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The Big Air at the Snowboard World Championship Sims Invitation was probably the coolest jump off in North America. Go-go dancers gyrated in sound towers, DJs spun music, and a crowd of nearly 15,000 people crushed to the fence surrounding the landing zone to get as close to the action as possible.
It was the perfect occasion for Peter Line and Tara Dakides to pull off big air world championship wins. Twenty men and nine women charged down the runway and blasted into the night air over Whistler Village. Riders were given two jumps in the qualifiers, with the best jump counting. Then the top four men and women advanced into a head-to-head jump off.
Marc-Andre Tarte pulled out a backside 1080 to win the qualifying round for the men followed by Jason Borgstede, Jonas Emery of Switzerland, and Peter Line. For the women, Pauline Richon of France had the highest qualifying round score with Tara Dakides, Barrett Christy, and Tina Basich behind her.
During the break in the jumping two mostly nude cyber freaks straight out of Nevada's annual Burning Man festival "entertained the crowd" with flame throwers and an odd dance. The male part of the fire duo was painted silver and on silts with long extentions on his arms and a strange helmet. Dangling between his legs hung a long hose shaped slinky-like genitalia. The female half was painted bronze and appeared to be wearing a jockstrap and not much else. She ran around blowing flames into the air while guy loped around shooting sparks out his hands. It was high concept for sure. The funniest part is when the guy fell, sliding down half the landing on his bare ass. The crowd cheered as he struggled to get back up. Directly follow the fire dance, someone charged the jump wearing a Pink Panther suit. Yee haw.
After the show, the head-to-head finals got underway. Old scores were tossed out and the riders had two chances against each other to advance. The first heat pitted fourth place Peter Line against first place finisher Marc-Andre Tarte. Peter's first run cab 900 nose grab advanced him into the final. Next, Jonas Emery pulled out a backside 7, but Jason Borgstede's advanced when he stomped a backside 9 tailgrab.
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Hi Everyone,
Let me introduce myself as some of you will have already been chatting to me or in contact with me before now! My name is Adele, and I have recently joined giffgaff as the Member Services Delivery Manager - although I have been helping out in giffgaff for quite some time.
What do I do, I hear you say? Well, my role is to manage and deliver customer services to you all, so my main task is managing and improving the Member Services team who deal with your cases raised via Ask an Agent.
As you are well aware, the Member Services team have had a lot of challenges over the last couple of months. As giffgaff has grown, so has the number of people needing help, and the number of and complexity of cases we work on. However they have worked really hard to bring the volume down and are now working well within service levels.
Over the next month we will be introducing the team to you again, as it has been a while since they have been on the forums so you will get a chance to say hi to them. Along with a series of blogs to explain a bit more about what Agents do and what case they see, we will be asking for ideas and improvements (the same way we do for everything at giffgaff) on our overall customer services to help us provide you with customer service excellence.
Over the last month, we have worked hard to make improvements within the team. One of the first steps we took was to increase the number of members on the team. These new Agents have all completed their training and are now live working on your cases. It will take a little while for them to settle down (everyone is new once!), and they are doing really well currently and loving the giffgaff life J Now that the team is bigger and giffgaff overall is bigger, we will be looking at areas like updating training and improving the overall quality of the team.
The first big launch and change for this year is the go-live of Blackberry services (very exciting!) which is now with you. The team have completed their training and are ready to rock and roll!! Another big change which will help the management of cases is a new Ask an Agent form which is currently being developed, and I will keep you updated with more information and when this will launch. This new form will ask you more questions about your issue, and you will have to select some mandatory fields. This is by no means to limit people asking questions in any way - these new fields in the form will help us identify the issue you are facing quicker. As the new form is not launched as of yet and in order for us to identify Blackberry cases in the queues can you complete the following when raising an ask an agent case for Blackberry issues:
If you need to submit a case on Blackberry related issues:
Select the category – "Mobile services" and place in the subject line "Blackberry".
Should you have an issue that could possibly be related to your Blackberry handset, make sure you check out the fab Blackberry simulators on the below link in the FAQ's; they give a walk through on how to setup your handset and you can even check where to find your settings.
Blackberry Simulators: http://support.giffgaff.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/664
Blackberry FAQs in our Help Section: http://support.giffgaff.com/app/home/kw/blackberry
Ask The Community!: http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Help-Ask-the-community-got-stuck/bd-p/QA1
As normal, the team will only be supporting sim/account based queries (things that require sim technical support on a network level, or that involve personal information to your account). If the simulator above hasn't helped with your queries, we also have a great set of FAQS and of course the community on hand to help. Using these can often get you the answer you require very quickly if it's a handset, settings or basic query that doesn't require an answer from the Agent team.
In the future, the Member Services team will have monthly blogs so you can meet and catch up with all the team and help us with improving our service. It's great being on board and I look forward to getting to know and work with you all!
Sounds interesting.
Hi Adele
Lots of good news above.
Hi Adele,
I think you're managing the team well - I don't have a bad word to say about the agents
I do have one question though, where are the agents based? In giffgaff HQ (Beconsfield) or offsite? And if the agents are based offsite, are you based at HQ or offsite also?
~ Sam
hi Adele
nice blog
hi Adele, I've been waiting for this for some time now (so have many other people I think). great to have this blog up, and I hope to see a lot more from you and the agents in the future.
also interesting news about the new ask an agent form. there a (very heated) idea about that recently I think
Can I ask you to comment on cases like these, where an agent has seeming not read/understood a question properly (or an automated reply has been used, which I thought giffgaff did not use except in emergencies, for example recently last December)
I know this particular question can be answered by the community, but by giving what seems to be a 'cut-and-paste' reply, the agent doubled the workload for themselves, as the question was re-submitted! (and apparently still not properly answered!)
These kinds of posts about agents not reading/understanding questions properly seems to come up time and time again on the forum, and we (as a community) cant really say anything except go back to the case and update it. I would give more examples but I've got to log off im afraid (does anyone else have any links?)
Also, and I guess this probably isnt your area, but when are giffgaff going to fix the issue/bug where agent cases disappear at random? (I believe educators can get this fixed, but giffgaff hasnt put any statement on the forum about the issue as far as im aware).
Also do giffgaff have any idea if this issue/bug is driving up the agent workload (ie user submitting a case, receiving an email saying they have an answer from an agent, cases disappeared from users account, user then re-submitting the question again, as a new case....) I have asked this, and other questions regarding agents, before, but I didnt get an answer back
Hi Adele,
Thanks for hatching up these are some much-needed and welcomed plans.
@bonusball - Northern Ireland and India.
Great news
Will we see more of you in the community
As your the manager of "agent team" if i am not mistaken
A request i had, agents have been accused of poor responses. What is going to be done to accompany this or fix this issue.
As their is more agents i think this will stop but a confirmation on it would be great
Thanks again for this lovely update from you
Oh and how rude i Forgot to say "Hi"
hey Adele thanks for this, now that blackberry is supported i can get my friends to finally get giffgaff without having the excuse of BBM !
hello adele thank you those news are very reassuring
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Jayne Snyder's resignation was effective on September 11, 2011. She was elected to her at-large City Council seat in May 2009, and her term runs until May 2013.
The Mayor and Council members will have an opportunity to interview the nominees during the next week. The Mayor and Chairman Carroll will also meet during this time to discuss the selection of one nominee's name to be voted upon by the City Council. The nominee's name will be released to the public on September 22, 2011 and the Council will vote on the nomination at the regular Council meeting on September 26, 2011.
The public can contact the City Council members if they have questions or want to express their views on the election to fill the vacancy on the City Council.


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The Cambria Corn Maze will hold its grand opening Saturday at noon. The maze was created by local owners John and Leanna Ohol of Cambria, and is located at 5274 Lockport Junction Road, Lockport.
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Description: This component draws customizable burndown graphs from ticket history provided by TimingAndEstimationPlugin. Dynamic graphs can be easily embedded to wiki pages.
Compability: Developed and tested with Trac 0.10.4, Python 2.4, sqlite, mod_python & apache on Windows. Plugin might work also with Trac 0.11.
Dependencies: TimingAndEstimationPlugin is needed to feed database with estimates and totalhours custom tickets. Browser must render SVG natively & support html tag iframe (in case of problems, try Firefox 2)
Feedback: Feel free to give feedback
- get source installation & install it
easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/timevisualizerplugin/0.10
- Edit trac.ini and modify components section:
[components] <...other components...> tractimevisualizerplugin.* = enabled
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To test graphs & filtering, access "http://server:port/path_to_trac_env/tractimevisualizer". It will render hours from whole project life cycle.
More practical is to get graphs from some certain time frame and filter hours based on milestone and/or component. This is achieved with macro BurnDown (ya, I wrote this plugin to replace ScrumBurndownPlugin because its graph was so limiting and I don't like plugins that modify database schema).
In my example project, I have wiki page with following content:
[[BurnDown(width=800,height=200,query=targetmilestone=mile1&datestart=08/8/07&dateend=8/22/07)]] [[BurnDown(width=400,height=200,query=targetmilestone=mile1&datestart=08/8/07&dateend=8/15/07)]] [[BurnDown(width=400,height=200,query=targetmilestone=mile1&datestart=08/15/07&dateend=8/22/07)]]
It renders the following graphs (picture is cropped to fit better on this page)
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0.7: Adds support for multiple lines and makes it possible to specify the color and with of the lines and the grid.
This is an untested patch that was previously attached the project wiki page.
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A police officer who sent a photo of a corpse to her boyfriend contravened police regulations, but did not commit a crime, Newcastle Local Court has found.
Megan Clare McNamara said she sent the photo of the half-naked, deceased 84-year-old man to her then boyfriend to give him some insight into the kind of work she does.
The elderly man had died after a long-term illness and Constable McNamara, as officer in charge, had taken the photograph at his Cessnock home on her mobile phone because a doctor's certificate was not yet available.
Later that day, Ms McNamara's then partner, Garry Panton, messaged her about a bolt that had broken while he was repairing a vehicle.
She replied with a text saying ''If it's any consolation my day sucks too'' with the picture of the deceased attached.
''I just wanted him to understand – he used to make a big deal out of very small issues in his life,'' Ms McNamara told the court during a hearing last month.
''I wanted him to understand the stresses in my life and work.''
When the relationship ended some months later, Mr Panton brought the image to police attention, saying it made him uncomfortable.
Ms McNamara, 31, was charged with interfering with a corpse and misusing a carriage service, and pleaded not guilty to both counts.
In court Ms McNamara explained that sometimes she and her colleagues used black humour in an effort to ''try and deal with situations''.
Magistrate Robert Stone dismissed the charges yesterday, saying while the sending of the message was in disregard and contravention of the Police Code and Regulation prohibiting the sharing of information to outside third parties, it did not constitute an offence under the relevant law.
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COLUMBIA CITY — Two incidents, one in September and one in December, caused the Columbia City Police Department to re-evaluate policies and internal protocol.Monday, Dec. 3, a loaded gun magazine was found on the ground near Columbia City High School. This caused the school to go into a lockdown status briefly that day. Although the situation was accidental and resolved without incident, Columbia City Police Chief Tim Longenbaugh said the department has made changes to prevent such an event from happening in the future.A second event also drew the attention of the department. On Sept. 28, a pedestrian was struck by a squad car. The pedestrian, Zachary Hesting of Columbia City, was walking along the road when he was hit by the vehicle.For a more in-depth look at this story, see the Jan. 4 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook.


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Noted commentator and Guardian columnist Jeff Jarvis, who had had breakfast with the team in March and been impressed by them, later on said on BuzzMachine,
I have to say that I was disappointed with the Economist's Project Red Stripe – in the idea they ended up with and in the fact that it is not yielding a product.Interesting points from a respected commentator, but themselves laden with assumptions and preconceptions.
…they ended up, I think, not so much with a business but with a way to improve the world. Their idea, 'Lughenjo,'…wasn't intended to be fully altruistic; they thought there was a business here in advertising to these people, maybe. But still, it was about helping the world. And therein lies the danger.
This gives me hope for the essential character of mankind: Give smart people play money and they'll use it to improve the lots of others. Mind you, I'm all for improving the world. We all should give it a try.
But we also need to improve the lot of journalism. And one crucial way we're going to do that is to create new, successful, ongoing businesses that maintain and grow journalism. We need profit to do that.
So I would have thrown another requirement on Project Red Stripe or any media company's innovation incubator: that they start a sustainable – that is, profitable – business.
First, Jarvis, here and at greater length in his article, equates The Economist with journalists and journalism. Red Stripe tended throughout to dissociate itself from journalism, to leave the journalism business to the magazine. Red Stripe was working with all The Economist Group brands and businesses and customers as a starting point and was, wisely I think, looking far outside the box for ideas. I'd say it was visionary of the group and of the project team to allow themselves that latitude, especially in the face of concerns that the Economist brand could be damaged, that they had an innovation process already and, more mundanely, that it would be difficult to find people to do the jobs of the six team members for six months. There's a peculiar convention, outside the department store and hypermarket, that businesses should really only do one thing – 'core is king' could be the continuing slogan of this mindset.
Second, Red Stripe came up with a profitable and sustainable model in Lughenjo (though, admittedly, they began by thinking of it as a not-for-profit business). Their reasons for dropping it were only incidentally to do with profitability. In fact, Mike Seery's conclusion, pace Jeff Jarvis, was that 'we don't have a working prototype because we got hooked up on money – that was the thing this project was supposed to avoid.'
Third, any analysis of anything which juxtaposes 'helping the world' and 'improving the lot of journalism' and sees the former as a danger to the latter seems alarmingly mechanistic and possibly back to front. As Sheldon Rovin says in a piece on Systems Thinking:
…we live in an age of unprecedented possibility… Deplorably, though, you wouldn't know we live in such an age, judging by the way our politicians, corporate leaders, so-called experts and other authorities go about trying to solve our serious problems. Influenced largely by the thinking of Aristotle, Descartes and especially Newton, that the world is a mechanism awaiting explanation through analysis, taking things apart and studying the parts to understand the whole, they use a piecemeal, get it done fast approach that at best temporises, but more often worsens the problem
Neil McIntosh in his own blog, responded to Jarvis thus:
…'profitable' is quite a narrow definition of success. I prefer a looser definition of innovation; the successful introduction of something new. 'Success' can mean profits, or reputational benefit, or better user experience, or saving the world, or all of those things at the same time. Profits are just one – albeit frequently very important – measure of success.
But one thing that struck me from all this was this: not all innovation needs to be radical. Indeed, most attempts at clean-sheet, big bang innovation fail.
The innovation that normally yields results is the kind that arrives in a light drizzle; small, incremental, building on work done by yourself or others, utterly un-noteworthy to all but the geekiest observer.
'Success' is covered elsewhere, but his comment on innovation is nice. We tend to experience innovation as revolution (for example, with the car, the telephone, the iPod, the Internet) because of the way those innovations revolutionised our lives. In fact, of course, the technological innovation that enabled those experienced revolutions was gradual and piecemeal. This is an important thing for innovation teams to know and remember. Several small steps are the most reliable path to a major change. Red Stripe explicitly sought to avoid incremental change. At the outset, Mike said 'I tend to steer people away from the incremental approach'.
Suw Charman had another angle on this in her blog about Project Red Stripe:
Innovation, like all other forms of creativity, never comes out of nowhere; it comes out of all that's been before. All the things you've read, conversations you've had, scenes you've witnessed, and – most importantly – all the work other people have done. Creation requires giants upon whose shoulders we can stand; we cannot do it in a vacuum. Indeed, sitting down with a clean sheet of paper, trying to conjure a killer idea out of nowhere is only going to end in tears, mainly of frustration.Jeff Jarvis (whose blog started this chapter) responded with this thought:
When it comes to technical innovation, any developer worth his or her salt will tell you that the best way to come up with a winning idea is to think about a problem that irks you and that you want to solve.
So I think there is a need sometimes to take people who are ready to make change and to build some sort of net around them to experiment without fear or the crushing pressure of corporate inertia. Maybe The Economist should have sent their team off not with the magnificently open challenge – create something innovative and of the web; that was it – but instead with a problem to solve and a few hypotheses to try out.
I talk about options like this in The Last Fart of the Ferret. But, staying with incremental change and innovation for a moment, I notice that the question of ordinariness connects with Red Stripe's reservation about incremental change.
I began thinking about the twin towers of specialness and ordinariness when contemplating my shaking hands, flushed cheeks and growling stomach as I awaited my turn to 'say my name and a little bit about me' at a recent workshop. 'This', I thought, 'really shouldn't be such a big deal any more'.
Then, in a recent interview, the 12th Earl of Drogheda reveals that he didn't join a dramatic society at university. 'Now why would that be?', the interviewer enquires. The conventional and anticipated reason (too shy) comes first: 'I think this was because of a mixture of insecurity…'
The second, and rather unexpected, one comes next: '…and fear of not being given star roles.'
Hold it. Fear? Of not being given star roles? That looks like an unusual fear. Even in a world where we discover new phobias daily. But it echoes my conviction that much shyness and holding back reflects not our discomfort at being the objection of attention per se, but our grandiosity: our fear that we won't be seen to be as clever, important, noteworthy, funny, beautiful as we think we really are – or could be.
It reflects our unspoken expectation that we should be not just good, but significantly better than the others. So, we're embarrassed to speak in public because we would like to be not just good enough but the finest orator in the land. And the Red Stripe collective clearly wanted a big success, even if they were nervous about saying this out loud. Tom, of course, wasn't. At the outset, he said he wanted a massive success. So did Mike: 'I want something fantastic'. And the team, in an early exercise where they considered what failure would look like, named 'boring', 'incremental' and 'old business model' as aspects of failure. Tom also made the connection with shame: if they failed there would be shame attached to that failure. Of course. Brave to say it, though.
Tom's naming of the word 'shame' is also a reminder of one downside of the very public profile that Project Red Stripe adopted. If the almost inevitable desire to aim high, to go for gold rather than settle for bronze, can become self-limiting when it means that teams exclude modest ideas that might lead eventually to revolution, then it can be all the more dangerous in the glare of publicity, where spectacular success is to be prized even more highly.
The narcissism induced by publicity (and I use narcissism in its pseudotechnical sense rather than in its more common, pejorative sense) has been described by Cornell's Professor Robert Millman as Acquired Situational Narcissism – a form of narcissism that develops in late adolescence or adulthood, and is brought on by wealth, fame and the other trappings of celebrity.
So here, again, there's perhaps a case to be made for a formal public face for the innovation team. The charm, flattery and seductiveness of the rhetoric of the goddess Peitha/Suadela needs to be carefully harnessed.
Emmy van Deurzen also talks indirectly of narcissism when she discusses 'living in tune with your intentions'. She cites the case of someone who wanted to be in control but tended to give up because she could never be fully in control. In Emmy's view, she needed need to recognise the 'limitations on being in charge, rather than a striving for absolutes.' Striving for absolutes is the striving for specialness as against a recognition and acceptance of ordinariness.
This recognition of limitations involves both a recognition of quantitative limitations (we can strive to be rich without striving to be the richest person in the world) and of the limitations of reality (in a fantasy world we may be able to fly, drink from the fountain of eternal youth or whatever, but in the real world we very probably can't).
In both cases, we can see the need for some tightening of the brief, some imposition of limitation on expectations, for the innovation team.
- A focus on profitability may be good for innovation, but it isn't necessarily helpful for creativity. On the other hand, since we're talking about business, almost any focus that isn't on profitability might be seen as a distraction. On yet another hand, Tom Peters was just one of many to assert that businesses should focus on delighting their customers, allowing the profits to follow in their wake.
- Most innovation is incremental and emergent in nature, even if it looks revolutionary to the customer. As a result, looking for 'quantum leap' innovation may be self-defeating if it assumes technological or other changes that haven't yet taken place. On the other hand, an innovation project predicated on 'quantum leap' innovation won't get anywhere if it simply looks at incremental change.
- The desire to aim high can be self-limiting if it precludes picking 'the low-hanging' fruit.
- The oxygen of publicity brings in ideas but can induce a greater fear of failure than is necessary.
- Tightening the brief helps team members focus but precludes at least some potential ideas – there's an inevitable trade-off between the two.


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April 18, 2008
The 8th seeded Lady Bisons played in the Atlantic Sun Conference tennis tournament on April 18th in Johnson City, Tenn. They lost to #1 seeded Jacksonville 5-0.
It has been a tough year for the Lady Bisons, under the direction of new Assistant Head Coach Kristin Lusk.
The Lady Bisons have not won any matches this season, but have had some very close calls. Though the team is young, the talent will continue to grow in future.
Photos from this weekend's Atlantic Sun Conference tournament can be viewed at the Atlantic Sun photo gallery.
Singles competition
1. Lina Xu (JU) def. Raphaela Jann (LIP) 6-1, 6-2
2. Lena Willi (JU) def. Kara Jackson (LIP) 6-0, 6-0
3. Tatiana Soldatova (JU) def. Caitlin Khouri (LIP) 6-0, 6-0
4. Juliana Umeki (JU) vs. Claire Landry (LIP) unfinished
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We covered the U.S. stock market live on Wednesday. You can read about before-the-open news in Indications and a rundown of all the action in Market Snapshot.
More on MarketWatch:
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- 9:39 am
- In the red
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Good morning.
The Dow was positive for a very short time, but overall it's a broad retreat in the early going.
Dow -0.2%
Nasdaq -0.3%
- 9:43 am
- Resistance at 1900?
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The S&P 500 might have a hard time clearing 1900.
Technical analysts often say big round numbers can offer resistance.
"SPX500 remains stuck below 1,900 resistance while RSI levelling off suggests upward momentum faltering again," says Colin Ciezynski, senior market analyst at CMC Markets, in emailed comments today.
RSI stands for Relative Strength Index.
So where could the S&P fall back to?
"Initial support in a correction possible near 1,870 then 1,850 with a run at the 2,000 round number possible on a breakout," the CMC analyst says.
- 9:48 am
- Fossil falls
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Fossil /quotes/zigman/17693969/delayed /quotes/nls/fosl FOSL is the S&P 500's biggest loser today.
Late Tuesday, the company provided quarterly earnings that beat forecasts, but its outlook disappointed investors.
Fossil was last down more than 8%.
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- 9:56 am
- Digesting gains
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Katie Stockton, chief technical strategist at BTIG, suggests today could be a digestion day, with the stock market's rally resuming later this week.
She writes in emailed comments this morning:
"The S&P futures reached a new all-time high on Monday, and are now digesting their gains via an intraday consolidation phase. We expect the rally to resume later this week. The SPX would confirm its breakout on consecutive closes above 1897.28 (possibly today) for an intermediate-term measured move target of about 1975. This is the same target derived from a previous breakout, and it seems attainable to us as intermediate-term momentum improves."
- 10:03 am
- PPI tops forecasts
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Today's biggest data release was the report on the producer price index (PPI — wholesale prices), but it doesn't seem earthshattering even with the bigger-than-expected jump of 0.6%.
Economists "caution against reading too much into the PPI because the index underwent its first major makeover in years at the start of 2014," writes MarketWatch's Jeff Bartash.
"The index has been quite volatile in its new incarnation."
Still, wholesale prices did post the biggest increase in April since the fall of 2012 and jumped for the second straight month.
That suggests that price pressures might be building a bit after an extended period of extremely low inflation, according to Bartash.
- 10:06 am
- Nasdaq tries to turn positive
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The Nasdaq is trying to hold in the green, as the tech-heavy index erases early losses.
It's basically flat.
- 10:15 am
- Nasdaq acting better for once
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Well, that's different.
The Nasdaq (-1.2% YTD) has generally been lagging the S&P 500 (+2.5% YTD) this year — as traders well know.
But it's been outperforming somewhat so far today at least.
It's back in the red though at last check, down nearly 0.2% for the day after trying to turn positive.
- 10:20 am
- Losses of 0.3% to 0.4%
- by Victor Reklaitis
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About 50 minutes into today's session, the main indexes are all firmly in the red.
The Nasdaq's attempt to turn positive and outperform the other two main indexes for once has flopped.
Nasdaq -0.36%
Dow -0.36%
- 10:24 am
- Apple advances
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Apple /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL is bucking today's generally negative trend, last up 0.3%.
There's some more chatter about a potential iPhone 6.
Some Apple employees have been banned from taking any leave in September, the usual month for the launch of a new iPhone, says a 9to5Mac report.
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- 10:38 am
- ITB at crossroads?
- by Victor Reklaitis
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The market doesn't have that much economic data to chew on today, but it'll get a lot more tomorrow, and then a bit more on Friday.
The reports will include readings on the housing market.
A home-builder ETF /quotes/zigman/1496092/delayed /quotes/nls/itb ITB has risen above its 200-day moving average as these housing reports loom.
"Traders continue to watch the Homebuilders (ITB) dancing on the 200dma into this week's Housing Starts and Building Permits for April releases," wrote Dave Lutz, Stifel's head of ETF trading and strategy, in one of his "What Traders Are Watching" notes.
He added that "many are eyeballing a potential head and shoulders pattern developing."
Read more here.
- 10:49 am
- Social media rising
- by Victor Reklaitis
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Beyond that home-builder ETF, here's how other key ETFs are faring today.
These ETFs have basically become market barometers lately.
IWM /quotes/zigman/260873/delayed /quotes/nls/iwm IWM , which tracks small caps, was last down 0.8%
SOCL /quotes/zigman/7289836/delayed /quotes/nls/socl SOCL , the social media ETF, was last up 1.2% — getting some love on Zuck's b-day
A strong earnings report from Chinese Internet giant Tencent is boosting SOCL.
FDN /quotes/zigman/1497276/delayed /quotes/nls/fdn FDN , an Internet ETF, was last down 0.2%
IBB /quotes/zigman/85342/delayed /quotes/nls/ibb IBB , a biotech ETF, was last up 1.2%
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- 11:05 am
- MarketWatch Radio newscast
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Wall Street is giving back some of its record-breaking gains. MarketWatch's Ann Cates reports.
- 11:18 am
- Growth>value?
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Formula today is growth > value, large cap > small cap. $IWF outperforming and $IWN lagging hard. $$
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- 11:21 am
- S&P 500 sectors
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Among large-cap companies, today's winners are utilities and telecomes sector stocks, while financials and consumer discretionary stocks are lagging behind.
- 11:23 am
- Defensive trading
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- 11:26 am
- Tech Firms' Cash on Hand Eases Fears of Meltdown
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The two-month swoon in technology stocks has given investors flashbacks to the dot-com meltdown. But at least one harbinger of trouble is absent today: tech firms in danger of collapse. Shira Ovide joins MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
- 11:31 am
- 10-year Treasury yield sinks to 6-mo low
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Treasury prices rallied Wednesday, sending the benchmark yield to its lowest level of the calendar year, as investors reacted to dovish monetary policy signals from the European Central Bank and the Bank of England, writes Ben Eisen.
The ECB was said to be preparing measures to combat low inflation, including using negative deposit rates, according to news reports. The Bank of England left its forecasts intact in one sign that it may be on track to raise its key lending rates next year, but it signaled rates would remain on hold for now.
- 11:51 am
- Small-caps are being dumped
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Small-cap stocks are selling off again today. The iShares Russell 2000 ETF /quotes/zigman/260873/delayed /quotes/nls/iwm IWM is down 0.8%.
- 12:07 pm
- Market update
- by Abira Mahmudova
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Stocks have been trading mostly sideways in the past few hours and the main indexes are firmly in the red.
Dow -0.34%
Nasdaq -0.20%
- 12:09 pm
- Trading trouble at NYSE
- by Anora Mahmudova
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The NYSE is having troubles again – this is from their news alert:
The NYSE BBO data feed is currently experiencing an issue with the symbol range D through J. An update will be provided shortly.
All other NYSE systems are currently functioning normally.
- 12:12 pm
- Live blog from SALT conference
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Some of the world's most successful hedge fund managers and more than 1,000 investors are gathered in Las Vegas for Skybridge Capital's SALT Conference.
MarketWatches William Watts is live-blogging the top market movers: SALT Conference live blog.
- 12:28 pm
- Plug Power slumps after quarterly loss
- by Sue Chang
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Shares of Plug Power Inc. /quotes/zigman/5142101/delayed /quotes/nls/plug PLUG are down 5.8% after the fuel cell supplier reported a quarterly loss.
Plug Power reported it lost 6 cents a share on an adjusted basis in the first quarter, wider than the loss of 5 cents a share forecast by analysts in a FactSet survey.
- 12:28 pm
- Is a little inflation good for the market?
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Marian Kessler, co-portfolio manager at the Becker Value Equity Fund, thinks it is. "Disinflation is much more dangerous," she notes. Stocks are lower today as investors digest a report showing producer prices rose 0.6% in April.
- 1:18 pm
- Stocks stay within narrow loss range
- by Wallace Witkowski
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Stocks stayed within a narrow trading range with all three major indexes showing slight losses on the day.
The S&P 500 Index /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX was down 3 points, or 0.2%, at 1,894.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average /quotes/zigman/627449/realtime DJIA was down 58 points, or 0.3%, at 16,657.
The Nasdaq Composite Index /quotes/zigman/12633936/realtime COMP was down 7 points, or 0.2%, at 4,132.
- 1:39 pm
- Netflix accounts for one-third U.S. Internet traffic
- by Wallace Witkowski
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Netflix Inc. /quotes/zigman/87598/delayed /quotes/nls/nflx NFLX shares added to gains for the week Wednesday following a study that the streaming video service accounts for more than a third of North American Internet traffic during peak evening hours, MarketWatch's Rex Crum reports.
Netflix shares were up 0.9% at $350.15, for a weekly gain of 6.6%. Shares are still down 4.9% on the year.
- 1:49 pm
- NYSE best-bid-and-offer data issue resolved
- by Wallace Witkowski
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Earlier, the NYSE sent out an alert that the best-bid-and-offer data feed was having issues. It appears those have been resolved:
As stated previously, the NYSE experienced an issue with the NYSE BBO data feed for the symbol range D through J between 10:56:00 am and 1:03:00 pm ET today. This issue has since been resolved.
All other NYSE systems are currently functioning normally.
- 2:00 pm
- After-hour earnings reporters dragging along
- by Wallace Witkowski
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Shares of companies scheduled to report after the closing bell Wednesday were limping along at best during the regular session.
Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. /quotes/zigman/20039/delayed /quotes/nls/csco CSCO were the strongest, up 0.2% at $22.91. Shares are up 2.2% for the year.
U.S. shares of NetEase Inc. /quotes/zigman/83280/delayed /quotes/nls/ntes NTES fell 0.1%.
Agilent Technologies Inc. /quotes/zigman/216117/delayed /quotes/nls/a A shares fell 1.7%.
Remax Holdings Inc. /quotes/zigman/20887177/delayed /quotes/nls/rmax RMAX shares fell 0.4%.
SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. /quotes/zigman/14150718/delayed /quotes/nls/seas SEAS shares declined 1.6%.
Jack In The Box Inc. /quotes/zigman/66208/delayed /quotes/nls/jack JACK shares fell 2.4%.
- 2:18 pm
- Handbags vs watches
- by Anora Mahmudova
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In a match between handbags and watches the former are winning.
Andria Cheng compares sales of Kate Spade, Fossil and Michael Kors.
Upscale fashion accessories have been a bright spot in the U.S. in recent years, with designers and retailers selling branded items from handbags to watches, categories that are subject to fewer fashion or weather risks than apparel.
However, as both categories are expected to see their growth slow, it looks like handbags may have more runway than watches. Just look at Kate Spade and Fossil Inc. , for example. Kate Spade shares jumped 9% on Wednesday after the handbag company reported comparable direct-to-consumer sales at its namesake brand jumped 22%, without the benefit of an extra week this year. Its sales per square foot rose for 15 straight quarters, the company said.
On the other hand,Fossil's stock dropped 8.9% Wednesday after reporting its global comparable sales fell for a third straight quarter, hurt by waning demand in North America.
- 2:42 pm
- About bear markets
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Stocks are telling you a bear market is coming, is the title of the column by Michael Sincere.
Bear markets start with a whimper or a bang. When it starts with a bang, the first clue will be a major break in the market that no one can correctly explain. That will eventually be followed by a correction (or crash), and everyone will know that something bad has happened. The indexes will fall by double digits, investors will panic, and stocks get slaughtered.
- 3:06 pm
- MarketWatch Radio newscast
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Stocks lower after records for the Dow and S&P. Sears thinking about exiting Canada. Adrienne Mitchell reports.
- 3:14 pm
- Selling intensifies
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Selling in markets has accelerated in the past twenty or so minutes. Dow dropped 100 points at sessions lows.
Small stocks are sliding – the Russell 2000 is down about 1.4% at last check.
- 3:31 pm
- On valuations
- by Anora Mahmudova
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As the Dow and S&P 500 set new records, investors have to wonder if valuations and fundamentals still matter, writes John Nyaradi.
From his column: When fundementals don't matter anymore.
Investors who prefer to load their portfolios with "momentum" stocks took a beating in late March and early April when the market suddenly lost its appetite for stocks with high price/earnings ratios. Reasonably priced stocks mostly held their value, while equities with no earnings fell off a cliff.
- 3:42 pm
- Wall St to pay close attention to Inflation data tomorrow
- by Anora Mahmudova
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Earlier today, a report on wholesale prices showed a big jump in April. Jeffry Bartash writes that Wall Street is sure to pay greater attention to Thursday's report on consumer inflation.
Consumer prices have been been quite tame over the past few years, the result of sluggish economic growth and fierce global competition for customers. Yet they have been on the rise lately owing to escalating food, energy, housing and health-care expenses.
- 3:55 pm
- by Anora Mahmudova
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With about 5 minutes before the closing bell, stocks seem on track to end the day near session lows.
S&P 500 -9.5 points
Dow -101 points
Nasdaq -31 points
- 4:03 pm
- Ring-a-ding!
- by Laura Mandaro
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Stocks are closing with a thud.
The Dow average is off 101 points, or 0.6%, at 16,614.
The S&P 500 is down 0.5% at 1,888.5.
The Nasdaq Composite is off 0.7% to 4,100.
- 4:14 pm
- Cisco
- by Laura Mandaro
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Afterhours, Cisco /quotes/zigman/20039/delayed /quotes/nls/csco CSCO shares are jumping 4%.
#Cisco just beat even the whisper EPS number. $csco up 4%. More soon.
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Paul from Brooklyn needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 154 designs submitted by 56 freelance designers.
Paul Rich Music
My company, Paul Rich Music, has been in business since 2001. We're an established live musical entertainment company that specializes in providing creative, elegant live music for private and corporate events throughout the New York City area. Our product is classic in the New York style, refined, elegant, yet musically POWERFUL, energetic and fun. We've traditionally been centered around one band, but are now branching out to offer all types of musical services (jazz trios, specialty groups, single musicians) for all types of mid level to upscale events. We are recommended by some of New York's premier hotels and restaurants, as well as by the City's most respected event planners. We're Brooklyn, NY's only vendor of this type. It's a FUN business.
My customer can generally be described as the following: well-off financially, into a diverse mixture of music (often times musicians themselves), thoughtful, creative, genuine, successful in business or artistic ventures, international, elegant. The age of my customers range depending upon the type of event: if it's a wedding, they can be from 23-50 or so. If it's a simple private party or corporate event, it can be any age. People who enjoy jazz and standards LOVE what we offer.
I am looking for a new logo for the company. The logo will be used for the website, business cards, brochures, etc. This logo will be the identity of the company.
The color scheme of the logo must fit the color scheme, size requirement and style of the following website template. This template is under construction and will be our website going forward once complete:
Note the title bar where the words "Paul Rich Music". That is where the logo will be and those are the words that the logo text must be - Paul Rich Music. The colors used could be a metallic silver, white, some combo of white with red, silver and/or black accents, etc. The main purpose of this logo is for the top of my website, all else will follow.
I'm looking for elegant, classic, refined, artistic, genuine, authentic, trustworthy, transformative, powerful, fun. The logo could either be simple text or with a symbol, as long as it captures the essence I'm looking for. Some have mentioned a butterfly. NOTE: the size of the actual bar where the text is is approximately 979px by 120 px with a tolerance of 5px in these values. I think there's more room spreading leftwards from the text bar, but I'm not a pro at this stuff.
Link to a youtube video of the core band: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d0Wo97alaM
So you can see us perform. Thank you!!!!
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Who Impressed Against the Dolphins
One thing I really liked about Jason Garrett's plan was that Tyron Smith and Bill Nagy were both in the starting lineup. Those guys need all the work they can get heading into the regular season since they will be counted on to start. There is no reason to rest a player who is still learning on every game rep they receive. Nagy even got some playing time in the second half although Tyron Smith sat for the second half.
The Cowboys have to be planning on keeping Kevin Kowalski on the final roster as a backup. He started at center again and there is no way he would be able to clear waivers now that he has played two full games at center this preseason and done a good job. I think the Cowboys are getting him as much work as they possible can in case he has to step in for Phil Costa at any point this season at center.
DeMarco Murray had a big gain on a screen pass to start out the game. The blocking on the play was exceptional so I can't say the play had much to do with Murray. Murray is much bigger than I thought he was but he doesn't have the top end speed I expected when he was drafted. He is quick but he is not that fast. He looks great running the ball both in the middle of the field and in space. He is going to be a factor in the offense this season.
Stephen McGee really looks comfortable running the offense now and I have more confidence that he is going to develop into a solid backup. He looked controlled and confident throughout the game but he made a bad decision and throw on an interception in the end zone.
Kevin Ogletree got a chance to start and show that he deserves the #3 receiver role. He made a nice move after the catch on an option route for a first down. But he looked slow on an end around later in the game.
Dwayne Harris returned punts and he looks much more dynamic as a returner than Akwasi Owusu-Ansah has looked over the last few weeks. I don't know how Harris could not make the final roster. He ended up leaving the game early with what appeared to be a slight concussion. He has so much potential he seems like a keeper.
The backups on defense started out strong but then allowed a long run by Larry Johnson for a touchdown. The score doesn't bother me. What bothered me was the atrocious tackling on the play.
If Barry Church isn't starting at strong safety next season I will be surprised. He gets better every time he is on the field.
Phillip Tanner is making the decisions at running back very difficult for the coaches. Every time he carries the ball he looks good. There is no way the Cowboys can sneak him onto the practice squad. On that same note I have come away unimpressed by Lonyae Miller after 4 preseason games.
In the kicking battle David Buehler made an extra point length field goal at the end of the first half. Later in the game he missed a 48 yard field goal wide to the right. He was also kicking off through the end zone as usual coming off of his hip injury. Dave Rayner missed from 51 yards and 36 yards. No one has made the decision at kicker easy for the coaches. It seems as though they will have to go on a gut instinct. My gut tells me that Buehler keeps the job.
As the game entered the 4th quarter it became very difficult to watch. The vast majority of the players on the field will not make the team. The 3rd/4th string offensive line was very bad and the offense couldn't move the ball at all. The only thing I watched for at this point was another field goal attempt. Unfortunately I got my wish but it was another ugly miss by Rayner.
The worst part of the night was Rayman Radway's injury on the last offensive snap of the game. He went out on the cart with an air cast on his leg and he is undoubtedly done for the season. That is sad to see.
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This is the most biased post i've ever seen you drop boss man. Ogletree is a joke. for 2 reasons. 1 his around the end run he jogged.. didn't even run.. he never cranked it on 2 there was a pass instead of jumping or going for it he just slowed down. I thought 'did he not see the ball?!' oh but he did and he decided not to go for it. I mean even if it is uncatchable go for it.ReplyDelete
Mcgee is the hands down worst qb in my opinion. I really wanted to see the new guy get some play time last night. But he got knocked down HARD. Took it like a champ though. Back to McGee he is a terrible passer. When he gets pressured he runs into the line and gets tackled. you'll never see Romo do that because Romo rolls out. I just don't think McGee has what it takes to put points on the board.
Demarco Murray and Phillip Tanner are awesome. Because when they get hit they drive their feet get low and get 3 more yards. Felix Jones gets touched and he goes limp legged and goes down.
Radway should have been #3 receiver. I'm more than upset about his season and possibly career ending injury.
WBF- I don't know what game you were watching but it seems clear to me that McGee did well considering the entire unit is third string like him. I think in an actual situation where he would be needed to play with the starters we would see a much different looking QB than the one we saw start on thursday.ReplyDelete
Also, RBs in today's NFL are starting to learn the importance and GOING DOWN TO STAY HEALTHY. Driving your feet is great for those of us who still enjoy hard nosed football but look at what it did for MBIII.
And if you really think a rookie WR has a better chance of replacing Miles or Dez and actually playing effectively in Jason Garret's offense then I think you haven't been paying attention. Route combinations between the x and y WR's and the TE are the calling cards of every passing play and it takes time to learn the signifigance of running the right route.
All in all another great post from @romo2witten. Keep up the good work!


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Mumps Laboratory Specimen Submissions
Indiana Epidemiology Newsletter
March 2007
Karee Buffin, M.S.
Vaccine Preventable Disease Epidemiologist
There have been no reported laboratory-confirmed mumps cases in Indiana for 2007. The ISDH receives very few reports that meet the clinical case definition:
"an illness with acute onset of unilateral or bilateral tender, self-limited swelling of the parotid or other salivary gland, lasting for two or more days, and without other apparent cause."
We receive many specimens that cannot be tested. Health care providers submitting buccal swab specimens for mumps PCR testing to the ISDH Laboratories should be aware of several common problems with collection and transport that may render specimens unsatisfactory for testing:
Buccal swabs must be placed in viral transport medium following collection.
Buccal swabs should be collected within 9 days of symptoms onset.
Buccal swabs arriving to the Laboratories warm cannot be tested.
Remember to send or ship specimens as soon as possible. Avoid shipping over weekends or on holidays. In these instances, maintain specimen(s) under refrigeration until the following Monday, then ship with cold packs.
Following these procedures will decrease time and effort required for testing.
Click here for a complete guide for mumps laboratory specimen collection including serologic testing.


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Stickysights needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 82 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Already purchased domain name -- Stickysight
Starting up t-shirt/ vinyl decals/ sticker company
Content of site is creative decals from Hawaiian, hang loose, hippy college shirts (example - a female's shirt with a stethascope and words below it that say "lets play doctor"), Humor, Japanese anime and so on. Looking for a clever shirt design to launch the company at a tradeshow where I will be passing these shirts out.
Start up company as a hobbie, but looking to put my energy into developing this as a career.
- Something modern looking and clever. I'm blank in terms of what I want.
- no rainbows, no pink


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Friday, September 3, 2010
The Impact of Euphoria and Wasted Power
With that the questions we ask start to change. No longer are we ask what new spells/talents/buffs am I getting? Now we have to ask ourselves how do I use this stuff that Blizzard gave me?
There are a lot of unanswered questions out there. We have no way of answering most of them at the moment, but a few things are becoming clear. To me it is very clear that Eclipse will remain the primary driver of moonkin DPS, and one of the best ways to maximize moonkin DPS is to maximize the uptime of Eclipse. This brings me to a very common question I see asked about moonkin in Cataclysm. What is the impact of Euphoria?
A Quick Note on Damage Theorycrafting:
I don't know how other theorycrafters feel, but I feel like I'm learning a new language when I try and crunch the numbers from Cataclysm. Not only are we dealing with new mechanics like the new Eclipse, but all the inputs are changing as well. Spell Power is gone. Crit and haste are likely to be dramatically reduced from what we see today. Plus, we have to figure out how to include mastery into the equation.
Since I am not in the Beta I have found it very difficult to find any hard data on how these things will work, the starting values of spells, or what I think we can expect when it all goes live. So it's very hard to answer a question like "what is the highest DPS rotation?"
In this analysis I try not to get to heavy into the damage calculations, because they are definitely incorrect. Instead I try to use something reasonable based upon the data available from the beta, and what we have historically seen from Blizzard.
The Impact of Euphoria:
This is probably the most common question I see. If you don't remember, when you have Euphoria your Wrath and Starfire critical strikes will generate a little extra Solar or Lunar power. At first this sounded great. It added a little randomness to the rotation, and it always helped you by reducing the time it took to proc Eclipse without reducing the uptime of Eclipse.
That changed when Eclipse was changed to a 45 second buff that was lost as soon as you reduced your Solar or Lunar power to zero. Now, Euphoria not only reduces the down time of Eclipse but it also reduces Eclipse's uptime. As you can imagine this raises a lot of questions, and it is hard to tell of Euphoria is good, bad or neutral just by looking at it.
To try answer this question I created a new rotation simulator using excel. As I said above the damage calculations used are not very good, but I was trying to get a good handle on how Euphoria affected the uptime of Eclipse. The model simulates a 500 cast rotation and I ran a thousand trials of the simulation.
When I ran the simulation with Euphoria, Eclipse had an average uptime of 55.38% with a standard deviation of 1.18% in a thousand trials. When I ran the simulation without Euphoria, Eclipse had an average up time of just 54.68%with a standard deviation of 0.93% over another thousand trials. I'm not sure what the statistical significance of these results are, but I ran the simulations several times and got similar results each time.
I am confident in saying that Euphoria is neither a good thing or a bad thing. It is completely neutral. Truthfully this doesn't surprise me much. The theory is that the negative impact of a crit during Eclipse is balanced out by the positive impact of crits while Eclipse is down.
The Impact of Wasted Power:
What did surprise me about the Euphoria analysis was that Eclipse's uptime was lower then I expected. I thought it would be higher because of what is being called "Smart" Eclipse.
When someone talks about "Smart" Eclipse they are talking about the way that Starsurge generates Solar or Lunar Power but always in a positive way. When you cast Starsurge your Lunar or Solar power always increases whether the Eclipse buff is up or not. Therefore, the power generated by Starsurge is always positive, because it either extends your Eclipse uptime or reduces your Eclipse down time. This should result in an Eclipse uptime greater the 50%.
The question then becomes, what is pulling the uptime of Eclipse down? I think the answer is Wasted Power.
Lets say you want to proc Solar Eclipse, and after a few casts you end up with 94 Solar Power. Obviously your next Starsurge or Starfire cast will put you over the edge and you will proc Solar Eclipse. However, when you proc an Eclipse, your power level is capped at 100. So by casting Starfire when you already have 94 Solar Power, you are losing 14 or 22 due to the power cap. This effectively lengthens you downtime when you are trying to proc Eclipse.
I tested my theory using the model I created. I modified it so that the Powers were not capped at 100, but would Eclipse would proc at 100. I did a thousand trials of a 500 cast rotation. The average Eclipse uptime when the Powers are not capped was 58.48% and had a standard deviation of 1.12%. This seems to confirm my theory given that it is a sizable increase in Eclipse uptime over the 55.38% I got with the caps.
To be clear, I'm not saying this is good or bad. I just didn't expect it. So, don't go grab your pitch forks and torches just yet if this angers you. As moonkin we do and should try to maximize Eclipse uptime to maximize DPS. However, as long as Blizzard recognizes the impact of Wasted Power and balances us around the lower level of Eclipse uptime, then we should still be competitive when compared to other DPS classes.
Euphoria is in a weird position in that it both reduces the time to proc Eclipse and reduces the time that Eclipse is available. The question was if the impact was positive, negative, or neutral. After creating a model to test it, I think the impact is neutral. So, in the end Euphoria only serves to randomize the moonkin rotation a little and to provide mana.
However, during the analysis I noticed another interesting occurrence. When you proc Eclipse you lose some amount of Solar or Lunar power unless you hit 100 power exactly. As a result this reduces Eclipse uptime, and could reduce moonkin DPS if Blizzard doesn't compensate for the us for the loss somewhere else.
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How did you treat the cast the causes Eclipse to end. If you are in Lunar Eclipse, at -6 Energy, your next SF should
1) benefit from Eclipse
2) put you at a positive energy level.
If getting from -100 to a positive number takes 'n' casts, getting from there to +100 should take either 'n', or 'n-1', on average.
- September 3, 2010 at 5:30 PM
- Graylo said...
It does now. I've updated the numbers, but that didn't change any of my conclusions. Not that they were all that earth shattering to begin with.
Thanks for the help.
- September 3, 2010 at 7:26 PM
one thing that's probably a bug that's happening to me every now and then on the beta....sometimes i'll hit 100 on the lunar side exactly and it doesn't proc eclipse, and i'll have to cast one more wrath to get it to proc, kind of annoying....might be a bug tied to euphoria in some way, not sure...
- September 3, 2010 at 10:20 PM
What I find very interesting is that Eclipse ends up having a lower up-time then the current build on live. Hopefully this will be balance around, but also makes me wary of another possible "bursty" dps style. It is already bad enough hoping that I get lunar eclipse while BL and haste pots and trinkets all align.
- September 4, 2010 at 1:45 PM
not to double post, but just for example our BQL fight last week I had solar and lunar at both around 38% uptime, that means we are going from a ~75% uptime down to a 55% uptime.
- September 4, 2010 at 1:48 PM
If Euphoria stays as it is I'm gona skip it. I'd rather spend the two talents elsewhere (ie. mana or other situational talents). Here's what I'd do probably with a bit of changes depending on mana issues:
- September 7, 2010 at 2:45 AM
The obvious answer to me is to have the Euphoria talent also increase maximum solar and lunar energy by 10 for the first point and an additional 10 for the second. Perhaps you would weight the solar and lunar values differently but for simplicity sake making the range -120 to 120 makes sense to me.
- September 10, 2010 at 9:01 AM


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Rhode Island – Junior Achievement of Rhode Island, which provides workforce readiness, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy programs, recently received a $5,000 grant from the Citizens Bank Foundation to support its JA Personal Finance program for Rhode Island high school students.
"This grant will help JA to continue to provide youth in Rhode Island with the financial literacy skills they need to survive, thrive and contribute to our state's economy," said Lee Lewis, president of Junior Achievement of Rhode Island. "As one of the state's predominant financial services organizations, we are pleased to have the support of Citizens Bank."
Students participating in JA Personal Finance recognize the fundamental elements of their personal finances: earnings, saving and investing, budgeting, credit, risk management, and giving. They apply these fundamental elements to a personal financial plan that allows them to set specific goals for their lifelong financial needs and desired quality of life.
"Citizens Bank values our continued partnership with Junior Achievement," said Ned Handy, President, Citizens Bank, Rhode Island. "We recognize the importance of teaching money management from a young age to foster sound financial decisions throughout adulthood."
About Junior Achievement Rhode Island (JA)
Junior Achievement is the state's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skills they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and economic choices. JA programs are delivered by corporate and community volunteers, and provide relevant, hands-on, experiences that give students from kindergarten through high school knowledge and skills in financial literacy, work readiness and entrepreneurship. Today, JA reaches more than 7 percent of the Rhode Island student population per year in more than 26 communities across Rhode Island. Visit http://jarhodeisland.org for more information or connect with us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/juniorachievementri.
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Citizens Bank Foundation is a subsidiary of the Citizens Charitable Foundation, which is a charitable contributions vehicle of RBS Citizens Financial Group, Inc., RBS Citizens, N.A. and Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania. The foundation's support is focused on human services, affordable housing and economic development. RBSCFG's website is citizensbank.com.


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Here it is!
My first update of "Rob, The Dog", ready for download, guys.
The link (DropBox) can be found in the first post of this thread. I also updated the current pics there and posted some new ones.
So, what's new here:
-Game Pack #2, which means, 3 new levels for play:
The forest level called "Sly, The Useless". It's somehow an easy level, with some new enemies such as some crazy birds in it.
The cave level called "Teleportation, Dude!". A tough and huge level with new and fun challenges, and yes, you guys got it right, with the teleportation element in it!
Finally, the Bonus Level. To relax and have some more fun but under a countdown so, you must think and act fast if you want to catch all the stars before time runs out.
In some of these levels above, you will find vertical moving platforms. Congrats to Jubeliuksen3 who helped me a lot so i could get a smooth working movement with plats and "Player".
-Life system implemented in all the levels:
3 hearts, 3 lifes. But carefull: most of the enemies can take one life only, but others can kill you instantly (example, falling into the lava). Thank you ddabrahim for this suggestion!
-Skip intro option implemented.
Thank you Wendigo for this suggestion.
-Some other minor updates and rectifications in all the previous game levels in order to improve game performance.
Hope you guys may enjoy!
I will be busy these next couple weeks but after that, i intend to start working on Game Pack #3 and continue to implement some new stuff into the game, like a level map!
Im also thinking about making Rob available in itch and/or similar sites, for more visibility and feedback purposes.
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junkmycar needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 10 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
Junk my Car
We are a nationwide car buying & recycling service in the USA and Canada. Our company is technology driven, innovative, modern, fun, and fast-paced. Our top priority is exceptional customer service.
Our target audience for this project is our employees that work in our dispatch department.
Attached are three other award examples we have had designed for us in the past. We would like a polished look but for the designer to be creative. The final version needs to be copyright free unless you purchase the art.
This is an employee appreciation award.
Definition of Dynamic - pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action; vigorously active or forceful; energetic: the dynamic president of the firm.
Dispatchers - At our company a dispatcher is in charge of making sure our towing companies pick up our customers vehicles quickly and efficiently.
For design ideas I was thinking to possibly include lightning to describe being "dynamic" but any creative licence on your part is welcomed.
What is needed:
Award Name: Dynamic Dispatcher Award
Awarded to "Name"
Month and Year
Junk my Car Logo (provided as vector)
Area for employee picture
This award should be compatible to be printed on paper (8.5" x 11") as well as used digitally. We need a PSD of the final product so we can make changes month to month.


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This question already has an answer here:
As you might know, ECMAscript tries to be smart and will automatically insert semicolons if you didn't write those explicitly. Simple example
function foo() {
var bar = 5
return bar
will still work as expected. But there are some caveats if you rely on that. If we re-write that function like so
function foo() {
var bar = 5
bar: bar
..that function would now return
undefined because the interpreter would insert that semicolon right after the
return statement (that's a reason why you always should bring curly brackets on the same line as a statement).
However, knowing all this I'm wondering now how safe a
return statement like the following is, across browsers and versions
function foo() {
var a = true,
b = true,
c = false;
return a
&& b
&& c;
I just wrote a similar
return statement in a production environment. Just because I knew about the "problems" with ECMAscript beeing not-so-smart about semicolon insertion I'm wondering now, if that code works 100%. In my first tests on FF/Chrome/IE (latest versions) this seems to be totally fine, but is it really?
Does the automatic semicolon insertion "wake-up" if there is anything else but the
return statement in that line? Can anyone provide implementation-level detail about this?


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*Above All Is Humanity - Love*
DO NOT FOLLOW ME PLEASE! My StockTwits is not an investing advice.Ignore the noises and the critics, marching toward the end goals.Emotion has no place in this game!Bearish doesn't mean SHORT&no shares. Personal attack is unacceptable&will be blocked
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Fresh Cabbage and Tomato Salad
1 small head cabbage, sliced thinly
2 medium tomatoes, cut in cubes
1 cup sliced radishes
¼ teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons olive oil
2 tablespoons rice vinegar (or lemon juice)
½ teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon red pepper
2 tablespoons fresh
, chopped
In a large bowl, mix together the cabbage, tomatoes, and radishes.
In another bowl, mix together the rest of the ingredients and pour over the vegetables.
Flavors of Fiesta
by University of Illinois Extension
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Hi, here is the Diablo 3 Decrypt/Encrypt Tool with the awful scary Cipher... lol
Tool coded by Vulnavia
PPC Codeanalysis by Vulnavia
Reverse Engineering by Vulnavia
Do not post this Tool on any other website without my permission!
Code:How to use it: 1. Extract the File(s) you need from your gamesave 2. Load the File(s) into the Tool 3. Decrypt the File(s) (its saved automatically) 4. Mod what you need to 5. Encrypt the File(s) (its saved automatically) 6. Replace the File(s) back into your gamesave 7. Rehash/Resign
Do not post this Tool on any other website without my permission!
Code:The Tool is selfexplaining else additional Information is provided in the Readme.txt and also there is a Docs Folder with some Information about the Cryptanalysis if someone wants to know... If it doesn't load your Files at all please send me your Saves so that i can adjust or completely remove the Bytecheck if needed, its based on only a small amount of Savecomparison, so it could easly be wrong...Code:Changes: v1.0.1: - Removed Sizecheck for Profile.dat - Added a supposed 1 Byte Check like for the others v1.0.2: - Corrected small but bad mistake, the last byte was never de/encrypted! (i really apologize for it... lol!)
D3Decrypt v1.0.2: D3Decrypt.zip
And here is also the D3 Value Converter i coded just for Fun!
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Observance Committee is sending out a heartfelt thank you to all of Bluffton for your participation in the banquet, memorial service and the parade/march Jan. 19 and 21.
We thank you for helping to promote Dr. King's dream of building diverse and broad coalitions, tearing down obstacles to civil rights and making our communities better places to live and work.
We especially thank the participants of the Bluffton High School color guard, drill team and cheerleaders; M. C. Riley Elementary School's student government; the Red Cedar Elementary drum and dance team; and the Boys and Girls club, their advisers and parents.
All of the churches and civic groups are given sincere kudos for their participation, to include but not limited to Bible Baptist, Campbell Chapel AME, First Zion Baptist, Lowcountry Community Church and St. Gregory the Great, Bluffton Self Help, the League of Women Voters, the Democratic Club of Beaufort County South of the Broad, John Green and the Westin, and the Sun City Democratic Club.
We are grateful for each and every participant for their part in making this year's celebration a meaningful tribute to Dr. King's legacy. To the residents of Hilton Head Island, Ridgeland and Hardeeville, we are grateful to you also for your selflessness in coming to Bluffton for the celebration.
We appreciate all contributions and support from our patrons/sponsors, Piggly Wiggly, Resort Services and everyone who contributed to the success of this celebration.
Wishing everyone love, peace and many blessings.
President, MLK Observance


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My neighbor's little boy is turning five in a couple weeks and since he's been a dinosaur lover from day one his mom wanted me to get him a soft play dinosaur for his birthday. After spending a little time with him one afternoon I noticed he seems to fascinated with stegosauruses and decided to go that route for his birthday present. So off to the Store for Knowledge website I went in search of a soft play stegosaurus dinosaur. After browsing their soft play dinosaur's collection, I found two I really like. The first is the large soft foam stegosaurus dinosaur toy by Toysmith and the second is the Bullyland soft play stegosaurus dinosaur toy. There was definitely a price difference with the Toysmith version set at $10.95 and the Bullyland version at $21.95 but instead of letting that
be the deciding factor I did a little more research. Though both dinosaurs are safe for ages 3 and up, Toysmith's stegosaurus is smaller than Bullyland's by a couple of inches in length and height. Toysmith's dino is made of high quality durable foam that sounds as if it would hold up well against a pretty rowdy crowd but it lacks that real life appearance I'd like it to have. The Bullyland stegosaurus is actually hand made using a soft and squishy foam with bendable legs that I'm not sure would endure the rowdy every day play of a five year old boy. However, the Bullyland version does truly look like a real life stegosaurus! Both soft play dinosaurs are great options and for what you get, I think they are both very reasonably priced. For a child who was loving and caring toward their toys, the Bullyland soft play stegosaurus dinosaur toy is definitely the way to go, but for the rough and rowdy five year old, I think I'm going to have to go with the large soft foam stegosaurus dinosaur by Toysmith.