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2ndjob72 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 53 diseños de 5 diseñadores freelance.
Please factor in to the prize of additional work! I will MOST LIKELY need my "Bootcamp" & "Services" page done as well - either the winner will do it or it will be another contest.
Being that this is a VERY SHORT contest I will be on line all of tonight and tomorrow starting at 12pm NYC time till the contest ends
Bright looking
I like light greens, light blues, white back grounds.
Need to have WORDS / PROGRAMS stand out:
Personal Training
Small Group Class
Boot Camp (This is most important because this is a NEW program!)
( www type a training dot com ) - personal training compnay
Not a designer so I hate to give "like this"
but I would like it to be:
Easy to read TABS
Example of sites that I like:
www. michaelgeorge .com
www. gstarfit .com
About us | Contacts | Job Opportunities
Home – Type A Method – Personal Training - Small Group Training – Boot Camp - Prices
Home – Type A Method – Services - Prices
Personal Training | Small Group Training | Boot Camp
What ever you guys think -
- Item 1...Nice button for Bootcamp link some were on site
- Button/ badge that says NEW BOOT CAMP
- Nice tabs
- Colors blues, light greys, white
- The FONT that is used with this website is nice -
- I guess you can place some pictures - I want to show pictures of classes (bootcamp) and also a map of were the locations of classes are (google map)
- Item 1...No crazy pictures of men/women exercising - need it to look very professional
- No black font - I like the font color used on this site


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Running and I did not experience love-at-first-sight when we first met in 1995 at the track outside my high school. We started with 3 quick dates and then bid each other farewell for ten years. I was not an athlete. I was not a runner. And I wasn't sure I could complete 4 laps around the track without dying. Mr. Schafer, our gym teacher, yelled GO! I ran with two other girls in my class, at a painfully slow pace, and while we were able to run the entire mile, it wasn't within the time constraints. As we walked back to the school he told me "sometimes what is more important than meeting your goals Beth, is the fact that you were willing to try." It wasn't until I crossed my first finish line 10 years later that I understood exactly what he meant.
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Microsoft's AntiSpyware is a rebadged version of Giant Software's existing app. Gates liked it so much, he bought the company in December. Its collection of security and privacy tools seeks out spyware and trackers, alerting you to other funny business such as someone trying to piggyback your wireless network bandwidth. It's fairly efficient and is freely downloadable until 31 July.
AntiSpyware scans the contents of your PC quickly and is pretty thorough in picking up threats. It was able to detect the same amount of spyware as veteran detectors Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-aware. All the same, we recommend you continue to use other utilities, albeit not simultaneously. Nor is it any sort of substitute for an antivirus package, so ensure you've got one of those too.
Fast worker
AntiSpyware is significantly faster than Spybot Search & Destroy and, usefully, lets you carry on working while it scans. In fact, we achieved a scan time of six minutes and 50 seconds on a PC with an Athlon 1.8GHz processor and 1GB of RAM, though you can speed it up by changing the settings.
Once it finds a threat, you are given detailed information about it, including its location and a recommended course of action. You can schedule daily, weekly or monthly scans and set AntiSpyware to automatically delete or quarantine anything it detects.
Updates of the latest spyware and adware are provided via the SpyNet community, but the program also keeps an eye out for any web-borne nasties that might attempt to alter key system processes, applications and internet features that could offer a way in for hackers, rogue diallers and keyloggers.
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Sometimes AntiSpyware can be over zealous, popping up in the bottom righthand corner to tell you you're in the middle of installing something, even if it's from a CD. Thankfully, you can alter this by deselecting Allowed Alerts under Tools, Alerts.
If you drill down into the Real-Time Protection section you can see at a glance how many sentry points are currently manned and activate or close off any you wish under the Internet, System or Applications headings. The latter watches for programs that load at Startup and warns you of any unexpected additions, while the other two focus on modifications to your browser settings, bookmarks and the Registry.
We like the Spam Zombie Prevention, which makes sure your PC isn't turned into a spam-spewing machine, and Winsock Layer Service Provider - also found in ZeroSpyware, reviewed opposite - which assures you spyware isn't monitoring and recording your network traffic.
On the whole, we like it, but we're concerned at the inclusion of restore settings that will only let you reset hijacked browser settings to Microsoft ones. Erm, hello, every IT or security expert on Earth has been telling us for months to try an alternative browser such as Mozilla Firefox.
Microsoft AntiSpyware beta is currently free. Responding to a surge in online scams involving spyware over the past year the company recently announced that it will release the product to all users at no cost when the beta runs out in July of this year (see Behind the news, page 24).
Spyware detection and destruction tools are now a necessary element of our online armouries and, as with antivirus apps, lapsed protection is no protection at all.
Microsoft Anti-Spyware beta: Specs
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Amee LivingstonRoasted veggies are a big hit. Roasting brings out the natural sweetness in vegetables, which is more pleasing to a little person's palate. This roasted carrot recipe is delicious!
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Amee LivingstonMy kids love chocolate chip banana muffins, so I make them in large batches, wrap them in plastic wrap and freeze in large ziploc bags. They can just grab one out of the freezer, pop it in the microwave for a few seconds and breakfast is done. Best of all, it's a healthy recipe! Serve with a glass of milk and fresh fruit and it's a great way to start the day. :) http://www.ameessavorydish.blogspot.com/2011/04/chocolate-chip-banana-muffins.html
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Amee LivingstonI love banana muffins!!! Very ripe bananas have a wonderful natural sweetness, so you can enjoy a moist, sweet muffin with less added sugar. The most requested muffin in our house is my chocolate chip banana muffins. I have created a healthier version of the traditional banana muffin. They are sweet, very moist and scrumptious! It's definitely a kid-friendly recipe. You can always substitute nuts for the chocolate chips. :) http://www.ameessavorydish.com/2011/04/chocolate-chip-banana-muffins.html
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Amee LivingstonThis Skinny Berry Trifle is my favorite dessert to serve for July 4th festivities. It's light, simple and delicious!! This trifle assembles quickly using premade angel food cake. This saves you time in the kitchen so you can enjoy your family! :) http://www.ameessavorydish.com/2011/07/skinny-berry-trifle.html
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Amee LivingstonThese Chicken and Spinach Stuffed Pasta Rolls are delicious and would do well prepared and then frozen to bake for later. Just complete all steps before it goes into the oven and cover and freeze in an airtight container until you are ready to cook. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator before baking. Bake per recipe directions.
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Hard News: Who owns the news?
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Meanwhile, Rachel Glucina gets a citation
In an academic report? Joking, surely.
I'm be really interested to understand how ownership models impact on editorial decision-making. I know there are a lot of people here, not least Russell, who know a lot about the working of newsrooms, but it's quite foreign to me. How does a story get into print/on screen? And what does squeezing editorial resources actually mean? I realise these are really basic questions to a lot reading/writing here, so I appreciate your forebearance.
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My impression is that 'editorial resources' aren't particularly squeezed. Both big newspapers seem to have loads of editors, deputy editors, web editors, news editors etc. It's the actual journalists that are thin on the ground.
Russell Brown, in reply to
I did intend "editorial resources" to include the newsrooms -- which have shrunk alarmingly -- but you do have a point. There are fewer reporters, more people engaged in churnalism.
There are also fewer sub-editors -- whose jobs have been outsourced to central hubs in both chains. The loss of local sub-editing is an issue on which the JMAD report should have had a lot more to say.
It finds that three major players – APN, Fairfax and MediaWorks – now own more than 80% of New Zealand media.
And from the paper:
Four companies, all overseas owned, dominate the New Zealand news media.
I'm surprised they've not heard of TVNZ.
Paul Williams, in reply to
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I'm surprised they've not heard of TVNZ.
I've not read the report, but do they start by excluding publicly owned media and is this primarily focused on print? I don't know about others, but the media I consume is a broad mix of print, radio and online and equally a mix of on- and off-shore sourced. I seldom watch live TV and almost never for the news. I'll find time to look at the report but my initial reaction was to wonder why focus on ownership in a specific geographical market?
Russell Brown, in reply to
I'm surprised they've not heard of TVNZ.
They have, clearly, but given that nearly the whole of the newspaper market is owned by APN and Fairfax, and nearly the whole of the radio market is owned by TRN (also part-owned by APN) and Mediaworks, and Mediaworks has a substantial chunk of the TV news market … they do have a point.
I'm inclined to think that the problem is less foreign ownership than an alarming lack of diversity of ownership. The only sector where independent companies have a decent presence is in magazines, where some local companies, like Tangible Media, have been more nimble than the big guys. But even there, most of the market is with NZ Magazines (APN), ACP and Fairfax, and that's consolidating further.
Sacha, in reply to
an alarming lack of diversity of ownership
Is that a consequence of changes in the underlying business model and economic context across all broadcast media? If so, how are other nations responding to the same trend?
Kumara Republic, in reply to
I'm inclined to think that the problem is less foreign ownership than an alarming lack of diversity of ownership.
Or to put it succinctly, cartellisation.
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I fear I'm being a pollyanna, but don't we all expect the current business model to rapidly collapse. AFAIK, the NY Times has a successful paywall, but are there many others? With broadcasters losing unquantifiable $$ from torrents too, I'm anticipating a business model where I can pay a fee and access any/all publishers of any content accessible online and through whatever device I prefer.
In which case, I'd likely buy content from ABC (Aust), BBC, RNZ and HBO plus a full PA feed, access to the All Blacks and Blackcaps site and totally ignore TVNZ and any/all newspapers.
Russell Brown, in reply to
I'm anticipating a business model where I can pay a fee and access any/all publishers of any content accessible online and through whatever device I prefer.
The structural resistance to this in the TV industry is very significant. The whole business is territorial, and it sort of works.
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Does it work? I guess it does to the extent that I'm not yet prepared to go totally rogue and give up Foxtel and simply torrent the sport I watch live... it's only live sport that's keeping me with Foxtel and I do question the comparative value of extending my ISP agreement with maintaining my current subscription.
Myllylahti hinted at an agenda in this comment on Clare Curran's blog.
This would be the same blog where Trevor Mallard did whatever the hell he does - not really holding my breath waiting for value adding media commentary from that quarter.
ETA: And should someone make the Herald print a disclosure along these lines atop every column Drinnan writes: "Don't hold your breath waiting for any reportage of the proprietors of this newspaper, while running egregiously inaccurate trash-talk about its competitors"?
Just read the report in about 10mins - it is that lightweight. Just because it is written by an academic doesn't make it of academic standard - using Facebook likes as a measure of trending public concern about ownership was just one "oh FFS" moment.
For a self described "New Zealand Media Ownership Report" there is precious little on ownership and its effect. There are a couple of small tables on the top shareholdings in the main media companies but nothing on how that has changed, who those people might be - apart from calling one person who owns 1.5% of Fairfax a media 'mogul' (whatever that might be). There is no consideration of ownership and viewership - Ironbridge may 'own' mediaworks but how's it doing vs TVNZ say in the ratings?
If you want questions Russell, I'd ask her what she thinks this report has added in terms of knowledge of NZ media and why? I'd also ask what does it matter who owns these things, isn't it what we see and hear that is most important?
Sacha, in reply to
The whole business is territorial, and it sort of works
Works for who though? The media companies, perhaps. Aren't we seeing the regional thing break down with instant global online news alternatives and even TV entertainment programming being forced to reduce lag between territories?
Russell Brown, in reply to
Works for who though? The media companies, perhaps.
Production companies too. For all the talk about "long tail" revenue, nobody sees much of yet. OTOH, even the pitiful sums available from onselling to some shithouse cable channel do actually constitute money. There are trade shows to do deals at, formats to sell multiple times. Even the likes of Disney find is simpler and less risky to simply do a supply deal with the likes of TVNZ.
That's not to say it doesn't have to change. But the incentives aren't really there at the moment.
Things are however getting scary when the Fairfax-owned Dom Post decides to tell us that it is normal that they show a huge editorial bias in favour of John Key and National. Say goodbye to the free press etc... http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/editorials/5681893/Editorial-Swinging-pendulum-is-easily-forgotten
Their argument that they used to say nice things about Helen Clarke is specious. They coined the terms Helengrad and Nanny State for example.
Fox News would be proud.
Myllylahti hinted at an agenda in this comment on Clare Curran's blog.
This would be the same blog where Trevor Mallard did whatever the hell he does - not really holding my breath waiting for value adding media commentary from that quarter.
Right, so Myllylahti is somehow to blame for commenting on a thread on a blog post on a blog which sometimes also features posts by Trevor Mallard, who...
Oh, I give up.
Craig Ranapia, in reply to
Andre: It would be easier to have a sensible argument about the merits (or otherwise) of said editorial if you'd bother representing it accurately. Is this Kiwibog or something?
When Pulitzer prize-winning journos have this type of worldview, the fight for a free press becomes more of a fight for freedom in general. http://www.countercurrents.org/hedges190310.htm
Sacha, in reply to
There are trade shows to do deals at, formats to sell multiple times.
Ah, so does regionalisation create more opportunities than a more global market?
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Sorry, but just had to post this. It's from the BBC news so sort of relevant. Apologies if already been mentioned today on other threads. A money trader confesses the economy is stuffed but recessions are wonderful opportunities for money traders to make money - as if there's no morality about it all
Craig Ranapia, in reply to
Oh, I give up.
Please do – and don't misrepresent my comment. Frankly, if I had issues with Myllylahti there's bugger all evidence around these parts that I wouldn't say so up front. But equally frankly, I don't find Red Alert (for the most part) an excessively useful source of value adding commentary on any subject and I do put that squarely on Curran's shoulders.
And, yes, Red, I don't like politicians attacking the independence of academics without just cause. (And for that matter, I'm reason confident the PSA weren't expecting a parenthetical sneer from Mallard. Poor duck's been spending too much time with Cameron Slater?)
Yoza, in reply to
Thanks Andre, I enjoy Chris Hedges. _"Democracy, a system ideally designed to challenge the status quo, has been corrupted and tamed to slavishly serve the status quo. We have undergone, as John Ralston Saul writes, a coup d'état in slow motion. And the coup is over. They won. We lost. The abject failure of activists to push corporate, industrialized states toward serious environmental reform, to thwart imperial adventurism or to build a humane policy toward the masses of the world's poor stems from an inability to recognize the new realities of power. The paradigm of power has irrevocably altered and so must the paradigm of resistance alter."_
Tom Semmens, in reply to
Mr. Rastini admits he has no morality and makes no useful contribution. Cancer? How Freudian of him. If an Saudi was to fly an aeroplane into his building, I would at least consider sending a card of condolence to Riyadh.
On the main topic,
Puzzling over the corpse of journalism in this country is all well and good, but isn't it time we just admited the body is starting to stink the place up, and give it a decent burial? Then at least we start looking around for a replacement.
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Turn a permanent repercussion, I empty the cannon
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Pressure push your forehead out the back of your brain
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You off-brand rappers wouldn't sell/sail with a boat
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But when daytime pass, you still wouldn't bust
We can pinky-promise, but I still wouldn't trust
They talk down on me, but I still look up
Just was talking to Nip, he say he still fucked up
It's the westside, niggas get chipped like woodchuck
[Verse 3: Kurupt]
What I represent, the whole coast line
All on my back, fool, I'mma hold mine
I do it everyday, I do this every time
I got my motherfucking nine every, every time
I told you why I came, see this is all about
The way we push the east coast all the way to the south
You see us in the north, hey man, we going off
Seventeen shots, hit 'em, look, throw the Molotov
Blowing up the building, I raise, everybody feel it
Everywhere a rage, you can feel me coming through
Everyday dropping down, throw everything I got
When I fly high as the sky
Walking on the clouds, say it loud
I'm so hood, nigga, too bad to be good
Looking at 'em like I wish they would
I burn 'em all every time, any place and they know they could
Step to the side any place, stepping up in Inglewood
I got the homies, on lock
[Verse 4: E-40]
They don't make 'em like me no more
Matter of fact, they never have, never will
They'll never be another E 4-0
I told you once before
I ain't rapping too fast, y'all just listening too slow
You may not see me on the TV channel
But in the hood I'm still hot like the left-sink handle
Mobster like Marlon Brando or should I say Tony Soprano?
I hit you with the heel of my .40 caliber handle
Platinum and gold plaques
I was doing the damn thing while y'all was drinking Similac
Macking on mine, that's what I told your batch
She think I'm a .jpeg, she wanna get attached
Turn up like the vegetable
Speaking of vegetables, right now I'm on this medical
I got this heinous style I'm feeling mane, I'm throwed
I'm a boss, put the president on hold
[Verse 5: DJ Quik]
I got big plans to make, big dough to get
I got big tracks to rhyme on, this supposed to hit
Got big bottles to buy, big bushes to saw
Now how the hell y'all hate me and I'm just like y'all?
I need a watch that's shiny
To make the spine be the same color as the piping on the seats behind me
Diamonds in the ring, and the watch is apparent
I ain't gotta prove I'm fly; parrot
I'm Phillip Drummond producing the Mrs. Garret
If the shoe fits, ten and a half, I can wear it
I spit it like I meant it, you resent it? Splendid
I spit the four bars before this verse had ended
Whatever the trend is, I pen, this is not freestyle
I'd like to see my pistol like Lennon did
A big kid, and an even bigger adult
I'm slow flowed, I should be pushing Renault
And I'm solo, yo
[Verse 6: Kendrick Lamar]
If I said I'd be doing this at 16, would you believe me?
Or see me to be just the innocent Kendrick you've seen in the street
With a basketball and some Now and Laters to eat
I'm mashing all of my skeletons, would you jump in a seat
Would you say my intelligence now is great relief?
And it's safe to say that our next generation maybe can sleep
With dreams of being a lawyer, a doctor
Instead of a boy with a chopper that hold the culdesac hostage
And do 'em all if they gossip
Children on the corn, stay vandalizing the option
Of living a lie, driving their bodies with toxics
Constantly drinking and drive
Hit the powder then watch this flame that arrive in his eye
Listen coward the concept is aim it, then bang it, then slide
Out the bitch the deposit
The prize on his head that tithes probably'll go to the projects
I live inside the belly of the critics
And Snoop passed us the torch, I'mma burn you rappers with it
What's up?
[Verse 7: Snoop Dogg]
Yeah, it's back on me
I guess I'll take the microphone casually
And do my thug-izzle straight from the dome
And let you niggas know that's watching at home
BET, easily, let me show you how it go
S-N double O, break down a smooth flow
Breaking like dominoes
Lay it on the table for you
Let you a little game for your mind
Get a lawyer, this is too much for you
You couldn't understand
Let me drop another plan holding my left hand
Moving my right hand, dropping the next game
Quik doing his damn thing, I'm spitting mo' flame
Preme there on the turntables cutting up shit like
Snoopy D-O double G, making you get right
Never, ever hit like, we do this like
West coast motherfucker, bust in your face like


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Collaborative Mission
As an Office of Science collaborative research facility, a key aspect of the Combustion Research Facility's mission is to encourage the direct involvement of individuals, or "collaborators," from the scientific community. The CRF hosts more than 100 collaborators each year, who work side-by-side with staff researchers to develop new research methods and approaches, conduct experiments exploiting new facilities and techniques, and solve high-priority combustion problems.
The CRF emphasizes collaborative investigations that lead to openly published results, but other models for supporting proprietary research can be arranged.
- Visiting Researcher
- Students
- Faculty
- Others working on openly published projects
- Industrial Partnerships
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Providers contextualise care more often when they discover patient context by asking: meta-analysis of three primary data sets.
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OBJECTIVES: One important component of patient-centred care is provider incorporation of patient contextual factors-life circumstances relevant to their care-in managing the patient's health. The current study uses data ...


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"I believe the picture is probably a genuine photograph of one of the aquatic animals in Loch Ness. However, objectively, nothing decisive can be derived from this picture. There is no apparent basis for determining which is front or back, and any such decisions must depend largely on what preconceptions one may have. Nevertheless, the two protuberances along the waterline may well represent appendages (fore and hind limbs), and the outline at the waterline appears to show a horizontal sinuous undulation. The importance of providing photographic evidence of these possibilities is not to be underestimated."
A distinguished research biologist, as well as being the first scientist to apply computer based statistical analysis to Loch Ness phenomenon data, Mackal was no easy pushover. In his analyses of the Loch Ness "monster" surface photos then extant, he awarded his "positive evidence" rating to only three, including the Gray Photo, while ruling out even that most famous of Nessie pictures, the Surgeon's Photo by R.K. Wilson, a photo widely accepted as authentic by many people of the time.
Mackal's observations about the Gray photo were astute, but also rather remarkable considering the poor quality of the image he and every other researcher had to work with at the time. Here is a scan of the Gray photo as it appeared in Mackal's book:
References to the Gaelic water horse tradition, and specific mentions of the Each Uisge or kelpie of Loch Ness, the loch most frequently cited in conjunction with the tradition, are scattered throughout historical texts written from the 16th century and forward. A Pictish gravestone dating from between the 7th and 9th centuries depicts the creature, as may some earlier carvings. The earliest recorded sighting of a "monster" in Loch Ness (or at least the River Ness, depending on one's source) details an encounter with the animal made by Saint Columba, while traveling through Scotland in the late 6th century on a mission to convert the Picts. For a full account of the long overlooked historical tradition behind the Loch Ness mystery animal, I heartily recommend reading Roland Watson's book The Water Horses of Loch Ness (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011).
Despite the ancient and deeply rooted tradition that large, unidentified animals lived in the depths of Loch Ness, it's unlikely that few people outside the Highlands of Scotland would have paid the matter any attention if it had not been for one invention: the camera.
Around Sunday noon on the date of November 12, 1933, while strolling home from church, a local resident named Hugh Gray spotted something rise in the Loch, thrashing its tail and making a considerable splashing about 100 yards out from the spot where the river Foyers enters Loch Ness. Gray's sighting was only one of many over the centuries, but what distinguishes it from all that came before was that he was carrying a camera, and used it to take the first known photograph of the animal. He took five pictures in total, unsure if any would turn out amidst all the splashing and spray. One photo did turn out, and along with Gray's story it was submitted to The Daily Record and Mail. The Daily Record had the fortuitous presence of mind to submit the negative to several experts, including Kodak, all of whom agreed there was no sign of any tampering. Of course it would have been highly difficult in those pre-Photo Shop days for Hugh Gray, a local aluminum company worker, to have engaged in trick photography, but it is all the better for us that the provenance of the original photograph and negative was being firmly established at this early point, re-enforced in subsequent years by the findings of those researchers who visited Gray. Interviewed over the years by the likes of Constance Whyte, Ted Holiday, and Tim Dinsdale, Gray never waivered in the details of his story, and must be considered a highly reliable and even reluctant witness.
The Daily Record published the Gray Photo in December of 1933. It was quickly picked up and repeated in The Daily Sketch, The Daily Telegraph, and newspapers across the world. In modern terms, the story "went viral", and the modern, press-driven era of "The Loch Ness Monster" and its nickname "Nessie" had begun
The various versions of the picture as published by the press of the day can be found all over the Internet, and generally look no better than this:
And it was from reproductions like these, made from the original negative first being converted to half-tones, and then having had their contrast considerably tweeked upwards to darken and "solidify" the images for newsprint publication -- processes which inevitably subtract all fine detail -- that Loch Ness investigators have had to work for the past eight decades. Back in the early nineties when I originally became interested in seeing if I could work out the morphology of the Loch Ness animal for myself, I put one of my first computers to work scanning images of the various photos from books, another process which in itself can lead to further lost detail and the introduction of visual artifacts that weren't part of the original photo. One result was the reproduction of the Gray Photo from the Mackal book, found at the very top of this article. The fact is that if you tweek and photo-shop any photo enough, you might start seeing Labrador Retrievers in anything, including the Mona Lisa. (That Gray photographed a dog is a ludicrous and lamentable idea that itself went viral in the early days of popular Internet usage, and some renditions of the Gray photo floating around appear further retouched to deliberately bolster that ridiculous notion.)
Looking at these newsprint and book reproductions leaves little wonder why Mackal wrote "There is no apparent basis for determining which is front or back, and any such decisions must depend largely on what preconceptions one may have." And yet there is enticing detail in even these images. Coupled with Gray's testimony there can be no doubt we are looking at an animate, living object. The part on the left is the clearest element of the image, and caught in the act of undulating as Hugh Gray described the tail to be doing. There's not one but two pointed, fin-like structures arising from the top of this tail, if it's the tail, at the point it meets the main body, but then these fins appear to diverge into different directions -- which seemingly makes no sense. This particular mystery is most evident in the higher contrast versions:
But if this is the tail, then where is the neck and head? If one is working from the preconception that there has to be a long neck, then perhaps this is the neck, and perhaps those dorsal fins, if relaxed and hanging, would account for the occasional reports of a mane? Following an assumption this is the head and neck, then the head is small indeed, absolutely miniscule in proportion to the overall size of the animal; it appears completely undifferentiated from the "neck" here, although there may be a couple minute features visible that could be eye slits or even little stalks (except that they only appear at the highest contrast and when the image is taken from a book; on this small scale they may only be artifacts of the printing process).
Also, if this is the neck, then the tail (which must be quite developed to serve as Nessie's means of reputed rapid propulsion) must be at the right hand end of the object, but there's no sign of it; could it be flexed down at an acute angle and fully below the waterline? Conversely, if this element in the image detail above is actually the tail, then it's the neck bent acutely below the waterline at the right end of the object; that might make some sense if Nessie is floating on the surface dangling its neck below the waterline like a fishing line intent on snagging prey. But if that were the case, all the splashing and tail thrashing Gray reported seems counterproductive to sneaking up on fish.
Other intriguing details in the total picture are the two white dots along the waterline where one might expect appendages to be. F.W. Holiday studied the Gray Photo intensely, was one of the interviewers of Hugh Gray, and visited the spot from which the picture was taken. In The Great Orm of Loch Ness (W.W. Norton and Co., 1968) he states his conviction these are indeed the parapodia of the Loch Ness animal.
And here is pretty much where further analysis of the Gray Photo was stalled. There wasn't enough detail in any of these newsprint photos and their circulating reproductions to answer these questions. Unfortunately whatever became of the original negative is unknown. After nearly 80 years of study, not much more could be said.
In 2011, Loch Ness researcher and author Roland Watson wrote the definitive analysis of the Hugh Gray Photo in his article The Hugh Gray Photograph Revisited. It is published at his blog, and it is mandatory reading for anyone interested in the Loch Ness animal, and the Hugh Gray photo in particular. To quote Mr. Watson:
Watson obtained this all-important picture, made from the original negative, from the Fortean Picture Library. The full image used in Mr. Watson's analysis may be viewed in his blog article mentioned and linked to above. In commenting on Watson's analysis, Aleksandar T. Lovchanski furnishes the information that Steuart Campbell deposited the glass lantern slide print with the FPL after obtaining it from Burton. Therefore the provenance of the Heron-Allen version is rather well established, stretching back to the original negative. It is only regrettable that this more definitive version of the Gray Photo was overlooked by so many researches for so long.
The Heron-Allen image contains all the detail lost in the press reproductions and their overwhelming contrast adjustments, and upon studying it Roland Watson made what few would contest must be the most important discovery in Loch Ness research in many years. He found the head! And it is on the right.
Having stared at the Gray Photo in books, having scanned it, enlarged it, filtered it, sketched it, and looked at it every way possible for about 40 years, I'm still a bit thunderstruck by this revelation. But I am convinced that what Watson has identified as the head is indeed just that: our only known picture of the head of the unidentified species in Loch Ness.
At first this struck me as creating more problems than it solved, as like many I took it that Nessie had a long neck and a small head. While I never subscribed to the Plesiosaur theory, I assumed that convergent evolution had resulted in an amphibian with an anatomy that followed the long-necked, fish-chasing body plan of a Plesiosaur. Nature does not discard proven templates, and it was a design that served many species of aquatic reptiles quite well for millions of years. But that has not proven to be the case in Loch Ness. The Gray Photo is hard evidence that Nessie has a short neck, and a relatively large and fish-like head.
So swallowing my pride (and abandoning a pet theory of my own, which I might detail in a later post for nostalgia's sake) I set about having my own closer look at the Heron-Allen image. After all, if I'd been overlooking the head for 40+ years, the important question became: what else had I (and everyone else) missed? If the details of the poor, over-contrasted press releases of the Gray Photo had been so enticing, how much more might we learn from the Heron-Allen version? It needs to be taken apart and put back together, a project I decided to tackle soon after learning of Watson's find.
The first and most important contribution I spotted is the reason for the title of this post.
There are not one, but two specimens of the Loch Ness animal captured in Hugh Gray's photo. (For the best look at the Heron-Allen image I again link you to an article by Roland Watson, The Forensics of the Loch Ness Monster. You may click on his image there for a full-sized zoom on the Heron-Allen image.)
There are two backs (or dorsal lines) to follow if you trace your finger across the image from left to right, with the clearest example of this being between the two bright water sprays. You may note that the back of the topmost or further animal becomes the top of the head Watson discovered. This animal, the one furthest away, is also about one head's length ahead of the nearer animal, and the head of the nearer animal is hidden in the spray.
If you are using an LCD monitor such as on a laptop, start with the screen almost vertical and then slowly tilt it back while viewing the Heron-Allen image -- that's how I first spotted the second dorsal line. Below is a smaller version of the image onto which I've drawn an overlay for comparison with the original. I use hyphenated lines in the two places where spray obscures the dorsal line of the front-most animal, where the head of the front-most animal is hidden behind spray, and where the anterior appendage disappears below the waterline:
Let's examine, from left to right, what is visible here but has not been previously noted or explained by the high contrast press releases of the Gray Photo.
First is the tail. Unlike Mackal, whom we quoted to begin this article, we now do have a basis for identifying the leftmost part as the tail, because the head has been identified by Watson on the right. The caudal fins (not fin) were actually more evident in the high contrast prints. If you capture the image and increase the contrast yourself, you can turn the Heron-Allen image into an exact replica of the press version minus the scratches (another bit of proof we're dealing with the original photo here.) Turning up the contrast does increase some detail on the left side of the picture, like the caudal fins in my earlier close-up, while simultaneously ruining details such as the head on the right hand side. But now that we've identified two separate backs, the reason for the mystery in my earlier look at the fins becomes evident: there are two apexes to the "fin" because it's actually two fins belonging to two separate tails, one behind and slightly ahead of the other. What may even be the tip of the second tail is visible protruding just left of the caudal fin of the front-most animal.
Working our way right, the next element of interest is the posterior appendage. We now know it to be the posterior one, because we know which end is which. In the original press publications of the photo both appendages appeared as mere white dots, but here we have quite a bit more to look at.
There actually appears to be a motion-blurred after-image of a flipper-shaped posterior appendage in the spray, making it look for all the world that this fountain of water was cast up by the rear appendage of the front-most animal. What may be the edge of the appendage itself, slapping the water, appears at the waterline. Alas this is not a great view of the appendage itself, but it's almost incontrovertible from this that Nessie has posterior appendages -- or at least this one does.
Moving further right along the waterline we come to the anterior appendage. Second only to the head, this may be the detail most improved in the Heron-Allen image. Instead of just a white dot, we have the upper joint of a limb meeting the body at approximately a 90 degree angle, then flexing downwards and sweeping back at a second joint point just before dipping below the waterline. We cannot say if the termination point of the appendage is a flipper, a webbed foot, or another form because the end is below the waterline. The few witnesses that have reported appendages in their sightings over the years have varied in their descriptions of flippers, webbed feet, and even hoof-like forms.
Accounts have also varied as to whether Nessie has both front and back appendages, but in this photo there is clearly a back appendage of some kind tossing up water. Oddly though, whereas the anterior limb joins the body clearly above the waterline, the joint of the posterior appendage does not appear at all. This is a mystery. The animal (the front one) might be twisting a bit on its longitudinal axis -- there is considerable flexing in the body from the curvature in the waterline, a feature also less evident in poorer quality images. The animal be turning its head towards the animal beside it. Perhaps in the process of twisting its front half to the left, the attachment point for the right front limb is lifted higher than the attachment point for the posterior counterpart, which is hidden just below the waterline at that moment.
It may be worth mentioning at this point that aquatic amphibians, being neotenic and only completing partial metamorphosis do not always have equally developed front and back limbs, or at least do not always have equally developed appendages until the latter stages of growth. In aquatic urodeles the second pair of limbs may be fully developed, partially developed, or totally absent in members of the same species (Mackal, 1976).
It must also be mentioned that, while the left-most spray of water appears to be created by the posterior appendage slapping the water, the same cannot be said for the right-most flash of spray; that must be coming from the left anterior appendage of the second or furthest animal, tossed towards us and over the head of the nearer animal. That the two beasts are alternating front and rear water slaps like this is in itself quite interesting; water must be flying continuously; Hugh Gray reported considerable splashing, which must be taken to mean ongoing splashing, not just one instance of spray.
We end our tour of the Heron-Allen image at the right hand end, with Nessie apparently looking right back at us. In making this discovery Roland Watson points out that even if the eye is not an eye, even if the mouth is not the mouth, the body of the animal clearly ends here in a blunt, conical shape above the waterline, and it casts a definite shadow of its own on the water. Again I recommend his article on this, but for my part I'm fully convinced the Gray Photo is showing us the head of Nessie.
And I'm equally certain we have been looking at a photo of two of the animals all along. But is this mating behavior? Social behavior? Some salamanders engage in a courtship dances when preparing to mate that consist of rubbing sides, splashing with their limbs, and thrashing their tails side to side. Such behavior is strikingly similar to what Hugh Gray witnessed and photographed. This is obviously one area where we'd like to know much more.
At this point I can imagine skeptics protesting the likelihood anyone could be so lucky as to photograph a pair of Loch Ness Monsters at one go, as it's so notoriously difficult to get photo evidence for even a single such animal. Yet real animals often travel in pairs and small groups. Even the most solitary creatures have to pair up on occasion if the species is to continue. In fact the many reported sightings of multiple and varying humps are most easily accounted for by multiple animals. If genuine, the P.A. MacNab photo taken in 1955 is most likely a picture of two animals as well (otherwise we're faced with a specimen over 50 feet long, which would be much less probable than two animals of 20 or 30 feet each.)
The strongest evidence that the creatures swim in small groups comes from the University of Birmingham expeditions (1968-1969) and their sonar experiments headed up by Professor D.G. Tucker. On multiple occasions, the Birmingham researchers tracked large animate objects they estimated to be 20 feet long moving between the bottom of the Loch and mid-water, but never any higher. Contacts included at least one pair, and on one occasion a group or pod of what they estimated to be at least as many as five animals moving together for an extended period. They also clocked the diving speeds of the animals to be too great to be accounted for by fish.
(In all fairness it should be pointed out that there are other interpretations of the Birmingham sonar data. Specifically that during some of the most pertinent readings, the thermocline was at its most reflective, and a surface craft had indeed passed through the area, the wake of which could have caused some spurious sonar reflections.)
The hardest thing about accepting the Gray photo as two animals was that Gray himself never said anything about seeing more than one. He did however say that he never had an unobscured view due to the considerable disturbance the animal was making in the water (Nicholas Witchell, The Loch Ness Story, Penguin Books, 1975). Now Gray estimated the animal to be 100 yards away, and his own height from the bluff on the shoreline to be 30 feet. Some accounts quote Gray as giving the distance as 200 yards; but he also said it "rose out of the water not so very far from where I was"; based on his wording I feel more inclined to trust the 100 yard quotes. Researchers visiting the site since then have also stated the elevation to actually be 40 feet, with F.W. Holiday even calling it 50. I think 40 is the safer estimate for us to consider. So going with 100 yards out and 40 feet above the waterline, this makes Gray's elevation relative to the animals a mere 8 degrees, with his view nearly broadsides; the photo supports both those conclusions. Under these circumstances the silhouette of the nearer animal would almost completely mask or hide that of the second. It would have indeed been difficult for Gray to tell it was two parallel animals.
We have the luxury of staring at an enlarged, static photo for as long as we like, whereas Hugh Gray only had a few minutes, and was dealing with his camera and probably looking through the view finder while snapping his five attempted photos. Then there's all the thrashing and spray to obscure what he was watching. Still, he says the "object of considerable dimensions" moved about a great deal for "a few minutes", and minutes are not seconds. So if it's a pair, they must have stayed in close tandem for the minutes Gray watched them moving, for if they had separated by any distance he'd have noted it was two independent objects. Unless we apply an even simpler explanation: the second animal could have been on the surface at the start, been caught in the photo, but then submerged. Then Gray, setting aside his camera, continued to watch the single remaining animal for the final minutes before it too submerged.
Let's look at the Heron-Allen image geometrically. As stated above, Gray's line of sight was only 8 degrees above the water level. In the diagram below I've placed two floating objects of equal size and shape next to each other, here viewed in cross-section. Since we already have the angle, the actual height of the objects doesn't matter at this point, but Gray estimated the animal's height to be 3 feet above water, and so I have indicated the same. The question is, would the camera be able to capture any noticeable separation of the two dorsal lines, and if so, how much? We can see here that the back or top of the nearer object would appear one foot below the top of the further object. The actual number of feet doesn't matter, as it's the ratio of the visible part of one animal to the visible part of the other animal we're trying to measure, and in this case the ratio is a clear 3:1. That is, Gray's camera would capture an image, from the top down, consisting of 1/4 rear animal, and 3/4's front animal. See the insert in the lower right corner of the diagram, where I've rotated the whole view slightly to make this more obvious:
This turns out to be extremely consistent with the amount of the further animal that is visible above the back of the closer animal in the actual Gray Photo. It's exactly what we'd expect in the photo, given the distance, the height of the observer, and assuming the two animals are of nearly equal size. (Personally I think the nearest animal is the slightly larger of the two. The distance between the apexes of the caudal fins is a bit larger than that between the front ends of the animals, which makes the rear one slightly shorter than the other. But given that these are moving animals with sinusoidally flexing bodies, thrashing tails, and turning heads, it's impossible to be exact about which one may be longest.)
That there have been two animals present all along has an added benefit to us, as it answers not one but two of the unexplained problems previously related to the Gray Photo. One of the first criticisms of the picture has always been that the body looked too "baloonish" or buoyant, and that a real animal wouldn't float that high in the water. It only appeared this way because in the high contrast press images, two bodies had been lumped together vertically. As soon as the second dorsal line is recognized and drawn in for the closest animal, and the viewer becomes aware of looking downwards at side-by-side animals, then Nessie's proportions get a lot sleeker.
Secondly, the parapodia Holiday recognized are no longer too low on the body to be accepted as appendages, because the height of the body above the waterline was never what it seemed. The appendages are right where they belong, and always have been.
Having taken the entire picture apart element by element earlier, it seems only fair to put it back together in the end. The overlay I drew for the Heron-Allen image makes for a good starting point:
One must guess at the features below the waterline. I have ventured to assume the tail is vertically symmetrical, thus adding a ventral fin. A laterally flexing, keeled tail makes for a powerful swimming appendage, which seems necessary to account for the great speed (as much as 10 knots) that's been reported for the animals. Also, or perhaps I should say inevitably, that's the normal tail configuration for aquatic salamanders.
The exact size and shape of the appendages must remain conjectural. I've gone with webbed feet here, but more flipper-like appendages are certainly possible; the posterior one could be a true flipper even if the front limb is more of a webbed foot. Also the true girth is conjectural as well, with the body being perhaps a bit thicker than I've shown here.
Having recreated the front-most of the two animals, we now give a copy of that image an open mouth to yield an otherwise identical second animal, and lastly we place them together side by side with the further animal one head's length ahead of the other. The final result is my recreation of the Gray Photo as we would see the animals if we could take away the water and fountains of spray:
As a bit of a reality check, I made one more rendition with the glare and water sprays manually airbrushed over the final reconstruction, to compare side by side with the original photo. Not a perfect match, but sufficient I hope to demonstrate that, once the water is removed and precious few blanks filled in, we have two of the same animal present in the original Gray Photo:
Morphologically, the animal captured in the Hugh Gray Photo doesn't look very much like a fish in my opinion, but instead bears an exceedingly similar form to many aquatic salamanders. But those of similar form and similar size are unknown outside the fossil record. Within the fossil record though, they are quite well known. When it comes to living forms, the Chinese Giant Salamander, Andrias davidianus, is recognized as the largest amphibian in the modern world, reaching a length of six feet. The Loch Ness Giant Salamander seems to have that beaten by a factor of at least three, if not four or five.
This brings us to the taxonomy of the unidentified species in Loch Ness, and the related issue of how it came to populate the Loch in the first place. I'll address both these items in a subsequent post article.


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With the Holiday season fast approaching, we wanted to take a look at some devices to enhance your existing home or small business network. Many of us are quite happy with the router that serves as the central hub, but often complain about the wireless coverage around the house or "dark-spots" in the building. Most times, attempting to fix these Wi-Fi issues results in other issues cropping up. For example, if you move the Wireless Router away from your home office to get better signals in the corner of your house might result in worse coverage in the bedroom. Many of us can't even move the router since it is hard-wired to devices that can't be relocated.
Networking companies realize that more and more users are dependent on good wireless signals and have released a slew of adapters to help with coverage. These products are designed to work with your existing network to 'extend' the network's Wi-Fi coverage. If the adapter can detect your Wi-Fi signal, it will repeat or boost that signal for you to use. You will see that these adapters have different names, but in general, these devices are called "Repeaters" or "Extenders".
Today, we have extenders from ASUS (EA-N66) and Amped Wireless (SR20000G) that are designed and built with the same goals in mind: Help extend Wi-Fi signals so that the user can have better coverage in their area. Even though the two devices are built for the same function, they don't look anything alike. The ASUS EA-N66 is a funky looking triangle-shaped device which reminds you of something you might have seen in Star Trek, while the Amped Wireless is a box that looks like a mini-wireless router.
Being that this is the first time we have reviewed this type of hardware, we really wanted to evaluate the usefulness and to see if this will actually help those who have limited bandwidth via their wireless connection. We are going to concentrate on the 5Ghz bandwidth today just because it typically has less interference than that of the 2.4Ghz, but also, this is where many of the new wireless devices choose to operate. If you are wanting to use the fastest band available, you will be wise to start with the 5Ghz band.
Let's take a closer look at the two extenders that we will be evaluating.
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