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Guess Bohls forgot Hossler was also a Horn.
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Nope. Made the finals a handful of times under Barnes.
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Was wondering what was going on. There are only three guys out there under par today.
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Repeal the Trump tax cuts. Your $1.9 trillion issue is solved and then some.
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And earlier this year, I think he briefly held the '86 Fleer Jordan record until it was demolished. Think he was in about $80K total on two Jordan PSA 10s that subsequently both sold for well north of $100K. He has a third. And yeah, his collection his ridiculous.
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The most popular grading service these days is PSA. There is an insanely long turnaround time because of the resurgent value and popularity of cards. But given the value of that card, you'll submit it with Express service (15 day turnaround, $2,499 max declared value) or Super Express (2 business days, $4,999 max value). If you're not comfortable submitting a card of that value yourself, there are people that will walk it through the grading process for you. You typically need to have an established relationship with them, and it's more common for large submissions. All that said, you have the king of all cards right now, so you can probably find someone who will process just that card for you.
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Closed out the virtual racing year with a 1:18:34 half. Held steady at pretty much 6:00 even throughout. Favorable training leading up to it, and it was a favorable day weather wise on a pretty flat looped course. No idea what 2021 has in store but am optimistic I’ll be able to finally register for my first Boston using a December ‘19 time.
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It's cancelled too.
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The vast majority of affordable housing is delivered via the market either as naturally occurring affordable housing or private equity in the form of tax credits.
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What's on the wish list for '22 and '23? Godspeed for a quick and full recovery.
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From the capitol inside link above ... Is it though, is it? There's a direct correlation between the staunchness of one's Christianity and their propensity for scandalous behavior.
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Yeah, I've talked to the Decker race director, and he's offered a reasonable plan to city / county officials - no indoor use of the expo center, rolling start in waves (people stay in their cars until their wave), very limited on course hydration, etc. And they are still uncomfortable about moving forward with necessary approvals. Decker is 1/10th the size of 3M, so there's almost zero chance 3M happens.
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As of now, the Bryan - College Station half and full are still a go for mid-December. I know, I know, it's not an ideal location, but it might be the only opportunity to run a certified course in close proximity this marathon season. I'm registered for the half.
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Austin City Government - Circus of the Insane
UrbanAchiever replied to skittlebrau's topic in Daily Texan
Waterloo Terrace and Laurel Creek are 100% affordable. Elysium Grand is a combo of affordable and market rate. -
Austin City Government - Circus of the Insane
UrbanAchiever replied to skittlebrau's topic in Daily Texan
Adler lives in the W. He's surrounded by towers. As for the other question, there are scant examples of those types of rental properties. It's usually the inverse - mostly market rate units with a small percentage of income-restricted units. And it's incorrect to tag them as "subsidized" without knowing the exact financing mechanism that was employed to build them. There are a myriad of them, the most common being a tax credit which is basically private investment in exchange for a dollar for dollar credit against a corporation's federal tax liability. -
If you're suggesting that the City Clerk count every single signature, that never happens. For petitions, clerks do a statistically valid sample and then extrapolate the results based on the sample.
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My daughter is three, and this is what I'm trying to teach her already.
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I'll get it over to you. It was about 12 weeks of work; tend to start it late February / early March after long distance season.
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I've been working on a speed regimen for shorter distances since February, and I did a virtual 5K a couple weekends ago to just see where my fitness level was at. Clocked in at 17:55 which is about 90 seconds faster than my previous PR last fall. I don't think I've registered sub 6 miles my entire life until now.
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Ex Cop and son kill unarmed black man jogging
UrbanAchiever replied to purplepride95's topic in Daily Texan
Father and son pieces of trash have been arrested. -
Ex Blue Bell CEO charged with criminal conspiracy
UrbanAchiever replied to SurlyBDR's topic in Business and Markets
It's long been known that they knew about the contamination and tried to conceal it. Glad they may finally be held accountable for their conduct. -
Ex Cop and son kill unarmed black man jogging
UrbanAchiever replied to purplepride95's topic in Daily Texan
Two Weapons, a Chase, a Killing and No Charges BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Ahmaud Arbery loved to run. It was how the 25-year-old former high school football standout stayed fit, his friends said, and it was not unusual to see him running around the outskirts of the small coastal Georgia city near where he lived. But on a Sunday afternoon in February, as Mr. Arbery ran through a suburban neighborhood of ranch houses and moss-draped oaks, he passed a man standing in his front yard, who later told the police that Mr. Arbery looked like the suspect in a string of break-ins. According to a police report, the man, Gregory McMichael, 64, called out to his son, Travis McMichael, 34. They grabbed their weapons, a .357 magnum revolver and a shotgun, jumped into a truck and began following Mr. Arbery. “Stop, stop,” they shouted at Mr. Arbery, “we want to talk to you.” Moments later, after a struggle over the shotgun, Mr. Arbery was killed, shot at least twice. No one has been charged or arrested in connection with the Feb. 23 killing. The case has received little attention beyond Brunswick, but it has raised questions in the community about racial profiling — Mr. Arbery was black, and the father and son are white — and about the interpretation of the state’s self-defense laws. The Rev. John Davis Perry II, the president of the Brunswick chapter of the NAACP, has called the shooting “troubling.” And Mr. Arbery’s friends and family have worried that the case, similar to others that have prompted nationwide outrage, might quietly disappear in their Deep South community, because social-distancing restrictions amid the coronavirus outbreak have made it difficult for them to gather and protest. “We can’t do anything because of this corona stuff,” said Wanda Cooper, Mr. Arbery’s mother. “We thought about walking out where the shooting occurred, just doing a little march, but we can’t be out right now.” Mr. Arbery was killed three days before the anniversary of the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African-American teenager whose confrontation with a Florida neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, helped ignite the Black Lives Matter movement. According to documents obtained by The New York Times, a prosecutor who had the case for a few weeks told the police that the pursuers had acted within the scope of Georgia’s citizen’s arrest statute, and that Travis McMichael, who held the shotgun, had acted out of self-defense. The police report does not mention whether Mr. Arbery was in possession of a weapon. Attempts to reach Gregory McMichael, a retired investigator in the district attorney’s office, were unsuccessful. In a brief phone conversation, Travis McMichael, who runs a company that gives custom boat tours, declined to comment, citing the continuing investigation. The prosecutor who wrote the letter, George E. Barnhill, the district attorney for Georgia’s Waycross Judicial Circuit, recused himself from the case this month, after Mr. Arbery’s family complained that he had a conflict of interest. A prosecutor from another county is now in charge and will determine whether the case should be presented to a grand jury. In and around Brunswick, activists and allies of Mr. Arbery’s family are doing what they can to organize online. They have started a Facebook page and have coordinated a pressure campaign, emailing law enforcement officials and the local newspaper. There are hashtags, #IRunWithMaud and #JusticeForAhmaud, and T-shirts have been printed. But few people are on the streets to see their message. “There are a lot of people absolutely ready to protest,” said Jason Vaughn, a football coach at Brunswick High School who coached Mr. Arbery, who was an outside linebacker. “But because of social distancing and being safe, we have to watch what’s going on with the coronavirus.” Mr. Arbery was killed in Satilla Shores, a quiet middle-class enclave that abuts a network of marshlands about 15 minutes from downtown Brunswick and a short jog from Mr. Arbery’s neighborhood. His friends and family said they believed that Mr. Arbery, who was wearing a white T-shirt, khaki shorts, Nike sneakers and a bandanna when he was killed, had been out exercising. “Everybody in the community knows he runs,” said Mr. Vaughn, who said he saw Mr. Arbery jogging on the streets a few months ago. Mr. Vaughn said that he himself had raised suspicions by jogging through his own neighborhood in the suburbs of Brunswick, recalling a recent instance in which a white woman followed him in a van. But others contend that Mr. Arbery was up to no good. On the day of the shooting, and apparently moments before the chase, a neighbor in Satilla Shores called 911, telling the dispatcher that a black man in a white T-shirt was inside a house that was under construction and only partially closed in. “And he’s running right now,” the man told the dispatcher. “There he goes right now!” In his letter to the police, Mr. Barnhill, the prosecutor, noted that Mr. Arbery had a criminal past. Court records show that Mr. Arbery was convicted of shoplifting and of violating probation in 2018. Five years earlier, according to The Brunswick News, he was indicted on charges that he took a handgun to a high school basketball game. Still, even if Mr. Arbery committed a property crime on the afternoon he was killed, activists and family members said it would not have warranted a chase by armed neighbors. “This incident was at the least a case of overly zealous citizens that wrongfully profiled the victim without cause,” Mr. Perry wrote in an email. “These men felt justified in taking the law in their own hands.” Ms. Cooper, Mr. Arbery’s mother, said she believed the men had judged her son by his skin color. And she does not believe he committed any crimes that day. If he had, she said, “he should have been handled by the police.” Ms. Cooper pushed for Mr. Barnhill, a veteran prosecutor, to recuse himself from the case after she learned that his son works in the Brunswick district attorney’s office, which had previously employed Gregory McMichael. (The Brunswick district attorney, Jackie Johnson, recused herself early on, also because Mr. McMichael had worked in her office.) “She believes there are kinships between the parties (there are not) and has made other unfounded allegations of bias(es),” Mr. Barnhill wrote in his letter, sent in early April, to the Glynn County Police Department. As such, Mr. Barnhill wrote, he had decided to step away from the case, and would ask Georgia’s attorney general’s office to pick another prosecutor. Mr. Barnhill also wrote that he did not believe there was evidence of a crime, noting that Gregory McMichael and his son had been legally carrying their weapons under Georgia law. And because Mr. Arbery was a “burglary suspect,” the pursuers, who had “solid firsthand probable cause,” were justified in chasing him under the state’s citizen’s arrest law. In a separate document, Mr. Barnhill stated that video exists of Mr. Arbery “burglarizing a home immediately preceding the chase and confrontation.” In the letter to the police, he cites a separate video of the shooting filmed by a third pursuer. Mr. Barnhill said this video, which has not been made public, shows Mr. Arbery attacking Travis McMichael after he and his father pulled up to him in their truck. The video shows Mr. Arbery trying to grab the shotgun from Travis McMichael’s hands, Mr. Barnhill wrote. And that, he argued, amounts to self-defense under Georgia law. Travis McMichael, Mr. Barnhill concluded, “was allowed to use deadly force to protect himself.” He noted that it was possible that Mr. Arbery had caused the gun to go off by pulling on it, and pointed to Mr. Arbery’s “mental health records” and prior convictions, which, he said, “help explain his apparent aggressive nature and his possible thought pattern to attack an armed man.” After Mr. Barnhill recused himself, the case was assigned to Tom Durden, in the city of Hinesville, Ga., who must now decide whether to present the case to a grand jury for possible indictments. In an interview last week, Mr. Durden said his team had begun reviewing the evidence. “We don’t know anything about the case,” he said. “We don’t have any preconceived idea about it.” The police report is based almost solely upon the responding officer’s interview with Gregory McMichael, who had worked at the police department from 1982 to 1989. The responding officer describes him as a witness. According to the report, Mr. McMichael told the officer that he and his son pulled up near Mr. Arbery, that his son got out of the truck with the shotgun, and that his son and Mr. Arbery then fought over the weapon, “at which point Travis fired a shot and then a second later there was a second shot.” Michael J. Moore, an Atlanta lawyer who formerly served as a U.S. attorney in Georgia, reviewed Mr. Barnhill’s letter to the Glynn County Police Department, as well as the initial police report, at the request of The Times. In an email, Mr. Moore called Mr. Barnhill’s opinion “flawed.” In his view, Mr. Moore said, the McMichaels appeared to be the aggressors in the confrontation, and such aggressors were not justified in using force under Georgia’s self-defense laws. “The law does not allow a group of people to form an armed posse and chase down an unarmed person who they believe might have possibly been the perpetrator of a past crime,” Mr. Moore wrote. Nearly two months after the shooting, residents of Satilla Shores remained on guard. One woman angrily asked what a reporter was up to, and another approached almost immediately with similar questions, announcing that she was armed and that she had notified the police. Mr. Vaughn, the football coach, said on Sunday that he and other activists had come up with a plan to keep the pressure on the authorities. They plan to drive to Mr. Durden’s office in Hinesville, he said, about an hour away. They will mark off spots on the sidewalk so that they remain several feet apart. And they will enter the building, one by one, to ask why the men who chased Mr. Arbery have not been arrested. -
Running has picked up a little bit. Doing 40 miles a week which isn't typical volume unless it's into marathon training season. Trying to work on some speed and strength stuff.
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So, looking like a start in the mid-50s and humid. Not ideal, but I'm just doing the half, so that should be fine. I've kind of come to expect that the weather will always be subpar for Austin Marathon day.
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