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Become a Volunteer Advocate with MosaicHelping people learn to connect with government decision-makers and advocate for public policy that supports equality and dignity for people with developmental disabilities is Diana McCalment's goal as the chairperson of the national Mosaic Allied Voices (MAV) Committee.
"There are a great many people who care about our work," McCalment said. "I think there are not many people who understand how to support us as we advocate for policy issues. MAV provides that framework for people to become involved in the support of our mission."
MAV has already organized a state committee in Texas and plans to expand into every state where Mosaic offers services. The state organizations will be volunteer-led by a five- or seven-person committee who will annually decide on legislative priorities for that state and work on developing relationships with legislators, educating them on the needs of people with developmental disabilities. The committees will also recruit grassroots volunteers across the state to help make phone calls, write letters and send e-mail messages to the legislators showing support for the disability community.
"We want thousands of them," McCalment said. "That's where the community becomes involved -- anybody who is willing to pick up the phone and make a call."
McCalment brings a passion to her work with Mosaic. She has served as the Chairperson of Mosaic's Board of Directors, and more importantly, is the parent of a son with a disability, David, who is now deceased. Mosaic Allied Voices began in 2008. By the end of 2011, Mosaic will have committees in place in all states with Mosaic service locations.
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Ladies, a little less flesh please
Our love of flashing the flesh when the sun comes out leaves Sophie Robehmed reaching for her sunglasses.
With the sky suffering from a seemingly endless incontinence problem, mind-numbing malaise and an unchangeable grey hue, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the sun had died.
But this week, we are witnessing a resurrection. For now at least. Look! There's a ball of fire in the now Disney blue sky, giving out what can only be described as light and heat. Hallelujah!
Yes, it's hot and we're not used to it
Unfortunately the same praise cannot be given to our hasty approach to flash our bits at the sight of said sun. Yes, it's hot and we're not used to it, so whipping out the summer wardrobe is understandable. But walking around in micro shorts with our bum cheeks hanging out, navigating sweaty cleavages on packed commuter trains and wearing crop tops like Mel C in her Sporty Spice days is not.
It may be warm but it's hardly the Sahara. Of course if this was the Sahara, I'd have no qualms to walk around naked. With no one around, how liberating it would be to be free and as cool as you can be in an average 30ºC heat, slipping, slopping and slapping to avoid intimate burns. But this is civilization and you are walking around with your bare bottom and leaking breasts on display like it's no biggie.
You don't see women in permanently hot countries walking around flashing their loins
I mean, really, who wants to see that? If I handed you a mirror, would you want to look at that? I'm not sure you would and we're talking about your own body here. You don't see women in permanently hot countries walking around flashing their loins as the star of their very own meat market feature film so why do we have to resort to this?
I'm as guilty as the next Brit that struggles to handle the heat the way, say some Italian women do, with the same sophistication, grace and top-to-toe style even when pavements are melting from the strength of the sun. But I do think there is a level of decency that should be maintained and that doesn't involve leaving nothing to the imagination.
So ladies, think before you expose, keep a portable fan in your handbag and savour the moment you can strip off and have a cold shower at home.
Sophie Robehmed is a Devonian Lebanese writer and journalist. A lover, not a fighter. Loves cheese. Searching the world for her doppelgänger.
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WEDNESDAY, March 23 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists may have
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Epigenetic alterations do not involve changes to the sequencing
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As instructed in the previous School of Stats lesson entitled, "Welcome to the School of Stats," more owners of professional sports franchises are managing their teams like every day businesses rather than as a hobby to keep them entertained in their off hours. This movement is what has provided the momentum for statistical analysts to continue their efforts to quantify performance.
One of those efforts resulted in the Puck Prospectus' advanced statistic, Goals Versus Threshold (GVT), which blends multiple facets of on-ice performance into one value that can be used to compare and contrast any and all players regardless of position. For a refresher on that particular lesson, here is the link to the article: http://www.insidehockey.com/columns/4739
GVT is one of several statistics that attempts to quantify performance. But there is still something missing from the overall equation. While we can now compare players and their respective performances, how do we attach a value (in terms of dollars) to that performance?
Managers and owners of every day businesses clamor to know what the "Return on Investment" (ROI), is for any ad campaign, new product or project undertaken. As such, Managers and owners in hockey (and all sports) desire to know whether their outlay of cash to a specific player was met with results that merited their investment.
Well, now that we have a number in GVT we feel reasonably comfortable accurately measures performance, it isn't a big reach to use GVT to help find a solution to how much that number is worth in terms of dollars. One such attempt is Puck Prospectus' "Goals Versus Salary," (GVS) which obviously (as its name implies) is tied directly with GVT.
In terms of the mathematics involved, GVS is probably one of the simpler calculations we'll cover here on School of Stats. Here is an example of how to calculate a player's GVS rating. For purposes of this example, we will use Marian Gaborik's salary ($7.5 million) and GVT (+5.6) from last season:
Step 1: Subtract the player's actual salary (not salary cap hit) by the salary of a replacement-level (i.e. minimum salaried player, for which we will assign a value of $500,000) $7.5 million – $500,000 = $7 million.
Step 2: Multiply the remaining # of millions of $ by 3 (an explanation for why we use 3 will be offered later in the article). 7 x 3 = 21
Step 3: Take the player's actual GVT rating and subtract it by the product from Step 2. 5.6 – 21 = -15.4. Gaborik's GVS rating for 2008/2009 was a -15.4.
Before we weigh the merits of this formulation, a brief explanation of why we used the value of 3 in Step 2 must be offered. If we had a roster of 20 players, all of whom were paid the league minimum, our total "threshold" payroll would be $10,000,000. The average actual team payroll in the NHL last season was roughly $50,000,000. Since we are utilizing a stat that values the "performance above the threshold level," we must deduct the "threshold level" payroll ($10,000,000) from the average team payroll amount. This leaves us with $40 million.
Next, Puck Prospectus tells us that the average team GVT rating was +120 goals above threshold. This means that the average NHL team paid $40,000,000 for 120 goals worth of above threshold production. That works out to 3 goals per $1 million and yields us the factor of 3 which we utilized in step 2.
Hopefully the explanation of the actual mathematics made sense to the students of School of Stats. Now I will offer some additional factors to consider when utilizing this rating.
One thing to consider is that a players GVT rating is based in large part on "counting" statistics or the numbers that are accrued throughout the season (like goals, assists, etc.) and not on "rate" statistics (such as GAA, Save %, shooting %, etc.). This means that if a player misses significant time during the season and thus records lower values in those areas then his GVT rating will be adversely affected.
This is precisely why I used Gaborik for the above example. Gaborik missed a total of 65 games last season due to groin and hip issues. In limited time, Gaborik recorded an astonishing 13 goals and 23 points in only 17 games (numbers which are ironically virtually identical to those posted through 17 games to start this season). If you were to take his goal-per-game and point-per-game rates alone then it is inconceivable that Gaborik would have a GVT rating as low as his +5.6 rating from last season.
However, I think that this particular characteristic of the GVS rating is necessary and makes the stat more useful. No owner or Manager wants to pay a player to sit in the press box whether due to injury or ineffective play. If a player is not on the ice then that diminishes the on-ice ROI that the team is receiving from their investment in that player. That's the whole point of this statistic.
Now, to further illustrate the potential usefulness and validity of this stat, here are the 10 worst, followed by the 10 best GVS finishers from a year ago:
Player Salary (in millions) GVT GVS
Mats Sundin $8.6 1.6 -22.7
Daniel Briere $8.0 4.3 -18.2
Wade Redden $8.0 4.4 -18.1
Joe Sakic $6.0 0.6 -15.9
Dany Heatley $10.0 13.0 -15.5
Marian Gaborik $7.5 5.6 -15.4
Brad Richards $7.8 6.6 -15.3
Sergei Zubov $5.4 -.04 -15.0
Mike Fisher $6.0 2.1 -14.4
Scott Gomez $8.0 8.2 -14.3
A quick look at the above players and I'm sure most can agree that all of them underperformed their salaries last season. I'm sure we could even agree on that without actually seeing it in black and white with the GVS ratings given. Of course several of the players were victimized by injuries which negatively impacted their GVT ratings and thus their GVS ratings as well.
However there is one aspect of this rating which skews the numbers slightly and somewhat unfairly. The GVS rating uses actual salary instead of a player's salary cap hit. Most GM's would probably say that they are more concerned with a player's cap hit rather than his actual salary. GM's can convince an owner to go beyond the team's budgeted payroll but no GM has ever been successful in getting the NHL to raise the salary cap ceiling just for them.
The salary cap ceiling is fixed and it provides a tangible line that no GM can cross for any reason. In fact, with the approval of their ownership, many GM's are frontloading long term contracts to star players and then providing for smaller compensation at the back end in order to both entice players to sign by offering huge, up-front money while spreading out the annual cap hit over the long life of the deal. This is a blatant attempt to work around the limitations of the salary cap and is likely going to be addressed during the next round of collective bargaining between the NHLPA and the league.
Looking again at the list above and substituting salary cap hit in place of actual salary, the GVS ratings of two players (Dany Heatley and Mike Fisher) improve significantly.
Player Salary GVT GVS
Heatley $7.5 13.0 -8.0
Fisher $4.2 2.1 -9.0
While the adjustment didn't make either player's GVS a positive, a jump of +7.5 points and +5.4 points respectively can't be ignored and provides cause to possibly adjust the criteria with which GVS measures players.
Now let's peruse the list of the 10 best GVS ratings of 2008/2009 to see if we can pick up any patterns there:
Player Team Salary GVT GVS
Evgeni Malkin Pittsburgh 0.98 23.4 +22.0
Zach Parise New Jersey 2.50 24.2 +18.2
David Krejci Boston 0.83 18.3 +17.3
Nicklas Backstrom Washington 0.85 17.4 +16.4
Phil Kessel Boston 0.85 15.3 +14.3
Johan Franzen Detroit 1.15 15.2 +13.3
Devin Setoguchi San Jose 0.85 13.9 +12.9
Loui Eriksson Dallas 1.50 15.5 +12.5
Anton Babchuk Carolina 1.00 13.7 +12.2
David Booth Florida 0.68 12.3 +11.8
The one thing that sticks out immediately is the lower salaries relative to the players on the list of 10 worst ratings. The highest salary on this list is the $2.5 million paid to the Devils' Zach Parise. The lowest paid player on the list of 10 worst was Sergei Zubov with a salary of $5.4 million. Obviously players that earn a smaller salary have a better chance of recording a good GVS despite recording moderate GVT ratings.
Something less obvious to the casual glance but infinitely more important to the relevance of this stat is the youthfulness of the players on this list. Scrolling down this list you'll find that seven of the 10 players listed just completed either their second or third NHL season and thus were still playing on their entry level contracts. The other three just finished with their fourth season and none have been eligible to cash in on the big UFA bucks.
This chart illustrates that GVS ratings reward players whose production trends are on the rise and punishes players whose production trends are falling. Now we all know that eventually, as these players near free agent status, their salaries will skyrocket thus lowering their GVS ratings. In fact, Evgeni Malkin's extension just kicked in for the 2009/2010 season. If measuring last year's production against his cap hit for this year ($8.7 million), Malkin would have finished with a -1.2 GVS rating instead of +22; a swing of -23.2 points.
I think that Puck Prospectus and the GVS rating are on the right track even if this stat has been shown in this article to favor youth and punish older players. GM's have regularly overpaid players for past production and these numbers show that tendency quite clearly.
While moving in the right direction, there is still clearly some more work to do. In fact, the GVS stat has sparked some thoughts within my own mind. I have undertaken to create a stat similar to baseball's VORP stat myself. I'll have more on my personal crusade in an upcoming article.
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YEY! It's here – my very first *solo* podcast and it's all about why intention is important when you are working with your Guides, Teachers and Higher Self. Short and sweet, too, at just seven minutes long!
I'd love to hear your comments so please email me or leave your thoughts in the comment section below.
Thanks for listening!
And here's a version for all who don't have flash players (Thanks Anna B for reminding me that some check in from an iPad!)
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Hi! This is Lisa from Practically Intuitive. Welcome to the first podcast of what I plan to be a weekly series. My good friend Kara from Conduit of Joy and I were doing these together on a sporadic basis earlier this year. You can listen to those by going to the podcast link.
Kara's taking a sabbatical for the summer so I decided to go ahead and do these on my own with the hope that she'll join us as she can. I also plan to invite other intuitives and practitioners on in future podcasts.
As I go along here, I'll be sharing with you some concrete ways you can take the guidance you get, however you get it, and put it to work in your life. Along with that, I'll talk about a few of the different healing methods I work with in my practice with others: cutting energetic cords of attachment, diving into the Akashic Records, and I'll also answer your questions about these and other subjects. I do a lot of reading on various metaphysical concepts and will be sharing that as I can.
Right now, for example, I've been listening to a lot of Robert Ohotto's work on setting boundaries. It's interesting stuff – his focus is also on concrete action to shift the energy and much of what he says resonates with me. I'll be talking about that subject next week since it's both near and dear to my heart and a good practice to go deeper into as you work with energy.
You can find out more about him at ohotto.com and I'll be reviewing his book "Transforming Fate into Destiny" for the fall iissue of Pathways magazine.
As you might know, my focus is on bringing through guidance that you can put to use in your life right now. Even if it's one small step, it's a start. I think there's a perception out there that you have to jump in feet first and it's all or nothing when it comes to working with your intuition. I don't think it has to be that way. I think you can inch your way in bit by bit.
What does 'bit by bit' look like in real life? It all starts with an intention. You'll hear that 'intention is everything' in many woo-woo circles. Gotta tell you – that is the hardcore truth. If your intention isn't there or if it's muddy, you're going to get vague guidance that is hard to put into practice. Your guides can only give you what you ask for. The more specific you are in your intention, the better they can assist you.
I talk about intention often on my blog because it's really where you start when co-creating with Guides and teachers. But that requires YOU get clear about what you want / need / ask for. Lots of us (myself included) sometimes don't have a sense of that or else we have just a whiff of a notion of a thought.
Setting an intention helps remind us of where we're headed. It's to assist in getting all dimensions of our selves aligned and moving in a specific direction.
I talk about intention in more detail in my ebook "Trust What You Get" based on the workshop I taught in March. Getting clear about what you want to bring through is key.
Here's an example for you: instead of asking my Guides and Teachers to help me lose weight which is kind of vague, I can say this: "Please assist me in aligning my food choices today with my desire to release weight from my physical body."
That's pretty specific. Help me align my food choices TODAY with my intention to release weight from my physical body.
The more specific you can be, the better they can assist you. I used to think "Well, don't they just KNOW what I need? Why do I have to spell it out?"
They do know what your soul wishes but your part is a) to ask them for the help and b) bring it down into a manageable time frame and be as concrete about it as you can.
Here's another example: Let's say you have to write an article for work but you don't have any ideas or even know where to start.
What's your intention: to complete a written article.
Here's how to ask:
Guides and Teachers, please assist me today with the following: Open my eyes and my mind to new ideas and thoughts around the topic of (X – whatever that topic is). Please help me bring through in an easy and enjoyable manner an article that meets my requirements. (You can state what those are, if you wish.) Thank you Thank you Thank you.
That's it. But see how specific it is?
I ask for things like this all the time and it never fails to come through. I'll get a nudge about a topic for a blog post or a class I want to teach. Something always shows up when I ask with intention.
Another point: Always say thank you. I's polite, of course, and I'll all about being polite but energetically speaking, it's a way of affirming that what you've asked for will show up. It's reaffirming your trust in your Guides Teachers and your Higher self to work with you on what you want to manifest.
I hope this has been helpful to you. We'll be talking more about this again but in the meantime, if you have any questions about it. Please contact me. I'll try to answer them at the beginning of the next podcast.
Thanks so much for listening. Until next time, this is Lisa from Practically Intuitive. Have a good week!
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Anna Barlowe
Is there a link on this page? I found one on the podcast page, but not on here. But I have an iPad, so it may not show up for some reason.
It was great to hear your voice! I enjoyed it! I've been working on getting a pony from the Universe lately, but so far no dice. I'm sure my landlord wouldn't mind, we have a really big backyard with a lot of grass! Maybe I wasn't specific enough about what KIND of pony I wanted, though. I'll work on that. :P
Mmm, now I want steak too. Medium rare. With garlic butter and mashed cauliflower. Everyone knows you shouldn't listen to podcasts when you're hungry!
Awesome job, Lisa! Thank you thank you thank you! :)
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Angela Artemis
It was wonderful to hear your voice!
Boundaries are so important.
Many people expect intuitives to "read" them no matter where we cross paths.
I wonder if this is correlated to why intuitives struggle with weight?
Are we trying to create "physical boundaries" with our weight?
Is it a subconscious protective layer of some sort?
I listened to this before book group last night and it made quite a difference to me. I only ate one place of salad and one pita bread full of chicken salad and no chocolate or tidbits….because I asked to be in control. At the last minute before leaving the house, I picked up a huge bucket of un-shelled peas picked from the garden, a bag and a container to put shelled peas into…so all during book group my hands were busy shelling peas and not nibbling on the treats and goodies. I am sure my guides directed me to take the peas and keep my hands busy…
Nice to hear your voice and I liked the portion size of you pod cast. I totally appreciated closing my eyes and just listening – what a treat Thank you


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Back in the Stew Room, Ash jokes that he forgot flavor and he bitches about Padma's comments. Not sure why he's picking on her instead of any of the other judges. Could it be because she's female? The judges discuss how Robin's dish was flavorless, a bad pairing, and the sauce was gross and gummy. Ash's dish was amateurishly prepared and Tom worries that he doesn't understand how to develop flavor. Padma asks Charlie why he was so hard on Laurine, and Charlie and Tom both admit that the texture was way off and so was the flavor, probably as a result of poor preparation.
Weird Interstitial. Everyone makes fun of Eli and teases him that he's in love with Robin. I don't know where Robin is while this is happening. Maybe getting told that her dish had no flavor?
The bottom three reassemble to hear who will be eliminated. Tom says that Laurine's food wasn't prepared properly and it clashed with the win. Ash's food lacked confidence and didn't have any flavor. Robin didn't give them enough pork, which was half of the dish. And overall, none of them made good pairings. Padma tells Ash to pack his knives and go. In his exit interview, Ash says he's had a positive experience, and he sure wishes he had gone with his original idea. He plans to cook it in his restaurant and invite all the judges, but not Padma. That Ash-hating-Padma thing kind of came out of left field. WTF?
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Adulting classic: Accept that you are not that special
(Note: this is one of the first Adulting entries; reprinted because I still think it's useful even if you don't feel like scrolling through 30 pages of archive)
This is the most difficult and important thing to accept if you wish to be a grownup: You are not a special snowflake.
Well, you are to some people. Your parents, presumably, love you very much and think you are perhaps the most adorable, talented thing ever to prance upon this earth. Your friends agree with them, as do your favorite teachers, as does your significant other. When there is a You Parade, these people will be the flag bearers, the drum majors and majorettes, so make sure you are always flag bearing and drum majoring for them, too. These people who think so highly of us are very special and precious, and you must treasure them. Because here is the truth: Most of the world doesn't give a fuck about you.
It's not as depressing as it sounds. It's not as though the world hates you — it just has no idea who you are. It is, at best, indifferent to your wants and needs, your preferences, your pet peeves and so on. When you walk into a new office, new city, new country, whatever, you are starting from scratch and cannot call upon that loving capital that your friends and family — who are not in this office, city or country — have for you.
It is now up to you to find and surround yourself with people for whom you feel affection and respect. Because more often than not, we like the people who like us, right? People will come to care about you, but only if you give them a valid reason. So don't assume they'll give you love like your parents, emotional support like your best friend, and cheerful feedback like a soccer coach for 7-year-olds. Because they won't.
And when you are in college, you make assumptions about how easy things will be or how quickly you'll rocket to the top. You hit this wall, hard, when the New York Times doesn't beat a path to your door but instead it is time for you to go be a reporter in rural Mississippi. Or you graduate law school with glorious visions of the important work you'll do for the Southern Poverty Law Center, but instead find yourself photocopying briefs in Shreveport. Whatever happens immediately post-graduation, chances are good that it will be at least a little disappointing.
Here is how you go around that wall: Accept that for right now, being a small-time whatever is your position. It's not shameful and it doesn't mean you're a failure. It means you're embarking on adulthood and starting from the beginning, just like every single person must do. From now on, it doesn't matter who your parents are or how much money they made, because the accomplishments (and the money!) that come to you are yours. You are the the captain of your own destiny, even if it isn't all that glamorous or fabulous right now.
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great fit, 10.5.2013
Reviewer: kevin orsulak (, )
Warm and comfy fit
Outstanding. Easy to take off and put on., 6.15.2013
Reviewer: Chitown Rabbit (, )
Outstanding. Easy to take off and put on. Inexpensive.
good bootie, 10.1.2012
Reviewer: greg (, )
second pair i have owned. Fits well and keeps my feet warm
Well made and true to sise, 3.22.2012
Reviewer: Richard N Wilson (, )
Have not used them yet but they look well made and I wear size 13 shoe and these size 13 booties fit fine.
Great bang for the buck, 1.3.2012
Reviewer: Wes, NC (, )
Super comfortable, strap keeps your foot back in the boot. True to size. Very happy in the 56 degree water so far...i dont see a problem dropping into the 40's and my feet still staying warm.
Look Great, 10.22.2011
Reviewer: Michael (, )
They look great but unfortunately I was unable to even get my foot half way in. Returned them for a pair with a zipper.
comforatable and warm, 3.21.2011
Reviewer: jb in oceanside (, )
great boots. fit well and warm in cold winter water like the no toes fit. (im not a freaking ninja)
Comfortable, 3.9.2011
Reviewer: John Coleman (, )
Lucked into a great fit since I ordered a 10 when I usually wear 10.5 size. (Didn't read about the sizes running large until later.) Booties feel fine, warm and pretty much keep water out. A good add on to my kiteboarding wardrobe.
Warm in the cold, 1.13.2011
Reviewer: Dan (, )
Went out water temp 45F air 40F, feet stayed dry for first hour before taking on minimal water, feet stayed warm entire session 6 hours. Boots have good contour,support and grip but mine leave a black residue on boards wax. Wear a size 10 (exact) ordered a size 9 after reading previous posts, good call. All around pretty good boots.
comfy & cozy, 12.15.2010
Reviewer: doc (, )
i picked these up and was out in 50/50 conditions, no problem with balance on the board.
a bit tough to get on the first few times, but break in fairly quickly. the rubber provides a fair amount of ankle support. very happy with the purchase
How Hyperflex AMP Boots Fit, 12.14.2010
Reviewer: Jeremy, OBX (, )
I wear size 10 in Xcel and Oneill but the 10 in the Hyperflex AMP Wetsuit Booties was sloshy, dry. If you have problems with with fit in the previously stated brand, for example like needing a half size, this might be the boot for you. It has great features for the price, like sealed seams and gasket at top.
Awesome, 5.24.2010
Reviewer: j (, )
I use these because i jetski and i submerged my entire leg in the water and not one drop of water came in. i even fell in the water (45 degreese) and my feet stayed totally dry and warm.
Ready to use, 3.30.2010
Reviewer: Bruce (Ensenada, )
I have just recived the item and it fits well hope it keeps my feet warm ready to use
Great Boot, 2.6.2010
Reviewer: Dave (Charleston, SC)
I agree with a lot of the other reviews (Great boot, super warm, etc. I just wanted to add a few things that might help people in a similar spot that I was in when I purchased the boot).
Again this is a GREAT BOOT in my limited experience but here are two things to know
1. The hype is true, order a size down. I wear ten in shoes, bought 9s in the boot after reading these reviews and it is definitely the right call. The boots ARE difficult to get on and off but it isn't that bad really
2. This is the first pair of boots that I have ever ridden that aren't split toe and I gotta say I like this style (no split toe) better. The boot has suck a well formed shape that fits your foot the split to is really unnecessary. The split toe is colder too so I recommend these without the split toe.
The fleece lining the inside of the boots really is great, I was kinda skeptical about the "wicking away moisture" idea (Where does it go). But it totally works. Feet aren't bone dry, but definitely helps.
5mm booties, 12.25.2009
Reviewer: Dean Robertson (Thousand Oaks, CA)
These booties are very warm and do the job for which they are made, but they are somewhat difficult to put on and take off, especially when wet.
Awesome, 6.10.2009
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Awesome booties. Really warm and comfortable.
Awesome!, 4.28.2009
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These booties hug your foot and are very warm, while not feeling cumbersome.
Hyperflex Wetsuit 5mm Booties, 4.10.2009
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Fantastic. Good fit, no crease between the toes. Feels like a warm bootie that cuddles my foot in the coldest water. Good for walking when needed to and from the car or boat.
a must for cold weather
5mm Hyperflex Wetsuit Booties, 3.3.2009
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I've worn booties surfing for fifteen years and these work great. Hyperflex is what xcel used to be: Durable, hi performance and affordable.
I noticed they are cut shorter up the ankle than other booties I've worn. This doesnt affect me with a 5/4/3 wesuit on, but a thinner wetsuit might flush the ankle open.
Very good, 1.28.2009
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Totally happy. Surprisingly dry, flexible, don't interfere with feel on board. No need to pay more.
Excvellent, 1.18.2009
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Great boooties, happy with them
Fit good, kept my feet warm, very good tactile feel of the board., 1.6.2009
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Good price, fit true to size, kept my feet warm in H2O temp of upper 50's. They don't dry real fast, but what booties do? Would buy again...
outer banks shaper aproves, 12.30.2008
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These are probably the best boots I've owned and they didn't cost me 60 bucks like the other brands. Very comfortable and warm.
Chuck C.
Great, 11.23.2008
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These booties are really great, especially for the price. You wont find better. I'm usually an 11 in most shoe brands but I try to go down a size with neoprene. Not in this case. I got the 10s and they were too small. But you know the Warehouse. No problems with the return. In a week I've got my 11s. Thanks Guys!!!
Good for Surfing California Winters, 11.22.2008
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Kept my feet warm, my dad has same type kept his feet warm also. Better than split toe booties.
Good for Surfing California Winters, 11.22.2008
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Kept my feet warm, my dad has same type kept his feet warm also. Better than split toe booties.
Good for Windsurfing in the cold Winter, 11.6.2008
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Kept my feet very warm and the boots are very flexible (can't imagine why you would get those crazy looking split toe boots). Shipping was super fast too!
Recommended, 10.28.2008
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Great booties that are easy to get on/off and keep me warm in 50+ degree water. My shoe size ranges from 12-13 depending upon the shoe. In this case, the 12 was small and the 13 fits perfectly.
Great for windsurfing (Pennsylvania), 10.21.2008
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Nice boots. They "stick" to the board - great traction. Wish I'd gotten these first instead of wasting $50 on other stuff that didn't work as well.
Great, 10.2.2008
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I use these for jet skiing and they definitely keep your feet very warm. Traction isn't the best on the rubber surfaces of the ski, but is more than adequate for almost everything.
Cool Warm Boots, 9.15.2007
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I love these surf booties. Very warm, flexible, and lots of traction on the board. Highly recommend. j
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