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2025 National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Twice in the last five years.

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Aloysius has had 2 blue ribbons for awhile, plus that entire program is ending so all the blue ribbons will soon be pointless.

Just another subsonic drone. This one was too high-end and lost the first round of collaborative wingman to other contractors’ cheaper, less stealthy, less survivable options. They just repackaged it to have a press release. Hasn’t even flown yet per their claim.

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Then the Army Corps of Engineers pulled the permit

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That JBE lied

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It shows how little you know. I am sure you are some staffer or oyster lobby-associated, and that's fine, you are parroting your master's line, but for the rest of the board, let's be clear on a few things:

1) The USACE requires a local sponsor (in this case the state) for all projects. The USACE only pulls a permit in situations like this (after they've issued it) when the local sponsor first signals they no longer support the project. In this case, the Dove/Landry/Nungesser cabal stated FIRST, with no scientific basis, they didn't want the project, THEN the Corps pulled it. You continue to state it the other way around, like the Corps saw the light or uncovered a hidden fact or something. If the state supported it and re-submitted it tomorrow, the Corps would still approve of it. You are being disingenuous in how you state this.

2) JBE did not lie. I hated the guy, but he didn't lie, and this is another subversion of facts that unfortunately political types aren't intellectually equipped to understand. Every model is a purpose specific tool. Think of them like telescopes...the same telescope can be dialed in and focused to view something close, like the moon, or something farther, like a planet, another star system, another galaxy etc...the same tool/telescope. In this case, models were dialed in to look at entirely different scenarios: one the broad basin-side effects, the other the conveyance channel and nearfield intake/outfall. You are favoring misused results from the latter when the former is the correct model to consider for broad land preservation or building performance. Once again, disingenuous at best, outright strategic lies at worst. You are picking up the telescope dialed in to view the Moon and saying "aha, see, a lie, it doesnt view Neptune very well at all!" but you are ignoring the fact it was not set up with that intent.

You clearly are interested in the subject. I would highly encourage you to go talk to the scientists and engineers from across the nation and world, who all spent decades thinking on the problem, who all came to the same solution. But somehow you and the cabal you favor know better...? It is why Louisiana is the way it is and always will be.

I would say in open deep water environments we are really good and can do it really fast (minutes for an entire ocean in a high performance computing environment). U.S. Navy has an ADCIRC model (Google it) for entire oceans for operational forecasting that is very, very accurate worldwide.

The problem comes in when you have to transform waves from deep to shallow water as they shoal and diffract. You have to have more resolution in the models to capture how waves interact with complex coastal geographies and the built environment like seawalls, jetties, etc. to get an accurate depictions of how high water may run up on a coast, but those complexities are sortof whitewashed with very conservative factors of safety (overestimates) anyway to get people out the way.

I wouldnt be surprised if people have thrown millions of pre-baked, pre-run scenarios at AI/ML to speed up the forecasting from a surrogate model in real time.

Long story short, I would say very fast, likely as fast or faster than the wave travel speed in these emergency situations. if there is a real-time forecasting center already set up. The problem becomes more of the speed at which humans can digest the computer outputs and effectively disemninate the information people need to outpace the wave.

I’ve known several who worked at CSRS. The divorces were never happy. Sounded like a total meat grinder over there and they made most of their money as middle men “program managers.”

After sitting through any number of absolutely shitty ceremonies where it takes an hour just to process in, my judgement is by far the best-run local graduation I have been to is Jesuit’s.

Runs 50-55 minutes every time.


Ceremony starts with closed curtain. Curtain opens, young men are seated on risers and all wear a tuxedo. No gowns, stupid cap artwork, etc. Only the top administrative officials process in. Presidents address, valedictory address, distribution of diplomas, closing principal remarks, Alma mater sung, curtain closes, done. Catcalls, air horns, etc. that depart from a strict decorum get you tossed. Applause held until all names read. Respectful, efficient, just the right amount of pomp and circumstance. People should copy it.

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The Catholic Church has been one of the biggest supporters and preservers of science over the last two millennia.

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To your point, if they weren’t interested in the topic, it’s weird of them to have an entire program to study the stars: In the Vatican Observatory.

Unrelated point on Catholic views and extra terrestrial life: many of the same folks in the scientific world (and society in general) who would quickly call evidence of a protein or amino acid or other things lesser than a cell on another planet “life” are the same people who argue against a multi-billion cell human fetus at the end of gestation as not being “life”…how peculiar

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Someone hasn’t been to Grand Isle.

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Someone doesnt know how barrier island evolution and longshore transport works.



The real reason the rocks appear to work on Grand Isle is because they are slowing down the longshore drift from the west, not magically holding what is there in huge overwash storm events. Barrier shorelines appear stable only because they are in equilibrium of sand moving in and out of any given reach along the short from up-current to down-current, NOT because that sand is staying put. More sand in than out makes the beach grow. Less sand in and out makes the beach erode.



Fourchon and Elmers are eroding, providing a huge sand engine feeing and sustaining Grand Isle as shown above. Putting rocks on the east end of GI will starve the west end and put it in a sediment "shadow." Beaches on the west end will erode. The island in Terrebonne you refer to, Racoon, is the textbook case for this. It gets its sand from the east. The breakwaters helped the eastern end of the island but starved the western end to the point it disappeared.




Every other application of rocks along the deltaic plain shorelines of LA (Wine Island, Timbalier Island) have flopped miserably. Wine Island was ringed with rocks...if rocks work so well to hold sand, how did the entire island migrate out of the rocks as shown below? We would be best off using larger sand grain sizes from the Mississippi and Ship Shoal on all the barriers versus the ebb tidal delta crap they're pulling up from Caminada Pass and putting back on the beach. It will be gone soon.



I'll leave the numerous fallacies in your understanding of how diversions work to be addressed by others.

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Unbelievable lol. Chairman of the board of fidelity.

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David Hammer and WWL was the entity doing the investigative reporting along with the AP. ESPN just reporting the report

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Actually it’s been The Guardian’s local staff (former advocate employees) who have broken the vast majority of this over the years, not WWL.