Recent content by flyushka

Well Grassl did beat Shoma in that segment and was quite close to placing 3rd over Hanyu with an underrotated 3/3 combo so it can be done even with that level of PCS (and I do think Malinin's are somewhat higher than Grassl's). Malinin had a slightly higher base value than Grassl at US Nationals...

TBH maybe I'm crazy but I think the US team selection cost them a pretty damn good chance of a second medal in the men's event if Ilia could have skated similarly to Nationals, especially the way the event unfolded. Six clean quads over the course of the competition would have been hard to hold...

Personally I don't see that this BOW experiment has yielded the US too many great results over the years. Has it won them any medals at Worlds/Olympics? I can't think of any but I haven't kept up with skating as closely as I used to so forgive me if I'm missing something. The only payoff I can...

... In what way? I'm actually totally baffled lol :confused:

When you're in the foreign service, and especially when you're the top diplomat in country aka the ambassador, the quality of life is very high and pretty much like living in the US unless you're in one of a handful of hardship posts. Belize is a pretty desirable landing spot and it's only for a...

They are in my area of the US (well, backyard chickens and ducks in general are very popular). A lot of rescue chickens around here are unwanted roosters as a lot of towns ban people from keeping roosters. Some people around here have full on chicken bachelor pads. As far as the fanciness of...

I'm sorry, how the eff was this Kate's fault? I don't usually get too into what the royals are up to and sure Kate leads a privileged life but she went through some pretty awful crap with those pregnancies and got shamed publicly for needing to be hospitalized with hyperemesis, with that awful...

Yeah I don't know, I think the whole BOW thing is often just giving USFS the room to overthink and outsmart themselves on this. Skaters/teams that do well at Nationals are often skating well in general and just might carry that over to the next competition (see C/J at 4CC). No, we can't know...

Hmm, I don't really, besides some stuff about mental health courts in psych journals? I don't know if that's quite what you were referring to but I'll PM you some sources on it. In jails where I've worked we've usually had an arrangement with a behavioral health clinic that can follow defendants...

It'd be unrealistic to expect the system to avoid every instance of this, but at least in the criminal justice system there ostensibly *is* consideration of the safety of defendants and some sort of system in place with accountability to the people/taxpayers, not great though it may be. I've...

I don't know, man. Should an organization that's investigating you really be the one to offer mental health services for you? Especially if they don't really know what they're doing with it and aren't qualified to understand what level of care is needed? Does this not introduce some ethical...

Whoa there. Sooo this information opens up a whole new can of worms for me. He was offered psychiatric resources by who? Safe Sport? Do they have clinicians on staff, or contracted with them? I cannot agree with the notion that he "chose" to refuse help, as what you're describing is a very ill...

I don't know what you mean by meltdown but major depressive disorder is unfortunately a very common comorbidity among those suffering from eating disorders. In terms of the Prozac, the article worded it pretty ambiguously but the "weaning" off of it was most likely done at the direction of a...

Just now seeing this and am pretty horrified about it. I agree with everyone about the concern for concussion and TBI, and I think the ISU and national skating federations have some catching up to do compared to other sports in being educated about concussions. However, I'm even more concerned...

No, melanin and melatonin are two separate chemicals with different origins. The body makes both naturally and both are important for health in different ways. Melanin comes from tyrosine and melatonin is derived from tryptophan, both amino acids (so they do have somewhat similar structures)...