Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
Beyond Corruption, Beyond FIFA, there is only WINNER STAYS ON. If you start with the first international football game (11/30/1872) and stick with the winner and whoever wins from that winner vs the next challenger than this evening's victory over Australia means the USA are world champions for the first time since 1993. Scotland remain the dominating champions of all time, with 149 victories.
I know this will be a bitter pill for many football fans globally, but I don't make the rules. Next to tilt at the Champions: Turkey. There is also an Unofficial Club World Champion if you are so inclined. (Spoiler: Manc wankers)
I know this will be a bitter pill for many football fans globally, but I don't make the rules. Next to tilt at the Champions: Turkey. There is also an Unofficial Club World Champion if you are so inclined. (Spoiler: Manc wankers)
"The people there are terrible," Bezos griped to Trump. "They don't listen. My other companies, they listen." "But according to a soon-to-be-published book by New York Times writers Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, the tech titan bemoans a much more recent investment as the worst of his life: The Washington Post."
on the water photography has added a photo to the pool:
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: A report from Canada's Transportation Safety Board has highlighted regulatory failures that allowed OceanGate's unregistered, unflagged, and uncertified Titan submersible to operate out St. John's, Newfoundland, for years before it imploded on a tourist trip to the wreck of the Titanic in 2023. "When it came to the Titan, critical information existed across multiple federal government organizations, but no one was responsible for connecting the dots," says TBS chair Yoan Marier in a statement. "Without a complete picture of the operation, the Titan continued to operate in Canada without regulatory oversight." [...] As OceanGate continued to operate from St. John's in 2021 and 2022, the Titan made successful dives to the Titanic and several sites within Canadian waters. The company eventually interacted with a total of 10 Canadian federal agencies, including Parks Canada, the Department of National Defense, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. But the company's operations were never directly reported to the team responsible for marine safety. "In terms of the actual people that were responsible for marine oversight, their focus was on the Canadian support vessel," says TSB investigator Jason Melvin.
While TSB investigators did not have access to the wreckage of the Titan itself, which remains with the US Coast Guard, they did analyze portions of the carbon fiber left over from its manufacture. They calculated that a hull made to OceanGate's exact specifications might have been able to make hundreds of millions of dives to Titanic depths before failing. However, the composite samples as built had porosity and waviness between layers and were ground down in a way that might have introduced defects. When the TSB tested the compressive strength of the carbon fiber, it indicated the material could fail in as few as 30 deep dives. [...] The TSB is recommending increased oversight of the riskiest vessels and improvements in information sharing between departments, and is requiring that all human-occupied submersibles be subject to international construction and safety standards.
While TSB investigators did not have access to the wreckage of the Titan itself, which remains with the US Coast Guard, they did analyze portions of the carbon fiber left over from its manufacture. They calculated that a hull made to OceanGate's exact specifications might have been able to make hundreds of millions of dives to Titanic depths before failing. However, the composite samples as built had porosity and waviness between layers and were ground down in a way that might have introduced defects. When the TSB tested the compressive strength of the carbon fiber, it indicated the material could fail in as few as 30 deep dives. [...] The TSB is recommending increased oversight of the riskiest vessels and improvements in information sharing between departments, and is requiring that all human-occupied submersibles be subject to international construction and safety standards.
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Hoera! Officiële opening en aftrap van Social Art Platform (SAP) vrijdag 19 juni met nas, drank, muziek en performance. Fijne heldere woorden Marcha van den Hurk. Marcha is een pionier in social art. Ze doet [Meer...]
Soccer won. That much could have been predicted before a temperate and bright Friday afternoon in the Pacific north-west, in a rare match between two sides that can agree on that terminology.
The manner of play, too, had been predicted by the players and coaches of both teams: a tight, competitive match of football (or whatever you want to call it), with a 2-0 win for the United States delighting the vast majority of the 66,925-strong sellout crowd and securing the host nation’s place in the knockout round.
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