Jeri Palmer on sun 8 aug 99
I have a few questions about this march. Can anyone attend or does one need
to be a teacher? How do I get more info? I don't each formally but I really
really want to go. Jeri
Louis Katz on mon 9 aug 99
Information on the Denver NCECA conference will be available at
http://nceca.net as soon as I get some to post. Anyone can attend, and we
have a wide variety of attendees.
If you have other bookmarks within the NCECA site the addresses will soon
change. The homepage http://nceca.net will remain correct.
Louis
Tom Buck on mon 24 jan 00
Two notices, personal:
If you plan to be at the NCECA Denver conference in March,
Wednesday Mar 22 to Saturday Mar 25, and you expect to attend
all possible sessions, and further if you currently live/work at
or near sea level, then you might be wise to reach Denver early,
say Monday or Tuesday. Denver's air is much "thinner"; an extra
day or two will allow you to adapt to life on the run at 5000 feet
above sea level. Some friends who went to Mexico City (7000 feet
up) said they all-but collapsed from exhaustion during the first
day there.
2ndly, if you check travel literature, you will soon
discover that Denver's "downtown" hospitality industry offers
very few same-cost alternatives to Adam's Mark Hotel, the
1225-room complex where all Conference activities will be held.
The local host committee (people at Metropolitan State College)
has consequently arm-twisted Adam's Mark Hotel to cut its usual
rate by approximately one third; the conference rate is $120.36
(taxes included) per night for one person or two people sharing,
or $140.87 for 3 or 4 people sharing.
With this in mind, I decided to book a room at AMH for
three nights, Mar 22, 23, 24. Now I am anxiously hoping a gentle
potter or three will assist me by sharing the room and by paying
a portion of the cost. Please e-mail me directly if you wish to
do that. BTW, I plan to rest my ancient bones often after arrival
at the hotel at noon Wednesday. See you at Clayart Suite.
TIA. Peace. Tom B.
Tom Buck ) tel: 905-389-2339
(westend Lake Ontario, province of Ontario, Canada).
mailing address: 373 East 43rd Street,
Hamilton ON L8T 3E1 Canada
mary simmons on tue 25 jan 00
AND, be sure to drink A LOT OF WATER!!!! Denver, like Albuqueruqe, is a
very dry place and you can dehydrate by doing nothing at all.
Symptoms of dehydration are extreme crabbiness, a headache that won't go
away with aspirin, tylenol or advil, and fatigue. Drink Gatorade mixed at
1/4 the powder the box says, to one liter/quart of water (The box says to
mix WAY too much powder--gatorade is NOT a soft drink!!!!) Sipping water
all day is the best remedy--
Symptoms of altitude sickness are similar. Dehyrdation will be the larger
problem, unless ya'll are planning on a hike above 10,000 ft.
drink lots and lots and lots of water
Mary
At 02:32 PM 1/24/00 EST, you wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Two notices, personal:
>
> If you plan to be at the NCECA Denver conference in March,
>Wednesday Mar 22 to Saturday Mar 25, and you expect to attend
>all possible sessions, and further if you currently live/work at
>or near sea level, then you might be wise to reach Denver early,
>say Monday or Tuesday. Denver's air is much "thinner"; an extra
>day or two will allow you to adapt to life on the run at 5000 feet
>above sea level. Some friends who went to Mexico City (7000 feet
>up) said they all-but collapsed from exhaustion during the first
>day there.
>
> 2ndly, if you check travel literature, you will soon
>discover that Denver's "downtown" hospitality industry offers
>very few same-cost alternatives to Adam's Mark Hotel, the
>1225-room complex where all Conference activities will be held.
>The local host committee (people at Metropolitan State College)
>has consequently arm-twisted Adam's Mark Hotel to cut its usual
>rate by approximately one third; the conference rate is $120.36
>(taxes included) per night for one person or two people sharing,
>or $140.87 for 3 or 4 people sharing.
> With this in mind, I decided to book a room at AMH for
>three nights, Mar 22, 23, 24. Now I am anxiously hoping a gentle
>potter or three will assist me by sharing the room and by paying
>a portion of the cost. Please e-mail me directly if you wish to
>do that. BTW, I plan to rest my ancient bones often after arrival
>at the hotel at noon Wednesday. See you at Clayart Suite.
> TIA. Peace. Tom B.
>
>Tom Buck ) tel: 905-389-2339
>(westend Lake Ontario, province of Ontario, Canada).
>mailing address: 373 East 43rd Street,
> Hamilton ON L8T 3E1 Canada
>
Mary Simmons
Dept of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Northrop Hall
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1116
(505)277-9259
piedra@unm.edu
Jeremy/Bonnie Hellman on tue 25 jan 00
Tom's points are very well taken, and I'd add to his comments about dealing
with the "mile high" city of Denver. Whatever your level of fitness at lower
elevations, you'll feel much less fit when there is less oxygen in the air
at 5200 feet. Perhaps this can be motivation to either stay in shape or to
get in shape over the next 2 months. If you're huffing and puffing climbing
a flight of stairs at home now, you're going to be moving VERY slowly with
all too frequent rests in Denver. If you're regularly doing 45 minutes of
aerobic exercise at lower elevations, you'll probably be OK aerobically in
Denver. I always have a better time when I don't have to stop so often to
let my heart rate slow down!
I am speaking from personal experience over the last 11 years. We make
several trips a year from (almost) sea level Pittsburgh to the mountains of
Colorado. The usual advice about dealing with thinner air should be kept in
mind. While in Denver, be sure to drink more non-alcoholic beverages than
you usually drink. A lot more. Alcohol usually has significantly stronger
effects at higher elevations.
If you find you have a headache the first few days of being in Denver, take
your normal headache remedy and drink even more non-alcoholic beverages,
particularly water. Denver's humidity is regularly lower than many of us are
used to, and it is much easier to become dehydrated than we are used to.
Sweat evaporates faster, and our bodies are working harder so we're more
inclined to sweat. It's just easier to lose fluids from our bodies and we
need to replace them.
One other caution: if we are lucky enough to enjoy some sunshine while we're
there, the UV radiation from the sun is more intense than at lower
elevations (particularly in a place like Pittsburgh when we have very little
sunshine in the winter), and it is easier to get sunburned. If there is snow
on the ground, it's even easier to get sunburned as the sun's ray reflect
off the snow. Definitely bring sunglasses with you.
I'm sure others can provide a more scientific explanation and solutions, but
this has been our experience.
Bonnie
Bonnie Hellman in Pittsburgh, PA (most of the year)
> From: Tom Buck
> Reply-To: Ceramic Arts Discussion List
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 14:32:30 EST
> To: CLAYART@LSV.UKY.EDU
> Subject: Denver conference
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Two notices, personal:
>
> If you plan to be at the NCECA Denver conference in March,
> Wednesday Mar 22 to Saturday Mar 25, and you expect to attend
> all possible sessions, and further if you currently live/work at
> or near sea level, then you might be wise to reach Denver early,
> say Monday or Tuesday. Denver's air is much "thinner"; an extra
> day or two will allow you to adapt to life on the run at 5000 feet
> above sea level. Some friends who went to Mexico City (7000 feet
> up) said they all-but collapsed from exhaustion during the first
> day there.
>
> 2ndly, if you check travel literature, you will soon
> discover that Denver's "downtown" hospitality industry offers
> very few same-cost alternatives to Adam's Mark Hotel, the
> 1225-room complex where all Conference activities will be held.
> The local host committee (people at Metropolitan State College)
> has consequently arm-twisted Adam's Mark Hotel to cut its usual
> rate by approximately one third; the conference rate is $120.36
> (taxes included) per night for one person or two people sharing,
> or $140.87 for 3 or 4 people sharing.
> With this in mind, I decided to book a room at AMH for
> three nights, Mar 22, 23, 24. Now I am anxiously hoping a gentle
> potter or three will assist me by sharing the room and by paying
> a portion of the cost. Please e-mail me directly if you wish to
> do that. BTW, I plan to rest my ancient bones often after arrival
> at the hotel at noon Wednesday. See you at Clayart Suite.
> TIA. Peace. Tom B.
>
> Tom Buck ) tel: 905-389-2339
> (westend Lake Ontario, province of Ontario, Canada).
> mailing address: 373 East 43rd Street,
> Hamilton ON L8T 3E1 Canada
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