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A drop-tuned slaying machine with all the necessary elements.
With seven strings and a long 26-1/2" scale length, the Schecter Hellraiser C-7 FR electric guitar is made to play heavy rock and metal music. Other heavy-rock essentials found on this beast include a set-neck with 24 extra-jumbo frets, solid mahogany body with quilted maple top, EMG 707-TW active humbuckers with coil-splitting, and a Floyd Rose Original tremolo bridge with a locking nut. You will never be happy with just six strings again after you experience the low end growl of the C-7 powerhouse.
Case sold separately.
Check the drop-down menu to the right to select colors and/or other options.
- Construction: Set-neck with Ultra Access
- Scale: 26-1/2"
- Tuning: B-E-A-D-G-B-E
- Body: Mahogany
- Top: Quilted maple
- Neck: 3-piece mahogany
- Fingerboard: Rosewood
- Frets: 24 extra-jumbo
- Inlays: Gothic cross
- Pickups: EMG Active 707-TW
- Electronics: 2 Vol with push/pull coil-splitting/Tone/3-Way Toggle Switch
- Bridge: Floyd Rose Original Tremolo
- Binding: Abalone
- Tuners: Grover
- Hardware: Black Chrome
- Case sold separately
Hellraiser C-7 FR 7-String Electric Guitar
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- Good feel (5)
- Fun to play (4)
- Good pick up (4)
- Good tone (4)
- Solid electronics (4)
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- Jamming (3)
- Practicing (3)
- Recording (3)
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Comments about Schecter Guitar Research Hellraiser C-7 FR 7-String Electric Guitar:
I recently bought this guitar as my first ever 7-string, and I couldn't be happier with it. It's a really well-made, quality instrument, and it has made my introduction to the 7-string world an easy and fun one.
The finish is gorgeous (I got the limited edition, purple quilted maple top, but the cherry is just as beautiful), and all the hardware is good quality, especially the Floyd Rose tremolo. Aside from changes in temperature which cause the strings to stretch or contract slightly, this guitar never goes out of tune.
I don't love the sound of the EMG-707 pickups, but that's a matter of personal taste. You might think they're the greatest sounding pickup of all time. And anyway, replacement pickups are easy to obtain and install. More and more manufacturers are making them with the soapbar-style covers that fit the routing on this guitar. I would recommend you give them a chance and see if you like them. Even if you don't, don't let that keep you from buying this guitar.
I wouldn't really agree with those who say that it's ready to play out of the box. For some players, it might be fine, but for the feel that I like (super-low action and a fairly straight neck), I found that it needed some minor adjusting. But that's something that I would expect to do on any guitar that I buy. If you're experienced at setting up guitars, it's pretty easy. Or if you're not, you can take it to your favorite guitar tech and they'll do it for you. No biggie.
Also, it came with .010-gauge strings. I prefer .009's, so I changed those out pretty quickly. Again, not a big deal.
I don't think you can get a better quality 7-string guitar for the money. If I had it to buy all over again, I would not hesitate to do so.
- Fun To Play
- Good Craftsmanship
- Good Feel
- Good Pick Up
- Good Tone
- Great looking
- Solid Electronics
Best Uses
- For All Types Of Play
Comments about Schecter Guitar Research Hellraiser C-7 FR 7-String Electric Guitar:
If you're looking to get a seven string and were considering this guitar, then let me tell you this is an excellent choice. First off, the guitar looks killer. I have the white version and it's really stunning. It has a very solid feel, played great right out of the packaging. It just needed some minor tuning. The EMG 707's sound great and offer a good versatile range of tone. The pickup coil selector is great especially for playing clean and getting a good blues or country sound. Now before you get it I would recommend you try one out before you buy it especially if you never have played with a 7 string like myself. I am used to playing 6 string ESP LTD guitars and they have pretty thin necks. This guitar being a 7 string of course is going to take some getting used to. The thing that really got me though was the 26 range neck. I like it because it's great for chording and soloing especially on the high frets but it took me some time to get comfortable because everything felt more stretched. The guitar is moderately heavy but is comfortable whether standing or sitting. The ultra access neck is good but I still find it just a tad more cumbersome to play on the higher frets than on my ESP's. The craftmanship is fantastic. It has great sustain. Hardly no string buzz right out of the box and the string height was perfect in my opinion. If you want not only just a great metal guitar but something that is capable of letting you explore different tone options, than this is the perfect guitar. One of the best contenders in the 7 sring department.
- Excellent Craftsmanship
- Fun To Play
- Good Feel
- Good Pick Up
- Good Tone
- Looks great
- Solid Electronics
- Sticky Neck
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Comments about Schecter Guitar Research Hellraiser C-7 FR 7-String Electric Guitar:
This is my first seven string guitar and I must say I am not disappointed. I originally bought an Ibanez arz307, but I was not impressed at all by the quality of craftsmanship and pickups.
I plan on swapping out the EMG 707 in the bridge for an EMG 81-7 or a Seymour Duncan Blackout-7. The 707s sounds just fine, but if you're playing through a Dual Rectifier, you may feel like the low end is a bit overbearing.
My only complaint about this guitar is that the finish on the neck is the same as the rest of the guitar. It looks great, but it makes the neck feel very sticky. This is an easy fix though (If you're ok with trying it). I lightly rubbed some 4/0 steel wool on the neck finish to remove the shine and make it very smooth. It only takes off a thin layer of clear coat and it can be easily buffed back out with car polish if you want the original shine again.
All in all, I love this guitar. The neck was not hard to get used to. After a couple of days of playing, I actually prefer it over my Gibson. Now 6 strings just feel like miniature guitars.
- Excellent quality
- Fun To Play
- Good Feel
- Good Pick Up
- Solid Electronics
- Fret Buzz
Best Uses
- Jamming
- Practicing
- Recording
- Small Venues
Comments about Schecter Guitar Research Hellraiser C-7 FR 7-String Electric Guitar:
Recently purchased this guitar. It plays amazing, the feel is really comfortable. The emg pickups are very good and do not make the low b string sound muddy. The price is reasonable and the quality is very good. I recommend this guitar to anyone who is looking for a 7 string.
- Good design
- Good Feel
- Good Tone
- Solid Build
- Relatively Heavy
Best Uses
- Jamming
- Practicing
- Recording
Comments about Schecter Guitar Research Hellraiser C-7 FR 7-String Electric Guitar:
The quality of this guitar is top notch, and the parts (pickups, neck wood, body wood etc) are well chosen, making this a great all-round guitar with a progressive-metal inclination.
I will list the factors that were most relevant in picking this guitar over others in the 7-string department.
1. The bridge is great, don't worry about it being made in South Korea. Fully functional, smooth, stable, strong, well-built, great sustain. Swapping it for an Original Floyd Rose is however still an option.
2. The pickups are moderate output - if you want crazy high output, get the Blackjack. The single tone sound is much better than I expected - but thinner and more "lonely" sounding than my maple neck Standard Stratocaster. I really like the humbucking sound. You can get the pickups in parallel in the 'mid' position and individually set single-coil or double-coil sound at the same time.
3. Active pickups, hope you know what you are getting into. You can't expect to be lazy with these pickups. Work with the volume, tone controls, and the equalizer on your pedal/amp, and you can shape the naturally flat(ter) response of these pickups to something that works for the moment.
4. You'll be fine with standard tuning, BUT this guitar is MADE for drop A tuning. Seriously. The neck scale is long, so that helps; plus you can then reduce the tremolo resistance a bit.
5. The set 3 piece neck, mahogany body combined with the EMG 707 give a great sound.
6. You want the SGR-1C hardshell case for this. Any other case will probably not be a snug fit, or not fit at all.
7. The Schecter website (particularly the FAQ page) has lots of interesting information for Diamond series guitars that you should check out before making a decision.
8. It looks amazing. But you can see that.
9. The battery compartment is exactly big enough for ONE 9V battery. If you are thinking of an 18V mod, you'll have to do some work... For these particular pickups, I'd say - not really needed.
10. Why doesn't anyone talk about the clean sound of this thing? Remember point 3 and you can great clean tones - both humbucking and single-coil. You may have to work harder for some tones, and some tones will be elusive - but you can't have EVERYTHING in the same guitar.
It's a heavy guitar, and feels solid and sturdy. Nice rugged polyester finish. The Black Cherry option works REALLY well. Definitely a winner in this price range.
- Fun To Play
- Good Feel
- Good Pick Up
- Good Tone
- Solid Electronics
- Fret Buzz
Best Uses
- Jamming
- Practicing
- Recording
Comments about Schecter Guitar Research Hellraiser C-7 FR 7-String Electric Guitar:
I've been playing this guitar for about 2 weeks now and it feels amazing. The frets are nice and big so when your hitting those high notes you're not struggling to keep your fingers in the right position. The spacing of the strings are great too. The sound that comes out of this beast is absolutely wonderful. I run my guitar through my POD Studio UX2 with POD Farm and it comes it very clean.
Comments about Schecter Guitar Research Hellraiser C-7 FR 7-String Electric Guitar:
An amazing 7 string guitar that is very versitile and can be used for almost any style of music. It is well worth its price and will last you for a very long time. You will not be dissapointed!!! Buy it today!!!
This guitar has all the features you could ask for in a 7 string guitar. It has a beautiful floyd rose bridge, has a ton of tonal versatility with the EMG 707's as you can easily switch them to single coil pickups via volume knobs. I would prefer the factory strings to be a thicker gauge for drop tunings, but these worked fine. The Locking nut is fantasic, and i can leave my guitar sit for a month and come back and still have it in perfect tuning.
This guitar has suprisingly good quality for a brand that is not generally known for it. You get a harsh, nasty tone from it on the low end with distortion, and sharp, cutting solos. Athough, this guitar, regardless of the 7th string is very versitile and sounds great with blues, jazz, country, ect. It delivers amazing tone all around. It came in perfect condition and i made a few personal modifacations, but nothing major. Overall, amazing quality: 10/10
I belive that this guitar is worth around what it is priced as on musicainsfriend.com, however because i live in canada, it cost a load of extra money to ship it up here. But given its reliablity, and durability, it was well worth the price. IT was also shipped very fast too.
Comments about Schecter Guitar Research Hellraiser C-7 FR 7-String Electric Guitar:
It's beautiful, plays wonderfully, and is set-up before shipping, so no need to take it to pro. What more can you ask for?
Push-pull coil tap, Oiginal Floyd Rose Trem, 24 frets, humongous frets (a little intimidating at first, but you will get used to it), EMG pickups for us metal heads (stay as far away as possible if you play Jazz/blues, you will hate it). All-in-all, an insanely good guitar.
The quality of the neck is "meh", I prefer the smoothness of Ebony fretboards but this is fine. Other than that, this guitar is top-notch quality.
Comments about Schecter Guitar Research Hellraiser C-7 FR 7-String Electric Guitar:
Overall, this baby is a beautiful axe that can really get any tone you need out of it. My band plays progressive metal, what with the odd meters and key changes and such, mostly sounding like Opeth/Dream Theater/Seventh Wonder. However, we do have a couple of songs that sound like a soft Skillet song - think Forgiven or A Little More - and all of the electric guitar parts were recorded with this guitar. I also play in 3 separate worship bands, and worship's genre of music can range from classical music to modern rock to blues to jazz to pretty much anything you can think of - one of the worship bands I play in has a full-blown orchestra, and this guitar is a BEAUTIFUL instrument there, too! Whether it's a sweet breakdown, a catchy lead guitar lick, a high-gain solo, a clean passage, a suspenseful bridge, or a straight-up death metal riff, this guitar can, and will, do the trick.
This guitar has brilliant features in that it has its seventh string, and the Floyd Rose tremolo bar. There are awesome and brutal tones that emerge when you drop tune it to A-E-A-D-G-B-E - you can really get some sick tones out of it. My only complaint is the amount of pickup control. Despite its 2 volume/1 tone control knobs, where the volume controls can snap up and down for extra awesomeness, it really needs either another pickup like the Stratocaster, or another tone control like the Les Paul and most other Gibson/Epiphone models. While you can get a pretty wide range of sounds out of its two pickups, my Epiphone Les Paul Studio can get more because of the extra tone control. However, it's a small price to pay, considering the seventh string and the Floyd Rose system.
This instrument is a GREAT axe. I've had it for about 14 months and I've never performed without it, except for one time when a string broke on it 5 minutes before we started playing. It's kind of odd to get such a good-quality instrument from Schecter, as they're nowhere near PRS or even Gibson quality. However, in this price range, this is easily the best guitar you can buy. Ibanez 7-strings just don't make the cut.
While it is a great guitar, I don't think it's worth one grand. I love this instrument to death, but, were I the person to price it, I would've made it between $700-$800. Great guitar, but the price is a little high.
Comments about Schecter Guitar Research Hellraiser C-7 FR 7-String Electric Guitar:
Perhaps that nicest guitar i've played, this was my first "over a grand" guitar purchase and it was pretty much by accident, i was at a guitar shop, checking stuff out, *not planning on buying anything*, and the sales person brought me this... so i bought it.NOTE: had never even played/considered a 7-stringThe neck is perfect width, and nice and smooth, the jumbo frets are handy as well, the EMGs are sound excellent for very low tuning (Gb is as low as i've gone *Djent-Djent*)with sick distortion, but it also has an amazing smooth clean sound. as everyone else has said, pictues dont do the guitar justice, it is beautiful.only reason i gave featurs 4.5 is cuz the cutaway could be just a little further...but it is sick for riffing, shredding,clean tones, and low drop tunings *Djent-Djent*Buy it! you wont be dissapointed /m/
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plums said:
You have a "release notes" link in your latest post that points to http://www.doomretro.com/2013/06/do...ease-notes.html but I'm getting a 404. The date should maybe be /2013/12/ if it's just meant to link to the post below it.
Interesting port idea. I'll give it a shot.
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Vulture said:
Just gave it a shot. I love it! The first thing that caught my eye is that some monster's "dying" frames are mirrored, how come nobody has thought of that before? Such a small tweak and yet it pops up out as something different.
I can't wait to play it some more when I get more free time to see what other little things pop up :D
axdoom1 said:
I like your port, it's very nice. It's like an updated vanilla-Doom that adds more details and it makes the game a bit more realistic (sprite variation, rocket trails...), but it keeps the old feeling. It also keeps the game simple because it doesn't have a ton of features. I hate tons of customizable features because it contributes to the loss of the vanilla feeling. I'll try it in multiplayer mode when it will be working. I'll be glad to help you in your project by reporting bugs.
DaniJ said:
After reading through the release notes it became very clear that this port is aimed at rather a different audience to that of Chocolate Doom, on which it is based. It would probably be a good idea to clarify in more detail the goals of your port (rather than simply what has been changed). Obviously vanilla mod compatibility is not a focus, for example.
bradharding said:
Thanks for the feedback! Such a simple little idea, but it works really well. I would love for other source ports to borrow this idea...
bradharding said:
Check out the release notes on the site. There are lots of little subtle surprises listed in there...
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Vulture said:
/me is already poking the Odamex team...
Oh I've already read the entire list.
Seriously though, thank you for this. I actually want to go back and play through some pwads using this... and I don't care for single player!
Average said:
I am really enjoying what I've played so far. Is it limit removing or just the vanilla limits?
I know you've just released it but I have a couple of requests if you're interested. The first would be the ability to remap the controller buttons. The reason being I already use a controller in ZDoom and relearning a button layout for a game I'm really familiar with is strange. BTW, why doesn't vibrate work with a Logitech F710 but it does for an XBox controller? Aren't they both just x-input?
The other request I don't even know if it's possible but here goes: Is it at all possible to make the lamps and switches full bright? It's always been one of my bugbears of all the software based (as opposed to OGL or D3D) engines. It just seems so unrealistic that a light on a switch doesn't light up!
Regardless, the port is nice surprise Doomsday present. Thank you. :)
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plums said:
Where is the cfg file stored? It's saving my settings clearly, but I don't see any default.cfg being written anywhere. Gotta get that mouse sensitivity up. On that note, plans to support higher mouse sensitivities from the options menu?
e: Nevermind, found it. 'Local Settings\Application Data\DOOM RETRO', good old wacky WinXP paths. But the sensitivity seems locked at 18.
BTW why can't I select text to copy on your webpage?
e2: OK max sensitivity is higher than vanilla Doom, I guess there's some acceleration going on or something. Oh well.
Also it seemed to find a doom2.wad on my HD when I just ran it? That's kind of cool.
Holding down shift doesn't make me walk with auto-run on. ALSO I'M GOING TO END UP TYPING IN CAPS A LOT AFTER PLAYING ;P
Average said:
Possible bug. When I turn the music down to zero there are no sound effects as if both music and sfx have been muted.
PS: Thanks for taking onboard my suggestions. If the lamps are fullbright they seem to be very dark compared to the fullbrights in some of the textures. Don't know if that's deliberate, a limitation or just me. :)
D_GARG said:
You Should Try This:
While you have features like Jump (skip crouch), you have no modifyed Physict but just more coggs in the machinery so to speak (maybe add a corair? if so make one ugly dot or angle).
you could give the player the option for full vanilla setup or switch to limit breaking mode with all the new features that have come up to doom over the 20 years, the quality doesnt ahve to be top notch but just so the player can use it.
I like your idea over this 20th birthday :)
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NightFright said:
+ Native resolutions instead of fixed/upscaled 640x400 (basically like ZDoom & Co.)
NightFright said:
Optional 32bit rendering (hard to accomplish with software, though)
NightFright said:
Optional "portable" mode (maybe with launch parameter or cfg setting) that saves settings and savegames in native install dir
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FireFish said:
side note :
i do not know why, but in the corner of the tiny health pick up secret room in the first map of doom 2, that houses two imps... i could see a pitch black square hanging around in the left upper corner. is this always there, or is this the port doing that ?
NightFright said:
Hey, that's pretty cool. Something like Chocolate Doom+. ^^
On my personal wishlist would be a couple of more features:
+ Native resolutions instead of fixed/upscaled 640x400 (basically like ZDoom & Co.)
+ Optional 32bit rendering (hard to accomplish with software, though)
+ Optional "portable" mode (maybe with launch parameter or cfg setting) that saves settings and savegames in native install dir
I will be monitoring this, it might be a good compromise for those that find ChocDoom too puritan regarding its features while considering ZDoom/Doomsday etc to be overkill already.
BTW, anybody knows if vanilla-compatible PWADs like "Back to Saturn X" are running with this (I guess trying it won't hurt)?
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It may seem unremarkable, but The Gunfighters is important.
Why? Oh, so many reasons, layered on top of one another to provide a fun, twisting adventure instantaneously and a fulfilling, satisfying story in retrospect to leave viewers with a smile on their faces.
It's notable for being one of only two on-screen serials in Doctor Who's entire history to be a full-blooded Western, set against the dusty, morally-ambiguous OK Corral. And straight off, it's different. It's a far cry from the Daleks threatening all of time with their Destructor; from the Trilogic Game; even from fellow historical, The Aztecs, where there are rules to be adhered to. It's about jovial as Who can be while there's the danger of a bullet in the skull to ease that toothache.
Even though his companions, Steven and Dodo, are immediately enjoying the American drawl, the sandy vistas, and the rootin' tootin' outfits, William Hartnell was the long-term advocate of a Wild West setting – and he clearly loves it. The three are easily relatable: Steven enjoys being the 'action hero' (but gets frustrated by the locals); Dodo gets caught up in all the excitement of actually being at the OK Corral (and gets kidnapped, for good measure); and the Doctor doesn't like the dentist.
It's not the Doctor's day: he's landed at a time where there's no antiseptic, and the only anaesthetic is alcohol – and, of course, the Doctor never touches alcohol! (Jon Pertwee never got that memo.) Oh, and his dentist is the infamous Doc Holliday.
Like many Who serials – and especially historicals – The Gunfighters relies heavily on misunderstandings, and if you can't guess that the Doctor's going to be mistaken for Doc Holliday (particularly under the clever title, A Holiday for The Doctor), then you probably shouldn't be a Who fan. Anthony Jacobs' Holliday is well-presented as a slightly creepy bloke who's somehow surprisingly likeable, set against the highly-moral, up-and-at-them Wyatt Earp (John Alderson) and the looming Clanton brothers (William Hurndell, Maurice Good, and David Cole), who are mainly played for laughs. In fact, the whole production feels like every character is going to wink at the camera at an opportune moment.
Rex Tucker's direction is fantastic though, and the cameramen who worked on such a limited set deserve BAFTAs. Five cameras are mainly used, but a sixth – on top of a 10ft tower, looking down on the action – provides a unique perspective. The opening scene, a slow pan across the dusty ground from behind a wagon, sets the tone beautifully and a shot in episode one which shows the full length of the studio proves how incredible the 1960s crews really were. They created whole planets and civilisations in a studio the size of an average flat. Compared to the lavish productions of the current series, it's almost unbelievable.
The cameras operate brilliantly between transitions (as episodes generally had two recording breaks), aided briefly by Anthony Jacob's young son, Matthew. And here's just one reason why The Gunfighters is important. Matthew Jacobs remembered his trip to set and would pen the 1996 Doctor Who movie… in which Paul McGann's Eighth Doctor would don a Wyatt Earp costume!
Of course, however important and far-reaching it is, The Gunfighters has also got some substantial problems too. So let's address the issues that have marred this serial for so many years.
Firstly, it's not historically accurate. It's really not. Right from the off, we hear of the murder of a non-existent Clanton brother. Then there's the long-deceased Pa Clanton (Reed De Rouen), turning up alive and well. And the amount of deaths in the gunfight. There seems to be a hooded-cloak theme here. Of course, it could just be our historical records that are wrong. No…?
There are several players that weren't actually in Tombstone in 1881 either, and after a while, the various Earps, Clantons and gunslingers get all muddled up together. It helps to remember that the bad guys are usually the ones sneering. One might even use this as a reason for the show's repeated avoiding of "pure" historical adventures; certainly many feel that the similar setting of A Town Called Mercy was a missed opportunity for fans of that type of adventure.
If you don't know much of the Wild West, this isn't going to taint the tale. What might, however, is The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon, sung by Lynda Baron (Enlightenment; Closing Time). It suits the serial to a certain extent, but it just gets annoying, particularly as there's no other music (apart from the Doctor Who theme tune, naturally).
The low point comes when a background character, Charlie 'The Barman' (David Graham) is killed by outlaw, Johnny Ringo, merely because he knew his reputation, and is – for reasons unknown – incorporated in the 'song.' "So it's curtains for Charlie; he knew Johnny's name" – clang! Oh dear. Stop repeating it!
The worst part is it's so damn catchy.
It shouldn't detract from the otherwise-excellent story… but it does upon first viewing. However, once you've come to terms with its existence, it's not so bad on second viewing.
In fact, Steven's impressive singing (at gunpoint) almost justifies Baron's version throughout episode one, but it will still niggle at viewers, and his exasperation at the Clantons wanting him to sing it again – "the same one?!" – echoes the audience's sentiments perfectly. However, this threat to Steven, Dodo and the Doctor provides a great, surprisingly-upbeat and therefore contrasting cliffhanger. The song also gives us some of the funniest (if unintentional) moments in a tale already littered with jokes. Firstly, Holliday's lover, Kate (Sheena Marshe), gives us some terrible miming – which is always good for a laugh – and took five takes to get, uh, 'right.' And secondly, Dodo's fake piano-playing is hilarious.
It's a shame Peter Purves (Steven) hated filming The Gunfighters – though, in retrospect, he now thinks it's a very good story – as it's really time for him, William Hartnell and Jackie Lane (Dodo) to shine. Behind-the-scenes tensions with director, Rex Tucker, vanish whenever they're on screen; in fact, it seems as if all parties are really enjoying themselves, and there's a lovely inclusive feel for the audience. I love Steven's initial reaction to finding a heavily-intoxicated (ie. dead) Charlie.
Surprisingly, Charlie's also a reason the serial is important: it's a chance to see David Graham, best-known for voicing the Daleks since 1964, and the Mechanoids from The Chase (1965), as well as The Thunderbirds' Brains and Parker!
Steven's likeability makes the end of episode two (Don't Shoot The Pianist) and the beginning of episode three (Johnny Ringo) so wonderfully distressing: the noose going around his neck is a stark, bold image, particularly as there has been complaints about similar scenes on television – which had led to copycats. It's removed soon afterwards, but it just hangs in the background ominously. Conspiracy theorists would argue it's a sign that Steven and Dodo are to leave the TARDIS, and that plans are afoot to replace William Hartnell; film-snobs would argues that it's a physical manifestation of one of the serial's themes; and sceptics would ignore it completely.
Three things really make The Gunfighters brilliant: the cast, the script and the set. Everyone immerses themselves in the story completely; Anthony Jacobs is especially great as Doc Holliday and Alderson's Wyatt Earp is subtly excellent. However, it's only when Laurence Payne's Johnny Ringo arrives that the action really shifts into gear. He's certainly memorable as the token 'big bad'; if the Clantons are the simple enforcers, Ringo is surely the Kingpin. Both up-and-coming Doctor, Patrick Troughton and Who veteran, Philip Madoc, were considered for the role, but I wouldn't have it any other way: Payne (The Leisure Hive; The Two Doctors) is exactly what you'd want him to be.
Donald Cotton's script has been praised time and time again, so I won't go into this too much – but needless to say it's just so clever. All the pieces fall into place, ready for the gunfight, and the dialogue sparkles, helped by the comedic performances of cast members like Peter Purves. William Hartnell must get special credit though: he's on top form – brilliant at bumbling about, too – and added a lot to the script during rehearsals (such as the Doctor calling Wyatt 'Mr. Werp').
All this is propped up by a truly exceptional set. I don't think I've ever seen such a convincing set in Classic Who. It may not stretch out into the distance, but it still feels more extensive than, say, The Aztecs. It's the production's nice little touches that make it so special: posters advertise the newly-opened railway; Dodo's costume actually gets grubby after riding through the desert; the alcohol glugging out of the bottle after Charlie's death is an arresting image and perfectly sets up the following scene… There's even a bullet hole in the 'No Shooting' sign!
Then there's three more things that make The Gunfighters important. Most notably, The OK Corral is the last episode to have an individual title until 2005's Rose. The following serial is simply named The Savages.
It's also the last story commissioned by outgoing team of producer, John Wiles, and script editor, Donald Tosh, leading to the new team (Innes Lloyd and Gerry Davis) telling the crew to focus on the lighter side of The Gunfighters. Tosh later stated that he felt this was a mistake, as was Baron's singing. Sydney Newman – the man largely responsible for Doctor Who's creation – also said The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon was terrible… and everybody agrees.
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''Honestly, not to be boastful, this is what I know this team can do,'' Daugherty said. ''We went to Europe in August and this is what we were doing. We hadn't found our rhythm from the 3-point line, although we have some very good shooters. The key for us was we were moving the basketball better tonight.''
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''Right now we're playing defense like we hope they miss as opposed to let's make them miss,'' Nebraska coach Connie Yori said. ''We knew that defensively that we had a lot of work to do, and I thought they hit shots, but we're just not able to take a lot of things away from opponents right now.''
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''A lot of our girls had never played in an arena this loud, so for us to keep our composure and poise when they came back on us showed that we can hang with some of the top teams,'' said Tia Presley, who scored 13 of her 17 points in the second half.
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Jordan Hooper led the Huskers with 24 points but was 6 of 27 from the field. Emily Cady had 13 points, Hailie Sample added 11 and Rachel Theriot and Tear'a Laudermill 10 apiece.
''We weren't efficient enough offensively to beat a team that's a good offensive team,'' Yori said. ''We knew we would have to score some in order to beat them. They go 12 for 25 from the 3-point line and we have the same shots and go 4 for 18. There you go.''
Cady scored 10 points during a 16-0 spurt that got the Huskers within 63-60 with 8 minutes to play, and it was a one-point game after Laudermill's left-handed scoop putback.
The Huskers were still within 71-69 after Hooper hit a 3-pointer, and three times in a row they had chances to tie or go ahead.
Presley made two free throws to make it a five-point game with 14 seconds left. Hooper hit a 3 to cut it to 74-72, but Shalie Dheensaw made two free throws with 4.6 seconds to play for her only points of the game.
''They're a really good shooting team, and we knew that coming in,'' Hooper said. ''We just didn't find them quick enough. When we found them, unfortunately, they already had shot the shot and made it.''
The Cougars, who came in shooting 28 percent on 3-pointers, made six shots from beyond the arc in the first 10 minutes to open a double-digit lead that grew to 15. Yori called a timeout, and after that the Huskers went on a 16-0 surge that produced a brief lead. But Brandi Thomas and Sage Romberg made 3s in the last 1:23, and Washington State led 45-38 at half.
''We reminded them that it's a game of runs and they're a great team ranked 10th in the country for a reason and undefeated,'' Daugherty said. ''We're going to make our runs, too. That was the same message the second half.''
The Cougars got first-half offense from an unlikely source in Edmondson, who averaged 3.7 points and had made a total of three 3s in seven games. She went 3 for 4 from long range in the first half and scored 11 of her points the first 20 minutes.
''It's no surprise to me. She comes off the bench right now but she could start,'' Daugherty said. ''Taylor knows that she's a good scorer and that she has the green light, and it was great to see her in this atmosphere.''


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January 03 2013 04:17PM
Among nerdlinger types who value advanced stats in hockey, ice time is seen as perhaps the single most invaluable stat. Tom Awad, for example, has argued that ice-time is the best proxy we've got at the moment for determining overall player value.
If you're like me, and tend to think that NHL headcoaches, who are paid millions of dollars to maximize the effectiveness of their hockey teams, have a better overall grasp of which players are effective in particular roles than your average fan or hockey scribe; then understanding the way a player is deployed can tell us an awful lot about that individual's skillset and value.
In an effort to visualize this concept in an accessible way, Ben Wendorf came up with the "total player chart" in a must read NHLnumbers post in mid-December. On Tuesday he put together detailed charts for every Canucks player over the past five seasons (the image at the top of this post is the TPC for the Canucks last season), and I figured I'd share the images and caption them with some analysis for your reading pleasure. Read on past the jump for more.
Before we get to some Canucks centered analysis, I'll quote Ben on the methodology behind the TPC radar plots:
I suggested that we could better refine and increase predictability of even-strength ice time by expressing it as a percentage of the team's even-strength time in games the player played (a wordy way of describing 5v5%). Though it will probably be a post in-and-of-itself, 5v4% and 4v5% are both testing to be similarly positive refinements on those TOI metrics.
Rather than handle that today, I wanted to unveil a little idea that had been bouncing around my head for a while. I'll be damned if I can recall the post from Beyond the Box Score, the excellent baseball statistics web site, but they had a season preview a while back where they used radar plots of a number of metrics like OBP, Fangraphs' Baserunner rating, UZR/150 (something to that effect), and for each player on a given team their talent in those metrics filled a certain portion of the radar plot. The more you filled the radar plot, the better you were.
There's certainly room for doing this when the statistical hockey gods agree on a metric already (spoiler alert: they never will) - till that time I'm content to build a radar plot of three metrics, 5v5%, 5v4%, and 4v5%. In part, this is to represent player value, as well as where that value gets allocated (just even-strength, or powerplay and penalty kill as well).
Two quick notes before we get started. In the images we'll look at below, the radar plots are adjusted to team-high TOI% (so, in the image that leads off this post Ryan Kesler fills the entire plot despite not being on the ice for every single moment when Vancouver played 5v5 hockey).
Secondly, the line combinations are determined by even-strength deployment - so occasionally a player with less overall ice-time (like Tanner Glass and Shane O'Brien in the first image below) will appear on a line or pairing above their pay grade.
Let's see what we can see, shall we?
You'll recall that the 2009-10 Canucks were extremely injury prone along the blueline. Kevin Bieksa missed 27 games, Willie Mitchell missed half of the season, Sami Salo missed 14 games, and Shane O'Brien missed 17 games as well as a handful of team practices. Because these charts calculate ice-time as a percentage it looks like Vancouver's blue-line consisted of six top-four defensemen, but in reality, it's just that Vancouver's blue-liners often had to pick up the slack for their injured teammates.
One trend I'd point out along the blueline, is that this (2009-10) was the last season in which the Canucks frequently deployed a top-four blueliner as a defensive specialist (Willie Mitchell, and when he was injured: Shane O'Brine). In June and July of 2010, the Canucks acquired competent two-way defenseman Dan Hamhuis and Keith Ballard in an effort to speed up the club's transition game.
While Keith Ballard has turned out to be more of a no-way defenseman in Vancouver, I've long contended that the club's choice to allow Willie Mitchell and Shane O'Brien to walk in favour of Ballard and Hamhuis was defensible (even if it hasn't necessarily worked out for the club).
Among forwards, I find it interesting to look at the 5v4 ice-time of the second line forwards in this graph and contrast it with what we see in 2010-11 and 2011-12. Ryan Kesler, for example, doesn't quite fill the radar plot in the above image; but his power-play ice-time increased dramatically in 2010-11 as a result of the Newell Brown hire, and the "loaded first unit" approach he's brought to Vancouver's power-play. Kesler's expanded power-play role comes at the expense of Mikael Samuelsson, Mason Raymond and Alex Burrows among others.
Another thing I think is worth pointing out is Ryan Johnson's TPC plot. Because of Johnson's ability to win face-offs and his experience playing in his own zone (Ryan Johnson is one of the worst possession players in the Behind the Net era, so spent a lot of his time in his own zone) he still brought some value to Vancouver in the 2009-10 regular season as a penalty-killing specialist. In the postseason, of course, the Los Angeles Kings scored on something like 6 straight power-play opportunities (if memory serves) in the six game first round series between the two teams. Between that ghastly outing and the fact that Ryan Johnson had next to no value at even-strength anyway, he was out of a job in Vancouver.
Let's look at how that compares with Manny Malhotra's TPC during the 2010-11 season...
As you can see, Manny Malhotra was a much more valuable player to the Canucks in 2010-11 than Ryan Johnson was in 2009-10. Ryan Johnson's inability to effectively soak up even-strength ice-time rendered him incapable of playing the sort of "enabler" role that Malhotra did in 2010-11; and it's no coincidence that the Canucks rocketed to the top of table when they subbed in Malhotra for Kyle Wellwood and Ryan Johnson...
In 2010-11 we can also see that Ryan Kesler begins to completely fill out his TPC plot, as he joined the Sedins on the first power-play unit. You'll also notice that Mason Raymond, Mikael Samuelsson and Alex Burrows all see their 5v4 ice-time drop significantly as a result. We also see Jannik Hansen emerge as a bonafide top-9 forward and penalty-killing specialist, while the presence of Manny Malhotra freed Henrik Sedin up from any short-handed responsibilities.
Along the blue-line, we might notice the very precise, orderly stratification of responsibilities between the three pairings (this matches Alain Vigneault's the zone-start deployment patterns that season as well) that the Canucks utilized in 2010-11. The Canucks had an offensive specialist pairing in Ehrhoff and Edler, who at even-strength started the majority of their shifts in the offensive zone and were the team's primary defense pairing on the power-play. They had a shutdown pairing in Bieksa and Hamhuis, who ate up the bulk of the club's penalty-killing ice-time while also handling the tough minutes at even-strength. The third pairing was counted on to play low-event hockey against the third and fourth lines of opposing clubs, and occassionally filled in on the penalty-kill.
We already published the following image at the top of the post, but let's revisit and caption Vancouver's 2011-12 TPC plots for the sake of continuity:
There's not much difference in the Canucks' forward deployment between 2010-11 and 2011-12, although there is some new personnel in Chris Higgins, David Booth and Maxim Lapierre. Alex Burrows and Jannik Hansen each got a slice more power-play time than they did in 2010-11, but otherwise the major change is in Manny Malhotra's TPC chart. You'll notice that his 2011-12 TPC much more closely resembles Ryan Johnson's in 2009-10 than it does Malhotra's 2010-11 plot.
Coming off of his freak eye injury, Malhotra was unable to work out in the offseason before 2011-12, and partly because of this (or because of his diminished range of vision) he became more of a penalty-kill and defensive-zone start specialist than a two-way force. It'll be interesting to see how much of his past effectiveness Malhotra can find going forward, and while I'm skeptical that he'll ever be 100% again, I'm certainly rooting for him (more as a fellow human being than as a Canucks fan).
Along the blue-line, you'll notice that Bieksa, Salo and Hamhuis all saw their power-play ice-time increase in 2011-12 as the Canucks sought to replace Christian Ehrhoff by committee. That effort met with some mixed results, and I'm not sure the Canucks are poised to return to the more orderly stratification of responsibilities that the roster evinced in 2010-11 next season. Needless to say, Jason Garrison doesn't profile as a natural Christian Ehrhoff replacement...
So those are TPC plots. My sincerest gratitude to Ben for putting these together and allowing us to break them down and geek the fuck out. Personally, I find these visual representations of player value and deployment extremely insightful especially because of how closely they matchup with the way the Canucks massage zone-starts at even-strength...
Oh and here's one final, bonus nugget before I go jump into the pool. A .gif of Vancouver Canucks TPC's from the past five seasons:
Does Weise even have a dark blue triangle?
January 03 2013, 06:54PM
Does Weise even have a dark blue triangle?
Darcy Hordichuk's got no triangle, either.
The reason why weise and hordichuk have no triangles is because they only get ice time during even strength.
January 03 2013, 11:08PM
Dale Weise could be the only player to see more icetime during the 2013 season than the 2012 season.
I've actually been waiting for this since the article was posted on NHL numbers, so thanks!
It is a pretty neat way of graphing it out, though for avid CanucksArmy-readers, there were no real surprises here!


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The best vacations lift us out of the frenzy of our lives, whisking us off to faraway places that relax and rejuvenate us.
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So how do you meet the pressing need for a stress-reducing change of scenery without wiping out your savings in the process? The solution may actually be simpler, and closer, than you think: Open your own back door, and begin imagining the leisure possibilities right beyond your doorstep!
Instead of throwing a bunch of money at a short-term getaway, consider investing a portion of it into transforming your back yard into a personal relaxation oasis.
Don't be put off by how big a task that sounds. Start out simple, making additional changes as finances allow, and inspiration strikes.
To begin with, your yard may need some degree of facelift. Hire a quality professional landscaper who can design around native plant species, for maximum benefit and minimal upkeep.
Yet landscaping is really only setting the stage -- you still need some kind of show-stopper to complete your yard's transformation.
Pools and decks are whopping financial commitments. There is, however, a less bank-breaking path to backyard-relaxation bliss: Invest in the very symbol of relaxation itself. Invest in a hammock and hammock stand.
"Repeat customers are always telling me the best mini-vacation they've ever bought has been a hammock and a hammock stand," says J.R. Pelletier, manager of TheHammockCompany.com, an international leader in hammock sales. "A good hammock can feel as if you've just caught a flight straight out of your stressful daily life."
Plus, a quality fabric hammock can make your yard look as pretty as a vacation postcard as well. Recent advances in all-weather synthetic textiles have vastly expanded design and color options for fabric hammocks.
"It used to be fabric hammocks were just drab," notes Walter R. Perkins III, CEO of The HammockSource, the world's largest manufacturer and seller of hammocks. "Owning one meant watching what little color it had fade like a flower by summer's end. But today, a quality fabric hammock can be a show-stopper for your yard, for many seasons to come."
Add an arc-style cypress or faux-wicker hammock stand, and your outdoor living space becomes not only a gorgeous relaxation destination, but also one that requires no checked-baggage fees or full-body scans to get to!
Your favorite patch of yard is finally the prime spot for unwinding, a personal relaxation space for letting your mind wander to all those distant getaway places you might one day like to go. But for now, you're pretty content right where you are, aren't you?


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We're located right along Rt 84 on the Great River Road and also have outside seating with a great view of the Mississippi River. We cater to boaters, bikers and everyone in between. so visit by car, bike or boat!
Down home service features home baked bread and rolls, home cooked soups and entrees. Specials are served daily. "The Nest" is a specialty; ask about it! Breakfast served all day on Saturday.
Creekside Vineyards Wine Terrace & Inn
Enjoy this vineyard and B&B combo located just a few minutes from major attractions in the Quad Cities. Vineyard tours are available by appointment. Lovely Inn located in a beautiful country setting, yet minutes from entertainment, dining and shopping. Wine tastings offered throughout the year. Check website for complete details on wine tastings, special events, and to book a room at the Inn.
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Lavender Crest Winery opened its doors for the first time in November of 2004, introducing customers to an opportunity for a unique way to taste wine that is produced in the Midwest. Lavender Crest Winery features a wine tasting room, gift shop, an espresso bar that serves lunch, entertainment, tours and more.
Homemade soups, daily specials, and freshly baked goods are just a few of the reasons to give this locally-owned stop a try.
The Geneseo Brewing Co. was first established in 1884 and proudly served the local community for over ten years. Geneseo Brewing Company is rebuilding the tradition since 2014. We craft the finest ales and lagers in our small neighborhood brewery located in historic downtown Geneseo, Illinois. Stop in. Visit. Raise a pint to friends and fun! A wide variety of beers, appetizers, and pizzas tricycled from Raelyn's restaurant are available.
A welcoming sight as you enter Geneseo from the I-80 corridor. Lionstone Brewery and Gastro Pub is a combination production brewery and tasting room. Upon entering the brewery, you are welcomed by a wood fire pizza oven serving a wide range of pizzas daily.
John Deere Commons at Moline Centre
A tourism destination offering a variety of restaurants, concerts, special events, top name entertainment at "iWireless Center," and live music at the many pubs and bars. Also visit the famous John Deere Pavilion and John Deere Store, Lagomarcino's old fashioned soda and candy shop. Celebration Belle Riverboat and Channel Cat Taxi is nearby so you can explore the mighty Mississippi River. The downtown area also includes gift shops, antique stores, restaurants and hotels!
Happy Joe's Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor - Quad Cities
Original pizza parlor started in the Quad Cities featuring the first Taco Pizza, along with dozens of topping choices that will suit the tastes of all its customers. Also, enjoy the pizza and pasta bars available at select locations. Dine in or have this delicious pizza delivered to your hotel.
Lagomarcino's has been creating fine chocolates in Moline since 1908. A family run business, you can't help but feel the love and dedication to all things sweet in their historic location. This authentic, turn-of-the-century ice cream parlor and confectionery is renowned for homemade chocolates and ice cream. Stop by and get a taste of history for yourself; your life will be a lot sweeter for it.
Whitey's Ice Cream Stores - Quad Cities
Created in the Quad Cities, outstanding flavors of ice cream, malts, shakes of every kind, banana splits, sundaes. Squeeky clean Ice Cream Shops all done up in White and Red and the ice cream servers are dressed white uniforms with red and white caps.
Bent River Brewing Company - Moline
Bent River Breweries in Moline serves as the distribution center for Bent River, including a bottling line so the beer can get to the people. This location also includes a tasting room with full bar, an expanded merchandise room, a party room for catered banquets, and great live music.
Featuring fine dining and fine Thai cuisine in a contemporary atmosphere. Restaurant include a delicious array of dished and a full bar and specialty drinks. Open Monday through Sunday for lunch and dinner. The food is a marriage of centuries old eastern and western influences that are harmoniously combined into something uniquely Thai.
Featuring Vietnamese Gourmet food during lunch and dinner hours. Set in a more formal dining atmosphere but casual dress is allowed. Full and delicious menu of wonderful appetizers, soups and entrees. Family owned for over 20 years. Restaurant also features a very nice selection of teas and a full bar selection.
Family-owned restaurant featuing homemade Mexican cuisine in a festive atmosphere with plenty of seating and parking nearby. A full bar is available at the restaurant and features delicious, traditional drinks.
Old time diner featuring breakfast, lunch and dinner. Well-know for their famous loose meet sandwiches (Maid Rites). A Quad Cities original. Enjoy malts, fries and so much more at this 50's-style diner. A variety of locations throughout the Quad Cities.
Dependable and delicious Japanese cuisine. Sushi and bar area. Located right across from shopping at SouthPark Mall - serving lunch and dinner Monday through Sunday.
Clint's Draft House Pizza & Grill
Serving up some of the most tastiest pizzas in the area with a vast array of toppings. Where the food is delicious, the beer is cold and the people are amazing! Clint's Draft House features a traditional Quad Cities-style pizza, along with an expanded menu full of great appetizers, sandwiches and burgers. Want a cold micro-brew or a tasty cocktail, have one of their talented bartenders pour you a cold one or mix you up something special. Their beer and liquor selection features all-time classics, new favorites and even some hidden gems you've never heard of before. So stop in today and see what all the buzz is about at Clint's Draft House in Moline! The restaurant includes large dining area, outdoor dining and full service bar.
Family-owned restaurant featuring homemade Chinese cuisine with lots of fresh vegetables. Delicious lunch and dinners! Great soups, appetizers and entrees. A local favorite!
Fine dining featuring gourmet French Vietnamese cuisine. Family-owned and operated.
Discover the beautifully restored, historic Vaudeville-Era Dinner Playhouse. Circa '21 services up exciting musical productions with dinner. Even your wait staff are part of the pre-show! Watch your waiter dance, and sing before each show begins. Matinee performances are also available. Check website for current show schedule.
German Restaurant with a large German menu and beer selection. Enjoy the outdoor Beer Garden and live music on weekends.
Milltown Coffee – named after Moline, the city of mills – is much more than craft coffee. It's a destination, where you can order from a full menu, enjoy an event with an adult beverage or relax with soulful music and your favorite caffeinated beverage. Welcome to our craft coffee house!
Creekside Vineyards Winery & Tasting Room
Welcome to the realm of wine, weekend wanderlust, midweek getaways, and what we like to call Wine-derful! Just south of the Quad Cities, wine enthusiasts can discover their own "hidden gem" of a vintage at Creekside Vineyards Winery & Tasting Room. This circa 1938 building, once a family diner & service station, now offers travelers a stopover of good conversation & fantastic artisan wines.


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These instructions should be followed by all students intending to be enrolled in the TJU Colleges above. However, only currently enrolled and officially accepted students may complete the online Banner Financial Aid application material.
In completing this process, students are reminded of the following:
- The submission of on-line application material certifies that the information is true and accurate to the best of your knowledge. If, after completing a segment of the application process, you find that the information has changed, you will need to submit corrections directly to the University Office of Student Financial Aid (Suite 115, Curtis Building).
- We recommend that you print a copy of the information you submitted for your records.
- Refer to the descriptions (as contextual links) below to ensure that you complete and submit all of the documents required for your 2017-2018 Financial Aid application. To assist you, you can track your progress using this Application Checklist.
Please read these instructions and click "PROCEED" at the end to continue with your financial aid application.
What Documents Must be Completed?
- 2017-2018 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), – www.FAFSA.ed.gov Use FAFSA Code 013549
- To complete the FAFSA on-line go to www.fafsa.ed.gov (FAFSA Code 013549);
- Parent's financial information must be included on the FAFSA if the student is considered dependent by federal definition.
- If you are required to complete a 2015 IRS Tax return, please do so online at least 14 days prior to completing the FAFSA. Per federal regulations, all students (and parents of dependent students) must participate in the IRS Data Retrieval Transfer (DRT). The DRT process will transfer tax return data directly to the FAFSA. This will eliminate the submittal of tax returns to the Financial Aid Office and greatly simplify the filing of the FAFSA. Those who do not use the DRT process when filing the FAFSA will be selected for the federally mandated Verification Process which will require, but may not be limited to, submitting an IRS Tax Transcript(s) to the Financial Aid Office. Receipt of an IRS tax transcript may take 2 – 4 weeks and thus significantly delay the processing of your application.
- Educational Plan – Highly recommended but not required be completed by all students enrolled in the OTD, MSN, DNP, CRNA and General Studies degree programs or by students who plan to be enrolled part time in any semester.
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In addition to the application requirements outlined above, you may need to submit supplemental documents if you are:
- Applying for Federal Work Study, then you must complete the Federal Work Study Application located on Banner Web;
- A First Year Student (2017-2018 will be the first academic year in which you are enrolled in Thomas Jefferson University), then you must complete:
1. A Federal Stafford Master Promissory Note (MPN). Students should access the electronic MPN information page located on the main menu of the Financial Aid Office Web site; More info about the Federal Direct Stafford Loan is at Federal Direct Stafford/Other Loan Process. Please use the generic Thomas Jefferson University as the school code.
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The decision to have breast reconstruction is a matter of personal choice. Whether the reconstruction should be "immediate" or "delayed" is one that is not always easily answered. Nor is the answer the same for everyone. Learn as much as you can about the process before making a decision. No single source of information can provide every fact or give you all the answers. You and those close to you should discuss any questions and concerns about reconstructive surgery with your health care team. (photo credit)
Women choose breast reconstruction for different reasons. It is important for you to understand what your own reasons are. The surgical goals of reconstruction are:
- To make your breasts look balanced when you are wearing a bra, not necessarily "the same" when you are not wearing a bra. The breasts should be close enough to one another in size and shape that you will feel comfortable about how you look in most types of clothing.
- To permanently regain your breast contour. Breast reconstruction cannot restore your normal breast sensation. With time, the skin on the reconstructed breast can become more sensitive, but it will not give you the same kind of pleasure as before a mastectomy.
- To give the convenience of not needing an external prosthesis
Your body image and self-esteem may improve after your reconstruction surgery, but this is not always the case. Breast reconstruction does not fix things you were unhappy about before your surgery. Also, you may be disappointed with how your breast looks after surgery. You and those close to you must be realistic about what to expect from reconstruction. Reconstruction will not give you back the pre-cancer breast.
There are three main types of breast reconstruction:
- Reconstruction using an implant of some kind. (photos)
- Tissue flap reconstruction, in which skin, muscle and fat from your back or abdomen (tummy) is tunneled through to the chest to create a new breast. The skin, muscle and fat stays connected to the area of the body from which it was taken. (photos)
- Free flap reconstruction, in which skin and fat from your lower abdomen, or occasionally buttock, is grafted to the breast area. The skin and fat is completely removed from the original area and a new blood supply is created for the new breast tissue, using microsurgery. (photos)
Or you can think of the types of reconstruction as implant based or tissue based or a combination of implant and tissue.
Implant-based reconstruction does not require removal of tissue from some other part of the patient's body, so the procedure does not result in additional scars at a donor site. Breast reconstruction is easier and simpler with implants than with autologous (your own) tissue, and almost all plastic surgeons know how to do implant-based reconstruction. For these reasons, implant-based reconstruction is the most commonly used type of breast reconstruction in all parts of the world. The results are not always as natural as are those of autologous tissue-based reconstruction, and the quality of the outcome may be lower, but the risk of being hurt by the reconstruction is also lower. To make up the missing breast volume, the breast implant is placed beneath the muscle and skin of the chest wall. This can be done at the time of the mastectomy or as a delayed procedure, even years later. (photo credit)
During a mastectomy, both breast gland tissue and some of the overlying skin are removed. If the original breast was a very large one, the skin remaining after the mastectomy may be enough to adequately cover an implant. In those cases, using the remaining skin results in a breast that is smaller than the original one but may still be adequate. In many cases, however, missing breast skin will need to be replaced in some way. This is most commonly done by one of two methods: tissue expansion or a Latissimus Dorsi flap. A tissue expander is a balloon-like device that, as it is gradually filled with saline, stretches the breast skin remaining after a mastectomy until there is enough skin to cover an implant without tension. This skin expansion is performed gradually over a period of about two months. It may be inconvenient (will require weekly or bi-weekly visits to your surgeon's office), but usually is not painful. (photo credit)
Most plastic surgeons over-expand the breast being reconstructed to a volume 5% to 10% larger than the opposite breast. When the breast skin has been expanded to the desired size, it is then necessary to wait four to six months to let the expanded skin lose its elasticity so that the stretch becomes permanent before removing the tissue expander and inserting the permanent breast implant. The expanded skin will have redundancy and droop down on the chest wall as a normal breast would. This effect of drooping (ptosis) is important in achieving a shape like that of an original breast. Ptosis is difficult to achieve with tissue expansion and an implant. To achieve symmetry, the opposite breast may need to be enlarged with an implant, reduced, or lifted.
The main advantage of implant-based techniques, compared with autologous tissue-based approaches, is that most or all of the material used to make up the breast volume comes from a box on a shelf. Therefore, the initial operation for implant-based reconstruction is relatively minor. In general, the risks of the surgery (apart from failure to achieve a successful reconstruction) are also less serious than those of autologous tissue-based reconstruction. Special equipment and subspecialized surgical training are not required, so the breast reconstruction can be done in almost any hospital.
Complications of implant based surgery include hematoma, infection, capsular contracture, rippling, and assymetry. (photos)
- Breast Reconstruction--American Society of Plastic Surgeons
- Back to the Latissimus Dorsi by Dana Khuthaila, MD, and Dennis Hammond, MD, PSP August 2005 (very nice article)
- Breast Reconstruction--CancerBackUp.org
- Breast Reconstruction--Medline Plus
- Breast Reconstruction After Mastectomy--American Cancer Society
- Breast Reconstruction after Mastectomy--Mayo Clinic
- Breast Reconstruction Guide for Patients by Stephen S. Kroll, M.D.
- Reoperative Plastic Surgery of the Breast by Kenneth C. Shestak, MD; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, December 2005