Been gone for a few days working on something big for the running community.
I'm proud after months of R&D testing we have finally completed our product Carbodupa. (Patent Pending)
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Never in my life have I been prouder to be Australian than when I heard a pub full of people erupt into cheers after seeing a 10 year old Turkish boy crying in the crowd.
The World Cup begins tomorrow, and many will watch the matches. Soccer reminds us of something we must not forget: life is not a race to show off on our own, but a path we learn to walk together. Anyone who does not know how to pass the ball, even if they have talent, has not yet understood the game. Anyone who does not know how to live with and for others has not yet understood life. #ApostolicJourney
Introducing the Scottish-American travel dictionary 🇺🇸🏴
We’ve put together this guide to keep the Tartan Army out of trouble in the States.
Read carefully to avoid confusing the locals, deeply offending the country, or being interrogated by Homeland Security over a sandwich.
🇭🇹 🇵🇱 Haiti Milli Takımı, Dünya Kupası’nda giyeceği resmi formalarına Polonya bayrağını ekledi.
Bu bir tasarım hatası değil, iki halk arasında yüzyıllardır süren dostluğun sembolü.
1802 yılında Napolyon, Polonya Lejyonları’ndan binlerce askeri Haiti’deki köle ayaklanmasını bastırmak için adaya gönderdi. Ancak birçok Polonyalı asker, özgürlük mücadelesi veren Haitililere karşı savaşmayı reddederek onların safına geçti ve Fransız ordusuna karşı birlikte mücadele etti.
Haiti’nin 1804’te bağımsızlığını kazanmasının ardından ülkenin ilk lideri Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Polonyalılara vatandaşlık verdi ve onları anayasında “Avrupa’nın Siyahları” olarak tanımlayarak büyük bir onur gösterdi.
Aradan 200 yılı aşkın süre geçmesine rağmen Haiti, Polonyalıların dayanışmasını unutmadı. Bugün futbolcular formalarında taşıdıkları Polonya bayrağıyla, özgürlük uğruna verilen ortak mücadelenin hatırasını yaşatıyor.
During the World Cup in 2002, reigning world player of the year winner Luis Figo looked at Bruce Arena after halftime, pointed to Frankie Hejduk and said "that guy's pretty good".
That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.
Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.
The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.
Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.
Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.
The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.