Sunday, 13 April 2008
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| Not-so-grand Finale Bert Hoff 04:09:40 |
| | Well, Crystal Mountain closes Sunday, so Scott and I went up for a grand
finale today.
It wasn't all that grand. The morning was mid-winter. Barely below
freezing, snowing, clouds, fog and flatlight. The snow was heavy, but
not quite Snoqualmie powder. The chowder was more like Gumbo ... not
from spring thaw and sun, but from a couple of inches of barely-snow
covering the moguls and icy parts.
It got better in the afternoon when the sun came out inspells and we
could see where we were going.
Not the best ending for the season.
But I look on the bright side, more time to spend on RSA.
Bert
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| Re: Kikken Randal gets DVT Chris Cole 04:09:11 |
| | romie@invalid.net wrote:
article on her medical condition. Something in the newspaper article, referring particularly to the effects of long-distance travel, that I didn't know: "Some endurance athletes are at particular DVT risk because they have a low resting heart rate. That means the blood flow to large muscles is reduced and may be more prone to clot." rm
Interesting comment in the article. Having a lower resting heart rate
should not increase your risk of DVT at all. The predominant reason a
trained athlete's heart rate is lower than say, mine  , is that they
have a larger stroke volume, and when sitting at rest, their cardiac
output (blood flow per unit time) is the same as mine would be with a
higher heart rate but lower stroke volume.
The venous system in the muscles don't "know" what your heart rate is.
They only "know" what the resulting (non-pulsatile) blood flow per unit
time is. For a given cardiac output, vasomotor tone state, and
workload/exercise state (in this case sitting at rest), the blood flow
through the deep veins of the leg would be the same, irrespective of the
heart rate.
So having a low resting heart rate does not mean you would have lower
flow through the leg veins, more stasis, or a greater risk of developing
DVT than the average camper. (If your heart rate's low because you're on
say, beta-blockers, then it's a different story... but let's not go
there...)
Clinically, we certainly don't tend to see an over-representation of
highly trained athletes amongst those in the same age group who suffer
DVTs. Epidemiologically, it is not a significant independent indicator
of risk for DVT.
Cheers,
Chris
telemark@tpg.com.au
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| Re: Let's Sum Up FF. Dave Cartman 03:53:34 |
| | In article
<70ad685e-ac76-4842-9a52-a25e26c89f81@b5g2000pri.googlegroups.com>,
Richard Henry <pomerado@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Apr 10, 4:04 am, Clarencedarrow <travelingsexs...@hotmail.com> wrote: I've provided two cases of torn crotches. 1.) Both Customers filed formal complaints 2.) Both Customers claimed that you misrepresented the product. 3.) In one case, We actually provided your description "verbatim" which conclusively proved that you made no mention of the torn crotch. In fact you called the item "lightly used". Did you know the items were torn or not? For once in your life, be a man. As long as we are on the topic of being a man, man up and tell me with which LE organization you filed a complaint about me, and the file or case number.
As long as we're asking questions that aren't going to answered... what
crime were you going to send Richard to jail for? You did sound awfully
sure of yourself. I'm no big talking internet para-lawyer or professor
of internetology ( emeritus ;) , but doesn't it have to be pretty
serious stuff to go to jail?
Dave
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| Re: By the way, Barf and Stoopid Bert Hoff 03:39:21 |
| | twobuddha wrote:
On Apr 9, 2:12 pm, Clarencedarrow <travelingsexs...@hotmail.com> wrote: You still haven't answered the questions on 1.) Why Barf so thoroughly screwed up Scott's day in court? Actually, Vinnie, it was YOUR day in court. Your day to lie, defame, make false allegations, and commit perjury. 2.) Did FF know or not know that he was selling damaged merchandise. If he didn't, it was a stupid mistake from a lazy buffoon. If he did, he's a dishonest deceiving thief. Neither. Here is a question for you. Do you know you are mentally ill? If you don't, you are mentally ill. If you do, you are a dickless stalking insane pathological liar. Dalai Two Buddha Vail: What is it?
He's the one who posted here about Annexcafe, complained to Annexcafe
about me, and posted harrassing and disruptive posts on Annexcafe.
That's exactly how it happened. Look it up on Google.
Bert
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Saturday, 12 April 2008
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| Timeless Alan Baker algebra Bert Hoff 11:45:29 |
| | "You ran me off the mountain (past tense) = I won't show unless you
answer my post (future tense)
Only in Baker-land.
Bert
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| Re: Looking for one Swix cork handle Guest 04:48:15 |
| | No solace, but Swix cork grips are typically made with two seams, which
apparently is why they are so flimsy.
Camilo <campascual@yahoo.com> wrote:
On Apr 5, 9:24 am, Gunde <gjtra...@yahoo.com> wrote: I recently left the cork portion of my pole handle on the Birken trail. If you have recently suffered a broken pole or just have an extra Swix cork handle laying around, I would like to buy it. As an alternative, I still have the functional plastic portion of the grip. What could I place in the hand-hold portion of the handle to I feel your pain! I've lost the cork portion of swix grips more than once, but luckily stopped and picked up the pieces both times. My daughter wasn't so smart/lucky and lost the cork on hers. There is no alternative that I have found to buying a new grip. That's unfortunate because they are absurdly expensive. I tried to fashion a replacement piece of cork for my daughter's from a sheet of cork material I have in the garage (gasket material). It wouldn't work because the cork on the grip is actually sculpted or molded to a varying thickness. You might be able to cobble something together if you're more clever than I am. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008
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| Re: Modify/stiffen your own skis? Mark Drela 08:11:47 |
| | In article <8139629c-3dad-4283-b35b-67242e49465d@m71g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, jeff potter <jeff@outyourbackdoor.com> writes:
Has anyone ever tried to modify or stiffen their own skis?
No, but I have successfully repaired an RCS skate ski
which cracked on the top (I work with composites a lot).
Anyway: I was thinking of sanding the top of the skis for a few inches in front then maybe 8" in back of the binding. Then I'd soak a thin sheet of carbon fiber cloth in epoxy and lay it into the roughed-up area and smooth it in and let it dry. This would add only a thin "paint" layer of epoxy plus a very thin layer of carbon to the top plate. I wonder if such a mod would stiffen up a ski.
Yes, this will definitely stiffen the ski. But you want to use
the same material as what the ski uses. My RCS was all fiberglass
on top, and I'll be that's what your ski has. So you want to use
fiberglass rather than carbon. Also, I'd definitely use
_unidirectional_ fiberglass rather than cloth. The uni glass
is 2x stiffer and 3-4x stronger than the cloth.
BTW,
The reason you don't want to mix fiberglass and carbon is because
of the mismatch in maximum strain. When the ski is flexed,
the carbon add-on would take most of the load and fail prematurely.
In contrast, a fiberglass add-on will share the load well
with the existing fiberglass ski material.
One other thing... for max strength, it's important to
compact the wet fiberglass during curing. Cover it with
non-stick polyethylene, then hard foam, then pile on
a ton of weights -- at least 10 psi.
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Thursday, 10 April 2008
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| Re: Thinking of you, freaks Harry Weiner 05:06:23 |
| | On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:00:56 -0700 (PDT), twobuddha
<twobuddha@gmail.com> wrote this crap:
Reading a nice junk book, and the author talked about the freaks here. Not the mentally ill like Walker or Baker who actually believe their own delusions, but the rest of the long term turds floating in
You can't read, dumbass. Caught you lying again.
Horvath@Horvath.net
My T-shirt says, "This shirt is the
ultimate power in the universe."
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| Re: Taking Count of April's Posts Alan Baker 04:39:18 |
| | In article
<c17ee366-4cb6-4005-881e-2b3dcf3f328e@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
Clarencedarrow <travelingsexshow@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Apr 9, 4:30 pm, twobuddha <twobud...@gmail.com> wrote: <snip> Hey FF. You still haven't provided a brain-damaged answer. On the ripped/torn merchandise - did or did you not know it was damaged? What's the answer. We're waiting.
I'd also know how he gets away with violating eBay's policy on all used
clothing having to be cleaned...
--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."
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Wednesday, 9 April 2008
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| 403 Poasts VtSkier 07:44:22 |
| | since yesterday morning...
sheesh
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| Roadside snow stratigraphy at Lake Tahoe Aes 03:16:43 |
| | Interesting roadside snow stratigraphy (I thought that should be
"stratiography" but Webster's says "stratigraphy") at Lake Tahoe at the
end of this winter.
If you drive along roads where big snow-blowing snow plows, instead of
pushing snow back onto the banks at the sides of the road, have cut away
the snow deposits on the shoulders, leaving vertical walls of snow, you
see similar striking stratigraphy all around the Lake.
You get an edge view of many very distinct tree-ring-like horizontal
layers of snow, typically an inch or so thick, such as might arise from
some rippled or toothed edging on the snow removal machinery, but I
think do not.
I've not stopped to examine or count these layers carefully, but
starting at the ground level there may be a dozen or more such layers,
which I suspect trace back to a series of daily storms in late December.
It seems reasonable to assume that differences in daytime and nighttime
temperatures will give a primarily daily character to these layers.
Then there's a single very distinct, quite thin, dirty black layer,
which I assume comes when the snowfall stops for a period of multiple
days and dirt thrown up by passing cars and maybe falling pine needles
pile up on the snow surface.
Then on top of this another 12" to 18" of daily strata, representing
probably the January storms that passed through the area; then another
black layer; and another series of thin layers from February. Above
this, nearing the top of the existing snow, things tend to get messy,
because the top layers have been melting, or even gotten rained on a
little, and the top edge of the vertical bank has curled over.
Every once in a while there will be a roadside structure of some sort --
a low stone wall, a raised culvert, even just a roadside bush -- and one
can see all of these layers "hump up" and curve continuously over that
point.
I suppose all of the above is something that observant people see every
winter, in lots of other places at well, and I've just not noticed
before. However, the phenomenon seems to be particularly distinctive
this winter, which may be due to (a) the series of distinctive and
prolonged storms we had here this winter, and (b) perhaps increased use
of snow-blowing machinery, as contrasted to older snow plows that just
push snow off the road into big banks on the shoulders.
Anyone have pointers to more formal studies of these stratigraphic
records?
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Tuesday, 8 April 2008
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| Re: More Living w Schattie Alan Baker 11:47:13 |
| | In article
<8b1dd628-12eb-4249-a363-54457a930144@s8g2000prg.googlegroups.com>,
twobuddha <scottabe@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Mar 28, 11:58 pm, Clarencedarrow <travelingsexs...@hotmail.com> wrote: On Mar 28, 8:39 pm, Clarencedarrow <travelingsexs...@hotmail.com> By the way Davis, You might want to know a few other things about your Your buddy has developed the attitude that no matter what he does or says, you have to go down with the ship regardless of whether its against the law, a violation of your marriage vows or will get you fired. If you protest and speak up against his behavior, watch out. You really wouldn't believe the private e-mails he started sending me, nasteeeeeeee! In public he figured he had two alternatives to explain my rejection of his behavior. 1.) he was truly a behemoth asswipe or 2.) I was insane. Guess which one he told-he says to this day that I told him that. He even said on this newsgroup that I had been institutionalized. He's a mean vicious liar and anyone that accepts that behavior (i.e. you) is either incredibly stupid and/or vicious as well. I never told him that and, personally, I will never let him get Now would you please go back and look up slander and libel and see where his little diatribes fall in. Over the years, we have all discovered that he is a blowhard bully. He decided somewhere along the line that this news group belongs to him and he cannot accept the fact people now just want him to leave. If you haven't noticed, probably not because as we all know, you're really stupid and not that much different, he keeps getting progressively more outrageous until someone has had enough, so childish is his craving of attention. People have tried to ignore him but he keeps attacking until he finds someone that responds and then the cycle starts all over again. It doesn't stop until his real life episodes are re-documented and dragged through the mud again and again and his public humiliation just is too great. Alas, this time I think his sense of humiliation has just evaporated. His behavior outside this newsgroup has been well-documented. For chrissakes, how do you explain the crap he sells on e-bay. He actually expects people to accept damaged beyond repair and not complain about it. That is just plain thievery, pure and simple. Please explain it, I want to hear your rationalization for stealing money from people. Are we required to take his abuse, unethical behavior etc. etc. Well, as far as I concerned, enough people refuse to. For those that want to ignore it, it's their prerogative but it's still not going to prevent them from being attacked. He's a vicious joke of a human being-no if's and's or but's and, take it from experience, the more you travel with him, you will become more of a joke as well. Have a nice evening. Vincent Walker, you are insane. Utter insanity. Get help.
The classic Scotty "I've got nothing" reply.
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Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."
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| Re: Revelstoke must suck Harry Weiner 09:09:33 |
| | On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:01:26 -0700 (PDT), pigo <bobt1954@gmail.com>
wrote this crap:
If trunky likes it. You know it's a lie, he mentioned 6" of powder. We all know that would leave him quaking in fear. Probably hanging out at kinderschool all day.
If trunky's lips are moving, he's lying. I live in Detroit, and
there's stories in the papers everyday, where people are turned away
at the Canadian border. They won't let him into Canada with his
criminal record.
Horvath@Horvath.net
My T-shirt says, "This shirt is the
ultimate power in the universe."
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| Re: Tragic News Jq 07:27:42 |
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"Jay Pique" <JayPique@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1a4376ce-c123-46f2-8706-d4d4d81246d6@d45g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
On Apr 7, 12:08 am, "JQ" <jqwad...@comcast.net> wrote:
By the way JP how was the conditions at Gore? I was going to go up but saw that it was supposed to rain and freeze I didn't feel like driving 7 hrs. to skiing ice or super slush.
It wasn't icy in the morning - it was really quite nice. But by about
noon at had really started to slush up, which was right when my boots
broke. Definitely not worth a 7 hour haul, IMO.
JP
Thanks Jay,
JQ
Dancing on the edge
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| Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid Still Has Snow ! Innkeeper 05:31:34 |
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| Killfile heaven The Real Bev 00:19:13 |
| | It's amazing how quiet it gets when you killfile just a few people.
Curiously enough, the last 30 or so posts have been entirely invisible
to me. Are they possibly talking only to one another? What can they
possibly have to say?
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Cheers, Bev
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Q: How many lawyers does it take to grease a combine?
A: One, if you feed him in real slow.
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