point of view. While we do not entirely agree, I have no objection to the publication of the correspondence, should Pedro Meyer consider it of interest.
Best regards,


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- JPMorgan Chase (JPM) reports third-quarter loss of $380 million or 17 cents per share.
- Revenue came in at $23.9 billion.
- Analysts expected the bank to report an earnings per share of $1.17 on revenues of $23.94 billion, according to Thomson Reuters.
- Losses include $7.2 billion in legal expenses, including reserves for litigation.
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- JPMorgan Chase reported an unexpected loss in the third quarter on the back of higher-than-expected legal expenses as the bank faced "escalating demands and charges from multiple government agencies."
This is the first loss the bank has ever reported since Jamie Dimon took over as CEO in 2006, a loss that is all the more painful considering the bank managed to stay profitable throughout the financial crisis. It is also the first time it has missed estimates since December 2011.
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The New York-based bank reported net loss for the third quarter of $380 million or 17 cents a share, compared to $6.5 billion or $1.60 a share in the second quarter and $5.7 billion or $1.40 a share during the third quarter or 2012.
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JPMorgan entered into three major settlements in the third quarter. These included an agreement to pay $410 million "in penalties and disgorgement to ratepayers," to settle Federal Energy Trading Commission charges of market manipulation, $920 million in fines to settle multiple probes of the 2012 "London Whale" trading fiasco and another $369 million in fines and customer refunds to settle regulatory charges of "illegal credit card practices."
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But since internal hard drives and external hard drives are widely used, hard drive data loss occurs frequently. And thus, methods for achieving hard drive recovery successfully are demanded. We guess it's easy to understand this fact: the possibility of losing data in a poor-quality hard drive is much larger than that in a high-quality hard drive. Well, how can we choose a hard drive with high quality? Here are some parameters that can determine a good hard drive.
How to Define a Good Hard DriveBy looking at the following aspects, you can distinguish good hard drives from the bad ones.
- Capacity: it is one of the most important parameters of hard drive, since hard drive acts as the main storage device for computer. The unit of hard drive capacity is megabytes (MB) or gigabytes (GB). 1GB equals to 1024MB, while 1TB equals to 1024GB. However, the hard drive manufacturers usually take 1GB as 1000MB when defining the hard drive capacity. That explains why we see a smaller capacity in BIOS or when formatting the hard drive.
As we have said before a hard drive is made up of one or more discs, so hard drive capacity depends a lot on the number and capacity of platter. The so-called platter capacity refers to the capacity of a single disc; the larger the platter capacity is, the lower the unit cost is and the shorter the average access time is. For users, the capacity of hard drive will never be too much for them.
- Transfer rate: it is actually the data read & write speed of hard drive and its unit is megabytes per second (MB/s). Hard drive transfer rate includes internal transfer rate and external transfer rate.
Internal transfer rate is also known as sustained transfer rate; it reflects the of the hard disk performance when buffer is unused and mainly depends on the rotational speed of hard drive. External transfer rate is also called burst data transfer rate or interface transfer rate; it reflects the data transmission speed between system bus and the hard drive buffer and is related to interface type and size of cache memory.
- Cache: it is indeed a memory chip on the hard drive controller; having extremely fast access speed, cache is the buffer between internal memory and external interface. Data need to be exchanged constantly between hard drive and memory when hard drive access fragmentary data. So if there's a large cache, it can be used to set those bits and pieces of data temporarily, greatly reducing the outer system load and improving data transmission speed.
- Rotational speed: undoubtedly, rotational speed is the most striking performance parameter of hard drive except for capacity. Whenever a hard drive appears on the market, its rotational speed will be absolutely involved in the promotional materials.
It is actually the rotational speed of motor shaft placed in hard drive and also refers to the maximum number of revolutions that the hard drive platter can complete in one minute. Rational speed is one of the key factors that determine the internal hard drive transfer rate. The hard drive rational speed is expressed by revolutions per minute (RPM). All in all, rational speed has a great impact on the instantaneous and sustained transmission speed of hard drive.
- Average access time: it refers to the time required by magnetic head to reach the target track from the starting position and find the sector in which the data we need to read/write locate. The hard drive latency means that the magnetic head has already reached the target track, but it still have to wait for the target data sector to rotate to the position under the head before it can finally read data. As a result, reflecting the read and write speed of hard drive, the average access time equals to the average seek time plus average latency time.
By the way, the interface type of hard drive also plays a great role in influencing the hard drive performance.
Types of Hard Drive DamageHard drive damage can be divided into different types according to different ways of classification. But generally, it is divided into two categories, which are hardware damage and logical damage. Hardware damage can be subdivided into four types: head component damage, control circuit damage, comprehensive damage and physical bad track.
1.Head component damage: it means that part of the magnetic head component has been damaged, resulting in part of or the entire head failing to read and write data normally. A lot of factors, such as dirty head, head abrasion, head cantilever deformation, magnetic coil damage and displacement could all be accused of when magnetic head component is damaged.
2.Control circuit damage: it means that a certain part of the circuit line in hard drive electronic circuit board is broken or become short circuit or some electrical components or IC chips are damaged. In those cases, the platter in hard drive is not able to rotate or seek track properly after hard drive was connected to power supply.
3.Comprehensive damage: it mainly refers to the various kinds of problems generated on hard drive because of some minor changes. Sometimes, aging problem will occur on part of the hard drive chip because of high temperature or other factors during using. Sometimes, minor changes or displacement may take place on hard drive shell, disc surface or spindle motor after the hard drive has been shaken. And in some other cases, flaws can be found in heat dissipation, friction and structure design.
Those reasons could lead to various unpleasant phenomena: unstable hard drive working performance, frequent data loss or logical error, big noise, low read and write speed, and so on.
4.Physical bad track: it represents the physical damage appeared on hard drive surface due to collision, magnetic head friction or other reasons.
However, logical damage includes track servo information error, system information area error and sector logical error (which is generally called logical bad track as well).
1.Tack servo information error: it refers to the situation where physical tracks can't be accessed since the servo information of certain physical track has been damaged or become invalid.
2.System information area error: it means that the hard drive system information area fails to read data in some modules or complete the verification stage during the power-on and self-test process. Thus, the hard drive is not able to enter the preparation state. By the way, the system information area of hard drive is actually a system reserved area inside the hard drive and it has been subdivided into multiple modules to save a lot of hard drive default parameters, settings and internal control procedures.
3.Sector logical error: it indicates that some sectors will become invalid because of verification error (ECC or CRC), sector mark error (IDNF), address information error (AMNF), bad block mark error (BBM) and other reasons.
As you can see, there are many reasons that can lead to hard drive damage. The hard drive quality, the working conditions and performance of other devices in the entire computer system and the using methods are all among the possible causes for hard drive damage. So please be careful enough when you're dealing with hard drive.
Solutions to Completing Hard Disk Recovery in Different CasesAs you can imagine, the solutions to different types of hard drives damage are different. Meanwhile, the hard drive recovery cost is also not the same in hard drive physical damage and logical damage. But is it possible and how to recover data from hard disk? Please read the following content.
In the situation where your hard drive is damaged physically, you should try to clean the hard drive gently with special cleaning tools (this may repair the damage caused by too much dust or slight scratch). If this is not useful, you have no choice but to hire professional recovery service to help you. Of course, the disk recovery cost may be very high since specific tools and techniques will be involved. But it would be worth the money if they can get back the lost data that are crucial to you.
Fortunately, things would be much easier for you if the hard drive damage is only caused by logical damage, such as inappropriate operation and virus invasion. In this case, a piece of mighty and free hard disk recovery software will be enough for drives recovery. For example, MiniTool Power Data Recovery is an excellent choice.
Just download and install this free hard drive recovery software to computer to be well prepared for data recovery from hard drive. Then, open the program and put your cursor onto each module in the main interface to see its using range. Now, choose the most suitable one from those five functional modules on the basis of your actual needs and then click it to enter corresponding operating interface. You don't need to be worried too much since the operation prompts in each interface will tell you what to do to carry out lost data recovery gradually.
However, if your system is crushed and you have no way to open the computer, you may as well use the bootable edition of MiniTool Power Data Recovery to access to damaged hard drive without system and then recover data from this hard drive by making use of a proper functional module.
If you're running a Mac system, you need to turn to MiniTool Mac Data Recovery since both the free edition and bootable edition of MiniTool Power Data Recovery are designed for Windows platform. Then, the operating steps of file recovery on Mac are the same to that of Windows disk recovery.
Good Hard Drive Maintenance Decreases Hard Drive Damage RateDo you know what's even better than the best disk recovery software? The answer is prevention. Instead of trying to find methods for finishing hard drive data recovery, users had better know how to well protect the computer hard drive. In this way, they don't need any data recovery professionals to help them recover data from disk.
There are exactly a large variety of factors that could lead to data loss and make users in need of hard drive recovery service. So users should get to know them well to achieve good hard drive maintenance.
- Dust: it's evident that a hard drive could be damaged if serious dust accumulation is found on hard drive. First of all, the dust deposited on the circuit board of hard drive can seriously affect the heat dissemination of circuit board chip. Thus, the temperature of components on circuit board will rise, leading to chip overheating and burning. Secondly, the short circuit is likely to be caused if the dust absorbed moisture.
- Temperature: the working status and service life of hard drive is closely related to temperature. Clock frequency of crystal oscillator will be changed no matter the temperature is too high or too low and this will cause circuit component failure.
- Cooling fan: taking the cooling effect into account, many people have their own computer hard drive installed with cooling fan. However, the vibration of some low-grade fan is very strong during the working time and this vibration can be passed to hard drive. And it will definitely have a bad impact on the service life of hard drive in the long run.
- Optical drive: when the optical disc is rotating at a high speed in the optical drive, the optical drive vibration will lead to computer chassis resonance so as to affect the working of hard drive. Meanwhile, this kind of rotation will certainly raise the temperature of optical dive thus changing the hard drive working temperature.
- Static electricity: in the course of operating computer hardware, a lot of people tend to hold the hard drive directly with hand. However, in dry weather, thousands of volts of static electricity may be accumulated on human hands and it may penetrate the circuit board chip, and finally result in hard drive failure.
- Power supply: if there is something wrong with the power supply while hard drive is performing write and read operation, this hard drive can be destroyed in just a moment.
- Magnetic field: if the hard drive is subjected to magnetic interference of the external environment, hard drive data loss is easy to be brought since hard drive is a device recording data by relying on magnetic media. So please put your hard drive away from magnetic environment as far as possible.
- Defragmentation: it is a common sense that the hard drive speed will slow down and the magnetic track may be damaged if there are too many junk files on hard drive. This is a reason why computer users are suggested to defragment hard drive regularly. But remember, please don't clean up your hard drive too often since it will also reduce the service life of hard drive and may lead to data loss due to wrong operation.
- Virus prevention: as you can imagine, virus is one of the biggest threats to files stored on hard drive. Therefore, users shouldn't open any files or links until they can finally confirm its safety. Besides, users have to take measures to kill virus immediately after it has been detected.
Things You Shouldn't Do
- Never cut off the power supply whether the computer is in operation or in startup and shutdown phase.
- Don't take out the hard drive and put it in any place arbitrarily.
- Avoid performing any operation to computer when you're not sure about what results it will bring.
- Please don't get into panic and keep operating on computer after you found data loss occurs on hard drive.
- Try not purchasing any poor-quality computer accessories.
Believe it or not, as long as you pay enough attention to what we have mentioned here, you can avoid computer hard drive damage and hard drive recovery effectively.


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Links and notes: Back to Vero on Saturday
Lots of links and notes to catch up on while I'm back in Tampa -- I'll drive back over to Vero Beach on Saturday morning to see USF's first football scrimmage of the fall. Skip Holtz has said he'll make his initial decisions as to depth charts, position changes and freshmen redshirting based on what he sees there, so it's a big opportunity for players to show what they've been working toward.
-- Got the Sports Illustrated college football preview in the mail Thursday, and SI is projecting USF to go 6-6 overall and 3-4 in the Big East for a sixth-place finish. SI has four USF opponents ranked in its preseason top 25 -- No. 7 Florida, No. 15 Miami, No. 16 Pittsburgh and No. 18 Cincinnati.
-- Few new Big East preseason polls are out -- volleyball was picked to finish sixth in the league, while men's soccer was picked to finish third in what should be a closely contested Big East Red Division. USF's women's soccer team was picked to finish fourth in the Big East American Division -- always amuses me that men's and women's soccer have different names for their divisions.
-- Former USF player and grad assistant Mike Lube is now on the coaching staff at Clearwater High, where he'll coach both lines and run the weight room while helping with the offense. That's three former USF grad assistants now coaching in Clearwater, with Patrick St. Louis working on Jared Davis' staff at Countryside.
-- Northjersey.com has a feature on former USF defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul -- wild to think that a year ago, he hadn't yet arrived at USF. And former Bulls stars Jerome Murphy and George Selvie are rampaging through Rams camp.
-- Some of you asked for an Associated Press story on Eagles safety Nate Allen that ran in Thursday's Times.
-- Bright House Sports Network's J.B. Long offers five reasons why the Bulls will win the Big East.
-- Recruiting update from the Times' Ed Encina on two Plant standouts USF had targeted -- QB Philip Ely picked Alabama and OT Tony Posada picked Michigan.
-- This is a few days old, but Dominique Jones picked up some playing time in Dallas as fellow Mavs guard Roddy Beaubois broke his foot while playing in France.
-- Should have word on USF baseball's new pitching coach soon -- the Bulls were picked as one of 2010's top 10 disappointments by Rivals.com's Kendall Rogers. Also, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reports that New Smyrna Beach High's Blake Sydeski has committed to play for Lelo Prado in 2011-12.
-- USF wasn't close to doing it this year, but there's a cool site devoted to college programs signing more recruits than they have room for at oversigning.com.
-- ESPN.com's Brian Bennett writes about USF's bonding at Dodgertown this month.


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Actually, the touching of costumes and flipping up of hems is one of those things that I've always found taken for granted - expected, even. I've never asked permission and never been asked. I always go into competition assuming a judge is going to look at everything they can and even have willingly undressed part of myself to show under-layers. I don't think it's necessarily rude not to ask, in this case, since it's tacitly understood by most competitors and judges that it just happens. But yes, anyone who denies permission to look at the inside of a costume is probably hiding something.
The only competition I'm personally aware of that allows judging out of costume (and sometimes requires it for undergarments) is the historical masquerade at CostumeCon. But that's a competition that is run a little differently than most in the first place. I prefer being in costume and I prefer judging people in costume. One con I used to compete at regularly has changed over the past 2-3 years and now allows you to come in an unfinished costume, and I really got uncomfortable with that. I had elaborate makeup to apply and the entire gist of the costume as well as the performance relied on that makeup, and they called me over before I was finished. It didn't go well, and that's among a number of reasons why I will no longer compete at that con. As a judge I know how next-to-impossible it is to change or add scores for workmanship during/after watching the costumes on stage, so I'm not going to ask another judge to fix my score once they see my stage makeup and how it changes the costume's overall look - or how the fit really looks on stage, etc.
But that, of course, is personal preference to some extent. And I always advocate, if you don't like how a masquerade is run or judged and the system seems to be firmly in place from the director down (they can't or won't take feedback or consider changing it for any myriad of reasons), then just give it a pass and find one more to your preference. It's the one real advantage of so many con masquerades being run so many different ways. You can find a system you like and enjoy competing at those cons.
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£1.5million for Titanic Dock 8 March 2012
DOE invests £1.5million to preserve Titanic Dry Dock
The Thompson Graving Dock, an iconic part of Northern
Ireland's industrial history and the largest authentic Titanic landmark in the
world, is being given a new lease of life after 100 years.
Environment Minister Alex Attwood has announced a £1.5million investment to preserve the historical site based at the Northern Ireland Science Park.
For over 100 years, the existing steel dock gate which measures 150ft at its widest point, 44ft deep and 887ft long has divided the dry dock from the sea. Due to its age, the working gate has been degrading over recent years and there is a real threat of future flooding which could see the historic treasure damaged along with the Dry Dock and Pump–House.
Work has begun to protect the 880–ft long Thompson Graving Dock. This is the largest single investment ever by DOE in support of a scheduled historic monument. The Thompson Dock is a key part of the historic infrastructure of the Belfast Shipyards, and is specially protected as a Historic Monument.
The work involves the construction of a permanent structure in the style of a gate, outside the original dock gate. When completed, this new gate will sit in the 'Titanic slot', an outer position in which the original gate would have been positioned to accommodate the sheer length of the Titanic.
A temporary coffer dam is being constructed to provide a dry working area around the original gate and Titanic slot, and to allow the construction of the permanent structure that will safeguard the dock. The work is being taken forward by the DOE's Northern Ireland Environment Agency, which is funding the scheme, and the Northern Ireland Science Park, who currently maintain the dock.
Alex Attwood said: "The importance of the Thompson Graving Dock should be acknowledged; when it was completed in 1911 it was the largest dry dock in the world and without it the Titanic and its sister ships Olympic and Britannic, could not have been completed.
"The dock is now over 100 years old and it is important that we take action to ensure its long term viability. The work will not only preserve the original dock gate but will also allow better public access to the dock and the working dock floor.
"This work is very timely given that the Titanic centenary is just a few months away and the opening of the Titanic signature project only a few weeks away. When the work is completed, the Thompson Graving Dock will complement other Titanic attractions and help to showcase Belfast's industrial and maritime history. A lot of us who have visited the dock know of its scale and impact. It is a vital element in the Titanic experience and in itself conveys the achievement of the original build, the devastation of the loss of life and the engineering achievement of the ship designers and builders."
Tourism Minister Arlene Foster said: "This a very significant project and will be another important part of our tourism offering.
"It will maintain the dock gates and ensure the Thompson Dock continues to be an integral part of the whole Titanic experience.
"My Department developed the scheme along with the Science Park and transferred the funding to the NIEA so that it could use its built heritage powers to complete it.
"This is an example of joined up government in action and it will help preserve a priceless piece of our history for future generations."
Director of corporate real estate and facilities for the Northern Ireland Science Park, Mervyn Watley added: "The Science Park is the hub of the knowledge economy in
Northern Ireland and
lies at the centre of a proud tradition of engineering innovation and
world–renowned maritime heritage. To date the Park has invested significantly
to maintain the Dock as
a dry dock however due to funding limitations has only been able to provide
temporary solutions. We are delighted that DOE have come on board to provide a more
permanent measure to prevent the gate falling into disrepair and to improve
access to the historical site.
"From April 2012 the public will be given access to the floor of the colossal Thompson Dry–Dock for the first time ever. This unique attraction will further add to the Titanic experience at the Science Park along with the 100 year old Edwardian Pump–House which includes a state of the art Interpretive Centre."


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