<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16441" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 5/20/2007 7:00:16 PM Mountain Daylight Time, jacross@lamar.colostate.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>It should be noted that there have been several different ways of measuring <BR>Giant durations.<BR><BR>The most objective method (I think) is the time from the first continuous <BR>water to the last splash thrown out of the vent.<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>This method of "last splash thrown out of the vent" is what I've been trying to judge, and it is what caused us to bump yesterday's duration from 85 to 86 minutes. Not that I think a minute or two really makes any true difference.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>P.S. Regarding today's Beehive, I failed to mention that there were rather frequent splashes all morning, and that roughly 10 minutes before today's eruption, Beehive had a couple of "Herb Warren" type splashes. So maybe "it's back."</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">See what's free at <A title="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" href="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" target="_blank">AOL.com</A>. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>