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Yep, like a status thing, especially with smaller projects like this. It can help with funding. It would depend on what the language was in the contract. The production company, which isn't him, should be repsonsible for hiring the armorers.

I assume it would be a domed stadium and for the locals I bet it would be a welcome respite to have something to do in the summer. My understanding is they avoid the strip and Fremont St like the plague. I would consider retiring there if not for what I think will end up as a water crisis.

Smith didn't obtain Pena. Smith was fired in April 2002, Pena was obtained that summer in the Weaver trade. The value Avila left were pretty much gifts to him via the draft.

yep. It meant "listen to this person, they are legit" Now it means "this person's a fraud who is to be ignored"

I could see sueing him in his capacity as a producer on the film, as in theory he's then shares some responsibility for the staff, unless his contract explicitly says he's not. But as an actor I don't see it. I know they have the ability to check and are trained and all that.... but ultimately you have people for that. An actor isn't responsible for equipment. If a car's brakes failed do you hold them liable for not checking the brakes? Or that a glass of water or piece of food wasn't poisoned before giving it to another actor in the scene?

I don't care what your politics are.... you need some element of charm and charisma. I met **** DeVos in 2002, he was running for Gov against Jenny. I was going to vote for him. The guy looked "through" me as if I wasn't there. There was no connection at all during our brief 20 second encounter. Like a person on drugs you run into at the gas station as they are buying more scratch offs.

So you have a product you want to sell... you give it to someone for free. That person makes sure to let people know they aren't paying for it, didn't ask for it, and doesn't care if they have it. Way to prove it's value.

I've heard some women complain about having to pay more attention to stray "whiskers" now.

I also suspect that guys like him will play the IF during BP because "it's fun".

Everyone is tweeting this but to me it’s about as easy of a DP a SS can make.

A news alert says Biden will announce something next week. I will admit to being surprised if he runs. It’s weird and I can’t explain it. I expect he will but also be shocked. I know it doesn’t make sense.

From what I know about you I think you would really like this book. It’s filled with nuggets like that. He goes into great detail and a lot of it I skip through but I bet engineers would devour it. https://www.amazon.com/Moon-Lander-Developed-Smithsonian-Spaceflight-ebook/dp/B006Q2D5DK/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1F7224JR2DZK5&keywords=thomas+kelly+moon+lander&qid=1682034954&sprefix=thomas+kelly+moon+lander%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-1

Ah ok. I haven’t followed her topics in years. I only know she’s dating or was dating Jimmy Walker.

What’s her angle on that? I’m not getting it. Is it to preserve the white race since that’s presumably what she means?

Hospitals here made masks optional now. She's seeing many co workers faces for the first time. "Ah, so that's what you got going on? Not what I expected"

I told you already I am reading about the development of the Lunar Module. Very unique thing as it was built to not fly in our atmosphere and would not be used to bring humans back to earth. That gave them the ability to design simply for functionality with no regard to aerodynamics. Weight was the most critical factor. I'm blown away by the attention to detail that had to be made down to every screw. During testing of the tanks they kept having problems with leaks and finally narrowed it down to just one tank, they couldn't figure out why that one tank wouldn't pass the tests. They spent months figuring out why. It was putting the moon race in jeopardy. Grumman got their top investigator on the job and they went over every piece of tracking history. Turns out when they were wiping the tanks down that was the only tank that didn't use a brand new rag. it was used. The rag had traces of detergent on it and that affected the titanium. I'm both amazed that happened and that they could figure that out, down to the rags used to wipe each piece of equipment. Another example referred to the Redstone rockets, used on the early Mercury flights. An unmanned launch attempt lifted off the ground a few inches then settled back into the bay, luckily it didn't tip over because the escape chute did fire and they were worried the wind would catch it and bring it all crashing down. The reason the rocket aborted? A crewman at one point had filed down one prong just a little bit of a two prong plug and didn't tell anybody. This prong was ejected during liftoff. Safety mechanisms in place said that if the prongs didn't exit at the same time then something was wrong and to initiate abort.

The goal was to clear the tower so it's a success.

Gambling is a legitimate revenue source and baseball can't turn their back on that.

My overall point is that it's early and we don't know who will or won't prevail. I have memories of Presidents Gary Hart, Mario Cuomo, Guiliani, etc.

I distinctly remember one debate where Rubio took the gloves off and slapped Trump around. It went nowhere obviously but he took one for the team.

I've told this story before so forgive me but I like it: During the 1960 race MLK Jr was arrested. He was put in jail and the campaigns took different approach. Nixon didn't want to get involved because he felt it would look like pandering for votes, tried to be above board. JFK wasn't sure either but RFK took the initiative and contacted Coretta King and showed support. After that MLK Sr announced he wasn't planning on voting for JFK because he was Catholic but now he would. JFK to an aide: "So, Martin Luther King's father is a bigot eh? Well we all have fathers don't we?"

RFK Jr is the right's favorite son. They were fawning all over him this morning on Fox News. They're gearing him up to be a spoiler, coinciding with a potential Trump spoiler should DeShantis get the nom.

I’m not sure we should count desantis out for the nomination.

I have a hard time watching Curb now knowing Cheryl Hines is/was married to that guy.

He does have some kind of condition where it’s like that. Don’t know if it was cancer or whatever. But that is how he talks.