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POST EDIT: I had no trouble taking my sewing with me on the plane. I brought a pair of blunt-nose kid scissors and a couple of needles. No issues whatsoever.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Hexagons in New York
POST EDIT: I had no trouble taking my sewing with me on the plane. I brought a pair of blunt-nose kid scissors and a couple of needles. No issues whatsoever.
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I was nervous about a post that starts with "Hex and the City!!!!" Sounds like a fun trip!!!ReplyDelete
Your original post title showed up in my reader...but I knew it meant you'd taken your hexies on your trip! Can't wait to see some of the fabric you might have found in the city!ReplyDelete
Awww. I thought Hex and the City was an AWESOME title for the post! Glad you had a good time!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a fun trip. I am going to New York in November - 2 eight hour flights on my own to meet up with my Mum and sister who are flying from Dublin. Were you able to take a needle on the plane to sew hexies and did anyone say anything about it?ReplyDelete
Hex in the City is funny. I knew what you meant. You noticing Hexagons everywhere is like when you get a new car and all of a sudden you see that type car everywhere. Glad you had a great trip.ReplyDelete
Amy ~ I loved your post and the title of Hex and the City was a great title for your post, because we are quilters and understand the lingo!ReplyDelete
I adore all of those darling Hexagons that you are making. They are so cute they make me smile!
Thanks for sharing you pictures of New York wius us!
So glad you had such a great time! Fun to see all the hexagons you saw around NY. Looks like you can take sewing needles on the airplane? What did you use for scissors? Maybe after I get the low down from you I will be brave enough to take hand sewing on the plane.ReplyDelete
great pics!!!ReplyDelete
I loved the tour of hexs!! And I would have loved the title Hex in the City!! Very funny!ReplyDelete
He he he . . . "Hex and the City" would have been funny :-) Glad you had a good time! The only time I've ever been to NYC I was pregnant with all-day sickness and major food aversions. I think I need a do-over! Hope you had some great food and found some great fabric shops too!ReplyDelete
I'm glad that even though you didn't leave the title you still shared your wry cleverness. I liked it :) I don't think any of your readers would have thought you would have made a risque entry to go with the title, either!.. Unless, of course, they thought it was a typo, lol.ReplyDelete
Home..Sweet..Home! There is nothing like it.ReplyDelete
BTW-I love HEX in the City.
So glad you had lots of fun on your trip. Walking across Brooklyn Bridge is still on my list of must dos. Now that you are back we definitely need to get together, especially since baby girl will be arriving in 3 weeks! Can't wait to hear about your trip!ReplyDelete
I love the original title! (too funny!), and yet I understand why you didn't want it out there for every strange person to link to.ReplyDelete
What a great post to show hexagons all over NY. Very entertaining.
I love the post -- and I love the title! I know what you mean about noticing whatever you're working on ... strange how that happens! Glad you had a good trip!ReplyDelete
"Hex in the city" totally makes me laugh (and it's still in your posts link).... particularly with all your hexie pictures. They look like so much fun, it is one of my to-do projects for ... I don't know, sometime :o)ReplyDelete
Glad you shared "hex in the city" and the pictures of all the hexies were amazing!ReplyDelete
Glad you had a great time. Glad you are back.
Ya, but a funny prude!!! I just finished up some hexes last night, and am off to post pictures!!ReplyDelete
Hi Amy...I love your hexies and your almost title...we all know what you mean!...I would have seriously thought about it too..and then I probably would have done it and then regretted it...that's how I've always been. Ask my mom, she would agree!...ReplyDelete
Any way...how wonderful for you to go to the big apple and spot hexies! I'm glad your back safe and sound.
That was cute and very humorous!!!ReplyDelete
I thought it was very clever... made me laugh! (And I'm a prude, too... or at least my MOTHER tells me I am!)ReplyDelete
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Concert Reviews
Aaron Parker/Beethoven/Mahler - Nikolaj Znaider/Rudolf Buchbinder
18 December 2014
Bachtrack, 19 Dec 2014
... the LSO players have an uncanny ability to maintain their tonal control even at the very loudest dynamics. The endings of the first, second and fourth movements were just stunning, not only for the raw energy, but for the way that the climaxes had been carefully prepared.
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Classical Source, 19 Dec 2014
The concert ended with Mahler's First Symphony. It is no exaggeration to say that this was a superlative account, conducted by Znaider from memory, utterly gripping and involving from first bar to last. In the course of more than fifty years of concert-going and record-collecting I do not think I have heard a greater performance than this – equal, but none greater.
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LSO On Film: The Magic and Majesty of Alexandre Desplat
11 December 2014
CultureFly, 12 Dec 2014
As the evening draws to a close, Desplat makes sure to save a little magic for the finale, ending on The Imitation Game, Harry Potter and his work in French cinema. The applause echoing through the Barbican is enthusiastic and well deserved.
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The Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition
8 December 2014
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Brahms - Daniel Harding/Emanuel Ax
7 December 2014
Classical Source, 8 Dec
Harding kept all the checks and balances of orchestral splendor and chamber-music intimacy moving with tactful control, and the LSO's playing was at its superlative, radiant best.
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Singapore & Australia Tour - Valery Gergiev/Denis Matsuev
17–30 November 2014
Melbourne, Arts Centre Melbourne: 28 November
Herald Sun, 1 Dec 2014
In the Classical Symphony of Prokofiev the strings particularly impressed. The exposed, stratospheric first-violin figures of the first movement were delicate but never tentative, and the impossibly quick finale was exhilarating for its sparkling precision.
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Sydney Morning Herald, 1 Dec 2014
... the body is finely honed with elegant, assertive strings and splendid first-desk personnel among the woodwind, notably the principal flute and oboe.
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Sydney, Sydney Opera House: 26 November
Sydney Morning Herald, 27 Nov 2014
Demonic in quick music, musically absorbed in slow, he mesmerised the audience with his performance of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the London Symphony Orchestra under Valery Gergiev with commanding concentration and incisiveness.
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Limelight Magazine, 27 Nov 2014
... this was Gergiev and his wonderful band setting up their stall in spectacular fashion under 33-year-old leader Roman Simovic
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Sydney, Sydney Opera House: 25 November
Sydney Morning Herald, 26 Nov 2014
The most impressive element, however, was their responsiveness. Getting 100 people to play as one is hard. Getting them to change direction, or speed, or mood, on a dime, is quite extraordinary. At times it felt like they were making it up as they went along, changing pace on a whim, and yet I struggled to hear a single note out of place.
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Limelight Magazine, 26 Nov 2014
[Shostakovich Symphony No 10] is a Gergiev speciality and the LSO's performance last night could probably not have been bettered anywhere on the planet.
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Sydney, Sydney Opera House: 24 November
Sydney Morning Herald, 25 Nov 2014
It was in moments like the second theme of the third movement, that the deep cohesion and unanimity of the LSO's strings shone through, while the finale rejoiced in shrill swagger from the clarinet and raucous percussion.
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Bachtrack, 25 Nov 2014
Right from the opening chord, every phrase, every entry, every musical question and its response was presented in a phenomenally translucent way, heard like this only on rare occasions – not only in Australian concert halls but anywhere around the world.
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Limelight Magazine, 25 Nov 2014
[Prokofiev Symphony No 5] is one of the few dozen or so genuinely great symphonies of the 20th century and Gergiev and LSO gave the most powerful and intense performances I've ever heard.
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The Daily Telegraph, 25 Nov 2014
piano, strings and brass (including a show-stopping trumpet solo) all shone as they teased out the cruelty and pain in the sad tale of the puppet Petrushka
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Brisbane, Queensland Performing Arts Centre: 22 November 2014
The Australian, 24 Nov 2014
...so searing was the orchestral sound, so thrilling the sense that everyone, right to the back desks of the strings, was playing for their lives.
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Singapore, The Esplanade: 20 November 2014
The Straits Times, 21 Nov 2014
Gergiev broke the mould with comfortable tempos for the first three movements, and a brisk but unhurried finale. The finesse and obvious ability of all the musicians made for a polished performance
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Singapore, The Esplanade: 19 November 2014
The Straits Times, 20 Nov 2014
The rousing brass fanfare was followed by a series of impressive solo runs from the woodwinds, establishing the tenor of the work, which flourished on its fast-paced and high-octane delivery.
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Balakirev/Rachmaninov - Valery Gergiev/Denis Matsuev
Tue 11 Nov 2014
Bachtrack, 12 Nov
Under Gergiev's burning gaze, the LSO carved out a searing Rachmaninov Third Symphony that almost left scorch marks on the Barbican Hall's wood panelling.
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Classical Source, 12 Nov
This was Gergiev and the LSO at their finest, performing music by his great fellow-countryman with extraordinary insight and technical command, passionate yet never overdone.
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Elgar/Beethoven/Sally Beamish - Gianandrea Noseda/Nelson Freire/Shuna Sendall/Marcus Farnsworth
Sun 2 Nov 2014
The Observer, 9 Nov
The choruses, terrifically delivered by the London Symphony Chorus, range from hymn-like to snarling. If the work continues the musical line stretching from Elgar's Gerontius to Britten's War Requiem, no one should complain.
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Sunday Times, 9 Nov
Simon Halsey had trained the chorus to a high incisiveness. And the orchestra gave, as it always does, everything it had to the score - one that stood out for absolute clarity of effect, harmonic control, professionalism of every kind.
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The Times, 4 Nov
The score is cunningly and energetically crafted ... the music is by turns impassioned, brittle, ironic and enraptured.
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Financial Times, 3 Nov
Beamish has paced Equal Voices skilfully and the work feels less than its 50 minutes. But it is ultimately the poetry that packs the punch. Gianandrea Noseda conducted the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra in a tightly-controlled performance.
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The Guardian, 3 Nov
Then for something utterly, exhilaratingly different came Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, played with such astonishing freshness, clarity and unfussy poetry by Nelson Freire, that it seemed as if he and we in the audience were discovering it all over again.
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Classical Source, 3 Nov
The most successful aspect of Equal Voices was the urgent reportage style of Marcus Farnsworth's vivid singing. He released the bite of Motion's poetry with compelling drama, and there was a similar immediacy to the short, dour, impressionist orchestral interludes that occur through the work's five sections.
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London Evening Standard, 3 Nov
Sally Beamish's new commission, Equal Voices, proved an ambitious, moving commemoration of the centenary of the First World War... the final section, with its epic sweep and spiritual uplift, soared onto a new level.
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The Telegraph, 3 Nov
In the end it was the naïve fervour of the Elgar which actually lingered in the mind. That, and something which had nothing whatever to do with the First World War; a wonderful, glowing performance of Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto from Nelson Freire.
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Debussy/Mozart/Brahms - Bernard Haitink/Mitsuko Uchida
Thu 30 Oct 2014
Bachtrack, 2 Nov
No gimmicks, no concern for what might be currently fashionable, just honesty, integrity and a tangible reverence for the music.
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Classical Source, 31 Oct
Supple strings and woodwinds also played their part in achieving a dynamic, fluid musical argument... in an account as close to definitive as one is likely to encounter in a concert-hall today.
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Boulezian, 31 Oct
Brahms's final symphony – there is none greater since Beethoven – was renewed, reinvigorated, tragic in every proper sense.
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The Artsdesk, 31 Oct
Haitink can do what very few other conductors in the world achieve without fuss. He makes the opening string sighs instantly take wing; he lifts their big moment of heartease and handles the time-standing-still mystery between development and recap like no other interpreter.
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Mahler - Daniel Harding
Sun 26 Oct 2014
musicOMH, 30 Oct
The daringly slow and hushed interpretation of the coda was rewarded by the quietest audience I've ever heard.
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The Times, 28 Oct
The LSO at full tilt is a terrifying, glamorous beast
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Classical Source, 27 Oct
The LSO played to its highest standard – which is saying something – but the honours go to Harding, whose handling of the work was masterly.
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Bachtrack, 27 Oct
The LSO players, as expected, sounded marvellous... the final notes were followed by a silence that lasted seemingly forever – a fitting response to a truly remarkable performance.
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The Guardian, 27 Oct
This was not, Harding seemed determined to assert, the music of a man whose life was closing in on him. There was even more of that take in the darker rondo-burlesque third movement, fabulously played by the LSO, where the manic defiance had tremendous life and spirit.
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Bruckner - Bernard Haitink
Thu 23 Oct 2014
London Evening Standard, 24 Oct
And for the privilege of experiencing this towering masterpiece in the hands of one of the great conductors of the day, one can only be profoundly thankful.
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The Guardian, 24 Oct
It was quite simply a privilege to hear such Brucknerian mastery at work.
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Classical Source, 24 Oct
All told, however, there are few conductors or orchestras capable of doing equal justice to Bruckner today, and this LSO/Haitink partnership provided yet another overwhelming experience.
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Bachtrack, 24 Oct
And the ending was spectacular, the coda carefully shaped and graded to prepare the brass-emblazoned chords in the final bars. Haitink was in his element here, giving us a triumphant and glorious conclusion.
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musicOMH, 24 Oct
Magnificent, moving and memorable – these are the first three adjectives that spring to mind when describing this thrilling performance of Bruckner's momentous 8th Symphony, played with complete assurance by the LSO under the magisterial baton of Bernard Haitink.
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Panufnik/Schumann/Strauss - Sir Antonio Pappano/Piotr Adnerszewski
Sun 19 Oct 2014
The Guardian, 22 Oct
The brilliance of it all lay in Pappano's refusal to see Strauss's score as the last word in self-referential irony, and to remind us that its emotions, its pride, anger and beauty, are genuine and run deep.
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The Times, 22 Oct
The LSO's sharp perfection helped the piece to make its mark. So did the enthusiasm of Antonio Pappano, who tore into its geometrically conceived structures with the epxressive glee of someone conducting a romantic masterpiece.
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Financial Times, 21 Oct
Pappano's "hero" was rugged, outgoing, super-confident, striding forwards in playing that was consistently red-blooded. Not much light and shade, not much elegance, but this was a hero whose victory over his critics was never in doubt.
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The Telegraph, 20 Oct
Antonio Pappano may have been conducting Panufnik for the first time, yet he seemed completely attuned to the score's autumnal tone and he drew a performance of warm intensity.
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Bachtrack, 20 Oct
The outrageous over-the-top mock histrionics of Strauss's Ein Heldenleben was given the Rolls Royce treatment by Pappano and the LSO.
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Classical Source, 20 Oct
'The Hero' had ardour and panache, archly undercut by the 'Adversaries' (its intricate textures finely delineated by LSO brass and woodwind), before leader Roman Simovic brought intransigence then consolation to the 'Companion' episode which almost managed not to outstay its welcome.
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Ravel/Bartók/Tchaikovsky - Sir Antonio Pappano/Janine Jansen
Thu 16 Oct 2014
Classical Source, 16 Oct
There was much to enjoy musically, though... the opening 'Kingdom of Sweets' scene (unexpected!) was rapturous, and later there was no lack of power, passion and colour; plenty of suave characterisation, too.
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Bachtrack, 16 Oct
The scherzo-like second movement suited Jansen perfectly, alternating between powerfully aggressive and slower, almost melancholic, sections. Though it wasn't always pretty, her sheer passion and intensity impressed; certainly a powerhouse reading of one of the most demanding concertos in the repertoire.
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Dukas/Beethoven/Rimsky-Korsakov - Rafael Payare/Elisabeth Leonskaja
Thu 9 Oct 2014
The Times, 13 Oct
The fantasy tales were told with a long-sighted vision of what held them together. And this performance was a chance to be treated to the solo playing of the LSO's leader, Gordan Nikolitch, and that of principal cello, Tim Hugh, too. Delicious clarinet and bassoon solos gurgled their way through Payare's rolling seascapes.
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Bachtrack, 10 Oct
After a slightly shaky opening few bars, Payare brought out a taut performance, brimming with confidence and enjoyment.
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Classical Source, 9 Oct
...this was a fresh, respectful yet individual interpretation, thought-through and full of Eastern Promise, with the third-movement 'The Young Prince and the Young Princess' beautifully serene and eloquently turned.
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Mendelssohn/Schumann - Sir John Eliot Gardiner/Gautier Capuçon
Thu 2 Oct 2014
Classical Source, 3 Oct
The fearsome power which Gardiner and the LSO wrought in the first movement's development was carried over into the scherzo, instilling the latter with considerable vigour and weight, as though trying to make its apparent frivolity at one with the work at large.
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Prokofiev/Tchaikovsky - Valery Gergiev/Denis Matsuev
Tue 23 Sep 2014
The Observer, 28 Sep
The second concert, last Tuesday (also broadcast live on Radio 3), opened energetically with the LSO strings nimble and fearless in Prokofiev's "Classical" Symphony No 1 – sounding easy, though in truth full of technical treachery.
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Sunday Times, 28 Sep
His formidable virtousity was called on, not so much in the name of diabolical ingenuity as of sheer splendour – cascades of shattering octaves, glorious armfuls of notes, a sizzling rhythmic display... It was fascinating to hear this work again. And the account of Prokofiev's mighty, somehow celebratory Fifth was outstanding in every way.
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Classical Source, 24 Sep
In the right music – as here – Gergiev and the LSO are well-nigh invincible. On this form the LSO has nothing to fear from any other orchestra.
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Tishchenko/Prokofiev/Shostakovich - Valery Gergiev/Denis Matsuev
Sun 21 Sep 2014
The Times, 23 Sep
From the grimacing chuckles of Rachel Gough's bassoon to Andrew Marriner's softly devastating clarinet, Gergiev harnessed the skill of his players and built up the churning textures to explosive heights.
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The Guardian, 22 Sep
Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony threw the spotlight in turn on to a dozen outstanding solo players in the LSO's wind and brass. Gergiev's ability to pace and sustain the long climaxes in this composer's symphonies remains exemplary, and the second movement went at a brutal, exhilarating gallop.
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The Telegraph, 22 Sep
All the ballast came at the end in the guise of Shostakovich's Tenth, played with a mix of brooding intensity and blistering attack.
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Financial Times, 22 Sep
Matsuev was born with 10 hammers where other people have fingers and his performance of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3 caught him at his most virtuoso, fast, furious and percussive, forging industrial music at fever pitch.
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London Evening Standard, 22 Sep
Gergiev also gave us the real thing: Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, big, bold and blatant when it needed to be, but also exuding refined pungency.
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Many of these procedures require general anesthesia or intravenous (IV) sedation. Yet, in some states, there are few standards, regulations, or accreditation requirements for surgeries performed in physician offices.
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There are efforts to standardize surgical safety for office-based procedures. For example, the American Society for Anesthesiologists has created guidelines for office-based anesthesia. Also, the Institute for safety in Office-Based Surgery (ISOBS) created checklists which covers items from the preoperative period through discharge to help keep patients safe.
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Once you move from local anesthesia to IV sedation or general anesthesia, the risk for complications such as respiratory distress or heart attack increases. In rare cases, patients can even have a life-threatening reaction to local anesthesia.
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Ya, you can't put in just the EH calc for the piece of gear, there are a ton of different modifiers that go into it, an armor value that low using the M = A/(A+K) equation would make that small amount of armor almost worthless especially when compared to the small amount of HP on the item.
Basically 11armor ~ 1 stam. 800/11 ~ 72 stam vs 55 stam. Ony ring wins.
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added to gear compilation sticky, good work amity, just keep cleaning it up as suggestions roll in =]
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i would put the cat above the blightborne, even the heroic version. The extra 1100 armour puts you with 100 stamina vs 32 stamina and dodge. The Cat pretty much should just be replaced with the 264 t10 if you want 4 piece, becuase as you will said we are not replacing the pillars, and the 277 t10 which is better.
also 2 links to read about pala BIS in 3.3
http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.c...rb_v=viewtopic - very comprehensive gearing list
http://maintankadin.failsafedesign.c...rb_v=viewtopic - the discussion on that very list.
You should read up on the discussion as there is some nice solid math as to why items are ranked as they are.
Last edited by lucem; 06-15-2010 at 10:24 AM.
Armor actually scales down as you get more... sorta (if you haven't, take a glance at the why we do what we do threat in theorycrafting for the full explanation). The important thing is that armor scales as you get more hit points. The problem is that such a small amount of armor is such a small reduction that it would be almost inconsequential, let me try to demonstrate.
In a fraction, as the numerator (top part) increases and/or the denominator decreases, then number gets bigger.
Lim x = infinity
x -> inf 1
Lim 1 = infinity
x -> 0 x
And conversly the opposite is true, as the numerator gets smaller and the demoniator gets larger, the number approaches zero
Lim 1 = 0
x -> inf x
Lim x = 0
x -> 0 1
Hopefully my ascii equations look/format alright, lol. Edit: it doesn't... maybe I'll make some nice pictures when I get home.
Anyways, the equation for armor reduction is:
K is a coefficient as defined by blizzard based on MOB level and M is the mitigation percent in decimal. A is the armor amount. The K value is 16635 for a level 83 mob. Therefore:
800/(800+16635) = 0.046 or 4.6% reduction if you have 1500 hit points (roughly what the ring gives you) then that's only 1572.3 EHP, so only like 7 stamina worth of EHP.
BUT when you multiply all this up, as A -> infinity and becomes significantly greater than 16635, and you get more hit points, armor becomes far more valuable in terms of EHP than it does at such low hit point levels.
Kinda fuzzy and I don't think I organized it well, but hopefully this kinda gets the idea across as to why you have to use your full stats in an EHP calculator, not just plug in the item.
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Last edited by amity; 06-15-2010 at 09:19 PM. Reason: spelling
Weapons and shields up, currently exluding pvp choices; pve raiders shouldn't feel the need to take up pvp extensively to attain a peice of loot. That being said I'm still flexible and if anyone can present a strong enough arguement I'll throw it up there.
Unsure as to Bloodvenoms place, if you're after threat it would be higher. Have added 7 stamina as a conversion from Agility to Amor to Stamina and then obviously some dodge as well.
I'll leave this up to anyone who can provide the theoretical backing of it's EH compare with those around it and how important the threat is.
Please do not kick a fuss over the relevance of Last Words healing proc, if you cared about overhealing that much you should be specced into Divinity.
Still keen to hear people thoughts on trinkets.
Should be doing Enchants and Gemming soon.
I won't get into the 11 armor=1 stam because it is in a way incorrect when there is anything other than 100% physical dmg. However in the boot slot above the hit being a more attractive stat which I do not agree with in any way, the dual blue sockets provide another 9 stam when being gemmed correctly which is the main reason the order you have is correct(remember in a properly stacked raid and with a correctly glyphed prot paladin an ally member only needs 5% spell hit to be taunt capped while horde needs 6% wo easily attainable hit is not a consideration). Also everyone should keep in mind as the icecrown buff goes up so does the value of your stamina as it scales. Finally with the stam trinkets CSK is better than heroic scarab or vitality 12 more stam and the cooldown is much more powerful, especially when you are working it into a soul reaper map for heroic LK p2 and 3.
I'm kinda wondering about which two pieces of tier gear would be the best for getting the 2pc set bonus and if it was worth it to get the 4pc bonus or just fill in the other slots with non set gear. Also, would it also be better to get gear that isn't technically better in terms of GS and ilvl but would still be better than another time. ex. ilvl 264 gear vs 277 gear.
The gloves and Chest are the two you want, you will not be replacing them they are hands down BiS on their ilvl the only arguement would be the 251 item vs the 264 OS badge items. The 4 pc is situational, you end up trading EH for the on use, the only time it is really practical is at the 277 level where the trade off is minimal. Thus for the 4pc it comes down to the Bonegaurd Commander's Pauldron's or the Pillars of Might, which raises a few other things, in most cases the best bet would be getting the tier shoulder's, but then you run incredibly low on expertise(once you trade out the grinning greatskull for the heroic RS boots) and run even more of parry haste gib from heroic hallion and sindragosa. Tank gib still happens to our other tank(despite heroic sindragosa being farm content) from time to time in p3 since he feels 26 expertise is more than enough, while on the other hand I toss on the 264 tier legs and get up to 35, and have half the attacks parried he does. Phase 3 heroic hallion is going to be the same thing especially if he is shifted more towards your realm. If you tank LK then run the tier shoulders with the pillars, if you are the add tank/soaker the line becomes slightly more blurred as the EH you lose will make no difference in that fight, while the expertise may make up for it in other places. Luckily for me conq tokens do not exist so I haven't made the choice yet, I think I will be running the tier legs at 277 for sindragosa and Hallion and 3 pc for everything else.
I object to anybody attempting to try for 4pcT10. 12% dodge on DP is absolute garbage. DP already needs to be timed for when it falls off due to gaps in the fight between phases, whereas Enrage, Bloodrage or Bloodtap can all realistically be saved as a CD.
Of the 3 plate tanks, paladins are the ones most inclined to stop at 2pcT10 for the set bonus, 4pcT10 is only if you have 4pc277.
12% dodge is not garbage, it is a situational cooldown when coupled with other minor Cooldown's becomes a major CD. Anyone who objects to using the 4pc obviously is not on the edge of progression. If DP is falling off, on heroic LK then you are either slow at target switching, working on phase 3(which means the hardest part of the fight is over), or you have absolutely insane dps that kills ragings with 15 second gaps. The CD when tanking LK is much more important than the 3% dmg reduction because you have bigger issues if that 3% reduction is causing a death outside of SR.
Ok lets look at this you are tanking LK on Heroic, so you do not have another tank, making multiple minor cooldowns into a major cooldown becomes needed or you just will not have enough. Your 2 trinkets won't save you, glyphed hand of salv won't save you, 4pc won't save you. Now you combine all of them and you are taking 20% less dmg, have the shadow resist from the fang for the initial SR, AD coming into play, absorbing 6400 dmg, and you have 12% dodge, thus it is now a viable major cooldown that will be up for all of phase two and the majority of phase 3.
Not to mention why in the world would you stop at 2? The tier helm is a much better item than the broken ram skull, 4 more stam and more avoidance.
12% dodge is meh at best. DKs & Druids got damage reduction, and even warriors got damage absorb. Can I dodge magic damage? Hell no.
Having said that, 12% dodge on DP is very bad. Also, your 3% is always up as long as DP is up, but the 12% only kicks in when you press it, even when it's up. You just aren't gonna convince me it's comparable to what other tanks got.
Paladin 2pc is very good, i just object to 4 pc. Ideally, it's helm and shoulders if you don't have 277s, otherwise the
badge chest 264 > Tier 264, just as pillars > Tier 264 and Kraken > Tier 264.
It is not comparable to what the other tanks get, I have never said that. No you are not going to dodge magic but please tell me where the the threat for tank gib on heroic LK? On heroic Hallion? On heroic Sindragosa? And what is the type of dmg you will see. I will not divulge into the 4pc arguement past that, frankly the facts are out there, go and armory every one of the world's top prot paladin's, then object to them how your knowledge is better and they are all wrong.
This is a BiS thread so anything that has to do with 264s is with the intention of it becoming a 277 and at the 277 level the head, chest and gloves are clearly the most superior item available. While the Boneguard commander pauldrons are from the easiest hard mode and better than the tier item. Making an arguement at a 264 level makes no sense at all.
The 277 pieces, with exception to pillars, are only better than the 264s through sheer budget stats.
You are correct, I did it in response to a question, but touche good sir. BiS list discussion's kinda suck atm and they really need to have a 10 man and 25 man version, because if all you did was 10 man's I don't know if I would even bother with any tier(maybe the shoulders).


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A few things I can offer.
First off, a lot of people throw the argument of parry-haste and ZOMGtheyllpwnurfaceyounub around, but not a lot of people seem to actually understand how parry haste works, so let me explain it as best I can.
Bosses (you can practically ignore most other smaller mobs since they'll have a whopping 4-5% parry chance) have a set swing time. Many of them are squarely at roughly 2 seconds, there are some who swing substantially faster but these same bosses (Mother Sharazz and Patchwerk for example) are incapable of parrying for this very reason. So, when the boss parries your attack his swing timer is reduced to 20% of the maximum value regardless of where it is. It cannot be moved to less than that. So, what this means is, if he JUST attacked (100% of swing time left) and he parries you, he just ignored 80% of his swing. If he is down at the last 15% of his swing, the parry does not speed the attack up. If he is half way through his swing timer and he parries, he cuts 30% off his swing time. This is typically, statistically, averaged out to roughly 40%, which is the number that gets thrown about by the knowledgeable.
So here's some simple numbers to give an illustration:
2.0 sec swing timer, 4000 damage per hit (after all your mitigation)
=> zero haste and this will be 2000 damage per second
Let's say over a 60 seconds of a boss fight, pure auto-attacks, no expertise:
<<With nothing else happening the boss will hit 30 times for a total of 120,000 damage>>
Case #1: Warrior with a typical tanking sword (1.5 sec swing time)
60 seconds is 40 attacks by the warrior, if the boss parries at only 10%, he'll parry 4 of those attacks. If every parry is the worse case scenario, then the boss gets 4x0.8 more swings, or 3.2 more swings, round down to 3, and add that to the 30 swings normally, so we have 33 swings or 132,000 damage (a 10% increase). Remember, best case scenario is zero haste, if we use the 40% average, that's only 1.6 more swings, with conservative rounding up, that's 2 more swings or 128,000 damage (7% increase).
Case #2: Bear Tank, feral attack speed is 1.0 sec without modification
In 60 sec that is 60 attacks, 10% parry means 6 swings will be parried, worst case scenario is 6x0.8, or 4.8 rounding up to 5, that's 35 attacks for 140,000 damage (17% increase). 40% average would be 2.4 more, rounded off to 2 is 32 attacks and 128,000 damage (7%).
Case #3: Death Knight with a big 2-hander and a slow speed of 3.5
This will be roughly 17 attacks, 10% parry chance, we'll round up to 2 parries. Worst case scenario would be 1.6 additonal swings, or rounded off, 32 or 128,000 damage (7%). Average of 40% and we have rounded up, 1 more swing or 124,000 damage (3%).
Case #4: Death Knight dual wielding with two classical tanking weapons (1.5 sec)
This would be 80 attacks, 10% parry translates to 8 parries. Worst case scenario is 8x0.8=6.4 round down to 6 extra swings, for 144,000 damage (20% increase). 40% average is 3.2, round to 3 extra swings, for 132,000 damage total (10% increase).
Case #5: Death Knight dual wielding two slow tanking weapons (2.4 sec)
This would be 48 swings, 10% parry, round up to 5 parries. Worst case that's 4 extra attacks for 136,000 damage (13% increase). 40% average translates into 2 extra swings, or 128,000 damage (7%).
So, to sum up (using 40% haste averages, with better numbers):
Warrior (classical tank weapon) = ~5% increase
Bear Druid (feral attack speed) = ~8% increase
DK (slow 2-hander) = ~2.2% increase
DK (dual wield classical tank weapons) = ~10.7% increase
DK (dual wield slow tank weapons) = ~6.4% increase
DK (dual wield slow main hand, fast off hand) = ~ 8.5%
I added the last scenario because this is the setup I'd likely use, I'll get more into that below. This is based solely on auto-attacks, but auto-attacks are only half the picture. There is also the matter of special abilities.
For warriors, the standard rotation will be made primarily of Shield Slam, Devastate, and Revenge. Shield Slam and Devastate can be parried, Revenge can not. You will be using these abilities on the GCD, so every 1.5 seconds. In that 60 second window that is 40 GCD's. Let's do some practical consideration, if a warrior has a total 60% chance to dodge/parry/block to proc Revenge, they'll receive 18 chances to Revenge (and our warrior never misses that option). We'll also say he Tclaps twice to keep the debuff up, and demoralizing shouts twice as well for the same reason. So, 22 if the lucky warrior's CD's are unparriable. 18 of those attacks can be parried, 10% rate means an additional 2.4% damage increase, and realistically there won't be THAT many actual revenges, but we'll use the conservative number, add it to the warrior's auto-attack for a grand total of 7.4% increase.
For druids, they have swipe, lacerate, and mangle that will be the main use of cooldowns, all of which can be parried. We'll say 2 demoralizing roars for the debuff, and 2 faerie fires for the same. This means a whopping 36 moves can be parried for an additional 4.8% damage increase. Added to the auto-attack value and you're looking at a 12.8% increase.
For DK's it gets a bit more complicated. The moves you use and the number you can fire off aren't just restricted by the GCD, particularly while tanking, and there are more than a few moves that are not susceptible to parrying. One additional move that limits our vulnerability is Rune Strike. Each time we dodge or parry we get a Rune Strike that will replace our next attack with an added damage and threat move that cannot be parried. In other words, this means our avoidance actually is doing double duty at reducing our parry haste vulnerability, except unlike revenge where it makes our next special move safe, it makes our next auto-attack safe.
So, let's consider a big 2-hander with an Unholy tanking spec. Let's take a rigid rotation (ick) where we're fighting a boss (single target, no aoe needed). If we keep DnD up that would be DnD > IT > PS > BS (> UB/DC's slipped into cracks) in set 1 (10 sec), ScS > ScS > BS > BS on set 2, PS > IT > ScS > BS > BS on set 3, DnD > ScS > BS on set 4, PS > IT > ScS > BS > BS on set 5, ScS > ScS > BS > BS on set 6. DnD and IT are not parriable, so 20 attacks out of 25 attacks are parriable resulting in a 2.7% increase. Alternately if we go single target only moves, we'll say, IT > PS > ScS > BS > BS on odd sets, then ScS > ScS > BS > BS on evens. That's 24 of 27 parriable, or an 8% increase. Now, if we give the DK a 50% avoidance (entry level tank gear say, with Blade Barrier up, misses don't count), then 15 of the boss attacks will generate a Rune Strike opportunity, though sadly our slow swing speed means we can only use half of them, so 7 rune strikes instead of 7 of the 17 auto-attacks. 10 auto-attacks means a 1.3% increase in boss damage. Combined with our DnD rotation that puts us at a 4.0% damage increase, or single target strikes, an 9.3% increase.
Now let's consider a deep frost spec with my preference, a slow weapon in the main hand (to maximize the instant weapon damage strikes), and a fast weapon in the off-hand (to encourage procs, of say Killing Machine). Now, with the frost spec, the special rotation will look like IT > PS > HB > BS > BS on odd sets, and we'll do a FUFUFU combo of OB > HB > OB on the even sets, with lots of FS's thrown in the middle. Now, take note, IT, HB, and FS cannot be parried. That means that a total of 15 moves are parriable, resulting in a 2% damage increase. Now because we're dual wielding, with that same 50% avoidance, we get to use all of the Rune Strikes! 15 of our 64 auto-attacks are now no longer parriable. The auto-attack vulnerability is now down to 6.5%. Combined with our specials we're looking at a total of 8.5% increase.
So, to sum up this section, we're looking at:
Warrior = 7.4%
Bear = 12.8%
DK (2-hand Unholy) = 9.3%
DK (dual wield Frost) = 8.5%
(bearing in mind that the spec plays a major part for the DK but with the same set of gear the 2-hand unholy knight has a larger vulnerability than the frost dual wielder. The bear actually has an even higher chance than either.)
This is where we start to consider the nature of each sort of tank. Bears will have the most armor and the most health, and probably about 45% avoidance (entry level dodge+miss). Warriors will have less armor, less health, and only 35-40% avoidance at equivalent levels, but they have shield block to functionally add ~5% damage reduction to their armor, they also have Def stance to offer 10% damage ignore to physical damage. Death Knights will have a margin more armor and health than a warrior, they'll have about 55-60% avoidance (dodge+parry+miss with Blade Barrier) at the same level gear.
So Bears will suffer the largest damage increase due to parry haste at the base, but they can dodge and eat more than a warrior. The warrior will take more of the hits but take less damage from a given hit. And the Death Knight will avoid more hits than any other, though he may take the hit a small margin harder than the warrior, unless of course he has one of his CD's up.
Now the final major factor to consider on the survival front: expertise. 32.8 expertise rating relates to a 1% parry neglect. On our calculations, that is a 10% reduction in the % posted above (i.e. expertise will have a bigger effect on damage reduction the larger your % increase is). In reality it is slightly less, closer to 7-8% reduction in the vulnerability. Currently, Blood can offer 11 straight Expertise (independently worth 2.75% parry neglect), while Frost and Unholy can each offer 5 (1.25%). This makes also brings Blood into a more reasonable range to be dual wielding, though it will be more vulnerable than frost due to the reliance on more parriable attacks. Just for shits and giggles:
Blood, dual wield slow main fast off, 64 auto-attacks. IT > PS > OB/DS > HS > HS on set 1, HB > HB > HB > HB > OB/DS on set 2, IT > PS > HS > HS > HS > HS on set 3, OB/DS > OB/DS > HS > HS on set 4, the repeat 1 and 2. That's 27 parriable, or a 3.6% damage increase. We get our 15 rune strikes, leaving our auto-attack parry haste at 6.5%, for a grand total of 10.1%. Remember this spec gets more than double the talented expertise base of the frost spec, so can nearly even them out. Maybe not as much better as we might of hoped, but the expertise talents certainly have their value now don't they.
End result? For purposes of survival, you're looking at DK's in the middle of a +/- 2% damage increase on bosses due to parry haste. this is a gross simplification since the nuance of this damage increase will vary in implication for each type of tank. Namely warriors will get hit more, but for less, death knights will be hit less, but for more, and bears will get more parry hasted ouchies but they'll see the smaller % damage increase because of their larger health pool and heavier armor.
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Now to shift gears, consider why we would want to dual wield as a Death Knight while tanking. For starters, with the current state of tanking gear, it's not just possible, it is reasonable to be hit capped in normal tanking gear once you get past the entry level and into the epics (though it may mean you're hunting more specific pieces depending on your luck with drops), that means you'll never miss with your specials regardless of your weapon choice. For auto-attacks (white damage), with equivalent item level you can get 2 one-handers with better combined dps than a 2-hander. This is regulated a bit with the increased miss chance. The upshot is that your white damage will be higher with 2-handers, but because of the nature of many of our DK moves (again depending on spec) we'll lose other dps for the decrease in instant weapon damage. This isn't quite as bad as you might think, let me give some real examples:
Broken Promise (2.5 speed, 392 avg damage, 1-hand)
Death's Bite (3.4 speed, 693 avg damage, 2-hand)
Both same item level. The 2-hander has a bit better than half again the base damage of the one hander, and most of the strikes based on weapon damage use only 30-60% of that damage in part of the strike damage. Incidentally for Frost, IT and HB two major damage contributors don't scale with weapon damage at all, similarly Unholy's DnD, disease damage, and UB are not at all affected by weapon damage. Arguably Blood would be most susceptible since Heart Strike is 60% and Oblit is 100%.
So, in DPS tests, which I have done a lot of, a smartly geared and spec'd dual wielder can pretty much match the dps of a 2-hand wielder with a different spec, but here the major variable is the player, since they need to select a smart spec for their weapon setup, pick smart talents, and gear to use that spec well. Certain specs gain a lot with dual wielding, such as Killing Machine with some buffed auto-attack crit. So, if we consider that an equal footing (allowing that person to person you'll have preferences and perform better with certain specs and styles), then the last thing to consider is the weapons themselves!
What can we get from dual wielding, and what can we get from 2-handers. Well, currently there are no 2-handers with defense/parry/dodge on them, there are however plenty with piles of strength and stamina. A quick perusal of equivalent 1-hand tanking weapons versus smart DK 2-hand tankers is that you can get roughly the same amount of stamina from either, but the pair of 1-handers will get you less strength and more direct tanking stats (def/parry/dodge), and 2-handers will get you more Strength and possibly other combat stats (crit/hit/exp, or icky haste/armor pen) but lack the defensive values.
Really, to me, it's all a wash. You can dual wield or 2-hand, it's all perfectly feasible. If you dual wield it is not a signed death warrant, spec will determine your vulnerability and it is possible (as shown above) to dual wield with one spec at lower risk than a 2-hander with a different spec.
As always, with our glorious DK class, what wins out at the end of the day is a smart player who selects their talents, their gear, and their move priorities smartly. Be adaptive, be creative, and you can achieve far more than the sheep who do one thing or another on the direction from someone else without really understanding it themselves.


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I've been meditating for about 7 months now. I have read a lot of books on meditation, but have not gone to any retreats. I am usually enjoy meditating, but I have recently found myself unsure exactly which of the techniques I should be doing. I originally meditated by simply following my breath in my abdomen. Then, for a couple months, I focused on a more open awareness. Then, I went to some concentration practice. Then, for a short period, I did primarily metta. Now, I find myself unsure which technique I should be practicing. Sometimes, because of this indecisiveness, I find myself switching from one technique to another multiple times in a single session. After meditating, I often feel a sense of anxiousness and this makes me wonder if my meditation practice did not go well, and if I should have stuck to a different technique. I am not sure this feeling would fade even if I did choose a single technique, but at least I would feel certain I did not just waste my time by not doing the right thing.
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Adolf Hitler tried. So did the Russians. But nothing could stifle the Czechoslovakian spirit?a society that honored its engineers and technicians with a level of respect usually reserved for artists. It's no wonder that the Czechs would build the best and most reliable motocross bike in the world by 1965.
CZ's motocross history started in the mid 1950's with a 175cc bike that was easily modified to 250cc (although the company was founded in 1919 as a weapons manufacturer). The single cylinder's twin exhaust port design was necessary to help overcome cylinder distortion caused by excessive heat. The original CZ two-stroke engine pumped out 22 horsepower and used a twin-pipe exhaust system.
In the beginning of its development, the twin-pipe CZ was no match for the English-built Greeves two-stroke, but CZ was quick to develop and improve the basic design. Unlike the British factories, CZ was also willing to translate its works bikes into production machines. In 1964, CZ put a production version of a 1963 works bike into the capable hands of a young Belgian rider name Joel Robert. Robert (pronounced Row-Bear) would win the 1964 FIM 250cc World Championship on the CZ Type-968. It weighed just 214 pounds and delivered 26 horsepower. Robert and CZ would go on to win several 250 World Championships. CZ ushered in the two-stroke era.
By 1967, CZ would improve on the twin-pipe design with a new single-port cylinder that utilized a much less vulnerable high pipe. Unfortunately, the factory that was once so quick to make changes now slowed development to a crawl. By the time the Japanese factories came on the scene, CZ had stagnated. They would lose both Joel Robert and Roger DeCoster to Suzuki, and by the late '70s they were forced to soldier on with Iron Curtain riders.
CZ twin-pipes enjoy celebrity status among motorcycle collectors. A correctly restored twin-pipe 250 will sell for around $10,000, and the 360cc twin-pipe will sell for as much as $15,000.
There are two collectible models: the Type-968 twin-pipe 250 and the Type-969 twin-pipe 360.
Amazingly, you can buy a brand-new twin-pipe (250 or 360) in Czecho today. Replicas and NOS copies are not as valuable as original motorcycles. Look for the original magnesium hubs (preferably not painted), the hand-formed aluminum airbox, correct Barum tires and original Pal rear shocks.
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Verbier: Residence "Boucanier". In the district of Savoleyres, in the resort 1 km from the centre of la station, in a quiet, sunny position, located by a road, west facing position. In the house: ski storage. Motor access to the house. Communal covered parking space n 8 at 20 m, public parking 2 km. Shop 1 km, supermarket 1.3 km, restaurant 300 m, bar 1 km, bakers 100 m, café 300 m, bus stop "Savoleyres" 100 m, indoor swimming pool 1.4 km. Golf course (18 hole) 1.9 km, tennis 1.4 km, riding stables 1.4 km, sports centre 1.4 km, chair lift 1.9 km, cable cabin 100 m, skisport facilities 1.3 km, ski school 1.2 km, ski-kindergarten 1.2 km, ice rink 1.4 km, childrens play area 1 km. Free ski bus service to the ski region Savoleyres 100 m, Médran 1.3 km and Carrefour 1.9 km. Please note: nightclub/disco 1 km from the property. "Boucanier 304", 3-room apartment 67 m2 on 3rd floor, west facing position, practical and nice furnishings: living/dining room with open fireplace, cable-TV, video, CD-player, stereo unit and DVD. Exit to the balcony. 1 room with 1 french bed. 1 room with 1 x 2 bunk beds (180 cm). Kitchen (oven, dishwasher, freezer) with bar. Bath/WC, shower, sep. WC. Balcony. Terrace furniture. Partial view of the mountains. Garage space n 8 at 20 m. Please note: non-smokers only.
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text: 3 A fair attemptSambostrat | 28/05/2009 | See all Sambostrat's reviews (7)If there was an option to give this game 3.5 stars, I would have chosen that because it is better than the mediocre inferences implied by 3/5.... but it isn't a truly great game for a few reasons.After watching the cut-scene preview, I had high hopes for the game but let's face it, we all know what the PS3 is capable of graphically and this isn't quite up to scratch. You only need look at what Konami did with Metal Gear 4 and, if that's the benchmark, the developers have fallen short with this outing.The gameplay is a little rough around the edges, although strangely addictive. The enemy AI is actually surprisingly good and the machines do attempt, albeit half-heartedly, to flank you where possible. The T-600s are notoriously hard to kill unless you have a grenade or pipe-bomb up your sleeve, which is actually great because the Terminator franchise has never been about stand-up fights - a lot is running away if possible.The aspect I love about the game in the short time I've been playing it is the great implementation of the 'cover' system. John moves fluidly from a burned out car to a bullet-ridden concrete column via a couple of rusted, war-torn barrels so well that out-flanking your enemies soon becomes a breeze and leaves you with a quiet sense of satisfaction at how well you can navigate the battlefield. It's just as well too as the 'spiders' can only actually be destroyed from behind. Cover fire and quick thinking play an important role in advancing through the deserted streets and the machines are never far behind.My main problem with the game is the graphics though and you have to feel they rushed it through to get it released in time for the film that's out in cinemas... oh would you look at that... next week. What a coincidence. They aren't the worst on PS3 but they are far from the best and that's an unfortunate aspect of what could have been a great release.I am still only a few levels into the game and there will hopefully be many surprises still in store but my opinion so far is "could be better".


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