I am getting my ass kicked in functions and modeling. I have tried online tutors but 1 hour I guess isnt enough to learn anything. Any advice?

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Yeah, how is Russia a threat to American freedom and we should just let Russia roll through Europe.

My son is a junior in high school. He has ok grades and ok test scores. He doesn't think he can get into Texas. We are way early in the process but he thinks he likes TCU. That said my wife (from nam) suggested he apply to Rape U. I said No way Waco is only one couch away from a dumpster fire every weekend. The town is awful, the school is awful and the people are awful.

Then she looked right at me and said well would you rather him go to College Station? Then she challenged me Pick One.

Dumbfounded I could not answer the question...and I'm sleeping on the couch tonight.

So if you had to pick for your kid....you can only pick one or the other for a kid you love and Neither is not an option here. What would it be and why?

2026 offensive lineman Drew Evers has an impressive offer sheet, with more than 20 schools having extended scholarships, including some of the game's powerhouse programs. One school that has officially thrown its name into the mix is the University of Texas.

Evers took a visit to the UT campus in January, where he spent some time with the Texas coaching staff. Included in that visit was listening to Steve Sarkisian’s message, and Evers said he really liked what he heard from the Texas head coach.

“I like what his morals are. He’s always a character over talent type of dude,” Evers said. “What he holds that are important to him are good things. I just like that about him.”

With offers from programs like Alabama, Arkansas, Cal, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Oklahoma, Penn State, Tennessee, Texas and Texas A&M, among others, Evers is keeping an open mind at this stage of his recruitment.

“All the schools that I have right now, they’re all up there,” Evers said. “I’m taking into consideration every single school I have right now. I haven’t really singled out a top-10, top-5 or top-3.”

Evers had visited Texas prior to his most recent trip, and he said he’s continually blown away by the progress the Longhorns put into improving their football program.

“What stood out the most was probably the facilities. The facilities, somehow they just keep getting better and better and better,” Evers said. “Every single time I come here, I know it’s the same thing but somehow it just appeals to me even more.”

The 6-4, 292-pound is listed as an offensive tackle, but he feels he has some position versatility that helps make him an attractive option for college coaches.

“Me personally, I think I can play anywhere on the O-line,” Evers said. “My preference is tackle because I’ve been playing it my whole life, but I’m always willing to go down to guard or center if I need to.”

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Last season and LD is a riot. Susie makes this show and of course, JB Smoove is LD's right hand man😆 Funny stuff💯☺️

Interesting development to say the least.

Former FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens’ role in Ukraine business, undercutting GOP impeachment inquiry​

Ex-F.B.I. Informant Is Charged With Lying Over Bidens’ Role in Ukraine Business​

Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about Joe Biden and his son​

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It's that time of year again and since I had never heard this story, thought I would post for y'alls enjoyment.

One fateful night in 1835, a group of men from Georgia began the journey to assist in Texas Revolution. With them was a flag made by Joanna Troutman bearing the Lone Star, what later became the symbol of Texas.

The Georgia Battalion of Permanent Volunteers, which became part of James W. Fannin's provisional regiment in the Goliad Campaign of 1836, occupies a unique position in the Texas Revolution, since Georgia was possibly the only state in the Union to supply arms during the conflict from its state arsenal to a Texas volunteer force. The battalion was organized by its commander, William Ward, in Macon, Georgia, after a town meeting on November 12, 1835. With the aid of Dr. Robert Collins, Ward enlisted about 120 men from Macon, Milledgeville, and Columbus, Georgia, formed them into three companies, and armed, supplied, and transported the unit to Texas at personal expense and with the aid of the Georgia arsenal. The journey to Texas brought the unit through Knoxville, Georgia, where Joanna Troutman presented the soldiers with a Lone Star flag bearing the mottoes, "Ubi Libertas habitat, ibi nostra patria est" ("Where Liberty dwells, there is our fatherland"), and "Liberty or Death". Ward continued recruiting volunteers along the way to New Orleans until the battalion numbered about 220 men. On December 20, 1835, the unit landed at Velasco, Texas, where Ward and his men presented their service to Fannin on December 23.

The Georgia Battalion was officially organized and its officers elected upon its arrival at Refugio on February 14, 1836. By then, Isaac Ticknor's company of Montgomery, Alabama, "Greys" (not to be confused with the Mobile Grays) had been added to the unit. Attached to Ticknor's company was Luis Guerra's artillery company, a remnant of Mexía's expedition. The Georgia Battalion accompanied Fannin to Goliad, where Amon B. King's Kentucky volunteers also became part of the force, but Guerra's artillerymen, not wishing to fight their own country, departed and later joined the Mexican army.

At Goliad, Fannin reorganized his provisional regiment, garrisoned at Fort Defiance (La Bahía), into two battalions-the First, or Georgia Battalion, and the Second, or LaFayette Battalion. The former included the five companies of Amon King, Isaac Ticknor, Uriah Irwin Bullock, James C. Winn, and William A. O. Wadsworth, with Warren J. Mitchell serving as battalion major. Joseph M. Chadwick, later Fannin's adjutant general, was sergeant major, and John Sowers Brooks, later Fannin's aide-de-camp, became battalion adjutant. William Ward was elected lieutenant colonel of the regiment, the ranking officer on Fannin's staff.

Acting as commander in chief of the Texas army from February 12 to March 12, 1836, Fannin fortified La Bahía against attack from the encroaching Mexican army, which was expected almost daily.

After he removed the Texas force from Refugio to Goliad, Fannin sent King and about thirty men back to Refugio on March 10 to aid settlers in their retreat to Goliad. King, however, was forced to retreat into Nuestra Señora del Refugio Mission when his men confronted Carlos de la Garza's rancheros, serving as advance forces of Mexican general José de Urrea's army. Upon receiving King's request for relief, Fannin dispatched Ward and about 120 men of the Georgia Battalion to King's aid on March 12, a move that disastrously split his forces.

Although Ward and the Georgia Battalion successfully reinforced King, both commanders unwisely elected not to return directly to Goliad, a decision that resulted in King and Ward's defeat by Urrea and an army of 1,500 men in the battle of Refugio. King and his men were subsequently captured and executed, though Ward and the majority of the Georgia Battalion managed to escape. Their freedom was temporary, however. Making their way through woods and swamps to avoid Mexican cavalry or Garza's rancheros, the battalion emerged above the village of Guadalupe Victoria, only to find it occupied by Urrea's forces. Local tradition tells of a few who straggled into Victoria and were held by settlers until they could be turned over to the Mexicans. Francita Alavez, later celebrated as the "Angel of Goliad," apparently intervened with her husband, Telesforo Alavez, commander of the occupation forces in Victoria, to spare from execution a party of Ward's men who had been captured near the village.

Meanwhile, after a skirmish near Victoria that used up most of their remaining ammunition, Ward and his men tried to reach Dimitt's Landing on the coast. Urrea, however, controlled that area as well. Exhausted, famished, and without ammunition, the Georgia Battalion voted over the opposition of Ward and Ticknor to surrender to Urrea on March 22, 1836. Except for those who became separated from the battalion during the flight from Refugio and still managed to avoid capture, and for those Urrea detailed in Victoria as laborers to build boats for transport across the Guadalupe River, the rest of the Georgia Battalion-about eighty-five men-were marched back to Goliad and, after imprisonment with Fannin's men after the battle of Coleto, were among those executed by the Mexican army in the Goliad Massacre. John Crittenden Duval, a survivor of the massacre, included the muster roll of the Georgia Battalion in his Early Times in Texas (1892). In 1855 the state of Georgia billed the state of Texas for the arms issued to the Georgia Battalion, though in 1857 the Georgia legislature agreed that the erection of a monument honoring Ward's men would be an acceptable substitute for payment. No monument existed, however, until the city of Albany, Texas, erected a Georgia Battalion memorial fountain in 1976.

Content courtesy of the Handbook of Texas

I'll start the Threat. I got in to London early this morning and currently at a pub having lunch and awaiting the Liverpool match

With a twist.

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What's going on that weekend that the prices of hotels are higher? People coming into town for the eclipse?

NO wonder the public is supporting Trump

ok, I posted on this older thread about all the challenges with the new pizza oven. But we had a successful pizza party last night. If we can replicate it, I don't think we will be ordering Grimaldi's or Mod anytime soon. Here is what we learned:

1. Get the oven at specified temp. For us we used the "woord fired" setting which was 650F.
2. Spread out the dough and put in the freezer for 5ish minutes prior to making. Put the next dough in the freezer to get it ready to go
3. once oven is at temp get the dough out of freezer, HEAVY cornmeal on the peel, put dough on peel, make the pizza QUICKLY (2 mins tops)
4. transfer to oven - preset time for "wood fired" was 2.5 mins
5. Enjoy
6. Repeat

Stuff to figure out:
1. Now today we have to clean up the mess. All the cornmeal from the peel burned in the oven on the stone. So that's a huge mess we need to clean up. I know we should use less cornmeal but the dough would stick if we didn't absolutely cover the peel in cornmeal.

BTW, we bought the Breville indoor oven over the weekend.

Different coaches prefer different approaches. The game is in hand...Sark should...

The Big 12 just announced this year's media days will be held in Las Vegas. The Big 12 has traditionally held its media days in Dallas, but with the addition of the new western schools, they chose to move it out to Sin City. It probably didn't help that the SEC Media Days will be in Dallas this year. I don't think Brett Yormark wanted to compete head-to-head with the SEC for attention in Dallas.

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Quite a bit of Texas chatter in this week's Rumor Mill.

Link: Recruiting Rumor Mill: Prospects planning spring visits

on Twitter. Very long thread, and you'll need to click to see all of it.

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NOTES FROM THE TEXAS SID

Game 26: Texas (16-9, 5-7 Big 12) vs. K-State (15-10, 5-7 Big 12)

Monday, Feb. 19, 2024 - 8 p.m. Central

Moody Center (10,763) - Austin, Texas

GameDay Quick Facts

• TELEVISION: The game will be televised nationally by ESPN2. Pete Sousa (pxp) and Reid Gettys (analyst) will call the action.

• RADIO: The Longhorn Radio Network broadcasts every UT game on the statewide network. Craig Way (pxp) and Eddie Oran (analyst) will call the action. Check TexasSports.com for a listing of affiliates carrying the game.

• SERIES: K-State leads, 24-22. Last meeting: Texas 69-66 (Feb. 4, 2023; Manhattan).

Notables

• RECENT SUCCESS AGAINST K-STATE: Texas has won six of the last eight meetings against the Wildcats entering Monday's game.

• ABMAS APPROACHING 3,000-POINT MARK: Graduate G Max Abmas enters Monday's contest just SIX points shy (2,994) of becoming the 12th player in NCAA Division I men's history to top the 3,000-point mark.

• DISU FROM DISTANCE: Graduate F Dylan Disu has converted a team-best 55.9-percent (33-59) from three-point range this year. He has made at least one 3-pointer in 15 consecutive games entering Monday's contest and has hit multiple three-pointers in nine of his 16 games played this season. In Big 12 play, Disu leads the league in three-point field goal percentage at 52.8-percent (28-53).

FINAL SCORE
Texas - 9
San Diego - 4

Win: Cody Howard (1-0)
Loss: Aidan Gonzalez (0-1)
BOX SCORE


RECAP:
Series wins are series wins, regardless of how you get there. That said, it was an inauspicious start for the Horns as starter Tanner Witt lasted just one inning before getting yanked in the 2nd inning having walked the bases full and with a 2-0 count on the next batter. Cody Howard stepped into the breach and promptly walked the next two batters in to give San Diego another early lead, their third in three days. Thankfully, Howard went another three innings without giving up another run, handing things over to Max Grubbs who had the best outing of his young career, going 2.2 IP, giving up just 1 run and striking out 4. Meanwhile, the Texas offense, which started slow kicked things into high gear, taking advantage of 7 walks and getting some timely hitting en route to scoring 9 runs. While the offense is not completely cooking yet, there were flashes of what could be with Jared Thomas and Peyton Powell leading the charge.

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Big Moment
In the Bottom of the 5th, trailing 3-2, Jared Thomas came to the plate and did Jared Thomas things, whacking a ball into right centerfield for a lead off double against the first San Diego pitcher out of the bullpen. That double helped kick off the rally which saw the Horns score 3 runs and take a 5-3 lead, one which they did not surrender or look back from.

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Individual Performance
Cody Howard came into the ball game in very unfavorable conditions with the bases loaded and no outs. Though he walked in two batters, Howard gave the Horns exactly what they needed in battling for four innings and most importantly, not giving up any more runs. Howard does not have a ton of experience after being injured his first year at Baylor, but he represents a key arm in the rotation for the Horns, especially since there is no guarantee that Tanner Witt will be able regain his form and return to the starting rotation.

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Takeaways
While things were not always pretty, the Horns won the series against a veteran team that was very gritty and played solid defense. There will certainly be tougher tests ahead, but it was also just the first weekend of play. The biggest concerns I have after the first weekend is at catcher and with the starting rotation. I have faith in both Lebarron Johnson Jr and Cody Howard, but I need to see a larger sample size from Charlie Hurley and then hope that David Pierce and the staff can help get Tanner Witt right physically. In all, if the bullpen can continue to build off what they showed this weekend, I think they are in a much better spot that I had assumed coming into the season.

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Tuesday Night - 630pm - v. Houston Christian

We ran into Jaxon Hayes at the airport in Lihue this afternoon. Very gracious to take a picture with my boys. Hook ‘em!