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Looks like that 4.21 forty time transfers to the field ok.
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Always like Rick. I lived in Boulder when he was there. His was perfect for Colorado, building a dynasty with Texas & California kids. Colorado ended Lectric-Leland's Heisman campaign and Top 5 A&M's dreams. Tragic when he left. He was funny when he talked about Troy Aikman transferring to UCLA. Rick was QB when Troy showed up; said he looked like Tarzan. Turf field should drain well. If there is any slippage, our WR's will toast the DB's. Agree 100%. I started drinking at 10 am in New Orleans, and was beyond fucked up walking to the game. Way to old to be doing that shit. Much shorter walk on Saturday. I think those days are over. The two pics against CSU showed awareness, athleticism, and closing speed. I agree. It's moving in that direction. Yeah, I think we're getting ready to see the mean streaks these guys have. I like see the IOL guys pulling against CSU. Thank you. Michigan have some studs, but not 11 of them, with a brand new DC and all the position coaches. No way their scout team has any correlation to Texas. FIFY. Quinn biggest problem is starting slow out of the gate. If he starts on rhythm with the scripted plays, game over. His call sign in Behind Enemy Lines was Longhorn. It was painted on the F-18.
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Perhaps there was a glitch in the Matrix? Second to last play of the game, alternate reality Aggie down 10, wiggy scrambles and throws a lawn dart 5 yards behind their running back safety valve CW scrambles, gets out in the open, and throws the ball away to the open spot for the umpteenth time. Unfortunately, it was 5 yards behind the receiver. Elko has seen enough, and screams at CW, the QB, not Klein, the OC. Elko screams "run the fucking ball!" He is yelling at CW, the QB. Meaning, when you have an open field in front of you and the DB's are running away, you CW, the QB, needs to take what they're giving you and run the fucking ball. The disillusioned Klein, fearful of Elko charging at him like a rabid buffalo, mistakes Elko's "coaching" of CW for a "suggestion" to him that he call a running play on a last gasp 4th and long, which he does. They run it and game ends.
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Was CW ever "cleared" to take snap's with the 1's in practice? When? I wonder if his rare foot injury is still causing him to protect it, and that is why he threw the ball so poorly. Timing, footwork, arm, it all looked bad. Stewart, Scourton, and Turner all graded out at a 68.8 or better overall... How much better? Sweat & Murphy graded ~ 90 all year long. That's a pretty big gap. If A&M's best position group got neutralized to the point they needed safeties in the box to stop the run, that's a big red flag that puts a lot of pressure on the DB's that are nowhere near as talented. They got what everyone wished for and couldn't come through. Jimbo said it every week, just have to execute better. -
Thank you, thank you thank you. You Rock!
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As always, follow the money. What US entities, industries or companies are behind the US position of slow playing support of Ukraine? Using NATO weapons without giving NATO a heads up on Ukraine's plans for deployment? Or is it just keeping the nukes under Russia control rather than risk losing them in a post-Putin free for all. US policy has always had a measure of an oil & gas slant, as worldwide oil production has a direct correlation to worldwide economies. Ukraine has not targeted Russia production, pipelines, or export capacity; just storage and refining, most of which is for internal demand, not export. Granted, there is big difference between a drone and a 1,000 lb warhead hitting a target. I get that raising US gasoline prices before the election would not be good (for the US), but a pullback in US support for Ukraine would be worse (for Ukraine). And, as I write these words, I answer my question. Our focus (posters on this thread) is Ukraine surviving as a sovereign nation. 95% of the people I know are oblivious to this war and could not have an intelligent back and forth conversation that lasted more than a couple of minutes. Sometimes, my Google News update starts with Ukraine info that is 3 days old. Is it News if you have to go look for it? Maybe growing up on nuclear targets proximate to 12,000 runways and retiring in the Hill Country gives a false sense of reality. Damn. Another Bingo! I guess I could blame my dad (RIP) for raising me on John Wayne movies and watching westerns growing up. (Did everybody grow up that way? I am one generation removed from the farm.) Nope. "...I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." - Thomas Jefferson "Ye shall know the Truth and the Truth shall make you free" - UT Tower, that I looked up to damn near every day for 5 years. Thanks for listening. I guess my therapy session is over.
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We were walking along the RR tracks by South Lamar, and found some rail road spikes. We heard a train coming, and laid one on the tracks to see what would happen. "Hey, you little sons of bitc... (garbled, unintelligible, large bangs)" Wasn't like a penny, we damn near derailed the train. Yeah, I was running.
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Speaking of Black Powder ... (Thanks for bring it up.) As an Assistant Scoutmaster at Camp Pioneer (BSA - Arkansas), I participated in the Mountain Man program; cooking, eating, throwing a hatchet, making fires, candles and 50 Cal musket balls, and shooting the musket balls at a target. Due to SM role, I was late to the shooting competition, fired 2 practice shots, and three shots that counted. Aim small, miss small. The commentary was something like, "Nice Shot!, You got to me kidding me!, I'll be god damned!!!" Don't Mess With Texas!
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Mousing around on a slow night, a few juicy targets NW of Moscow: Tver, ~ 100 miles NW; Migalovo(?) Air Base, large 4 engine transport planes (jets & props) Torzhok, ~ 150 miiles NW of Moscow Large Gaz Prom Pump Station, oil or refined products? Lubricants Production Complex, formerly Shell Oil Also a helicopter airbase, oil depots, and another oil pump station. Can't wait to see the after pictures.
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Rod earned playing time along side multiple AA's and Thorpe winners. He knows what good DB play and players look like. He's also watched Texas, as an analyst, for the past few years. What Texas has now is light years better than 2 or 3 years ago. Having a DB room that grades from B+ to- C- is a big reason to be "Mr. Negativity." What Texas has now is light years better than 2 or 3 years ago. Too early to call it a strength, but definitely improved from years past. very good team ... with a depleted roster? Does not compute. Yes, yes, yes, yes, and HELL YES! Turf field and cool weather will showcase the Texas team speed Saturday. Salk always praises the team as fast and violent. Texas wins.
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I've heard how clear Lake Superior is. Please confirm.
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Thanks for the info. I missed the game and didn't see the highlights till late last night (funeral). Texas looked good; played damn near everybody, all 3 transfer WR getting TD's, with 10? guys catching passes in the 1st half, gonna give the Michigan DC a lot to think about. Pretty vanilla on both sides of the ball. Not a lot of real imaginative play calling on offense and still seems like a lot of passes were to wide open guys on the move. There weren't a lot of defensive plays I saw; 2 nice pics and liked Gbenda stuffing that guy in the middle. Didn't see much stunting, blitzing, etc. Saturday's game should be more wide open, I'm thinking Alabama 2.0. Weather looks to to be good for Saturday. Waking up to weather in the 40's is muy bueno. Michigan Stadium's field is artificial turf. The field may be wet, but shouldn't be an issue. Hopefully a fast track.
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I know anyone talking about practice is forbidden by the ministry, so I wonder how much real practice time CW has had. His foot injury was not a common injury, with a longish recovery time. All QB's are protected in practice anyway, but given he couldn't run at game speed during the summer, how much conditioning did he really get? He had some really ugly throws last night. I'm guessing his issues are more injury recovery related and less conditioning. -
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Many have commented on Russia's advance west of Donetsk towards Pokrovsk and the short/longer term possibilities. There's a lot of random data that supports a plan to trap and cutoff the Russian advance from their established base to the east. Below is a google screen shot to add some color to the picture. It's easy to see why it's called the mud season; there is not a normal river in this area, just a bunch of drainage areas/channels of sorts that eventually drain to larger ponds and lakes. Pokrovsk is the logistics hub, population ~ 60,000. Ocheretyne (what, where?) has a population ~ 3,500. There isn't much else out here, just a bunch of little villages and towns. The rail line between Donetsk and Pokrovsk is the main feature, traversing the high ground between the cities. The larger roads are shown, with smaller secondary and tertiary roads serving the area. Where the rail line makes a "dip" on the map west of "Ocher", the elevation drops from a ~750' plateau down to ~ 500' elevation. The area before and after Ocher is a very narrow corridor (1-3 miles wide) on the high ground between the various water channels. There is not an obvious railroad bridge west of Avdiivka. If and when the railroad west of Avdiivka is out of service, getting supplies to anything west to there would be very difficult, just a bunch of smallish roads in well defined corridors, with a choke point ~10 miles long and about 1-2 miles wide, all within a few miles of Ukraine-Russia contact line. Spotting for field artillery from a lower ground elevation would be difficult, but with the drones available, or some of the F-16's screaming across the deck, "Fugget about it!" I'm betting Ukraine has a rail bridge party here sometime soon, as well as taking out the 3 or 4 bridges in Kurst that cuts off Belrogod and 10,000 square miles, and a few others here and there. Any guestimates on the number of Russian troops and equipment west of Ocher?
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The Russian aggy government abruptly announces that oil and fuel rushing and passing production numbers will now be a state secret — Interfax Texags
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Thanks for posting. We were at Eglin AFB from '62-'66. My dad was able to take us out to the test ranges where we could see live fire exercises (Vulcan 20 mm rotary cannon), strafing runs, napalm, touch and go's. We used to fish off the "target docks." The Navy would coat them with napalm, and tow them out to the Gulf for target practice. Sometimes we would see the docks coated with the napalm. Good thing we weren't a bunch of fire bugs. The "Climatic Hangar", or McKinley Climatic Laboratory, was literally the coolest thing I ever saw. They could make temperatures between -65 degrees Fahrenheit to 165 degrees Fahrenheit with a simulation of all climatic conditions including heat, snow, rain, wind, sand and dust. They made instant popsicles on Armed Force Day.
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That would be Red Adair for you young 'uns. A fire requires 3 things; fuel, oxygen and an ignition source. To put out the fire, remove one of the three. Well blowouts are much less common than in times past. Most oil exploration is done via computers and data processing and not so much drilling "wildcat" wells looking for the big one. Knowing exactly where you're drilling and what you are drilling through minimizes surprises, and safeguards are in place to protect against accidents. Fuel In the event of a fire, one of the first things you do is shut off the fuel source. For a well, you close the valve, or deploy the blowout preventer, which may include massive shears the cut the pipe and block the well bore. If that doesn't work, call Red. A tank fire is relatively simple compared to a well fire. You know exactly what you are dealing with, and it isn't under a 1,000 pounds of pressure. Simple you say? Reminds me of a discussion on Simple Harmonic Motion with my physics prof (TA), in which he brought up watching a coed walking across the mall, braless. The harmonics are simple, but the motion is certainly not. And yes, I continue my research whenever the opportunity presents itself. In this case, they built the tanks close together. Probably seemed like a good idea at the time. In this case, isolate the tanks, or empty the tanks, or let them burn out. Ignition Source To put out this fire, you have to remove the debris from the fire, the red hot steel plates and piping that will reignite gas and liquids on contact. For this fire, that is damn near impossible while the fire is burning. You can't get close enough to see what to do. Oxygen Red used dynamite in the old days, they probably use something similar now, but more stable. The explosion consumes the oxygen and the fire goes out. Putting out a fire by setting off explosives next to tanks full of diesel and jet fuel? Let me think about that one. In Iraq, I know they mounted a jet engine on a skid and tried to blow out the fires. I expect they had some success, and failures. The ACME products probably worked best. Yeah, trying to do anything, with a drone looking over your shoulder? You're fucked before you start. Terminals are the delivery points, at the "dumb" ends of the pipelines. They typically don't have the pumps required to boost the pressure to move the products from the terminal to the pipelines. Kind of like pouring your water bottle into the garden hose to fill up your upstairs toilet. 1 of the 4 things you need to know to be an engineer; you can't pull water.
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Sorry, you already know the answer. Until they put it out, or until there is nothing left to burn? They probably tried the "easy" stuff already. Dry chemicals and foam are options, but bigger fires require matching quantities, and, well, ...it's Russia. They could empty the tanks into rail cars, but the rail facilities look to be very close to the fires. Whatever water supply they had on site is probably gone, so having to bring water to the site is problematic. I'm guessing they don't have a large enough water line already, so building one is an option, though not timely. Bring in rail cars full of water is next, but slow, and getting the water to the fire appears to be an issue. The fire will burn until the source is cut off. With multiple tanks burning, they cannot get enough water to control the fires. Over time, as the fires burn out in the core and spread, they may be able to put out the tank fires that are somewhat isolated, but the tanks are very close together, so ... At some point, the tanks themselves will fail, meaning you have a large, shallow pool burning instead of just the top of the tank. The increased surface area burning closer to the ground will heat the tanks quicker, and again, they are very close together. Black smoke is indicative of incomplete combustion, meaning there is more fuel than oxygen. The hydrocarbons burning are greater than the air feeding the fire, and have been for 8 days. The one thing you never forget about watching videos of old fires and explosions is that the films survived, but the photographers? Not always.
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Just bought my tailgate ticket.
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Realistically, it would probably mirror Kurst in the last 3 weeks. But it has the equivalent or cornering an apex predator, with a Halloween mask and plastic fangs. And nukes. Yeah, sanctions are one thing. Physically taking over their oil export assets is a different ball game. That basically kills their economy. A stray missile or two, and the world economy is put in play. Even with sanctions in place, more than half of Russia's pre-war exports are finding their way into the market place. Price is negotiable. Supply is not. Believe it. Or not. That is all that matters. To the US, China, Europe, SE Asia, to the industrialized world. Like it or not, most will 'accept?' war crimes, as long as it isn't against them, and as long as their day to day life isn't impacted. But, once you've identified the end points, you know how far you can go before you get to the middle. Belgorod is well within that space. "I'm gonna be watching you."
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