<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Mark Doukakis wrote:</DIV><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px; font-family: Lucida Grande; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Grande; ">Unless I’ve been misinformed Gemstone is raising rates again to $8 starting with US issue #367!<BR></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This is true, though to be ultra-strictly accurate the price will be $7.95. </DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT face="Lucida Grande, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px; font-family: Lucida Grande; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Grande; ">Alas, apparently they are closely linked to the petroleum market…</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Well, to be really closely linked would be to see the cover price rise on a weekly and sometimes daily basis...and go down, too, though not nearly as readily.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gary</DIV></BODY></HTML>