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Hazel Conley is Reader in Human Resource Management. Her research focuses on equality and diversity issues in employment. Hazel worked as a post-doctoral researcher and then lecturer at Cardiff Business School followed by a senior lectureship ay Bristol Business School. Her recent research examines the gender pay gap in a European context and equality bargaining in the UK Rail Sector. Hazel has an interest in equality legislation, conducting research on the implementation of the 'Gender Duty' in local authorities. Her research has been published in leading journals (Work, Employment and Society, Public Administration, Gender, Work and Organization, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Capital and Class). She has extensive experience of teaching and supervising international post-graduate students and has an interest in Chinese culture and the development of HRM. Dr Conley is currently on the editorial board of Work Employment and Society, associate editor for Gender Work and Organisations, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion .
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Grants, contracts, awards and external publications:
- EU Progress funds action grant JUST/2013/PROG/AG/GE [Support for Civil society and other stakeholders aiming at promoting equality between men and women] on the Gender Pay Gap (GPG). The project is a three country study led from the University of Verona and involves Italy, the UK (Conley, PI) and Poland. 321,085 EUR
- Developing a Framework for Equality Bargaining in the Rail Sector (with Professor Sian Moore, Dr. UWE and Tessa Wright, Queen Mary University of London). Funded by the British Academy £7152 July 2013 – November 2014
- School of Business and Management Environmental Fund Award to host 2014 interim conference of Research Network 14 (Gender, the Labour Market and the Welfare State) of the European Sociological Association. £3,600
- Promoting Equality and Diversity Through Economic Crisis (With Professor Kate Malleson, Professor Lizzie Barmes, Professor Geraldine Healy, Dr. A James). Funded by the AHRC £26,000
Implementation of the Gender Equality Duty in Public Authorities (with Dr. Margaret Page, UWE). Funded by British Academy £7.000.
Journal Articles:
- Conley, H (2014) "Trade unions, equal pay and the law in the UK", Economic and Industrial Democracy, 35(2): 309-323
- Conley, H. (2013) 'Trade Unions, Equal Pay and the Law' Economic and Industrial Democracy Published on-line 10th April 2013
- Conley, H. (2012) 'Using Equality to Challenge Austerity: New Actors, Old Problems' Work, Employment and Society
- Conley, H. (2012) 'Economic Crisis, Austerity and Gender Equality: The UK Case' European Gender Equality Law Review 2(12) pp 14-19
- Conley, H. and Jenkins, S. (2011) 'Still a Good Job for a Woman? Women Teachers Experience of Modernization in England and Wales' Gender, Work and Organization Vol. 18 (5) pp 488-507
- Moore, S., Wright, T. and Conley, H. (2011) 'Addressing Discrimination in the Workplace on Multiple Grounds: The Experience of Trade Union Equality Representatives' Industrial Law Journal Vol. 40 (4) pp 460-465
- Conley, H. And Page, M. (2010) 'The Gender Equality Duty in Local Government: The Prospects for Integration' Industrial Law Journal Vol. 39 (3) pp 321-325
- Conley, H. and Stewart, P. (2008) 'Representing fixed-term workers: the anatomy of a trade union campaign' Employee Relations Vol. 30 (5) pp 515-533
- Conley, H. (2008) 'The nightmare of temporary work: a comment on Fevre' Work, Employment and Society Vol. 22:4 pp. 731-736
- S. Jenkins, H. Conley, (2007) Living with the Contradictions of Modernization? Emotional Management in the Teaching Profession, Public Administration, 85(4): 979-1001
- H. Conley, (2006) Modernisation or Casualisation? Numerical Flexibility in the Public Services, Capital and Class, 89 Summer: 31-57
- E. Heery, H. Conley, R. Delbridge, P. Stewart, (2005) Beyond the Enterprise: Trade Union Representation of Freelances in the UK, Human Resource Management Journal, 14(2): 20-35, ISSN: 0954-5395
- H. Conley, (2005) Front-Line or All Fronts? Women's Trade Union Activism in Retail Services, Gender, Work and Organization, 12(5): 479-496
- H. Conley, (2003) Temporary Work in the Public Services: Implications for Equal Opportunities, Gender, Work and Organization 10(4): 455-477, ISSN: 0968-6673
- H. Conley, (2002) A State of Insecurity: Temporary Work in the Public Services, Work, Employment and Society 16(4): 725-737, ISSN: 0950-0170
Books & Chapters:
- Conley, H. and Page, M. (Forthcoming November 2014) Gender Equality in Public Services: Chasing The Dream Routledge Pre-order here.
- Durbin, S. and Conley, H. (2010) 'Gender, Labour Process Theory and Intersectionality: Une Liason Dangereuse'? in Thompson, P. and Smith, C. (eds.) Working Life. Renewing Labour Process Analysis Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- Conley, H. (2010) 'Flexibility and Equality: Friend or Foe?' in Healy, G., Kirton G. and Noon, M. (eds.) Equality, inequalities and diversity – contemporary challenges and strategies Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- Conley H. (2011) 'The Road to Equality: Legislating for Change?' in Wright, T. and Conley, H. (eds.) Gower Handbook of Discrimination at Work Surrey: Gower
- Wright, T. and Conley, H. (eds.) (2011) Gower Handbook of Discrimination at Work Surrey: Gower
- H. Conley, In P. Stewart (ed.), (2004) What About the Workers? Bringing the Experience of Job Insecurity into the Flexibility Debate, Organisational Change and the Future of Work, London: Palgrave
- E. Heery, H. Conley, R. Delbridge, M. Simms, P. Stewart, In G. Healy, E. Heery, P. Taylor and W. Brown (eds.), (2004) Trade Union Responses to Non-Standard Work, The Future of Worker Representation, London: Palgrave Macmillan
- E. Heery, H. Conley, R. Delbridge, P. Stewart, In M. Stewart and M. Martinez Lucio (eds.), (2004) Seeking Partnership for the Contingent Workforce, Assessing Partnership: The Prospects for and Challenges of Modernization in Employment Relations, London: Routledge
Other Publications:
- H. Conley, (2007) Equality and Inequality in Work and Employment, Editorial Equal Opportunities International: BUIRA Special Issue
- H. Conley, A. Freeman, A. McCulloch, P. Stewart, (2001) Celebrating 25 Years of Independent Marxist Theory,
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PhD Supervision
Current Doctoral Students
1st Supervisor - Yao Wang (PT), Nadia Ahmad (PT)
2nd Supervisor - Samuel Asante-Nnuro (PT)
PhD Supervision Completions
2nd Supervisor, Dr Barbara Samaluk, 2013,
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I changed a bit of the plumbing on mine.
The vent and T piece didn't work for me when the tanks are really full. If you have filled them really to the top the vent pipes because they do not loop high enough, then act as a siphon on the first application of the brakes, you then lose a litre or so. Even when not completely full and you brake, for that little time that the petrol is forward it vents out. Also the vent pipe from the "T" piece was too short as it drains to just forward of the radiator and when it does drain I can smell petrol badly.
So I changed it by buying quite a bit of piping to create a loop that runs to the highest point behind the light (it's a tight fit). At the highest point I put the "T" piece. This pipe then runs back through the head stock and then between the left tank and the frame above the radiator and then down by the clutch slave.
The other thing I've done as a result of having to fill other bikes more than once is make it easier to do this.
The right hand tank runs directly to the fuel petcock instead of going to the left tank forward tap. This pipe has a "T" piece that runs to the pump. On the left hand forward tap I have a pipe that I use to tap from.
The beauty of this system is that breaking the left tank is not a show stopper – just turn off the petcock. Break the right hand tank turn off the right forward tap.
This system would not work on the 990's because of the pump being in the tank.
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Re: DFP and TV: I want DFP to be the primary display!
I'm having the same problem, but with DFP and CRT. The docs seem to imply that the ordering of the ConnectedMonitors setting might do something here, but doesn't actually sayanything to that effect (although I find the example of "ConnectedMonitors "CRT, CRT"" to be confusing, since the rest of the docs seem to assume, at the most, one of each kind of connection (DFP, TV, CRT). There is no option to specify which connection is the "secondary" one with Twinview -- I think it's using the wrong timings (which just so happen to work anyway); before I starting trying to get multiple screens/twinview working, I have X configured to use a single DFP display. So I went about configuring the "secondary" display to my CRT monitor. But it seems that I was actually specifying the monitor modes for the DFP I already had working.
I really want my better display, the 21" DFP, to be X's screen 0, and my crappy, older 19" CRT to be Screen 1. I personally think it would make more sense to have DFP take priority, then CRT, then TV, but the ideal method would be being able to specify the connection to use for each setting (for twinview, a SecondaryMonitorConnection option, maybe?, or even better a ConnectedTo option in the Device section, for the mulitple card setup).
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Customer Research[dc]I[/dc]n the New World Experience Economy, consumers know as much about you as the seller as you do about them.
So rather than approaching customer research and insight as a one-way street, business must increasingly open up the doors of consumer collaboration to make product development and marketing a co-creative partnership between business and buyer.
"The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself" – Peter Drucker
Let's take that one step at a time:
- Know what your prospect wants
- Prove you've got the goods
In my early days of learning direct response coywriting I remember reading something that has always stuck in my mind.
Copywriting is 80% research, only 20% writing the actual copy.
That is to say, to create effective sales copy, we must spend enough time to genuinely and deeply understand our ideal prospect. Only then can we know what we need to do to prove to our prospect that we really do have the goods.
If you wish to persuade me, you must think my thoughts, feel my feelings, and speak my words – Cicero, Roman Statesman
The copywriters processes of arriving at prospect insight includes:
- Live prospect interaction, through customer service surveys, one to one interviews
- Internal reflection – the copywriters process of putting themself in the shoes of the prospect and reflecting on the prospects beliefs, feelings and desires as if they were the copywriters own
- Testing response in the market
Let's take those one at a time:
Prospect interaction
Make the most of customer chatter to find out this information.
Listening rather than selling at the initial point of contact.
Internal reflection
Learn to think like your best custmers – by climbing inside the mind of the prospect. Create a storyline using these steps:
I'm a lot like you…
- Shared aspiration or dream
- Common frustrations (us vs them)
- How your spokesman/company found/created the solution (loss and redemption)
- And why you decided to share the solution (hometown boy makes good)
Real market testing
By ongoing tests you can gain insight into the most profitable customers for your business and become confident of the dominant emotions and desires that lead to the sale.
Your Prospects Core Complex
A model used by some of World's largest direct mail publishing companies uses the model of identifying your prospects Core Complex – Made up of 3 components: Intellectual, Psychological, and Emotional.
What does my prospect believe (with relevance to my product/niche target). Does he believe, for example, that short-term day trading is risky, or difficult, or expensive (haha), or requires great time commitment, or should only be done with a small portion of their overall investment portfolio, or is the best thing since derivatives trading begun back in babylonia.
Knowing the prospects beliefs will help you built your aggressive marketing campaigns to lazer in on exactly the right things to say in your promotion copy.
But we don't just want to stop at the prospects general beliefs. We want to get right under their skin and know exactly what is causing them pain, with regards to the product. Not just frustrations with other products in the market place, or problems they have with succeeding with whatever the product is supposed to help with, but also their life frustrations caused by any limitations in their success.
And finally of course I find out just what exactly is on the minds of my target prospects with regards to what they really want.
Your Prospects Pain
What pain in your prospects life are we going to solve through our product?
Pain always falls into 3 main categories
- Financial
- Strategic
- Personal
To properly diagnose a prospects pain, you simply need to answer 4 questions:
- What is the source of the most prominent pain?
- What is the intensity of that pain?
- What is the level of urgency requiring the pain to be solved?
- Is the prospect consciously aware of the pain and its source?
Diagnosing pain is best performed through extensive market research, to explore and measure it fully.
Customer Profiles
You can then build genuine customer profiles, not just models based on demographics.
- Demographics – social classifications such as age, gender, marital status, race, income, education
- Geodemographics – with a specific community
- Generational influences
- Category cycle – attittude towards the product category
- Market adaption cycle – innvoators, early adoptors, late adoptors, and laggards
VALS uses psychographics, a combination of psychology and demographics and segments customers according to underlying psychology (self-orientation) and the resources (age, education, income, energy level, and self-confidence) they have available. See www.sric-bi.com for the VALS survey.
The whole purpose of developing customer profiles is so that you can develop and execute personalised promotions.
And developing this 1:1 relationship with your customers elevates the lifetime value of each customer by retention through your products life cycle.
B2B Marketing Sidenote
Don't make the mistake of thinking B2B copy should be flat, dry and boring. The copywriters process is very similar for consumer marketing or B2B marketing, because businesses are not customers – people are.
Aims of Prospect Insight Research
In general, customer want individualised respect, service, pride in their product choices, product options, and information to make informed decisions. As such, they tend to trust the vendors that provide them with information so that they can make better decisions.
Our aim is to establish:
- product usage
- purchasing behaviour / decision process
- urgency of need
- motivational influencers
More questions:
- Who is your prospect? pretend your prospect is sitting across foryou
- What does your prospects really want?
- What is his or her hot point? What are the top fears and frustrations for your prospect?
- What are their top wants and desires?
Motivational Influences
- What things does your product(s) do or give your prosepcts that he or she doesn't know about?
- What are the primary motivators? (Status, leisure, convenience, advancement, pleasure, comfort, security, basic needs, self-reliance).
- What are the most frequently used and influential information and refernce sources among your key customer groups?
Having developed your customer profiles, you will be able to proceed to the Conversion Stage in the Marketing Matrix, which includes relevant involvement devices and actual copywriting.
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First came pride, then envy.
WIthout traditional threat mechanics, you get chaos. This is currently how GW2 is. It was good in theory, but i feel it was poorly executed.
Boss fights and trash mobs, in dungeons, are not tuned correctly either, which leaves players dying way too much and running back to finish the fight. This process isn't challenging either, since death doesn't really feel as if it has any consequences, except armor repairs.
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Originally posted by observer
I think most people who make statement like these havent ran enough of the dungeons and need to learn the mechanics before they claim them to be broken. Evidently we are have two very different experiences. There are rules to the holy trinity that people follow, Healer heals, Tanks tank, DPS burns down the boss. There are gear requirements as well. You don't have tanks wearing healing gear. YOu don't take 5 dps into WOW dungeons yet most are trying to do it in GW2 a claiming its broken. I don't know how many times it needs to be said. Show me an example of a dungeon Party in GW2 that is geared and traited correctly, using the correct skills for to encounters and still failing horribly.
There are rules to the holy trinity that people don't break for a reason. Plus, there are not guides to describe every single fight for you like in other games. Give it time or suck it up and deal with the trial and error to figure out. If it will make you feel better run the Maag run in CoF. It's easy and you can farm the crap out of it like most others are.
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Originally posted by voxnor
Actually the problem isn't with the design, it's with the players adapting to that design. I did a few AC runs today. 2 pugs and 3 with people I knew and cordinated with. The 2 pugs was filled with a lot of rezzing and spank little strategy. With the people I knew there was little to no death, that doesn't mean it was easy though lol. Players have to find out where they fit in, it helps if you know youe team.
Sorry you had a bad group, but with practice you will find good group play actually exists... IF you have a good group lol.
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It souds like you were in a bad group. While the trinty doesn't exist in a hard state, the ability to syngerize healing and utility skills make it possible to surmount challenges. You complained about healing against the spider fight. Well, your necro could have been speced to be support with a trait that creates a well of blood every time he revies someone which can be triggered by a skill that revives 3 near by fallen comrads instantly.
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In the end if you make design that players can't adopt or it's difficult for them to adopt to, that is called bad design. If you say dungeons don't have trinity but you need to have in group someone who have more healing, someone who can take more damage and some cc you basically say you don't need trinity but you better have one.
They say this way you don't need to w8 for tank/healer. Yes, but you don't have anything to w8 them for? Dungeons feel like other parts of game, just instanced (some random DE more carefully designed and balanced for specific group) and from design point of view you rip yourself from a lot of tactical possibility's that "trinity" system can offer. In "trinity system" designers know which roles will be filled in dungeon/raid so they can make fights that depends on tanking/off tanking in that moment, kiting, interrupts, healing etc. Here they just can't make game mechanics they want.
People in trinity complain about "bad" tanks/healers, their build, dps builds and say here is different. But that is not truth. Here people will have even more difficulty to do some tougher tasks if they don't have more balanced or "better" group. So you will get more "omg you are guardian and don't have this ability" etc. complains...
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OP explains perfectly why I don't pug for dungeons in GW2. I absolutely hate the zerg and die crap. I have seen this kind of suggestion before in GW2 chat.
His problem was more his group's mentality then the game imo. I would group with Xerith (poster on first page) though. They seem to have figured out that you can use tactics and specific skill sets very effectively in dungeons.
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Bring a guardian along, use dodges, don't just stand there and press numbers, run around and think about the fights. It's about thinking a bit more and it's a bit different but once you get it it's easy. It's about player skill kind of and not so much gear / role etc and you don't even need to bring a guardian along either.
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Originally posted by Worfi
That first point you make is simply unture, because in the case of GW2, the game slowly feeds the player new mechanics before they even unlock the first dungeon. Like how they tier the utility skills, forcing players to have a diverse range of skills unlocked before unlocking the next tier. And how the target's unit frame tells the player exactly what to look out for when dealing with specific mobs. So as long as the game shows the player the main mechanics of the game, then it is entirely on the player to adopt them and adapt to those mechanics.
This reminds me of the last time I ran Sorrow's Embrace (level 60+ story dungeon). Me and a friend pugged a group and we ended up as a group made of: 1 Ele (me), 1 Necro, 2 Thieves and a Warrior. Me and my friend had already done it once before, so we kinda knew what to expect. However the Warrior decided to mindlessly pull the 1st pack and of course because none of us was entirely ready, the Warrior was immediately killed by those mole people and it quickly followed in a wipe. The Warrior then QQ'd and left, forcing us to get out and find someone else. But I glad that person did leave as I had the best pug experience I've ever had in a long time. Turned out we got another Ele, so we pretty much had a group full of squishies. I asked the new Ele to change out his Staff, until the 1st boss, for a Scepter/Focus set-up, to make the next couple pulls easier on our group. Surprisingly he did and we blazed through the 1st half of the dungeon until we met a brick wall. Kudu and his Golems.
The funny thing is that after a couple wipes and some failed attempts at zerg ressing the 2nd Golem (it's just too far from the res point), we actually came up with a tactic to beat it by stand together and 4 of us using projectile reflects. This actually worked. The encounter that we were smacking our faces against, we ended up strolled through it with a bit a build adjustment and team co-ordination. However not everyone you'd come across, in a pug, will be that adaptable and in a game like GW2, there seemed to be a lot more people like that Warrior I encountered. Who pretty much rage quit after the 1st bad pull.
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Joined: 9/14/10
Facts do not require fiction for balance.
Originally posted by Master10K
Oh, that fire one was a real pain at first! I wound up focusing more on the fight itself than attacking the golem, and it seemed to help... mesmer utilities I had were Null Field (removed conditions from allies and buffs from enemies, light field combo effects), Arcane Theivery (take boons from enemy and give him your conditions) and the reflective bubble one that sends projectiles back to the caster. With scepter/pistol keeping clones and phantasms out (more targets) as well as good use of pistol 5 and shatter 3 (interrupts) it helped minimize to a degree damage we were taking. Oh, can't forget my defensive golem elite. I wuvs that big hunk o' metal. I call him Snuggles.
It's amazing how much more fun (and yes, manageable) the fights become when you slow down and think. I had a blast.
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Joined: 7/31/06
Did my first dungeon last night and it wasn't fun. Ascalonian crypt or whatever.
It was short, thank god, and really very uninteresting in terms of explorableness and story.
I understand not wanting tank, healer, etc. But they give you the ability to stack healing stat and use some healerish abilities, so just let people stack healer gear and keep others alive.
And if an enemy is being melee'd, they should never be able to turn their back on the melee'r. Or take big damage if they do. I don't care about threat management, instead let's use some common sense.
The end boss of AC just uses a retarded area effect to kill off players. As a ranged it took 2 hits to down me, and since it kept going for a long time while I'm immobile, it was a certain death. I could roll out of the way most of the time, but what about melee folks who need to stay next to him to hit?
Whether the general concept is doable is one thing you can defend if you want, but I find it hilarious to claim that GW2 pulls it off.
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Joined: 2/03/04
The truth shall set you free!
Originally posted by voxnor
1. There is nothing complex or engaging in GW2 and prob never will be.
2. Groups do not exist outside of dungeons. Have yet to see a dungeon but i imagine thier pretty chaotic. Can't someone tank at all?
3. Dying in story mode only to be rezzed is dumb. If you die in story mode you should be dead for good or at least rezzed outside of the story instance.
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Joined: 10/02/11
The Critical Hit Pretzel!
Basically your saying the trinity still exists though in a different form. Still, It IS chaos. I can have CC and the likes involved, but in the end it just lessens the downed times you have, it doesn't make it a smooth run. You see players who PRIDE themselves on being hardcore raiders getting stomped in dungeons and they do adjust and they still will go down.
The system IS chaos and the only thing you can really do is calm it down. I have yet to wipe completely in a dungeon but I also have yet to go through a dungeon without seeing having people go downed several times on the way through. You can plug a leaking boat but it won't stop the fact water will eventually seap its way in and you will sink.
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Joined: 10/31/04
lol, its so funny looking through this thread and every defense of this model is YOU WERE IN A BAD GROUP....
Is that the only thing people can come up with? I mean if it lots of people are having trouble in dungeons that must mean everyone in the game was in a bad group?
Come on, you know as well as I thats its the fundamental design of the game.. Not having a trinity screwed the pooch the dungeons are a chaoctic mess just like everyone else is saying people can spin it however they want...
Maybe it is easier when you actually have people you know with you but I still don't beleive for one second people going in there and just clearing and never having a death unless they have done the run tons of times, now if its a new group going in there for the first time you can say whatever you want but I don't beleive for one second that the group would go into the dungeon and not have at least one wipe or more the way its setup....
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Joined: 1/04/05
Originally posted by voxnor
Try some of the explorable modes.
Here's an example of one of the challenges (not even a boss, mind you). CM explorable:
In one of the paths is a room full of rocket launchers. If you try and run through it they'll 1shot people with average / low HP, and 2 shot people with decent / high HP. However, there's no way around them, and you need to figure out how to get passed them (not going to spoil that surprise).
Passed that is another tunnel, that is flooded with spike traps. There is literally nowhere you can walk without potentially getting hit by a spike trap. Furthermore, on the far end of the tunnel are 2 snipers (extra long range) who do more damage against moving targets. They are also accompanied by 2 grenadiers (throw AoE explosions frequently). All are elite. You can't pull them into the next room, because the next room happens to have an entire army of bandits inside (about 30-40 elite mobs tightly packed), and you can't pull them back across the traps either. Whatdu do?
Now, some people may find these kinds of mechanics cheap, but if you use your brain they are actually not that hard to overcome. It just requires some thought and tactical planning. Furthermore none of these challenges require a tank or a healer. The challenge comes from knowing what your class (and other people's classes) are capable of, and figuring out the best combination of skills / strategies to deal with a particular challenge. Dodging helps, and coordination definitely helps, but ultimately it comes down to accepting the fact that you can't approach every encounter the same way. It's not a DPS race all the time. Sometimes you need to outrun adds. Sometimes you need heavy condition removal. Sometimes you need a lot of CC, or stability. Unfortunately very few players think this way. They are still stuck in the mindset that 'full-on DPS is the only way to go!'. This also leads them to having laughably small HP pools, which results in them getting 1 shotted by almost everything.
- Honestly, you shouldn't be dying in story mode. Not very often at least. Usually the only times I die in storymode is when I'm not paying attention, or I overcommit to ressing someone and can't dodge intime. The storymodes may seem hard at first, but they really do warm you up to explorables rather well. If you think storymode is tough, you're going to get to explorables and think they're all impossible.
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Joined: 1/04/05
Originally posted by nationalcity
Why would you want people going through 'challenging content' the first time without a single death?
What makes them challenging is you go in, you die, and you learn from your mistakes. GW2's dungeons are all designed this way. They are made difficult, but once you figure them out (after a couple runs), they become less challenging, because you know how to deal w/ the encounters. Even still, many of them require consistantly good timing, making them challenging even though u are familiar with the trick.
I've cleared multiple dungeons without a tanky class or heal/support class in the group. I've done some of the dungeons with all thieves, or all warriors. Is it harder? Absolutely. You have less skills to work with. However, they're still doable. Furthermore, these are all dungeons you can get through without a single death. It's all up to the skill of the players, as well as their understanding of the dungeon's mechanics.
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Joined: 5/04/12
My guild improvements in story mode/explorable dungeons are noticeable.
There is still a lot of going to down state, but outright defeat or full wipes went down significantly.
Perfection all the time will be hard to achieve since there is a timing component and a movement component that makes each dungeon run unique,
Also, different professions, specs and skills selected will mean the solution to each encounter will differ.
Currently playing: GW2
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Joined: 7/17/11
The community seems split on this, you have the 2.0 crowd that thinks double tapping around the encounter area is new and refreshing and not having to (heaven forbid) be responisible for another persons life is the second coming.
You have another group that feels without roles your not really working as a group your just kind of playing with yourself while surrounded by some other people playing with themselfs and it everyone plays with themselfs well enough the boss will eventually die.
I actually prefer forcing people to be responsible for doing their job well at the expense of other peoples lives. I think it adds more risk to the game, makes it more social and ultimately more rewarding.
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Joined: 4/04/11
Exactly, having a game tuned so you do not die in you first ever run is the equivelant of saying player won't improve in performance as they learn the instance. Arguing for this is ofc either short sighted or infers a fundamental misunderstanding of the most basic principles of gaming - even my 5 year old daughter understand practice makes perfect. This is more to do with the modern impatient culture that has evolved from certain mmorgs.
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Joined: 10/18/10
Originally posted by aesperus
This is so true.
So many encounters or mobs that I once found incredibly hard and cheap, become manageable once I and the rest of the group knows the trick to it. I also find it laughable how people still go into dungeons with their full-on crit damage builds and no condition removal and complain that the dungeon is broken and overtoned. Now I do admit that some mobs and bosses should have their HP pools looked at (Kudu's 2nd Golem & some Guardian boss in CM explorable inparticular) however the damage they deal seems just fine, for the most part. People just need to learn how to survive and also build around some basic survivability (condition removal and damage reduction is a must). So that they can live long enough to figure out the mechanics.
Oh well, I guess just like how only a small portion of any other MMORPG's playerbase actually raids, only a small portion of GW2's playerbase will actually get into the whole dungeon thing. Seeing how it really takes people out of their comfort zone.
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Joined: 4/04/11
There is roles, but they are shared, once people learn to communicate again and stop with the dostructive you are a healer it's not my job to keep me alive attitude (etc) and be both responsible for their own state and care about other people (you don't need 'roles' for this) then instances are no different.
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Sub Sterone Is Here!
Ecdysterone has been the subject of much debate and controversy in it's 15 year exhistance. Many ecdysterone products have come and gone with mixed results. There is one thing that is proven though, when given to animals and even people in the right way, ecdysterone increases strength, size and muscle.
The Ecdysterone Scandal!
Most ecdysterone doesn't work. Quality is the reason! Ron Kramer first brought this to my attention and it was pretty amazing once I dug into it. Real, good quality ecdysterone is hard to come by and very expensive and I know enough now to use the good stuff.
The Chinese like to play games with testing protocols. They sell Ecdysterone 90% UV tested and pass it off as a quality product. Unfortunately UV testing is very crude and could be giving you only 10-20% of the active ingredient. What you really need is Ecdysterone 80-90% HPLC. HPLC is a testing method that actually tests for the single ecdysterone ingredient.
So, since most people are using the UV tested crap, taking even a gram of ecdysterone isn't going to do you any good.
What Kind Of Gains Can I Expect From Sub Sterone?
Well to be 100% honest, that depends on how you eat and your age. For younger guys, it seems to have a greater effect.For us older guys, it seems to help lean us out and increase strength. You need to make sure you have a high protein intake with this product either way, since it helps to increase protein synthesis.
Sub Sterone stacks great with prosteriods, anabolic steroids and prohormones because it helps increase the activity of steroid molecules by speeding up messenger RNA. This is the stuff that tells muscles to build more protein, so you want to stack it with androgens like our Methyl 1-D or at least a very good test booster like our Formadrol (plug) or a natural anabolic like our Natadrol.
Sub Sterone will make you denser than ever before. It will increase strength and should help you pack on the size (especially if you are under 25).
AM Logs On Sub Sterone
Rodja on Sub Sterone -
"Amazing session; hit 2 PRs on big lifts and felt great. I love how good of a mood that this ecdy puts me in. It's kinda odd because this is how I start to feel on test boosters and not really ecdy. My mood, focus, and aggression are all up along with my focus and work capacity."
Johnfaceman on Sub Sterone after 15 days...
"20 pound increase on all lifts. My legs are by far my easiest place to gain size and strength. I think I might not increase all that much more on my legs. I also think that my free test is up because my libido increases after every leg workout."
and after 20 days...
"Lifts increased once again across the board. Felt easy. Grip strength has been ridiculous. I am really killing it and inspired to. Lifting friend broke down and asked me what I was doing differently"
ZB126 on Sub Sterone for 30 days...
"For a recomp, I couldn't have asked for more. It was easy to maintain leanness while gaining muscle with subECDY...I started at 174lbs and ended at 181lbs, so I gained a total of 7lbs on thirty days of subECDY. I am very impressed with this! ... I would also note that with a very small increase over maintenance calories, these gains can clearly be attributed to subECDY."
What else is in it?
Two cofactors that should really help push the product forward were in the test product and seemed to prove out!
Chlorogenic Acid is a cofactor that will help stimulate the calcineurin pathway, which works in conjunction with ecdysterone to build muscle without being androgenic.
6-Keto-Diosgenin is another type of ecdysterone derivitive that has been shown in both anecdotal and Russian research to help build mass and size. It's a quality ingredient that should really help the ecdysterone density!
Rhaponticum carthamoides vs Cyanotis vaga Debate
See the pictures above? One is ecdysterone from RC and one is ecdysterone from CV. Can you tell which is which?
No, you can't because molecules are IDENTICAL no matter where they are extracted from, so there is NO DIFERENCE BETWEEN RC AND CV extracts.Serving Size: 6 Sprays (Approx 1ml)
Servings Per Container: 120
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this is a presale and there won't be labels on the bottle (just along with the box)
This is a very limited run with only 275 bottles total and to be honest I am not 100% sure when a second run will come out. We don't have enough 6-keto-diosgenin to run any more, so this is it for at least 1-2 months and then the official product will come out.
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Supplement Facts:
Serving Size: 6 Sprays
Servings Per Container: 120
Ecdysterone Complex: 69mg
HydroxyPropyl Beta Cyclodextrin
20-Hydroxy-Beta-Ecdysterone by HPLC 80%
Ecdysterone PolyAcetate
6-Keto Diosgenin
Chlorogenic Acid (From Green Coffee Bean)
Directions: Take 4 times a day spaced out.
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EXCELLENT Ecdysterone article
I highly recommend you guys read this!
Ecdysterone Info And Products
Natural Muscle And Strength Booster
What are*you*trying to obtain?*You might want to build yourself a more athletic body-- maybe even one with deep muscular cuts of muscle, perhaps a chiseled six-pack, and possibly even some ripped legs? Or, how about simply improving where you are at right now in terms of health, muscle-gain and fat-loss?
For starters, this is going to take some work. But, what good is hard work if it's not producing maximum gains in both strength, fat-loss, and health? Not as good as it could be!
The research and development of anabolic supplements has yielded some amazing results in recent years and the scientific breakthroughs show no signs of diminishing. Of course creatine, glutamine, protein and multi-vitamins are standard issue in an athlete's arsenal. Beyond the basics, we've witnessed the development of Prohormones, ZMA, and Isoflavones such as Methoxyisoflavone. Clearly, we've seen remarkable advances in anabolic supplementation in the past five years and now another breakthrough has been released.
Prepare yourself for what could be the single most important
advancement in bodybuilding...
The future of supplementation is here!
Ecdysterone is a powerful compound to say the least and based on the research, it can definitely help you*maximize your genetic potential. Best of all, it's safe and effective for men, women, and even teenagers! In fact, ecdysterone may just be the next herbal extract to create a*revolution*in the health, fitness, and bodybuilding world.
What is it and where does it come from?
It's known by other names of course, the technical name is 20-Beta-Hydroxyecdysterone and other common names are: ecdisten, ecdysone, isoinokosterone, 20-hydroxyecdysone and ecdysterone. Interestingly, it was first discovered in insects. Actually, insects depend on it for their survival. Could there be some correlation between insects superior strength ratio and this compound? What would the effects be on vertebrates such as mammals? If we had the proportionate strength of an ant, for example, we could easily pick up a car.
Even if a fraction of this power could be available through ecdysterone supplementation, the idea of supplementing with "bug juice" just isn't too appealing. Luckily, it's not obtained through insects for supplementation! It happens to exist as a compound in the herbs Rhaponticum/Leuzeae and Cyanotis vaga, and is therefore a naturally occurring phytochemical. Phew! Until recently; however, it was not easily available. Although Ecdysterone has been known and tested in Russia since 1988, it never received much attention because there existed no cost-effective way to extract it. Russian researchers and scientists had a very pure version developed, but it was costly...$20,000 per kilogram. The only other choice was Suma extract, which contained so little ecdysterone that it would have been ineffective as a viable ecdysterone-supplementation option. Within in the past year (2000), companies specializing in the extraction of high potency compounds from herbs have developed a way to extract concentrated ecdysterone at a standardized*up to 97%! The breakthrough technology, in-vitro cell cultivation, provided the needed purity and concentration of ecdysterone to make it a viable option for economical supplementation. This is great news for anyone wanting to increase lean muscle mass, decrease fat and improve performance. So, bodybuilders, fitness enthusiasts and athletes listen up, the scientific data behind this ingredient is simply incredible!
What does it do and what scientific studies give evidence to support this?
Scientists have performed over 50 studies on ecdysterone to conclude one resounding agreement: Ecdysterone is safe and it improves nearly every bodily function...without side effects. What else does it do?*Two words: Muscle Growth.*Ah, what the heck, here's a few more...
Research-backed ecdysterone supplementation properties:
Ecdysterone Highlights:
- A Drastic Increase in Lean Body Mass*
Increased Endurance*
Stimulates Metabolism*
Improves Nerve Function and Enhances Erythropoiesis (the development of mature red blood cells (erythrocytes)*
Maintains Healthy Blood Sugar That Is Already Within The Normal Range*
Reduces Adipose Tissue*
Improves Nearly Every Bodily Function Including Brain and Liver*
It's Safe and Effective for Men, Women, and Even Teenagers
Prevents the Loss of Muscle Mass while Promoting Growth of Muscle Fibers*
Not to mention:
It does all this with absolutely no reported side effects.
No Negative Side Effects
No Virilization
No Conversion Into Estrogenic Compounds
No Liver Toxicity
No High Blood Pressure
No Testicular Shrinkage
No effects on the hormonal system in mammals including humans
Incredibly Low Toxicity Levels (Over 4,000 times that which a person should consume)
Complete List:
Increases protein synthesis*
Improves nearly every bodily function*
Stimulates protein synthesis in nervous tissue and increases nerve function*
Increases total protein and glycogen content in muscles*
Increases myofibrilar proteins*
Supports healthy blood sugar levels already within the normal range*
Perfectly maintains balanced glycemic levels that are already within the normal range, leading to constant energy and feeling of well-being*
Stimulates incorporation of glycogen into proteinaceous tissue such as liver and muscle*
Pushes nutrients into muscle and organ tissue yielding better muscle growth*
Stimulates the phospholipids that are linked to enormous health benefits when stimulated*
Cell membrane stabilizing properties*
Potent antioxidative effect*
Vastly increases athletic performance by increasing work capacity, body-weight, lung capacity, and VO2*max while also increasing exhalation of CO2.*
Increases lean muscle tissue and reduces adipose content*
Reduces fatigue and apathy, yet increases speed and strength*
Promotes a positive nitrogen balance and maintains a greater rate of protein synthesis*
How does it possibly exhibit all of these above positive effects with little or no negative side effects? The secret lies in the compound itself.
How Does Ecdysterone Work?*The single most important factor in maximizing muscle growth is*environment. Ecdysterone works to create the "perfect" muscle-building environment in the body, among other positive effects. The perfect conditions for creating the perfect muscle building environment include maintaining a positive nitrogen balance and increasing protein synthesis along with intelligent, consistent exercise and a balanced diet rich in protein. It's long been understood that if the body was able to maintain the perfect anabolic environment, maximum muscle growth would occur.
Maintaining positive nitrogen balance and increased protein synthesis without also incurring hormonal side-effects was the trick. This is why researchers became so enthralled with ecdysterone when Doctor Burdette in 1963 found that ecdysterone enhanced the rate of protein synthesis.* This was the beginning of over 50 studies showing the remarkable effects of ecdysterone on the body while simultaneously showing now side effects. Now, with the increased economical availability of pure concentrated ecdysterone, the picture is finally becoming more complete.
Learn more about the benefits of Ecdysterone on*Clayton South's Health Facts.
Ecdysterone has been tested for its effects on work capacity, immune function, lean body mass and fat loss, among other variables in a number of scientific studies. The vast majority of research indicates an increase in test subjects' lean mass.* Results were further improved when ecdysterone was consumed with protein.
Increase Protein Synthesis and Invoke Positive Nitrogen Balance*
Studies conducted in the Soviet Union in 1988 showed ecdysterone helps "increase hepatic protein synthesis and subsequently promote positive nitrogen balance!"* How does this lead to more muscle mass? Simply: "the more nitrogen your body maintains and the greater rate of protein synthesis, the more mass, period."* How, exactly, does ecdysterone do this? V. Smetanin, researcher of the Smolenk State Medical Institute in Russia speculates that ecdysterone decreases urea concentration in the body and increases hemoglobin levels by increasing a process called erythropoiesis.* Erythropoiesis is the development of mature red blood cells. This leads to a stimulation of the anabolic process in protein metabolism, which in turn leads to a positive nitrogen balance in the body.*
Increase Lean Muscle Mass While Reducing Body Fat*
The most often quoted ecdysterone scientific study was published inScientific Sports Bulletin*by S. Simakin in 1988. The objective of Simakin's famous study was to determine the effect of ecdysterone on muscle tissue mass and fat mass, while testing for hormonal changes in the subjects. For the study, three control factors were used: a placebo, protein, and ecdysterone with protein. The results were significantly in favor of the third factor. Of the 78*highly trained*male and female athletes who consumed just protein, they showed only a slight increase in muscle mass for the 10 day period of time. Those who used a placebo lost a slight amount of lean muscle, while those who used protein plus ecdysterone showed a 6-7% increase in lean muscle tissue with nearly a 10% reduction in fat!* Let me say that again:*A 10% reduction in fat and a 7% increase in lean muscle tissue in just 10 days!**Safety testing was conducted during the same time period which showed no difference in hormonal balance. Wow, if ecdysterone plus protein can do this for highly trained athletes, just think what it can do for the average person!
It's interesting to note the amount of Ecdysterone these Soviet Studies used. According to Derek Cornelius, "Most of the experiments used 5 mg per kilogram of body mass per day as the dosage." To find out how much you would need to take to supply this same amount of ecdysterone, use this equation:
MG/KG X Your Weight = Dosage:
In Kilograms:
5 mg X 78 kg = 386
In Pounds:
5 mg X 170lbs / 2.2lbs = 386
So, the average person should consume 300-600 mg of ecdysterone per day to meet this dosage. This compound is so non-toxic that this is a perfectly safe amount to consume. Syntrax Syntrabol is currently the only product that supplies enough mg of ecdysterone (200 mg per capsule) to effectively supplement at the 600 mg level.
Increase Stamina, Endurance, and Energy*
Ecdysterone was tested in another study performed in 1986 by B.Ya Smetanin. For this research, 117 highly trained speed skaters between the ages of 18 and 28 were tested for work capacity, body weight, lung capacity and VO2*max. The results speak for themselves: all of the said parameters increased as well as an increase in the O2*pulse max and an increase in the exhalation of CO2.* Basically, they received more oxygen to their cells! This equates to decreasing recovery time, maximizing performance, permitting optimal muscle anabolism and maximum fat reduction.* It also means the athletes using ecdysterone compared to those on a placebo experienced increased stamina, endurance and energy.
That's not all!*A study conducted using 112 athletes performed by B.G. Fadeev in Russia showed some very impressive overall results. However, by this time, the results should come as no surprise. 89% of those who supplemented with ecdysterone versus a placebo reported less fatigue, greater performance, more motivation, greater speed, and improved strength.* How long did it take before these athletes reported these effects? Months? Weeks? No,*five days.*To make matters even better, no adverse side effects were reported.
Who needs it and what are some symptoms of deficiency?
Bodybuilders, athletes and fitness enthusiasts will find the extra gains in lean muscle mass and reduction in body fat very beneficial.* Based on all the research, Ecdysterone looks to be not only incredibly effective as a performance enhancer on all facets, but also very safe. Since it is not a required nutrient, there are no symptoms of deficiency. However, if you would like to experience more energy and strength gains in less time than you've probably ever experienced, grab some ecdysterone and protein because you are the perfect candidate!* Check out the section below to learn more on side effects and recommended dosages.
How much should be taken? Are there any side effects?
What about side effects? That's the best part! As you already know by now, research studies show no negative side effects, no hormonal interactions, and a very low toxicity level for ecdysterone. When tested by ICN Biochemicals on December 31, 1998, a complete safety test was performed to determine the toxicity. The data showed the amount of ecdysterone one would have to take in order to reach toxicity. The amount? 6400 mg/kg! In other words, an average 170lb person would have to take 494,528 mg of the compound to reach this point! This is 4,121 times as much as the recommended dose.
So, as you can see, it's very safe with an incredibly low toxicity. Furthermore, endocrine testing showed that ecdysterone caused no effect whatsoever on the mammalian hormonal system. Testing was measured on testosterone, cortisol, insulin, ACTH, growth hormone, and leutinizing hormone. The data not only shows ecdysterone to be extremely safe, but effective as well! The recommended dose of ecdysterone is 80-120 mg per day and upwards of 400-600 mg per day. We've even heard reports of people receiving amazing results working up to using as much as 1200 mg safely per day. Remember, ecdysterone should be taken with protein-rich meals for best results!
Republished from Clayton South's Health Facts.
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The article says you'd have to take 300mg - 600mg a day, but the product only holds 69 mg per serving size, it says take 4 times a day, does that mean 6 sprays 4 times a day containing 24 sprays a day total, which wud still be only 276mg, so I guess I would have to go with 5 servings a day minimal which will be enough for 24 days a bottle, correct???
If I am wrong in any aspect please correct me and clarify, I am interested but want to make sure I am doing everything correctly before I buy or ingest anything.
Now assume you are getting 90% purity and at least 90% absorption in sub-lingual delivery system, you see why you would be getting MUCH better results. At a minimum you are getting twice as much as you would from previous products but in reality it is probably 3-4 times more since purity of UV tested is always in question. Hope this helps.
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If my direct and cynical approach bothers you, just ignore it. I'm just saying what you need to hear ;).
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Is this a compelling NFL season or not?
From: Thomas Neumann
Re: A Season on the Blah
With two weeks remaining in the NFL's regular season, perhaps a dozen teams actually can consider themselves Super Bowl contenders.
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Welcome to the 2008 NFL season, where you can lead the league in picks and still make the Pro Bowl.
On the surface, this scenario seems great for the league, its fans and even us cranks in the media. Parity is alive and well. Somewhere, Pete Rozelle is pumping his fist in affirmation.
Only problem: I'm bored.
If my favorite team isn't on TV, there's not a single squad I feel I need to watch this season. [Editor's note: Thomas' favorite team is the Chargers. When offered the opportunity to amend the preceding sentence, he declined.] Parity isn't the culprit. The 2008 NFL season strikes me as sloppy. There seems to be an extraordinary amount of bad football. Detroit is 0-14. Three other teams have only two wins. Buffalo scored 54 points one week, then three points in each of its next two games. The AFC West and NFC West might be the two worst divisions in league history. Each of the league's top teams, recordwise, appears to have at least one glaring weakness. It's just not an inspiring season.
Last year we had the ultracompelling Patriots. In the wake of a major cheating scandal, they scored the most points in league history en route to the first 16-0 regular season. You either loved them or hated them. Regardless, you watched them.
Maybe what this season lacks is a front-runner, a team we all can either get behind or vilify. Think the 2007 Pats, the 1989 49ers or the 1985 Bears.
This year, we have the Titans? Tennessee is piloted by retread QB Kerry Collins, who was once discarded by the Raiders, and its leading receiver has 547 yards. The Steelers are completing fewer than 60 percent of their passes and rushing for 3.6 yards per carry. The defending champions, the Giants, have lost two in a row and have been plagued by injuries and off-field distractions. New England, while serviceable, obviously isn't the same without Tom Brady. Dallas has offered plenty of soap-opera fodder, but its games haven't come close to living up to the hype. Carolina might be the most balanced team in the league, but Jake Delhomme has a passer rating of 82. Panthers games are hardly captivating if you're not a fan of the team.
I've watched the NFL my whole life, but this season is falling significantly short for me. I'd rather watch college football, college hoops, the NBA or the NHL.
Am I wrong?
From: Jim Caple
Re: Not in Your Backyard -- And That's the Problem
Yes, Thomas. You are wrong.
Why is that fans are never satisfied? When the Yankees are winning in baseball, it's somehow horrible for the sport because there is no parity. "Everyone knows who's going to win.'' "My team doesn't have a chance.'' "There needs to be a salary cap.'' But when there is clear parity in the NFL, it's somehow horrible because the Patriots or the Cowboys aren't dominating the league anymore.
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Yes, fans like a powerful villain to root against. What would "Star Wars'' be without Darth Vader? I'll tell you what -- "Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace." Featuring Jar Jar Binks. Dynasties give fans a consistent cast to compare teams and games against.
But much more important than having a national villain is having a local hero. To paraphrase Tip O'Neill, all sports is local. And if the local team isn't doing well, then the fact that there's a big bully thousands of miles away winning every week isn't going to stop you from turning your attention to the local college or NBA team.
That's why parity is good. The more teams that are in contention, the better the odds that your team could go to Super Bowl. And that means more interest.
Perhaps the real reason this season isn't doing it for you is that parity hasn't reached your team. Trust me, I know how that is. I live in Seattle.
From: Patrick Hruby
Re: The 2007 NFL Season Got Drunk
If Thomas is wrong, I don't want to be right. Barring some spectacular, unforeseen turn of events -- like Jim Brown coming out of retirement to run for 450 yards against the Arizona Cardinals, which is either shortchanging Brown or overestimating the Cards' rush defense -- I think the current NFL season will be remembered (and probably quickly forgotten) as one giant hangover.
After all, last season was special: beyond the near historic, ultrapolarizing, gotta-watch Patriots, you had Brett Favre's last-dance whirl on the wayback machine, the electric debut of Adrian Peterson, the improbable transformation of Eli Manning, a clutch of very good contenders (Colts, Jags, Cowboys) and plenty of entertaining off-field drama and malfeasance (the Tony Romo-Jessica Simpson romance; the Chronicles of Pacman).
To paraphrase President Bush: The league got drunk.
By contrast, this season has been a whole lot of meh, from a disappointingly circus-free "Hard Knocks" -- T.O. running shirtless on the beach is the best HBO could come up with? Really? -- to Tom Brady's injury to Matt Millen not being on hand to kick around anymore to a slew of sloppy, erratic games to a league-wide quarterback regression that has left: (a) 147-year-old Kurt Warner as a born-again MVP candidate; (b) teams reverting to single-wing Wildcat formations.
(Well, except the Washington Redskins. Even though they can't crack the 30-points-in-a-game barrier and have Antwaan Randle El, a freaking awesome college option quarterback, toiling away as a resoundingly average wide receiver 7-7 with a bullet!)
In fact, take away Detroit's all-out efforting toward 0-16 and Al Davis' sublimely kooky canning of Lane Kiffin, and you're left with a ho-hum league where the Colts somehow still keep winning games, Chad Pennington somehow is a playoff-contending quarterback and zzzzzzz
Heck, even Pacman has been mostly quiet. No wonder we're paying so much attention to the refs.
And Jim: Be thankful you don't live in Detroit.
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The success of the Falcons' rookie quarterback, Matt Ryan, is just one reason to enjoy the 2008 season.
From: Dave Schoenfield
Re: Right Here, Right Now, Watching the World Wake Up to Joe Flacco
I'm with Jim. What do you guys want? We're headed for the highest-scoring season in NFL history. Yet within that context, the Steelers have one of the greatest defenses the league has ever seen. We have rookie quarterbacks leading potential playoff teams (Matt Ryan and Joe Flacco) and believed-to-be washed-up quarterbacks leading potential playoff teams (Favre, Warner, Pennington, Collins).
Most importantly, every game is a crapshoot. Who will win? Who will lose? We don't know! Doesn't that make it more fun and entertaining? The unpredictability of it all? The luck involved? The fact that one bad timeout by Andy Reid might cost his team a game, if not a shot at the playoffs?
I do, however, miss Brady.
From: Kevin Jackson
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As the only person on this chain who actually owns NFL season tickets and has attended seven regular-season and two, uh, exhibition games in the past four months, it's no surprise that I'm going to come to the defense of the league. [Editor's note: Kevin owns Seahawks season tickets. So it's really more like nine exhibition games in the past four months.] Bottom line: We won't really know until the playoffs. That's how every season is remembered anyway.
All I know is the league has been filled with incredible drama this season. Much of it is sordid off-field stuff, involving firearms tucked into sweatpants and roommates drawing up secret plays by candlelight. But I can honestly say that I was highly compelled to watch Sunday night's Giants-Cowboys game. Nothing could have pulled me away, even though I don't particularly like either team. It might have been the draw of watching dueling circuses under the same big top. (Or maybe it was that I had two fantasy players on the field.) Either way, I couldn't wait to see which highly distracted team would prove to be less distracted. And I wasn't alone. That game drew a rating of nearly 14 and ranks as NBC's highest-rated Sunday-night program of the year.
Every week, something happens in the NFL that leaves everyone talking: Witness Santonio Holmes' "was-he-in-or-was-he-out" TD catch Sunday in Baltimore. I was in the gym when that happened, and the entire place stopped as sweat-soaked runners hopped off their treadmills to get a closer look at the TVs.
Sure, it was the only TD of the game, breaking up a 59-minute field goal fest. And yes, these two teams will be in the playoffs with their punchless offenses. None of that matters. We remember the ending.
From: Patrick Hruby
Re: The Journey, not the Destination
People jumped off their treadmills to peep the TVs? Kevin, may I humbly suggest that you enter the 1990s and find a gym where the treadmills have their own individual screens? It's really the best way to run and watch E!'s "101 Hottest Hotties Countdown" at the same time.
Anyway, I digress. You say we remember the ending. True enough. But you're missing the point. The point is that we're talking about everything that leads up to the ending -- which really does matter if you have to sit through it. (Otherwise, why watch the NFL at all? "SportsCenter" highlights should suffice.)
A free toothbrush on your way out of the dentist's office does not nullify the root canal that came before it; plenty of out-of-work investment bankers are going to party hard this New Year's Eve, but none of it will rectify the Wall Street carnage of the previous 12 months. Football fandom is no different: Even if Sebastian Janikowski boots a 100-yard field goal with no time remaining, you've still wasted an afternoon you will never, ever get back watching the 2008 Raiders. Or flip it around: Were all those years of Denver and Buffalo getting bushwhacked in the Super Bowl horrible seasons for the league as a whole?
An exciting finish is the cherry on top. The game or season leading up to said finish is the double-fudge sundae. When a truly somnambulant squad like this year's Redskins can play in a tough, competitive division and still not be mathematically eliminated from playoff contention -- well, I still maintain that someone replaced this year's ice cream with frozen manure.
Besides, there's more to football than parity and competitiveness and on-any-given-Sunday-anyone-can-win. Winning isn't everything. As Thomas mentioned, there's quality of play. An aesthetic quality to the action on the screen. Flow, if you will. That sweet spot between offense and defense, scoring and the lack thereof, spectacular plays and grinding, gritty drives. I haven't seen that sweet spot hit very often this year; every game feels like San Antonio-Detroit in the NBA Finals. Check, please!
To put things another way: last season's Super Bowl was awesome. Dramatic fourth quarter. Incredible ending. Untouchable story line. But from start to finish, the Pats-Giants regular-season finale was probably a better football game.
From: Thomas Neumann
Re: My moment of clarity
Upon further review I've come around. It's been a fantastic NFL season. I can't wait to watch Bengals at Browns this Sunday while I simultaneously dial up 49ers at Rams on satellite radio. Sweeeeet!
All the while, I'll be replaying this clip of my personal 2008 NFL highlight on my laptop.


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Perifosine in combination with Revlimid(R) + dexamethasone continues to be well tolerated, with a median progression-free survival in responding patients of 10.9 months. Median overall survival still has not been reached now at 17 months. Nine patients remain on active treatment.
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Keryx Biopharmaceuticals is focused on the acquisition, development and commercialization of medically important, novel pharmaceutical products for the treatment of life-threatening diseases, including renal disease and cancer. Keryx is developing Serene(TM) (ferric citrate), an oral, iron-based compound that has the capacity to bind to phosphate and form non-absorbable complexes. Serene is currently in Phase 2 clinical development for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia (elevated phosphate levels) in patients with end-stage renal disease. The Company is also developing KRX-0401 (perifosine), a novel, potentially first-in-class, oral anti-cancer agent that modulates Akt, a protein in the body associated with tumor survival and growth. KRX-0401 also modulates a number of other key signal transduction pathways, including the JNK and MAPK pathways, which are pathways associated with programmed cell death, cell growth, cell differentiation and cell surviva
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The Indianapolis Colts will be without two starters on the offensive line Sunday against the Houston Texans. Injured center Samson Satele (ankle) and right tackle Winston Justice (biceps) will not travel with the team to Houston, according to the Indianapolis Star. Center A.Q. Shipley and tackle Jeff Linkenbach will start instead. Running back Delone Carter (ankle), linebacker Kavell Conner (hamstring) and safety Tom Zbikowski (knee) are also not travelling with the team because of injuries. Left guard Joe Reitz will return after missing last week's game with a head injury. The Colts (9-4) can secure a playoff spot by with a win. If the Texans (11-2) win, they can clinch the AFC South title.
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