There has been many falls- many skaters are sporting bandages, slings, and can be seen limping around the track.

Women's 15km Elimination Race: Filled with nasty falls, Canadians Morgane Echardour and Sarah Hopkins went flying into the boards and into other skaters in a 7 or 8 skater pile-up. They're bruised, scraped, rashed, and sore as heck, but they're in good spirits and will ace tomorrow. The race was stopped after the crash  and re-started later, and again, there was another bad crash in the boards. I saw Swizterland's Nadine Gloor go down hard and another skater slam into her. So Yeong Shin and An Yi Seul set the world record in the distance, with Nicole Begg finishing 2nd.

Men's 15km Elimination Race: This race was filled with action, some that I was glad (and not glad) that I missed. I was eliminated early, and then the next lap, 7 guys piled into each other and fell into the boards. There was plenty of pushing and shoving, gesturing more pushing, skaters squeezing into tiny spots at extreme speeds. USA's Dane Lewis led a lot of the race, but was eliminated outside of the final 10 skaters. France's Alexis Contin was led out by teammate and last night's gold medal winner Yann Guyader, and took care of business in the last 2 laps, passing the Korean skater on the inside in the last corner and won. The Korean skater was dq'd, giving a silver and bronze to Italy. Contin set the world record in this race.

500-Meter Sprints (senior): Colombian victory in the senior women's race for Jercy Puello, with USA's Sara Sayasane making a late charge that came a bit short. Brittany Bowe came 3rd.

Men's race- Colombia's Andres Munoz took the win, with Nicolas Pelloquin coming in 2nd, and New Zealand's Kalon Dobbin collecting his 2nd medals of these championships.

1000-meter Races (junior): A three skater show on the last lap, with Colombia's Sebastian Arce and Pedro Causil earning a 1-2 finish for Colombia with Bart Swings taking the bronze.

Korea had a 1-2 finish in the junior women's race with So Yeong Shin and An Yi Seul taking top honours.

Extract from Sony Style

The race was pretty darn hard on my legs. I tried to survive the speed that these other fast skaters can deliver! Let's just say I suffered through my heat, and I get to do it all over again tonight.

Can you spot SSW's awesome web-man? Look for the grey & white on the outside about 13 positions back with his right arm out- oh come on! Can't find me? Fine, look for the good looking guy ;)

Senior men's 15km heat #1 (my heat)

500-meter Rounds: The French duo of Julien Despaux and Nicolas Pelloquin qualified for tonight's senior men's 500-meter final. I'm pretty sure USA's Joey Mantia is sick- people saw him vomiting and also lying on the ground, out of it.

Semi final #1- Korea, Italy, France, France- both of France's skaters qualified for this evening's final

USA's Harry Vogel crashed at the line, trying to outstretch and hark China-Taipei's Wei Lin Lo. Vogel came short, fell over, spun around, and popped back up.

New Zealand's Kalon Dobbin reaches for the line along with Colombia's Juan NayibTobon

Italy's Erika Zanetti leads the 500-meter semi-final. USA's Sara Sayasane- seen in 4th- passed everyone in the 2nd last corner to win the race 

1000-meter Rounds: Junior girls were a lot of fun to watch. One of the heats saw the leading Colombian and American skaters fall, and a Chinese skater take the win- but the heat was re-skated after officials made a mistake and the girls raced 6-laps instead of 5.

Italy'sFrancesca Lollobrigida ledas the way in the junior women's 1000-meter semi-final

Other News: The hotel staff who work in Australia's hotel found some broken glass on the floor. According to my source, the hotel staff was rather confused when they saw the glass on the floor but no broken windows or picture frames. A source also informed me that there is broken picture frame 2 or 3 floors up from where the broken glass was found.

Fight! Fight! Fight!: Worlds is intense; there was a fight between two skaters after a race today- this is what I heard happenned;

1- Skater A pulled skater B's costume during a race
2- Skater B was mad after the race
3- Skater A & B exchanged heated words
4- Coaches came in and separated skater A and B
5- Skater A kicked or swiped at skater A, knocking his glasses off
6- Skater B got a water bottle and soaked skater A's skates, wheels, and bearings

Again, make sure you use the following links for all the news beyond the little that I am sharing; scan them carefully because I’ll be adding more as more come to light-

The Junior Women’s 15000m elimination was a spectacle. Early on in the race there was a spectacular crash and more than a half a dozen skaters went down. Those that followed had to navigate around the obstacles of fallen skaters and at least one didn’t make it. It was part bowling, part gymnastics (I think I saw a cartwheel) and part skating. About half the fallen were able to get up and form a small pack. South Korea’s Jung Eun An was incredibly strong and was able to pull the pack of 6 or so up to main pack and to integrate back into the race. Spent, she finished 5th but her herculean effort made her the most impressive skater in the group. Late in the race a Spanish skater also fell and her teammate jumped to the front of the peloton in a vain attempt to slow it down and allow her to catch up. A four-way race to the finish line saw Germany’s Mareike Thum eek it out over USA’s Briana Krame and Italy’s Fracesca Lollobrigiada barely beat out Colombia’s Rommy Munoz for the bronze medal.

The Junior Men’s race was equally interesting, with a strong pack consistently pulling 18-second laps. Once again, South Korea looked impressive as Woon Sang Cho and #41 (Peter – I didn’t get his name but wayne has it in his book) took control up at the front. It was clear that Woon Sang was pulling for his teammate, who, sitting fresh in second position, was waiting for his moment to make a big break. Unfortunately for him, Italy’s Ricardo Buggari also made a break and he was disqualified from the competition for blocking. Belgium’s Bart Swings beat out Ricardo and Colombia’s Daniel Zapata for in a sprint finish.

Belgium's Bart Swings moving in for the win in the junior men's 15k

The Seniors did their 10,000 points and elimination final today. Nicole Begg led early in the Women’s race, challenged by the 2 South Koreans and the 2 Colombian women. The women showed great control and this was the only race of the 4 with no crashes. The Koreans attacked hard in the bell laps but Nicole was able to answer. Although she crossed the finish line 5th in the sprint, she had accumulated enough points to claim the silver medal, with South Korea taking gold and bronze.

New Zealand's Nicole Begg pushing the pace early on in the senior women's 10k

In the Senior men, there were several individual crashes early on but the main pack managed to stay intact until South Korean skater Nam Yoo Jong took off with 19 laps to go, leaving only a handful of skaters able to answer. A bad crash that left a skater on the track for several laps allowed Spanish skater Patxi Peula to sneak away and gain a ¼ lap advantage for several laps before running completely out of gas and being overtaken by the remaining skaters. The objective had been reached however, and Patxi won enough points to steal the silver medal to the delight of the crowd. France’s Yann Guyader took gold and Colombia’s Nelson Garzon had to settle for silver.

The 300mm finals also saw its share of heartbreak, after young Australian Daniel Greg, who was geared up to finish under 25 seconds, lost control and fell hard. The American Senior women were on fire, with Sara Sayasane breaking the world record only to have it, and the gold medal, stolen from her by her own teammate, Brittany Bowe, finishing in 26.611 seconds. The remarkable times generated a lot of discussion by skaters in the crowd about the womens’ use of 110mm wheels. There were some upsets with the senior men, including “disappointing” times of over 25 seconds by both superstars Joey Mantia (USA) and Gregory Duggento (Italy), but Kalin Dobbin’s win for New Zealand was accepted richly by the crowd after he injured his groin in the final last year. But the highlight of the night, and the event so far, was the Colombian Junior skater, Pedro Causil, who not only won the event, and broke the Junior world record, but broke the overall world record for the 300mm, with a blistering time of 24.531 seconds.

Different types of printers require different cleaning methods. So if you can get your hands on cleaning instructions for your make and model of printer, do so and follow them. Unfortunately, many manufacturers only make that kind of information available to their licensed technicians. In that case, you are stuck with these instructions, so read on.

Open up your printer and take a look.

If you have an ink jet printer and there is an ink mess inside, clean it up with wet paper towels.

If you have a printer that uses toner either vacuum or blow it out. Some toner, especially color toner, can be harmful to you, so only use a vacuum with a micro-toner filter or blow and run. Figure out where the drum is (it is shiny and larger in diameter than the rollers) and do not touch or scratch it. If you do, the scratches will turn up as marks on every paper that you print and will require that you replace the drum (not a cheap option) to fix it.

Examine the path that the paper takes through the printer. Clean all of the rollers (but on a toner printer, not the drum or rollers near the drum and watch out for the rollers after the drum because they may be hot). It may take some disassembly and/or contorting of your arm to get to some of the rollers. Access is not always easy. The most important rollers to clean are the ones which pick up the paper from the paper bin and transfer it into the printer. If these rollers are dirty or bad, they will cause consistent paper jams.

The rollers are made of either hard plastic or rubber. All of the rollers can be cleaned with water or rubbing alcohol. If the rubber rollers have deposits that you can't get off, you can use harsher cleaners but be careful because those cleaners can damage the plastic rollers and parts.

To clean a roller, wipe across the roller with a wet rag, rotate the roller, and wipe again. Do this until you have worked your way all the way around the roller. Look at the rag. If it has been blackened by the roller, move to a clean part of the rag and clean the roller again. Once everything is clean on the inside, close it up and clean the outside. Wipe off the case and each of the buttons or knobs. If there are staples or paper clips sitting on it or wedged in the cracks, remove them and throw them away.

Other areas of the printer can be cleaned but to do so, you will have to either get training and special tools or leave it to a trained professional.

300-meter Sprints: Colombia’s junior skater Pedro Causil stole the show in the evening program and set the 300-meter world record with a 24.53! Australia’s Daniel Craig opened with a 9.5 second for the first 100-meter, a second 100 at 7.9, but then fell in the middle of the final corner.

In the senior women’s final, USA’s sprinting duo of Sara Sayasane and Brittany Bowe respectively set and reset the world record for a red, white, and blue 1-2 finish. After the race during the men’s warm-up, Bruce Springstein’s ‘Born In The USA’ was blaring in the stadium.

Senior men; the crowd went completely silent when USA’s Joey Mantia, Italy’s Gregory Duggento, New Zealands Kalon Dobbin, took to the start line. Korea’s Kyung Tae Kang had to tighten his skate right before the start while the officials watch him- ohhh the suspense!! In the end, Kalon Dobbin skated away with the gold medal and Kang with the silver.

Here are a few pictures of the day-

My Fall In The First Corner Of My First Race: We skated the senior men's 10km points heats. Top-20 of each heat qualified to the final. I crashed out in the first corner when a cone was kicked onto the track and got caught in my skate. It felt like a spectacular crash with 100's of skaters falling and flying over the boards, but in fact only one other skater fell. The best part was getting a knee to the face as I was spun around kind of upside down. It's a bummer to watch the finals from the stands.

Canadians: Jade Pauley made it out of his heat in the junior men's long race. He was on the bubble, but just managed to squeak in with 20th.

I'm going back to the track now to watch the finals- I had just enough time when the afternoon program wrapped up to come back to the hotel, drop off my suitcase that Yamo and Ewen (French friends) brought from Nantes, send a couple of e-mails, and eat.

The senior 10km points, junior 15km points/ elimination, and 300-meter finals are all taking place tonight.

Again, make sure you use the following links for all the news beyond the little that I am sharing; scan them carefully because I'll be adding more as more come to light-

I expect to have much less free time for a few days. With 3 days of racing on the track, a rest day, 3 days of racing on the road, a rest day, a marathon, and then a party to to wrap things up, you're likely to notice decreased activity on SSW.

The following links are likely to provide you with in depth perspectives & analysis, quick results, pictures, videos, background & relevant information, and more. If or when I publish material on SSW, I'll 'bump' or paste these links to the top of my site-

• CIC Worlds
• Gijon 2008 [English site]
• Competition schedule
• Mundo Patin World Championships page
• Mundo Patin World Championships page #2
• Bont CIC PatinCarrera- live results
• Bont CIC PatinCarrera World Championships page
• Mundo Patin's pictures
• Cado Motus- insider's perspective by Australia's Mick Byrne
• World Championship 2008 in Gijón, Spain- Bont Forum
• Equipe de France Roller 2008- blog
• Bont CIC PatinCarrera- live video
• Training & News
• Hotel Leon- Team Canada's home during the World Championships
• Roller En Ligne World Championships page
• A Younger Perspective- USA's Keith Carroll
• Skating With Wouter Hebbrecht- Belgium's World Champion
• Powerslide Racing News

Well the opening ceromoney has been & gone, short political speachers & teams doing a lap of honour set the tone for a great opening, but alas the show did not live up to expectations, but the 300 T/T tomorrow will make up for that for sure.

As with these new style flat bankings & the measured line 12 inches or 30 centermeters from the inside of the track & people shortcutting the corners, we do not want cheating or false World records.

Admidst much banter & confusion Roberto responded that they must keep off the white painted line & do the T/T distance,or they will be disqualified.

It will be very interesting to see what markers are used & sure to be scattered from here to Kingdom Come & just who will be disquallified.

Next July the very important World Games will be held in Taiwan in July, Qualifications from senior skaters aggreegate of their best 3 events will determine the Qualification. But Individual World champions are first priority of the 27, plus there are a minimum of 3 places that must be kept for Taiwan , even if they do not Qualify, but this should not be a problem for the hosts, to be in the top 30 men & 30 women who Qualify for the 2009 World games, these are held every 4 years for the non Olympic sports.

Und das kam so. Damit ich ein wenig agiler bin, habe ich mir einen röhrenden Roller zugelegt, der mit immerhin 45 Stundenkilometern vor sich hin tuckert und ruckelt. Und mit diesem tollen Gefährt sauste ich also in die Thuner Innenstadt, um Fotos zu machen. Mein "Model" wartete bereits, während ich in beim Venner-Zyro-Turm in die Berntorgasse fuhr und nach einem geeigneten Abstellplatz suchte.

Die Berntorgasse ist momentan durch massive Bauarbeiten in und an Gebäuden stark frequentiert und entsprechend zuparkiert. Glücklicherweise fand ich auf einem Plätzchen neben einem grosszügigen deutschen Geländewagen eine Abstellmöglichkeit für meinen Roller.

Die Fotos zu machen dauerte allerdings seine Zeit. Drei Viertelstunden lang zog ich mit meinem Model von einem Ort zum anderen - immer rund um den Venner-Zyro-Turm. Und als die Session fertig war, kehrte ich zu meinem Roller zurück, der friedlich auf dem Platz stand - mittlerweile aber eingeschlossen, der Platz war mit einer schweren Kette gesichert worden. Keine Chance, den Roller herauszubringen, jedenfalls nicht alleine.

Zuerst versuchte ich noch den Kettenhalter ausfindig zu machen. Dabei stellte sich heraus, dass die Parkbucht ein Privatplatz sei. Aha, der Platzmieter oder -halter war schnell ausfindig gemacht, allerdings war er nicht erreichbar. Was tun? Den Roller irgendwie aus seinem Gefängnis hieven? Ja klar, aber mit wem? Ein Blick auf die Seitenfronten des Geländefahrzeuges machten aber deutlich, dass dies ein Eigentor werden könnte. Deshalb entschied ich mich für die Variante Kantonspolizei Bern. Nach einem Anruf und der Schilderung meiner misslichen Situation, eilte schon eine Patrouille herbei. Nach kurzem Hin und Her wurde die Kette angehoben und mein Roller befreit. Es war ganz einfach, das war ja auch nicht meinr Problem. Bei dieser Hilfe wurde nämlich grad amtlich registriert, dass alles mit rechten Dingen ablief - gut so!

Auch wenn sich die eine Kollegin der Staatsgewalt es sich nicht verkneifen konnte, mich in Sachen Fahrzeugführung und Abstellen auf (nicht gekennzeichnete) Privatgrundstücke, muss ich doch der Polizei ein schönes Kränzchen winden. Schnell und unbürokratisch war die Hilfe, bravo

It's so easy to just be strong and then decide 'I'm going to go race like hell.' Well that is a great approach but there is so much more you need to do. You literally have to visualize every aspect of the race so you are mentally prepared. You have to visualize the race when everything goes perfect, and even when something goes wrong so that you are always prepared. You should be able to see yourself with the results you want before you even tie your skates.

Photo from cor1000

• Video- Ottawa Inline Festival 2008 - 10 K Finish Part 2
• Video- Ottawa Inline Festival 2008 - 10K Finish
• Video- Ottawa Inline Festival 2008 - 10 K Start

Photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco

Photo from Pattinaggio Bellusco

'Jessica Wright on the podium'- photo and caption from here

Det inlägg av Amanda som detta inlägg bygger vidare på, är en respons på detta blogginlägg.

Bloco 1 -Flatland em Arcos + Skate Downhill

3ª participação do Alex Mendes, piloto de flatland, no Mundo Urbano. O cara manda muito e não dava pra deixar de fora essas imagens gravadas em Arcos. Em Lagoa Santa, descobrimos uma ladeira e chamamos o pessoal do sk8 downhill pra por pra baixo. Imagens iradas!
http://www.vimeo.com/1616159

4ª etapa do CILS foi no fim de semana

Nosso colaborador da semana é a organização do CILS, com imagens feitas na pista de São Bernardo. http://www.vimeo.com/1608392

Bloco 2 -Patins Itaúna + Patins NDS2

Heleno e seu filho Igor, acompanhados do amigo Thiago apresentam a pista pública da pacata cidade de Itaúna, em Minas Gerais. Direto do fundo do baú para o Mundo Urbano, imagens inéditas da NDS2, série de vídeos que originou este programa.
http://www.vimeo.com/1616338

Bloco 1 -Flatland em Arcos + Skate Downhill

3ª participação do Alex Mendes, piloto de flatland, no Mundo Urbano. O cara manda muito e não dava pra deixar de fora essas imagens gravadas em Arcos. Em Lagoa Santa, descobrimos uma ladeira e chamamos o pessoal do sk8 downhill pra por pra baixo. Imagens iradas!
http://www.vimeo.com/1616159

4ª etapa do CILS foi no fim de semana

Nosso colaborador da semana é a organização do CILS, com imagens feitas na pista de São Bernardo. http://www.vimeo.com/1608392

Bloco 2 -Patins Itaúna + Patins NDS2

Heleno e seu filho Igor, acompanhados do amigo Thiago apresentam a pista pública da pacata cidade de Itaúna, em Minas Gerais. Direto do fundo do baú para o Mundo Urbano, imagens inéditas da NDS2, série de vídeos que originou este programa.
http://www.vimeo.com/1616338

Note: 00 is a fine flour with a lower gluten content than all-purpose flour. If you don't have this on hand, use all purpose flour instead.

To prepare the mixture by hand, place the flour on a clean counter top or rolling board and make a well in the center.

Break the eggs into the well and using a fork, beat the eggs, gently drawing in flour from the sides. Continue dragging flour into the center well, stirring the ingredients together until the dough begins to form a homogeneous mass.

Begin kneading the pasta, first sprinkling the surface with flour. in which to put the eggs. Then beat the eggs with a fork and gently mix in the flour from the sides. Start mixing the ingredients together until the mixture becomes homogeneous.

IMPORTANT: If the pasta is too dry or crumbly, spray with a little lukewarm water. When the right texture has been reached, form a ball and leave to rest under an inverted bowl for 10-15 minutes.

If making noodles, roll out the dough using a roller pasta machine, dusting lightly with flour to prevent from sticking. Fold up and roll a second time, or continue to roll each sheet until it becomes smooth.

Once the pasta sheets begin to smooth out, decrease the roller setting by 2 numbers, and then again by 2 numbers, until the sheets are the thickness that you require for the product that you're making.

Use the pasta sheets to make ravioli, lasagna, or roll up the sheet jelly-roll fashion, and slice to desired width to make noodles (or use the cutter attachment of your machine).

For a variation to this dough, add one teaspoon good olive oil for liquideach cup of flour, and one teaspoon salt for each 2 cups flour. For a chewier pasta, replace 1/2 cup of the flour with semolina flour. To make a higher protein pasta, replace 1/2 cup flour with soy flour or high gluten (or balancer) flour. Adding high gluten flour also has the added benefit or reducing carbohydrates. To make an oriental noodle, substitute 1/2 cup of the flour with 1/2 cup of rice flour or potato starch.

In any of these substitutions, adjust liquids accordingly in order to have a dough of the proper consistency for rolling out.

You can add color to the dough by adding drops of beet juice (for red), spinach juice (for green), carrot juice for orange/yellow or squid ink for purple/black!

Nu är det så att för det första så stavas dem inte dom, det är de eller dem som gäller. Kan man inte skilja på de och dem utan är feg och gömmer sig bakom småbarnens dom så behöver man inte skriva ett inlägg som så många människor kommer att läsa. Sedan så undrar jag vad de egentligen anser vara manlig identitet? En actionmandocka?

De skriver om män med bäbisar som om det vore omanligt, som om män inte kan tycka om att ta hand om sina barn. Jag tycker det är förjävligt! Jag vet väldigt få som faktiskt inte har velat vara pappalediga. Jag vet fler av den gamla skolan som önskar att de fått möjlighet än pappor som lidit och känt sig omanliga under sin pappaledighet.

Vad har de för rätt att placera alla män i ett fack? Säga att alla är likadana? Påstå att vi kvinnor "bara står ut" i ett äktenskap med en sådan man.

Jag älskar mångsidighet. Jag har en karl som vet vad han vill, tar egna beslut, kan slåss om det krävs (inte med mig, han har väl inte förstått kraften i ett försoningsknull ännu) men även vara diplomatisk. Som älskar djupt, passionerat och visar detta för omvärlden. Som jobbar hårt och vill beskydda, men som även vill bli omhändertagen. Som absolut inte skulle låta mig knipa hela barnledigheten, men som inte känner sig omanlig för att han vill vara hemma med sitt framtida barn. Han gillar heminredning, musik, tekniska saker, att bygga. Saker som anses vara både manliga och kvinnliga. Är han ingen riktig man för det? Jag tycker att de bästa männen är de män som inte låter sig placeras i fack, som inte underordnar sig sin partner, utan är sig själva, även om det råkar vara så att de vill gå runt med en bäbis på armen.

Jag tror att det Cecilia Gyllenhammar och Jessica Zandén försöker säga är att männen söker sig för mycket till det trygga. Det tycker jag också att många män gör. De går in i ett förhållande och tio år senare är deras helgnöje att spela fotboll med barnen och städa, frugan köper kläderna och bestämmer allt allt allt. Det handlar inte om att det är män, det handlar om att de är sådana som tar den lätta vägen, det finns kvinnor som är exakt likadana, som låter sig styras år efter år tills de exploderar för att de inte fått leva, till allas förvåning förstås.

De vill hela tiden inrikta det hela på kvinnligt och manligt, vilket jag tycker är fel, för det är alldeles för snäva roller för att använda i denna debatt. Det handlar om så mycket mer än så. De handlar om en generation av äldre kvinnor som helt missat hur saker och ting har förändrats och när de ser det så förstår de inte vad det är de ser. En generation som inte alls kan se till att män och kvinnor är olika individer som fungerar på olika sätt, utan bara ser manligt och kvinnligt rakt igenom.

Jag har själv skrivit om att jag tycker att jämnställdheten gjort oss för "könlösa" och det står jag fast vid, för vi är trots allt olika, vi män och kvinnor, och detta måste vi få fortsätta vara, i grunden. Det betyder inte att vi ska ta emot hela mans/kvinnorollen, utan att vi ska våga vara moderliga/beskyddande och inte skämmas om vi vill vara hemmafruar eller inte vill att frugan ska gå ut ensam när det är mörkt.

När det däremot kommer till förhållanden så kan man inte dra alla över en kam. Som det ser ut idag så finns det så många olika sorters förhållanden, så många olika sorters människor. Jag tycker inte att vi är instängda i äktenskapet, Jag tycker vi i sådana fall blir instängda i kvinnor i Cecilia och Jessicas förlegade åsikter, åsikter från kvinnor som tror att allas äktenskap är som deras egna var eller är. Som inte kan se att vi unga faktiskt lever annorlunda, kvinnor som inte vågade ta risker förrän de blev 45.

Vi blir varnade för att våga satsa på kärlek och barn när vi är unga. Vi blir varnade för att våga älska, för vi kommer missa hela vår ungdom om vi älskar får man höra. Vi blir rädda för kärlek, familj och normer, sedan när vi kommer fram till att det var det vi ville ha så är vi för gamla för att skaffa det.

Det är inte äktenskapen som stänger in oss i roller, det är åsikter, de äldres åsikter om allt vi gör och allt vi tänker och allt vi inte får göra som dem, De äldres tro på att saker inte har förändrats för oss, för att de inte har förändrats för dem. Alla ser inte lyckan i att vara skild och ha en 20 år yngre älskare, för oss som i viss mån fått leva ut vår sexualitet och bombats med sex från höger och vänster är detta inte hippt. Vi är en generation som vill återerövra det fina i kärleken. Låt oss göra det.