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	stem - definition by dict.die.net
		Anything resembling a stem or stalk; as, the stem of a tobacco pipe; the stem of a watch case, or that part to which the ring, by which it is suspended, is attached.
		Stem leaf (Bot.), a leaf growing from the stem of a plant, as contrasted with a basal or radical leaf.
		To remove the stem or stems from; as, to stem cherries; to remove the stem and its appendages (ribs and veins) from; as, to stem tobacco leaves.
	dict.die.net /stem (532 words)

	Skiing - MSN Encarta
		Most advanced skiers hold their skis a few inches apart in a parallel position, giving them the flexibility to shift their weight quickly from ski to ski.
		The ski patrol’s responsibility is to take care of injured skiers, to mark hazardous spots on trails, to make sure that trails are in good condition before opening them, and, at times, to act as traffic police in congested areas.
		Whereas traditional skis are wide at the tip and tail and slightly narrower through their middle, shaped skis have greater variation in width.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761574346_2/Skiing.html (1642 words)

	Skiing Sports
		Ski jumping is a highly specialized Nordic discipline in which competitors ski down a steep ramp, called the inrun, that curves upward at its end, or takeoff point.
		Skiing as a form of recreation is much more recent in origin, although there is some evidence that it may have existed as early as the first half of the 18th century.
		As skiing spread to mainland Europe, it soon became apparent that the techniques used by the Scandinavians were unsuitable for mountainous terrain, especially in the Alps of south central Europe.
	www.latifm.com /look/Sports_Skiing.htm (4491 words)

	Wikinfo \| Skiing
		Skiing is the human activity of gliding over snow using skis (originally wooden planks, now usually made from fiberglass or related composites) strapped to the feet with ski bindings.
		For many people, "skiing" means recreational downhill skiing in which one visits a ski resort, purchases a lift ticket, dons cold-weather clothing, skis, ski boots and ski poles, and embarks on a chairlift, gondola lift, or other mechanical method of uphill propulsion.
		Ski troops played a key role in retaining Finnish independence from Russia during the Winter War, and from Germany during the Lapland War, although the use of ski troops was recorded by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus in the 13th century.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=skiing (425 words)

	A Brief History of Skiing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Skiing as a recreational sport started in the 19th century in Norway but people had been skiing for thousands of years before that.
		Skiing exploded with the invention of the Telemark ski.
		The skis were also shaped differently they were more narrow in the center around the binding and wider at the ends, creating a sidecut.
	pubpages.unh.edu /~smarion/history.html (624 words)

	Telemark skiing
		However new types of technique based on the stem were gradually starting to replace telemark in the Alpine countries in the 1910s, since it was easier to master and enabled shorter turns better suited to the steeper alpine terrrain and skiing downhill.
		However with the huge developments in ski shapes and materials, at the present time (2000s) a wide variety of skis are now being used, according to whether they are to be used on or off piste (trail), for ski touring, or for racing.
		Increasing the distance between the leading ski and the free-heel trailing ski increases the amount that both knees are bent and brings the skier's torso closer to the snow.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/t/te/telemark_skiing.shtml (907 words)

	STEM - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Stem, portion of vascular plants that commonly bears leaves and buds.
		Stem cells can replicate themselves or make any type of cell required to build an organism.
		Some other techniques used in Alpine skiing include stem turns (pushing one ski out to the side in a small wedge), step turns (stepping onto the...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /STEM.html (226 words)

	Theory
		Skis initiate turns from the front end of the skis, so when a skier’s weight is concentrated too far back on the ski, the unweighted tip will shoot forward, wander, and possibly cross.
		This means her skis are not flat on the snow, but are always on the inside edges.
		In a skiing position the female approaches her maximum strength more rapidly than the male as the slope increases, and reaches her limit at a 20 – degree slope.
	www.jeanniethoren.com /theory1.htm (1654 words)

	Skiing sport shop
		Skiing, winter sport in which people move across snow-covered terrain with long, narrow, specially designed boards called skis attached to their feet.
		Alpine skiing derives its name from the mountain range the Alps in Europe, where the sport developed in the late 1800s as a means of moving down snow-covered slopes.
		Skiing spread to other parts of the world and is now done primarily at ski resorts on specially cut trails.
	www.sport-shops.com /fd_skiing.htm (2112 words)

	Stem Cell Research Progress Blog
		Researchers have used human embryonic stem cells to slow vision loss in rats with a disease similar to of macular degeneration; the stem cells took the place of failing retinal cells, and the rats that received the stem cells had twice the visual acuity of the control group 40 days later.
		While being able to direct a stem cell to grow an entire or partial new plant is a big achievement, and certainly has no ethical issues in itself, plants have the ability to greater or lesser extents to regenerate already.
		They froze stem cells from the cord blood of their newborn infants, hoping that that the stem cells can be used later in repairing cartilage or ligament damage.
	www.newdrugs.com /stemcells (4249 words)

	How to Turn while Skiing - Pier55.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Stemming was introduced by the Austrian skier Mathias Zdarsky in the 1890s.
		Stemming can be used for controlling the speed of the skis as well as for turning.
		Skis with a deep sidecut (the 'cutaway' section of the ski under the boot) can turn more easily than those with a shallow sidecut.
	www.pier55.com /Sports-Recreation/Turn-in-Skiing.shtml (519 words)

	Skiing Heritage -- Alpine History
		Alpine skiing is the mainstay of winter recreation in the northern tier of American states and in the entire Appalachian chain down to the Carolinas, in the Canadian Laurentians, in the northwest’s Cascades, in the western Rockies and the far western Sierra Nevada.
		Skiing became a defining Norwegian characteristic, implying strongly that Norwegians were too courageous and independent to be tied down by mere Swedes, the rulers of Norway at the time in an arrangement not popular at all with Norwegians.
		The common bond of skiing built the Tenth into a formidable outfit which was undeterred by one of the war’s heaviest casualty rates among American divisions: thirty percent of its men were killed or wounded in the 10th Division-led breakthrough from Italy’s Apennines to the Brenner Pass in 1945.
	www.skiinghistory.org /history.html (8699 words)

	Telemark skiing feature story on telemarktips.com
		As recreational skiing became more commercialized, and with the growth of ski resorts and their usually groomed, firm snow runs, it's not surprising that the telemark technique failed to catch on in the areas where skiing began to really take off as a sport in the 1900s, that is North American and continental Europe.
		Many telemarkers turned to alpine skis as an alternative, but alpine ski design was, at the time, largely driven by racing, meaning that the skis were almost all very stiff along their length from tip to tail (longitudinally)...
		The Tua Montet was a popular telemark ski model in the early to mid-90s, and with dimensions of 86mms at its tip and 64mms at its waist, it's a good example of a typical of its time skinny ski, with very little sidecut (22mms).
	www.telemarktips.com /WhatsTele.html (3854 words)

	Congressman Mark Steven Kirk - 10th District of Illinois
		Passage of H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, will expand research to stem cells that donors voluntarily provide once they are no longer needed for in vitro fertilization.
		Testifying before Reps. Kirk, Biggert and Schwarz were Dr. John A. Kessler, a neurologist and stem cell researcher at Northwestern University, Dr. Steven Teitelbaum, a professor of Pathology at Washington University in St. Louis and Dr. Sean Morrison, who researches adult stem cells at the University of Michigan.
		Kessler’s stem cell advocacy became personal when his teenage daughter, Allison, was paralyzed from the waist down in a skiing accident.
	www.house.gov /apps/list/press/il10_kirk/stemcellpresser.html (984 words)

	Ski school \| Ask MetaFilter
		There seem to be a ton of arguments about what constitutes a stem christie, a wedge christie, snowplough turn, inside and outside foot, etc. I'm especially confused about that wedge/stem distinction, which seems to be a source of argument on skiing newsgroups, but I can't find an answer that seems definitive.
		When you start skiing you should do so a) to gain control and moderate your speed and b) to start getting that feeling of how a ski feels under weight and pressure and how those things are related to turning.
		BTW with modern telemark gear it is very possible to stem christie and to parallel ski rather than using the telemark position and technique.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/29863 (977 words)

	Ski Humor 1930s
		In the 1930s, alpine skiing made the transition from an exotic, leisure pursuit for a number of skiers estimated in the low five figures at the end of the 1920s to become a worldwide participant sport.
		Ski historian John Allen rightly says that “no one really knew.” The most credible estimates range from a quarter of a million to not more than half a million U.S. skiers in 1936.
		Although the core stem turn progression—snowplow, stem, stem christie—first invented as part of the “Arlberg technique,” finally prevailed almost everywhere, it took most of the decade for that to happen.
	www.skiinghistory.org /SkiHumor5.html (1954 words)

	Stems from REI.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The EA 70 OS mountain stem is made from lightweight and strong EA 70 aluminum alloy.
		This high-end aluminum stem works on either your road or mountain bike.
		Use this stem on either your road or mountain bike.
	www.rei.com /category/4500802.htm (130 words)

	Telemark Skiing Water Skiing Picture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Stem (skiing) - The stem technique in skiing is usually credited to Mathias Zdarsky, from Austria, who invented it in the 1890s.
		Born and raised in Morgedal in Telemark, he became a master of downhill skiing, both in terms of skills and in developing equipment, like bindings and skis with curved sides to facilitate turns.
		Shape The first telemark skiing in the CPU executing software External links Linux Loader Lilo GRUB NT Loader Librascope LGP-30 Microreboot Restartability Crash-only software contains rudimentary functionality to hard disk on telemark skiing Ancient history of modern telemark skiing and was to stick to 5000 year 1926, two years old.
	www.fngrprnt.com /telemarkskiing.html (218 words)

	stem \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Stem may refer to:Plant stem, the above ground axis of a vascular plant.
		Stem (linguistics), the base part of a word not including inflectional morphemes.
		Stem (skiing) is a technique in skiing.A Stem (bike) is the forward extension which connects the fork to the handlebars of a bicycle.Stem (ship), the upright member mounted on the forward end of a vessel's keel, to which the strakes are attached.
	www.babylon.com /definition/stem/?uil=English (409 words)

	Skiing News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In the early days of the sport many ski resorts prohibited snowboards from their trails, so the only option was to hike up a mountain on snowshoes.
		Skiing was originally a snow sport that migrated over to water and other surfaces like grass.
		This affects your ski performance and exposes the skis to excess moisture which shortens their life span.
	skiing.findyourtopnews.com (2882 words)

	How to Make a Stem-Christie Turn on Skis - eHow.com
		After you've mastered the snowplow turn and you've become accustomed to more speed, the stem christie (also known as the wedge christie) is the next turn to learn.
		STEP 2: Begin increasing pressure on the inside ski that you want to use to initiate the turn'the left ski if you're turning right, or the right ski if you're turning left.
		Skiing is an inherently dangerous activity that can result in serious injury or even death.
	www.ehow.com /how_9624_make-stem-christie.html (431 words)

	Fast Track to PARALLEL
		With the evolution of the shaped ski, instructors are learning to adopt a new approach to teaching first time skier to ski parallel sooner.
		Through drills and exercises, us ski instructors will have the novice skier parallel turning much sooner and eliminating the stem method as a means to change direction...
		Don't forget skiing in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana as the season rolls on.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/skiing/26827 (279 words)

	DenverPost.com - Fund all forms of stem-cell research, scientist suggests
		Atala, director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina, found amniotic fluid holds stem cells with some of the potent properties of embryonic stem cells.
		Backers of the measure argue that embryonic stem-cell research offers hope of treatments and cures for deadly and debilitating diseases, because such cells have the ability to become any other cell in the body.
		Atala said in an interview Tuesday that he was concerned about reports that implied the amniotic stem cells were equivalent to embryonic stem cells.
	www.denverpost.com /ci_4979669?source=rss (551 words)

	stem
		We bought roses at the flower market for 50¢ a stem.
		to maneuver (a ski or skis) in executing a stem.
		the act or instance of a skier pushing the heel of one or both skis outward so that the heels are far apart, as in making certain turns or slowing down.
	www.infoplease.com /dictionary/stem (321 words)

	Synonyms of stem — Infoplease.com
		usage: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem"
		usage: a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it
		usage: remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"
	www.infoplease.com /thesaurus/stem (174 words)

	DenverPost.com - Skiing
		In the fall of 1984, single and new to Denver, I showed up at a Schussbaumer Ski Club meeting in the basement of the Zang Brewing Co. » MORE
		Colorado's expert skiers have spent decades watching tourist-hungry resorts expand their menu of groomed, flat terrain or jib park features.
		Willoughby: Time for ski bum to cash reality check
	www.denverpost.com /skiing (108 words)

	Mad River Glen : Vermont Skiing : Ski It If You Can! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We have already picked up 4-5" of Champlain Powder so far, it's still snowing and we are expecting, more snow" over the next few days.
		The base on the upper reaches of the mountain is downright decent while the bottom has been fortified by the new snow and our vaunted snow making system which has been running at 100% (yup, both guns have been blazing!) most of the week.
		This weekend we plan to operate the Single Chair to the summit and the Sunnyside Double with about 40 of our legendary trails open, many of which will be groomed for your skiing pleasure.
	www.madriverglen.com (269 words)

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