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Singer Ariana Corradi performs a set of jazz, soul, and R&B songs with a pianist and guitar accompaniment on some songs. Corradi will be joined by Martina Albano, performing in styles ranging from Italian opera ("Ti Voglio Bene Assai") to Broadway hits ("For Good") from Wicked.
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Really? The guy is still alive? What in the blue heck? I feel like he's hogging the spotlight. Just die already and let us see the others!
Man love = 1, Everybody else = 0
kubo will probably focus on ichigo's predicament while he's in that cage, and once he busts out urahara would have used bankai to kill opie. typical kubo keep urahara as mysterious as always. and where's yorouchi? she needs to bust out her zanpaktou and team up with urahara and use their practice techniques to good use.
Opie's a boss, everyone thought Urahara had one shotted the man & he just gets back up & pisses all over the plot.
Understanding these Quincy abilities will be key with all the battles going forward, nice explanation.
"For I being a poor man, have only my dreams & I have spread them beneath your feet. Tread carefully, for you tread upon my dreams."
I must say, to be at this stage in Bleach, I rather enjoyed the chapter.
- I knew that guy wasn't dead.
- trying to make too much sense of Bleach just gives you a headache.
Chapter 500 probably means lots of big wasted panels.
Fire type
What chakra type are you?
First of all, why does this quincy have the power to trap Ichigo? And that ability Opie used is quite pesky, he can seal and close Senkai gates, I'm sure the quincy developed these powers to prevent Shinigami from fleeing. What are your thoughts? Ichigo can defeat their bankai stealing ability, he can break level 90s kidu, I'll be mad if that little hamster ball will hold him back. And how come in all fiction known to man, when they defeat an enemy, they don't take his head off to make sure he's dead?
Dumb mistake, I knew that ability was coming.
Maybe Grimmjow jumps out of nowhere and brakes the cage with a cero, rips Opie apart then he would most likely join Ichigo against the quincies because he has something to prove to them as he had to Ichigo now considering Ichigo an ally (the enemy of my enemy is my friend ??) I suppose he would have an advantage against the quincies (epsadas having releases instead of shikai/bankai) OR Ichigo will rage seeing his friends injured by the quincy and he goes sick hollow mode like he used to before controlling it.


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Crafted using the most luxurious materials, Mercanti Fiorentini brings us an exciting collection of high quality women's footwear. Inspired by a passion for beauty and intricate detail, this sleek leather pump is the perfect addition to your shoe collection.
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Claude Scovill will turn 90 on Feb. 8. Most of these 90 years were spent in Orangeville in the same house. Scovill said he's had a good life and has been able to accomplish much. He is most proud of his family. "They turned out real well. They are successful people in their fields. One grandson is an officer in the Navy and his name is Carid Scovill."
"I did spend nine years in jail," joked Scovill. He was speaking of his time in the branch ward for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints where they take church to those spending time in the Emery County jail. He said he enjoyed spending time there and trying to help those in need. He still receives thank you letters from people he helped during his time serving in the jail.
Scovill has prided himself on always being able to take care of himself and his family. He remembers only drawing two unemployment checks through the years. "We've always been able to get by," he said.
Scovill grew up in Orangeville he is the son of Alma Asahel and Artemissia Scovill. He came from a family of 10 children. He remembers always having food on the table that they raised themselves and clothes on their back. Times were tough, but they learned early the basics of life, honesty, integrity, love and hard work. He started milking cows at an early age and they helped their dad during the summers at the sawmill by Blue Lake on Little Creek. His father also taught him to do carpentry work.
Scovill said, "It was 64 years ago that we moved into our house in Orangeville. It was three rooms at the time and it had a bare floor. We moved for a time to Price when I ran a garage over there, but we soon moved home and I drove back and forth. I spent years working as the post master at the Orangeville post office. I've worked at a lot of different things. One of the things I've enjoyed the most is doing mechanic work. It's always been a hobby of mine. I like to be with my family. I love to hunt, camp and fish. I've never really caught a big fish, maybe 16-18 inches long, but I sure enjoy getting out. We had a boat and we enjoyed getting out on the lake. We've always enjoyed camping with our family. We like to get out and do things. We drive around a lot and see what's going on in the county. If there's a new house going in or a project going on we like to check it out.
"I get tired now more quickly than I used to, but we still like to get out. We attend the senior citizen lunches and visit with the people down there. It's been 18 years since I was diagnosed with cancer and I am a cancer survivor. I also survived a triple by-pass heart operation. We don't get too far away from home any more, but we still travel to Payson to see the heart doctor and the urologist. We usually go to Price once a week to dinner. They've renewed my drivers license until 2016, so I guess we're still good to go and we can still run around.
"We really enjoyed our time spent on a mission to the Chicago area in the 1980s we also worked in the Manti Temple for six years and had many beautiful experiences there.
"We've had a great life, we really enjoyed going out on the 4-wheelers. I really liked to soup-up the jeep. It was fun for the kids. I helped start the search and rescue and jeep posse in the county," said Scovill.
He has tried to keep up with the times as there have been many advancements in society over the years since he was a young boy, he's gone from horse and buggies on the Orangeville streets with few cars and he remembers when the power poles ran down the center of every road. He also helped when the farmers organized to start the local telephone company.
Scovill said he was ready for the natural gas when it came to the county and his was the first gas furnace turned on in Orangeville. He has been very active in his community running the fire truck and being the American Legion post commander. His family was involved in many mutton fries used as fund raisers for the fourth of July celebration. He served for many years on the Orangeville town council.
"It's been a good life and I've enjoyed it, of course, we've had our problems, but isn't that what we're here for to be tried and tested so we can learn," said Claude. Claude's wife Jeanne says they aren't old, just experienced.
Scovill has written songs for their family reunions which the whole family enjoys singing. He even has a book of poems he's written over the years on many subjects.
Scovill has a hard time believing it's been 30 years since he retired from the post office. He enjoyed his time there visiting with the Orangeville residents as they picked up their mail.
Jeanne said her brother teased Claude when he came back from the army, telling him he'd been all around the world and came home and married a Lemon. Jeanne's maiden name was Lemon and so Claude decided the event called for a poem which he wrote about his wife the Lemon.
One interesting note from Claude's army days was a New Testament Bible given to all those in the army by the government. Claude didn't return home with his New Testament, but a few year's back the son of the man who found the Bible sent it back to Claude. Since then one of Claude's sons has visited the man in France and he's become a family friend. Claude said he couldn't recall what happened to the book during the war, he figured he left it somewhere along the way, because they moved around a lot.
Claude knows that they were watched over during his years in the army by the good Lord. "To go through what we did and come out of it, we had special protection." Claude tells of a time when he was separated from his company and he and his truck were on a different ship. They landed and put Scovill and his truck on a barge and sent them to shore. He pulled up on the beach and asked around to see if anyone knew where the 83rd was and no one knew anything about them. He knew he had to get off the beach so he went inland and found a house where there were a lot of trucks outside. The house was blacked out and he walked down into the basement of the house and there they were, his company was there in the house.
Claude appreciates being a Veteran and the freedom we enjoy in America. He's proud of being an active member of the American Legion for the past 58 years in continuous service.
Claude knows he's slowed down a little over the years, but he still walks, shovels his snow, mows the lawn and even put new vinyl down, not long back. "I really never figured I'd live this long. We have five children, Claudia Strong, Dennis A. Scovill, Garth J. Scovill, Irene Craker, Michele Sweeten and many grandchildren including some that have been adopted in as well as numerous great grandchildren."
Claude said one of the pitfalls of living so long, is you outlive all your siblings, out of 10 children, there's only Claude and his sister Emma Jean Chidester that lives in Price. Most of his friends are gone as well as the classthe classmates from the old Central High School in Castle Dale. There's some left from his class including Joe Jeffs, Marjorie Davis, Kenneth Cox and Leah Jacobs.
One of Claude's secrets for living a good long life is just staying active. Be busy and productive. Jeanne said when they were at the hospital after Claude's heart surgery, one of the nurses wondered what their secret was for being so youthful. All they could think of was just stay active and keep going, they didn't feel like they had any special secrets. The joy the couple finds in each other and in their family makes time spent together special. The family is planning a birthday celebration for Claude as he turns 90. Jeanne is only 83 so Claude has a few years on her. The family will celebrate at the Orangeville Community Center on Feb. 11 from 2-4 p.m.
Claude wrote a poem on old age:
Your back is bent, too much work they say; Your hair is thin and getting quite gray; Your teeth are gone, what you've got are false. Your eye sight is dim and you don't have much pulse. You go after something and can't remember what. You go to the doctor and he don't know what you've got. It's not easy to walk, but it's harder to stand. You get out of breath from just raising your hand. You try to stoop over to tie your shoe laces but you lose your balance and fall flat on your face. You're slow getting up, can't move very fast. You don't think of the future only the past. You take pills in the morning and more pills at night. When it comes time to eat you can't take a bite. You ache in your joints and have cramps in your feet,
Cold weather is bad, but you can't stand the heat, If you think you've got troubles and fit into this mold, Don't worry about it, you're just getting old.
The poem Claude wrote about his wife is called: My wife is a sweet Lemon.
My wife is a Lemon, her family records show. She came from a family of Lemons, but she wants me to know that she is a sweet Lemon and she thinks it's kinda neat that one of her ancestors, James Lemon married Martha Sweet. That when you consider marriage and the children they bore that they are sweet Lemons not sour ones any more. So when she says she's a sweet Lemon the facts are hard to beat, I really have to agree with her and say she's kinda sweet.


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Glasgow bounced back from last week's hammering at Toulon with a 20-16 win over Exeter at Scotstoun Stadium on Sunday.
Glasgow responded perfectly from last week's hammering at Toulon with a 20-16 win over Exeter Chiefs on Sunday.
After their impressive triumph over Cardiff Blues last week, Exeter produced yet another composed display in the first period to take a 9-6 lead at the break, thanks to three Gareth Steenson penalties to Ruaridh Jackson's two.
But Tim Swinson and Tyrone Holmes touchdowns took the scoreline to 20-9 in Glasgow's favour before Dave Ewers earned the Chiefs a bonus-point when he crossed the whitewash.
The Warriors were looking for a better start than the one they produced against Toulon in round one of the Heineken Cup when the Scottish outfit found themselves 34-0 down at half-time.
However, it was the visitors that opened the scoring through the boot of Steenson, but the Chiefs don't have the firepower of the French giants and Glasgow were able to ease themselves into the game.
Jackson immediately restored parity with one of his own before the fly-halves traded penalties as the match remained finely poised at 6-6 after 14 minutes.
The visiting fly-half put them back into the lead with a three-pointer, but he was then sin-binned for a cynical infringement.
But the hosts weren't able to take advantage as Rob Baxter's men held on for a 9-6 lead at the break.
Gregor Townsend's men started well in the second period and Niko Matawalu was the inspiration for the first try of the encounter as the scrum-half off-loaded to Swinson who touched down.
And the victory was effectively sealed when a sweeping move ended in Holmes crossing the whitewash. Although Ewers touched down for the Chiefs for the losing bonus-point, Glasgow saw out the remaining minutes for a crucial win.
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Tries: Swinson, Holmes
Con: Jackson 2
Pen: Jackson 2
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Con: Slade
Pen: Steenson 3
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Exeter Chiefs: 15 Phil Dollman, 14 Ian Whitten, 13 Jason Shoemark, 12 Sam Hill, 11 Matt Jess, 10 Gareth Steenson, 9 Dave Lewis, 8 Dave Ewers, 7 Ben White, 6 Tom Johnson, 5 Damian Welch, 4 Dean Mumm (capt), 3 Hoani Tui, 2 Chris Whitehead, 1 Ben Moon.
Replacements: 16 Jack Yeandle, 17 Brett Sturgess, 18 Alex Brown, 19 Don Armand, 20 Kai Horstmann, 21 Haydn Thomas, 22 Henry Slade, 23 Fetu'u Vainikolo.
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Volume 9 - Article 8 | Pages 163-196
Individual Aging and Cancer Risk: How are They Related?
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|age/aging, aging organism, cancer, cancer incidence rate, cell proliferation, rate of physiological processes, tumor survival
When individuals get older, the risk of many chronic diseases increases. This increase is in agreement with common theories of aging, such as mutation accumulation, wear and tear, antagonistic pleiotropy, etc. Surprisingly, however, the risk of some chronic conditions (e.g. asthma, arterial hypertension) declines in the old. The cancer incidence rate also declines at old ages after a steep increase during adult life. It contrasts with the continuing increase in total mortality that is often referred to as the aging process. Which forces contribute to a decline in cancer risk in the old?
In this paper we review evidence from experimental biology, illustrating the ambivalent role of individual aging in cancer risk, in particular in forming non-monotonic age-patterns of cancer incidence rate. We show that age-associated changes in the organism may contribute not only to the rise, but also to the deceleration and the decline in cancer risk at old ages.
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Svetlana Ukraintseva - Duke University, United States of America
Anatoli Yashin - Duke University, United States of America
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By COREY BLUEMELStaff writer
Sunday Aug. 19 press updates-Families speak
Rob Moore, vice president of Murray Energy said it is very possible that the miners may not be found. He knows the difficulty the families are going through and it is emotionally hard for everyone.
In response to that announcement, Sonny Olsen, a Price attorney and spokesman for the trapped miners families addressed the media and read a statement. The statement was presented to the media representatives gathered on Main Street in Huntington between 400-500 South. "We feel that MSHA, UtahAmerican Energy and Murray Energy have failed the six trapped miners and their families. These families have said from the beginning that a 36 inch bore hole should be drilled. We feel abandoned. They have failed us and the communities.
"We continue to sit and wait at the mercy of those in charge. We feel like three lives have been lost and many injuries could have been avoided if they had done what we asked. We have asked that a 36 inch bore hole be drilled since day one.
"We feel like they have given up and are just waiting for the miners to expire. Precious time is being wasted and we don't have time to waste," said Olsen.
Later in the day, Professor Mike McCarter, of the Utah Mining and Engineering Department, said deciding the location of a 36 inch bore hole would be next to impossible. "At Que Creek, there was only 250-300 feet of cover and that drilling took 70 hours. Here the cover is at least 2,000 feet. We just wouldn't know where to drill it. It's a hard call to make. Taking a person from safety to danger is not an easy decision," he said.
Richard Stickler, MSHA, explained to the miners families the difficulty of putting miners through a large hole down from the top of the mountain. The hole would take weeks to drill and case, and the time to lower one miner into a hole would be around an hour. Considering the mine safety apparatus' air supply lasts about three hours, the first miner would be out of air before a complete rescue team could be lowered into the hole.
The first bore holes are beginning to crumble because time was not expended to case the holes. In the case of a hole large enough for a person, casing must be installed. This would take more added, precious time. If a team was lowered into the mine cavity from the top of the mountain, and they took extra air supply, they could stay in the mine an hour before they would need to be lifted out before running out of air.
The event of another bounce is very good. The mountain continues to move and settle. If a rescue team were to be inside the mine when another bounce occurred, the results could very possibly be a kinked casing which would not allow the rescuers to be removed, thus trapping three-five additional people.
Saturday night Aug. 18 press briefing,
"All underground rescue operations have been permanently suspended," said Rob Moore, vice president of Murray Energy, parent company of UtahAmerican Energy which is co-owner of the Crandall Canyon mine. Moore also explained that owner Robert Murray's time is being consumed totally by ministering to the families of the miners involved with both recent tragedies at the mine and overseeing the continuing rescue operations in the form of the above ground drilling.
"Mr. Murray is personally ministering to the families of the deceased miners and the courageous rescuers of the trapped miners," said Moore. "This continues to be a rescue effort. We have had setbacks and suffered losses, but we will not give up hope. This is a trying time for all the families involved."
Richard Stickler, Mine Safety and Health Administration, reported the success of bore hole number four. "It broke through into the mine about 9:15 a.m.," he said. Due to the weather conditions, helicopters could not be used to transport data, and that data is coming in by ground vehicle which takes four hours, they do not have up to the minute data concerning air quality in this portion of the mine. He also reported that fresh air continues to be pumped into the mine in bore holes two and three.
Following the drill breaking into the mine, a microphone was lowered into the cavity and a four hour quiet period was begun. "We signaled to the trapped miners with three explosive charges and then we listened. We did not detect any signals in the form of noise or vibrations from underground. Our plans to drill bore hole number five will continue. Number five will be at the first planned site for number four. The cement pad and road are already in place for this site. It will enter the mine at crosscut 133. When the cameras are installed into number four, we will move on to number five," concluded Stickler.
Stickler said a team of experts from around the country have been assembled. They will be arriving today, and many of these experts have been given information during the rescue operation, so they will be up to speed when they arrive. The decisions this team comes to will determine the direction of the rescue effort.
"As long as there is hope, we will go on," said Stickler. "Our goal is to find them alive. We can provide food, water, any needed medications and whatever else is needed through the bore holes. We can sustain them for a long period. I believe we can design a system that will provide safety for the rescue workers."
Stickler also reported that bounces continue to be detected in the mine. There have been 23 recorded bounces since the Aug. 6 bounce that trapped the six miners.
Thursday morning. Aug. 16-Crandall Canyon update
The news at the Thursday news conference is the same as the past 10 days at the Crandall Canyon mine. Richard Stickler, MSHA, gave his appreciation to the numerous volunteers who are donating time and materials to this rescue effort. He said many churches, pastors and businesses are helping in any way that is needed.
Stickler reported the air being tested in drill hole number one is 7 percent oxygen and 33 ppm carbon dioxide. In hole number two, 9,000 cubic feet of fresh air is being pumped into the mine. The amount of oxygen in hole number three is 16 percent with 21 ppm of carbon dioxide. While normal oxygen is 21 percent, Stickler said 16 percent would support life.
"As for the underground activity, we are in 826 feet. It is moving very slowly and we are doing everything we can to accelerate the work," concluded Stickler. "We cannot compromise the safety of the rescuers."
Mine owner Robert Murray began his comments with "I have some bad news and I have some good news. The bad news is that we have not recovered the miners or located them yet. The underground effort is disappointingly slow. Five minutes before I left the mine, there was another small seismic occurrence, and at 9 p.m. last night, a slightly larger event covered up the continuous miner about halfway.
"These things stop the underground effort, but we are going again now. Morale is exceptionally good with the men who are underground. We have more management here now, so everyone is getting some relief.
"I am so sorry to have to tell the families how slow the work is progressing. The mountain is still alive and won't let us advance very quickly. The families are strong and that strength comes from their faith. They are keeping me strong. I am so proud of them," concluded Murray.
He then showed a new video which was made last night by a camera in bore hole number three. The area is open, with no cave in or rib outbursts. The air in there is almost normal and will sustain life. There is no sign of anyone in the area of the camera or the bore hole.
"I am not the most important person here. I am no more important than all of the miners here. We are a team. What matters most is the recovery of the trapped miners," said Murray.
Murray announced the good news, the drill has been moved for bore hole number four and drilling will commence within the hour. It is expected to take anywhere from one and a half to three days to complete this drilling. This hole is being directed to the location of the noise which was detected in the vicinity of cross cut 143 on Wednesday afternoon. The purpose of this drilling is to locate the miners and sustain them until the underground efforts reach them.
Both Murray and Stickler stated the noises detected yesterday do not mean the miners have been located. On a vertical plane, straight up and down, the geophone detected some vibrations a second and an half apart during a five minute quiet period. "We do not know if the vibrations are under the coal seam, right in the coal seam, above the coal seam, or on the surface. But, it was significant enough for us to redirect our drilling efforts to cross cut 143," said Stickler.
Wed. Aug. 15 press briefing-Crandall Canyon Mine
Richard Stickler, Mine Safety and Health Administration, opened the meeting with the same news as in the past several days. "The employees are working very hard. This is a rescue operation and we are working closely with the families," said Stickler.
He explained the meetings with the families are usually two a day, but today, because of the bore hole number three breaking through into the mine cavity, he and the mine management team have just returned from the second family update meeting of the day. He added the underground cleanup work has advanced 90 feet from yesterday. "The work is slow and difficult," said Stickler.
Stickler reported a small seismic event in the night which caused some roof fall in-by of the roof supports. This bounce caused some damage to the continuous mining machine and necessitated shut down of the rescue operation for a short while for repairs to be completed.
The bore holes number one and two are continuing in the capacity of the previous days, for monitoring of the air and to pump fresh air into the mine. Bore hole number three broke into the mine at 10:15 a.m. An attempt to lower a microphone into the bore hole was unsuccessful. The microphone was only able to be lowered to within 20 feet of the roof of the mine.
Stickler explained that the bore hole will have steel casings installed for protection of the camera and protection of the hole. A camera will be lowered as soon as possible and will take about an hour.
"This has been a tremendous team operation from the start of the rescue operation. The governor's office, the state people, the county officials and Sheriff's Office, have all been very cooperative. This is our second meeting today and I expect more," Stickler added. He stated the families of the trapped miners have provided a great support to him and the experts who continue to work on the rescue plan.
Crandall Canyon owner Robert Murray stated throughout this rescue effort the work continues on the rescue plan. From the onset of the operation, a plan has been in place and they continue to follow that plan. "We are moving toward the miners, and we will continue drilling and underground efforts until we get to the trapped miners and bring them out. During the night last night, I flew in 14 of my top management personnel from other mining operations to help with this effort. Between them, they have more than 500 years of mining experience. This will help with this rescue to give the exhausted management people here some time to rest. We have a very talented force here on site, but they are in need of rest," said Murray.
"This brings the total of personnel on site to around 200. I am still very optimistic that we will find the miners alive," stated Murray. He went on to say there is plenty of water in the mine, along with air and livable space.
Murray then introduced the Crandall Canyon safety manager Bodee Allred. This is in response to a request from the reporters on scene to talk to a miner who has been on site for the operation. Allred's cousin in one of the miners trapped in the mine. "The people at this mine are a family, not just related, but a mining family. I am proud we have a safe operation. The best thing we can do now is be safe in the work we are doing in the mine. Those men who are trapped in there don't want us to take any chances. I want to thank all of those who have helped with this effort. This effort begins down town and continues up into the mine. Everybody has an important place in the rescue effort. We are also thankful for the extra help Mr. Murray has brought in to help," said Allred.
"Keep that hope. These are tough men who are trapped in there," added Allred. "Our efforts are right on track, we are under a lot of pressure, but we are taking precautions. I feel safe in there and these guys are doing a helluva job."
Murray asked everyone to respect Allred's privacy, along with all the others working at Crandall Canyon. "I meet with the families and we begin all the meetings with a prayer and end them with a prayer. They are holding up extremely well and it is their faith that is enabling them to be strong. They are amazing people. I have every hope to recover the miners alive," concluded Murray.
In response to reporters questions, Stickler said there are a lot of possibilities as to where the miners may be in the mine. He said they are going over every possibility and using their best judgment.
Murray said there are 50-60 miners underground working on the rescue effort at any given time.
"As soon as the families know of any changes or progress, you (the reporters) will be informed as soon as possible," said Murray. "It is disappointing for this rescue effort to go on this long, but there is every hope."
Tues. Aug. 14-morning press conference
Richard Stickler, assistant secretary of labor, opened the Tuesday morning press briefing by reporting on the family meetings. He said the mine officials are meeting with the families twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening. "We are using input and suggestions from the families as many are miners themselves," said Stickler.
One question he said the families have asked is about the drilling portion of the rescue effort. A family member had asked if the drill bits and the type of drilling was the most effective type of drilling. "We then asked the Utah State Division of Natural Resources about our drilling effort. They did some investigation and reported back to us that there was no better way of drilling than what we are doing," added Stickler.
Stickler reported the activities at the first two bore holes remains the same. In hole number one, air samples are being taken and in hole number two fresh air is being pumped into the mine. As far as the drilling of hole number three, the shaft is down 585 feet. It is just over a third of the distance as it had 1,415 feet to go from the top.
For the underground activity, the work is progressing very slowly. "The rescuers are working in very difficult conditions. They are using water jacks and chain link fencing to secure the walls and the ceiling of the mine as they go. We are going to share with the press, a video we made for the families to illustrate the rescue efforts," concluded Stickler.
UtahAmerican company president Robert Murray said, "This video was made exclusively for us to show the families what is being done. Since the beginning of this event and over the past eight days, we have focused on two items. The first is concentrating on the families' needs and the second is getting to the trapped miners. This video is to give the families a better understanding of the extreme difficulties we are having carrying out our rescue plan," said Murray.
As the video of the underground rescue effort began, Murray explained in detail the activities of the rescuers and the difficulties they are facing. He explained the use of water jacks, the roof supports which are being installed, and how the fencing is being put in to reduce bursts from the ribs (mine walls) and the ceiling.
"This is a slow costly process to get to where we believe the miners are trapped. The advancement is extremely slow toward the miners, but this is how we must proceed to protect the rescuers. We are roof bolting to prevent any cave-ins, and installing the fence to stop the ribs coming in. We are installing steel stoppings for ventilation for the rescuers.
"As you can also see from the video, the rescuers are showing real hustle. They are working as fast as they possibly can. We are in about 700 feet and we figure we are about 1,200 feet from the trapped miners. These rescuers are working very diligently. When we went in to make the video, we did not slow down the rescue effort. You can also see from the video how confined the quarters are underground," said Murray.
The second half of the video was a detailed illustration of the surface drilling on the top of the mountain. There are five engineers and two Mine Safety and Health Administration representatives at the drill site around the clock. The drilling of hole number three is a sophisticated directional type drilling, not vertical.
"This number three bore hole is not our last bit of hope. Those miners may very well be barricaded in there. Part of their training is to barricade themselves away from the danger. Last night, the seismic activity stopped," stated Murray. "There are 134 miners working in this mine rescue operation. There are four crews are spread out over seven days, 24 hours a day."
Murray went on to say there is no frustration or criticism coming from the families. "To their credit, these are wonderful people, very strong people." He said at the beginning of this effort, he hired bilingual interpreters and professional caregivers to work with the families.
The Mexican Consulate has also been on site since day one to oversee what is being done for the families.


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(1) Thoses run to make gold and sell it using complex hacks and bottign software
(2) Those with programmerable keyboard who want to want to earn stuff while afk (sleeping/working)
BOTH should be banned, the DR is to stop the later. The player who sits at an event spawn with autofire on to get karma.
Originally posted by DMKano
How about DEs where players have to control multiple points in the zones (not one small area) - or DEs where players have to build something? Maybe throw in some puzzle solving that requires interacting with certain NPCs during the DE? And how about multiple random branching, you know instead of Champion, maybe there's a portal that opens to a new area of the Zone with a puzzle quest? Or maybe everybody in the DE gets a 60min PvE buff? Make it to where at the end of some DE's there's a 15% random chance to summon a world boss. We need more varitety at ALL levels - not just Orr.
The part in red you describes is basically Orr + all the meta events.
Other than that, I do agree that the DEs could be more varied. Overall I think people would be surprised by the amount of variation some of the events have, but the way they are packaged, most of them feel all too similar. I also think the dragons need to have better mechanics. So far the only one that's really engaging to fight is Jormag.
- More skills
- Fix the BEYOND HORRENDOUS clipping on everything. My female human has her weapons placed in her thighs and everything clips on my asura, Charr tails and horns arre laughable
- Dueling, where is it?
- Mounts are an improvement regardless of what people say, if they introduced ground mounts nobody would quit over it but it would certainly make many people very happy and give them something else to do. I would love to ride my mount sometimes instead of waypointing everywhere, mounts are a big draw to keeping people interested, people will grind for a long time to get vanity mounts.
- Inspecting, I'm tired of asking people about their gear, it should show the gears name and what colour it's dyed upon inspection.
- Guild Halls.
- Control botting(coming from TERA, one of the most bot free games i've ever seen, this is atrocious, I leave for a few days and have 5-6 e-mails about gold and I see it spammed in chat regularly).
I'm having a LOT of fun in the game, and so far these are the things I'd like to see improved/changed:
Harder events. Make it, for example, if an event is succesful, the next time it repeats it becomes harder (more mobs, more veteran mobs, for example), so that there's a higher chance of it becomes a failure and get on the losing path.
Add an appearance tab. I know it's not gonna happen (because they would make T-stones useless), but I'd still like to be able to use an item's appearance without having to transmute it anytime I get an upgrade, which, since I'm still leveling, happens a lot. Or at least make it to applying a T-stone to an item makes it a permanent skin, an item that works kinda like the HoM rewards but that transfers the item skin without destroying it.
Travel costs by distance traveled and not fixed, plus higher chance of high level loot from all over the world, so that level 80 players have a bigger incentive to be on other areas.
Events that happen in different areas. In the novel Edge of Destiny there was the Dragonspawn (Jormag's champion). Anytime someone tried to attack it and failed (which means almost every time) it would retaliate by doing a massive attack on Hoelbrak. I'd like to see something like that, maybe a harder fight with Zaithan added, for example, with a high posibility of failure, and if it fails then a few minutes later a huge army of undead invade Lion's Arch and must be repelled by players.
Guild alliances. Even if it's just to have a joint chat channel like in GW1.
What can men do against such reckless hate?
My personal peaves:
Long term:
Short Term (been/being fixed):
Without being petty, that's pretty much it for now.
General Gameplay Improvements
- Remove running debuff in combat
- More zones per level bracket. I feel like Asura and Sylvari don't have as much content as the other 3 races.
- Allow for a consumables hotbar.
- Housing/Guild Halls
- Additional Mini Games
- More PvP maps/types
- Remove diminishing returns
- Lowered cost for cultural armors
- I would like for preparation skills to be a class mechanic. Potentially, add 4 preparations like sharpening stone, poison dip, ignite arrows, chill arrows
- Improve the weapon speed of hammer
Gear progression.
Better WvWvW
More skills per weapon
Remove instances.
Make the RvR zones bigger.
Remove the RvR queue.
Do NOT add tiered raiding, there's no point or place to it.
Keep out a dungeon finder system.
Remove instant teleportation.
Add a slight death penalty.
Add in relics.
Add in a Darkness Falls style dungeon.
Add realm ranks.
"Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game."-Guybrush Threepwood
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."-Hunter S. Thompson
For me:
* Better cameras: Biggest gripe is abilities that have high movement like Thiefs Death Blossom and wars wirlwind attack leave me having to mess with the camera angle rather than it snapping behind my character. At least have an option fo those that want the camera to snap behind.
* Player Housing: Personal instanced areas just aren't changing enough to fill the void or give me a reason to invite anyone in to see what I have different from them. Player housing would give people that like to achieve things even more stuff to do and work towards.
* LFG tool: I think a dungeon finder, especially cross realm, was the worst thing to happen in WoW and would hate to see it come here. However, a better working LFG tool like something close to what FFXI had wouldn't be a bad thing.
* A skill pool for weapons: It would be nice to be able to swap out a couple of the weapon abilities out the same way we do for slot skills. This would alleviate the fact that some people get a bored feeling when they have learned all weapon skills very early in the game as well as add a little bit of the unknown in PvP because you won't know a persons every weapon skill.
* More stability: DE's and Skill challenges mess up and the fixes come very slow. They get fixed and now I am having issues in other ares that weren't there like transmutations are now not working.
* A better system for reporting Spam and Botters: I feel if they had some sort of community policing approach to spammers and botters and we could clean it up a lot faster than the current process of reporting and hoping it's taken care of. Maybe a system where X person has a window for getting X reports before their account is suspended until further notic. The number would have to be high enough to avoid random player trolling, but not so high that enough people couldn't reach a report limit to get the account out of our game.
There are plenty more but these are my top issues to date that I feel could use some improvement.
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- More weapons ( = more skills)
- Organized raids ( in addition to the open world dragons and such)
- Dungeons i think could use some tweaking
- More pvp maps
- Camera could use some work
- Repairing items could use some tweaking ( more similar to wow)
- Item drops in dungeons (gear progression i guess) rather than farming tokens for gear
other little things here and there.
I have seen a lot of people mention things I would like to see as well, but my major want in the future is a class that has healing as utility skills.
I dont want the trinity back but I have to admit I miss being able to play a healer.
I want to see ALOT more armor options (Alot more! and what's up with almost all leather armor looking like a pirate!)
Guild Halls and Housing (Want something EQ2ish)
More crafting and maybe a new profession (like someone who makes effects that can be applyed to certain pieces)
More mob types (good god did they just run out of steam and say F it let's just make X amount of mobs and fill the whole world)
More Events! (and some awesome large scale events)
The ability to preview weapons/Armor in the Auction House
Some rare crafting recipes
Uh I could go on.....but this will do
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Quivers, visible on your character's back. Offer different arrow types that do different things.
Originally posted by Scalpless
GW2 has been out for a month and many of us are level 80, have experienced a large part of what it has to offer and have some things they'd like to see in the future that aren't just bug fixes. Here's a list of mine: - Guild halls - More types of PvP - Anti-zerg measures in DEs, making them moderately challenging even with a large group of people - Better trait descriptions - Open world dungeons - Expanded crafting - More pants, fewer coats/robes - More enemy variety in lvl 80 areas - Lower traveling costs What's on yours?
This is something that annoys me. You can have 30+ people at a dynamic event, but the monsters that spawn are normal ones with normal hp? Where is the scaling they said the events would have? It reallys confuses me and makes doing dynamic events with more than 5 people annoying and not fun.
Ok I seen alot of things I wouldn't mind seeing added. But to me the thing I want to improved would be more maps for WvWvW this would improve que times and also alwo for more epic battles. I would like to see a map like Fire island style and a map with a Cantha setting also one with a Elona setting sense we cant go there yet.
Other things I would like to see improved would be.
Weapon skill tree - where you can choose differant skills based one keys 2-5 that you could switch up.
Traits more definded right now most traits at the pick your bouns seem to be all over the place like warrior strength trait you get bonus to axe sword and mace dmg at 50% health and then get a bonus to 2-handed sword of 10% dmg bonus but 2-handed hammer is in the trait below for dmg. These kind of things are in all classes and need to be more defind.
Improve the DE system as in add more also fill in the gaps of the map as it is not filled this is more of a want tho. The DE system is good love it more then quest hubs by far because it feels random.
I would like to see them add the ability to preview items from the Trading post not being able to kind sucks and its more of a hit or miss on looks.
If they started improving the things I listed above I would be happy.
To me I enjoy gaming I dont play to be uber I play to have fun. If a game is not fun to me guess what I move on and play something else till I find one that is. When I find that great game and not sure if in my life time there will be one I hope it has everything I want in an mmo.
Originally posted by Scalpless
GW2 has been out for a month and many of us are level 80, have experienced a large part of what it has to offer and have some things they'd like to see in the future that aren't just bug fixes. Here's a list of mine: - Guild halls - More types of PvP - Anti-zerg measures in DEs, making them moderately challenging even with a large group of people - Better trait descriptions - Open world dungeons - Expanded crafting - More pants, fewer coats/robes - More enemy variety in lvl 80 areas - Lower traveling costs What's on yours?
More social tools
Working DE's/skillpoint challenges
More than "conquest" gametype in sPVP
Removal of DR code
Removal of fast travel cost sink
More diverse armor models, particularly between classes
Two-factor authentication (phone app or token fob, ideally both)
Account wide dye unlocks
Multi-specs (come on, give us the build system from GW1)
Either remove WvWvW queues, raise caps, allow 'guesting' on other servers, something. WvWvW is a clusterfuck right now
Originally posted by Pivotelite - Mounts are an improvement regardless of what people say, if they introduced ground mounts nobody would quit over it but it would certainly make many people very happy and give them something else to do. I would love to ride my mount sometimes instead of waypointing everywhere, mounts are a big draw to keeping people interested, people will grind for a long time to get vanity mounts.
Yes, this! Whenever I see people argue over putting mounts in the game it makes me laugh. In NO way is it hurting anyone and A LOT of people will put in tons of hours trying to get mounts. It doesn't even have to be a huge boost in speed, I just want something else to work toward.
Most of my gripes have been covered by other people.
- Player housing. Hopefully we will be able to modify/collect decorations for it etc.
- More strategic bosses and mob types
- Each zone having it's own really rare drop armor set could be fun. Give people a reason to stay in other zones.
- Improve farming somehow. There seems to be little to no consistency in mobs dropping the mats I really need.
- Way too many load screens. I wish there was a way for them to make the transistion from place to place feel more seamless.
- Camera improvements
1. Add a hotspot in game. You would be able to set up a hotspot at a waypoint. Then when you wanna go someware else, like say your guild is doing a dungeon or dragon fight, well you can port over there. W/E your done doing stuff in a diffrent location and wanna go back to the waypoint you were at, Just select the hotspot and you can port directly back to where you were. They travel cost should be the same as normal. Come in handy if you forget where you where at on the map, like i tend to .
2. Add a World tab under Achievements. Then when you click on world achievements it will list every map ingame alphabatecally and show a progression bar like all the others, going from 0-100% complete. That way you will know which maps you still need 100% on without having to manually go to the diffrent zones to see.
EX. World - Rata Sum 0% -------- 57 100%
3. Have everyone in a guild auto-represent, but maybe have restrictions? If a player only plays like once or twice a week, for them not to represent. Only the loyal ones. Some peaple forget to turn that on.
4. Guild suggestion - Show when members log in and out, and also show when they last loged ingame.
5. Some areas are really tough at off-peek times. Say 3am on an american server. Would be nice if during the really late hours depending on the regional servers timezone, if they would make all zones have less mobs. Very hard to do DE's and really anything at those hours. PVE areas dont scale according to how many ppl is in the zone. Really need that.
The game has a fantastic core, but it should be worked on...
Here are my suggestions
1) In PvE, the biggest problem and why folks still feel it is "directionless" and "lacking meta-game" is that you get all your skill unlocks by simply purchasing them. What it translates to is "wherer I go I get same rewards so there is no real incentive to go anywhere in particular except for sightseeing". IMO Anet made one huge mistake when they ditched the GW1 skill acquiring model for what they have now. I enjoy playing my Ranger more than any other class because taming a certain pet can take place only at certain locations and so I have a reason why to go THERE and not "there." It gives me an opportunity to design my own quests basically.
This ties in with the second problem, and that is that you have pretty much all skills you want by lvl 30 and there is no progression there. What you have on your bar is pretty much it, with only the numbers increasing.. which is dull.
Anyways, the solution is obvious, but for an expansion or something. Special tasks and stuff you can do/find/whatever in the world that would unlock "improved" versions of basic weapon and utility skills. However, those MUST NOT be purchaseable for skill points - they should require performing very specific tasks.
2) Ties in with 1) - there is no sense of progression with weapons, no specialization. Imo, the solution could be hot-patched pretty quick. Unlocking weapon skills is really a great concept - what you use, you get better with. However this lasts only till 10th lvl or even less. Anet should add "weapon experience" which would give a small but real bonus to weapon's dmg or whatever, according to how much it is used. I loved how weapon xp worked in Borderlands 1 and I'm thinking of something along these lines.
3) Mounts in WvW. Please, give us mounts in WvW. All this running is severely favoring the zerg - if you go on your own to do some sabotage behind enemy lines, the chances you get finished off are much greater... and all this endless running is no fun at all. Of course dying should "hurt", but not by forcing players to perform dull and repetetive tasks.
4) Better coordination tools in WvW. WAR was on the right track there with warbands and stuff. Something along these lines that would enable players to form coherent units.
5) All the hype aside, THERE IS NO VIABLE WAY TO LEVEL IN PVP! At the moment I'm enjoying leveling in PvE so I can participate in WvW... but I can see how this can become a pain with my future alts which I'll make for WvW only. The xp rewards in WvW should be upped AND, more importantly, there should be an option to recieve XP in SPvP. Ideally, I'd train my WvW alts in battlegrounds and then go WvW when I reach a decent lvl. Again, WAR had this down pat - you could jump into PvP at level 1 and go all the way to max without ever stepping into PvE world or feeling you're being gimped.
6) I love WvW and I love sPvP. Awesome solutions to long-standing mmo problems, great! However, I wouldn't mind an instanced PvP mode where you would use your PvE char.. and get XP for it. I know, GW2 is what it is and everything, but still, I am missing those.
That's pretty much it, off the top of my head that is.
7) One more. In the whole "doesn't matter where you go" philosophy they went' too far. They thought they were giving players choice but all they did is remove specific motivation for doing specific content and making the game bland in terms of rewards and goals. While they should retain karma, which is global, they should add some kind or "regional karma" for each game territory - with specific, level-independent rewards. Those rewards could have several levels, like regional vendors selling cool cosmetic items or improvised weapons that might be carried in your backpack and used elsewhere. This "regional karma" could be obtained by completing the map and doing DEs etc... And, oh yeah, heart quests should be made repeatable, say daily.
8) and again - WE NEED MORE SPECIFIC REWARDS! - Group event bosses should drop specific rewards. There should be a reason why I want to kill Shatterer rather than "just because I happen to pass by." He should drop something that cannot be obtained anywhere else in the game, or give a title or SOMETHING. I want to be able to make specific goals for myself - i want to spend days stalking that super-ultra-special-rare DE that gives me a little bit of something I can get nowwhere else. All this karma and tokens and whatnots make the game seem like a supermarket. I don't want a supermarket, I want dingy little shops where I can spend days looking for stuff that can be found only there and nowhere else.
9) WvW individual rewards, obviously. There should be some kind of specific WvW "xp" like what they have in sPvP. Yes, WvW should be its own reward, and yet it would be satisfying to have your contribution to WvW honored in some way, at least with a title or something.
As you can see, the vast majority of my suggestions deal with the way rewards and player motivation work in this game. Imo this is the only weak spot in otherwise excellent whole. Thankfully, that is something that can, and very probably will be worked on as the game matures.
More skill choices - Give us a pool of skills to choose from for each weapon. Why you forcing us to use the skills you want us to use for each weapon. Some weapons i love, but i hate the skills you picked for them...give us options damnit.
Inspect feature - Really? Is the GW2 crowd so pampered and carebeared that we shouldnt be allowed to view each others stats/gear? I want to see my fellows items, i want to see what that cool helmet hes wearing. Put this standard mmo feature in game my goodness.
Make zones seamless - All the beauty of the art style and supposed vastness of GW2 world goes out the window with all these forced portals we have to go through in order to go on the "other" side. Why cant it all be seamless? Look at Rift, there is NO loading screen in the ENTIRE game world. You only zone into instance raids/dungeons....thats it.
Housing - What ever happen to this feature, new mmos are shying away from this, yet its such a HUGE timesink for players to have. You have any idea how much time people put into homes, and how just that alone, can keep people playing for a very long time? Add that. (kudos to Rift)
Mounts - Listen, mounts are sweet. Nobody going to quit if mounts were added. It be a nice feature for people to have and to strive for. And if your in city or buildings it auto-unmounts you to keep the area clean of mounts in order not to annoy people.
WvWvW Rewards - Somehow the rewards with wvwvw at the moment are kinda of.....meh. Expand on it to make it more personal. Give us personal stuff to get from winning then just "server" buffs. Its cool, but its really boring at the same time. Nothing that reallly screams, oh man, guys, cmon we have to win, we got to get that! Now its...eh so what....not really losing anything, nor gaining anything worthwhile.
Indicator when friends/guildies log on - Self explanatory
Make mobs respawn much slower - Whats with the almost instant respawn of everything? Tone it down my goodness, its too much and annoying.
Make champions drop worthwhile loot - Yeah, they are completely pointless at the moment. Another part of their anti-good gear philosophy. Its all about "fun" right....
Show weapons on character screen - Id like to have my character holding his weapon or weapons in character select, i mean, that be cool, right.
Character Appearance Recustomization - Ok some of us are not happy with our looks, add feature to edit this after character create.
Character Rename - Same as above, add this.
Ah its getting late, ill stop here....
Originally posted by Voiidiin
One thing and One thing only, in fact i hate this so much i have started playing other games instead.... Please get rid of the punitive Diminishing Returns to open world PvE and Dynamic events.
There should be less diminishing returns than the system has now, but there should be some to encourage people to move on. It drops off way too fast now. Diminishing returns should be in the 10% range instead of the huge drop they have now.
Originally posted by GMan33
Inspect feature - Really? Is the GW2 crowd so pampered and carebeared that we shouldnt be allowed to view each others stats/gear? I want to see my fellows items, i want to see what that cool helmet hes wearing. Put this standard mmo feature in game my goodness. Agreed. I've tried whispering people a few times to ask what armor they have and gotten no response. Make mobs respawn much slower - Whats with the almost instant respawn of everything? Tone it down my goodness, its too much and annoying. Yes! This annoys me so much some times... Make champions drop worthwhile loot - Yeah, they are completely pointless at the moment. Another part of their anti-good gear philosophy. Its all about "fun" right.... My group and I have this epic battle with a Champion Big *** Spider of DOOM! .... annndd he dropped a hairy spider leg.... no gold, no random gear, nothing... makes it a bit anti climatic. Soon we'll have bosses up everywhere and no one killing them because there is no incentive. And that's why people camp in the zones that have dragons/bosses that have chests. People want to get some kind of reward for their efforts.


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