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Journey across the light years exploring the uncharted systems of the frontier; watch your two shadows under a double star; war against the unfathomable Kafers amid the exotic enviroments of alien worlds; ride the beanstalk down to the towering cities of Earth, the economic center of an ever expanding human civilization. Be a part of the new age in Traveller: 2300-the state-of-the-art in... [click here for more]
(Our special Christmas gift through December 31!) Free. Starter Traveller. GDW produced Starter Traveller as an introductory version of the game. It included a book of core rules, a separate set of charts, and a book of adventures (there are three separate download files).
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This volume is the basic rules set for the Traveller science-fiction game system. It contains the essential rules and background for a player to understand and participate in Traveller games as well as basic materials that enable a Traveller referee to administer a variety of adventures. The materials in this volume have a long history in print and in game play.
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Uncovered after years in the GDW game archives, this is original draft drawings for the Frontier Cruiser Azhanti High Lightning, and used as the basis for creating that game and set of deck plans. For scale, it includes side views of the Gazelle class Close Escort, and the Kinunir class Colonial Cruiser. Provided as two files: a 300-DPI JPG (approximately 23.5 x 14 inches), and a... [click here for more]
Twilight: 2000 is a complete role-playing system for survival in a devastated post-holcaust world. Rules cover character generation, living off the land, encounters, combat, skills and skill improvement, medicine, vehicles, ammunition, trade and much more.
The combat rules are a major breakthrough. One general combat resolution procedure covers all types of combat: hand-to-hand, ... [click here for more]
Complete charts and tables from Marc Miller's Traveller, putting details of starship operations, encounters, combat, and more right at your fingertips during play.
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The Spinward Marches
From the archives of GDW, we have located the original hand drawn draft of the Spinward Marches sector map and matched it with the final published map (as included in Deluxe Traveller) and with a white background map as well.
To this,... [click here for more]
Traveller: The New Era is more than just a change in background; it's a major revision of the game system that all existing Traveller players should welcome.
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The definitive source of information for the strships of the year 2300 has arrived! Star Cruiser is both a complete addition to the Traveller: 2300 rules and an exciting boardgame of futuristic space combat.
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Deluxe Traveller. GDW published Deluxe Traveller as a larger format boxed game (primarily to be more visible on the shelf in game stores).
The box included the basic Books 1, 2, and 3, plus Book 0 Introduction to Traveller, and an Introductory Adventure, plus a poster map of the Spinward Marches.
The Traveller Book consolidated the core rules (Books 1-2-3) into a single 8.5 x 11 book and added additional material on how-to-play the game. It also added the short adventures Shadows (from Double Adventure 1) and Exit Visa. 160 pages.
Classic Traveller (indeed, all of the Traveller editions including later editions) was inducted into the ... [click here for more]
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Bandits calling themselves freedom fighters have kidnapped an oil company engineer. They want four million in ransom, and the guy's relatives are poor as churchmice. The goons figure the engineer is so valuable the oil company will pay to get him back, but they're wrong on two counts.
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Everything you wanted to know about the MegaTraveller Science-Fiction Role-Playing Game System (but didn\'t know how to ask). Includes a short history of the development of MegaTraveller, a comprehensive list of all GDW-published modules for the system (including the number printed), and a rating of the general quality of each module and product (on a 1-9 s... [click here for more]
It is the near future. The Collapse is over. Years of accelerating decay culminated in a brief and vicious global war. When it came, the final conflict seemed almost an afterthought in the wake of disease, famine, natural disasters, and economic and political failures on a previously unimaginable scale. None of these c... [click here for more]
With a universe of data to keep track of, travelers trying to work their way up to powerful rulers, corporate magnates or star admirals have got their work cut out for them. What, with one's own personal qualifications, possessions and associates, not to mention starships, mapping and trade information. it's a full time job just keeping records, forget about all that adv... [click here for more]
Everything you wanted to know about the Twilight: 2000 Role-Playing Game System (but didn't know how to ask). Includes a short history of the development of Twilight: 2000, a comprehensive list of all GDW-published modules for the system (including the number printed), and a rating of the general quality of each module and product (on a 1-9 scale; average i... [click here for more]
What the maximum to-hit number when calling in orbital artillery fire? While you're at it, whats the initiative of a Veteran NPC? And what's te trotting movement rate of a K'kree? Oh yeah, and how many power level points do you ned for a stage five psionic succes?
Traveller Referee's Screen: Because refereing is tough enough when you do have all the answe... [click here for more]
Striker II is the miniatures combat rules of the 58th century for use with Traveller: The New Era. Now the epic planetary engagements of the New Era, the Final War or the Frontiers War are under your control, allowing you to command battalions of lift infantry, drop troops an grav armor. These rules are fully compatible with Traveller and so also allow mi... [click here for more]
The Basic Guide to 2300 AD: an annotated list of the 2300 AD titles in the series.
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I'd always thought that when I finally got into the Soviet Union, it would be on a recon for some massive NATO force. Well, there aren't any of those now, and here I am.
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MacDonald had that "Lord, what an idiot" look she gets sometimes when she is talking to us. "Not Pittsburg," she said, "Spitsbergen. S-P-I-T-S-B-E-R-G-E-N. It's an island about 500 klicks north of Norway."
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Ever since the world as we knew it ended, people have been saying chivalry is dead-they've been saying it for a long time anyway, but this time they're sure. No one does anything for any motive except survival. Dog-eat-dog, survival of the fittest, might makes right...I've heard all the cliches and more. And I refuse to conform to them. Lieutenant Jimenez wanted me to take his St. C... [click here for more]
This morning I pulled myself up and staggered up the strange ladder onto the deck. It was broad daylight and I wasn't dreaming. I sat down against the bulkhead in gape-jawed astonishment. The deck was rough planks. Above my head fluttered a hundred acres of canvas.
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It came as quite a surprise when we finally confirmed it. What remained of the big brass in Europe decided that it was time for everybody to get out of the pool, so they arranged for a few ships to take us back to America. Problem was, nobody believed that the ships would have enough room for everybody. We decided this was the last ride going our way, and it was time to go home. The ships were ... [click here for more]
The Heavy Weapons Guide is a resource and guidebook to more than 110 mortars, grenade launchers, recoilless rifles, mines, hand grenades, rifle grenades, SAMs, and other support weapons. The latest in antitank missles are described and illustrated, including BILL, ACCP, Eryx, and Tank Breaker. Mortars range from the American M224 60mm up to... [click here for more]
What happened to the United States from 1997 to 2001 is a question of interest to almost every referee and player of Twilight: 2000. Even those whose campaigns are not set in the United States want to know what happened to their home town, or how far the Soviets managed to get in Alaska, or what areas are controlled by New America.
Howling Wilderness is a sourcebook of the U... [click here for more]
Finding this Hughes guy is certainly going to be a trick. For all we know he looks nothing like this picture we've got, and every indication is that he has barricaded himself into a personal fortress which makes Crystal Mountain look easy. Not only that, Caldwell has us under specific orders not to grease the guy, just to capture him. Caldwell mentioned something about slow torture for all ... [click here for more]
The Iranian Crown Jewels. For years they rested in the vaults of the Markasu Bank in Tehran, where they backed Iran's legal tender, but when the National Emergency Council governing Iran in mid-1996 abandoned Tehran and retreated to Esfahan, they toll the Crown Jewels with them.
In the first half of 1997, the NEC elected to move again, this time from Esfahan to Shiraz. The Iranian Cro... [click here for more]
So we sat around awhile, and then in comes something I hadn't seen in over two years âââ€&sc... [click here for more]
NATO Vehicle Guide fills a need for Twilight: 2000 referees who want to incorporate vehicles from West Germany, the UK, Canada, and other NATO countries into their campaigns. More than 30 vehicles are detailed and described in the game terms, including the West German Luchs, Fuchs, and Leopard series of tanks, the British Chieftain and Challenger tanks, the Scimitar/Scorpio... [click here for more]
"Then why are all these people shootin' at us?"
Pirates of the Vistula is an adventure module for Twilight: 2000. The mighty Vistula River sets the stage for a journey from Krakow to the remains of Wa... [click here for more]
I should have known better... especially when he started talking about needing "experienced combat veterans, like you men."
RDF Sourcebook is different from other Twilight: 2000 publicat... [click here for more]
One of the first things you learn when you join the army is not to believe 95% of everything you hear: New York is one big slab of glass...Oregon has seceded from the Union...giant mutant alligators have taken over the Everglades...the Martians have landed in New Jersey. So when we heard that the Russians had invaded Texas, we didn't give it much credence. There were Soviet troops in Alaska... [click here for more]
Return to Warsaw is the first in the Return to Europe series of Twilight 2000 adventures modules. The adventures will take the characters back to the Polish city of Warsaw, east to the city of Lvov in the Ukirane then back to Poland again, this time to Silesia. Although these three Modules are linked, and designed in sequence, each is an independent adventure in and of itse... [click here for more]
Seems this Soviet weather satellite decided it was time to come down and picked one of the most remote, out... [click here for more]
The Small Arms Guide is a sourcebook for Twilight: 2000 which contains a consolidated listing of every personal firearm in the basic game, as well as additional material of interest to both players and referees.
In response to player requests, the single entry for the generic pistols (such as the 9mmP Auto) of the basic rules has now been expanded to include every major hand... [click here for more]
This is the perfect companion piece to the U.S. Army Vehicle Guide, detailing and illustrating a plethora of Soviet and Warsaw Pact equipment. The Soviet Vehicle Guide contains:
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"There'll Always Be An England...
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"Down into that hole? You gotta be kidding! We all heard what that turnip-farmer said about this place being haunted. I don't believe in ghosts, but I wouldn't go down in that hole for all the gold in Poland!"
The icon know as Our Lady of Czestochowa (commonly called the Black Madonna because of the dark patina which covers it) is the symbol of Poland's religeous, cu... [click here for more]
The reality was different…
The Free City of Krakow is an adventure module for Twilight: 2000. Krakow has been spared the worst of the war's devastation, and has de... [click here for more]
I don't know why I stayed with the team. They offered to let any of us out who wanted out – just say so and you're a civilian. But then the chief gave us a pitch about how we came through the war without a loss because we worked as a team, and how we might be able t... [click here for more]

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By Katie Whalen '11
Engineering historically has been a male-dominated field. The Society of Women Engineers estimates 20% of all engineers are female — and Webb's numbers are reflective of this percentage. While the stats show my fellow female classmates and I are a minority at Webb, it certainly hasn't been a hindrance to our Webb career.
The Webb family atmosphere plays a vital role in preparing women for the engineering industry. Webb females spend almost every waking moment surrounded by their male classmates – whether in class, working on projects, playing sports or even traveling in foreign countries. When Lidia Mouravieff '11 was once asked by a visitor how it felt to be the only woman present at a meeting, she realized it hadn't even occurred to her — or to her male classmates. And as Jenna Ferrieri '11 told me: "Just being with guys all the time has prepared me for working in a male-dominated industry."
But there are a few Webb traditions privy only to females. The Girls in Naval Architecture meets occasionally for time away from the males to play girl's dalai (floor hockey), bake or watch movies. An annual Women's Sea Term Meeting is held to prepare the underclasswomen for their first Winter Work terms. And, of course, as some of the males are quick to point out, the ladies have very nice single dorm rooms!


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Back in September, it was going to be "Silver Linings Playbook."
Then it was "Argo."
Then "Les Miserables." "Zero Dark Thirty" picked up some steam. "Lincoln" got raves.
Then back to "Les Miz." Over to "Lincoln." And, finally, the buzz settled on "Argo."
This year's Oscar race has been anything but predictable.
As festival chatter has given way to box office tallies, critics' honors and guild awards, the perceived leaders for best picture have changed almost as often as the country's top-ranked college basketball team. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences further muddied matters when it failed to nominate the directors of four Best Picture nominees -- "Argo," "Zero Dark Thirty," "Les Miserables" and "Django Unchained" -- for Best Director.
Bad for the conventional wisdom. Good for competition.
"I love all the suspense this year," said Oscar watcher Tom O'Neil, who runs the GoldDerby.com awards blog. "There are a lot of precedents being set."
For example, he observes, usually the film with the most nominations is the front-runner for best picture. This year, the most-nominated film is Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," which earned 12 nods. But the movie that's shown the most staying power at the various awards ceremonies since then -- including the Golden Globes, SAG Awards and the Producers Guild -- has been Ben Affleck's "Argo," making the latter film the front-runner for the big prize Sunday night. "Argo" is up for seven Oscars.
Moreover, Affleck's picture has dominated despite being snubbed by the academy in several categories, most notably best director. (In fact, among the Big Six categories of picture, director, actor, actress, supporting actor and supporting actress, "Argo" has just two nominations, three fewer than "Lincoln," despite a top-notch cast.) In the entire history of the Oscars, just three films have won Best Picture without a directing nomination. The most recent was 1989's "Driving Miss Daisy," which won the top prize despite director Bruce Beresford getting shut out.
Unlike Beresford, however, Affleck received the support of his peers at the Directors Guild of America, which awarded him its top prize a few weeks ago; Beresford didn't even make the DGA cut in 1989.
Is the rank-and-file trying to send the academy a message?
O'Neil believes they are.
Years ago, he points out, a situation like Affleck's Oscar snub would have been noted and then forgotten in the face of a much-nominated film such as "Lincoln." Today, with social media and blogs constantly debating the Oscars' merit, the argument isn't over until PricewaterhouseCoopers finishes tallying the votes.
"That's evidence of how different the Oscars are today," he said.
In addition, the DGA award is about the many over the few: The DGA is voted on by more than 14,000 members of the directors' guild -- a group that includes assistants, TV specialists and other forms of helmers -- while the Oscar nominees for Best Director were selected by the roughly 370 members of the academy's directors' branch, a more homogenous group, said O'Neil.
Clayton Davis, who oversees AwardsCircuit.com, has another theory: that "Argo" is everybody's alternative. Given the way the Oscars are tallied, with voters ranking their picks from favorite to least favorite, a film with a lot of twos and threes will do better than a film that some people love and others loathe.
"You'll find your haters for 'Lincoln,' you'll find your haters for 'Zero Dark Thirty,' you'll find your haters for 'Les Miz.' But everybody, for the most part, at least says 'Argo' was good," he said. "So in a preferential balloting system 'Argo's' not likely to have a lot of No. 9 votes. And in a preferential balloting system, two, three and four can easily make up the winner."
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This year, at least, almost all the Best Picture nominees have a rooting interest. As opposed to recent years, when many nominees struggled to crack even $50 million domestically, this time all but three of the nine Best Picture films -- "Beasts of the Southern Wild," "Amour" and "Zero Dark Thirty" -- have topped $100 million at the North American box office. Some have established financial benchmarks: "Django Unchained" is Quentin Tarantino's highest-grossing film ever, and "Silver Linings Playbook" is tops among David O. Russell's films.
And though the Oscars are Hollywood-centric, the global market is always in studios' thoughts. In that respect, "Life of Pi" has been a juggernaut, making almost $600 million worldwide since its release.
"Life of Pi," in fact, may sneak into the winner's circle if the "Argo" bandwagon slows. One academy voter interviewed by CNN said "Pi," directed by Ang Lee, was his favorite film among the nominees; "Argo" didn't make his top three. (Neither did "Lincoln," for that matter.) Davis adds that anybody voting for Spielberg will likely vote for "Lincoln," and because "Lincoln's" momentum has halted he suspects Spielberg will lose Best Director to Lee or Russell. Lee, whose film was a special-effects marvel, may have the many members of the technical branches behind him.
"If Spielberg wins director, he's going to have three director wins, but only one of his films ('Schindler's List') will have won Best Picture in his career," he said. "That would be a little crazy. So I think Russell and Ang Lee are coming up strong."
O'Neil agrees. "Life of Pi" also has the second-most Oscar nominations this year, it received 11, and "its back story is extraordinary," since Yann Martel's best-selling 2001 novel was long considered unfilmable, he said.
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Rising Tide Episode Five – TGR's Style Progression
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Homepage Photo: Boone, North Carolina's Charlie Owens shows that the South has steeze. PHOTO: Stept Productions Powder Awards Sneak Peek: Here are the nominees for "Best Jib" at the 14th Annual Powder Awards. Out of these nominees, who do you think will win Best Jib segment from all movies released this year? The winners will be revealed on Friday, December 6 (that's tomorrow) at The Depot in Salt Lake City and on PowderAwards.com. Go to PowderAwards.com to see all categories and nominees.
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Homepage Photo: Jason West in the Wolverine Cirque, Utah. PHOTO: Garrett Grove Powder Awards Sneak Peek: Here are the nominees for "Best Line" at the 14th Annual Powder Awards. Out of these nominees, who do you think will win Best Line segment from all movies released this year? Only five days are left until the winners are revealed on Friday, December 6 at The Depot in Salt Lake City and on PowderAwards.com. Go to PowderAwards.com to see all categories and nominees.
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We got the green light from Salomon Freeski TV to give you this episode a day early. In episode 5 of season 7, Mike Douglas, Kaj Zackrisson, and Henrik Windstedt drive around the Mont Blanc Massif in search of fresh pow and good times. Sleeping in an RV by night, waking up each morning at the base of the lifts to feet of new snow—not a bad way to travel.
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Compass, Russia: Nimbus' First Episode Of New Series
Nimbus Independent is proud to release "Russia" the first of a three-part series, called Compass. This trip is the same story featured in POWDER's October 2013 issue. The Compass series captures the full spectrum experience from ski trips to three beautiful countries: Russia, Italy, and Japan. The contrasting culture, mountain shape, terrain, snow quality, food, language, music, pace of life and architecture all play into what it feels like to ski and travel abroad. For Nimbus, the series is a further departure from a mass appeal approach to ski-movie making.
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Rising Tide: From Valdez to Sochi, The History of Competition
POWDER Editor John Stifter talks with Scot Schmidt and Tom Wallisch about the history of competition in freeskiing, previewing The Rise, Episode 4 produced by Mountain Sports International. From the World Extreme Skiing Championships in Valdez, Alaska, during the early '90s to Sochi, Russia, in 2014 for the inaugural appearance of ski halfpipe and slopestyle in the Winter Olympics, Schmidt and Wallisch cover the spectrum.
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"When I turned 16, I sold my truck to pursue the life of a ski bum. A lot of my friends were really partying hard and not going down a very good path. Skiing kept me out of trouble and it motivated me."—Doug Carr This is the second in a four-part series produced by POWDER TV that is based off the feature in our December issue, "Keep Tahoe True," written by Matt Hansen. Video by Hennie van Jaarsveld. Homepage photo by Hank de Vre.
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VIDEO: Three Weeks Until the Revelstoke FWT
The SWATCH Freeride World Tour by the North Face 2014 season commences at Revelstoke, British Columbia on December 18, 2013. In its second year as a globally unified tour, the 2014 season will feature seasoned FWT athletes competing against ambitious newcomers who have recently risen through the Freeride World Qualifier system. This year for the first time, the top three riders of the overall rankings at the end of the season will receive additional prize money of $5,000 for each world champion, $3,000 for second place and $2,000 for third place. Fans around the world can watch the action live here on Powder.com and on FreerideWorldTour.com. The event webcast is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. PST (6 p.m. CET) the day of competition.
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Video: Dane Tudor's Bump in the Road
A dislocated hip last January took Dane Tudor out for the rest of the season. Here's a video sharing a few of his thoughts about the recovery process, staying positive, and what it takes to get back to skiing.
published: November 25, 2013
Homepage Photo: Brad "Simón" Simmons finding the untracked line at Alta, Utah, circa 1984. PHOTO: Lee Cohen Powder Awards Sneak Peek: Here are the nominees for "Best Powder" at the 14th Annual Powder Awards. Out of these nominees, who do you think will win Best Powder segment from all movies released this year? On December 6, winners will be revealed at The Depot in Salt Lake City and on PowderAwards.com. Go to PowderAwards.com to see all categories and nominees.
published: November 22, 2013
Homepage Photo: J.P. Auclair at the inaugural Gravity Games at Mammoth Mountain, Jan. 2000. Shot by David Reddick POWDER Editor John Stifter talks to The North Face athlete Tom Wallisch about the influence of The New Canadian Air Force on skiing today as we approach the 2014 Sochi Olympics. In this exclusive interview series, POWDER Editor John Stifter sits down with the stars of "The Rise," The North Face's new 13-episode story about the history of freeskiing, told through the lenses of Teton Gravity Research, Sherpas Cinema, Stept Productions, and Mountain Sports International. Check back in the coming weeks to see interviews with Maddie Bowman and Nick Martini. To watch The North Face's "The Rise" series go to thenorthface.com/freeskiing.
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Santorum spoke hours after the top Republican on Capitol Hill and Obama delivered separate public remarks on the approaching so-called "fiscal cliff," a collection of spending cuts and tax increases scheduled to take effect in the new year absent congressional action to cut the federal deficit. Santorum said it is the responsibility of both parties in Washington "to do business" and find a solution.
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And he stayed mum on whether or not he would make a second bid for the White House in 2016.
"I don't intend to do anything right now other than spend the little time working to make sure that we don't walk away from the very principles that made our country great," Santorum said, citing projects including his political committee.
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The massive storm was spotted from orbit by the GOES West satellite on Dec. 3.
Famed climate scientist and activist James Hansen has said it before, and he'll say it again: Two degrees of warming is too much.
Himalayan flowers have evolved to attract bees as pollinators and could contribute to understanding the effects of climate change on plant pollination, scientists have found for the first time.
Rowdy fans stomping and roaring when the Seattle Seahawks scored a touchdown Dec. 2 shook the football stadium so hard that a nearby seismometer registered an "earthquake."
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Two Central Indiana men are among 11 American men who federal authorities have busted in a child pornography ring. U.S. Attorney Joe Hogsett says the men rang a "super-secret," highly-encrypted online operation that involved the transferring of hundreds of thousands of child pornography images of teen boys down to toddler boys. Hogsett says the men operated in on-line chat rooms on hidden servers for years. Authorities say about 100 children from all over the world have been rescued as a result of the federal probe.
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A woman responsible for handling the extra curricular accounts and other monies at North Spencer County schools is indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of defrauding taxpayers to the tune of $63,000. Melissa Isaacs is no longer employed by the school corporation. U.S. Attorney Joseph Hogsett tells reporters in Evansville an audit determined that during the four years that she worked for the corporation, money disappeared from book deposits , athletic sales, payments for letter jackets, lunch payments and parking fees.
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The Evansville Red Cross is sharing its resources with tornado victims in Washington Indiana and Western Kentucky. Regional Chief Development Officer Melissa Small tells WIKY News that caseworkers and other volunteers are providing lots of food and other necessities. Small says the local Red Cross Chapter has a sizeable pool of trained volunteers, that are always anxious to help out. She also says that further north, the Red Cross has an overnight shelter operating in Fountain County.
Sen. Donnelly transfers value of his paycheck during shutdown to food banks
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Senator Joe Donnelly is donating his take-home pay for the 16 days of the federal government shutdown, worth $5,000, to food banks across Indiana. Donnelly refused to take the salary he received while partisan gridlock had shut down the government. The Democrat says the shutdown hurt Hoosier families and businesses, as well as the entire country's economy. He says the shutdown irresponsible and shameful, and he thinks it was inappropriate to accept pay for the 16 days.
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Democrat Joe Donnelly congratulates the man he replaced in the U.S. Senate, Republican Richard Lugar, for winning the nation's highest award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Donnelly issued a statement saying "Senator Lugar has devoted his life to serving the state of Indiana and our country, and his life's work is a model for how we can and should solve problems." Donnelly added, "We are a safer and stronger nation as a result of his leadership Hoosiers are proud to call him one of our own." Donnelly did not defeat Lugar.
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The prosecution rested Wednesday afternoon in the Megan Mecum murder trial. She's charged in last year's death of her estranged husband, Keith Vaughn. During testimony Tuesday, a sheriff's deputy says that when Mecum was booked into the jail she said, "I killed my husband. What makes you think I won't kill myself."
Defense takes over in Goffinet murder
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The defense is expected to begin presenting its case Thursday in the murder trial of 40-year old Anthony Goffinet. He's charged with stabbing his pregnant wife Kathleen, in the parking lot of a Green River Road restaurant last year. Jurors were told that Goffinet repeatedly called the Lone Star Restaurant the night she died. Kathleen worked there. The restaurant has since closed. If found guilty, Goffinet faces 45-to-65 years in prison.
Det. Schroer loses battle with leukemia
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Evansville Police Detective Nathan Schroer's courageous fight is over. Schroer's third battle with Leukemia came to an end Tuesday. He was with The EPD for 11 years as a motor patrol officer, and as part of the Crime Prevention Unit. He had been assigned to Holly's House, where he investigated domestic and sexual violence crimes. Schroer was also an interim pastor for Northwoods Church, and he led a weekly bible study for Law Enforcement known as Code3 Ministries.
Evansville may become a "Bicycle Friendly Community"
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Mayor Lloyd Winnecke joins members of the newly created Bicycle Friendly Community Task Force in saying they'll try to obtain the status of being a Bicycle Friendly Community." Winnecke and Drew Hays announced the plans during a news conference Tuesday afternoon. Hayes is the Executive Director of the Evansville area Trails Coalition. Hays said achieving the distinction could go a long way toward reducing the "brain drain" for our area, in that younger workers require their home to provide multiple opportunities for fitness and recreation.
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A southern Indiana-based company purchases Washington Lawndale Commons Shopping Center from a California-based company. Agan Development is a Floyd Knobs commercial real estate investment company. It says it is in lease negotiations with three unidentified retailers - two of which will be making entries into Evansville for the first time. And it plans to update the facade, parking and traffic at Lawndale, which has five tenants, including a post office facility.
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European Decorative Arts and Sculpture Choir Screen from the Chapel of the Château of Pagny Made in France, EuropeNear Dijon, France, Europe 1536-38 Artist/maker unknown, French Marble, alabaster * Gallery 255, European Art 1500-1850, second floor 1930-1-84a--d Purchased with funds contributed by Eli Kirk Price from the Edmond Foulc Collection, 1930 |
LabelThis screen, the central interior element of the chapel at the château of Pagny, is one of the finest structures surviving from the French Renaissance. The coats of arms over the central archway are those of Cardinal Claude de Givry, Archbishop of Langres; Philippe Chabot, admiral of France and governor of Burgundy; and Françoise de Longvy, wife of Chabot, niece of Givry, and the heiress of Pagny. While Chabot owned the château, the archbishop played a role in the decoration of the chapel. The statues that stand above at left and right are probably Saints Claude and Philip. At center are the Virgin Mary and Saint John. Originally, a stone sculpture of Christ on the cross stood on the column capital at the top of the arch.* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit. |


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Look up the firmware revision installed on your m4 SSD, following this guide for Mac and this guide for Windows. If the firmware revision shows as 0001, 0002, or 0009, then most likely your drive is suffering from a condition that was resolved in later firmware revisions, and it needs a firmware update.Due to an incorrect response to a SMART counter, an m4 drive running one of the three firmware revisions mentioned above becomes unresponsive after 5184 hours of Power-on time, and every new hour after that. The m4 SSD may disappear from BIOS as well, but performing a power cycle process on the m4 will recover the drive and enable you to access it again. A firmware update will remove this condition from the drive, and allow it to run stable again. The latest firmware revision can be downloaded from our SSD Firmware page, where you also can find instructions for how to run the upgrade on a Windows computer. If you are running your m4 SSD in a Mac system, see these firmware update instructions.
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I tried to update the firmware of my M500 SSD (960GB) from MU02 to MU03, however, split seconds after clicking the "Update Drive" button I always get an error popup stating:
Failed to update ASIC controller FW. The update process for this drive will be halted. Code from library: 0
I find that not OK!
I am on a Lenovo X201using Windows 8.1 and the file I downloaded was the one labeled for Windows 8 and is called "22.214.171.124_Crucial_MU03.03.S0_WinSSDUpdater_Signed.exe"
Any idea what's going wrong here?
PS.: Yes, I *have* removed the disk password prior to this activity...
i've been looking at this forum to find possible solution for my problem
i have crucial m4-ct128m4ssd1 and I recently read about possible 5000h bug, then i checked and my drive already worked for nearly 4900 h, so i've decided to update the firmware
i've downloaded tool for update to recent 070h firmware for win8 from the crucial website and then i run it
after about 5 minutes from start of the update my computer has freezed, i couldn't even move the cursor on the screen
i waited next 20 minutes and there were no response so i've restarted the computer
now system shows strange characters instead of version number after failed try of firmware up
windows load normally, but after going to the desktop the icons appear with about 30 seconds delay and i cannot update the firmware using the manual method with cd image where i get message "no eligible drive to update"
is there a possible solution to fix this drive ??
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I own two 512 GB M4 SSDs: one for a laptop and one for a desktop. Each of them are having a thrashing problem, typcally when large files are deleted or copied/moved. Basically during this time programs will stop responding, sometimes the Windows UI, mainly because the system is being held up by this drive activity. It first started on the desktop one, probably due to move activity of moving files and generally more data being on my desktop. And now the laptop is having the same effect. And at times it crops up randomly. Possibly as I browse the web and the cache is getting written to. I have a hard drive monitor running at all times and have captured the effect:
The pink line is the drive activity. As you can see, it alternates between 0 and 100 percent for a given time period. It would seem this is due to lack of trim or no garbage collection over time. The same pattern appears on both drives and I can force this pattern whenever TRIM runs using the Windows 8.1 optimize/defrag dialog.
Each drive started as a clean Windows 7 64-bit install and has been upgrade to Windows 8 and now 8.1. They are connected with SATA 3 6.0 Gbps interfaces. The effect was present on Windows 7 as well. I've tried different drivers (MS and Intel RST). I tried backing up the image on my desktop and secure erasing the drive, and copying back the image. That did nothing. I also tried the garbage collection route where I left each machine on for hours at the BIOS screen so the drives were idle with power and had time to perform garbage collection. HD Tune Pro reports everything as OK. The wear level on each drive is 99. I also have the latest firmware on each 070H.
Has anyone else experienced this activity pattern or had problems stop responding for a short period, like the read/write block problems of early SSDs?
Hi, I have a Crucial M4 128 GB, runing Win 7 on desktop as a boot drive. Recently I would find that after running for several hours (i have my computer in balanced power mode, with hybrid sleep mode after 30 min, no hibernate) has restarted and the bios has removed the M4 from the boot list. When I enable the M4 as the boot device it always restarts however a few times shortly after rebooting my computer mouse works but other wise the computer is unresponsive.
I had the M4 set as removeable device in bios - as I recall this was required for some reason. I have tried it both ways with the same result. I have the Crucial FW iso C400-0001-or-0002-to-0009-Crucial_00 on my hdd so that is the last FW I installed.
Is there anyway to isolate this to the SSD vs. the motherboard? I have been using this computer as is for several years now and have not changed any settings. I don't mind getting another SSD as I typically build a computer every 2 years or so but of course installing the OS is a bit of work.
Thanks for any tips.
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