A ski is narrow strip of wood, plastic, metal or combination thereof worn underfoot to glide over snow. Substantially longer than wide and characteristically employed in pairs, skis are attached to boots with bindings, either with a free, lockable, or permanently secured heel.
Originally intended as an aid to travel over snow they are now mainly used recreationally in the sport of skiing.
Skis are also fitted to vehicles dedidcated to traveling over snow such as snowmobiles and snowcats.
The Nordic ski technology was adapted during the early twentieth century to enable skiers to turn at higher speeds. New ski and binding designs, coupled with the introduction of ski lifts and snowcats to carry skiers up mountains, enabled the development of alpine skis. Meanwhile advances in technology in the Nordic camp allowed for the development of special skis for skating and ski jumping.
Ski nomenclature is relatively simple. Examining the ski from front to back along the direction of travel, the front of the ski (typically pointed or rounded) is the "tip", the middle is the "waist" and the rear (typically flat) is the "tail".
Tanner Hall (born October 26, 1983), of Kalispell, Montana is a freeskier.
Chris Hall's brother. In 2002 Tanner Hall co-founded the freeride ski company Armada Skis with skier JP Auclair and photographer Chris O'Connell.[citation needed] Hall is also part owner of the snowcat ski hill Retallack near Nelson, BC, Canada, along with skier Seth Morrison.[citation needed]
In March 2005 while attempting a switch 900 over the legendary Chad's Gap in Wasatch backcountry, Utah, he pulled up short, hit the knuckle and then ragdolled down the landing, breaking both ankles. His injuries put him out for the rest of the season but returned in 2006 to win gold at both the US Freeskiing Open and the Winter X-Games.[citation needed]
After overshooting a jump at Stevens Pass, in May 2009, in Washington, he has been on hiatus for just over a year. He suffered from tibial plateau fractures and ACL tears in both knees. Hall got back to training on trampolines during summer 2010.
His attempt at a fourth gold in slopestyle was upset by Charles Gagnier and in 2009 a fourth straight superpipe gold was snatched from him by Xavier Bertoni.
Plot
A young orphan, heir to a vast fortune, is fostered into a somewhat bizarre family, primarily due to the fact that his foster mom can become invisible. When the child's cousins show up to get a bit of the youngster's fortune, his foster mom saves the day.
Keywords: independent-film, invisibility, invisible-woman, sequel
Plot
A group of teenagers try to sort out their lives and emotions while bizarre experiences happen to each one, including alien abductions, bad acid trips, bisexual experiences, suicides, bizarre deaths, and a rape by a TV star. All of this happens before "the greatest party of the year".
Keywords: adolescence, aerobics-class, aids, alien, alien-abduction, alienation, american-flag, anorexia, apocalypse, armageddon
"sexy, psychedelic, dementedly funny, with a sensational soundtrack... it's like clueless with nipple rings."
Let the love feast begin
Mel: Isn't sex the best tension release there is? It's like a really good sweaty game of racquetball. Except you get to come at the end.
Mel: Who ever said you care about me, anyways?::Dark: Didn't I give you my Cap'n Crunch decoder ring back in the 6th grade?
[first lines]::Dark: [voice-over] L.A. is like... nowhere. Everybody who lives here is lost.
Lucifer: I gotta burn off these calories fast, before I blow up. Let's go rollerblading or something. You wanna come along, Dark?::Dark: I'd rather have my ball hairs burned off with an acetylene torch!::Lucifer: Well, that can be arranged.
Lilith: Blood is cool.
Shad: I heard a story that last week down in Brentwood, a guy croaked and nobody knew he had died alone in his house. By the time they found him, his pet dog had eaten his dead face off.::Lilith: Dogs eating people is cool.
Dark's Mom: Uh! It's soggy as a wet armpit in here. How long where you in that shower abusing yourself? You pump your handle too much, young man. If you keep this up, one day it's just going to wither up and fall off!::Dark Smith: Shut-up shut-up shut-up shut-up!
Alyssa: [after stuffing their faces with cake] Uh, I am so stuffed. Are you gonna... you know... upchuck?::Dingbat: I promised my mom that I wouldn't do that anymore. You?::Alyssa: I'm just gonna do a bunch of speed later and not eat for, like... three days. What about you, Egg?::Egg: I'm gonna be sick...
Handjob: How about you sit on my face and cut a nice, big, juicy fart?
Shad: [giggling] I... wanna... die. LET'S ALL DIE.
Plot
A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N.T.I.S.) that turns him into a superhero and gives him the ability to fight the crime wave that is engulfing his city.
Keywords: african-american, entire-title-is-capitalized-acronym, exoskeleton, paraplegic, remake, scientist, superhero
Ski: Hey, up in Duxbury, they wear them turtle shell glasses?::Darryl: That's *tortoise* shell...::Ski: Excuse me, brotha...
Darryl: You ain't bad, you ain't nothing. You ain't nothing!
Ski: So what's your major?::Darryl: This high school, ain't no major.::Ski: Alright, then what's your minor?
Nelson: How many guys proud of you?::Darryl: [thinks about it] Three.::Nelson: Shoot. Four guys proud of me.
Plot
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime. If this villainous smuggler is going to be caught, Maynard is going to have to do the dirty work himself.
Keywords: border, border-patrol, borderline, cemetery, christmas, dead-boy, death, death-of-son, footprint, funeral
Somewhere along a thousand miles of barbed wire border the American dream has become a nightmare
No easy about it
Born to a mountain slide
You're gonna learn to take a dive
No easy about it
I won't tell you not to need it
'Cause you don't want no chatter now
Wears you down just to sit it out
And you don't want to hear a thing about
What he should but doesn't think about
When you wanted him without a doubt
You learn to skate
On something this cold
And down the hills
That summer used to fill
With honey flowers
That I know
You could never bear
To carry home
Deep in snow
(Oh that I want)
Everything I ever wanted
(Oh that I need)
(Oh that I have)
Everything I ever wanted
(Oh I need)
Sit down here with me
Feeling like a bad man
(Feeling like a bad man)
Do I love you only?
You are the child I wanted
You are dear
And down the hills
That summer used to fill
With honey flowers
You could never bear
To carry home
Deep in snow
You learn to skate
On some things cold
You're freed
The moment you are free
Do I love you only?
You are the child I wanted
You are dear
And down the hills
That summer used to fill
With honey flowers
You could never bear
To carry home
Deep in snow
Haa yea eee yea
Haa haa haa yea eee yea
Haa haa haa yea eee yea
Haa haa haa yea eee yea
Haa haa haa yea eee yea
Haa haa haa yea eee yea
(You learn to skate)
Haa haa haa yea eee yea
(You learn to skate)