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From 2 Oct 2013 to 12 Oct 2013
Reviewed by Ben Blakely, 4 Oct 2013
Night two begins with Solo Group C in a collection of works that survey the best and worst of humanity.
Lucy Suttor, Brynley Stent, Felix Becroft, Philip Anstis
In city like Wellington, we've all walked passed hundreds of buskers and not taken a second look. Delving into what a busker might have to say is Philip Anstis with his piece It's all for you. The concept is an interesting one, having a captive audience is unusual for a busker whose moving audience would normally be in control. If they don't like it they can move on. Here in the theatre, though, Anstis is in charge and thus is able to control the performance interspersing music with his own story and how he came to be where he is.
His story is touching and Anstis engages the audience well, slowly drawing us in. The only thing I would suggest is slightly amiss is a few jumps in the narrative, moments that could possibly be threaded together a bit more.
Take a look around, buy anything you like. Everything's for sale. Everything except for that... and that is the slugline for Brynley Stent's solo. Out of the darkness comes what looks to be the most unstable set piece / costume known to man. A cacophony of bric-a-brac comes hosted on the back of a woman named Panks Maybree and the bric-a-brac is her wandering emporium. Everything is for sale and each item has its own story of how it came to be in her possession.
As soon as we are able to see Maybree we know that this is a woman who has lived a full lifetime and certainly outlived many of her companions who live on in the objects she now carries with her. Stent ensures that Maybree is not a one-dimensional crazy lady but tinges the eccentricity with excitement, wonderment, fear and loneliness.
If we are honest with ourselves we've all been the eponymous Meg of Lucy Suttor's solo: a person who is doing their level best just to stay on top of it all. The struggle is not glamorous and is not the stuff of great tragedy but it is relatable, heart-breaking and uplifting.
Suttor creates what for me is probably the most concrete environment out of all of the solo pieces. Using mime sparingly but effectively, making great use of the space, and every word count. There is no need for great speeches as you can read it all in her incredibly expressive face. Suttor describes her work as magical and incredibly bleak but it is the magic that you are left with.
Felix Becroft's piece, The Dragon and his Shadow, is very unique and a stark contrast to the evening's other offerings. Becroft states in the programme that he is seizing the opportunity to express his disillusionment and anger at the human race and both come spewing forth in what one might call a sales pitch. He is selling us the concept of a new and perfect society, which despite what anyone would say to the contrary, sounds attractive.
Thoughts of American Pyscho are evoked as Becroft holds my undivided attention. I am somewhat hypnotised. The piece is broken into two parts, the second a much slower, more delicate scene which could be read as the construction of the aforementioned utopia.
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"Agile is treating the symptoms, not the disease"
Where is this decade's Access?
It may seem like a snarky and trolling question, but think about it for a moment: for a decade or so, I was brought into project after project that was designed to essentially rebuild/rearchitect the Access database created by one of the department's more tech-savvy employees into something that could scale beyond just the department.
(Actually, in about half of them, the goal wasn't even to scale it up, it was just to put it on the web. It was only in the subsequent meetings and discussions that the issues of scale came up, and if my memory is accurate, I was the one who raised those issues, not the customer. I wonder now, looking back at it, if that was pure gold-plating on my part.)
Others, including many people I care about (Rod Paddock, Markus Eggers, Ken Levy, Cathi Gero, for starters) made a healthy living off of building "line of business" applications in FoxPro, which Microsoft has now officially shut down. For those who did Office applications, Visual Basic for Applications has now been officially deprecated in favor of VSTO (Visual Studio Tools for Office), a set of libraries that are available for use by any .NET application language, and of course classic Visual Basic itself has been "brought into the fold" by making it a fully-fledged object-oriented language complete with XML literals and LINQ query capabilities.
Which means, if somebody working for a small school district in western Pennsylvania wants to build a simple application for tracking students' attendance (rather than tracking it on paper anymore), what do they do?
That last question is the one that interests me more than just about anything else you can ask.
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Week 26
What Is Happening To Your Body
By now, you should have gained roughly 16 to 22 pounds.
Take this time to baby proof your home. Cover all electrical outlets, remove choking hazards and install smoke alarms and C02 detectors throughout your home. Remember, of course, that safety precautions will never be a substitute for careful parental supervision.
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Your baby measures around 14 inches (35.6 cm) long from head to heel, or roughly the length of an English hothouse cucumber. At this point your baby weighs a little less than 2 pounds (907.2 grams).
Your baby's eyes have completely formed and will open soon and her or she will begin to blink. Your baby will be able to distinguish between light and dark from inside your uterus.
Your baby's oil and sweat glands are also functional. He or she can still respond to noise and has grown accustomed to the sounds of your heartbeat, digestion, and other bodily functions, as well as your voice. Your baby can even move in rhythm to music.
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Is there too much morality? | Steven Pinker on London Real
Cognitive scientist & linguist Steven Pinker explains the fundamental cultural differences between M.I.T. and Harvard, his anarchist past and how he feels about Noam Chomsky, why Linguistics are essential in understanding humanity, and how he believes the world has too much morality.


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Residents in the Upper River and Central River regions of The Gambia have not been having access to both Gamcel/Gamtel telephone and internet for the past 5 days. According to the residents, this lack of access is not only affecting the customers making or receiving phone calls and internet service users, but also banks for people to conduct transactions. The Gamtel/Gamcel Regional Manager in URR, Mr. Dawda Jallow, confirmed the problem and said there is a breakdown in the fibre cables. He said the problem starts from Bureng and Kudang, but added that the engineers are currently working on it. He assured this paper that the problem will be fixed very soon for services to return to normalcy.
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Competition in Contracting Must be Tailored to Need
March 3, 2013
The Obama administration came to office determined to improve the defense acquisition process. Beginning in 2010, with its Better Buying Power initiative, the Pentagon undertook an effort to improve the acquisition system's efficiency and reduce the cost of defense goods and services.
A central feature of BBP was the promotion of increased competition among private-sector providers to improve outcomes and lower prices. BBP required greater use of firm fixed price instead of traditional cost-plus contracts.
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Carry the whimsical wonder of Seth MacFarlane's Ted film around with you! This Ted 24-Inch Talking Plush will keep you entertained for countless hours. He looks so cute and innocent, but he's really nothing of the sort. In fact, he's quite the raunchy little guy. You'd never expect it from a teddy bear, but that just goes to show that you can't judge a book by its cover. You'll love this 24-inch Ted Plush - he even talks!Ted Teddy Bear states the following 12 phrases (all subject to change): "I look like something you give your kid when you tell them Grandma died""C'mon, I don't sound that much like Peter Griffin""That's my bad, I was sending a tweet""The Brewski run""I wuv you""Okay, alright, so that's where we'll draw the line""You know what I'd like to do to her, something I call the dirty Fozzie""Will you take care of me forever and ever!""Good talk, Coach""Stick your finger in the loop of my tag""C'mere ya bastard""I didn't know you had a baby, is it alive?"
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October 6, 2012 at 1:51 am in The Jamestown Sun
Momentum is loyal to no team.
The Jamestown High School and Grand Forks Central football teams went through a tortuous example on Friday night.
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October 6, 2012 at 1:51 am in The Jamestown Sun
Momentum is loyal to no team.
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I laughed at that JR. I thought he pulled the kid Monsun out of the game to quick. You could see Grounds had nothing last night and he puts Monsun in only to run an option on his second play of his varsity career and he fumbles. Bit of a risky play for a sophomore QB making his varsity debut. Just think the kid should of been given another chance since he is the future at QB. Could of seen how he handled a little adversity.
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I agree Jim. The season is over so they might as well get their QB of the future some reps in the next few games. I think it makes sense to start preparing for next season.
But then again, I'm a complete outsider when it comes to BJ football and don't see what goes on at practice and I definitely don't know the politics of the situation.
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I just feel that we need more than 8 plays in our playbook. You could see the same play run about every time we had the ball. The QB run optioin with the toss to Cook. I heard a person yell behind me it hasnt worked all game why would it the 10th time. Very true. We need to sit in the off season and make that playbook a little thicker. Lets get risky on some of these plays. And yes lets leave Monson in. Grounds was shot. The kid plays all ends of the ball. We have 60 kids that cant play that position? We all in all just need to change things up. Do different stuff. Each week we prepare for our opponant and end up coming out running the same plays.
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I mentioned that about Grounds 3 games ago and I got ripped for it by a couple posters on here. The kids arm was like a wet noodle friday night. Either keep him on D and let Monsun be QB or have Grounds play QB exclusively. I would like to see what this Monsun kid has myself.
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Hey "Coach Jim" who is Monsun? The kids name is Ross Monson.
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hey Gary I said Monsun. You a grammar police?
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Fairy Tail hentai doujin [English] : Chichikko Bitch volume 1, by Funi Funi Lab18 July 2012, by Oliver
Lucy, the blonde bimbo from Fairy Tail, is hentai raped by a whole group of men. This starts as typical hentai rape, and ends in a "typical Lucy way", with her concluding on her complete victory over her sex partners
The scenario is worth its worth, on my side, I'll just highlight we can enjoy a very big-titted blonde teen having energetic good sex and starting to adore it halfway already. There's titty, oral, vaginal and DP. Don't miss the final Erza bonus page, lol
Credits are for Doujin-Moe's Raikoh and An-chan, thank you
By the same artist, I also share Chichikko Bitch volumes 4 and 5, and Little Bitch Hunter volume 1 and volume 2.
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If there is one thing this manga has pegged it is Lucy's ridiculous breasts. The further the anime goes the bigger they get, lol…
translated by: An-chan
Wow, this is like, the very first Fairy Tail doujin I've ever read. Is it just me or it's actually very rare? Anyone else knew a good ones?
Depositfiles link is down
"This file does not exist, the access to the following file is limited or it has been removed due to infringement of copyright. "
It's rare, but they exist :http://www.hentairules.net/2010/10/09/fairy-tail-hentai-doujin-english-lucy-plus-by-gust-san/
There are very few good ones…
Looks like even filehost mirror is down ..could you re-upload it on depositfile
^Ditto. We'll probably have to wait til Oliver gets back though…
Sorry guys, it took awhile to fix because DF blocked the CRC. I had to download and alter the images themselves to change the CRC of the zip file.
Filehost.ws works fine tho, dunno why you two are having problems with it. Perhaps you should register for a free account? Aside from allowing you to download larger sized files, you also get faster download speeds.
Alternatively, it could be your firewalls or IP blockers (such as PeerGuardian and PeerBlock). Disable them completely and try again.
Thx for your advice
i notice that most of all fairy tail women with the exception of wendy has the B-cup bra size. even lisanna's are big
@post: hell yeah!! funi funi lab! one of my favorites XD
need DF link.. not another register to dl link… >.<
Seems like DF isn't letting this get posted. They're deleting it soon after I reupload it…
All I have to say is, "Mmm,rare Fairy Tail hentai~<3"
put it in media fire…?
Mediafire sucks.
here: http://depositfiles.com/files/ons7zv3p1 – renamed the files into numerical from the gallery see if it works
It will, until it gets reported again.
so someone is a butthurt fairytail fan huh..?
More like a butthurt mangaka.
You can't DMCA something you don't own the copyright to… (BTW, your file was deleted.)
it's rare a Fairy Tail doujin, but unfortunately the links are off. thanks!
Hey man! Can you post the rest of the series? I think they are on the doujin 5…
Thanks =D
it's down :c
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Snoop Dogg Caught Cheating On His Wife In St. Tropez? So What!
This is news to some, but I'm not entirely sure why. Snoop has been cheating on his wife, Shante Broadus, for some time now. I think she has threaten to leave him, at least three times that I know of, and yet, she stays. Now I know marriage is for the long haul, but when a man keeps on cheating, then it's time to let him go. I'm sure he loves his wife, dearly, but he is a self-admitted dog. I guess you either take it or leave it. Honestly, who is surprised, this is the man that fell in love with one of his "employees", for lack of a better word???
Here are pics of Snoop Dogg with some beautiful woman in the VIP room in St. Tropez. Is Snoop crossing the line for a married man, or just having a little fun:
Before you look at the rest of the pictures of Snoop Dogg grinding, check out Usher smiling for the camera. The least he could have done was tapped Snoop on the shoulderto let him know what's up. Apparently, Usher is good at not getting caught on tape, a little birdie told me it's his specialty.
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Yep, she's mos def a looker. But why do we even bother call it cheating when Snoop, Puff and the like do it? It's such the expected thing for them, there should be major headlines only when they don't cheat.
That should be "calling."
Or "Tuesday." LOL at you!
this is just too triflin
Honestly this isnt something new we all know how Snoop is lol if he isnt afraid to hide it obviously his wife is in denial…The girl in the Pics with him look just like the girl that played his love interest in the "Beautiful" video with pharrell im just saying…LOL
now i know the behavior is suspect, but this does not constitute cheating. not acceptable behavior for a married person, but cheating at least requires us seeing some kissing. this is strip club isht!
sum guys never change!
I'm a big fan of Snoop, but I don't agree with cheating. Everybody knows if you are in a sexual relationship with a rapper, your not the only girl satisfying there needs. Why do the men get married to begin with-marriage is a promise of faithfulness. These men sing and breath sex-not relationship material.
Disgusting but not surprising. I feel for his wife having to see that. It's a waste of time marrying many of these high profile men. They are not going to be faithful-period. The only way I could stay in that marriage and survive that kind of relationship would be to grow emotionally cold toward hubby, have affairs of my own, and be in it strictly for the money. It might be wrong in turn, but I'd have to close my heart off to that man to mentally and emotionally deal with that kind of blatant disrespect toward me. I just wouldn't care anymore and I'd end up flipping it and using him for my own benefit. (Best choice–I'd just leave and take a good amount of his dough with me.)
I think Snoop is just trying to make people believe that he's as free as a single man. Everyone can believe in this fake hunting scenes. Not me.
I think Snoop is just trying to make other people believe that he's still as free as a single man. Everyone may fall for this fake hunting night scenes. Not me.
hi snoop dogg why u cheating on your wife
hi snoop dogg why cheating on your wife and s u is sexy
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According to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, more than 50 million Americans per day used the Internet as their primary news source in 2005. That's up from 27 million in 2002. In fact, checking the daily news is the third most popular activity on the Internet, the study found.
Pew attributed the increase to the rise in broadband availability and subscriptions in the home. Since 2002, the number of home broadband subscribers has risen from 20 million to 70 million, the group said.
While 65 percent of dial-up users and 57 percent of broadband subscribers still use local and network television to get their daily news, it is no longer their exclusive source.
Of broadband users, 46 percent overall used the Internet as a primary news source, compared with only 26 percent of dial-up subscribers, Pew said. The study further compared broadband and dial-up users within the same age groups to avoid the usual generational variable and found similar results.
Pew also found that there are 29 million so-called high-powered broadband users--early broadband adopters who use the Internet frequently--in the U.S. Of those consumers, an overwhelming 71 percent use the Internet as a primary daily news source.
This is significant because early adopters of technology, according to the Pew report, can be good indicators of future behavior in the general population.
The Pew study was conducted Nov. 29 through Dec. 31, 2005 and surveyed 3,011 adult Americans.
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I do believe that Spring has sprung. We have had a couple of nice rain showers, and the trees have put their leaves on. We've got a bit of grass starting as well, so I hope we get more rain before it dries up! Little Mango finally beat her pinkeye, and has been spending her […]
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Last year President Obama signed the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013, which ammended section 455(b) of the Higher Education Act (HEA) to provide new formulas for the determination of interest rates for all Federal Direct Loan types. Under the law the interest rate is determined each year as the "high yield of the 10-year treasury note" auctioned at the final auction prior to the June 1 preceding the July 1 of the year for which the rate will be effective, plus a statutorily defined "add-on". The add-on differs depending on the type of the loan (Subsidized, Unsubsidized or PLUS) and the student's grade level (undergraduate or graduate). The interest rate for a loan, once established, applies for the life of the loan - that is, the loan is a fixed rate loan.
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Where to Eat Near the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Our Updated Guide)
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17 Pages. This edition of Leach's will surely become a favorite of those looking to recreate the style and sophistication of the roaring twenties. It contains a beautiful selection of knitting patterns for two different cloaks, several different jumpers, a house wrap, a frock with a kilted skirt, tunics, a jumper and skirt set, and several other simple designs. There is indeed something for everyone here including a design for pluss size as well as a design for a slender figure. The patterns are clear and easy to read and the designs are spectacular!
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PHOENIX The potential for a really long Tuesday night at U.S. Airways Center was evident when the pre-game activities included a middle school band playing that ubiquitous "Gangnam Style" tune. The kids were talented and did a really nice job with it, but still Anyway, our second clue arrived when the Phoenix Suns ended the first quarter with 16 points on 30-percent shooting from the field and had the lead. We quickly went from clues to solid evidence. The Suns, for example, rang the bell for 11 more points in the third quarter. They missed 9 of the 14 free throws they were obligated to chuck during the 53 of action. When it was over, the Suns limited the Minnesota Timberwolves to 77 points through 48 minutes, but required overtime to finally subdue another truly struggling team, 84-83. "We made it a little tougher on ourselves," interim coach Lindsey Hunter said, "but we'll take it. We still have a lot to work on." What might in the box score -- appear to be a rare erupt...
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Washington, D.C.—March 5, 2010— The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009, which took effect February 22, 2010, requires new disclosures on monthly credit card statements. The Financial Services Roundtable and the Center for Responsible Lending have teamed up to explain a few of these new disclosures, which are intended to make the cost of credit clearer to American consumers.
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Novice Member
Joined: 10/25/12
Originally posted by Shadowguy64
Oh brother. Dont be an ass. You know what im talking about here. Dont try and twist the post to suit rhetoric that you find faverable. Im not a politician and i wont play your game.
Its not that i don't see them. Its that i have seen them.
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Elite Member
Joined: 1/06/05
Originally posted by Velocinox
I think in the earlier days (though scum bags abounded, believe me) there was less of the "not getting anything for helping" attitude.
You could meet future guild mates that way or they could help you and ask for help in a quest, etc.
Or, in one case, one of the guys needed help with a class quest where you really did need a raid group. You would get "the call" and you would go help in that raid.
The mmo space is diluted with players who don't necessarily share the attitude that some of the original adopters had.
Novice Member
Joined: 4/11/13
Originally posted by DavisFlight
Interact how? That's what I'm not understanding. I asked earlier if this open world debate was PvP centric. Other than that or a quick "hey do you guys want to group" message, how are you interacting?
Elite Member
Joined: 3/15/06
Originally posted by Sovrath
I agree. I was one that enjoyed helping others out. Being the train-wrecker at the entrance of Blackburrow. And having people come back in after zoning when they saw the train to see me and some other folks that stuck around standing there over a pile of 20 black furred gnolls. Fun stuff. But it just became a risk. Others stopped helping. Eventually it was just you, and you zoned, too. It was a different time. Just like it was a different time when people would help an accident victim, not pull out their camera phone to get a cool video of it.
'Sandbox MMO' is a PTSD trigger word for anyone who has the experience to know that anonymous players invariably use a 'sandbox' in the same manner a housecat does.
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Joined: 9/25/12
Originally posted by Shadowguy64
Ask the same question about real life. How do people you see every day impact the way you feel and behave? I know you're not really invested in this, you're mostly just spewing rhetoric for the sake of trying to win an argument. I've been there, I understand the need to be devil's advocate.
There's a huge difference between instanced and noninstanced worlds, both in terms of game design, game focus, linearity, and how the game gets played. In the broadest sense, MMOs that focus on instancing focus more on the elements that emulate singleplayer RPGs, and that's not what many of us want from MMOs. It's not just about seeing the other player.
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Joined: 7/31/13
There's room for both the traditional open-world dungeons of EverQuest and WoW-style instanced dungeons. Maybe make the open-world dungeons really huge and epic and make the instanced dungeons a small-scale experience for 6-man groups.
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Joined: 3/05/07
Originally posted by Sleepy-Sleepee
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Originally posted by Velocinox
I thought my response "worthless and Stupid" would have been enough. Congrats on even more meaningless responses.
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Joined: 6/01/09
Originally posted by arieste
LOL.. there is no reason to line-item-veto me, just quote and use your own paragraphs. That is how adults converse.
U agree on 1st point.
On the 2nd point you make the exact case I am making. That a good use of instancing will leave you feeling a part of the real world, albeit in a somewhat special place... or not. Depending on how well instancing is used.
And your third colorful paragraph has no statement that rebuttals anything I've said, it is simply gibberish and sounds like you hate instancing, but like them? Weird//
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Joined: 4/18/10
Originally posted by Shadowguy64
I have played in open world dungeons where my group has saved others from wipe, rezd people, etc... IT can provide entertainment, from the look at that stupid thing they are doing, all the way to, wow, can't believe they did that...Sure that can all happen in the open world, but in the open world you are not in a more confined area, that is a dungeon....
If you didn't want to play with other people, why play a mmo? If you want most of what you do to be your own special world, it no longer is massive multiplayer imo, and not saying you are right, or I am right, these are all opinions, but everyone has a reason they like something...When LDoN first came out for EQ, it was different, and I didn't mind it so much, but when more and more content went that way, it was way too much and made me dislike playing it...I do not enjoy daily checklists either, it makes me feel like I have a to do list, instead of just getting on and doing what I want....Sure I could do that, but no one likes to 'gimp' themselves, atleast most don't and choose the non-optimal things to do for the most part..
In older style mmos, I did what was I felt like doing, and thought would be the most fun more, then I do in more modern mmos that are quest hub and checklist driven....It comes down to more than just that, but that is to make it short...So yeah I hope that they limit instances...If they want to do boss mob encounters as instances, and some smaller stuff, but 90-95% of the world content is non-instanced, then I can deal with it, it is when most content is phased or instanced, I usually don't want to play, and if that is what they were going for, then they are not doing too much new probably (as in different direction than the current trend).
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Joined: 9/19/04
The thing I like and miss about non instanced dungeons were when I went over to one to look for a group, if there was a spot open I would get in, or someone would see I was lfg and then would leave offering me a spot. With dungeons I could just hop in and play. Sure wait times could be long, but if they were I would find others lfg and make my own group.
Now with instancing, I can't just go and hop into a group because there are no groups around. All of them are full and inside alone already. There is no where for me to go. If I want to fight, I have to for my group first.
Usually easier when I know other singles are lfg at the dungeon or just filling a last spot. Of course there is now lfd teleport to instance right away, and while that gets people grouping, it makes the world feel even more empty. I also tend to encounter more asses in such scenarios than I do with forming groups in non instanced dungeons.
Of course lfd was created because no one was grouping in the instances unless for raids, where as people always grouped in dungeons before. It could be because later games were more quest hub based, but people always said the instances were better exp, yet people rarely did them, probably because it was so damn hard to start whole groups up at the locations since no one was around.
The funny thing is, with things like lfd system, I spend way more time waiting for a group than I did back in EQ. I played a ranger mostly, a class that could have a hard time getting a group. I rarely waited long to get a group. Waiting 30 minutes, maybe even an hour, then playing for the next 6 is way better than the 30+ minute queues for 15-30 minutes of game play to wait all over again, often encountering morons. Always love too after waiting a long time, someone does something stupid, causes people to die or just leaves early, then other abandon ship, forcing me to wait another 30 minutes with nothing done.
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Joined: 2/28/06
I find it funny someone jumps in and starts again about all players that want open world want it, to gank/grief or have an easy time pvp.
I like PVP, I don't like to play PVP. I like it's original concept, fighting for a reason, it could be to control a zone, control an area, control something, but not to get loot or be tucked away in an instance only to show you are better than someone else. Sure I see the use of an Arena, but why instanced? Just have players judge, no interference, have the decency not to try to cheat and not to interfere. You want to play esports, but don't want to follow the rules unless the game enforces it. But that's about pvp. So no I don't want non-instanced content to pvp, I probably will play on pve servers anyway.
I have said I'm against instancing, but that's not true of course. The real issue I have are devs who abuse instancing for cheap works. I'ts just that if you remove instances, the devs can't fall back on them and have to make real dungeons again. I do prefer open world dungeons, as many have said, you can help each other, you can guide people, help them get to their camp. How many times I've rested, gotten a heal, got help fighting a mob I accidently pulled.
And the comment about not getting anything. Everyone who significantly helped me, usually by porting or rezzing or buffing, I'd give a nice reward to. But it was never about money, or rewards. It's just that if I help you, someone will help me one day. Good Kharma system. And a lot of people did that. Because they knew, if I helped someone clear a train or buffed people, as a rogue dragged a corpse from the fallen monk to the group, I might get invited to the group when someone left. I even remember this dwarfen cleric who I asked to rezz me, he was a few zones away, he ran to the dungeon with his little feet and rezzed me no problem. After that I wanted to pay him, but he refused. He roleplayed his way out of receiving money, which was really cool, though I would have had no problem paying for his service. The problem is of course not everyone is nice, I realise that.
A lot of players compare original EQ design mistakes with open world dungeons and swear that that's the only way open dungeons can be. That's not true. I won't use GW2, because tbh I really think they failed really hard with their execution choices. Let's be honest here, it's a zergfest atm, because having 20+man who are not in any group work together is nearly impossible and the scaling is so horrible that everyone just hitting their best attacks work better than really coordinating. And let's also not forget that with no tanking and no real healing, everything turns into an zergfest anyway. But there are other ways to fix these issues that old school open dungeons did.
Spawn camping, not needed anymore. Make more random encounters, force players to keep moving, reduce the time needed to meditate. All those things contribute to a more mobile game. Now these are things you have to choose. Do you really want these features out of your game, or do you want to sit in a camp for hours, just chiling enjoying, talking to people while a monk is getting mobs for you.
Mob stealing can be fixed by tagging or rewards for everyone, but still very rarely it would happen in older games, because you didn't want to get the wrath of it and needed to do at least 51% dmg. I did fight a few mobs to get the rewards, but really I think if I had it happen 10 times in all my years is a lot. I do remember being leap frogged in VT by another guild and really ruining our night, oh I hate you. But the best time was when a rogue tried to steal our VT playtime, dragged his mage friend with him and a rez stick, rezzed his mage friend, who died to the mob that was patrolling, then the rogue died and we had all VT for ourselves. So yes it happens, no it didn't happen a lot and while it was frustating, I did remember it and have fun retelling it now.
Advanced tactics. Really advanced tactics, for bosses you can just lock the encounter to add a instanced feel to it, no one can target anyone who is locked in that combat, no friends, no mobs, neither of the two. No buffs, no heals. Only adds would attack them of course. Then you can always just add a range x AOE, you can place them in a room and have the room be affected. You can do well everything you do in a instanced game. A cave-in yes, kinda, but also not really. If you really want, you could do the phasing here :( Oh boy I hate phasing. You just let everyone in the party enter, but after the first enters the cave phases into cave-in state, not allowing people who are not part of the group to enter and once you are on the other side of the cave-in, it's caved in. People in the group are flagged for that adventure, adding new players won't work (why I hate cave-ins). Really, creative devs can solve problems. They are just lazy or busy with other things and not showing what they really can do. I'm not saying all and while I call it lazy, it's also just not using all their ideas and potential to fix these problems, most due to the managements desire to cut money.
But really, why I really prefer open over instanced. Well that's actually really easy. Adventuring in a dungeon. It's not the instance vs open discussion, but the way 99% of the instances are made. Instances are made with a story, an objective and a finish line. A dungeon is made with a story (usually not told, but written on the walls, in books, scrolls, item drops, mobs etc), a few rooms, a maze, maybe an end boss, but no finish line. But is the end boss not the finish? No it's not. When in an instance you defeat the last boss, you get a good job msg, or not, you could go back and kill in a wing you skipped, but you don't have to, mobs won't respawn and most of the players have hit the exit button just after the loot is distributed.
If instances would be bigger, allow more people to join, not private experiences, more dungeons per level point, add respawns etc. I wouldn't really mind them as much. But as of now I still prefer open dungeons. They add a real feel to the world. They add community. People helping each other. People bringing trains accidentely, maybe even whiping you, helping fight back to the camp. There are so many new exciting scenario's possible. Will open dungeons work today? I can't say, I would say why not. There are enough options to deal with issues mentioned and nothing other than money makes it's hard to do.
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Joined: 9/20/12
Wish I had something positive to say =(
Originally posted by Waterlily
I want this. Just like it was in EQ1. People who are bitching about instances/zoning seriously dont understand how the mechanics worked in the original game. Not to mention a seemless world means you cant zone and lose the 10000 mobs that you agrod. Which means they will have to add rubberbanding mobs like WoW or any other game today.
My best experiences were in those instances.
Hard Core Member
Joined: 10/02/11
The Critical Hit Pretzel!
Personally I see the side of people not wanting it when it comes to zones. At the same time if you want mass pop zones, it means also you are going to need tons of seperate server meaning less people, since players will get clustered in certain zones and cause massive lag issues which I feel is worst off then the compromise of channels. Its one of those things that while I don't really like, the benefits vastly outweigh the penalties of having 'channels' in a game, unless its going to be a very small and tight nit server community, which really not everyone likes.
If its instances as in dungeons, then I have issues with it. Most people either think...
A.) They don't want hard stuff and like it all open world so it becomes a trivial thing since it can easily be abused by players leaving no worry about 'traversing' the dungeon, 0 skill involved.
B.) They don't understand that opening up things that are suppose to be hard like dungeons with an MMO means that its going to be farmed out by others, making your progress inside practically useless, as someone can just jump into fray and pass you and take the loot, the dungeon diffiulty being completely ruined by it. There is NO WAY to prevent this in an open world setting unless its made into an 'event' which would still have that very same issue
Its just a horrid thing for those seeking difficulty in a game. In that case I do NOT see it as being a good thing at all. It trivializing the content. I feel though that a lot of that opinion might be just because MMOs lately HAVE trivialized their own instances, to the point its not about a challenge and more so something you breeze through which might be attributing to that attitude though.
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Joined: 4/14/06
Originally posted by KingsField
You Sir are a cad of the first order! There is no room on these forums for rationality and understanding. Please desist from attempting to derail an otherwise completely futile poo-flinging hatefest with your evenhanded and completely reasonable assertions!
The mere thought that instancing and open world could co-exist in the same game is ... is ... HERESY !
Next you'll be saying that it's just a game and the goal is fun. Crazytalk.
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Joined: 5/20/05
Modern MMOs make Tolkien turn in his grave.
I read the title of this thread, but knew this was either a troll or someone who wouldn't grasp the problem if it was explained.
For the rest of rational humanity, instancing is bad for a number of reasons, but not the least of which is that they were created to eliminate the competitive factor that open world dungeons presented. The idea that not everyone is able to kill or obtain something at the same time makes for a much more realistic setting for a fantasy world. Its called exclusivity, and its been completely obliterated by mechanics like instances in order to make everyone feel like a winner. With that comes all the other problems like the economic issues stemming from the overabundance of items that are farmed all day long simultaneously.
The other personal problem I have with it is the fact that it splinters the world into a bunch of fake dimensions instead of allowing everyone to just exist in the same plane of reality. I like open world games. The idea that other people in the same world (server) are in the same place as me, in the same dungeon, yet I can't see them is just retarded.
Those are just a few of the literally 20+ problems that I have with instances, that I think others will most likely relate to.
and LOL at the best expansions in EQ being the ones with instances. Nobody who played classic everquest would think for a second that any expansion after kunark and velious did anything but suck in comparison. Sure, there was fun to be had, but they were nothing like the golden era of EQ.
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Joined: 7/30/04
"Blue, blue."
Originally posted by Sovrath
Finally, an unemotionally-driven, voice of reason. I agree with that assessment, 100%.
Personally, I can go either way when it comes to instances. On one hand, I love the feeling of immersion that a huge, open-ended world often brings to the table (ala Vanguard, for example.) On the other, I can enjoy and see the benefit of having instanced content, especially when it comes to smaller-scale excursions and whatnot.
They both server a purpose in my eyes, and I think you can have one, while not necessarily needing to exclude the other. It just takes a certain balance to get it "right."
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Originally posted by moguy2
And my most rememberable experiences were from open zones..
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Originally posted by xAPOCx
its the only reason i play MMOs.
take away the non-instanced, populated open world and i don't have a reason to play them.
the OP might as well ask why people play MMOs.
the whole thing that seperated MMOs from other games was BEING NON-INSTANCED
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The Citibank envelope that was in the mailbox when I returned home today contained two new American Airlines AAdvantage linked cards. But, in a first for me, I received both a replacement Visa and a new American Express. Huh?
When I signed up for the card, it was just a Visa. How did I now get two different cards?
The enclosure explained:
We have enhanced your Citi/AAdvantage credit card account. You now have two Citi/AAdvantage cards, including a Citi/AAdvantage American Express card, to access your existing account and credit line. These two new cards – which are enclosed and carry no additional fee — replace the Citi/AAdvantage card you are currently carrying, and provide you with more places to earn American Airlines AAdvantage miles.
Perhaps there's precedent for this, but I've never had a bank issue me a second, different card before.
I suppose it's a no-cost addition, and since it's considered part of the same credit line, it doesn't hit my credit report as a new, separate account. (Their enclosed FAQ's stress this point.)
But no thanks. My wallet's credit card space is already fully occupied, and frankly, I don't need this Amex. ("Waste of plastic" comes to mind.) If I'm using an Amex, it'll be my Starwood-linked card.
Anyone have a different take?
23 Responses to "Double up? Citibank's American AAdvantage Visa comes with a connected Amex"
David M Says:
March 7th, 2011 at 10:47 pm
Doesn't seem like that big a deal because most places that take Amex also take Visa. The big exception I know of is Costco, which accepts only Amex and debit cards. I suppose people that have been using debit cards or another card at Costco but would like the AAdvantage miles (and it's easy to spend a lot and rack up a lot of miles at Costco) would like it.
RLee Says:
March 7th, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Citi has had this supplemental AAdvantage AmEx for a while now — I actually requested and got one to go with my Citi AA MasterCard a year ago. But sending you one when you didn't ask does seem mighty bizarre. And, "more places to earn": really? Is there really some place that accepts AmEx but not Visa???
PEI Says:
March 7th, 2011 at 11:49 pm
it's actually about revenue
for nearly no cost of issuing a physical plastic to u (plus no incremental risk, since it's the same account and credit line), they can gain if you spend on your amex card instead of visa/mc, which earns citibank a larger % of merchant fee
Brian Says:
March 8th, 2011 at 12:01 am
I got the same extra card in the mail yesterday. When I called Citi customer service I was told that the Amex card will earn 1.2 miles (I think that's what they said) for every dollar spent. Assuming that's true/accurate, that would be one benefit of keeping this Amex in your wallet.
canuck_in_pa Says:
March 8th, 2011 at 12:42 am
They told me the same thing: 1.2 miles per dollar, for 12 months.
I just noticed another difference: the primary card has the AAdvantage near the top now.
Like others I'll stick the Amex one in a drawer and continue to use my Amex SPG.
canuck_in_pa Says:
March 8th, 2011 at 12:52 am
Oops. I meant the AAdvantage account number.
Mark Ashley Says:
March 8th, 2011 at 7:57 am
@David M and @RLee, indeed, "I can now get AA miles at Costco" came to mind right away, since Costco is still Amex-only. While those with a Starwood Amex have already been able to pay at Costco, collect SPG points, and then convert their SPG points to AA (or other airlines, see the SPG site's list of airline partners), the AA-only mile collector could benefit from the simplicity of this additional Amex.
@PEI, thanks for a good reminder that this card isn't for the consumer's benefit. It's for the bank's.
@Brian and @canuck_in_pa, Good point re: the 1.2 miles/$ on the Citi Amex. I missed that. It's in the insert that came with the card, in rather fine print:
Plus, when you call to activate both cards, you can earn 20% more AAdvantage miles on eligible purchases for 12 months* with your new Citi/AAdvantage American Express card — that's 1.2 AAdvantage miles per dollar spent.**
* Additional earnings associated with this program may overlap with other special offers in which you are currently enrolled. In order to qualify for this offer, your existing account must be open and current at all times. If your existing account is closed for any reason, including if you convert to another product, you may no longer be eligible.
** American Airlines AAdvantage bonus miles earned through this promotion count toward your annual mileage cap. The maximum number of AAdvantage miles that can be earned per calendar year depends on the Citi/AAdvantage card eligible for this offer. AAdvantage Executive Platinum, AAdvantage Platinum and AAdvantage Gold members are excluded from this mileage cap. AAdvantage miles are only earned on eligible purchases. Eligible purchases exclude balance transfers, cash advances, convenience checks, items returned for credit and interest charges.
Bluegreen Kirk Says:
March 8th, 2011 at 10:33 am
Another way to get there customer trapped in more debit. Like you i dont need another card in my wallet. And if I didnt apply or ask for it dont send it.
silverhalide Says:
March 8th, 2011 at 1:12 pm
If you order stuff from a place which only detects duplicate orders by CC number, this actually helps you. Otherwise I agree, very weird. Also weird for those of us who already have an AAdvantage AMEX on top of this "linked" one.
Tell It Like it Is Says:
April 10th, 2011 at 7:40 pm
If you want American Airlines frequent flyer miles, this is a rip off. For signing up for the AmExp card separately, you can earn from 30,000 to 80,000 miles (depending upon the specific promotion) and no annual fee for the first year.
So, my taking the 2nd card without any bonus or incentive, the card issuer is essentially not giving you the signup bonus. You are getting ripped off.
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May 24th, 2011 at 6:52 pm
great post!
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July 19th, 2011 at 11:08 am
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PITTSBURGH - FEBRUARY 03: Defensive Coordinator Dick LeBeau of the Pittsburgh Steelers pumps his fists during a parade to celebrate winning Super Bowl XLIII on February 3, 2009 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
There has been a lot of speculation as to whether or not Pittsburgh Steelers defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau will return next year for what would be his 10th consecutive season with the team. On Thursday the 75-year-old defensive guru let it be known that he has every intention of returning in 2013 as long as head coach Mike Tomlin wants him back. ''Let's just say I really like Pittsburgh and I really like working for the Steelers,'' LeBeau said on Thursday. ''Coach Tomlin will tell you if he wants me back or not. It will be up to Mike.'' The Steelers defense got off to a rough start this Read more [...]
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AboutOur very first responses to the visual world when we are born are to the strong contrasts of black and white. Only as we grow do we become attuned to all the shades in between and develop a sophisticated understanding and response to the vibrant, rich spectrum of colours around us. Each of the artists in the show has composed a unique response to the theme of colour according to culture, experience, and exposure and âthis vibrant show is a perfect antidote to a grey February day' says exhibition organiser Sally Grumbridge, Terry Beard, Christine Calow, Laurence CausseParsley, Coulsoom Devon, Zelda Eady, Cate Field, Paul Flint, Sarah Fosse, Pamela Gerrie, Sally Grumbridge, Laura Gompertz, Stephanie Herbert, Pia Randall-Goddard, Joss Rossiter, Tina Vijoen
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Fraxinus excelsior (European ash)
European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) in the Burgwald, Hesse, Germany (Photo: Willow, licensed under CC BY 2.5)
Species information
Fraxinus excelsior L.
European ash, common ash, ash
Not assessed according to IUCN Red List criteria; widespread and abundant, but threatened by spread of 'chalara ash dieback'.
Woodland, scrub, hedgerows.
Timber, ornamental.
None known.
About this species
One of Europe's largest native deciduous trees, European ash is valued for its strong, elastic timber. Its petal-less, wind-pollinated flowers open on bare branches in about April, and the leaves do not break from their buds until about a month later. The characteristic bunches of winged fruits, commonly known as keys, dangle from the branches in late summer and autumn.
Long seen as a common, resilient, rapidly-growing tree, its future is now uncertain due to the appearance of the fungal disease commonly known as 'chalara ash dieback'. The pathogen responsible for this disease has been identified as Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus (originally described as Chalara fraxinea, hence the frequent use of this name in the popular literature). This fungal disease has caused widespread damage to European ash populations and is still spreading. Infected trees cannot be cured, although some individuals appear to be genetically resistant to the disease and show few symptoms.
Fraxinus excelsior var. communis Aiton, Fraxinus excelsior var. pendula-variegata de Vos
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Geography and distribution
European ash is native to Europe and Iran.
Overview: Deciduous tree up to 40 m tall with grey, hairless branches. Dormant buds are black.
Leaves: 20–25 cm long, divided into 9–13 toothed leaflets, dark green above and paler beneath. Leaves are in opposing pairs.
Flowers: Unisexual or bisexual (on the same or separate trees), in dense clusters, appearing before leaves. Individual flowers are small, inconspicuous, with no petals or sepals, and wind-pollinated.
Fruits: Dry, one-seeded, winged fruits up to 4 cm long. Borne in bunches and often referred to as 'keys'.
Threats and conservation
European ash is under threat from 'chalara ash dieback', which is caused by the fungus Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus (often referred to as Chalara fraxinea in the popular literature). The disease causes dieback of the crown and loss of leaves and can lead to death of the tree. A wide range of Fraxinus species have reportedly been infected with this disease, although F. excelsior is the most severely affected species.
Trees reported dying in large numbers in Poland in 1992 are now believed to have been infected with this newly identified pathogen. It has since spread across northern, western and southern Europe, causing widespread damage to ash populations, and infecting an estimated 60–90% of Denmark's ash trees since 2007.
Young infected ash trees often die quickly, whereas older trees tend to resist the pathogen for longer. There is no known cure and control is therefore limited to reducing the severity of symptoms and spread of the disease, for example by controlling imports/exports of ash plants and seeds and their movement within a country.
Widely used for its timber, European ash produces wood that is both strong and elastic. It is particularly good at withstanding sudden shocks and has therefore been used for a wide range of sporting goods, such as tennis racquets, hockey sticks, cricket stumps and billiard cues, as well as for tool handles and walking sticks.
It was formerly used for wheel-making and is still used to make the frames of Morgan cars. European ash has long been coppiced (repeatedly cut back to a short stump in order to harvest the many new shoots that sprout from it). In Suffolk (UK) there is a still-productive, coppiced tree estimated to be over 1,000 years old.
Cultivated as an ornamental in parks and large gardens, European ash is a useful shade tree that tolerates pollution and exposed sites. Cultivars available include:
- Fraxinus excelsior 'Aurea' (golden ash) – slow-growing with yellow leaves
- F. excelsior 'Crispa' – dark leaves with ruffled margins
- F. excelsior 'Jaspidea' – up to about 20 m tall with yellow leaves and yellow winter shoots (awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's AGM)
- F. excelsior 'Pendula' – with an umbrella-shaped crown of pendulous branches (awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's AGM)
European ash has been used in traditional medicine. Its bark was once used to treat fevers, its buds were used as a slimming aid in the UK, its leaves were used to treat gout, and its sap was used as a remedy for earache and warts.
In18th century England, ash leaves were used to adulterate tea. Ash leaves have been used as cattle-fodder in Scandinavia.
Mythology and superstition
In Scandinavian mythology, the tree of the world was an ash called Yggdrasil. It was said that its roots reached down into hell while its crown touched the heavens, its huge trunk connecting the two. Odin, considered to be the greatest of the gods, was said to have carved the first man from its wood.
European ash was regarded as a healing tree in Britain up until the end of the 18th century. In Hampshire (UK), it was believed that a child with broken or weak limbs could be healed by passing the child naked through the split trunk of an ash, which would then be plastered with loam and bound back together. If the split trunk then grew back together it was believed that the child would be cured.
In the past, burning of ash logs was thought to drive evil spirits from the room. There has been a long-standing belief dating back to the writings of ancient Roman author, Pliny the Elder, that ash-sticks can be used to repel snakes or to protect against snake-bite. Some thought a single blow with an ash-stick would kill a snake, whereas others believed that simply drawing a circle around it, or just carrying an ash-stick, would protect the user.
Millennium Seed Bank: Seed storage
The Millennium Seed Bank Partnership aims to save plant life worldwide, focusing on plants under threat and those of most use in the future. Seeds are dried, packaged and stored at a sub-zero temperature in our seed bank vault.
Two collections of Fraxinus excelsior seeds are held in Kew's Millennium Seed Bank based at Wakehurst in West Sussex.
See Kew's Seed Information Database for further information on Fraxinus excelsior seeds
This species at Kew
There are over 200 specimens of Fraxinus excelsior in the collections at Kew and Wakehurst. These include a range of cultivars grown for their horticultural merit. The main ash collection is grown along either side of Princess Walk at Kew. European ash can also be seen growing in Kew's Conservation Area.
Dried and alcohol-preserved specimens of Fraxinus excelsior are held in Kew's Herbarium, where they are available to researchers by appointment. Details of some of these can be seen online in Kew's Herbarium Catalogue.
Specimens of wood, bark and sap of European ash, in addition to a wooden garden dibber and boomerangs made from it, are held in Kew's Economic Botany Collection, where they are available to researchers by appointment.
'Chalara ash dieback' and Kew
No symptoms of 'chalara ash dieback' have so far been found in the ash trees at Kew. Fraxinus specimens for the collections are not imported from external commercial nurseries in the UK or Europe.
Kew staff are encouraged to be vigilant whilst working in the Gardens and look out for the symptoms on ash trees. A pro-active monitoring programme will be implemented to spot when this disease arrives and record any effects that it has on the collections.
References and credits
References and credits
Forestry Commission (2012). Chalara dieback – key scientific facts. Available online (accessed on 13 November 2012).
Huxley, A., Griffiths, M. & Levy, M. (eds) (1997). The New Royal Horticultural Society Dictionary of Gardening, Volume 2 (D–K). The Stockton Press, New York.
Mabberley, D. J. (2008). Mabberley's Plant-book: a Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classification and Uses, 3rd Edition. Cambridge University Press, New York.
Mabey, R. (1996). Flora Britannica. Sinclair-Stevenson, London.
McKinney, L. V., Thomsen, I. M., Kjær, E. D. & Nielsen, L. R. (2012). Genetic resistance to Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus limits fungal growth and symptom occurrence in Fraxinus excelsior. Forest Pathology 42: 69–74.
Stace, C. (2010). New Flora of the British Isles, Third Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
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Kew contributors: David Goyder
Copyediting: Emma Tredwell
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The two major things you've done, you and the president, health care and the stimulus, are both successes.
So how come you can't get that across?
Well, let me put it this way: They are not sufficient. I think people will grant us that they were, on balance, the important things to do. But other than in the health care industry, they didn't create many jobs in their mind. . . that's not where most people are. And most people are out there saying, "Okay, now tell me how I am going to be employed or keep my job or keep my house." And part of what they're doing now is, they're beginning to look—if you look at the polling data—they're beginning to say, "All right, will you turn it around? Just tell me. I want to know."
When they ask that, how do you answer?
I say we have turned it around, and here's how we're gonna create the jobs. We're not gonna go back to those policies that in fact stripped you of your job. Look, the basic difference between us and Republicans is—and they're good guys—they still genuinely believe this idea of the Laffer curve. That if you cut taxes—even though it hadn't worked twice when they tried it—it's gonna create jobs. Secondly, I think they sort of mistrust average middle-class people. Mistrust in the following way: It's a little bit like, These folks don't know what's good for them. So if we just put the guys and the women with money and power sort of back in the driver's seat, it'll all work out.
But the sense of disillusionment—the people who say, "Inauguration day was so incredible, and now the hope is gone," is this—
See, I really don't think the hope is gone. I don't think the majority of the American people think the hope is gone. What they're looking for is reassurance. You know what it's a little bit like? You ask the girl out in high school, and it didn't work out, and you're really excited about this next person, but you're just not sure.… "I got turned down by Mary; do I want to ask Lisa? Tell me, is there a reason to be hopeful here?" So it's not that they've given up. I think you're seeing increasing confidence growing in people, saying, "We are moving in the right direction." But the other thing I think is that people are pretty smart. They know this isn't gonna happen quickly. I don't think anybody out there really thought this was gonna come back in two years.
Is it all the economy? If things start to percolate, do you think the American people will go back to feeling inspired by the president?
Yeah, I do. Because, look, the other piece about it is that these very conservative Republicans who are winning are getting a bye on the things that Americans really disagree upon, the social issues. They come up with pretty Draconian answers on social issues. And so because jobs are the most important, they're actually getting a bye on not having to explain their views on issues like a woman's choice.
You were saying earlier how the stimulus plan and health care perfectly fit into the Republican narrative of "tax-and-spend liberals."
Yeah. And what [people] are starting to find out now—that's why you're gonna see health care turn around—they're starting to find out that what they're told is simply not true. Their premiums haven't gone up. They're not in a position where their companies are dropping health care. They're in a position where the small-business guys who want to give their employees health care are getting a tax cut for doing that. And it's, like, almost a surprise when I do these things, "Coffee with Joe"—[He turns to Jay Carney, his communications director.] What do they call them?
Carney: Coffee with Joe.
Biden: I don't like the title. But we do these things in towns where we go in and sit in a diner and let people ask us questions and stuff. And it's, like, almost surprise you get from some [businesspeople]: "Jeez, I didn't know. I get a tax cut? That's great."
But again, how much is this a matter of not communicating it right?
Well, it's not so much not communicating it right, it's just there's so much to communicate. And so it's starting to break through. But look. The reason I use that quote from [former Boston mayor] Kevin White ["Don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative"] is that, in the meantime, while this is breaking through, it's important to point out honestly what these guys are gonna do if they gain control. And you know, I really don't think there's many people right now who think that Barack and I aren't more likely to win reelection than not. Which is kind of a window. Nothing's certain. I'm not saying we're… But, if you notice, it's all about this election now, which it should be, and it's usually not extrapolated into, "Well, the Republicans are gonna win in 2012." And part of that is because intuitively people know we started moving in the right direction. We got this thing rolling. It's not there yet for a lot of people. It also is there for a lot of people.
Do you think the perception of the president as aloof and not caring is a bad rap?
I really do. Look, one of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people. And so I think I'm a pretty good judge of folks who are. I watch this guy; I have lunch with him every single week. We sit for an hour alone, and there's nothing on our agenda, just the two of us. I spend—when we're both in town? I spend three, five, six hours a day with him, I mean literally.
Really. I start off with the presidential daily brief, which is on the economy, on national security. I meet with him when he meets once a week with Clinton and Gates. I meet with him when any congressman or senator or governor's involved. I meet with him when there's any event that has to do with foreign policy. I'm engaged. I'm with him in the situation room, because I do so much on the foreign-policy side. And so I watch the guy. And I find nothing, nothing about him that's aloof. Look, I judge people in large part by how they treat people who wait on them at a table. Watch him. Watch how he treats ordinary people. There's nothing aloof about him.


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Virsys12, LLC will be participating in the Salesforce Mobile Developer Week by hosting a special meeting of the Nashville Salesforce Developers Users Group on April 25, 2013 from 5-7pm. The meeting will be held at Virsys12's office located at 5205 Maryland Way, Suite 202, Brentwood, TN 37027. During the week, 40 Salesforce Developer User Groups (DUGs) from around the world will be meeting to discuss mobile development and the new Platform Mobile Services. Salesforce.com Mobile Platform Services opens a new world of application development, and Nashville DUG members will have the opportunity to network with local community peers and interact with a Salesforce.com mobile experts to explore these new tools and grow their skills.
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The Best New Car Deals: June 2015
New Car SalesIt's a good time to be in the market for a new car in June, 2015. Whether you're shopping for an inexpensive sedan, a luxury coupe, a sport utility vehicle for your whole family or a pickup truck to get some work done, you won't have a hard time finding a good deal this month.
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Best Finance Deals: June 2015
Automakers often sell their cars with attractive interest rates to help discount monthly payments for new car buyers on a budget. In many cases, these offers are as low as zero-percent, and they can lower payments by spreading the cost over a number of years.
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Workshop will provide 'how to' approach for creating rain gardensWould you like to learn the benefits of and techniques for creating a rain garden on your property? Then plan to attend an upcoming workshop on landscaping for water quality with a focus on rain gardens.
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