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re: World Renown Fashion Designer Vera Wang at the Met Gala
Posted by man in the stadium on 5/6/25 at 6:23 am
Did Hunger Games get the idea from this or the other way around?
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re: On a distant exoplanet, Astronomers detect strongest signal of life ever recorded
Posted by man in the stadium on 4/16/25 at 11:30 pm
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The Catholic Church has been one of the biggest supporters and preservers of science over the last two millennia.
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
re: Is this a solid quote for concrete?
Posted by man in the stadium on 4/12/25 at 12:57 pm
Not yet
re: State pauses work on Louisiana's biggest-ever coastal project. 'You just can't afford it.'
Posted by man in the stadium on 4/7/25 at 8:54 am
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Someone hasn’t been to Grand Isle.
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.
re: Is this a solid quote for concrete?
Posted by man in the stadium on 3/6/25 at 10:36 pm
bump...is Hector still in business? Any other recs to get quotes from? have about 800 SF...400 of it is cracked driveway and the other 400 I want to do an extension for a metal overhang, so I am assuming 4" thick. Would I need maybe 6" thick for where the overhang columns would go or not necessary?
re: Rex/Comus is about to start. Let’s get the party started.
Posted by man in the stadium on 3/4/25 at 9:28 pm
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Unbelievable lol. Chairman of the board of fidelity.
Her great grandfather founded fidelity bank
re: About The EBRP Library System & It's Property Tax
Posted by man in the stadium on 2/3/25 at 9:06 pm
Since we could arm every man, woman, and child in EBR with a kindle and unlimited subscription to everything readable in the known universe for less, the advantage in brick and mortar libraries is what? Some meeting rooms? Some cd’s and dvd’s most already pay equal to or less than the millages to have at their fingertips in an ap on their tv/phone? Some summer programming for the kiddos that BREC (let’s not get started on their budgeting) also already provides?
Pro library arguments when made tend to center on other ancillary things that other city facilities or services provide in a duplicative manner beyond access to visual or audio content, as it’s increasingly hard to make the arguments libraries are the most cost effective tools to get audio/visual content in public hands.
The compendium of overfunded, nonessential nonsense in EBR (see CoA, BREC, CATS, etc) occurring in the face of constantly underfunded essential functions (public safety, infrastructure) show how tone deaf and absolutely out of touch the library millage people are.
Pro library arguments when made tend to center on other ancillary things that other city facilities or services provide in a duplicative manner beyond access to visual or audio content, as it’s increasingly hard to make the arguments libraries are the most cost effective tools to get audio/visual content in public hands.
The compendium of overfunded, nonessential nonsense in EBR (see CoA, BREC, CATS, etc) occurring in the face of constantly underfunded essential functions (public safety, infrastructure) show how tone deaf and absolutely out of touch the library millage people are.
re: Emails detail Saints' assistance to New Orleans Archdiocese in sexual abuse scandal
Posted by man in the stadium on 2/3/25 at 7:20 pm
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David Hammer and WWL was the entity doing the investigative reporting along with the AP. ESPN just reporting the report
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.
re: The next 96 hours hopefully start getting interesting.
Posted by man in the stadium on 2/2/25 at 9:20 pm
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Trey, Herb, and Missi are exceptional pieces to build around. I'd trade anyone on this roster before I'd even discuss those three.
Who don’t win games. You forgot that part. This is a star driven league. For the better part of a decade, we have lacked star(s) who can take over games that matter in the last 3 minutes. Until you do, everyone is tradeable.
re: Nice mens raincoat
Posted by man in the stadium on 1/21/25 at 12:03 am
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Marmot Precip
Had one, liked it but it’s inside disintegrated. I switched to the Marmot Minimalist (goretex) years ago and have never looked back. Worth every penny. It is the best all-around jacket for south Louisiana. All you need most of the year, bomb proof, entirely waterproof. All I will ever own.
re: Gov. Landry has pulled the plug on Louisiana’s biggest coastal project, Tulane expert says
Posted by man in the stadium on 11/26/24 at 10:41 am
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3 billion for 21 square miles over 50 years doesn't sound like a good use of taxpayer money .
What you must understand is that is just new land created from open water. Yes, it comes out to over $200,000/acre, which is on par with the cost of barrier island restoration but not marsh creation (usually in the $50,000-$100,000/acre cost range)..BUT they key point that the media misses and CPRA does a poor job of communicating to the public is that a diversion of this scale also will prevent thousands to tens of thousands of existing marsh acres all across the Barataria basin from disappearing. On that basis, the $/acre spend becomes far more economical than dredging, which is why the scientists and engineers took us down this path in the first place.
Dredging and creating an acre of marsh only tends to affect that acre, maybe a few neighboring acres...diversions don't just create an acre, but affect many, many other acres near and far.
re: Huge gas plant eyed to power mystery $5 billion Louisiana data center
Posted by man in the stadium on 11/18/24 at 4:13 am
The issue with the data centers isn’t the power they need. It’s the water for cooling.
We already have aquifer drawdown issues all over the state. LED isn’t thinking about the water requirements for these mega project/mega parcel sites when they pursue deals. I hope this gets built but we have to be smarter about the water. This state has little to no ground or surface water regulatory framework from a commodity standpoint (not talking about DEQ and water quality).
We already have aquifer drawdown issues all over the state. LED isn’t thinking about the water requirements for these mega project/mega parcel sites when they pursue deals. I hope this gets built but we have to be smarter about the water. This state has little to no ground or surface water regulatory framework from a commodity standpoint (not talking about DEQ and water quality).
re: I think Lonald Weiler-Sledge just had a heart attack live on air on Public Radio Seattle
Posted by man in the stadium on 11/5/24 at 9:36 pm
Did Roaro Kleibenschott get the call
To come take over on-air for rest of coverage?
To come take over on-air for rest of coverage?
re: .
Posted by man in the stadium on 10/3/24 at 6:39 am
<300 people. We’ve happened to keep the VP title meaning something and only have a few. I lopped COO and CAO in with VPs for sake of post.
re: .
Posted by man in the stadium on 10/2/24 at 9:35 pm
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Most HR departments are staffed solely by single, overweight, bitter, shrewish women who are drunk on power and looking to Kamala their way to a promotion.
We have exactly this going on. I like where I work but have been receiving more appealing solicitations from elsewhere. I seem to be valued in my field more by outsiders than inside my employer. I tried not to be a dick, I informed my company of the market situation and said “let’s work on a new deal and a promotion.” All the VPs have 3hr phone calls with me asking me to stay. CEO calls me in, says they agree I’m a unicorn, and by their own market analysis think I’m one of about a dozen people in the country who can do my job…BUT that our middle aged HR cat lady has noted they can’t compensate me as such because we have male/female and white/minority equity issues. They offered me a promotion for about 30% less than what the market would sustain. I laughed and started the countdown clock to my departure. When the leadership lets HR run the place or runs it in fear of HR it ceases to be an effective business operation.
re: Israel 4th invasion of Lebanon.
Posted by man in the stadium on 10/2/24 at 5:51 pm
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Btw Iran just launched hundreds of hypersonics. UsA scrapped our hypersonics program and to date does not have the capability to launch or reliably intercept hypersonic missiles.
Every ballistic missile that goes exo atmospheric is technically hypersonic you tard. Hypersonics in the modern era defines missiles that don’t follow predictable parabolic ballistic trajectories that most missile defense systems can compute intercept trajectories in milliseconds.
Only Russia, China, and the US have that capability. We definitely have active programs and capabilities. It’s a google search away. Everything Iran has launched is of the basic ballistic genre. Did they not have enough interceptors? Maybe. Did they not get the same level of help as the pencils salvo when US and Britain took out many? Yes.
I suspect the US and Britain only gave a tacit try this time to send Israel a message but I guarantee you most western militaries all posses the technology to shoot everything Iran has out the sky.
re: University Lakes construction expecting delays after no contractors bid on project
Posted by man in the stadium on 10/1/24 at 11:56 am
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When allegedly 30 contractors downloaded the bid package and NONE of them enter a bid it is a YOU problem...not them
CSRS and Stantec, the designers and program managers, have been over their heads from the beginning. The number of unintelligent things done from their goofy little circle island over by Brian Kelly's house that has already sank to the screwball contractors from up north who have no idea what they are doing trying to dredge and remove debris...but it all comes back to how you design and write the specs. They wrote the plans and specs that allowed these goofs the room to win and fail to construct at any reasonable pace or for any reasonable budget, they wrote the plans and specs this time around where, like others have said, nobody even wanted to throw out an FU number. Any one looking to do in-the-wet construction in LA should pay attention to the failures present here, but hey, Stantec is also under fire for all the corrosion at the New Orleans outfall pumps in Lakeview and Gentilly and it hasnt seemed to have dissuaded others from hiring them over and over.
re: More of Jesuit High School vs. Catholic High of Baton Rouge
Posted by man in the stadium on 9/14/24 at 6:12 am
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Whiskey & Wine Celebrities: Catholic 1 Jesuit 0
Not a joke, but a fact…guess where their boss Gordy went to HS. That’s right, Jesuit.
re: US Olympic Swimming Trials: LIVE from Lucas Oil Stadium
Posted by man in the stadium on 6/15/24 at 7:39 pm
Couple of high school kids from New Orleans made it this far (incredible!!):
Enzo Solitario (going to be a senior at Jesuit) is in the 100m butterfly.
Kayden Hendrick (going to be a senior at Mandeville) also in
Enzo Solitario (going to be a senior at Jesuit) is in the 100m butterfly.
Kayden Hendrick (going to be a senior at Mandeville) also in
re: Baton Rouge area state judge lied about her military service record and on police reports
Posted by man in the stadium on 6/12/24 at 8:25 am
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That was Eboni Johnson Rose. This is a different judge in the 19th. Also not to be confused with Gail Horne Ray, another female 19th JDC judge also under investigation for misconduct and blatantly not following the law.
The State Supreme Court, especially Weimer, needs to grow a pair and clean up the 19th in an unprecedented way. These are the worst 3, but not the only 3 that are unfit for that bench. The only other possible solution is to blow up how the districting is done and move to parish-wide votes on the seats.
It is insane what the 19th has turned into in a matter of the last decade.
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