On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 06:28 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote:

Good story, Secretariat’s is even more bizarre. ?The woman who got him lost a bet and he was the consolation prize because the mother was considered too old to birth a healthy foal. ?The man who”won” the bet tried to buy him a couple of years later.

Sal?

Secretariat had a stride length and, when they did a necropsy, a heart larger than, much larger, than any "normal" horse.

Heart size

After his death, his body was examined, and it was noted that his heart was much larger than an average racehorses heart. The average weight of a Thoroughbred’s heart is eight and a half pounds, “Big Red’s” heart is estimated to weigh 22 pounds.

Racehorse enthusiasts believe there is a relationship between the?and the speed of a racehorse. Marianna Haun, after learning the scope of Secretariat’s heart, decided to investigate how this phenomenon occurred. Her research evolved into a series of books on racehorse’s heart size.

Ms. Haun delves into the history of horses with large hearts and taces the genes that continue this trait to modern Thoroughbreds. Her first book is?The X Factor, What it is & how to find it: The Relationship Between Inherited Heart Size and Racing Performance. The book can be purchased?

Ms. Haun’s third book is focused on Secretariat’s heart size and is aimed to help breeders develop horses with exceptional hearts. The book is appropriately titled,?Solving the Mystery of Secretariat’s Heart, and can be purchased.

Stride mechanics

?involves an analysis of a horse’s stride, stride rate, and stride angle.?Stride?is the distance a horse travels in a single leap.?Secretariat’s stride is estimated to be 25 feet.

Stride rate?is the number of strides over a given time, typically measured per minute. The average racehorse has a stride of 20 feet and a stride rate of 135 per minute. Fast horses can speed up their?without reducing the length of their strides.

The?stride angle?is the distance between a horse’s front and back foot measured from the push-off point of the rear foot. The stride??is used to determine how much a horse flattens out when racing.

The higher the stride angle, the longer the strides. Secretariat’s stride angle is the highest of any racehorse; his stride angle was calculated to be?110 degrees.

Secretariat had a long stride, great stride rate, and high stride angle coupled with a huge strong heart, excellent muscle tone, and a solid frame. All the components of a champion racehorse.

I keep thinking about you, Ravi, and your family in India. I hope that they are safe and well although the situation over there is so terribly dire. Let us know of any news if you feel like it.?

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Hello pot, meet kettle.

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On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 09:43 AM, Bhairitu wrote:

You should find a conspiracy theorist then. I'm not one.?

Okay then. You are simply a guy who refuses to believe hard evidence and comes up with some shadowy make believe in an effort to not have to engage with reality. You aren't a theorist. You're just someone who finds what exists on this planet as not quite interesting enough so has to embellish it with weird imaginings that somehow keep you satisfied. You also love to do this because it makes you feel superior since you believe you are an individualist who doesn't follow the "party line". Typical cult stuff. Cult members love to feel special because they believe what they know is reserved only for those anointed with some special status.

You're nuts!

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Good story, Secretariat’s is even more bizarre. ?The woman who got him lost a bet and he was the consolation prize because the mother was considered too old to birth a healthy foal. ?The man who”won” the bet tried to buy him a couple of years later.

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 12:18 PM, Bhairitu wrote:

He finished by saying he'd really like to have TV that would last more than two years (before it is out of style).

"My new computer's got the clocks; it rocks. But it was obsolete before I opened the box. You say you've had your desktop for over a week? Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique. Your laptop is a month old? Well, that's great, if you can use a nice, heavy, paper-weight." - Al Yankovich

Its All About the Pentiums
by Weird Al Yankovich
From the CD 'Running With Scissors'

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 09:43 AM, Bhairitu wrote:

You should find a conspiracy theorist then. I'm not one.?

Okay then. You are simply a guy who refuses to believe hard evidence and comes up with some shadowy make believe in an effort to not have to engage with reality. You aren't a theorist. You're just someone who finds what exists on this planet as not quite interesting enough so has to embellish it with weird imaginings that somehow keep you satisfied. You also love to do this because it makes you feel superior since you believe you are an individualist who doesn't follow the "party line". Typical cult stuff. Cult members love to feel special because they believe what they know is reserved only for those anointed with some special status.

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Outstanding! ?What a great art

For half of what Verizon paid for it. ;-)

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There's a video somewhere on YouTube by a colorist who does color grading for movies and TV shows including Netflix.? He showed the steps he goes through to color grade a show.? People were aghast at the original raw footage shot for a movie. The first step is he set the scene to be black and white because humans are more sensitive to contrast than color.? After that he adjusts the color.? The software he (and the industry) uses is open source.? He said the studios want the masters saved in formats that can't currently even be played on anything.? He finished by saying he'd really like to have TV that would last more than two years (before it is out of style).

It's all about the money and keeping consumers hooked on buying new TVs.? 8K? Most people who have bought a new TV 40" or larger the last few years have a 4K TV.? Many don't know what content is available 4K.? Some streaming services mark their shows 4K but sometimes not even if the stream (which is nothing but a file) is 4K.? Reason it they probably reserve bandwidth for the ones marked 4K and if bandwidth is available the unmarked get streamed 4K too. This is mainly to avoid support calls asking "why am I not seeing this show in 4K?"

A few years back I was helping out a small streaming company.? They showed a lot of B movies.? They told me they were already getting movies on portable terabyte hard drives with a 4K master.? There is a lot of 4K out there to watch.

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On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 02:14 PM, Bhairitu wrote:

Why anyone like Emily would waste this much time on me I don't know.?

Gives me an avenue to vent.? I never cease marveling at the ability of the conspiracy theorist to avoid reality, revise history, and, in general, exist within a bubble of delusion that defies all common sense.? When you start to get mean, I realize I've gotten under your skin.? No worries, I'll leave you to your fantasy world.?

You should find a conspiracy theorist then. I'm not one.? That's what you paint me as because you don't know better.? Seems to be a fad many from the peanut gallery engage in these days.? You must be angry because you've run out of peanuts. ;-)

Oh yes, CNN owned by Southern Bell otherwise known as AT&T.? I fired AT&T 3 years ago because they couldn't keep decent broadband up in my neighborhood.? Called the other monopoly Comcast.? The rep was here in 15 minutes.? I then went to Walmart (a mile away) and bought a modem/router rather than rent one from Comcast.? But Comcast is reliable and if they have an outage I change check with their phone app.? But outages are rare because if out so is TV for customers.

CNN, junk news for the peanut gallery.? Back in the 90s they called me once because the company I worked at was at the center of a national news story.? They actually said "it's a slow news day" but I had to pass them off to our PR department.

When I was in India the TV often had CNN India on.? When I was flying out of Mumbai via business class in the business class lounge I looked over at the next table and there were the two CNN India anchors.? They were flying out for some meeting in Switzerland.

On 5/3/21 7:14 AM, awb via groups.io wrote:

Another mocker of the crisis in India to go along with poor B2.

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I think people here know how to use links.? Copying the page is much more work than copying the story link.

On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 04:41 PM, Sal Sunshine wrote:

Two from the TMO just died last week, one who sounds like he was a close relative of MMY. ?

More than 165,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 on Biden's watch. YMMV.

On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 10:10 AM, Emily Mae wrote:

I never cease marveling at the ability of the conspiracy theorist to avoid reality,

How is that investigation into the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy going?

On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 04:14 PM, Bhairitu wrote:

She must have OCD worse than Judy had.

Nobody had OCD worse that Judy! YMMV. The way I figure it, anyone who reads and posts replies to this group has even less things to do than I do. Go figure.

On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 03:28 PM, Emily Mae wrote:

So, what you're saying here is that this horrific wave of Covid-19 in India isn't happening and is just the pharmaceutical industry making things up so that they can sell vaccines.

So, what you're saying here is that this horrific wave of Covid-19 in India wasn't caused by China and the pharmaceutical industry is not selling vaccines for billions of dollars. Go figure.

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On Mon, May 3, 2021 at 09:14 AM, awb wrote:

I can't believe this was posted by a government account.

As they say in China, "Never trust government. Government is asshole."

According to WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, "the inquiry didn’t adequately analyze the chance of a lab accident before determining it’s most likely the pathogen spread from bats to humans through another animal."

Scientists Are Becoming Suspicious Of The WHO

On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 02:14 PM, Bhairitu wrote:

Why anyone like Emily would waste this much time on me I don't know.?

Gives me an avenue to vent.? I never cease marveling at the ability of the conspiracy theorist to avoid reality, revise history, and, in general, exist within a bubble of delusion that defies all common sense.? When you start to get mean, I realize I've gotten under your skin.? No worries, I'll leave you to your fantasy world.??
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Em

On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 12:05 PM, Bhairitu wrote:

They're heavy kool-aid drinkers over there.

That's funny! The Corner Pundits viewing, on their Chinese computers, a graphic that hides the number of vaccinations in China. LoL!

So, according to the graphic, apparently the Communist government eradicated COVID, where the virus was spawned, in China, without a single vaccine injection, yet just a few hundred miles away in India, a leader in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, there are 400,000 infections every day. Go figure.

So, who do you think is drinking the most kool-aid?