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WATER – THE CENTRE OF LIFE!
Water is the centre of life. The food we grow depends on water – without, it withers and dies. The body, and the planet we live on, is approximately 70 percent water. We can live without food for about eight weeks, but without water we could only survive for about 4 days. Despite the obvious importance of water to our lives – as nutrition and for survival – the healing properties of water are often forgotten in our busy and stressed lives.
The word “spa” originates from the Belgian town of Spa, located in the Ardennes Forest in Belgium, which boasts several natural mineral springs which have been popular for their beneficial effect for thousands of years.
Peter the Great, the seventeenth-century Russian Czar, visited this city to relax and “take the waters.” Apparently, Peter, and others, found relief from their pains here, and physicians began looking seriously at spas as health centres. In 1797, the Scottish physician and surgeon James Currier published The Effects of Water, Cold and Warm, as a Remedy in Fever and Other Diseases.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary will inform you that it is “a place where there is a curative mineral spring”. However, The British Spas Federation recognizes that today the word has to encompass many different elements, although the main criterion is the use of water. A complete Spa Experience is far more than just a whirlpool bath; it is one that, through the use of water, imparts a feeling of well-being and cares for the mind and body. The word derives from the Latin Sanitas per aquas which means, simply, health through water.
Certainly both the Greeks and Romans understood the value of bathing in natural waters, and we are fortunate that this legacy is now being re-interpreted in Britain, in places like Bath with the revival of its wonderful natural hot thermal waters, unique in the UK.
The word used to describe therapeutic treatments using water is Hydrotherapy.
However, Preissnitz remembered his early success with water and started treating and experimenting on himself. Eventually, his crippled body was cured. Word spread, and hundreds and thousands of people came to him. His unorthodox means and use of something as simple and common as water raised the ire of the day’s leading physicians, and they took him to court. Preissnitz won the case and eventually was accepted as perhaps the first hydrotherapist, and allowed to practice freely.
Although Preissnitz established modern hydrotherapy, it was another, Sebastian Kneipp, who truly developed it. A weak and frail man, he began to use cold water to strengthen his body. He found and shortened some of Preissnitz’s techniques and was also the first to begin to add herbs to the water.
It was these men and others who learned about the healing properties of water that gave rise to the rebirth of spas in the Victorian era (1837-1901). Hot springs were found, frequented, and developed, often at mountain retreats with breathtaking views. Medical practitioners who prescribed and monitored treatment often staffed these spas. As they became more popular, world-class restaurants, symphonies, entertainment, and recreational facilities were added to them.
If you’ve sat in a spa, you already know how good it can feel when your muscles are tired or aching, and how mentally relaxing it can be. If you suffer from some form of arthritis or other chronic pain, you should know a spa could ease much of your discomfort.
WHY DOES RELAXING IN A SPA FEEL SO GOOD?
Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But even after years of study, doctors and physical therapists are only beginning to understand and document the ways a spa massage can influence the body and the mind.
When immersed in a spa, your body’s weight is reduced by 90%, relieving pressure on strained joints and muscles. And by moving and exercising the affected joints, the muscles become more limber and pain often is reduced, even after leaving the spa.
Besides easing the pain of many types of arthritis, aquatic movement, particularly in warm water against a current, improves the cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and psychomotor skills such as speed, agility and coordination.
Resting for 48 hrs can substantially complete the healing process. But there is another way to ease the pain and even accelerate the natural healing process: the warm massaging action of a well-designed spa. The increased blood flow caused by relaxing in a spa carries lactic acid away from the muscles faster, easing fatigue. As tense muscles relax, pressure releases on the surrounding nerves and blood vessels, adding to the pain relief.
ENDORPHINS – NATURAL PAIN KILLERS!
Long before there was aspirin, the human body had a natural pain- killing chemical: endorphins. Research has shown that warm water hydrotherapy stimulates the release of endorphins.
But pain reduction is only part of the healing process. Ultimately, blood flow is what brings nutrients to damaged cells and completes the healing…And Spas help with that as well.
When the body is immersed in warm water, blood vessels nearest the skin relax, allowing more blood to flow. The results: fatigue relief, faster tissue repair and relief of pain…At the same time, blood pressure drops, reducing strain on heart and other vital organs.
Hydrotherapy treatment can help alleviate muscle pulls, strains and many other athletic injuries. And even if you’re not an athlete, but just have a bad back or are sore from heavy lifting, a spa can do as much for you as it does for an athlete.
Some stress is good; it can heighten senses, speed reaction time and help you feel more alert. But too much stress, especially chronic stress, can lead to high blood pressure, block learning and actually kill brain cells. The chemicals the body generates in response to stress can damage and accelerate the aging of the brain. Stress can also affect the body’s natural secretion of growth hormones.
Minimizing chronic stress can help people take in and process more information. (If you’ve ever found it difficult to concentrate on something else when you were stressed, you know the feeling.) One solution is a spa, because the heated water of a spa can help to tense muscles and reduce anxiety. And using a spa induces a feeling of euphoria, relaxation and tranquillity in many people. These days avoiding stress is almost impossible. But dealing with it and minimizing it aren’t.
The core of a spa is the water treatment, but to be able to control stress more long-term, this needs to be linked to a balanced, wholesome diet, periodically interspersed with detoxification periods, and accompanied by gentle but regular exercise (including breathing exercises), relaxation and – if at all possible – massage.
It is really quite simple to begin a course of hydrotherapy in the comfort of your own home, simply to experience the powerful healing properties of water.
Use a sponge to gently work the oils into the skin – no soap is used in a bath such as this. The effect of a bath lasting 10 – 20 minutes in either of these combinations will be a profound feeling of refreshment and relaxation. Pat dry without friction, and rest afterwards.
This is a magic combination – rose opens the heart and lifts you out of depression; lily-of-the-valley gives the heart strength, both emotionally and physically. These can be worn together as a perfume on those dog days when life gets you down. Sandalwood calms the nervous system and relaxes the entire body. Rosemary has been used over the centuries in many rituals to attract love. It has the reputation of being a love stimulator.
If your feet feel good, so does the rest of you – so give them a treat! It’s meant to help clear your system by stimulating circulation of the blood and lymphatic system and is a treatment for colds, sinusitis and headaches. Take 2 buckets, each one big enough for both your feet to fit in comfortably.
Fill one with hot water, the other with cold, both to a depth above your ankles. Sit in a chair and place your feet in the hot water bucket for 3 to 5 minutes, then switch to the cold tub for 30 seconds. Do this twice. This is also a good cure for colds and flus as it stimulates the immune system too.


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October 2014 - Steve was featured on People.com in the Heroes Among Us section. His efforts in both raising awareness and funds for Cystic Fibrosis were highlighted. He says, "It was an honor to be featured in such a broad reaching web site. I'm very excited to share my story and hop it has an impact on the CF community and beyond."
Team Boomer, a growing program of the Boomer Esiason Foundation that encourages people with Cystic Fibrosis to incorporate Exercise into their everyday lives. Team Boomer runs to spread the word about the benefits of exercise, to support CF scholarships, and to contribute to efforts being made to find a cure for CF and to help people with CF live longer, healthier, and more fulfilling lives.
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Daylight Savings Time came during the night, but we made no adjustment to our schedule to account for it. On one hand we could have fret that we lost an hour of sleep during the night and mutteringly wondered why it was so dark out in the morning. But instead we just got up at 5a instead of 4a so that it would appear nearly the same as it had the two previous days. Our plan as we drove out of South Lake Tahoe was to bag Thunder Mtn (Amador County highpoint) and Thimble Peak (a class 4 summit block), a relatively mild outing. I had tried to talk Matthew into a more ambitious outing (and if you noted the title of this trip report you'll see I eventually succeeded) the night before, but we couldn't come to a satisfactory arrangement whereby we'd hike the entire ridge in opposite directions. The main sticking point seemed to be the summit block of Thimble - Matthew was very interested in climbing it, but was afraid if he was solo he would back down from it - a valid point. So how could we both hike the same direction and still do the whole ridge? I had a plan, but figured I'd wait to see how the day progressed before suggesting it.
We arrived at Kirkwood around 6:15a, and some 15 minutes or so later we were off and climbing - along a groomed ski run. This was the same route I'd used three weeks earlier to reach Martin Point (which I had mistaken for Thunder Mtn). After five or ten minutes it occurred to Matthew that he'd forgotten his gloves, so we paused. Not wanting to go back to retrieve them, he asked me how long the day would take. About four hours, I surmised (It took us four and half just to reach Thimble Peak, so even if we'd kept to the original plan my estimate was well more than an hour off). Wisely, Matthew went back to retrieve them. The sun rose soon after his return, and we headed up through the trees on the right side of the ski area. It wasn't long before we switched to crampons for the steeper portions of the slope. The snow was well-consolidated, somewhat soft among the trees, harder higher up where it was more exposed. Again we had snowshoes with us, but this time we would manage without them the entire day. The slope heading up to Martin Point was steep enough that I somewhat wished I had an axe with me for additional safety - A slip would have sent either of us down several hundred feet into the trees with a questionable chance of arresting ourselves before impending injury. Fortunately, no falls.
Even with the reset to retrieve the gloves, it took us only about an hour to reach Martin Point, almost 1500ft above the parking lot. We signed into the register and almost immediately I left to go over and check out the interesting NW summit a short distance away on the pretense that it might be higher, though it seemed unlikely. It was a short class 3 scramble from the side facing us, and once on top it was clear that all the other sides were considerably harder. It looked to be about the same height from atop, and that was enough to goad Matthew into climbing it as well after I'd come back down. Our next goal was Thunder Mtn, about a mile and a half distance, so we set off in that direction. We bypassed a rocky outcropping on the southwest side over some firm snow before landing on the sunny ridgetop and finding a very nice trail for the next half mile or so. Warning signs let us know we were at the ski area boundary, apparently they want to make sure to indemnify themselves to skiers who may chose to ski in unpatrolled parts (the bowl immediately west of the ridge in this case). We passed an interesting feature known as The Glove on the west side - it appeared to have no easy scramble route on any side. The bypass was not without some class 3 rock scrambling itself, which was far better than a steep snow traverse that we thought we might have to make when viewed from a distance.
Thunder Mtn has two summits separated by about a quarter mile. The nearer northeast one is shown on the USGS maps as being 2 feet higher than the named southwest summit, but it is impossible without a level to tell which is higher. To be sure, we first climbed the northeast one (it has an abrupt drop on its southwest side along the ridgeline), then backed off and headed over to the southwest one. This took some time as we walked around a number of obstacles, clambering over rocky features in an effort to avoid the steeper snowy slopes just below on the southeast side. It was 9:15a when we reached the named summit where we found a large tackle box that served to hold the several summit registers - this is a popular peak. We could see south to Mokelumne Peak (where we'd been two days earlier), northwest to Desolation Wilderness, north to the Carson Range (where we were the previous day), northeast to Round Top and the Mokelumne Wilderness. It was a fine county highpoint, much better than some of the ones we'd visited earlier in the year. We made a small diversion to visit a nearby memorial to Paul M. Ruff, a skier who died in the area attempting to make a record 200ft jump in 1993. It was even more sobering to read his story on the Internet later while writing this report. A pair of old leather boots (presumeably his?) lay at the foot of the cross.
After getting our requisite pictures, we headed back to the main ridge. Ahead of Matthew a short ways, I stopped for a class 3-4 diversion on an interesting rock formation. I went up what I would call a class 4 chimney on the right side, leaving my pack on the rocks below. After reaching the top I traversed across and found an easier class 3 route back down on the left, retrieved my pack, then rejoined Matthew who had patiently waited for me to finish the exercise. Heading east along the main ridge, we came upon the top of Chair 6 (Cornice) and the groomed cat tracks that graced the top. It made for easier travel, even if we had to share it with others, some of whom looked at us a bit oddly. Further east along the ridge, just past the chairlift we were greeted by a Skull & Crossbones Experts Only! sign. It was pretty much a class 1 walk the way we were taking it though. Most of the slopes heading down past the sign looked to be of the advanced category, but a few narrow, steep chutes would definitely qualify as expert. We continued along the ridge, favoring the easier slopes on the south side, much of which we found free of snow. We passed below the top of Chair 10 (Wagon Wheel) on the south side, and then climbed up to the top of the ridge again a short distance before Thimble Peak.
Thimble Peak looked fairly innocuous from the west side that we approached from, but once atop the visible false summit, one could glare across a gaping chasm at the higher true summit. A thin, rocky ridge joins it to the main ridge, and it was obvious that this was the advertised class 4 route up the summit block. Before Matthew had time to get a view of it, I had crossed the twenty feet to the start and scrambled up. The rock was very solid with really good holds, but the exposure was a bit draining. Better not to think about it too much I figured. When Matthew popped his head into view I had been at the summit five or ten minutes, and greeted him with a friendly wave. Matthew looked at the intervening space but didn't wave back. "How was it?" he asked. "Not bad, really," was my attempt at an optimistic reply. With a bit of coaching and a great deal of self-determination, Matthew followed the short 15-foot section to the top. Success! At the summit we found a glass jar encased in a rusty tin can with something resembling epoxy, inside a small Sierra Club Register not two-thirds full dating back to 1964 - a real find. Ours was the first entry in over two years. Pete Yamagata's name was the only one I recognized in the register. Not being an SPS peak, it is ignored by the likes of Doug Mantle and RJ Secor, though we both agreed it was a true hidden gem of the Sierra.
It was 11a now, having taken 4 1/2 hours to reach the peak (more than we thought the round trip would take). We discussed where to go next. I was up for continuing along the ridge. Matthew had pointed out the night before that we could continue along the ridge to Melissa Coray Peak, then drop down to Emigrant Valley to the north and back over a low saddle in the vicinity of Chairs 2 & 3. I thought that would involve a good deal of elevation gain, but from his TOPO! software last night and now the view before us, it didn't look so bad. So with little fanfare, we decided to continue along the ridge (the trap was nearly set...). First we had to get back off the summit block, and reversing the moves took a tad more nerve than it did climbing up, but with only one awkward move not found in Freedom of the Hills, we managed to extract ourselves from that loftly perch.
Back on the snow, we headed down the North Face of Thimble Peak, a fairly steep slope with excellent runout for a thousand feet. The snow was softer here and there was almost no way we could have an uncontrolled slide, but Matthew remained cautious until I took a swift glissade down for several hundred feet. A group of skiers below watched the spectacle, probably wondering where we'd managed to lose our skis. We landed on a cat track and traverse over to the top of Chair 4 (Sunrise), continuing east along the ridge. The next peak was Covered Wagon Peak, though really it was just a long ridge with a highpoint somewhere in the middle. Here we started playing the game of staying on the ridge as faithfully as possible, primarily to enjoy some class 3 rock and snow we found there. It made for a really fine quarter mile traverse, some of the more enjoyable scrambling we found all day. The peak can easily be bypassed on the south side, but I was glad we found the more challenging scramble. At the far east end of the peak we had some more tricky downclimbing, but this was done with fine style and grace (unlike our descent of Thimble Peak).
Next up was a short walk to the higher, but far tamer Melissa Coray Peak. At the saddle between it and Covered Wagon, we came across a sign indicating the crossing of a California historical trail. Apparently this spot, at 9,400ft, was the highest point in the Sierra to which a covered wagon was taken. Quite impressive, but in looking at the surrounding terrain, neither of us could figure out why anyone would have taken a wagon up here. Not on the Sierra Crest, and a thousand feet higher than Carson Pass, it seemed only someone who was lost could have managed such a feat. This saddle also marked the boundary between the ski area and the Mokelume Wilderness. We continued up the West Slopes of Melissa Coray, one of the most rounded peaks one can find in the Sierra - there was really nothing resembling a ridge leading to the summit on any side (later we noticed there are some steep slopes that get skied found on the north side). The top is broad and just discernably rounded, at the very center a memorial marker to Melissa Coray, an early pioneer who crossed with some of the first wagons over Carson Pass. As a mormon her writings have been carefully preserved and her memory immortalized by the Church with this fine plaque and the naming of the peak on which it was placed. To the side a short distance was a radio tower (the Wilderness boundary follows the ridge from the saddle up to the peak to allow the tower it would seem). Not satisfied with the nearly flat summit of Melissa Coray Peak, I climbed the 30 feet or so to the top of the tower, some of the more exposed climbing I would do all day - definitely satisfying. Matthew was content to let me do this one without him, even though I chided that the top of the tower was well above the summit marker. The memory in my digital camera was nearing its capacity, and with no clear indication how many pictures I might have remaining, I began to defer to Matthew to get the views and other shots.
It was now 12:45p, and we figured we had about plenty of daylight left - about 7 hours or so. Round Top had seemed quite distance when we started the day, but it was looming nearer and higher the further east we travelled along the ridge. Thinking the time was ripe, I suggested to Matthew that instead of heading back through Emigrant Valley, it would be shorter to continue heading along the ridge to Carson Pass. Once at the pass, we ought to be able to thumb a ride from passing motorists back to Kirkwood. Matthew was of the same mind it turned out, and it seems I had spent far too much energy plotting the traverse than was necessary. So with almost no further discussion, we continued on.
The next point on the ridge is Peak 9795ft just northwest of Melissa Coray. It is higher than both Covered Wagon and Melissa Coray, yet goes unnamed. In reading up about the naming of Melissa Coray Peak, there was mention of BGN stipulations that the peak cannot be in a Wilderness area (which Peak 9795ft falls in completely). It was a short walk and we marvelled at the many skiable chutes in the small, north-facing cirque formed by it and Melissa Coray. There were a number of tracks around where we walked and several of the chutes had been recently skied. It seems the whole ridge between Kirkwood and Round Top is a regular haunt of the backcountry ski crowd. We followed the ridge down the northeast side of the peak to a saddle and up to another small bump just west of Fourth of July Peak. Voices on the north side got my attention and upon looking over that way we saw 4 skiers skinning their way up to the ridge. Though the whole ridge was busy with tracks, these were the only skiers we saw out today between the ski area and Carson Pass.
Fourth of July Peak was named feature number six for the day, and we arrived on the rounded summit just past 1:30p. The peak itself is nothing to write home about, pretty much class 1 or 2 from any angle. But it does provide a great view of the monarch on the ridge - Round Top, and an equally impressive view of The Sisters, our next stop. The weather was a bit more threatening now as the cloud layer began to lower and the higher peaks were obscured by passing clouds from time to time. It seemed prudent to get up and down Round Top before any threatened thunderstorms were to develop. The next section seemed like it would be harder than it turned out to be. After zipping down to the saddle where it crosses the trail, we had a long climb of 600ft back up to the rocky ridge. The 600 feet were a talus slog, but after that it became more fun. We still had another 400ft or so to the top of The Sisters, but now we had some class 3 that provided some entertainment, even as we were climbing into the clouds. Staying faithfully on the ridge the entire way to the top of The Sisters was great fun, some knife-edge, some exposure, and generally much better rock than the loose class 2 stuff found just off the ridge on the south side (the north side was a near vertical cliff for much of this). I arrived at the lower peak of The Sisters thinking I had was at the higher one (the lower had two closely spaced summits that fooled me) - it took me a moment to realize I wasn't looking at Round Top to the east so I must not be atop The Sisters. We reached the higher summit just after 3p. We could see the West Face of Round Top, but the clouds were swirling all about. A temporary hole of blue sky gave Matthew the delusion that it might be clearing (it wasn't).
Heading off to Round Top, we took differing routes up the West Face. We tried to stay on solid rock where we could, but there is just too much loose rock on the west and south sides to avoid all of it. Just short of the higher east summit, I came upon one of the notches leading down to the Crescent Moon Couloir. I walked out onto the North Face a short distance so I could get my bearings and check out the eastern arm of the couloir. The snow looked pretty decent in it, and I was wishing I'd brought an axe. It was just before 4p when I reached the top, and maybe ten minutes later I heard Matthew's voice as he made his way to join me. We perused the summit register and I noted Doug Mantle's entry from Nov 2, 2002 where he commented that he had climbed Freel in the morning. Matthew remarked that he had met Doug on the summit of Round Top that very day as Doug was working on his quest to climb as many SPS peaks in a single year as possible (100+ we believe he finished with). Matthew was now on a similar quest, but he has a long way to go to reach 100 - I think Round Top made something like #14 for the year. I'd told my wife to expect me home around 8p that night, but with our extra-curricular activity we were going to be many hours later than that. I tried to use the cellphone to call her from Round Top's summit, got good signal indicators, but the call would not go through - try again later. Clouds all about us, we took a hard look at the East Ridge, our preferred descent route. It had two attractions - neither of us had used that route before, and it would make the more elegant route to continue our traverse of the ridgeline. But as the day was growing later now, it looked like it might take us several hours to cover the long East Ridge. Neither of us wanted to go back the West Ridge, a decidedly unappetizing route to us now. I hit upon the idea of the Crescent Moon Couloir. I'd been up the western arm but not the eastern one, so it would be fun to explore this other aspect of it. Matthew had wanted to try the couloir as well so he took to the idea immediately.
Off we went back to the notch that I'd checked out earlier. We talked briefly about not having axes, but I countered that the snow conditions appeared quite favorable. I offered to go down first and kick steps to which Matthew happily agreed. My crampons weren't the best - this lightweight pair has smaller teeth, the front pair pointing down instead of forward as most standard crampons. They're really better off for lower angled snow slopes, but they would have to do. Matthew offered to switch with me but I declined, fearing mine would unnerve him even if he was following me. The upper 30 feet were the easiest - soft snow with an angle that actually inclined one into the rock on the side rather than down the steep face of the couloir. I kicked steps quite easily down this and waited for Matthew. I had a heavy pair of mittens I wore to keep my hands off the ice. Matthew had but a lightweight pair of gloves that would have been wet in short order. When I realized this, I told him to wait while I climbed back out of the couloir, then dug out a pair of overmittens I had in my pack. These would prove quite valuable as we were to be a long time coming down the couloir. I retraced my steps and Matthew followed easily enough. The next section looked down the barrel of the couloir and was quite steep and more than a bit discomforting. I told Matthew my plan was to head down about 15 feet then I'd start angling to my left at which time he could start down. This would keep me out of his fall line should he slip during the descent.
After the easy upper section, the next several hundred feet were far more difficult. At first I had lots of strength and energy to kick excellent steps half the length of my foot into the snow. But the snow grew harder as I descended and I soon tired from the tremendous effort. My toes were none too appreciative either, and I could feel them throbbing with each blow I subjected them too. When I started to angle off to the left I found this harder in practice than I had expected. While descending straight down I could use the foot holes for hand placements as well as I moved past them and kicked lower steps. But now as I tried to angle, my left arm had nothing to hold on to, I couldn't punch a hold with my hand, and I felt insecure. To compensate, I lifted my left foot up and kicked an extra hole to the side with each regular step I made. This gave my left hand some purchase but put double duty on my left leg which soon tired. I found I couldn't keep angling so I switched back to heading straight down after about 15 steps or so. Matthew kept a good distance above me, about 20 feet or so, steadily descending at the same rate I could kick steps ahead of him. Within a few minutes of course he was directly above me and we were both descending the same line. Being on the bottom of this arrangement made me uneasy, but it seemed I couldn't have him hold off to the side or just wait until I was safely down. Matthew had so far descended about 50 feet over the steeper slope without seeming too unnerved, so that helped me some with my own anxiety. The most difficult part took a half hour descend, but it felt like twice that. I was surprised that my legs held up as well as they did after we'd already been out for so many hours, climbing over 5,000 feet. As I neared the "Y" junction in the couloir, the snow grew a bit softer. It was enough to let me change technique from kicking steps into the slope to using my weight to step down heavily on the slope and create the next foothold without a kick. This made all the difference in the amount of effort it took, and I now made rapid progress down to the bottom of the couloir. My toes were very thankful as well. I watched and waited for the next fifteen minutes as Matthew continued the descent in fine style. Never complaining, never getting unnerved, it was the most difficult snow slope I'd seen him on and he performed flawlessly. While I was waiting for Matthew I tried the cellphone again and to my surprise was able to get through while perched on a snow platform I'd stamped at the base of the couloir. Unfortunately I only got to speak less than a minute before the call was interupted, and I'd only been able to communicate that we wouldn't be home until midnight without any explanation. Hmmm - that might have given her more reason to worry than if I hadn't called in the first place.
When Matthew reached my location I asked if he still wanted to hit peak #9 - Elephants Back. Like myself he was still interested, so I offered a modification to our plan. I'd go ahead (tagging Elephants Back of course) to Carson Pass and thumb a ride back to Kirkwood. Then I could bring the car back up to Carson Pass while he was finishing up the hike. That seemed pretty agreeable to Matthew (we were off the dangerous part of the mountain now), so I packed up and headed off. I went down in great leaps and bounds 800ft to Winnemucca Lake in less than 10 minutes - it was great fun, really. The less-than-fun part came next as I slogged my way up the southwest side of Elephants Back, the last 500ft of the day's climbing. I reached the non-obvious highpoint on the far north side of the ridge at 6p, the wind now blowing steadily. I moved a short ways down the east side to get out of the wind and try the cellphone again. This time I got a good connection and was able to convey the reason for our delay adequately. We talked for about two minutes, then I started down. The snow was much sloppier now and it would probably have helped some to switch to the snowshoes, but it became a test to see if I could go the whole day without them. I postholed a few times up to my thighs, but for the most part faired well in just my boots. Continuing along the ridge, I passed Frog Lake on its eastern shore, the PCT somewhere nearby still buried under the snow. I lost my drive to stay faithfully on the ridge when I saw a few more uphill bumps, so I bailed off to the east side when I was still a quarter mile from the pass. I found my way through the forest to the road, and walked the short uphill to the pass shortly after 6:30p - a fine 12hr outing.

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If you want more or less tins I'm afraid it can get a bit pricey!
Have a read below to see how you can get SunButter wherever you are.
PS. If you go for the untracked option - we can't help at all once the order is dispatched. It should make it to you and a bit more patience is needed.

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It's been a year since the first in a series of benefits was held for guitarist/composer Dean Magraw. Time for another one, as Dean is still recovering and it's a long, slow, costly process. Come out and help a great musician/soul man/human being with medical and living expenses.
Musicians on board as of this writing: Frank Boyle and His Eminent Acoustic Entourage, Dakota Dave Hull, Lehto & Wright, Laura Mackenzie, Elgin Foster, Marcus Wise, Jim Anton, Mark Anderson, Gregg Herriges, Anthony Cox, Cory Wong, April Foo’s, Prudence Johnson.
When: Sunday, August 22, 2010, starting at 10 a.m.
I wrote a profile of Dean in late 2008 that's still one of the pieces of which I'm most proud, not the least because he told me later that he liked it.

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Over the past few months, we’ve been gaining a better understanding of how Mars’ subsurface, surface, and atmosphere interact and affect the presence of water ice in the northern plains of Mars.
While doing landing site analysis for the Phoenix Lander, we noticed bright spots standing out in visible CRISM images of the relatively bland terrain of the northern plains. In false color infrared composites, the spots appeared very bright blue and had a distinct absorption at 1500 nanometers that is indicative of water ice. I decided to find out if these deposits were just in this one region around the Phoenix landing site or if they were more widespread around the whole northern plains.
Unfortunately, it was the very end of summer in Mars’ northern hemisphere by the time I noticed these deposits and we didn’t have time to acquire many high resolution targeted observations before the sun started to set for polar winter. We did get one very good image late in the season that shows an unusual water ice deposit on the outside southeast-facing rim of a crater (below).
While waiting for the next opportunity to acquire targeted observations, we began looking more closely at polar observations taken by CRISM in multispectral mode. Looking at a 360-degree view of the north polar region, down to a latitude of 65 degrees, I examined each degree of longitude, and marked the southernmost occurrence of water ice in each (shown in the left image below as a white dot; the blue and green colors indicate band depth at 1500 nm). You can see all the little dots trace the outline of the residual polar cap, but the interesting ones are those that appear far from the cap.
We immediately asked ourselves, why are these ice deposits where they are? Is there something controlling them?
The most obvious thing we noticed about these “outliers” of ice is that most seem to be on the north-facing slopes of craters and other elevated topographic landforms. That means they’re in shadows, which makes sense because shadows are cooler than surrounding areas.
But of course we also found some exceptions to that, in ice deposits that are downwind, or on the leeward side of the craters. The first set of images above is an example of this case. Tim Titus at the USGS in Flagstaff and some of his students are now looking for those same spots in data collected by the Mars Global Surveyor’s Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) and the Mars Odyssey’s Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS).
The spots are evident in the data from those instruments, but with CRISM we get much better resolution and they are often easier to spot. By comparing the data from all three instruments, we can get a better idea of the conditions that create these outliers of water ice. We presented our combined research at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference this March in Texas.
We’ve also found a correlation with the general albedo of the polar region. We simply don’t see these water ice outliers in the darker regions, which tend to absorb more of the sun’s heat and are warmer than bright areas.
Regional topography seems to also be a factor, but I think this is related to the global trend of higher elevations on Mars being brighter because they are net depositional areas for dust. Even though the northern plains are low-lying and very flat overall, we still see that same trend in albedo—the elevated parts of the plains are generally brighter than the lower parts.
The last thing I looked at was how these water ice outliers related to Gamma Ray Spectrometer data from an instrument on the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which shows the estimated depth to the ice table. In the polar regions, the ice table is very shallow—kind of like permafrost on Earth. The polar cap ice is on the surface, but the farther from the pole you go, the deeper the ice table gets.
We can see that the surface ice outliers occur in areas where the ice table is very shallow. This probably means that similar factors, such as albedo, are controlling both the ice outliers and the ice table depth.
Now that we’re heading again into the northern summer season, the carbon-dioxide ice seasonal polar cap is receding. The false-color image below (left) was acquired January 11, 2008 and reveals both water and carbon-dioxide ice on the surface in different concentrations. The sunlit sides of the crater and dark dunes in the bottom are warmer and have less carbon-dioxide ice. The dunes and bright areas around the rim in the visible image (right) are where the water ice is most abundant. The hazy looking area in the southwest part of the crater (bluish in the visible, greenish in the false-color infrared) is a cloud!
We will continue to monitor ice deposits like this one throughout the spring and summer to observe the dynamics between the different ices and their atmospheric, surface, and subsurface environments. Understanding these interactions will help us figure out how water has shaped the landscape of Mars throughout its history.

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Took off hoses, slight rust, going replace...but then I took the back panel off of the washer and notice the shell of the internal drum which is a white plastic, has a brown color on inside it at certain parts. No clue how to dismantle this and clean.
Well water, and just got a brand new tankless hot water heater installed last week. When I get home from work I’m going check the hoses out.
Top loader, I’ll go out tomorrow and get new hoses to see if that does anything. Trying google a manual on it or any info to tear it apart.
So recently I have been having an ongoing issue with my LG washing machine. After doing some loads of wash I notice a brown gunk like substance on the clothes. I can easily shake it off, but I do not know what it’s coming from. Bought the washer machine cleaner, did 4 loads in a row of that, nothing. Did bleach, nothing, even did vinegar to be mr all natural and nothing. The unit is not new so no warranty with it, too load without the post in the middle of the drum. If anyone one has any clue please let me know.
So the gf wants to redo one of our bathrooms, well she found the mirror of her dreams lol for this bathroom and turns out it’s bigger then the norm. Which now means light, which we are replacing, needs to be moved up higher. I took the old off today to see what previous owners did, and yea there’s some good size oops holes. Has as anyone used those metal mesh screen patches for drywall? Review? Or should I cut out and latch with drywall?
Oh that’s nice I like that! Question with the setup you recommended, is there anyway to have it so we can check on our phones for live footage? Girlfriend just mentioned how she’d like to be able to check cameras at times when at work or whatever.
Hard wire for sure! I do want to have smaller cameras for interior so it’s not noticeable as well as eye sore to the lovely decor lol.
What are people running? Looking to get exterior and maybe even some interior cameras. Curious on where people have bought there’s and reviews on them.

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Clarks PLODDER Black Grey are Boys leather ankle boots.
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After researching many web design and e-commerce agencies, the gallery owners selected C Me Online Limited, a leading provider of Wexford web design and e-commerce services, to design their website and develop their online store. The completed site is highly visual, using a dark theme to make the art more vibrant and appealing.
In additional to this, C Me Online also provide web hosting & website maintenance services to the client.

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Foxdale is a city in Queensland. So far we have accumulated 8 streets in Foxdale and on these streets we have added 46 real estate properties.
Foxdale (Manx: Forsdal) is a small village located at the heart of the Isle of Man. The village falls within the sheading and constituency of Glenfaba and is currently represented in Tynwald and the House of Keys by David Anderson MHK. The village is served by Patrick Parish Commissioners.

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What Will Happen to Radioactive Waste After Oyster Creek Closes?
A public meeting about shutting down the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station after almost 50 years of operation is scheduled for Tuesday evening in Lacey.
Spokesman Neil Sheehan of The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the operator, Excelon, has a detailed plan for decommissioning the Oyster Creek Plant.
"It is now about to enter a different phase of its life, where it is going to be in this decommissioning condition," he said. "It is very important for us to hear from the public."
The lengthly process after the Sept. 17 shut down includes cooling down the reactor and deactivating radioactive fuel rods at the site.
According to Sheehan, this deactivation should not pose any threat or danger to the public, now or in the future.
"What they will do, what will remain at the site, will be the spent fuel in the spent-fuel pool, which has significant protections for the public. It has about 40 feet of water, and any spent fuels is in metal racks at the bottom of that pool.
"Exelon has indicated to us that they would like to get all of the fuel out of the pool and into dry cast storage within about five and a half years. And then once that is moved, the risk of an accident will go down significantly once the plant ceases operations."
He says this long-term spent fuel storage will prevail until sometime in 2073, when the actual dismantling of the plant gets under way.
"That could change. They could always, at some future point, if they decide that they want to accelerate the dismantlement work, they would have that option."
The meeting starts at 6 p.m. at the Lacey Township Community Hall in Forked River.
Source: What Will Happen to Radioactive Waste After Oyster Creek Closes?

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The Excellence in Care and Early Learning (ExCEL) program is hiring two people who will provide technical assistance in child care classrooms with the aim of helping to increase school readiness of the infants through 3 year olds in the center using the Environment Rating Scale and Conscious Discipline as guides.
Current openings are for a Senior Early Childhood Technical Assistance Provider and an Early Childhood Technical Assistance Provider. These two team members will work with the Director of Care and Early Learning and the ExCEL staff to provide technical assistance to assigned classrooms in Richland County child care programs.
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The Comms Council in association with TVNZ, is delighted to present this year’s International Effie’s Judge, Mark Earls, (the Herdmeister) at the Effectiveness Function on Thursday 11th October, at TVNZ.
Mark is a leading-edge thinker in behavioural and decision science who challenges much of the received wisdom about human behaviour. Mark has been a big champion of Behavioural Economics but has also championed the notion that we are social (HERD) creatures first and foremost, that much of our behaviour is shaped by what goes on between us (rather than simply between our ears) and finally that creativity is a team game rather than a solo act.
By attending this event you will hear Mark talk about how real advertising value comes from long-term behaviour change and how that requires a better understanding of how human behaviour really works. Mark will give pointers as to how agencies and marketers can find and use a better map to gain a huge competitive advantage.
There will be chance for Q&A.
To register for this free event, email awards@commscouncil.nz today - spaces are limited and tickets for entry will be allocated.
The Comms Council thanks TVNZ for their support of this event.
This is a guide to refer to while writing your Effie Award entry. It outlines, section by section, tips for what to include, and an explanation of what judges will be looking for and awarding points to.


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Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. and Beijing Shanhai Capital Management Co, Ltd. (Shanhai Capital), today jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which a consortium led by Shanhai Capital will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Analogix for over $500 million. China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund Co., Ltd. (China IC Fund) also joined Shanhai Capital’s fund as one of the limited partners. The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and is expected to close in late 2016.
Analogix’s high-speed, mixed-signal semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) for high-performance display applications are used in mobile devices, virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR), and other high-performance electronic products from leading electronics brands including Apple, Samsung, LG, Microsoft, Google, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Asus, and HTC. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and the majority of its engineering operations are located in Beijing, China. Current investors include leading venture capital firms: DCM Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners, Keytone Ventures, and the Woodside Fund.

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Joseph A.M. Talluto is co-founder and current President / CEO of Talluto’s Authentic Italian Food, Inc. Upon completing military service in 1967, Joseph helped his father pursue his long-time dream of opening his own Ravioli store. In October of 1967, Talluto’s opened its doors to friends and neighbors, offering only 4 pasta items including the same signature cheese ravioli Talluto’s sells today.
In 1981, Joseph assumed leadership of the company from his father and incorporated his family’s business as Talluto’s Authentic Italian Food, Inc. This corporate filing was joined by a major expansion in manufacturing capacity. In June of that year, Talluto’s grew from its 7500 sq. ft. manufacturing facility to a 25,000 sq. ft. USDA certified facility and expanded its offerings to nearly 80 fresh and frozen pasta products.
Literally growing up in the family business, Joe Talluto began his career packaging homemade cheese ravioli, stocking shelves with canned tomatoes and working along side his grandfather tying knots of fresh mozzarella cheese for customers to enjoy. At a very early age, Joe learned first-hand the values instilled by his father and grandfather to never compromise product quality, appreciate the opportunity to serve your customer, and to take pride in every job you do.
Joanne Brown has worked in her family’s business since her days at Strath Haven high school. Since the age of 16, she spent weekends and summers as prep cook, line chef, sous chef and ultimately executive chef of Talluto’s Philadelphia Italian Market store. She currently has 17 years of professional experience in the food service industry and holds a Bachelor Degree in Speech Communication and an Associate Degree in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University. Joanne currently works as a liaison between Talluto’s manufacturing operations and retail operations, focusing on new product development and product consistency among multiple retail outlets.
When Joanne is not developing Talluto’s product line, she enjoys experimenting with different recipes for her family at home; many of which make their way on to menus at Talluto’s brand stores.
Angel began her career with Talluto's in 1983 at the ripe age of 12 working in the family's original storefront in Southwest Phila. She has 22 years of professional experience in the food service industry having satisfied a range of roles from retail store management to foodservice sales and marketing. Angel holds a BA in Business Administration from Saint Joseph’s University Haub School of Business (THWND!!) where she achieved her undergraduate degree in Food Marketing. Since graduating in May of 1996, Angel has applied much of her education to her family’s business. Not only has she influenced many of the company’s Sales strategies, but she also structured the company’s current Administrative, Finance and Human Resources departments.
Alicia graduated from Widener University in December 2015. She completed both her undergraduate degree in Accounting and her Master’s in Business Administration while in attendance. She was lucky enough to find herself a graduate assistantship with Widener’s Small Business Development Center while completing her masters. This not only introduced and gave her knowledge about the world of small and family operated businesses but she also meet Joe Talluto through her work. After a year of working with Talluto’s and other small business she was able to turn her experience into a full-time job with Talluto’s in February 2016. When not working, she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, attending shows and sporting events, and staying active by running and playing tennis.


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Washington: President Donald Trump has endorsed a deal to reopen the US government for three weeks, after a record-breaking and longest shutdown of federal departments.
Congressional sources say the pact does not include any money that Mr Trump has demanded for a US-Mexico border wall.
The Republican president previously vowed to reject any such bill unless it included $5.7bn (£4.3bn) to fund his signature campaign pledge.
But Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, have flatly refused.
Speaking on the Senate floor just after the president’s announcement, Republican leader Mitch McConnell said he hoped Democrats will now honour their promises to negotiate “on good faith” with Republicans about border security.
His Democratic counterpart, Chuck Schumer expressed optimism that an agreement could be reached.
“I genuinely hope that this process can produce something that is good for the country and acceptable to both sides,” Mr Schumer said.
He added that while the parties disagreed on certain details, both sides agree on some issues including the need to “strengthen security at our ports of entry”.
“That bodes well for coming to an eventual agreement,” Mr Schumer said.
Mr Trump’s statement came as some 800,000 civil servants missed another payday amid the five-week impasse.
On the Senate floor, Democrat Bernie Sanders called attention to the many contract workers who have also missed wages during the shutdown.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) halted arrivals for nearly an hour at New York’s LaGuardia Airport.
But about 14,000 of them did not come back, and most could not even be reached, IRS officials told members of Congress.

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The dilemma I describe in this article is not Coach Willie Taggart’s fault. Oregon’s first-year head coach inherited a very difficult situation at receiver this year at Oregon. My belief is that the defensive line, while thin, is highly underrated, and it will become evident in 2017. So will the best depth at running back perhaps ever at Oregon.
The offensive line will be adequate, but hampered by the inevitable crowding of the box by defenders. This “loading” of the box will result from cornerbacks in the Pac-12 being able to cover man-to-man the current sub-par corps of wideouts at Oregon. This could be ominous for the new offense the Ducks are running, as there are mistakes and growing pains to be expected in WCT’s new Power Spread Offense at Oregon.
Oh, I know how people are throwing out predictions of winning eight, nine, and even 10 games this season. I would love it, but I just do not see it. You must have at least two, and preferably three, exceptional receivers in an Oregon uniform, or the offense is not going to score enough.
I also see the “you don’t know the talent we have at wideout” remarks, and that to me is just silly. We have had so many great recruits, JC transfers, and freshmen that we have thought the world of going into a season. Yet we have no idea if a player is going to be a five-star bust like Kirk Merritt, or a surprising Keenan Howry in terms of impact.
It is a crap-shoot, and we are all guessing.
Now I have no doubt that Brenden Schooler can make some plays, but a huge producer in his first year? Charles Nelson has never been the “go-to” guy, and has done best when defenses are focused on Darren Carrington, Devon Allen or Dewayne Stanford. Are you going to depend on him to be “the man” when he has a history of injuries and ball-security issues?
At tight end … Jacob Breeland looks to be a star in the making, but what experience — any experience proven at tight end — is there behind him? The talent among the freshman wide-outs looks promising, but again — no experience. Perhaps later in the season we can turn to the newbies, but what about against Nebraska? Who do we know who can for certain stretch the defenses long, and make that clutch catch on third and long?
We have never had this kind of disaster going into the season before, in a very celebrated position at Oregon.
Don’t believe me? C’mon. You all know me well enough to anticipate that I will offer a very logical or reasonable argument … or I will offer you proof. Let’s compare receiver groups of now to the past Oregon teams and you tell me who you would rather have.
For those who say the Ducks will win seven games, let’s look at 2006 when Oregon did just that. The receivers were Brian Paysinger, Darren Strong, Cam Colvin, and Jordan Kent. At tight end the Ducks had Donte Rosario and Ed Dickson! Geez, what a group! Which one would you want? 2006 or 2017?
An eight-win season at Oregon had wideouts Damon Griffin, Tony Hartley (household names) and Donald Haynes — who caught 26 receptions for the Ducks. Oregon got some very big plays at tight end from Lacorey Collins and Jed Weaver, who were just killing the strong safeties attempting to cover them. Now that is an amazing group catching passes. So again, which do you want? 1998 or 2017 receivers?
For those who believe Oregon will win nine games in 2017, we can look to 1994, a nine-win team that went to the Rose Bowl. The receivers on that team were fearsome to secondaries; Cristin McLemore, Pat Johnson, and Dameron Ricketts ate up big chunks downfield. The Ducks were also loaded at tight end, with Josh Wilcox and Blake Spence keeping teams completely off balance. Which group would you rather have? 1994 or 2017?
There are some who puff that the 2017 Ducks will win 10 games, so let’s look at Oregon’s first 10-win team. At wideout, the Ducks had Terrence Scott, Jaison Williams, and Jeff Maehl. The tight end position was not too shabby either, with Ed Dickson and Malachi Lewis. So, 2008 group or 2017? Which is better?
The objective is not to “dis” the current group of players, but to give the fans perspective to compare against in order to wake them up to reality. A Power Spread Offense must have some nasty weapons in the passing game in order to make the running game effective, and hence score a ton of points. Oregon just does not have those weapons yet. With any injuries at all … yikes.
OK Charles … I’m sobered up now. What does Oregon do?
If Oregon does six wins or better, it will be a hell of a coaching job by this staff that will probably go unrecognized by the public in their spoiled expectations/demands of Oregon football. I see three ways to overcome the massive disadvantage on offense that besets Oregon.
First, the coaches on the FishDuck.com staff have been whispering to me about the unheralded improvement of all the little things on defense. With a lightly regarded set of stout defensive linemen in Henry Mondeaux, Jordon Scott, and Scott Pagano, I could see Oregon doing a better than the expected job of slowing down teams with their gap-plugging, while getting good linebacker play. (And we have experience there!) With the refinements in the secondary that coaches Charles Clark and Keith Heyward are bringing to the Ducks, the talent that we anticipated in the past could come to fruition.
Next, a strategy often employed by Oregon’s opponents in the past could be in the game plans for the offense. Run the ball, with enough play-action passes sprinkled in to burn up the clock and keep the opponents off the field, while averaging only 28 points a game. (The worst scoring since … I cannot remember when.) Shorten the game, and depend upon big plays at key moments to steal some victories against teams further up the conference food chain.
Finally (and this is one I am especially pondering and pining for), come up with extraordinary and unique game plans for nearly every game, to create doubt and frustration with opponents. I still regard the 2007 Sun Bowl as one of most innovative answers to injury and inexperience. Newbie quarterback Justin Roper threw for four TDs. Oregon’s attack stunned the Jim Leavitt-coached South Florida Bulls, as it was nearly over by halftime in a 56-21 rout.
While I am offering hope, I am also realistic in stating that success from these strategies is not even a 50-50 proposition. It can happen, but with one more reliable tight end and two more proven wideouts, it wouldn’t have to.
However I regard this scenario as part of the drama, and part of the entertainment our beloved Ducks will offer us. The final item to be proven by this coaching staff is their coaching and game planning, and if they are as good as rumored, Oregon may surprise even Mr. FishDuck.

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Personally, I'm a fan of the original smooth head/fluid moving alien as opposed to the "crunchy" ridged head design in Aliens. I also think that the alien is too often portrayed as mindless and easy to kill in some of the novels. Which movies/games/comics/novels do you think most accurately portrays your ideal "Alien?"
For me it's Giger's Alien. The look and movement of the creature is just amazing.
The first looked like a serial killer, and after that...little by little we start to see the animal. So for me the best of all is the first Alien.
The best aliens are in the AVP. Their tails are awesome there.
Easily Giger's original design for ALIEN. Unlike Aliens, Alien Resurrection and the AvP films, it showed the Alien as an intelligent creature, instead of a mindless soldier. As much as I do like the "Hive" ideas which were developed in ALIENS, I much prefer the sole Alien haunting a crew in confined spaces. Way more terrifying.
the original is my fave by far. i love the head and how you can see the scull underneath. i prefer the large jelly filled sensory organ that was described for the first alien... the hard ridge heads dont make any sense to me on how they can detect anything since they seems to have no ocular cavities, no nasal cavity, so on.
The one in alien because it was like human being trapped inside a monster that is uinable to control its instincts inspite of its intelligence. The horror of this was never explored a2 - a4. Prometheus though might touch upon it again.
The original Alien is probably the best portrayal of the creature. For the first time in Sci-Fi, we got an alien creature that felt truly alien. It was not humanoid or like a creature. It felt like an intelligent, terrifying being that blew everyone's imagination.
The original. As said before, AVP's Xenomorph had an awesome tail but the first film's Xeno had a cooler look minus the tail.
Think that the alien queen in Aliens was probably the best design in my opinion, definitely queen size and had the enormous head fin at the back. Giger's brain child was always the creative advisor on the films and it seemed that the more alien films were made the wackier the designs would become, check out the alien is resurrection.
The original and the Deacon. AVP aliens look awful, I could stand them in resurrection because they were mutants but to say that's what Aliens really look like bugs me.
Oh dear, I posted a long reply to this but I'm afraid it took so long it gave me an error 404 when I tried to post it. 'All my blah, blah, blah' The Lurker (Classic Alien) is closest, but I honestly don't think we have ever truly seen the perfect representation of a Xeno to be honest, at least not yet.
There is no perfect portrayal. In every single film, they are in a different environment. The Alien in the first film was more simple, due to the fact it's environment was simple. In Aliens, the Xenomorphs are more Killing-Machine like due to the fact that the environment was more of a kill or be killed, and the fact that there was actual weapon resistance. (the flamethrower in Alien doesn't count, because there was no offspring in the film, so they didn't evolve.) What i'm trying to say is the creature designers for all films designed them specifically, as if they had evolved for the environment they lived in. But, again, that's just my opinion.
I have to say the design from ressurection and their behavioral quirks were my favourite ones, like you could see the level of cunning that was being used.
I like the hive idea alot. Since they multiply fast it makes cool seens like in aliens vs predators. Plus, when controlled by a hive mind they still seem to be smart, like grid.
The orignial design made by the late H.R.Giger was the best, the (2004) AVP design would be what I consider the second best followed by the ALIENS design as third best portrayal.
The Only true Xenomorphs are from ALIEN (1979), ALIENS (1986), and ALIEN 3 (1993).
Also Loved the Deacon and its relative as closley related Xenomorphoids.
Alien Ressurection Xenos were hybrids mutant ofspring which were also acceptable but the AVP xenos were retaded some-how Alien ressurection-esque false Xenomorphs.
I hated the AVP Xenomorphs including exspecially Grid (who was a mary sue xenomorph).
The original Giger Alien for me. Reminds me of a sort of alien Nosfaratu! Scary as f**k!
The original Alien design is perfect. All they need to do i slightly articulate the fingers a litle more and CGI the tail. I always thought the fingers could split into two when required. Six fingers which need to function better. These actually link the face hugger to he adult Alien, maybe slightly longer, Perfection. Having said that I did love the look of the Dog/Ox Xeno in A3. This was ripped off by Gigers fabulous original design. Thats why it worked. Just stick with Giger's dark world and all will be great. Looks like Neil is doing this, looking at his previz images so far.
Also, to get around the fact that later xeno's seem to have evoled with the extra elongared dog like Raptor legs. If they simply elongated the original feet the original looking Alien could choose to stand upright and flat footed or up on point when moving fast. This would create a link with the incorrect leg structure of the later films.
And of course the original head design.
Hands down, the Xenomorph from the original 1979 'Alien'. As soon as they removed the semi-transparent dome where you can vaguely make out the eye sockets of a human-like skull underneath and made it's movements like a bug instead of the smooth, fluid-like (almost sensual) movements from the original Giger interpretation, they stripped away a large layer of the fear the first instilled in me.
But Alien 1979 the Alien was hardly seen and movie was dark, and to me it did look a bit like a Man in a Suit but by no means do i think it was poor, for 1979 it was good and the close up prop work was fantastic.
I actually think both versions have their place and purpose in the franchise.
I do prefer the look of the Original Aliens head however, and so yes a modern look based on the Smooth Head is the one i favor.
I also dont think the Xeno from Aliens was mindless they was acting as far as a purpose within its Hive Colony and they actually showed a lot of intelligence and out thinking the Humans on LV 426 on more than one occation.
However.... the DC of Alien showed us a purpose to this Organism which was to procreate its own kind... and indeed showed the Organism did not kill the crew, well it did but it used two of them as Hosts for Procreation.... Why not use all the crew? Why just two?
This is where i always had the theory that the Alien Drones purpose was to go out and use Genetic Material of One Organism to allow for the creation of a Egg that would host a Queen and also the capture of another Host to play Host for the Queen Face Huger or what ever came out of the Egg that Brett was being changed into.
Once a Queen is born, it can then go on and produce Eggs..
And so thus the Xeno Eggs will produce a Organism based on the needs for procreation of its own kind... Pretty Much how Ants/Bees and Termites can manipulate Eggs to produce a variety of types of its own species depending upon the need of the Hive.
This sculpture of the Original Giger Alien.. is something that would be nice to see on screen..
Ofcourse there is another that Giger did, he had two Original Aliens before a 3rd was done that was used as basis for our Alien.. likewise Giger designed two more Face Hugers too.
For those who never liked the AVP movies as far as being a Cash Cow Pop Corn fest... i actually think that Alien 5 will give us pretty much the same... Alien 5 i think would be very similar to Alien Resurection as far as Xeno Scenes... basically going to give us a movie where again Xenos are unleashed after being kept and experimented on in a Company Outpost like they was on the Space Station.
Alien Resurection showed us Genetic Experiments on Alien DNA that led to the many failed Clones of Ripley and i think similar Genetic Experiments will happen to produce a few different Xenomorphs.


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My journey to the Middle Earth begins on a 9 hour flight from Manila to Auckland. Which, if I must say – is short compared to the long haul trips I have been taking the past few months. 2 hours drive from the Airport to The Hobbiton Shire, indulging the fact that the rules of the road here in New Zealand are in complete reverse as opposed to my home country. Drivers are on the right, slow lanes are on the left. Needless I say more that driving in New Zealand feels like learning how to drive for the very first time. Doing so while taking a 170 km journey to the Shire. All encompassing my will and determination to try and drive in this foreign country.
The Hobbiton is nothing but a mere movie set producers spent millions on last 2007. Which if you’ve read or watched the trilogy “The Hobbit” or are familiar with the “Lord of the Rings”; it must have been a dream come true coming here. I, on the other-hand, am not a huge fan. Being a book worm myself, I have yet to read the pages of the The Hobbit.
My curiosity rose when I learned that dwarfs are midget living under hills of a Hobbit hole. As per our tourist guide, Bethany, the more windows they have; the wealthier they are; and the more taxes they pay. I wondered so vividly before coming to the set – if I – as an Asian; would fit perfectly through that Hobbit hole. There I learned that there are 2 types of Hobbit Hole ever created. 60% and the 90%. Apparently, camera tricks deceives us from thinking that the Hobbits are short as they should be. And actors are the mere determinant if their height deemed fit to which hole. 60% for actors not tall enough, and 90% for those who are. Giving us an illusion that Hobbits are actually tiny creatures compared to Wizards and Dwarfs.
We were served complimentary drinks inside the Green Dragon. I opted to order the non-alcoholic ginger beer (since I was with my parents lol) which basically is a regular ginger ale. We were also given a chance to dress up in Hobbit costume – giving us the nostalgic feels deemed fit for a fan. Or to the wanna be fan.
11 hours to finally reach The Hobbiton Shire is a long time! Power to you for bearing it all for the gorgeous view. I love how there’s so much greenery around you. That’s a really interesting fact about Hobbits! Hope you had fun :).


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Our current stack is based on phoneME Advanced, a configuration not available in Open Embedded. That forced us to look at other options as we started working with Poky. The original prototype of the BUG used JamVM and and GNU Classpath, but we have been using phoneME for quite a while. Now was a perfect opportunity to look at other VMs. The obvious alternative is JamVM, but we also tested the Cacao virtual machine due to its support by the Jalimo and OpenMoko projects.
Ken announced earlier this week that the next software release for the BUG includes some big changes. Many will be immediately visible to the user, but some of the biggest changes are coming under the hood. The new system is significantly more flexible allowing us to change the packages in our Linux distribution easily.
It seems not many people have been comparing VMs on ARM recently so some benchmarks were in order. We based our tests on this article on benchmarking. Our three benchmarks were Scimark2, Linpack, and startup time comparison.
First up was Scimark2, the most comprehensive of the benchmarks. The suite runs various algorithms and reports these scores in mega-flops per second. It also makes a composite score of these tests. JamVM is the clear winner. While Cacao has solid performance on the Monte Carlo prime number finding algorithm, it falls behind in all of the rest of the tests. PhoneME seems to be about 10-20% slower than JamVM in most tests.
Next up was the Linpack benchmark. The first graph is a measure of the speed of the processor in mega flops per second. The second graph is the overall time for running the benchmark so lower is better. Again here we see the same order as the Scimark2 tests. JamVM runs on top for both tests followed by phoneME and Cacao.
Finally, our startup time test. Starting up the OSGi stack currently takes a few seconds, so startup time of the VM has a significant impact on the overall boot time. For this benchmark we started up the Concierge OSGi framework - though it did not load any bundles since we had not ported all of them to the new build system at the time.
Here JamVM performed as expected with an impressive startup time. Note that this is not a constant time, these gains will increase with a larger load. When starting up our full OSGi stack you will probably gain a few seconds with JamVM.
All of this makes it look like the best choice is JamVM, but there are a lot of variables that are swept under the rug above. Most importantly, a 20% difference on a synthetic benchmark does not indicate a 20% improvement in end user experience.
Second, there are some differences in the configurations. We ran these tests using GNU Classpath on JamVM and Cacao. Keep in mind that GNU Classpath is J2SE-like in size, while phoneME Advanced is significantly lighter. This will make a big difference on a benchmark that measures full system performance. These benchmarks are designed for CPU throughput so the additional overhead of Classpath does not show up. However, both Cacao and JamVM can run with phoneME rather than Classpath, it is just not the default behavior in OpenEmbedded.
Perhaps the biggest red herring stems from us not building phoneME with JIT right now. This is due to a problem with older versions of the Linux kernel. With the new build system we will build phoneME with JIT which will gain significant performance. These benchmarks are comparing the current build of phoneME to the Cacao and JamVM default setups in OpenEmbedded, we are not comparing the maximum performance that can be squeezed out of each VM.
Finally, on Thursday Matthias Klose was able to get OpenJDK built for ARM. We will have to take a look at its performance as soon as we have it running on the BUG.
We still are very excited to see the community based VMs performing so well. While there are more factors to consider when choosing a JVM implementation (such as TCK validation, branding concerns, and community support) JamVM definitely warrants a look for anyone interested in embedded Java development on ARM based systems, it certainly impressed us. Look here for a follow up post sometime in the coming months.


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You’ve been on the internet, you know what it’s like. No matter how good a piece of content is, there’s always going to be someone trying to pick holes in it. Now, let’s be clear, feedback is invaluable but there’s a difference between criticism and straight negativity.
Sometimes this is just a troll, hoping to get a rise out of you, but it could also be someone who has a very different world view or way of approaching things.
So, how do you deal with this? Is there any general strategy or do you just have to judge each one as it comes? Let’s look at some simple ideas.
Anything you write publicly, even a comment or a tweet, should be something you’d be happy to have screenshotted and posted on your website. Everything online sticks around and as we’ve seen time and time again. So, don’t leave any text skeletons in your closet.
If someone is obviously just trying to provoke you, just ignore it. If it’s obvious to you, it will be obvious to the vast majority of your customers too. They will know to filter it out as just one of those things that happens on the internet. Unless you are Louis CK or Dave Chappell, an online argument is just going to make you look bad, no matter how right you are.
Negative reviews can be damaging though so if you think it is a real complaint then try to respond to it, and always within 24 hours. However, make sure you focus firmly on information, not on opinions. This will stop you coming across as angry or bitter and make sure people just see it as you giving your side of the story.
It goes without saying that you should always try to be polite and never get personal, even though sometimes you’ll probably really really want to. We know, we feel your pain. But don’t.


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A competition to select a third round of Promise Zones will commence later this year. This summer HUD will publish a Notice in the Federal Register requesting public comment on the proposed selection process, criteria, and submissions for the final round of the Promise Zones initiative. More information will be sent as it becomes available.
Scope: To assist the Office of Refugee Resettlement funded refugee-service providers in their response to specific challenges or needs in refugee resettlement.
Funds: Award range $100,000 – $250,000; four awards expected. Eligibility: Local governments and institutions of higher education. Match Requirements: None.
Scope: To support healthy marriage promotion activities and programs that have the capacity and proven record of accomplishment in providing a broad range of marriage and relationship skills training. To address the multiple barriers faced by individuals, couples, partners, and families, programs will provide healthy marriage and relationship skills designed to change behaviors of individuals and move families towards economic self-sufficiency.
Funds: Award range $350,000 – $2,000,000; 53 awards expected.
Eligibility: State and local governments; institutions of higher education.
Scope: To help fathers establish or strengthen positive parental interaction by providing activities that develop and improve relationship, communication and parenting skills, and contribute to the financial well-being of their children by providing job training and other employment services. Additionally, to help fathers improve relationships with their spouses, significant others, and/or the mothers of their children. Specific interest in organizations that have the capacity and proven record of accomplishment in helping low-income fathers, and comprehensive fatherhood programs that integrate robust economic stability services, healthy marriage and relationship activities, and activities designed to foster responsible parenting.
Funds: Awards range $350,000 – $2,000,000; 49 awards expected. Eligibility: State and local governments; institutions of higher education. Match Requirements: None.
Scope: To address national viral hepatitis prevention and surveillance priorities for increasing testing and access to care and treatment and strengthening surveillance to detect viral hepatitis transmission and disease.
Funds: Awards range $20,000 – $500,000; 60 awards expected.
Eligibility: State and local governments.
Scope: Supports creative placemaking projects that help to transform communities into lively, beautiful, and resilient places with the arts at their core. Creative placemaking is when artists, arts organizations, and community development practitioners deliberately integrate arts and culture into community revitalization work. Successful applications will impact livability by affecting community priorities such as public safety, health, blight and vacancy, environment, job creation, equity, local business development, civic participation, and/or community cohesion.
Projects that Build Knowledge About Creative Placemaking. These projects are available to arts and design service organizations, and industry or university organizations that provide technical assistance to those doing place-based work. Matching grants range from $25,000 to $100,000.
Eligibility: Local governments; non-profits with a documented three-year history of programming.
Match Requirements: 100% non-federal match.
Scope: Projects may consist of one or more specific events or activities; it may be a part of an applicant’s regular season or activities. Organizations that undertake a single short-term project in a year — a ten-day jazz festival, for example — could apply for that event, or they could identify certain components (such as the presentation of a key artist and the associated activities) as their project. Organizations may apply for any or all phases of a project, from its planning through its implementation. A project does not have to be new and it does not need to be large.
Funds: Awards range $10,000 – $100,000; most are under $25,000.
Eligibility: State and local governments; institutions of higher education; school districts; art agencies; nonprofits.
Match Requirements: 100% non-federal match required.
Scope: To prevent the drowning and drain entrapments of children in pools and spas through prevention education and enforcement of pool safety requirements.
Funds: Award ceiling is $250,000; 15 awards expected.
Scope: To implement and sustain cost-effective measures that minimize or negate the risk of flood damage to residential or non-residential properties insured under the National Flood Insurance Program.
Funds: Total Program Funding is an estimated $150 million; 150 awards expected.
Eligibility: State governments. Local governments must apply through their state.
Match Requirements: 25% non-federal match required.
Scope: To implement and sustain cost-effective measures designed to reduce the risk to individuals and property from natural hazards, while also reducing reliance on federal funding from future disasters.
Funds: $30 million available with 100 awards expected. A maximum of 10% of the total mitigation planning and project grants can be used for dissemination of information about the activity; a maximum 10% of grant funds awarded can be used for applicant management costs; and a maximum of 5% of grant funds awarded can be used for sub-applicant management costs.
Match Requirements: 25% non-federal match required. Small impoverished communities may be eligible for up to a 90 percent federal funding (10% non-federal match).


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You are in section News and Events, in section Calendar of Events, on page Final Reviews: Spring 2013.
KSA Final Reviews for Spring semester 2013 will be held Thursday, April 11 - Wednesday, April 24 primarily in the Review and Center Spaces on the first floor of Knowlton Hall. Final Friday, an event celebrating student accomplishment during the semester, will follow final reviews on the day of Friday, April 19 with an awards reception hosted by KSA Director Mike Cadwell.
Included in this semester's review listing are the Graduate Architecture Exit Finalists presentation and Exit Project Show on Tuesday and Wednesday, April 23 and 24, respectively.


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(in press) "Les handicaps et malformations à l'époque de Galien", Focus, Catalogue de Exposition Galien 2018, Musée de Mariemont.
(in press) "Montrer la laideur dans une société tournée vers la beauté : caricature, anxiétés et culture populaire d'après les vases grecs figurés du 6e au 4e siècles avant J.-C.", Valérie Huet (éd.), Caricature et Laideur, CRBC, Brest, 2018.
"Greek Visual Humor", in S. Attardo (éd.), Encyclopedia of Humor Studies: A Social History, Sage Publications, 2014, 271-275.
"Grotesque terracotta in the Greco-Roman world: the role of caricature in visual humour, of theatrical masks in the realm of Comedy and of portraits of deformity in ancient medical centres", Rivista Italiana di Neurobiologia.
Comic pictures in Greek vase-painting: humour in the polis and the Dionysian world, in the sixth and the fifth centuries B.C. D.Phil Thesis, University of Oxford.
Review (Antiquité Classique) of Dorota Dutsch, Ann Suter (éds.), Ancient Obscenities, Their Nature and Use in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 2015. 1 vol., 366 p., 14 ill. ISBN 978-0-472-11964-6.
(in press) D. Gourevitch, Le voyage de "Victor" et Victor, mise en page Alexandre Mitchell, édition privée.
(in press) V. Dujardin (eds.), Histoire et mémoires de la commission européenne 1986-2000, vol. 3, iconographie d'Alexandre Mitchell, Publications Office of the European Union.
English translation of C. Calame's 'Enunciative fiction and poetic performance. Choral voices in Bacchylides' Epinicians', in Athanassaki, L., Bowie, E. (eds.). Archaic and Classical Choral Song: Performance, Politics and Dissemination: 115-138. | web.
English translation of C. Calame's 'Referential Fiction and Poetic Ritual: Towards a Pragmatics of Myth (Sappho 17 and Bacchylides 13)', Trends in Classics (2009) 1/1: 1-17. | web.
English translation of F. Goddio's book:Canope Est. London (parts of which are published: Topography and Excavation of Heracleion-Thonis and East Canopus (1996-2006). | web.
Translations and editing of a number of scientific publications and presentations for Prof. Bert Smith, Institute of Archaeology, Oxford (recently: Smith, R. Aphrodisias Papers 4: New Research on the City and Its Monuments, 2008. | web).
Translation of all the technical terms in the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum online database. | web.
Vases grecs et humour graphique: comment signer son oeuvre. Le cas du pottier Nikosthénès".
'The Laocoon: a statue for all seasons. The function and meaning of the Laocoon sculptural group in editorial cartoons, from a choice of 19th to 21st centuries newspapers'.
'Herakles' labours in political cartoons: a case study in the reception of classical myth in editorial cartoons, from a choice of 19th-21st centuries newspapers'.


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