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But fish in the bowl is lucky They in for a worser fate One day when the boss get hungry Guess who's gon' be on the plate
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It's hard to get an accurate read on Dart. He's only played 1 year with a coach that isn't Lane Kiffin and it's the year Clay Helton finally got fired. Dart is boom, or bust, but has the potential to be a good quarterback now that his coach doesn't have the emotional maturity of an angry toddler refusing to take a nap. Banks at #9 is an absolute steal. Saints fans are going to be really happy with that pick.
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I'll take the over. The shining city on the hill is burning all around us and too many Americans are mistaking the fire for the light. When there is nothing left to burn, we will find ourselves well into the new Dark Ages.
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Damn, that's at least 9 eggs. We really are the Joneses.
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Did anyone else hear that explosion just now in North Austin?
Pods replied to hornbri's topic in Daily Texan
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He likes Asian girls?
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Last one and I'll quit hijacking the thread with La Brea chat, but this helps show how absurd the preservation is. This a 3D model of a 14,000 year old leaf cutter bee made from very high resolution CT scans. Each slice is 3 microns thick. Left is the eye, right is the abdomen. The flat spot in the middle is one of the wings. There are individual pollen grains and full internal organ system preserved. There is so much preserved detail, scanning and processing them crashed a supercomputer. Red arrow is the eye. Blue is the wing. Orange is the abdomen.
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For anyone that hasn't been, it's a small museum, but definitely worth the admission price. All the outside stuff is free and you can often see a crew digging in one of the pits. La Brea is what's called a predator trap. Something gets stuck and predators show up to eat it. They get stuck and other things show up to eat them and also get stuck. As a result, there are lot of dire wolves (over 4,000) and other predators. Each bone in this picture is the same Golden Eagle foot bone from a different fossil specimen. Bones like this are so fragile, they almost never preserve. It really is incredible. You'll never see another museum like it.
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Here's a cladogram from the Nature paper, you can think of it as a family tree. From left to right is time. The branches show how closely related they are to each other. Each place the branches diverge represents the common ancestor for that group and the number represents how many millions of years ago the split occurred. For example, Andean foxes split from everyone else 6.8 million years ago. Dire wolves split from everyone else 5.7 million years ago. The grey wolf is WAY up the family tree from dire wolves. They are not very close at all.
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Every press release this company has had is techbro bullshit. They are hyping up the same thing with elephants and saying they will make mammoths. When you see the next one from the same company, it's going to be bullshit too. What this company is doing is not science, it's pumping up their share price. They used a program called CRISPR to make 20 edits to 14 genes (out of at least 20,000 functional genes) of a modern gray wolf. It's not 99.9% gray wolf, it's a gray wolf. @LTbear might have more insight, but it doesn't look at all like a dire wolf to me. My favorite museum display in the world is at the La Brea Tar Pits. ~400 dire wolf skulls all mounted on the same backlit wall. I couldn't calculate the number of hours I've spent looking at the variation between those skulls. The snout of these gray wolves is way too small and gracile. Plus, recent DNA work (2021) suggests that modern wolves are not the closest living relatives of dire wolves. Dire wolves are evolutionarily closer to jackals and African wild dogs than modern wolves. We share more DNA with chimpanzees than wolves share with dire wolves. Here's a pdf of the Nature paper. https://tinylink.net/gHM90 Science magazine's take. https://www.science.org/content/article/legendary-dire-wolf-may-not-have-been-wolf-all That pdf is freely available online and got enough publicity that Colossal is definitely aware of it. If they wanted to be accurate, they should have modified jackal DNA to reconstruct this, but that wouldn't generate an absurd share price for the company.
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Texas Becoming an AI-Powered Surveillance State
Pods replied to Horn Under a Bad Sign's topic in Cloak Room
Michael, Jermaine AND Randy Jackson (not that Randy Jackson). Rockwell's dad was CEO of Motown Records, though they were supposedly estranged at the time. I'm assuming that opened a few doors for him. -
Split a cooked hot dog down the middle making two halves. Top with mashed potatoes. Top with cheese and bake until cheese is melted.
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That sucks. Unreinforced brick buildings are a nightmare in an earthquake. The mortar crumbles.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
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Some great advice already on this thread. I started helping my mom with her team of 12-13 year old girls part way into the season and it was really fun. This is going to be long, but some of the stuff I did could be applicable and this will echo some of the advice already given. Be the hype man and make them feel confident. Don't ask them to do something they can't. It's easier to keep their confidence up, than it is to rebuild it. Make sure to praise rebounds, defense, picks and hustle after loose balls just as much as you do assists and scoring. Be loud and excited when they do something well. Your players will notice and start doing the same thing naturally, which gels your team chemistry. Let them know it's okay to make mistakes, as long as they are giving full effort. Frame mistakes as something you are confident they will get better at, rather than something they screwed up. We had 2 good guards, so we pressed every possession until the game was out of hand and I started to feel bad. None of the other 12-13 year old girls teams could handle relentless full-court pressure, your 10-year old opponents are going to have no chance. It's a lot of fun for the kids and we got a lot of turnovers leading to easy baskets. On O, we kept it simple and ran whenever possible. When forced into a half-court we mostly ran picks for our 2 best offensive threats to shoot or pass out of. Get the other kids good at picks and boxing out for rebounds and be vocally proud of them when they do them well. Same treatment as a made basket. Some of your kids that can't dribble may be able to shoot from particular spots. Passing off a pick and roll is a great way to get an open look for them at that spot. Keep it simple and restricted to stuff each kid can actually do. We spent a lot of practice time on defense and running the court after turnovers/rebounds. Our focus was 1) turnovers, 2) no close shots. Make the other team try to beat you with long jumpers. Long jumpers are not only harder for them to make, but also result in longer rebounds that are easier to generate fast break points off of. Teach any zone concepts by drawing a circle around them in practice and running low speed drills. Guard this circle and don't leave it is much easier for them to visualize than the idea of guarding a zone. Chalk works, but it's slippery. Try a dry erase marker on an inconspicuous part of the court first. You can also use small cones, or something similar to mark out the circle, just run drills at slow speed, so no one slips, or trips. If your kids mostly get the concept of staying in their circle down, you can throw stuff at the other team they have never seen before. I originally wanted to play a 2-3 and make the other team hit jumpers, but the other team usually only has 1 or 2 good players and "junk" defenses turned out to be lethal. We were losing the first game I helped with, so I turned up the press and installed a triangle and 2 at halftime. Even that first time, with no actual practice time running it, we forced more mistakes than we made and ran the other team out of the gym. It's just your 2 best athletes in man against their 2 best, and your other three clogging the paint, defending their circle and not leaving it. Intercept passes when they can, but base assignment is clog up their circle. Your kids in zone can make some mistakes, because you've already locked up the other team's best players in man-to-man. Very few (if any) teams will have a 3rd player that can reliably handle the ball and score. Triangle and 2 also turned out to be a great D to fall back into if they beat your press, because your bigs will have already gotten back to set up in zone and your guards will already be in man-to-man. When we got better at it, other teams completely lost their shit trying to play against it. The other team's best players start to make mistakes and that spirals. We got tons of turnovers setting up fast break points, so we ran it a lot more than I'd originally intended. Once you know the makeup of your team and what they are good/bad at, post again. We'll be able to give more specific advice.
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