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Custom Orthotics Broadview
Adelaide Podiatry Clinics offer podiatry care and treatment throughout Adelaide including Broadview and surrounding areas.
Orthotic devices can greatly enhance your standard of living whether it be a solution to pain or prevention of future issues. Our Adelaide Podiatrists offer custom orthotics for local Broadview residents.
Research studies have found that 85% of patients who receive orthotic therapy for relevant injuries report an improvement to complete resolution of pain.
Adelaide Podiatry Centre's orthotics are unique arch supports, custom designed for individual feet utilizing the most cutting edge technology.
Advanced Technology Means less costly Orthotics
Our 3D orthotic devices are laser manufactured and there are two benefits from using cutting edge technology over hand-made devices:
- Exceptional accuracy to prescription: +/- 0.5mm (man made are subject to hand-eye error)
- Far less labour costs (laboratory technicians are $40 an hour)
Due to reduced labour costs you will found our more accurate devices are $150 to $300 less than other prescribers. You may qualify for a GAP FREE orthotic pair.
What can I expect from the custom orthotic design process?
Biomechanical Examination
Your practitioner will perform a biomechanical assessment of your hips, knees, ankle and feet. This biomechanical assessment is important to make sure that the orthotic prescription is going to meet your body type, feet and your needs. Every person is different and so it is important to look at each person individually.
Computerised Gait Analysis
Your podiatrist will perform a computerized gait analysis head to toe. They will replay the video footage and inform you how this walking pattern impacts your body.
3D Foot Scan
A 3D laser precision scan of your feet is then done. This takes accurate measurements of your whole foot to make sure the orthotics have the best fit for you. Feet shapes can vary and so it is important to have a customized, personal assessment so that your orthotics give you the best results.
3D CadCam Orthotic Design
Your orthotics are designed from a combination of the podiatrist's assessment, gait analysis and the 3d laser scan using the latest CAD cam software. 3D laser scan files are uploaded to a computer where the shape of the orthotic is matched to your feet using highly complex and accurate software. Possibilities are endless in CAD cam software and the orthotics can be designed in many different shapes and materials.
Orthotic Manufacture
Your custom orthotics are then manufactured by using cutting edge Australian technology and direct milled from various rigid or soft materials. They are designed to fit and colour coordinate your shoes.
Orthotic Fitting
Your orthotics are double checked your fitting appointment. In this appointment we will fit the orthotics into your shoes and make sure you are happy and comfortable before you leave. We have a small onsite laboratory so you will not need to come back. Orthotics may take time to adjust to and we will give you instructions to smoothen this transition.


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PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2012--
The Board of Directors of Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:SCHN)
declared a cash dividend of $0.1875 per common share, payable on
December 13, 2012, to shareholders of record on November 29, 2012.
Schnitzer has paid a dividend every quarter since going public in
November 1993.
About Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.
Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. is one of the largest manufacturers and
exporters of recycled ferrous metal products in the United States with
58 operating facilities located in 14 states, Puerto Rico and Western
Canada. The business has seven deep water export facilities located on
both the East and West Coasts and in Hawaii and Puerto Rico. The
Company's integrated operating platform also includes its auto parts and
steel manufacturing businesses. The Company's auto parts business sells
used auto parts through its 51 self-service facilities located in 14
states and Western Canada. With an effective annual production capacity
of approximately 800,000 tons, the Company's steel manufacturing
business produces finished steel products, including rebar, wire rod and
other specialty products. The Company commenced its 106th
year of operations in 2012.
Source: Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.
Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.Investor Relations: Alexandra
Deignan, 646-278-9711Press Relations: Chip Terhune, 503-804-6966www.schnitzersteel.com[email protected]
Data provided by Thomson Reuters

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And here is a quote from the assistant chairperson:
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Where Teachers Are Respected
And here is a quote from the assistant chairperson:
6 comments:
- Anonymous said...
I use black boards at the college.
When my school was starting, they would get input from the teachers (there were fewer of us than there are in one department in your school), and we got beautiful sliding white boards... in the science lab. The rest of us liked black boards, and that's what we have. I'd never give them up.
- 8:49 AM, March 07, 2009
- JUSTICE not "just us" said...
Professors and adjuncts on the college level are not all the same.
As part of my agreement for a sabbatical with the DOE I enrolled at a local college for 16 credits this academic year. I can tell you a couple of things I have observed:
1. A good high school teacher is often times better than most adjuncts in the college classes.
2. Many full time professors are rather aloof.
3. It is not uncommon for a college instructor to come in unprepared for the class lecture.
4. Good high school teachers know how to plan a lesson and excute it to make the class interesting than many of these college professors.
When kids tell me how "bored" they are in high school I often look at them and think to myself what will happen to them the first year of college. Since they are all brainwashed to want to go to college and do well like they did in high school because of grade inflation I feel sorry for most since I am not impressed by the level of instruction that I have seen in higher education.
That being said I agree with you that college staff is treated more professionally than we are. Ironic isn't that when you have experience and excellent content area knowledge you can as good or better than a college Professor.
- 9:09 AM, March 07, 2009
- NYC Educator said...
It's nice to work for reasonable people, and my college teaching experience has been much the same as yours. I also agree that teaching styles vary with the individuals.
Personally, I'm partial to whiteboards. For some reason, I'm able to write legibly with those pens, which I can't manage with chalk.
- 12:41 PM, March 07, 2009
- Pissedoffteacher said...
Justice--everything you wrote about college professors in 100% true. I had some of the worst professors ever the year I went on sabbatical. The wrost one was a phD with tenure. She not only did not know how to present te material, she often did not know it herself. I ended up teaching many of the kids in that class so they could pass.
The math department of the community college I work for tries to hire its adjuncts from high schools and they get some really fine (maybe not be, but most) teachers. There is a big difference between a hs and a college teacher and we do win by a landslide.
- 2:04 PM, March 07, 2009
- Highly Effective King Clovis said...
I've had some pretty good college professors, but I've had others who were laughable. Literally..."reading straight from the book" kind of teachers. And this is what I was paying for? Granted, the class was easy, but still.
Even though I'm a young teacher, I like blackboards. Has that "teacher" feel to it. And while I probably do more power point than anything else now, I still use the blackboard, and try to improve my writing skill. Kids love writing on the blackboard too, and since some of them have better handwriting than I do, I let them do it.
- 2:37 PM, March 08, 2009
- LSquared32 said...
If only white boards would stay nice. It seems like after a few years, you get more and more ghosting. Anyone have a solution for this? Otherwise, I'm going to stay a chalk fan.
- 1:39 PM, March 09, 2009


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Setting a healthy leafy green vegetable swimming in cholesterol is a mainstay of American Thanksgiving, which they must be having soon back there. I lived in the States for five Thanksgivings, and it's a big, big deal for them: people fly all over fly-over for it. By contrast, Canadian Thanksgiving is a tepid excuse for a long-weekend, perhaps because five months of deep snow is a heavy thought that does not permit as much celebration. Here in the climatically-temperate UK there is no thanksgiving holiday, which I find begrudgingly charming, begrudgingly. But we eat stalks and stalks of brussels sprouts the two months both sides of Christmas, that's the season. So, for Maninas's Eating with the Seasons (December), my creamy-nutmeggy brussels sprouts:
Set a large pot of salted water to boil. Lop your sprouts off at the ankles and peel away their dirty little jackets. Now slice each in two, vertically and with little compassion. At the roll of the boil, dump them in and set your kitchen timer to six minutes. Do not let them boil a seventh minute, for the sprouts' own acids would use that extra minute to strip the last atoms of magnesium out of the remaining chlorophyll-a, the macro-effect being to turn your bright green spouts a sad greeny-grey. So when the beep sounds drain the sprouts like a madman, stir in a bit of cream, grate a little nutmeg over them and toss in a pinch of sea salt. Bring to table, admonishing one and all to eat their brussels sprouts.
What am I thankful for this year? Um, a deceleration in food-price inflation. It's the silver lining of an economy going down the toilet with a foul smell, not unlike the smell of overcooked brassica. Six minutes, people, six minutes.


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February 4, 2012
Richard Wright's character Dave Saunders has five years on Faulkner's Sarty. Not surprisingly, then, this seventeen-year-old "Man Who Was Almost a Man" longed to escape the name "boy," a descriptor bestowed on him by the store-owner Joe after Dave confesses his urgent need to buy a gun: "You ain't nothing but a boy. You don't need a gun." Dave's mother, stunned by Dave's request to spend $2, his monthly pay as a field hand, on one of Joe's guns, responds the same way: "Don yuh talk t me bout no gun!…You ain nothing but a boy yit!"
But after mom considers how Dave's gun might benefit her husband as family protector, she gives into Dave's boyish whining. Predictably, Dave sneaks out with his new gun and decides to try it out when he and Jenny, his boss' mule, have plowed "down by the woods," far enough away that no one will hear Dave's shot. Just as predictably, when Dave, ignorant of the gun's recoiling power, inadvertently kills Jenny, he conjures a boyish lie about Jenny stumbling onto "the point of the plow" and impaling herself. No one, of course, believes Dave, especially his parents, who demand the truth. After Dave's tearful confessions, his father promises to beat him at home, his boss charges him $50 to replace Jenny, and, worst of all, Dave faces derisive laughter and, once again, the name he hates: "Well, boy, it looks like yuh done bought a dead mule! Hahaha!"
To help my Kosovaran students reflect on this story on manhood, I will ask them to respond in their journals—before class discussion—to these prompts on the ending of Wright's story: "As Dave prepares to jump the Illinois Central train for Chicago, what evidence do you see of his continued boyishness? Do you find any evidence that this decision has, in fact, moved him closer to manhood?" No doubt, most students will point to Dave's immature wish to shoot at his boss' house, "Jusa enough t let im know Dave Saunders is a man." Some may argue, too, that Dave's decision to run away from home shows a childish reluctance to accept responsibility for his own actions. But other students may stress the courage required, however foolish, to jump a moving train, to cut ties to family, to live on his own. They may remember, too, what they read in the introductory material on Richard Wright, about his own run from his home town, Natchez, Mississippi, to Memphis, then Chicago, precisely the same story that Wright tells in his famous autobiographical work Black Boy, a story about another boy whose run to freedom generates yet more suffering but also makes him a man.
After we have discussed Wright's story, I will invite students to share their journal entries. I will also ask them to reflect on the phallus at the center of this story, the gun, the assumed ticket to manhood, to power. To what extent can we describe the USA, as reflected in its history and its literature, as a gun-culture? To what extent can we describe Kosova the same way? Such questions may well lead to students' inquiries about the American Second Amendment, and if they ask for my views, I will say that I support the right "to keep and bear arms," and that at 14 I belonged to the National Rifle Association and won badges for adolescent marksmanship. I will make this admission to assure my students that in asking these questions I do not intend to campaign for the outlawing of guns in my country or in theirs. Instead, I ask these questions to get students to ponder the implications of equating manhood—or womanhood—with guns. What must become of any culture, its fine educational and legal institutions notwithstanding, that defines a "man" or a "woman" as the person with the gun?


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Electrosonic face & body cleansing system:
Electrosonic skin cleansing is the latest innovation in advanced skin care. It's more effective than traditional superficial cleansing, yet gentle on your skin. It not only cleanses the skin, but also helps reduce dry patches, blemishes, and the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. This is an ideal addition to skin care regime to improve skin texture, improve cleansing effectiveness, and therefore reduce skin debris, oily skin, blackheads, acne, rough skin.
Brief Introduction: This is a rotary device, working with 4pcs inter-changeable accessories, powered by 2pcs AA batteries.
1. Deeply cleanses facial & body skin
2. Exfoliates dead skin cells
3. Reduces and erases small pimples & blackheads
4. Removes callus / thick skin on feet & elbows
5. Nail care functions
1. Streamline design, small & portable for usage
2. Compact accessories
3. Compact size and Light weigt
1. Dimensions: 130 x 45 x 68 mm
2. Unit weight: 78.8g
3. Power: 3V DC (2pcs AA batteries, excluded)
4. 2 settings selectable
5. Four spinning attachments included for different requirements: a) Cosmetic Sponge: Cleanses face to prepare for moisturizing or nourishing b) Soft Brush: Gently exfoliates dead skin cells to reveal a radiant skin. Could be used with facial emulsion, hand-washing cream and foot-cleaning; c) Pumice: gently exfoliates, polishes and smoothes rough callus skin under foot or elbow d) Nail polish: to have radiant nails


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Can anyone help my friend with this problem, please? He is using the new BW7.
One frustration I have so far is that when a search for certain english words was made in version 6, the results window (when set correctly) showed all the results for all the display versions. Now I just get the search version results only and a separate window telling me there are also results in the other display versions (but not showing what they are), and I then have to select them separately to see the results for them. Do you know any way around this?
David McKay


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Acquitted: It's Schaub, not Schwab
Former UVA star quarterback Matt Schaub, now a back-up quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, was back in town last fall for the Maryland game. He quaffed a couple of beers with his football player buddies before heading to the Buffalo Wing Factory on Elliewood Avenue for a few more rounds.
That same night, November 4, second-year Mark Schottinger and his Dillard dorm buddies quaffed a few 40s and watched The OC before heading to the Buffalo Wing Factory for another pitcher or two.
By early morning of November 5, Schottinger had filed a complaint against Schaub, who turned himself in the following day to face misdemeanor assault and battery charges.
In court February 18, Charlottesville Judge Bob Downer said he wasn't buying the big guy versus little guy theory of the events that resulted in Schaub's arrest.
But as the 6' 5" Schaub stood at the bench for nearly three hours while 5'8"-ish Schottinger, 19, and his similarly sized pals testified, it was hard to ignore the difference in physical statures of the participants in the General District Court drama.
Schottinger accused Schaub, 23, of slapping him, putting him a headlock, and punching him.
Defense attorney Fran Lawrence portrayed Schaub as stalked and taunted by the "arrogant and mouthy " Schottinger, who kept referring to his client as financial analyst Charles Schwab.
Schottinger's sports fan friends, Brian Smith, 20, and Spencer Wright, 19, allegedly recognized Schaub at the restaurant. When they saw him later on Elliewood Avenue near Mincer's, Wright wanted to wish Schaub good luck in Atlanta, he testified.
As for Schottinger, "I had no idea who Matt Schaub was," Schottinger testified. That didn't prevent him from calling Schaub "Schwab."
"It was stupid," Schottinger admitted. He testified that a polo-wearing friend of Schaub's stood between the two men and that Schaub reached around "Pink Polo" and slapped Schottinger in the face.
"I kept saying the Schwab financial analyst thing, and he came around his friend again and tried to put me in a headlock," said Schottinger. "We stood there in disbelief."
According to Schottinger, the group encountered Schaub and his friend in the pink polo again in front of the Buffalo Wing Factory when they went back to retrieve another pal.
There, claimed Schottinger, "Schaub walked up to me and punched me in the mouth... And Pink Polo punched me in the cheek."
When Schottinger tried to call 911, he testified, the bouncer grabbed his phone twice and then punched him in the nose. Gushing blood, Schottinger flagged down a police officer. When Schottinger got out of the hospital, Schaub was the only alleged assailant he could identify, and he went to the magistrate and swore out a warrant.
Schottinger's friends, Wright and Smith, corroborated his account but, under Lawrence's cross examination, admitted they'd talked about the incident a number of times in the dorm.
Brian White is a fourth-year football player who was out that night with former teammates Schaub and Ryan Sawyer, now Schaub's roommate in Atlanta.
After stops at the Wing Factory and Jabberwocky, Schaub and White lost Sawyer when he went to the bathroom, and the pair proceeded to the corner of University Avenue and Elliewood Avenue.
"We turned the corner and we were confronted with this guy who said, 'Charles Schwab, give me a job in Atlanta,'" White told the court.
White denied any physical contact between Schaub and Schottinger. "I was maybe pushing people back," White testified. "I kept saying, 'Get this guy out of here.'"
Schaub phoned Sawyer to report he was being hassled. "I went to Matt and said, 'This guy has nothing to lose, and you have everything,'" said Sawyer. The football players escorted Schaub back to the Wing Factory.
Sawyer testified that Schottinger followed them down Elliewood, taunting, "Charles Schwab, tell your dad to get me a job."
Wing Factory bouncer and fellow UVA football player Andrew Hoffman heard a commotion up Elliewood and observed Schaub trying to walk away from Schottinger, he said.
At the Wing Factory, Hoffman hustled Schaub into the restaurant and refused to let Schottinger's party in. Schaub left by another door, his friends said.
Hoffman also testified that the restaurant's owner, Osama El-Atari, had been watching the incident. El-Atari asked the non-football player group to leave and then snatched Schottinger's phone when he threatened to call 911.
"The kid emerged from the group with blood running down, saying, 'I've been assaulted," said Hoffman. "I didn't see Osama hit him."
El-Atari was arrested January 13 and goes to court on assault and battery charges March 25. And the scene of the bloodied nose, the Buffalo Wing Factory, reportedly has closed. [See "The Dish" in this issue for more–editor.]
Finally, it was Schaub turn to testify about turning the corner to find "a group of gentlemen with Mr. Schottinger in the lead. We were, 'Who are they? I have no reason to speak with you.'"
Schaub described his friends coming to his aid and getting him away from the "guys harassing me." He denied touching Schottinger.
Judge Downer said he found everyone "refreshingly honest" about how much they had to drink– between six and eight beers in Schaub's case– and that he believed alcohol was a factor for all the participants.
"There's no doubt Mr. Schottinger started the action," said Downer, "perhaps to show his friends he's not impressed with Mr. Schaub."
Downer wasn't convinced about the alleged slap and headlock, and of the latter he said, "I'm not satisfied that rises to assault and battery."
What was undisputed is that Schottinger was injured. "If I believed Mr. Schaub hit him, I'd find him guilty, and he'd be looking at jail time," said Downer. A Class 1 misdemeanor assault and battery conviction carries up to 12 months in jail and the possibility of a fine up to $2,500.
But Downer didn't find evidence beyond a reasonable doubt and declared Schaub not guilty.
"It is always frightening to be charged with a criminal offense," defense attorney Lawrence said after the trial. "We were very fortunate that we had very credible witnesses that together saw the whole transaction," including two who weren't football players and "had no dog in the hunt," Lawrence said.
"Friday was a great day for me," Schaub told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "It's a great weight off my shoulders to have this behind me. Now, I don't have to look back on that anymore. I can get on with my life."
Mark Schottinger will be back in court again March 25, facing Buffalo Wing Factory owner Osama El-Atari.
That won't be El-Atari's first day in court. After an unrelated September 13 incident, he was arrested and charged with felonious assault. Those charges were dismissed February 17– the day before Schaub's trial.
Quarterback Matt Schaub in 2003 before the beginning of his final season at UVA and before becoming an NFL player, is acquitted of punching out a second-year student last fall.


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REAL ESTATE- GIMME SHELTER- Going camping? Keep your firewood at home
Q: Last year, we heard something about forest destroying bugs being transported to forest by campers bringing firewood from home. Is this still a danger?
A: Several invasive insects have hitched rides all over the country in firewood that folks have brought from their homes to their campsites, expanding the pest's impact beyond what would be possible on their own. The biggest concern is a green beetle called the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB). The adult EAB can only fly a half-mile from the tree where it's born, yet from its original entry into the United States only six years ago, it is now in seven states, including Maryland, West Virginia, and Virginia. EABs probably arrived here on solid wood packing material carried in cargo ships or airplanes originating in its native Asia.
If the EABs were found here in contaminated firewood, your home would be safe, as they only attack living ash wood. They are not like termites.However, trees in woodlots as well as landscaped areas can be affected, and larval galleries have been found in trees or branches measuring as little as one inch in diameter. All species of North American ash appear to be susceptible.
The adult beetles nibble on ash foliage but cause little damage. However, their larvae feed on the inner bark of ash trees, disrupting the tree's ability to transport water and nutrients. Since they were discovered in 2002, EABs have killed tens of millions of ash trees, costing municipalities, property owners, nursery operators, and forest products industries tens of millions of dollars.
Quarantines have had to be enforced in infected areas to contain the EAB. Shipments of ash nursery trees and ash logs are now regulated, and transporting firewood outside of any quarantined area is illegal, but transport of infested firewood remains a problem.
In Virginia, EABs have only been discovered in Fairfax County, once in 2003 and again last year. In both cases, major attacks were launched to successfully eradicate them. So far, EABs have not been spotted anywhere else in Virginia, but it's good idea to keep this little boring beauty on your radar this Spring.
While the adult EAB is easy to recognize, the larvae form is harder to spot. That's also the life cycle stage that travels well in firewood. Hiding just beneath the bark, this flat-headed borer eats its way around the tree through the living layer creating a network of galleries that quickly cuts off the tree's lifeline and kills it. The tree is then– you guessed it– cut for firewood, and the cycle continues.
So, what to do? Don't move firewood at all– either to or from the campsite. You can also be an advocate and hang "Don't move Firewood" posters in public areas or the corner store near you. Posters can be requested through your local Virginia Cooperative Extension office.


text: June 17, 2009, Apple birthed a new iPhone firmware which caused possibly one of the biggest server hiccups to date. If you own an iPhone, then you probably encountered the dreaded message,  "iPhone activation servers are temporarily unavailableâ€. I nearly popped a blood vessel in my eye when I read that error message. Being the impatient iPod fanboy that I am, I stood in front of my Mac for the next 2 hours clicking the update button to no avail. After what seemed like years (2 hours and 18 minutes to be exact), I was finally prompted by the wondrous message "preparing iPhone for updateâ€. My pleas had been answered.


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Holbrook Newark Directory Company, Newark.
I selected the Digital Archive Template for this Directory. Clicked on Add, New, and typed "dig" as the Keyword (for Digital) and selected that template.
The date to enter is:
- Collection: U S City Directories, 1821-1989
- Collection format: digital archives
- Website creator/owner: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc
- Website title: Ancestry.com
- URL: www.ancestry.com
- Year: 2011
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That information came from the Source Description from Ancestry.com.
For the Citation detail: I entered
entry for Agnes Steiger Klepp accessed: 07 May 2012
and the Citation text:
citing Holbrook's Directory, Newark 1900 Holbrook Directory Company; (Newark, New Jersey) page 680
So the Reference Note is:
"U S City Directories, 1821-1989", Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com), entry for Agnes Steiger Klepp accessed: 07 May 2012. citing Holbrook's Direcotry, Newark 1900 Holbrook Directory Company; (Newark, New Jersey) page 680..(just noticed a typo in the image) But the Reference note is correct.
Again, the sequence of the Text in the Reference Note is controlled by the Template selected, and the information that is put in the Citation Details, and Citation Text fields. The formatting of the text is under the control of FTM2012.
I am changing my City Directory (Beta) entries to this format.
Lesson Learned: Evidence Explained! is a great resource. But sometimes identifying the right template, based on that resource, is difficult when working with Online Resources. (for me at least)
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• metathesis •
mê-tæ-thê-sis • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun, mass
Meaning: 1. (Linguistics) The switching of one sound or letter in a word with another. 2. (Chemistry) A chemical reaction between two compounds in which parts of each are interchanged to form two new compounds.
Notes: Today's rather technical linguistic word comes replete with all the derivational forms we need. We have our choice of metathetic or metathetical for the adjective, and -ly may be added to the latter for the adverb: metathetically. The verb is a predictable metathesize, as two sounds might metathesize in a word. The biggest pitfall to avoid is the confusion of this word with the medical term, metastasis "movement or spread (of a disease or pain)".
In Play: Linguistic metathesis most often involves R and L, the "liquid" consonants: flimsy was created from filmsy by metathesis. When we say perogative for prerogative or perscription for prescription, we commit metathesis, switching the positions of the R and E. In some dialects of English ask is metathesized to aks and another common speech error is the pronunciation of foliage as foilage, switching the L and the I. Keep your ears pealed! Southerners love metathesis: their pronunciations of pretty as perty, and difference [di-frêns] as differnce all reflect this proclivity.
Word History: Today's Good Word is a Late Latin noun based on the Greek verb metatithenai "to transpose". This verb consists of meta "beyond, over" + tithenai "to place". Meta comes from the same source as English mid and middle. Apparently, it originally meant "between", for that is the meaning of Russian mezhdu, which comes from the same word. Tithenai comes from an earlier form dhe-ti-, the source of English deed and do. (For more about metathesis in other languages, click here).
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My friend Karen, over at Flights of Whimsy posted about her "Cloud Dough" recently, and I knew we just had to try it. We used some store bought "Moon Sand" about a month ago. It was very expensive and came in a very small container.
Karen's recipe is very easy:
8 cups of flourThe kids decided since it was fairly close to Halloween that we should rename our concoction from "Cloud Dough" to "Ghost Dough". They've had a lot of fun with it, but it is very messy. We have a carpeted classroom and the flour mixture can really make a mess on our dark colored carpet. We've been putting a tarp down, but of course, children seem to have a knack of getting the dough just outside the boundaries of the tarp. All in al, the sensory experience far outweighs the mess. The children delight in running their fingers through it and molding it with playdough or sand molds as their hands. I guess we'll have to rename it again now that the Halloween season has ended. Hmmmm...maybe "Snow Dough" ?!! :)
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Teton County commissioners in western Wyoming will pay an attorney $150 per hour to oversee a Buffalo Valley property owner's appeal of a land-use ruling.
Commissioners agreed to hire attorney Mike Barton to handle an appeal hearing for Buffalo Valley RV Resort owner Harry Washut, who contends he should be allowed to bring recreational park trailers onto his property without special approval from county planners, the Jackson Hole News & Guide reported.
County Commissioners Hank Phibbs and Paul Perry said the appeal was a waste of money. Phibbs called it "an exercise in fantasy."
Even if Washut prevails, commissioners said they are not sure he would be allowed to bring recreational park trailers to his property.
Washut is challenging a decision made in March by Planning Director Jeff Daugherty that recreational park trailers are unlike other recreational vehicles in that they are semi-permanent. Recreational park trailers or park models are hard-sided units that sit on a chassis. They are hauled to campgrounds, where they are connected to electric and sewer services.
Washut requested in February that Daugherty approve the recreational park trailers, which would have allowed the campground owner to wheel new units onto his property without additional county approvals.
Commissioners questioned Washut's appeal because a new set of rules has been put in place that regulate the use of recreational park trailers at campgrounds. Washut asked Daugherty to review the use of recreational park trailers under an old set of rules, which commissioners said would no longer apply to his project.
Attorney Melissa Owens, who is representing Washut, argued that the units are similar to other recreational vehicles and that Washut should be allowed to bring the recreational trailers to his property, regardless of changes to the county's land-use rules.
"Had [recreational park trailer] use on this property been deemed a similar use, Mr. Washut could have wheeled in the [recreational] park trailers," Owens said Tuesday. "The text amendment passing after that wouldn't apply to Buffalo Valley at that point. So appealing the similar use determination would have precluded the new amendment."
Owens and attorney David DeFazio filed an appeal in April.
Deputy County Attorney Nicole Krieger said commissioners could decide there shouldn't be a hearing, but that they should hear the appeal. Commission chairman Ben Ellis agreed.
"What you can do with that appeal is unclear, but the right to appeal is there," Ellis said.
Commissioners agreed to stop planning staff from forcing Washut to remove three recreational park trailers he already has at his campground.
Planning staff said the units were illegally brought to the campground. They held off taking action while Washut had a pending application. When he withdrew it, county staff sent a letter to Washut that threatened legal action if he did not remove the units.
In return, Washut's attorney promised that he wouldn't bring any more trailers to the property while the appeal was pending.
Washut has been trying to bring recreational park trailers to his property for two years. He went through several reviews and meetings with county staff and elected officials but was unable to secure approval of his request, through which he initially asked to bring more than a hundred recreational park trailers to his property. Washut faced a stiff challenge from a neighboring ranch owner, who hired a former state attorney general to oppose Washut.
Commissioners were nearing a decision on the project in April, but Washut withdrew his application, saying that he did not believe he needed special permission from the county to bring the units to his land. Washut is the only campground owner still fighting with the county about the trailers.


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Somone purportedly working with the hacker group Anonymous claims he took down Northside Independent School District's website on Saturday to protest the district's use of tracking badges, but the district's site was never compromised, a spokesman said.
According to Northside spokesman Pascual Gonzalez, someone apparently tried to hack NISD.net over the weekend but was unsuccessful.
"In the server log, there was a flurry of activity of people trying to get into the network," Gonzalez said Sunday, "but they did not. There was never a compromise of information or a breach of security."
In a statement posted online, the self-described teenager, who goes by the name @tr1xxyAnon on Twitter, said he took the site down because the district "is stripping away the privacy of students in your school."
Northside has been testing a "radio frequency identification" tracking system at Jay High School and Jones Middle School to track attendance and maximize per-student funding from the state. Eventually, Northside could use the technology at all 112 campuses.
"Now it is your school and your rules, but you seen what I did to your website, and have a simple deal for you, weather you accept it or not, is up to you," the statement reads. "If you still want to do this tracking idea on the students, at least have a meeting with each and every students parents, so they know what is going on."
The writer then said he was giving the district up to three days to have a meeting with parents, and, "IF you do not hold this meeting and nothing happens, I will simply shut down your website, like I did last time. I hope you think carefully about what I have said."
Gonzalez said the district would be monitoring servers with extra vigilance. He added that Northside will turn over whatever evidence they have to the appropriate law enforcement agency this week.
According to the Bexar County district clerk's office, a student sued Northside over the tracking tags on Wednesday, but details on the suit were not immediately available.
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Bloomberg, who all of our entrenched sources tell us trusted Haggerty as a key liaison to Queens County Republicans, intended for the money to be used to pay campaign workers to watch polling places during the 2009 election.
However, the party then allegedly paid $750,000 of that money to Special Election Operations, LLC, a company established by Haggerty.
But the party and the Bloomberg campaign believe that operation fell considerably short of the $750,000 price tag, and they say that Haggerty was not entitled to keep any of the extra money.
According to charges filed by the Manhattan District Attorney's office, Haggerty used the extra cash to buy out his brother's share of their family house in the tony neighborhood of Forest Hills Gardens.
So let's get this straight: there was political poll watcher money flying around and nobody thought to hire any of our operatives at Pol Position? Five-hundred dollars a day to fall asleep at a voting booth in St. Albans or the Rockaways? We're perfectly qualified. Happy days, indeed!
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PRINCETON — The Princeton City Council hopes to save $865,000 in interest during the next 17 years by refinancing four bond/loan instrument series.
At this week's meeting, the Princeton City Council heard from John Vezzetti, assistant vice president of Bernardi Securities Inc. of Chicago, the municipal underwriting firm which has been working with the city council on the refinancing proposal for several months. Vezzetti briefly reviewed the refinancing benefits with the council, projecting the city will save $865,000 by the refinancing.
The four bond/loan instrument series are $1.75 million in outstanding water revenue bonds, $3 million for the wastewater treatment facility, $3.85 million for the 133-acre logistics park purchase, and $3 million for capital projects for the electrical plant and system.
After hearing Vezzetti's recommendation, the council unanimously approved the four ordinances to refinance the bond/loan instrument series. Commissioner Ray Swanson was absent.
In other business at Monday's meeting, Commissioner Joel Quiram suggested the city council change its way of approving ordinances from having just one reading to having two readings at two separate meetings. The change would help promote transparency and trust with city residents, he said.
In his conversations with residents, Quiram said he is finding a lot of mistrust of the city government. The two readings would show transparency and help build trust between residents and the council, he said.
In the rare case of an emergency, the city council could have an emergency exemption in place which would allow both readings to be done at the same meeting, Quiram said.
In his experience, Princeton City Manager Jeff Clawson said he used to work in Aledo, where the council has done two readings of an ordinance for more than 40 years. In Iowa, the state requires municipalities to have three readings of an ordinance before approval. In Illinois, the state law is silent, he said.
Commissioner Bob Warren questioned Quiram on his "transparency" comment. Meeting agendas are posted 48 hours before each meeting, so the public has time to look at any ordinances and contact commissioners if they have questions or concerns. Requiring the two readings would just slow down the process of government, he said.
"It's certainly going to clog up the process. The one thing we don't need is a slower reacting government," Warren said. "We need the government to act on the issues and to act in a timely fashion, and this is going to slow it down."
In his experience, most people just aren't that interested, or they would come to the council meetings or at least call their commissioners, Warren said.
The council's most important ordinance passed each year is the tax levy, but no one attends even those meetings, Warren said. In his 12 years on the council, the issue getting the most response from the public was when Princeton had a bunch of cats running loose, he said.
In his opinion, Quiram was hearing from a vocal minority of Princeton residents, not the majority, Warren added.
After further discussion, Mayor Keith Cain asked Clawson to do some more research into the ordinance reading issue, so the council could continue its discussion at a future meeting.
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When Whole Foods Yorkville in Toronto offered me the chance to participate in the "Blogger Gobbler" challenge around Canadian Thanksgiving, I was intrigued. A challenge involving creating a holiday recipe with two secret ingredients – sweet potatoes & 365 Balsamic Vinegar. A challenge to say the very least. We had free range with what type of dish we could make from appetizers to dessert (!) and I thought long and hard about this and finally decided on a hearty main dish to make for our vegetarian guests over Thanksgiving.
So often a vegetarian's lot during holiday meals ends up being a cobbled-together plate of side dishes and I wanted to make something special for our non-meat eating guests that everyone would be able to enjoy. Sweet potatoes with goat cheese was my first thought so I immediately imagined a free-form galette. But where to fit in the balsamic vinegar??? Recently, somewhere I tasted an onion jam made with balsamic caramelized onions (I can't for the life of me remember where) and realised that it might work in this dish, at least with the goat cheese component. Wasn't sure if it would be too rich with the sweet potatoes though…
I was extremely pleased with how this came out – the onions offer a subtle sweetness to counter the tangy goat cheese and the sweet potatoes give the dish some bulk without weighing it down – it's a wonderful main dish for both vegetarians and meat-eaters alike (and was enjoyed by both at our Thanksgiving table).
Sweet potato galette with balsamic-caramelized onions and goat cheese
A vegetarian main dish that's perfect for Thanksgiving – no more sad plates full of veggie "side dishes" for your vegetarian guests' main courses!
- For the pastry
- 1.5 cups whole wheat flour
- 4 tablespoons cornmeal
- a pinch of salt
- 125g very cold (not frozen) butter, cut into tiny cubes
- 1 medium egg, lightly beaten
- 6-8 tablespoons ice cold water
- For the filling
- 400g sweet potato, peeled and cubed (1.5cm cubes)
- olive oil for drizzling
- coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 large Vidalia onion, thinly sliced in rings
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
- 6 tablespoons 365 Aged Balsamic Vinegar of Modena
- 1 egg, lightly beaten for egg wash
- approximately 200g plain goat cheese (in a log) cut into 8-10 thin rounds
- Make the pastry:
- Sift the flour into a large bowl.
- Add the cornmeal and salt and mix lightly with your fingers.
- Add the cubed butter and, using your fingers, lightly rub in the butter to the flour/ cornmeal/ salt until is resembles breadcrumbs with some pieces the size of small peas (you can do this in a food processor as well).
- Make a well in the middle of the flour mix and add the egg.
- Mix the flour into the egg until it just starts to come together.
- Add the water and incorporate until the dough just comes together. The dough should be firm enough to form a ball – it might be a little crumbly but press the dough into a disk and wrap it tightly in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes minimum.
- Make the filling
- Pre-heat oven to 350 ̊F.
- In a medium-‐sized bowl, toss the sweet potato cubes with the salt and pepper and enough olive oil to well coat the cubes.
- Spread sweet potato cubes on a baking tray covered with parchment or a silicone mat.
- Bake for about 30 minutes – the cubes will be very soft to the touch.
- Remove sweet potato cubes from the oven and cool on paper towel.
- Now heat the butter in a heavy frying pan over medium-‐high heat.
- Once the butter is melted, add the onion rings, and sauté until soft (about 3 minutes).
- Lower the heat and add the brown sugar, making sure to thoroughly coat the onion pieces.
- Once the sugar has melted, add the balsamic vinegar. Keeping an eye on the onions, continue to cook for about 8 minutes until most of the liquid has reduced and the balsamic and sugar has nicely caramelized.
- Remove pan from heat and set aside.
- To assemble:
- Pre-heat oven to 350 ̊F.
- Grease a 10 inch quiche or tart pan.
- Remove the dough from the fridge, let sit for a couple of minutes, then roll between parchment or wax paper or onto a lightly floured surface until it is about 13-14 inches wide.
- Remove the pastry from the parchment and press the pastry into the pan (you might need to trim some of the pastry and the parchment around the edges).
- Take about 3⁄4 of the cooked sweet potato cubes and spread them evenly over the base of the tart.
- Using the back of a spatula, lightly press the sweet potato to mash it a little.
- Take about 3⁄4 of the goat cheese rounds and place them evenly around the tart base, pressing them into the sweet potato slightly.
- Take about 3⁄4 of the onions and scatter them evenly over the goat cheese and sweet potato.
- Place the rest of the goats cheese, onions and sweet potato cubes evenly over the rest of the filling.
- Fold the uncovered edges of dough up and around the filling, working your way around the galette. You'll end up with pleated edges that are a little rough and you might need to trim some uneven parts to ensure you don't end up with a thick area of just crust.
- Brush the edges of the galette with a little egg wash.
- Bake for 45 minutes or until the pastry is golden and the cheese inside is melty. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Who knew – sweet potatoes and balsamic vinegar – a match made in heaven!
I took smaller versions of this to the "taste off" event where the bloggers' dishes were tasted and judged by a panel including Good Food Revolution's Malcolm Jolley on taste, creativity and presentation. I don't have a pic of the mini ones to share but dare I say, they were pretty darned cute 😉
And guess what? My dish was chosen as one of the Top 3!
Which means that the Whole Foods kitchens will be preparing my recipe along with the other two finalists' to share with Whole Foods shoppers at the Final Taste Off Event on November 28, 5:30pm in the Whole Foods Yorkville (87 Avenue Road, Toronto) in-store café. The first 100 customers who join the event in the café for the taste-off can vote for their favourite dish (and bask in a lot of sweet potato deliciousness!), and the winner will receive bragging right for the year, and a $100 Gift Card to boot. The prize would be nice but I am simply thrilled that I get to share an original recipe with Whole Foods shoppers – I hope to see those of you who live in Toronto at the event.


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This is it. My longer review. It probably could have been written in a different format, but, meh.
The controls in this game are standard PS2 style controls, but tweaked since you only have one analog nub and only one set of shoulder buttons. The best news of that is you can actually customize every button to do anything any other button could do, save for the analog nub. it can only be used for steering. This translates to custom setups like mine, Xgas,[ ]brake,Oebrake,^reverse, I have my bumpers up top for shifting gears and use down on the D-pad for a rearview every now and then. For real multiplayer fun, switch the controls on the D-pad and symbol buttons for steering and throttle/brake so you can play, "upside-down", I had to shift with my pinkies in this "Mode", good times.
But aside from the layout being different it really is the same as GT4. Scary I know. So, if you had a hang of how to drive in that game, you should feel pretty confident in this one. The only real problem you'll find yourself in, is how to use the analog nub effectively. I haven't felt comfortable using it at all while playing, and I even bought an attachment to get a better grip on it. I think it has alot to do with how tight the snapback of it is. PS2/3 dual analog controllers have always been loose feeling, this nub is even tighter than an Xbox controller.
I'm going to start off with being honest, the in race background music just sucks. It didn't have GT4's awesomeness, or GT2's dull simplicity for heartthumpingness. New word thanks to boring music. It pretty much is horrible until you unlock "User BGM", aka, Custom Soundtracks. If you use WMP, do not sync the unit and do the drag/drop. It will place the music file in an album file, in an artist file, in the Music file. All music files MUST be in the Music folder's root section. It will not play any in an artist or album folder.
I was pretty much annoyed with all Main Menu music and sound effects, so off they went for me. Though you can just lower them to dogs-only level if you want. I just kept the in race sound effects on, engine noise baby. It's still weak engine noise, again the Game shows it's roots of being more of a GT4 port.
The oddest sound you'll hear is Mr. Jay Leno. He does a bit of voicework, but it's seldom heard out of the "Challenges", so it's really a waste.
The car models are decent enough, better than GT2, not quite perfect as alot of them have some blurry spots, system limitation. Camera angles are comprised of the standard chase, front bumper(think FPS), roof position, and a very interesting region dependent in-cockpit view.
The in-cockpit view will either have you on the left or right depending on where that car was sold, (GT-R SpecV '09 is right handed), and you even sometimes get a pretty useless side mirror that does work. There are no wheels or hands or instrument panel in here, just a blacked out space of nothingness, I'm going to go with system limitation and being a damn near port of GT4 so none of the cars have that modeled out.
Replays are also available, standard controls for them, ability to see from fixed position cameras like in 99% of all real life racing or from the front bumper view. You can also view the car's data, even on the AI cars.
The Non-Career mode is really just that. An open-ened choose what you want to race kind of deal. You set it up pretty much like this, pick a race type and number of laps, then your car and do any setup work (tires and traction control are reall the only options), then the course, and off you go. How much you earn for the race depends on the number of laps and the course.
And on the topic of money, you start with 100,000 credits to pick a car or cars in my case. Espicially since the dealership is only 4 manufacturers and it shuffles through them and their stock pretty randomly. After 50 in game days, I've yet to see a Chevrolet dealer, and I am a HUGE Chevrolet fan. There is a solution to this however, see the Car Sharing feature. So really, buy a car if its there and you really like it, it just might not be back until the game shuffles through the other 799 cars.
The other half of the game is the Challenges. This is where you find your "license" tests (sans licenses). 54 different challanges from rudimentary starting and stopping to high-speed cornering on Circuit De La Sarthe with a R390. My biggest gripe about these aside from having no added bonus to completing (except for custom sountracks) is that there are 1-Lap Magics. Except they're actually 1/2-Lap Magic...I'll leave you to ponder the idea of that one.
You can watch a demonstration of these as always, with Mr. Leno's semi-decent voice acting, and while good for being not so mundane 4 car racing, some of the times they require you to churn out are downright rediculous. Example: B2, my best time is 12.407, seven thousandth away from gold. Silver by the way is 12.500 seconds. That's right, the difference between gold and silver on this one is a mere .1 seconds. The learning curve on this game is pretty steep on some challenges.
Multiplayer has so many neat features, you really got to check it out for yourself, that and I've yet to see a friend so we haven't raced yet. Sorry folks.
A nice PSP system ability is present, thank god really. If you pause it during a race and turn the system off, the game will hold that spot just like it does on about every PSP game. This'll help keep you from going insane when trying to beat a Nur-Hell. 99 Laps(the limit) on that crazy track. It's essentially a 7-12hour race depending on the car. Good luck.
Car sharing, a nice feature that pretty much first appeared in Pokemon if I'm not mistaken. In that game you shared records of monsters seen/owned, savuing you the trouble of trading 30 or so to complete your Pokedex. In this one, you get a copy of every car your friend has purchased and he gets a copy of the ones you bought. Some are restricted from this ability.You don't lose your cars in this mode, so share with as many people as possible to "Drive 'Em All!"
Cars can also be traded on a 1-per-1 level. Really only used for exclusive car models (like the pre-sell cars) and some random awesome cars for no real reason. When doing this, the cars are permenently removed
If you buy this game as a download, the entire Manual is in the game to read over. It's actually a better manual than the one that comes with the UMD version.
Most of the cars from this game are from GT4, as an example, there is only 1 new Chevrolet despite there being about 10 awesome new models since GT4 came out. The Corvette ZR1. The cover car. No Turbo Cobalt, no new Camaro, no Aveo...
This is where you really see how delayed this game is. It feels alot like they had the car models ready to go, but didn't have the system or coding skills to fit it onto the system properly. Or maybe they just got tired of waiting for the PSP to handle 6(+?) cars at once and just dumped it to 4 and threw in some new ones. That's my theory on why it was never released, they really had to give us something to increase new PSP(go) sales.
Things that irked me-
Car Data Transfer??? I have no idea what this does, or where you connect it with a USB cable to? GT5P??
The standard in race music...can't stress that enough.
Not finding Chevrolet in the dealer section after 50 different lineups.
Lack of new cars.
AI cars bumping into me causing me to fail on the 1/2-Lap Magic races.
The in-game manual is better than the one in the box.
No game-share feature to race with cars in your garage. It really is that tasking on the system's processor.
The Gist-
Well, the gist of it is, if you want to make a single race with any car for up to 99 laps (Nur-Hell anyone?), and do it at any time without having to switch cars or settings on the car (tires/engine upgrades), or really worry about anything else, this is the game for you. It is unequaled in that right, but it falls very far from being a Gran Turismo game because it lacks the series' traditional career mode. Whether that's a good thing or not, is dependant upon who you ask. For a portable game with awesome physics and visuals, it is certainly a plus when you don't have hours to sit around practicing your apexing through the Nurs' ga-billion curves.
Control: 4.5/5 (custom controls are awesome, nub feels awkward)
Audio: 3.5/5 (standard music sucks in this one, no Papa Roach cover songs)
Video: 3.75/5 (words are blurry on most cars and you can see some discrepancies on some courses)
Gameplay: 5/5 (2/5 if you have no friends)
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India's love for gold is almost a religion. Beyond being a symbol of wealth and status, gold is part of worship and culture - a tradition that goes back thousands of years. From birth to death, for men and women, among rich and poor - acquiring gold is a goal for the people of India. All of which has made India the world's largest consumer of gold and thus a powerhouse in industry. "If India sneezes, the gold industry will catch a cold," says Ajay Mitra of the World Gold Council. Follow Bryon Pitts as he reports from India's exotic bazaars to its lavish weddings on the country's golden path.
The following script is from "India's Gold" which aired on Feb. 12, 2012. Byron Pitts is the correspondent. David Schneider, producer.
In the past 20 years, India has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies on earth. Today, as a result, India is now the world's largest consumer of gold. Why gold? Because in India, there is no possession more valuable. Just as part of the American dream is to own a home, the dream in India is to own gold. For Indians, gold jewelry is wearable wealth, financial security that's also a fashion statement. India's love for gold is as ancient as its culture.
And with its growing prosperity, the one event that drives most of that demand is an Indian wedding. There may be no wedding like an Indian wedding. The events can last for days with music and dancing and traditions that go back centuries. Everywhere you look, there's a collection of colors, flowers and food. And then there's the gold: breathtaking. Here it's a symbol of purity that also shows off the couple's wealth and wellbeing.
Byron Pitts: I've heard several times since I've been here, "No gold, no wedding."
Divya Chauhan: Yes, absolutely.
Vithika Agarwal: It's very true.
Divya Chauhan: The bride is ready, the groom is ready, the venue is set, the food is set, but if you don't have gold, there's no wedding.
Divya Chauhan and Vithika Agarwal are former beauty queens. Today, they're business partners as wedding planners. In November, in the small southern city of Tumkur, they pulled together the wedding event of the season.
[Chauhan: She's very late, could you ask them to come quickly...]
Two of the town's elite families joined through the marriage of Nivedita Keshavmurthy and Akshay Bavikatte - both doctors.
Agarwal: Unlike Western cultures, where it's about the bride and the groom, here, it's about anything but the bride and the groom.
Chauhan: Yeah.
Agarwal: It's about two families coming together.
Chauhan: Together.
Half of the gold that Indians buy each year is jewelry bought for a wedding. And this was one of the estimated 10 million weddings that take place in India every year. But few rise to the level of this lavish affair, stretched over five days. The tent was custom built for the ceremonies. Water piped in for fountains and musicians flown in from Mumbai, the entertainment capital of India. The lighting, audio and video orchestrated like a Bollywood movie set. The families spent over $200,000 just on gold.


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Preliminary results of a 6-month study sponsored by the United States Department of Energy show that households that switch to the latest water- and energy-efficient home appliances can save substantial amounts of water and electricity.
The study's results also indicate that water-starved communities can significantly reduce water demand by encouraging residents to switch to these appliances and sponsoring serious community water and energy conservation efforts, such as conservation fairs.
The scientific research project is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy with the support of Frigidaire Home Products, Portland General Electric -- one of Oregon's largest electric utilities and the Caroma Company.
Preliminary results show that the homes in Lafayette, Ore., where the first set of data was collected were able to save an average of 16,600 gallons of water a year, just by switching to the energy-efficient Frigidaire clothes washers and dishwashers and Caroma toilets. Savings results from efficient showerheads, and faucet aerators are not yet available. If all the households in this town of 2,240 were to achieve these savings with efficient clothes washers, dishwashers and toilets, water savings would amount to about 14 million gallons per year. Wastewater needing to be treated by the city's sewage treatment plants would be reduced the same amount.
"This is like turning our households into virtual water reservoirs," said Theresa Syphers, Mayor of Lafayette, "the water saved by our residents can contribute to alleviating our water supply problems. The fact is that tapping conservation as a new source of water is more viable and cost effective than ever before."
"This consumer research is quantifying the exceptional savings both in dollars and resources that can be realized when efficient products like those with the ENERGY STAR label are widely incorporated into communities," said U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson. "We believe the final results will show that the efforts of Lafayette and Wilsonville, Oregon, should be duplicated across the country."
The study continues with 25 additional households in Wilsonville. The new ENERGY STAR appliances and efficient fixtures are being installed this week.
Part of a two-phase program that began in Lafayette, Ore. in November 1999, the study is designed to determine how the typical household can help save millions of gallons of water per year, one household at a time. The early results show how new energy- and water-efficient appliances and fixtures add up to water savings for parched communities -- especially good news for the Western and Midwestern states facing droughts once again this summer.
Study Details
Conducted by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the study features two fast-growing cities near Portland, Ore. to gauge the actual water and energy that can be saved by households and communities in real life use. The program, called SWEEP (Saving Water and Energy Program Education Program) involves changing out the clothes washers, dryers, dishwashers, toilets and showerheads in 25 households in Lafayette and replacing them with some of the most efficient products on the market. Actual water and electricity use of the old and new products was metered and recorded for scientific analysis over the test period.
Because of their rapid growth, both Lafayette and Wilsonville suffer from water shortages and strain on their local water supply, which is based on wells. Wilsonville has imposed restrictions on water use during the summer months. The city's water rates will increase 200 percent over the next two years to help pay for a new water treatment plant. Lafayette has also raised water rates to pay for water and sewer improvements to accommodate growth. Both cities prefer to avoid having to tap into the Willamette River, and spending millions of dollars in treatment plants and pipelines.
Frigidaire Home Products donated a total of 50 sets of Frigidaire ENERGY STAR appliances to the study -- Frigidaire Tumble Action clothes washers and matching dryers and Frigidaire Precision Wash dishwashers -- to each community. Caroma Company contributed high-performance water closets and Portland General Electric made the showerheads available.
The Frigidaire ENERGY STAR clothes washer uses a tumbling action rather than immersing clothes in a traditional large tub of water. Preliminary data from the study indicate that it used 43 percent less water and saved 25 gallons per load. Annualized water savings are projected to be 8,500 gallons. The Frigidaire clothes washer also used 73 percent less electricity than the machines they replaced, resulting in annualized average savings of 330 kilowatt hours.
"Frigidaire has supported this study because it demonstrates how people can reduce their own water and energy use," said Tony Evans, vice president, corporate communications for Frigidaire's parent company. "They also have better control of utility bills to benefit the entire community thanks to advanced products like the Frigidaire clothes washer and dishwasher."
Frigidaire's ENERGY STAR dishwasher also contributed to the savings. The unit's special wash system, which alternates spray arm action, reduced water use by 25 percent in the study, using only 6 gallons of water per load (8-12 gallons is typical for older models) and adding an additional 330 gallons to the household water savings annually. It also reduced energy use by 25 percent.
The second part of the SWEEP Program is a high-profile education and incentive program aimed at encouraging citizens and businesses to replace their existing appliances and to adopt water and energy saving behaviors in everyday life.
The community-wide information campaign will offer educational materials and neighborhood events centered on saving water and energy in homes and businesses. Local schools are including projects on raising awareness of water and energy savings, and civic leaders are planning community conservation fairs.
Incentives are being offered to help residents change to the new appliances. This includes low-interest loans, special purchase incentives or rebates from the city and income tax credits from the state. The Oregon Office of Energy is providing $400,000 in low-interest loans to the cities. In turn, the cities are loaning the money to residents and businesses to buy the appliances and fixtures that have created these impressive savings. Frigidaire is also offering special purchase rebates on their appliances
"Some of the best opportunities to save energy are when the measures not only help the environment and save money, but solve other problems too," said John Savage, director of the Oregon Office of Energy. "We'd like to see other communities in Oregon try this innovative approach to saving water and energy."


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Shirt: Glamorous Over-sized Chiffon Blouse HERE
Bag: Dooney and Bourke Cross Body Bag (Saffron color sold out other options available) HERE
Shoes: Steve Madden Nonstp in Natural Leather (on sale now!) HERE
THE PERFECT BOYFRIEND HAS ARRIVED. Genetic Los Angeles has done it again… they have made a jean that looks amazing and feels even better. The cut of the 'Alexa' Skinny Straight Crop is loose enough that it is for sure a boyfriend jean, but tailored enough so that your legs don't get totally lost inside. I would recommend going with your TRUE size to get a relaxed boyfriend fit.
Men's inspired women's wear is all the rage this fall so I paired these jeans with a boxy flowing white button down. Warning the top is pretty sheer. I pair it with a nude bra when pretending to be a grown up…the rest of the time I will usually throw on a black bralette from Shimera (my new obsession) and call it a day.
Shoes and Bag add a feminine touch to this boyfriend inspired look. The open toe sandals go with just about everything and surprisingly so does this cute little bag.
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Cometstyles 11:55, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
Actually there is such thing as three-quarter blood. its even on this site. go under the weasley family tree and see. I'm just going by this site and this site onlu. so dont blame me!
harrypotterroxs 6:29, April 26 2008
Dear KickAssJedi!
Why do You keep reverting the pictures I've added. The picture of Harry Potter is of a better quality than the previous version. I've uploaded it, because the previous one was very bad. I also think that we need a picture from OotP. And concerning the picture of Ginny, I think the brighter version is better, because the darker one looks oversaturated and it doesn't look good.
Varda 09:05, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Ive changed the harry potter one for the same reason as the ginny one, the grey backround images are better than the brown ones because the subjects in them are easier to see, as for ginny the brown backround one is the darker of the two not the other way round, and as for having an image from order of the phoenix, the films are non canon so it doesnt matter.-KickAssJedi 09:11, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, my mistake. I have a 50% brightness on my screen and I've only seen the brown version on higher brightness. Now I agree with you. I apologize for that. I didn't want to sound rude.
Varda 09:18, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Dont worry about it, you didnt sound rude, just expressing your opinion, problem solved i hope?.-KickAssJedi 09:24, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Of course! :) I'm glad that here are so good members, who really care for Harry Potter Wiki!
Varda 09:27, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Yeah me too.-KickAssJedi 09:30, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Quirrell name and article
You moved the Professor Quirrell article to "Quirinus Quirrell"...but according to the article text there is actually doubt that his first name IS Quirinus,thus using the title was playing it safe.Is there a clear canon source that "Quirinus" is correct?...if so,the first-name-not-known statement should be removed,and if not,the article title shouldn't use the name.--Louis email@example.com/220.127.116.11 21:00, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
According to wikipedia jk rowling has said Quinirinus is his first name, I know wikipedia can be an unreliable source, and if it turns out not to be true or a source cant be found, then the article needs to be moved to just Quirrell as its wiki policy NO TITLES in articles names.KickAssJedi 07:21, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
Hey, I wanted your opinion on something. I rewrote the standard Character infobox, I added some fields (kind of by combining what was there and adding in some from your rewritten infoboxes). Anyway, I added a few things you didn't have in your infoboxes, I was wondering if you think they should be added into the Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin, etc. etc. The fields I added are: blood, boggart, patronus, and job (which doesn't make sense to have for students?)
Also do you think it'd make sense to have a difference between a "death eater" and a "dark wizard" (as in two different infoboxes)? Do you know what policy is followed for infoboxes here? I know on Wookieepedia we're supposed to use the most current known organization that the character is a part of...is there a similar policy here? Thanks.
-- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 19:49, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
- Hey, also I don't know if you've been updating each template by hand, but you could just use the following code: {{subst:Character infobox|color1=#3E2E6F|color2=#A0AADB}}. It'll just subsitute the code from that and then you can set the two colors and it'll paste them in. So you update the main template (the character template) and just resave each page using the different colors. :) -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 20:19, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
Yes defintley add those extra fields but maybe with animagus as well, im afraid i dont know anything about policy here, as for the death eater dark wizard, seeing as most death eaters are slytherins I dont think they require there own infobox I have made one a dark wizard one for grindlewald.07:31, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
- Added animagus, updated the templates for the four houses. Of course now all the pages need to be updated. :) I'll do the rest of the templates later. -- DarkJedi613 (Talk) 23:27, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
- Cool.-KickAssJedi 07:03, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Editing user pages
Please do not edit other people's user pages. (I'm sorry this came so late after it happened...) but please only edit your own userpage. Thanks. -- Freakatone Talk 20:48, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
- Oh, sorry bout that! -- Freakatone Talk 20:53, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
RE:Monaco Preview
You really don't need me to do it. Just update User:KickAssJedi/monaco.css with this and click preview.--Matoro183 (Talk) 12:18, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
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- You're probably going to need to crop out the left part.--Matoro183 (Talk) 13:45, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
You previously told Freakatone that you also control Vaysey. If that is true, then you need to make sure that everything is in accordance with policy.--Matoro183 (Talk) 14:06, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
House Points Game, 2nd term
Hello! Just to let you know, we're starting a new round of the Harry Potter Wiki House Points Game on September 15th, and we need some new members! By helping to improve the Wiki, you can earn points toward winning the House Cup. Just add your name under your favorite House on this page to join. We hope to see you soon! - Nick O'Demus 10:10, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
Thank you. Starstuff set up the actual template, as I'm not really good at that sort of thing. Jayden told Profiteor that it was his brother. He's going to be gone for another week or two, and when he gets home he's still probably going to need some personal time after that. - Nick O'Demus 10:59, September 4, 2009 (UTC)
Changing Policy
I don't believe we've met before K.A.J, but I really have to tell you something. You said on the voting page that the wiki once used to write everything from an out of universe perspective which ruined it. Yet I never said that everything would have to be written from an out-of universe perspective. Did you read about my two Situations before voting? Depending on which one, we have a choice between deliberately altering the text language to speak in-universe to only those topics from the books and Rowling, or just tagging the pages from films and games as out-of universe. I love this wiki as much as the next person, but I can't accept the overlapping universe view which makes several inconsistent plot lines (see Talk:Sirius Black).--Yin&Yang 21:50, November 18, 2009 (UTC)
Richard Cubison in Deathly Hallows
Do you have any source saying that Richard Cubison is to reprise his role as Antonin Dolohov for Deathly Hallows films? --ÈnŔîčö DC(Send me an Owl!) 14:35, December 24, 2009 (UTC)
- Seth Cooper, the one who uploaded and placed that image to the article agreed to me that the image is not yet confirmed to be Antonin Dolohov. The image was removed from the article by himself. --ÈnŔîčö DC(Send me an Owl!) 15:06, December 24, 2009 (UTC)
Happy Holidays
Why do you keep sending me a message that says "Leave" I didn't do anything wrong!
--Jeffrey1992 20:06, January 7, 2010 (UTC)Jeffrey1992
The Free House Elf
Hey KickAssJedi, I read your comments about The Free House Elf and no offence, but I think he's telling the truth. Why else would he says it's his brother? -- GrouchMan (Send an owl then scram!!) 01:52, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
Well, I moved mine, but I doubt I have enough influence to get any other votes moved. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 20:07, March 7, 2010 (UTC)
Cast List For Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Hello KAJ,
Jayce feels we should not have characters on the list until we know there actors names. I feel we should have the names of the characters and leave the actors names as "TBA". Can you help me out? Realize that these characters are already cast and are in the movie including photographic proof, but their names are not known. I don't feel we should leave them off the list just because there names are not known, and may not be known until the second movie runs (July 15, 2011), over a year away. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. And here's the link for the pictures: http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/full_story/3506
CoolDudeAl 21:48, May 25, 2010 (UTC)
The Snatcher
New user name for Jayce Carver. The Snatcher 17:59, June 2, 2010 (UTC)


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scenes from our road trip
Newport, we had a great time visiting your little town. Wish it hadn't rained so much so we could have explored a bit more. But we enjoyed getting bagels & scones each morning from Jonathan's cafe, eating fish tacos & green salsa at Salty Dog, and taking pictures of everything from beautiful mansions to the inside of your J.Crew (when the sales lady wasn't looking).
And P, we're so proud of you. Your ceremony made me tear up and that was just when the drums started playing before you even marched in. So glad we could spend time with you, and thanks again for indulging me with so many photo-ops all weekend. Please visit soon!
18 comments:
- Chaucee said...
great picks! looks like a nice time.
- June 29, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- Lizzy said...
Isn't Newport so beautiful? I love the walk along the ocean passing mansion after mansion. It looks like you had a great time!
- June 29, 2011 at 2:09 PM
- Anna @ IHOD said...
Alli you are so cute!
I have been to Newport and will never forget those mansions! There were so many quaint cafes and shops too! Thanks for sharing the photos:)
- June 29, 2011 at 2:41 PM
- mary said...
oh i love this!! & a good military ceremony is just the best :)
p.s. so excited to do the book post with you friday! xo
- June 29, 2011 at 2:57 PM
- omoriala said...
Where are you black flats from? I really like them!
- June 29, 2011 at 3:15 PM
- lindsey, honeysuckle & heart said...
your trip looks amazing! i'm definitely bookmarking some of the places you stopped in case we ever head that direction :)
- June 29, 2011 at 3:16 PM
- CukiMuki said...
I went to Newport and is beautiful. Unfortunately, my husband and I did' not have time to know the mansions.
- June 30, 2011 at 1:15 AM
- this free bird said...
These are wonderful photos, Alli. That one in the middle of the two of you is awesome.
- June 30, 2011 at 3:26 AM
- Sandy a la Mode said...
awww these are some great pics alli! looks like you did some shopping!! ;)
- June 30, 2011 at 7:18 AM
- Jordana @ White Cabana said...
looks just gorgeous!
- June 30, 2011 at 8:44 AM
- Andrea Dozier said...
It looks so cute, makes me so excited to go! I hope we have time to look around! Congratulations to P!
- June 30, 2011 at 9:05 AM
- Bethany Suckrow said...
Aw, congrats to Patrick! Feels like AGES ago that we were all in grade school together. Your photos are sweet, as always. ;)
- June 30, 2011 at 11:44 AM
- Erika Lee @ A Tiny Rocket said...
What great photos! Sounds like a perfect trip.
- June 30, 2011 at 5:05 PM
- Tash said...
Love your road trip photos and all the details! Looks like it was a great and memorable trip :)
- July 1, 2011 at 11:46 PM
- Carson Ahlstrom said...
Seems like you two had a wonderful time! Really, one of the great things about owning the car is the opportunity to go on a road trip, and enjoy the sights you can't reach by foot. Those long roads can be very insightful, and you'll never get bored with someone else in the car with you!
- July 4, 2011 at 2:07 PM
- alli/hooray said...
omoriala - thanks! the flats are actually from Target - cheap + cute :)
- July 5, 2011 at 5:20 PM
- Colleen / Inspired to Share said...
So fun Alli! Sounds perfect :) I can't imagine those mansions!
- July 5, 2011 at 10:50 PM
Hi it's your brother. Yes I read your blog occasionally. Any whoot love you lots and I love the pics. Just thought I'd add my two cents to all this globby bloggy stuff.
That is all.
Patrick or "p"
- July 23, 2011 at 11:44 PM


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Once upon a time widows were burned alive on their dead husband's funeral pyres. It was believed that if a widow burn herself to death soon after her husband died, her husband would go to heaven and all his sins would be gone with the wind. Suttee or sati ("good woman" or "chaste wife") was the Indian tradition of a widow burning herself. The practice of Sutee was banned in 1829.
'Suttee was sometimes committed voluntarily, but cases of compulsion, escape, and rescue are known. Scattered instances of it continue to occur, most notoriously in the case of Roop Kanwar, an 18-year-old widow who committed suttee in 1987. The incident was highly controversial, as groups throughout India either publicly defended Kanwar's actions or declared that she had been murdered.'
Religion supports widow burning.
'The most sacred of Hindu scriptures are the Vedas, and the Rig Veda, the oldest Veda, explicitly sanctions the custom of Sati. The following famous `Sati Hymn' of the Rig Veda has been recited during the actual immolation of the widow . Rig Veda 10.18.7 : " Let these women, whose husbands are worthy and are living, enter the house with ghee (applied) as corrylium ( to their eyes). Let these wives first step into the pyre, tearless without any affliction and well adorned.'
Rise, come unto the world of life, O woman — come, he is lifeless by whose side thou liest. Wifehood with this thy husband was thy portion, who took thy hand and wooed thee as a lover. (RV 10.18.8)
The Garudapurana favourably mentions the immolation of a widow on the funeral pyre, and states that women of all castes, even the Candalla woman, must perform Sati. The only exceptions allowed by this benevolent author is for pregnant women or those who have young children. If women do not perform sati, then they will be reborn into the lowly body of a woman again and again till they perform Sati. [ Garuda.Purana. II.4.91-100 ]
* A sati who dies on the funeral pyre of her husband enjoys an eternal bliss in heaven [ Daksa Smrti IV.18-19 ] [ Sm.Samu p.30 ] [ 1200, p.65 ]
* According to Vasishta's Padma-Purana, a woman must, on the death of her husband, allow herself to be burnt alive on the same funeral pyre
* Yajnavalkya, the most important law-giver after Manu, states that sati is the only way for a chaste widow [ Apastamba.I.87 ] [ 1200, p.65 ]
* The Yogini Tantra enjoins upon Brahmana widows to burn themselves on the funeral pyre of their husbands [ Yog.T. II.303-308 ]. Vaisya and Sudra widows were also allowed to do it. It was prohibited to unchaste women and those having many children. [ 1200, p.67 ]
* The Vyasa Smrti gives one of the two alternatives for a Brahmana widow, ie. either to become a sati or to take up ascetism after her tonsure [ Vyasa Sm. II.53 ] [ Sm.S. p.362 ]
Further, the Vishnusmirti gives only two choices for the widow:
Vishnu Smirti.XXV.14 : "If a woman's husband dies, let her lead a life of chastity, or else mount his pyre"
— [ Vis.Sm. xxv.14 ] [ Clay.13 ]
Brahma is one of the main Aryan gods, being the creator of the world ( later he was identified as an incarnation of Vishnu ). One of the Puranas is named after him, the Brahma Purana. Like other Puranas, it was composed after the Vedas ( Pandits hold 4000 B.C., Indologists 700 B.C.) This scripture also sanctions sati:
Brahma Purana.80.75 : " It is the highest duty of the woman to immolate herself after her husband ".
Long life is promised to the sati:
Brahma Purana.80.76, 80.77 : " She [ the sati ] lives with her husband in heaven for as many years as there are pores in the human body, ie. for 35 million years."
— [ Br.P. 80.76, 80.77 ] [ Sheth 103 ]
Vishnu Dharmasutra XXV.14 contains the statement: " On her husband's death, the widow should observe celibacy or should ascend the funeral pyre after him."
Remember Rudyard Kipling's poem The Last Suttee?
Widows are excluded from society.
There is a ceremony during the funeral of husband. Widows smash their bangles, remove their vermilion, colorful clothes and all jewelries they have been wearing. Widows have to wear simple white clothes. They are forced to shave their heads. They are not allowed to eat fish, meat, eggs, milk, onions, garlic and many different kinds of vegetable, animal products and spices. They have to fast many times a month. Widows are not thrown on the funeral pyres these days, but they are thrown on some other kinds of pyres. That is not any less traumatic.
There are more than 40 million widows in India. Most of them are 'living dead'.
A widow's family members would be excluded from the society if they didn't respect to the restrictions society impose on widows. A widow is considered a bad omen, she is excluded from all auspicious events. In some cases even her shadow is considered polluting or offensive to society.
'In India, widows are an invisible community. Although many widows are treated less harshly nowadays, they still face discrimination and neglect. People treat widowhood not as a natural stage in the life cycle of a woman, they treat it as some kind of an aberration. People accept death but do not accept widowhood. "Because somewhere in the Indian psyche, the woman's identity is with the man and the minute he's not there, it's something that cannot be accepted." Women are not considered as separate human beings. Your husband is dead, you are dead. The suffering of widows is one of the brutal consequences of patriarchy.
Shunned from society, widows flock to Vrindaban and Varanasi, pilgrimage towns to die. Young widows are often sexually exploited. Older women beg at temple gates. Some go to Ashrams where they chant prayers. For a four hour chant they can earn a cup of rice and 7 rupees( 12 cents).'
'Hindu widows are not supposed to remarry. With little social or economic status, many become destitute. The truth is, women do not lose their dignity and basic rights when they lose their husbands. But our anti-women society do not like to think about women's basic human rights.
What happens when a man's wife dies? Is he treated as a bad omen? Is he excluded from all auspicious events? Does he stop eating certain food and stop wearing colorful clothes? Is he sent to a lonely place where he has nothing to do but to wait for his death? No. Men don't get abandoned, they remarry young women and start a new life.
You can always watch Water, a great movie. The story of an eight-year-old widow.


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When: Fri 11th of January 2008
Where: Laax, Switzerland
Greetings from Laax, webworld.
This is now the fourth year that Burton have held the European Open in the fine Swiss resort that will be our home for the next week. And for those of you who don't know, Laax is renowned for being one of the most snowboard-friendly resorts in Europe, if not the world. Hell, they've been having snowboard contests here for something like 20 years and were amongst the foremost to embrace the sideslide and invest in serious facilities to, basically, allow us to have more fun than is probably good for the abstemious types we are. With this kind of shred-loving pedigree it's unsurprising that when the BEO rolls into town the Laax massive rolls out the red carpet in the best way that a resort can: by constructing a mighty fine slopestyle course and, as ever, the geometrically perfect uber-moster-shit-the-walls-are still-going-up superpipe.
Anyone familiar with the BEO will know that each year there is a theme to this event. This year's is BEO Airlines, and so the park is replete with landing lights, those dudes who tell the planes where to go, arrows, and a couple of tail sections that would make the cast of Lost feel at home. And so, with this backdrop, today was the time for the groms to show what they were made of.
Today's conditions were far from perfect – flat light, constant snow flurries and more than a little ice – and this served to separate the boys from the, err, boys. And girls, of course. The set-up looks banging for slopestyle shennanigens: a donwn box or rail leads into a small step up to a skate-style quarter, that sends you down another box and into the quarterpipe. After this, it's three kickers in a row to show you can back up your jibbery with some park pokery.
Jesse Augustinus, jibbin' up top.
Yeah, as I mentioned the conditions were certainly testing for the mini-men and mini-women, but there were front 7s and back 9s being thrown down with reckless abandon by little people for whom the 80s is nothing more than photos of when their mums and dads had dodgy hair and funny leg warmers. Hell, there was even a kid in there who was born in 1997 who was taking on the course with no problems. Even the younger members of the Onboard crew were made to feel like decrepit old men today.
A mini-man, who may be Ståle Sandbech, givin' it large on the middle kicker.
Anyway, fear not for the future of snowboarding, people, the kids are ripping. As well as the podium-ers, the likes of Ståle Sandbech and Ethan Morgan were mixing it up with styley spinnery and wanged out jibbery, but like many others they found it hard to make a whole run clean, with no sketching or speed loss. Yeah, it was tricky up there. It was tough enouh for this aged scribe to ride down with piste with a photo pack on, so mad props to all the groms for stepping it up today. Here's the results, written as the kids are all indulging in an orgy of cola and candy at the groms party. Tomorrow is kids' pipe, and it's also supposed to dump tonight. Happy days!
Slopestyle Girls Youth:
1 Bernard Emma Claire FRA
2 Rusin Katarzyna POL
3 Trespeuch Chloé FRA
Slopestyle Girls Juniors:
1 Bonnaud Alicia FRA
2 Norendal Silje NOR
3 Maeland Kari Opsal NOR
Slopestyle Boys Youth:
1 James Scott AUS
2 O`Connor Seamus USA
3 Ravnjak Tim-Kevin SLO
Slopestyle Boys Juniors:
1 Toutant Sebastien CAN
2 Stone Zak CAN Collingwood CAN
3 Piiroinen Petja FIN
More tomorrow, and we'll even have a real life, living and breathing, proper photographer in the name of Pat Vermeulen by then. Sweeeet.