Krista

Excuse me, but women are needed for everything in everyday life. To remove women from anything would be an excruciating mistake.

Well said Banger. I'll be watching most of the Olympics that I can.. kind of wish I took my vacation in the coming weeks instead of the first part of July.. hmm. Although, I'm going to miss the Women's fast pitch Softball games.. USA and Japan were starting a very nice rivalry, but I guess the rest of the world needed a catching up. Maybe one day it will be allowed back into the mix... And I am a MLB fan... and I have yet to post any of the hotties in uniform either.

Happy Birthday!!

LOL.. men.. hmm.

Happy Birthday Limpy!

Such a gentleman. lol.. hmm.. he probably should have whooped you for a number of other things though.

I'm not a fan of it either, not really... but maybe if I was able to look at it more personally it wouldn't look so odd standing out among the rest of the buildings. There definitely isn't a uniformity in the buildings around it.. and it does tower over them quite a bit. It would probably be something to see up close though. I'm not a sky scraper person, period. Places like New York, Chicago, and the like do nothing for me... I'll take my trees over towering buildings any day.

USA Women's soccer player came out as gay: http://olympics.yardbarker.com/blog/olympics/article/us_olympic_soccer_player_megan_rapinoe_reveals_she_is_gay/11159309 and a double amputee is running 4x400 and the 400 meter sprint. A lot of people say he has an advantage.. but I fail to see it. http://msn.foxsports.com/olympics/track/story/double-amputee-oscar-pistorius-selected-to-run-in-london-games-070412?ocid=ansfox11

Happy Birthday Rob, have a great one.

Have fun and be safe everyone!

Happy Birthday to your country Nadians. I hope you lived it up right.

Lol. You seem upbeat, that's good! Don't let the loud disruptions get in the way of enjoying life. I watch male and female gymnastics... wonder what that says about me..

Shew... that got the tears flowing.. such a terrible loss and reaction from his family that wouldn't take the time to understand their son had found true happiness and love. Then the throwing it out the window just made me mad...

Got tired of the SEC bringing home the trophy, eh? lol. I think it is about damn time a playoff is set up.. even if it is new and there are still a lot of problems with it.. I hated seeing over half the teams not be eligible for the Championship before the season even started... football needs to work on that a lot.

Lol.. hmm.. Eh, he'd be too boring.. and he'd probably annoy me. So no, he's not high on my list, but neither is David Beckham or anyone else on the list mentioned within the article. They are all attractive athletes, but my eyes are on Joey Votto. Too bad I'm happily married... and lucky for Aaron I think he's hot too.

Lol.. Oh I look too.. but the Sporting is first.. how their junk looks in a speed is second...

Lol.. how about watching it for the sports aspects? Men *rolls eyes* My favorite is Gymnastics and Volleyball. I cringe when I watch international Basketball, so I tend to stay well away from that. Oh.. and it sucks that they removed Baseball and Softball/fast pitch softball from the events, I liked watching Fast Pitch softball men and women.

If it is just a back yard game for fun.. the simple terminology will likely be sufficient. Volleyball has a lot of terms for a simple game, in beach and indoor competitive. Some basic ones would be: Backyard: The Serve: That is when the team of Offense, or the team that can score a point has the ball. One person steps just behind the out of bounds line and serves the ball. It has to go over the net, with out touching it.. and has to stay in the court. Spike: That is when a player leaps into the air and slams the ball over the net. It is an accelerated shot. Ace: A serve that the other team cannot return and it stays in the opposition's court and isn't touched by an opposing player. Set: Kind of like an Assist, a player will use the tips of their fingers on both hands to hit the ball straight into the air, for a second player to either spike it or hit it over the net. Dig: A player is on their knees or leaps for the ball and successfully keeps it in play and from hitting the ground. Kill: Serving team gets a point or Offense gets a point. It is usually a "stats" term and doesn't really apply to the game. Kills can happen on defense in competitive indoor/outdoor matches, but backyard fun.. only the team on Offense or the team that has the Serve can score a point. It makes the game more simple to understand and such. Bump: An underhanded hit on the ball, usually happens after a set or a serve. It is used a lot in backyard to just focus on getting the ball back over the net.. it is used defensively for the most part.. or in a last ditch effort to get it over the net. In Volleyball, the objective is to get the ball over the net in three attempts. If the team can get the ball over the net within three tries, then it is up for the other team to return the ball in three tries. If they cannot, then the game stopped. If it is the serving or team on offense, then they get a point. If the defense gets the ball over the net and it hits the court or the other team cannot get the ball over the net in three tries, then they get the serve and is now on offense. In competitive indoor play, there are a lot more rules. Back yard is extremely simplified in comparison. The score usually is to 21 and the team has to win by two points. Game Point is called when one team has 20 points, are two points ahead of the other team, and is on offense. There are usually six - eight players of the court on each side. Twelve to sixteen in all. In Beach, it is usually played in pairs. ----------- Anyway, I hope this helps.

Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great one.

I played basketball and volleyball and did some competitive cheer since I had a gymnastics background as a kid...became too tall for that though, so I moved on. Gymnastics is all about form. Any little hesitation, break in form will be deducted from the score. It is judged and meant to be hard, just like figure skating. The human body isn't really made to absorb all the shock we put them through in sports. That is why so many football players end up with concussions, even while they're wearing the helmet. In basketball, I had two ACL ligament tears, both knees. I hurt my hip in gymnastics and my knee again in Volleyball. My knees bother me when I'm extremely active or if I have to be on them all day. My hip doesn't bother me at all, but that doesn't mean it won't when I get older. We are our own demise though... we create the moves.. the judges then have to adhere to them and gauge them on a scale of difficulty. When the competition is too closely matched, then someone will create a new stunt or a new technique that is more intricate and difficult... trying to get ahead. The judges see the wow factor and the difficulty of the maneuver and reward it. That is why you hear.. "This vault has a base start value of a 7.0." That means the stunt has been done a lot, has been judged, and that is what is agreed upon. The next vaulter could have one with a base start value of 9.5.. even if they landed it a little awkwardly and with a bit of strain on their body... their score will likely be higher than the 7.0 that was easier and landed perfectly. And I wouldn't let the moaning and groaning scare you too much, a lot of athletes do it. Some even do it for timing.. and some do it because they're trying to recreate their perfect scenario every time and if that includes a grunt, then they grunt. No different than Michael Phelps swinging his arms like a giant bird before they're called to start or a baseball batter's batting box routine.. you will notice that they do the exact same thing every time they prepare to bat or swim.

What you expect isn't necessarily what is good for the situation. She obviously was being bullied by a group of teenage boys - it would be easy for her to feel completely overwhelmed. I believe if she reacted any differently, it would have made the situation worse for her, it is difficult to be brave when people are in a crowd mentality. It is obvious she wasn't trained or given orders to be the authoritarian everyone seems to have 'expected' out of her or she probably would have been a bit more of one.

Firstly, bus monitors are there to Monitor the children, seeing if they are violating safety precautions and also the driver's driving habits. They have no authority over the children on the bus. They are there to keep the smaller children out of trouble or may not know when to get off the bus, or special needs that doesn't require a special needs alternative transportation. She isn't paid to be an authoritative figure, that is left to the Driver and the School's administration, she is low woman on the ladder as far as that is concerned. So those of you that say she needed to become that authoritative figure have it wrong - she had no authority to begin with. Secondly, there is a group mentality going on, all of them may have not even been friends, but wanted to fit in or try to form a connection. It wouldn't have mattered if she did say anything, as you saw - she tried and they laughed and completely overlooked it. They had no respect for an adult. Bus Monitors aren't specifically trained, they are placed there because there is a need for bus monitors. It would take training to deal with that sort of harassment and I feel she did all she could do. The stance you're taking is that she should have stood up for herself. She is also an old woman probably too old and overlooked for most jobs. Pretty much what got her the job is that no one else wanted it or that she seemed to have the patience of a saint. So I don't get why we are here talking about her as a weak human being. She is stepping out of her comfort zone and working a job that she probably doesn't want, but has to have. It is easy for all of us to sit here and say that she was weak, but we don't know what sort of life she lived before this. The teens were cruel, there was nothing she could have done... and if she did, she would have been the one who got into trouble or lost a job she probably needed. None of us can say we could have handled it, so to say she should have handled it BETTER is a bit narcissistic and shows that our judgments can be just as cold as the teenagers on the bus.

When you know someone is doing something... and it looks wrong, you should at least make an attempt. It is their own fault if they don't listen and they end up doing more work than what is necessary. If they act snotty and unappreciative, then you know their reaction for the next time they are about to mess something up.. and then you can laugh hysterically.

Good games have artistic intentions within them.. scenery, story/plot, character designs, and the like. Is that the foremost intentions of video games? I don't think so, I mean a very artistic, visually appealing game can become very boring very fast with out the gaming aspect in there too.. The artistic intentions may not even be what you notice at first, but it should be something you DO notice if the intention is there. There are a lot of genres that don't have artistic intentions, sport-based video games are more for the reality aspect.. trying the make the game and the functions of the game as realistic as possible. Games like Dragonage and Halo and the like rely on art to add flavor... or they would all be the same.

I'm definitely not a momma's girl and I have good fashion sense... good thing I'm not a gay man.. I'd be in a world of hurt.. (Capricorn, btw).. entertaining to read.. lol.