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I think it could be as simple as that he made hand written sharpie notes on a lot of them that are probably embarrassing if viewed by historians/researchers later. You have to keep in mind how vain the man is. I would never assume a grand motivation for Trump when a venal one is just as good an explanation.

yeah - whatever they see in Zadina must show up in practice because you sure don't see it in the games. Maybe he was doing a little better as a forechecker in the course of the season, otherwise still a disappointment. I have a memory burned in my brain of a Wings power play when Blash apparently decided they were going to force feed 'Z' and they set him up for something like 7 consecutive shots from the right side slot and he missed or hit the goalie in the chest 7 out of 7. It was doubly frustrating because it was so rare to see the Wings be able to sustain possession like that and then just to waste it all for guy who couldn't make good play with the puck.

I assume this was not part of a re-enactment event. I wouldn't hold wearing the uni again someone if they were part of a historical play event, which is probably why some people might own a confederate uni in the 1st place.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fire-biggest-us-midwest-refinery-185900197.html BP trying to burn down their Whiting refinery again (largest in the Midwest). They have to be the most incompetent operator in the industry. One company I'd love to see just go away.

The GOP way to steal an election.

LOL. "...Carl Rove, with *his* thoughts on that....." Don't don't break a leg running away from any association with a Trump critical opinion!

Market taking a beating based on Powell's hard stance on anti-inflation in his comment today. S&P down 2.5% and haven't hit much support yet.

Indeed. It is part of the Human Condition to crave simplicity and thus people will cling to systems and arguments that give them justification for abdicating hard judgments and allow them to avoid facing the reality that life's problems are inescapably hard and you only fool yourself to believe you have all the answers. and of course Marco is exactly the type that can only handle ethical complexity at the about the 3rd grade level.

How many were Rusty Staub?

TBH, I wouldn't count on Rogers either. His throwing was one of his best attributes and who knows how much of that he gets back. Garneau is 34 so there is high probability he will fall off the same cliff batting wise that Barnhart has. Sanchez is young, has no power....what kind of receiver is he? Dingler is 23, you really wanted to see his bat start making some strides this year but he's been so-so at best. Crouch is too far away. I can't believe there would be much competition for his services so if you end up eating a couple of million, tough cookies. So I don't see it would do any great harm to not make a final decision on him until after a trade, FA signing or lacking either of those, the end of Spring Training. The only possible silver lining for Barnhart that might be out there is that he has wondered whether he messed himself up trying to switch hit this year. If he came back next year just concentrating on his LH hitting, maybe the bat recovers some, but you sure don't want to pin any hope on that either.

Keep your core strong. The terrible paradox of back trouble is that once you get to where it's too painful to do the needed physical strengthening, it's really hard to reverse a downward spiral.

The simpler the answer to any complex philosophical/ethical question is, the more certain you can be that it's wrong.

I was waiting for this shoe to drop. Moderna had been developing the mRNA tech since MERS/SARS. There is no real scientific/tech question it's their tech, only whether they did enough to protect it against Pfizer's particular implementation. But Pfizer's legal team is probably bigger than their research team so good luck.

Workman's best month at Erie by far - August OPS = 884.

Reuters data summary Second-quarter GDP contraction revised to 0.6% from 0.9% Gross domestic income rises at 1.4% rate in Q2 Average of GDP and GDI climbs at 0.4% pace Weekly jobless claims drop 2,000 to 243,000 Recession? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

exit velo. As I happened to have the afternoon sports radio come on in my car today and I was amused to hear several minute's prattle regarding various silly betting options on sporting events, it struck me that there must be millions of people out there watching sports with no interest in the actual net outcome of the human competition and it seemed a fan more interested in how hard Tork hit the ball instead of the rare but absurd game outcome of the AB summed it all up.

But did you have the over or under on the EV?

LOL - Indeed! Last years Wings would have killed to be an 'average' skating team.

anybody watching Parker in the 70's would have thought he was a lock for the HOF.

Back in the day, the minor leagues would sponsor skills competitions and supposedly Rocky Colavito won one in the PCL for outfield throwing over 400' before he even reached the majors. There are stories of him being able to throw to home plate from deep CF in old Tiger stadium - which was 440 when he played there (420 later), though some may be apocryphal. Dwight Evans and Barfield were certainly two I remember as well - I never saw Guerrero play much. And of course Kaline, but you had to have seen him in the 60's when he was still at the top of his game. And TBH, it more than a strong arm. We've seen lots of useless guys who can throw it over everyone's head for a two base error. One of the things that made Kaline such an assassin was that he was consistently accurate. More recently Kevin Kiermaier is no slouch.

I guess it depends on what the terminology means - (what exactly does that 'and' connect?) Do scholarships in this definition include a college's own scholarship fund or only government supplied scholarships? Huge difference depending. I'm sure private schools provide incentive scholarship money to some students, to 'legacies' for instance, that may not strictly need it. It may also be a bit of a misleading chart in terms that absolute number of dollars in each category is not given. That large red bar on the right may or may be any substantial number of dollars. The system at public schools is based on the infamous 'FAFSA', which I think everyone uses, 2o on the public side there is some level of uniformity for aid criteria. I think many private schools also require families to submit 'FAFSA' but how they use it may be more variable.

Very fair. When I started as a student at UM, the state made up something like 50% of the University's non-hospital budget. Today it is about 15%. Now that does sound pretty horrible, and it is, but you have to remember that huge research edifice didn't use to be there when state support was 50%, so it's not wholly an apples to apples comparison either.

I could write a book... Suffice it to say the problem of college cost is complex. It's not like big Pharma where there is some pot of profits to go after. Colleges spend all the income they take in, and mostly on middle class salaries. The educational model we use is expensive, but it is also the one demanded by students and their parents. But there is another more global and insidious economic factor at play that people tend to miss. As technology creates a more capital intensive and higher productivity economy, the relative cost of buying a person's time keeps going up compared to the amount of other goods available for the same cost. And education, the way we still do it, is 100% people's time, so it's relative cost compared to other goods will keep increasing until we are willing to adopt teaching systems that require fewer people, but that is exactly the opposite what today's college market wants - which is lower student to staff ratios.

Mittens also built his wealth on one of great government giveaways ever - the carried interest deduction.

This one had me a little puzzled at first. Aside from the obvious factor that military deaths suffered in the hinterlands don't generate much political pressure in Great Russian society, you'd still think that trying to impress a lot of non-slav eastern ethics into the army would leave a poorly motivated force, and it does, as what to they care about Ukraine? But then it hit me, it's a lot easier for a Slavic Russian to just put down his weapon and walk across the line to the other side in Ukraine than it is for a Chechen. Soldiers who don't want to be soldiers want to be able to go home and Ukraine is a lot closer to 'home' for a Muscovite than an Irkut.