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  1. Good question. Perhaps, but also if he was able to qualify in individual events there's more potential points to be earned. If an athlete qualifies, the coach can review the list and scratch if it doesn't look like it will work or is worthwhile (I think). The hep would be ten points and he's number one in that right now, but making the finals in two more events could gain the team anywhere from one to ten more points per event, not including specialists who would likely place higher. For example, in the long jump, he placed first so that was 10 points, while *Jathan Belaire placed second for 8 more points. If he was able to do that at Indoors, that's 20 points just for Neugebauer. Shotput wasn't as successful, but I also don't know if he's working through some things. Neugebauer was already a likely qualifier for both the LJ and the Hep, and ultimately it could be that Coach Floréal is looking toward national more than conference along with an athlete's health. Earlier it was mentioned that this is an Olympic year and thus, a long season that can be very hard on the body. *Jathan Belaire's 7.67m in the long jump, while good, is probably not high enough on the qualifying list at this time to make the cut.
  2. I think this also tracks back to his supposed extramarital affair; you know he's always been accused of having a wandering eye...
  3. When I was in high school I read a lot of Raymond Chandler; I should go back and reread them. Back then (hs) the mystery/detective genre was something I really enjoyed diving into when school work or teen drama was ugh. Dashiell Hammett, too, but also the great Agatha Christie and for some reason I really enjoyed Martha Grimes (she wrote the Richard Jury books named after pubs and I wanted to run away and marry Melrose Plant, because he was witty and smart and high school girls are like that sometimes.) and P.D. James (police commander Adam Dalgleish).
  4. After reading the explanation, I think I understand your point(s). It's a multitude of things combined with $$, with certain entities not wanting to offend anyone's sensibilities whereas others are seeking plausible deniability at every turn. And it all occurs at warp speed with what seems to be little care or thought. Here is a (to me) disturbing article about Gab's AI and reading to the end (five minute read), Torba (CEO) states: (spoilered just in case it verges on CR) Article link:https://www.wired.com/story/gab-ai-chatbot-racist-holocaust/
  5. Latest USTFCCCA poll is out (Week 6) MEN 1. Texas Tech 2. Arkansas 3. NAU 4. Florida 5. Washington 6. USC 7. Texas 8. Nebraska 9. Alabama 10. Houston The Longhorn men's team stayed at #7 and for the most part the other teams flipped around some but not a lot of movement. Texas Tech went back to the top spot, but they had a very good Big 12 meet, while Texas struggled in some areas. Washington has no national leaders, but they do have top ten marks in multiple events which is what is keeping them high scoring. After Texas, the scoring drops off quite a bit... WOMEN 1. Arkansas 2. Florida 3. Texas 4. OSU 5. Oregon 6. Ole Miss 7. USC 8. Washington 9. Texas Tech 10. LSU Arkansas has outdistanced everybody at the moment, but the Longhorn women are hanging tough. They moved back up the rankings (#7 last week) due to a stellar Big 12 Championship team win and it will take at least that much and then some to grab the Indoor title. Lists for qualifying are due sometime later today.
  6. I am about halfway through and enjoying God Save Texas. While I understand @GreenspointTexas comment about namedropping (from the Texas books thread); it works for me because it gave me some new areas to explore in the future. I enjoyed his short bit on LBJ, as well as Ann Richards and Molly Ivins. I need to read more about the last two. Bold, smart, and sassy, where are those rabblerouser types today in Texas?
  7. Believe me; Elonsplaining is not something women are unfamiliar with it's just a different recipe for the same sauce.
  8. Yes; thanks for posting that! I think that Kristine Blazevica also set a record in the Indoor Pentathlon as well, breaking her old mark of 4,402 points with 4430 a facility record as well. Currently she is in the second spot nationally behind Allie Jones of USC.
  9. Aaaand Florida just had another case pop up. Let's hope that this is the last one from that cluster before the spring vacation travel begins.
  10. Someone needs to get through to Elon.
  11. I've never tried dwarf varieties so perhaps someone else will chime in; I have had a lot of success with the bush cherry tomatoes and putting them in containers with a sturdy cage. They seem to produce a lot except during the exceptional heat of August but rebound and go into fall with more tomatoes than we can sometimes handle.
  12. When time allows I try and keep up with it, as have been a participant/fan for a long time. It's a great sport and UT has a long tradition of excellence. Happy to see the program succeed.
  13. Jokes on you and Elon. I don't have that accessory. I've been saying this for a looong time. China has invested a lot of money into their science/tech infrastructure (not going to touch upon info theft) and the U.S. has been coasting and cutting for decades. Chickens roosting yada yada....
  14. Thank you for removing the paywall so I could read the article. Very worthwhile read.
  15. The field for the 2024 NCAA Div 1 Indoor Track Championships will be announced Tuesday (Feb. 27) and will consist of 17 events each for men and women. The Track at New Balance in Boston will host Friday March 8th and Saturday March 9th. Per usual, Friday morning will see the start of the Men's Heptathlon and Women's Pentathlon, followed by various field events in the afternoon along with the preliminary running events and a few finals (listed below). The championships are scheduled to air somewhere on ESPN. The next ranking is also scheduled to drop on Tuesday. Friday Finals: Field Events Men's Pole Vault, Weight Throw, and Long Jump Women's Pole Vault, Weight Throw, and Long Jump Running Events Men's and Women's 5000m and DMR Combined Event Final: Pentathlon
  16. Since it had been mentioned here, I checked this one out and have begun reading:
  17. At one point, I thought one could locate data per campus but I may be getting that mixed up with something else. I do understand that with some schools, the population is so small that a kindergarten class may only have 10 students, thus if only five have received the MMR vaccine then that is 50% but it's data that parents really should consider if measles is making a comeback. Here are some more highlights from the Texas DHS numbers to add to yours; MMR stats only. These numbers are from the 7th grade snapshot of the districts you listed above just to see how the percentages look for the older cohort. Fewer schools with below 90% in this group, but it remains to be seen if the younger groups will eventually get vaccinated or if this is the trend (of no shots) becoming more and more prevalent. Austin Waldorf: 75%; 7th grade: 58.62% Austin ISD: 87.7%; 7th grade: 99.84% Austin Montessori: 100%; 7th grade: 91.67% Del Valle ISD: 94%; 7th grade: 99.38% Dripping Springs ISD: 95.6%; 7th grade: 95.55% Eanes: 96.6%; 7th grade: 97.96% Hill Country Christian: 96.4%; 7th grade: 92.16% Lake Travis ISD: 92.4%; 7th grade: 95.39% Manor ISD: 96.5% 7th grade: 98.63% Pflugerville ISD: 99.9%; 7th grade: 99.90% Regents School of Austin: 85%; 7th grade: 91.21% Round Rock ISD: 96.1%; 7th grade: 97.04% St Andrews: 100%; 7th grade: 100% Texas Empowerment Academy: 54.8%; 7th grade: 88.89% UT Austin Charter School: 86% 7th grade: did not see listed. Veritas Academy: 62%; 7th grade: 86.67% Acton Academy Northwest Austin: 60% I added this school's kindergarten data because this company/school across the state has very poor MMR coverage for all of the cities in which they're located. Bethany Christian School of Plano (Collin County) has the distinction of 25% of its Kindergarten students being innoculated. Collin County is ~94% coverage, so it's not spread across the county, but yikes.
  18. One of my early jobs straight out of school was for a small company that offered both digital and old school (ink) print materials. Most of the jobs were for business cards or web stuff where customers didn't have in-house capabilities but the owners had lived in the city for a long time and had a large network. As a service, they would give very deep discounts to certain nonprofit organizations and there was this one guy that would come in to have his newsletter designed, mocked up, and printed. He was so nice but often in very poor health. His organization was a post-polio syndrome group and he used to say he was one of the luckier ones. I understood what he meant and when my children were born, they were inoculated for the major diseases plus chicken pox (which I actually had suffered from, along with the shingles later--ugh).
  19. When we were discussing pockets of vulnerability to disease, the comments about children being the victims of their parents' ignorance/stupidity/stubbornness. But what if the health official decides to defer to parents so as to deflect blame (transmission vs quarantine and miss learning opportunities)? Such is the case in Florida where state health official Joseph Ladapo sent a letter to parents at an elementary school in Broward county, Florida after measles was confirmed among the school population. The letter said that parents should watch for symptoms of measles — high fever, rash, red, watery eyes — but did not encourage vaccination. (quote from NBC News) Nationwide, measles cases are creeping up--35 thus far. The number may not seem like many, especially after watching the COVID pandemic case counts skyrocket, but officials are not being alarmist by urging vaccination with the MMR inoculation. (Various news accounts stated that the campus MMR rate was at or around 97% with 33 students unvaccinated out of ~1000.) After Ladapo's letter was sent out, health officials confirmed a seventh case in the area, a child under age 5. Therein lies the danger, very young children are often not fully protected and are the ones who suffer the most with this disease. Many parents are not going to be weighing the educational cost as much as the 'inconvenience' and 'financial' cost (admittedly for many families the financial cost is THE most pressing) and will easily ignore symptoms until an actual diagnosis. Hopefully, with the higher immunization rate (97%), the disease will peter out on campus; guess they'll find out.
  20. More results: Women 200m: Dejenea Oakley (2) 22.86. Oakley runs a personal best and earns 8 points for the Longhorns. 3000m: Eva Jess (17) 9:45.23 High Jump: Trinity Tomlinson (3) 1.80/5' 10 3/4. Tomlinson earns 6 points for the Longhorns. Winning jump was 1.90/6' 2 3/4 by Temitope Adishina of Texas Tech. 4X400: Texas (2) 3:30.08. The relay team earns 8 points for the Longhorns finishing behind Houston's meet record 3:29.42 With 135 points, the Texas Longhorns are the Women's Big Twelve Champions. Men Shot Put: Patrick Piperi (3) 19.19/62' 11 1/2; Michael Pinones (10) 17.47/77' 3 3/4"; Leo Neugeberger (15) 16.49/54' 1 1/4. Piperi scored 6 points for the Longhorns. Cam Jones of iowa State placed first with a winning toss of 19.60/64' 3 3/4" which was a personal best. High Jump: Daniel Lineberger (11) 2.06/6' 9" Winning jump was 2.26/7' 5" by Devin Loudermilk of Kansas 200m: John Rutledge (7) 20.94. Two points for the Longhorns from Rutledge place with Terrence Jones of Texas Tech winning with a time of 20.21 3000m: Isaac Alonzo (10) 8:06.63; Emmanuel Sgouros (11) 8:08.07; Haftu Knight DNF. Winner Alex Maier of OSU ran 7:55.45 a facility record. Maier ran for Flower Mound HS. 4X400: Texas (3) 3:04.98. The relay team earned 6 points finishing behind winner Texas Tech's 3:02.76. Kansas State placed second. FINAL TEAM SCORES WOMEN 1) TEXAS (135) 2) TEXAS TECH (104) 3) OSU (103.5) 4) BYU (71) 5) BAYLOR (44) MEN 1) TEXAS TECH (152) 2) OSU (92) 3) TEXAS (89) 4) KANSAS (81) 5) IOWA STATE (67.5)
  21. Men: 800m: Daniel Howells (2) 1:48.94 Howells runs from last place to take second and earn 8 points for the Longhorns, finishing behind Jason Gomez of Iowa State who ran a 1:48.36. Almost got 'im at the tape...
  22. More results: Women 400m: Dejanea Oakley (1) 51.75; Ziyah Holman (3) 52.22; Lauren Lewis (6) 52.76. Oakley and Lewis ran personal bests while Holman ran her fastest time of the season. The three scored 19 points for the Longhorns. 1000m: No Longhorn athletes in this final. Sivan Auerbach of OSU placed first in 2:46.85 800m: Olivia Howell (3) 2:03.86. With a personal best, Howell scores 6 points. First place winner was Kelly-Ann Beckford of Houston in 2:00.99, meet and facility records, and a personal best time and just a smidge away from going under 2:00. Men: 400m: Brian Herron (4) 45.82; Logan Popelka (6) 46.21. Popelka runs a personal best and they score 8 points total for the Longhorns. 1000m: Yusuf Bizimana (1) 2:22.40. Bizimana earns 10 points. Way to run!
  23. Updated Team Scores (top5) WOMEN 14 OF 19 EVENTS SCORED 1) Texas (107) 2) OSU (83) 3) Texas Tech (74) 4) BYU (37) 5) Baylor (35) MEN 12 OF 19 EVENTS SCORED 1) Texas Tech (112) 2) Texas (61) 3) Kansas (60) 4) OSU (58) 5) Houston (39.5)
  24. Bless his heart and what a nice way to end the heptathlon for freshman Brock Lewis. Heptathlon 1000m: Brock Lewis (1) 2:38.76 (887pts). Lewis places 8th overall in the Heptathlon with a personal best score of 5269 and scores a point for the Longhorns. Always a lot to contend with over two days, so I love to see the persistence. The overall winner was Grant Levesque of Houston with 6068 points.
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