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With a charity concert in the cathedral church St. Stephan (Vienna) on April 3, the church and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir stated their solidarity with the people in Japan.
The earthquake and the following Tsunami on March 11 have left a track of destruction. To the effects of the natural disaster comes the menacing atomic danger. With the charity concert "To Hope!" in the cathedral church Saint Stephan the initiators (Dompfarre, Arnold Schoenberg Choir and Kunst &Kultur-ohne Grenzen) showed solidarity with the people in Japan.
It was 2.46 p.m., the same hour when the first earth tremor shook the battered country, when the Arnold Schoenberg Choir started singing Johannes Brahms' "Ein deutsches Requiem". Moments of sorrow, thoughtfulness and questioning filled the church room: WHY ?
In an interview with Radio Stephansdom, cathedral priest Toni Faber explained why they decided on Brahms' Requiem: " A Requiem is used often only to mourn for the dead people. However, the German Requiem of Johannes Brahms is also a prop which gives the surviving consolation, help and stimulus."
The whole donation of the charity concert (each visitor paid a solidarity entrance fee) will support selected projects in Japan.
Bösendorfer provided a 290 Imperial for the concert.
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Day #1
1. Preparing the Peppers
Like with all preserving techniques, only the freshest, spotless chiles should be used. These are rinsed and patted dry.
Peppers ready for Candying
To ease syrup penetration, it is recommended to cut the pods in half. You should also deseed them. Just cutting the pods in half works well for thin-walled varieties like Habanero, Cayenne or Thai. Fleshier chiles like Jalapeño are better cut into strips. See also our Tips Section below.
2. Cooking the Syrup
In a large saucepan, combine 1 quart (1 liter) water and 2 lbs (1 kilogram) sugar. Using the wooden spoon, mix well, then bring to a rolling boil. Keep boiling and stirring until the mixture takes on a syrupy consistency, but still stays clear and colorless. This takes about 30 Minutes. If you are using a ceramics stovetop, watch out not to spill any sugar or sirup on it, as this stuff burns in fast.
Put the cut chiles into the Mason jar or other glass container, pour with boiling-hot syrup (caution - don't burn yourself). Leave enough room to put a small bowl as a weight on top to keep the peppers down, all covered with in the liquid. Close the container, keep remaining syrup in marmalade jar(s).
Pouring the Syrup
Let chiles sit in the closed container for 24 hours.
Don't they look beautiful?Chiles Candying in the Syrup
To minimize spill cleanup, put a newspaper underneath your jars. It is also recommended to rinse and clean all cooking utensils right after work.
Various candying instructions recommend to start the pouring with syrup that has cooled down first. We found pouring the piping hot liquid helps avoiding spoilage of peppers by fermentation while sitting in the liquid for days. Of course we could have boiled the pods quickly first, but that might have made them soft and mushy, losing their shape. Feel free to experiment here.
Day #2
Drain chiles in a strainer, letting the syrup flow into your saucepan. Put chiles back into the glass container.
Straining the Chiles
Bring the syrup to a boil and stir in an additional 50 g (1.75 oz.) of sugar. Add also the syrup you saved in marmalade jars, keep boiling and stirring with your wooden spoon for about 10 minutes at high heat. Pour the hot syrup over the chiles again, put on the weight to keep them all covered in liquid. Also, save the remaining syrup again, let chiles sit in their closed container for another 24 hours.
Day #3 to Day #5
Repeat the second day's procedure, including the addition of 50 g (1.75 oz.) more sugar every day. Both the sugar addition and the reduction by cooking will cause the syrup to become thicker and thicker. And it's getting hotter, too, as some of the capsaicin dissolves from the peppers into the liquid. After Day #5, let sit for 48 hours and have a rest on Day #6.
Day #7
Pour syrup and chilis into saucepan and bring to a brief boil, for just one minute, then take off the heat.
Drain chiles through strainer, catch the syrup in jars - you'll see we have great uses for the sticky spicy liquid as well.
Draining the Syrup off the Chiles
Arrange the chiles on a cookie cooling grid or a grid from your baking oven. Be sure to put parchment paper or a newspaper underneath, as we put the peppers there to let them drip off excess syrup. Count for two hours.
As the pieces will still be sticky, we finish them off in the baking oven or dehydrator. Since I kept my good old trusty El Cheapo "Mr. Coffee" dehydrator from our time living in Florida, I used that one, and the chiles were nice and dry after just four hours. When using a baking oven, dying should take about 15 minutes at 210F (100°C) to 300F (150°C) with a door lightly open. If available, turn on the ovens's air, too. Check after 10 minutes, drying should be finished no later than another 10-15 minutes. (To keep the peppers as they are, we prefer the airflow and lower temperature offered by a dehydrator, which is a great device for drying peppers in general).
Finishing in the Dehydrator
Either way you should let the chiles cool to room temperature, then store them in an airtight container. Flat containers like Tupperware or Gladware allow to place the pieces side by side, rather than stacking them, and potentially have them stick together.
Airtight Storage
That's because it can be possible that the chiles are still a little sticky. If that's the case, you can coat them with powdered sugar (also called confectioners' sugar). The French confectioners glaze their fancy fruits with a thin sugar coating after candying to keep them soft and moist by preventing drying out more than desired. But since we aimed at producing crunchy chiles to begin with, we don't need to do that. Our candied chiles didn't stick after weeks of storage, and they wonderfully kept shape, color, heat and aroma. I think the pictures speak for themselves!
To retain the candied fruits' colors, commercial production sometimes involves the addition of sulphur dioxide, a legal additive. Store your candied chiles at a dar place, they should keep their colors nicely without any additives. Especially the colors of mature pods survice syrup treatment and cooking really well. In fact, they seem to come out even more vibrant on the translucent pods. Just the green color of immature pods tends to darken to a brownish tint during candying.
Note: We found it to be very important to get rid of all humidity and to store the candied peppers tightly closed at a cool place, preferably in the refrigerator. Especially fleshy peppers can get moldy after a coiple of months if not dried well and/or sored too warm. Since the thin-fleshed varieties are getting dry more easily, we found small hot red peppers as well as c.chinense varieties like Habanero, Tropical Red, etc. best suited for candying.
Now let's see what we can do with our beautiful candied chiles - and with the hot syrup!
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January start for A453 widening work
Posted: December 18, 2012|
THE £150 million road widening scheme for the A453 is to start construction in January, Roads Minister Stephen Hammond announced today.
With an estimated completion date of the summer 2015, seven miles of the A453 will be widened by the Highways Agency between M1 Junction 24 and the A52 Nottingham Ring Road.
The project is the first of six growth schemes, announced in the Government's 2011 Autumn Statement, to start construction.
Roads Minister Stephen Hammond said:"The start of construction in January shows our commitment to deliver much needed improvements to England's infrastructure - helping to unlock growth potential, while cutting congestion. I know the A453 improvements will be a welcome economic boost for road users and businesses in the East Midlands.
Councillor Kay Cutts, Leader of Nottinghamshire County Council, welcomed the start of construction: "I am delighted that we are now within weeks of seeing construction work begin on the A453. Nottinghamshire County Council and the local business community campaigned long and hard for its improvement, with the County Council putting £20m into the scheme.
"The news that work is set to begin in the new year is fantastic news for everyone in Nottinghamshire. The improvements to this vital route, combined with the planned extension to East Midlands Airport will bring huge benefits to the Nottinghamshire economy and the East Midlands as a whole.
The Highways Agency is holding public information exhibitions at Clifton Leisure Centre, Southchurch Drive, Clifton, NG11 8AB, on Friday 11 January from 2pm to 8pm and on Saturday 12 January from 10am to 4pm. The exhibition will then move to Kegworth Whitehouse Hotel, Packington Hill, Kegworth, DE74 2DF, on Sunday January 13 from 10am to 4.30pm.
People will be able to view detailed plans for the scheme, find out more about the roadworks and how they can get journey planning advice during the works. The Highways Agency's project team, contractor Laing O'Rourke and scheme designer White Young Green will be on hand to provide more information and answer questions.
The new year will see work start on dualling the rural section of A453, between the new Mill Hill Roundabout on the edge of Clifton and junction 24 of the M1, as well as provision of an additional two traffic lanes through Clifton itself.
While much of the early stages of work on the rural section will be carried out away from the existing carriageway, work through Clifton has to be on the carriageway with traffic running close to the works. For the majority of the time one lane will be kept available for traffic in each direction as is currently provided.
It is expected that the widened A453 between the M1 and Mill Hill roundabout will be fully open from early summer 2015 following the completion of the section in Clifton a month or two earlier.
Traffic management will be put in place during January, including a new temporary 40mph speed limit from M1 Junction 24 to the edge of Clifton and a temporary 30mph speed limit though Clifton itself.
Some lane or carriageway closures will be required during construction, and these will be publicised closer to the times required.
To keep up to date on the A453 widening scheme, people can register for updates on the scheme's webpage or call the Highways Agency Information Line on 0300 123 5000.


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|eCareBench - Coping with an ageing population - Learning from good eHealth and telecare practices
|European Commission DG INFSO and Media
|8/2010 - 10/2011
Against the background of the fact that the use of telemedicine services is still limited and the market for devices remains highly fragmented, despite the potential benefits and the technical maturity of many applications, the study explores the European space in terms of the deployment of ICT-enabled care services, to learn from successful examples, and to adapt policies and incentive structures. In an effort to address these needs, the study demonstrates the gains in promoting the de-ployment of home care services using ICT and facilitate the exchange of good practices. The study develops the following key outputs: a consistent, rigorous, and realistic conceptual and methodological design of the study, including clustering of models of long-term care, a choice of 10 national cases, and the structure of a scoreboard on innovation, a scoreboard on the openness to innovation of national models of long-term care in the area of ICT-enabled home care services, set up around a set of macro-categories related to the openness to innovation, a validation workshop of one day, informing relevant stakeholders and experts about, and collecting their views on the interim study findings, as well as more general views, especially on current and future developments in the area of the study and policy implications, a set of analysed good practices in innovative, ICT-enabled of home care services for older people with chronic diseases, covering all six macro-categories of the scoreboard, and several clusters of national long-term care models, a set of relevant, well grounded, and clear policy recommendations, supporting further policy developments at European level to promote the deployment of ICT-enabled home care services, their ongoing monitoring, and the exchange and transferability of good practices across Europe, and adequate promotion of the main findings of the study. The project covers all EU Member States with more intensive activities in 10 countries to be supported by experts and national correspondents from empirica's ENIR network (www.enir.org) in the different countries.
|CAP4access - Collectively improving accessibility in European cities
|European Commission, Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT)
|1/2014 - 12/2016
The objective of the CAP4Access project is to develop and pilot-test methods and tools for collectively gathering and sharing information about accessibility of public spaces. The background for the project is that Europe needs to become more accessible. Too often, buildings and ways cannot be easily reached and passed by everyone. This does not only concern wheelchair users but also seniors with walking aids, parents with pushchairs, frail patients - it concerns anyone whose walking ability is permanently or temporarily limited. This applies to many millions of people in Europe. Online maps offer great opportunities to indicate which places and ways are accessible and which ones are not. Locations and routes on maps can be enhanced with accessibility related data, commented, and visualised with photos. These possibilities are not yet widely used, however, and their full potential still needs to be reaped. CAP4access works towards this aim. Four test sites in Vienna (Austria), London South Bank (United Kingdom), Elche (Spain) and Heidelberg (Germany) will produce insights about using online maps for enhanced accessibility.
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|Maintenance and upgrade of the ePractice.eu platform
|European Commission - Directorate General Information Society and Media - Unit H2 ICT for Government and Public Services
|3/2009 - 2/2012
P.A.U. Education and Atos Origin, a worldwide leading IT actor, teamed-up to lead the further maintenance and upgrading of the successful ePractice.eu internet portal. ePractice is a knowledge sharing community for eServices like eGovernment, eHealth and eInclusion. The project leaders are supported by empirica in the improvement of the user experience. Empirica analyses usage statistics and user interaction, using innovative methods such as click heatmaps and view port analysis. In addition, empirica supports P.A.U and Atos in improving the page for disabled users with the aim to comply with the W3Cs Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. empirica gives recommendations and guidance to web developers and content producers in identifying best practices and involving disabled users.
Project website: www.epractice.eu
|INDEPENDENT - ICT Enabled Service Integration for Independent Living
|European Commission DG INFSO and Media, CIP Programme
|1/2010 - 1/2013
The project defines, delivers and pilots a digital infrastructure supporting coordinated cross-sector delivery of timely support to prevent older people from slipping out of safe independent living, maintaining quality of life. The infrastructure enables support services to overcome limitations of sectoral telehealth and telecare and empowers informal carers and the voluntary / third sector to participate in delivery of support, thus radically improving efficiency. The innovative new services are piloted at six sites across the Europe. The project brings together 20 organisations across 6 Member States representing all major stakeholders in the "value chain" of support to older people, from public authorities and social and health service providers to global industry players and specialist SMEs.
More information and project website: http://www.independent-project.eu/
|Work+Care 2: Company initiatives for workers with care responsibilities for disabled children or adults: Review and case studies in six Member Statess
|European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Condition
|9/2010 - 5/2011
The study covers the second phase of the EuroFound initiative on "company initiatives for workers with care responsibilities for disabled children or adults". The first phase had already been carried out by empirica together with the Work Research Centre, Dublin. The study reviews recent research and policy documents from Member States, selecting 20-25 of the most important to be summarised in an Annotated Bibliography, apply the framework designed for documentation of policy/service developments in six Member States excluding those countries covered in the first phase (Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Ireland), describe and assess company case studies of good practice in the six Member States, following the template drawn up in the first phase of the project, organise and finance a small Expert Workshop, to debate the findings of the research. Like in the first phase the focus of this study is on company initiatives for workers with care responsibilities for disabled children or adults. The project covers several European countries and are supported by experts and national correspondents from empirica's ENIR network..
The results of the project have been published on the European Foundation's website, see http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/areas/populationandsociety/workingcaring/search.php
CommonWell- Common Platform Services for Ageing Well in Europe The CommonWell project has been launched in October 2008 as part of the EU initiative to promote better quality and more economically efficient solutions for the provision of health and social services and is coordinated by empirica. The CommonWell project aims to support independent living and improve the quality of life for older people and those with long-term conditions.
|ICT & Ageing: Users, Markets and Technologies
|European Commission, DG Information Society and Media.
|01/2008 - 12/2009
The main goal of the ICT+Ageing study is to identify and understand the market barriers which currently hinder uptake of ICT for independent living and active ageing in Europe. The study seeks to contribute towards policy action which will effectively tackle existing barriers, thereby helping to unleash ICT's potential to contribute to Europe's capacity for dealing with the demographic challenge.
The study focuses on three application areas of ICT for active ageing: Independent living (ageing well at home), Employment (Active ageing at work) and Social Participation (Ageing well in the community). A horizontal topic of core interest are the ethical issues arising from the use of ICT for purposes related to active ageing.
The study looks into the situation in 14 EU Member States plus USA and Japan with regard to market structures, recent and emerging developments, and policy response. It will identify and analyse good practice and show how Europe can learn from the experience in individual countries.
On the basis of the analysis, recommendations for action are to be developed in order to remove barriers for uptake and to foster market development. The results of the study will also guide the way towards further research needs in this area.
|MeAc - Measuring Progress of eAccessibility in Europe
|European Commission
|01/2006 – 12/2008
eAccessbility is commonly understood as a means to ensure that Information and Communication Technology products and services meet the requirements of people with disabilities. Accessible ICTs will improve the quality of life of people with disabilities significantly. At the same time, the lack of equal opportunities to access ICT can lead to exclusion. In the recent Communication on eAccessibility, the European Commission (CEC) presents approaches to ensure the availability of accessible ICT-based devices and services throughout the European Union. Three key approaches for EU-level policy intervention are highlighted:
The approach outlined in the Communication is to be reviewed within two years, and new measures and - if deemed necessary - new legislation then to be proposed. MeAC is expected to provide both qualitative and quantitative evidence to support this policy decision making.
In methodological regard, the study will in addition rely upon a policy survey, comprehensive literature anaylsis and on field studies in the EU Member States, USA, Canada and Australia.
|SOPRANO - Service Oriented PRogrammable smArt enviroNments for Older Europeans
|European Commission DG Information Society and Media
|01/2007 - 04/2010
SOPRANO is the acronym for "Service Oriented PRogrammable smArt enviroNments for Older Europeans". SOPRANO will design and develop highly innovative, context-aware, smart services with natural and comfortable interfaces for older people at affordable cost, meeting requirements of users, family and care providers and significantly extending the time we can live independently in our homes when older. User friendliness and acceptability is top priority for the project - a zero-slope learning curve is to be achieved and inter-faces are to "vanish" into domestic settings. Large-scale viability in real homes will be demonstrated with 600 users to raise public awareness and accelerate AAL (Ambient Assisted Living) exploitation.


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The Best GIFs From The Secret Circle Season 1, Episode 17, "Curse"
There were so many moments to love in The Secret Circle Season 1, Episode 17, "Curse," and we've been reliving them in GIF form. Between Jake's (Chris Zylka) nearly murderous fever dreams and Melissa (Jessica Parker Kennedy) popping Diana's (Shelley Hennig) top in front of a cop, the Internet has managed to capture TSC's most GIF-worthy scenes. Sorry, the flock of dead birds didn't make the cut.


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Here's some interesting news from the periphery. In Europe, where Microsoft was forced to institute a 'browser ballot 'upon the installation of Windows (giving Opera, Safari, Chrome, Firefox and IE equal billing), Firefox has just passed IE as the most popular browser on the continent.
That's according to Statcounter who told Reuters "This appears to be happening because Google's Chrome is stealing share from Internet Explorer while Firefox is mainly maintaining its existing share. We are probably seeing the impact of the agreement between European Commission competition authorities and Microsoft, to offer EU users a choice and menu of browsers from March last year."
Given equal footing with other browsers, users just don't pick IE (remember this ballot is only a year old and it will likely get much worse for Microsoft.
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The other day I met a woman who asked me what I did. Without missing a step I said, "I write the Sex.com Blog."
And she replied, "There's a Sex.com?"
I should have known then that this woman had questionable tastes if she had never been to Sex.com. Anyways, I was like, "Yeah. It's the most expensive domain name in the world."
And she was like, "Yeah? What is it?"
And I was like, "It's a free porn site in the style of Pinterest. It's the Pinterest of free internet pornography."
And she was like, "Porn? That's fucking gross." Typically women aren't as stimulated visually as men so I wasn't offended. Also, some porn can be fucking gross.
So after being very diplomatic with her, I had to ask, "What do you do when you masturbate?"
To which she replied, "Masturbate? No. I don't masturbate. That's fucking gross. Why would anyone masturbate?"
As it turns out, this woman has been alive for 33 years and never once tried flicking the old baked bean. Rather than try and explain the perks of masturbation to this woman, I took her question to heart. What motivates people to masturbate? And that's what our latest poll is all about.
If you're reading this, I can only assume that you either masturbate regularly or have at least tried masturbation in the past. I mean with the amount of sexy nude women that are featured on this blog, it would be very unlikely that none of you had ever masturbated before. If that's the case, congratulations. You have the patience of the saint.
For the rest of you hairy-handed masturbators, I want you to tell me why you masturbate.
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'Glee': 'True Colors' shine through the 'Hairography'
"Glee" wasn't at its best this week, though Jane Lynch's return was very welcome. I got that "after school special" feeling again, and the writing didn't seem as sharp as usual. Or, more likely, the prominence of the pregnancy-faking storyline just cast a cloud over the rest of the episode for me.
Lead-up to Sectionals: Will is convinced that Sue is leaking Glee Club's set list and videos of their practices to the schools they'll be competing against. One of which is a school for the deaf, with the show choir director played by Christopher Guest favorite Michael Hitchcock (also Ira Gilligan on "Arrested Development") . Jane Addams Academy, with Eve playing the director, is basically the Supermax of girls' high schools. That's a pretty small "section," for the Sectionals, no?
It comes out that neither of the other schools has an auditorium, so Will offers them the McKinley auditorium, suggesting a "scrimmage" of sorts. Jane Addams performs "Bootylicious," and Will thinks our heroes may not be ready for that jelly. And wait, isn't it only a scrimmage if the other side performs, too?
Although there's at least some "scrimmaging" with the school for the deaf, they don't do it in the auditorium, which I thought was the whole point of this thing. The deaf students perform "Imagine," with sign language and one student talk-singing until Mercedes and the rest of Glee Club join in. Or should I say butt in? It's lovely, and I understand the symbolism, but isn't it a little insulting for them to just take over the other students' performance? I'm feeling echoes of the wheelchair episode, here. Good intentions, but cringe-y outcome.
Rachel labels the Jane Addams performance "Hairography" -- using their hair to distract from their average dancing and vocals. And Will, rather than frowning upon it like Rachel, is inspired into finding their Sectionals Number of the Week: a hideous (if you ask me) "Crazy in Love"/"Hair" mashup. With even more hideous wigs. Is anyone else wishing they'd give the mashups a rest for a week or two?
Sue convinces him to be confident in his kids' talent without the distracting wigs, just before she leaks the setlist ("Don't Stop Believing" and "Proud Mary," plus a new addition) to the other schools, forcefully suggesting they each steal a song. The new addition is "True Colors," and while it's a really sweet song, it's not a showpiece like the other two. But Tina gets the solo, which is nice to see.
The Storyline that Wouldn't Die: Quinn feels under siege from everyone from Puck, and wants to give him a shot. To distract Finn she sics Rachel on him by arranging a Kurt-designed makeover for her. Kurt somehow didn't know that Rachel was in love with Finn, and when he finds out, he uses Sandy's prude to "ho" transformation in "Grease" as makeover inspiration. Sadly, as Kurt knew, Finn doesn't go for the "sad clown hooker" look. Ha. Kurt claims it was for her own good, since they're both nothing but a distraction to Finn. Quite literally, in this case. I liked seeing Kurt with a bit of an edge tonight, and it reinforced the fact that Rachel truly is at the bottom of the food chain.
Terri's also in the distraction business -- in this case, she distracts Will from his sexless marriage with a vintage car. But then, Quinn drops the bomb: She's keeping the baby. Terri's psychotic sister Kendra hires Quinn to babysit her kids because "five minutes alone with those little mongrels and she'll have her tubes tied," but the plan fails when Quinn invites Puck to come babysit with her. They improbably tame the beasts with a "live music video": an acoustic version of "Papa Don't Preach." And huzzah for an actor looking and sounding like she's actually singing, instead of lip-synching to a studio track.
Domestic bliss doesn't last long, though, since Puck is completely unwilling to keep it in his pants. He was even sexting Santana while he and Quinn were "playing house." He says he tried to resist, but "you haven't given it up to me since the night I knocked you up, and baby, I'm a dude. I have needs." Whoa, talk about a complete 180, character-wise. We haven't seen this side of him in weeks, so that conversation was pretty jarring.
Quinn goes back to the adoption plan, because the baby needs a good father. That's what this is about? And Quinn doesn't think Finn would be? She's not wrong, but then why has she been going through this whole charade with Finn if she definitely doesn't plan on keeping the baby, and doesn't think he's father material? She just wants him as a boyfriend? This plot is driving me bananas at this point. Perfect future father Will sells the vintage car to buy a wood-paneled minivan. And perfect future husband Finn, for his part, confesses going over to Rachel's but tells Quinn how much he loves her. So basically, he's the opposite of Puck.
Odds and Ends:
- Brittany's lesson in Hairography = hilarious. "Pretend like you're getting tazered...Like cool epilepsy."
- How is their sectionals playlist only three songs? I thought they needed a Broadway number, a ballad, etc., etc. to impress the judges. Not so? I feel like we've been tacking on a song a week!
- Will and Terri actually sleep with a pillow between them? For real? I guess that explains some of the obliviousness, then...
- Kurt: "Rachel somehow manages to dress like a grandmother and a toddler at the same time."
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Novice Member
Joined: 12/02/09
Scaling of any kind makes levelling pointless. If you have endless levelling with endless scaling of content then the levelling becomes entirely redundant...
The playground idea wouldn't work either because players would get bored of it after a few weeks. The PvP playground would become barren once a few hardcore levellers dominated it and the PvE one would just get dull when you're one-shotting things...
As others have said the key to 'endless' progression is getting rid of vertical progression and replacing it with horizontal. Allow players to pursue multiple advancement paths on the same character, let them level every class and crafting profession on the same character, let them progress in tertiary systems that allow them to do MORE instead of doing it better.
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Joined: 5/30/09
I think Star Wars Galaxies had the best infinate progression system. The main point is they set the bar very high to obtain Jedi status. One had to max out every other single class to unlock Jedi. Even for the hardcores this was difficult to do and Jedi were very rare in the pre-NGE. They also took the the Jedi thing a step further in that if your Jedi died in PvP is was permadeath but there was a benifit that a dead Jedi would unlock a Jedi ghost that would be a helper for your next charactor. Only a small tiny elite ever abtained a second Jedi with previous Jedi ghost unlocked. One of the endearing mystries of SWG is if your second Jedi died as well do you get two ghost Jedi helpers? Nobody even knows for sure how many ghost Jedi could be unlocked but the system had the potential to be infinate.
Elite Member
Joined: 5/12/10
Nice column, Bill. I've never been one of the "life starts at level cap" players and I hate grinding as well, but there are games with good ideas in the endgame department - at least these are working for me:
AoC - horizontal options with the AA system, it freshened up a few builds, widened the options (too bad it brought a massive grindfest as well, so I use it mostly with the timer, and only on rare occasions with xp :) )
TSW - also horizontal with the auxiliary weapons, some (small) content updates with the new questlines, and focusing on RP with Albion and Crusades (I think more games should use rp'ing to keep players in the world)
STO - new content in the game all the time via Foundry, the DOff system (both as a separate minigame, and as some mild horizontal development with their boosts), and also a mild horizontal part is to honing your BOff's (since you get xp for the bridge officers beyond the level cap too). Ok, there's also an enormous fleet grind, but I avoid that as far as I can :)
In short, for me the perfect endgame would be horizontal development with only a moderate (at most) level of grind, massive content updates (maybe with ugc), and roleplay. I know, keep dreaming :)
Novice Member
Joined: 3/25/11
I ont thought of one Game as I read this: Maplestory
Maplestory has infinite levels, with interesting skills an dungeons as far as any player has leveled into the game. I know it's old with 2D-graphics but it's definitely worth checking out if you crave the things you write about.
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Joined: 4/19/09
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Great bible thumping but won't work.
Times have changed and regardless the attempt some will always balk about their perceived version of "end game".
1. For god's sake mmo gamers, enough with the analogies. They're unnecessary and your comparisons are terrible, dissimilar, and illogical.
2. To posters feeling the need to state how f2p really isn't f2p: Players understand the concept. You aren't privy to some secret the rest are missing. You're embarrassing yourself.
3. Yes, Cpt. Obvious, we're not industry experts. Now run along and let the big people use the forums for their purpose.
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Joined: 11/14/12
Curious why they would show a game aka City of Heroes/Villains which the dev's killed even thou it was making a profit on the front of this page?
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Not sure I would want to play a game with no level cap. I need to have milestones and level cap is one of them. However, I do like where you are going with this thought process, Bill. I've always enjoyed games like FFXI and EQ2 mostly due to how progression in their games is handled. I always felt like I had something to work on when I log in to those games as opposed to WoW or Lotro or even Rift, where most content is finite.
Even though WoW, Rift and Lotro have Rep grinds, that kind of progression feels tacked on, like you said in the early part of your article and didnt' feel organic enough to enjoy as opposed to the AA system in EQ2 or the subjob system in FFXI which made leveling any/all jobs worthwhile.
Good article though, this is definitely something that needs to be talked about among MMO designers and put into action because I'm finding even console games are starting to "get it" when it comes to progression and more bang for your buck. Just play Farcry 3, Sleeping Dogs, Assassin's Creed 3 and numerous others who have adopted Open world aspects that add to your character's progression in games that aren't even RPGs. Just sayin.
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Joined: 4/10/04
The problem with a never ending leveling is that at that point you're leveling just to level and to me that isn't the answer. I don't disagree that having the abilitie to make tweaks to you're character is a must but leveling just to level seems a bit point less.
So how do you keep players invested in a game beyond leveling. Well it all comes down to a lot of different things. A sandbox game where the players evolve the world is the best option. Eve is a great example of this. The players define who the universe unfolds around them, not the devs. All Dev's do is give them the tools that enable them to do so.
In all honesty I think Elder Scroll has the solution to all these problems. The game is very much story driven yet it doesn't tell you what to do. You are free to explore the world as you wish. There are no levels but instead have skills that you can develope, which of course makes you a better fighter or crafter. The more you use a sword or cast a spell the better you get at that and the more options open up for you.
Levels pretty much lock you in to playing in a certain area based on you're level. Thus pretty much limiting you're options. In so doing so can actually kill player experience. Some of my favorite experience in MMO have been those I created on my own. What I mean is when I am off exploring I finding interesting places and I take the time to explore them (now what would make it better is if I had hints about other locations or secerets at those locations that with bit of time and effort can be unlocked giving me better insights in to the world) but also there those moments I come across dangers and I am forced to fight or run for it. Those are the moments that I feel are the best experiences, not the leveling or quest but the exploration, the hidden dangers, the desire to find secerets and then unlocking those secerets by solving puzzles and riddles or just following leads till everything fits together and makes sense.
I don't want to know that the big red dragon standing in front of me is beyond my limits to fight and conqure. I want to find that out for myself. The not knowing makes it half the fun. I think MMO need to dig deep and really put a lot more thought process in to the world they create. They need back history woven in to the world it self for players to unlock just by being courise about the world and exploring. It needs to keep conflict between players out in the world not in instances. These worlds need to have fate quest that can help shape the world around them. What do I mean by fate quest. Think of Lord of the Rings. Bilbo didn't asked to be handed the One Ring, it came to him by fate if you will. He then passed the ring to Frodo who was fated to lead it to where it can be destroyed and thus leaving Gollum fated to be the one to ensure it's destruction. None of the characters asked to be placed in those positions but there they where. That is what MMO need as well, quest that allow players to make choices that can eventually reshape the world around them.
I could go on but I think every one gets my point. Leveling for the sake of leveling is pointless. MMO need to think much deeper and broader and find a way to open there world to the players in such a way that they decided how the world evolves not only on a personal experience but on large scale experience.
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Joined: 5/27/11
City of Heroes did it right.
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Joined: 9/26/04
Endless vertical levelling (i.e increase in power) is not practical, for obvious reasons. If it's mitigated by "scaling everything", then that levelling becomes totally pointless.
A rabbit in the "starter zone" would hit you for 10 points if you were L10, but it would smack you with 10,000 points if you were L1000. What's the point ?
Endless horizontal progression is probably quite feasible. EVE-Online has been doing it for almost 10 years now. That's because horizontal progression makes a character able to do more things, but it doesn't make that character infinitely powerful at any of those things. More choices, not more power.
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Joined: 6/10/06
You dont have to scale everything the same way though. There could be areas favored for leveling which scale with more rapidity meaning that players are always matched against more optimal time:exp reward payoffs for best leveling experience, and you could have other areas which have much wider gaps between when they scale for use in events or which drop valuable items. The idea is to get to the next teir in THOSE, there may only be 3 or 4 total, each 'step' having a dramatically higher payoff for the player, those can be the goal, with the other part of the games content having many more scaled iterations for grinding through.
I think people underestimate the drive that 'just getting more powerful' has. Its been said before but current mmo endgames are all based on that, its not like people do the gear grind for cosmetic reasons, its for numbers. In the end mmo character progression has all been about getting more powerful for powers sake. This is even more meaningful when its not your gear but your character itself that is growing.
The great thing about this is that new content that is developed as the game goes on can simply be new abilities that get added as the playerbase levels up, it doesn't have to be entirely new areas - and when new areas ARE designed, they can be used by the entire playerbase, forever due to scaling. It saves dev time, and it gives all players more things to do. For pvp all you need is level brackets
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Joined: 10/25/10
Originally posted by azzamasin
I would also like to watch / read this if it is available. I do my best to attend all the local IGDA meetings, and Indie Game Nights, and would love to absorb this kind of methodology.
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Joined: 1/31/12
Just a thought:
Level-up for xp "infinite", "not just 1-80" and stop, a system to convert level-up xp in to currency, non decayed skills, double the ammount of xp needed for every next skill level, one could learn all skills if desired, achievements, with today's graphics and "aim to hit" combat, gear-up from crafting not from npcs.
Pluss new contents.
Every content have all dificulty levels of npcs, let players decide how they want to handle those npcs, "solo or group".
This will give you endless playebility.
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Joined: 12/17/11
I see two ways to escape End-Of-Progression trap:
1. EXP. leak: the higher your level the faster your EXP. leaking - you can even loose levels that way which would slow down leak. Basically level would depend on skill much more than on time spent in-game.
2. Horizontal progression: replace EXP.grinding with money grinding and give players ways to affect game-world using those money. Basically grinding don't make your character stronger, but you can hire guards. That way players skill can challenge time spent in game.
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Joined: 1/25/12
I'm only playing the role chosen for me. Who you supposed to be?
Good Article Bill. I agree and would love a well implemented system of infinite progression. Under that context i would sub to the game forever :-)
But in my limited knowledge of development I can't comprehend how it could be done in a sustainable model, though I would support it if there was one.
Wish developers would take the risk to try and figure it out.
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Joined: 6/15/04
Originally posted by darkhalf357x
In a way it has been done. In FFXI. I still to this day haven't gotten every job to cap or seen every Mission. That game keeps the content flowing, it's just unfortunately an old game and filled with UI and control blunders galore. That being said, I think the answers are in other games, they just need to be grabbed and innovated on in newer games. Like EQ2s AA system, or Rifts Planar Attunement, TSWs auxilliary weapons, Eve's endless skill system and so forth. Imagine an MMORPG that managed to put these things in their game over time or right at launch? This coupled with making worlds and not just game lobbies brings us back to why we loved MMOs in the first place, they never end and are MASSIVE(deep) in gameplay.
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Joined: 3/12/07
Just to add my 3 cents, I see some problems with unlimit leveling.
First you need to make levels distinct. Like what's the difference between a lv 170 character and a lv 430 character? Do they have different content? Do they get to fight different enemies? There's going to come a point where things start feeling the same. That leads to bored player who winds up quitting. Also if you give out different abilities at different levels, you're going to run out of room on the screen to do everything. In City of Heroes I had a character with over 100 abilities that I could turn on and use but on a regular basis I was only using 40 at most. The rest were near useless until I needed them, then it became impossible to find them to use. But people like having tangible rewards. Sure you can increase their HP but a flashy new ability is a way of yelling, "Hey people lookit what I can do now!"
The advantage of a level cap is that once you reach it, you can make a new character and start again with a different kind of character learning different tactics and ways to play the game so you get more out of it. That leads to a higher retention rate and a better game. Plus having different characters help with teaming. If you need a buffer, you're more likely to have one if you're encouraged to try different things.
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Joined: 2/16/06
best end game content by far was Vanila wow... not cosmic barbie thoughts /sigh...
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Original Everquest has a robust alternative advancement system which was a lot of fun, and which struck a balance between endless levels and some type of cap. I will never understand why every game doesn't have a system like that. It was awesome.
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I like having unlimited progression in a MMO because I like to have incentive to keep playing...For me the worst type of gameplay is to hit a max level and only have gear as an incentive to keep playing......


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The decision by Tainui leaders to boycott the Government's planned consultation over water rights has shown "strength and leadership", Mana Party leader Hone Harawira says.
With the purpose of discussing the 'shares-plus' scheme raised by the Waitangi Tribunal as a way for the Crown to settle Maori claims to water rights, the first of six hui was held in Hamilton last night.
"On behalf of the tens of thousands of Maori who have already expressed their opposition to the government's asset sales programme, I wish to thank the people of Tainui for their refusal to buy into National's 'consultation' proposals," Harawira said.
"Last week was a watershed moment in Maori unity and this week the people of Tainui have again shown strength and leadership by refusing to attend last night's hui called by the government to curry favour with selected iwi leaders."
Harawira said the government is only meeting with iwi leaders who "hold mana whenua across those waterways critical to the government's asset sales programme."
Finance Minister Bill English says despite Tainui boycotting the event, and only 12 people in attendance, there was still a robust discussion.
However, ONE News Political Editor Corin Dann told TV ONE's Breakfast this morning that it seems the hui are simply a case of the government ticking a box for the government.
"The point is, the government is getting things lined up here so that when this issue inevitably ends up in the court room, it can say to a judge that they acted in good faith," he said.
Dann also said that it appears there is confusion "as to what sort of unity there is in Maoridom on this issue".
"After last week's hui, there was a growing unity, but Tainui, are possibly a little bit out on their own on this one, with this sort of boycott yesterday," he told Breakfast.
Dann also said that he would not be surprised if "iwi negotiate individually", if the issue ends up in the courtroom.
Yesterday, Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia said that it was up to iwi if they attended the hui or not, but that she believed the government has a pre-determined view on the outcome of the meetings, and they do not amount to consultation.
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Category Archives: Protest du jour
Protest du jour: Police flee from protestors in Bangladesh. You won't see that everyday.
Protest du jour: Anti-government rally in Istanbul; Bangladeshis against blasphemy; May Day in Hong Kong
Protest du jour: Lone man in Amsterdam takes issue with monarchy
Protest du jour: Supporters of loser in Venezuelan election take to the streets of Caracas
Protests du jour: Down with the monarchy in Spain; saying no to the 'Bedroom Tax' in London
Sweetness.And for those of you with enquiring minds (and time on your hands), here's a BBC story explaining the dreaded "bedroom tax."
Protest du jour: Kashmiri government employees vs police in India
There were several strong competitors for the protest crown today but the ones from India were tough to beat. The photographer got right in the thick of things for these.
If there's one common thread I take away from looking at so many of these images, it's that the cops (or soldiers), more often than not, are the winners when it comes to bodily harm.
Protest du jour: Kurdish students dispersed by Turkish police
Today was a busy one in the protest world with 116 hits including rioting students in Turkey, some of whom were taking a beating. The bottom image is a beauty but requires a bit of context that's provided by the top one.
Protest du jour: 1990 rally against poll tax in Britain turns ugly
In keeping with the day's top news story, the death of Margaret Thatcher (the importance of which is largely dependent upon one's anglophilic bent) I came across a fine protest photo, a protest gone bad in the streets of London. This one has such a nostalgic feel to it with the graininess of film in the pre-digital age and the photographer at left with his Domke bag and Vivitar 283 strobe. Oh those were the days.
Protest du jour: Anti-Putin demonstration in Germany
Only 53 hits on "protest" as of 5:39 p.m. so Sunday was a slow one for worldwide protests. But that's certainly one of the best dressed protestors I've ever seen.
Protest du jour: Topless feminists in France face off with angry men
A much stronger set of protest photos today with 71 hits, several of which were of a trio of topless Ukrainian feminists protesting against Islamists in Paris. Apparently their antics didn't go over well with at least one man who was photographed kicking one of the women in her behind. The one on the receiving end of the kick is not the one seen flipping him a double bird. Why women from Ukraine are in Paris protesting in front of a mosque is a good question.
Protest du jour: Ukraine crowd faces off with police, demands mayoral election
Another slow day on the protest front with only 53 hits. I guess the man front and center in Kiev didn't want to get anyone sick.
Protest du jour: Women run from police in Bahrain
Slim pickings for the daily protest photo with only 57 hits on the search.
Protest du jour: Muslims protest ethnic unrest in Myanmar (formerly Ceylon)
Only 54 hits today on the protest front and mostly just run of the mill….
Protest du jour: Anti gay marriage crowd takes a beating from French police
But back to the image. I've never quite figured out how the marriage of two people of the same sex who love one another has any affect on my "traditional" marriage. I honestly don't get it but it sure stirs up lots of folk here and abroad.
Protests du jour: Animal rights in Spain; jobs in Belgium; war crimes in India
Today there are 194 images from around the world with a simple "protest" search, so I've expanded the selection. Why share only one when there are so many is my mantra. Enjoy.And before anyone gets offended, the woman being wrapped is clothed in the areas that might be upsetting. You gotta love it as one man uses an umbrella that's pretty much worthless against a water cannon, and hides behind a pole while one of his compatriots is literally knocked off his feet. Sweet!
Protest du jour: Cypriots take to the streets against bank account seizure
And rightfully so IMHO
Protest du jour: Bangladeshis protest recent arrests
There's seldom a day that passes here that I don't find photos from protests somewhere in the world. Sometimes I'll use one in the paper and a really sweet image will make the Images of the Week gallery that Chris Wilkins puts together. But I'm going to try to post my favorite single image every day I work. Today, a simple search of "protest" yields 81 pictures from India, Bangladesh, Cyprus, Egypt, Philippines, Lebanon or France.


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3 Kaboom's, 3 Dudes, and a Chick ride Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Montana
A journey of 2750 miles (90% offroad) with three KTM990/950 Adventures (one two-up) over 13 days in the Wild West.
This journey is largely based on the ride DockingPilot wrote about called "Forever West".
We would like to thank DockingPilot for his GPS tracks and his invaluable <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p>info that made this trip awesome </o:p>
<o:p>I should also mention that while DockingPilot created GPS tracks for the Forever West ride it was the vast knowledge and experience of Tony Heugel of Backcountry Byways that provided the route information. He has traveled a lot and knows these areas. So if you are planning a trip in the Wild West check him out at http://backcountry-byways.blogspot.com/
Thanks Tony for providing more insite into a historic area and all the cool places to visit.
</o:p><o:p>This trip was sponsored by "I Love Drilling" of Vernal, Utah<o:p></o:p>
(actually just the stickers) http://www.ILoveDrilling.com
Let's introduce the cast of characters:
Paul (JustPaul) aka "Flats" also known as "Firedancer". A big dude at 6'5" and great rider who rode two up all the way with Jill.
He was the lead rider (since he was usually the quickest and the most experienced in dirt).
Destroyer of tires and knows how to start a fire real fast!! Paul was riding his 2007 990 Adventure with Superplushed suspension (to "S" spec). <o:p></o:p>
<o:p>Jill (JustJill?) aka "Photochic" or "Flowerchild" or "Smilie. Expert at taking pictures while riding with Paul on a bumpy motorcycle.</o:p>
<o:p>A real trooper who loves to get out and tough it in the woods with the boys.
<o:p>Jeremy (Darkryder) aka "Crash" or "IT_boy"<o:p></o:p>
Crash was the second bike for a long time as his GPS routes were screwed up. He had no choice but stay in between flats and me to make sure he did not get off course.
He rode fast, had some dramatic crashes and spent much of his spare time fixing IT problems when he was within range of WiFi.
This was Crash's first big adventure ride so it was a new experience for him but being an excellent rider with 24+ years of street riding under his belt, he took it in stride.
Jeremy was riding his new 2010 990 Adventure "R<o:p></o:p>
Mike Z (Zeegman) aka "Gramps" or "Mudman" <o:p></o:p>
Bringing up the rear since I am the oldest and usually slowest person to run sweep (and I had the satphone).
I had some issues dropping the bike 3 times in mud/water. I was riding my 2006 950 Adventure.
Paul and I had the ADVtank which added about 70 miles to our 140 mile stock range. But our longest distance without gas was about 230 miles.
The Adventure is a thirsty bike (35miles/gallon) so we all had to carry extra gas in the form of Justanks gas bladders (2 or 3 gallon) or MSR fuel bottles in Pauls case. <o:p></o:p>
Trip planning <o:p></o:p>
We did quite a bit of trip planning. After all this a trip of about 2700miles through 6 States (Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado) with about 90% dirt.
First we got the GPS routes from Dockingpilot, then studied them and then called DockingPilot who graciously answered all our questions ("Are we going to drive off cliffs?",
"Will bugs eat us alive?", "Will we get shot and left for dead if we camp on someones property"?).
We had to break the route up in 13 sections since it was one continuous route of about 65000 points – try loading that into the GPS.<o:p></o:p>
We also traced the route on our Paper Benchmark Maps in case the GPS failed.
We also created a route street with daily stops and points of interest including famous landmarks, gas stops, campgrounds, hotels, bike dealers, casinos, banks, (hospitals?).
We planned for camping most of the time as we brought tents, sleeping bags, cook gear, some food and water.
We ended up camping a little over ½ the time. We had a satphone and never used it. Two of us also had the SPOT.<o:p></o:p>
We started from San Jose, California and trailered the bikes to Wendover, Utah where we stashed the trucks and trailers at the local Kampgrounds Of America,<o:p></o:p>
We started in Wendover which is where the famous Bonneville Salts are and the land speed records are recorded.
We got there one week after the speed races ended. This was the closet point on the route from San Jose.
We took two days of highway slabbing to get there after we left after work on August 18 although it could be done in one day.<o:p></o:p>
The drive from San Jose to Wendover is kinda boring so for fun people do weird things to pass the time like try to catch gumdrops In their mouth or try to find fun signs.
<o:p>We finally get there and it is hot (looking South)
so we parked our trucks and offloaded bikes at the hotel and walked over to the air conditioned casino for a huge buffet dinner.<o:p></o:p>
<o:p>It's was the last supper before the big dirty ride. We slept well (after a bit of gambling – we lost some - not much).<o:p></o:p>
The trip almost didn't happen since Paul loaded his riding gear into his truck the day before heading out.
In the night someone broke the window on his truck and took all his gear.
So that day he scrambled like crazy driving all over the place with the help of friend Ian (Ian408) to pick up new gear (not easy for a guy who is 6'5"and big feet).
Paul also had to get the window quickly fixed on the truck. Somehow that all got done and he and Jill were able to happily leave San Jose, Ca that evening.<o:p></o:p>
Paul was so excited about the trip and to have all his new gear he actually went to bed in them the first night in Wendover.
Next day we got up and packed up our shiny clean bikes with the fresh tires, oil, coolant, brakes, clean air filters and clean undies.
We had breakfast and suited up and fueled up<o:p></o:p>
<o:p>Day 1 Aug 21
The first day was going to be a long one at 230 miles but I am glad it happened at the beginning.<o:p></o:p>
It would take in Bonneville Salt Flats, Silver Island Mountains, Great Salt Lake, Continental Railroad track and Museum, and finally reach our destination in Brigham, Utah.
It starts where we end and it ends where we start in Wendover since it is a circle route.
<o:p>This is a view looking at the Salt Flats South of Wendover. Wendover is up on an outcrop of rocks that sticks above the Salt Flats. </o:p>
<o:p>Most of the Flats are, well, very flat. I think I read some where that it is so flat you can actually detect the curve of the earth. <o:p></o:p>
Here is a video of us making our way through the Salt Flats area.<o:p></o:p>

You can see in the video as we make our way through town that the town straddles the Nevada Utah border.
There are salt chunk remnants of the Salt Flats that have come off vehicles as white rocks or powder all over town.
We enter Bonneville Salt Flat area and Silver Island Mountains backroads where we meet the first dirt roads.
I almost bite it as we enter the dirt road as I ride over a soft patch of dirt. Embarassing!
I have on my tankbag a list of mileage to fuel stops which is a great idea from DockingPilots pictures of his bike.
In general Paul/Jill would lead, then Jeremy, then me. The roads were very good so we could cruise at about 50-70 mph.
We would be about 1-5 minutes apart. It was pretty dusty so it was good to have separation so as not to choke on it and clog up filters, faceshields, and camera lenses.
The place is amazingly barren and hot!!
The Silver Island Mountains are to the North West of the Bonneville Salt Flats racetrack. We didn't get to see the speedway but we were inspired by thoughts of it as we roared on our way.
You don't actually want to drive out on to the flats as in lot of places there is a thin layer of salt covering a huge mud plain.
You'll drive out there and get stuck immediately. We stuck to roads off to the sides which were in very good condition, and cruised along at a pretty good clip.
<o:p>The Salt Flats stretched as far as the eye can see. The sky had some pretty amazing cloud formations as the landscape drifted by. We saw almost nobody out here – very desolate.<o:p></o:p>
We headed around the mountains and rode North up towards the Lucin cutoff and the Transcontinental Railroad grade. This is a very historic place allowing expansion to the West.
The original railroad grade remains and is a trail that one can ride on since the railroad tracks and ties were removed or rotted away.
There are dozens and dozens of railroad trestles that span the route and kept the railroad tracks above the flood plains.
They are all too fragile to ride on now, so they are all blocked off so you need to detour them all.
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This really slowed us down and made it seem even slower in the oppressive mid-day heat.<o:p></o:p>
We followed the trail as it wound past now non-existent towns like Terrace – now just a cemetery.
We imagined what it must have been like for the poor buggers that worked so hard and died to build this railroad in this barren, bad water furnace.
Finally we had to take a break as we needed to hydrate and eat a few munchies (energy bars) and Jeremy had to fill his tanks from his gas bladders.
Paul was doing his best mexican hat impression
We saw a wild hare seeking refuge from the heat under an old railroad trestle – can you spot him?
<o:p>After fueling up our bikes and bodies we headed out for the Golden Spike National monument and museum.
We finally made it to this park sign (with some much needed shade – no trees out there) showing a map of the Transcontinental Railroad track trail we just rode 90 miles on.
The sign said "Old Railroad spikes can sometimes surface and cause flat tires" – now they tell us.
Eventually the dirt turned to pavement as this video of the approach to the monument and museum shows

The Golden Spike monument was erected marking the site where Eastern and Western lines of the railroad met on May10, 1869.<o:p></o:p>
The Central Pacific Railroad line was started in 1863 from Sacramento heading East through the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Great Basin.
At the same time the Union Pacific line was built from Omaha in the East to reach this spot known as Promitory Summit, Utah.
The last spike was made of gold and was driven by Leland Stanford (Stanford University) connecting the US via rail.
Two steam engines were parked face to face for the final ceremony and are immaculately restored and are in working condition at the Golden Spike Museum.
The Central Pacific ("Jupiter" #60) came from the West and the Union Pacific #119 came from the East.
The parks staff and volunteers did an amazing job to preserve and maintain the site and historical machines.
<o:p>They even put a show on for us giving a live demo of the #119 Union Pacific engine.
The machine rumbled the ground as it lumbered down the rails past us.
The engineer tooted the whistle. I caught some video of it here:

We then stepped into the air conditioned museum and had a good look at a replica of the original Golden Spike (original is at Stanford University).
Key people's names are even engraved into the side of the spike – a work of art!<o:p></o:p>
After we cooled off in the museum it was time to hit the road and drive the short distance to Brigham city for our first night.
It was hot out and there was no shade anywhere so we decided to motel it.<o:p></o:p>
Brigham city is a very picturesque town with old brick and stone civic halls and large tall church steeples.<o:p></o:p>
We had a quick shower and went out for a meal (made the mistake of trying to order a beer) and then crashed for the night.<o:p></o:p>
We made good time that day, getting to Brigham city at about 5PM.
There were no incidents or mechanical issues and everybody was feeling great and eagerly looking forward to what the next day would bring.<o:p></o:p>
Thanks Mike for doing this.. We had a great trip. Thanks to the Docking Pilot Gang for all help !
Great pic! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for posting the video. As hot and isolated as it is out there, still love it. A good friend of mine and I did the reverse of your first days route a couple of years ago. http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...eroadgrade.jpg
Can't wait to read the rest of your ride report.
Thanks for putting together this ride report Mike. Great narrative and photography! Here are some Day 1 photos from my camera I'd like to contribute to the report. Hope you all enjoy them :-)
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I used to do pottery. (Which I've been meaning to get back to..) and during the firing of pots the kiln would reach temps of about 2300 degrees, more or less. The firing took place in a brick kiln. Now in this kiln there were a few "peepholes." To plug these peep holes during firing a piece of a high-refractory brick was used. When I wanted to take a peek I just pulled it out. The cool thing was I could use an unprotected hand to do it. So one side of the brick was 2000 degrees or more, but the other was cool as a cucumber.
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Those insulating bricks may be more expensive and harder to find than the perlite or the cal-sil boards...
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Bright pink and orange balls scatter as toddlers flex their developing motor-skills. Some sit on the carpeted floor to build teetering creations with blocks, while one or two curious others take advantage of the sunlight, reflected off the yellow-painted walls, and flip through picture books. Most young children from rural households in Honduras are not exposed to toys, games and a clean environment, as are these children from Chiligatoro, a mountainous village in the department of Intibucá. At this early childhood development center, the children are encouraged to learn by doing and are exposed to the basics of shapes, colors, songs and dances in a setting that is fun and nurturing.
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