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That was a pretty decent team and I’m looking forward to seeing Calhoun on competitive ice again. Agreed.

My book club enjoyed This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub, which was published in 2022. I don’t read very many new releases, but I’ve heard good things about Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new book Atmosphere.

I hope that more teams can achieve the minimum at Lake Placid, or if not, that they would adjust the required minimum score. You’d think dance was the U.S.’s weakest event since USFS assigned more subs in all the other disciplines!

I'm disappointed in how few subs USFS named in dance, particularly in comparison to men or ladies. None of the rising novice teams were named. :( Hopefully, after Lake Placid, USFS will add more names to the queue.

That's a stacked line-up in men: Nakata [JW1] v. Choi [JW5] v. Gartung [JW7] v. Li [JGPF5] v. Vaclavik [JGPF6] :cheer2: Also happy to see that Elano will finally be on the JGP! :cheer:

Adding national placements in brackets to the entries: Sr Men Hiwatashi [S6] Kapeikis [S8] Kovar [S15] Ma [S5] Martynov [S11] Sanchez [S7] Sedlis [J9] So, it looks like this will be a good battle between Senior 5th-8th. Of the men, Ma has 2 GPs, Sanchez has 1 GP, and the rest have none...

The 2025-2026 JGP announcement refers to the current rule which is up-to-date with under 21 for both partners. Looks like they should update other pages of the ISU website.

I think the USFS knows who their core top 5 ladies are, and they’re not putting in any effort to see if anyone in the next tier has improved over the summer. :blah:

It's a changing-of-the guard season for Junior Dance. Jr. World Results 1. Tali/Lafornara moved to seniors 2. Wolfkostin/Tsarevski aged out again 3. Grimm/Sativskiy split 4. Pidgaina/Koval 5. Fradji/Fourneaux aged out 6. Mullen/Mullen aged out 7. Aboian/Veselukhin 8. Gauthier/Thieren aged out...

And at 4CC. Dubiously.

For flash flooding, sirens are set off downriver when high waters are happening upriver. You can hear them before the flooding reaches you if you’re downriver.

There is a warning siren for flash flooding for the Pedernales River in a nearby state park, which is also located in the Hill Country in Texas. Clearly, the technology exists to help prevent such a tragedy. I hope the various Texas entities do a better job responding this time than they did...

It was also a big camping weekend and extended families may not have known to report their relatives missing.

Yankee Polka, please. Many of the traditional rhythms lend themselves to non-romantic interpretations and sibling teams have done them that way for years. We can have both traditional patterns and innovative expression.

As usual, the 4th-best nation--USA in the men's division-- is first alternate for extra men's spots. The U.S. gets an extra spot in Italy if they want it before Germany or Estonia are asked, even if they're received an additional spot at earlier event(s) as well. ETA: Adding the rule from the...