surfarthur
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Nakayama toge?
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What's the range on that before you need to plug in agian, and how long does it take to charge?
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I wish that I could be 6 months old again so I can go on a playdate with George.
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20th Anniversary of Offspring Smash today.
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Here's some helpful weight loss tips:
- Set realistic, attainable goals. Rather than trying to lose 10 pounds in one day, go eat a couple handfuls of shredded cheese or watch some television instead.
- Being fit means constantly pushing your body. Tone your legs in the car by constantly braking and pushing on the gas.
- If you want to get in shape, the animals you eat must also be healthy. For instance, if you want a hamburger, select a promising cow 10 weeks ahead of time and hire a personal trainer to develop a bovine strength-training regimen for the cow to assiduously follow.
- Chocolate éclairs are rich and delicious. Wait, what are we saying? You shouldn’t be thinking about that now.
- Take the stairs up to your office! It’s one of the easiest ways to hide an increasingly weak and shapeless body from the eyes of coworkers.
- Supplements can give any gym-goer an added boost when it comes to bulking up. Get one of those big jugs of Muscle Milk, mix it with water, and then cake yourself in it. Allow the mixture to harden and then wait three to four days within your protein cocoon while the substance works its magic.
- There’s no better way to get your heart pumping and muscles swelling than finding a lead pipe and just beating the shit out of some guy on the street.
- Before going up for a second helping of dessert, ask yourself, “Do I really need this?” When the answer turns out to be yes, you’ll feel much less guilty about eating it.
- Track your daily caloric intake by keeping a food journal. For example, you might write “Turkey sandwich, 650 calories” or “Why is this so hard? Oh God, I just want to be happy.”
- Set realistic, attainable goals. Rather than trying to lose 10 pounds in one day, go eat a couple handfuls of shredded cheese or watch some television instead.
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Is it true that they are making episode 7?
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Sunshine and warm temps are ideal for your first time on the slopes IMHO
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I have just bought this but haven't started reading it yet. A quick flick through gives the impression of a quite comprehensive textbook on the topic of alpine safety.Also I think you will really enjoy reading "staying alive in avalanche terrain"
You can buy it online pretty cheap.
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My better half, her parents and her brother and his wife have all gone in to buy me a 27 y.o. bottle of bruichladdich that was distilled on my 3rd birthday. It will have to be a very special occasion before I will be opening that bottle.
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Or maybe an attempt to keep others away from the place?
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Do you mount a camera on your helmet?
Almost two months after a skiing accident caused him to be put into a medically induced coma, Michael Schumacher's friends are still at a loss to explain the life-changing consequences of the seemingly innocuous accident.Schumacher, 45, an experienced skier, was travelling at a moderate speed when he fell and hit a rock. His skis were new; his bindings have been subsequently tested and were not at fault; he was fully in control of his movements as he left the marked pistes and traversed the patch of snow in between two groomed runs in Meribel.
But now investigators believe they have found a reason for the seriousness of the injuries caused by the crash in the French Alps. They suspect his helmet camera could have worsened the blow, causing the helmet to shatter into pieces.
Experts from Ensa, the world-renowned ski and climbing academy in the French ski resort of Chamonix, have conducted tests to determine whether a solid object on a helmet hitting a rock could weaken the helmet's structure.
Schumacher's helmet smashed, but the camera he had attached to it to record himself and his son skiing was undamaged. The footage, audio and visual, has provided police with crucial information.
"The helmet completely broke. It was in at least two parts. Ensa analysed the piece of the helmet to check the material, and all was okay," said a source close to the investigation.
"But why did it explode on impact? Here the camera comes into question. The laboratory has been testing to see if the camera weakened the structure."
Patrick Quincy, the prosecutor in charge of the investigation into the accident, will make an announcement today.
He is expected to clear the ski resort of any involvement and conclude that the manufacturers of Schumacher's ski equipment were not liable.
Schumacher remains in intensive care as doctors try to ease him out of an artificially induced coma. He had been skiing on the piste with his son and family friends. But shortly after 11am he "deliberately" skied on an off-piste stretch located in between two runs "with a number of dangers, notable rocks", according to investigators.
It was here, no more than 6m from the piste, that he struck a partially covered rock and then catapulted on to another, crashing his head with such force that his helmet split in two.
Lawyers had argued that managers of the ski resort might face up to three years in prison because the dangers lurking within the off-piste section were not properly marked.
The resort, in response, hired a top lawyer, Maurice Bodecher, who is a specialist in ski and criminal law and was until 2010 the head lawyer for the French Ski Federation.
But, presenting initial findings 10 days into the investigation, the police chief Stephane Bozon said: "The piste markers conformed to the regulations. Unfortunately, this off-piste area had a number of dangers, notably the rocks being only barely visible, covered with five to 10cm of snow."
Mr Quincy, a former policeman who has been the prosecutor at Albertville since 2009, added that all safety procedures by mountain authorities "had been respected".
Meanwhile, the seven-time Formula 1 world champion is receiving round-the-clock care in Grenoble University Hospital.
His wife, Corinna, 44, with whom he has two children, Gina Marie, 16, and Mick, 14, has remained at his bedside.
His family have said he was "still in a waking-up process", and that only time would tell whether he made a full recovery. They said the most important factor was not the speed of his recovery, but that it progressed in a "continuous and controlled way"and they "strongly believe" he will recover.
Schumacher is fed through a tube to his stomach and gets oxygen via a hose from a machine next to his bed as he still cannot breathe independently.
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I remember sliding forward at rusutsu to make it a full quad, and the 2 japanese skiers (who were initially in front of us) decided they wanted a chair to themselves and dropped back behind us. At the time there was not much of a queue, but if there was, that is the sort of thing that can make a 10 minute wait into a 15 or 20 minute wait.
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Nice Seemore
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New Zealand Snowboarder Rebecca Torr is going for the gold this month. But she was also looking to get doubly lucky when she fired up Tinder upon arriving to the Olympic Village.
As the Winter Olympics begin this weekend in Sochi, Russia, athletes from all over the world are congregating in the famed Olympic Village, sequestered together as they wait to compete in their events.
But to Torr’s dismay, she still hasn’t found what she’s looking for.
Torr jokingly tweeted (with a tongue-in-cheek emoji, in case you can’t see that here),
It seems so far that not many Olympians use tinder.... Just wanna match with the Jamaican bobsled team
But there’s still a chance. The Olympic Village Daily, a paper that runs for the course of the Olympics and is distributed to athletes, picked up on Torr’s tweet.
Tinder was launched after the last cycle of Olympic Games, but Grindr (a dating app for gay men) made headlines in London back in 2012 when the app crashed almost immediately after the athletes arrived to the village.
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ya, offspring, pennywise etc are great whether on the way to surf or snow, but I do like to ride without any music, except for what nature providesI DO like cranking up something like The Offspring on my way up to the Ski-jo though to.... poke the stoke..
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Cut them in half?
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Seemore if you can't find one I might have a spare you can have let me know if you need it.
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Yes seemore you can buy a bag of curved mounts, or a mixed bag of flat and curved from jb hifi or the like.
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The only rule I have ever heard about powder days is that there are no friends on a powder day.
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It is not Xao.
Is that a new chinese resort?
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While I haven't tried the 18, i regularly enjoy the 12. 5000 yen sounds like quite a good deal, that's about half the price it is in the stores here in Perth.
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They don't look like they would go well in powder.