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The Orosz-Herkowitz Study
A simple memorandum, in three different versions, provides much of what we know about the 1792 half dismes, and yet, it has also been the source of much confusion. The first copy of this memo was discovered by Edward Haden early in 1943 and was brought to the attention of the numismatic world a few weeks later. Shortly after this announcement, Philadelphia numismatist Charles McSorley, Jr., incorrectly identified the author as Jonas R. McClintock. A second and slightly altered copy of the same memo came into the possession of Walter Breen in the early 1960s, and a third copy was acquired by Carl Herkowitz in 1995. It was this third copy of the memo, also slightly revised, that allowed a positive identification of the author, John A. McAllister, Jr. The earlier attribution of this memo to Jonas McClintock has been continually repeated over the last 60 years, and even today, the misattribution still appears in print.
Herkowitz and coauthor Joel J. Orosz prepared a detailed article around this document, solved its authorship, and answered questions about the history of this famous coinage issue. Their article, "George Washington and America's 'Small Beginning' in Coinage: The Fabled 1792 Half Dismes," appeared in the 2003 edition of American Journal of Numismatics, second series, published by the American Numismatic Society in 2004.
The text of the final version of the McAllister memo reads:
"Description of Half Dismes coined in 1792"
"On one side = a Head = 1792 = Lib. Par. of Science and Industry --
"On the other side = an Eagle Flying = Half Disme = United States of America --
"In conversation with Mr. Adam Eckfeldt (Apr. 9, 1844) at the Mint, he informed me that the Half Dismes above described, were struck, expressly for Gen. Washington, to the extent of One Hundred Dollars, which sum he deposited in Bullion or Coin, for the purpose. Mr. E. thinks that Gen. W. distributed them as presents. Some were sent to Europe, but the greater number, he believes, were given to friends of Gen. W. in Virginia. No more of them were ever coined. They were never designed as Currency. The Mint was not, at the time, fully ready for being put into operation. The Coining Machinery was in the cellar of Mr. Harper, saw maker, at the corner of Cherry and 6th Sts, at which place these pieces were struck."
The study by Orosz and Herkowitz provides an in-depth examination of this memorandum, and also looks at much of the history of this issue. In the past, many false and unsubstantiated claims have appeared in print about this coinage issue. Among such claims is one that suggests Martha Washington posed as "Miss Liberty" for the engraver. Another claim that remains unsupported is that the Washingtons provided their family table service for the coinage. Both of these claims date back to 1860, when James Ross Snowden wrote: "The bust of Liberty is popularly supposed to represent the features of Martha Washington who is said to have sat for the artist while he was designing it ... This piece is said to have been struck from the private plate of Washington, which is not unlikely, considering the great interest which he took in the operations of the infant mint, visiting it frequently, and personally superintending many of its affairs." Today, the numismatic world is indebted to the efforts of Orosz and Herkowitz for correcting many past claims.
New Information
Unfortunately, these authors allowed a new and unsubstantiated claim to be introduced. While an entry in Thomas Jefferson's "household account book" dated July 13, 1792, has been known for many years, a related entry dated July 11, 1792 was first published in the Orosz-Herkowitz study. The two entries read:
July 11, 1792: "Delivd. 75 D. at the Mint to be coined."
July 13, 1792: "Recd. From the Mint 1500 half dimes of the new coinage."
These two statements clearly indicated that the coins were struck on July 12 or July 13, 1792, probably the latter day. While the combination of these statements positively identify when the coins were struck, they also leave us with another question. How was it possible for the Mint to receive $75 in bullion and provide finished coins two days later? The authors quoted a comment by Eric Newman, asking this very question: "it would have been literally impossible for the new Mint to have received $75 in bullion or coin on 11 July and melt it, refine it, roll it into strips, wash the strips, anneal them, punch out the planchets once more, run all of the planchets through the Castaing machine to reed their edges, and then strike the coins, all in time to deliver 1,500 half dismes to Jefferson on 13 July."
The authors spent considerable space to answer this question with "logical explanations" developed by Newman. While logical explanations are fine and dandy, they can eventually become "numismatic facts" for a future generation to resolve. Newman suggested that the Mint had prepared the silver for striking at an earlier date, then placed it in the care of Jefferson (who was head of the Department of State, then in charge of the Mint) until the presses were ready. Once that took place, Jefferson delivered 1,500 finished planchets to the Mint, ready to be coined. Two days later, Jefferson took delivery of the new half dismes and personally delivered them to Washington, who was then at Mount Vernon. At the end of their article, Orosz and Herkowitz included Eric Newman's logical explanation in their conclusions, as if to suggest that this is now a known fact.
Historical Perspectives
It is generally accepted that the 1792 half dismes were not struck within the physical confines of the new Mint, but rather, in John Harper's cellar. While some have more recently translated "cellar" to "basement," the term cellar could mean any separate structure, although usually referred to a room or enclosed place under a building. It is also generally accepted that George Washington did, in fact, provide the silver for these pieces, as related by Adam Eckfeldt, although a few researchers still dispute this. The mintage is variously estimated at 1,500 to 2,000 coins, based on documentary evidence left by Thomas Jefferson, who stated that he received $75 value, or Adam Eckfeldt, who stated that Washington provided $100 in silver for these coins.
While Adam Eckfeldt claimed that these pieces were never designed as currency, George Washington suggested otherwise in his November 6, 1792 National address. The President stated:
"In execution of authority given by the legislature, measures have been taken for engaging some artists from abroad to aid in the establishment of our Mint. Others have been employed at home. Provisions have been made for the requisite buildings, and these are now putting into proper condition for the purposes of the establishment. There has been a small beginning in the coinage of half dimes, the want of small coins in circulation calling the first attention to them."
The entirety of this final sentence clearly tells us that these coins were intended for circulation, especially the second part of this sentence.
The Starr Specimen
This is only Specimen certified by PCGS. It is tied numerically with an MS67 PCGS example and only exceeded by an MS68 NGC (12/12). A roster of more than two dozen high- quality pieces, below, shows the position of the Starr coin as the only Specimen strike, and the probable finest known. It is a spectacular, fully struck coin. All of Liberty's hair details are fully defined, and the eagle's plumage is equally well brought up. From the details on this piece, it is obvious that special care was taken to strike this coin at least twice. The design features on both sides are nicely centered with full obverse and reverse border details. Care was also taken to polish the surfaces as each side displays light die striations in the fields and across the central device on the obverse. Both obverse and reverse display a multitude of speckled colors with bright reflectivity around the peripheral lettering on the obverse. The toning has been variously described as orange-crimson and lilac, and as blue, gray, and light gold. There is only one surface flaw that we see: a shallow, vertical scratch in the left obverse field. The reverse has two faint vertical die cracks, approximately parallel, through the right field. One extends from the right base of A(M) to the eagle's wing and F in HALF. The other begins at the left base of the adjacent M, also through the eagle's wing, and on to the right side of E in DISME.
The consignor who sold this coin in 2006, stated that:
"This specimen striking of the 1792 silver half disme is truly a coin that transcends numismatics. It occupies a place in our Nation's history unequaled by any other coin. For centuries, the coinage of silver was a royal prerogative. For a young nation, the coining of these half dismes was of enormous political significance and an expression of national sovereignty understood around the world. Numismatic scholar Walter Breen wrote, 'Their historic context has for over 120 years made these half dismes among the most prized American silver coins.' Today, as a unique specimen striking, this coin must be considered America's most important numismatic coin and a priceless historical treasure."
An accompanying letter from David Hall, president and founder of PCGS, seems to affirm this statement from our consignor. Hall briefly reviews the history of the 1792 half disme, then discusses this specific coin:
"Today approximately 250 to 400 1792 half dismes survive, most of them in well worn condition. Miraculously, there are a handful of Mint State examples known. The finest of these is the coin from the Floyd Starr collection.
"When the Starr collection was auctioned in October of 1992, his 1792 half disme was described thusly, 'Choice Uncirculated, semi-prooflike ... Both sides, brightly reflective, especially around the letters. Possible Specimen: exceptional sharpness of strike seen on no other specimen, save this one.'
"Earlier, the pioneering and extremely influential coin dealer, Wayte Raymond, had described the Starr 1792 half disme as, 'Perfect Mint State with brilliant proof surface. Probably the finest specimen known.'
"The Starr 1792 half disme is so extraordinary in the sharpness of its strike and the reflectiveness of its surface that PCGS has designated the coin as a Specimen striking. It is the only 1792 half disme to receive this designation from PCGS. The coin is so exceptional that I believe it could very well be the first 1792 half disme struck, and thereby the first U.S. coin ever struck. It is certainly one of the most important coins PCGS has ever handled."
The cataloger for the Starr Collection noted that this was an early strike: "Some reverse letters soft, particularly A and M in HALF DISME and M in AMERICA, as seen on most specimens from the earliest run struck with medal turn reverse orientation."
It is our opinion that the coin, while certainly very special and deserving of a Specimen designation, is not, nor could it be, the first 1792 half disme struck. The reverse has faint but clearly visible die cracks. Earlier-die state examples are known without the die cracks, proving that this example is a later die state and was among the final examples produced in July 1792. However, given its obvious specimen status, it might well have been the very first U.S. coin actually released by the State Department, perhaps a special gift to a friend of the U.S. or even to George Washington himself.
Ex: "Great American" Sale -- Virgil Brand (J.C. Morgenthau, 10/18/1933); via J.G. Macallister to Floyd Starr on October 26, 1933; Floyd Starr Collection (Stack's, 10/1992), lot 4; Baltimore '93 Auction (Superior, 7/1993), lot 138; Central States Signature (Heritage, 4/2006), lot 1860, where it realized $1,150,000.
Roster of High-Grade 1792 Half Dismes
We believe the following roster represents distinct individual specimens, although it is possible that some duplication may exist. This roster is based primarily on a comparison of plates in the various catalogs. Plate matching of older, poor-quality photographs can be quite difficult.
--Specimen 67 PCGS. The example offered here. J.C. Morgenthau (10/1933), lot 77; Floyd T. Starr (Stack's, 10/1992), lot 4; Superior (7/1993), lot 137; Central States Signature (Heritage, 4/2006), lot 1860.
--Gem Unc. Malcolm O.E. Chell-Frost (1948 ANA $100); John Jay Pittman Collection; David Akers (10/1997), lot 423; Clifford Mishler.
--Gem Unc. Dr. J. Hewitt Judd; Paramount (Auction '80, 8/1980), lot 592; Jimmy Hayes (Stack's, 10/1985), lot 3. Judd and Red Book plate coin. Dr. Judd reportedly traced the pedigree of this example back to David Rittenhouse.
--MS66 NGC. Col. James W. Ellsworth (3/1923); John Work Garrett; Johns Hopkins University (Bowers and Ruddy, 3/1981), lot 2351; Superior (10/1989), lot 891; Superior (5/1990), lot 3550; Stack's (10/1995), lot 267; Bowers and Merena (8/2004), lot 1383. Note: This coin was graded Choice AU by Bowers and Ruddy in the Garrett sale, later certified by PCGS as MS63, and most recently graded MS66 by NGC.
--MS65. Mid America (5/1987), lot 721; Superior (1/1990), lot 2354.
--MS64 PCGS. Goldberg (1/2004), lot 1271.
--MS64 PCGS. Bartlett Collection (Bowers and Ruddy, 11/1979), lot 2359; Bowers and Merena (9/1995), lot 1177; Bowers and Merena (1/2005), lot 327.
--MS64 PCGS. Stack's (1/1992), lot 477; MS64 PCGS. Bowers and Merena (1/2002), lot 345; Bowers and Merena (7/2003), lot 565. Graded Gem Unc by Stack's, and AU58 PCGS when sold by Bowers and Merena in January 2002.
--MS63 PCGS. Heritage (8/1995) lot 5941.
--MS63 NGC. Pacific Coast (6/1988), lot 25; Heritage (11/2005), lot 2055.
--MS63 NGC. Bowers and Merena (8/1987), lot 1498; RARCOA (7/1988), lot 1592; Heritage (6/2005), lot 5684. In 1987, Bowers and Merena graded this coin AU50.
--MS63 NGC. Heritage (7/2005), lot 10144.
--Gem Unc. Stack's (10/1988), lot 536.
--Mint State. Elliot Landau Collection (New Netherlands, 12/1958), lot 344; William J. Wild; Alan Weinberg in 1981.
--Unc Sharpness, Damage. Stearns Collection (Mayflower, 12/1966), lot 277. Alan Weinberg notes this coin had some damage in the form of an obverse puncture that did not go all the way through the coin. Purchased by Richard Picker for $1,450.
--AU58 PCGS. A.H. Baldwin & Sons (London, 1945); Pennsylvania Cabinet (James O. Sloss); Bowers and Merena (1/1999), lot 1010; American Numismatic Rarities (11/2004), lot 469.
--AU58 PCGS. Bowers and Merena (3/1987), lot 582; Bowers and Merena (5/1992), lot 1708; Stack's (1/1993), lot 356; Superior (7/1993), lot 138.
--AU58 PCGS. Superior (6/1997), lot 300; ANR (3/2005), lot 1551.
--AU55. Abe Kosoff (5/1953); Norweb Collection (Bowers and Merena 11/1988), lot 3389; RARCOA (5/1992), lot 3.
--AU55. Richard B. Winsor (S.H. & H. Chapman, 12/1895); J.M Clapp; Clapp Estate (1942); Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr.; Eliasberg Estate (Bowers and Merena, 5/1996), lot 883.
--AU50. Henry Chapman; J.A. Beck (Kreisberg, 2/1976), lot 759; Bowers and Merena (9/1984), lot 1116.
--AU50. Kagin's (8/1983), lot 283; Bowers and Merena (8/1987), lot 223; Stack's (11/1995), lot 1152; Goldberg (6/2000), lot 34.
--AU50. Bowers and Merena (8/1989), lot 132.
--AU50 PCGS. Bowers and Merena (11/1999), lot 253.
--AU. Stack's (11/1989), lot 351.
--AU. Stack's (4/1962), lot 876; Stack's (11/1974), lot 34; Stack's (7/1985), lot 1594.
--AU. Laird U. Park Collection (Stack's, 5/1976), lot 202; Stack's (1/1989), lot 931.
--VF35. Superior (6/1977), lot 282. This coin would probably grade AU in today's marketplace.
Other Appearances
The following citations are for coins which may or may not be included in the roster above.
--Metro Sale (Stack's, 5/1956), lot 215.
--Wolfson Collection (Stack's, 5/1963), lot 415.
--DiBello Collection (Stack's, 5/1970), lot 90.
--Thomas Cleneay; John Story Jenks (Henry Chapman, 12/1921), lot 5568.
--J.C. Morgenthau (6/1942) lot 26; Stack's (4/1978), lot 417.
--Butterfield (1/1995), lot 2185.
--Mickley Collection (W.E. Woodward, 10/1867), lot 2133; S.S. Crosby.
--Roach Collection (B. Max Mehl, 2/1944), lot 2661.
--Atwater Collection (B. Max Mehl, 6/1946), lot 1115.
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Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:52 pm
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Hi all,
First time poster, long time lurker... I have not gamed in the Trek / Star Fleet universe in a while, but have had a campaign idea brewing in the back of my head for several months. Recently, I started getting my ideas down on paper and pulling together the elements for a detailed campaign I could run. I'm starting to get excited about this, and would like to start player recruitment, soon.
Along the way, I have come up with two questions that I was hoping to get input on, from community members:
1) I am planning to use GURPS PD for the RPG. Would I be better served integrating Star Fleet Battles or Federation Commander to handle space combat? Or, should I consider another option? In my younger days, we had great fun combining the FASA Star Trek RPG with SFB. I'd like to have some depth around space combat and tactics, but it doesn't need to be completely overriding.
2) I plan to run this campaign via chat or one of the virtual table top tools. I am not looking for comprehensive review of tools (I've done quite a bit of googling and research on this), but I am interested in learning if any work particularly well (or poorly) with both the RPG and space combat side of things. Hoping to gain from other'x experience.
Thanks for the help!
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Just comment you may want to review the campaign done on the forum just recently --
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Thanks, Bolo. I've read the background threads on the campaign, but haven't dived into the lengthy in-character posts in the sticky, yet.
I wanted to add one other option on space combat to my post, which is the GURPS Spaceships rules. I saw at least one forum post on here about folks using those, but it didn't have a lot of detail.
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:50 am
Post subject: Re: Running a PD Campaign
cobidog wrote:
Hi all,
First time poster, long time lurker...
Welcome aboard, glad to hear from ya!
cobidog wrote:
I am planning to use GURPS PD for the RPG. Would I be better served integrating Star Fleet Battles or Federation Commander to handle space combat? Or, should I consider another option? In my younger days, we had great fun combining the FASA Star Trek RPG with SFB. I'd like to have some depth around space combat and tactics, but it doesn't need to be completely overriding.
I would advise using Federation Commander for an RPG group. SFB is a little to much for folks that are mainly into the RPG side of things. Although later, those folks might want to do some SFB stuff.
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:38 am
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I'm preparing my first PD campaign for a group that has never played GURPS before (neither have I, but I'm reading as much as I can on it). I'm not planning on getting into any space combat until maybe late in the second adventure or into the third one, but I know I don't want to introduce them to a whole new game on top of GPD just to resolve space combat.
I'm thinking of a very simplified approach that uses some SFB/FC concepts and mechanics such as SSDs and some form of energy allocation but keep it roleplay oriented and probably make it mapless in order to keep from getting bogged down in starship maneuvering tactics so the action can keep moving forward. I'm not sure how well I can translate things like facings and firing arcs in a mapless system, but I know my group isn't going to want to stop the roleplay and pull out a wargame right in the middle of the adventure.
I know this approach may not be ver appealing to all you SFB and FC lovers out there, but there's only one person in our group besides me who has ever played SFB before, and neither of us have even touched the game in at least a decade. No one in my group, including myself, has ever played FC before, so even though that may be the easier and faster game to get into, we would all be starting from square one just like we are with GURPS.
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My experience with a Star Fleet Universe like role playing game included space combat. Even though most of the gaming group played SFB, we did not use it (or the space combat system that came with the game) while playing the RPG. We abstracted it more - that is we made it play more like the TV show.
Now, we did use players' skills and decisions to determine the outcome of combat, but not like what might happen in FC or SFB. Usually, those games result in at least one ship being destroyed. In either of those games, that's fine. In a role playing game situation it could happen that the players' ship would get fragged and that results in a pointless total party kill. That's really frustrating to players and the gamemaster who's put so much work into creating a campaign.
The way we handled it was that the fights were short and sweet. If we "won" the battle, then some obstacles would be removed from the upcoming portion of the game (the Klingon ship was disabled and therefore unable to deliver an operative to the planet, or it was unable to contact the high command and request reinforcements so that we would only have to face a small patrol force during the endgame). If we "lost" the battle, the other ship would withdraw due to damage which allowed us to limp away from the skirmish, but we would be "punished" by damage to the ship's labs, or computer core, or transporters...anything that might make it more difficult to solve the puzzle or to finish the campaign.
And - no - we could never just wait until the affected system was repaired.
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Appreciate the input, guys. I share the concerns about a buzz kill, if the players get totally hosed. But, it just doesn't feel like Trek without some form of dynamic space-based action.
I've been reading a ton over the last couple of days to come up with the best way to do this. Like Mr_Tricorder, space combat won't be critical for a while, but other decisions might be -- tricky maneuvering, stealth, that kind of thing. But I do have a couple of other episodes/module ideas that are more combat-oriented.
I am leaning towards the combat system described in GURPS Spaceships (including the third supplement, which has a more advanced, map-based system). These provide some mechanics for space combat but are still RPG based, so I think I can jump in and out pretty painlessly -- I like Darkwing's idea of "living to fight another day" and using the results of space combat to influence the rest of the adventure.
I might end up play-testing a bit, seeing how the players react, and then tone it up/down based on their feedback. I'm glad I'm not the only one who has struggled with this concept!
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:52 am
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cobidog wrote:
I share the concerns about a buzz kill, if the players get totally hosed.
I regret to report that I have no Prime Directive experience. All my GM experience comes from running 3rd addition D&D games
. None the less, I love the SFU and hope that I can help you using the GM experience I do have.
As far as the group "getting hosed" in a space battle, if you read the book, "For the Glory of the Empire, by ADB", there is a case in there where the main character was involved in a pitched space battle to where his ship was destroyed. Reading that part you thought for sure that he was killed, but if read the next chapter, you find out that him and one other officer were beamed out at the last minute. As a GM, you have license to use such devices to keep you group's characters alive. Don't be afraid to put your group's character in difficult or "impossible" scenario's. Just come up with a plan B to "miraculously" save them which could cause a closer attachment between the players and their characters. Example, they would think,' my guy is really awesome if he survived that!' Try to intuit your player's attachment to their characters and play off of that, and risk the lives of them, but don't destroy them.
This is all with the assumption that you run a fed com or SFB scenario that your player characters lose.
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Ahh... the "
Captain! We can invert the deflector shield to send out a mega-muto-proton ray. If we can change frequencies fast enough, that should enable us to break free of its grip!
" solution.
A staple of TNG and Voyager, as I recall.
Thanks for the ideas -- I'm not being a smarty-pants. I do understand that I have the authori-tay! as GM to take exceptional action to prevent the loss of the gaming party, and it is sometimes necessary. However, I think a near death experience -- even one with negative consequences because of damage, injury, shipwreck, etc -- is preferable to a miraculous rescue in most cases. I think that a lack of danger can make for as bad a game as too many player kills, while the right type of consequences for player actions can be really compelling. Of course, they can't be set up to fail, and that's where we have to find a balance between playability (heroic action), believability/continuity (in-game) and fun.
Please keep the ideas coming! It's nice to get the input from folks with other RPG experience.
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:30 am
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On the matter of ship combat: IMO, you're best off using some form of bridge simulation interface, and not slavishly adhering to a boardgame mode.
As for tools:
voice - I've found skype is fine for small player groups (total 4 sites). For more, you'll need something better. Ventrillo and TeamSpeak are the ones I see others discussing using once Skype's too limited.
Text - if using skype, it does simultaneous chat, too.
Dice - I use a dieroller at catchyourhare.com that is "shared" - players and GM all see the rolls as made, and the dice can be dragged about to sort them.
Almost all of my online gaming has been Burning Wheel, tho', and BW is well suited for voice + dice mode without maps.
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I wonder how well the hangout feature in Google+ would work in place of skype or ventrillo or teamspeak.
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This is probably far too late to help the original poster, but....
I'm new to PD and SFU, but I have run a lot of space and nautical RPGs involving PCs as ship's crew. Although I love tactical board wargaming, I always try very hard to avoid it in RPGs. It kills the suspension of disbelief, and it invariably leaves some players bored with nothing to do.
Instead, focus on skill-based ship combat. Just as in old Trek, every player should be able to contribute something to the success of the ship in battle: science, comms, engineering, helm, nav, weapons etc. Those characters' individual skills and, as other have suggested, players' creative solutions is what you want to focus on.
Traveller spaceship combat touches on this a bit, and I'm looking forward to seeing how PDTraveller chooses to handle it. However, the best execution of character-based ship combat, in my opinion, was TSR's Alternity, most of whose ideas could be easily ported to Traveller or D20M. (I don't know GURPS)
For whatever it's worth,
EDIT: I now see this topic was also addressed in
this thread.
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Mike W has an SFU combat system using traveller rules, but you can never fight SFU ships against Traveller ships. The scales and technologies are just totally incompatible. An SFU ship can pick apart a Traveller ship at ranges where the traveller ship cannot even detect a target.
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Corporations Are Patenting Human Genes and Tissues -- Here's Why That's Terrifying
Do you think that granting corporations the rights of people in the Citizens United case is disturbing? Then contemplate the fact that corporations have been patenting human genes and tissues at alarming rates -- in the last 30 years, more than 40,000 patents have been granted on genes alone.
As the Occupy movement fights against the unmitigated influence of corporations on our lives, author and medical ethicist Harriet Washington's new book, Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself--And the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future, is a timely wakeup call to protect the very essence of human life from the medical-industrial complex.
In a recent phone interview with AlterNet, Washington discussed the dark implications of corporate medical patents, how we find ourselves in this nightmarish scenario and what needs to be done to stop medical research profits from trumping human health. Washington is also the author of Medical Apartheid , which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She has been a fellow in medical ethics at Harvard Medical School, a senior research scholar at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University and a fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Brad Jacobson: The main piece of legislation that opened the door for corporations to begin patenting human life was the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. Can you tell us how this law was sold to the American people?
Harriet Washington: Just to recap what the Bayh-Dole Act is, basically it was a law that permitted for the first time universities to legally transfer their patents to private corporations, to sell them, license them. That had been virtually prohibited in the past because most of these new inventions had been developed with tax dollars. And the thinking had been, "If you develop things with our tax dollars, then we shouldn't allow them to go to private corporations who can establish a monopoly with their patents."
It was sold to the American public primarily by [former Indiana Sen.] Birch Bayh, who of course partnered with [former Kansas Sen.] Bob Dole. But it was Birch Bayh who made the argument that we have all these patents lying around, no one's doing anything with them. If we let corporations get them, then they'll develop them into needed medications. So people were told this is the root to get the medications and treatments that we need.
However, what's really interesting, though -- I went behind the scenes and of course I saw that, rather than being any kind of groundswell of popular support, the law actually passed on the last hour of the last day of the last congressional session because of some good ol' boy networking.
BJ: Also in 1980, the legal counterpart for this corporate opening came with the court decision Diamond v. Chakrabarty, in which a scientist's patenting of an oil-eating bacteria was contested. But how is this different than what had been patentable in the past?
HW: It's certainly a good question because living things have been patented in the past. That's a misconception people have. Louis Pasteur had patented a yeast. Takamine [Hideo] had patented adrenaline. Numerous living things had been patented before. However, there were often legal challenges by people who would say, "This patent is not really valid because you can't patent a product of nature."
So in 1980, when Ananda Chakrabarty, a researcher at General Electric, decided to try to patent some bacteria that he had intensively engineered to be able to "eat crude oil," the U.S.] patent office said, "We'll patent the process you use, but we're not going to patent these bacteria. They're living things and only inventions can be patented. We can't patent products of nature."
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Hi all - I am very new to all this so please bear with me.
I have the chance of buying a faulty EOS 20D off Ebay. v cheap.
IT has err 99 when the shutter is pressed - shall I buy it ?
Err 99 on Canon cameras is a non-specific error so it's hard to say what could be wrong with the camera, if anything at all it could be the lens.
I had Err 99 with my 30D which was actually a sticking aperture on my lens. I had the lens repaired by Lehmann and it cost about £120 IIRC that was 5 years ago.
The error can also point to a communication problem between lens and body, sometimes just cleaning the contacts on lens and body can resolve the issue.
Only you can decide whetehr the price of the 20D is worth the gamble. The 20D was a good camera in it's time and well built, but you won;t know how much the camera has been used or how much life is left in the shutter. I'd expect the sensor to need cleaning too as it's a non self cleaning type, though this can be done yourself there are many tutorials on the net.
TBH I'd probably not bother buying unless it was dirt cheap and wanted to gamble it just being dodgy contacts or faulty lens.
This camera is old and as above it could be anything stay away from it you dont say what the the price is
If you can't afford a new camera. Try a Refurbished one from Canon http://stores.ebay.co.uk/canon-outle...=p4634.c0.m322
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Hi all - I am very new to all this so please bear with me.
I have the chance of buying a faulty EOS 20D off Ebay. v cheap.
IT has err 99 when the shutter is pressed - shall I buy it ?
I googled err99 and 20D out of curiosity to see what other things might cause the error.
There is a You Tube video showing a 20D that keeps flipping the mirror up but the shutter doesn't open, only removing the battery stops it. Looks like that camera needs a new shutter, from replies that seems not to be an isolated case,
As Wave said the 20D is an old camera now and the 1000D re-furbished camera on that Canon site looks a good deal thogh not having the build quality the 20D had it should prove just as satisfying to use.
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(FOR RELEASE JULY 8, 2005) – Young Americans Rajeev Ram, Scoville Jenkins and Ben Lankenau will join Scottish phenom and Wimbledon hero Andrew Murray as wildcard entries into the $75,000 Comerica Challenger, it was announced Friday. The tournament begins Monday, July 11, at Seascape Sports Club in Aptos (Santa Cruz County).
Ram, 21, is a native of Carmel, Ind., and helped the University of Illinois win the 2003 NCAA team championship, also claiming the NCAA doubles title that year. He is ranked No. 273 by the ATP.
Jenkins, a 19-year-old from Atlanta, was a semifinalist at the Wimbledon Juniors in 2004 became the first African American to win the USTA Boys 18s Hardcourts at Kalamazoo, Mich., in 2004. He is ranked No. 500 by the ATP.
Lankenau, a 16-year-old from Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., is a prospect coached by former ATP standout Phil Dent. Lankenau has consistently ranked among the national top 20 in his age groups and has played in several Futures tournaments. He is unranked.
Murray, whose wildcard entry was announced July 2, is an 18-year-old Scot who shocked the tennis world by reaching the third round at Wimbledon, lasting longer in the draw than beloved Brit Tim Henman. His ranked jumped from No. 312 to No. 213 on Monday based on his Wimbledon efforts. Murray, the reigning U.S. Open Junior champion, will make his Comerica Challenger debut at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, against an opponent to be determined Sunday.
Five players from the official ATP acceptance list have backed out of the Comerica Challenger because of injuries: two-time champion Jeff Salzenstein, Brian Baker, Paul Capdeville, Franco Ferreiro and Yen-Hsun Lu. To fill their spots in the draw, plus two other spots reserved for special exemptions that will not be used, the following seven players are now in the main draw: Thiago Alves, Dudi Sela, Matias Boeker, Michael Russell, Cecil Mamiit, Harel Levy and Tomas Cakl. Mamitt won the Seascape title in 1998.
The Comerica Challenger singles champion will receive $10,800, up from $7,200 in previous years when prize money totaled $50,000; the runner-up will earn $6,360, up from $4,250. The doubles winners will split $4,650. Marking its 19th consecutive year, the Comerica Challenger is the longest-running challenger on the men's USTA Pro Circuit. It gets under way July 9-10 with a 32-player qualifying tournament that will advance four semifinalists to the main draw.
A percentage of all ticket sales is donated to local schools. Tickets are $14 Monday through Thursday, $18 Friday (quarterfinals), $20 Saturday (semifinals) and $22 Sunday (finals). A weekend pass (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) is $50. Kids 5 and under are admitted free and tickets for kids 6-12 are half price. There is a 20 % discount on tickets for groups of 10 or more. Admission to the qualifying tournament is free.
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