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The Thaw (film)
The Thaw | |
Directed by | Mark A. Lewis |
Produced by | Trent Carlson Rob Neilson Mary Anne Waterhouse |
Written by | Mark A. Lewis Michael Lewis |
Starring | Val Kilmer Martha MacIsaac Kyle Schmid Steph Song Aaron Ashmore |
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Distributed by | Lionsgate Ghost House Underground |
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Language | English |
The Thaw is a 2009 American science fiction horror thriller film directed by Mark A. Lewis starring Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, and Aaron Ashmore.
The film begins with a video documentary by Dr. David Kruipen (Val Kilmer), a research scientist in the Canadian Arctic. This is followed by a flashback to when David, his assistant Jane (Anne Marie DeLuise) and two other researchers tranquilize a polar bear, then discover the frozen remains of a wooly mammoth.
They transport the polar bear to their research station. David calls his daughter Evelyn (Martha MacIsaac) and pleads with her to visit the research station. Their relationship has been strained since the recent death of her mother. Meanwhile, a group of students, Ling (Steph Song), Federico (Kyle Schmid) and Atom (Aaron Ashmore), are selected to join David's research team; Evelyn decides to come.
Days later, David's research team begins feeling the effects of a strange illness, and David tells helicopter pilot Bart not to bring his daughter Evelyn to the station. However, Evelyn insists, Bart ignores David's orders, and brings her to the station along with the students. In the meantime, Jane shoots and apparently kills David and another researcher. The students discover the body of the polar bear, and Bart is bitten by a bug while touching it.
Evelyn is awakened in the middle of the night by an ATV approaching the station. When she goes to investigate, Jane falls from the helicopter. Jane has destroyed the helicopter's control panel, eliminating any immediate chance of escape. Ling wakes up with many bug bites on her face and torso, and Jane dies in Evelyn's arms. Realizing Ling is sick, Federico calls in a helicopter to rescue Ling.
Attempting to find David, Evelyn and Atom discover eggs in the brain of the mammoth. Assuming her father has been infected, Evelyn and Atom deduce that something has made the group sick. Evelyn decides to cancel the rescue helicopter and quarantine the group until a better-prepared team can rescue them. Federico, discovering he too is infected, goes berserk and destroys the radio.
The bite on Bart's arm is infected and he has Atom and Evelyn amputate his arm at the elbow. The group decides to destroy the facility and wait things out in the helicopter. Ling is attacked by bugs who have made their way in through the ventilation system. Bart discovers that the amputation was useless as his upper arm is now showing signs of infection; he opts to stay behind with Ling. They deliberately overdose on morphine and fall asleep as the bugs swarm over them.
Federico comes running out, refusing to be checked for infection, then turns on Evelyn and Atom. As he is about to shoot Evelyn, he is shot from behind by David. David insists they destroy the research station. Evelyn finds a video David recorded and discovers that David has intentionally infected himself, preparing to set the bugs loose to teach humanity a lesson about global warming's effects.
As a rescue helicopter comes to pick up David, Evelyn and Atom are locked up by David, but they escape. Atom tries to hang on to a helicopter skid but falls to the ground. As the helicopter starts flying away, Evelyn shoots at it, causing it to crash into a building previously doused in gasoline. David and the helicopter crew die in the resulting fire; Evelyn finds Atom, who dies in her arms.
The following day another rescue team arrives, finding the destruction and Evelyn, the sole survivor. Later, as a radio station airs information based on Evelyn's reports, a hunter calls his dog away from a dead bird the dog has been eating. Bugs emerge from the bird's body. The closing scene shows the hunter's truck heading towards a large city.
- Martha MacIsaac as Evelyn, Dr. Krupien's daughter [1]
- Aaron Ashmore as Atom, a student, Evelyn's love interest[2]
- Kyle Schmid as Federico, a student with a severe phobia of insects [1]
- Steph Song as Ling, a smart, assertive student who is trying to dispel rumors of her promiscuity[1]
- Val Kilmer as Dr. Kruipen, the leader of the expedition[3]
- Viv Leacock as Bart, as a helicopter pilot & Dr. Kruipen's friend.
- Anne Marie Loder as Jane (as Anne Marie Deluise)[4]
- John Callander as Edward, Dr. Kruipen's co-worker
- Lamech Kadloo as Nuti, Dr. Kruipen's co-worker
- Sebastian Gacki as Chad, Evelyn's friend
- Alejandro Rae as Rob, Bart's co-worker
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The film has received generally poor reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes, only 29 out of 100 people had positive reviews.[citation needed]
See also[edit]
- "Ice", the eighth episode of The X-Files, also dealing with a deadly parasite unleashed on an Arctic research station.
- Series 1 of "Fortitude", the Sky Atlantic thriller, dealt with a similar theme of deadly, prehistoric bugs being released from the remains of a frozen mammoth.
- ^ a b c "Schmid and Song Set to Thaw". DreadCentral.
- ^ Jay A Fernandez (June 13, 2008). "Aaron Ashmore cast in 'The Thaw'" (PDF). The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on June 26, 2008. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
- ^ Thaw, The (Blu-ray / DVD)
- ^ IMDb
External links[edit]
- The Thaw at the Internet Movie Database


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Did Damarcus Offord, 20-Year-Old DISD Board Candidate, Threaten the Trustees?
A reader named Hometown Boy posted the link in the comment section of
Bossman's story yesterday examining Tuesday's DISD board meeting, and the unwavering recalcitrance of DISD Trustee Carla Ranger.In it, board candidate Damarcus Offord appears to kind of perhaps threaten trustees.
Hometown Boy clearly does not want Offord to supplant Bernadette Nutall as District 9's next school board trustee. Stopping him might be easier said than done, though. The guy already has the teachers union's endorsement.
The footage is actually from the January 26 DISD board meeting. I remember the date because Robert Wilonsky, God rest his soul, sent me to cover it. You might remember it because that's the day the board voted 6-2 to close 11 city schools. (If you for some reason thought DISD had nine board members, you're right. Carla Ranger sat the vote out.)
Last night, we emailed Offord. Here's his official response, just as he wrote it:
Since the AFT (Teacher's Union) decided to endorse my campaign, Mark Melton and Educate Dallas have been stirred up like a bunch of red ants. These people will do anything to hold on to power. They want the Trustee in District 9 to stay the same:
•Despite the fact that Educate Dallas gave Trustee Nutall $10,000, 2 weeks before the controversial vote to close down 5 schools in her District. (Who votes to close down 5 schools in their own district?)
•Despite the fact that since she was elected, Trustee Nutall voted against the teachers 10 out of 12 times.
•Despite the fact that Dallas ISD leads the state with 43 unacceptable schools.
•Despite the fact that Dallas ISD only graduates 1/3 of its students.
•Despite the fact that only 10% of its seniors are college ready.
•Despite the fact that Lincoln high school, the school I graduated from, has been Academically Unacceptable (AYP) for four years. TEA demanded they restructure the curriculum, yet Trustee Nutall didn't feel it was important enough to even attend the Restructuring meeting.
I've seen the most powerful man in the county, Commissioner John Wiley Price come out against me. I've seen the most powerful man in the City of Dallas, Mayor Mike Rawlings, try to attack me. But my bible tells me, "That No Weapon Formed Against me Shall Prosper." My bible also tells me that if I "have the faith the size of a mustard seed, I can move mountains." On May 12, the voters in District 9 are going to show everyone how dissatisfied they are with the current leadership in Dallas ISD. The PAC, Educate Dallas that Mayor Rawlings called "our" PAC endorsed Trustee Nutall before they have even interviewed me and ahead of the submission deadline for all candidates. My question to Mayor Rawlings is, don't I deserve the opportunity to be interviewed as well? I met with Commissioner Price and he told me that he wasn't going to support either candidate. The very next day, he called and said he had to endorse Trustee Nutall because HE is the one who encouraged her to run. So it appears that he is speaking with a forked tongue. The ALTERED and EDITED video that Educate Dallas and Mark Melton put out there, shows they're level of desperation to maintain the power and control while looting the tax payers of $1.4B, leaving the teachers and students out in the cold. So don't believe anything they say and whoever they endorse, RUN THE OTHER WAY. For the unedited version, here is a link to the actual video pulled from DISD's website. http://sire.dallasisd.org/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=461&doctype=AGENDA
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Although a Mitsubishi spokesperson said the company is still evaluating whether this model will come to the U.S. or not, we think the Mirage G4's appearance at this U.S. event means it's likely to come to our shores soon. We previously reported on the possibility of a Mirage sedan coming to the U.S. when Mitsubishi debuted the Mirage G4 concept last year. The Mitsubishi Mirage G4, which stands for global four-door sedan, is already on sale elsewhere as the Mitsubishi Attrage and would make a lot of sense in the U.S., especially considering Americans' traditional aversion to hatchbacks. The Mitsubishi Mirage hatchback has already sold 8267 copies in the U.S. through June, so a sedan model could help bolster these relatively successful numbers even further.
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And my favorite Ebert movie review-- For "Deuce Bigilo: European Gigilo". This review is where he got the title for his book, "Your Movie Sucks".
Classic, unfiltered Roger in action. [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCOf91smkXU[/yt] Sorry, Cos. You were Fleebledy-Flabbledy Zip-Zab awful and he called you on it.
I was looking for one of my favorite reviews by him and Siskel on the X-Files: Fight the Future and haven't been able to find it . Dang it. It was nice seeing those two getting along in terms of a review. Loved how Siskel wanted to know when it was on the air so he could watch it. It was a very funny review and one I'll always remember from the both of them .
I watched Citizen Kane with Ebert's audio commentary tonight. Really remarkable. It was like a film class in a box. He was pointing out all sorts of things in the film that I'd seen but never observed. It definitely made me appreciate both Welles as a director and artist at the top of his game, as well as Ebert's love for and knowledge of film history and filmmaking.
I respect this man for the way he respected sci-fi & fantasy movies. For that alone, I love and mourn him. Rest in peace, Roger, and tell Gene to save you an aisle seat when you meet up with him.
Kestral posted this tribute link to Mr Ebert. Farewell great, funny, insiteful man. http://www.theonion.com/articles/roger-ebert-hails-human-existence-as-a-triumph,31945/
I think here it's appropriate to post two of my favorite reviews, both of which were Trek films. Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home and a companion piece Star Trek First Contact
I relate to this. I also grew up watching Siskel & Ebert back in the 80s and 90s as well. I remember being a child and watching them in the 80s when they were "At the Movies". I was telling this younger co-worker yesterday that's in her earlier 20s that before the late 90s, Siskel & Ebert were the best way for ordinary people to get a sneak peek at a new movie and get a review of eagerly anticipated films. These guys predated Harry Knowles and AICN. I still remember them reviewing many 80s and 90s films from Gremlins in the mid 80s to Terminator 2: Judgement Day back in 1991. You feel the tug of time when so many of these people that you grew up with and took for granted start to pass away, and then you meet young adults who are 7, 10 or 12 years younger then you who have no clue who they are. *sigh*
Didn't think much of him as a film critic, especially regarding his prejudice of the horror genre, but he was clearly a huge movie lover and it is sad he had to end his life so painfully.
He lambasted Star Trek V back in 1989 and said some pretty biting and unflattering things about the film (but then it's difficult to find a critic who didn't) and I remember being taken aback at the time because it was the first Trek film he didn't like. In fact, he thought it was just plain terrible. As time went by I came to recognize that most of his criticisms were valid and correct in spite of my personal attempts to make the fifth movie seem better than it was. Cheesy special effects: check. Villains (specifically the Klingons) you don't care about: check. Secondary supporting characters who are introduced with a lot of dialogue and setup and then given nothing to do: check. Sloppy direction from Shatner: check.
Yep. No doubt. It hits you hard, and reminds us all that time passes fast and stays still for no one . So sad about that, that the younger adults (some of them at least) have no idea who he was/who they were.
I will say that one thing I didn't like about his reviews, particularly in his later years, was how he bluntly infused his personal politic into his reviews. Check the last sentence of this one, which comes out of the blue, zings the reader, and leaves unchecked, with no sense of balance.
You know what? When you write an opinion piece, about anything, you're allowed to express your tastes and opinions. Ebert was a master essayist. You can not "like" it, but he wasn't doing anything wrong or by mistake. If you think his remark about health care in that particular review was "out of the blue," you flunked the exercise.
Roger's politics never bugged me. I could have cared less what side of the spectrum he fell on because I didn't read or listen to his film reviews for what he thought about the political situation in the country or which candidate or side he felt more favorable toward. I wanted to know if the movie was worth seeing or not. Have you read Michael Medved? The man's a far more political film reviewer than Ebert ever was.
Precisely. I became quite familiar with Ebert's reviews while in grad school (my thesis was on cinematic history and my research included a large dose of film criticism). I was, of course, familiar with his work before then, but in a casual way. I came to appreciate a number of aspects of his reviews--the way he judged films against their ambitions (rather than the oh so tedious "if it ain't Kurosawa it's crap" approach of many others I had to wade through); his writing style; his willingness to praise or skewer the same actor, director, screenwriter…based on the work being evaluated (generally, no one got a "pass" based on reputation alone); his sheer enthusiasm for the medium of film… I did not always agree with his reviews (my disagreements were almost always about things he disliked that I enjoyed--but it was rare when I did not enjoy a film that he praised), but there is no other critic (dead or alive) I've read whose views more closely match my own about film. I can certainly make my own way through the cinematic world without someone to hold my hand, but I am saddened at the loss of a reliable guide to my cinematic enjoyment. I will also miss the deft wit of the author of "Thoughts on Bill O'Reilly and Squeaky the Chicago Mouse".
That was the beauty of Roger. You could disagree with his points, you could like a movie he seemed to hate, but if you were honest about it all, you could see where he was coming from because you knew he was really watching & understanding the movies. I think a lot of other reviews are based on more superficial viewings by people that are just trying to make a splashy sounding review.


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900,000 Rockchip RK2918 7″ Tablets purchased by Thailand's Government for Education – ARMdevices.net I had my doubts, but similar RK2918 tablets seem to be becoming popular in the consumer space. They're only single-core Cortex A8, but run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, can easily decode 1080p H.264 MKV files, have HDMI out, read external NTFS drives, and come with capacitive screens. This is all for $130 retail in North America, or even under $100 wholesale in bulk. Given that I could play my MKV files on the directly (something I cannot do with either my iPhone 4 or my iPad 2), I'd consider buying one as a portable video viewer and basic (albeit slow) surfing machine for that price. However, I'd prefer something with a dual-core GHz ARM CPU. |
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If it triples again, life as you know it will end.
By the way, I thought most of the "middle class" that the libs are cyring about basically have thier investments, like 401k's and retirement funds with oil companies as one of thier bets, tax the snot out of them and who else do you hurt?
You libtards are nuts, it took 40 years to start to get out from what you did then. We should have been harvesting our resources 30 yrs ago. A lib plan has never worked. But I do realize, that is because the right libs havent been running things yet.:rolleyes:
So in your small little mind this possibility will fix all the USA problems? There is a good reason we have a bicameral legislature. I suggest you be careful what you wish for.
Back to the topic; windfall profits will do nothing but take money out of your shallow pocket and put it in two places.
1. Gov't hands to be further wasted by Congress critters and
2. Those "EVIL" oil companies.
Do you honestly think the Oil companies will absorb a punitive tax and say "Oh well, we tried to gouge you and you guys stuck it to us?"
The punitive windfall profits tax will pass to consumers quicker than crap through a goose. Really Junior, demand a refund from your college for the failed attempt to educate you.
That's what little know-nothings like the gutless liar Eyelids forget. Corporations don't pay taxes...any operating costs, which taxes are a part of, are passed on to the consumer in the price of the product. So, if the Democrats are successful in increasing taxes on the oil companies, the ones who will really be hurt are the poor and middle class people of the country.


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Regulatory risk in the utilities industry: An empirical study of the English-speaking countries
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A dinosaur fossil discovered in rural Old Snowmass turned out to be a very rare beast indeed, according to the paleontologist leading the excavation.
The bones are from a haplocanthosaurus, a plant-eater that roamed the earth in the Late Jurassic period, more than 150 million years ago, according to John Foster, curator of paleontology at the Museum of Western Colorado in Grand Junction.
"It's a pretty rare beast," he said.
There are only about 10 haplocanthosaurus known total, Foster said, so it is one of the most rare sauropod dinosaurs in the lower Morrison Formation, a unit of rock that is prolific with dinosaur fossils.
Among the identifiable sauropod specimens from the Morrison, about 27 percent are the famed brontosaurus, the lumbering giant with the tree-trunk legs and ridiculously long neck that kids learn about in grade school. In contrast, the haplocanthosaurus accounts for only 2 percent of the dinosaurs identified from the Morrison, Foster said.
The first one was discovered near Canon City in the late 1800s, and the dinosaur was named in 1903, according to Foster's research. They have been discovered only near Vernal, Utah, and in Colorado and Wyoming, he said.
Working with the haplocanthosaurus is one of his top professional moments.
"Top three, yeah, definitely," Foster said.
The bones were discovered by Mike Gordon in 2005. Gordon, an Aspen High School graduate, was exploring the adjacent properties owned by his mom and stepfather, Jessica and Bennett Bramson, and his grandparents when he discovered unusual bones. Gordon was a college student at Colorado State University at the time. He took bone samples to museum staff members and college educators and learned they were from a dinosaur.
The Bramsons contacted various museums about the bones in hopes of interesting them in a dig, but early suspicions were that the fossil was from a much more common dinosaur. They weren't interested.
Foster and the Museum of Western Colorado came onto the scene about four years ago after a call from Jessica Bramson. Foster was excited to find a site in the mountains where the Morrison Formation was exposed and provided a large amount of "material."
The Morrison got chopped up in the mountains by geologic activity, he explained, and where it is exposed at the surface is usually covered by forest. The Old Snowmass site was unusual because of the accessibility.
At first, Foster thought they were looking at a meat-eating dinosaur, which excited him because carnivores are slightly less common than plant-eaters. In one of their first digs, they pulled an 800-pound slab of rock wrapped in plaster and burlap down the hillside, removed the rock and pieced together tiny fragments of bone. It took 18 months of work to process that batch, Foster said. He compared it to working on a 3-D jigsaw puzzle.
The fossil was exposed to the Rocky Mountain Uplift, millions of years of freeze-and-thaw cycles and attacks by plant roots.
"It's had a rough go of it," Foster said. "It's not the prettiest specimen."
Their initial hauls included vertebrae, ribs and a pelvis bone.
"By 2011, I was beginning to suspect it was a haplocanthosaurus," Foster said, citing clues he found in the bones.
It was frustrating because he wasn't positive. Then it dawned on him that the vertebrae of many sauropods are hollow. He took his specimen to a Grand Junction hospital for a scan and found they were solid. He took his findings to a paleontologists' convention in Los Angeles and consulted with peers to confirm his suspicions.
The haplocanthosaurus is similar to the brontosaurus, though on a much smaller scale. The brontosaurus was roughly 70 feet long and 15 feet high at the back, Foster said, while the haplocanthosaurus was 35 to 40 feet long and as tall as 8 feet at the top of the back. Both had long necks with small heads.
"Proportional-wise, it would have looked fairly similar," Foster said.
Of the 10 known haplocanthosaurus fossils, none is close to intact. There are "three or four" partial skeletons and small amounts of bone among the remainder, Foster said.
"Nobody has yet found any skull material," he said.
That motivates him to keep digging in Old Snowmass. Only a small fraction of the haplocanthosaurus has been found to date. The Museum of Western Colorado will continue to work at the site when possible. Foster said the museum is grateful for the access provided by the property owners. The Bramsons are equally enthused about the work continuing. Jessica and Mike Gordon, in particular, have volunteered a lot of time at the dig.
"If we find the head or teeth, it will be really earth-moving," Bennett Bramson said.
The discovery of the 150 million-year-old haplocanthosaurus has been overshadowed by the incredible haul of bones from woolly mammoths and other prehistoric animals at Ziegler Reservoir in Snowmass Village. Foster said there is no significance to the discoveries coming only six miles apart. The mammoths are from about 10,000 years ago, while the haplocanthosaurus roamed the earth 150 million years ago.
The discovery of the haplocanthosaurus has reignited Bramson's childhood fascination with dinosaurs.
"You go, '150 million years old. It was once walking this world. It was a living, breathing creature,'" Bramson marveled.
Foster said he aims to get an "official publication note" about the haplocanthosaurus find, and then parts of the fossil will likely be displayed at the museum.


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Is this a bristlenose?! 1 Attachment(s) Here's a photo of a Pleco I just bought. In the store they were calling him a Bristlenose pleco. The only thing is... he has no bristles! Is he just a juvenile that will later develop the characteristic bristles? And while we're at it, what behavior is typical of bristlenoses? I can't tell if he's adjusting well to his new tank. |
I have to say I don't think so, because of the polka dot looking spots (mine has more like smudges) but sometimes the juveniles are more clearly marked. Does it have bristles? It could be either bristlenose or bushynose. |
the only sure-fire way is to wait and see if it grows bristles. But maybe the more experienced people here can help identify through body shape. There could be subtle differences that I missed. Bristlenoses, actually most plecos, can be quite shy when new. if you see him going out more, then I guess it's a good sign. |
it looks just like my BN, both bristle and bushy nose are the same thing just called different names. my youngest hasnt started getting bristles yet...if it is a female....it likely wont develope them at all....was it sold to you as a BN?? |
It certainly looks a lot like my BN, who has just started to get his bristles. They LOVE bogwood, and mine spends much of his time sucking on that, or on his algae wafers! He also likes to 'suck' his way around the tank looking for any algae growth. He is very peaceful and great fun to watch, though he can get a little possessive over his wafers! :) |
Haha, thanks everyone! :) Well, he seems perfectly happy now, he sucks around on the glass and on the driftwood piece I put in there. I just found out I have to return him, though. My tank's not big enough for him, contrary to what the pet shop people told me. :( I'll miss him. He's so adorable. |
It is a bristlenose. Ancistrus sp. 3 to be exact. |
Surely a 55 gal is big enough for him? |
Yes. A 55 gal is more than enough. Bristlenose plecos grow to only about 4 or 5 inches, with 6 inches being a big specimen. |
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It's summer, which can mean a healthy time for nails. Open-toed shoes allow air to circulate, so there is less sweating and moisture, keeping feet feeling fresh. But there's a downside, too. During the summer months, nails have special needs, and every nail technician should be prepared to help her clients with the proper procedures and advice. Here are some of the situations you may see during warm weather:
Accelerated Growth. Since nails grow faster during the summer than the rest of the year, certain problems arise with the more rapid growth. For example, if your clients' sculptured nails grow faster, chances are they will return for fill-ins more frequently. This subjects them to more mechanical manipulations of the nails, increasing the possibility of injury. Consequently, trauma-induced bacterial and fungal infections may be on the rise because injury to the nail allows organisms to gain entry and the warmer temperatures make for a better breeding environment. In addition, faster growing natural nails must be trimmed and filed down more frequently. This, too, can increase exposure to injury, so remember to work on your clients' natural nails with care.
Fungal Infections. In summer, people tend to go swimming more often, to exercise more at health clubs, and to frequent spas more often. This exposure can increase the incidence of fungal infections, which may be picked up from areas around the swimming pools or shower stalls where fungal organisms thrive.
Overexposure. Nails can also be affected by overexposure to the sun. We all know that skin overexposed to the sun can cause serious damage as well as premature aging, and make individuals more susceptible to skin cancer. But keep in mind that the nail bed, the portion of the nail which is underneath the nail plate is also subject to sun damage. While it is true that the nail plate filters out about 1/3 of the sun's rays, prolonged periods of exposure during the summer can cause considerable damage to the nail bed. Even melanoma can occur in the nail unit. As a result of this, it is as important to protect their nails from the sun as it is to protect their skin. Many nail cosmetic products contain sunscreens to protect nails form UV rays, which can help.
Toenail Infections. With regard to the toenails and close-toed shoes, summertime brings on hot, sweaty feet, which provides an ideal environment for fungi. As a result, you may see more toenail onychomycosis (fungal infection of the nail) or tinea (ringworm of the nail). It is important for the nail technician to be aware that there is an increased incidence of fungal infections during the summer, and you may be the first one to notice the problem. If this is the case, you should refer the client to a dermatologist for diagnosis and treatment. Inform your client that the treating physician must take samples from the nail in order to confirm the diagnosis of the fungal infection. Without this test, abnormal toenails may be misdiagnosed as a fungus infection when in fact there may just be changes in the nails due to excessive sweating, trauma, or psoriasis.
Dehydration/Overhydration. Clients who suffer in the winter from brittle nail syndrome, a condition in which the nails are very fragile, break easily, peel, crack, and have increased splitting and ridging, may notice an improvement during the summer when the humidity is higher. Nevertheless, an exaggerated overhydration of the nails may occur, causing the nails to become unusually soft and bendable. This can be just as unpleasant as a problem for your clients as brittle nails. In some people, overhydration of the nails may lead to onycholysis (separation of the nail plate from the nail bed or lifting of the nail). This is due to excessive moisture that the nail is exposed to during high humidity. When onycholysis occurs, it may increase the possibility of a fungal infection as well, particularly the yeast fungus, which thrives on moisture and finds the lifted nail, with its moist environment, a pleasant place to survive.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
3 Reminders to Inspire Your Day
I read these three quotes in an old journal this morning and felt totally inspired by them. I will allow them to fuel my day...maybe you will to.
"Krishna is the complete giver, why should we beg?" Bhagavad Gita
"The lord is my shepard, I shall not want." Psalm 23
"Find something in each person that makes you feel like the Sun" Dr B
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The idea behind mentioning Sigur Ros in the first line of their bio, was probably a vague effort on the part of Fell City Girl's PR team to try and draw off the inevitable tide of comparisons heading their way. What's the word we are hunting for here? ... COLDPLAY that's it ... didn't take long. Chris Martin's ears must be burning every time someone plays this record and says "Ooh doesn't it sound like Coldplay?" Now hold on, there is no doubting that when forming a band, the members of Fell City Girl did not have some sort of malevolent plan to cash in by sounding like Cold Patrol or Snow Play but it was merely the kind of thing they liked. Fair play to them and all that, but the A&R man who stumbled across them must have pissed himself with excitement at the thought of marketing a band that sounds like the aforementioned in a blender with just a pinch of The Kooks' unnatural vocal inflection. They probably bummed each other all over the office as it was played for the first time on Radio 2 and then promptly called the bank to arrange a visit to their Scrooge McDuck-style money pit. As safe as safe can be, the future path of Fell City Girl looks to be straight down the middle all the way to be standing in front of 40,000 of middle class England's finest on stage at the capital of all things commercial... the V Festival (see Keane this year for comparative notes). Snore!


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News of the Bird Champion Project of Hilly Fields Park, Brockley and Ladywell, SE London.
Sunday, 25 January 2009
RSPB Big Garden Bird Watch a great success
There were birds to draw, masks to colour and wear, quizzes to solve, bird-feeders to make from flowerpot, lard and seeds then decorate and hang around the park or take home to hang in the garden.
Best of all, there were more species seen in the park today than have ever been seen since our records began.
All the more rarely seen birds were on display but the star of the day was a newcomer: a Redwing was first spotted with two Mistle Thrushes in the meadow near the road and later seen on the slope in front of the school.
The full list of birds is:-
Black-headed Gull 23
Blackbird 2
Blue Tit 10
Carrion Crow 4
Common Gull 3
Feral Pigeon 6
Great Spotted Woodpecker 1
Great Tit 2
Greenfinch 1
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Ring-necked Parakeet 2
Robin 2
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i have those and i fill them with shucked corn, nuts and birdseed. whatever else like that and put outside on a ledge with other fall deco. i usually put fake leaves along underneath the jars. they hold leaves in place of course. it actually looks really neat. then when ready for Christmas i give to birds, squirrels.
ReplyDeleteI have used them to make mini-terrariums. There is a tutorial on how to back a few months on my blog. I also have one filled with my buttons in the studio. I think they make super cute candle holders, with lid hanging off the side. If you find a bunch of them hang them somewhere with a string of white lights, three lights per jar. I tihnk they make sweet vases for wildflowers. The list is endless....
ReplyDeleteFantastic! I love these. I've got a few displayed on the ledge above my stove. Mine are empty. I've also got a few with filled with buttons in the laundry room. Thanks for sharing.
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Dependent on regional agriculture for sustenance and economic security, rural communities are often the hardest hit by droughts. Following a twelve-year dry spell in southeastern Australia's Murray Darling basin, Edward Linnacre saw the need for a lo-tech solution to maintain agriculture in particularly arid climates. The Swinburne University of Technology student created Airdrop, an "air harvester" that collects and distributes critical moisture to crops during droughts, earning him this year's James Dyson Award.
With a deceptively modest design, Airdrop filters hot environmental air through a turbine, feeding it through a copper tubing system—with copper wool to maximize surface area—and into the earth where it cools and releases moisture. The dry air is then re-released into the atmosphere and the collected water pumped through semi-porous hoses to the plant roots. In his initial prototype—which was much smaller than the current design—Linnacre was able to produce one liter of water per day.
Airdrop's wind turbine takes its inspiration from everyday rooftop turbines and can be powered through a solar panel in low-wind conditions. Critical to Linnacre's design was simplicity—the Airdrop was created to be used by anybody, anywhere. As Linnacre explains, "A lo-tech solution is perfect for rural farmers. Something that they can install. Something that they can maintain themselves." According to his research, even the driest air can produce 11.5 millimeters of water per cubic meter, and Airdrop's low energy solution to irrigation is a sustainable alternative to other methods like desalinization.
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Vienna: The UN nuclear watchdog chief accused Iran on Thursday of seeking to "tie our hands" and of spreading incorrect information about talks between his inspectors and Tehran, in unusually blunt public criticism that highlights strained ties.
Yukiya Amano, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, gave a frank account of two rounds of meetings between a senior IAEA team and Iran in January and February that failed to produce any breakthrough in the nuclear dispute.
The UN agency wanted Iran to start addressing its mounting concerns that the Islamic state may be seeking to develop technology relevant to making nuclear weapons, but the IAEA team returned to Vienna empty-handed.
"Before the recent talks in Tehran, I had hoped that Iran had recognised that its old restrictive approach was not the way forward and that Iran was ready to engage with us to resolve outstanding issues," he said in a statement to reporters.
"However on the last day of the February talks, Iran reverted to the old approach and sought to reimpose restriction on our work."
Amano, a veteran Japanese diplomat, said the agency was ready to continue the dialogue in good faith and that he hoped Iran would not go back to "the old restrictive approach that seeks to tie our hands."
Iran's envoy, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, gave a different version of events in a statement to the IAEA's board, saying the agency had provided a "disappointing" and incomplete picture of the discussions in Tehran
During the talks in the Iranian capital, the IAEA says Iran refused to grant the inspectors access to the Parchin military site, seen as central to the agency's probe.
Speaking on the sidelines of a week-long meeting of the IAEA's board of governors, Amano said he had informed them "that statements made by Iran about the discussions with the agency contain information which is not factually correct."
He added: "This is regrettable."
Amano may have referred to a statement by Iran that it was agreed during the talks that the request to visit Parchin be postponed until after the March IAEA board meeting.
Iranian media reported earlier this week that access to the military complex, southeast of Tehran, could be granted.
But Amano said the agency had received no official communication regarding any such policy shift by Tehran.
"The agency should be able to do its verification job unhampered. If too many restrictions are placed on the agency, we cannot do our job properly," Amano said.
Published Date: Mar 09, 2012 08:27 am | Updated Date: Mar 09, 2012 08:27 am