Recent content by Dobre

Well, I don't care for the waltz or the foxtrot either; but I hardly think they're in danger unless the ice dance committee throws out the RD altogether & replaces it with a short program. Which would undermine the entire concept & sport of ice dance, IMO; but which I could see happening.

After this season, the teams at the top that already performed a waltz RD at Worlds will probably be done. I think you will then have quite a decent chance of getting your waltz.

Those reports turned out to be false. "Posts on social media contended Oprah Winfrey refused to open her private road, or was slow to do so during an evacuation. But the roadway does not belong to Winfrey, and efforts to open the road to the public started soon after the tsunami warning was...

Hi guys! Thanks for giving me a few days to weigh in with a title suggestion. Anyway, Lake Placid is already about to start so obviously we need a final decision. I tried to post a poll with all the suggestions, but I posted by accident mid-edit when I was writing the title so the headline now...

Oh, for goodness sake! I was trying to edit the title of the poll & it accidentally posted mid-edit. Anyway, it should really say New Dance Hall Title poll.

Thanks to Wyliefan for giving us some time to weigh in with ideas!

Carol has a fun, quirky style. Her taste is more from Mom's era than from mine, but I can appreciate it because Mom is often brightening up when she hears Carol's choices for her teams. B&B, maybe, didn't really match that style. They seemed more of a classical team and did more of that. The...

I've always thought she was the strength of the team, though the experience together was very valuable and they were pretty balanced as skaters. There. Now we have all the perspectives possible. I'm glad she found a partner. I'd have prefered B&B stick through the not atypically bumpy...

https://bsky.app/profile/washingtonpost.com/post/3lu5zgol5m227 The children lost in the Texas floods, remembered by their loved ones "The flooding that devastated Central Texas was the country’s deadliest catastrophe for children in recent memory. More than a quarter of the people who died — at...

https://bsky.app/profile/markey.senate.gov/post/3ltzxwu4ohs2y Senator Ed Markey: "Unbelievable. Just days after the tragic flooding in Texas, NOAA is demanding that public TV stations remove equipment from towers that is critical for these stations to send weather alerts. Trump’s ideological...

I'm all good with Starr & Josephine. Best wishes, ladies! The ladies field at SA is pretty competitive so it will be a challenge. (Alysa, Higuchi, Chaeyeon Kim, Gubanova, Yoshida, & Haein all there).

Oh, that's really a shame. Dad's input is to say that with log structures, it's really hard to put out fire. It looks like there is a lot more stonework in this lodge than most historic lodges I have seen; but even so, it seems to have had a log support structure. (The article says multiple...

I've been posting links to political errors and other contributors to the disaster in the politics forum because it feels like when there is a disaster, people deserve to have a safe place to go & this seems like the better thread for that. I will say here that the stories coming out about...

Yes, but this: As the Texas Floodwaters Rose, One Indispensable Voice Was Silent "When a reporter demanded to know why the summer camps along the Guadalupe River weren’t evacuated before its waters reached their deadly peak on July 4, Rob Kelly, the highest-ranking local official, had a simple...

Having just written that, I've gotta say it's seems rather unlucky that this Olympic season is the lucky number 13. (If we were at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, we would skip over "row" 13 and go right to 14 for better fortune).