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Rosamund Pike is missing.
Three weeks ago, the 34-year-old British actress phoned for an interview but hung up after the first question. "I don't think I can talk about that," she said, flustered and stuttering. She called back 20 minutes later, but again got spooked and ended the conversation after a few seconds. Now, days later, not even her assistant can track her down. She's just...gone.
Pike's new movie, as it happens, is Gone Girl, based on the 2012 word-of-mouth smash best-seller by Gillian Flynn. The thriller, directed by David Fincher and produced by Reese Witherspoon, autopsies the marriage of Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and his wife, Amy (Pike), two out-of-work magazine writers whose marital bliss turns toxic when they leave New York City for small-town Missouri. Amy is a beautiful, sophisticated, and increasingly distraught fish out of water. Nick is a shifty, narcissistic liar. When Amy vanishes on their fifth wedding anniversary, Nick becomes the prime suspect in her murder though, technically, it's unclear if she actually has been murdered. Maybe she's just been kidnapped? And maybe Nick had nothing to do with it? But the guy really does seem like a creep.
Flynn's novel was riveting and unnerving, and it boasted the year's most delicious, out-of-nowhere twist. For some readers, it was also enraging at times because of its untrustworthy narration and its deep cynicism about love and justice. If the cover of this magazine, which was shot by Fincher himself, is any indication, the movie (out Oct. 3) isn't going to play nice either. It takes a particularly ballsy filmmaker to create a cover image that appears to be a major spoiler.
The director readily admits he isn't interested in pandering to audience expectations. "All you need to do is look at my filmography to know that I have no idea what people want," says Fincher, 51, who has built his career with such button-hammering films as Se7en and Fight Club. He says that the lesson he learned from bringing Stieg Larsson's hit novel The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo to the screen in 2011 was that "we may have been too beholden to the source material." And he is unapologetic about his preference for unconventional characters: "I don't know what 'likable' is. I know people who are doting parents, who give to charity, drive Priuses, all those things, who are insufferable a- -holes.... I like people who get s--- done."
Long before she met Fincher, Flynn sensed he was a kindred dark spirit. "When I was writing Gone Girl, there were certain parts where I thought, 'David Fincher would really kill this scene,'" says the author, 42. "I thought he'd inject just the right sense of necessary malice." Typically, authors are kept far from the filmmaking process because they tend to resist the necessary cuts that make a story cinematic. But Flynn, a former ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY writer who also wrote the film's screenplay, wasn't just willing to kill her darlings but to slaughter them. "Ben was so shocked by it," Fincher says. "He would say, 'This is a whole new third act! She literally threw that third act out and started from scratch.'"
Hiring Affleck to portray Nick was a no-brainer for Fincher, partly because he likes the challenge of directing actors who've directed movies themselves. "No one will find you out faster than the guy who made Argo," he says. But the kind of fame that Affleck has enjoyed, and endured, played a role as well. As the murder investigation heats up, Nick becomes the center of a relentless media onslaught. "Ben knows inherently what that experience is like," Fincher says. "He knows what it's like to be hunted." And as Flynn notes, Affleck seemed perfect to capture the duality of Nick. "You have to wonder if Nick did horrible things to his wife, and you have to see him do some really not good things, but at the same time you have to be able to say, 'I'd like to have a beer with that guy,'" she says.


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Arthur Miller's The Man Who Had All the Luck – his first Broadway play and a fast flop that ran for just 4 performances in its original 1944 production – didn't of course prove that Miller was that man; nor would the apparent good fortune of the most famous event of his private life, his marriage to Marilyn Monroe twelve years later, who was then one of the most desired female movie stars on the planet. The title of the 1961 screenplay he wrote for what turned out to be her last film seems to be more prescient: The Misfits. But watching the Donmar Warehouse revival of The Man Who Had All the Luck yesterday afternoon, I started to wonder if I was the man who has all the luck.
Unlike David Beeves, the title character of Miller's play, I won't ruin it by constantly doubting it and waiting for that luck to run out, but will relish and celebrate it instead. Days don't get too much better than yesterday's.
I began it – as I always do – by writing this blog, and as yesterday's entry showed, I'd had my own bit of gracious good fortune the day before when I managed to get a treasured scarf back that I'd left on a train within minutes of it pulling away from the station, thanks to the interventions of a brilliant station guard who called ahead to the next stop on the line and got someone to look for it there, who promptly sent it back to Richmond on the next train coming the other way, before I went to a matinee of The Deep Blue Sea. As a friend who read yesterday's entry said to me in an e-mail, "That is so very sweet in a 1950s railway way — so perfect as a preamble to Rattigan."
Then I went into my office to write up an interview profile with Leanne Jones, this year's Olivier Award winner for Best Actress in a Musical for Hairspray, whom I had met earlier in the week fresh from her triumph and with whom I couldn't have had a better time. Within seconds of meeting her, she immediately cheered herself – and me! – up by placing an order for "something chocolate-y" to accompany our coffee, and we had happily (and greedily) devoured two huge slabs of chocolate brownie as a result. Anyone who has seen Hairspray will realise just how deserved that chocolate brownie is, let alone the Olivier – she's doing such a brisk nightly workout that she's actually losing a bit too much weight, and she told me they're already having to pad out her bra to keep her as curvy as the character needs to be.
The interview just flowed from my tape recorder onto the page, and once I'd filed it, I did a little work-out of my own, walking to the West End from my office on the other side of the river near the Tate Modern. Not much of a work-out, I realise – but what bliss it always is to make the river crossing across Waterloo Bridge. And then of course I went to the Donmar for the matinee of The Man Who Had All the Luck, and my luck continued, not just with this fascinating reclamation of an intriguing early Miller, but also for the company I was able to keep there: not only was Simon Russell Beale there, spending the afternoon in the theatre before going on to act himself later in the day in the National's Major Barbara, so we were able to say hello, but also a couple of other friends. Going to press nights one is invariably surrounded by people one knows – it's virtually Groundhog Day every night. But going on to a "regular" performance is more hit and miss; yesterday I hit twice, seeing American academic and theatre expert John Clum there, as well as fellow critic and colleague Matt Wolf.
After the show I'd arranged to meet Michael Grandage, the Donmar's artistic director, for a profile I'm doing for The Stage, and we retreated to the empty upstairs bar to do it in. I've known him for years and chatted to him often before, both formally (at press conferences) and informally (like Simon Russell Beale, he's an inveterate theatre fan as well as maker, so we've coincided at odd matinees, like one fairly deserted afternoon at the Arcola), but this was the first time I'd done a face-to-face interview with him – and the first time, incidentally, that he's having a profile done in The Stage, too, he remarked. The Donmar, of course, is firing on all cylinders at the moment: not just here at its Covent Garden homebase, but yesterday afternoon's Miller sets off on a three-date national tour after it leaves here as part of the Donmar's growing touring presence; but also with its year-long residency at Wyndham's to come, and its West End version of Guys and Dolls heading to an Australian opening in Melbourne next month. Frost/Nixon is to be re-staged for a US national tour; and there are also Broadway plans for its production of Mary Stuart next year. So there was much to talk about, as I'll be reporting more fully in The Stage soon.
Next I headed back south of the river, to pick up my car (and partner), and head over to a venue I rarely visit, even though it's so immediately local to me: Kennington's Oval House. In fact, I can't remember the last time I saw a show there: I know I once interviewed Bette Bourne in the bar for a Bloolips show, but I don't think I even saw it. But last night was a surprising treat: Paines Plough were staging a new play by young Royal Court writer Levi David Addai there called House of Agnes, and it pulsed with conviction in its portrayal of contemporary black family life as a single parent mother tries, but fails, to loosen the iron-like reigns she has over her two adult sons.
And even then the evening was not over yet: the last stop of the day took me back to the National, where I was hosting a post-performance Q&A event for the development department with two of the cast of Major Babara, and we were graced by the presence of Clare Higgins and Paul Ready (for whom, thanks to my brief chat with Simon Russell Beale earlier in the afternoon, I had the correct pronunciation of his surname: it is Ready as in ready or not, rather than reid-y). Over drinks (and divine chocolate mousse – Leanne Jones should have come, too!), the actors held court till gone 11pm. It was a splendid end to a splendid day.

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We were our usual 30 minutes after check-out time getting out of the house. I called the Owners Locker guy and told him wed left our locker sitting by the front door. I was sure nobody would bother it there, and he was only ten minutes away at the time, anyways.
The car was packed to the gills, as wed bought a lot of stuff! I forgot to mention Id purchased a wide open mouthed vase from Animal Kingdom Lodges gift shop, from the Zimbabwe Penzo "Mashona" line I collect. Penzo - Shop - Online shop - Mashona I now have a handful of pieces. Im determined someday to have a full service of it. My idea of fine china! That had been so carefully wrapped and boxed for me that it was the size of a large roller bag by itself.
We had a couple of hours to kill before Miles flight departed for New Orleans, where he was headed to spend time with his father. Miles wanted to go eat at T-Rex a second time, which was fine by me, and Joe wanted to go up in the new Characters in Flight balloon at Downtown Disney, so we headed on over.
I had a chicken pot pie at T-Rex that was not as good as the one Id had a few days earlier at 50s Prime Time Café, but I still enjoyed it. We asked for the dinosaur room this time actually, Miles asked for it, very politely. We were there right at opening, so it wasnt a problem.
There was rain threatening all around us, but after an hours wait in the searing heat (they really need to get some shade and fans going for people waiting here!), we got onto Characters in Flight. I had been watching with extreme trepidation the balloon was going back and forth, back and forth. I was sure it was going to be living **** for me, I was fairly close to terrified. I was definitely miserable, but Joe had already bought the ticket and I dont want to be one of those women whos too chicken to do anything and starts refusing to drive over bridges, fly, etc. So I made myself get on the thing.
It was absolutely WONDERFUL. Not jarring at all, but incredibly smooth and peaceful. I wish our time at the top had lasted longer. I got tons of shots on my camera from up there. I will likely always feel a bit scared beforehand, just like I do still on Rock n Roll Coaster or Tower of Terror, but Im going to make this a must-do every trip. Wed like to go up after dark, next time. Im so glad I forced myself to experience this.
Now it was airport time. After Miles flight departed, I just had to do the Disney gift shop one last time, and found some Star Wars plastic figures Miles had wanted but didnt have money for. I bought those for him for a birthday surprise, and then got myself a cheap pair of costume jewelry earrings. Almost all of my earrings are from vacations. When I open my jewelry case, its like a scrapbook!
Joe and I headed out to I-95 via the Bee Line. I fantasized for a moment that we were headed for the Disney Cruise Line terminal for another vacation. Sigh.
We spent the night in Kingsland, GA in a cheap hotel that was run by a very nice man. Ate a late dinner at the IHOP across the street.
Got back on the road Monday morning. Driving was fairly painless until we got to Richmond, VA. We stopped at South of the Border in Dillon, SC and it was absolutely hands-down the filthiest, nastiest place I have ever been to in the United States. It was unreal. I have no clue how its still open. Their restaurant is cash only, if you can believe that, and looked mightily filthy. Nobody from Mexico in sight, by the way, in the kitchen. I took a wide pass. We bought a couple of souvenirs and took a photo of the giant Mexican dude that you can see from the road, and then I had the displeasure of using their moldering restrooms. Someone had scrawled on the wall This place is dirty, and below it an answer, Yes, it is.
A bit farther we stopped for lunch and I bought a Time magazine, which I read out loud from cover to cover for Joe. That really passed the time. That, and we had our mariachi cd wed purchased at Mexico in Epcot.
Driving was actually fun, until we got north of Richmond, VA. Then it became sheer absolute ****. Lane closures, bumper to bumper aggressive traffic, the sun went down, more lane closures. We got lost trying to go through Washington, D.C. around endless lane closures and stopped traffic and inscrutable information signs about what was open and where to go, and ended up in the middle of town trying to find the interstate again. It was downright frightening.
Got home without bullet holes in the car, around 10:30 p.m.
Next time, I want to take an extra two hours and go around D.C. via I-81 and I-64. That will be two hours well-spent. Richmond to Baltimore is undriveable, because any time its not rush hour they have a third of the roadway closed for construction. Never again.
Well, thats it, folks! Now we have to save up for the next big trip. Wed like to go back to taking two trips a year, one with just Joe and me and one as a family. We are also starting to seriously consider buying into DVC. Ive got a December trip on the calendar for 2011, and then a two week family vacation in May/June 2012. Im hoping well be able to buy about 250 points at the Villas at Wilderness Lodge, to use for some of those days. Its something weve been discussing for years, and now that weve both agreed firmly on VWL as a home resort, and prices are down a bit due to the recession, and Disney is offering Annual Pass and other good discounts, it seems like the right time to buy.
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By Ioannis Pappos
" 'History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true' -- that's Tolstoy," I said. "Your party uses violence against immigrants and women."
"I am against any form of physical violence. I believe in the violence of the argument," Triantafyllou replied.
"You believe in bullying?"
"Traitors like Kaneli [the woman Kasidiaris slapped on TV] have turned Greece into Uganda. They should be intimidated."
"It sounds as if you're not very fond of Uganda or Greece," I said. "According to your stories, we made our bed. So, why the nationalism?"
"In Golden Dawn, we still believe that Greeks come first."
"The head of your party does not recognize someone who's born here as Greek. He wants Greek blood for a few generations," I said.
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"Are all Greeks equal?" I asked.
"Gay Greeks?" I said.
"Absolutely equal," Triantafyllou replied. "Though they shouldn't have children, because nobody asked the children."
"As opposed to straight couples, where children are consulted?"
Triantafillou smiled. "You're challenging me," he said, and signed his book "with respect and synchronicity around fairness." He talked briefly, nostalgically, about how the high school we had both attended—though we didn't know each other then—had deteriorated. I recalled nostalgia's original meaning, which differs from homesickness; it means the comfort of a familiar pain, the welcoming of pain. The art of suffering, often self-inflicted, goes back thousands of years here. Ancient Greece, Byzantium, Orthodoxia -- all of which battled each other -- have dramatized our psyche, the way seduction has shaped public and private lives in France, or sensuality and spirituality those in Brazil. I know I want to change my providence, but I don't know how.
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502 | October 19, 2014 | Matt Jones and Chad Coleman | "Strangers" |
503 | October 26, 2014 | Mary Lynn Rajskub, Saul Hudson (Slash), and Andrew J. West | "Four Walls and a Roof" |
504 | November 2, 2014 | John Barrowman, Ana Gasteyer, and Emily Kinney | "Slabtown" |
505 | November 9, 2014 | Michael Cudlitz, Gale Anne Hurd, and Josh McDermitt | "Self Help" |
506 | November 16, 2014 | Tyler James Williams, Philip Brooks (CM Punk) and Yvette Nicole Brown | "Consumed" |
507 | November 23, 2014 | Paul F. Tompkins, Christian Serratos and Sonequa Martin-Green | "Crossed" |
508 | November 30, 2014 | Robert Kirkman, Keegan Michael Key and Emily Kinney | "Coda |
- To see photos from Talking Dead, see the Talking Dead Gallery.
- In the behind-the-scenes trivia for "The Suicide King", it is said that Greg Nicotero made his second appearance as a walker in the episode. It was actually his third.
- Robert Kirkman has appeared a total of 9 times on the Talking Dead so far, much more than any other guest star.
- March 30, 2014 marks Andrew Lincoln's first appearance on the Talking Dead.
- In the memorial section Julio is incorrectly mentioned as part of The Governor's Army.
External links
- Talking Dead official site
- Social Media Producer - Ben Stanley
- ↑ Berkshire, Geoff (December 3, 2012). "'Walking Dead' returns Feb. 10, 2013; 'Talking Dead' expands to one hour". Zap2it. Retrieved on December 4, 2012.
- ↑ Talking Dead, Inside the Dead, Season 4, Episode 15.


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0Nov 29, '10 by Ms.MotivatednurseI am a new nurse and just started working @ a Federal prison this week. After orienting at all the facilities I will be on a med surg unit. Can anyone give me some ideas/pointers on organization or their routine for a 12 hr workday? There will be a max of 7 patients (inmates) per nurse. Also has anyone started their nursing career @ a prison vs a hospital, were you able to develop a good foundation?
0Nov 29, '10 by Loriann715Im actually starting this week too and was glad to see your post, cant wait to read what other nurses have to say! Thanks
0Nov 29, '10 by missdeevahmaybe you'd get more responses if you posted this in the "correctional nursing" forum? just a thought. congratulations on graduating and on your new job!
3Nov 30, '10 by Kooky KorkyI think your Orientation will help answer your questions.
Sounds like you are working in a prison inpatient hospital/infirmary.
Safety is first. followed by safety, safety, and did I mention safety?
Do not make enemies of the guards, any other staff, or inmates.
Let the inmates know you are businesslike, not a patsy who will fall for their manipulations. I'm dead serious about this. This point will be hammered into you repeatedly during Orientation.
Be nice to inmates, courteous, but always, always, always professional and never personal.
Absolutely never complain about a guard.
Recognize that the primary focus of a prison is for staff (guards and yeah, even other staff, in that order) to go home healthy.
After that is getting people to court and complying with judicial/legal orders.
After that is everything else - including Medical, be it for routine med pass or sick call, or even urgent matters.
In other words, a nurse might think she's just GOT TO get a prisoner to a doctor's appointment. If the facility is locked down, forget it. Unless he starts bleeding, convulsing, not breathing, he is not going to the doctor just then. And if a riot is occurring, he just might have to die, that's all. No guard or medical personnel will be allowed to endanger themselves to help even the most urgent patient.
I have seen this personally, was upset at the time, but was smart enough not to insist that the Sergeant immediately provide access to med services. It was a stabbing or head trauma, I think. Well, the guy was ok in the end, but even if he had died, I think no one would have faulted the sergeant for doing what he did, which was put safety first.
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0Nov 30, '10 by AltaEnfermeraI worked in prison for almost 2 years, but we didn't have an infirmary like the one you're at. I wholeheartedly agree with KookyKorky, on all counts.
The best thing you can have when you walk in to work in a prison is a good attitude, followed by good people skills. Inmates are generally much more compliant when you take a second to explain WHY you can't give them medicine X or they're not allowed to have item Z for whatever their complaint is. There is a huge opportunity for patient teaching if that's your thing and when the situation merits.
Working in prison is amazing at developing your assessment skills. It takes a while to get comfortable with your own judgement, but you'll start to be able to pick out legit complaints as opposed to inmates looking for a "field trip" to the ER or medical.
As for the organization of your workday, I never had to deal with an actual med-surg wing; we were set up to run like a clinic more or less. But my day consisted of sick-calls from 0800-1030 and/or pill line from 0800-0830 depending on staffing; then catching up with charting from 1030-12ish, lunch, more sick calls/lab draws/vaccinations/med counseling appointments/translating and assisting MD/PAs/miscellaneous other duties from 1300-1500, KOP (keep on person) pill line at 1500, insulin line at 1700, SHU rounds from 1800-? and then hand off to the next shift. It's a busy day, but you actually get some down time because of the q 2 hour-ish counts, so it's less intimidating than it sounds.
It might be slightly harder to start nursing in the prison setting, just because you have a lot more autonomy than you would in a community setting, but if you're confident in your skills and willing to ask a lot of questions, I'd recommend it! Best of luck! -
1Dec 6, '10 by JailaJust one thing to add....the one term I know the officers where I work don't like (and I mean even a little) is guard, or jailer. At least here that is the case. They prefer C.O. or Deputy, or Officer. Just a heads up so you don't offend on accident.Multicollinearity likes this.
0Dec 7, '10 by AltaEnfermeraExcellent point, Jaila . Most of our inmates called them "the cops", which confused the crap out of me at first, lol.
0Dec 8, '10 by biblepoetDepends on your shift. I work in an infirmary. I started out of school here. Never sure what is coming up. I only wish for 7 patients. We get anywhere from 10-15. I just remember the golden rule treat others as you want to be treated. I respect them and treat them well, but only give them what medically necessary. They try to manipulate you at every chance. When I tell them no they are most respectful. At my facility at night there is no doctor, but we can call him if necessary. I have had to call him in the middle of the night to send someone out. Hope that helps.
4Dec 13, '10 by hedgehogrnShow to others the behavior and respect you expect from them, you will more often than not find it returned. You treat people in need of healthcare and they all deserve high quality, respectful care.
At the same time, never forget that they are in a very controlled, powerless position and any perks or power they can get from you my be huge in their world. (Information, turning your back while being seen so they can snoop info/pocket something - even a paperclip!) No matter how much they may like or respect you, they will always have this dynamic in their lives while incarcerated.
So safety, safety, and more safety! Get to know and appreciate the C.O.'s, they are the ones who have your back if things go bad. Safety is their job.
But always remember that the patients you treat you could as easily have treated at a community health clinic, very down on their luck, and felt sympathy for their struggles with the hands they have been dealt. You're just meeting them after they chose how to play the hands, rather than before.
NEVER giver personal info, do realize you are a target to be manipulated by many - consistency and following standard orders and rules is key - NEVER "bend" the rules - no "eh, I see you need it, so I'll give you this Tylenol even though your PRN order ran out yesterday," (seriously, would you do this on a hospital unit? no!) but keep treating patients with the respect and professionalism every patient deserves. Incarceration is their punishment for crimes, not poor healthcare while incarcerated. -
0Jan 1, '11 by ImThatGuyQuote from JailaHa. Typical. If you ask a guy who happens to be a jailer in a county jail what he does for a living he'll say "I work for the sheriff's office." The quetioner usually then will ask something like "Oh, really, you're a deputy. That's cool." The jailer may then reply "Yeah, it gets pretty dirty sometimes." The questioner will then ask something like "Hey, were you at that wreck at ______ the other night?" Jailer, "Nah, I didn't make that one." Questioner, "Well, how about that shooting down at _______; what was that like?" Jailer, "I heard it was pretty bad. I wasn't there." Questioner, "What area do you usually work?" Jailer, "Ah, um, well, right now I'm a deputy that's assigned to the jail." Questioner, "Oh, I didn't know that deputies had to work in the jail." Jailer, "Well, yes, there are deputies in the jail to watch over the inmates." Questioner, "Oh, so you're a guard?" Conversation then ends awkwardly for jailer and questioner. 90% of them want to be street cops and try to play the part. We don't pretend to be jailers though.Just one thing to add....the one term I know the officers where I work don't like (and I mean even a little) is guard, or jailer. At least here that is the case. They prefer C.O. or Deputy, or Officer. Just a heads up so you don't offend on accident.
If it's someone at a state prison you're talking to it's more like "Hey, man I heard you were a police officer now. Where you working?" CO, "Tucker SuperMax." Other person, "I thought that was a jail." CO, "It's a prison." Other person, "So you're a prison guard?" CO, "I'm a corrections officer." Other person, "So you're not a cop then?" CO, "Well, I am to the inmates, and I am allowed to carry a gun outside." Conversation then ends awkwardly for both parties.


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We have two very mature Kadota trees. I am a renter, but have lived on this property for seven years and I have been cutting back suckers during that time. The landlord now wants to let the suckers go. I have no idea what the outcome of this will be. Can someone help with this, please?
Separately...if I wanted to propagate from suckers...when is the best time of the year to do this? If I dig the suckers will I get some roots also, and just put them in pots? I have an unheated greenhouse in which they could over-winter. Thanks in advance! |
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- Posted by timmy2green 5 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 25, 11 at 18:54
Lon, I grew a couple trees from suckers earlier this summer, here is what you do... Gently remove the soil from around the sucker, trying not to break off the roots growing from the sucker, until you reach the point where it meets the main trunk. If there are some roots on the sucker beneath soil level then you can sever the sucker with a sharp and clean pair of pruning sheers right where it meets the main trunk. Then just pot the sucker with it's roots in a small pot with some loose soil, water it very slightly if the soil isn't wet and put it in a shady area where it can establish a full root system. When I did it, the leaves shriveled almost immediately, so i trimmed them off and waited and after a couple weeks or so it put out new growth. The key to remember is it won't have much in the way of roots so if the soil doesn't drain good it will root rot because there's no root system to soak up all the water yet. If it was me, I'd go ahead and try it now, especially since you're in a warmer climate then me. Good luck! Timothy |
Rooting cuttings is so easy I wouldn't bother digging out suckers. |
- Posted by wildforager 5b-WI (My Page) on Tue, Aug 30, 11 at 17:13
If you're not comfortable digging out the suckers I would air layer them for best results. Just do a google image search to familiarize yourself with the concept. You'll have fun and learn more about plant propagation!! |
- Posted by PlantsofTurkey none (My Page) on Sun, Sep 4, 11 at 1:54
multi graft? Thanks, Nazmi Cardak Nazmi Ali Cardak |
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Hi All - I thought I posted this, but can't find it - apologies if this is a duplicate. SO. I live in Los Angeles, and want two fig trees to plant in big barrels. I already got a black mission, and now am debating between: Violette De Bordeaux The violette de Bordeaux I've read good things about and I know it would be great in a container...but is it too similar to the black mission? I was hoping for something different, but taste is number one. Thanks! |
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- Posted by melikeeatplants 9b (San Jose) (My Page) on Tue, Feb 18, 14 at 21:52
Well, VdB tastes very good, like raspberry jam. I have Peters Honey as well and it can be very sweet with no tart counter balance. Panache looks cool and has a "blood orange" taste to me. VdB really is amazing you should get it.... |
Thank you! I've never tasted VdB before, but am leaning towards that one. Is it different enough from the black mission? And you would prefer that one to Peter's Honey? |
- Posted by milehighgirl CO USDA 5B/Sunset 2B (My Page) on Tue, Feb 18, 14 at 22:05
jujigirl, you live in fig heaven, you should be able to grow any fig available. The fig wasp lives there so you can grow figs besides common figs. If you haven't done so already you should join Figs 4 Fun and ask this question. http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/ |
ooh, and one more question since I can't seem to find this, but would they all ripen at the same time? It would be great to get on a different schedule, but maybe that's not possible. |
Thank you! I'll join over there. And by the way, I used to live in Colorado - loved it! (And was broken hearted this past super bowl...sigh) |
I grow Black Jack, VdB and Panache. All three are excellent in my locale and keep me loaded with figs. I've given up trying to determine which of them is best. Black Jack is honeyed, big and juicy, with very soft flesh. VdB is small, jammy, and super sweet. Panache is jammy, juicy, handsomely ornamental/variegated, and doesn't appeal to birds as the others do. All three stay pretty compact and are generally well-behaved trees. |
Nice! And isn't black jack a dwarf the Black Mission? If that's true, do they taste the same? |
Black Jack is a Brown Turkey type, not all fig lovers like them. It's a kind of dividing line for how fig tastes run. Black Mission is the classic fig newton flavor, BJ is a huge fruit, honeyed or syrupy when it's right, a completely different eating experience. BM is a monster of a tree if left to it's own devices. BJ is much smaller and well behaved. |
- Posted by desertdance So CA Zone 19 (My Page) on Wed, Feb 19, 14 at 9:11
When I first became interested in figs, I checked out articles on the UC Davis site and in their taste tests, VdB and Panache got the highest ratings. I have both of those and many others, all in ground here in Riverside county. VdB is a smaller tree, so it depends on the space you have. Borjosotte Gris is reputed to taste more like a strawberry than a strawberry, so I have that one too. My current favorite is Strawberry Verte because of it's vigor and size. It is highly prolific. I love it's shape and huge leaves. There is one fig per leaf! Plus, it's just delish! I have that one growing large for shade. A monster tree has it's place! As long as you stay away from the brown turkey, you should be happy! Oh, and mrclint, figs are wonderful on the BBQ! Suzi |
I'm also a fan of Strawberry Verte. I liked it much better than Black Jack. But I may not have had enough heat and light, along with too much water, for best quality Black Jack. Plus if you have the fig wasp all this can change. |
I have both a Kadota and a VdB, and both are quite good. I just added the Kadota last spring, so I've only tried a few, but the figs were big, plump, and very juicy (similar to Brown Turkey, but sweeter and more flavorful). By comparison, the VdB figs are smaller, seem less likely to crack/split, and have a very rich flavor and drier, meatier texture than Kadota. As a bonus, it's also very ornamental with pretty, deeply lobed leaves. While I can't recommend Green Ischia/Strawberry Verte based on experience, I think it's well worth considering given the high marks for flavor that it receives from other growers. I added one late last summer, and I'm looking forward to trying the figs this year. |
fruitnut has sung the praises of Strawberry Verte for years, and I've never read a bad word any where about it. It's kind of like Col de Dame and some other highly touted varieties that I've never seen in my local nurseries. Since I'm not a collector or fruit hunter, these just never made it into my yard. My three fig trees give me a good selection and keep me going just fine from May or June (when and if I get a breba crop) all the way to frost. |
jujigirl, what did you decide? Truth be told, there are no bad figs (Yes, I've had standard Brown Turkey that were outstanding). |
- Posted by melikeeatplants 9b (San Jose) (My Page) on Sun, Feb 23, 14 at 22:25
http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/debating-between-figs-please-help-6767993 |
Here is a link that might be useful: Her thread in fig4fun
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Coming Home to Windows Home Server Part 33
Nov 1, 2010 10:02 AM, By Eric B. Rux
Installing Vail and moving your life to the new server.
Remote Access
The next step is to enable Remote Access. From the Home Server Dashboard, click on Server settings, then Remote Web Access. Clicking on "Turn on" starts a wizard that walks you through steps of setting up your router and domain name.
Setting up the router for your Home Server has always been wrought with trouble; either it works, or it doesn'tand it was difficult for the average home user to figure out why. Microsoft has done a good job of improving the wizard that sets up Remote Access with each Power Pack, so I was surprised when the wizard in Vail failed to setup my router. A little troubleshooting on my part found the culprits: 1) I have two routers on my network, and 2) I had manually setup the router for the old Home Server. These two anomalies are simply outside of the wizard's capabilities. Once I disconnected the second router and removed the static entries in the router, the wizard worked fine. Remember: Home Server is designed to work in a simple home environment. Keep this in mind if you have trouble getting Remote Access to work.
The second part of Remote Access is the Domain Name. If you had Remote Access setup with your old Home Server, you will want to move your Domain Name to the new server. In my case, I used Microsoft's free "homeserver.com" domain, so I simply entered "MyName.homeserver.com" into the wizard. After logging onto Windows Live, the Remote Access wizard moved my domain name over to the new server.
A new feature of Remote Access is the ability to customize your home page. You can change the logo and the background image. The logo should be 32x32 pixels, while the background image should be close to 800x500 pixels. Images can be in bitmap, GIF, PNG, or JPG format.
Just Getting Started
I had a good time setting up my new Vail Home Server and migrating the data from the old server. While Vail is totally new, it resembles enough of the old Home Server to make navigation easy. I stumbled on some more new features that I missed before, and I'm looking forward to digging into those as well.
The migration wasn't too difficult, but logging onto the console concerns me. If you have questions or comments, please email me and we'll try to walk through it together. I'm going to see if I can find a better solution that will make it easier for the average home user.
Have fun with your new Vail server!
Eric B. Rux is a contributing editor for Windows IT Pro, and he writes a monthly column for Residential AV Presents Connected Home. Rux is the manager of Technical Support Services for Eastern Washington University and teaches the Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) certification program at a technical college.
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Pete stumbled back from the bank of the river, falling into a pile of soft leaves, and Duke yipped ferociously at the menacing form emerging from the river. Clutching at the ground in a panic, Pete searched desperately in the darkness for something to throw or swing... anything with which to defend himself.
Arkham's unlikely heroes have a new weapon in the ongoing fight to keep their streets safe. Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce that the Arkham Horror Toolkit, a convenient digital accessory for the popular Arkham Horror board game, is now available on the iTunes App Store!
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The Arkham Horror Toolkit is a full suite of tools designed to augment and enhance your Arkham Horror experience. Whether you use the Investigator tool, Dice Roller, Location Deck, Map Display, or all of the above, the Arkham Horror Toolkit will take care of the bookkeeping for you. This wide range of time-saving functions will let you concentrate on what's most important: ridding Arkham of the dark forces that seek to overtake it.
With the Investigators tool, all the information pertinent to your character is at your fingertips. Choose from any of the base game characters (or those from any expansions you've added), or let the Arkham Horror Toolkit select one randomly for you. Then, you can monitor and adjust important stats like Sanity, Health, Money, Clue Tokens, or any of your Skills. You can also quickly access your character's starting location, possessions, and backstory!
The Dice Roller lets you roll up to fifteen dice at a time, and will clearly display your successes at the top of the screen. It can even be adjusted for when you're Blessed or Cursed, and you can spend clue tokens (the App remembers how many you've earned) to roll additional dice!
The Location Deck tool is perhaps the most time-saving feature of the Arkham Horror Toolkit, as it will conveniently randomize and reveal Location and Gate cards for all of Arkham's many locales (or for those of any expansions you've downloaded). Simply choose your location from the alphabetized list (or change the list to limit it to Other World locations of those of specific expansions), then keep your fingers crossed as the Arkham Horror Toolkit chooses a random result. Including its many expansions, Arkham Horror features hundreds of unique location cards... but with the Arkham Horror Toolkit, you'll spend less time shuffling, and more time playing!
Finally, the Map function brings the streets of Arkham right to your screen. Use the map as a convenient reference (and add other cities by downloading expansion content), or zoom in to a location and double tap to draw a random Location card!
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The Arkham Horror Toolkit is a full suite of tools designed to augment and enhance your Arkham Horror experience. Whether you use the Dice Roller, Investigator tool, Location Deck, Map Display, or all of the above, the Arkham Horror Toolkit will take care of the bookkeeping for you. This wide range of time-saving functions will let you concentrate on what's most important: ridding Arkham of the dark forces that seek to overtake it.
Some of the more hostile comments have been deleted from this thread. Please keep the rhetoric down. As with all technology ecosystems, purchasing a device does not entitle you to all software created, nor does it mean the the software creator is seeking to punish or insult by not publishing for a specific device.
There are four primary reasons why FFG develops primarily for iOS.
1) Market share
While the smartphone marketplace is about even, the overall iOS marketshare (when adding all the other iOS devices to the mix) is still overwhelmingly in favor of the iOS (remember to add iPad and iPod to this as well, and hopefully the Apple TV soon). Further, iOS development is a very easy port to OSX, which itself recently launched a elegant app store.
2) Cost
Developing an app such as the AH toolkit is very expensive, especially as it is done for a very small market (i.e. that of the Arkham Horror players). Converting to Android is not simple or inexpensive. The accepted (or "normal") smartphone market pricing is very low (too low, in fact, in my opinion) making it very hard to viably create quality applications for niche markets. This current pricing reality does not provide the necessary incentive to take the risk to develop for many platforms at initial launch (if the product is proven successful, then this becomes more palatable).
3) Fractioned market
Due to the many different devices and OS versions of Android, it is more complex (and therefore expensive) to develop for the Android, especially as we want to make sure we provide an excellent user-experience. In fact, even while smartphone marketshare is current roughly tied between iOS and Android platforms, the severe range in capacity and the quality of devices in the Android market, makes any one "capability sphere" of Android devices significantly smaller than iOS.
4) Maturity, dev, and business tools.
The Cocoa development environment, the iTunes business reporting and management tool, application security, the iOS business environment itself, etc, are more mature at this moment than the similar aspects for the younger, and fractured, Android.
The above reasons are not unique to FFG and the AH Toolkit, of course, and you'll see similar opinion and informations in other discussions with mobile-device developers all over the internet (there are some users who kindly provided insight to this in the thread).
So, for these reasons, iOS is FFG's current launch environment of choice, and will likely be so in the near future. It's very possible that Android will catch up and eliminate the iOS advantages outlined above at which point we'll revisit our launch strategy for those good reasons.
The good news: The above is not to say that we won't release the AH Toolkit for Android. We are currently studying this option carefully. The early response and sales of the iOS version are very encouraging (we only have a weekend to go on). The more successful the iOS version, the greater the chance that we'll port to Android. So if you're an interested Android user, help FFG encourage iOS users to use the AH toolkit in the AH sessions.
While this does not help Android users to an immediate helping of the AH Toolkit, I hope it does provide a sensible background to the reality that FFG is facing in software development.
Thanks for your understanding and in keeping the posts civil and respectful of all opinions (and software platforms).
Why was my previous comment removed? Am I not allowed to protest FFG ignoring non-apple users?
Well how about that. I asked about something exactly like this at the Arkham Nights event, and here it is. I guess I was either on the right track with something that was already in the works, or I helped put the idea in the right peoples' heads.
I really hope that someone gets on top of making an Android version, since that's my smartphone platform.
"Monsters in your Pocket"?
Gotta catch 'em all (humans)!!
Another vote for an Android version please... how about actually posting a poll for this to resolve the debate about market share?
And to those who accuse others of 'whining' try and see things from other peoples perspective. This is simply non-news for the rest of us who aren't iProduct users...
Thanks FFG! This is a fantastic addition to my iPhone. A very happy purchase!
Apologies FFG, if I go to buy the in-app extras again from my iPhone, it knows that I've already bought them. Problem solved! :)
Yay, another Android/iPhone flamewar in the making!
I'd be interested to learn more about the app:
1) What does it actually do? I.e. what parts of the boardgame are no longer needed if I use this app?
2) What's the cost of the expansion materials?
More suggestions...
+ the ability to increase/decrease an investigator's Maximum Sanity/Stamina
+ for the dice roller, have little buttons on the side for 1, 2, 3, 4 so you can just press those to add that many dice at once... it would be a pain as it is to be rolling 10+ dice for combat and have to add them one at a time
Even deleting my iPhone & Mac copies and reloading both from the iPad copy doesn't fix this problem. Appears I have to buy the in-app extras twice to get them on my iPhone and iPad, which I would definitely like fixed please.
Bit of a technical problem:
Had this on my iPad and bought the in-app extras from there, and this won't upload to my computer and then sync with my iPhone. Please tell me I don't have to buy them all again for my iPhone...?
Wonderful stuff, and if ever a game needed an app like this it's Arkham Horror!
Some excellent ideas here for updates - please keep updating the apps in response to feedback folks, the WFRP dice roller app could do with some refinements as well.
Definitely need iPad versions. And on iPad versions, please add the ability to roll the dice with a finger tap as well as a 'shake'.
Also, I can immediately see it would be great to be able to zoom into a AH map location description with a single tap (and zoom out again with another).