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Horn of Gabriel

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  1. Different question for the futbol heads: what changed from last year to this year that took us from the top of the standings (er, table?) to the bottom?
  2. Didn't Wolff just get a 3 year extension? I don't know enough about soccer to comment on systems, aside from we've sucked at scoring this year. Also I don't like that Wolff plays his son on the team...if you're going to play your son he better be God-like, and Wolff Jr ain't that.
  3. For those who geek on reading this stuff: from the Congressional Research Service - China Naval Modernization: Implications for U.S. Navy Capabilities
  4. So aside from the absurdity of relocating 23M+ people to "somewhere else," there may be a nugget of goodness in here. We could offer a completely streamlined green card/residency program for Taiwanese nationals and their families who have a certain education level or are in certain industries that we want to absorb (chip manufacturing?). Of course that would: 1) really piss off the government of Taiwan for brain draining their population, 2) signal that we see their country as a lost cause and those who can had better get on the lifeboat and if you can't, "sorry," and 3) doesn't do anything to replicate the extensive infrastructure in manufacturing that TSMC and others have built up there which will take a decade or more to rebuild elsewhere.
  5. For @Mullet Free or for others' future reference: TEA Complaints & Investigations Overview TEA Complaints Management File complaints against a school district or charter school with TEA for: Violations of programs required by federal law or programs for which the public education agency receives federal funds Misuse of federal or state funds by a public education agency Conditions at a school district or charter school that present a danger to the health, safety, or welfare of the students Violations of duties defined by statute or rule of school district boards of trustees, governing bodies of public charter schools, or superintendents or chief operating officers of school districts and public charter schools Violations of state assessment instrument security procedures Falsifications, fraudulent misrepresentations, or manipulations of information, including manipulations of records, reports, data, forms, statements of assurances, or certifications submitted to TEA through the Public Education Information Management System (PEIMS) Educator misconduct (BOLD ADDED) TEA Complaints Management Contact Info - complaintsmanagement@tea.texas.gov or (512) 463-3544 TEA Online Complaint Form <-- OP should go here if interested as a starting point Local Grievance Process (PDF) My wife (no pics) works at TEA, although thank god not in complaints and investigations. I realize to some people that makes her the devil because like any government agency we all love to shit on TEA, it's a popular whipping boy and has its fair share of screwups. OTOH there are also a lot of highly motivated, smart, and competent people there who know their shit wrt education as well. Because of our independent school district setup in Texas, the legislature has defined some very strong boundaries for what TEA is allowed to do, and what it isn't - and that extends to investigations. Many people think that TEA is some overlord of Texas schools, but my experience has been different: TEA sets guidance, provides training, and monitors for compliance. It can establish escalating penalties for noncompliance in specific instances but aside from very rare cases like the takeover of HISD (which, again, had to be specifically authorized by the TX legislature), that's rare. Our political leanings in TX favor local control so the enforcement part of TEA is relatively weak, and that's all by design. The vast majority of issues are handled at the district level by their administration - and those districts really don't like TEA poking around in what they consider to be "their business." And BTW if your issue is with a private school in Texas, TEA's jurisdiction is limited, contact: Texas Private School Accreditation Commission (TEPSAC) 3801 N Capital of TX Hwy Suite E-240 PMB 173 Austin, TX 78746 (512) 499-8377 https://www.tepsac.org/#/contact
  6. First, your MS paint skill are shit. So congrats you can stay on Surlyhorns. Second, I agree. The tie between the SEZ and the rest of the stadium is horribad. Allthough they'd probably upsize the upper part because in your shitty MS paint it looks dinky now. Hell they coulda added 2 more columns of luxury box stacks on either side. Probably would oversaturate that market however. Aside from the tie in, the materials just look "off." They're using exposed metal all over the new SEZ and you don't see that anywhere else - the rest of DKR is stone and rock.
  7. The SEZ looks completely different than the rest of the stadium in its design. I don't accept the footprint issue - as the new football training facility shows, is if there's a will there's a way to overcome that, it's just money and the AD has loads of it. Money is the reason we got the SEZ we did and not the master plan in the model: the current SEZ adds a bunch of luxury boxes vertically on the edges that wouldn't be possible under the master plan version above. Those lux boxes generate millions of dollars of additive yearly revenues to the AD that closing the stadium into a bowl would not.
  8. It's too bad b/c that looks about a billion times better than what we got.
  9. I loved it, great twists and psychological thriller. Loved that KS's role was super paranoid and how that informed the story. Charles Dance was great as usual.
  10. This is a PITA problem I've been dealing with in our house. Your options: Do nothing - find another spot. Least expensive and most likely to create wife issues Install TV above mantle - Expensive! Not only do you have to run power down behind the rock wall and poke it through (special wire too because it's next to the chimney flu), you probably also want to run an Ethernet cable for streaming (because wifi sucks). Then you have to mount the TV into the rock, which means permanently destroying that nice rock wall. Even when all that is done, as many have mentioned, you have a TV that you have to crane your neck to watch. One place this is OK: if your kitchen it behind the couch and you're going to be standing up in the kitchen doing stuff then the TV will be eye level. Do a drop down screen + projector - probably less expensive than you think assuming you don't already have the TV to install. Plus it tucks away nicely when you're not using it and you can retain the nice mantle + fireplace for times you're not using the TV. Downsides: if the room gets a lot of natural light, or if you have a strong breeze in there with a big ceiling fan it might not be as good. Also some people just don't like projectors. This is kinda a best-of-both worlds solution. You'll still need to run power and internet but sometimes that's easier through the ceiling if it's a single story... There's no good solution, you're in a "choose the least-worst" situation here...gl
  11. Nike's B1G footprint TV advertising spend isn't going to move the needle. And if he threatened to pull apparel deals with B1G schools, I'm 1000% sure that Adidas, UA, etc would be waiting in the wings to snap up those brands.
  12. Ladies and gentlemen, your Big12 ref and local PD recruiting pitch, right here! #NoCR
  13. Isn't that the ref who talked in an interview about how important it was to him to be jacked as a ref so he'd "look the part" and coaches wouldn't intimidate him? Much better to be swole than good at your job!
  14. A deeeeeep 10-part series on distributed naval ops in the SCS area: https://cimsec.org/fighting-dmo-pt-1-defining-distributed-maritime-operations-and-the-future-of-naval-warfare/ Haven't read all of it yet but if you geek on this stuff it's interesting.
  15. The sovereign immunity thing as an out for GoR's is a joke/meme pointed to by smooth brain lawyers. If it could have been used, it would have been used at this point.
  16. Y'all freaking out over this aren't seeing the long game that CDC is playing here. Every AD is concerned that money that used to exclusively come their way is now splitting between them and NIL. Did you see the announcement about United Texas Circle yesterday? In case you missed it: There's a reason why this all came out simultaneously. I agree that the rendering is...underwhelming. More likely they want to catch the eye of some BMDs so that the AD can go cry poor and get more money where they believe it rightly belongs...in the AD.
  17. QE somehow looks both better than last year but still nowhere near where he needs to be.
  18. That was the right decision in a spring game 😅
  19. K. Woods is the best looking guy I haven't heard much about on the team, impressed w/ how he's moving.
  20. Has anyone done the pre-spring game team fire sale? Do they have anything good or is just clearance rack shit?
  21. Probably safer to assume that they both can't and won't try either. Let's call it the Maginot Line strategy.
  22. Interesting article from Capt. Joshua Taylor on countering China's illegal activities in the SCS through a persistent low-end presence vs. the high end FONOPs we run today. Smart, less costly, and less escalatory. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/august/campaign-plan-south-china-sea
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