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[GaryE]

I think the men's hockey was more evenly matched. Plus it had star power.

The Canadian team is in an off phase for women's hockey. The professional leagues for women are recent.

I'm a big fan of women's hockey. The games are well played. To me though, this round was a forgone conclusion. The next, if Canada can develop more scoring punch, could be different. I like the fact that the stranglehold North America had on the game is slipping, and women's hockey is becoming more competitive internationally. For a long time it was a 2 team sport. That also hurt it as an olympic sport, as you had Canada, the USA and cannon fodder.

Add sexist attitudes, and it's in the shadow of the older version.

 

[jaylach]

I think the men's hockey was more evenly matched. Plus it had star power.

The Canadian team is in an off phase for women's hockey. The professional leagues for women are recent.

I'm a big fan of women's hockey. The games are well played. To me though, this round was a forgone conclusion. The next, if Canada can develop more scoring punch, could be different. I like the fact that the stranglehold North America had on the game is slipping, and women's hockey is becoming more competitive internationally. For a long time it was a 2 team sport. That also hurt it as an olympic sport, as you had Canada, the USA and cannon fodder.

Add sexist attitudes, and it's in the shadow of the older version.

First I must say that I am not a hockey person but watched due to being the Olympics. With the little I know about hockey I think the women's USA team was/is better than the men's. If I have my numbers right the women had a 33-2 goal differential with 5 straight shutouts. That is historic yet the men's team gets much more press.

Of course this could not happen due to physical size and strength but, if the women's team could play the men's team on even physical equality, I think the women would destroy the men. The women are just a more all a round better team with better goalies... 5 straight shutouts.

Don't get me wrong as I'm VERY proud of both teams but I have to favor the women as they set amazing standards in the sport. I just think the women deserve more recognition as we may never see such dominance again.

@GaryE LOL! I don't know that I'd call a 2-1 win in overtime forgone conclusion. On both aspects, men and women, the Canada and USA teams both did awesome and are, of course, the best teams in the world but other countries are slowly catching up.

 

[GaryE]

I think the uneven playing field shows more in the women's game.
In the men's game, the US, Canada, Sweden, Finland and Czechia could have won, and the Slovaks really did well. Had the Russians been there, they could have won gold. Even Belorussia has a very good team, although they're also under sanctions.

Canada's women's team was missing some of the elements that they usually have, just in generational turnover. But overall, the competition was less demanding. It was easier for the excellent USA team to run up scores and stats on the women's side than on the men's. The Olympic format makes that necessary.

There's still a big gap though women's hockey is catching up. The Scandinavians are getting good, as are the Swiss. When my cousin was on the Canadian women's team, the US was the only challenge.

My Aunt played professional baseball in the 'league of their own era'. It's a shame that game fell away too. I find in hockey, the top women's teams play a finesse, smart style I like. I follow the women's pro team in my old home city.

 

[fishorama]

I'm using my new computer for the 1st time. The screen seems huge compared to the little laptop I've been using at the kitchen table. The keyboard seems miniature not that I'm a good typer. The "stand" is just temporary. I've bashed my knees & almost launched the PC once. It's not quite wide enough for a drink, keyboard & mouse.

My husband is my tech & has been putting off setting this up. I said I'll have to use your PC for taxes soon, so he'd be inconvenienced for days in addition to my crabby tax prep persona. Still, it's nice to be next to a tank again. I've missed being able to see my riverish 55g...& see how much weeding I need to do, eek!

We've been watching a bit more Olympics than usual. My husband hates that ice dancing is a sport. I've never seen a biathlon, this was my 1st time watching curling highlights. I get bored with long distance skiing, even highlights seem too long. No skating except for hockey, lol

 

[connorlindeman]

Been enjoying videos from this channel on youtube.

 

[jaylach]

Nothing special but my fridge is happy. I keep a dry erase board on the door for the freezer upper part of my fridge. After quite a few years my old board pretty much died to where it was really hard to erase anything and I would need to order another marker as it, pretty much, dried up.

I found the following and, initially, it seems a gem for about $9.00 USD. Bigger than the old but no issue fitting in at 12x8 inches. Has three markers; black, red and blue which also have magnetic mounts. While there is also a larger eraser each marker also has an eraser.

Nothing really worth posting about but I DO like good deals.

Oh, if you use a white board always keep the markers stored felt tip down. Helps preventing the tip from drying out.

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[gimme30]

Mom used to keep one of those stuck to the fridge to make her grocery list. One day after a brutal double shift dad come home completely snookered and wrote "Bring home the buckwheat spanky." Thing is, the whiteboard had gotten broken earlier in the day while we were roughhousing. The marker wouldn't quite come off the textured surface.
Mom switched to a cork board after that.

 

[Lanpenn]

Well, it seems that my Trichogaster chuna likes to spit water. The reason? I do not know. Now he is getting the aquarium's front wet as well as some sections around the tank on the surface from the... bookcase? Shelf?

Also, now it is the green hair algae that is trying to fight my Elodea densa, while Salvinia minima bravely resists. These terrible algae are not removable by a siphon, a toothbrush, or anything that I know could be good to scrub algae. I could siphon the substrate more and more, but there are so many Elodea densa roots!


About the "Carna Bajas".


Yesterday, my deceased grandfather would have completed his 90th birthday. Coincidentally, I went to a place called Casa de Cultura Rogério Cardoso and, by checking old newspapers from the city, I found out more interesting things about my family. Today, I went to the local library, and I got an old book from 1974, also for genealogical studies.

When Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller came to Mococa in 1952.

Some photos about "Carna Bajas".

Credits: Paule Marques

Some of my simple photos I tried to take (in case of repeated photos, I am sorry):

 

[gwand]

Today I sold 12 Neolamprologus multifasciatus and 12 Assassin snails for store credit at one of my LFS. Next up is the sale of 10 Apistogramma cacatuoides Orange Flash.

 

[Naughts]

Well, it seems that my Trichogaster chuna likes to spit water. The reason? I do not know.

Maybe s/he is hoping to knock insects into the water to eat. Have you tried feeding bug bites?

 

[Whitecloudminnowguy09]

Added all the plants listed below. And, well ... planted them lol.

 

[Lanpenn]

Maybe s/he is hoping to knock insects into the water to eat. Have you tried feeding bug bites?

No, although I have dehydrated BSFL. It seems that he likes to eat. But he is terribly selective; he spits if the particle is not small enough. I suppose that he only did not spit when fed with live brine shrimp that I cultivate (talking about that, it seems that my brine shrimp culture is doing okay).

 

[MattW]

Day off today, so I thought I'd give video editing another go on DaVinci Resolve. Funnily enough, my latest fish acquisitions recently led me down a YouTube rabbit hole of videos about them. There was lots of footage from the wild, and people's tanks, but little to no videos on them with basic info. So that was my goal to make a 1min video about them . I think it worked out well. Apart from the text-to-speech! As there's no way a voice-over with my Manc accent would make sense to the rest of the world.

 

[gimme30]

The "wink" at the end was awesome! Short and to the point with all the info you need and none of the fluff you don't. Great job!!

 

[gwand]

The Wet Spot has wild caught b. brigittae. I couldn’t resist. I have 30 arriving this Tuesday for a 20 gallon long.