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Concrete Degradation at New Hampshire, Nuclear Plant
April 26, 2012 01:19 PM - Andy Soos, ENN
Concrete is considered fairly durable. The alkali—silica reaction (ASR) is a reaction which occurs over time in concrete between the highly alkaline cement paste and reactive non-crystalline (amorphous) silica, which is found in many common aggregates. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released a report today about potentially serious concrete degradation possibly due to this reaction at the Seabrook nuclear power plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire. The report was written by Paul Brown, a professor of ceramic science and engineering at Penn State University. (An executive summary also is available on line.) After reviewing publicly available documents, Brown concluded that neither plant owner NextEra Energy nor the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) fully understand the scope or origins of the problem and therefore cannot adequately assess the plant's structural status.
New EPA Mapping Tool
April 25, 2012 07:01 PM - Andy Soos, ENN
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to integrate environmental values into their decision making processes by considering the environmental impacts of their proposed actions and reasonable alternatives to those actions. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the public release of a web-based mapping tool developed for Federal agencies to facilitate more efficient and effective environmental reviews and project planning. The tool, NEPAssist, is part of an initiative developed by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to modernize and reinvigorate federal agency implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) through innovation, public participation and transparency. NEPAssist draws information from publicly available federal, state, and local datasets, allowing NEPA practitioners, stakeholders and the public to view information about environmental conditions within the area of a proposed project quickly and easily at early stages of project development.
The Atlantic Cup Presented by 11th Hour Racing Announces Green Initiatives for all Three Legs of its Upcoming Class 40 Race
April 25, 2012 10:13 AM - Andrea Oki, JDP Communications
With less than a month until the start of the second annual 2012 Atlantic Cup presented by 11th Hour Racing, Manuka Sports Event Management, is pleased to announce their ecological plans to run the first carbon neutral sailing race in the United States during its three legs of competition; Charleston, S.C. (May 11) to New York Harbor (May 14-19) to Newport, R.I. (May 26-27). The Atlantic Cup's carbon neutrality initiatives will be supported by Green Mountain Energy Company, the nation's longest serving green power retailer. The race features an international fleet of 13 competitors, with teams from France, England, United States and Germany all slated to be on the start line for what will be the largest fleet of Class 40s ever to race in the United States. The 2012 Atlantic Cup carbon footprint will be calculated prior to the race start by Green Mountain. Based on these calculations and a post-race assessment, carbon offsets and renewable energy certificates (RECs) will be retired in order to offset emissions associated with the event, such as staff air travel, ground and water transportation, staff hotel stays, and event electricity usage. "It's been a challenging endeavor to organize and run a carbon neutral sailing race, and it's possible in large part to the continued support and guidance from 11th Hour Racing and partnership with Green Mountain," said Hugh Piggin, Manuka Sports Event Management Founder and Atlantic Cup Race Director.
China signs deal with Iceland to develop geothermal energy
April 25, 2012 08:42 AM - ClickGreen staff, ClickGreen
The Chinese have signed a deal with Iceland to increase co-operation over the development of geothermal energy. China's Premier Wen Jiabao concluded the agreement last weekend during the first stage of a four-nation European tour. As a trained geologist, Wen toured the Thingvellir national park, home to popular tourist attractions the Gullfoss falls and the Geysir geyser. While visiting a geothermal plant, the premier voiced "strong support" for efforts to tap geothermal energy back home in China.
Sharing a car is great, but watch the potential liability!
April 25, 2012 07:23 AM - Kara Scharwath, Triple Pundit
Call it whatever you like — the sharing economy, collaborative consumption, the peer-to-peer marketplace, the access economy — but there is no denying that the idea of renting other people's stuff or loaning out your own for cash is catching on. Fast Company predicted that 2012 would be the year for explosion in the peer-to-peer accommodation market pioneered by Airbnb. And it seems that this growth is expanding to include other renting arrangements as well, with dozens of online services popping up to capitalize on the trend. This all sounds great, but a recent incident is bringing attention to some of the liability issues associated with these borrowing arrangements. An article in the New York Times details the complicated liability situation resulting from a fatal accident that occurred when someone who rented a car through RelayRides crashed into another vehicle and was killed. RelayRides is a popular car sharing company that has gotten backing from GM and Google. The driver injured four people that were in the other car, and although RelayRides provides $1,000,000 in liability coverage to renters, it doesn't look like it's going to be enough to cover their medical claims.
The Price is Right for Wind Power
April 24, 2012 07:11 AM - María Elena Hurtado, SciDevNet
Generating wind energy is more than twice as cheap as solar photovoltaic (PV) energy production, a study of alternative energy in six developing countries has found. The findings, published in Nature Climate Change last week (15 April), could help inform global debates on financing initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries.
Dalai Lama: Take Care of Our Home
April 23, 2012 08:54 AM - Max Havins, Sierra Club Green Home
This week the Dalai Lama joined two distinguished scientists in highlighting how global warming threatens the one planet we all call home. His message: climate change offers an opportunity for every person to have a positive influence on the rest of the world. Besides, it is in our own best interest to do so. "Each individual's future depends on the rest of humanity," His Holiness told the crowd at the University of California, San Diego.
Make Earth Day count and start doing things to help all year long
April 22, 2012 08:30 AM - Kara A. DiCamillio, Sierra Club Green Home
Earth Day is a great opportunity to appreciate the planet that provides for us all year long. Sierra Club Green Home has seven simple things you can do for the environment this weekend, and hopefully you will incorporate them into your daily life as well! 1) Attend a clean-up in your community. This weekend there are clean-ups going on all around the country. A simple Web search can help you find one in your city or town. If by chance you cannot find one, don't hesitate to pick up that stray piece of trash that might be blowing down the road. 2) Conserve water. We use a good amount of water through simple everyday tasks such as brushing our teeth, taking showers, and washing the dishes. There is also the amount of water used to produce our food and other products. Try to track how much water you use in one day, and look for areas where you can reduce your water footprint.
How Can we Separate Man Made Greenhouse Gases from Those Naturally Occurring?
April 21, 2012 10:00 AM - Click Green Staff, ClickGreen
A research team has developed a new monitoring system to analyze and compare emissions from man-made fossil fuels and trace gases in the atmosphere, a technique that likely could be used to monitor the effectiveness of measures regulating greenhouse gases. The University of Colorado Boulder-led team looked at atmospheric gas measurements taken every two weeks from aircraft over a six-year period over the northeast United States to collect samples of CO2 and other environmentally important gases.
Car emissions claim more UK lives than road accidents, study finds
April 20, 2012 11:33 AM - ClickGreen staff, ClickGreen
Emissions from cars, lorries, planes and power stations causes 13,000 premature deaths in the UK each year, according to a new study by MIT researchers. The research team analyzed data from 2005, the most recent year for which information is available. They found that among the various sources of emissions in the country, car and truck exhaust was the single greatest contributor to premature death, affecting some 3,300 people per year. By comparison, the researchers note, fewer than 3,000 Britons died in road accidents in 2005.


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End of town's birthday party includes tours, train rides, art show
When Yampa officials began planning the town's centennial a year ago, they knew they'd need more than a big cake.
Weekend river festival to raise awareness
Friends of the Yampa present events for everyone during celebration's 26th year
For 25 years, Routt County residents have rallied around the lifeblood of the Yampa Valley, taking a weekend to recognize the vital resource that is the Yampa River. This year will be no different.
Youths have prize-winning eyes
Routt County youths seem to have quite the eye for cattle, swine and beef.
It's official: Lift being replaced
Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. unveils plans for Sunshine
Steamboat Ski and Resort Corp. executives made it official Tuesday night -- the old Sunshine triple chairlift is being replaced with a high-speed quad this summer.
Boys questioned about homemade firecracker
Steamboat Springs police took two Steamboat Springs High School freshmen into custody Friday after a school administrator saw the boys detonate a homemade firecracker near the school.
Visiting nurse group receives $100,000
Bolers' largest private donation will be used to fund community center in Hayden
The Visiting Nurse Association has received a $100,00 gift, its largest private donation ever.
Our View: A lesson in bargaining
It was a relief last week when Steamboat Springs School District teachers and support staff overwhelmingly approved a salary and benefits package for the 2006-07 school year. The package was made official Monday night by a unanimous vote of the School Board.
Bayer joins sports club Nordic staff
Former Olympian 'excited' to head team
Martin Bayer has been hired to replace longtime coach Chris Gilbertson as the head of the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club's ability-level programs for Nordic combined and ski jumping.
Local girls take gold
Four swimmers win at state Special Olympics
Jaimee Sexton still was proudly wearing her three Olympic medals Monday. The thrill of victory had not ended for the gold-medal winner of the 50-meter freestyle swimming event at last weekend's Special Olympics Colorado 2006 Summer Games.
Triple Crown contract up for renewal
The summer sports organization Triple Crown is one step closer to seeing another year in Steamboat Springs.
Stock Bridge site settled
Council affirms decision to build community center at transit area
By vote, the Steamboat Springs City Council stands by the Stock Bridge Transit Center area for the new community center site.
Kevin Bennett: Council planning poorly for future
The Steamboat Springs City Council has made the worst planning decision in the history of Steamboat Springs. The City Council has voted to replace a critical transit center with a community center.
School lawsuit almost settled
Board OKs draft agreement with no payments, punitive measures
A lawsuit against the Steamboat Springs School District, filed in September by a local teacher's union, is close to resolution.

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David Goad, second-generation manager of the company, said: "We're producing six-and-a-half tonnes of fudge every week in our current factory, but with space for extra machinery, the move to Bodmin means we can increase this to 10 tonnes.
"We're passionate about what we do and it's important for us to grow while maintaining our heritage and our connection to local suppliers. Our new premises are just eight miles from where we are now, so it means we can continue to do this. In fact, we'll be even closer to some of our suppliers, which is great for reducing our food miles."
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The company has been producing traditionally handmade fudge since it started the business in 1964 in Padstow.
Rory Carter, senior relationship manager at commercial lender Natwest, said: "I was impressed with David and Tracy, their ambition and the fact that they are prepared to commit to what they want to do. They have a second-generation business and they've taken it to a level it hasn't reached before.
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Wow- there are alot of lefty's here! Me too.
Just to clarify- both sides of your brain are involved in activities (motor
and language), just sometime more one than the other (that is unless you
have no corpus callosum). The majority of lefties are ambidextrous to some
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My youngest son shares these traits.
My grandfather was a newspaper man who claimed to take down information with
both hands at once - but I didn't really believe him. Mixed dominance means
that neither side of your brain has complete control. One effect is that I
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word out that I want to say. I also have very strong visual memory, but
frequently can't find the words to go with the image. It is said that the
brain has no language, so lefties are at a loss for words, but I haven't
to be the case.
It's interesting that left-handedness has been seen to be a threatening
aberation in some
cultures. Some of the brightest people I know are lefties - maybe that's why
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- The day after the New England Patriots' preseason opener against the New Orleans Saints, coach Bill Belichick was back in his office, breaking down film and looking at medical reports.
"We'll take stock of what our health is, and take the players that are healthy down to Atlanta and work with them," he said.
The Patriots leave for Atlanta on Monday afternoon, and there will be quite a few open seats on the plane. This team is banged up.
The injury ranks expanded by three Sunday afternoon when outside linebacker Tully Banta-Cain (right ankle), inside linebacker/fullback Thomas Williams (right ankle/foot) and receiver Darnell Jenkins (lower right leg) all were knocked out of practice.
Of the group, Banta-Cain is the player the Patriots can least afford to lose for an extended period of time. He led the team in sacks in 2009 and has emerged as an overall leader at a position that is one of the team's bigger question marks. While the injury didn't appear to be anything that would become a long-term issue -- Banta-Cain walked off under his own power -- it could keep him from traveling to Atlanta and alter preparations for Thursday's preseason game against the Falcons.
If that's the case, veteran Derrick Burgess' return to the team was well-timed.
With rookie outside linebacker Jermaine Cunningham being held out of practice Sunday -- he was knocked out of Wednesday's joint practice with the Saints and did not play in the preseason opener -- the Patriots could be operating with just four players at outside linebacker (Burgess, Marques Murrell, Pierre Woods, Rob Ninkovich).
Every day, it seems, there is a new injury twist for the Patriots.
On Sunday, it started with veteran receiver Torry Holt, who was placed on season-ending injured reserve. He will undergo knee surgery this week, according to his agent, Kennard McGuire.
Holt wasn't a lock for a roster spot, but he provided insurance if Wes Welker experienced a setback in his return from left knee surgery or second-year receiver Brandon Tate didn't develop as hoped.
Just two days prior, the Patriots ended starting defensive end Ty Warren's season by placing him on injured reserve with a labral tear in his hip. The team is holding out hope that the same outcome won't happen with offensive lineman Nick Kaczur, who has missed the last 16 practices with a back injury that could threaten his 2010 season.
That's a lot of strength and power to lose at the line of scrimmage before the season even begins, and it doesn't even factor in the contract standoff with guard Logan Mankins, who remains unsigned. Of all the injuries and absences the Patriots have absorbed, the holes along the lines look like the most damaging from a long-range perspective.
If there is any consolation, it's not as if the Patriots are alone. A look across the NFL shows that many teams have been hit by a similar string of injuries.
The key for the Patriots and Belichick is to manage them with the long term in mind.
So when a player like veteran defensive end Damione Lewis is held out of Sunday's practice, he probably will be staying home from Atlanta too, along with safety Bret Lockett, cornerbacks Leigh Bodden and Terrence Johnson, inside linebacker Gary Guyton, offensive lineman George Bussey, inside linebacker Dane Fletcher, and receiver Matthew Slater, none of whom practiced Sunday.
The Patriots are 24 practices into their training camp and the training room has been a bit busier than desired. Because of that, there has been a near-daily churning on the bottom of the roster to address depth concerns.
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Mike Reiss covers the Patriots for ESPN Boston. You can follow him on Twitter or leave a question for his weekly mailbag.


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For many ballerinas, the role of Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty is the role they aspire to dance from a very young age.
Principal of The Royal Ballet Akane Takada is no different and in this film she explains why it is such an iconic role for dancers, as well as revealing the role's technical challenges.
The film sees Takada and Bulgarian dancer Valeri Hristov perfect the ballet's famous 'Rose Adage' – one of the most challenging pieces of choreography in The Royal Ballet's repertory.
The set-piece requires extremely precise technique, as attested to by Takada:
'The Rose Adage is the hardest part of the ballet,' reveals the Japanese dancer. 'You stand on one leg and balance as you take each prince's hand one by one – you really need stamina for it.'
The film focuses on the endurance and strength required to execute the dance's challenging balances. Over the decades it has been performed by some of the Company's most famous female dancers including Margot Fonteyn, Darcey Bussell and Marianela Nuñez.
'Now that I've done it,' says Takada, who made her debut as Princess Aurora in 2014, 'I know that it's the most difficult role that I've ever done.'
Watch more films like this by subscribing to the Royal Opera House YouTube channel:
The Sleeping Beauty runs until 14 March 2017. Tickets are sold out, but returns may become available. Further tickets are released every Friday for performances in the following week in Friday Rush.
The production will be broadcast live to cinemas around the world on 28 February 2017. Find your nearest cinema and sign up to our mailing list.
The production is staged with generous philanthropic support from Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet, Hans and Julia Rausing, Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson and The Royal Opera House Endowment Fund and is sponsored by Van Cleef & Arpels, with the original production (2006) made possible by The Linbury Trust, Sir Simon and Lady Robertson and Marina Hobson OBE.]]>
Every aspiring ballet dancer dreams of the day they are given their first pair of pointe shoes. With their lengths of ribbon and delicate appearance, there's something unmistakably beautiful about the shoes themselves – even before they're used on stage as an integral part of a performance.
But don't be fooled by their beauty: pointe shoes need to be hardy and powerful to propel dancers through even the most gruelling of performances. As Royal Ballet First Soloists Yasmine Naghdi, Yuhui Choe and Claire Calvert explain in this film, having a good pair of shoes is integral to the magic they create on stage.
'We have so many demands put on the dancers that if we didn't have the support of our shoes, we couldn't deliver to the high standards that we do', Yasmine says.
Yuhui is preparing to dance as the Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker, and Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty. Due to a packed rehearsal and performance schedule in the run up to Christmas, she has already prepared and danced through 20 pairs of pointe shoes since the start of the Season in late September: dancers sometimes get through three pairs per performance.
With a Company of nearly one hundred dancers, each Season thousands of shoes are used in performances, at a cost of more than £250,000.
It's for this reason that The Royal Ballet runs an annual Pointe Shoe Appeal to raise the funds that enable dancers to give their best performances. A donation of £5 could pay for ribbon for five pairs of shoes, or £78 could provide two pairs of pointe shoes for the Lilac Fairy in one performance of The Sleeping Beauty, in its 70th anniversary year.
'For us, pointe shoes are one of the most important things', Yuhui says. 'Without pointe shoes ballet doesn't exist.'
Watch more films like this on the Royal Opera House YouTube channel:
To donate £5 to The Royal Ballet's Pointe Shoe Appeal, text POINTE to 70660, or visit www.roh.org.uk/pointe]]>
It's often said that 'Every journey starts with a single step'. For aspiring ballerinas, it's not one standard step that starts them on their journey, but an arsenal of them, perfected over thousands-upon-thousands of hours of practice and rehearsal.
One particular rite of passage for a young dancer is the first time they put on a pair of pointe shoes, the essential tool of the trade. 'It was a magical experience. I must have been nine or ten years old and I remember going to the ballet shop to get them fitted', remembers Royal Ballet Soloist Yasmine Naghdi.
'I was at White Lodge [The Royal Ballet Lower School] and I remember we were told not to go up on pointe until we'd had our first class with our teacher', says First Artist Hayley Forskitt. 'But it's very exciting to get a shining pink pair of shoes that you've been waiting so long for and so in the dormitory we were all going up on pointe. It was a lot more painful than we thought it would be, but very fun!'
From this moment on, dancers develop a dependency on their footwear, getting through three or four pairs a week, and personally preparing their shoes for both the studio and stage. 'The process of learning to sew the shoes is always taught by a dance teacher', reveals First Artist Nathalie Harrison. 'It takes me an hour to prepare a pair of shoes and I don't know any dancer who prepares their shoes in the same way to another – it's like a fingerprint.'
'You do what you have to do to the shoes to get the best possible performance. I prepare a pair of shoes and then I probably won't use them again', says First Soloist Helen Crawford.
If their first class in pointe shoes is a moment that every young dancer looks forward to, then the moment that they dread in equal measure is their first injury.
'Mine was a freak injury', remembers First Soloist Melissa Hamilton. 'I snapped my Anterior Tibiofibular ligament in my ankle the week before I was due to premiere Raven Girl with Wayne McGregor. The pain was excruciating but I was able to walk out of the studio once the initial shock had subsided.'
With the nature of a live art form, injuries are an unfortunate risk, minimized by trained physiotherapists and healthcare professionals, who work with dancers and students to keep them on the stage and out of the recovery room. Professional companies such as The Royal Ballet employ teams of these professionals, which young dancers studying at dance schools also have access to.
'The most important thing, even now, is that I have good shoes to wear', says Soloist Laura McCulloch. 'I had a tendon issue in my foot last year and if you have soft-soled shoes, your foot can go beyond what it should do to support you. Even now, I'm a bit careful with it and make sure I have something decent to wear.'
Hayley agrees: 'How your feet work is the grounding of how your body reacts. Footwear is important.'
Shoes worn by most dancers – from first steps as a student to a professional dancer – are handmade and a dancer's requirements can change from show to show:
'I have several pairs on rotation as it makes them last longer', says Artist Demelza Parish. 'In Manon for example, I'll wear a softer, older pair as there isn't as much pointe work, but for Swan Lake, I'll wear something more supportive as there's more of it.'
Because shoes are so vital to dancers, The Royal Ballet runs an annual Pointe Shoe Appeal to raise the funds that enable dancers to give their best performances. Every Season, the Company spends over £250,000 on ballet footwear, so every donation made to the appeal makes a real difference. A gift of £39 could buy a pair of pointe shoes for a Royal Ballet dancer, while £5 could pay for ribbon for five pairs of shoes.
'As dancers, we're so grateful to those who donate to the Pointe Shoe Appeal', says Nathalie. 'That special support enables all of us to stay at the peak of our profession and give our finest performance every time we go on stage.'
Donate to the Royal Ballet's Pointe Shoe Appeal]]>
'Be prepared' is most famous as the motto of the Scouts, but it's a maxim that is equally as embraced by ballet dancers.
A dancer's ballet bag is an essential bit of kit that they take with them wherever they go – in rehearsals, during breaks and in their dressing rooms; it's always to hand. But what do they contain? We asked two Royal Ballet dancers – Marianela Nuñez and Yasmine Naghdi – what their ballet bag essentials are:
The Royal Opera House Shop stocks a range of dance wear and beauty products.
Watch films on our YouTube channel about how pointe shoes are made, and how dancers prepare them for the stage.
UPDATED 22/04/14: THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. The answer was 330 shoes (115 pairs) and the winner was Ioan Stefanovici.Thanks for all your entries!
With this year's Pointe Shoe Appeal open, we're offering a chance to win a pair of tickets to a Royal Ballet in Rehearsal event on 24 April 2014, part of our ROH Insights series.
To highlight the campaign, we've collected the pointe shoes that the Company get through in a week. These are on display in a box in the foyer by the ROH Box Office and are taller than each of the dancers who are fronting this year's appeal - Francesca Hayward, Marcelino Sambé and Yasmine Naghdi!
As well as winning tickets to the rehearsal event, the competition winner and their guest will receive a backstage tour and tea and cake.
How to enter
To enter the competition, tell us how many shoes you think are in the box and share a picture of it on Twitter or Instagram, using the tag #PointesWinPrizes. If you're not on social media, you can have a guess in person and post it into the pointe shoe tower.
The deadline for entries will be 21 April 2014. The winner will be selected at random from all correct entries received.
Those who additionally make a donation to the Pointe Shoe Appeal online will also be entered into a draw to win a pair of pointe shoes signed by Francesca Hayward.
Terms and conditions of entry:
The prize is a pair of tickets to see a Royal Ballet in Rehearsal Insights Event on 24 April 2014 at 7.30pm. The prize is as stated and there is no cash alternative nor is it transferable. All entries must be received by 21 April and the winner will be selected at random from all correct entries received. The Royal Opera House's decision is final in all matters. Tickets on the 24 April are subject to availability and winning tickets must be claimed by 23 April.
As we launch this year's Pointe Shoes Appeal, we caught up with First Artist Francesca Hayward and Artist Marcelino Sambé, who are supporting this year's appeal, following in the footsteps of Lauren Cuthbertson, Edward Watson and Mara Galeazzi.
To promote the appeal, Francesca wore a camera on her ankle, capturing a sense of The Royal Ballet from the perspective of a pointe shoe – from preparation, to morning class, to evening performance.
'Shoes aren't talked about a lot, but they are where everything starts for a dancer', says Marcelino. 'You and the shoe warm up together in morning class as the shoe moulds to your foot. Your shoe is part of your skin and you can tell immediately if there is something wrong. It really does need to be the perfect fit.'
'You can't do a step without your shoes', adds Francesca. 'We are so lucky to have access to such an incredible shoe department.'
All of the shoes worn by The Royal Ballet are by necessity custom-made and specific to the requirements of each individual dancer. Jane Latimer, Ballet Shoe Manager, describes it as a partnership between the dancers and the shoe room: 'The pointe shoes are not churned out of a machine. You have people in a workroom making each pair, and the dancers get very used to a particular maker. In the Ballet Shoe Room, we try to procure the best shoes we possibly can for them.' Watch how ballet pointe shoes are made.
Pointe shoes cost The Royal Ballet over £250,000 a year. 'When I was dancing Clara in The Nutcracker – constantly running and always on pointe – I got through two pairs of pointe shoes a day', says Francesca.
Alexander Campbell as Hans Peter and Francesca Hayward as Clara in The Nutcracker © ROH / Tristram Kenton 2013
In addition to pointe shoes, calf-length boots feature in a lot of costumes for male dancers. 'Boots can be a dancer's best friend', says Marcelino. 'It is a long process to soften the leather, and in the first rehearsals they can feel awful, but by the third show, they feel great.' Find out more about ballet boots.
Francesca recently made her role debut in Frederick Ashton's Rhapsody. She trained at The Royal Ballet School from the age of 11 and joined the Company in 2011. 'It is a real honour to be here', she says. 'There are some of the world's best dancers warming up next to you on the barre in morning class, and it is amazing when you are dancing on stage to think about who has danced there before you. Performing as Clara was surreal as The Nutcracker was one of the reasons I got into ballet – I used to watch it in my living room every day!'
Marcelino, who also trained at The Royal Ballet School, joined the company in 2012. Last Season he performed as the Bronze Idol in La Bayadère, a role that involves being painted top to toe in gold paint. 'I loved performing the Bronze Idol – it is a very technical role and so it was rewarding when all of the hard work from school came together', he says. 'Working with the best people in the world is also really special. There is such a variety of culture and art all around you, and you feel part of a big family.'
To contribute to the annual cost of ballet footwear and support The Royal Ballet today, please make a donation online or phone Sacha Glasgow-Smith on +44 (0)20 7212 9510.]]>
As part of our live cinema relay of The Royal Ballet's Nutcracker, we premiered this year's film promoting our annual Pointe Shoe Appeal.
The film follows the life of a pointe shoe from the Freed factory to the Royal Opera House stage, and was filmed using a tiny camera attached to the ballet slipper, giving a unique glimpse at life behind the scenes at Covent Garden, including rehearsals for The Nutcracker. It follows films from previous Seasons' campaigns, focusing on how the shoes are made, and how dancers prepare footwear for the stage.
Footwear is essential to ballet, enabling our dancers to give their best performances. Each Season our Royal Ballet dancers use about 12,000 pairs of shoes. Combined with the character shoes, elastic, ribbons and detailing relevant to each production, the total cost for footwear is over £250,000 a year. The Pointe Shoe Appeal underpins the work of the Company by helping to fund the essential costs of ballet shoes.
We will be fully launching the appeal next year, but donations are very gratefully received at any point during the Season. The main focus of the campaign will be in 2014 but donations are gratefully received at any point during the Season.
Find out more about the Pointe Shoes Appeal and donate today]]>
Mara Galeazzi and Edward Watson, The Royal Ballet Principals fronting this year's Pointe Shoe Appeal, recently took time out of rehearsals to explain the importance of footwear in ballet.
'Our shoes are so important to us,' says Edward, ' You have to feel like you're in the right shoes - sometimes if I'm wearing the wrong shoes it's like I've got someone else's legs on - it's a really odd feeling!'
All the shoes worn by The Royal Ballet are handmade and many of the dancers have their shoes custom-made by one shoemaker throughout their career, such are the precise demands of the art form. Jane Latimer from the Pointe Shoes Room explains: 'Mara, until recently, has been completely reliant on Bob Martin who made her shoes from the moment she came into the Company. It was a terrible day when Bob retired because the dancers get very used to their particular maker'
That said, he did make a huge surplus for Mara and she will be dancing out her Royal Ballet career in his Innovation shoes. You can win one of the two pairs she wears in her final performance by making a donation, of any size, to the appeal.
Find out more about the Pointe Shoes Appeal and make a donation now
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It's one of the best-loved scenes in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: the meeting of Alice and the hookah smoking Caterpillar. After his solo, backed by Arabian princesses, the caterpillar departs the stage with parasol in hand, followed by a trail of legs in perfect unison. 16 legs with 16 feet, all wearing the most beautiful, royal blue, crystal-encrusted pointe shoes. It's a moment audiences love but behind it lies a huge amount of effort.
Each blue shoe belongs to one of eight dancers: either members of The Royal Ballet Company or Royal Ballet School students. Each individual pair is prepared by one of the two members of staff working in the Ballet Shoe Room. Máire first has to fit the shoes, before dying them an exact shade of royal blue. Blue ribbons are then attached before each shoe is hand-encrusted with crystals. It takes about a day to prepare each pair of shoes, and these are just eight of the thousands (approximately 6,000) pairs of pointes Máire has to make sure are available to the Company throughout the Season
Every Season we spend over £250,000 on ballet footwear, so every donation made to our annual Pointe Shoes Appeal makes a real difference. A pair of pointe shoes costs £39.
Thank you to everyone who supports us. We are very grateful for the part you play in our success.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland runs until 16 January 2015. Tickets are sold out though returns may become available.
Watch our film to find out how pointe shoes are made.]]>
It's a staggering ballet fact that between rehearsals and 19 performances, this Season's Nutcracker requires over 900 pairs of pointe shoes to stage. On top of that, 122 pairs are needed for children, with some children requiring more than one pair to perform several roles Character artists, actresses, actors and Royal Ballet School students scuff up a further 120 pairs.
Whether it is meticulously-prepared pointe shoes for the Sugar Plum Fairy and the Snowflakes, or the party shoes worn by the children in the opening scene, these details are all part of delivering the production perfectly each time.
Though many of these shoes will be worn for other production rehearsals or recycled for use by ballet students, the reality is that a pair of pointe shoes costs £36, and over the course of the Season, across all our productions, the cost of meeting footwear needs of The Royal Ballet costs over £250,000. We're very grateful for the support of our audiences year round and wondered if you would consider giving The Royal Ballet a small Christmas gift.
Just £5 pays for the thick supportive elastic that the ballerinas require to secure their pointe shoes, or £18 buys us a single pointe shoe.
Whatever the size of gift, it would make a very practical difference to us as we prepare and perform this magical Christmas production. Make a donation.
Find out how pointe shoes are made:
The Nutcracker runs until 16 January 2013. Find out more about Supporting the work of the Royal Opera House.]]>


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Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design announces visiting designer series
The Milwaukee Instititue of Art & Design announced Monday that its recently elected board chair, Madeleine Kelly Lubar, and her husband, David Lubar, have founded a program called the Creativity Series, which will bring distinctive and internationally known creative professionals to Milwaukee.
The first visiting professional is Mark Rios, founding principal at Rios Clementi Hale Studios, a Los Angeles-based, interdisciplinary design firm that has made headlines of late for its designs for LA's Grand Park.
Rios will visit Milwaukee and MIAD Nov. 13 to 15, and a public panel discussion will be held Nov. 15 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at MIAD. Joining Rios for the panel discussion will be MIAD faculty members, artist Jill Sebastian and architect Eric Vogel. The panel will be moderated by Bonnie North of WUWM's "Lake Effect."
"David and I are strong supporters of both the visual arts and education," said Madeleine Kelly Lubar in a statement. "The more we have come to know MIAD, the more we have witnessed the combined power of visual arts and education to profoundly enrich not only individual lives, but also to ensure an innovative talent base that drives our region's economy.
"Words such as 'culture,' 'the storytelling of place,' 'community,' 'urban responsibility,' 'joy' and 'iconic form making' describe Mark Rios, whose multidisciplinary talents will create a one-of-a-kind experience for the
community," Lubar said.
The Creativity Series will bring as many as four artists, designers and scholars to Milwaukee and MIAD each year.
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My experience has been really different. I both drop in to play old games I've played before, and drop into old games I've never played before, and I really don't see what the big deal is. Ok, the character models in Asheron's Call are pretty eye-gougingly bad, but the game plays fine and it's fun...
I had no trouble going back to EQ, even re-rolling on a new server. It's a game that never fails to be fun for me. I know people complain about the UI, but all I can say is that those people didn't play with the original interface. At least it isn't THAT anymore. LOL.
I guess my expectations are different because I don't buy many new games unless I am sure I want to try it based on first hand reports from people I trust, and I don't play games except for MMOs (mostly, but not exclusively, f2p), a very few single player RPGs (most recently Oblivion), sim-style games (Sim City4, The Sims, various virtual pet things... Hey, I'm a girl, cut me some slack!) and casual puzzle games. I don't have a lot to compare the graphics and UI with. If the graphics are better than Doom 2, then I am ok with whatever they show me. (The only thing I absolutely will NOT forgive is poor performance. If it runs like crap, and tweaking the graphics doesn't fix it, I am outta there.)
To each his own, I guess.
I wonder if part of what makes it different for me is that I no longer treat MMOs as a kind of game different from other kinds of games. When I played UO and EQ, I was there for years. I played EQ for 10 years. That's a long time. And I did look for that kind of relationship with a game after that-- 6 months in WoW, 3 months in EQ2, a couple of months in SWG, 9 months in Jade Dynasty (which I still drop into from time-to-time)... At some point, I stopped having the expectation that I was going to play any given game for more than a couple of weeks, or whenever I was in the mood for that particular 'flavor' of MMO. The relevant point here being that when I go back to EQ or decide to take out another free trial of WoW, I know it's just for that month or for those two weeks-- I am not expecting to have the same experience as when I played those games "for real". There's no pressure, no commitment, just fun.
I am committed to a certain guild, and I go where they go (currently DDO & Guild Wars), but on my own time, I have about a dozen f2p games and 2 subscription games installed and ready to be played-- a game for every mood. And EQ happens to be one of those games-- both Live and... elsewhere.
I agree - I don't want a DAOC2 but I do want a game where I can pve and still have 3 realm RVR and a lower lvl battleground system. The 3 realm RVR was a good system because when one realm was top dog the other two realms could make a good attempt and eventually succeed at toppling a Juggernaut. I still want to cruise aound on my mount and explore every nook and cranny but there are times when nothing but a real good rvr battle will satisfy the soul : )
I have same with AC all tho i loved it and its one of my best mmo's ive played over the years, i just can't play it anymore. I wish i could play AC2 also again but prolly have same reason all tho this game if i look at some screenshots still can compete with many todays mmo's out there.
Games played:AC1-Darktide'99-2000-AC2-Darktide/dawnsong2003-2005,Lineage2-2005-2006 and now Darkfall-2009.....
In between WoW few months AoC few months and some f2p also all very short few weeks.
I've often contemplated this delimma as an indie developer, and I've almost come to the conclusion that MMO players, after a while, simpy aren't impressed with the novelty of "being online" in an interactive environment. And it may be that NO game will give them that initial virgin rush. That and the fact so many games are pushed out there nowadays, especially from asian development powerhouses, that have absolutely nothing new to contribute to the genre. As a developer, its very difficult for me to determine what is "fun" anymore since I myself are a bit burned out. Possibly at this point in MMO history we have a lot of 30 and 40 year olds, life has changed, we love telling the stories, but in our hearts we know we can't recapture the thrill, so we move on with our lives, find other interests, and occasionally make time to read an article, post a thread, etc.
What I do know is that every game out there is FANTASTIC until you see it, haha. There is bitter disconnect; everyone thinks they know what they want. Its not clear to me though if someone put a fresh coat of paint on my first love ( UO ) that I'd want to play it, or if I did whether that online experience would be the same, or if everyone I encountered would be just as jaded and half-committed as I was.
The problem with old games is the publishers who made them like to pretend that they're still new and insist on charging like-new sub fees.
If I was a car dealer I wouldn't charge full price on an older vehicle, nobody would buy it.
MMOs depreciate as much as anything else.
I'm going to go ahead and point my finger at: (because they deserve the negative attention)
Ultima Online
Lineage 1
Everquest 1
Asheron's Call
Dark Age of Camelot
Star Wars Galaxies
These games have no right to remain P2P, they are simply not even worth it. Their age has depreciated them into relics that only their true diehard fans would enjoy and still pay for. Those fans don't last forever, and with no new faces arriving, it's only a matter of time until the community is deader than a post-apocalyptic wasteland. I have absolutely no clue how some of these games, especially SWG, are still in business at all.
@Xero : I can agree that these older games would be better suited at a $5 per month, free client download and activation model. I've never been a fan of the totally F2P model (for numerous reasons), and I'd be concerned that most companies would shut the games down before trying F2P anyway.
Then maybe some of them should bite the bullet and go ahead and shut down.
Originally posted by jackie28
@Xero : I can agree that these older games would be better suited at a $5 per month, free client download and activation model. I've never been a fan of the totally F2P model (for numerous reasons), and I'd be concerned that most companies would shut the games down before trying F2P anyway.
Some of them are way overdue for this anyways.
When i have tried to go back to my old MMO AO i dont think its the graphics, or the UI or even the gameplay that puts me off....Its what was once was that puts me off... Im stood on Old athens hill but this time im surrounded by complete strangers...all my friends gone no one just to sit down and chat with and then decide lets go kick some borg butt! .
I think memories are to blame! most of us have such a good time in our very first MMO's that we compare everything to those feelings that we once had, And i dont think we want to change those memories. So we move on to newer pastures and leave our old games behind hoping to recapture that little spark in a newer game..
Sadly for me that has never happened even after WoW i never felt attatched and i played for 2 years
So for us old skoolers i think our MMO days are over.. and we just potter about for a few weeks or months in new games.
As mentioned by others, the old games were great because you needed to interact with others, and communities was formed. In the old games there were fewer quests which meant that you could not just ignore the group quests and truck on solo. You needed to get a group together to continue. You relied on others to help you, and you helped out others without worrying that "I don't a reward for helping". You knew that down the line it would be your turn to need help and having good standing in your community was important.
DAoC suffered from mismanagement. The game was great at release, but every design decision in the expansion took away from the lores and premises that the game was founded upon. New Frontiers was just a bad design, and SI killed the capitals. ToA killed the last hope of balance, and LotM seemed like something that was just added because they needed a new expansion. Agramon felt like Mythic's attempt to bring OF Emain back without admitting that NF was a failure. NF also changed the as casters began to reign supreme and godlike to the extent that one sorcerer could take out five stealthers, and warriors were reduced to PvE meatshields or ram operators.
The few things Mythic did right, the did for "free". The Dragon zones that just added onto the existing world was great, but instead of making more like them and maintaining the playerbase, we got ToA. People can argue, but ToA was the deathblow of DAoC. The deaththroes lasted quite a while, but today we are where we are.
The last straw for me was when they changed archery to be a poor man's spells, and archers even were given access to caster artifacts.
Unfortunately, Mythic's mismanagement has been irreversible, and the game suffered. A new game might rekindle the old flames, but the old is horribly broken.
i couldnt have said it better my self
Very accurate description Vargur. Even though I do think the catacomb and labyrint expansions were ok because at that time they had learned from the mistakes of ToA and NF.
Also the dev team mostly responsible for ToA and NF moved on to WaR once mythic got the license and a secondary team was put on DaoC which saved the game for several years. And we know what happened to war.
"You are the hero our legends have foretold will save our tribe, therefore please go kill 10 pigs."
One of the things that made those games so special was the group you were running with. I had a great guild in Asheron's Call 1, and some good friends in AC2 I remember when they chopped down the forest to reduce lag there! SWG...well, let's just skip that one. I've played a ton of other games since AC1 and for me, the enjoyment was with the people I aligned myself with. Once I left those games (for a wide variety of reasons) capturing that old magic wasn't the same without my friends being there.
Originally posted by Xero_Chance
Originally posted by jackie28
@Xero : I can agree that these older games would be better suited at a $5 per month, free client download and activation model. I've never been a fan of the totally F2P model (for numerous reasons), and I'd be concerned that most companies would shut the games down before trying F2P anyway.
Some of them are way overdue for this anyways.
I don't see the logic in shutting down an MMO that is making money. It seems like your premise here is that YOU don't see the value in them, so that means they have less value to them than current games. You do see the flaw there, right?
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I played DaoC for years, all the way from beta till about the time they killed off archery. I would have still been playing had they not done that. The last two years or so that I played it was very casual , about 5 or 6 hours a week mostly fighting in the lower level battlegrounds. I was hoping that Warhammer would take it's place but no luck there. I played SWG for its frist year and loved it even more thas I did DaoC. I spent hours on my tailor /rifleman hunting/harvesting and making outfits for anyone who needed or wanted them not even caring if they could pay for them. I also hvae manged to rack up 4 years in CoH somehow on the side playing with one of my sons just on the weekends.
Currently I play CoH about one or twice a week for an hour or so and STO with my youngest son on the weekends for about 5 or 6 hours.
I do miss DaoC and SWG a lot but they changed so much that they where not tyhe games I loved. I would love to see a Daoc style game with all the new things that are possible nowdays but I am not going to loss any sleep over waiting for it to happen. Currently I am waiting on the Secret world to come out and I will check out the next Star wars game as well.
I do love those old games but I am eagerly awaiting something new.
Nice article!
For me it's hit-or-miss about going back to old games. Some seem to work out better than others to go back to, whereas others suffer from population problems, a closed community, and/or game elements that make it hard to get back into. A lot of old titles were actually deeply flawed
Unlike a lot of people, I mix any feelings of nostalgia with remembering the negatives. If I left a game after little play, it was because there were things I didn't like in it in the first place. The old MMOs are not automatically better than the new ones. People claim they have more soul. I don't think so though. I think a lot of it has to do with how jaded a player has become over time.
I always wondered why they couldn't take an existing MMO & give it the "fresh lick of paint" - this was what I wanted EQ2 to be, the old game with snazzy gfx & new systems, of course there are a million & one reasons why that has yet to be done with anything other than maybe EVE.
I think there is a desire to build the kind of game that "can" be kept up to date, but how would someone go about building such an upwardly expandable /improvable game? I imagine it would be a vast technical & planning challenge, EQ2 tried to do it but the hardware rules it modelled that upward change on got altered, illustrating just how difficult that approach can be.
But yeah, looking forward to EQnext & would love to see a DAoC or Ultima Online successor.
Well I think EQ2 has a ton of contact and very hard to see it all. I have 2 90's and there is tons of content I have still not touch. The great thing about this though is the wonderful mentor system in eq2 as I can just mentor to help a friend, and I still get good AA even at low lvls. I honestly just love eq2 think its best mmo I have ever played.
Originally posted by Xero_Chance
The problem with old games is the publishers who made them like to pretend that they're still new and insist on charging like-new sub fees.
If I was a car dealer I wouldn't charge full price on an older vehicle, nobody would buy it.
MMOs depreciate as much as anything else.
I'm going to go ahead and point my finger at: (because they deserve the negative attention)
Ultima Online
Lineage 1
Everquest 1
Asheron's Call
Dark Age of Camelot
Star Wars Galaxies
These games have no right to remain P2P, they are simply not even worth it. Their age has depreciated them into relics that only their true diehard fans would enjoy and still pay for. Those fans don't last forever, and with no new faces arriving, it's only a matter of time until the community is deader than a post-apocalyptic wasteland. I have absolutely no clue how some of these games, especially SWG, are still in business at all.
They're still in business because there are still enough people who play them for the developers to keep them around.
They're still P2P because there are still people who find it's a worthy investment to play something they enjoy.
The more poignant question is... Why do you care? In a follow-up to this post of yours, you indicate that they should be taken offline. Why? Because you don't like them? Others shouldn't be able to play and enjoy the games that they like because you don't see the value in them?
If you have no interest in these games, then what is it to you that they're still up and running and/or charging a sub fee? Is it money out of your wallet for others to play them? No. Is it your time others are spending to play them? No. So, again, why do you care?
I never could understand attitudes like yours. "I don't care if others still like and play these games. I don't think they should exist, so they shouldn't."
Pretty short-sighted mentality.
The reason AC2 failed, however, was not because people weren't looking forward to it. It failed because they changed the essence of what AC was. In fact, I miss the days of playing the OLD AC so much, it actually landed me on this article as I was coming here to see what the state of the game was. I loved the whole follower aspect of the game. AC2 abandoned it. I loved the spell casting in AC1. AC2 abandoned it. I loved the skills and LACK of character classes in AC1. AC2 Abadoned that. AC2 failed BIG time, but it failed because it drastically changed the essence of the game. There hasn't been a single game before or since Asheron's Call which truly rewarded you for helping other players. I remember even giving my follower's missions and rewarding them with cool gear. There have been promises from lots of other games that they would start some sort of player generated missions (Anarchy Online even started out with the guts for it in place, though they never worked it out), but AC was the only game to give you experience for, and REQUIRE you to have followers in order to use certain gear. Heh... it made it so it was VERY VERY rewarding to be a new player, as the gear was given out like mad to try to bribe you to be followers. In WoW, people will give gold for you to sign their charter, but once they have a guild, the best you're likely to get is the odd help in finishing something you can't do on your own, and even then there's ZERO reward for the people over you... <sigh> I miss THAT kind of loyalty... I miss having 30 or 40 people under me I could summon to any spot to settle a kill stealing dispute. See, in AC, you HAD to take care of your people, or you risked losing the ability to use some of your items. OH, that was so great. When AC2 abandoned the greatest aspects of AC1, all the people that loved AC1 went back to playing AC1.
I'm saying all this because someone mentioned it was the failure of AC2 and EQ2 which led to not seeing a DAoC2 (which, frankly, I didn't really care about since I didn't care for DAoC1). It's just important to note the reasons AC2 failed. It's the same reason SupCom2 was such a terrible failure. For the first time in his career, Chris Taylor went BACKWARDS in complexity, and it led to the obvious bomb. AC2 tried to reinvent the wheel, so lost the original fan base.
Originally posted by Slapshot1188
I really don't understand the industry. Like you say in the article, there are tons of potential customers literally begging for DAoC2 to be made. Given all the money being thrown around these days and all the new games that seem to be churned out as though from an assembly line.... why is it that no one can simply provide the game that so many people are asking for?
Why is there no DAoC2? I know there was at one time a Dawn of Camelot planned.. and I know that EA has gobbled up Mythic and most of the team are gone, but why haven't those folks found work elsewhere creating DAoC2 or whatever it would be called if it was made by a different company? Why won't someone bankroll it?
Man do I hear that!
I really do hope for a DAOC2.. I know some friends as well as I would have it preordered NOW!
Originally posted by Garvon3
Er, one rather HUGE factor is missing. The reason I'm not playing DAoC RIGHT NOW isn't because I gobbled up all the fun I can, it's becaue updates and expansions destroyed the game I loved and made it something else. THAT'S why I can't go back. That's why people can't go back to SWG. That's why people can't go back to MOST of their favorite MMOs. And AC2 failed not for being a bad sequel, but because it was horribly mismanaged and broken.
So, people can't go back because deep down they really loved a game that actually sucked completely, but has now been fixed and turned into something worth playing. Got it.
Originally posted by Vargur
As mentioned by others, the old games were great because you needed to interact with others, and communities was formed. In the old games there were fewer quests which meant that you could not just ignore the group quests and truck on solo. You needed to get a group together to continue. You relied on others to help you, and you helped out others without worrying that "I don't a reward for helping". You knew that down the line it would be your turn to need help and having good standing in your community was important.
This post touched on a small, but key piece of the MMO puzzle. The earlier games were designed around building communities within their playerbase. The newer games are so solo friendly and appeasing to everyone that they're simply boring. Many of us came into this genre playing characters that, while strong when compared to other characters, were easy kills for most mobs that gave decent rewards.
In EQ, all but a few classes were going to have a hard time soloing any mob their level. Even if they could pull it off, it would be so taxing that they would have to rest for quite awhile between kills, so groups were still appealing. Being so weak as individual characters, when compared to the mobs you were fighting, really made everyone feel important. The warrior holding agro was important. The enchanter mezzing the 2nd mob (which would have wiped the group) was important. The DPS from the wizard, the cleric's heals and ability to manage their mana, etc etc. Everyone added something the group needed.
The only reason I personally can't go back to those games, is what those games did to themselves. When i quit EQ, it hadn't been EverQuest for a long time. It was trying to dumb itself down and make itself easier for years. The raids were getting easier, the group content was still relatively hard, but the rewards FROM that content were ridiculously powerful. There was much more solo capability. The community was already dead, so everyone was playing bots + hiring mercenary NPCs. Travelling through the world involved 1 click from your guild hall and running through a couple zones.
Basically the "new style" of MMO came, and that's all we've been seeing land on the market. At the same time, the old games have been trying to incorporate this new philosophy into themselves, leaving those of us who liked the older style out in the cold. Even from our old games.