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Watched it last night. I figured this one would be right up this board's alley.

Is she now the front runner? She's definitely stronger than Desantis and Ramaswamy.

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Ayden Ames of Prosper was named the Gatorade player of the year this week.

Caught this last night in Jakarta. Was very keen to see it because I love the Napoleon story, love Ridley Scott.

A warning - this is not really a Napoleon movie, but more a movie with Napoleon in it. What does this mean? Remember when Ketch did favorite WW2 Movies and put things like Inglorious Basterds in it - good movie that has WW2 in it but not a WW2 movie

I did not have any preconceived notions other than Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix are typically good.. I know way to much about Napoleon and his battles to be the ideal target for this movie. The ideal target is someone that knows nothing about Napoleon, doesn’t want to, but enjoys movie spectacles.

Is this the Napoleon movie I want, absolutely not, but is it a movie with merits - certainly. Is it an Oscar movie - not vor best picture but perhaps some acting and without a doubt the filmmaking aspects - sound, cinematography etc. Screenplay - no, not a chance. Director - I think maybe?

Telling Napoleon’s story in three hours would be hard - I think there is a series coming out based on Kubrik’s script we have been waiting for now for 40 years coming - that will likely be better.

This is a love story with unbelievable costumes, filmcraft and very good acting. It reminded me of a poor man’s Barry Lyndon, which was an amazing film. The thing that struck me the most was how Ridley Scott brought you back to the period by his use of lighting. It’s a dark movie, because it was dark at night. His use of candles to show mood was really, really good. (Barry Lyndon pioneered this when Kubrick learned how to film with just candellight). It was not remotely as good as Barry Lyndon.

There’s nothing much to say about the battle scenes. They were inaccurate, generally silly, and didn’t happen at all the way they portray them in the movie (Napolean shoots the pyramids, Napolean charges with Ney at Waterloo). There was no lake at Austerlitz. The military officer in me is offended by Scott taking sacred events and making them dumb. However if you know nothing about them, combat at the time, the tactics, etc - they were exciting and well shot.

The only relatively good one was Waterloo because you could get a sense of what happened, what the sequence was. He left out crucial concepts but I guess they would be hard to get across for laymen (reverse slope) and then overemphasized common tactics (cavalry squares) and as always is done, doesn’t understand cannons.

If you don’t care about that, what is left? The history - it’s disjointed and you learn very little if you don’t already know it. Not great.

The other cast/hsitorical figures - well acted, but again you won’t learn much or remember much I’d guess, if you don’t already know.

The acting - superb. Josephine was superb, but on the screen wat too much - acting was superb, the script and story other than some dialogue from Phoenix was just pretty bad. The movie should really have been called “Napoleon and Josephine” but that would have given it away and affected ticket sales.

As I said the filmmaking - really one of my favorite historical dramas (romance?) from that period ever.

6/10

The best bit actor was Wellington. I loved how he portrayed it.

The worst - Czar Nicholas. One for the ladies I guess.

I cannot fathom how an American man can be for big government, higher taxes, open borders, unlimited abortions, anti second amendment.

The only thing I can think of is that they are cuck wannabees.

• Hailey Nichelle Clifton-Carmack, 26, a Missouri high school teacher is accused of having sex with a student
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We're going to be starting a new one-hour recruiting only/specific show on the Youtube Channel next week.

Anyone got any ideas for a good show-name?

Cliffs Notes: The Longhorns picked up its biggest win of the season thus far by going on the road and beating Big 12 newcomer Cincinnati 74-73 on a jumper by Max Abmas with 6.2 seconds left in the game.

The Participants: No. 25/NR Texas (12-3, 1-1 Big 12) and NR/NR Cincinnati (12-3, 1-1 Big 12)

Pre-Game KenPom Rankings: Texas (No. 39) and Cincinnati (No. 29)

Game MVP: Dylan Disu didn't just carry the Longhorns at times on Tuesday night, he played like a first-team All-American in scoring a career-high 33 points on 13 of 23 shooting. a team-leading 6 rebounds, a team-leading 4 steals and a team-leading 2 blocks. Basically, he did everything.

Key Moment: With the Longhorns trailing by 1 with less than 25 seconds left in the game, Rodney Terry made the decision to send the Bearcats to the free throw line and not let them run the clock down to 10-12 seconds. After 3 straight fouls in a span of 1 second on the clock, John Newman III (a 75% free throw shooter) missed the front end of a one-and-one, which allowed the Longhorns to win the game on Ambas' tough jumped in the final seconds.
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On the side of a milk carton: While Disu was sizzling in the first 20 minutes, Dillon Mitchell was mostly missing in action, as he scored only 4 points and grabbed 2 rebounds in the first 20 minutes of action. Meanwhile, fellow starter Brock Cunningham picked up two fouls and finished the first half with 0 points, 1 rebound and 2 assists, which only showcased how important Disu's first half performance was. It wasn't until the 14:02 mark in the second half that Mitchell took a shot after halftime when he was able to get to the rim with a dunk that gave the Longhorns a 47-45 lead.

Coming out Hot(!!!): The Longhorns are simply a better team when Disu has it cooking and he certainly had it cooking in the first half, as he scored 19 first-half points on 8 of 14 shooting (2 of 5 from downtown) to help keep the Longhorns out in front for most of the first half.
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Second-Half Blues: Neither team came out of the game in the second half shooting the ball well, but the Longhorns only scored 8 points on 4 of 12 shooting (with 6 turnovers) in the first 10:17 of the second half.

Thing You Need to Know: The Longhorns only had one win over a Top 100 KenPom ranked team coming into tonight, with the top 3 wins being against No.83 LSU, No.138 UNC Greensboro and No.192 UT-Arlington. All of the other wins on the schedule occurred against teams ranked worse than 200. That's why tonight represents such a big win for the Longhorns, as these are the type of wins it has to start racking up.

History: After moving into 4th place on the NCAA' all-time 3-point shots made list on Saturday, Abmas knocked down 3 of 7 shots from downtown tonight to move within 41 of third-place Travis Bader (Purdue 2010-14).

Half-time team triple splits: Texas (51.5/36.4/75.0), Cincinnati (46.7/62.5/50.0)
Full-time team triple splits: Texas (50.9/35.0/90.0), Cincinnati (47.5/41.2/53.3)

ESPN Bracketology: In the updated Bracket from this morning, the Longhorns are likely the team in the "Next Four Out" coming into night because Tech is actually listed as a 10-seed after its win over the Longhorns on Saturday.



Box Score: Read it and celebrate.

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Curious if the board has any experience with this school (any location). I'm most interested in understanding their culture and values. TIA

Atascosa County, Texas​

Quinn's dad's wall of trophies . . .

McCoy going down in NC game against Alabama in 2009

Fumbled punt in 1983 Cotton Bowl against Georgia

Beard getting fired!!!

Just running a diagnostic here. System seems acting a bit weird so I'm checking.

The story telling and production us getting pretty good. Or I'm getting soft and mushy...

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To be honest, I watched this 5 times before I even noticed a woman behind her at all.

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