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The whole process of searching and exploration for traces of gold and the adventure involved in it is definitely exciting. But the excitement of exploration and searching for gold can never be compared in any manner to the excitement and exhilaration involved in finding the glittering metal. No wonder that the yellow metal has been associated with many expeditions and gold rushes. The major part of the period from 1600 to 2000 has witnessed numerous gold rushes. Brazil, Australia, North America, UK, New Zealand, Germany, Canada, Alaska and Mongolia all have seen major gold rushes.
But one thing is certain, not all of the prospectors or gold diggers actually found any gold, or even if they found any gold, the amount of gold which they could find was very negligible. The majority of the explorers who set out to search for gold in the West was truly experienced and could be considered as experts in their field. But in spite of their experience and expertise, nothing much came out of their gold searches, with the negligible amount of gold being found. There are actually no written records or any documentation, but some written evidence scattered here and there, does suggest that out of the entire number of the explorers who set out on their long expeditions, only a tiny few people could actually support themselves with the gold found out by them.
Many gold diggers or enthusiasts still believe that they can finally manage to find some amount of gold if they search for it in the streams of the West. But the placer deposits in the Western streams have already been thoroughly exploited by the Chinese workers and later by the itinerant miners in the year 1930.
Gold Mining sites are found to be spread all over the earth. Placed over the diverse continents and numerous nations, gold has proclaimed its presence everywhere. South Africa is the world's leading producer of gold and is known as the worlds gold cradle. It produces more than 40 to 45 % of the world's entire gold.
There are still areas in the West, where people can stake a claim in case they find any gold on their exploration trips. These areas are:
North Dakota
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Fragments of a chemically primitive meteorite that landed near Murchison, Australia, in 1969 have long been known to harbor a variety of interesting compounds, including dozens of amino acids. But as analytic techniques become more sophisticated, the Murchison meteorite continues to reveal even more diversity and complexity in the early solar system, and new work by a team of European researchers is no exception.
In the study, set to be published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, analytical chemist Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin of the Helmholtz German Research Center for Environmental Health in Munich and his colleagues used high-resolution mass spectrometry to look at the organic (carbon-based) content of three Murchison samples. The group found more than 14,000 unique molecular compositions, or collections of atoms, in the samples; there may be 50,000 or more such compositions, if the limited scope of the mass spectrometry analysis is taken into account. And because each collection of atoms can be arranged in numerous ways, the authors estimate that there may be millions of distinct organic compounds in the meteorite.
Many researchers have analyzed the chondritic meteorite for amino acids and other possible precursors to life, because some theories hold that life on Earth began with the delivery of prebiotic organic compounds from space via asteroids or comets. Schmitt-Kopplin says that he and his colleagues took a less targeted approach to try to unlock the meteorite's full chemical complexity and, by extension, the chemical complexity of the early solar system. "What we've seen out of this is that we had such a multitude of signals as we never saw in any other sample before," he says. "Even in petroleum, you have really complex materials, but not necessarily as complex as this."
Daniel Glavin, an astrobiologist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who did not contribute to the latest study, has worked on Murchison and other meteorites to look for possible precursors to life that may have arrived on Earth from space. "I think that the issue of diversity and complexity in chemistry is something that has been known for a while with meteorites," Glavin says. "I don't think we knew it was this complex, as what they're showing."
Murchison is a popular meteorite for study partly because roughly 100 kilograms of its stony fragments were quickly collected in 1969 and so did not suffer from much terrestrial contamination. It carries the signature of the solar system from around the time of the sun's formation, roughly 4.6 billion years ago. "It really is some of the first condensates of the early solar system," Glavin says. "This stuff basically freezes a record of some of the earliest chemistry taking place in the solar system that we have access to."
Glavin and his colleagues have had similar success in applying modern analytic approaches to the Murchison meteorite in a targeted search for compounds more relevant to life, finding evidence for hundreds of amino acids. "It really shows the benefits of having these samples and keeping them around until new, more advanced techniques come about to analyze them," Glavin says.
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How it was: Conference teams were prevented from meeting until the Elite Eight (unless nine or more teams from a conference received bids, which has happened only twice). How it is now: Potential conference matchups will be allowed starting in the third round (the second game for teams not in the "First Four"), depending on how many times they have already played. Those who played once can meet as early as the third round, those who played twice can meet in the Sweet 16, and those who played three times would not be allowed to play until the Elite Eight. Matchups in conference tournament games count toward these totals.
How it was: Although it was never a formal procedure, the committee tried to avoid having teams who met outside of conference play from facing each other until deep in the tournament. How it is now: Teams may face rematches in any round, though the committee will still try to avoid them in the early rounds.
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How it was: Even with expanding conference sizes and the addition of a "First Four" featuring eight more NCAA tournament teams, old procedures were kept, necessitating more seed-line movements. How it is now: If a conference has two or more teams among the last four to be selected, and thus in the First Four, all principles involving them can be relaxed.
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Dennis Tito
Dennis Tito | |
Space Tourist | |
Nationality | United States |
Born |
Queens, New York City, U.S. |
August 8, 1940
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Time in space
7d 22h 04m |
Missions | ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32 / Soyuz TM-31) |
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Dennis Anthony Tito (born August 8, 1940) is an American engineer and multimillionaire, most widely known as the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space. In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station. This mission was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and was landed by Soyuz TM-31.
Life and career 1
- Spaceflight 1.1
- Inspiration Mars Foundation 1.2
- See also 2
- References 3
- Further reading 4
- External links 5
Life and career
Tito was born in Queens, New York. He graduated from Forest Hills High School in New York City. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Astronautics and Aeronautics from New York University, 1962 and a Master of Science in Engineering Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute satellite campus in Hartford, Connecticut.[1] He is a member of Psi Upsilon and received an honorary doctorate of engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on May 18, 2002 and is a former scientist of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In 1972, he founded Wilshire Associates, a leading provider of investment management, consulting and technology services in Santa Monica, California. Dennis Tito serves an international clientele representing assets of $71 billion.[2] Wilshire relies on the field of quantitative analytics, which uses mathematical tools to analyze market risks – a methodology Tito is credited with helping to develop by applying the same techniques he used to determine a spacecraft's path at JPL.[3] Despite a career change from aerospace engineering to investment management, Tito remained interested in space.
Tito was appointed to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Board of Commissioners in the 1990s and led the board to support the landmark 1994 state ruling protecting Mono Lake from excessive water diversions by the city.[4]
In a project first arranged by MirCorp, Tito was accepted by the Russian Federal Space Agency as a candidate for a commercial spaceflight. Tito met criticism from NASA before the launch, primarily from Daniel Goldin, at that time the Administrator of NASA, who considered it inappropriate for a tourist to take a ride into space.[5][6] MirCorp, Goldin and Tito are profiled in the documentary film, Orphans of Apollo. When Tito arrived at the Johnson Space Center for additional training on the American portion of the ISS, Robert D. Cabana, NASA manager, sent Tito and his two fellow cosmonauts home, stating "...We will not be able to begin training, because we are not willing to train with Dennis Tito."[7]
Later, through an arrangement with space tourism company Space Adventures, Ltd., Tito joined the Soyuz TM-32 mission on April 28, 2001, spending 7 days, 22 hours, 4 minutes in space and orbiting Earth 128 times.[8] Tito performed several scientific experiments in orbit that he said would be useful for his company and business. Tito paid a reported $20 million for his trip.[9]
Since returning from space, he has testified at the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space and the House Committee on Science, Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics Joint Hearing on "Commercial Human Spaceflight" on July 24, 2003.[10] Ten years after his flight, he gave an interview to BBC News about it.[11]
Inspiration Mars Foundation
In February 2013, Tito announced his intention to send a privately financed spaceflight to Mars by 2018.[12] Stating that the technology is already in place and that the issues that need to be overcome are only the requirements of the rigor of a 501-day trip on a psychological and physical level for the human crew.[13][14][15] However, in November 2013, Tito and other Mars Inspiration team members admitted that their plan was impossible without significant levels of assistance and funding from NASA.[16]
See also
- ^ "Dennis Tito to Speak at Rensselaer Nov. 14". Rensselaer Magazine. November 4, 2002. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ "Wilshire / About Us". Wilshire. November 3, 2013. Retrieved November 3, 2013.
- ^ "Dennis A. Tito to Receive Prestigious Americanism Award from Boy Scouts of America". Western Los Angeles County Council. January 11, 2002. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ "Defender of the Trust Award". Mono Lake Committee. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ Brian Berger and Simon Saradzhyan (March 15, 2001). "Goldin, Koptev at Odds on Tito Flight". Space.com. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ Leonard David (April 28, 2001). "'"NASA Chief Remains Miffed Over Tito Launch: 'Space is Not About Egos. Space.com. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ Julie Mayeda (January 18, 2004). "The forgotten frontier". SFGate. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ "First Space Tourist Dennis Tito to Make Business Visit to Russia". redOrbit. June 15, 2004. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ "Profile: Tito the spaceman". BBC News. April 28, 2001. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ "Congressional Testimony "Commercial Human Spaceflight" by Dennis Tito, Wilshire Associates". SpaceRef. July 24, 2003. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ "World's first space tourist 10 years on: Dennis Tito". BBC News. April 30, 2011. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ Eric Mack (February 20, 2013). "First space tourist plans to make trip to Mars in 2018". CNET. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
- ^ Rand Simberg (February 24, 2013). "A Manned Mission to Mars This Decade?". PJ Media. Retrieved February 27, 2013.
- ^ Marc Kaufman (February 27, 2013). "Manned Mars Mission Announced by Dennis Tito Group". National Geographic News. Retrieved February 28, 2013.
- ^ Frank Morring, Jr. (March 4, 2013). "Serious Intent About 2018 Human Mars Mission". Aviation Week & Space Technology. Retrieved March 23, 2013.
- ^ Grossman, Lisa (November 21, 2013). "Ambitious Mars joy-ride cannot succeed without NASA". New Scientist. Retrieved January 26, 2014.
Further reading
- Klerkx, Greg. Lost in Space, The Fall of NASA. Random House: New York. 2004. ISBN 0-375-42150-5
External links
- Tito the spaceman BBC web site (accessed February 2006)
- Spacefacts biography of Dennis Tito


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At 11:20 the price of gold reached 158; at 11:40 it reached 160. Businessmen who had made comfortable livings for years faced imminent ruin. But then, just as a telegram was sent from Washington instructing Butterfield to sell $4 million in gold, a broker on the floor sensed a turning tide and sold $5 million in gold at 160. The market instantly turned, and by noon Butterfield was able to telegraph Washington that the price had dropped to 140. The gold corner—and the single most exciting day in the history of Wall Street—was over.
The mess created by Gould and Fisk was never really cleared up but instead more or less swept under the rug and so we will never know if they made or lost money. Three years later, Jim Fisk would be murdered in a love triangle. Jay Gould would live on, getting richer and sicker by the year until 1893. But the great corner in gold had shown that having two currencies, one backed by gold and one not, was an invitation to market instability. By 1897 the nation was back on the gold standard, and the greenbacks disappeared.
Fernidad Ward
After President Grant left the White House in March 1877, his son, Ulysses Jr., entered into partnership with a Wall Street speculator named Ferdinand Ward. The elder Grant, although entirely ignorant of finance, decided to join his son in the partnership of Grant & Ward, putting up $200,000 as capital, nearly his entire net worth. Ward invested a similar amount. The problem was that Ward was lying. The "gilt-edged" securities he put up turned out to be worth much less than he claimed.
Ward hoped that Grant Sr. could steer government contracts to companies in which Grant & Ward held positions. Grant adamantly refused to do any such thing, but Ward simply implied to potential investors that such contracts would be forthcoming. He thus attracted many new clients to Grant & Ward and was able to borrow money to facilitate further speculation as well. The president of Marine National Bank, where Grant & Ward did much business, asked Grant whether Ward was telling the truth. Grant replied with an incautiously worded letter that the bank president took as confirmation.
Ward began urging friends to deposit money with Grant & Ward, promising large dividends. These were forthcoming, which encouraged the investors to put in more money and new investors to come into the deal. But it was a Ponzi scheme. Ward was paying the dividends out of the new investments.
By the end of 1883, General Grant figured he was worth $2 million, enough in the 1880s to make one a rich man indeed. In reality, the firm of Grant & Ward was nearly bankrupt by May 1884. The Marine National Bank was also in deep trouble because its president had misappropriated funds to invest with the firm. Ward, his back to the wall, told the general that a sudden withdrawal by the city of New York had left the bank dangerously short. If the bank closed its doors, the resulting panic would bring down Grant & Ward.
Ward asked Grant to raise $150,000 from his friends to save the situation. Grant, ever naive, accepted Ward's story and went to see William H. Vanderbilt, the son of the Commodore and the richest man in the world. Vanderbilt, like his father, was nobody's fool and did not trust Grant & Ward. But he told the former president, "I'll lend you $150,000 personally. To you—to General Grant—I'm making this loan and not to the firm."
Grant turned the check over to Ward, who cashed it and fled. The Marine National Bank failed and took Grant & Ward along with it. It turned out that Grant & Ward had assets of $67,174 and liabilities of $16,792,640. Ward was soon arrested and spent 10 years in jail for grand larceny.
Desperate for money, Grant at last began writing the memoirs he had so long resisted writing. He finished them three days before dying of throat cancer. The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant became a titanic best seller, and Grant's widow received about $450,000 in royalties, a comfortable fortune by the standards of the day.
The Memoirs are also regarded as one of the greatest works of military history, the equal, perhaps, of Julius Caesar's Commentaries . It is ironic that a second-rate Wall Street crook should have been partially responsible for the creation of one of the masterpieces of American literature.
Richard Whitney
In the 1930s Richard Whitney was probably the most famous stockbroker in the nation. As acting president of the New York Stock Exchange, he had single-handedly stopped a panic when the market seemed to be in free fall on October 24, 1929. There was no stopping the great crash that happened five days later, but Whitney's heroics had provided some time to get out of the market while the getting was good. He was elected president of the exchange in his own right the following year, serving until 1935, and was the public face of Wall Street as it resisted the reforms of the New Deal.
Whitney headed the brokerage firm of Richard Whitney & Company, which handled J. P. Morgan & Company's needs in the stock market. He lived in considerable splendor, spending at least $5,000 a month at a time when $2,500 a year was a middle-class income and millions of American families lived on far less, thanks to the Great Depression.
There was one big problem: he couldn't afford it. In mid-1931 Richard Whitney & Company actually had a net worth of only about $40,000. In the prosperous, high-flying 1920s, Whitney had managed to keep afloat by frequently borrowing from friends and acquaintances, especially his brother George, who was a Morgan partner. He would quickly pay them back and then borrow again just as quickly.


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PHP Tutorial: File System
To access a file you first have to establish a connection to that file. This is done by opening the file with the fopen function. To use the fopen function you provide it two parameters. The first is the name of the file you wish to use and the second says how you want to use the file (for reading or writing, etc.) Using the fopen function establishes a pointer to the file. Here's an example:
$myfilepointer = fopen("myfilename.txt", "w");
r | read only |
r+ | reading and writing |
w | write only & create the file if it doesn't exist |
w+ | reading and writing & create the file if it doesn't exist |
a | writing only, create if it doesn't exist, and place a file position pointer at the end of the file (appends records to an existing file) |
a+ | reading and writing, create if it doesn't exist and
place file position pointer at the end of the file |
These parameters have introduced the idea of a file position pointer. As you read a file, something has to keep track of where you are in the file so that you can read the next record. That something is the file position pointer. This pointer gets interesting when you think about writing to the file. If you are writing to a new file it's pretty straight forward -- you write a record, the pointer points at the end of that record and you write another record, and so on. If, however, the file already exists and contains some records, the value of the pointer when you first open the file becomes very important! If the file is opened with the pointer at the beginning of the file (like r+, w or w+), when you write to that file you will overwrite the existing records in the file, replacing them with your new records. On the other hand, if you open it with the pointer pointing at the end of the file (like a or a+), you will append records to the file, adding them to the existing records.
Reading and Writing Records
Now that we have our file open, we need to read and/or write records. This is accomplished with the fgets and fputs functions.
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Dear Santa,
for christmas this year i want a laptop and a phone case with sparkles also i would like some monster high dolls also since i've been good this year i want a pair of high heels and high tops there will be milk and possibly another kind of cookies. also for my mom please bring her another tablet NOT A KINDLE!! YOUR LITTLE HELPER,


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I'm looking for some foam panels or something similar that are 1/4in/1cm thick that I can use to make the chest plates of samurai armour, but I don't know where to buy them from. So far I've tried my local fabric shops, and had a look in the window of an upholstery shop but coudn't get in because they had a sofa in the doorway D: and I don't know of any other upholstery shops in the area. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Also I'm not quite sure how to attach all the plates together. I was thinking of making the chest plate in 3 pieces and putting a zipper at the back, and can probably sew the hip plates onto the bottom but I'm completely lost with attach the shoulder plates to the chest plate. The character's armour also has a sort of 'collar' piece sticking up from the top should plates. I was going to make those parts by covering card with fabric but I don't know how to get the collar effect.
Ref pic here http://www.cosplayisland.co.uk/costume/view/6010
Any help is appreciated! <3
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Kan-chan Joined: 31 Aug 2008 Posts: 122 | Have you got a local market? After a few of my friends started saying they got foam from their local market, I checked mine out, and I was surprised to find that mine also had a foam stall!
it may not work, but if you bend the top "collar" part of the arm armour around the straps that attatch the back and front plates, it MAY stick up at that angle (if sewn right) on it's own, especially with the weight of the rest of the arm pulling it back, but only in theory! i've never worked with foam, so I don't know if that'll even work >.< |
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Odd-One-Out Joined: 29 Jan 2008 Posts: 293 | Plastazote sheets come in 3mm, 6mm, 1cm, etc thickness so you're fine there.
They are, however, around £5 a sheet (1m x 75cm) so not exactly cheap but they will do the job perfectly. Have a link: http://www.flints.co.uk/acatalog/Plastazote.html __________________ Katsu no wa Hyotei~♥ |
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kilik_hiwatari Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 154 | hmm, I don't think plastazote is what i'm looking for. i just wanted the chest plate to be spongey and use fabric covered card for the rest. I'll check my local market tho.
I don't have much money either so I'm hoping to do this cheaply ^^; As long as it looks good and is glomp-proof lol |
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Sephirayne Joined: 21 Feb 2008 Posts: 1814 | I know this is going to sound daft but try your local B&Q for carpet underlay. Its spongey and flexable and probarly works out quite cheap. Last edited by Sephirayne (20 Mar 2009 - 01:10) Reason: spelling |
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Apple has secured a mighty big fish for its massive talent pond. Word came Friday that Apple has hired the chief financial officer (CFO) at Xerox to serve as Apple's new corporate controller.
Reuters confirmed that the Xerox executive named Luca Maestri will officially join Apple at some point after the transitional leadership phase at Xerox is finished next month. In the mean time, Xerox said it had "started an external search for a new CFO."
Maestri has only been with Xerox for two years. He hired in as CFO after similarly serving as chief financial officer at Nokia Siemens Networks since 2008.
In his new position at Apple, Maestri - an economics guru who graduated from Luiss University in Rome in 1988 - will report directly to Apple's present CFO, Peter Oppenheimer, who remains in charge of multiple facets of Apple's financial duties.
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Hi there and congratulations on taking the first step towards better health.
Before you start on this journey you should try and get your mind ready. Firstly, consider this a lifestyle change, rather than a "diet". Diets are temporary, and will fail in the long run unless you can wrap your brain around the idea that you are making permanent changes.
Next you should do a little research on the foods you will be eating and how they affect your body, moods, mental state, etc. And take a look at what your current diet is doing to you. I find that being aware of what that can of soda pop is doing to me helps me avoid them - even though I LOVE coca cola.
Meal planning is extremely helpful. You know what you will be eating during the day, so it helps you to not reach out for those "no no" foods.
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Instead it is whole grain variations...whole wheat pasta, brown rice, whole grain cereal, etc. And these should be eaten in measured amounts.
You can have up to 6 eggs a week, and as many egg whites as you wish. I have a whole grain english muffin with an egg for breakfast fairly often.
Try and keep red meat down to once, maybe twice a week. Instead use chicken, turkey or fish.
Eat vegetables (except potatoes). Salads, stir fries, soups, veggie plates...raw or cooked. This has to be the main focus of your diet. As many different kinds as you can eat, the more brightly coloured they are the more nutrients they have.
Fresh fruit is a good choice too, instead of sweets.
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Credit Karma will set up a new corporate entity like "Karma New Holdings LLC," transfer all assets
.. unless the settlement specifically prohibits them from doing so.
Credit Karma will set up a new corporate entity like "Karma New Holdings LLC," transfer all assets
.. unless the settlement specifically prohibits them from doing so.
The sales figures do not lie.
I think this just about says it all:
By fall 2014, Windows 8/8.1 should be completely irrelevant.
(and thank God/Allah/Buddha/Cthulhu/whatever for that).
Fiat currency will always decrease in value. It's a function of the interest rate. Fiat money has no way of multiplying (like plants or animals), other than printing more, which will also decrease the value of each note or coin equally, percentagewise.
Bitcoins will increase in value over a sufficiently long period, especially after the maximum amount is reached. Every bitcoin lost by harddisk crash or in some other way, will increase the scarcity of the rest and thereby make them more valuable.
Bitcoin has yet to stand the test of time, but right now, it's looking pretty good.
it'd cost crazy money
What's 'crazy money' in numbers (and currency)?
The problem of course is my Steam folder is already over 100Gb and my regular games folder adds another 60Gb or so, so obviously games on the SSD would be right out.
Unless you think SSDs are too expensive for their size, an OCZ Agility 3 240GB will speed up boot and especially your games quite a lot.
If it's still too small, perhaps use this one solely for games and get a small SSD just for Win 7 (if you want the faster boot). It's not like one more SSD makes more noise or wastes a lot more power.
I've talked to a few who tried it, and it worked. Fortunately I never needed it myself, usually replaced my HDDs after 2-3 years and sold off the old ones, many months or years before they (I assume) would start to fail.
I've had it work myself two times - with cell phone batteries (my sister's and her son's). But that was probably NiMH type, that had developed some memory effect, which the freezing undid.
Nowadays, it's either Li-ion or some other type of Lithium-based batteries, which die because people discharge them way too deeply and probably also do that too often.
Li-based batteries, especially Li-ion should never be discharged below 50 %. I've consistently made sure my cell phone batteries never went below that, and I'm quite sure that's what made them last 4-5 years each.
By the way, the freezer trick will NOT help recover Li-based batteries.
Sure, but that could mean a lot less 'dead' drives, and a matching drop in sales, so..
Now, if they'd used a socketed chip with bad block mappings since the first harddrives came along, there'd be no problem, no drop in sales.
But in that case, somebody probably would have suggested dropping the socket somewhere along the way, to get a nice increase in sales..
He's extremely unlikely to succeed, period.
Even assuming the 120 GB is a one-platter drive, any dust and moisture that gets on the platter during the move will damage the surface initially, and then extensively when the drive spins up and the dust specks get whirled around, hitting the surface again and again, and sometimes coming between the head and the surface rushing by.
Imagine a vertical-axis cement-mixer with some tiny pebbles in it,
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only shrunk down to harddisk-size and running at 7200 rpm.
The filesystem might look okay in Windows Explorer (or in some file manager in a different OS) at first, but when you try to read/copy the files, there will either be a plethora of errors, or the system will just hang.
That should be a no-brainer, for pretty much anyone with some knowledge of electromagnetism.
If the temperature is above the Curie temp. for any material, and there's still a magnetic field, then that magnetic field is caused by an electric current.
In the Athlon era (2003 or so) I read about a local guy (in Denmark) with a dead motherboard, and an Athlon processor, which somehow fried another motherboard he put it in, which then fried another Athlon. Supposedly, it could have gone on until he ran out of money.
Fortunately, he wasn't that stupid and dumped the whole lot in the trash and ordered a new motherboard and processor. Can't remember if it was Athlon again, or Pentium IV.
AFAIR, the Athlons were visibly burned (when looking closely), the motherboards weren't. No idea what brand they were.
you DO know, that Maxtor was bought up by Seagate in 2006, right?
They kept the Maxtor brand alive, but for some years now, I've only seen external harddrives with the name on the box.
Internally, they do have Maxtor-branded drives, and bad (power-sucking) ones at that.
I had a Maxtor III OneTouch 300 GB: the drive consumed 21.7 Watts at max. (I'm not kidding).
I kept a picture of it: http://bayimg.com/baainAaen
I took the Maxtor hdd out and put a 1 TB WDC hdd in the box (consumes ~8 Watts at most).
In 2010, I sold the Maxtor to a guy who, just as he left, said he intended to use it as a system drive in his PC, instead of the old hdd that died.
I felt sorry for the guy, but said nothing.
I am pretty sure he learned the hard way not to use extremely power-intensive drives as a system drive.
Well, either that, or he learned to cool it really well.
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This report describes the typical weather at the Djerba Zarzis International Airport (Djerba, Tunisia) weather station over the course of an average October. It is based on the historical records from 1974 to 2012. Earlier records are either unavailable or unreliable.
Djerba has a hot desert climate. The area within 25 mi of this station is covered by oceans and seas (96%) and shrublands (3%).
The month of October is characterized by falling daily high temperatures, with daily highs decreasing from 84°F to 76°F over the course of the month, exceeding 91°F or dropping below 70°F only one day in ten.
Over the course of October, the length of the day is gradually decreasing. From the start to the end of the month, the length of the day decreases by 60 minutes, implying an average day-over-day decrease of 1.9 minutes.
The shortest day of the month is October 31 with 10:50 hours of daylight; the longest day is October 1 with 11:49 hours of daylight.
The earliest sunrise is at 6:11am on October 1; the latest sunset is at 6:01pm on October 1; the latest sunrise is at 6:36am on October 31; the earliest sunset is at 5:25pm on October 31.
Daylight saving time (DST) is not observed in 2012.
The median cloud cover is 37% (mostly clear) and does not vary substantially over the course of the month.
On October 16, a representative day, the sky is clear or mostly clear 58% of the time, partly cloudy 30% of the time, and mostly cloudy or overcast 8% of the time.
The average probability that some form of precipitation will be observed in a given day is 23%, with little variation over the course of the month.
Throughout October, the most common forms of precipitation are thunderstorms, moderate rain, and light rain.
Thunderstorms are the most severe precipitation observed during 49% of those days with precipitation. They are most likely around October 12, when it is observed during 12% of all days.
Moderate rain is the most severe precipitation observed during 31% of those days with precipitation. It is most likely around October 31, when it is observed during 9% of all days.
Light rain is the most severe precipitation observed during 19% of those days with precipitation. It is most likely around October 9, when it is observed during 5% of all days.
Either snow is exceptionally unlikely to fall at this location in October or this station does not reliably report precipitation types.
The relative humidity typically ranges from 49% (comfortable) to 96% (very humid) over the course of a typical October, rarely dropping below 30% (comfortable) and reaching as high as 100% (very humid).
The air is driest around October 12, at which time the relative humidity drops below 59% (mildly humid) three days out of four; it is most humid around October 27, rising above 94% (very humid) three days out of four.
Dew point is often a better measure of how comfortable a person will find the weather than relative humidity because it more directly relates to whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid.
Over the course of a typical October, the dew point typically varies from 53°F (very comfortable) to 70°F (muggy) and is rarely below 44°F (dry) or above 76°F (very muggy).
Over the course of October typical wind speeds vary from 2 mph to 15 mph (light air to moderate breeze), rarely exceeding 23 mph (fresh breeze).
The highest average wind speed of 9 mph (gentle breeze) occurs around October 1, at which time the average daily maximum wind speed is 15 mph (moderate breeze).
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The Next Phase (episode)
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Geordi La Forge and Ensign Ro are believed dead after a transporter malfunction. However, they soon discover that their state may not actually be "death".
The USS Enterprise-D is called to render assistance to a crippled Romulan vessel. When they arrive, the vessel is adrift and has taken heavy damage. Commander William T. Riker, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge, Ensign Ro Laren, and Lieutenant Worf beam over. Riker orders La Forge and Ro to disarm their phasers before going over, which Ro says is not a bright idea. When La Forge surveys the damage after beaming aboard, he determines that the graviton generator needs to be replaced, and beams himself and Ro back to the ship along with the damaged part.
However, during transport, something happens to their patterns. Transporter chief Brossmer cannot get them to rematerialize, so she aborts. However, they do not rematerialize at the original coordinates as the safety protocols indicated. Riker and the engineer conclude they are gone.
Act OneEdit
The Romulan ship is still in danger of a warp core breach. Lt. Commander Data and two more engineers go to the ship in a shuttle. When the pressure in the core suddenly rises, Riker, Worf, and the Romulans are forced to eject it manually, doing so just in time.
Ensign Ro wakes up in a corridor in section 23 baker near sickbay and finds that she cannot use the communications system, nor does anyone notice her. She enters sickbay, only to hear from Doctor Beverly Crusher and Captain Jean-Luc Picard that she and La Forge are dead. She cannot get their attention, and when she blocks his path, Picard walks right through her.
Act TwoEdit
The Enterprise begins to transfer power to the Romulan ship, as Data examines the transporters for anything that could cause the safety systems to fail. He finds an energy fluctuation and begins investigating it. He also asks if he may arrange the memorial service, and Captain Picard grants his request.
On board the Romulan vessel, Worf tells Riker that the Romulans have requested a Starfleet computer, which Worf believes is a severe security risk. Riker recommends that the Romulans be given a computer system 30 to 40 years old and one that the Romulans would already be familiar with. Worf agrees and Riker asks that his concerns be addressed before it is installed.
La Forge also soon finds that he has the same problems as Ro. After waking up in the Enterprise's arboretum with a splitting headache, he headed for engineering. When she finds him, they start speculating about what happened. La Forge and Ro take two different approaches to their apparent death. Ro tries to accept her death and be at peace with herself. La Forge is determined to figure out what happened, convinced they are still alive.
Act ThreeEdit
While the chief engineer begins to follow Data's investigation, Ro wanders around the ship, and finds herself in the captain's ready room when Commander Riker tells Picard that he wants to say a few words about her at the memorial. This surprises and upsets her, given that she doesn't think he knows her that well. She also begins to speak her mind to the captain and others who can't hear her, telling Picard that she was glad he trusted her. After that, La Forge enters and talks her into going over to the Romulan vessel, where Data believes the problem originated. They take his shuttle, and overhear Data talking to Worf about the memorial service, including whether or not it would be practical to incorporate Bajoran elements (to which Ro responds with a groan, "Oh please, not the death chant.")
Using his ability to look through the casing, La Forge discovers that a central device in the Romulan engine room is a phase inverter, which can transform normal matter so it will pass through other matter and energy. He remembers hearing at classified briefings that the Romulans have been trying to combine inversion and cloaking technology. He realizes this explains the chroniton fields, and the pair's abilities; they are alive, just "out of phase" with normal matter and energy.
After Data is called away, the two of them then hear the Romulan bridge officers Mirok and Varel discussing the danger of the Starfleet officers discovering the inverter, and plotting to destroy the Enterprise by creating an undetectable muon feedback ray through the power transfer beam; as soon as the Enterprise goes to warp, her engines will explode.
Ro and Geordi say they must return to the Enterprise immediately and find a way to reverse their condition, so they can warn the crew about the Romulan trap. As they leave the bridge, a Romulan who has been sitting in one of the bridge chairs gets up and follows them, passing through a console, showing that he is also phased and has overheard them.
Act FourEdit
When Data and the transporter chief Brossmer scan for chroniton fields, using anyons to eliminate them, La Forge realizes that he and Ro are leaving chroniton particles behind them. La Forge tries to get Data to recognize the pattern of his movements, and accidentally finds the solution to his problem; a "careless" sweep from Data hits Geordi on the hand, stinging him – and after discovering that this hand no longer went right through the master systems display table as easily, he realizes that the anyons partially re-phased his hand. He doubles his efforts, desperately hoping to make Data turn up the intensity so he will be brought back, but to no avail. Data gives up.
Unfortunately, when Ro is following the transporter chief, the Romulan confronts her with a "phased" disruptor. He forces Ro to take him to La Forge, but on the other side of a wall, she jumps him, and knocks him down. A chase ensues, and Ro gets shot in the leg with the disruptor. A fist fight ensues, and La Forge enters (following Data to a very large chroniton field created by the weapon's fire) and knocks Parem through the ship's hull, and out into space, an action that saves Ro's life.
Act FiveEdit
Afterward, the power transfer beam is disconnected, Picard is thanked by Mirok and they are about to engage at warp, when the transporter chief reminds him the decontamination is still going on, and they shouldn't use any major system until it has been completed. La Forge figures that for them to be returned to normal, they will have to be hit with a very large anyon field, and since it will only work for a millisecond, someone will need to be looking right at them. When the memorial service in Ten Forward is announced, they go there. Joining Picard and Riker in the turbolift, La Forge hears the captain, practicing his eulogy, recall their first meeting years before, while Ro anxiously wonders what Riker will say about her – but they reach Ten Forward first, leaving her even more frustrated. To Ro's shock and La Forge's pleasant surprise, the atmosphere in Ten Forward is rather festive (complete with a jazz band, which Riker eventually joins) as everyone mingles and reminisces.
They start shooting everything with the disruptor – approaching Riker, Ro sarcastically notes that she would never know what he was to say about her before putting a shot through his head. Soon, the chief finds the very large field forming in Ten Forward. However, their attempts to get attention when the field strength is increased fail, and the Enterprise will need to get to Garadius IV soon, as the diplomatic situation on the planet is worsening. So, they make the disruptor overload, and sure enough, a much larger decontamination is attempted. This time, they are seen by Data and the Captain. As Picard wonders what they have just seen, only now does Data put their appearances together with all of the chroniton phenomena – they had been "cloaked" in some manner, and the anyons "de-cloaked" them. When the anyon field is put on its highest setting, all of the particles are purged, and the mourners look on in disbelief as the "dearly departed" reappear at their own memorial. Right away, La Forge gives the order to take the warp engines offline – when the ensign in charge at engineering, understandably suspicious of a command from his dead superior, contacts Picard, the captain assures him that he heard right, and the order was valid – and the muon wave is removed before they get underway. With that crisis averted, Geordi calls on the party to continue, which does with a much more joyous atmosphere.
Afterward, with the pair eating after the party has concluded, Ro notes that she gained a new appreciation for her culture's religious beliefs that she once dismissed. At this confession, La Forge playfully suggests they should develop their own interphase device since if it can teach Ensign Ro humility, then it is surely capable of anything. The two share a hearty laugh.
Memorable quotesEdit
"But my uniform – my VISOR – are you saying I'm some blind ghost with clothes!?"
"I don't have all the answers! I've never been dead before!"
- - La Forge and Ro
"I might like to say a few words..."
"You did know La Forge longer than any of us."
"Actually, I was thinking more about Ensign Ro."
- - Riker and Picard
"I don't believe this. I'm dead, you can't even hear me and I'm still intimidated by you."
- - Ro, to Picard
"Me?!?!...Wait a minute, what're you gonna say about me?!"
- - Ro, overhearing Riker
"I just... wanted to say thank you...for trusting in me when no one else would."
- - Ro, believing she's dead, saying "goodbye" to Picard
"Why can't you just accept the fact..."
"Look – if you're right, then we're dead, and this doesn't make any difference. But if I'm right, then we're still alive – and I'm gonna need your help!"
- - Ro and La Forge
"I never knew what a friend was, until I met Geordi. He spoke to me as though I were Human. He treated me no differently from anyone else. He accepted me for what I am. And that – I have learned – is friendship."
- - Data to Worf, about La Forge – who heard the whole thing
"Seems almost Human, doesn't he?"
- - Ro, after Data calls La Forge his best friend
"Data, that's a nice sentiment – but a little premature."
- - La Forge, in response to Data's speech
"I've been thinking about the first time I met Geordi La Forge. He was a young officer, assigned to pilot me on an inspection tour, and... I made some off-hand remark about the... the shuttle's engine efficiency not being what it should, and the next morning I found that... he'd stayed up all night, re-fitting the fusion initiators. Well, I knew then that I wanted to have him with me on my next command."
- - Picard, practicing a eulogy he wouldn't have to give
"Have you decided what you're going to say about Ensign Ro?"
"Yes I have. It wasn't easy..."
- - Picard and Riker, arriving at Ten Forward
"What... What wasn't easy?!...WHAT?!?!?!"
- - Ro, once again hearing not quite enough from Riker
"Well, this is... unusual."
(grinning widely) "Yeah. I think I like it!"
- - Picard and Riker at La Forge and Ro's highly festive funeral
"Now I suppose I'll never know what you were gonna say about me!"
- - Ro, to Riker who can't hear her, before "shooting" him in the head with a phased (and therefore harmless) disruptor
"C'mon, Data – put it all together now!!!"
- - La Forge, having been seen by Data and Picard
"These were not ghosts – what did we see?"
"I believe I may know what has happened, sir..."
"Oh, Data, PLEASE be right!"
"...it would explain the mysterious chroniton fields...if they were cloaked in some way!"
"You're saying that they're still alive?!"
"If I am right, sir, they are – and in this room. Their brief appearance coincided with the anyon sweep – perhaps the anyons neutralize the cloaking effect."
- - Picard, and Data (with a little encouragement from La Forge), figuring out what happened
"Data, do you see us?"
"Of course."
- - La Forge, back in phase and Data
"Take the warp engines off-line until further notice...there's a muon wave building up in the dilithium chamber."
"Captain... who gave that order?!"
"That was Commander Geordi La Forge, Ensign – please follow his instructions."
- - La Forge (aware of the Romulan sabotage), Engineering Ensign (suspicious of an order from his "dead" superior), and Picard (assuring him that it was in fact Geordi)
"Looks like a great party – mind if we join you?"
- - La Forge, having re-appeared at his own funeral
"Thanks, Data. I've never been to a better funeral."
- - La Forge
"We should develop our own interphase device. If it can teach Ro Laren humility, it can do anything."
- - La Forge
Background informationEdit
Story and production Edit
- According to Michael Piller, "I get a little tired of Romulans and I was a little reluctant to make this a Romulan show...It had been pitched as actually similar stories by two people. We brought the ideas and combined them into one and Ron developed the story and wrote it. I think it's terribly important to give credit to Ron Moore for the work he did this season." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- According to Brannon Braga, the story originally involved Troi rather than Ro. He noted, "Troi's had enough running and jumping this year. We felt why not give Ro something and I'm glad she did, because she kicks a Romulan in the chest and does a kick worthy of Bruce Lee. She's some sort of acrobat. That scene in my opinion makes the whole show." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- While originally intended to be a cost-cutting bottle show, this episode ended up being one of the most expensive of the season due to the special effects required. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion)
- Director David Carson recalled, "This was an extremely difficult episode to do, because it dealt with special effects of a type people were familiar with from Ghost, which Star Trek had never attempted before. It was one of the most difficult technical episodes they'd ever done just by the nature of having people walk through people and an environment where people exist in different phases. I thought the story hung together quite well, and it turned out in quite a good way." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- Rick Berman added, "It was very difficult to shoot in blue screen with people putting their hands through consoles and walls. It looked relatively easy on paper, but took a lot of time to make the visual effects work." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- Production Meeting for this episode took place on Friday 13 March 1992 at 2:00 p.m. ("I Borg" call sheet)
- The first Jazz piece played during the funeral service is "Down By The Riverside". The second is "When the Saints Go Marching In".
- First UK airdate: 31 May 1995
Cast and characters Edit
- All three of the guest actors playing Romulans (Thomas Kopache, Susanna Thompson, and Brian Cousins) would go on to play numerous other roles in various Star Trek episodes and films.
Continuity Edit
- The Romulans were experimenting with a molecular phase inverter to create an interphase cloak. This is similar to what the USS Pegasus illegally attempted to test in "The Pegasus". Geordi ominously foreshadows this in his penultimate sentence: "Well, maybe we should develop our own interphase device."
- The stardate of this episode is derived from Ro's death certificate.
- In "Timescape", the Enterprise-D would also transfer power to a Romulan vessel via a power transfer beam which, if uninterrupted, would destroy the ship.
Reception Edit
- Rick Berman remarked, "I hate that title, but I'm very pleased with the episode. It's a wonderful high concept story. The story really pumps along and there's great Romulan mystique and some wonderful things with people running through walls and the audience gets to see two different realities...It's a great piece of science fiction." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages)
- A mission report for this episode by John Sayers was published in The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine Vol. 21, pp. 54-56.
- This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Drama Series.
Video and DVD releasesEdit
- Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 62, 15 March 1993
- As part of the UK VHS collection Star Trek: The Next Generation - 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition, under the "La Forge" section, 29 September 1997
- UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 5.8, 23 December 2002
- As part of the TNG Season 5 DVD collection
Links and references Edit
Starring Edit
Also starring Edit
- LeVar Burton as Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
- Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf
- Gates McFadden as Dr. Beverly Crusher
- Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi
- Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data
Guest stars Edit
- Michelle Forbes as Ro Laren
- Thomas Kopache as Mirok
- Susanna Thompson as Varel
- Shelby Leverington as Brossmer
- Brian Cousins as Parem
Co-star Edit
Uncredited co-stars Edit
- K.C. Amos as operations division officer
- David Keith Anderson as Armstrong
- Arratia as Alfonse Pacelli
- Rachen Assapiomonwait as Nelson
- Lena Banks as operations division ensign
- Steven Bosnyak as operations division ensign
- Michael Braveheart as Martinez
- Carl David Burks as Russell
- Tracee Lee Cocco as Jae
- Cooper as Reel
- Tony Cruz as Lopez
- Denise Deuschle as science division officer
- Elliot Durant III as operations division ensign
- Lanier Edwards as command division lieutenant
- Gunnel Eriksson as science division officer
- Gina Gallante as science division officer
- Keith Gearhart as science division officer
- Eben Ham as operations division ensign
- Linda Harcharic as Sousa
- Grace Harrell as operations division officer
- Hawthorne as civilian
- Christie Haydon as command division ensign
- Hirner as civilian
- Hunt as operations division officer
- Gary Hunter as science division officer
- Arvo Katajisto as Romulan officer
- Mark Lentry as lieutenant
- Debbie Marsh as command division ensign
- Melba as command division officer
- Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings
- Rad Milo as civilian
- Michael Moorehead as science division ensign
- Randy Pflug as Jones
- Brandy Pickett as science division officer
- Joyce Robinson as Gates
- Victor Sein as command division officer
- Noriko Suzuki as operations division ensign
- John Tampoya as operations division ensign
- Uchizono as civilian
- Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace
- Dru Wagner as Daniels
- Christina Wegler Miles as command division ensign
- Unknown performers as
- Command division lieutenant
- Female command division officer
- Female operations division officer
- Female science division officer
- Female science division officer
- Female science division officer
- Operations division ensign
- Operations division officer
- Romulan voices
- Science division lieutenant (voice)
- Ten Forward waiter
- Ten Forward waiter
- Three Romulan officers
- Two musicians
Stunt doubles Edit
- Irving E. Lewis as stunt double for LeVar Burton
- Tom Morga as stunt double for Brian Cousins
- Patricia Tallman as stunt double for Michelle Forbes
Stand-ins Edit
- David Keith Anderson – stand-in for LeVar Burton
- Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis
- Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner
- Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden and Michelle Forbes
- Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes
- Dennis Tracy – stand-in for Patrick Stewart
- James Washington – stand-in for Michael Dorn
References Edit
anyon; anyon emitter; arboretum; auto-eject system; Bajoran; Bajoran death chant; Bajoran Liaison Office; Borhya; central computer; chroniton; cloaking device; computer core; containment chamber; death certificate; demotion; dilithium chamber; disruptor; "Down by the Riverside"; emergency bulkhead; energizing coil; engine core; euphonium; Federation; Garadius IV; Garadius system; Garon II (Garon IV); ghost; graviton field generator (graviton generator); imaging scanner; inspection tour; interphase; interphase generator; jazz; kolem; lateral sensor array; level 1 diagnostic; level 3 diagnostic; main power; melakol; memorial service; Mirok's science vessel; molecular phase inverter; muon; number one; power transfer beam; prototype; replicator; resonator coil; Romulans; Romulan captain; Romulan science vessel; Romulan Star Empire; push-up; science officer; Ro Gale; Ro Talia; sensor return signal; subspace resonator; tricorder; trombone; trumpet; turbolift; warp core breach; "When the Saints Go Marching In"
Other references Edit
- Personal appointment log: Beaumont, Gabrielle; Braga, Brannon; Haymore, June; McBee, Chris; Miller, Patricia; Personal appointment log; Quist, Gerald; Vescio, Elaina; Ward, Lazard; Zapata, Joy
External links Edit
- "The Next Phase" at StarTrek.com, the official Star Trek website
- "The Next Phase" at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- "The Next Phase" at Wikipedia
- "The Next Phase" at MissionLogPodcast.com, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast
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