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Skip to comments.Prayer Request For Daughter With Breast Cancer
Posted on 08/19/2012 10:04:57 AM PDT by fella
This is a prayer request for my youngest daughter who has been diagnosed with an agressive breast cancer and is facing a bilateral mastectomy this wendesday followed in 2 weeks with removal of her ovaries. Unfourtunatly breast cancer runs in the female side of the family. Her Mother is a 20 year survivor but her Grandmother and Greataunt passed away from it. Any and all prayers are welcome.
P.S. This is the hardest posting I've ever made.
Father in Heaven, in the name of Jesus, please bless this young woman with successful treatment that she may yet live many, many years.
Oh man that sounds horrible. I'll be praying for you and your daughter.
I lifted her and all of you up to our Lord Jesus Christ for a complete healing and also that all of you, and us, empty ourselves of our own stubborn will and be FILLED with his Holy Spirit to guide and lead us through the rest of our lives.
On a related note to your daughter's cancer, I implore you to read up on iodine and it's effects on the treatment of cancer and how the deficiency of it will lead to it. Iodine facilitates apoptosis, which is the natural death of abnormal cells. If you're interested I can fill you in as much as you're willing to know but in the meantime, go to www.breastcancerchoices.org and click on 'iodine' and just start reading about it.
Hearts and prayers with you....
My mother survived a radical mastectomy in 1965 and lived another 43 years. May God's love surround and protect your daughter.
I'm going to contribute now, fella. prayers up!
Prayers for you and your daughter.
Is her first name Reba?
Praying now for God to heal her from head to toe, and for His divine comfort, strength, and peace for her and her loved ones.
Spunky is correct....you or other family members may want to look into this....
Fella I pray that God protects your girl and that He gives wisdom to her doctors.
This has to be hard and I'm sorry - we're with you.
Prayers up for her and her family!
prayers and hugs
Prayers up fella...
My God comfort you and your family at this time. Remember God is the Great Physician.
I'm so sorry! Prayers for your daughter, you and your family.
May Jesus the son of our Creator bless you all and my thanks too.
Second hardest posting, hard to see keyboard.
Prayers up!
Praying for your daughter's recovery.
May God heal me,
body and soul.
May my pain cease,
May my strength increase,
May my fears be released,
May blessings, love,
and joy surround me.
Read more: http://www.beliefnet.com/Health/Healthy-Living/Womens-Health/Healing-Words-for-Breast-Cancer-Patients.aspx?p=2#ixzz240yZiWzA
FReepr PRayer BUmp!
Prayers for this wonderful young woman, that He may hold her in the palm of His hand.
Be completely healed and made whole, fella's daughter, in the lovely name of Jesus...
He sent His word and healed fella's daughter...Psalm 107:20
Prayers for your daughter.
In our prayers-—
The Levy family
He creates
He Heals
He loves us
He hears us...Blessing to you and daughter...a daughter is a daughter all of her life..stay close to her..
Re#9; Yes that is her.
Prayers for your daughter's health and healing.
Prayers for your daughter and family.
Prayers up!
Praying for your daughter for success in her fight against this cancer, and prayers for you to have comfort knowing that many are praying for her.
Prayers on the way for your daughter. God bless.
Prayers up!
Prayers up for your daughter and all those who love her right away.
Please come back and let us know how she is doing.
She and you will have my prayers too.
"Please come back and let us know how she is doing."
I will do that.
Prayers for your daughter and your whole family- God Bless
Prayers offered up to Our Great Physician for your daughter and your family.
lifting your daughter up in prayer fella
Prayers for your daughter and family.
Ounce again many thanks and blessings to all your kind hearts.
Our Father, who art in Heaven, please hear our heartfelt prayers. Help this young woman and her family in this frightening time. Give them strength and courage, and faith in Your everlasting love.
May God bless my FRiend.
Please take heart in her mother's lengthy survival, and the massive strides that have taken place in the past generation. I will pray for your daughter, your family, and all of her healthcare providers.
My serious and faithful prayers belong to your sweet daughter.
May our good and merciful Lord hear our prayers.
God bless and keep her, and your family.
Prayers up, and look into this. It is simple and cheap:
Prayers that Reba may survive this surgery and live as long if not longer than your mom did.
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Dental cement
Dental cements are hard, brittle materials formed by mixing powder and liquid together. They are either resin cements or acid-base cements. In the latter the powder is a basic metal oxide or silicate and the liquid is acidic. An acid base reaction occurs with the formation of a metal salt which acts as the cementing matrix. Dental cements are used for a variety of dental and orthodontic applications, including use as luting agents, pulp-protecting agents or cavity-lining material. Furthermore, they are used to form an insulating layer under metallic or ceramic restorations, and protect the pulp from injury. This helps in sealing or fixing and casting inlays, onlays, or any such substance to both dentin and enamel.[1] Dental cements that contain an acid component may have an intense sour taste.
Composition and classification[edit]
ISO classification Cements are classified on the basis of their components. Generally, they can be classified into categories:
- Water-based acid-base cements: zinc phosphate (Zn3(PO4)2), Zinc Polyacrylate(Polycarboxylate), glass ionomer (GIC). These contain metal oxide or silicate fillers embedded in a salt matrix.
- Non-aqueous/ oil bases acid-base cements: Zinc oxide eugenol and Non-eugenol zinc oxide. These contain metal oxide fillers embedded in a metal salt matrix.
- Resin-based: Acrylate or methacrylate resin cements, including the latest generation of self-adhesive resin cements that contain silicate or other types of fillers in an organic resin matrix.
Cements can be classified based on the type of their matrix:
- Phosphate (zinc phosphate, silico phosphate)
- Polycarboxylate (zinc polycarboxylate, glass ionomer)
- Phenolate (Zinc oxide–eugenol and EBA)
- Resin (polymeric)[2]
The requirements for dental cements are that they should:
- Be non irritant to pulp and gingiva (gums) and should not support the growth of secondary caries. (This last property is called cariostatic or anticariogenicity).
- Form a strong bond with enamel and dentin.
- Provide good marginal sealing to prevent marginal leakage.
- Be resistant to dissolution in saliva, or in any oral fluid.
- Have good aesthetics and good thermal and chemical resistance. (Opacity to X-rays is also preferred for diagnostic purposes).
- Be translucent.
- Have a low film thickness (ideally 25microns).
Dental cement liquids may contain Balsam of Peru, to which some people are allergic.[3][4][5]
- ^ "dental cement". definition of dental cement. The Free Dictionary by Farlex. 2007. Retrieved 2008-08-11.
- ^ {{cite web According to ISO 9917-1:2007 Dental cements classified as: a. Luting cements b. Bases or lining C. Restoration | last = Spiller | first = Martin S. | title = Composite materials | publisher = Doctorspiller.com | date = 2000 | url = http://www.doctorspiller.com/dental_materials.htm#Resin%20(Composite)%20Cements | accessdate = 2008-08-11 |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080730030225/http://www.doctorspiller.com/dental_materials.htm#Resin%20(Composite)%20Cements |archivedate = 2008-07-30}}
- ^ Alexander A. Fisher. Fisher's Contact Dermatitis. Retrieved 2014-04-27.
- ^ "Balsam of Peru contact allergy". Dermnetnz.org. 2013-12-28. Retrieved 2014-04-27.
- ^ Sharon E. Jacob, MD (2014-04-15). "Myroxylon Pereirae (Balsam of Peru)". The Dermatologist. Retrieved 2014-04-27.
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Waterford's Rohrer wins 100 hurdles regional title
LANCASTER – Waterford's Ally Rohrer and Caldwell's Jenna Furr claimed regional championships at the Division III, Region 11 finals Friday evening at Fairfield Union High School.
Rohrer took home the 100 meter hurdles crown with a time of 15.62 seconds while Furr ran the 3200 in 11:36.47 to grab the regional title. Both athletes went to state in the same events last season.
Rohrer also qualified for the state meet in the 4 by 200 meter relay. Rohrer, Maddy Sury, Maggie Kroll and Lydia Beardsley combined to run the 4 by 200 in a school record time of 1:47.52, good for second at the regional. They broke the record of 1:49.53 that they set in the preliminaries on Wednesday.
"The girls ran a phenomenal time in the 4 by 2," said Waterford girls coach Scott Miller. "They broke the record by two seconds. Everybody had a good day."
Sury qualified for state in two other events. She was second in the high jump (16 feet, 8.75 inches) and third in the 800 (2:18.42). She went to Columbus in both events last year as well.
Belpre's Cray Sistrunk finished fourth in the 1600 to clinch a berth at the state meet. Sistrunk ran the mile in 4:34.08.
The Golden Eagles also qualified their 4 by 100 relay team of Sam Petty, Matt Colvin, Matt Lopreste and Devin Daniell, which finished third (44.79).
Fort Frye's lone state qualifier was Natalie Hart in the 300 hurdles. Hart placed fourth in the race with a time of 46.57.
Shenandoah's Caleb Moore is also state-bound. Moore ran the 110 meter hurdles in 15.43 seconds to take fourth place.
Just missed state
The 2014 track season came to an end for several local athletes.
Fort Frye's MaryKate McElroy placed seventh in the 1600 (5:25.74) and 10th in the 3200 (12:33).
Her teammate KyLynn Buchanan was a seventh-place finisher in the pole vault. She cleared nine feet. Katelin Hart was a 10th-place finisher in the 800 (2:26.88).
For the Fort Frye boys, Matthew Cheeseman and Ford McElroy placed seventh and 12th, respectively, in the 1600 at Navarre Fairless High School in the Region 9 meet.
Cheeseman's time was 4:35.61 and McElroy's was 4:47.96.
For Waterford, Beardsley no-heighted in the pole vault while Katie Semon placed 13th in the 3200 (12:50.33). On the boys side, Eli Strahler was 11th in the two-mile with a time of 10:26.96.
For Belpre's boys team, the 4 by 200 relay team placed eighth (1:35.62) in the finals and Kyle Windland finished in 13th-place in the 3200 (10:44.95).
Furr's younger sister Lindsey barely missed out on going to state, placing fifth in the 3200 with a time of 12:16.95.
Teammate Katie Saling was 10th in the 1600 at 5:35.86.
Shenandoah's Kylee Kasper finished sixth in the 400 with a time of 1:00.30.
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The state meet kicks off Friday at 9:30 a.m. and will go through Saturday evening.


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Scientists search lunar landscape for lost moon probes
by Leonard David,
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter-derived topographic map showing the impact sites for NASA's GRAIL probes.
June 26, 2013
— The moon is the final resting ground for scads of landed and crashed spacecraft, many of which have been pinpointed recently by sleuthing scientists.
Using NASA's
sharp-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
, for example, researchers have located and imaged Apollo moon landing leftovers, Soviet-era spacecraft and, more recently, the impact locales of NASA's
twin GRAIL probes
that were deliberately driven into a mountain side near the moon's north pole.
But the search is ongoing to discover the exact location of several
pioneering moon landers
No luck so far
"We are still looking for [the Soviet Union's] Luna 9 and 13," said Jeff Plescia, a space scientist at the The Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.
"Those were the small 'beach ball' shaped spacecraft," Plescia
told SPACE.com
. "The beach ball might be hard to find, but it made a descent on a larger vehicle which then popped the beach ball off."
The "beach ball" shaped Luna 9 spacecraft was the first probe to achieve a lunar soft landing and to transmit photographic data to Earth. Locating it would be a major find.
Plescia said he had assumed that it would be possible to find the landing sites of Luna 9 and 13 by spotting albedo marks — a change in the lunar surface brightness made by their descent engines.
Plescia is joined in the hunt by Mark Robinson of Arizona State University, who is the principal investigator for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera, or LROC.
"We've both looked, but no luck so far." Plescia said.
Yet another search involves the impact locations of Apollo lunar module ascent stages, the hardware discarded once moonwalking crews were back on board their respective command modules. Ascent stages were impacted into the surface as part of the Apollo Passive Seismic Experiment that studied the propagation of seismic waves through the moon to yield a look at the body's internal structure.
"Given that we have found the
impact sites from GRAIL
, you would think we could find those craters, but, again, no luck so far," Plescia said. These, like the craters made by the third stage of
NASA's Saturn V rocket
, "are important to locate to understand how large a crater was made and to have precise coordinates so that the old Apollo era crustal velocity measurements can be reanalyzed."
Silent Surveyor
Scientists hope to find several other lost lunar spacecraft, including NASA's Surveyor 4. Controllers lost contact with this unmanned probe during its descent on July 14, 1967.
"There are two options," Plescia said. "It completely failed and then just crashed, which would have formed a crater, or it just lost communications and continued to operate and landed. In the latter case, the spacecraft would be on the surface in one piece."
"The two potential sites have different locations. I made some preliminary searches a while ago, but need to finish it up," he said.
The November 1969 manned Apollo 12 mission located Surveyor 3 on the moon's surface. Surveyor 4 remains missing.
Also on Plescia's to-do list is a search for Luna 18, a 1971 Soviet sample-return spacecraft that went missing. Again, communications were lost; it may have landed safely or crashed.
Craters from various fallen orbiters are possible targets as well. The holes gouged out by older missions may prove impossible to find. But coordinates exist for probes such as Europe's SMART 1 and Japan's Kaguya, but no search has been mounted yet, Plescia said.
"For GRAIL it was easy, because we had before and after images, so it was easy to spot the change," he said.
Fates of failed spacecraft
Why all the
focus on moon junk
"There may be several kinds of value here," said Philip Stooke, associate professor in the geography department at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. "One is a detective story," he said, stressing that images may help resolve the fates of failed spacecraft.
One good example is the Soviet Union's Luna 23, which made it to the moon and transmitted for several days in 1974 but failed to collect a sample and return it to Earth as planned.
"At the time people said it landed hard and damaged its sample drill. Now people are suggesting it fell on its side, and the LRO images seem to support that idea," Stooke said.
"Did NASA's Surveyor 4 fail before or after landing? If we could find it, which has not been done as yet, we could distinguish between an intact lander and a debris field," he said.
Heritage sites
A second value has to do with protecting "heritage" sites, especially if the teams participating in the
Google Lunar X Prize
— which has spurred a privately funded robotic race to the moon — reach some of these sites, Stooke said.
"We already know plenty about the
locations of Apollo spacecraft
, but other targets might be difficult to find," he said. "If somebody wanted to land near the former Soviet Union's Luna 9 they couldn't, because we do not know where it is."
"If the site could be found in LROC images," he added, "not only do we know where it is, but a
heritage protection plan
can be designed."
For example, the plan could call for touching down miles away, so a landing mishap wouldn't accidentally destroy an old spacecraft. A rover could then drive up to inspect the lander and its nearby descent stage, Stooke said.
"So that would apply to Surveyor 4 as well, and objects like India's Chandrayaan Moon Impact Probe (MIP) near the south pole," he said.
Map of U.S. and Soviet lunar landing locations on the Earthside hemisphere of the moon.
(Lunar and Planetary Institute)
Lastly, Stooke confessed to perhaps a selfish reason to look for lost mooncraft.
"It is because I'm a cartographer. It is satisfying simply to be able to put a point on a map and say, 'That's where it is,'" he said. "Ultimately, whatever else happens in space exploration, we should be able to document this aspect of human endeavor in which we have invested so much."
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|Oct 7 2013, 12:13 AM Post #261
I remember reading a quote from Stephen, basically saying: TPTB didn't feel the first Jack had the right intensity when standing next to him; SN seemed very frustrated with the lack of communication from the higher ups over what they were looking for with Jack. He felt like Steve and Kayla's story suffered because they couldn't figure it out.
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|Oct 7 2013, 01:33 AM Post #262
Brotherly Love
There's a great interview out there with We Love Soaps where MA talks about his motivation for playing Jack when he was in that dark period. It looks like the fact the actors were given a lot of leeway with the writing and dialogue played into it pretty heavily as well - they were able to craft their characters rather than regurgitating dialogue that may not be consistent with what their characters would do in reaction to certain elements.
The part where he specifically discusses the Steve/Kayla relationship and the rape is really interesting:
The part where he discusses the dialogue change in the rape scene caught my attention in particular because I always thought that was a brilliant bit of writing (expressing his "love" for Kayla in the throes of such violence). It was horrifying realistic and something about it always, ALWAYS unnerves me whenever I see that scene.
|Oct 7 2013, 02:47 AM Post #263
Thanks so much to everyone who posted about my recap on the back story of Bill and Laura. I see from some responses that I should have been a bit more expansive in telling about the rape. I was very terse and blunt, I think because I didn't want readers to be stopped by thinking I was an apologist for Bill's action. I am not. My mother was not. And DOOL was not. But without putting the rape in a little better context, I can see where the reaction of the character of Laura might not be understood. Not to mention the continuing positive viewer response to Bill and Laura as a couple.
I think to understand what DOOL was doing in the Bill and Laura story, current viewers have to put later soap stories about rape such as Jack and Kayla or Luke and Laura out of mind. The year was 1968. Among many long-running and well-established daytime dramas, DOOL was still a very new and struggling soap, whose long term renewal prospects were still in doubt. The head writer was the brilliant William Bell, who wanted to honor the successful genre traditions, while also creating more vital and modern characters and putting them in creative and cutting edge story lines.
One of the ways that Bell did that was by writing more directly about the sexuality of some of his characters. Soaps had been dishing the repercussions of romantic drama for decades but usually shied away from any emphasis on the underlying sexual urges that caused the drama. It was so very different then than today's sex-obsessed soap stories with the bed hops, hookups, and marriage go rounds. In 1968, there was social turmoil and a 'sexual revolution' among young single adults but traditional moral attitudes toward marriage prevailed and divorce was still uncommon.
The key to the story of Bill and Laura is understanding the impact of Susan Flannery's Laura. That may be hard for those whose idea of Laura is Jamie Lynn Bauer or who first met Susan Flannery as Stephanie Forrester. Flannery's Laura was both a classical soap heroine and a modern professional woman. She wanted marriage and children but she had a strong desire to excel in her career. She was intelligent, poised, and incredibly beautiful. And she was beloved and admired by female viewers.
Both Bill and Laura were portrayed as ambitious young physicians in training -- he as a surgeon, she as a psychiatrist. They were matched as equals in terms of personal charisma, romantic attraction, and the importance of medicine to their sense of self. Bill turned down residency options in major hospitals to stay in Salem with Laura. They fell in love and became engaged, but Mickey was a continuing source of conflict in his attempts to get Laura away from Bill. The brothers fought about Laura as William Bell introduced sexual jealousy into sibling rivalry with this triangle.
Then came the plot point that drove Bill and Laura apart. When Bill's hands were presumed to be permanently disabled by disease, preventing him from ever again being a surgeon, he was not only impacted physically, but also unmanned psychologically in his relationship with Laura, through his sense that he was no longer the man with whom she had fallen in love. So in despair, Bill disappeared from Salem, leaving Laura behind. By doing this, Bill thought to set Laura free from his failure. However, by preventing Laura from using her psychiatric skills to heal his heart, Bill not only broke her heart but undermined her own sense of usefulness as a physician.
While Bill was gone without word, Laura recovered a sense of her professional self worth by Mickey asking her to assist him with psychological evaluations in (I think) the Susan Martin trial. Laura saw Mickey in his professional world, began to admire and care about him, and eventually agreed to marry him, in the belief that Bill was gone for good from her life. Of course, Bill came back, fully restored by an experimental therapy as a skilled surgeon, only to find that he had lost Laura to his brother. He was consumed by regret as well as sexual jealousy over the thought of Laura as Mickey's wife. On his part, Mickey was dealing with sexual insecurity over the growing fear that he could be responsible for the failure to conceive a child with Laura.
Most everyone, except Mickey, understood that Laura's marriage was a mistake that was likely to cause lasting unhappiness for all concerned. Laura and Bill both felt angry at each other as well as personally guilty -- he for running out on Laura instead of letting her help him; she for trying to replace Bill with his brother. Viewers were disturbed and saddened by Laura's situation. However, this being a Horton story in 1968, it was absolutely clear that Laura's marriage vows to Mickey must trump her love and desire for Bill.
Into these fraught relationships, William Bell dropped his bomb shell. One night Bill got drunk after a patient died during surgery. He knew he once could have had Laura to talk him through his despair, but he was alone. At the bar, Bill heard a song about a woman named Laura, who was only a dream. Drunken Bill muttered that she was not a dream...she was real. He staggered back to the hospital where he found Laura sleeping in quarters and had sex with her. Of course, this was not shown on screen in 1968. William Bell later said he deliberately left it to the viewer to determine what Laura's response was to Bill. But it was rightly viewed as rape.
Also, it had to be seen that way. As much as viewers wanted Laura to be with Bill again, her marriage vows absolutely prevented their sexual union at the time. There had to be some external compulsion that both caused and excused their sex. Bill had to have his moral sense repressed by a black out drunk that unleashed his sexual desire and Laura had to be overwhelmed before she could have extramarital sex with her husband's brother. Years later, social mores had changed to the extent that, in a similar story line, Laura's successor was allowed to reconnect with her lover despite her existing marriage. Marlena was able to act willingly on her sexual desire for John. Even though her marriage made it 'wrong,' it did not ruin her character as a heroine. It was simply a spring board for great soap drama that has continued on today.
But in 1968, William Bell had to use forcible sex to achieve a break through moment for DOOL. Viewers were shocked in a stunning, jaw-dropping way that Laura and Bill -- these two beloved and admired characters who were supposed to be together -- were in such a situation. 'OMG. Bill raped Laura. How could that happen? What will happen next?' Over the next eight years, viewers never tired of watching to find out if secrets would out and Bill and Laura ever could be together again after such a bad act.
And because William Bell wrote the story with psychological insight, viewers at the time understood why Laura would forgive Bill, just as they eventually did. First, viewers knew that in her heart Laura loved and desired Bill as much as he did her and understood that he came to her out of a need for her comfort and not to dominate or humiliate her. Second, viewers knew that, as a psychiatrist, Laura was trained to analyze and understand human sex drives and psychological pressures. Laura knew that her marriage to his brother was a torment to Bill, and she felt some responsibility for creating that stress. Finally, viewers knew, long before Laura did, that Bill was willing to sacrifice his love and his freedom to protect her and their son.
Still, it took many years and obstacles for Bill to be redeemed, and Laura could only leave Mickey after Mickey had cheated on her and later abandoned her for Maggie. (Mickey had his own mitigating factors, since viewers knew he was unfaithful to a wife who didn't really love him and his final abandonment was the result of amnesia. Plus Maggie was apparently very appealing back then as Mickey's true love.)
IMO, the story of Bill and Laura was one of the most important in DOOL history, successfully modernizing the soap genre in terms of dealing with sex while staying true to its romantic traditions. Its down side came later after William Bell left the show. Subsequent writers kept trying to trade on its success and created a DOOL tradition to turn to rape as a fall back plot point when other creative resources ran dry. Sometimes this has been done with true psychological insight and good dramatic repercussions, as with Jack and Kayla's story and the whole Johnson family saga. Too many other times it has not. It is interesting to think about the social and sexual changes reflected in soaps today, as the show has Bill and Laura's daughter and grand son deal with the fall out from Jack's rape of Kayla. I look forward to seeing how this revisit of DOOL rape history is handled now, and if it lives up to its dramatic potential.
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|Oct 7 2013, 03:00 AM Post #264
One of the terms in the deal EJ made with Stefano was that he lived in the mansion with his family, so it�s possible that Stefano would not have let Sami and the kids leave if she hadn�t choosed to stay.
As for the sydnapping I think Sami was partly to blame for it, but EJ has of course a responsiblility for his own actions aswell.
|Oct 7 2013, 06:14 AM Post #265
Now that was sacrifice.
|Oct 7 2013, 09:41 AM Post #266
Reading all that makes me miss MA more acutely. Because whoever his character is and whatever his character is doing--good, bad, or foolish--it's clear that he actually thinks about it. And that he'll put in the effort to make it work, somehow. This regime relies way too heavily on characters being stupid for long periods of time, without any kind of explanation or rationale, all in the service of dragging the plot along until the next sweeps period. Why do they not appear to value actors who'll try to provide the "brain" the stories leave out?
|Oct 7 2013, 10:01 AM Post #267
No, EJ could have refused to give Stefano the company. He did though, for Sami, and that's why it was a sacrifice on his part.
|Oct 7 2013, 10:12 AM Post #268
Good to know what the next segment of clips are named. I'll bump the classic Days thread once I start watching them.
|Oct 7 2013, 11:42 AM Post #269
|Looking forward to that bump, six! That period of time on Days was my favorite ever: Steve and Kayla falling in love bled right into Steve's backstory with his family, which bled into learning Jack was really Billy and him struggling to reconcile his feelings about it, which Jennifer became a support for. Back then, the writers took the time and told the beats necessary to develop the stories, and gave the actors the time to tell the stories with depth and nuance. I truly believe that is the reason why the Days of today pales in comparison for so many of us. It's not so much that the actors aren't as good (although on the whole, they aren't), it's that the writing for them is just horrendous. To me, everything from '85 - '91 blows everything from today out of the water. The fact that I would absolutely watch reruns from that era, even while knowing the outcomes and suffering through the hair and wardrobe flashbacks, speaks volumes. See ya in the Classic Days thread - get to those clips!
|Oct 8 2013, 07:56 AM Post #270
I agree with other posters that its not much of a sacrifice to give back something you took from another using trickery and deceit.Another situation where I will agree to disagree.
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it is called "on the want of money"
There are two classes of people that I have observed who are not so distinct as might be imagined - those who cannot keep their own money in their hands, and those who cannot keep their hands from other people's. The first are always in want of money, though they do not know what they do with it. They muddle it away, without method or object, and without having anything to shew for it. They have not, for instance, a fine house, but they hire two houses at a time; they have not a hot-house in their garden, but a shrubbery within doors; they do not gamble, but they purchase a library, and dispose of it when they move house. A princely benefactor provides them with lodgings, where, for a time, you are sure to find them at home: and they furnish them in a handsome style for those who are to come after them. With all this sieve-like economy, they can only afford a leg of mutton and a single bottle of wine, and are glad to get a lift in a common stage; whereas with a little management and the same disbursements, they might entertain a round of company and drive a smart tilbury. But they set no value upon money, and throw it away on any object or in any manner that first presents itself, merely to have it off their hands, so that you wonder what has become of it. The second class above spoken of not only make away with what belongs to themselves, but you cannot keep any thing you have from their rapacious grasp. If you refuse to lend them what you want, they insist that you must: if you let them have anything to take charge of for a time (a print or a bust) they swear that you have given it to them, and that they have too great a regard for the donor ever to part with it. You express surprise at their having run so largely in debt; but where is the singularity while others continue to lend? And how is this to be helped, when the manner of these sturdy beggars amounts to dragooning you out of your money, and they will not go away without your purse, any more than if they came with a pistol in their hand? If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power, for you necessarily feel some towards him; and since he will take no denial, you must comply with his peremptory demands, or send for a constable, which out of respect for his character you will not do. These persons are also poor - light come, light go - and the bubble bursts at last. Yet if they had employed the same time and pains in any laudable art or study that they have in raising a surreptitious livelihood, they would have been respectable, if not rich. It is their facility in borrowing money that has ruined them. No one will set heartily to work, who has the face to enter a strange house, ask the master of it for a considerable loan, on some plausible and pompous pretext, and walk off with it in his pocket. You might as well suspect a highwayman of addicting himself to hard study in the intervals of his profession.
There is only one other class of persons I can thing of, in connexion with the subject of this Essay - those who are always in want of money from the want of spirit to make use of it. Such persons are perhaps more to be pitied than all the rest. They live in want, in the midst of plenty -- dare not touch what belongs to them, are afraid to say that their soul is their own, have their wealth locked up from them by fear and meanness as effectually as by bolts and bars, scarcely allow themselves a coat to their backs or a morsel to eat, are in dread of coming to the parish all their lives, and are not sorry when they die, to think that they shall no longer be an expense to themselves - according to the old epigram:
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We may have overdone it this year with the hot peppers. We don't feel the least bit repentant, though.
Spicing up a meal is quick when using small peppers, and they look great in vinegar-based hot sauces or simply as fiery pickles. I try to find peppers that produce a large spectrum of beautifully colored fruits on a single plant. I also like to get a range of different heat levels. 'Fish' is a nice, all purpose hot chili with striped, multicolored fruits. If you want to mix and match your hot and mild peppers without accidentally eating the wrong one, 'Fish' is a good choice due to its variegated foliage. The leaves look radically different from other pepper plants so you're not likely to make a mistake when you go out to harvest. Ornamental gardeners will love it, too.
If you're looking to make scorching meals or zap someone with your hot sauces, 'Purira' and 'Tabasco' are even hotter. We were cooking a meal at our friend's house and had to evacuate for a bit after the 2 tiny 'Tabasco' chilies were sliced up — they went aerosol almost immediately and sent us out the door gasping and coughing. Use with care!
For large peppers we grow fat-walled sweet+hot peppers like 'Pizza,' or 'Meek & Mild' to use on pizzas, in bean chilies, stuffed poblanos, and mole sauce. We also grow roasting peppers like 'Spanish Spice' which work great on the grill.
Other medium-small peppers we enjoy include a variety of habaneros (mostly for hot sauces but my boyfriend brewed a spectacular smoked habanero stout last winter), regular and mild jalapenos (we really like 'Purple Jalapeno'), round pickling varieties like 'Cherry Bomb,' and drying peppers like 'Ring-O-Fire Cayenne' or 'Peter.' (Apologies if you don't like the way 'Peter' peppers look… I can't help finding them funny).
If you overdo it, like we did, peppers can be canned, frozen, dried, or imposed on neighbors and friends. They also make good insecticides and deer repellents. You can use recipes you find online or purchase commercially made capsaicin products. If you grow the 'Bhut Jolokia' chili pepper (also called the "ghost" pepper) you can even deter elephants.
I have to admit that we mostly grow the 'Peter' peppers because we're so amused by how people react to them.
Peppers are easy to grow and the hot ones are particularly prolific. If you're new to gardening or you don't eat a lot of hot foods, you can certainly get by with a single plant in your garden. My problem is that I love their jeweled forms and hues so I end up with a massive kaleidoscope each season. But I grow ornamental plants with no other purpose than the joy of how they look… so why not? The worst that happens is I compost a few.
Nearly all vegetable seed catalogs carry at least some peppers, but the ones that specialize in tomato seeds or heirloom seeds tend to feature the widest selection. This catalog directory can help you locate great pepper varieties. I just double checked that all the links work, but let me know if you find a broken one.
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The poinsettia, well known as a decorative potted plant for the Christmas season, will perform as a Florida landscape plant where prolonged freezes are not the norm or where a warm microclimate exists around a home. This fact sheet offers basic information on growing these fascinating plants.
Lore and misconceptions surround the poinsettia; here are some interesting facts:
The poinsettia is native to Mexico, and the Aztecs used them in their fall celebrations. The plant's name is derived from Joel Poinsett, the man who introduced the plant to the U.S. in 1825. At that time, Poinsett was an ambassador to Mexico.
The colorful and showy "flower" is actually a cluster of modified leaves called bracts. The true flowers are small and clustered in the centers of the bracts.
Poinsettias are not poisonous, although some people are mildly allergic to their white, milky sap.
The poinsettia is a "short day" plant that blooms when days are short and nights are long. The extended period of darkness is the natural trigger for flowering. If the dark period is interrupted by artificial light from any source after October 1, flowering will be delayed or interrupted.
As a result of intensive breeding, the traditionally bright red poinsettia is now available in burgundy, pink, peach, white, yellow, and marbled colors.
Poinsettias are tropical plants and prefer a temperature range of 65°F (night) and 75-80°F (day). Inside your home, keep them in bright light away from drying or chilly drafts. They will tolerate full sun on a porch or patio but must be protected from frost or freezing temperatures. Water your poinsettia only when the surface of the soil is dry to the touch. Remove any excess water from the saucer or decorative pot sleeve because poinsettias don't tolerate soggy soil. Do not apply fertilizer.
The best potted plants for establishing in the landscape are ones that have been in good light while indoors and have remained green and healthy. Red varieties usually establish better than other colors. Purchase plants that are blooming in mid-November because these early flowering varieties are ones that will also bloom earliest in the landscape. Choose a sunny spot that will not receive any artificial light at night. Plant your potted poinsettia(s) as soon as danger of frost is past. Cut off the fading bracts, leaving 4–6 inches of the stem on each branch. Poinsettias prefer moist, well drained soils with a soil pH between 5.5 and 6.5. Place the plant in the soil at the same depth it was growing in the container. Gently firm the soil around the plant and water well. Keep the plant mulched and well watered until established. Fertilize monthly, from March to October in central and south Florida and from May to September in north Florida. Use a fertilizer with balanced amounts of nitrogen and potassium (the first and third numbers of the analysis) and low phosphorus (the middle number). Follow the application directions on the product label. Prune in early spring when the floral display is over and the danger of frost has passed. Cut back to within 12 to 18 inches of the ground or to living tissue if the plant was damaged by cold. Poinsettias may become "leggy" and unattractive if not pruned regularly during the growing season. Cut back once a month, if needed, leaving four leaves on each shoot. Discontinue pruning after September 10. Flower buds will begin to develop in October. Delay or disruption of flowering will occur if fall temperatures are too warm or too cold or if the required dark period is interrupted.
Magnesium Deficiency - Magnesium deficiency is a common problem with poinsettias. The symptoms are scorching on the margins and tips of the leaves and yellowing between the leaf veins. It is difficult to correct on affected leaves but can be prevented in subsequent years by applying magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts) in February/March and June/July) at the rate of 3 tablespoons per square yard.
Insects and Mites - Pests that attack poinsettias include aphids, mealybugs, soft scales, whiteflies and spider mites. The poinsettia hornworm is a particularly serious problem, since it can rapidly defoliate an entire plant. If only a few are responsible for the damage, pick off and destroy them individually rather than spraying the entire shrub.
Diseases - Poinsettia scab (Sphaceloma poinsettiae) is a fungal disease that causes circular, cream-colored spots on the midribs and veins of leaves and raised, often elongated lesions on stems and leaf petioles. Scab is most prevalent in the summer, and scab-infected branches should be pruned and discarded as soon as they are noted. Plants growing in poorly drained or over-watered areas are often killed by fungi which rot the roots and stems.
For more information on diagnosing and managing problems, contact your county's Extension Service. http://solutionsforyourlife.ufl.edu/map/
The Society of American Florists: http://www.aboutflowers.com/flower-holidays-occasions-a-parties/christmas.html
This document is ENH1083, one of a series of the Environmental Horticulture Department, UF/IFAS Extension. Original publication date December 2007. Reviewed November 2010. Revised November 2013. Visit the EDIS website at http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.
Sydney Park Brown, associate professor and Consumer Horticulture Specialist. Environmental Horticulture Department, UF/IFAS Extension, Gainesville, FL 32611.
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The radiant for this shower is in the constellation Lyra, which rises in the northeast at about 10 p.m. Fortunately, in 2012, the new moon guarantees a dark sky in the late night and morning hours, the best time to watch the Lyrid shower. As a general rule, the greatest number of Lyrid meteors fall in the dark hours before dawn.
The optimal night will probably be from late night April 21 until dawn April 22, though the night before or after (April 21/22 and April 22/23) may also offer a sprinkling of Lyrid meteors. With no moon to obscure this year's display, we are assured of dark skies for the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower!


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Wint was probably the leading light in the history of Jamaican athletics. A minister's son, born of a Scottish mother, he was the first Jamaican runner to win an Olympic title over 400 m, during the games of 1948.He won a second gold medal at these very same games in London with the Jamaican 4x400 m relay team, a title that he again won four years later in Helsinki.Also an 800 m runner, the shortest of the middle-distance races, he won two medals for this event, in London in '48 and in Helsinki in '52.
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In 2006, Taylor Swift wrote a song about me called "Teardrops on my Guitar". The song centered around her obsession with me — how she would sleep with my picture at night, how she would sing made-up songs about me in her car, etc. For obvious legal reasons, she changed my name in the song to "Drew".
Taylor and I met back in high school. She used to look at me oddly in class, and I did my best to ignore her. But one day when I was walking by, she looked like she wasn't breathing. I quickly went over to see if she was okay, and she began asking very personal questions about my then girlfriend. I told her I was "so in love" and that I had finally "got it right" with the hopes she would leave me alone.
The girl I dated a girl in high school was a cheerleading captain who wore short skirts and high heels. We were happy together, and while we were dating, Taylor spent most of her time in the bleachers showing off her new t-shirts and sneakers to her imaginary friends. Never did I think I would date her.
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Though the tattoo issue was never resolved, Taylor and I were on and off again repeatedly for the next few months. Whenever she was upset, I would usually just tell her riddles, and she'd forget about why we were fighting. But things again came to a bitter breakup a few weeks ago, and Taylor assured me that this time, we were never getting back together. Like. Ever.
I got my friends to talk to her, but she wouldn't budge. So I called her up myself, and I was like, "I STILL LOVE YOU."
And she was like, "This is exhausting. We are never getting back together. Like, ever."
And then she let out a loud "Noooo!" which broke my phone and shattered my right ear drum.
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When some people want to dis the Summerfest lineup, they liken it to Wisconsin State Fair. True, the headliners for the cream puff-powered soiree aren't always on the cutting edge (The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie, anyone?). But State Fair is Wisconsin's most diverse entertainment offering, and that carries over to the music.
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Waverly Consort tells Christmas story in music from Middle Ages
The Waverly Consort presented a little over an hour of serenity Saturday, performing dramatic Christmas music of the Middle Ages at the St. Joseph Center Chapel.
Presented by Early Music Now, the ensemble performed "The Christmas Story As Told in the Music of the Middle Ages." The program, which the group has been performing since 1980, has become a trademark for the ensemble. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, combined choruses usher in holiday season
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra presented festive holiday greetings Friday evening, filling the Uihlein Hall stage to the brim with instrumentalists and vocalists.
Stuart Chafetz, former resident conductor of the MSO, led the combined forces of the MSO, the MSO Chorus, Milwaukee Children's Choir, Milwaukee Youth Chorale and Milwaukee Handbell Ensemble through a program of Christmas and Hanukkah tunes. »Read Full Article
Quasimondo takes dark, funny look at American life in 'Americlown'
In the first of 14 skits composing "Americlown" — a provocative and original production from Quasimondo Milwaukee Physical Theatre's Brian Rott and Jessi Miller — we watch the cast impersonate young schoolchildren, awakening to the magic of language as they painstakingly spell out a word, with awe and mystery in their eyes.
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Kacey Musgraves shows she has down-home standards at Rave
Friday night at the Rave, Kacey Musgraves was a woman on the verge of...many things.
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Buffett, Baseball and Patience
What does Warren Buffett, baseball and patience have to do with one another? It is how the small-town billionaire made his fortune.
Being a big baseball fan, Buffett compares his investment philosophy to the wisdom he picked up from his favorite past time sport and his hero, Ted Williams. He told CNBC, "What's nice about investing is you don't have to swing at pitches. You can watch pitches come in one inch above or one inch below your navel and you don't have to swing. No umpire is going to call you out. You can wait for the pitch you want."
Just like Ted Williams, Buffett has been know to be very patient as he studies the opportunities and waits for the perfect moment. Then, when he receives the perfect pitch, he bets big. As Buffett has said in the past, "Don't swing a lot, but if you do swing, swing for the fences."
And he generally does bet big. According to U.S. News, his top 10 stock picks account for 90 percent of his publicly traded portfolio. When you are talking about well over $40 billion, those are some pretty high stakes by most portfolio manager's standards, who generally own 150 or more different stocks in their portfolio. Buffett's explains his thought process by quoting Ted Williams, "To be a good hitter, you've got to get a good ball to hit." When you invest, you should be totally confident that you have a winning bet that will be a home run. Otherwise, you will strike out big.
Buffett has been known to be an incredibly patient investor, which has made him exceptionally successful. While he constantly pours through annual reports to find great pitches, he finds nothing wrong with holding onto his cash until the right opportunity presents itself. As long as money is being held in order to have purchasing power when the time is right, that is an acceptable part of an overall investment strategy. As he states, having cash will allow you to, "be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy."
Millionaire Money Habit: Investment opportunities will always present themselves. Resist wanting to invest in everything that seems like a good idea. Over-diversification will impede your ability to understand and manage all of your investments and can cost you more money in fees. Keeping cash on the sidelines to be prepared for the right moment is a suitable money management strategy. Play like Buffett and patiently wait for the perfect pitch.
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When I began studying investing, I really enjoyed learning how the most successful investors made it big. But as I continued reading, I realized the odds were overwhelmingly against me making a fortune in the stock market.
However, this is still great advice that can be applied to local investments like real estate or starting a small business if you have entrepreneurial urge.
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It is not only highly trained athletes who face the frustration of missing out on big games, benched by coaches intent on getting results, with no room for sentiment. A Baltimore Ravens cheerleader will miss out on Super Bowl XLVII on Sunday - dropped, she alleges, for being too fat.
Courtney Lenz, 23, has been a cheerleader for the Ravens, who face the San Francisco 49ers here on Sunday, for five seasons but did not receive an invitation to potentially the biggest game of her life – because, she says, she gained two pounds.
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Kasich has control on issue
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, making a swing through the area Friday, wouldn't discuss his election opponent's personal life. He doesn't have to. Other people are doing plenty of talking about it.
Kasich is firmly in the driver's seat as the November election approaches. Public opinion polls have shown the Republican governor in the lead against Democrat Ed FitzGerald for months.
If anything, Kasich may be gaining steam. The most recent major poll, by Quinnipiac, showed him with a 12-point lead over Fitzgerald (48-36). That poll concluded July 28.
It'll be interesting to see results of the next poll. The Quinnipiac poll concluded just before revelations about FitzGerald's longtime lack of a regular Ohio driver's license surfaced.
It's a long story, but suffice it to say FitzGerald did not have a full driver's license for about five years ending in 2012. He held only temporary permits. One restriction for those is that holders can drive only when at least one other licensed driver is in the car. FitzGerald appears to have broken the law on that at least once.
But why FitzGerald let his regular license lapse for so long is a question. He's stopped answering questions about it.
That information surfaced after a press report that two years ago, police in Westlake were asked to check on a car parked for about half an hour in an empty lot very late at night. In the car were FitzGerald and a woman, not his wife, described as a family friend from Ireland. Both say nothing untoward occurred. Police reports also contain no reference to anything inappropriate.
Again, Kasich won't discuss the reports. But he already had plenty of material on which to campaign – his record as governor.
It seems long ago and far away now, in view of the state's solid fiscal situation, but the Buckeye State budget was a train wreck already occurring when Kasich took office on Jan. 10, 2011.
Under former Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat, the General Assembly was facing an $8 billion gap between revenue expected and spending planned for the state's two-year budget. That is a lot of money – but in short order, Kasich and lawmakers eliminated the gap and enacted a balanced budget.
During his term, the governor also has overseen tax reductions totaling more than $3 billion.
When spending cuts needed to accomplish that were revealed, a great hue and cry arose that, in effect, critical state services would be slashed and funding for local governments would be cut to the bone. Ask most Ohioans if they've noticed much difference in government services. Most will reply in the negative, I suspect.
At the same time Kasich was leading lawmakers in getting the state's fiscal house in order, the governor was embarking on other initiatives, including economic development.
When Kasich took office, the unemployment rate in Ohio was slightly above 9 percent. It's 5.5 percent now. During the governor's term, the state has gained nearly 263,000 jobs. Ohio seems to be recovering from the Great Recession substantially faster than many other areas of the country.
Now, as I've pointed out many times, politicians don't really create jobs, as much as they want you to believe they do. But they can create a government tax and regulatory environment that makes it easier for the private sector to put people to work – and clearly, that happened under Kasich.
While Kasich is a Republican, his pragmatic approach will serve him well on the campaign trail. To anyone claiming the GOP is in bed with big business, he can point to a record that includes at least one request (rejected by legislators) for major tax increases on some energy companies.
To those who try to sell the old falsehood about Republicans not caring for poor people, Kasich can point to his quick embrace of Obamacare's expansion of Medicaid – something many governors did not do. One estimate is that about 354,000 Ohioans will get health insurance free of charge because of the Medicaid expansion.
So Kasich can campaign on issues that should resonate with Ohioans – including many staunch Democrats.
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As we head into the Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremonies to honor four former NHL players, we take a look back at some of the best defensive forwards of all time.
Some of these players are strictly defensive players, while others are incredible two-way defenders who can also pot a few goals.
Two-way forwards are honored by the NHL with the Frank J. Selke Trophy, awarded to the best defensive forward as voted on by a poll of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
It has been awarded 33 times, to 21 players, since its inception in 1977-78.
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Iowa woman pleads to mail fraud in loan scheme
A southern Iowa woman who convinced friends to loan her hundreds of thousands of dollars under false pretenses has pleaded guilty to mail fraud.
Beverely DeRonde of Pella entered the plea Thursday in federal court in Des Moines under an agreement in which prosecutors dropped 11 other charges.
The 61-year-old acknowledged that she fraudulently asked relatives and acquaintances to loan her money so she could buy birthday and anniversary presents to surprise her husband or equipment so he could open a boat shop. Instead, she actually used the money to buy antiques, jewelry and Rolex watches for herself while failing to repay them.
DeRonde remains free on bond, but faces a possible prison term at her sentencing in April. She also agreed to pay full restitution, which hasn't been calculated.
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They're not as real as even the cheaper old orthos, though, so don't overpay.
Wow! Sennheiser HD 540 Reference are so good. - Page 2
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Fair enough.
Still can't be worse than a Yammie HP3 or most SFI variants..... can it?
Never heard the HP-3. The modded HP-50 and KWH HOK 80 are better than the HD 530/600. I've not been able to mod the AT ATH-2 to be as good.
i dont think we have an objective (or consensus) definition of "realism" (even the philosophers would give you different answers...).
Anyway, imo "realism" is something like coherent soundstage+imaging, neutrality, resolving and detailed +... musicality -> quadrature of the circle?
A lot of highly detailed monitoring HP lack musicality (not the sound engineers' priority anyway)
And the so-called and very trendy musical, laid-back, warm sounding and non-fatiguing HPs for long winter sessions (with a glass of Bordeaux and a cigar) arent the most detailed and neutral cans (HD 650, Philips X1 and other sofa-comfort or basstilted HPs must be very lucrative though...).
That's why the Senn 540 Ref are IMO exceptional: they offer best of both world
They are detailed and dead flat (yes, some guys still use them for mixing) AND... veeery musical, natural, vivid and ultra-comfortable.
The front row presentation is a matter of preference, but i do love it, especially for folk and jazz female vocals, strings and stuff.
But who is the fool that would buy a 30 year old sounding can with zero "wow" factor? Sennheiser would go bankrupt with that kind of non spectacular heaphones. Some basshead teenies would swear they are defective...
Edited by Hairspray - 8/21/13 at 11:14am
nongrata, i forgot something...
believe it or not, I was about to pull the trigger on a HD 600 ($ 350 new), hopping they are something like an improved version of the 540/530.
so you wouldn't recommend them since i own the 540 ref and love it?
Personally I can sum up realism in one word - timbre.
Although many recordings are awful because they screw up the timbre more than most good quality headphones ever do.
Imo, it's where the musicality lies. It's all about the magic of music.
It's pretty much exactly how I would describe the 540, miles away from the 650's signature.
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Imo, it's where the musicality lies. It's all about the magic of music.
As a hobbyist musician of 17 years, I've never cared more for what engineers can measure over how something actually feels and sounds.
Magic indeed.
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Hi there!
I have always loved my Sennheiser HD 540 Reference.
And have changed the pads several times.
My purchased in Karlstad (Sweden) in 1985 and the price then was around 100Euro or 995sek.
They are the first edition.
Reference II, which came later, another more modern design of the headband.
But otherwise everything was unchanged.
I'm so curious to buy HD 800, but will first buy an amplifier.
I'm probably a bit old fashioned that still listen to CD only on my now rather old CD player Sony X505ES, who I think sounds wonderful after it has been on a number of hours.
I'm always happy to listen to my HD540 Ref.
So I am almost afraid of what I will feel when listening to HD800.
There is so much swagger over Sennheiser's new amplifier that you become curious.
Very expensive, but will the sound be better? Or rather color it less than others so it is good.
The HD800 will be technically better.
Whether YOU actually prefer the different flavour is another matter entirely that only you can decide.
You'll find that Golden Ears subjectively rate the HD 800 and HD 540 even on resolution. Make of that what you will; I think GE may've also been extra kind in their review of the HD 540.
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These too can be yours for the low, low price of $559!
The Gold version is always expensive. No reason to get it unless you're a collector, I'd say.
Why would GoldenEars do that? With what benefits?
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