Yillara Skye

Sent it to my brother, since he is a huge Farscape fan. Thank you for posting it!

Between 1 1/2 and 5 1/2. Occasionally, I will get 6 to seven hours.

I saw that part with the crowd booing.  They booed for like a good 10 min.  Even the comentaters could not understand why the judge rated him so low.  It took the the Russian coming on to the stage to get the crowd to calm down and the sad part of it all even though they did raise the score it was still to low to give him a medal.  With poor paul hamm he was to go next so he had to wait and then he got a really high score.  I don't know if this would be bad or good but give the judges a tv viewer so they can can watch in slow mo or at different angles so they would not have to judge on just the live show.  I know it sounds that then they would be to picky but then they could think about the preformance and not have to use their memory.

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Sometimes it seems like a good thing to have an ability to review the routine in slo-mo...but most times I would think that the gymnasts would rather slo-mo not make an appearance.

If a judge can pick apart a routine at regular speed....oh, boy! You do NOT want to see the scores if they were to have slo mo. The top scores of the athletes might be in the range of 9.20 to 9.30, with a rare 9.50. Even the Romanians...they most certainly would NOT have been the women's team gold medalists, had the judges had a chance to review it in slow motion.

Judges goof up, more often than most people realize...and not just in gymnastics or figure skating. And it is definately not just the highest level of the sports.

Case in point...

I was in a competition.. A level 8 gymnasts' routine has a start value of 10.0 automatically(because we cannot do skills for bonus points), and level 9's have a start value of 9.8. THe floor judge goofed because she had marked me as a level 9, instead of 8...and thus my score was 0.20 points lower than it should have been. She did the proper thing of making the change and reporting it so the final results would reflect that I was indeed level 8 instead of 9 (so you know, the women's gymnastics you see on TV is Level 10/Elite).

By the time of the awards ceremony, everything was OK. But the change changed my placement in BOTH the floor exercise final and the all around final results. And the final thing she did was notify not only my coach of the mistake...but came onto the floor, introduced herself and notified me of the mistake she made along with apologizing.

Thanks VBG & AE :unsure: I am so glad to see the trivia ranks back

I have been watching and enjoying what I have seen but it does seem that the judges don't have a clue or something is up and now it seems that the judges messed up on the scoreing of the men all around.  I am glad that they are not blaming the athleats.  It is strange that most of the time I hate sports but when the games come on winter or summer I watch.

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Sad thing is not too long after the incident in the men's all around, there have been a few other incidences of faulty judging springing up.

According to the news article I read earlier, plus I think they mentioned it during one of the broadcasts... they ended up suspending three of the judges after not only their mistake in the all around concerning Paul Hamm, but one claims he was pressured heavily by the crowd to change Alexei Nemov (of Russia)'s score to one that was a bit higher. He said they all began booing so much that he had to do something to make them stop.

Actually in the last year I have grown 2 inches..

From age 10 to age 23 I was 4'11"

I am now (at age 24) 5'1"

Original major: Physics.

I got an Assoc. in Arts degree in 2000 for General education so I could be eligible for transferring to a University.

I was pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Physics, but missed the other sciences far too much (all I had left were physics classes, no other electives needed...just my core courses). So with that said...

Getting an Assoc. In Science in Chemical Technologies

and a Bachelors in Science in Interdisciplinary Studies(Biology, Chemistry & Physics)

I have seen in Astronomy magazine an add for a College that you can attend online that allows students to go for their Masters or Doctorate in Astronomical Science, I may look into that further.

Sometimes I have thought about adding a minor, but not sure which yet...Mathematics, engineering, history, dance, Humanities, all of those look like excellent options.

Since I moved to the Mid-West I've tried Buffalo, Goat, Venison and Rabbit.

I have not yet gotten to try goat or rabbit, but Buffalo and especially venison are really good. THough I have only eaten buffalo only once, the one resteraunt in town that served it (in a platter along with pheasant, elk, gator tail, and duck) sadly went out of business after about a year of being in service. It was really sad..since there is pretty much nothing in town that has much in the way of more authentic Scandinavian dishes (asides from whatever people make in their homes)...just that one resteraunt. oh well.. :) .

Now venison, that from time to time is available in stores here. But, sometimes a relative of mine would send some venison to us. Which was how I first got to try the stuff.

The Aaron Piersol fiasco was quite apalling. The video showed no evidence of any illegal kicks/strokes/techniques. I mean, 2 body lengths is not a dolphin kick. Even the guy in second place debated the disqualification.

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I do not have the link, but one report mentioned that the man who was judging had not judged in a few years. And a few years ago, the way Piersol turned would have been more than likely been counted as illegal, and grounds for disqualification. Why he was allowed to judge and not be up to date on the rules I will never know....

WHO SAW PAUL HAMM??? THAT WAS AWESOME!!!

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I did, as well as I saw Carly Patterson win the women's all around

What burned my buttocks was that the judges forced the American gymnasts (men) to change their routine with only 3 days notice and NO REASON WHY was given that I heard of..

There was a pretty annoying reason given actually..

They both had a move taht was worth a certain value point in their routines (which they took at worlds), but according to the judge the skill was no longer worth as much and if they desired to be close to a 10.0 start value that they needed to change the skill.

There is a long standing rule that was at my gym..I learned it when I was first starting out...and it was a rule I had passed on to my students. "You may NOT make changes on your routines the week leading up to a competion, unless it is to omit a skill, improve the quality(read as: practice it a lot) of the skill or change to a less difficult skill" Safety was always the main focus, even more than it was to get a high start value. I would not be surprised that this type of rule is the case at most gyms throughout the world.

They should have taken the lower start value, IMO because the mistakes that were made in the routines(esp. Blaine Wilson's fall) added up to more of a deduction and thus lower scores than if they had left the routines as is and did them extremely well. What that judge did was incredibly out of line, and personally I really question the rest of the committee for allowing him to do such a thing. A rule that is passed must be ok'd by the entire panel of judges and finalized by the designated head judge of that competition. Most importantly, they should have made that announcement prior to the games beginning as in at least a week or two in advance...giving the athletes at least mediocrely fair time to safely change their routines. Actually, the skill value change should have gone into effect immediately after Worlds and an announcement should have been made to all participating Sports Unions/Associations. There are violations all around in this situation....I hate being suspicious about stuff, but this really is quite fishy.

Is it my imagination, or did some of the US athletes get kinda low scores for routines that looked good?

 

Aside from that, I enjoy watching the competition.

 

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No it is not particularly your imagination. The scores were a bit out of proportion for the routines done. Several of the Romanian & Russian scores were actually a few tenths higher than they should have been. After five years as a gymnastics coach(as well as 20 years as an athlete), I still tend to critique & judge routines. A few that were receiving 9.5 through 9.7 really should have been more like 9.25 to maybe 9.40, possibly 9.50. So no not really just imagination....the scores were a bit off.

The US scores were actually almost on track.. they did have mistakes, maybe not noticeable to a lot of people but they were there.

Yillara, you still with us??? How'd you make it through Charlie? -_- Heard it on the news today, the president even went down there. Hope your ok.

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I am here and am perfectly alright, -_- thank you for your concern. Actually my city fared pretty well, that sadly is not true for other cities to the south (especially Punta Gorda, which that and Port Charlotte & Fort Myers took the direct hit). I have even heard reports that at least one of the theme parks in Orlando sustained a bit of damage (but then the hurricane was still around a category 3 when it went through there).

North FL was hit with some severe & heavy storms for a good portion of the day...though it had to do with the cold front instead of Charlie. We actually saw more severe weather today than we did with the hurricane.

Keeping an eye out on the two new storms...Danielle & Earl.

I voted other, as I have done and do many of those. Writing, dancing, painting, drawing, singing, acting...are all my main ones.

Another hurricane experience under my belt.

Charley was still a category 1 hurrcane when it exited the state through a city to my south (by about an hour and a half to the south). We got winds and rain, as we did with Hurricane Floyd and Irene in 1999. Only small branches are down in my yard, but I am not sure how the rest of the city fared.

Tropical storm Bonnie produced many tornadoes in the city to the north of me and it struck the west part of the state...so anything is possible.

Charley is preparing to strike South Carolina as I write this....and Danielle is brewing in the Atlantic, as is Tropical Depression 5

I basically stay in the Trek related forums( especially TNG, movies & trivia) and Science & Technology forum.

Charlie is now a Cat. 4 hurricane.. and is going to make landfall any moment now near Ft. Myers, before coming up the state. As of right now, it is all a matter of sitting and waiting to see what happens up here in the N. part of the state.

Getting ready for more storms....

Tornadoes are popping up throughout the city to the north of me, and will be seeing more of the effects of TS Bonnie, and Charlie is now a Category two and pretty much the entire state of FL is in the path. I am being careful as possible, and I hope all in the path do the same.

This is pretty much a too late here...

But I pray and hope that all along the gulf seaboard of FL, as well as the SE of the US are prepared for the two hurricanes and that all will be safe. Check out the links at the first few posts of the thread for info on these storms.

Next few days here should be quite interesting....

Pressure dropping steadily here.. Getting ready for soon to be Hurricane Bonnie and then Hurricane Charley. I am on the east coast of FL... but we will definately see the effects.

I might see it.. but depending on the trailer, I might decide to wait until DVD.

I saw all three. Personally, II & III were ok at best, but I really liked pretty much everything about JPI. I had read the first book back when the first film came out, I have not yet gotten to read the second yet.

We've been watching the series again (buying one season at a time on DVD and rewatching ... we're in the middle of Season 4 right now).  Anyway, we've been noticing that every time anything happens, Riker's first reaction always includes "the hell!"  What the hell?  Why the hell?  Who the hell?  Where the hell?  It's quite funny, actually, and we've been getting really tickled every time we hear it ... seems like its in every episode at least once.

Huh?

Maybe it is just that I never really paid much attention to Riker when watching the series, but I never noticed him saying "the Hell"(at least not in every episode anyhow). I guess I will check that out next time I watch an episode of TNG.

I voted for Data, of course.

They charge you for garbage pickup??

Here they charge for garbage pick up, but that appears as part of your yearly property taxes(as far as I can recall). I think if you have city water that also appears on the tax, but I have a well..so I am not sure if that is so or not.

Check out either of the links.. Tropical Depression 1 has formed off the coast of N. FLorida and should be affecting the eastern seaboard in the next few days...probably may become Tropical Storm Alex by sometime tomorrow. That is, unless the tropical wave in the Gulf of Mexico picks up and develops faster.