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We've had that same hope dashed recently in Daz Cameron.

I doubt either Wingenter or Nevin are likely to make us regret letting them go.

Sam Bankman FRIED 🔥

pretty lifeless.

what bands from the 60's did survive? The Stones and the Who? The Who had unique musicians and Townsend had more than average compositional talent. The Stones I never got in the 1st place.

Probably doesn't stand a chance. Didn't claim guns or Jesus.

I only watched a little around the Hockey game, but in that short time Ivey was late on close outs multiple times and had one player waltz right by him on the way to an uncontested dunk. Lack of 360 deg awareness. My impression is he can't see/doesn't pay enough attention, to what isn't in his line of sight.

hard to say if it was more of a splat, or just a thud,

Lots of puck movement at the blue line but the interior wings players standing still way too much on their power plays - ergo nobody coming open. Florida's speed has Wings players intimidated, they aren't even challenging to get to what should be 50/50 loose pucks.

Wings lucky to still be even after one. They're being skated out of their own rink.

Ha - forget Chavez/Maduro. The truth has always, and probably will always be that in once you find yourself in a war, the imperative is to save the lives of your own people. Despite the all the analysis since, the logic of 1945 for the US was correct, even if the total casualties including Japanese were higher (which is very debatable) the bombs saved *American* lives and that is the only calculus that can matter to the people making the decision. The same holds true for Israel. By the normal definition - the 'good guy' will try to minimize civilian casualties, but in the end not to the detriment of the strategic imperatives.

And the Germans 'voted' for Hitler (though not an absolute majority IIRC), the Iranians voted in one fair election for the mullah's (once) and the American's voted for Trump. It's absolutely true societies suffer for making bad corporate decisions. That hard part is that that doesn't make the fate of individuals any less tragic. There is no way to square that circle.

LOL- mine is still kicking at over 30. In most areas the #1 determinant of tank life is water quality, which varies all over the map in SE MI if you are not on the Det or other large city system. Ten years is probably about right for many, but if you are serviced by a municipally softened system you should get a lot more than that. That said, how long a heater is actually likely to last is not the same question as the economic break even point for servicing it! Comically enough, I experienced the other extreme of that decision process when the warranty holder decided to replace rather than repair my *2* year old dishwasher! I kept the dishwasher, the warranty money, and fixed it myself for <$100. 🤷‍♀️

It's too easy to say 'A pox on both your houses' in this conflict as there are toxic ideologies on both sides. There are militant zionists with messianic visions of driving all the arabs out of 'greater Israel' and there radical jihadi funadmentalists that want every jew driven into the sea. The distinction, which unfortunately has been growing smaller in the Netanyahu era, is that the radicals are a faction in Israel, they are Hamas.

Maybe not as rare as back in the day when they were all passive piloted natural draft type. For an induced draft unit the fan, air flow sensor, igniter and interlock circuit are common serviceable failure points that can be worth repairing if the tank still has service life remaining.

LOL - just saw that. Heck he should have been happy after helping to dump McCarthy.

Do we know if Harbaugh hired him in person? But either way, Harbaugh is of a certain type. The way he sees the world, to love football and the Michigan program *is* virtue, thus anyone who does (or appears to) must be virtuous. Probably makes for an easy con.

Maybe he thinks Cade needs to man up and learn to beat those triple teams before he's willing to put someone out there with him that the other team will have to guard....

This guy seem to have gotten off on playing a character he imagined as James Lombardi Bond. I heard the clip from the Western coach who was clear nobody issued him a pass. So how did he get down on the field? They do check in most stadiums.

FWIW, the NY post has a story about him. It you believe the Post and/or what the parents told them, it sounds like this is a young man who is losing it. His parents said they've been worried that he was suicidal, personality had been changing - he had taken semesters off to deal with depression, etc.

Unfortunately, people can be nice and still believe in destructive things. And we have 40 million of them in a America!

Multi-culturalism îs a fine thing - to a degree. But to pretend there are no differences in culture that matter or that don't demand value judgment amounts to ethical/moral nihilism and is a dangerously naive outlook.

Frank Bruni (who is also a professor at Duke) had a great column in the NYT about how the modern University's need to constantly be massaging the sensibilities of their student bodies has finally put them into a complete no-win situation. I'm finding it laughable that after every world event in recent years I'm getting public responses from every Tom/**** and Harry in the University admin. Frankly I don't give a flying **** what my Dean of Engineering thinks about the ME and would just soon never have to hear him opine about it. Not where I care about his competence. But here we are in 2023. I'm hoping the by the 2030's that we reach a new era of 'Stay in your Lane'. Should I live long enough to see it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/26/opinion/israel-palestine-college-campuses.html?searchResultPosition=1

I understand what you mean here, but you don't want to overstate it either. Kaline didn't keep a 300 over 20 years just because he was a luckier guy than his buddy Jim Price. 🤣 BA may be more flawed than other stats, but it still correlates with other measures of good hitting. And probably, in the pre-HR era - when the ISO component of everyone's OPS was lower and nobody struck out 100 times in a season, it probably correlated better!

This is really the best argument for a swing at the fences right now instead of staying on 'the plan.' And it goes back to the same debate that goes on endlessly about team sports - how much to you value one championship vs long term competitiveness? Everybody has their own answer to that question. It could go either way with anyone. But the discussion has so far left out one important person. I can easily imagine that SHF, after so many decades of Lion futility, could think that bringing her team back to respectability as an upper echelon team over a long term is as important to her to prove her ownership credentials as any single Championship - ergo you stick with the plan that got you where you are. Or not. 😉 But the decision to stand pat sort of speaks for itself.