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Sodium hydroxymethylglycinate is a relatively common ingredient in skin care products. The properties of the substance allow it to function equally well as an active ingredient to improve the look and feel of the hair or skin and as an additive to improve the quality of formulations. The ingredient may be referred to by a large number of other names, including n-sodium salt glycine, hydroxymethylaminoacetic acid sodium salt and sodium-n hydroxymethyl glycinate.
Some confusion exists about the origins and sources of sodium hydroxymethylglycinate. The ingredient is derived from the abundant, natural amino acid glycine. This nutrient is found in a variety of foods, including gelatin, pork, turkey, fish and eggs. Inside of the human body, glycine can be used to produce protein, which is a vital component of the hair and skin.
Unlike other ingredients that are made from amino acids, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate cannot be produced with a natural chemical reaction. Instead, glycine must be put through a series of synthetic modifications, alterations and reactions that do not occur in nature. As a result, it is correct to say that sodium hydroxymethylglycinate is naturally derived, but not an entirely natural ingredient.
This distinction is important because some skin care companies tout sodium hydroxymethylglycinate as a natural alternative to other ingredients that perform similar functions in skin and hair care products, such as parabens. While this is not a false statement, it can cause confusion among consumers.
When included in formulations as an active ingredient, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate is typically chosen by skin and hair care companies due to its ability to function as a humectant. This means that sodium hydroxymethylglycinate naturally draws moisture from the air because its molecules are attracted to those found in droplets of water. Once the moisture has been removed from the air, it can be absorbed by the hair or skin.
Sodium hydroxymethylglycinate's properties as a humectant are useful for replacing lost moisture in the skin tissue to prevent or combat dryness. When contained in moisturizers and body lotions, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate helps to treat symptoms of dry skin, including itching, flaking and redness. Properly hydrated skin also appears fuller and plumper, and as a result, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate may be used in anti-aging products designed to make wrinkles less noticeable on the complexion.
For the hair, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate keeps the hair shafts supple and pliant, reducing the likelihood of breakage and split ends. Often, the ingredient is used in conditioners due to this effect. Dry hair is also more prone to fly-aways and static. As a result, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate is an effective ingredient in shampoos, conditioners and styling products meant to make the hair more manageable. By drawing moisture into the hair fibers, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate creates thicker, fuller strands with more bounce and lift, and so hair care brands may add the ingredient to volumizing products as well.
As an additive, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate functions as a preservative. Inside of skin and hair care products, the ingredient kills microbes, such as bacteria, mold and mildew. This allows products to remain potent and pure. Sodium hydroxymethylglycinate is often the preservative of choice among skin care companies because it is effective against a broad range of microbes and remains viable and stable in products of all different acidity levels.
In the United States, sodium hydroxymethylglycinate is approved for use in skin care products at concentrations of 0.5 percent or less, and at these levels, is considered as "Generally Regarded as Safe" by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The European Union has approved sodium hydroxymethylglycinate for use in beauty products at concentrations of up to 0.5 percent as well.
Despite its approval, some concerns exist about the potential health consequences of sodium hydroxymethylglycinate. The ingredient is known to cause irritation to the eyes, such as redness and watering, and can produce burning and inflammation in those with sensitive skin.
In addition, some studies have raised the question as to whether sodium hydroxymethylglycinate can expose the body to formaldehyde, a toxin and cancer-causing agent. So far, clinical studies have found that sodium hydroxymethylglycinate is likely only to degrade into formaldehyde when products are improperly stored. The studies have also shown that the amount of formaldehyde given off by sodium hydroxymethylglycinate is typically at a concentration of less than.005 percent and that this tiny amount of formaldehyde would be unlikely to cause any health risks.


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Spent the last week adding preprocessor testcases for every bit of odd behaviour I can dream up. Tidying up the #define directive parser at the moment, removing a malloc performance bottleneck. Zack's just completed a nice tidy- up of the macro expanding code, removing excessive recursive calls. I suspect the current code is now faster than the old cpplib and cccp, certainly there is little reason for it to be slower.
We should be able to scrap support for -traditional (though not -Wtraditional I expect) since we're now bundling an old preprocessor, tradcpp, just for that job. A token-based preprocessor just proved to be too fundamentally different to K+R for the integration to be sustainable, and it was getting in the way.
Cpplib is beginning to look quite clean in most places, and should be not too hard to read. Almost at the stage of being a piece of code to be proud of. A noteable exception is the lexer, which still needs a lot of cleaning up and work on improving performance. Lexers tend to be ugly by their very nature, though.
Hopefully we can soon start to think about front-end integration and pre-compiled headers, which will be fun to work on, and give us some really nice performance improvements. The C and C++ front ends should be able to all-but abandon their existing lexers, save crannies like interpreting numbers and merging adjacent string literals.
In a few days I'm going to be offline for a month or three, so Zack will be working on it alone for a while. I think he's forgotten his Advogato password, though <g>.

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Casino Angeleno--All in for LA!
Junior League of Los Angeles
Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 7:30 PM to 11:30 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Join LA's premier women's volunteer organization, the Junior League of Los Angeles, for a benefit featuring casino games, a poker tournament, exciting silent auction items, leading local chefs, and live music!
On Saturday, April 27, 2013, the JLLA will host Casino Angeleno at the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA. The evening will feature a silent auction, opportunity drawings, a poker tournament, tastings from exciting local chefs, and live music and dancing. Among other exciting items and appearances will be Top Chef contestant Fabio Viviani's Firenze Osteria, a car display from Ferrari of Beverly Hills, a signed guitar from Kiss's Paul Stanley, and music by Gabriel Diggs (brother of actor Taye Diggs).
Please visit our website, www.jlla.org, for more information!
When & Where
Petersen Automotive Museum
6060 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles,
Saturday, April 27, 2013 from 7:30 PM to 11:30 PM (PDT)
Add to my calendar
Junior League of Los Angeles
Mission Statement
The Junior League of Los Angeles is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and to improving the community through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. Its purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.
Outreach Statement
Vision Statement
The Junior League of Los Angeles will be the region's premier volunteer organization for women as catalysts for lasting community change.
Focus Areas
The focus areas of the Junior League of Los Angeles include:
- Health and Education of Women and Children
- Women in Leadership


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For reasons unknown to me and because I already have a big stack of books to read, I decided it would be a good idea to pick up Matheson's Hell House, Richard Laymon's One Rainy Night, and Robert McCammon's Swan Song.
First it was the dvds, now it's the books. Where will the needless buying stop?


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Its summer - Keep your dogs hydrated and cool!
My goof ball Bro-in-law just killed his Golden in the mountains while bike riding. He did not stop to think about his dogs health - bone head!
He takes a dog that spends most of his day laying around up to the mountains for a 5 mile MOUNTAIN bike ride and now he is gone. Just pisses me off he did not think of that dog. JD collapsed 1/2 way into the ride, vet said all of his internal organs have shut down. Heat stroke!


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http://benswann.com/feds-spend-2-2-m...re-overweight/$2,202,873 tax dollars were spent to study why many lesbians are obese.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the money to study the biological and social factors that cause a large number of lesbians to be obese. According to NIH three-quarters of lesbians are obese even though gay males are not � they call it an issue of �high public-health significance.�
�However, one area that is only beginning to be recognized is the striking interplay of gender and sexual orientation in obesity disparities,� it continues, �is now well-established that women of minority sexual orientation are disproportionately affected by the obesity epidemic. In stark contrast, among men, heterosexual males have nearly double the risk of obesity compared to gay males.�


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Size: 54 in. x 42 3/8 in. (137.2 cm x 107.6 cm)
Museum purchase through the Earle W. Grant Acquisition Fund, 1979:20
Single-minded in his pursuit of a pure pictorial language based on bold chromatic contrasts, Delaunay turned away from the muted Cubist palette of Picasso and Braque and looked instead to the lessons of Matisse and his followers, who had pioneered an expressive and deliberately dissonant use of color. The critic Guillaume Apollinaire used the term "Orphic," a poetic label meant to evoke the work's "cosmic" character, to describe Delaunay's language of luminous, abstract forms.
Much of Delaunay's work is more purely abstract, but this painting belongs to the series of female nudes -- exceptional among Delaunay's oeuvre -- executed in Spain and Portugal, where the artist and his wife had withdrawn during World War I.
The overlapping constellation of circular motifs at the edges of the composition are more typical of his work and recalls the so-called color wheels of Michel Eugène Chevreul, the nineteenth century chemist whose theory of simultaneous color contrasts had also been a touchstone of Impressionism.


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For 16 years, many readers had no idea the newspapers were related — the East County Observer and Gulf Coast Business Review. The same company — Observer Media Group Inc. — published them. But reporters for the Gulf Coast Business Review often explained to their new sources: "You know ... we're part of the Observers."
On Friday, Jan. 18, the Gulf Coast Business Review will join the Observer Media Group family in name — changing its namesake flag to the Business Observer.
"It makes sense to put all our publications under one brand," said Matt Walsh, CEO of Observer Media Group.
In addition to the Business Review, the company publishes the Longboat Observer, East County Observer, Pelican Press and Sarasota Observer in Greater Sarasota; and the Plant City Observer, Palm Coast Observer and Ormond Beach Observer.
The Business Review serves paid subscribers who extend from Tampa Bay to Naples.
Walsh said adopting the Business Observer name also will help differentiate the publication from others with similar names tied to the "Gulf Coast."
"The words 'Gulf Coast' mean something different depending where you live," Walsh said. "Our new name finally will eliminate that confusion."
Accompanying the new name are a redesign of the paper, a new branding campaign and, soon, a redesigned website. The paper's website URL also will change — from Review.net to BusinessObserverFL.com.
The branding campaign highlights the paper's continued focus of providing news for business leaders, or what it refers to as "the C-Suite" to its subscription-only base. That content includes stories on CEOs, entrepreneurs, companies and trends that affect Southwest Florida. "Our focus is on getting the most relevant and compelling information to those who make decisions in business," Walsh said.
"The important thing is, even though the name is changing, our content and goal haven't," Walsh said. "We will continue to provide our readers with the most authoritative news and information business leaders on the west coast of Florida need to know."


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WHEN they first went to live at Three Chimneys, the children had talked a great deal about their Father, and had asked a great many questions about him, and what he was doing and where he was and when he would come home. Mother always answered their questions as well as she could. But as the time went on they grew to speak less of him. Bobbie had felt almost from the first that for some strange miserable reason these questions hurt Mother and made her sad. And little by little the others came to have this feeling, too, though they could not have put it into words.
One day when Mother was working so hard that she could not leave off even for ten minutes, Bobbie carried up her tea to the big bare room that they called Mother's workshop. It had hardly any furniture. Just a table and a chair and a rug. But always big pots of flowers on page: 205 the window-sills and on the mantelpiece. The children saw to that. And from the three long uncurtained windows the beautiful stretch of meadow and moorland, the far violet of the hills, and the unchanging changefulness of cloud and sky.
"Here's your tea, Mother-love," said Bobbie; "do drink it while it's hot."
Mother laid down her pen among the pages that were scattered all over the table, pages covered with her writing, which was almost as plain as print, and much prettier. She ran her hands into her hair, as if she were going to pull it out by handfuls.
"Poor dear head," said Bobbie, "does it ache?"
"No—yes—not much," said Mother. "Bobbie, do you think Peter and Phil are forgetting Father?"
"No," said Bobbie, indignantly. "Why?"
"You none of you ever speak of him now."
Bobbie stood first on one leg and then on the other.
"We often talk about him when we're by ourselves," she said.
"But not to me," said Mother. "Why?"
Bobbie did not find it easy to say why.page: 206
"I—you—" she said, and stopped. She went over to the window and looked out.
"Bobbie, come here," said her Mother, and Bobbie came.
"Now," said Mother, putting her arm round Bobbie and laying her ruffled head against Bobbie's shoulder, "try to tell me, dear."
Bobbie fidgeted.
"Tell Mother."
"Well, then," said Bobbie, "I thought you were so unhappy about Daddy not being here, it made you worse when I talked about him. So I stopped doing it."
"And the others?"
"I don't know about the others," said Bobbie. "I never said anything about that to them. But I expect they felt the same about it as me."
"Bobbie dear," said Mother, still leaning her head against her, "I'll tell you. Besides parting from Father, he and I have had a great sorrow,—oh, terrible—worse than anything you can think of, and at first it did hurt to hear you all talking of him as if everything were just the same. But it would be much more terrible if you were to forget him. That would be worse than anything."
"The trouble," said Bobbie, in a very little page: 207 voice,—"I promised I would never ask you any questions, and I never have, have I? But—the trouble—it won't last always?"
"No," said Mother, "the worst will be over when Father comes home to us."
"I wish I could comfort you," said Bobbie.
"Oh, my dear, do you suppose you don't? What should I do without you—you and the others? Do you think I haven't noticed how good you've all been, not quarrelling nearly as much as you used to—and all the little kind things you do for me—the flowers, and cleaning my shoes, and tearing up to make my bed before I get time to do it myself?"
Bobbie had sometimes wondered whether Mother noticed these things.
"That's nothing," she said, "to what—"
"I must get on with my work," said Mother, giving Bobbie one last squeeze. "Don't say anything to the others."
That evening in the hour before bed-time instead of reading to the children Mother told them stories of the games she and Father used to have when they were children and lived near each other in the country—tales of the adventures of Father with Mother's brothers when they were all boys to- together page: 208 gether. Very funny stories they were, and the children laughed as they listened.
"Uncle Edward died before he was grown up, didn't he?" said Phyllis, as Mother lighted the bedroom candles.
"Yes, dear," said Mother, "you would have loved him. He was such a brave boy, and so adventurous. Always in mischief, and yet friends with everybody in spite of it. And your Uncle Reggie's in Ceylon—yes, and Father's away, too. But I think they'd all like to think we'd enjoyed talking about the things they used to do. Don't you think so?"
"Not Uncle Edward," said Phyllis, in a shocked tone; "he's in Heaven."
"You don't suppose he's forgotten us and all the old times, because God has taken him, any more than I forget him. Oh, no, he remembers. He's only away for a little time. We shall see him some day."
"And Uncle Reggie—and Father, too?" said Peter.
"Yes," said Mother. "Uncle Reggie and Father, too. Good night, my darlings."
"Good night," said every one. Bobbie hugged her mother more closely even than usual, and page: 209 whispered in her ear, "Oh, I do love you so, Mummy—I do—I do—"
When Bobbie came to think it all over, she tried not to wonder what the great trouble was. But she could not always help it. Father was not dead—like poor Uncle Edward—Mother had said so. And he was not ill, or Mother would have been with him. Being poor wasn't the trouble. Bobbie knew it was something nearer the heart than money could be.
"I mustn't try to think what it is," she told herself; "no, I mustn't. I am glad Mother noticed about us not quarrelling so much. We'll keep that up."
And alas, that very afternoon she and Peter had what Peter called a first-class shindy.
They had not been a week at Three Chimneys before they had asked Mother to let them have a piece of garden each for their very own, and she had agreed, and the south border under the peach trees had been divided into three pieces and they were allowed to plant whatever they liked there.
Phyllis had planted mignonette and nasturtium and Virginia Stock in hers. The seeds came up and though they looked just like weeds, Phyllis page: 210 believed that they would bear flowers some day. The Virginia Stock justified her faith quite soon, and her garden was gay with a band of bright little flowers, pink and white and red and mauve.
"I can't weed for fear I pull up the wrong things," she used to say comfortably; "it saves such a lot of work."
Peter sowed vegetable seeds in his,—carrots and onions and turnips. The seed was given to him by the farmer who lived in the nice black-and-white, wood-and-plaster house just beyond the bridge. He kept turkeys and guinea fowls, and was a most amiable man. But Peter's vegetables never had much of a chance, because he liked to use the earth of his garden for digging canals, and making forts and earthworks for his toy soldiers. And the seeds of vegetables rarely come to much in a soil that is constantly disturbed for the purposes of war and irrigation.
Bobbie planted rose-bushes in her garden, but all the little new leaves of the rose-bushes shrivelled and withered, perhaps because she moved them from the other part of the garden in May, which is not at all the right time of year for moving roses. But she would not own that they were dead, and hoped on against hope, until the day page: 211 when Perks came up to see the garden, and told her quite plainly that all her roses were as dead as door nails.
"Only good for bonfires, Miss," he said. "You just dig 'em up and burn 'em, and I'll give you some nice fresh roots outer my garden; pansies, and stocks, and sweet willies, and forget-me-nots. I'll bring 'em along to-morrow if you get the ground ready."
So next day she set to work, and that happened to be the day when Mother had praised her and the others about not quarrelling. She moved the rose-bushes and carried them to the other end of the garden, where the rubbish heap was that they meant to make a bonfire of when Guy Fawkes day came.
Meanwhile Peter had decided to flatten out all his forts and earthworks, with a view to making a model of the railway-tunnel, cutting, embankment, canal, aqueduct, bridges, and all.
So when Bobbie came back from her last thorny journey with the dead rose-bushes, he had got the rake and was using it busily.
"I was using the rake," said Bobbie.
"Well, I'm using it now," said Peter.
"But I had it first," said Bobbie.page: 212
"Then it's my turn now," said Peter. And that was how the quarrel began.
"You're always being disagreeable about nothing," said Peter, after some heated argument.
"I had the rake first," said Bobbie, flushed and defiant, holding on to its handle.
"Don't I tell you I said this morning I meant to have it. Didn't I, Phil?"
Phyllis said she didn't want to be mixed up in their rows. And instantly, of course, she was.
"If you remember you ought to say."
"Of course she doesn't remember—but she might say so."
"I wish I'd had a brother instead of two whiny little kiddy sisters," said Peter. This was always recognised as indicating the high-water mark of Peter's rage.
Bobbie made the reply she always made to it.
"I can't think why little boys were ever invented," and just as she said it she looked up, and saw the three long windows of Mother's workshop flashing in the red rays of the sun. The sight brought back those words of praise:—
"You don't quarrel like you used to do."
"Oh!" cried Bobbie, just as if she had been hit, page: 213 or had caught her finger in a door, or had felt the hideous sharp beginnings of toothache.
"What's the matter?" said Phyllis.
Bobbie wanted to say: "Don't let's quarrel. Mother hates it so," but though she tried hard, she couldn't. Peter was looking too disagreeable and insulting.
"Take the horrid rake, then," was the best she could manage. And she suddenly let go her hold on the handle. Peter had been holding on to it too, firmly and pullingly, and now that the pull the other way was suddenly stopped, he staggered and fell over backward, the teeth of the rake between his feet.
"Serve you right," said Bobbie, before she could stop herself.
Peter lay still for half a moment—long enough to frighten Bobbie a little. Then he frightened her a little more, for he sat up—screamed once—turned rather pale, and then lay back and began to shriek, faintly but steadily. It sounded exactly like a pig being killed a quarter of a mile off.
Mother put her head out of the window, and it wasn't half a minute after that she was in the garden kneeling by the side of Peter who never for an instant ceased to squeal.page: 214
"What happened, Bobbie?" Mother asked.
"It was the rake," said Phyllis. "Peter was pulling at it, so was Bobbie, and she let go and he went over."
"Stop that noise, Peter," said Mother. "Come. Stop at once."
Peter used up what breath he had left in a last squeal and stopped.
"Now," said Mother, "are you hurt?"
"If he was really hurt, he wouldn't make such a fuss," said Bobbie, still trembling with fury; "he's not a coward!"
"I think my foot's broken off, that's all," said Peter, huffily, and sat up. Then he turned quite white. Mother put her arm round him.
"He is hurt," she said; "he's fainted. Here, Bobbie, sit down and take his head on your lap."
Then Mother undid Peter's boots. As she took the right one off something dripped from his foot on to the ground. It was red blood. And when the stocking came off there were three red wounds in Peter's foot and ankle, where the teeth of the rake had bitten him, and his foot was covered with red smears.
"Run for water—a basinful," said Mother, and Phyllis ran. She upset most of the water out of page: 215 the basin in her haste, and had to fetch more in a jug.
Peter did not open his eyes again till Mother had tied her handkerchief round his foot, and she and Bobbie had carried him in and laid him on the brown wooden settle in the dining room. By this time Phyllis was halfway to the Doctor's.
Mother sat by Peter and bathed his foot and talked to him, and Bobbie went out and got tea ready, and put in the kettle.
"It's all I can do," she told herself. "Oh, suppose Peter should die, or be a helpless cripple for life, or have to walk with crutches, or wear a boot with a sole like a log of wood!"
She stood by the back door reflecting on these gloomy possibilities, her eyes fixed on the water-butt.
"I wish I'd never been born," she said, and she said it out loud.
"Why, lawk a mercy, what's that for?" asked a voice, and Perks stood before her with a wooden trug basket full of green-leaved things and soft, loose earth.
"Oh, it's you," she said. "Peter's hurt his foot with a rake—three great gaping wounds, like soldiers get. And it was partly my fault."page: 216
"That it wasn't, I'll go bail," said Perks. "Doctor seen him?"
"Phyllis has gone for the Doctor."
"He'll be all right; you see if he isn't," said Perks. "Why, my father's second cousin had a hay-fork run into him, right into his inside, and he was right as ever in a few weeks, all except his being a bit weak in the head afterwards, and they did say that it was along of his getting a touch of the sun in the hay-field, and not the fork at all. I remember him well. A kind-'earted chap, but soft, as you might say."
Bobbie tried to let herself be cheered by this heartening reminiscence.
"Well," said Perks, "you won't want to be bothered with gardening just this minute, I dare say. You shew me where your garden is, and I'll pop the bits of stuff in for you. And I'll hang about, if I may make so free, to see the Doctor as he comes out and hear what he says. You cheer up, Missie. I lay a pound he ain't hurt, not to speak of."
But he was. The Doctor came and looked at the foot and bandaged it beautifully, and said that Peter must not put it to the ground for at least a week.page: 217
"He won't be lame, or have to wear crutches or a lump on his foot, will he?" whispered Bobbie, breathlessly, at the door.
"My aunt! no!" said Dr. Forrest; "he'll be as nimble as ever on his pins in a fortnight. Don't you worry, little Mother Goose."
It was when Mother had gone to the gate with the Doctor to take his last instructions and Phyllis was filling the kettle for tea, that Peter and Bobbie found themselves alone.
"He says you won't be lame or anything," said Bobbie.
"Oh, course I shan't, silly," said Peter, very much relieved all the same.
"Oh, Peter, I am so sorry," said Bobbie, after a pause.
"That's all right," said Peter, gruffly.
"It was all my fault," said Bobbie.
"Rot," said Peter.
"If we hadn't quarrelled, it wouldn't have happened. I knew it was wrong to quarrel. I wanted to say so, but somehow I couldn't."
"Don't drivel," said Peter. "I shouldn't have stopped if you "had said it. Not likely. And besides, us rowing hadn't anything to do with it. I might have caught my foot in the hoe, or taken page: 218 off my fingers in the chaff-cutting machine or blown my nose off with fireworks. It would have been hurt just the same whether we'd been rowing or not."
"But I knew it was wrong to quarrel," said Bobbie, in tears, "and now you're hurt and—"
"Now look here," said Peter, firmly, "you just dry up. If you're not careful, you'll turn into a beastly little Sunday-school prig, so I tell you."
"I don't mean to be a prig. But it's so hard not to be, when you're really trying to be good."
(The Gentle Reader may perhaps have suffered from this difficulty.)
"Not it," said Peter; "it's a jolly good thing it wasn't you was hurt. I'm glad it was me. There! If it had been you, you'd have been lying on the sofa looking like a suffering angel and being the light of the anxious household and all that. And I couldn't have stood it."
"No, I shouldn't," said Bobbie.
"Yes, you would," said Peter.
"I tell you I shouldn't."
"I tell you you would."
"Oh, children," said Mother's voice at the door. "Quarrelling again? Already?"
"We aren't quarrelling—not really," said Peter. page: 219 "I wish you wouldn't think it's rows every time we don't agree!" When Mother had gone out again, Bobbie broke out:—
"Peter, I am sorry you're hurt. But you are a beast to say I'm a prig."
"Well," said Peter, unexpectedly, "perhaps I am. You did say I wasn't a coward, even when you were in such a wax. The only thing is—don't you be a prig, that's all. You keep your eyes open and if you feel prigginess coming on just stop it in time. See?"
"Yes," said Bobbie, "I see."
"Then let's call it Pax," said Peter, magnanimously: "bury the hatchet in the fathoms of the past. Shake hands on it. I say, Bobbie, old chap, I am tired."
He was tired for many days after that, and the settle seemed hard and uncomfortable in spite of all the pillows and bolsters and soft folded rugs. It was terrible not to be able to go out. They moved the settle to the window, and from there Peter could see the smoke of the trains winding along the valley. But he could not see the trains.
At first Bobbie found it quite hard to be as nice to him as she wanted to be, for fear he should think her priggish. But that soon wore off, and page: 220 both she and Phyllis were, as he observed, jolly good sorts. Mother sat with him when his sisters were out. And the words, "he's not a coward," made Peter determined not to make any fuss about the pain in his foot, though it was rather bad, especially at night.
Praise helps people very much, sometimes.
There were visitors, too. Mrs. Perks came up to ask how he was, and so did the Station Master, and several of the village people. But the time went slowly, slowly.
"I do wish there was something to read," said Peter. "I've read all our books fifty times over."
"I'll go to the Doctor's," said Phyllis; "he's sure to have some."
"Only about how to be ill, and about people's nasty insides, I expect," said Peter.
"Perks has a whole heap of Magazines that come out of trains when people are tired of them," said Bobbie. "I'll run down and ask him."
So the girls went their two ways.
Bobbie found Perks busy cleaning lamps.
"And how's the young gent?" said he.
"Better, thanks," said Bobbie, "but he's most frightfully bored. I came to ask if you'd got any Magazines you could lend him."page: 221
"There, now," said Perks, regretfully, rubbing his ear with a black and oily lump of cotton waste, "why didn't I think of that, now? I was trying to think of something as 'ud amuse him only this morning, and I couldn't think of anything better than a guinea-pig. And a young chap I know's going to fetch that over for him this tea-time."
"How lovely! A real live guinea! He will be pleased. But he'd like the Magazines as well."
"That's just it," said Perks. "I've just sent the pick of 'em to Snigson's boy—him what's just getting over the pewmonia. But I've lots of illustrated papers left."
He turned to the pile of papers in the corner and took up a heap six inches thick.
"There!" he said. "I'll just slip a bit of string and a bit of paper round 'em."
He pulled an old newspaper from the pile and spread it on the table, and made a neat parcel of it.
"There," said he, "there's lots of pictures, and if he likes to mess 'em about with his paint-box, or coloured chalks or what not, why, let him. I don't want 'em."
"You're a dear," said Bobbie, took the parcel, and started. The papers were heavy, and page: 222 when she had to wait at the level crossing while a train went by, she rested the parcel on the top of the gate. And idly she looked at the printing on the paper that the parcel was wrapped in.
Suddenly she clutched the parcel tighter and bent her head over it. It seemed like some horrible dream. She read on—the bottom of the column was torn off—she could read no further.
She never remembered how she got home. But she went on tiptoe to her room and locked the door. Then she undid the parcel and read that printed column again, sitting on the edge of her bed, her hands and feet icy cold and her face burning. When she had read all there was, she drew a long uneven breath.
"So now I know," she said.
What she had read was headed, "End of the Trial. Verdict. Sentence."
The name of the man who had been tried was the name of her Father. The verdict was "Guilty." And the sentence was "Five years' Penal Servitude."
"Oh, Daddy," she whispered, crushing the paper hard, "it's not true—I don't believe it. You never did! Never, never, never!"page: 223
There was a hammering on the door.
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Loving and spiritual man, Christopher Michael Pitt went to be with our Lord on December 23rd. A devoted husband, adored by his wife Heather-Ann, his sisters Lynn (Eddy) and Debbie (Danny) and his brother Brian. His wit, charm, sense of humor and story telling will be missed by all who knew him. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Canadian Cancer Society. Contact Toni Andreola at 1-800-663-2524 Ext 7112.
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Dart was purchased for $6K after she had her Canadian titles - she produced Dandy, Suzie, Garbo, Sheba & I believe Air Express - all titled with Dandy winning a triple header of Nationals & Garbo winning the Canadian National - I competed against these dogs at the time so am very familiar with their ability to perform - The dogs did not throw to type size wise as many do - only Suzie & Dandy were dogs that were working size - the others tended to being a little big. Charly was the heir apparent in the breeding end & bred several litters. EB was instrumental in picking the studs based on pedigree without looking at the dog performing. Charly talked to me about taking a pup a couple of times & though I liked his girls did not like the studs used. Needless to say, a line that should still be throwing competitive dogs today soon dropped out of sight. Dandy was a really good dog.
EDewitt was the puppy raiser & worked EB's young dogs - they later went to the Gonia's for AA work - Jim had been working in a Cable Factory & liked the job, maybe says something about his affinity to old metal, he had the new guy's job - when they hired a new guy & he was not able to cut the job - Jim who had been promoted from that job was put back in that job - needless to say Jim is now training dogs to the betterment of the sport in this part of the country. He creates a competitive level that is quite high. If you want to beat him you better have the dog, the dog better be trained & you need to know how to BS the judges . I was fortunate enough to know Roy, who was quite a character, did any of you know he had NC Springers before going into the Retriever world? Roy had a way of letting you know he recognized folks abilities without going into great detail.
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Family: Ardeidae, Herons, Egrets, Bitterns view all from this family
Description ADULT Has pure white plumage for much of year but at height of breeding season it becomes flushed yellowish buff on crown, breast, and back. Bill is yellow for most of year, turning orange-red in breeding season; legs are dark for most of year but turn orange-yellow during breeding season. juvenile Similar to nonbreeding adult.
Dimensions Length: 20" (51 cm)
Habitat Originates from Old World and is a relatively recent arrival to our region; first noted in South America (presumably from Africa) and reached Florida in mid 20th century. Now a widespread resident in coastal districts in southeast, favoring grassland and wetlands; from spring to fall, also occurs inland during summer breeding season.
Observation Tips Usually found in drier habitats than other egret species.
Range Southwest, Rocky Mountains, California, Texas, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Eastern Canada, Western Canada, New England, Northwest, Southeast, Florida, Plains
Voice Mainly silent.
Discussion Stocky, mainly white heron-like bird with a proportionately large head and bulbous throat. Gregarious and often associates with grazing livestock, chasing after insects and other prey disturbed by feeding animals. Sexes are similar but breeding adults are more colorful than nonbreeding and immatures.


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The Honduras Solidarity Network delegation invites you to an evening of inspiration and discussion of the lessons of the Honduran Revolution.
In the aftermath of the US-backed coup of June 2009, the National Popular Resistance Front emerged in Honduras and successfully united peasants, urban labor (especially teachers), feminists, militant youth, LBGT, and environmentalists. Most recently they organized an electoral wing, the Libre Party, which broke the two-party monopoly in the national primary elections.
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This luxurious private tour is perfect for those seeking to experience the highlights of Morocco and Portugal. With your own private guides and drivers, enjoy comprehensive touring of vibrant cities, stunning countryside, UNESCO World Heritage sites, and places of historical, cultural and culinary interest. Accommodation is at the most deluxe properties in each location.
Begin in Fez, the intellectual and religious heart of the nation. Stay at an exclusive luxury hotel and explore the best of the city with your own private guide. Tour Fez el-Bali ("Fez the Old") and its medieval medina (old town), a UNESCO world heritage site crammed with narrow, winding streets, tiny squares and artisan workshops. Visit centuries-old mosques and universities, see the multi-colored vats of the open-air tanneries, and shop for traditional wares made from copper, ceramics and leather. Also visit Fez el-Djedid ("Fez the New"), built in the 13th century. Visit the Royal Palace and the mellah (Jewish Quarter), the largest in Morocco.
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Here's a gloss on two basic theories about how things get weird at the subatomic level: First, a photon (light particle) is trickily capable of behaving like both a particle and a wave, and whether it acts as one or the other depends principally upon whether or not we are looking. Second, we can know either a photon's position in space or its momentum, but we can't know both at once: what we know about the photon depends on what we choose to look for. Familiarity with even this much quantum mechanics will enrich your experience of Tom Stoppard's devastatingly intelligent espionage drama, Hapgood, on stage now in a production by the Originals, under the direction of Dana Packard.
The basic implication of quantum behavior is that matter is not as knowable as we would like to think, and many modernists have explored its bracing logical corollary: Neither is human identity. In Hapgood, Stoppard doubles down on this premise by applying it to international intelligence agents — people accustomed to presenting one of any number of personas. But a spy isn't simply one person pretending to be another: The spy is both people, or many — which one depends on whom an observer is looking for.
The play's title character (Jennifer Porter) is at once British spymaster, perky single mom, and emotionally complex woman. She gets several lessons on quantum behavior from the Russian nuclear physicist Kerner (Matt Delamater, fervent and lyrical), who moonlights as a double agent for her and her superior Blair (a wry, gray, and restrained Paul Haley). And after things get confusingly quantum during a hand-off involving the fiercely savvy agent Ridley (the excellent Brian Chamberlain) and other operatives (they enact a sly shell game of briefcases and doors, stylishly set to cool jazz), so do the identities and motivations of all key players in the operation.
Hapgood is rich with twists, turns, and the coolly delivered lingo of scientists and spies (which would be more accessible with greater volume and enunciation from most of the cast). But it is really about neither quantum physics nor triple-agents, but rather the beautiful, treacherous, unknowable potential of the human mind and heart. It is that volatile multiplicity that makes the show so taut, and of Packard's cast, Delamater and Chamberlain show the most dynamism and, accordingly, the most interestingly fraught variance in identity. There are also the subtlest glints of that ambivalence in Haley's fine, close-to-the-chest Blair — in a pursed mouth, a gaze, a laconic two-word response — though I might bring them a touch closer to the surface.
I would especially like to see more hints of multiplicity in Porter's Hapgood. She masters the dimensions of the smart, cheerfully reassuring mother and the intelligence director who is called "Mother" by her agents, she who mothers her adorable secretary (the curly-haired Stowell P. Watters, perfectly eager and boyish), makes sure there's lemon for her spies' tea, and charmingly bends agency rules to get rugby shoes to her son (the superb young Milo Bloom). But I'd like to see deeper glimmers, however slight, of the dynamics between her and the three men with whom she works so closely, of the tension between the steely caution of her professional decisions and the outrageously dangerous choices she has made in her personal life. Porter's smiling softness works for one iteration of Hapgood — the most visible one — but it sometimes risks coming across as one-toned, despite the very interesting Hapgoods in deep or shallow cover.
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Wining numbers
Today's winning numbers are:
That could be your old-style GPG fingerprint. That could be something else.
See BoingBoing for a related story.
Wining numbers
Today's winning numbers are:
That could be your old-style GPG fingerprint. That could be something else.
See BoingBoing for a related story.
Libre Graphics Meeting
I will be talking at the Libre Graphics Meeting this week-end in Montreal. See you there!
The number of the day is 0x20.
Intel UMPC running Linux
I'm sure you didn't miss Intel MID, Intel's answer to the wave of UMPC and Internet Tablet. It features Linux, Matchbox and Hildon, all glued together with a distribution based on the Chinese RedFlag. But the more interesting thing is that the core chipset is based on a Pentium M and GMA945, which is much more horse power than, say, the Nokia 800.
Read more about it here, here, here
Now interesting challenge: while I'm sure it will be relatively easy to have AbiWord and Gnumeric running on it, like they already do on Maemo, but how about porting OpenOffice.org? Sure it will be contrived, but we have a 256MB of RAM, 500MB of storage and a 600-800MHz CPU based on a Pentium M (with half the cache on than the one found in laptops) which should be more than enough.
WebKit with Cairo
Adobe, to be able to make their proprietary[1] platform for application developement, using Flash, did use the Open Source WebKit (that same HTML engin that Apple use for Safari, that is based on KHTML). The paradox is that to have WebKit work on Windows, they used Cairo as a backend. The good news is that Cairo is likely to get better and that WebKit using Cairo is likely to help greatly a Gtk based version.
Changes are available for people to use.
[1] in that case it is more about the silo than the code
Visiting Prague
Monday I'll fly out to Prague for the week.
If you are there and wish to have some $BEVERAGE, you know the drill.
Think tank
Pavel, this is a damn good idea.
A star is born!
Don't miss Dave Neary's interview on Linux.com.
Dave, in Kristiansen, Norway, during Guadec 2004
exempi 0.5.1
I just released exempi 0.5.1. It adds a missing API and fix a serious bug that
-Weffc++ revealed. And it also implement parsing structures.
Download .tar.gz - GPG Signature
If you want the SVN, help yourself. http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/niepce/trunk/exempi/
Keyboard layouts
Thomas: concerning keyboard layouts, I myself ended up using US layout exclusively (British work fine too). The French layout also has shift for digits, and start with AZERTY on the top row. It all came back to the time I was given, at work, an old laptop with a British keyboard. Reluctant at first, I got used to it and actually found it actually very useful for programming. The only problem I had at one point was to get accents on a US layout, but fortunately configuring right-Alt to be compose works pretty well, while the British layout, at least on RH 6.2 (I was using at that time) had Alt-Gr to provide a few dead keys for diacriticts. Actually the compose setup is better than the French keyboard because I can access even more combinations of diacritics/letters.
And for my Canadian readers, I have to point out that the French keyboard layout I'm talking about has nothing to do with the Canadian-French we find here which looks marginally more convenient.
Once again the choice of keyboard layout is a matter of tastes and habits.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
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One of the greatest anti-establishment rallying cries of the 20th century was the notion that you can't trust anyone over the age of 30. If what free speech activist Jack Weinberg famously told the San Francisco Chronicle in 1965 — a year before the creation of the Boston Phoenix — was in fact an accurate caution, then perhaps the sentiment also holds true for alternative rock radio.
WFNX, the trailblazing, bratty, and oft unruly rock radio station launched in 1983 to give the music section of the Phoenix an aural presence on the FM dial, will never blow out the candles on its crusty, salty 30th birthday cake. WFNX's 101.7 FM frequency was sold to Clear Channel last week by Phoenix publisher Stephen Mindich, ending a nearly-three-decade run as a forum that put alternative rock radio on the map in an embodiment of eternal youth and a rebel yell. "It was an institution," says current program director Paul Driscoll. "Boston has lost a piece of its identity and soul."
Which seems in line with WFNX's raucous history. The station always seemed to teeter on the brink of chaos, balancing life on the edge from its initial broadcasts helmed by radio misfits in 1983 (after Mindich purchased Lynn-based WLYN-FM) to recent years, which saw listeners shift to the Internet, iTunes, and satellite radio. The early years set the tone for its legacy, as the station joined a small handful of alt-rock radio outlets that were emerging just as the modern-rock underground was set to break through into the mainstream in the early '90s.
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The book describes how functional inequalities are often manifestations of natural mathematical structures and physical phenomena, and how a few general principles validate large classes of analytic/geometric inequalities, old and new. This point of view leads to "systematic" approaches for proving the most basic inequalities, but also for improving them, and for devising new ones--sometimes at will and often on demand. These general principles also offer novel ways for estimating best constants and for deciding whether these are attained in appropriate function spaces.
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I agree on what has been said, and encourage you to work on your casting mechanics. In the meantime, you may want to try a furled leader. To be honest, I'm not sure why, but they seem to be more resistant to developing endless wind knots like a single strand mono leader does.
Just a suggestion.
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I studied wind knots a few yrs back mostly so I could control them to be able to pass a test. I came up with an understanding/description/conclusion, let me know what you think.
First off I have a problem with most books which talk about what to do with your thumb, arms, shoulders, elbows or how you hold your mouth open but in the end I've found all that to be much less important than dialing into what you are actually doing to your line.
Of course the former may indeed effect what you are doing to your line (except maybe your mouth position) but you could also stand on your head and cast without a single tailing loop with a rod taped to your feet if you move the line correctly, or do everything wrong with every part of the body standing upright and still have no tailing provided you move the line properly.
You could have perfect thumb, elbow, arm and shoulder posture but still get a tailing loop if the direction of the line at the final stop is higher than the direction the line was pulled during the casting stroke.
The cause of a tailing loop is simply this - the line is pulled along one vector during the casting stroke but the direction of the final release vector is higher at the stop.
You can pull the line downward during the casting stroke and stop perfectly straight and you'll get a tail, or you can pull the line perfectly straight during the casting stroke and pop the line upward in the end and get a tail, or worse yet - you could do both and will definitely get a tail.
Conversely, as long as the final release is lower than the line's vector during the casting stroke you will never get a tail even if you are standing on your head and casting with your legs.
BTW - the gap between your casting stroke vector and final stop is roughly equivalent to the size of your loop (if you like tight loops).
A visual aid...
Imagine a train heading full steam into a big dip in the track. The train's momentum is pulled downward into the dip, then rises back up the other side.
The train's momentum is going down hard but is able to climb upward by pushing very hard against the steel rails and the hard ground on the far side of the slope. The passengers stomachs will attest to that.
Now remove the tracks and pull the train through thin air quickly through an imaginary dip (like a fly line). Once the train is pulled down into the imaginary dip, no matter how hard "the little engine thinks he can" pull things up, the established downward momentum in conflict with the late upward shift will eventually form a tailing loop out of the remaining cars and caboose.
Whether just a sag from depleted energy or a full-scale whiplash, that conflict has to resolve itself somehow and that's exactly what the fly line is doing when it tails out.
Likewise the line could be pulled perfectly straight during the stroke but the final stop may be aimed too high creating the same conflict and a tail will result. So both are required to prevent a tail.
Causes of the downward pull during the stroke:
Well As Dpolipo said if you haul off-time or if you haul very hard it will deflect the rod too much and pull down the line in the middle of the stroke. This is especially true with soft rods (but stiff rods have their own problems too).
Or you just might aim too high with your final snap while trying to do a moonshot, in which case the direction that the line was originally going is not parallel to the final release direction and you will be rewarded by a vicious tailing loop.
Make sure that you pull the line thru a vector during the casting stroke that is parallel to and higher than the direction of the final snap at the end of your cast.
Lefty says the same thing when he says to stop the rod tip beneath the line.
BTW2 - For distance, lengthening the stroke length and increasing the rate of acceleration over that long stroke will result in much more distance than muscling it ever will.
|A common cause of wind knots is too much speed at the beginning of the forward cast, due to the forward haul being applied too soon. We do that when we try for extra distance. Try delaying the forward haul.
|Wow! a Two year old Post revived from the grave. Doc, I seem recollect seeing those guys someplace before.
I've found Lefty Kreh's DVD's (and his demo at last year's Bears Den show) on fly casting to be quite helpful when it comes to the whole issue of tailing loops and how to reduce them. I have the biggest problem with them when I try to "muscle" my casts and wear my arm out in the process.
P.S.- Hey Warren- I think I recognize a few of the seals in those pics- do they look familiar to you?
Sealz...What sealz?!
Regarding The Mayor...I can't help but see the striking resemblance...
but I digress...
It's my experience, that the harder I try to get that little bit more distance, the more likely I am to encounter mysterious leader knotz...
Fatigue lends itself to impaired stroke excecution and poor form...sometimes taking a break and re-focusing (visualization) can make things right again...
|That pic must have been taken quite awhile ago. I see only one seals head bobbing in the water... keeping a close eye on John of course.
'Soundz like...
a classic case of FaultyLeaderItis...
Ever since The Mayor started using saltwater specific high density Orvus Loop-Stop... "wind knotz" are a thing of the past!
What Jim said!
Wind knots caused by tailing loops are common when making longer casts with extra effort. The can occur on both the b ack and forward cast. Almost all tailing loops occur when the rod tip speeds up and stops in a straight line.
Here's why. When casting a fly, the line unrolls in a loop. As long as the top of the loop remains on the top and bottom on the bottom, there will be no tailing loop. To avoid almost all tailing loops, the tip of the rod must get out of the way of the incoming line to avoid running into itself. As you come forward, dip the rod tip slightly on the stop. More than a slight dip will open the loop.
The above is compliments of our esteemed sage, Lefty Kreh.
One additional point from Lefty: "If your rod hand travels at the same height or plane throughout the forward cast and on the speed-up-and-stop the thumb is parallel to the water (vertical or side casting), no tailing loop occurs."
I agree with Warren that wind knots are caused by tailing loops.
Tailing loops a normally caused by the rod tip dropping on the forward casting stroke.
There are a couple of very good casting web sites that can help you better than I can.
If you want some very good info let me know and I can put you in the right direction.
As a simple tip, don't drop the rod tip on your forward cast.
I think that the problem occurs to most of us as we try to reach out beyond intermediate distance -- we try to go from 40 - 60 feet to 60 -80 feet.
I think you must learn to double haul if you are concerned with line control as you go for distance. The double haul is not hard to learn (for most; it was for me); timing and smooth acceleration are everything.
Don't put too much line into your backcast. Learn to shoot line. If you are using a weight forward taper, just a little more than the heavy part of the line (forward taper) is needed to cast 80 feet or more, given a properly balanced outfit.
When we are first learning to cast farther, we tend to put more umph into the cast and we do it too soon. From my experience, trying to correct the most godawful macrame you can imagine, I learned to avoid tailing loops by letting the line straighten out behind me on the backcast and then pulling the line forward with my wrist stiff and forearm vertical, gradually accelerating the pull until my hand was extended the length of my forearm. Then THE STOP. (this unloads the rod). The line should come from behind your shoulder in a tight, smoothly unrolling loop.
The business of keeping a stiff wrist and a vertical forearm helped me to put a bend in the lower third of the rod. Putting flex, down low right through the corks, is what generates the energy and leverage for that long cast. For me, the wrist alone was not sufficient to bring out the power in the lower third of the rod.
Work on a gradual acceleration. Don't shock the system by putting too much power into the start of the forward cast. Too much power at the start of the forward cast will result in a tailing loop nearly every time.
Get Mel Krieger's book on flycasting, or rent a good instruction video and try to analyze, to the very best of your ability, what the good casters are doing when they go for distance. I had to learn this stuff a paragraph at a time. People who are natural athletes pick it up right away. Most anglers are between me and an athelete.
What I've described worked for me in correcting a very discouraging casting fault. Others, more knowledgeable and skilled than me, may have other suggestions.
For me, the concept of pulling the line with gradual acceleration from behind was the tip that started me on the road to recovery.
Always use a practice fly, as noted above.
Good luck and Cheers,
Yup - we all get 'em.
Warren's right, they're not caused by the wind, although in a high wind they can get a bit more common as you tire more quickly. Try a longer pause at the front and especially back of your casting arc. This gives the line time to straighten out before you start the rod in the other direction, which will reduce (as Warren said, not end) the number of tailing loops and consequent wind knots.
This is also the secret to longer casts, because your line loads the rod as it straightens completely, bending it away from you, and causing it to spring the line back in the opposite direction when you stop your stroke at the opposite end of your arc.
Wind knots are caused by tailing loops not wind. You need to refine your casting stroke to eliminate them. Having said that, I sometimes wonder if they are not inevitable no matter how good a caster you are. I notice when I get tired after a long day. I tend to throw tailing loops more often. And no one ties a better wind knot than me
A thing I do when taking casting practice or testing, especially with weighted flies is tie on a fly with the hook cut off above the bend.
wind knots on leader
Hey guys,
Lately when I practice my casting I end up with a bunch of wind knots on my leader (even when there is no wind...). Is this normal, due to the lack of weight at the tip being the fly absent?
Or maybe its indicating some kind of mistake in my skill? I do cast some tail loops from time to time.
I find the wind knots ocurring specially when I practice long casts.
any suggestions welcomed.
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Pros: BASS, comfortable, inexpensive
Cons: A little flimsy, recessed highs & mids, short cable
Sony MDR-XB500 Affordable Pulsing Throbbing Gobs of Bass
The XB500 is pretty well known to all at this point, however there's more to this little headphone that the immediate and obvious, which is the extra bass that they market the XB line towards and deliver with authority. They are some of the best basshead cans for the cost. But there's actually a gem out of the line and that's the XB500 because it's actually quite capable of more than just pulsing throbbing gobs of bass. It's an interesting little headphone, so let's get to know it if you're interested in a bassy headphone that can be altered a tad through equalization to be so much more.
I received my XB500 second hand, so I cannot go into detail about the packaging, but I do know that you can get it for $49 shipped from Amazon and other stores, and it comes with a carry bag that is not that impressive, but it's an accessory so why not mention it.
Summary for those who are not already familiar with the XB500:
- Full size circumaural closed back headphone
- Enhanced, emphasized and delivered bass response (basshead class)
- Comfortable big soft pillow pads
- Style is relative, you either like them, or think they look silly
- Short cord, terminates into 3.5mm
- Easy to drive, no amp required
- Massively benefits from equalization (EQ)
- Ideal for electronic bass musics (and others, with EQ)
- Recessed mids, recessed highs (this can be corrected with EQ, big time)
- Did I mention bass? Gobs of throbbing pulsing bass?
Construction, Materials & Comfort:
The XB500 is made entirely of plastic, with a short flat cord that terminates in 3.5mm and has big soft pillows that are very deep. At first they look too big, too silly, but that's if you see the XB700 and higher versions which do have larger pillows, the XB500 is actually not too big, it's pretty normal and I'll show comparisons of it's size to other headphones backings to sort of drive that home. They're actually quite normal, so not silly, which was a surprise to me when I took the dive (I expected them to be a little too silly, but they were not I found).
The framing is pretty slim and skinny and does feel a little flimsy. The headband is padded, but not very much. It is however pretty broad so it doesn't cut or anything. It leaves a proper headphone dent in your hair. Deal with it. It adjusts to good sizes, so should fit any head basically unlike other headphones that I've tried.
Wearing it is pretty comfy. It's a very soft, pillowy pad and it doesn't clamp. It does however get warm, as those pads are pleather and sit on your skin, get a little oily and then get warm. So you sweat a little unless it's already really cool and not humid where you are.
Overall, decent build, but don't sit on them, or you'll be ordering new headphones.
Here's some size comparisons:
Sound Characteristics:
What really matters about the XB500 is the sound, and there's one reason you're looking at this headphone. Someone told you it was bassy as all get out, and they are right. Alternatively, you may have noticed them on the bottom shelf at Best Buy or something, right below the Beats. Har har. So let's get into the sound more and more specifically into the interesting behavior of the XB500 and what you can do with it.
Quick summary for the impatient:
- Recessed mids, recessed highs (very damp sounding, not harsh at all, dull even)
- Throbbing, pulsing, gobs of bass
- Impactful with bass, it slams you, it's not just reverb
- Below average isolation
- Normal sound stage for a closed headphone
Music tested, from my trusty test-group that I tend to use on all headphones (all lossless), included: Ani Difranco (Acoustic, Female Vocals), Regina Spektor (Folk, Pop, Female Vocals), Sierra Hull (Folk, Blue Grass, Female Vocals), Euge Groove (Jazz, Bassy), Ludovico Einaudi (Classical, Piano), Keith Jarrett (Classical, Piano, Live Concert), Bach Cello Suites (Classical), The Cranberries (Pop, Female Vocals), Elton John (Classic Rock), Avantasia (Metal, Fantasy), Buckethead (Alt. Metal), Rusko (DubStep), JesusDied4DubStep (DubStep), Bay Area Dub (BAD) (DubStep), DJ Fresh (DubStep), Foreign Beggars (DubStep), Stinkahbell (DubStep), DeadMau5 (DubStep), Skrillex (DubStep), Robyn (EDM), BT (Trance, Techno), OceanLab (Trance, Techno). Lots of bass heavy muscis.
Hardware used, Sansa Fuze, Vivid V1 Technologies DAC/AMP, Matrix Cube DAC/AMP, Schiit Lyr, Auzentech Forte Soundcard and my Droid Incredible.
Treble (Highs):
Right away, you'll notice the highs out of the box are low. They're diminished. Recessed. You feel like it's damp. The bass is slamming and humming around, but the highs are just distant sounding like they were turned down. That's because they were turned down. This is not a detail headphone. This is not a headphone for airy instrument listening. You're not getting the XB500 for the treble though. This is known, and expected, but we have a solution for this that is simple and highly effective, more on that later.
Mids are also recessed, diminished. You feel like vocals are wet and distant. Everything for that matter is. It's all in the background, takes a step back, for the bass to come forward and just own the floor. There's not really much you can really do here, except notice they're not detailed, there's not a lot of congestion thankfully, but out of the box, the mids are just not doing work. You can however of course correct this, which is again, going to be focused on in a minute.
The idea here to take home is that there's nothing special about the Highs & Mids stock, other than they're really recessed and diminished. But they're actually just a sleeping giant waiting to be awaken. Move on to the Equalization section for more information.
Bass (Lows):
This is what it's about. The bass of the XB500 slams, it has impact, it hits hard and low. It's a complete basshead can where everything goes out of the window in favor of bass, hence the complete lack of anything to talk about for highs & mids. The bass is absolutely monumental. I can't even express it other than to say you've got hear it. You've probably heard some bassy headphones. Probably heard a nice subwhoofer. When you feel the XB500's slamming bass reverb tones into your skull, you'll either love it as it really rustles your jimmies, or you will think it's just too much and you will scuttle back to your non-basshead headphones a little traumatized and wonder why people like this headphone. This is a basshead headphone. You only get it, if you really like heavy gobs of throbbing, pulsating, bass. The bass quality is actually great, it's not just quantity, the quality of this bass is also nice. The impact is good, the control is good, the tightness is good and recovery is good. Absolutely nothing wrong with the bass here, it has it all, it was built for it.
Out of the box, the XB500 is a bassy basshead headphone, and nothing more. But there's a sleeping giant in there. I've yet to find a single headphone that equalizes as well as the XB500 does. A few bumps in the mids and highs bring the mids and highs out of the fog and into the sound stage and it's a totally new headphone. Suddenly other genres can be played, with lots of bass, but still sound right thanks to now having adequate mids and treble. It doesn't distort out either. That's why it's so special. It's like it was purposefully dropped, which leaves all that room to bring it back up should you want to. I did, and man, what a good headphone with this small easy everyone-can-do-tweak. I tested acoustic, with the highs & mids increased, and it did it rather well considering it was awful for that kind of music prior to equalization. I used FooBar2000, so here's my quick equalization settings to bring out the highs and mids to a level that makes it sound more balanced, and when done, to me, sounds like a much better and far more expensive mid-tier headphone does, yet it's only $49 for this thing, and retains all the throbbing good slamming bass that you got it for. Literally, a sleeping giant in this regard.
There's actually less than average isolation for a closed headphone here. Those pads let a lot of sound through. It doesn't do it in a way that is degrading to the sound, but be aware of it, because if you plan on using these around other people or in a quiet place around people, they will hear what you're listening to pretty easily. It doesn't dump out like a Grado. But it's definitely not isolating the way some other closed headphones do.
Sound stage is pretty normal. It's not cramped, but it's ok. It has a lot to do with the depth of the pads. Sound stage seems to go up with space on headphones in general. So big cups and deep cups tend to have better sound stages. It sounds good. Especially when you equalize the mids and highs up to make it a more balanced, yet bassy, sound.
Conclusion & Closing:
The XB500 really is a basshead headphone that will deliver the gobs of throbbing pulsating bass that you crave if you're a total basshead. It can become quite a bit more if you equalize it and it can suddenly handle all genres of music pretty well. The quality of the bass is very good as well as the quantity, which is pretty distinct about the headphone, as it also has impact as well as just good bass sound and low tones. Very few headphones, especially in the price range and even in the mid-tier price ranges can get that kind of bass. It does it at a price of course, the highs & mids, but again, this headphone benefits from equalizing like no other. All headphones can benefit a bit from tweaking for your own personal sound signature. But the XB500 takes it without distorting and really just comes to life. It's an ideal headphone for someone looking for an inexpensive way to get into Dance, Trance and Dubstep for example where it's all about the bass. Equalized, it can do anything pretty well. Not perfectly of course, but very well, which is opposite of what it was out of the box, stock.
Quite a while after reviewing this headphone, I stumbled upon a headphone that covers the same bases as the XB500, it does the bass, it does the slam, and it actually sounds so similar that it's scary, but already has increased mids & highs, unlike the XB500, so it doesn't need to be equalized to make it balance out for all music genres. And it happens to be $20 cheaper, so it's only $30 shipped. It's the Panasonic RP-HTF600-S. Plus it looks nicer, is constructed better, and sounds better out of the box with all the bass. All for less. So if you're interested in the XB500, please, take a look at the RP-HTF600. I consider it the replacement of the budget-bass-head-king from Sony.
Basshead Approved.
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"Tailgate Alaska founder, Mark Sullivan recently contacted representatives of the city to let us know that their event has secured a major new sponsor," an agenda statement to the Valdez City Council said at Monday night's regular meeting. "While there, they will be pumping up Valdez, not just for Tailgate, but as a winter destination in general. They have all their own costs covered to participate in this tradeshow, but due to the sheer size of the event (80,000 expected participates), Mark asked if the city would consider sending our own delegation to this tradeshow to assist them in working this crowd and adding to the authenticity of what they are selling by having "locals" on hand."
Tentative delegates are Nate Smith, owner of 907 Snowcat LLC, Sean Wisner of the Alaska Avalanche Information Center, Dan Vandermuelen, 2011 Tailgate ski champ, Steve McCann, Valdez City Council member and VCVB board member and his wife, Paula McCann, Valdez booster and former VCVB employee.
The request for travel funds came at the behest of council member McCann.
Sales leads generated from the tradeshow – which its website touts as a sporting goods product show – must be shared with any business or member of the public that requests the information as per council insistence as city tax dollars will be paying for the trip. Delegates are also to represent Valdez as a whole and not tout individual business interests.
"I would like to see us take this out of what we pay the VCVB," council member Joe Prax said during discussions on the matter.
The concept was not embraced by other council members.
McCann, who is also a board member of the Valdez Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the trip would normally have been facilitated through the VCVB. However, the publicly funded group charged with promoting Valdez as a tourist destination is in financial trouble at the time and its finances closely monitored by the city and is expected to remain so for at least the next several months.
Flow Snowboards is a new major sponsor for Tailgate Alaska. The event attracts hundreds of snow sports enthusiasts to its base on Thompson Pass each April and features workshops, ski and snowboard competitions in a party-like atmosphere.
The event has grown in the numbers it attracts since 2010, and many businesses in Valdez say it is a major economic boon for winter tourism.
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