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I am new here and I am in general a beginner in programming and Python. I hope my questions will not become too trivial.
So, the exercise is:
You are supposed to learn to transverse (look at all the elements) in a simple list. In the given framework the code for creating a chained list is written The important thing to remember in this exercise is how to link elements together. This is very common in object-oriented programming. The trick when making a chained list, is to connect several objects of the same class, so that every object has a reference (link) to another object (the next object'). If you so, at any place, save a referance to the first object in the chain (the next object that has not been linked to any other objects), you have a starting point to transverse the whole list of objectsr.
Input consists of whole numbers separated by a break line. Your program is supposed to put these in a chained list, transverse the chained list, and print the highest number.
Input example:
Output should be:
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class cube:
weight = None
next = None
def __init__(self, vekt):
self.weight = vekt
self.next = None
def trace(cube):
# Creating a chained list
first = None
last = None
for line in stdin:
previous_last = last
last = cube(int(line))
if first == None:
first = last
previous_last.next = last
# Calling the solution function and printing the result
print trace(first)
We don't have to use the framework to find the solution.
Ok, first of all, I don't really understand the framework. I think I understand the the class "Cube" is creating a cube and initializing the values of weight and next. What I don't understand is how the chained list is getting created. Especially after the part previous_last = last.
I was wondering if perhaps someone could give me a few hints as to how to understand the framework? I would also appreciate, in case nobody wants to baby me through too many steps, if someone could recommend to me what to learn in order to understand this. For example, I figured that I should learn about object oriented programming in Python, so I checked out a few tutorials on YouTube, It made me understand what classes and objects are, but I still have a hard time understanding the framework even after knowing that.
I appreciate your time and help


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The inside story on Monsanto and the glyphosate birth defect data
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13th April, 2011Human rights violations have been reported at plantations in virtually all major tea producing countries, while tea growing itself has a profound effect on the local environment. William McLennan reports more...
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The show will run in the school's Cafetorium (2550 34th Ave. W.) on April 24 and 25; both performances will begin at 7 p.m.
Blaine's School of Rock band, under the direction of Mike Anderson, will perform live '50s and '60s rock-'n'-roll. Glee Club, under the direction of Andrea Giles, will provide whimsical choral accompaniment.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a Blaine MultiArts initiative, with all grades dipping their fingers into the creative process, led by Laurel White's creative vision.
While middle-schoolers constructed set scenery, younger students participated in dramatic storytelling by lighting magical lanterns and flying into Shakespeare's world of mystical creatures, dreamy forests and comic blunders.
An all-school promotional poster contest ensued with students learning about the basic points of print advertising, the art of layout and font to make head-turning advertisements.
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August 29, 2012
Dr. Dana K. Townsend recently joined the Wheaton College faculty as Associate Professor of Applied Health Science.
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August 28, 2012
Dr. Amy L.B. Peeler recently joined the Wheaton College faculty as an assistant professor of New Testament.
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5 Fun Hanukkah Movies And TV Specials
From the 'Hebrew Hammer' to a 'Rugrats Hanukkah' special, here are some movies that celebrate the Jewish holiday!
-Sarah Polonsky
It's dreidel time, people! Day One of Hanukkah always makes me very excited. Dusting off my grandmother's antique Menorah, lighting candles, singing with loved ones, and most importantly, the first of eight presents to come!
Read The 10 Best Holiday Movies
Here are five fun Hanukkah flicks to get you in the mood.
1. The Hebrew Hammer
Adam Goldberg plays Jewish superhero, Hebrew Hammer, on a mission trying to save Hanukkah from an evil Santa played by Andy Dick. This is NOT a film for the easily offended. However, if you have a sense of humor you will be laughing into your matzo ball soup during this movie.
Check out this clip and start laughing now!
2. Rugrats Hanukkah Special
This episode is fun for the whole family. The kids will learn and the adults will still be entertained as the gang of rugrats embarks on a quest to defeat the meanie of Hanukkah after misunderstanding the word "meaning."


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Well it's Friday, time to get ready to relax, and throw off the stress of the week. I am going to share with you some of the great links that I found this week. Please take the time to check them out, and if you wrote something spectacular yourself that I missed, don't be afraid to drop your link in the comment section.
The N Word Please Use It Anyway You Can
Truth is, as a people, we Black folk have got nothing on white folks, who gave us such pejoratives as (avert your eyes) prick, cunt, bitch, kike, wop, dago, gooks, jungle bunny, sand niggers (appropriate for use in sunny Baghdad), jiggaboo (my all-time favourite), porch monkey, wetback and the like. The best race and gender related comeback we have? Whitey, cracker (and crackah or cracka) and hoe (which should be disqualified as a riff on an existing favourite).
So that's why I wear a bra. Patriarchy and the shame it instills in women about their own bodies. Shame about breast shape is a lot harder for me to get over than shame over body hair. Maybe because I can cover my legs and my armpits and my vulva (and in Scottish weather – I nearly always do!) and no one knows how hairy I am – but my breasts are always right there, plain as the eye can see.
The Dilemma Of Virginity Restoration
"French Muslim women are increasingly defying the restrictions and repression men try to enforce, and leading full, modern lives — including sexually," says Dounia Bouzar, whose recent book Allah, My Boss, and Me explores Islam in the French workplace. "The one time they feel obliged to make a concession to outdated attitudes is with the marital requirement of virginity — a purely macho tradition that has no basis in Islam, and is certainly nothing courts should be respecting. This surgery is unfortunate, though it is a way for women who have insisted on living their own lives to avoid punishment under a backward custom."
Michelle Obama And The Politics Of Hair
America expects the wife of Barack Obama, the man who wants to be president, to project an image of sophistication and near perfection. That image includes having hair that doesn't make waves.
Unfortunately, because many African-American female rape victims do not want to perpetuate racial stereotypes about the black male rapist (created and used by white mobs to justify the lynching of economically and politically mobile black men) and the black male criminal (now used to maintain racial disparities in the criminal justice system), they often do not press charges against their assailants because they fear further criminalizing African-American men.
I Can't Deal With Her: Black and White Women In The Movement
I grew up in the South where white women were "Ms. Anne" the pillar and post of a segregated society and black women were expected to bend to their power and every command in the kitchen and all areas of society. When black women refused to accommodate this white female supremacist structure, white women acted as ruthless as white men in pushing us in our places. This is the only kind of white woman I knew before I joined the southern Freedom Movement in the 60s.


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— September
By Ben Ellison
Voyage of Ava T.
|Lessons learned as an older boat gets a new owner and new electronics.
Pictured above is the helm of the good little vessel Ava T. as she approached the Cape Cod Canal shortly after dawn last Memorial Day. I was helping her new owner—PMY's very own, and very boat proud, Richard Thiel—make his first trip aboard this 1985 Jarvis Newman lobster yacht, a 300-mile delivery from Camden, Maine, to Stratford, Connecticut. Now an older boat in such transition is a somewhat fragile affair. System idiosyncrasies that may have been second nature to her old master must now be relearned by the new one, and problems that festered while the boat awaited fresh enthusiasm tend to pop up without warning. In fact, Ava hadn't been cruised, let alone driven hard, in more than two years, and the voyage—problem-wise—was epic.
If you look hard you'll notice duct tape around the window! From the bow you'd see that both forward opening windows are heavily bandaged. That "repair" had taken place the previous day during the first two of four unplanned pit stops. When chop driven by 25-knot westerlies drenched the pilothouse, we presumed that the leaking was due to bad gaskets. We pulled in again for more taping when presented with wet, irrefutable evidence that the fixed glazing compound itself was porous. I won't embarrass Thiel by describing how he tried to redo the glazing only to find the old stuff to be a nasty liquid goop and himself to be miming Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, much to the amusement of Boothbay Harbor yachtsmen. We had at least learned how the dust covers for the electronics made handy drip catchers, and we'd certainly confirmed the adage that one mustn't voyage without duct tape.
But I digress. My main intent is to discuss the electronics evolution taking place on Ava (but there will be more gory delivery details). Imagine the helm photo without the big Raymarine C120 multifunction display (MFD) and the loose wires associated with its very temporary install. You're seeing the boat's electronics as purchased. A good surveyor named Steven Bunnell determined that the Furuno 1700 radar, the Garmin 225 plotter, and the Datamarine Dart depth/speed/log were all operational. (He would have needed a fire hose to uncover the window problem.) In fact, the 225 and Dart were new in 1999, much younger than most everything else on Ava. Nonetheless, Thiel had reasons to consider replacing the whole lot with one MFD.
For one, the Garmin's screen is small for detailed chart work, and its zoom/pan speed very 1999, i.e. slow. For another, it uses G Charts, which though still sold, don't work in Garmin's new plotters, don't compare to the latest formats, and are expensive to boot. The Datamarine company seems nearly moribund, suggesting that parts and service would be hard to come by. Finally, venerable as the Furuno CRT radar might be, aesthetically it's like having a toaster oven on your living room mantel. The chaos of electronics boxes around the helm truly detracts from Ava's handsome cherry-trimmed pilothouse, plus the ergonomics are poor. Eyes up to the plotter, eyes left to the radar, eyes down to sounder...you could get cross-eyed on a long cruise.
Above all, it being 2004, Thiel couldn't help but contemplate a wide selection of multifunction machines that promised to organize all his navigation tasks onto one clean-looking, integrated, easy-to-operate screen. He went for it. Several factors led him to the Raymarine C120: the flexibility to start using it as a plotter right away and later add radar, fishfinder, autopilot, and instrument functions as desired; support for Navionics Gold charts, meaning he could get a single XL3 card that covered everything from Maine to the Hudson River in the latest format; and, perhaps most important, the whopping 12-inch screen especially pleasing to older eyes and also encased sveltely enough to fit neatly into Ava's helm.
I put my two cents in as well, suggesting that whereas Raymarine had more or less started from scratch with the C Series, he'd be getting the latest in technology and interface design. But, I added, since it was so new, it would likely be a bit buggy at first and would need a few software updates to reach its full potential. Truer than I knew! On day one—as we dealt with drips and dodged the spume by weaving through Maine's complicated outer islands—the C120 went twitchy. We'd be setting a waypoint or changing the chart presentation when it would reset (crash) and then start right back up again. Sometimes it happened when we weren't even touching it, sometimes it happened over and over for a few minutes. It was disconcerting.
Next page > Part 2: That's when Thiel's sunny disposition—and confidence in the machine—also crashed. > Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
This article originally appeared in the August 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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K-State Upsets No. 12/11 Oklahoma State
K-State Upsets No. 12/11 Oklahoma State
Jan. 23, 2013
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MANHATTAN, Kan. - Aided by a school record-performance from behind the 3-point line, Kansas State upset No. 12/11 Oklahoma State, 76-60, Wednesday night at Bramlage Coliseum in overtime. The win ended a two-game homecourt skid for the Wildcats and was the first overtime win for the Wildcats since defeating No. 9/8 Texas A&M, 71-69, on Jan. 4, 2012.
K-State (12-7, 3-4 Big 12), playing with only seven active players, saw four players reach double digits in scoring led by 2013 All-America candidate Brittany Chambers with a game-high 26 points, including 19 in the first half to jump start the Wildcats. With her point total, the senior from Jordan, Minn., passed Laurie Koehn (2001-05; 1,733) on the K-State career scoring list with 1,747 points.
Chambers led a K-State attack from beyond the arc that tallied a school record 16-of-41 for the night. The 16 makes set the school mark, the Bramlage Coliseum record and ranks tied for ninth in Big 12 history for three-point field goals made in a game. Chambers was responsible for six and moved into second place in school history and a tie for second in Big 12 history for three-point field goals made in a career with 287.
Joining Chambers in double figures were sophomore Haley Texada with 15 points, Mariah White with 11 and Heidi Brown with a career-high 10 off the bench. Texada pulled in seven rebounds, dished out five assists and pocketed four steals. White dished out five assists and tallied a K-State season-high and a career-best seven steals.
Oklahoma State (14-3, 3-3) was led by Toni Young with 22 points and nine rebounds. Reigning Big 12 Freshman of the Week Brittney Martin carded 15 points and five rebounds.
Oklahoma State built a five-point lead in the first half, 40-35, with 3:14 remaining. The lead was achieved on an 8-0 run by the Cowgirls, highlighted by a three from Lindsey Keller and Liz Donohoe. The Cowgirls shot .654 from the field in the opening stanza.
K-State climbed back into the lead with consecutive three-point field goals by Chantay Caron and White for a 41-40 lead with 2:16 remaining. A pair of free throws with under a minute to play by Chambers gave K-State a 43-42 halftime lead.
The Wildcats then raced out of the locker room to open the second half with four straight 3-point field goals to build their largest lead at 55-44 with 14:56 to play. White registered consecutive three-pointers to propel the Wildcats into the lead.
After Oklahoma State closed the K-State lead to two, 56-54, with 7:29 to play on a Martin jumper, K-State strung together five straight points to pull ahead by seven, 61-54, with 4:20 to play.
The Cowgirls charged back into the contest with Martin draining eight straight points to tie the game at 61-61 with 1:39 to play. After the teams exchanged empty possessions, Texada recorded a steal and layup to give the Wildcats a 63-61 lead with 26 seconds to play. Tiffany Bias answered with two of her four points with a runner in the lane with six seconds remaining to tie the game. A last-second layup attempt by White was off the mark and the game went to overtime.
In the extra session, the teams held each other scoreless until 2:36 remained and Chambers tallied her sixth 3-point field goal of the night. Young brought Oklahoma State back to one, 66-65, but Craig cut behind the defense and scored a layup with 1:43 to play.
K-State's defense held strong on the next OSU possession and Brown registered a decisive three with 55 seconds remaining to give K-State a 71-65 lead. A pair of Brown free throws and a Texada steal and layup gave the Wildcats a 75-68 lead with under 20 seconds to play. Young made a layup for the Cowgirls with under 10 seconds to play and Chambers converted one of two free throws with four seconds left.
The Wildcats pocketed 16 steals for the night and carded 22 points off of 18 Oklahoma State turnovers. This was the 15th game this season K-State has recorded 10 or more steals in a game.
K-State returns to the road this weekend, as the Wildcats travel to Austin, Texas to face Texas at 1 p.m. The game will be available on the K-State Sports Network and at kstatesports.com. Updates will also be provided on the official K-State Athletics Gameday Twitter account (@kstate_gameday).


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The job posting on the internet seemed too good to be true and on further investigation, it turned out they were job phishing and I almost fell for it.
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1 Climb Table Mountain
Hikers can choose one of many routes to climb Table Mountain, one of the most famous mountains in the world. Many of the hikes are quite steep and a fair degree of fitness is required, although much depends on the pace at which you want to scale the mountain. The view from the top is worth it! more
2 V&A Waterfront
Cape Town's beautiful Victoria & Alfred Waterfront is a landmark attraction in the Mother City. Stroll along past the shops and restaurants, listen to the talented street musicians and admire the amateur artists who have made this former harbour area their personal stage. Don't forget to scan the water for frolicking Cape fur seals as you soak up the vibe. more
3 Hit the beach
There is nothing quite like a summer day on the beaches of Cape Town. The wind-sheltered sandy expanses of Clifton, Llandudno and Camps Bay are very popular with sun worshipers. Kite-surfers make their way to Dolphin Beach in Table View and windsurfers prefer Sunset Beach. Muizenburg and Simon's Town, with their slightly warmer waters, are popular with families. more
4 Visit a market
Cape Town has a long tradition of food and craft markets. The original Neighbourgoods Market is at The Old Biscuit Mill in the lively suburb of Woodstock. Every Saturday the building is a hive of delicious activity with speciality food and drinks for sale. Other local markets include the Willowbridge Slow Food Market and the Earth Fair Food Market. more
5 Historic homes
Built around 1778, Rust en Vreugd, one of the oldest houses in South Africa, is now a musuem, while Bertram House is the best preserved example of a Georgian-style red brick house in Cape Town. These are but two of many historic homes in Cape Town. more
6 Newlands Forest
A favourite with hikers, runners, mountain bikers, dog walkers and nature lovers, Newlands Forest is a conveniently located plantation in the Southern suburbs of the Mother City. Visit on a weekday if you want some quiet time or join in the fun on the weekend. more
7 Watch penguins, seals and whales
Cape Town is one of the best cities in the world to view marine animals. There's an African penguin colony at Boulders Beach in Simon's Town and Cape Fur seals can be seen in Hout Bay and at the V&A Waterfront. Southern Right Whales are often seen from the shore – try your luck from mid-August to mid-October on Boyes Drive between Muizenberg and Kalk Bay. more
8 Art galleries
Many of the best South African commercial art galleries are represented in the Mother City and entrance to most of them is free. Check out the Everard Read, Barnard, Goodman and Cape galleries. Along with these stalwarts, there are many smaller art exhibitions to explore. A wander around Woodstock or the City Centre will turn up some gems. more
9 The Company's Garden
In the heart of Cape Town, not far from Church Square and the bustle of Long Street, the Company's Garden dates from the 1650s and is home to over 8 000 species of plants. Explore the rose gardens, Japanese garden, fish pond and aviary. The Garden is also home to the South African National Art Gallery. more
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Top 10 Reasons Why We Think David Letterman is an Idiot
Bed-hopping and blackmail? What was the late night talk-show host thinking?
Kathy Campbell
On Thursday, David Letterman admitted that he had slept with a number of women who have worked for him.
His revelation came amid allegations that a TV producer had attempted to blackmail him for $2 million by threatening to reveal his affairs.
Here's the top 10 reasons why we think David Letterman is an idiot.
10. The women he slept with worked for him.
David Letterman admitted that he slept with females who worked for him, including Stephanie Birkitt, who was initially his intern, and then his assistant. It's always a gray area when a boss sleeps with a subordinate, leaving open questions about coercion.
9. He had a girlfriend at the time.
Dave was with long-time girlfriend Regina Lasko (who had previously worked for him) at the time of these entanglements. His affair with Stephanie reportedly ended shortly after Regina gave birth to his son, Harry, in 2003. Dave and Regina (who he began dating back in 1986) wed in March this year.
8. He jeopardized his job, and if he's fired we'll have to watch Conan.
After losing out initially to Conan O'Brien when the red-haired comedian took over as host of the Tonight Show in June, Dave quickly overtook him in the ratings. But on Thursday night, when he admitted to the affairs, Dave also admitted that he hoped to protect his job. It remains to be seen whether CBS will impose any penalties on him, but earlier this year his contract was extended until August 2012.
7. She's almost 30 years younger than him.
Yes, his quintuple heart bypass surgery in 2000 gave him a new lease on life, but did he have to use his newfound energy to chase a much-younger woman around his desk?
6. He admitted that he fooled around with more than one woman on his staff.
Dave obviously identifies too closely with Bill Clinton.


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First and most importantly, please be safe tonight. Don't drink and drive, or even dream of it. Take a cab. Use a designated driver. Crawl. Whatever it takes. But don't get behind the wheel if you've been drinking. DO NOT.
The NHL-NHLPA meetings in NYC ended early this evening. Apparently the NHLPA made another proposal, which the NHL will consider. According to reports the league and the Lockout Commissioner will get back to the players union on New Year's Day.
The news, from those covering it, is right over there ————-> in the widgets.
Some details may leak during the evening.
So have a Happy New Year, which annually begins with the Honeymooners Marathon on WPIX, and I think Three Stooges marathon somewhere else.


text: I've lived all over the world and believe that the true purpose of education is to feed and educate the whole person. At Grove City College I found the emphasis on the humanities I wanted and the Christian environment I needed. I was able to examine, reflect and appreciate what I learned from past generations — the values that were passed on to me and the sense of honor and respect that helped me to become the person I am today. I enjoyed living, working and learning at Grove City College. Everyone is unique and part of something bigger.


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HOUSTON - Someone went into a northwest Houston apartment and shot and killed a mother with her baby nearby.
Just after 11 a.m. Thursday, the victim called 911. According to police, she had been shot multiple times while her 1-year-old daughter was in the apartment near Hempstead Road and West 43rd.
The mother was rushed to the hospital and died from her injuries about three hours later. Her daughter was not hurt.
Police said there was no sign of forced entry into the apartment and only an iPhone appeared to have been stolen.
"Her husband was able to locate her iPhone about three-fourths of a mile west of here," said Sgt. W.L. Meeler of the Houston Police Department. "We were able to locate that and get a scent."
Police dogs searched and tracked the killer's scent throughout and around the apartment complex.
Meeler said, "He appeared suspicious to a lot of people. The maintenance man thought he was suspicious. Another maintenance man saw him and thought he was suspicious."
Police only have a general description of a thin man wearing dark pants and a grey hoodie.
The woman's husband was at work when she was killed. Her other child was at school. The daughter was placed with other family members.
Police hope to hear from neighbors who might help them figure out who killed the woman. If you have any information, call Houston Police Homicide Division at 713-308-3600.
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CQ and Sling have watches folders with the name of "install." Among other things, these folder are watched for *.jar files for bundles being added or changed. These bundles will automatically will be loaded or reloaded in the Felix OSGi framework as needed. Note the emphasis on the phrase, as needed. Just changing a bundle within the CQ repository does not guarantee that your bundle will be reloaded. While developing bundles, it is important to know how CQ/Sling determines that a bundle needs to be loaded or reloaded in Felix after it is changed in the repository. Bundles will be loaded/reloaded after a bundle jar has been added or update when:
- The bundle does not already exist in the OSGi framework
- The bundle version is different and more recent
- The bundle version has "-SNAPSHOT" at the end
It is worth noting that it is good practice to use the "-SNAPSHOT" version for bundles that are in development and are not in their final version. One way the naming convention help is that it keeps from having problems telling which bundle build to use to deploy versus builds used in development. No "-SNAPSHOT" at the end, this is the final version. "-SNAPSHOT" at the end, the developer hasn't finished it yet and it will change.
Here are some example of how this will work for a bundle called, my-bundle::
Existing: my-bundle-1.0.0
Added to repository: my-bundle-1.0.0
Result: Felix will NOT reinstall the bundle. It is assumed that this is the exact same version of the bundle of a released bundle
Existing: my-bundle-1.0.0
Added to repository: my-bundle-1.0.1
Result: Felix WILL install the bundle with the later version of the bundle added to the repository
Existing: my-bundle-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
Added to repository: my-bundle-1.0.0-SNAPSHOP
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Army veteran will stand trial in fatal shooting in Washington County parking lot
An Upper St. Clair veteran accused of killing a man in a parking lot was cursing and claiming his daughter was in the hospital during the confrontation with the victim, witnesses said Wednesday.
Police disclosed during a preliminary hearing for Brandon Thomas that they found empty stamp bags commonly used to package heroin in the suspect's sock when they arrested him for the fatal shooting on Oct. 18.
Thomas' lawyer, Frank Walker, tried to get a new drug charge connected to the bags dismissed, arguing there was no proof his client had any drugs. He said Wednesday was the first time he heard anyone say Thomas, a father of three, mentioned a hospitalized daughter.
Walker argued Thomas, 30, whom he said is a decorated veteran, was acting in self-defense when he killed Vaughn Simonelli outside of the Shop 'n Save in Washington. District Judge Lawrence Hopkins ordered Thomas to stand trial and remain jailed on a homicide charge after hearing from several witnesses.
Coroner Tim Warco testified that Simonelli was shot twice, once in the left back of his neck and once in his front right shoulder.
Witnesses John McGary and Robert Newman of Washington testified that Simonelli did not display a weapon.
University of Pittsburgh law professor John Burkoff said it would be difficult for a defendant to successfully argue he acted in self-defense in a case like this.
"He has to prove that he wasn't the aggressor, that he reasonably believed that it was immediately necessary to act to protect himself from death or serious bodily injury, and that he could not have retreated to avoid the danger," said Burkoff, who is not involved in the case.
McGary said he saw Thomas wield the gun over Simonelli's head before returning it to a holster. He said Simonelli, who was on his cell phone, told Thomas, "you're not going anywhere." McGary turned to walk away and soon heard two shots. When he turned back around, Simonelli was on the ground, McGary said.
Newman said Thomas was about an arm's length away when he shot Simonelli twice in the chest. Walker said that testimony conflicted with the coroner's report that stated the victim was shot in the neck, but Newman said he was "absolutely sure" both shots were in the chest.
Washington police Lt. Dan Stanek said Thomas confessed to shooting Simonelli.
Walker has said Thomas served two tours in Afghanistan and one in Iraq. The Army honorably discharged him in 2010, and he received honors that include three Purple Hearts, Walker said.
Prosecutors said officials are investigating another argument involving Thomas and Simonelli shortly before the shooting. Witnesses told investigators that they yelled at each other on nearby Jefferson Avenue.
Rachel Weaver is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-320-7948 or email@example.com.


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I was looking for super comfortable boots to wear to Paris and Italy in February. These were perfect!! I bought the size I normally wear, and they are a great fit....
Aerosoles Women's 'Rideline' Knee-high Riding Boots FINAL SALEby Aerosoles
ITEM#: 12336421These riding boots from Aerosoles features a decorative belt and buckle around the ankle and the top cuff. With a side-zip entry and soft faux leather construction, these knee-high boots showcase comfortable style. They feature a slip-resistant rubber outsole with a low heel that can be dressed up or down. Available in black or brown, they can go with just about any outfit.
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DUNCAN Hames MP visited Cereal Partners UK's Staverton base last month to learn about the investment at the site and how Nestlé brands including Shredded Wheat and Shreddies are made.
He met with manager Steve Ford and some of his 170 staff. He visited the factory's combined heat and power plant, part of an £8m investment in the business, which produces energy and steam for the site.
Mr Hames said: "It was good to see the investment the factory is making to cut carbon emissions, and the pride it takes in its operations."
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WINTER PARK, Fla. - Saint Leo junior Nick Brothers has been honored as Sunshine State Conference Men's Golfer of the Week.
Brothers finished third of 51 golfers at the Start2Finish Invitational. Brothers turned in a three-round score of 216 (70-77-69) to help the Lions finish fourth in the eight-team field.
The Lions posted a 54-hole total of 295-317-287—899, using a calmer final day weather-wise to post the second-best round of the day, and just the third-best total round of the entire tournament. Their fourth-place finish was 10 strokes behind second place Coastal Georgia and 17 strokes behind tournament champion, and Sunshine State Conference foe Rollins College.
Brothers' leap up the leaderboard was most impressive as he ended the three-round outing just three shots shy of the championship mark. The junior's final card held a 216 as he improved his final round score by eight strokes, and missed the tournament's best round by just two shots. He finished two strokes behind Webber's Connor O'Dell and three back from O'Dell's teammate Gustaf Hydbom, who took home the individual crown.
The Crystal River, Fla. native is one of 25 Saint Leo student-athletes to be named SSC Player of the Week in 2011-12.


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Kate & Phillip
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Trentadue Winery, Geyserville, California
From our Q&A with the Bride:
Which three details from your wedding were your favorites?
It was really hard for us to choose just three details, but we agreed on (1) the solar eclipse, (2) the ceremony, and (3) keepsakes from the day. When we first got engaged, we weren't quite sure how to go about choosing a date. Phil started scouring the Internet for significant dates in 2012, and he found a solar eclipse on May 20, which happened to be a Sunday. We had met under a full moon, so it seemed fitting that we'd be married under a solar eclipse. We didn't think about it much more after that until about a month out from the wedding. In lieu of favors, we ordered enough eclipse glasses for everyone, and crossed our fingers that we would have a clear day. The weather and timing were perfect…not a cloud in the sky, and the eclipse happened in the middle of the cocktail hour. We'll never forget the image of all of our guests, dressed up for a garden party, scattered around the lawn with funny white glasses on, wine glasses in hand, looking and pointing up at the sun.
Our second favorite detail was our ceremony, particularly our officiants. Neither one of us is particularly religious, so we decided to have a primarily secular ceremony, and the thought of interviewing officiants didn't really sit well with either of us. We knew we wanted to be married by someone who knew us well. So we turned to two of our best friends, Zak and Lea (married in 2009), who actually set us up on our first date. When Zak and Lea got married, Phil and I were part of the wedding party, and their ceremony was so beautiful. Thinking back, we knew they would do an amazing job with ours, and they did. Our ceremony was fairly short and sweet, we had three readings from my father, one of my bridesmaids, and Phil's godmother. We also had a beautiful Anglican blessing from Phil's great uncle. We did a wine ceremony in which we placed a bottle of Trentadue wine along with love letters to each other into a box, which we locked and will open on our fifth wedding anniversary. We also wrote our own vows, and a series of promises which Zak and Lea read and we affirmed. I maintain that our first-look session was the only thing that kept me from devolving into a sobbing mess during the ceremony.
Our third favorite detail from the day is the keepsakes it involved. First, handkerchiefs were really special for our wedding. I had two embroidered for my mother and father as gifts. Phil's mother also brought handkerchiefs for the ladies in the family. And my "borrowed" was a vintage handkerchief that belonged to my godmother's late mother Mary. It was embroidered in blush pink (one of our wedding colors) with an M, for Mary, and in this case, also Mariner, my new name. Phil got each of his groomsmen a skeleton pocket watch and I got each of my girls a unique vintage pink perfume bottle and a little chrysanthemum ring in her favorite color.


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Organization gets head start on holiday gift giving
It's that time of year again where giving takes center stage. The holiday season is among us and one organization is getting a head start.
"These children literally have nothing," Coordinator Jennifer Barbee said. "Some of the times— most of the time, they don't even know what Christmas is, let alone a gift."
This week is Operation Christmas Child; a project put on by Christian-based organization, Samaritan's Purse. It's an effort to provide 9.8 million impoverished children around the world with a shoebox full of toys, school supplies and hygiene items for the holidays. Grace Baptist Church is the drop-off site for the North Coast.
"Last year we met the national goal of 100 million shoe boxes," Barbee said.
Eureka is one city taking part. The local goal is to collect 2,230 shoe boxes in just one week. Anyone can participate. Just fill a shoebox with some of the allowed items and drop it off at the church.
"It's fun," Ashlynn Barbee said. "It's exciting to see all the kids getting the shoe box and liking it a lot."
Ashlynn is Jennifer's daughter. She's a 10-years-old who said she's been helping with the cause her entire life.
"I pack the shoe boxes and then put them in the boxes to ship them off," Ashlynn said.
The boxes are sent to a shipping facility in Santa Ana. They are processed and then distributed to nearly 100 countries.
"It's special and it's amazing," Ashlynn said.
They'll be accepting shoe boxes until Monday, November 25 during regular businesses hours.


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Acquired von Willebrand's disease is a rare bleeding
disorder that might be caused by other medical problems or medicines. It prevents blood from clotting
properly. It is rarer than the inherited form of
von Willebrand's disease.
Medical problems that might cause acquired von Willebrand's disease include:
Rarely, acquired von Willebrand's disease may also develop in direct
association with use of certain medicines. When use is discontinued, signs of
the disease also end. These medicines include:
Symptoms include
nosebleeds with no previous history of bleeding
Treatment of acquired von Willebrand's disease includes medicines that help your body have enough von Willebrand clotting factor in
the blood. This von Willebrand factor helps your blood clot.
Other Works ConsultedHillman R, et al. (2011). Platelet dysfunction and von Willebrand disease. In Hematology in Clinical Practice, 5th ed., pp. 384–397. New York: McGraw-Hill.National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (2007).
The Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Management of von Willebrand Disease. (NIH Publication No. 08–5832). Available online:
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/vwd.Nichols ML (2012). Von Willebrand disease and hemorrhagic abnormalities of platelet and vascular function. In L Goldman, A Shafer, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine, 24th ed., pp. 1131–1136. Philadelphia: Saunders.
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Number of Muslims that live in Germany increases day by day. Although it has been estimated that 3.1 to 3.4 million Muslims live in this country so far, the new survey by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees revealed some fresh news. According to the new figures, Muslims cover 4.6 to 5.2 percent of the entire German population.


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"small but beautiful"They say good things come in small packages and this is certainly the case with Heatherlee. It is probably the smallest cottage I have ever stayed in but to be honest everything we needed was there. It is ideally based for touring the Cairngorms, Highlands and Moray Coastline and the views from the balcony over the Moray Firth are stunning. If I was to visit the area again then I would definitely consider staying here again.They say good things come in small packages and this is certainly the case with Heatherlee. It is probably the smallest cottage I have ever stayed in but to be honest everything we needed was there. It is ideally based for touring the Cairngorms, Highlands and Moray Coastline and the views from the balcony over the Moray Firth are stunning. If I was to visit the area again then I would definitely consider staying here again.
- Off road parking
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An immaculately-presented first floor apartment in the friendly highland village of Croy, surrounded by stunning countryside.
Very well appointed, bijou but perfectly formed, this cosy Croy self-catering apartment is ideal for a couple or two friends who want to explore the fabulous highlands of Scotland, and who appreciate the great central location of this highland apartment.
All the accommodation in this Croy self-catering apartment is at first floor level and there is a tastefully presented twin bedroom with en-suite shower room.
The open plan living accommodation at this highland apartment in Croy provides utter comfort with two big armchairs to relax in and a very well-equipped fitted kitchen.
Double doors open out onto a balcony which offers a private outside seating and dining area, with far-reaching views across the Moray Firth to the villages on the other side.
Croy is an excellent location for touring the whole of the highlands, and a day's visit west to the Isle of Skye is within easy reach.
Perhaps you will head south into the Cairngorms National Park, or drive east and pick up the fabulous Malt Whisky Trail.
The highlands of Scotland make a wonderful holiday destination, and your Croy self-catering apartment will be a relaxing and most comfortable base to ensure a fabulous holiday.
All first floor. One twin bedroom with en-suite shower, basin and WC. Open plan living area with kitchen and sitting area.
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- Balcony with furniture
- Sorry, no pets and no smoking
- Shop 6 miles, pub 3 miles
- Note: Mobile phone reception can be limited
- Note: Property is accessed via external wooden staircase
- Note: Babes-in-arms and children over 12 years only.
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Nairn 7 miles; Inverness 10 miles; Inverness Airport 3 miles.
Croy is a small village overlooking the Moray Firth, in the Highland region of Scotland between Nairn and Inverness. Just a mile from Croy is Kilravock Castle, which has been the seat of the Clan Rose since the 15th century. Nairn is seven miles away and is an attractive, lively seaside town dating back to Victorian times. It has long been a popular holiday destination and is just 16 miles from the Millennium city of Inverness. Nairn even lays claim to being one of the driest and sunniest places in the country! The town offers some of the top beaches in Scotland and the cleanest bathing waters in Britain. Also, one of the only two dolphin colonies in the UK is based in the Moray Firth. Nairn is steeped in history and closely linked with the Battle of Culloden, whilst nearby Fort George is Europe's best-preserved 18th century military fortification. Golfing enthusiasts will be attracted to the three 18-hole championship courses, including the Nairn Golf Club which staged the Walker Cup in 1999, and Castle Stuart which has hosted the Scottish Open.
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Plain Township school stops 'mindfulness' program after some in community raise concerns
Stephanie Warsmith, Beacon Journal staff writer, Ohio.com: The Tibetan bell no longer tolls at Warstler Elementary in Plain Township.
The school had adopted a practice called mindfulness, but stopped after some parents and community members raised concerns the technique was linked too closely to Eastern religions like Buddhism.
"There was no malice from anyone in the district to bring something in that was not appropriate," Superintendent Brent May said in a recent interview. "As we kept digging and researching, we found the roots to it. We have to be careful as a public school that we don't cross over church and state."
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A lot of churches are starting to get on the social media bandwagon, setting up Facebook pages and Twitter profiles. This a good step in the right direction. It helps those churches engage their fans and followers online.
To take social media to the next level, a church should strive to not only post tweets & updates to their fans/followers but also enable and encourage their fans/followers to tweet & post updates to their friends and followers.
It's analogous to a church not just preaching the gospel in its services, but encouraging and equipping its members to share the gospel in their community, thus greatly broadening its impact.
Saddleback Church is doing that…
… on this invite web page, where they have posted videos people can share on social media sites to invite their friends to a worship service, the food pantry, an upcoming service activity and more. (Thanks to Steve Fogg for blogging about this first.)
What I really want to give Saddleback props for, though, are the training videos they've created which explain to people how to use the videos to invite people through Facebook, twitter, and blogs. To watch them click the "Share on Facebook," "Share on Twitter," and "Share on Blogs" links to the left of the big, main video on the page.
Saddleback doesn't just provide the materials and assume people know what to do with them. They actually encourage and equip their congregation to use them.
If there's one possible problem with the page, it's that the links for those training videos are not well labeled. I thought they were for sharing the invite page with people. Renaming them "How to share on Facebook," etc might help.
Are you assuming your fans/followers know how and will invite people via social media? Or are you showing them how to do it and encouraging them?


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Saltwater Cellular II
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Raymarine's VHF/cellular system is revolutionary, but it's not perfect. For one thing, the cellular unit only supports analog service, somewhat limiting possible connections and foregoing the added features available from digital services.
Raymarine does plan to introduce a trimode cellular box in the future, but to really comprehend what's possible with digital cellular, let's examine what a new company called Onboard Wireless is offering. Its product is a fairly complex combination of hardware, software, and services, all designed to take maximum advantage of the particular flavor of digital cellular known as GSM. A connection kit consists of a fixed 2-watt modem and high-gain antenna, a separate Nokia 5190 GSM mobile phone, PC software, and subscriptions to both VoiceStream GSM service and Onboard Wireless' Web and e-mail servers. The idea is to provide the best possible voice and data cell service on the water, now and in the future. Right now Onboard Wireless' servers filter and cache commonly desired Web pages like weather and news so that they can be downloaded reasonably quickly given the slow 9,600-baud speeds common to all cell connections these days. More exciting is the prospect of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), an extension of GSM that promises 115-kbps data speeds–a more than tenfold increase. With GPRS you could be surfing the Internet and retrieving large e-mails on your boat with cable-modem-like quickness. GPRS is starting to roll out in the United States and Europe, and Onboard Wireless' equipment is ready for it.
Another unique GSM feature is its portable Service Identity Module (SIM), a tiny card containing your phone identity and other data like your speed dialing list. When it is in the Onboard Wireless modem, you have a fixed full-power boat phone with (optional) voice communications through a handset attached to your PC. When you go ashore, you just pop the SIM out of the modem and into the Nokia handset, and you have a regular cellphone with the same number and service plan. This seems like a particularly great feature for cruising, when you may want the capabilities of a fixed system sometimes and a mobile other times. (The SIM can also help deal with the inconsistencies of GSM service in foreign lands.)
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A "new" indie MMO
Hello world!
I thought I'd start with that since this is my first post. Anywhat...
So I've been playing a certain indie MMO - 100% developed by a team of four or five full-time devs - for, let's see... about four and a half years now. Because of the size of the dev team, it's taken them that long to get out of the "alpha" version of their game, but it's absolutely brilliant in a number of ways. It's had a group of dedicated players (deemed "testers" because of the alpha-ness of it) that has risen and fallen in size since it was first made available to a small group of people back at the end of 2006. I've sent a handful of emails to the RPS crew about it over the past couple of years (with the first one sent back when I first started reading RPS), but I've yet to see a single post about it. I thought maybe it would have been mentioned by at least one person here on the RPS forums, but I can't find a single mention of it so far. I could have missed it, but performing a forum-wide search for the game's name yields 0 results.
Anyway, it's just made the gold/final/live update of the game available to an even smaller "closed testing" group of players right at the end of last year. It was literally downloadable for the first time on December 31, 2011. With it finally being player-testable, I figured I'd start a discussion about it and share what I've written in the emails I've sent to RPS. Hopefully this doesn't result in too many TL;DR responses and I hope that my words do the game justice.
I sent this to the general contact email back in December of 2010:
Hello gents,
I am unable to find any mention of the Russian MMORPG AfterWorld on your site, so I will assume that you have not yet heard of it.
The main web page for the game is www.AfterWorld.ru, which includes links to the player-build wiki, the official ("Tech") forums, the player-made forums, and a number of other important pages. There is plenty of reading to do if you are interested in the game and I must admit that I've read almost every bit of information on nearly every one of these pages (and more!). I am pretty well addicted to AfterWorld and since it is a small indie game with little to no advertising budget, I do my best to help spread the word about the game.
It is currently in the alpha testing stage, though only technically so because it has been in continuous testing since 2006 and the developers will soon (hopefully early 2011) be releasing the update that will change the game in several significant ways:
1. It will go from AfterWorld Alpha to AfterWorld: Survival, which fits with the game's story line as has been released so far.2. It will go from using the Torque Game Engine to the Torque 3D Game Engine.
3. It will expand dramatically in playable space, weapon and tool count, and player base (this last is my assumption based on a significant number of people that currently play Entropia Universe waiting for the Survival update before putting any real time into it).
4. It will go from free-to-play with donations helping with player advancement to full RCE (real cash economy, just in case ;-) ).
5. It will most likely add areas where PvP kills can be looted.
It's a post-apocalyptic world set in the year 2066 (soon to be 2067 since it's calendar advances at the same rate as the real world calendar) after some unknown anomaly wreaked havoc on the general populace by means of a future technology involving cranially-implanted nano bots. PvP zones currently outnumber non-PvP zones by 5 to 4 (though two of the PvP zones encompass far more area than any of the non-PvP zones), but the most recent information from the devs indicates that this will change drastically with the massive Survival update, making PvP areas far more common than non-PvP ones.
In addition, it has rather unique crafting and skills systems, plus it's very fast and fun to play. There's lots more I'm leaving out, of course, but feel free to ask for any other info. :-)
Hello Mr. Meer,
That looks like the greeting you get from those Nigerian scam emails, but this is not one of them. Sorry if that disappoints.
In fact, this is a recommendation to check out a wonderfully-entertaining PC-only game called AfterWorld (no relation to the web show/series - is that still going? I stopped paying attention a while back). AW, as it's referred to by it's players/addicts, is set in the year 2067, but with the same date and time as "real life" and takes place some decades after a series of events that leaves a bulk of the human poplation mentally fried or dead. The back story as it has so far been presented centers around the development of nanobots that are inserted into the brain to increase all manner of forms of human intelligence, but some military test causes a massive EMP that makes the nanos go bonkers in everyone's noggins. The locale is "back-woods Siberia," which has mostly lost all of its snow and barren tundra qualities for reasons not yet explained, and new players begin in a quarantined area to help them recover from the EMP-induce brain scrambling and become productive members of society.
The game can be played in either first-person or third-person views (which can be changed on-the-fly, with third-person having a number of different distances from the avatar) and combat is much like a standard face-paced FPS, requiring real life speed and skill in both PvP and PvE. There are nearly 100 different skills in the game so far, with many more to come in the near future. Each skill can be improved individually, but every activity results in many different skills being increased, and there are no skill level caps or limitations. So every single player has the potential to become "uber" at anything and everything that can be done in the game - combat, crafting, or mining, with TONS of variation in each category. All items that can be carried and used by a player - weapons, armor, healing kits, mining gear, temporary enhancers, and more - are crafted by other players, with no base value placed on anything at all - not even loot! Nothing in the game has a value that is determined by the developers of the game itself, so all values are player-derived, meaning it is truly a "free-market economy" game. There is only one item that does have a designated value so far, the Realty Investment Certificate (http://wiki.afterworld.ru/wiki/RIC), which only one of is given to any avatar from the game's Government NPCs.
There is lots and lots more that I could drone on about for this game (I've been one of its obsessed addicts since I started playing it in 2007, so I know almost everything about it), but that would probably do more harm than good. Instead I'll point you to some videos of the game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkyyXU086_s and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70CuicP1d5g, which show previews of the soon-to-be-available, and promising-to-be-very-massive Survival update of the game) and tell you that there are plenty of player-made videos on YouTube as well, but they all show the current version of the game. The current version looks as old as it is (graphics are from 2006), but Survival is MUCH better and shinier-looking. Some preview pics of Survival are below, and they're only small because of the way that images are displayed at the main site (http://www.afterworld.ru/media-lib):
The main web site for the game is http://www.AfterWorld.ru and the player-created, -updated, and -run wiki for the game is http://wiki.AfterWorld.ru. The wiki's got just about anything you could want to know about the game as it currently stands, but if you have any questions, please shoot me a reply.
Odeon (my forum name for AW)
Oops, I forgot to mention a few big details.
First, it's completely free-to-play using microtransactions instead. However, the microtransactions themselves are handled in a rather novel way that is linked to the fact that all player-used items are also player-crafted. To craft any item, the player pays a small fee to an in-game terminal which handles the actual production of the item being crafted. All such items have a crafting cost associated to them, which is only the cost of the fees paid to use the terminals. The cost of the matierials and item's required production plans have no attached value from the game's developers.
Second, all in-game money is 100% related to actual, real-world money. To get in-game money, you send money to the developers via PayPal in the form of a donation (for the time being) and your avatar receives 10 times as much in-game money as what you donated. So if you send $10 US, you get 100 AWDs (AfterWorld Dollars), minus the 3% fee charged by PayPal for the transaction. There is not any single item that costs 100 AWDs to craft (though some of the highest items do cost a bit more than half that much), with most items costing less than 10 AWDs to craft and lasting quite a while during repeated use, so a little goes a long way in AW.
Third, the reason that sent money is currently called a donation is because the game is techincally still in the final testing stage. Once the game officially goes gold/live/final/whatever-you-prefer-to-call-it, all sent money will be considered a "deposit" into an avatar's account. This is actually the way that it works now, but without all the final paperwork in place (EULA, Terms of Service, etc.) they have to call it a donation. And even though the game is still in the final testing stage, anything produced, purchased, or in any other way acquired will remain on the player's avatar and be transferred to the final game when it is released - i.e. no skills, items, in-game money, or anything else will be wiped.
Last, when the game does go live, it will be possible to withdraw money from inside of the game to be transferred back to a player's PayPal account. There will probably be other options as well, but no word of more details about the process have been shared. This is the RCE portion I referred to in the subject of my last email - a Real Cash Economy that allows for back-and-forth transfer of real-world monies to and from the player's game account. I have only seen this done in one other game, called Entropia Universe, but that game is designed and run as a casino, where the loot from killing every mob and the results from crafting any item are a pull on the "one-armed bandit" that is their slot machine. I wasted very little time and money on that experiment when I saw how very stacked the odd were against the player and for the house.
Again, if any of this is confusing, odd, or in any way lacking, just let me know and I'll do my best to clarify.
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AfterWorld Alpha/Survival
Okay, maybe I should have broken my post into separate posts instead of one big, long one, but in the end it's the same idea: lots of text to read. Plus, it felt like artificially trying to raise my post count, so instead I put everything into one post.
Here's the Cliff's/Spark Notes version:
- Indie-made, player supported, non-sponsored MMO
- Free-to-play from the ground-up, designed not to eat up as much cash as possible (everything usable in the game is player-made and the game only eats small crafting fees and not much else)
- Skills, items, money, loot, and everything else that are gained/made in Alpha will be transferred to the live/gold version (no character wipe)
- Setting is post-cataclysmic (after everyone's brains were scrambled, essentially) Russia, Asia, and Middle East (so far) in the year 2068 ("In the not-too-distant future/la la la/Next Sunday AD/fa la la")
- Players start in a quarantined area to get acclimated and because of the story line (you have to be rehabilitated back into society after your brain gets scrambled)
- Most technology survived the cataclysm (it wasn't a "true" apocalypse, so there are weapons and tools of all manner to play with), but it's obvious that most people are gone and things are a mess
- The world government is in shambles but is piecing itself back together to try to return order to the chaos
- There are all manner of insane-looking mutated beasts and robots roaming the wilds
- There are all manner of resources to collect for use in crafting
- There are all manner of weapons, tools, and other items (including vehicles*) available for crafting in a system that makes logical sense at every stage of the process (Best. Crafting. System. Ever.)
- Combat feels much more like an FPS than any MMO I've ever played (SWG, WoW, etc.) and is much more fun than most
- Collecting resources requires an axe to chop down trees, a pick to mine rocks, or earth-scanning devices to find metals and mineral in the soil
- The skills system makes logical sense and does not have any artificial caps or limitations to what you can do - if you want to be a jack-of-all-trades and be the best at all of them, you can do that; if you want to be the best at any one thing, you can do that too
- The world is a seamless expanse that covers more area than any other MMO I've ever played (it can take hours to run from one end to the other with no stopping if you don't have a vehicle)*
- Vehicles range from personal dune-buggy-like cars to cargo trucks to armored personnel carrier-like things (and more!)*
- There are societies, corporations, and political parties* for any player to start, join, and/or run
- Corporations are able to build up vast production systems for producing all manner of refined resources and craftable items and have financial control over owned regions of land*
- Political parties are still a bit of a mystery, but there are hints about the ability to control land regions
- And the game has only just begun!
* This feature will be available in the live/gold Survival update