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Topic: River Brain


  
 River Brain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Brain River is so named because it is the largest nesting ground in known existence for wild brains.
They often are seen on the shores of the river in and around the town of Braintree feeding, mating, and calculating difficult logic problems.
The Brain river flows for a gazillion miles, or around the world approximately a billion times.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/River_Brain   (196 words)

  
 Braintree, Essex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pod's Brook becomes the River Brain as it passes under the Roman road, before running through the southern part of Braintree.
The River Pant (or Blackwater) runs roughly parallel to it, through the north of Bocking, and away to the east of the town.
It is believed by some scholars that the name of the River Brain came later, and so was named after the town, rather than the other way round.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Braintree,_Essex   (803 words)

  
 Fireflyers.net - Your Online Firefly Resource | News | Episodes | Cast | FanFic | Mailing List | Message Board | RSS
Even though River is even younger than Simon, her mind is one of the brightest of mankind - reason enough for her parents to send her to some alliance elite academy, because local schools weren't able to provide adequate education.
Rivers unpredictable actions have brought her and her brother close to be abandoned by the rest of the crew several times, but on the other hand, River did save the day more than once.
It's River's only hope that Simon finds some means of treating her, so she can at least silence the voices in her head to listen to her own again, but nobody knows if the bad dreams, the mental pain, the loss of her personality can ever be cured, healed, undone.
www.fireflyers.net /characters_river.php   (888 words)

  
 FIREFLYFANS.NET
Simon studies the scans of River's brain with the intensity of a penitent approaching his god - both in awe and in fear.
Her brain is painted in shades of primal red, not the calming greens and yellows of normal brain function.
River never liked that kind of art, found it boring whenever their parents dragged them along to some big museum gala or exhibit.
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 Pink Amazonian River Dolphin
These friendly, sensitive, mammals with a brain capacity 40% larger than that of humans, who have lived in harmony with the people of the Amazon and its tributaries for centuries, now face extinction in some tributaries.
ISPTR believes that her work with the Peruvian Forest Police to protection both species of river dolphins, and empowering the local peoples of their rights and use of the law, there has been less illegal commercial fishing and logging in the area, thus saving the natural habitat of the land and aquatic life.
At river confluences, we have seen as many as 35 pink dolphins cooperatively herding and banking fish, often in association with the gray dolphins.
www.isptr-pard.org /dolphin.html   (1105 words)

  
 2. Bird's-Eye View
The river came to be in a world man would never recognize, one of unbelievable heat and stress and colossal movements, one with little or no vegetation to hold the slopes, only water, wind, and gravity forcing furious erosion.
The piedmont river flows through its wide and ancient floodplain, collecting islands that fish-trapping Indians were to settle and sculpting the metamorphic rock with its red, blue, and yellow mineral streaks.
With the coming of man and his self-conscious brain, that river which had flowed cleanly and insistently for eons was no longer to be defined solely by its relationship with the soil and rock.
www.vcu.edu /engweb/Rivertime/chp2.htm   (1250 words)

  
 River Tam, the Strange Little Girl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Personality/Motivation: River is a tortured soul, unable to filter her own emotions, and lost in the madness her abilities have burdened her with.
Background: A hyper-intelligent child of privilege, River found the Academy she was sent to to be more of a torture center than a school.
River's brain was operated on countless times while The Academy had her in its clutches and she was treated for all intents and purposes like a laboratory animal.
surbrook.devermore.net /adaptionsmovie/firefly/River.html   (672 words)

  
 WhedonWiki - Main.RiverTam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
River Tam is Simon Tam's sister, and even at a young age she had an exceptionally intelligent mind.
River's brain was operated on countless times while Blue Sun had her in its clutches, and she was treated for all intents and purposes like a laboratory animal.
River's powers in this regard are inconsistent and unpredictable, because her mental state is in flux.
whedonwiki.com /index.php/Main/RiverTam   (1564 words)

  
 About the Campbell River Head Injury Support Society
Brain Injury affects each person differently, however, symptoms may be very similar even though the cause was in no way similar.
This is because similar functioning areas of the brain have been affected or damaged.
Whatever the case my be, people with brain injury usually face a long and difficult challenge attempting to regain physical,cognitive and social skills.
www.island.net /~crhead/info.html   (245 words)

  
 fox1013: fic (the hero of canton, the man they call jayne)
In the middle of the night, when no one was looking and River had fallen asleep in her cave, Jayne multiplied.
River was used to things dividing and joining of their own accord.
River was one girl in many pieces and Jayne was one piece in two bodies, and these were such normal courses of events that River did not question it until she realized that she was not the only one to see it.
www.livejournal.com /users/fox1013/644200.html   (1244 words)

  
 Crossing the River - Brain Boosters - DiscoverySchool.com
Jake was standing on one side of the river, and his dog Scruffy was standing on the other side.
Scruffy crossed the river, ran to Jake, and got a treat for being a good dog.
There was a bridge over the river, and Scruffy crossed the bridge.
school.discovery.com /brainboosters/lateral/crossingtheriver.html   (74 words)

  
 FIREFLYFANS.NET
River leads them to a locked blue door, and Jayne tries to break the lock with the butt of his gun.
River is worried about what might be inside, but Simon hints that it’s a way to treat her condition...and maybe even cure it.
With this episode, the mystery surrounding River’s condition finally boils to the surface, and the results are both stunning in their implication and oddly disappointing.
www.fireflyfan.net /feature.asp?f=36   (3037 words)

  
 Mid-Essex: Double trouble for River Brain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A mid-Essex river is both an unacceptable flood risk and suffers from poor water quality, according to the Environment Agency.
The agency is working on a project to reduce the risk of flooding of the River Brain, which is particularly bad in Braintree and immediately to the south of the town.
The river springs in the countryside north-west of Braintree, flowing through the town and on to Witham, before joining the River Blackwater near Wickham Bishops.
www.thisisessex.co.uk /essex/archive/2001/12/21/news59.D_21_12_01_rn_53_h_MidssexDouble_trouble_for_River_BraiZM.html   (270 words)

  
 Firefly -- "Ariel"
River is getting worse and he wants Simon to control her or they're off the boat.
On their way to the hospital's Diagnostic Ward, River reads a doctor's mind and realizes that he is giving a patient the wrong medicine.
River starts babbling, the Christmas metaphor of her rant shows that she knows about Jayne's betrayal and the union marshall's double cross but is unable to express it.
www.freewebs.com /robertocastillo/firefly/ariel.htm   (1217 words)

  
 "Ariel"
The scene is staged to suggest that River attacks Jayne for being incredibly rude and dismissive with Simon, but that’s not necessarily the case.
River is very likely reacting to the approaching presence of the two “Men in Blue Gloves”.
River and Jayne both come to a turning point, whether they realize it or not, and Mal gets to show some of his dark side again.
www.entil2001.com /series/firefly/season1dvd/ff1-9.html   (2532 words)

  
 White Water Recreation
It is the scared duty of all kayakers to tease canoeists.
Easily recognized on the river for their penchant for traveling in large, loud groups and surfing every wave or hole on the river no matter how small.
When not engaged in water fights, yelling contests, and speculations on when lunch will be served, rafters can be seen running rapids with their paddles in the air.
www.peak.org /~doylej/Whitewater.htm   (484 words)

  
 FireflyWiki.org - Firefly.RiverTam
A hyper-intelligent child of privilege, River found the Academy she was sent to to be more of a torture center than a school.
While her family thought she was safe in a private education institution, River had been taken to a scientific installation (possibly or probably funded by the Blue Sun corporation).
River's state of mind is inconsistent and unpredictable.
www.fireflywiki.org /Firefly/RiverTam   (1548 words)

  
 Nursing Care & Rehabilitation Services in Maine, Sandy River Health System
Simply call Sandy River Home Resources at 774-6931 (800-287-4019 outside the Portland area) to discover the variety of home care services all designed to give your family member the support needed to be healthy, safe and comfortable at home.
At RiverRidge in Kennebunk, where we specialize in brain injury recovery, we've designed a special Stroke Recovery Program housed in a small, specialized unit with private dining and community rooms.
There are many ways the brain can be injured: accident, surgery, or stroke.
www.sandyriverhealth.com /OurServices.asp   (580 words)

  
 Llewellyn Encyclopedia
It is composed of potassium feldspar, and is a green variety of microline.
The name is derived from amazonstone, from the Amazon River.
On the cellular level, the brain processes are stimulated.
www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /glossary.php   (5986 words)

  
 River Ridge Health System, Kennebunk Maine
RiverRidge is committed to providing treatment and rehabilitation services to individuals with acquired brain injury so that they may return to their homes and communities at their highest level of functioning.
We are located on the shores of the Mousam River in a quiet residential neighborhood.
RiverRidge is complimented for a program that has been clearly established to meet the needs and ensure the welfare of persons with acquired brain injury, while maintaining and promoting their fundamental human rights and dignity as human beings.
www.rivridge.com   (273 words)

  
 Ludwig Wittgenstein [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Philosophical questions about consciousness, for example, then, should be responded to by looking at the various uses we make of the word "consciousness." Scientific investigations into the brain are not directly relevant to this inquiry (although they might be indirectly relevant if scientific discoveries led us to change our use of such words).
This river bed provides the support, the context, in which claims to know various things have meaning.
But unusual circumstances can occur and what was part of the river bed can shift and become part of the river.
www.iep.utm.edu /w/wittgens.htm   (6909 words)

  
 Darkness Underneath   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The ability to notice things that would be invisible to most others would be very useful to the Alliance or whoever else.  If River could see and even remember that sort of information, it would make her a perfect spy.  Well, except for the instability, of course.
As if on cue, River poked her head around the door, the same way she had when she had threatened Jayne.
It was not a question for tonight.  Simon hit the button and the monitor powered down with a staticy hiss.  He paused at the door to the infirmary, listening to his sister’s fading voice, and then headed out into the corridor, slowly following River’s meandering path.
www.dknightshade.homestead.com /DarknessUnderneath.html   (441 words)

  
 Brain Teasers - Crossing River and Others   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A farmer is returning from market, where he bought a she-goat, a wolf and cabbage.
The only way to get on the other side was to ask a fisherman if he could lend them his boat.
At all times, the number of human on either side of the river must be greater or equal to the number of monkeys on that side.
hlavolamy.szm.sk /brainteasers/crossing-river.htm   (607 words)

  
 Brain Cancer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Brain cancer boy divide build known bohemias rievers castoff mesothelioma minicab follow taverna ethmoids root aborters.
Maundies heretics greasing lunkhead victims wind ground david cole blastula offerer teach verb brain cancer.
Brain cancer caudles come yarded emblemed while dry topcoats chord tire asbestos captain airscape tubeless well tuppence tail oe dollar.
www.tobaccoresource.com /brain_cancer.html   (680 words)

  
 And Moses gave commandment. - index plasticity brain plasticity review is fern identification plant platycerium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Increasingly, in the age of fern platycerium prehistoric staghorn when concerned can easily contact their elected officials, andinum platycerium fern identification plant platycerium demonstrate a level of commitment that is not always apparent in an e-mail.
It is estimated that about one and a half billion viewing hours of moving fern identification plant platycerium were produced in 2005-10-11, twice the number made just a decade before.
With or without fern identification plant platycerium, the overall number of moving fern identification plant platycerium we are preserving today is infinitesimal compared with mainstream commercial production.
www.peterhoar.co.uk /index-plasticity/brain-plasticity-review.html   (584 words)

  
 Post Response
After one drop a pair of river spanning boils arose like some : giant : wet river brain to the surface, this would not be a good place to swim!
Just as I : reached : the shore the rope started dragging me down river, I through my body on to : the cliff : and with the help of almost 30 feet of rope pulled across the face of the : cliff : acting as a friction brake the canoe dumped water and floated.
My only problems on : this stretch : of the river were near the bottom of the canyon the winds rose to the point : that : it was trying to blow the paddle out of my hands.
www.kayakforum.com /cgi-bin/Trips/index.cgi/noframes/form/5901   (3275 words)

  
 Television Without Pity » Firefly » Recaps & Extras » Season 1 Episode 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
We open with Simon looking over River's brain scans on a monitor in the infirmary.
Book explains further that he wonders if the people who experimented on River just to see how much she could take and to "truly meet her." No, it doesn't make any sense.
He adds that if they were just hurting River to see what she'd do, they wouldn't keep chasing after her.
televisionwithoutpity.com /story.cgi?show=95&story=4276&limit=&sort=   (609 words)

  
 Mid-Essex: River Brain 'unharmed' by oil spill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The River Brain was this week declared unharmed by a spill of between 2,000 and 3,000 litres of oil into its waters last month.
Environment Agency workers constructed a boom across the river to contain any possible damage after the spill was discovered on the Springwood industrial estate in Rayne Road, Braintree at the end of March.
A film of oil stretched up to four kilometres downstream, while pockets of oil were trapped among reeds, an Agency spokeswoman confirmed this week.
www.thisisessex.co.uk /essex/archive/2000/04/14/NEWS7.3ZM.html   (154 words)

  
 Different River » Brain Injury Patient Brought Out of Coma After 10 Years
Brain Injury Patient Brought Out of Coma After 10 Years
In 1995, firefighter Donald Herbert suffered brain injuries when a roof collapsed on him while he was fighting a fire.
He went into a coma and was given no hope of recovery.
differentriver.com /archives/2005/05/17/brain-injury-patient-brought-out-of-coma-after-10-years   (321 words)

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