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2 For the Critics
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Here are a full-dressed Kelson Kate and a Kelson March Brown low-water that I took out of my fishing stock boxes. Both are excellent steelhead and atlantic salmon flies. I use the Kate (which is tied on an Alec Jackson Spey Hook #1 1/2) in the winter and spring. The March Brown (which is tied on Veverka #6, or the same hook that Alec Jackson calls his Low-water River Dee hook #7) is very effective during summer/fall low water fishing.
Note that each fly is a fishing fly and each one adheres to the tying suggestions I provided to others.
Here is the Kate
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Here is the March Brown
Very nice indeed FT.
If anyone is interested in owning some of Flytyer's work, there is a set of eight Glasso patterns that Russ tied that will soon be going up for either auction or raffle with proceeds to benefit the Forum. Look for details coming soon.
Hi flytyer,
Pretty good looking flies. I guess I don't get your point though. Are you inviting criticism ("2 For the Critics")?
You say that the Kate adheres to your stated rules in the other post. It does not conform to all of them. Since you indicated that it was tied as a fishing fly, I am not referring to the lack of horns, chenille at the head or the JC cheeks.
If you want more in depth input, I'll be happy to do so off board.
When do we get to see the Glasso patterns?
Happy Trails!
The Kelson Kate, listed in "The Salmon Fly", does not have a tail veiling, cheeks, horns, or chenile head. Price-Tannant's has tail veiling, cheeks and horns but no chenile head, and Maxwell's has the tail veiling and Jungle Cock but no horns. Since I have found that cheeks, tail veiling, horns, and anything other than a thread head make no difference in the fly's effectiveness, I tie and fish the Kelson version.
Sinktip has the Glasso flies because he was the one who arranged for the framing of the set through a friend of his; therefore, he will have to get the mounted set posted.
Hi flytyer,
Ok, I'll give you the chenille head but in "Classic Salmon Flies, History & Patterns" by Mikael Frodin, he states the following re the Kate as by Kelson. "... Kelson writes,..... is constructed as follows. Tag: Silver twist and light yellow silk, and a topping for the tail. The butt is of black Ostrich herl followed by a body comprising two turns of crimson dyed silk and then crimson dyed seal's fur. The body is ribbed with oval silver tinsel from the second turn of tinsel a crimson dyed hackle is wound. The throat is a light yellow cock's hackle. the wing (on Kelson's Kate) is thin and constructed first of fibers from grey Mallard and Golden Pheasant tippet and, then sections of Bustard, Golden Pheasant tail, light yellow, crimson, and light blue dyed Swan, Mallard and a topping. The fly should have cheeks of Jungle Cock feathers and horns of blue Macaw." Now, I am not a historian when it comes to early patterns but your "Kate" is not as specified in this recipe. I see yellow dubbing on the body, flat tinsel, no horns, no cheeks, hackle starting at the third turn of ribbing (as stated in your earlier "rules" but not as per Kelson). Do I see six ribs in it? Maybe one is covered by dubbing?
Your March Brown is also not as the recipe is listed in the same book which is as follows. "...Tag: Gold twist, Tail: A topping, Body: Silver Monkey's fur and a little dirty orange seal's fur, mixed together, Ribs: Gold tinsel (oval), Throat: Partridge hackle, Wings: Sections from a hen Pheasant tail (in large sizes Turkey)." I could be wrong but it looks to me that you have used flat silver tinsel as well as silver oval in the body. It is also doesn't look as if the required dubbing was used. Is there silver Monkey fur in it as well as orange Seal?
These are not the only things I see that are not correct either or may need a bit of improvement. I'd be happy to help off board as my earlier post indicated.
flytyer, my point in this is not to be critical of your flies or anyone else's. You seem to hold yourself up as the resident historian and keeper of truth. I am not, nor do I tie perfect flies. My sole interest is not to mislead Tyers who may be new to the craft and particularly the full dressed flies. When you presented these two flies as "Kelson", that implies that they are dressed as he would. If a new Tyer assumed you were right and wanted to dress a Kate or March Brown given your presentation of it, he/she would have been wrong.
I said it before, there are NO rules that can't be broken. I also said that when tying a classic, it should be tied as close as possible to the original and where substitutions are used, they should be noted. I don't expect you to have Monkey hair in this day and age (although I'd be happy to send you a small snippet of it).
The guys you hold in such high regard (Kelson, Pryce-Tannatt, et all) changed the patterns all the time and they noted it.
Either rules are rules or they aren't.
The goal ought to be to have fun tying flies and particularly the full dressed ones. That's my #1 rule!
Happy Trails!
Well said, Ronn,...well said, indeed!
flytyer - as a side bar...
Your comment of; "Since I have found that cheeks, tail veiling, horns, and anything other than a thread head make no difference in the fly's effectiveness, I tie and fish the Kelson version." was a little perplexing, especially coming from someone with a decidedly 'classical' or purist's philosophy on flytying.
Didn't Pryce-Tannatt write that, "They (horns) constitute an element of mobility in a fly, and mechanically are useful in protecting brittle, delicate feathers, such as Jungle Cock, when these latter are used as cheeks or sides."?
I would think that mobility and protection would be instrumental elements in a fly's effectiveness.
Certainly food for thought, eh?
BTW - Psst! R-o-n-N would be the correct spelling.
Why do I think this Auction is going to cost me money??
My scanner added the yellow to the body dubbing, I suspect because of the yellow hackle. The scanner also makes oval tinsel look like flat tinsel and makes gold tinsel look like it is silver (I suspect because it is "seeing" the reflection of the gold as simply light). The scanner also makes it very hard to see ribbing where the hackle is bushier. There are only 5 turns of tinsel on the Kate.
I looked up Kate in Kelson's book and you are correct, it should have horns and jungle cock. I appologize for misleading anyone on that. However, Kelson wrote that jungle cock should be left off some flies for fishing because jungle cock is such a bright feather that leaving it out sometimes makes for a more effective fly, especially in hard-fished waters.
The hare's ear dubbing instead of silver monkey fur with orange added to it, is a standard substitute for the silver monkey/orange dubbing mix.
Yes, Price-Tannatt did write this; however, I have always been puzzled by it since jungle cock is not a brittle nor a fragile feather, and a single fiber of Macaw tail does not offer much protection to a jungle cock feather. Also, when a fly is fished, the single fiber of Macaw use as a horn, blends in with the wing and adds little if anything to the mobility of a fly, unless you are speaking of flies with topping or G.P. tippet wings.
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Here is another Kelson Kate with jungle cock cheeks, which is also taken from one of my fly boxes.
even more confused!
Let me get this straight. As I see it, Pryce-Tannatt states decidedly ("...after due consideration of the fly-dresser and angler alike.") that horns are indeed an important anatomical and functional element of a fly - for the reasons I indicated in my last post. Kelson and Sir Herbert Maxwell dressed their Kates with horns as well. Yet, you (a 'purist') consider them to be a non-essential part of the dressing.
Am I to understand that the 'rules' in tying, classical or otherwise, are indeed subject to personal interpretation?
FT, I am by no means the tyer or historian you are, so I hope you'll shed some light on some confusing and contradictory points of view.
BTW - I may have missed something, but what WAS the purpose for posting the additional Kate?
I love to tie flies, and will admit that I've longed to get the hang of full dressed atlantics. I've tried a few times, but none have come out as well as I'd like (I know, practice practice :hehe: ). Myself, I like all of them. I am FAR from a "traditional" or a "by the rules" type fly tyer. I prefer to interpret and tie to my likings, not to standard rules. But I'm not tying to meet the criteria of experts either. Since I don't have those skills, I won't critique.
All I have to say is nice job on all. Will sit down and learn how to tie these one of these days. I do better hands on then reading about them. But, will master them someday. LOL
One more try.
flytyer, in my original post, I offered to discuss this off board but you didn't take my offer so we are "airing it out" here.
In your last post you said "My scanner added the yellow to the body dubbing, I suspect because of the yellow hackle. The scanner also makes oval tinsel look like flat tinsel and makes gold tinsel look like it is silver (I suspect because it is "seeing" the reflection of the gold as simply light). The scanner also makes it very hard to see ribbing where the hackle is bushier. There are only 5 turns of tinsel on the Kate." Come on now. I have scanned hundreds of flies with a rainbow of colors and photographed even more and have never had the experience of selective image distortion you describe! There is no gold twist on the March Brown and the rib is silver oval. The rib on the Kate is flat tinsel, the spacing of the ribs particularly on the top one would indicate six ribs but I admit that you could have ended the ribs way behind where they would normally end. There are still no horns on the second one (which is a much better looking fly in my opinion).
You go on to say, "The hare's ear dubbing instead of silver monkey fur with orange added to it, is a standard substitute for the silver monkey/orange dubbing mix." Who's standard? With the wrong tinsel and wrong body, I can't tell if that is the right wing, that is not Kelson's March Brown!
You did not follow your rules or the recipes for these three flies yet you continue to offer them as Kelson's dressings. They aren't! This is what gets to me about you and some other traditionalists/purists. You have "rules" that you impose on others who might not be faithful to flies of past yet you do as you will without regard to the same "rules". Emerson (I think) wrote, "do as I say, not as I do". Whoever said that, it fits here.
Paul Ptalis published a great little book called "Century End, A Fly Tying Journey". In this book, Paul presents an array of classic dressings as well as some of his awesome free style flies. After the shock of the colors and patterns when I opened the book, the thing that really impressed me was that after the name of the classic pattern and the originator, he added, "...interpreted by Paul Ptalis". I would suggest that this might be a good thing to do when accomplished Tyers like yourself present a "classic" pattern that is not faithful to the original dressing. This will give the less knowledgeable among us the "heads up" that there has been a bit of artistic license applied to the fly.
Now, do you get it? My point is not to criticize you or your flies. I am NOT judging either. It is simply to help other, less accomplished Tyers understand what it is that they are viewing from more experienced Tyers such as yourself. You can tie your flies any way you like and I can do the same. Neither is better or more right than the other.
Happy Trails!
Hi Steelheader69,
I encourage you to give them a try. They really are not all that difficult to tie believe me. You needn't go out and spend $$ on materials or hooks to get started. I would venture to say that you have all the materials in your tying stash to tie some great looking full dressed flies.
Like the old Nike ad said, "just do it". :)
Happy Trails!
LOL Ronn
Actually, I have tried them and have all the materials/hooks. I can do some simple ones ok. But I long to do the full dressed with multiple wings. Always when I get to a topping or the likes they fall apart. I've seen the tricks of smashing down the feathers so they lay on the hook correctly. I've been trying, trust me. LOL. Spent a couple hours on one fly to have it fall apart at the end. It became a fishing fly at that point. lol. But yes, I keep trying. What I've been planning to do today if I ever get a chance to sit down for a second. LOL. Been going in and out trying to rewire a horse trailer. Get numb, then come back in to warm up. Now, have to run and pick up my kids (went to cousins birthday party yesterday and stayed the night). So putting me further behind. :hehe:
I also have Jorgenson's book on Atlantics. It's been helpful. Gonna sit down and really thoroughly read it. May have missed something. But between a few websites and what I have bookwise, I may get one that meets my standards. LOL
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egads, mouthful for a subject let alone a title of a wiki page. for various reasons i needed to create a single-process cooperative multitasking HTTP server. it seems, bar one small tolerable bug, that i succeeded in using it to create a special kind of HTTP proxy.
the problem is illustrated by http://gnumed.org being a desktop-based application and using role-based access control on the PostgreSQL database. they want to convert it to a web application, by popular demand, and tried picking random web server frameworks. unfortunately, virtually all web server frameworks assume that the SQL database is to be used for anonymous session cookie management, assume a single (global) username/password and so on.
for gnumed, such assumptions are completely unacceptable: this is confidential patient data, and there's no way that gnumed are going to redesign the database middleware to REMOVE password security.
so i came up with something that will frighten the bejabbers out of any normal web developer: a proxy which is capable of keeping a remote connection permanently open to its upstream target, as long as that upstream HTTP server supports HTTP Connection "keep-alive".
it's… well, i've been yapping about it enough, and so have the gnumed developers: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2010-07/msg00326.html
one of the problems with creating such a proxy is that you can't do it with a threaded or a forking architecture: you need to analyse the HTTP stream (check a session cookie and insert one if there isn't one) BEFORE you pass it on to the proxy, but most HTTP proxies are designed to fork first, think later.
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Pros: Magical mids. Warm lilt in the neutral sig. Fast, accurate and punchy mid-bass. Extremely comfortable. Easily driven,
Cons: Sub-bass presence is low. Treble might be too smooth for some. Isolation is average
Packaging and build:
The packaging is minimal and exquisitely so. The extra tips filters and manual are behind the felt coated foam holding the earphones. As I gingerly dislodged them from the grooves, I was struck by how tiny they are. I always try to avoid gripping the strain relief as a precaution, but it was difficult considering the size. The shiny bead blasted aluminium back goes well with the brushed aluminium housing. Which brings me to the build. This is the most common qualm people have reported. The plug is beefy, the y split seems sturdy enough. However, I noticed that some free movement of the cable is possible at the entry point of the strain relief. As long as the cable is secured properly within the main housing this shouldn't be an issue. (I was tempted to add a dab of glue at the strain relief end to restrict that free movement).
The half and half cable is… okay. The cloth half is a little kinky (pun not intended). The sticky half is thin and flexible making it very comfortable when worn over ear. Apparently, the hybrid design serves to reduce weight among other benefits.
Accessories, Comfort and Isolation:
Tips galore but an odd assortment. Anyway, I have very narrow ear canals and the smaller tips gave me a good seal. The pseudo-double bump tips gave me pressure problems, so I settled for the bar-tips. The complys are good, but the foam overhangs (ahead of the rubber tube) get scrunched. (I have modified them by cutting off the overhangs) Cable noise is more than present when worn cable-down. Almost disappears when worn over-ear. Can hardly feel then in my ears after a while. It is evident that the HiFiman team has paid a lot of attention to ergonomics. Other accessories include a shirt clip, 5 pairs of stock filters. I have dry wax so I won't be changing them out anytime soon. Perhaps I could use them to hard EQ them (doubling the filters, felt mod etc.) Maybe later.
Isolation is average, even with a good fit. But maybe that's about as good as it gets for vented earphones. The vent is placed ventrally and only the deepest fit might shield it partially.
A short intro/disclaimer My experience when it comes to iems is very limited. The RE400 is my first foray into audiophile territory. I've been in a V/U-shaped bassy world thus far.
Chronologically....Sony MDR-E818LP>Sony MDR-EX35LP>Creative EP-630>Xears TD4 Ebony Blackwood>Brainwavz R1>HiFiman RE-400
I've loved and hated every set. So I set my sights higher and decided to bravely plunge into a neutral world just to see if that was the right direction for me.
Doing an A:B comparison doesn't make much sense with iems that differ this widely.
My impressions may seem overblown to some. But such a drastic change in direction can do that. Back to the review I expected to be disappointed by the RE-400 in the bass department. I like a little rumble and feel in my bass. But given my inexperience, I was very curious about bass quality vs quantity.
Fast forward to my impressions… I initially thought of describing it by music genre. But after a week with them, I've decided to go ahead with the classic break-up.
I've always found sharp treble to be off-putting. There is a (false?) sense of enhanced clarity that comes with sparkly treble. But for me, the overall enjoyability dips. I'm absolutely amazed by how smooth the treble is on the RE-400. Some may like a little more sparkle, its sooo perfectly where I want it to be. It may lack some bite with fast electronic music. I found no nasty peaks or dips. To me, the detail and clarity was eye widening (considering my experience or lack thereof).
I was expecting to be impressed. But not blindsided like this. It felt like I had suddenly switched from 192kbps to a vinyl track. The first thing that struck me was how much more life-like it felt. The vocals had a certain texture. Simply put, if that texture was absent, the vocals wouldn't be as immersive. A striking feature was the depth to the vocals (not necessarily to the soundstage). It sounded "wholesome"(male and female alike). I'm finding this very hard to describe but I must persist, because it's that important. I am able to gauge how much breath and effort the singer is taking. Apart from the core vocals I hear a lot of nuances and details that contribute to that sense of "completion". This particular feature impressed me the most in this iem. Another thing I noticed is how untouched and unaffected the mids are. No matter how busy rest of the spectrum gets, the mids always come through unadulterated. Like I had a separate pair of ears for the mids. And it seemed like the bass and highs complemented it nicely. Like they were all on the same plane of preference.
I will have to divide this segment into two. Initial impressions and Brain-burnt–in impressions.
Initial: Sub-bass felt non-existent. Some tracks need that sub-bass to sound right. It adds to the 'natural, warm' feeling. Sub-bass is more 'feeling' than 'hearing'. Tracks that had a strong mid-bass component were handled beautifully. I couldn't believe the detail and how fast it sounded. But I would have liked some more punch. Sadly the mids keep grabbing the spotlight therefore I didn't get to try many bass heavy tracks.
Brain-burnt in: Sub-bass still felt weak. I do see they measure near flat through the bass, but they could do with more presence in the sub-bass. I did find out at higher listening volumes, that the RE-400 extends pretty deep. I feel the punch in the mid-bass now(I think it feels more apparent when you get accustomed to the signature). I find the quantity sufficient(not lacking) now. Surprisingly enough, I'm actually enjoying them immensely. I love the attack speed and the detail, even when it gets busy. I want to say "resolving" but I'm not sure if it is the correct term. I'm quite stunned to find myself enjoying this "type" of bass. The initial disappointment only surfaces when I find the sub-bass lacking. ljokerl advised me to try a "narrow" lift of a few dB in the sub-bass. This improves presence without affecting the mid-bass or the mids. The RE-400 is a very capable iem in this respect. The overall tonality has warmed and I'm not disappointed as often. I still find myself wanting a bit more presence but I don't think EQing it in is the answer. (Perhaps a vent redesign, dampers coupled with a sub-bass lift). Drums sound very natural (except the deepest reaching ones). It's easy to differentiate between the types of drums. The bass conveys that much detail.
Bottom line: Bass enjoyment is very track subjective. EQing helps because the drivers are capable
Extra tip: The EQ in Poweramp for Android (with the DVC audio setting enabled) is very effective in boosting the sub-bass without "upsetting the tonal balance"
Other miscellaneous rambling:
The soundstage isn't the widest. The Brainwavz R1 has spoiled me in this regard. But it isn't congested either. It conveys a good sense of space. Vocals can be very very intimate. And orchestras can be sufficiently spacious. No complaints there. All the music components are clearly positioned and layered without any interference. I believe that is good "imaging"?
Like I mentioned before, I sense an overall "completion" in the music. Vocals will have a 'bass' component and a 'lower highs' component in addition to the core "mid" component. The RE-400 delivers all of it in equal measure (just a tad more in the mids). I have observed that they sound even better at higher volumes (+1/2 dB above normal listening volume).
I am curious to as to how the RE-400 will perform when powered by a better source. That will have to wait as I don't have the resources :(
Some have reported good results by using dampers to add a little warmth and presence (even going as far to comparing it to the 400$ RE-600). I will try these mods later on.
Conclusion: This iem was meant to be a test, an experiment. My first foray into neutral audiophile territory. And they have surprised me. They have made me second guess my sound sig preference. I know what I want now (until the next revelation). But what I want now is so different from what I wanted, I doubt I'll ever have such a drastic change of heart.
I expected it to fit a small segment of my music but I'm shocked at the versatility and satisfaction it has given me in most of my music.
I have a very non-technical way of knowing when music sounds really good to me. It has nothing to do with genre, mood or content. It depends solely on raw music quality. This happens to me with "certain tracks" that span a wide genre(Examples: Imogen Heap- Let go, Jasmine Thompson - Home, Mick MCauley & Winifred Horan - A Daisy in December, Eminem- Sing for the moment etc). Well….. My eyes well up. Not related to feelings of sadness, happiness etc. My eyes simply leak a lot of tears without warning(freaked me out the first time). Let's just say, I can't see through the haze of tears when I have the RE-400 on. It's only happened with the Fidelio L1, some active speaker I can't remember, rarely with the Brainwavz R1.
The RE-400s have set the bar very high for me. If these had a more sub-bass presence I would have absolutely nothing to complain about. I think finding something much better will be very difficult unless I burn my wallet, so I will now look for an iem to complement (not beat) the RE-400.
@esantosh for all the advice he's given me. And for replying to my monotonous PMs.
@modulor, @Tom22 for their detailed and comforting words from a very understanding POV.
Big ups to HiFinage for bringing HiFiman to India.
Edit: I have rephrased by impressions of the sub-bass. It is my first review, and a year and a lot more experience later, I do feel my wording was not an accurate representation of what I felt regarding the sub-bass.
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He's going to Africa! They estimate the govt costs will range from $60 to $100 million. Three countries are supposed to be visited. A safari was planned but called off since the Secret Service challenges were just too overwhelming.
I can understand a President needing relief from stress, but this kind of cost seems to have total disregard for what's going on in the country for a lot of people. What about the hardships of sequester for govt employees that he seemed to have such compassion for? Did the Secret Service have advance notice of this, and knew they had to cut back the WH tours because of budgetary stresses like this?
Seems like he had to do what Clinton did ... Clintons' trip to Africa cost us $43 million.WASHINGTON (KGO) -- What could be one of the most expensive presidential vacations in history is raising some eyebrows.
President Obama and his family are planning an 8-day trip to Africa and the estimated cost for taxpayers is $100 million.
The Washington Post obtained a confidential document that outlines the extent of the presidential-sized preparations. It includes hundreds of agents to guard the family, military planes to airlift 14 limousines and 42 other vehicles, and enough bulletproof glass to cover windows at all of the president's hotels.
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Prologue: Waking Up to Pain
I surfaced, coming up from somewhere deep like a cave or a well or a red-rock canyon. There were lights; even with my eyes closed, I felt them. I heard metal on metal, then voices. Someone walked nearby in squeaky shoes.
I had not yet opened my eyes when I tried to adjust my legs. I moved, barely—but enough to set off fireworks in my chest. I'd known pain before, but this was something of another magnitude, a different species. Pure, stunning, undiluted agony gripped me, sank barbed claws into my flesh, and ripped at me. This was you-have-no-control pain, don't-move pain, don't-breathe pain, you-can't-even-think pain. Maybe prayer would help, or maybe profanity, but even speech was unthinkable. It required movement. And movement meant excruciating, staggering torture.
I was still coming to grips with this pain when a voice asked about morphine. I was conscious enough to know that I wanted to scream, "Yes!" But moving or speaking was not an option. I tried breathing instead: gentle, shallow breaths. Breathe. A different voice said, "It's in the tube . . . It'll work in a minute." Breathe.
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What was this new agony? Surely it wasn't AIDS. That was a long-ago nightmare—it had been July 1991 when they said I had AIDS. The thing about AIDS is that it doesn't rip your chest out and leave hooks tugging at your bloody muscle. It wastes you. It takes away your immunity so you suffer more slowly, gradually stumbling from colds to pneumonia, from scabs to cancer. It drains you and makes you hate your body. It will even kill you. But it doesn't do what was happening to me now.
No, this wasn't AIDS. This was something else. I knew this was something else.
And I was right. This was January 2012, and I was emerging from surgery. I was back in the System, a body on a gurney, a patient defined by numbers on a clipboard. I was a dot on the nurse's chart, an X over some hours on a calendar page hung outside Operating Room Two. And yet I was a special case. Everyone would be careful around my blood. Everyone knew that this new misery was not my first terminal disease.Video: From the Archives: Mary Fisher's 'Whisper of AIDS' speech (on this page)
I took a gulp of pain and remembered: I was emerging from a mastectomy. I'd never done this before. In six days and a few unimportant hours, I'd gone from Life is good and getting better to You've just had a bilateral mastectomy with node dissection.
I think it was the brilliant writer and historian Garry Wills who once noted, "The problem with words is, they have meaning." The System knows this, and so it promotes words carefully. When you contract what finally comes to be called "AIDS," they tell you that you have "tested positive for HIV." In 1991, when everyone with that diagnosis was soon leaning on death's door, it seemed better to be HIV-positive than to have AIDS. Healing by rhetoric, I suppose.
Now it seemed somehow important to focus on that word: mastectomy. It surely sounded better than surviving an amputation. In fact, the doctors had cut off whatever skin and muscle they could not cut out, leaving me with shards of flesh and pierced by drainage tubes, trying to breathe, waiting for the arrival of my new best friend, morphine. By any reasonable definition, this was an amputation.
Either way, it all came back to that little word slipped into the report sent to me, at my request, a mere six days back—and even as a harmless word, it's hard to take: cancer.
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Forced to take extremely desperate measures in order to survive the bitter cold, overcome unexpected obstacles and attempt to reach safety, the three friends are driven to ask not only if they have the will to survive, but also to consider what are the worst ways to die…
Having already caused quite a stir on the festival circuit, prompting responses from critics such as "terrifying… will do for skiing what Jaws did for swimming" Frozen is the latest shocker from writer-director Adam Green (Hatchet; Spiral) who is fast making a name for himself as a director of low-budget, highly effective horror fare. Taking a simple and highly relatable premise (much like the makers of the likes of Adrift and Open Water did) and milking it for all its terrifying potential, Green has crafted a highly compelling, frustrating, chilling and hand-over-mouth suspenseful man vs. nature flick. Squeezing every last drop of tension and anxiety from this simple premise, the uneasy atmosphere evident from the opening scenes, with shots of the imposing mechanics of the ski-lift and the establishing shots of endless mountains and snow, is throughout the film built to an almost overwhelming maelstrom of intensity.
The circumstances that lead to the characters being stranded are a little contrived, but hey, this small series of seemingly inconsequential events – and staggering incompetence – was necessary in order to place the three characters in the dire situation that forms the basis of the film. Once they're trapped and the realisation of their dangerous and potentially fatal situation sinks in, then the real fun begins and the tension mounts as they become more desperate and frenzied to get out of the chairlift and onto the ground.
Of course this film, like similarly designed ones (the incredulous Adrift immediately springs to mind), have niggling little flaws and are guaranteed to have viewers shrieking at the characters on-screen as they make wrong decisions and suffer the ghastly consequences. Because of course, we the audience, would never be so dumb. Right? Wrong. Green throws in a number of twists to silence smug viewers and is able to convey how people react differently in moments of extreme circumstances. The film also has fun in subverting character types and as events progress; we learn more about the characters, their hopes and dreams, fears and short-comings. Now this is obviously not life-altering, award-winning stuff here, but the actors carry off their roles well and we're provided with the bare minimum of information we need to at least care a little for them – if even on a merely human level. This is a taut thriller after all, solely designed to provide suspense, anxiety and give the old adrenaline glands a work out. Which it does with relative ease.
The nature of fear and how we deal with our own fears is addressed at several points throughout the course of events – to begin with its simple enough: characters discuss fears such as heights, sharks and death, which provokes a debate about horrible ways to die – some of which are slyly reflective of events to come. Many scenarios and plans to make it to the ground are offered and discussed before being implemented, with any conceivable dangers carefully hypothesised. Of course, as we know, things don't go according to plan; unexpected events occur that add further peril and distress to the situation. Not wanting to give too much away, I shall say no more. Except that when the first blood-curdling howl of circling wolves cuts through the chilling night air, your blood might run appropriately cold.
Green also successfully conveys a sense of how long the survivors are stranded for, and more importantly, a sense of their isolation, fluctuating despair and the freezing temperatures they're experiencing. The eerie shots of them hanging, suspending in the all-consuming darkness are wonderfully realised. The use of sound is key here – whether it's the frenzied roar of an oncoming blizzard, the crunch of breaking bones or the sparse, echoic emptiness of the snowy morning air – it helps create a chilling, evocative atmosphere.
Boasting cameos from Rileah Vanderbilt (Hatchet; Spiral) Kane Hodder (Jason from Friday the 13th parts VII - X), Frozen is an effective, gruelling and tightly coiled film that will keep viewers on the edge of their seats and maybe make them think twice about that skiing trip they were planning.
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As part of Bike Winter, the city of Toronto hosted the Coldest Day of the Year Ride on Saturday, January 30th, 2010.
I bundled up in my down jacket, long johns, ski gloves and scarf and hopped on my Globe to join the ride.
While the weather did finally cool down to winter temperatures, it certainly doesn't look like the end of January in Toronto. Where are the snowbanks? Where's the slush?
I arrive just a few minutes before noon and find parking at a premium:
If you want to know what's big for cycling in 2010… it's yellow, and lots of it:
There's two little ones all bundled up in there:
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Just a few weeks earlier and Grenadier Pond would have been covered with ice skaters:
Just after we passed under the Gardiner Expressway and cross over Lakeshore Highway (errr, Boulevard) to the Martin Goodman Trail:
The Pizza Pizza pagoda was closed… but Joe and HappyStuffing wouldn't be affected by the stink had it been open for business:
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The BikingToronto community has been talking a lot about visibility. With a little flash here's HappyStuffing's taped up and highly visible ride:
The visibility theme continues with a bright jacket and reflective belt and cuffs… excellent dollar store finds:
Of course, you don't need day-glo to be visible. Sometimes a suggestive slogan on your rack-mounted crate is all you need:
Okay, enough bicycles for a second. Let's just enjoy the waterfront view… I'm glad this long stretch isn't littered with condos (yet):
And seriously, bicycle computer, you're pretending that it's much warmer than it is:
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I know I am responding to a real old response by Sheryl, but I just had to post this video. It entails a segment on brain scans of an atheist and of a religious brain. Very interesting!
I'd say it has made you, at least partly, the way you are; if you are talking about being brought up religious.
I was but didn't accept my now-dropped church until I was in my late teens. I would say that prior to that I was much more gregarious and out-going; my church made me introverted and anti-social. that was a definite alteration of who I was. I am slowly working my way out of it but I guess for you I would need some specific examples of how you would say religion altered you to understand what you mean.
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So this all leads to my next big race - the Trail Runner Ultra Race of Champions (UROC) on Sept. 24, 2011. After some debate about what to do in the Fall I finally decided that if I want to continue to improve I need to push myself against the best in the sport. The field at UROC is stacked with names like Roes, Mackey, Wardian, Sharman, and Meltzer; just to name a few. All of these runners are far more accomplished than I am. I am humbled to be given the opportunity to race against theses elites. My goal is simply to train hard, line-up and hold on for as long as I can without getting caught up in all the hype. Regardless of how I finish, this race should be an absolute blast. It is also in Virginia and I have had some pretty good races so far this year in Virginia. After UROC, I still plan on either running Oil Creek or keeping things in VA and running Grindstone. I'll probably decide on that in the next week or so (I like to push things off to the last minute anyway).
The next two weeks will also be interesting to watch with Pike's Peak Marathon, Leadville, Waldo 100k and, of course, UTMB coming up. I'll be pulling for local boy Neal Gorman out at Leadville; he's been having a great year so far - 2nd at MMT 100 and 1st at Old Dominion. At UTMB, I'm hoping that one of U.S. runners can pull out a victory, but I am not too optimistic. Either way it will be fun to follow from afar. That's it for now, time to go run!
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Hey, good to see you'll be joining a bunch of us at UROC. Should be a great race, that's for sure.ReplyDelete
Really looking forward to it. Great mix of runners so far, it will be interesting to see how it plays out.ReplyDelete
I recommend not running Grindstone since you're running UROC. I am one to talk, I realize, but I am not running UROC after all; however, I will be there volunteering. You ought to give yourself time to rest before a big event like Grindstone (or UROC) so you can better reach your potential. Weird, this coming from me, I know.ReplyDelete
Hey Neal - Great job at Leadville! Thanks for the advice, I have learned that just because you feel recovered doesn't mean you are. I probably won't be running Grindstone. Two weeks of recovery is likely not enough time to give a good effort at both races, unless your name is Nick Clark :)ReplyDelete


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After a recent seminar in Memphis, Tennessee, I stopped by Graceland, the home of Elvis Presley. It's on Elvis Presley Boulevard, not far from the Memphis Airport.
Across the street from the palatial grounds of the home are parked Elvis' two airplanes. The larger one is an impressive four engine jet named The Lisa Marie, after Elvis' daughter.
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What if you and I took that theory and applied it to every day of our lives? What if we asked ourselves, the first thing every morning, "What is the most valuable thing I should be doing today? (Repeat) What is the most valuable thing I should be doing today?" And then go ahead and do it.
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House OKs $31 million in U.S. grant for health insurance exchange
Without debate, the state House on Thursday afternoon voted to accept $31 million in federal grant money to move forward with the state-federal partnership version of Michigan's health insurance exchange.
The vote was 78-31, with almost all the votes against coming from conservative Republicans who are uneasy voting for anything connected to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Last year, Republicans in the House resisted moving forward with a state-based health exchange. Now they will have an exchange — meant to help people shop more easily for the health care insurance that they soon will be forced to purchase — that is largely under the control of the federal government.
"Today's vote to accept the grant was about doing everything we can to protect Michigan taxpayers and families from a massive and unwelcome federal overreach," House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, said in a statement. "Today's vote was not about political parties or ideological beliefs, but about accepting the responsibility to govern while facing reality."
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Some Former Supporters Say Capital Punishment Isn't Worth Huge Sums Spent on Drawn-Out Cases; Californians to Vote
Opponents of the death penalty are finding some unlikely allies: tough-on-crime types concerned about its cost.
Some longtime supporters of the death penalty now think the punishment should be scrapped, even as they continue to see it as a just option in heinous crimes and as an effective deterrent. They are questioning whether the occasional execution is worth the taxpayer money spent on lengthy appeals and costly lawyers for inmates, especially at a time when state budgets are strained.
This consideration is particularly keen in California, where a referendum to abolish the death penalty will appear on the ballot in November. Politicians in more conservative states also are taking another look at capital punishment, on cost grounds.
"I was a supporter and believer in the death penalty, but I've begun to see that this system doesn't work and it isn't functional," said Gil Garcetti, a Democrat who served for eight years as district attorney in Los Angeles County, which is responsible for roughly one-third of California's 727 death-row inmates. "It costs an obscene amount of money."
Many death-penalty supporters, meanwhile, agree that costs must be reined in, but they say capital punishment should be fixed instead of abolished.
"My theory is 'mend it, don't end it,' " said former California Gov. Pete Wilson, a Republican who opposes the ballot measure, Proposition 34. "The system works in many other states, and it doesn't in California because the appeals are endless."
The conflict comes amid deepening uncertainty over the death penalty, which was reinstated in many states after it was upheld as constitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976. While 33 states retain the power to sentence inmates to death, capital punishment faces a host of challenges, from the growing number of exonerations of convicts—often because of new DNA evidence—to shortages of drugs used in lethal injections.
Since 2007, the death penalty has been abolished in five states—Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico and New York. And public support for capital punishment, while at 61%, is at its lowest level in 39 years, according to a Gallup poll last year, the latest available.
Use of the death penalty has dropped sharply in recent years. In 2011, 43 inmates were executed and 78 were sent to death row, down from 85 executions and 224 death sentences in 2000, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, an organization largely opposed to the way the death penalty is used in the U.S.
The latest test comes from California, where a referendum proposed by a coalition of death-penalty opponents would replace the death penalty with a sentence of life without parole for all death-row inmates. The state, which last executed an inmate in 2006, holds nearly a quarter of all death-row inmates nationwide.
Polls on Proposition 34 show Californians by a narrow margin don't want to abolish the death penalty, with significant percentages undecided.
Some supporters of the referendum point to a 2011 study co-authored by Arthur Alarcón, a federal appellate judge for the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles, which found California had spent more than $4 billion on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978—about $308 million for each of the 13 executions since then. The referendum calls for devoting $100 million in budget savings over the next 3½ years into investigations of unsolved rape and murder cases.
Judge Alarcón, who was nominated to the federal appeals court by Jimmy Carter and who was a strong backer of the death penalty, admits to feeling conflicted about it now, although he hasn't wholly changed his opinion because of concerns about what more life-without-parole inmates would mean for the safety of other prisoners and guards.
Former California jurist and self-described "right-wing Republican" Donald McCartin, who died last month, became an outspoken critic of the death penalty in recent years, largely because of its costs. Judge McCartin had been known as "the hanging judge of Orange County" for having sent nine men to death row during his 15 years on the bench.
Opponents of the referendum say its supporters have overstated the financial burden of the death penalty, partly by inflating housing expenses, and that predictions of immediate cost savings are wrong. "It's funny math," says Jan Scully, the district attorney in Sacramento County, who supports the death penalty.
In California, according to the Alarcón study, the cost of housing a death-row inmate outpaces the cost of housing a general-population prisoner by $100,000 a year, primarily because death-row inmates are housed alone instead of two-to-a-cell, and they require a higher level of security.
The state, like many others, provides two lawyers to every death-eligible defendant, who are each then essentially afforded two full-scale jury trials, one to determine guilt and another to determine whether a death sentence is appropriate. The Alarcón study concluded jury selection alone in capital cases costs more than $200,000 above the amount for life-without-parole cases and that death-penalty prosecutions can cost 20 times as much as a life-without-parole case.
Death-penalty supporters in California and elsewhere argue that legislatures and courts have gone overboard in bulletproofing the system, often allowing for frivolous filings and appeals by inmates. They cite Texas and Oklahoma as states with more efficient and effective death-penalty systems, and point to Virginia's 2009 execution of John Allen Muhammad, the convicted "D.C. sniper," as an example of a death sentence administered properly. "It was six years, sentence to execution," said Kent Scheidegger, a death-penalty supporter and legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation in Sacramento, Calif. "There's no reason an appeals process needs to take longer than that."
But opponents say a smooth process like Mr. Muhammad's is a rarity. In California, it takes an average of 25 years from sentencing to execution.
"The 11 men currently on death row in Connecticut are far more likely to die of old age than they are to be put to death," said Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy, a former death-penalty supporter, after signing the bill to end that state's death penalty in April.
In Montana, some conservatives are behind a movement to do away with capital punishment because of cost. "The death penalty is another institution of government that is wasteful and ineffective," said Steve Dogiakos, director of a group called Montana Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, which has the support of a number of former and current legislators.
In Utah, a Republican lawmaker recently asked for a fiscal review of how much is being spent on capital cases. "I don't have any illusion that either the Utah legislature or the people are ready to overturn the death penalty," said State Rep. Stephen Handy, who called for the study. "But I want to start the dialogue."
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I always thought it would go well (despite the cynicism) and I never thought we shouldn't have bid for it (despite the expense). But what I didn't know was quite how amazing the London 2012 Olympics would be.
I have always been rubbish at sport and I don't usually watch sport much on TV. But I've been hooked. I've watched so many sports that I would never watch and been spellbound. As one radio presenter (I can't remember who) said "I never thought I'd find watching a horse moving sideways to the tune of Land of Hope and Glory a good way to spend an evening." I've spent evenings watching water polo, archery, athletics, wrestling and rowing to name just a few. When would I normally do that? What I regret is not having seen any part of the Olympics in person, unless you include seeing them film the helicopter supposedly carrying James Bond and the Queen fly through Tower Bridge.
I think the thing that finally got everyone interested after the initial scepticism, despite it being seen as hugely London-centric, was the torch relay. It just excited people as it brought the Olympics to every part of the country. A beautiful torch. Some amazing torch-bearers. Covering all of the UK. And I also think it was good to add in some famous local person too.
I loved the Opening Ceremony. Yes there were parts that were a bit lefty in parts, but it was an absolutely amazing event that showcased our history and Britain today. Britain is all of the things in that opening ceremony, despite what Aidan Burley and the Mail Online might say. We're a traditional and also modern country and that Opening Ceremony showed it. It was the Britain that I love and why I think we're a great country. And I think Danny Boyle deserves huge praise for distilling what Britain is, when most of us sort of know it in our soul but perhaps can't express it. Anyone who wants to know what being British is about should just watch the Opening Ceremony (and the Closing Ceremony for that matter too). Oh, and the Olympic cauldron was amazing and despite it not much was said about our country's amazing designers (except for those in fashion).
I even found myself excited wondering where Sheffield's golden postbox would be once Jessica Ennis won her Gold Medal. Despite my initial reservations about the idea of them. I was even more excited when I stumbled on it whilst it was being painted. Yes, as a proud Sheffielder I am also chuffed that someone local won a gold medal (Jessica Ennis). Someone local and from my school organised it (Sebastian Coe). Some locals performed in the opening ceremony (Arctic Monkeys).
Everyday at work we wondered what our Gold medals were going to be that day and we realised that we had champions that we had never even heard of because there were so many of them. A couple of us also were proud at how well Yorkshire did. We told everyone when we had won something and it was considered fine not a distraction from work as this is a once in a lifetime event.
There's plenty of events I can say I've enjoyed watching on TV, but there's nothing that has ever been as good as these Olympics. Britain at it's best. I've never been much of a nationalist and my nationality has just been a fact rather than something I feel fanatical about (although by being born in Sweden it makes it someway more complicated). But I think these Olympics have made me use the word "proud" for the first time. I'm proud we can put on an event this good. I'm proud that we can be this successful in sport. I'm proud that we show the world what an amazing country we are. I'm proud that we've all got behind it. I'm proud that I'm British. I was even a little tearful when the flag was handed over to Brazil.
What a show. What a spectacle. What an achievement. Let's hope we keep up the positivity and use the pride in our nation for positive good. Oh, and lets not forget we do still have the Paralympic Games coming up.
Sorry for all the hyperbole but I have genuinely loved all of this.
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"My Altec Lansing 716s are getting old and my Sennheiser HD 600s will need new cords shortly, so when I saw the Lenntek Pros at Costco.com for $50, I couldn't pass them up. When I first opened the box, and cut open the sealed all around plastic, I noticed that the included tips are all very small. But if you push them deep, deep, deep into your your ear canal you can get a seal...." --chasfs
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I had an idea for a cool Luke figure for a while now.
Like the Echo Base Han that came in the first (ESB) Vintage Wave, this is a Luke Skywalker with his tan Bespin jacket open, his green muscle shirt visible beneath.
Luke appears this way right after he attempts to lift his X-wing out of the swamp with The Force, but disappoints, then reports to Master Yoda, "I can't...It's too big." After Yoda's dialogue, Luke grabs his jacket and pulls it on, stalking off and saying [to Yoda] "You want the impossible!" Then Yoda begins to access The Force and the swamp waters start bubbling, Artoo chirping, and Luke stands up. SNAP! There he is.
The figure could have an independent rubber gunbelt accessory that goes on by way of the figure stepping into it, that holds his (separate) blaster and separate lightsaber hilt.
Since they did a vintage Luke Bespin twice (2007 and 2010), this may have to be a post-vintage-collection figure maybe in 2013. (Luke needs to be kept available and currently we have about every outfit - with Hoth coming - minus the Stormtrooper (2009) and Yavin Ceremony (2008) though the pilot versions of Luke are not Battle of Yavin-specific, and a direct representation of Luke Dagobah hasn't been done since 2004. (I'm thinking Medical Frigate Luke is a rare and obscure version of him that I am lucky to have.) Oh -Endor Luke hasn't been done since 2006 if I'm not mistaken - though I think he's already rumored for a vintage figure, too (Hoth is confirmed however).
Well, how about this Dagobah Jedi Apprentice Luke from the "You want the impossible!" scene?


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Concert pianists could be model organisms for studying the physiological basis of intellectual greatness
Charles T. Ambrose
The dogma of neurophysiology up until the 1970s was that generation of new neurons was limited to the period of embryogenesis for most of the brain, with a few exceptions, including the granule cells of the olfactory bulb and hippocampus. After birth, regeneration of neurons was believed to be limited to the peripheral nerves. As it became clear that all cortical areas of the brain exhibit plasticity (changes over time), modulations in function and activity were ascribed to synaptic changes. However, recent studies have suggested that neurogenesis may also be in play. Following are nine reports that describe simple enlargement of the brain or an increase in the volume of specific cortical areas after various stimuli. In the first four reports neurogenesis was not considered by the researchers; in the latter five reports, it plainly occurred.
In the early 1980s, William Greenough and colleagues trained adult rats on multiple maze patterns and found that afterward, "visual cortex pyramidal neuron dendritic fields were larger" than in controls. Rats trained on complex motor tasks also showed greater "cerebellar cortex thickness" than control rats given "far more physical activity" using devices such as treadmills. According to the authors, the results "strongly implicate changes in the number of synapses in the memory process." They did not pursue a conclusive histological investigation.
In the 1990s, Gregg Recanzone and coworkers trained monkeys "to discriminate between two vibrating stimuli applied to one finger" and after several thousand trials found that "the cortical representation of the trained finger became more than twice as large as the corresponding areas for other fingers."
In 1995, Thomas Elbert used neuroimaging to study right-handed string musicians and found that "the cortical representation of the fingers of the left hand … was larger than that in controls."
In 2004, Bogdon Draganski and colleagues employed fMRI scans of young volunteers who had mastered over a three-month period "a classic three-ball cascade juggling routine" and found expansion in gray matter in the mid temporal area and left posterior intraparietal sulcus. Notably, the expansion decreased three months later.
In the following five reports, postnatal neurogenesis was explicitly addressed.
Studies by Fernando Nottebohn in birds may have relevance to neurogenesis in the human brain. In the early 1980s, Nottebohn's lab reported in several papers that in the female canary forebrain (hyperstriatum), the volume of two vocal control nuclei (functional collections of neurons and associated cells) increased markedly during the peak of the singing season, then declined, then increased again during the successive singing season. The song repertoire of the canaries changes each year. The birds were injected with 3H-thymidine, which becomes incorporated in the DNA of replicating cells. In birds that received the label, it was shown that the volume increase in one particular area was accompanied by labeled glial, endothelial and migrating neuronal precursor cells—all of which were interpreted as signs of neurogenesis.
The earliest neurological studies using radioactive labeling were done in 1962 by Joseph Altman, who injected 3H-thymidine into lesions created in the lateral geniculate body of adult rats. He found labeled glial cells, neuroblasts, and a few neurons in or near the lesion area. The presence of labeled neuroblasts was judged to support "a process of neurogenesis" in the area of repair.
In 1999, Elizabeth Gould and coworkers injected bromodeoxyuridine (BrdU, a synthetic nucleotide analog that, like 3H-thymidine, gets incorporated into DNA in replicating cells) into adult macaques and after one week found labeled mature neurons in the prefrontal, inferior temporal and parietal cortices, indicating that neurons "are added to primate neocortex in adulthood." The authors did not regard the prior studies by Altman and Nottebohn as definitive or as establishing neurogenesis.
Peter Ericksson and colleagues reported in 1998 on the injection of five terminally ill patients with BrdU. They found that after their deaths (from several weeks to two years later), cells in the hippocampal dentate gyrus were labeled with both BrdU and a neuron-specific marker. They interpreted their findings to indicate the "genesis" of new neurons from "dividing progenitor cells" in the gyrus.
Finally, work by Marian Diamond and colleagues indicated that the continued growth of human brain after birth is influenced by nutritional factors and environmental influences. They found that rats given playthings and treadmills ("an enriched environment") develop more glial cells per neuron in the occipital cortex. Other changes noted were "neuronal stroma size, neuronal density, length of dendritic branches, dendritic spine density, length of synapses and glial cell counts."
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I searched for open source English grammar checkers, naively thinking that they would work by fully parsing English, but most of them only do pattern matching to look for common errors - like LanguageTool, used by OpenOffice. They are peephole optimizers, not complete parsers.
Except for Link Grammar, used by AbiWord. This one does parse English!
Even though it doesn't answer my original question (it thinks that "explain me something" is okay), it is quite cool.
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The itinerary takes into account a group with a number of wheelchair users, factoring in the time needed to get on and off the bus and negotiate each site.
Drive from Ben-Gurion Airport to the Old City of Jaffa.
Jaffa is one of the oldest ports in Israel, existing for upward of 4000 years; it was from Jaffa that Jonah set out before being swallowed by the whale and it was here to which Solomon imported cedars from Lebanon for the construction of the first Temple in Jerusalem.
At Kedumim Square in the heart of Old Jaffa you can tour the Visitor Center, which was built around authentic archaeological artifacts and remains.
Drive up the coast to Caesarea National Park, where 2,000 years ago King Herod built a large port in honor of Emperor Augustus. Pontius Pilate later ruled the country from his Caesarea, and it was from here that Paul set sail to the communities where he preached all over the Mediterranean.
Visit the Roman Theater, Herod's palace, the walled Crusader town with its galleries and restaurants and Caesarea's latest attraction, the Time Trek, a fascinating multimedia presentation.
Drive on to the Sea of Galilee region and stroll the waterfront in Tiberias.
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MARSEILLES, Ill. — Catherine L. Vargocko, 93, of Marseilles, passed away Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012, at OSF St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Ottawa.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 a. m. Wednesday, Nov. 21, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Marseilles, with Msgr. J. Brian Rejsek officiating. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery in Marseilles.
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Posted October 9, 2008; 12:11 p.m.
"The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century" is the title of a talk by journalist and author Steve Coll set for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Coll is a staff writer for The New Yorker, covering issues of intelligence and national security. He previously was the managing editor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at The Washington Post. Coll also was awarded a Pulitzer in 2004 for his book "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to Sept. 10, 2001." His most recent book is "The Bin Ladens: The Story of a Family and Its Fortune."
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.


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Hurricane News, November 3, 2010
The beautiful, fall foliage from the flat woods to the hill country at the western edge of the community is a sure sign that winter is on the way. It was an exciting month for the community during the past few weeks as visitors to the corn maze at Shady Grove and to the haunted forest at Hurricane made for busy traffic during October.
Congratulations to Megan Hooker, CNP who was voted in the Gazette polls "Best of the Best" nurse practitioner from The Internal Medicine Clinic for the second year in a row.
There will be a Harvest Day fellowship meal at Hurricane Baptist Church on Nov. 21 Pastor is Bro. Philip Brock.
Charlotte(Holden)Hooker of Thaxton was honored with a party at the home of Kim and Robert Gilliam for her 93rd birthday on Oct. 30 with her children Janice Turner and Graden Hooker also hosting the event.
She attended the evening service at Hurricane Baptist on Oct. 31 with our family and the congregation sang happy birthday to "Mama Hook".
Phil, Stephenie, Mary-Colston, and Gracie Warren hosted a hay ride and pizza party at W & W Farm on Oct. 31 for youth in the neighborhood.
Milestones in the community: Billy W. Todd of Fulton celebrated his 80th birthday in September. Billy is the son of the late Bill and Vance(Bell)Todd of Hurricane and a graduate of the Class of 1950. He taught at ICC and then worked at NPAC as guidance counselor for a number of years. Hats off to this former resident and educator.
Birthday wishes to Marley Williams and to Clarenda Parrish.
Terry and Debbie Norwood of Etta were featured in the Northeast Power Association Newsletter for their sorghum mill at Rocky Ford.
Bro. Steve Parrish was the guest speaker for the men's prayer breakfast of Saturday, Oct. 30 at Hurricane Baptist.
Congratulations to Aden Hooker of Booneville who was selected as a top five beauty from grades 1-2.
Nellie(Ashley)Sandroni of Shaw called last Saturday as she had missed Dotsy Williamson at the Delta State reunion and learned of my dad Warren Norwood's death there. She visits the community at the Ashley home at Lone Star frequently and keeps in touch with her classmates of the Class of 1953 from Hurricane High. She was an All-Star player for the girls basketball team from 1949-53.
Cade and Nolie Carlock of Lubbock, Texas, sent an announcement that their daughter Mylie Jo Carlock was born on Oct. 8. She is the latest addition to our extended Warren-Graham family and the granddaughter of Tom and Debbie(Graham)Carlock and the great-granddaughter of Bob and Wanza Graham, also of Texas.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Ralph L. Stevens who was the husband of Robbie Stevens of Poolville.
Mr. Ralph is the uncle of Linda(Bobby Clay)Russell of Old Union.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Vida Lou Sandford of New Albany who was a descendant of the Rayburn-Williams family of Hurricane.
Get well wishes to Agnes Payne.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Graham R. Russell of Sand Springs who was the husband of Ruth(Allred)Graham for 60 years. He was a retired highway patrolman, and the honor guard for these officers led the procession and closed out the end of the line at they proceeded to Sand Springs Cemetery. His mother, the late Ida(Mrs.Gene)Russell served as news correspondent for the community.
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This is a review by a person, with little headphone experience. The best headphones I have had before these would have to be the v-moda bass freq. I've had the skullcandy crushers, and some other of $20 or less phones. This is probably a review for those who are on this forum and are noobs, since their ears are probably not as developed and won't appreciate the gifts of a $500 pair of headphones(good ones). At first I considered the Monster Studios as they were probably the only pair of headphones that i had heard of due to advertising and huge stores, and since they had such a high price tag i thought they had to be amazing. I did try them on and they sounded good at first, but after thinking about the listening experience, the bass was muddy, and the sound was muddy as well. It just felt condensed. Anyways, thanks to this site i saved 200 bucks, and got these babes.
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- These have great bass, quantitively less than the Studios but not by much. Quality wise they are way better.
- The pleather and the design of this heapdhone was crazy good. They were comfortable for me, and they look really good which was a big factor. Ears do swear a little, but you only notice once you take them off.
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- The only two cons of this headphone is that the cable is rather long and that the headphones create pressure on your head but that goes away after a while. The thing with the cable is that you can wrap it up and its fine.
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