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Noah Lyles tied for having the slowest reaction time of anyone in the field, but he still won the men's 100m final... REACTION TIMES: Fred Kerley 🇺🇸 - 0.108 Marcell Jacobs 🇮🇹 - 0.114 Akani Simbine 🇿🇦 - 0.149 Kenny Bednarek 🇺🇸 - 0.163 Oblique Seville 🇯🇲 - 0.171 Kishane Thompson 🇯🇲 - 0.176 Noah Lyles, Letsile Tebogo 🇺🇸🇧🇼 - 0.178 Saw this on another site. It shows the 10 meter splits from start to finish. Lyles was last out of the gate and still last at the 40 meter mark. Top 7 guys finish less than a tenth of a second apart. Awesome race.
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Thank you all again for the information and insights you bring. Russia being Russia I think it's a combination of corruption and arrogance, and reality. The corruption and the differences in budgeted and built are well known. Their arrogance gave them a false sense of air defense capabilities. We mirrored similar beliefs in those capabilities until ~ 892 days ago). It still boggles my mind how much we (the Royal 'we") overvalued Russia's military capabilities until 2022. The reality is that the military facilities are mainly steel and concrete. While the planes can be moved ("The damn things have wheels" - FDR), the infrastructure is static. When Google Earth first came out, I located all the Air Force Bases I lived at, had seen, or knew about. I also located all the O&G processing facilities I came across in 40 years. Cool stuff, right? I remember the first time I went to Mont Belvieu in 1980, the largest concentration of Natural Gas Liquids processing and underground storage in the world. (Think about downtown Houston, turn it upside down so the building are square holes in the ground, and fill them up with propane; that approximates MB NGL storage capacity). There used to be a confluence of NGL-Pet Chem pipelines called "Xxxxxxx - Xxxxxxx". Enough about that... The only calming influence I have now is that I live 200 miles away and I don't work in that industry anymore. The reality of life in 2024; with GPS data, drones, and ordinance, you could give a nine year old a game controller and a monitor and he could do in a few hours (flight time) what would have been impossible not too long ago. It is what it is. The new reality is scary for many reasons. Most US Air Bases also have their planes in the open, with the normal parking places well known. The biggest difference in that the daily threats to the US bases and infinitesimal compared to the Russian bases. A lot of the pictures we see of the US hardened aircraft shelters are at foreign locations with a higher threat exposure, or an areas with extreme weather conditions. Russian Air Bases and Air Assets I agree that the US mindset is totally different than Russia's. Nobody is invading the US. Of the Russian Air Bases I've looked at over the past 2 1/2 years, I only recall seeing one that I would characterize as a "refueling wing". There may be others, or not? By comparison, the US has ~ 400 Air refueling aircraft in inventory. Russia only built 53 Ilyushin Il-78 4 engine aircraft. I only looked at jet engine powered aircraft, not prop driven, 🙂. The US tends to collocate the refueling aircraft with the bigger bombers, with smallish ratios. At Russia's Engels Air Base, the public photo's only show 1 or 2 tankers for the bomber fleet. The Engels mini air museum does not have an Il-78 airplane. If Russia only had a very small number of their AWACS equivalents, I imagine the air refueling assets are also somewhat limited.
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From the link ... Somebody leaked footages of the Russian submarine “Rostov on Don”, which got hit by Ukrainian missiles (likely Stormshadow). The bow of the submarine received a direct hit. Additionally, there is an impact at the starboard side. You can strike this ship from the list. Yeah, I know, "it'll buff out." It looks like the Russkie's like to store their ordinance where it's convenient ... , for them and Ukraine. Care to offer an opinion on what those tubes are, or were?
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They never showed the graphic of finish order and times on the main broadcast.
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Scottie Scheffler, 2024 Olympic Gold Medalist. Hook ‘em!!!
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Ever watch the Winter Olympics? At the Winter Olympic Games, Norway has won 405 total medals including 148 gold medals, both considerably more than any other nation in Winter Olympic history. More than half of these medals have come from cross-country skiing and speed skating (it used to be half the disciplines). Norway is one of only three nations (along with Austria and Liechtenstein) to have won more medals at the Winter Games than at the Summer Games. I skied my ass off once I learned how, maybe 200 yards of which was cross county. Fuck that, I liked gravity skiing. I’ve always had supreme respect for those Nordic events. Winning the Decathlon Gold Medal is a nice addition. I was pulling hard for Leo, but I know my Norwegian Au Pair is happy.
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Queue the cheese puns in 3, 2, 1 ...
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The Gold Medal match between France & Fiji was awesome. Tied 7-7 at halftime, Antoine Dupont, "The Closer", comes off the bench to a thunderous ovation. First time to touches the ball, he promptly does a Ricky Williams style burst down the sideline, tossing to a teammate for the go ahead try. Dupont added 2 more tries to lead France to a 28-7 win and the Gold Medal, on the first full day of the Paris Olympics. Dupont inspires France's first Paris 2024 gold Dupont inspires France's first Paris 2024 Gold
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Thanks for posting the raw data on Russia's arsenal and summary of same. The early dialogue of Russia's 2nd Army of the world was shown to be a sham, given the disfunctional military organizational structure, quality of the "training", and the performance and technology of their military leadership and hardware. From a hardware perspective, Russia has ~ 1/2 of what they started with, with most of what they have left being the shit that was replaced 30-50 years ago, or longer. Golf carts & motorcycles v. Bradley's? The only positive from a Russian perspective is the 40-60 year old conscripts & replacements are already familiar with the weapons systems they trained on when they were in their prime. It appears the cumulative effects of sanctions and FAFO is finally starting to work, not unlike the Titantic's rudder. Russia's increasing reliance on China, and China getting their hooks ever deeper into Russia, is looking like a short term benefit with longer term FAFO implications. I watched this YouTube video, Why Russia's Biggest Threat is Actually China, along with a few others. (Disclaimer; I watched them late at night w/ whiskey, after a day of being in the heat with cold beer, so I may be mixing my metaphors). My recollection of the "facts": I read The Bear and the Dragon, when it came out. Russia and China are not friends. The Crimean War impact on Russian's economy led to Russia selling Alaska to the US. Following WWII, Russia ended up with Manchuria, lands that historically had been China. Russia's land grab cut off China's access to the Sea of Japan, leaving China with the South China Sea as it's only means to international commerce. China is totally dependent on the Malacca Strait for access to Middle East oil. Russia using the far east provinces to feed the Ukraine meat grinder is exacerbating what was already a 10:1 ratio of China v. Russia far east military resources. So ... China needs and wants what Russia has, Russian's economy is in the dumper (other than oil & gas, its always been shit) and will be for a long time, China's economy is on the skids due to China being China, China is already dictating terms on Russian trade, Russian can't defend the far east, ... it seems like a somewhat inevitable end point that Russia "sells" Manchuria back to China. Fiction or fact? Oh, I almost forgot. I came across this following the MillerEP link: The symbolism of a long appendage swinging between the legs, to the delight of a young lass.
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Gas Processing 101: An oil and/or gas well produces a mix of oil, gas and water, and other impurities, the"blood, guts & feathers." The impurities are removed and the hydrocarbons separated at different stages in the processing chain, with safety, synergies and economies of scale being the primary considerations. The purity products consumed by end use customers are separated at various points in the value chain, with the value of the products increasing though the process. The first separation is at or near the wellhead, separating the well stream into oil, water & gas (3 phase separator). The "natural gas"that is separated at the wellhead is saturated with water vapor, and is a combination of hydrocarbons, primarily methane, smaller quantities of light and heavier hydrocarbons, as well as other impurities, usually carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen sulfide(H2S). The natural gas is aggregated until there is enough volume to efficiently dehydrate the gas (remove the water), which is done as early in the processing chain as practical (well battery, compressor station, or processing plant). The CO2 and H2S are corrosive and dangerous, (H2S is fatal in concentrations measured in parts per million). They are usually removed at the Gas Processing Plant, where the lighter methane is separated from the the other heavier Natural Gas Liquids (NGL). The Residue Gas ( 95+% methane) at the tailgate of the plant is what is consumed as fuel or feedstock by industrial and residential consumers. Though this end use product is the interface with people, 99.9% of any disruptions in the gas supply chain happen upstream of the gas processing plants in the producing area, well away from the consumer base. Digging equipment hitting a buried pipeline, or a ruptured pipeline, would be the exception. During the great freeze, some gas processing plants, and other upstream facilities lost power, either intentionally cut off or through normal circumstances (The ocean of West Texas oil production is heavily dependent on the forest of wind mill power generation). A common sensical answer would be that individual people needed electricity over industrial customers, especially oil & gas companies. Flip a switch, shut them off, easy peasy. But wait. Ironically, Gas Processing Plants and compressor stations use large electric motors and are big power consumers. No power means no gas processing and no gas supply. Ok. Flip the switch back. Shutting a plant down shuts down everything behind it, the compressor stations, pipelines, and de-hy facilities, all the way back to the wellhead. You no longer have warm saturated gas moving though a pipeline, you have static gas lines that cool, form hydrates (frozen gaseous ice-plugs) in the pipelines, and everything is dead in the water, for which there is no easy fix. Why don't they winterize their facilities? Heat tracing requires electric power. FAFO. Hard to get that toothpaste back in the tube. I would think the new home generator sets would have a reliable source of natural gas. But I would also think Houston fucking Texas has a reliable means of supplying electricity to the common folks.
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The area along Buffalo Bayou from West Houston to River Oaks/Memorial park (~ 12 miles) is most of the highest priced real estate in Houston, in part due to the large lots and the canopy of mature trees. Removing every tall tree proximate to power lines is basically clear cutting the land to something resembling the Katy Prairie. It would be easier and cheaper to sell the large house on a heavily wooded lot and move to the suburbs, with buried utilities and planted saplings, 20+ miles from downtown. Historically, that hasn't happened. Historically, half of Houston didn't lose power every year either, or twice for a week in 2+ months. That's a tough spot to have to face the new reality.
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Great update. Re: Power Generation needs Ukraine needs ~16 GW this winter and will be able to produce 12 GW. They need 4 GW of power, roughly 80% of the combined capacity of the 2 nuclear power plants in Texas. How much power is 4 Gigawatts? 10 Million Photovoltaic (PV) Panels 1,240 Utility-Scale Wind Turbines 400 Million LED Bulbs Roughly 5.2 Million Horses 8,000 Corvette Z06s 36,360 Nissan Leafs 1.6 Texas size Nuclear Power plants
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I'm guessing you didn't know that Pilot Knob is an extinct volcano, ~ 10 miles southeast of Austin, near McKinney Falls.
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The Houston area was a combination of a rain forest and a swamp. The Big Thicket People channelled the water to the bayous, useable land grew out of the drained swamps, the trees were clear cut and used, the flat land was farmed, people came, development increased, air conditioning became affordable, liquor by the drink was passed, Arab oil embargo, tons of people came, development exploded (no zoning), the "prairie" was developed, trees were planted for the homes and concrete was poured for the businesses. Yes, Houston was a prairie and trees were planted, but it wasn't always like that.
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I lived in Katy (Cinco Ranch) for 17 years. This area had buried utilities, and I think the longest power outage we had in that time may have been 4-8 hours due to an exploded transformer in the neighborhood. We live in Driftwood and had fallen limbs 8 feet deep across the yard during the ice/freeze. Fortunately we have buried utilities in Driftwood, and at most have lost power for maybe ~ 4 hours at the worst. Now Spectrum is another story. They have a monopoly/franchise in the development. The Centerpoint cluster fuck is hard to comprehend. I lived in Houston (Alief, Houston, Sugar Land & Katy) 4 times for most of my professional life and never had to deal with the shit that seems to happen every 3 or 4 years now. Had to deal w/ frozen pipes, but I don't recall ever losing power for more than 10 hours at a time. I always thought the uncoupling and deregulation of the power generation/transmission functions was a bad idea. Market forces drive innovation and efficiency, but some things should not be left to chance. Wishing you guys some good fortune.
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Nothing but the highest respect and admiration for Giorgia Meloni, and the leadership she has displayed in her support for Ukraine. Giorgia has taken her increased stature on the world stage, and made the most of it. She may be a bit smaller and added a little bounce to her hair, but damn... "Wendy Giorgia, let me in, I wanna be your friend I wanna guard your dreams and visions Just wrap your legs 'round these velvet rims And strap your hands 'cross my engines"
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I agree it is all the individuals and little things that make it work. But having lived in Houston 4 times, the local government led actions during Katrina was something to be proud of; Democratic Mayor Bill White (UT) reaching out to Republican Gov. Perry (A&M) for State & Federal resources (days away), and supplementing that with the more immediate local resources, HEB & Mattress Mack, etc. Before Rita, I flew home to IAH and didn't have enough fuel to make it to Katy, and Houston was out of gas, so I parked in a Best Buy parking lot and called my wife to come get me. A wrecker pulled up and the driver offered to sell me some gas, for $50/gallon (he was kidding, he didn't have any). I needed diesel. He told me of a station 2 miles away that was out of gasoline, but still had diesel. No charge, just asked that I keep it to myself. So sad to see so many who evacuated, only to be stranded at a gas station. After Ike, I got the kids situated, and loaded up my chain saw and tools and took off to help clear the downed trees in Katy. I was very disappointed to see that so many individuals had already beat me to it and had cleared most of the downed limbs in the streets. Later, I took my kids to find volunteer opportunities at multiple food/supply aggregation points, and each time was told to leave a phone number and they would call, as they were already fully staffed for their needs. Houston Works. From the top of the food chain to the bottom, people get things done. Help where you can. Yes, similarly, replacing a transformer is fairly straight forward. However, checking all the upstream and downstream connections before you energize the circuits is a labor intensive and tedious task (Why did it blow in the first place?). Our job is never so important that we cannot take the time to do it safely ... Best wishes for a timely recovery for all affected. Well, considering that in less than 48 hours (~mobilization to deployment to arrival time), the projected landfall changed from a tropical storm in the most desolate place on the Gulf Coast to a hurricane hitting the biggest city, 400 miles away, I'm not sure you can fairly lay that blame on anybody.
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Just mousing around on this website, and ran an animation that ends up the plot Monday morning. Beryl in S. Texas migrating SE to NW, and the remnants of stormy weather near DFW moving NW to SE. With all the moisture in the area, it will be clear and sunny in the ATX. tropicaltidbits.com. (sorry, link to animation doesn't work)
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Well, he is the Chairman of the Board of The University of Texas, which controls the University Lands that support UT & A&M, and he's paying Del Conte's tab, so ...
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