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Speaking Bluntly
January 28, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
Two letters from Colette, who was born on this day in 1873, to her friend Marguerite Moreno.
Rozven, mid-September 1924
… I should like to talk earnestly to you about your copy for Les Annales. You still do not have quite the right touch. You lack the seeming carelessness which gives the "diary" effect. For the most part you have approached your gentlemen as though they were so many subjects assigned in class … For one portrait which works—Jarry—there are two others—Proust and Iturri, say—who don't. They are just not sufficiently alive!
The Immortality Chronicles, Part 7
September 30, 2013 | by Adam Leith Gollner
What have we not done to live forever? Adam Leith Gollner's research into the endless ways we've tried to avoid the unavoidable is out now as The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever. Over the past seven weeks, this chronological crash course has examined the ways humankind has striven for, grappled with, and dreamed about immortality in different eras throughout history. This is the final installment.
You have to get old. Don't cry, don't clasp your hands in prayer, don't rebel; you have to get old. Repeat the words to yourself, not as a howl of despair but as the boarding call to a necessary departure. —Colette, Les Vrilles de la Vigne
In 1927, before Charles Lindbergh set off across the Atlantic Ocean, newspapers described the flight as a guaranteed "rendez-vous with death." While the Spirit of St. Louis hummed toward France, human-formed phantoms and vapor-like spirits materialized before Lindbergh's eyes. These "inhabitants of a universe closed to mortal men" spoke to him, reassuring him and helping him find his way. This inner experience, he wrote, seemed to penetrate beyond the finite. It was an epiphany that guided the rest of his life.
After his pioneering flight, he received millions of letters, thousands of poems, countless gleaming accolades. Whole cities attended parades in his honor. Wing-walking skywriters spelled HAIL LINDY high in the air. Former secretary of state and later U.S. Supreme Court chief justice Charles Evans Hughes gave a speech in New York heralding "science victorious."
In the euphoria's wake, having managed one impossibility, Lindbergh wondered if he mightn't help solve another. Working alongside Nobel Prize–winning cell biologist Alexis Carrel (who claimed, erroneously, that cells divide endlessly and are therefore naturally immortal), Lindbergh came to question whether death is "an inevitable portion of life's cycle," musing that perhaps scientific methods could hasten the arrival of bodily immortality.
Lindbergh had been raised to believe that "the key to all mystery is science." The idea that science will allow men to become gods was instilled in him by his grandfather, a well-known surgical dentist. For postflight Lindbergh, solving the basic mystery of death seemed only as challenging as flying across the sea. It just meant doing what people said couldn't be done. Yet as he aged, and as his experiments didn't yield the hoped-for results, he began questioning his desire for immortality. He became an environmentalist, spending time in the wilderness and observing cycles of life and death in nature. Read More »
Filling the Silence: An Interview with Marie Chaix
February 25, 2013 | by Sarah Gerard
To call Marie Chaix's work autobiographical would be incomplete, though most of her books tell and retell the stories of her life. Her writing is porous and breathes memory, attesting to memory's transience and the impressions it leaves on the body.
At the age of twenty-six, Chaix read the notebooks her father had kept during his ten years in prison following World War II. Unbeknownst to her family, he'd been the right-hand man of pro-German Fascist collaborator Jacques Doriot and had fought in the Wehrmacht beside him. This was a shock and became the topic of Chaix's first book, The Laurels of Lake Constance. Like many of Chaix's works, it hovers somewhere between memoir and fiction. In June, Dalkey Archive Press will publish The Summer of the Elder Tree, translated by Chaix's husband, Harry Mathews. It concerns her ten-year hiatus from writing following the death of her editor and reincorporates many of the places she visited in The Laurels of Lake Constance and in her second book, Silences, or a Woman's Life, which Dalkey published late last year.
Chaix spoke to me on the phone from her home in Key West.
As someone who writes a lot of autobiography, do you believe that a story is preexisting—that a writer's job is to find it, retrieve it, and record it—or is there some invention in autobiography?
Well, I didn't realize it before writing, but in general I discovered that, even if you have characters that you know very well—even if you write about yourself, about your "life," your memories—the result is exactly the same as if it was fiction. I think that readers know that it's autobiographical because writers care when it's autobiographical, but they read it and think about themselves, which is what happened to me.
But I think writing doesn't work like that, you know? Of course, you have a motive, you have yourself, you have your family. But they become completely—and even yourself—you become completely part of a larger world, a larger story. Read More »
Dear Paris Review, Where Do I Publish?
July 20, 2012 | by Lorin Stein
Dear Editors:
Have made writing full time. Have novel and short essays. Attended NYU's Summer Writer program last year. Would you have a good list of places for submissions beyond The Paris Review, The New Yorker and The New York Times? Thank you for reaching out via Twitter and offering some of us (hopefully lovable) newbies some guidance.
Dear Newbie,
We get asked this a lot. It's a reasonable question, but it always makes our hearts sink.
Here's the thing: no matter how many classes you take, no matter how much time you spend at the keyboard, you cannot write seriously unless you read. And that means, partly, reading your contemporaries. Their problems are your problems; you can't write—that is, you can't write for serious readers—until you know what the problems are. Read More »


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As far as we know the OP drive is toast with bearings glued into a molten blob, thus sir-spam-a-lot, your software may not be of much use.
Also, it would seem likely that perhaps the original question was posted by you so you could reply to it under a different username and promote your software.
Two options:
1. Send it to a data recovery center. I had a drive were the motor had frozen up (the bearings were shot and it made a very high squeal sound). I sent it off to a local hard drive data recovery center and they said the platters and heads were good so they were able to read the data off the platters for us. Because of this they were able to provide us a listing of the files it could recover. I presented it to the user and she was able to select the files she needed. This was a cheap recovery. If I recall it set her department back $4K USD (this was back in 2004). She needed the data and since then she became real diligent at backing up her data and saving to the network -- often! :)
2. I don't recommend this but I have done this a few times with a hit-and-miss outcome. If you have another drive, same make and model, you can attempt to swap out the internals yourself. In situations like this the cost to have it recovered was more than it was worth so I had nothing really to lose. Sometimes all I needed to do was to swap out the external circuit board, on others I transplanted the entire intenrals. Just be careful not to get your fingerprint or any oil from your skin on anything! Try to work in the cleanest environment as possible.
HTH ... Best of luck!
Re: 2. Those are desperate options, NOT to be used lightly. ONLY ever use them if the problem is clearly proven to be hardware failure and all other means of recovery are not possible. The first merely risks destruction of the drive, the other guarantees it will happen (just not immediately).
Yes. #2 is only if tjere are no other options available. In most of my cases it was te external circuit/controller board that was bad.
But if the motor is shot then there's no choice but to pop the cover and do a transplant. I've done this 3 times in my 20 years of doing IT. :) And each of those times the drive was considered "lost" so I had nothing to lose.
I suggest you can check supporting file may be corrupted or missing so try to repair not hard disk. For more information you can read given post http://diskrecoverysoftware.blog.com/category/data-recovery/
I swear by R-Studio at www.r-studio.com this has saved me time and time again in hard drive failure.
Where are you located, depending on how valuable the data is you could buy the software or send it to me and i will do it for you for a small fee as i have the software already.
As he states in a reply: "As far as we know the OP drive is toast with bearings glued into a molten blob"
Robo_dev21 and PurpleSkys are correct.
In order to answer the question, we would need to know if the drive is dead (recovery service is best bet) or simply inaccessible (can use a Linux run-time cd or Apricorn Y-connector).
If you can answer these questions Jalina, we can point you to the next step.
Always backup data that you can't afford to lose! Your company should have a policy in place for backing up data. If not, time to implement one!
If the laptop was company-issued they'd have already taken it to their company's IT department. Leading to the conclusion that this is their private computer even if it has work-related documents on it.
I got to vote for robo_dev and Rob Kuhn, it's another day in IT were the whole story is one big ?. hands on is the only way to know most of the time
You can use either of one bootable tools to recovery your important files from HDD.
Don't be worry. Sometimes it is really common for us to last our files.What you should do is to find a data recovery freeware to help you, such as Recuva and iCare data recovery free. they are both effective and free. i have ever used Recuva to recover my MP4, it is really useful and worth trying.you could download it in this link:
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To me this means that the data simply must be recovered and there is no possibility of loosing it which is acceptable.
The only answer to offer under those conditions is to send the drive to a Specialist Data Recovery House who is capable of reading the platters directly and not relying on any other part of the drive to actually be working.
Sure it's going to be expensive but if you simply must recover the data that is your best bet and if it is possible to recover they will be able to do it.
Any of the above suggestions which say use whatever software is not an Option here as the data must be recovered and it's loss is unacceptable under any circumstance. The more that the OP messes unsuccessfully with the drive the lower the chances of a Complete Recovery are and they are making that Recovery Attempt much more expensive so the best advice anyone could give here is to send it to a Specialist who has a History of Recovering Data of severely damaged HDD.
I would recommend Kroll Ontrack as they managed to get data off a HDD that was on-board Colombia months after it's destruction on Reentry into the Earths Atmosphere where as most other so called Data Recovery Houses wouldn't have touched the drive to begin with.
Just my 2 cents worth though and if it would Just be Nice to recover the data and it's loss isn't such an issue then any of the above Software Suggestions may work but equally they just as likely may not depending on what is actually wrong with the drive.
I should also point out if the drive was Encrypted none of the above suggestions will enable any form of Readable Data Recovery they all will just enable the OP to recover the Encrypted Files which will remain Unreadable no matter what they attempt to do with them. However the Good Data Recovery Houses will be able to recover Encrypted Files in a readable form so that they are usable.


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Does Carrier or other manufactures use outside contractors for startup and warranty repair?
What type of equipment are you talking about?
When I worked for the OEM not Carrier if we did the start up the warrenty was valid unless we found something wrong with the installation which we could have the power to void the warrenty based on the installation , most contractors did pay for the start up on on any pieces of equipment but there were a few that wanted to do it themself which most likely did have some concerns when somebody wanted to have something covered under warrenty I am sure that they would have had to have all the proper documents to prove that everything was done properly and up to specification.
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Carrier mainly and a maybe Trane. I know on carrier and Trane if u have factory startup the warranty is better. I would like to be able to startup carrier (mainly) and have the same warranty as if a factory rep started it up. I am a FAD dealer for carrier. It could get me a lot of work if I could startup carrier and have the same perks as factory? Thanks
This is something you should think long and hard with, I think you can order chillers without factory startup, the warranty could be voided, equipment today is becoming very high tech from everything from mag bearings, electronic xv's, programing, critical charge amounts, oil management, the point I am trying to make is do you think the rewards out way the risks. I have been seeing more and more issues found at start ups that if it were not seen by properly trained techs could have done high dollar damages, one bad job could wipe out all gains for a long time, think very hard on the risks evolved. The area you may want to focus on is in performing the preventive maintenance, just understand the tasks and methods and document very very well.
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Penn State College of Medicine Alumni Update
Rebekah McCurdy Med'11
Pursuing her dream
It's not often that a college student interested in medicine purposefully graduates with a B.S. in Biblical Studies. But Rebekah Sangrey McCurdy is not your average medical student.
While traveling to rural Belize during high school, Rebekah first realized that she wanted to become a doctor. Even now, as a fourth year medical student, she remains focused on her long-term goal: after completing a four-year residency in OB-GYN, she plans to move to Africa to practice a holistic mix of medicine and spirituality.
Although a medical degree was her ultimate goal, Rebekah specifically chose the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for college – living at home and completing her coursework online. As she puts it, "Faith-based organizations like to see a degree in a ministry." To better prepare, she supplemented her education with a year of concentrated pre-med courses at York College of Pennsylvania.
Rebekah knows that she faces a particularly daunting financial future, for she will accrue a debt of approximately $150,000 from medical school alone. "The financial aspect was a big deal for me. A traditional medical student can take on big loans and pay them back in 10 to 15 years, or more," says Rebekah.
"I realized that with my vision and goals to help the underserved, I couldn't afford a lot of debt."
Rebekah was fortunate to be the recipient of the Penn State College of Medicine alumni scholarship, which she applies to tuition and living expenses.
"I'm very grateful, as it's been a huge blessing to me," says Rebekah. "I really appreciate the investment that alumni have made in me and my dreams. Sometimes we have to rely on others for help and the alumni have truly helped me."
Recently married, she knows how to live frugally, packing her lunches and even sewing her own bridesmaids' dresses. Ever positive, she notes that an alumni scholarship is actually worth far more than its face value, for it also helps to reduce long-term interest she would otherwise have to pay on her loans.
As the oldest of six children, Rebekah is the first in her family to pursue a career in medicine. Huge financial challenges faced by her own family have merely increased her own motivation to make this work through loans and scholarships.
She paid her way through college by working three shifts a week at a nursing home and an assisted living facility. This experience helped her tremendously as a medical student.
"I think I'm a lot more comfortable with patients," she says. "Also, I first learned about diseases through the eyes of patients.
"For example, when someone had a stroke, I saw what it was like when they had to ask to use the bathroom or their frustration when their arms or legs wouldn't work. I saw how patients adapt to injury. I learned all this long before I knew about the brain and learned about cerebral accidents."
As she learned about various diseases in medical school, Rebekah says she would often exclaim, "Oh, this is what that patient must have had." Putting a name and face to a disease also helped with memorization.
Having a long-term focus on international medicine also provides a different perspective. "Here in the U.S., students often think, Oh, I'll be in this specialty. So they're not really interested in learning about other areas," she says.
"However, when I think about the fact that I may be the only doctor around, I feel I can't overlook anything. Everything that I have learned in medical school will come in useful some day."
Rebekah plans to specialize in women's health, noting that in certain parts of Africa, one in 10 women still die in childbirth, and many babies don't survive past the first month of life. Being a female healthcare provider offers an inroad in many rural African cultures.
A member of the school's Christian Medical Society, Rebekah has taken more than half a dozen more medical mission trips, which have only whetted her appetite. She visited Haiti almost a year before the earthquake and handled triage in a mobile medical clinic, seeing more than 100 patients in a day with issues ranging from malnutrition and parasites to infections and allergies from poor living conditions.
She says, "It motivates me to learn more and gives me perspective on what I'll be doing some day."


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By DAVID BORAKS
A video production crew swarmed the parking lot at Lake Norman Christian School off South Street Thursday, setting up lights, cameras and other equipment as they prepared to shoot a commercial for Under Armour athletic gear.
The one-day shoot even included a star – Kemba Walker of the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats.
Baltimore-based Under Armour picked the more than 65-year-old former Davidson IB Middle School – and specifically its ancient gymnasium – for its historic feel.
"The look and feel of the gym," Steve Battista, a senior vice president and creative director for the athletic gear maker, said in the parking lot Thursday. "You couldn't pay a set designer to build something like that. It's so authentic and real."
On Thursday, the gym was off limits to those not on the crew, and specifics of the TV spot are confidential until its debut in February, Under Armour spokeswoman Diane Pelkey said.
We've been in the gym before, and it's definitely a throwback. Last year, town and county officials approved historic landmark status for the school complex, which dates from 1946. The gymnasium was built in 1937. The entire site has been a school since 1893, according to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission. For many years it was the Davidson Elementary School. More recently, it had housed the Davidson IB Middle School, until 2011.
On Thursday, the school parking lot was filled with rented trucks, lights, microphones and other equipment, and technicians leaning over screens.
Thursday's activity on South Street was the latest in a series of shoots that are building Davidson's resume as a backdrop for TV and film. The town has attracted TV home shows and just last month brought a crew to Main Street to film a baby stroller commercial.
Feb. 20, 2012, DavidsonNews.net, "School, CMS back historic status for former IB school"
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission web page on the Davidson School, 251 South St.
Previous installments in our ongoing "Life in Davidson" series.


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Joined: 6/23/09
Originally posted by ReallyNow10
Because it has always been therefore it always will be is a bad line of reasoning.
Things improve and change all the time. Video games are no exception. I fully expect there to be plenty of games in the future that get rid of leveling. In most MMOs right now levels are fairly pointless. People rush through them in two weeks and spend the rest of all time playing endgame. Whole parts of the world are wasted to support those earlier levels and it keeps new players from getting to play with their friends right away. The concept is broken at this point and doing away with it completely wouldn't change all that much.
People always went to the store to buy things so it will always be the case. The internet changed that.
MMOS were always P2P, now there is a lot of F2P.
MMOs always had kill stealing yet they've improved systems to counter this fact.
MMOs always had brutal content that needed groups to do in order to get the best gear, now a lot of games you can get everything you need solo.
Just because MMOs have had levels does not mean they will always have levels. I even see plenty of reasons for them to move beyond levels in the future for better gameplay.
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In a game that has progression, there will always be levels of some kind. MMORPGs have progression, thus levels of some kind. If you get rid of all forms of levels, such as traditional, skills, items, then it is no longer a mmorpg.
I've always liked multiple forms of levels. EQ had the traditional levels, then your skills had to be leveled, and then the alternate advancement that added more abilities.
Also, if there is progression, there will be separation from others. Someone with 1000 in 1hs is not going to want to group with someone who has a skill of 5. That person would be useless, probably unable to even hit stronger mobs, or if they can, the damage is negligible
I love progression. I love the journey. More people use to play that way, but that seems not to be the focus now. I tried WoW again when I was able to pick up Pandaria for $10. I had fun leveling up, but when I got to endgame, I was sick of it after a while.
Anyway my point was, you're going to have levels of some sort, and people will be gated , otherwise you won't be playing in a mmorpg, lol.
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Joined: 10/29/07
Levels became outdated in 1978 when a few SCA gamers created Runequest to make RPGs more realistic.
Levels are simple so it is fine that some MMOs use it but they are also dumbing down the games so I rather see a few alternatives models. Runequests or Shadowruns systems for example, both would make great MMOs which rewards you for playing without totally destroying the balance of the game.
I am not too found about current levelless MMO mechanics though. They are just too unbalanced.
Originally posted by Vynt
My initial point was always that you will require levels of some sort or another. I just dislike the traditional system of leveling from 1 - 60 and then onto raid gear.
I would like to see a broadly competitive base point and small improvements upon that; they might be small incremental improvements in your general power (very small advantages) or trade, politics, construction, exploration, skill discovery, aesthetic rewards, titles etc. There would be something to work towards that would differentiate you from other players and yes you could call them levels but they would not create the huge level gap you get in most mmo's.
In fact all areas would be equally as useful to all players despite their 'level'.
An example might simply be this, say their are three play styles, melee, ranged and magic (I hate magic but will run with it). Depending upon which you choose you enter that school, but you must complete certain tasks to do so. This is not leveling in the traditional sense, more an entrance exam. And then once you have entered your school you must progress through it via the completion of more tasks spread throughout the entire world.
You are not leveling as such, but there are tasks that must be completed for small advantages and prestige rewards.
And once all this is done you can still walk out into the starter area and you are not so far removed from the newbies as to make the area worthless. You can farm there, group, do whatever you choose to in any part of the map and it will assist you in your trading, crafting, exploration etc. In addition, that first dungeon you entered, you have now unlocked the second level of it as a result of your general progression through the game. It is not significantly harder but you have now earned the key and the rewards that come with it.
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Originally posted by BrucyBonus
A small amount of differentiation sounds like being a little bit pregnant.
Originally posted by maplestone
Which only leads to better things. Until they reach their teens and become a pin in the arse. WOW isn't far off that.
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Shared world, not personal storyline.
Originally posted by SnarlingWolf
All leveling is, whatever form it takes, is persistence of skill attainment (i.e., you get better swinging a sword and stay better at it, and generally only improve over time). This can be done with skill increases or overall character level increase, or some combination.
But, it involves the concept of self-betterment and gives players additional goals in the game world. Leveling went all the way back to paper&pencil Dungeons and Dragons back in the mid 1970's (I was there, saw it). It works and is great, and I do not see it going away. Could morph maybe, take different forms, however.
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For a long time there were two schools of thought on this.
Ultima Online model (1997) - Designed with no levels or classes but used rankable skill selections. Some skills increased faster than others based on player choice.
Everquest Model (1999) - Kill monsters until your character gains enough XP to level up. All stats on your character increase at the same time in a single instant or "ding." WoW is actually and Everquest clone when it comes to leveling design.
What the industry really needs is an entirely new design as both the UO model and EQ model feel rather dated. I really like the Vindictus model which introduced new types of progression.
Vindictus Model (2010) - Players have levels but the mobs don't. Zones are gated by a point system. Get 100+ points in mission before you are allowed to go the next. Players become more powerful by gaining titles. An example title would be kill zone boss 5 times and gain +5 STR and +5 INT. This can loosely be called title based progression. Some original players have 400+ titles and are much more powerful than newer players that only have 150 titles at level cap.
In contrast to the UO or EQ model where one could gain XP from any monster the 'cons' to gain levels. In Vindictus specific things have to be done to power up your character. No other MMO has this system as far as I know.
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I don't think that levelling is outmoded as much as improperly implemented in most titles. To be clear, all progression is levelling, so it would be difficult to create a game where levelling didn't happen in some form, but the idea of creating all of this empty real estate just to pretend that there is a world out there, when 90% of your player base is just going to follow whatever cow path has been laid out for them really seems dumb and wasteful to me.
The problem of course is that levelling is one of the single most lucrative means of getting a player to keep playing, and so other, less popular ideas are not only overlooked but often not even dared.
Even more so the problem with levelling now days is that there isn't even any risk attached to it anymore. As far as I know, most of these games simply give the player experience (in a twisted metonymic placebo puzzle of making them think that they are actually doing something when they are not) simply for spending time in the game hitting buttons. I suspect, and I honestly believe this, that given the time, a monkey could achieve max level in any of these titles. That is, provide you had enough banana's to keep him interested in playing.
The original rogue* game allowed you to level. It gave you gear too, but upon death it sent you all the way back to the beginning, every time, and you lost all of your gear. As simple a game as it was, straight line travel, zero scenery, and only a few options to change what was definitely a linear path, it still made you think, take your time, and it charged you dearly for taking risks. And who here that ever played that game is going to tell me that it wasn't epic?
20 some years later Rogue is now the MMO and it is BORING. That's because the whole reason and purpose behind leveling in the first place, which was simply to make it easier to reach your previous level of incompetency in the dungeon faster, has been removed from the game.
Exactly! If levels are not the measure of progression, what is? Do we all just start out at "end game", fully grown?
Progression is a measure of a character, no matter what is measured, be it levels, skills, gear, abilities, what have you. Something will be measured and compared to see if a character "qualifies."
Otherwise, there is no progression or growth.
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Originally posted by Loke666
Mate, how could lvls been outdated in 1978? MMO's didn't even excist then. Computers weren't widely spread for that matter. Furthermore not some MMO's but most use lvls.
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"It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver". - Niccolo Machiavelli
we need to see mmos without levels. TSW tried it but all it did was hide the levels behind the skills instead of the character.
I love the idea of an mmo where you gain proficiency with the weapon / skill / gear you use while your character doesnt gain any levels. Imagine SKyrim without the character levels.
While GW2 doesnt have the proficiency system, thanks to the level scaling up and down it feels like you dont even have to focus on getting the levels. i love that too. Just wished there was gear / skill proficiency so the leveling would be less important. I would love it even more. But still...
...Im tired of the leveling system in games and mmos, i would kill for a real levelless mmorpg, no experience bar, no character leves, only pure proficiency and deep crafting that really matters.
Originally posted by AlBQuirky
I wish people would read the original post before commenting on it.
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Originally posted by Loke666
Skill levels are still levels. And encounters were all over the place in Runequest. I remember whole parties wiped on a couple of relatively weak mobs and then at times the party would wipe out extremely powerful mobs easily with just few swings.
Encounters were far more predictable (in a good way) in games like D&D. Adjusting challenge was far easier too.
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Originally posted by BrucyBonus
me too.. I see a big word in there "TRADITIONAL" that seems to be ignored.. The topic isn't about ALL levels being outmoded.. Anyways!!!.. lol
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I think levels or some progression system is important.
One thing we have seen in mmo's as they progress is less significant progress both in terms of how much of a power boost a level is and how easy it is to obtain. I am not sure i like this.
a game where progression is purely through gear or not their at all is a big turn off for me, conversely a game with a large number of different forms of progression, skill system, AAs, perm power ups through difficult group content and items is much more attractive.
Freedom to travel in my opinion is created good world design rather than removing levels. The EQ1 world was pretty good at release. Overland zones didnt really have levels in the same way they do in modern MMOs, There were 11 or 12 starting cities and there were a few easy monsters near each city to get you started but there were also some really hard stuff. the plains had small game you could hunt at low level but there was also the odd gaint wandering arround which was hostile and level 40. I think that adds to the excitment and immersion. For any given stength of character/group there were a varierty of places to hunt but they werent all next to each other(same zone) and often involved a dangeous and exciting journey to get where you needed to be.
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Im a FAN of no numbers at all.
Like in DayZ no lvls no xp no stats no armor nothing.
Just a health number which for every one same and no influence on that then try keep it high by not been attacked or find food and water.
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I'm inclined to agree with the OP. I think the EQ/WoW/Diablo leveling model is one of the reasons the majority of recent MMORPGs feel so constrained and linear, closer to a hack'n'slash arcades than a proper MMORPG. This is especially true when it's accompanied by leveling brackets that the character has to follow in tunnel-vision fashion, therefore killing the virtual world essence and trivializing content - also, in these leveling models we always gonna have to resort to nihilistic exercises like the gear treadmill, and power creep as a consequence, to give players a (false) sense of progression.
In broad lines, I think the "leveling process" and "end-game" are two side of the same coin, basically concepts that - although having been accepted as an standard by a lot of gamers - just serve to define a lazy game design.
I would bet for a more ambitious system that would cover the maximum number of indicators to progress and develop your character and his/her legacy. Of course, we would have combat related indicators but there would be many more. In this sense, UO and EVE systems come to mind as foundations to work upon.
The aim of this would to have more possibilities of developing your character without the need of following a line, to make character building more realistic and, therefore, to optimize the connection and empathy between a gamer and his/her avatar.
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Originally posted by Quirhid
True and we all will have difference of opinion there.. To me, traditional would mean similar to what EQ1 did, WoW, TOR and dozens of others have done.. In the end traditional was the formula in which power of a character increased so much that content of the world becomes trivial.. I can't speak for Brucy, nor read his mind, but I do think we are on the same page that we would like a game world in which character progression does not make vast areas of the world obsolete because of traditional leveling.. IMO That is one reason why I do like GW2 and it's the only MMORPG I have on my computer.. At max level, I can still go to other older zones and be challenged.. I'm not a fan of Godmode character progression..


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November 5, 2004 4:00 AM PST
DVD price wars: How low can they go?
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August, and then followed news of Netflix's price cuts last month with its own $17.49 plan.
"We were growing our business at a very nice clip, but would not have elected to lower our prices," Blockbuster Chief Executive Officer John Antioco told Reuters last month. "Having said that, we are determined that we are not going to be beaten from a price-value perspective."
Netflix executives have said they expect Amazon to enter the market, but the online retailer has not confirmed those plans.
Impulse rental rivals
Even the giants could soon be facing sharper competition from local retail outlets, in the form of kiosks offering 99-cent-a-day DVD rentals.
Tiny DVD Station, with just 20 employees, has kiosks in about 14 retail outlets so far, including Sony's Metreon center in San Francisco. Another kiosk maker, Los Gatos, Calif.-based DVDPlay, is testing 99-cent DVD rentals in partnership with McDonald's.
"I have tried Walmart's DVD rental program for two months and even if it is cheaper than Netflix, I do not get as many movies per month as when I am renting from Netflix...Netflix is way faster. Plus, I usually have no problem getting any movie on my list in the correct order with Netflix, while Walmart rarely sent the ones at the top of my queue."
--Thorst Gorn
DVD Station offers retailers everything they need to set up a rental service within their stores, with up to 25,000 titles. The DVDPlay kiosks stack from 100 to 350 movie titles in a vending machine, offering mostly new releases.
"The selection is obviously not comparable to Blockbuster, but they do have new releases, and it's cheaper than Blockbuster," wrote a Colorado resident who has seen the DVDPlay machines in McDonald's.
DVDPlay CEO Jens Horstmann said he believes free video rentals may soon be coming in the form of incentive programs with retail stores. For example, he said, some stores using DVDPlay's kiosks currently offer free rental coupons for customers who spend a certain amount of money on groceries or other products.
Down the road, he said, these deals may become automated through partnerships with customer loyalty programs by major chains such as Safeway. He said no such deals have yet been worked out, however.
Biting the bottom line
The price cuts will undeniably make Netflix's business trickier to manage.
The company has found in recent months that one of the prices of a successful service has been rising costs. In recent reports to federal regulators, the company said its customers are now on average renting about 6.6 movies per month, up from 5.6 last year.
Losing close to 18 percent of its subscription revenue as a result of the price cuts could help push the profitable company underwater. In the quarter that ended in June, the company had a net profit of just $2.9 million, with subscription revenue of $119.7 million.
Nevertheless, Netflix's Hastings said the price cuts had galvanized subscriber growth and reduced churn rate, so that the company has already reached the low end of its predicted year-end goal, about 2.3 million total subscribers. He said the company will maintain a break-even financial performance despite the cuts.
Nor is the company standing still. Its spending on marketing has more than doubled in the last year, and it has partnered with TiVo to start testing a video-on-demand service that would take advantage of the digital video recorder company's network and hardware.
Industry insiders say Netflix also has pioneered measures that help control its costs. One key factor has been the development of a user interface that steers subscribers toward renting back-catalog movies instead of new releases. This allows the company to have fewer expensive copies of the latest movies on hand, industry insiders said.
"All subscription DVD rental businesses have a hard time meeting demand for new releases," said DVDPlay's Horstmann. "Sometimes customers have to wait a month or two" to see the latest movies.
According to Bill Fischer, vice president of corporate development at DVD Station, rental businesses that make appropriate use of technology can double or triple interest in catalog titles. For example, Fischer said 40 percent of DVD Station's rentals make up titles more than six months old, compared with just 11 percent for Blockbuster.
Hastings said the "land grab" in the coming months will be driven by huge marketing expenditure on all sides. Netflix itself will spend about 20 percent of its revenue on marketing next year, he told the investor conference on Wednesday.
More broadly, the company is betting on its experience to keep it afloat through all the competition, he has said.
"We think we will compete successfully with (rivals) because we have great scale, we ship 3 million DVDs a week, and we have five years of experience in this market," Hastings told CNET News.com in an interview last month.
CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos contributed to this report.
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- Oh no, not Two months.....
- The fact that someone would be upset with having to wait two months to see a new release is a pretty sad commentary on the state of people's diversity. I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but In my dwelling there is a thing called a door. Magical thing really, you turn a little knob on it and it opens up to a world of fun and excitement, that is both never ending and can never be turned off. If your waiting around for the latest new release on DVD, you should do a gut check and re-examine if your world has become frighteningly miniscule and mundane. I relaize that there are exceptions to this that prevent some from venturing out, but is it any wonder why the rest of the world looks at the United States as a bunch of overweight lazy folks? And yes, I am from the United states, and yes, our current social priorities pretty much disgust me.
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- i don't care
- what blockbuster and walmart do. there's a reason i don't rent from blockbuster or hollywood video, or any of the other chains. i'm with netflix for good. i've been very happy with them.
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- Netflix is better
- I have tried Walmart's DVD rental program for two months and
even if it is cheaper than Netflix, I do not get as many movies
per month as when I am renting from Netflix. It takes longer for
Walmart to receive my returned movies and also to send a
replacement. Netflix is way faster. Plus, I usually have no
problem getting any movie on my list in the correct order with
Netflix, while Walmart rarely sent the ones at the top of my
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- Patent?
- What happened to the patent Netflix won regarding the mail order rental business model?
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- Blockbuster online rental sucks
- I tried Blockbuster's online subscription mainly because they had a 1 month free offer, but after being a paying member for 1 month I decided to cancel it. The selection was very poor, I had 20 DVDs on my queue and 15 of them has at least a "short wait" tag. Also some DVD's took 10 to 12 days to arrive from the day they mail it out! Average wait is 6 days from the time they "say" they mailed it out. That means if you return DVDs you watched over the weekend, don't expect to have any DVD's over the next weekend! They also send out DVDs out of order! So I have to watch the Soprano's series out of order. They also have Godfather part 1 and 3 availabe, but not 2... ***! they're store employees also gives you bad service when you claim your dvd coupon at the store. i think they jumped on this market way too early, they are currently buying used dvd's agressively to stock-up their dvd's, but i can't pay them $20/mo while i wait. they offered me a 1 month free when i cancelled, but i turned it down since i'll just spend the whole month waiting for dvd's that are tagged "short wait" or "long wait".
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- Fully concur - Blockbuster online is terrible
- I had the same experience and have gone back to Netflix. At Blockbuster, sometimes I got movies 10 days after they had shipped. It took them 7-8 days at times to post a return even though I was shipping to a local address. I barely got 2-3 "turns" per month compared to 6-7 a month at Netflix. So unless BB is less than $7/mo , its no value at all. Their software is buggy too - I updated my queue and logged off. The next day my old queue appeared again. I deleted all the entries, updated the queue and logged off - When I logged on again, the queue was back with a few entries deleted.
Stay away from BB online till they get their act together.
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- Yeah it totally sucks!
- I live in Washington DC and my distribution center is located in Gaithersburg MD. That is only 25 miles away. According to their website, it takes 3 days for them to receive my DVD's in the mail. I had to call blockbuster at least 3x because, for some unknown reason, my 3rd movie would never ship. I would have 2 movies shipped with 25 in my queue. It also takes 3 to 4 days for me to receive a movie (only 25 miles from distribution center). When I was on the 2 week trial period, I was getting at least 5 movies a week. After the free period ended, they started screwing me over. On Well, as soon as I use up my free month (offer by BB to convince me to stay) I will try Netflix.
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- Worst customer experience I've had in years: BB is awful!!
- I invested hours in emails asking for help when they sent DVDs out
of order, and yes, they were in my queue in the proper order and
"locked" as sets by year. They continued to send canned answers
proving they cannot be bothered to help. Not much riles me up
these days but theses clowns sure did. I cancelled and ran. Their
response was to send me an email inviting me to join again with
differing levels of DVDs received per month (I had the premium
service, I cannot imagine taking the lesser service - how bad would
that be). STAY AWAY from BB online and run to the competition.
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- Netflix clearly the best
- While I've tried Blockbuster's service, it took much longer to receive movies if they were even in stock. Netflix's service is unparalleled and their user interface is by far a superior product than the competitors.
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- High impact
- I'm startled that News.com would give some video rental story the "High Impact" symbol, but not give it to the IBM supercomputer. Sorry guys, genetics research is more important than staring blankly at the newest teenie-bopper movie.
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- Healthy direction for unhealthy habit?
- It's good to see they're almost back to the original price. I signed up with NetFlix their first month when it was $17.99 for 4 movies at a time. Cancelled when I went through an interstate move and job change. I looked into signing up again but they'd bumped the price and cut the movies down to three. What with all the 2for1 coupons from local stores the internet rentals still aren't worth it.
In any case, the earlier poster hit the nail about us getting a life. If I'm watching more than a couple full-length movies a month there's something very wrong with my priorities. So much to be done and so little time!
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- Blockbuster is better
- I don't know how long ago you joined Blockbuster's online rental program but it is much better now. They offer the same program as netflix for the same money and they give you two free in store rentals per month. I also got a free copy of Shrek 2. And as of this month, December, they have arranged a system with the post office where they, the USPS, scan the movies and notify blockbuster that you dropped them in the mail. This way, the movies don't have to make it all the way back to the DC in order for the next one to be sent to you. It's much faster than Netflix. I average 12 movies per month or $1.66 per movie (including the two free in store rentals) where as my friend in netflix averages 9.9 movies per month and $2.47 per movie. Over the year, he averaged 16 days between the shipped and return dates where as i'm averaging 8.8 days with blockbuster becuause of the USPS scanning. WIth the same number of movies available (25K) and with the addition of the backing of the stores nationwide in 2005, I think Blockbuster.com is the way to go.
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- Getting Worse
- I've been with BB for about two months, I switched from Netflix when they raised the price per month. BB started out great, I was getting movies very quickly but the past couple of times it's been getting slower, the last couple of times it's taken between 5-8 days to receive the movies from the time I mailed. I don't have any issues with my queue yet as far as sending of movies out of order but anything can happen. If the situation with the mailing gets any worse I'm going back to Netflix.
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- Yes! Blockbuster online totally sucks!
- I live in Washington DC and my distribution center is located in Gaithersburg MD. That is only 25 miles away. According to their website, it takes 3 days for them to receive my DVD's in the mail. I had to call blockbuster at least 3x because, for some unknown reason, my 3rd movie would never ship. I would have 2 movies shipped with 25 in my queue. It also takes 3 to 4 days for me to receive a movie (only 25 miles from distribution center). When I was on the 2 week trial period, I was getting at least 5 movies a week. After the free period ended, they started screwing me over. On Well, as soon as I use up my free month (offer by BB to convince me to stay) I will try Netflix.
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- BlockBuster online has excessive delivery times, bad servic and is a ripoff
- 12-1-07
BlockBuster 3 DVD delivery plan for 24.99 per month.
PRO: You can get 3 new movies when you return 3 delivered movies at a store. When you receive the 3 movies in the mail, you can have 6 movies out at a time! Better deal than cable for new movie releases.
Con: Excessive delivery times of over 7 days for "available" DVD's is normal.
We have waited many times over 7 days for delivery of DVD's that are on the available list. We are not receiving the service for which we are paying for. There is no excuse for BlockBuster and we are ready to cancell. Go for the in store program if you live close to a BlockBuster. Again, the in store program is a better deal if you live close to a store. The in store service is very good!
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Millions of children from very poor families still do not have access to schools where they could succeed.
Statement by ATD Fourth World before the ECOSOC in July 2011.
ATD Fourth World has issued a statement before the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) in July 2011 (E/2011/NG0/83). This statement addressed the difficulties faced by families living in extreme poverty in sending their children off to school. In addition to raising those concerns, the statement also considered various solutions to deal with those issues.
With the United Nations
- Adopting Guiding Principles on extreme poverty places human rights at the centre of post-2015 development agenda
- Launch of a new tool to address the separation of parents and children
- United Nations Draft Guiding Principles - "Extreme Poverty and Human Rights: The Rights of the Poor"
- 61st Annual Department of Public Information and the NGO community Conference
The 2010 Millennium Development Goals Report suggests that despite the considerable investment and efforts put into providing children with educational facilities throughout the world, progress has been slow and insufficient to achieve the goals set by Objective 2 of the Report, i.e. to ensure that by 2015 all children- boys and girls would be able to complete primary education.
In its statement, ATD Fourth World highlights the causes of such failures, such as:
- Bad housing, the lack of access to clean water or other factors relating to their poor living conditions like, for instance, the opportunity cost of those children being sent to school while they could contribute to raising an additional income to support their families. All those factors put together act as a bar to the children having access to full time education;
- The discrimination faced by the children coming from such a poor background, when they are confronted by the remarks of their teachers and other children at school as to clothing;
- The lack of motivation and the low expectations from the professionals in the education system;
- The direct and indirect costs of education- at times in the form of bribery by teachers or from the administrative staff of the school;
- The lack of understanding and respect for cultural diversity accounted for by the activities and school hours, thereby causing tensions with families living in conditions of extreme poverty;
- The difficulty of dialogue between parents living in extreme poverty and the education system.
The suggestions put forward are:
- Tailoring the school activities to account for the needs and demands of the local community;
- Reinforcing the trust and confidence of parents and children in the education system;
- Guaranteeing that education is provided to children which is free and of high quality for all.


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The former Namibian sprinting sensation teamed up with Adecco Group Senior Vice President for the IOC Athlete Career Programme, Patrick Glennon, during the presentation of the career-planning course in Windhoek. According to Fredericks balancing education and sport is key to a successful post-athletics career. An interesting analysis he presented during the course showed that after turning professional and training full-time, his personal race results did not improve significantly from when he was studying part-time. Fredericks further highlighted the fact that of the close to 10 000 athletes participating in the Olympic Games with the dream to win a medal, not more than 304 athletes won a gold medal. "For many of the athletes who don't win a medal or don't make the qualification for the Olympics, this could mean the end of their sports career. Only with adequate education will athletes be able to build a future for themselves in the corporate world."
Glennon also made the participants aware of how many positive traits and experiences athletes have, which they can bring to the table in their post-athletics careers. He outlined ways how athletes can effectively communicate these attributes to potential employers. The course agenda included the preparation of a career game plan, tips about networking and its importance, as well as advice on the preparation of a CV and interviewing skills that will support athletes to achieve their dream after sport.
A total of 65 athletes and coaches from various sports codes attended the course, including Olympians Gaby Ahrens (shooting) Dan Craven (cycling) Beata Naigambo, Helalia Johannes (both athletics) and Mejandjae Kasuto (boxing). The Athlete Career Programme is a global initiative by the world governing body IOC. It is currently focusing on southern Africa and is also due to make stops in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Lusaka and Gaborone.


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The development of a fuzzy logic-based barrier (FLB) method for the evaluation of the proliferation resistance of nuclear fuel cycle systems is described in this paper. The method is based on using a group of system-dependent, measurable, or quantifiable variables to define the proliferation barrier effectiveness of a system as fuzzy numbers. The usefulness of the FLB method and the resulting metric in quantifying the proliferation resistance of fuel cycle systems was also investigated by applying it to three fuel cycles, i.e., light water reactor-once-through, light water reactor with mixed oxide fuel, and direct use of spent pressurized water reactor fuel in CANDU reactor. To address the issue of subjectivity in assigning barrier weighting factors or fuzzy numbers, the sensitivity of the results to the definition of fuzzy numbers and weighting schemes was also investigated.
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Apollo moon mission gear brings rare, valuable items to N.Y. auction
By Craig Hlavaty | April 10, 2014
NASA color photograph, 10 by 8 inches, of the Apollo 16 Command Module orbiting the moon with an Earth rise in the background, signed by all 12 men who walked on the moon. Sold at auction for $35,000.
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Signed by the Apollo 11 crew. 3½ inches in diameter, printed on Beta cloth, 6 inches square. Sold for $62,500.
Apollo XII Lunar Module (LM) Interim Stowage Strap. Brown teflon fabric with two sets of snap buttons and two velcro hook patches. 10 inches long. Sold for $23,750.
Large 14-inch machete consisting of a long 9-inch triangular blade having a sharpened fore-edge and head with a removable black rubber handle. Sold for $687.
Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Checklist. A single sheet printed recto and verso. NASA/MSC, June 16, 1969, updated June 25, 1969. 5½ by 8 inches. Extensive annotations in ink by Buzz Aldrin. Sold for $68,750.
Plastic, resin and metal model, 14 by 11 by 7 inches, on wooden stand. A very fine, highly detailed and accurate 1:7 scale model manufactured by NPO Lavochkin, 1990s. Sold for $15,000.
Cover layer from a Phase 2 Mercury-era space suit, with early model "widow's peak" helmet, gloves, and mock-up boots. Aluminized nylon. Approximately 63 inches tall. Sold for $43,750.
MIR SPACE STATION CONTROL PANEL. Control panel, aluminum and steel painted light blue, with plastic push buttons, glass light panels, digital display. execution button with metal safety switch cover. 16 by 9 1/2 by 7 inches. Mounted to metal display stand. Sold for $9,375.
Two square plastic containers, 4 x 4 inches with hollow interiors 1 ¾ inches deep. Each with identification labels that read in part: "KONA COFFEE w/ CREAM, 8 oz hot water * 2 – 5 min" and "TEA, 8 oz hot or cold water."
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PILOT'S RIGHT SIDE R2 CONSOLE PANEL FROM NASA SPACE SHUTTLE SIMULATOR. Consisting of metal, aluminum alloy, copper, plastic, and plastic covered wire, front with 67 toggle switches, one with red plastic safety cover, associated circuitry on back of panel. 29 by 17 inches. Sold for $6,000.
Collection of 70 photographs (67 black and white, 3 color), mostly 10 by 8 inches, 1960s. Sold for $1,750.
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Model made by the NASA-George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Graphic Engineering and Models Branch in Huntsville, Alabama ca. 1968. Metal, wood, and plastic, partly transparent, 1/96 scale, 12½ inches tall. Sold for $11,875.
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An auction of vintage items from the early days of manned space exploration was a $1 million success, according to Bonhams auction house officials.
Bids came in Tuesday via phone and web from 17 countries for space memorabilia that included items from the most groundbreaking of Apollo missions, artifacts from the Soviet space program, and the early days of the Space Shuttle.
The auction was held at Bonhams' Madison Avenue location in Manhattan.
"We sold about 80 percent of the items we had for sale," said Anne Wilson, PR coordinator for Bonhams in New York City. "Some things went for over their estimated value and others went out right in the range we had expected."
Over $1 million in items were sold. The items had been in the possession of private collectors, Wilson said.
Apollo 11 items were hot at the auction. A small U.S. flag patch carried by Buzz Aldrin on that historic mission sold for $47,500 and a mission emblem signed by all three astronauts went for $62,500.
A moon-dust covered strap from an Apollo 12 spacesuit worn by Pete Conrad went to a lucky bidder for $23,750. Going into the auction, it was the item with the most interest from collectors.
An Apollo 11 lunar surface checklist, used by Buzz Aldrin to detail his work on the first moon walk topped out at $68,750. A flight plan for their return to Earth was sold for about half that price.
You could make out like a bandit at the auction for less than a grand, too. A cosmonaut survival machete -- unused -- sold for $687. Just a pair pf strips of film positives from the Apollo 11 trip were $250. The photos appear to depict the lunar module lifting off from the surface of the moon.
Someone walked away with a $2,500 piece of chewing gum, still in the wrapper, from the Apollo 15 mission.
The gum, the auction house writes, spent 66 hours on the surface of the moon.
Bonhams' next space history auction is set for Spring 2015.


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SD man uses plane banner to propose to girlfriend
December 30, 2011 at 4:42 am in The Daily Republic
YANKTON (AP) As Megan Cabalka looked for a deer near a Yankton pedestrian bridge, she glanced up at a plane flying nearby.
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Dropbox sinks its hooks deeper into businesses
Recognizing its appeal to companies, the cloud storage company rebrands its enterprise offering with an IT-friendly approach.
Dropbox rolled out a more IT-friendly version of its cloud storage service geared toward businesses today, further showing how much it values its enterprise customers.
The service, which also has a free consumer product that is subsidized by the paid business services, is now called Dropbox for Business, a more specific moniker than its previous name, Dropbox for Teams.
Dropbox for Business now features a single sign-on feature, which means less passwords for each user, but continued security for IT administrators. Dropbox said this is one of the most requested features from its customers. The new service is working with several partners to make this happen, including Ping Identity, Okta, OneLogin, Centrify, and Symplified.
Dropbox boasts that it serves more than 2 million businesses and they save over 600 million files every week. The company clearly recognizes its appeal to companies and wants to make sure it can keep those companies coming back by offering new enterprise-minded features.


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Gaggia Descaler
Gaggia Decalcifier is specially formulated for Gaggia Espresso Machines. A critical part of the maintenance process, the Gaggia Decalcifier removes calcium deposits from machine components. This is the only decalcifier that has been tested and approved by Gaggia. It has been designed to prolong the machines' lifespans and can be used on both semi-automatic and super-automatic espresso machines. Product Size: 250ml bottle. One bottle is enough to descale your machine 2 times.
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Woo, hoo, etc, 13 April 2011
I have a Gaggia Baby Class D. Lovely machine, makes great espresso if you feed it Illy coffee, which I generally do. But a while ago, it started to have problems with pushing water through the head. I descaled it with the Gaggia powdered stuff, which made no difference at all. Hardly a trickle came through the brew head. I found this on Amazon a few days ago, and thought it was worth a try.
And it certainly was. After blasting some steam through the wand (which I don't normally use, as I'm a pure espresso kind of person), I pressed the manual button. There was a bit of noise, then water started to flow – at first a trickle, then a proper flow. Blockage cleared!
I'll be getting some more of this and using it every few months as preventative maintenance.
Great product, shame about the translation!, 26 Feb 2011
Our wonderful Gaggia Baby had stopped dispensing espresso completely, so i tried dismantling the likely bits, and cleaning them up. Once re-assembled, disappointly there was still no flow at all from the espresso outlets. So I tried this product as a last resort.
I found the english translation of the instructions somewhat confusing, and I came close to burning myself with the steam-wand as a result. Anyway, after some trial and error I discovered how to flush through the considerable quantity of diluted descaler, followed by several litres of clean water. It took about 2 hrs in all. However, our Gaggia Baby is now reborn and fully functional!!
I think I will now use this descaler every year (not 6 months as recommended on product, as a preventative. It certainly works brilliantly!
New life for a dying La Pavoni!, 10 Jan 2011
So pleased I tried this. Thought that my Pavoni Eurobar was consigned to the skip – had nothing to loose. The descaler has breathed new life into the machine…frothing like never before. Feel silly that I never descaled my poor machine earlier – obvious really. I rang a local kitchen shop which sells Pavoni plus other top end machines, they didn't supply any descalers but did try to flog me a new machine — grrr! Well worth a go.


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5 Years Ago: Pink Floyd's Richard Wright Dies
Richard Wright, in the time just before his passing in 2008, was in the midst of something of a comeback alongside his Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour.
Richard Wright didn't have the outsized personality of Pink Floyd bandmates Syd Barrett and Roger Waters, and his instrumental prowess was never as celebrated as David Gilmour's. And yet, as Gilmour was the first to tell anyone, many of Pink Floyd's most revered moments — from 'Interstellar Overdrive' and 'Echoes' to 'Us and Them' and 'Shine on Your Crazy Diamond' — were driven by important contributions from this shy, but critically important figure. As Waters ascended to a leadership position in the late '70s, however, Wright's role diminished. He finally left as the '80s began, but not before launching a sporadic solo career with 'Wet Dream,' which featured King Crimson alum Mel Collins. The four-part concept album 'Broken China' included guest vocals by Sinead O'Connor. By then, Wright had rejoined a Waters-less edition of Pink Floyd, and he'd later appear on Gilmour's solo tours — performing 'Breakthrough' from the 'Broken China' album, along with other Floyd favorites. Wright died in 2008.
Richard Wright, in the time just before his passing in 2008, was in the midst of something of a comeback alongside his Pink Floyd bandmate David Gilmour.
Pink Floyd's Richard Wright, more often than not, was the guy keeping to himself while outsized personalities like Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and David Gilmour drew all of the attention. Still, he made a number of important contributions to the band's space-rock legend over the years


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Had a new rear tire and the oil changed yesterday. Weirdly, the fluid in the rear brake was black (I had it flushed) but more bizarrely the pads were worn more than the front. Bear in mind the only time I use the rear is to keep the bike from rolling backwards at a stop.
No sign of binding or other reasons for the high wear rate. Very strange.
the dark brake fluid on the Ducati Mulitstrada 1200s is a very well known and written about topic (see Ducati.MS). if you look at your front brake fluid reservoir, it is most probably not dark in color. many (close to all?) believe that it is due to the rear brake fluid reservoir's location (adjacent to a heat source, the cat and motor), and related to the reason for the poorly functioning rear brake (i'm surprised yours keeps the bike from rolling backwards at a stop
). regardless, the only way to fight the fluid from becoming dark so quickly is to use a different type of brake oil (speak to your tech, peruse, etc.), because if not, the same will happen, and happen fast. as for your rear brake pads being worn more than the front (and without use), perhaps the obvious is happening in your case (maybe not binding but caliper/rotor related) but tough for me to say if so, maybe your tech? could help here as well. fwiw, i haven't heard of such happening before.
i hope you're enjoying your bike.
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West Coast Motors, the long established Argyll-based family-owned bus company business, operating across Argyll and the Isles and Glasgow, has achieved two recent service developments.
One is its expansion to the east coast with the Scottish Citylink contract to run the hugely useful Citylink Air express shuttle service from Glasgow's Buchanan Street Bus Station direct to Edinburgh Airport.
This gives folk from Argyll and the Isles and the Greater Glasgow area the easy-use choice of routes out of either Glasgow or Edinburgh Airport. It opens up new markets for Edinburgh Airport – no wonder they're excited about the service – and for Citylink as well as establishing even more strongly the central role West Coast Motors plays in public transport in Scotland.
The second service development was equally exciting. It was the company's acquisition of Bowman's, another established family business in bus transport, based in and serving the Isle of Mull.
To celebrate this new connection with this magnificent Argyll island, West Coast Motors very recently took one of its open topped tour buses on the CalMac ferry from Oban to Mull and flew the flag on a tour which, naturally, included Mull's signature town of Tobermory.
Was Damian Lewis aboard, we wonder? He;s filming on Mull at the moment and has already had a trip out on a training exercise with the Tobermory RNLI Lifeboat. So if anyone knows whether he was spotted on the open top tour, let us know. He's having a lot of fun in his downtime on an island renowned for its fabulous wildlife tours – with orcas and sea birds galore around its dramatic coasts and satellite islands; and the rare white tailed sea eagles in the air above its forceful landscape born of volcanoes and glaciation. RSPB and Mull eagles maintain a sea eagle reserve at Glen Seilisdeir.
There is no livery on the open topper bus as yet but this will be created and installed over the winter in time for next season.
It had a great day on the Mull – with some of the west coast's famous haze making the approach of the ferry carrying the open topper a wonderfully mysterious business.
And by the way, the timetables for the Mull bus services are now available on the West Coast Motors website here.


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this has been happening for ages, but I was noy determined enough to post a bug report. Anyway, when I select 640x480 as a screen resolution, the picture will be wrong: in stretched some parts of the image will get missing, and with centered/aspect ratio scaled the picture will be completely busted (looks like some scanline effect).
Out of resolutions listed in the nvidia-settings, this happens only with 640x480 and 640x512, others work fine. Bug report log attached. This is currently on Fedora 13 x86_64 and Toshiba Satellite A100-847 laptop.
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