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While there are many things wrong with Texas (a very recent example: Ken Paxton), one thing they got right: a quota for gifted students, whatever their color may be. If your kid graduates in the top 10% of his/her high school class, every Texas ***** university has to take you (well, UT Austin got an exemption: they only need to take the top 7%.) Couple that with in-state tuition of about $6,000 per semester even for the best universities (such as Austin), and you have a real bargain.

To me, a paddle board seems to be ideal for spontaneous, relatively short-term excursions on quiet water. When my then girl-friend, now-wife and I lived in Rochester, we preferred going downstream on fast creeks and very easy white water, mostly with a canoe, but sometimes when we had a third person with us, I would switch to kayak. But that requires lots of planning most of the time and using two cars. But we had lots of fun in the Adirondacks, the Alqonquins, and the Finger Lakes (the most daring trip was down the Canisteo). Sadly, here in Lubbock the boats are just hanging in the garage.

Interesting point from a historical perspective. However, the George Floyd aftermath seems to show that a general population which is allowed to carry arms is not able to prevent such riots.

A few days ago on one of the cooking channels they showed a rerun of Andrew Zimmern's "Bizarre Foods" episode on the Ozarks. One dish they featured were bacon-wrapped crow breasts. As it turned out, "eating crow" is not always as disgusting as it sounds.

Let's start with a nice cap...

From the NCAA rules (the IAAF rules are similar): Can you touch hurdles in track and field? In short, the answer is yes. Athletes can’t deliberately knock down a hurdle in a race, but they can touch the hurdle. So, if an athlete is running a hurdles race and attempts to clear the hurdle while jumping over it in a “hurdling fashion," but clips the hurdle or even knocks the hurdle over, they can continue running. The athlete wouldn’t have deliberately knocked over a hurdle in this case, as they are genuinely attempting to clear the hurdle and complete the race. Now if an athlete knocks over the hurdle in a race, without attempting to clear it at all, it would be deemed a non-hurdling action, which is deliberate and a violation of hurdling rules.

Just last weekend, at the European Team Championship in Track & Field, both Belgian 100 meter hurdlers were injured, and they needed a replacement to prevent the team from being disqualified. A shot-putter/hammer-thrower volunteered. She needed more than twice as long as the winner, but she got two points for the team and saved them from disqualification.

He is your favorite but can't even get his name right? His name is Lou Anarumo. And was there not just another long thread that we should not again hire a defensive guy as HC?

Last year I suspected that we might have a pair of curve-billed thrashers nesting in our backyard. Finally, about a month ago I saw them bringing little sticks and other nesting material into the largest tree in the backyard, a live oak, and found the nest.

My favorite JJ Cale song: "Same Old Blues", here performed by Cale and Leon Russell. There are a lot of cover versions, including Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bryan Ferry, and ... Captain Beefheart.

That by itself is a very interesting topic. If we just take into account the "hard" sciences, chemistry, physics, and physiology/medicine (the Nobel Peace Prize was once awarded to a 17-year-old, Malala Yousafzai), the youngest one was Lawrence Bragg in physics at the age of 25. The oldest one was also a physicist, Raymond Davis Jr. at 88. The one who had to wait the longest was another physicist, Ernst Ruska. He built the first electron microscope in 1933 and was rewarded with the Nobel Prize 47 years later in 1980.

One of my favorites of the Beatles near the end of their career as band: "The Ballad of John and Yoko" This song actually had a sort-of sequel in Lennon and Ono's (otherwise pretty forgettable) album Some Time in New York City, called "New York City". The tempo is much faster, and it has some nice guitar (1:30) and piano work (3:00). The backing band Lennon and Ono were using at that time was a NY band, Elephant's Memory. While Elephant's Memory on their own never put out anything remarkable (back in Germany, I actually found one of their LPs in the bargain bin of a record store, and the song-writing was thoroughly disappointing), but they had some excellent instrumentalists (Wayne Shorter on Guitar, Gary Van Scyoc on bass, Adam Ippolito on keyboards, and Stan Bronstein on sax). Interestingly, for a short time at the end of the 1960s, Carly Simon had been a member of EM.

Well, then next time you should make this clearer. Your post essentially contained 4 tweets, and the one you claim was most important to you was buried as number 2 our of 4.

It often amazes me how unfairly bicyclists are treated. Here is a clip from the under-23 Giro d'Italia where you can see the bicyclists helping cars and motorcycles up a steep mountain pass. Can you imagine that they were all disqualified?

Well, this is true. I will even acknowledge that the attendance last night was less than Pride Night a year ago or the regular attendance on Friday nights; these numbers are around 52,000. Thus, the attendance yesterday was about 6% less than normal. However, the pic shown by right-wing bloggers and in Big Blitz' post suggests that there is less than 10% attendance while the stadium "should be packed". And this is clearly propaganda.

Well, you fell here in some right-wing propaganda trap. From Forbes, regarding the Pride Night game: "The Dodgers recorded an attendance of 49,074, slightly higher than its league-leading average of 47,800." https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2023/06/17/dodgers-pride-night-draws-usual-turnout-mostly-empty-stadium-claims-prove-false/?sh=16bbdaae37ef

Very impressive. This is from the musical comedy movie "The Ghost Goes Gear", released in 1966. This means that Winwood was about 17 when it was filmed.

There are not many live concert videos where you can see both brothers together. Johnny and Edgar Winters - "Tobacco Road"

While this thread was certainly very entertaining, the football-relevant content is best summarized by this song by the 1960's underground rock band The Fugs: "Nothing". As a bonus, the singer looks a bit like (Albert) Einstein.

From the official description of Haulover Park: https://www.miamidade.gov/parks/haulover.asp "There is also a world-renowned clothing optional beach section that is family oriented and staffed by well trained volunteers who provide information about beach etiquette." (bold by me) From the "beach etiquette" guidelines for Blind Creek Beach: https://www.treasurecoastnaturists.org/beach-etiquette "Please exercise common courtesy with cameras. Do not photograph people without their permission. Practice politeness by asking first. Never photograph any children but your own." (Common sense should tell you that they would not have this rule if kids were not allowed.)

From: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/what-is-juneteenth/ The name comes from the date June 19, 1865: "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.” —General Orders, Number 3; Headquarters District of Texas, Galveston, June 19, 1865 And the name "Juneteenth" has been around for more than 150 years: "Defying confusion and delay, terror and violence, the newly “freed” black men and women of Texas, with the aid of the Freedmen’s Bureau (itself delayed from arriving until September 1865), now had a date to rally around. In one of the most inspiring grassroots efforts of the post-Civil War period, they transformed June 19 from a day of unheeded military orders into their own annual rite, “Juneteenth,” beginning one year later in 1866."

This is incorrect. From Wikipedia: "In the late 1970s, when the Texas Legislature declared Juneteenth a "holiday of significance ... particularly to the blacks of Texas,"[45] it became the first state to establish Juneteenth as a state holiday.[61] The bill passed through the Texas Legislature in 1979 and was officially made a state holiday on January 1, 1980. Before 2000, three more U.S. states officially observed the day, and over the next two decades it was recognized as an official observance in all states, except South Dakota, until becoming a federal holiday.[4]"

Laurie Anderson - "Gravity's Angel", from the concert film "Home of the Brave" (never released on DVD). Much better than the studio version.

A Perfect Circle did an interesting cover of Lennon's "Imagine": they switched it from C major to a minor scale - now it sounds terribly depressing.

Let's hope so!