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yeah - watching the last 5 min of the 2nd you'd never know the wings were up by 4. They seem to just go into these deep low energy funks where is nothing but half-hearted effort to get back a puck. Very odd team even when they play well,

I wouldn't lose any sleep if Trump just sent in a force and removed Maduro - he's earned it many times over. But if you want to do it, do it. Quit fartzing around with speed boats and killing random people and lots of typical useless Trump running at the mouth that's not making any difference for Venezuelans at all.

have seen various reports that it's protective custody suicide prevention, to a domestic row/possible altercation with his wife, to B&E at the girlfriend's house. Take your pick - could be all three if he was on a tear.

Buddha says he's still under a ban

I hate getting my hopes up... And of course the thing with Yzerman is that absolute silence emanating from the org makes it all the more intriguing because you know if he really is working something that's all we'd get. 🙉

maybe true, but USC is pretty nice billet to leave for anywhere.

sure looks like a titanium or graphitic ring on the left hand third finger..... could explain the presence of a complaining party.

LOL - sorry out of likes. I'll hold you to it later.

it's not the particular behavior, it's superior/inferior relationship that is the parallel between the cases and that is the bette noir for the institution. Under the ruling social paradigm all relationships are power mediated, we are all weak sisters who can't stand up and tell our bosses to bug off or have the guts to just quit when we find ourselves working for a jerk. Now just for the sake of being arch I've overstated the critique, there is a lot of potential of abuse in a University, but I'm a lot more concerned about between students and faculty than coaches or admins and staff, particularly at place like UM where it is really easy for staff to change jobs within the system if they find themselve where they don't want to be. And the fact is, life is more complex than simple rules. If my now 30 yr BIL the professor and my graduate studying sister had been at michigan under these rules when they met, he probably would have been fired, she'd have missed her soul mate, and I've have missed a good friend.

Kasper is actually rated higher by the 'trade value' calculators, which I found interesting..

yeah - getting a legal investigative report in a month is like light speed.

they fired the University President over the same thing. We've apparently gotten very prudish here in A^2 -

I think schools have been playing games with rules about commitments and 'interim' coaches. Commitments can bail when a new coach is hired, but if I understand it right, their options are more limited if an 'interim' is announced

supposedly it's centers they want.

I get it, it's what Congress said to do, but chasing employment with cheap money is the economic equivalent of crack cocaine. But 25 BP off 4% isn't going to move much anyway - it will function for Powell mostly to keep Trump's dogs at bay.

Puts me in mind of my family's long time next door neighbor, Sam. Sam was a small, quiet but intensely witty man, strongly near sighted, CPA. Would have reminded you of Jerry Stiller to look at him. Won a silver star in Europe. Who can imagine what that kind of evil can pull out of ordinary good people in response. Conversely, you know Trump would have been schmoozing up to Hitler without a 2nd thought if he'd make the scene in 1936.

And Ivey - cited as one of the givebacks, is one of the guys who is another potential 3pt shooter - assuming the rest of his game comes along at all.

Zelenskyy is learning that if you just hold your ground Trump gets antsy and goes off in some different direction. Of course Putin knows that too, so recipe for continued stalemate.

Honest question because I know you follow this closer than I do, but if the GOP loses Cubans, don't they lose Florida statewide? Or are there enough MAGA snowbirds now that they aren't the swing?

Israel is an issue with a huge generation gap. If you are old enough to remember '67 and/or '73, you have an image in your mind of small nation surrounded by powerful, hostile nations, backed by the Russian super power, just looking for an excuse to push Israel into the sea. But since then: Iraq has collapsed, Iran is pretty close to collapse, Syria has collapsed, Libya has collapsed, Egypt is a mess, Jordan is just barely hanging together. Russia - is, well the mess Russia is today. So if you are younger your orientation is much more along the line of: where is the big threat? It's Israel that is the big boy on the block throwing its weight around. And of course that is more true to day than at any time in 50yrs, But older voters still have a frame of reference of what the situation could easily be again, and that changes perceptions in the present.

Leftist prog politicians are just as ambitious as any other kind. Some of them see an opening to win a seat on Mamdani's coatails and NY10 is probably the only place they can try it. It's not going to be that easy to unseat a guy who polled 80% in the last election though. Voters are creatures of habit to a larger degree than politician or talking heads like to admit. By November (ok - make that August) we don't know what kind of approval Mamdani will still have or if the Gaza issue still has any resonance. Also worth noting that a record number of people voted against Mamdani as well as for him and turn out is a fickle thing. (IIRC Coumo got more votes than any or maybe almost any *winner* in decades) We'll just have to wait and see how the cookie crumbles.

so I've been putting together an unraid NAS at home and it wasn't sending me a daily email summary like I thought I had it programmed to do. So I asked google AI why my Unraid server mail wasn't going out via gmail. It spit back a very nice step by step procedure starting on my google account page, but none of the menu entries it listed were there. Now this is google AI, the application is chrome - a google app, and the target was gmail, a google service, and google AI didn't know squat about what was actually there. Boggles the mind. Now I do have to admit that it did give me the clue I needed. The bot mentioned the term 'application password', which sounded relevant to this non-artificial 'I', so when I put that term into the search box on the chrome account settings page, it took me to where I needed to go. I think this was another temporal awareness issue. I believe this is something that google has changed relatively recently (I had not had to go this route when I set up my previous NAS) and the bot threw up old info - probably because there were a lot of references to it out there, but it had no awareness it had been obsoleted. This seems to be a real stumbling block for the large language models.

isn't he trying to turn into a bum now?

It's always been my opinion that Avila knew what needed to be done - he knew where DD had let things atrophy. All the things he talked about were basically all the same things Harris talks about, but he wasn't that up to speed himself when he started, and he brought insufficient creativity and urgency to the task. But the one thing we never give Al any benefit of the doubt about is that you don't just start firing people willy-nilly in the Ilitch organization. Some of the inertia could have been coming from ownership unwilling to dump loyal employees abruptly. Now without doubt, he was a disaster at trades. No need to cut him any slack there.

My personal speculation has always been that Hinch was part of Tork's problems. Early in his career Hinch constantly talked about trying to get Tork to only swing at pitches he could drive, to the point where he had to go back to Toledo to recover some plate coverage. I won't hold that against Hinch because no philosophy can work for every hitter, but just to point out that nobody's going to bat 1000 with player development - it's a 'people' science, meaning to some some extent it isn't one at all.