What's annoyed you more. The nerf or bad business ethics ...

I?m curious to know, but what are people more annoyed about?

Whenever there?s a nerf, people will always be complaining. It?s only natural. Everytime something changes there is always a number of people unhappy and wanting everything to go back to the way it was. It happens when the Youtube or Facebook layout changes. And even everywhere else. To be honest, I don?t have any problems with these changes. It?s good that they?re focusing on making each ship class more balanced and even if it doesn?t fit now, at least that?s their goal in mind and they?re heading towards that. I don?t know how the escort class got hit, but it?s happened to the strikes before and its happened to lines when their accuracy got reduced. These aren?t major severe changes that have made the ship useless. I guess it just means you?ll have to adapt. Maybe it?ll be more difficult and maybe there are some tweaks needed here or there, but nothing is perfect at the end of the day.

However, regarding the RCS ducts, mainly for lines. For a very long time now everyone?s been using them and upgrading it to +lvl10s. Firstly, line equipment is incredibly expensive compared to the other two classes. And secondly, flying a line with avoidance was needed. Otherwise you?d simply absorb every hit without putting a dent on the other line with avoidance. You were pretty much a flying potato. Now after this update, they?ve rendered them useless. I?m sure 95% of the people, if not all, would have invested into something else if the avoidance was originally like this. But they haven?t even cared about all the time, money/griding and effort put into upgrading this equipment? The least they could do is give some sort of compensation on this. Doesn?t have to be full. Even just partial. This isn?t a simple nerf, it?s a huge change.

And to add to that, quite simply, why did they have a happy hour upgrade sale on engine parts right BEFORE the update was applied? Why not have it AFTER the changes? Why not give any warning that the equip you?re upgrading now is going to be very different tomorrow? Nothing. It?s simply obvious that they only cared about getting as much money as they can. It?s all just bad business ethics.

So despite all this unpleasant nerfing, it?s the bad business ethics that?s getting to most people, especially line pilots. And I?m damm sure that if they reduced the strike avoidance to exactly how they did it with the lines, you?ll be in the same position complaining that all that time, grinding/money and effort has just gone to a complete waste, and annoyed that they?ve not even given any sort of compensation.

But I could be wrong. Is it the nerf or their bad business ethics? And why?

And I?m not making a direct comparison with strike avoidance to line avoidance. But the idea that you invest so much time or money into something, and it?s just taken away from you without any care for that time or money put in.

And I?m also not saying they shouldn?t have reduced value of the RCS ducts. God-mode lines needed to be fixed and changing the values has done this. But they should have given some compensation for this change.

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Low Taxes Make Florida a Magnet for Migrating Wealth

TALLAHASSEE ? It?s been said that people vote with their feet. But they often vote with their money too, and that?s certainly been good for Florida.

A new study by Travis H. Brown called How Money Walks explores how people and money migrate from one state to another. And although the exact causes are difficult to nail down, one thing is clear: Americans are moving from high-tax and heavily regulated states to low-tax states with less regulation.

That?s according to the data Brown gathered from the Internal Revenue Service Division of Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Since 1992, no other state has benefited more from wealth migration than Florida.

Source: http://reason.com/24-7/2013/07/24/low-taxes-make-florida-a-magnet-for-migr

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NFL notes: Texans sign Hopkins; Bengals release Wharton

The Houston Texans signed first-round pick DeAndre Hopkins on Monday, giving them seven of nine 2013 draft picks now under contract.

David J. Phillip/AP file

Published: Monday, July 22, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.

Last Modified: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 at 12:09 a.m.

HOUSTON ? The Houston Texans signed first-round pick receiver DeAndre Hopkins on Monday, giving them seven of nine 2013 draft picks now under contract.

Hopkins, who left Clemson after his junior season, is a deep threat who could be the complement for star receiver Andre Johnson that the Texans long have sought.

He caught 82 passes and set school records with 1,405 yards receiving and 18 touchdown receptions last year. His 24 catches of 20 yards or more last season were the most in the ACC and he averaged 17.1 yards a catch in 2012.

For his career at Clemson, Hopkins had 206 receptions for 3,020 yards and 27 touchdowns, becoming the sixth player in ACC history with more than 3,000 yards receiving and the only player in conference history to gain that many yards in just three seasons.

Hopkins, taken 27th overall, is just the second receiver Houston has drafted in the first round and the first since Johnson was chosen third overall in 2003.

The Texans are looking for Hopkins to contribute early after they released veteran receiver Kevin Walter, who started the majority of games opposite Johnson for the past six seasons. He'll compete for the starting job with second-year receiver Keshawn Martin. DeVier Posey could also be in the mix after contributing on offense as a rookie last season. But he tore his Achilles tendon in Houston's playoff loss and is likely to miss time early in the season.

Hopkins was a two-sport star in high school, leading his team to a state championship as a senior. He also played for the Clemson basketball team as a freshman in 2010.

Second-round pick D.J. Swearinger, USC safety, and offensive tackle Brennan Williams, taken in the third round, are Houston's picks who have yet to sign.

Also on Monday, the Texans released nose tackle Ra'Shon Harris, placed safety Orhian Johnson and linebacker Sam Montgomery on the active/non-football injury list, and placed defensive end Earl Okine on the physically unable to perform list.

USC product Wharton released

The Bengals have released guard Travelle Wharton (South Carolina), who tore up his right knee during the first preseason game last year and missed the season.

Wharton signed with the Bengals after spending eight seasons at Carolina, where he started 99 games at guard and tackle. The Bengals installed him as their starting left guard, but he hurt his knee on the third play of the preseason opener against the Jets and needed surgery.

Clint Boling, a fourth-round draft pick in 2011, took over for Wharton and started every game at left guard, including a playoff loss at Houston. The Bengals' running game ranked 18th last season.

The Bengals have kept their offensive line intact, trying to reach the playoffs for a third straight season, unprecedented in franchise history.

Source: http://www.goupstate.com/article/20130722/wire/130729910

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Ohio police to resume search after finding 3 bodies; 'pray to God' no more found, mayor says

EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio ? ?The East Cleveland mayor says police will continue a search Sunday for possibly more victims after three bodies, believed to be female, were found wrapped in plastic bags about 150 yards apart.

Mayor Gary Norton said a 35-year-old suspect has not yet been charged. He said the man is a registered sex offender and led authorities who questioned him to believe he might have been fascinated with convicted killer Anthony Sowell.

Sowell was convicted in 2011 of killing 11 women and hiding their remains around his Cleveland home. He is in prison on a death sentence.

Police say a body was found Friday in a garage and two other bodies were found Saturday ? one in a backyard and the other in the basement of a vacant house.

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Sunny Muirfield showing plenty of bite at the Open - News | FOX Sports on MSN

Another sunny day along the Scottish coast. Another perilous test on the links of Muirfield.

Zach Johnson headed into the second round of the British Open with a one-shot lead Friday, the first time he's been atop the leaderboard at any major since he rallied to win the Masters six years ago.

The weather has been unseasonably warm and dry, the fearsome wind not much more than a gentle breeze, and it was expected to stay that way through the weekend. Even so, there weren't many chances for going low, not on a course that is more brown than green, with pin conditions that some players complained were downright unfair.

Even though he opened with a 2-under 69, Phil Mickelson was concerned about some hole locations being too close to the edge of slopes. He pleaded with the Royal & Ancient to let go of its ego and ''just set the course up the way the best players can win.''

Mark O'Meara, the 1998 Open champion, said he's played in much tougher conditions, perhaps emboldened by a 67 that left him just one stroke behind Johnson. But the course bit back on Friday, sending the 56-year-old tumbling off the leaderboard. A bogey at the third, a lost ball at No. 6 that led to double-bogey, another bogey at the eighth.

Just like that, O'Meara was back to even par.

Others were faring better. Darren Clarke, the surprise winner at Royal St. George's two years ago, made three straight birdies in the early going to get to 2 under. This was another potential shocker, considering Clarke has only one top-10 finish since capturing the claret jug and has plummeted to No. 437 in the world rankings.

Johnson had an afternoon tee time after starting with a 66, taking advantage of kinder conditions Thursday morning. He was helped along by a 45-foot eagle putt and made only one bogey, despite trouble lurking around every pot bunker.

''Anytime you shoot under par in an Open - or a major, for that matter - you have to be putting at least somewhat decent,'' Johnson said. ''And I putted great. I made some nice birdie putts and obviously that one for eagle. But I struck some really nice, solid par putts. That's what you've got to do to stay in it.''

Tiger Woods more than survived the late end of the draw in the opening round, after the sun had thoroughly baked out the crispy greens and allowed only eight of the 20 rounds under par. He knocked one putt clear off the green, but 10 one-putts - most of them for pars - carried him to a 69, a good start in his bid to end his five-year drought in the majors.

''The golf course progressively got more dried out and more difficult as we played,'' Woods said. ''I'm very pleased to shoot anything even par or better.''

He hoped to have an easier time of it on Friday, when going out in the morning should provide more chances for scoring.

It was an eclectic group setting the early pace, from major champions to players making their British Open debut. What they all had in common was finding a way to get through a firm, fast and frightening setup that figures to get even harder if the R&A doesn't put some water on the course.

''I haven't seen anything like this,'' said Brandt Snedeker, among those who opened with a 68. ''I've played in, I think, five Opens. This is completely new to me - foreign to see a 2-iron going 300 yards. You have got to be wary of how you're shaping your golf ball, and what shot selections you're using on the greens.''

Just last weekend, Johnson lost in a playoff at the John Deere Classic after making bogey on the final hole of regulation. Nineteen-year-old Jordan Spieth captured the title, becoming the youngest PGA Tour winner since 1931 and earning a trip across the Atlantic.

The youngster was sure taking advantage of it. He made only one bogey Thursday on the way to a 69, and kept up his steady play with seven straight pars to start the second round.

Then there's Rory McIlroy, who looks as though he'll get the weekend off. He struggled to a 79 in the opening round, his highest score at the Open since that 80 in the vicious wind of St. Andrews in 2010.

At least he had some company.

Luke Donald, another former No. 1 player in the world, shot 80. Nick Faldo celebrated his 56th birthday with a 79 on the links where he won two of his three claret jugs.

Ninety-eight players in the 156-man field had at least a double-bogey on their scorecards after Day 1. Former U.S. Open champion Lucas Glover might have summed it up best when he took to Twitter after opening with an 80.

''Muirfield 1, Me 0.''

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Source: http://msn.foxsports.com/topics/device/mobile/t/78127640/sunny-muirfield-showing-plenty-of-bite-at-the-open-news-fox-sports-on-msn.htm

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Confused about estrogen therapy? ? The Chart - CNN.com Blogs

Hormone replacement therapy has been a controversial issue for a lot of women over the last decade. Many have rejected any type of hormone therapy since a large, federally funded study found hormone replacement therapy could increase a woman?s risks for heart disease and strokes.

Now, a new study out of Yale School of Medicine suggests anywhere from 18,000 to 91,000 women in their 50s who had hysterectomies may have died prematurely in the last decade because they did not take estrogen-only hormone replacement therapy.

A bit of background

Before 2002, it was standard practice for gynecologists to recommend estrogen therapy to women with hysterectomies. More than 90% of those patients used it to treat symptoms such as hot flashes and to prevent osteoporosis and other diseases related to menopausal hormone deficiency. But according to the Yale study, only about 10% of these women use estrogen therapy today.

The data analyzed for this study comes from the large Women?s Health Initiative trial. That study was designed to confirm the hypotheses that hormone replacement therapy not only provides relief for menopause symptoms, but also helps protect women from heart disease, osteoporosis and dementia. The WHI first looked at the benefit of taking two hormones - estrogen and progestin, and then examined the benefits of taking estrogen alone.

The first part of the study was stopped in 2002, when early results suggested the combined estrogen-progestin therapy was actually increasing the risk of heart disease, stroke, breast cancer and dementia. Researchers saw a sharp decline in overall hormone use afterward as women heeded their doctors' warnings and stopped taking all post-menopausal hormones, whether they had had a hysterectomy or not.

In 2005 and 2012, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended against using the combined therapy or estrogen alone to prevent chronic conditions in postmenopausal women, which may have deterred more women from asking their doctors about these therapies - or stopped doctors from offering it in the first place.

The study

In this new study, published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health, researchers looked at data from the second portion of the WHI trial, which looked at estrogen-only therapy.

According to the Yale researchers, the increased risks discovered in the first part of the WHI study only applied to women who had not had a hysterectomy and were taking pills that combined estrogen and progestin. They say the dangers did not apply to women without a uterus who used estrogen-only therapy - but few understood the difference.

"Sadly, the media, women, and health care providers did not appreciate the difference between the two kinds of hormone therapy," said Dr. Philip Sarrel, lead author of the study and emeritus professor in the departments of obstetrics, gynecology & reproductive sciences and psychiatry, at Yale. "As a result, the use of all forms of FDA-approved menopausal hormone therapy declined precipitously."

The study noted that results from the second part of the WHI study were very different.

A series of papers published by the WHI between 2004 and 2012 showed that estrogen-only therapy had mostly positive health outcomes; they said women who received estrogen, compared to those who received a placebo, had fewer deaths each year for 10 years and were less likely to develop breast cancer and heart disease.

Each year, the death rate among those not taking estrogen was 13 more per 10,000 women. Most of those deaths were due to heart disease. This doesn't need to happen, the study authors say.

The takeaway

"Women need to know that estrogen replacement is an important part of therapy, especially for women who are in their 50s and have had a hysterectomy and their ovaries removed," says Dr. Holly Thacker, director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Specialized Women?s Health.

She says it?s time for women who have had hysterectomies to "stop being fearful of estrogen.? She points to other recent studies that show starting estrogen therapy shortly after menopause is key to reaping the benefits of the drugs.

Because each woman's health issues are different, experts recommend that women talk to their physicians about estrogen and other hormone replacement therapy before they make a decision on whether to take it.

"Estrogen avoidance has resulted in a real cost in women's lives every year for the last 10 years ? and the deaths continue," said Sarrel. "We hope this article will stir an overdue debate and raise consciousness about the health benefits of estrogen-only therapy for women in their 50s with no uterus."

Source: http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/19/confused-about-estrogen-therapy/

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Baby helps Aurora shooting victim heal

Caleb Medley was shot in the head in the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting and was in a coma when his son was born four days later. Caleb's wife Katie believes their son, Hugo, has helped her husband heal. John Blackstone reports.

Source: http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsVideo/~3/Wrr8zTGbrBA/

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